Abstract: An edge device includes a first antenna array and control circuitry that activates a sensing function to sense a surrounding area of the edge device. The control tracks a position of the first UE in motion from the edge device and further executes beamforming to direct a first beam of RF signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to the first UE in motion, based on the track of the position of the first UE for high-performance communication.

Abstract: An edge device that includes one or more first antenna arrays at a donor side of the edge device, and one or more second antenna arrays at a service side of the edge device. The edge device obtains wireless connectivity enhanced information from a central cloud server. The edge device receives a first donor beam associated with a first wireless carrier network (WCN) from a first base station via the one or more first antenna arrays and further receives a second donor beam associated with a second WCN from a second base station. The edge device concurrently or alternatingly directs, from the one or more second antenna arrays, a first beam of RF signal in the first WCN to a first UE and a second beam of RF signal in the second WCN to the second UE, based on the obtained wireless connectivity enhanced information.

Abstract: A communication system includes a central cloud server having connectivity enhanced database that specifies uplink-and-downlink beam alignment-wireless connectivity relationships for a plurality of geographical areas for different service providers. The connectivity enhanced database is generated over a first period of time based on a plurality of vehicles. The central cloud server obtains sensing information from first edge device mounted at a new vehicle and causes one or more road-side unit (RSU) devices over a second period of time to direct one or more specific beams of radio frequency signals to service a donor side of first edge device of new vehicle when new vehicle arrives and moves along one or more first geographical areas of the plurality of geographical areas. The one or more specific beams are selected based on the connectivity enhanced database bypassing an initial access-search on first edge device and the one or more RSU devices.

Abstract: A lateral flow assay (LFA) device includes a capillary pad and a sample port that holds the sample fluid before a hole is made in a cavity surface of the sample port. The LFA device includes a breaker with a tip to make a hole in the cavity wall of the sample port causing the sample fluid held inside the compartment to be applied to the capillary pad after the start of a test.

Abstract: A lateral flow assay device comprising a conjugate pad for receiving a quantity of fluid, and a membrane comprising a test line for determining whether the fluid comprises a target analyte. The device includes an actuator connected to a moving element comprising a shaft or a wheel. A first magnet is connected to the backing of the membrane. Second and third magnets are connected to the moving element. The actuator moves the moving element between first and second positions. In the first position, the opposite poles of the first and second magnets attract each other and maintain a gap between the membrane and the conjugate pad separate. In the second position, the similar poles of the first and third magnets repel each other and close the gap between membrane and the conjugate pad, allowing the fluid to flow from the conjugate pad into the membrane and the test line.

Abstract: A sanitization device and telemedicine station (SDTS) may automatically detect and disinfect users as the users pass through the device. Sanitizing solution may be distributed throughout a disinfecting area within the SDTS such that people, pets, items, and/or other objects are disinfected. The SDTS may collect biometric data such as body temperature. Collected data may be analyzed to identify conditions and/or generate recommendations by matching collected data to various condition profiles. The SDTS may allow telemedicine sessions, where a user may communicate with a practitioner or virtual practitioner.

Abstract: A test cartridge includes an adjustable lancet. The adjustable lancet is controlled by a controller. The adjustable lancet automatically detects a subject's finger, adjusts the lancet's height, pricks the finger to draw blood, moves a tube to collect the blood, moves the tube away from the finger, and empties the blood from the tube into a vial or receptacle. The adjustable lancet may include safety features to prevent the lancet to trigger when the subject's fingernail is facing the lancet, to control the amount that the lancet pierces the subject's finger, and/or to prevent the reuse of a test cartridge for multiple persons or multiple times by the same person. The adjustable lancet may include a massager wheel and/or a pressure bar to rub the subject's finger after the finger is pierced to facilitate drawing of the blood from the finger.

Abstract: A lateral flow assay device includes several markers, a color bar, and/or a grayscale on the housing of the lateral flow assay device. The markers are used to assist in focusing a mobile device's camera on the control line of the lateral flow assay device. The markers may be used to adjust the perspective of an image taken from the control line and the test line of the lateral flow assay device. The markers may be used to locate the images of the control line, the test line, the color bar, and/or the grayscale on the image. The image of the color bar and the grayscale may be used to adjust the colors and intensity of the image. The images of the test line and the control line may then be used to determine the test results of the lateral flow assay device.

Abstract: An edge device includes a first antenna array and control circuitry that activates a sensing function to sense a surrounding area of the edge device and generates a 3D environment representation of the surrounding area of the edge device. The control circuitry recognizes a first user equipment (UE) in motion to be a valid device to receive one or more services from the edge device and track a position of the first UE in motion from the edge device. The control circuitry executes beamforming to direct a first beam of RF signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to the first UE in motion that is recognized as the valid device, based on the track of the position of the first UE and the generated 3D environment representation for high-performance communication.

Abstract: A sample collection and testing device for analyzing blood is provided that includes a controller, a fluid flow pathway, a pump configured to move fluid through the fluid pathway, and an optical fluid measurement element configured to measure a light intensity of the fluid in the fluid flow pathway. The controller is configured to: start the pump to move a blood sample in the fluid flow pathway, receive a signal from the optical fluid measurement element indicating a detection of a leading edge of the blood in the fluid flow pathway, stop the pump to stop the moving of the blood in the pathway, receive a plurality of light intensity measurements from the optical measurement element, each light intensity measurement measured at a corresponding point of time, and provide a mapping of the light intensity measurements into an indication of a coagulation of the blood sample over a time period.

