Abstract: This disclosure relates to, inter alia, cells expressing both a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and membrane bound IL-12 and the use of these cells to target and treat cancers (e.g., solid tumors and cancers expressing CD19, CD22, BCMA, PSCA, HER2, TAG-72, and PSCA). The disclosure also relates to cells expressing a membrane bound IL-12.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ceramic tape includes advancing a tape through a binder burn-off station, where the tape entering the binder burn-off station comprises grains of polycrystalline ceramic bound by an organic binder. The binder burn-off station comprises an active heater that chemically changes the organic binder and/or removes the organic binder from the tape, leaving the tape with the grains of the polycrystalline ceramic exiting the binder burn-off station.

Abstract: Diagnostic chip devices, and methods and devices for assembly and manufacture, are described. Such chip device includes a chip carrier device that includes a frame having a fluidic interface, one or more fluidic channels and a gasket that forms a flowcell sealed against an active surface of a diagnostic chip. The gasket can be overmolded into the frame, or can be separately applied and compressed by the chip, which can be secured to the frame by cold swaging, hot swaging or heat staking, adhesive or any suitable means. The chip carrier device can further include a window over the flowcell to allow for optical detection of the active face of the chip. The window can be formed by a transparent lid or glass insert attached to the frame by laser welding, overmolding, adhesive or any suitable means. The carrier and lid can also be formed as a single integral component.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for electric vehicle charging is provided. In some aspects, the diagnostic apparatus includes an input connector unit comprising a plurality of inputs that receive electrical signals from a charging station for electric vehicle charging, and an output connector unit comprising a plurality of outputs that send electrical signals to an electric vehicle. The diagnostic apparatus also includes a circuit network electrically connecting corresponding inputs of the plurality of inputs to outputs of the plurality of outputs, and a housing at least partially enclosing the circuit network. The diagnostic apparatus further includes at least one circuit access that exposes at least a portion of the circuit network.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed including a processing device operatively coupled to memory device. The processing device perform operations comprising receiving, from a memory sub-system controller, a first read command and a second read command; determining that the memory device is in a suspended state; and responsive to determining that a first address range specified by the first read command does not overlap with a second address range specified by the second read command, issuing, to the memory device, the first read command and the second read command collectively.

Abstract: A dual fuel system for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of fuel injectors, a first fuel pump and a first fuel conduit extending to the plurality of fuel injectors, and a second fuel pump and a second fuel conduit extending to a fuel manifold fluidly connected to the plurality of fuel injectors. The dual fuel system also includes an overflow buffer arranged to receive a volume of the second fuel expelled from the second fuel conduit, and a valve movable from a closed position to an open position fluidly connecting the overflow buffer to the second fuel conduit. Expelling fuel from the second fuel conduit enables a rapid pressure drop in a supply pressure of the second fuel to hasten switchover of the internal combustion engine between fuel type.

Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting views of work unit records in chat sessions between users of a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain content information characterizing content of the chat sessions between the users of the collaboration environment; identify work unit records based on the content from the chat sessions; generate view of work unit pages in the chat sessions that correspond to the work unit records identified based on the content from the chat sessions so that the view of the work unit pages are made accessible to the users during synchronous communication facilitated by the chat sessions; and/or other perform other operations.

Abstract: A wireless power transfer system is provided. The system includes an external transmit resonator and an implantable receive resonator. The transmit resonator is configured to transmit wireless power, wherein the external transmit resonator includes one of i) one or more loops of Litz wire and ii) a plurality of stacked plates. The implantable receive resonator is configured to receive the transmitted wireless power from the external transmit resonator, wherein the implantable receive resonator is configured to power a ventricular assist device (VAD) implanted in a subject using the received wireless power. The implantable receive resonator includes the other of i) the one or more loops of Litz wire and ii) the plurality of stacked plates.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board is provided, comprising: 1) imprinting an electrically conductive circuit pattern on a surface of a substrate; 2) applying a surface treatment composition to the surface of the substrate over the electrically conductive circuit pattern; and 3) allowing the surface treatment composition to form a self-assembled coating layer on the surface of the substrate in the form of a conformal coating. The surface treatment composition comprises: (a) a fluorine-containing polymer; (b) a solvent containing at least one C—F bond; and (c) a rheology modifying component. Also provided are electronic components of a circuit assembly and printed circuit boards, comprising a substrate and a self-assembled coating layer applied to at least one surface of the substrate. The coating layer is in the form of a conformal coating and is formed from the surface treatment composition described above.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of laminating component layers of a solid-state battery. In the method, two or more component layers of a solid-state battery are advanced in a first direction. The two or more component layers include at least one of a continuous ribbon substrate or a carrier film. The two or more component layers are pressed between a first pressing chamber and a second pressing chamber to laminate the two or more component layers of the solid-state battery. The first pressing chamber is configured to apply a first pressure uniformly over a first surface area, and the second pressing chamber is configured to apply a second pressure uniformly over a second surface area. The first pressure is substantially equal to the second pressure, and the first surface area is substantially equal to the second surface area.

Abstract: Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide an ophthalmic surgical system. The system includes a fluidics module and a controller. The fluidic module includes a surgical cassette bay and one or more indicator lights. The one or more indicator lights correspond to one or more fluidic ports on the fluidics module. The controller includes a memory including executable instructions and a processor. The processor is in data communication with the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to cause the system to: determine that a surgical cassette is coupled to the surgical cassette bay; determine a type of the surgical cassette; illuminate at least one of the one or more indicator lights based on the determined type of the surgical cassette; and extinguish the at least one of the one or more indicator lights upon receiving an input indicating that a fluidic tubing is fluidically coupled with the corresponding fluidic port.

