Abstract: In an embodiment, a System-on-Chip (SoC) may include: a plurality of core domains, and a memory coupled to the plurality of core domains through a hardware firewall, wherein the hardware firewall is configured to enforce an adaptive Deny-By-Default (DBD) access policy in response to an event. In another embodiment, a circuit, may include: an access control policy generator configured to produce an adaptive DBD policy, and a hardware firewall coupled to the access control policy generator, the hardware firewall configured to enforce the adaptive DBD policy. In yet another embodiment, a method may include: storing an indication of a first DBD configuration state, the first DBD configuration state usable to enforce a first DBD access control policy, and changing the stored indication to a second DBD configuration state, the second DBD configuration state usable to enforce a second DBD access control policy.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for wide frequency range voltage controlled oscillators. For example, an apparatus includes a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) including a delay cell which includes first and second current sources provided in parallel with one another. The first current source is controlled by a voltage control input connected to a voltage control terminal and the second current source is controlled by a bias voltage input connected to a bias voltage terminal. The first current source provides an alternate current path in the delay cell when the second current source is off. The delay cell is operable to receive an input and produce an output using the alternate current path.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include edge placement error mitigation processes and structures fabricated with such processes. In an embodiment, a method of fabricating an interconnect layer over a semiconductor die comprises forming a patterned layer over a substrate, disposing a resist layer over the patterned layer and patterning the resist layer to expose portions of the patterned layer. In an embodiment, overlay misalignment during the patterning results in the formation of edge placement error openings. In an embodiment, the method further comprises correcting the edge placement error openings, and patterning an opening into the substrate after correcting edge placement error openings.

Abstract: A method includes identifying, by a first server, a set of servers in an edge data center, discovering details of a plurality of components of each corresponding server of the set of servers, updating inventory of the set of servers based on at least the details of the plurality of components of each corresponding server of the set of servers, and performing health checks on the set of servers according to a health check frequency. The first server is connected to the set of servers by a switch. Performing the health checks includes detecting a removal of a second server from the set of servers, detecting an addition of the second server to the set of servers, detecting an addition of a new component in the second server, or detecting a replacement of a failed component in the second server in response to detecting a failure of the failed component.

Abstract: Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods of preparing a MK2 inhibitor, and intermediates related thereto.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include seals, vehicles, and methods for providing a seal for a door that is configured to travel laterally relative to a door opening. In an illustrative embodiment, a seal assembly includes first and second upper and lower lateral seals configured to seal outer and inner surfaces of the upper and lower edges of the door, respectively, as the door laterally moved into a closed position. The seal includes first and second front and rear transverse seals configured to seal the outer and the inner surfaces of the front and rear edges of the door, respectively, in response to the door laterally moving into the closed position.

Abstract: A system for detecting a road surface includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine a virtual boundary for a vehicle body based on a shape of the vehicle body, to identify one or more objects based on vehicle sensor data, based on the identified one or more objects, the determined virtual boundary, and an input to at least one of propulsion, steering, or braking, to determine at least one of a braking override or a steering override, and based on the determination, to perform at least one of adjusting a vehicle steering and a vehicle speed.

Abstract: One system for safeguarding a critical computing device is connected to an external communication network. The critical computing device stores critical data or is connected to a memory device storing critical data. The system includes a memory unit and a filtering module. The memory unit stores an entropy table having entropy values related to data packets regarding disorders in the data packets. The filtering module is connected to the external communication network and the critical computing device, receives a set of data packets through the external communication network, processes the data packets based on a set of rules, determines a processed entropy value related to each of the data packets received, fetches the entropy table and compares it with the processed entropy value, and determines if the data packets received are malicious or non-malicious and if the data packets are determined to be non-malicious data packets.

