Abstract: A laser ablation system, and method, facilitates the execution of user-defined scans (i.e., in which a laser beam is scanned across a sample along a beam trajectory to ablate or dissociate a portion of the sample) and enables the user define additional scans while a scan is being executed.

Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.

Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods useful for inhibiting protein tyrosine phosphatase, e.g., protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2) and/or protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 1 (PTPN1), and for treating related diseases, disorders and conditions favorably responsive to PTPN1 or PTPN2 inhibitor treatment, e.g., a cancer or a metabolic disease.

Abstract: Systems and methods for multivariate Artificial Intelligence (AI) smart cards are provided. An AI smart card may include, for example, pre-stored policy data that may be utilized as a portion of multivariate input by a suite of AI modules to formulate and analyze a claim of loss.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for coordinating and executing in-flight energy transfer events between vehicles. Energy may be transferred from a towing or leading vehicle to a towed or trailing vehicle, from the trailing vehicle to the leading vehicle, or both during the in-flight energy transfer events. The proposed systems may further be configured to coordinate the terms and conditions of a service agreement between the leading and trailing vehicles, coordinate the publication of a service experience rating from a user of the leading and/or trailing vehicle, and/or coordinate the termination of the in-flight charging event by either user.

Abstract: A system includes processing circuitry and a drone that includes a marking mount that receives a marking device, a motion guide that provides a sliding framework for a reciprocating motion of the marking mount, and a shock absorption sub-assembly positioned between the marking mount and the motion guide. Control logic of the drone is configured to navigate, based on navigation instructions received from the processing circuitry, the drone to an area associated with a misapplication of a tape as applied to a substrate or a substrate defect, such that a distal tip of the marking device makes contact with the area associated with the tape misapplication or the substrate defect, while activating the shock absorption sub-assembly to at least partially absorb a shock caused by the contact between the distal tip of the marking device and the area associated with the tape misapplication or the substrate defect.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for treating a fluid produced from a biorefinery to remove contaminants, such as metals and sulfur therefrom. Biomass is pyrolysed and activated to form activated carbon used to remove such contaminants. The fluid produced from the biorefinery may be one or more of a biofuel, a biogas, and wastewater.

Abstract: A method includes generating or obtaining, by one or more processors, a digital twin of a building; generating, by the one or more processors, a virtual sensor configured to detect an event associated with one or more pieces of building equipment of the building, the virtual sensor comprising a machine learning model configured to detect the event using data obtained from and/or relating to the one or more pieces of building equipment; adding, by the one or more processors, a virtual sensor entity and one or more virtual sensor relationships to the digital twin; detecting, by the one or more processors using the virtual sensor, that the event has occurred; and, in response to detecting the event has occurred, updating the virtual sensor entity to include an indication that the event has occurred.

Abstract: One example includes a super-lattice castellated field effect transistor (SLCFET) system. The system includes a plurality of SLCFETs arranged in a series stack between a first port and a second port to provide a propagation path of a radio frequency (RF) signal between the first port and the second port in response to activation of the SLCFETs. The system also includes a plurality of gate resistors interconnecting gate terminals associated with each of the respective SLCFETs and an activation port to which an activation signal is provided to concurrently activate the SLCFETs. The system further includes a plurality of balancing resistors coupled to the gate terminals associated with each of the respective SLCFETs, the balancing resistors being configured to approximately equalize a drain-gate voltage and a gate-source voltage associated with each of the SLCFETs when activated.

Abstract: An electrophoretic display includes an electrophoretic medium having a non-polar fluid and two sets of charged pigment particles dispersed in the non-polar fluid and movable through the non-polar fluid under influence of an electric field. The two sets of charged pigment particles have different optical characteristics from each other. The display also includes a light-transmissive electrode on one side of the electrophoretic medium, a rear electrode on an opposite side of the electrophoretic medium, and a dielectric layer having a dielectric constant greater than 5 between the electrophoretic medium and the light-transmissive electrode or between the electrophoretic medium and the rear electrode configured to reduce electrode electrochemical degradation and buildup of remnant voltages in the display.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal transfer ribbon for use with a media processing device. The thermal transfer ribbon includes a carrier layer and a transfer layer operatively coupled to the carrier layer. The transfer layer includes an environmental indicator material encapsulated in a plurality of microcapsules. The plurality of microcapsules prevent the environmental indicator material from producing an observable effect in response to exposure to a predetermined environmental condition. The environmental indicator material is released from the plurality of microcapsules in response to the plurality of microcapsules being ruptured. After the environmental indicator material is released and exposed to the predetermined environmental condition, the environmental indicator material produces the observable effect. The observable effect results from a change in the environmental indicator material from an original state to a second state in response to the predetermined environmental condition.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for integration of electrolysis with biomass gasification to generate synthesis gas that can be used for production of renewable fuels and/or other hydrocarbonaceous compounds. The hydrocarbonaceous compounds can include compounds formed by chemical synthesis, such as alkanes formed by a Fischer-Tropsch process or methanol formed by a methanol synthesis process; or the hydrocarbonaceous compounds can include compounds formed by fermentation, such as alcohols formed by micro-organisms that use the synthesis gas as an input feed.

