Abstract: A robotic medical system can include a patient platform. The patient platform includes a tilt mechanism. The tilt mechanism can include a lateral tilt mechanism and a longitudinal tilt mechanism. The lateral tilt mechanism can include a tilt plate and a pivot housing. A linear actuator mounted on the tilt plate can apply a linear force to the pivot housing. The lateral tilt mechanism can also include a first linear guide that extends along a first axis, and the pivot housing can translate along the first linear guide. Application of the linear force to the pivot housing tilts the tilt plate by causing the pivot housing to translate along the first linear guide.

Abstract: Interfering nucleic acids and methods of their use in treat prostate cancers, such as aggressive prostate cancers. The nucleic acids may be, for example, short interfering RNA (siRNA), short hairpinRNA (shRNA), antisense RNA, antisense DNA, Chimeric Antisense DNA/RNA, and microRNA (miRNA) oligonucleotides. The oligonucleotide has a seed sequence that is complementary to a sequence of either a gene or an mRNA encoding an androgen receptor (AR) coregulator or a fragment thereof having AR coregulator activity. The nucleic acid compound may have a non-natural modification in the oligonucleotide, and/or an organic moiety conjugated to the oligonucleotide. The oligonucleotide has inhibitory activity against the expression or biological activity of the AR coregulator.

Abstract: A content analysis system includes processor and memory hardware storing data analyzed content items and instructions for execution by the processor hardware. The instructions include, in response to a first intermediate content item being analyzed to generate a first text description, receiving the first intermediate content item and analyzing the first text description to generate a first reduced text description. The instructions include identifying a first set of tags by applying a tag model to the first text description and generating a first analyzed content item. The instructions include adding the first analyzed content item to the analyzed content database and, in response to a displayed content item being associated with at least one tag of the first set of tags, displaying a first user-selectable link corresponding to the first analyzed content item on a portion of a user interface of a user device displaying the displayed content item.

Abstract: A robotic medical system can include a motorized arm that is supported by a column of the system. The robotic arm can be operated by rotating a link of the motorized arm by actuating an actuator to drive rotation of a rotary joint. A brake can then be applied to the rotary joint to stop rotation of the link. The arm can also include an arbor that can be actuated to increase a torsional stiffness of the rotary joint.

Abstract: A battery management system is described that includes a controller configured to control electrical charging and discharging of a plurality of blocks of a battery. The battery management system also includes an inter-block communication network including a master node and a plurality of slave nodes arranged in a ring-type daisy-chain configuration with the master node. The master node is coupled to the controller and configured to initiate all command messages sent through the inter-block communication network and terminate all reply messages sent through the inter-block communication network. The plurality of slave nodes is bounded by an initial node coupled to the master node and a last node coupled to the master node.

Abstract: A motorized arm for a robotic medical system can include a shoulder coupled to a column of a table by a translational joint that allows translation of the shoulder along the column, a first link rotationally coupled to the column, a second link rotational coupled to the first link, and an arm support coupled to a distal end of the second link. The arm support can be configured to support one or more robotic arms usable during a robotic medical procedures. The motorized arm can include actuators for driving rotation of the links and arbors that can be engaged to increase the torsional stiffness of the motorized arm. The motorized arm can move the arm support between a stowed position below the table to a deployed position.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to prompt a user for personal information. The user is prompted to take a self-image. The user is prompted to take an image of a user identification card. Correspondence between the self-image and a user identification card image is validated. The user record is finalized. Health test results are obtained. A digital health certificate is created if the health test results are verified. A user image from on premise location is received. Health certification criteria for the user is applied to alternately establish a criteria met state and a criteria fail state. Premise access denied messages are sent in response to the criteria fail state. A safety certification is supplied in response to the criteria met state.

Abstract: An assay system and method for generating quantitative data for a subject by determining an expression level of a biomarker panel in a sample obtained from the subject, the biomarker panel having at least one biomarker selected from a first biomarker group including the genes CDC45, CENPI, CLSPN, ERCC6L, EXO1, NCAPG, and optionally at least one additional biomarker selected from a second biomarker group including the genes BUB1B, CDK1, E2F7, GSG2, NUSAP1, RAD51, and RRM2 in any combination, wherein the expression level is obtained by measuring expression of the biomarker panel in the sample, and wherein the subject has a cancer, or is suspected of having a cancer. The cancer may be, for example, prostate cancer, brain cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, or ovarian cancer.

Abstract: A robotic medical system can include a patient platform. The patient platform includes a tilt mechanism. The tilt mechanism can include a lateral tilt mechanism and a longitudinal tilt mechanism. The lateral tilt mechanism can include a tilt plate and a pivot housing. A linear actuator mounted on the tilt plate can apply a linear force to the pivot housing. The lateral tilt mechanism can also include a first linear guide that extends along a first axis, and the pivot housing can translate along the first linear guide. Application of the linear force to the pivot housing tilts the tilt plate by causing the pivot housing to translate along the first linear guide.

Abstract: A dielectric element includes a bottom surface, a top surface, and a plurality of cells formed vertically between the bottom surface and the top surface. Each cell of the plurality of cells includes a cell sidewall that extends below the top surface toward the bottom surface. The cell sidewall forms an aperture in the top surface and tapers from the top surface toward a center of a respective cell. Each cell sidewall is formed of a dielectric material.

