Abstract: The present invention is a device and method for preventing cargo in the cargo area of a vehicle from shifting forward in an accident, the vehicle having a horizontally hinged rear door.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are provided for calibrating a flexible implement that employs fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) for shape sensing. In some embodiments, methods and devices are provided for determining the longitudinal location of a FBG within an optical fiber that is employed for shape sensing. In other embodiments, methods and devices are employed for the determination of calibration parameters that relate the measured wavelength shift of a set of FBGs to the curvature at the location within the flexible implement where the set of FBGs resides. Various calibration devices are disclosed that employ guiding features for bending the flexible portion of the flexible implement along known curved profiles. In some embodiments, keyed features are incorporated into the flexible implement and the calibration device, such that the flexible implement is inserted into the device in a known orientation. In some embodiments, the flexible implement may incorporate a strain isolation mechanism.

Abstract: A method for initiating a cardless automated teller machine (ATM) transaction via a mobile computing device includes: storing, in a memory of a mobile computing device, at least transaction account data and authentication data; receiving, by an input device of the mobile computing device, at least desired transaction data and authentication information; receiving, by the input device of the mobile computing device, a unique identifier associated with an automated teller machine (ATM); authenticating, by an authentication module of the mobile computing device, the received authentication information based on the stored authentication data; and electronically transmitting, by a transmitting device of the mobile computing device, at least the received desired data and unique identifier and a result of the authentication to an external computing system.

Abstract: An embodiment includes a first server including a first processor electrically connected to a second processor; a second server including a third processor electrically connected to a fourth processor; a first connection plane, wherein one of the first and second processors is connected to one of the third and fourth processors by a first connection via the first connection plane and one of the first and second processors is connected to one of the third and fourth processors by a second connection via the first connection plane; and a second connection plane, wherein one of the first and second processors is connected to one of the third and fourth processors by a third connection via the second connection plane and wherein one of the first and second processors is connected to one of the third and fourth processors by a fourth connection via the second connection plane.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating and distributing action items in response to responses and further performing various reminder actions for the action items. In particular, systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate implementation of action items in response to receiving feedback data within responses to electronic survey questions. For example, systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate generating action items in response to given customer responses to one or more electronic survey questions. Additionally, systems and methods disclosed herein provide one or more reminders to one or more entities to follow up and ensure performance of various tasks associated with respective action items.

Abstract: Combinations of solid state light emitters, optionally arranged to stimulate one or more lumiphoric materials, are used to illuminate surfaces (e.g., upright surfaces) including printed material produced with CMY or CMYK inks. Vibrancy and/or efficacy may be enhanced by increasing the effective steepness of printed ink reflectance wavelength boundaries by illuminating printed material with solid state light emitters of multiple colors having tailored boundaries (e.g., increased separation between colors and/or increased energy in spectral areas highly reflected by CMY inks, or reducing energy of emissions at wavelengths to which the human eye is less sensitive). Lighting devices may include multiple operating modes having different gamut properties (e.g., relative gamut values). One or more subregions of an upright surface bearing printed material may be preferentially illuminated with an array of solid state light emitters including multiple emitters having different peak wavelengths.

Abstract: Devices and methods are provide for facilitating registration and calibration of surface imaging systems. Tracking marker support structures are described that include one or more fiducial reference markers, where the tracking marker support structures are configured to be removably and securely attached to a skeletal region of a patient. Methods are provided in which a tracking marker support structure is attached to a skeletal region in a pre-selected orientation, thereby establishing an intraoperative reference direction associated with the intraoperative position of the patient, which is employed for guiding the initial registration between intraoperatively acquired surface data and volumetric image data. In other example embodiments, the tracking marker support structure may be employed for assessing the validity of a calibration transformation between a tracking system and a surface imaging system.

Abstract: Devices and systems are provided for tracking a position and orientation of a handheld implement, such that the handheld implement may be trackable with an overhead tracking system. A support member secures one or more markers relative to a longitudinal portion of the handheld implement, and a marker plane containing the markers is orientated an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal portion. A marker assembly may include a support member for supporting the markers, and a connector for removably attaching the marker assembly to one or more handheld implements. The marker assembly may be configured to be removably attachable to a plurality of connection adapters, where each connection adapter is further connectable to a handheld implement, optionally at a calibrated position, such that a single connection adapter can be optionally employed to track a plurality of handheld implements. The handheld implement may be a medical instrument.

Abstract: The present invention is an improved safety harness for animals riding in a motor vehicle, wherein the harness prevents or greatly reduces the chance of the animal's lower quarters from being forced under the animal's head and shoulders, reduces the amount of rotational movement, reduces the side to side movement, reduces the chance for the dog to be forced off the car seat and reduces the amount of head excursion during a vehicle crash or a sudden stop.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating spatial annotations within guidance images that are displayed during a guided medical procedure, where the spatial annotations provide spatial graduations indicating known length measures. The spatial measures may be employed to visually assess the sizes of anatomical and/or functional features displayed in the guidance images.