Abstract: A wireless power transfer system is provided. The system includes an external transmit resonator and an implantable receive resonator. The transmit resonator is configured to transmit wireless power, wherein the external transmit resonator includes one of i) one or more loops of Litz wire and ii) a plurality of stacked plates. The implantable receive resonator is configured to receive the transmitted wireless power from the external transmit resonator, wherein the implantable receive resonator is configured to power a ventricular assist device (VAD) implanted in a subject using the received wireless power. The implantable receive resonator includes the other of i) the one or more loops of Litz wire and ii) the plurality of stacked plates.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine system is described herein. The system uses a mixer to mix two fuels to provide for a transition from using only one of the fuels to using only the other fuel as power demand changes. The output of the mixer is provided to the engine as a primary fuel. A controller opens and closes throttle valves to adjust the relative concentrations of a first fuel (e.g., diesel) and a second fuel (e.g., methanol) that enter the mixer. In some examples, rather than removing the desired performance and/or environmental benefits achieved by using the second fuel at power demand levels greater than the maximum achievable by only using the second fuel, the systems described herein allow the use of at least a portion of the second fuel in the primary fuel at those power demand levels.

Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of sediment/erosion/perimeter control devices and methods of making and using the same. In exemplary embodiments, a sediment/erosion/perimeter control device (e.g., a wattle, etc.) comprises a material configured such that the sediment/erosion/perimeter control device is reconfigurable between at least a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration, the sediment/erosion/perimeter control device has a first size, shape, volume, and/or weight. In the second configuration, the sediment/erosion/perimeter control device has a second size, shape, volume, and/or weight substantially larger than the corresponding first size, shape, volume, and/or weight that the sediment/erosion/perimeter control device has in the first configuration.

Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of sediment/erosion/perimeter control devices and methods of making and using the same. In exemplary embodiments, a system comprises a convertible silt fence/scour pad and a wattle. The wattle is integrated with the convertible silt fence/scour pad such that the convertible silt fence/scour pad and the wattle are an integrated, singular, or unitary product. The convertible silt fence/scour pad is deployable in at least a first orientation and a second orientation. In the first orientation, the convertible silt fence/scour pad is generally vertical and/or generally perpendicular relative to the ground or other surface supporting the wattle, whereby the convertible silt fence/scour pad is operable primarily as a silt fence.

Abstract: In certain embodiments, inventive apparatus may feature, inter alia, parameter measurement componentry configured to generate parameter measurements of a reference building component (e.g., many real-time measurements along, e.g., the SE wall bottom plate); comparison componentry configured to compare real-time parameter measurements with such digital construction action location information to generate comparison information; and sense-able construction action location indicator generation componentry that generates sense-able construction action location indicator(s) based on the comparison information based on the comparison information.

Abstract: A display assembly for an automotive interior comprises a dynamically bendable cover panel having first and second panel portions a flexible panel portion connecting the first and second panel portions, a display positioned adjacent the first and second panel portions, and a frame that supports the cover panel and comprises a first frame portion for supporting the first panel portion, a second frame portion for supporting the second panel portion, and a hinge portion coupling the first frame portion and the second frame portion, the hinge portion configured to induce a curvature having smoothly connected arc segments in the flexible panel portion between the first panel portion and the second panel portion when the second frame portion is articulated relative to the first frame portion from a straight position to a deployed position.

Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for electric vehicle charging is provided. In some aspects, the diagnostic apparatus includes an input connector unit comprising a plurality of inputs that receive electrical signals from a charging station for electric vehicle charging, and an output connector unit comprising a plurality of outputs that send electrical signals to an electric vehicle. The diagnostic apparatus also includes a circuit network electrically connecting corresponding inputs of the plurality of inputs to outputs of the plurality of outputs, and a housing at least partially enclosing the circuit network. The diagnostic apparatus further includes at least one circuit access that exposes at least a portion of the circuit network.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine system is described herein. The system uses an additive added to the exhaust of the internal combustion engine to maintain a range of NO2 to NO within a range that provides for a fast SCR reaction in a selective catalyst reduction unit. The additive and the exhaust enter a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), whereby the NO2 undergoes a two-stage process. In the first stage, the NO2 from the exhaust is adsorbed onto the precious metal catalyst of the DOC and an atomic oxygen is removed from the NO2, reducing the NO2 to NO. Because of the higher reactivity of the additive, the additive scavenges a portion of the atomic oxygen from the catalyst. During the second stage of the DOC process, the NO is oxidized over the catalyst to form NO2.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board is provided, comprising: 1) imprinting an electrically conductive circuit pattern on a surface of a substrate; 2) applying a surface treatment composition to the surface of the substrate over the electrically conductive circuit pattern; and 3) allowing the surface treatment composition to form a self-assembled coating layer on the surface of the substrate in the form of a conformal coating. The surface treatment composition comprises: (a) a fluorine-containing polymer; (b) a solvent containing at least one C—F bond; and (c) a rheology modifying component. Also provided are electronic components of a circuit assembly and printed circuit boards, comprising a substrate and a self-assembled coating layer applied to at least one surface of the substrate. The coating layer is in the form of a conformal coating and is formed from the surface treatment composition described above.