Abstract: A method of controlling a target device by a computing device may include identifying a distance difference between a distance to a first reference device and a distance to a second reference device from one or more electronic devices, identifying an angle difference between an angle of arrival of the one or more electronic devices relative to at least one of the first reference device or the second reference device and a reference angle of arrival, and controlling the target device based on at least one of the distance difference or the angle difference.

Abstract: Substrates may be metallized by introducing a via fill material comprising one or more metals into one or more vias terminating in a base substrate and/or extending between a first face and a second face of the base substrate. More particularly, a glass or silicon base substrate may have one or more vias, in which a via fill material is present within the one or more vias. The via fill material comprises a porous matrix material having a void space of about 30% to about 60% and comprising a plurality of electrically conductive particles, which may be optionally bonded together with a cured silicate-reactive matrix material. A conductive network at least partially fills the void space within the porous matrix material, wherein the porous network comprises a plurality of metal nanoparticles that have been consolidated with one another.

Abstract: Provided are a system and methodology for fraud detection and prevention to minimize an ongoing effect of fraud attack. The minimization is rooted in leveraging real-time recognition for delineated, time-based frequency for patterning within transaction data in which such patterning can be indicative of fraud. Once the recognition is performed, affected entities can be notified such that they may then institute efforts to thwart effects of the fraud attack. Still further, the recognition can serve to mitigate effects of fraud attack for subsequent iterations of transaction data by automating, in real-time, disapproval of transactions infected with the aforementioned patterning.

Abstract: A radio frequency connection between a far field voice detection device and a further device is used to determine a first angular direction from the far field voice detection device to the further device. The determined first angular direction is then used to emphasize, during a noise processing of a plurality of sounds received via use of a plurality of microphones of the far field voice detection device, a first one of the plurality of sounds relative to a remainder of the plurality of sounds.

Abstract: This invention relates to producing vaccines, such as cancer vaccines, by methods of forming an expansion of a lymphoid network in a subject the method comprising: administering to the subject a polymer suspension composition comprising: a natural polymer and cells; gelling the polymer suspension composition in vivo to form a hydrogel composition scaffold; and expanding the cell population to form an expansion of the lymphoid network, including in vivo. It also relates to hydrogel compositions comprising a natural polymer, along with cells, a pharmaceutical composition or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a modulating agent, and/or a targeting agent, as well as methods of making and using the hydrogel compositions as biotherapeutic scaffolds for treatment of cancers or tumors, including in vivo.

Abstract: A sensing fretboard for stringed instruments is described herein with respect to a guitar. The present invention includes custom frets and a modular sensing array that can be incorporated into a fretboard and coupled to the guitar. By measuring the dynamic forces applied by the players on the frets and strings of the guitar, musicians can be warned in real time during practice, when their grip is too strong, and to help musicians learn and recover from injuries.

Abstract: The memory device includes a memory block that has a plurality of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines and in a plurality of channels. The memory device also includes circuitry that is configured to conduct a hole pre-charge operation to inject holes into the plurality of channels. During the hole pre-charge operation, the circuitry applies a positive CELSRC pre-charge voltage to a source line of the memory block and applies a negative unselected word line pre-charge voltage to a plurality of unselected word lines in the memory block to make a plurality of memory cells in the memory block conductive to holes.

Abstract: A radio frequency connection between a far field voice detection device and a further device is used to determine a first angular direction from the far field voice detection device to the further device. The determined first angular direction is then used to emphasize, during a noise processing of a plurality of sounds received via use of a plurality of microphones of the far field voice detection device, a first one of the plurality of sounds relative to a remainder of the plurality of sounds.

Abstract: A radio frequency connection between a controlling device and a one of a plurality of controllable appliances in an environment is used to determine when the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances. When it is determined that the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances, the controlling device automatically makes active a command codeset usable to transmit commands to command functional operations of the one of the plurality of controllable appliances.

Abstract: An obturator comprising a hollow distal end portion, the distal end portion comprising a distal end and a side hole located proximally of the distal end, the side hole being for receipt of a guidewire and to direct the guidewire laterally from the obturator.

Abstract: Printed circuit boards may be formed using ceramic substrates with high thermal conductivity to facilitate heat dissipation. Metal nanoparticles, such as copper nanoparticles, may be used to form conductive traces and fill through-plane vias upon the ceramic substrates. Multi-layer printed circuit boards may comprise two or more ceramic substrates adhered together, wherein each ceramic substrate has one or more conductive traces defined thereon and the one or more conductive traces are formed through consolidation of metal nanoparticles. The one or more conductive traces in a first ceramic substrate layer are in electrical communication with at least one second ceramic substrate layer adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A method for synchronizing time within a local, networked system including a first device and a least one second device. The first device uses a short-wavelength, ultra-high frequency radio communications protocol to advertise a time that is being maintained by a first clock of the first device. The second device uses the received time to discipline a second clock of the second device such that the second clock of the second device is generally synchronized to the first clock of the first device.

Abstract: A first electronic device and a method for providing a group call service are provided. The method includes receiving a user input for a group call between multiple people included in a designated image, acquiring facial features of the multiple people, acquiring, based on the facial features, first contact information of a first person from a first local contact list stored in the first electronic device, transmitting the first contact information of the first person and a facial feature of a second person to a server, receiving an identification value of the first person holding second contact information of the second person from the server, initiating, based on the first contact information, the group call of the first person with respect to a second electronic device, and transmitting a request for participation of a third electronic device in the group call to the second electronic device.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of making selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) of Formula A, as well as intermediates thereof, salts thereof including a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof: wherein either R1 or R2 is independently Cl, F, —CF3, or —CH3, and the other is H; and R7 is H or PG.

Abstract: Printed circuit boards may be formed using ceramic substrates with high thermal conductivity to facilitate heat dissipation. Metal nanoparticles, such as copper nanoparticles, may be used to form conductive traces and fill through-plane vias upon the ceramic substrates. Multi-layer printed circuit boards may comprise two or more ceramic substrates adhered together, wherein each ceramic substrate has one or more conductive traces defined thereon and the one or more conductive traces are formed through consolidation of metal nanoparticles. The one or more conductive traces in a first ceramic substrate layer are in electrical communication with at least one second ceramic substrate layer adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A method for synchronizing time within a local, networked system including a first device and a least one second device. The first device uses a short-wavelength, ultra-high frequency radio communications protocol to advertise a time that is being maintained by a first clock of the first device. The second device uses the received time to discipline a second clock of the second device such that the second clock of the second device is generally synchronized to the first clock of the first device.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of making selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) of Formula A, as well as intermediates thereof, salts thereof including a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof: wherein either R1 or R2 is independently Cl, F, —CF3, or —CH3, and the other is H; and R7 is H or PG.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). In a wireless communication system, a method performed by a first user equipment (UE) may include: obtaining at least one phone number from a plurality of usable sources, classifying, based on a usage state, the at least one phone number into one of a permanent state, a temporary state, or an invalid state, and transmitting a session initiation protocol (SIP) message including information associated with the at least one classified phone number to a second UE.

Abstract: A radio frequency connection between a controlling device and a one of a plurality of controllable appliances in an environment is used to determine when the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances. When it is determined that the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances, the controlling device automatically makes active a command codeset usable to transmit commands to command functional operations of the one of the plurality of controllable appliances.

Abstract: A radio frequency connection between a far field voice detection device and a further device is used to determine a first angular direction from the far field voice detection device to the further device. The determined first angular direction is then used to emphasize, during a noise processing of a plurality of sounds received via use of a plurality of microphones of the far field voice detection device, a first one of the plurality of sounds relative to a remainder of the plurality of sounds.