Abstract: Alignment systems and devices are provided for controlling the alignment of an optical payload. In some embodiments, an optical positioning system is provided that includes a yoke supporting an optical payload. The yoke, which includes a plurality of articulated segments and associated pivot joints, is mechanically coupled to the optical payload, such that when the optical payload is oriented in a given direction, such as towards a distal target, the optical payload is rotatable about a distal pivot axis associated with a distal pivot joint of the yoke. The pivot joints of the yoke may be configured such that the rotation axis associated with a given pivot joint passes sufficiently close to a respective center of mass of a distalward portion of the optical alignment system beyond the given pivot joint, such that the position and orientation of the optical payload is maintained in the absence of external forces.

Abstract: A LED lamp has a base and an at least partially optically transmissive enclosure connected to the base. A heat sink is partially disposed in the enclosure and supports a plurality of LEDs. The heat sink comprising a mounting portion positioned in the enclosure for supporting the LEDs and a heat dissipating portion exposed to the ambient environment where the interior of the enclosure is exposed to the ambient environment. The heat sink have a plurality of separate heat sink structures that are mounted to the lamp independently of one another. Each heat sink structure may have a thickness of approximately 1-5 mm. Each heat sink structure may in some embodiments weigh approximately 3.8 to 7.7 grams and in other embodiments weigh approximately 27 grams.

Abstract: The present invention is an improved safety harness for animals riding in a motor vehicle, wherein the harness prevents or greatly reduces the chance of the animal's lower quarters from being forced under the animal's head and shoulders, reduces the amount of rotational movement, reduces the side to side movement, reduces the chance for the dog to be forced off the car seat and reduces the amount of head excursion during a vehicle crash or a sudden stop.

Abstract: Combinations of solid state light emitters, optionally arranged to stimulate one or more lumiphoric materials, are used to illuminate surfaces (e.g., upright surfaces) including printed material produced with CMY or CMYK inks. Vibrancy and/or efficacy may be enhanced by increasing the effective steepness of printed ink reflectance wavelength boundaries by illuminating printed material with solid state light emitters of multiple colors having tailored boundaries (e.g., increased separation between colors and/or increased energy in spectral areas highly reflected by CMY inks, or reducing energy of emissions at wavelengths to which the human eye is less sensitive). Lighting devices may include multiple operating modes having different gamut properties (e.g., relative gamut values). One or more subregions of an upright surface bearing printed material may be preferentially illuminated with an array of solid state light emitters including multiple emitters having different peak wavelengths.

Abstract: A lighting device including a blue solid state emitter, at least one yellow-green or green lumiphoric material, and at least one red or red-orange solid state emitter provides high color saturation, preferably in combination with a high R9-prime (modified R9) color rendering value, with such condition(s) being obtainable with at least one of (i) a red emitter peak wavelength of at least 630 nm, (ii) a green lumiphoric material having a narrow peak wavelength, and (iii) a blue shifted green color point within a specified region of a 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram, and obtainable without requiring a notch filtering material. Aggregate emissions may have a CCT in a range of from 2000K to 5000K.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the generation of partial surface models from volumetric datasets for subsequent registration of such partial surface models to surface topology datasets. Specifically, given an object that is imaged using surface topology imaging and another volumetric modality, the volumetric dataset is processed in combination with an approach viewpoint to generate one or more partial surfaces of the object that will be visible to the surface topology imaging system. This procedure can eliminate internal structures from the surfaces generated from volumetric datasets, thus increases the similarity of the dataset between the two different modalities, enabling improved and quicker registration.

Abstract: A lighting device including a blue solid state emitter, at least one yellow-green or green lumiphoric material, and at least one red or red-orange solid state emitter provides high color saturation, preferably in combination with a high R9-prime (modified R9) color rendering value, with such condition(s) being obtainable with at least one of (i) a red emitter peak wavelength of at least 630 nm, (ii) a green lumiphoric material having a narrow peak wavelength, and (iii) a blue shifted green color point within a specified region of a 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram, and obtainable without requiring a notch filtering material. Aggregate emissions may have a CCT in a range of from 2000K to 5000K.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the methods involve the use of a combination of at least two of the following: an inhibitor of indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an inhibitor of the PD-L1/PD-1 pathway, an inhibitor of CTLA-4, an inhibitor of CD25, or IL-7. The inventors particularly observed a major synergistic effect of combining anti-CTLA-4 with either an IDO inhibitor, with anti-PD-L1 mAb, or with CD-25 depletion. Such combinations have been found to demonstrate a synergistic effect in treating cancer and tumors, for example by reducing tumor size, increasing the percentage of antigen-specific T cells, and increasing T cell function.

Abstract: The present invention is an improved safety harness for animals riding in a motor vehicle, wherein the harness prevents of greatly reduces the chance of the animal's lower quarters from being forced under the animal's head and shoulders during a vehicle crash.