Abstract: A method for determining cardiology disease risk from electrocardiogram trace data and clinical data includes receiving electrocardiogram trace data associated with a patient, receiving the patient's clinical data, providing both sets of data to a trained machine learning composite model that is trained to evaluate the data with respect to each disease of a set of cardiology diseases including three or more of cardiac amyloidosis, aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, abnormal reduced ejection fraction, or abnormal interventricular septal thickness, generating, by the model and based on the evaluation, a composite risk score reflecting a likelihood of the patient being diagnosed with one or more of the cardiology diseases within a predetermined period of time from when the electrocardiogram trace data was generated, and outputting the composite risk score to at least one of a memory or a display.

Abstract: A rod inserter, system and method are provided which allows for insertion of a rod through a freehand method. The inserter can include an extension structure extending from a handle, the extension structure having a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis. The inserter can also include a plurality of linkage structures located in a passageway in the extension structure. The linkage structures can cause a rod connection structure to connect to the rod when the distal linkage structure is moved in a first direction, and to cause the rod connection structure to disconnect from the rod when the distal linkage structure is moved in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: A rod inserter, system and method are provided which allows for insertion of a rod through a freehand method. The inserter can include an extension structure extending from a handle, the extension structure having a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis. The inserter can also include a plurality of linkage structures located in a passageway in the extension structure. The linkage structures can cause a rod connection structure to connect to the rod when the distal linkage structure is moved in a first direction, and to cause the rod connection structure to disconnect from the rod when the distal linkage structure is moved in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: A method of accessing data in a device comprising: a first integrated circuit having a processor, a memory connected to the processor and a direct memory access engine operatively coupled to the memory and to the microprocessor; a second integrated circuit comprising storage means for holding data values in respective locations, the second integrated circuit being connected to the first integrated circuit via a serial link, the method comprising: the processor generating a plurality of memory access requests independent from one another and supplying a bundle of said independent memory access requests to the direct memory access engine, each memory access request comprising an address of a storage location in the storage means; the direct memory access engine sequentially supplying the memory access requests via the serial link to the second integrated circuit; the second integrated circuit returning a data value responsive to each memory access request and appending to the data value said address of the loca

Abstract: A method of accessing data in a device comprising: a first integrated circuit having a processor, a memory connected to the processor and a direct memory access engine operatively coupled to the memory and to the microprocessor; a second integrated circuit comprising storage means for holding data values in respective locations, the second integrated circuit being connected to the first integrated circuit via a serial link, the method comprising: the processor generating a plurality of memory access requests independent from one another and supplying a bundle of said independent memory access requests to the direct memory access engine, each memory access request comprising an address of a storage location in the storage means; the direct memory access engine sequentially supplying the memory access requests via the serial link to the second integrated circuit; the second integrated circuit returning a data value responsive to each memory access request and appending to the data value said address of the loca

Abstract: A digital circuit for driving an audio transducer that provides consistent tonal quality over a range of volume levels, without requiring a variable gain analog amplifier. A fixed amplitude ringer tone is multiplied, or amplitude modulated, by a higher frequency digital pulse train to produce a transducer driving signal. The timbre of the transducer driving signal is similar to that of the fixed amplitude ringer tone, but the volume of the sound produced by the transducer varies with the mark-space ratio of the pulse train.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus and methods for performing Bluetooth communications. The apparatus comprises a plurality of antennas and a signal strength monitoring means for monitoring signal strength seen at each antenna. The apparatus also includes a selection means for selecting one of the plurality of antennas for use in receiving or transmitting a respective data packet, as well as control means for controlling the selection means in dependence on the monitored signal strength. In operation, the control means monitors signal strength seen at each antenna and selects one of the plurality of antennas for use in receiving or transmitting a respective data packet in dependence on the monitored signal strength.

Abstract: A digital circuit for driving an audio transducer that provides consistent tonal quality over a range of volume levels, without requiring a variable gain analog amplifier. A fixed amplitude ringer tone is multiplied, or amplitude modulated, by a higher frequency digital pulse train to produce a transducer driving signal. The timbre of the transducer driving signal is similar to that of the fixed amplitude ringer tone, but the volume of the sound produced by the transducer varies with the mark-space ratio of the pulse train.