Abstract: A central cloud server includes a primary storage that stores a connectivity enhanced database that specifies a plurality of time-of-day specific uplink and downlink beam alignment-wireless connectivity relationships for a surrounding area of each of a plurality of edge devices. The central cloud server obtains sensing information from the plurality of edge devices in real time or near real time. The central cloud server determines, based on position information of a first edge device of the plurality of edge devices, that a handover is required for the first edge device. Based on such determination, the central cloud server communicates wireless connectivity enhanced information including a specific initial access information from the connectivity enhanced database to the first edge device to bypass an initial access-search on the first edge device.

Abstract: A water purification device comprising a pre-purified water reservoir for storing pre-purified water, a water vapor chamber for receiving water vapor generated from heating the pre-purified water in the pre-purified water reservoir, a condensation chamber for receiving the water vapor and condensing the water vapor into purified water, and a Peltier device comprising a hot side and a cold side. The hot side of the Peltier device heats the pre-purified water into water vapor and the cold side of the Peltier device condenses the water vapor into purified water.

Abstract: A lateral flow assay (LFA) device includes a sample port that holds the sample fluid before a hole is made in a wall of the sample port. The LFA device includes a cap with a sealer. The sealer fits inside the sample port after the sample port receives the sample fluid, forms a compartment for holding a predetermined volume of sample fluid between the sample port's wall and the sealer, and pushes any amount of sample fluid in excess of the predetermined volume out of the compartment after the cap is fitted inside the sample port. The LFA device includes a breaker with a tip to make a hole in the wall of the sample port causing the sample fluid held inside the compartment to be applied to the capillary pad after the start of a test.

Abstract: A communication apparatus that includes a first antenna array having a first plurality of antenna elements, and a first plurality of thermoelectric devices that are arranged on the first plurality of antenna elements of the first antenna array such that each thermoelectric device covers a different subset of antenna elements of the first plurality of antenna elements. The communication apparatus further includes a processor that determines an operational state of the first plurality of antenna elements. The processor controls each of the first plurality of thermoelectric devices based on the determined operational state of the first plurality of antenna elements such that an adaptive cooling is applied on different subsets of antenna elements of the first plurality of antenna elements to maintain a temperature of the first plurality of antenna elements in a specified temperature range.

Abstract: A lateral flow assay (LFA) device includes a sample port that holds the sample fluid before a hole is made in a wall of the sample port. The LFA device includes a cap with a sealer. The sealer fits inside the sample port after the sample port receives the sample fluid, forms a compartment for holding a predetermined volume of sample fluid between the sample port's wall and the sealer, and pushes any amount of sample fluid in excess of the predetermined volume out of the compartment after the cap is fitted inside the sample port. The LFA device includes a breaker with a tip to make a hole in the wall of the sample port causing the sample fluid held inside the compartment to be applied to the capillary pad after the start of a test.

Abstract: A test cartridge includes an adjustable lancet. The adjustable lancet is controlled by a controller. The adjustable lancet automatically detects a subject's finger, adjusts the lancet's height, pricks the finger to draw blood, moves a tube to collect the blood, moves the tube away from the finger, and empties the blood from the tube into a vial or receptacle. The adjustable lancet may include safety features to prevent the lancet to trigger when the subject's fingernail is facing the lancet, to control the amount that the lancet pierces the subject's finger, and/or to prevent the reuse of a test cartridge for multiple persons or multiple times by the same person. The adjustable lancet may include a massager wheel and/or a pressure bar to rub the subject's finger after the finger is pierced to facilitate drawing of the blood from the finger.

Abstract: A lateral flow assay device includes several markers, a color bar, and/or a grayscale on the housing of the lateral flow assay device. The markers are used to assist in focusing a mobile device's camera on the control line of the lateral flow assay device. The markers may be used to adjust the perspective of an image taken from the control line and the test line of the lateral flow assay device. The markers may be used to locate the images of the control line, the test line, the color bar, and/or the grayscale on the image. The image of the color bar and the grayscale may be used to adjust the colors and intensity of the image. The images of the test line and the control line may then be used to determine the test results of the lateral flow assay device.

Abstract: An edge device that receives a first connection request from a first user equipment (UE) associated with a first wireless carrier network of a first service provider. The edge device further receives a second connection request from a second UE associated with a second wireless carrier network of a second service provider. The edge device obtains wireless connectivity enhanced information for the first UE and the second UE from a central cloud server. The edge device is further configured to direct a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal in the first wireless carrier network to the first UE and a second beam of RF signal in the second wireless carrier network to the second UE based on the obtained connectivity enhanced information for the first UE and the second UE.

Abstract: A smart dosing device includes: a supply pathway having a compartment that is able to house a plurality of discrete doses of a particular substance; at least one sensor that captures identifying information related to the particular substance; a wireless communication module; and at least one security feature that restricts use of the smart dosing device. A method of providing a measured dose using a smart dosing device includes: retrieving a discrete dose from a storage cavity of the smart dosing device; and providing the discrete dose via an outlet port of the smart dosing device. A smart dosing system includes: a smart dosing device having a unique identifier, the smart dosing device including a cartridge housing multiple discrete doses of a substance, the cartridge having a unique cartridge identifier; and a server including a central database that stores usage information related to the smart dosing device, the usage information comprising: the unique identifier and the unique cartridge identifier.

Abstract: A sample collection and testing device for analyzing blood is provided that includes a controller, a fluid flow pathway, a pump configured to move fluid through the fluid pathway, and an optical fluid measurement element configured to measure a light intensity of the fluid in the fluid flow pathway. The controller is configured to: start the pump to move a blood sample in the fluid flow pathway, receive a signal from the optical fluid measurement element indicating a detection of a leading edge of the blood in the fluid flow pathway, stop the pump to stop the moving of the blood in the pathway, receive a plurality of light intensity measurements from the optical measurement element, each light intensity measurement measured at a corresponding point of time, and provide a mapping of the light intensity measurements into an indication of a coagulation of the blood sample over a time period.