Abstract: A vehicle winch control assembly includes, among other things, a winch, and a vehicle input device that is reassigned to control the winch. The vehicle input device can be an accelerator pedal. A vehicle winch control method includes, among other things, reassigning a vehicle input device, and, after the reassigning, controlling a winch using the vehicle input device.

Abstract: Vascular access devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. According to some embodiments, the present technology includes an implantable vascular access device comprising a catheter and a housing defining a fluid reservoir and an outlet port configured to mate with a catheter, the outlet port fluidically coupled to the fluid reservoir. The vascular access device can comprise one or more sensing elements carried by the housing and/or the catheter, which are configured to capture physiological data while the device is implanted within a patient The device can also include a data communications unit configured to receive physiological data from the one or more sensing elements and transmit the physiological data to one or more remote computing devices.

Abstract: A system comprises a sensor device and processing circuitry. The sensor device comprises a housing configured to be disposed above shoulders of a patient, a plurality of electrodes on the housing, a motion sensor, and sensing circuitry configured to sense a brain electrical signal and a cardiac electrical signal via the electrodes, and a motion signal via the motion sensor. The processing circuitry is configured to determine values over time of one or more parameters from the brain electrical signal, determine values over time of one or more parameters from the cardiac electrical signal, and generate at least one of a detection, prediction, or a classification a condition of the patient based on the values and the motion signal.

Abstract: A micro-electromechanical device and method of manufacture are disclosed. A sacrificial layer is formed on a silicon substrate. A metal layer is formed on a top surface of the sacrificial layer. Soft magnetic material is electrolessly deposited on the metal layer to manufacture the micro-electromechanical device. The sacrificial layer is removed to produce a metal beam separated from the silicon substrate by a space.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aircraft security door as well as methods, systems and apparatus for handling an aircraft security door. In one implementation, a method for installing an aircraft security door onto an aircraft is disclosed. The method includes transferring the aircraft security door to an aircraft service stair, supporting the aircraft security door by a bridge crane coupled to the aircraft service stair, positioning the aircraft service stair in proximity to a fuselage of the aircraft adjacent to an opening in the fuselage, positioning the aircraft security door relative to the opening using the bridge crane, and securing the aircraft security door to the opening.

Abstract: An electrowetting system for actuating droplets of a first composition and of a second composition. The system includes: a plurality of electrodes configured to manipulate droplets of fluid in a microfluidic space, each electrode being coupled to circuitry which applies driving voltages to the electrode; and a processing unit operably connected to a look up table correlating drive sequences to chemical species and at least one composition parameter. The processing unit is configured to: receive data of a first chemical species and a first composition parameter of the first composition; receive data of a second chemical species and a second composition parameter of the second composition; correlate a first drive sequence with the first chemical species and the first composition parameter; correlate a second drive sequence with the second chemical species and the second composition parameter; and output the first drive sequence and the second drive sequence to the electrodes.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for characterizing radio propagation channels. One method includes receiving, at a first modem, a first unit of communication over a radio frequency (RF) communication path from a second modem, wherein the first modem and the second modem process information for RF communications. The first modem identifies fields in the first unit of communication, the fields used to analyze the RF communication path. The first modem extracts data from the fields. The first modem accesses a channel model for approximating a channel representative of the RF communication path from the first modem to the second modem, wherein the channel model includes machine learning models. The first modem trains the channel model using the extracted data. The first modem applies the trained channel model to simulate a set of channel effects associated with the communication path.