Abstract: A dielectric element includes a bottom surface, a top surface, and a plurality of cells formed vertically between the bottom surface and the top surface. Each cell of the plurality of cells includes a cell sidewall that extends below the top surface toward the bottom surface. The cell sidewall forms an aperture in the top surface and tapers from the top surface toward a center of a respective cell. Each cell sidewall is formed of a dielectric material.

Abstract: A circuit, e.g., a CMOS sensor, with individually addressable transfer transistors and individually addressable reset transistors is described. Through the individually addressable transistors, pixels within different regions of interest, of the same or different size and/or the same or different exposure times, can be efficiently processed. Different regions of interest may be exposed concurrently and read out independently.

Abstract: A method for providing battery diagnostics includes: measuring a first voltage across a first battery cell of a rechargeable battery via a first measurement path of a network using a first measurement circuit, measuring the first voltage including taking at least one first voltage sample during a first time period using the first measurement circuit; measuring a second voltage across the first battery cell via a second measurement path of the network using a second measurement circuit, measuring the second voltage including taking at least one second voltage sample during the first time period using the second measurement circuit, where the second measurement path of the network is different from the first measurement path of the network; comparing the measured first voltage with the measured second voltage; and generating a diagnostic output signal based on the comparison.

Abstract: A system and method of operating a digital financial system to extend access to digital banking to those individuals that never had a financial or digital currency account. Users are able to share their internet with other users of the digital banking app of this invention, who are nearby and have no internet connection, to conduct financial transactions by sharing the internet between them. This increases social and financial inclusion to allow unbanked that have a smartphone to have access to the internet and to affordable digital banking. It also improves on the prior art with legal compliance of country of residence verification aided by technology rather than relying solely on information provided by the users. Thereby requesting stricter verification documents to such very small minority of users who are flagged as potentially non-compliant and leave the vast majority alone enjoying their digital banking experience without exhaustive or annoying processes.

Abstract: A robotic medical system can include a patient platform. The patient platform includes a tilt mechanism. The tilt mechanism can include a lateral tilt mechanism and a longitudinal tilt mechanism. The lateral tilt mechanism can include a tilt plate and a pivot housing. A linear actuator mounted on the tilt plate can apply a linear force to the pivot housing. The lateral tilt mechanism can also include a first linear guide that extends along a first axis, and the pivot housing can translate along the first linear guide. Application of the linear force to the pivot housing tilts the tilt plate by causing the pivot housing to translate along the first linear guide.

Abstract: A method for providing battery diagnostics includes: measuring a first voltage across a first battery cell of a rechargeable battery via a first measurement path of a network using a first measurement circuit, measuring the first voltage including taking at least one first voltage sample during a first time period using the first measurement circuit; measuring a second voltage across the first battery cell via a second measurement path of the network using a second measurement circuit, measuring the second voltage including taking at least one second voltage sample during the first time period using the second measurement circuit, where the second measurement path of the network is different from the first measurement path of the network; comparing the measured first voltage with the measured second voltage; and generating a diagnostic output signal based on the comparison.

Abstract: A video content sequencing system includes at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, upon execution, cause the at least one processor to, in response to input from an operator, identify a first video identifier of a first entry of the video catalog that corresponds to a requested video identifier of a schedule request. The input includes the schedule request including: (i) a request type, (ii) the requested video identifier, (iii) a requested date, and (iv) a requested time. The instructions further cause the at least one processor to schedule a first video associated with the first video identifier to be automatically displayed from a first source identifier associated with the first video identifier on a channel by adding the first video identifier to the schedule at the requested time on the requested date included in the schedule request.

Abstract: A robotic medical system can include a patient platform. The patient platform includes a tilt mechanism. The tilt mechanism can include a lateral tilt mechanism and a longitudinal tilt mechanism. The lateral tilt mechanism can include a tilt plate and a pivot housing. A linear actuator mounted on the tilt plate can apply a linear force to the pivot housing. The lateral tilt mechanism can also include a first linear guide that extends along a first axis, and the pivot housing can translate along the first linear guide. Application of the linear force to the pivot housing tilts the tilt plate by causing the pivot housing to translate along the first linear guide.

Abstract: A motorized arm for a robotic medical system can include a shoulder coupled to a column of a table by a translational joint that allows translation of the shoulder along the column, a first link rotationally coupled to the column, a second link rotational coupled to the first link, and an arm support coupled to a distal end of the second link. The arm support can be configured to support one or more robotic arms usable during a robotic medical procedures. The motorized arm can include actuators for driving rotation of the links and arbors that can be engaged to increase the torsional stiffness of the motorized arm. The motorized arm can move the arm support between a stowed position below the table to a deployed position.

Abstract: A battery management system is described that includes a controller configured to control electrical charging and discharging of a plurality of blocks of a battery. The battery management system also includes an inter-block communication network including a master node and a plurality of slave nodes arranged in a ring-type daisy-chain configuration with the master node. The master node is coupled to the controller and configured to initiate all command messages sent through the inter-block communication network and terminate all reply messages sent through the inter-block communication network. The plurality of slave nodes is bounded by an initial node coupled to the master node and a last node coupled to the master node.