Abstract: One variation of a system for an electric motor includes a rotor including magnetic elements within a body. The system also includes a stator including coil assemblies arranged about the rotor. Each coil assembly includes an outer hook element and an inner hook element. The outer hook element extends across a first axial face and an outer radial surface of the rotor. The inner hook element: extends across a second axial face of the rotor; extends partially across the inner radial surface of the rotor; and is coupled to the outer hook element to define a throat configured to locate the rotor within the coil assembly. The system includes a shaft coupled to the inner radial surface of the rotor. Furthermore, the system includes a controller configured to drive current through the coil assemblies to generate a toroidal magnetic field configured to couple the magnetic elements to rotate the rotor.

Abstract: A face mask including a base model of a mask body having a front side and a back side and defining an interior. The back side includes a face opening within which a portion of a user face including a nose and mouth can be inserted and encompassed. The face opening is defined by a perimeter and is modified to substantially correspond to contours of the user face based on scan of topographical facial features of the user face.

Abstract: A system for detecting a road surface includes a computer programmed to determine a virtual boundary for a vehicle body based on a shape of the vehicle body, upon identifying an object, to identify a plurality of points on the object based on received sensor data, to determine a barrier function based on each of the identified plurality of points, wherein the barrier function includes a barrier distance from a reference point of the virtual boundary of the vehicle to a respective one of the points on the object, based on (i) the determined barrier functions, (ii) the determined virtual boundary of the vehicle, and (iii) an input to at least one of propulsion, steering, or braking, to determine at least one of a braking override or a steering override, and based on the determination, to adjust at least one of a vehicle steering or a vehicle speed.

Abstract: An example via contact patterning method includes providing a pattern of alternating trench contacts and gates over a support structure. For each pair of adjacent trench contacts and gates, a trench contact is electrically insulated from an adjacent gate by a dielectric material and/or multiple layers of different dielectric materials, and the gates are recessed with respect to the trench contacts. The method further includes wrapping a protective layer of one or more dielectric materials, and a sacrificial helmet material on top of the trench contacts to protect them during the via contact patterning and etch processes for forming via contacts over one or more gates. Such a method may advantageously allow increasing the edge placement error margin for forming via contacts of metallization stacks.

Abstract: Discussed herein are dynamically generated, customized electronic messages based on, for example, data representing attributes of an electronic message to be generated for an intended recipient; and, in response to receiving the data, sending custom content triggering data based on the attributes, where the custom content triggering data represent at least a dynamic portion of customized content to be added subsequently into the electronic message while the electronic message is rendered for display to the intended recipient; generating the electronic message content, which includes the custom content triggering data; and sending the electronic message to the intended recipient; and, in response to receiving the custom content triggering data, determining attributes of the electronic message based on the custom content triggering data; and generating the dynamic portion of customized content based on the electronic message attributes.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting and blocking bots are presented. The method includes receiving unlabeled data regarding a visitor of a web source, grouping the received unlabeled data with similar characteristics into a group of data, detecting, based on the group of data, at least one anomaly, and determining, based on the at least one detected anomaly, several visitors to be blacklisted.

Abstract: A method for presenting personalized content to a user includes receiving user data corresponding to a user having a user profile, the user data including at least one or more messages in a user mailbox and a user web browser history within a network, extracting one or more data tags from the received user data, associated at least one data tag with a message, finding information in the network that corresponds to the associated data tag, generating a notification for the user, the notification including the found information in the network, and outputting the generated notification to a user interface of a device of the user.

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to an implant for insertion into a patient. The implant comprises a plurality of unit cells arranged to form a three-dimensional lattice structure, the three-dimensional structure comprising a resting volume of the implant. The plurality of unit cells are arranged to form a porous network of the three-dimensional structure, and wherein the three-dimensional structure is a reversibly compressible three-dimensional structure, wherein a bulk porosity of the three-dimensional structure of the implant is at least 50%. Also disclosed is a method of tissue reconstruction or tissue augmentation. The method comprises implanting into the body of a subject an implant of the disclosure.

Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating constraints based on reported crop arrivals to marketplaces and remote sensed data to estimate farm yields of farm fields. A total arrival quantity constraint for a marketplace is generated comprising a function of a reported arrival of crops at a marketplace and an estimated arrival to the marketplace comprising a sum of farm yields for the farm fields, wherein the farm yields comprise variables to optimize. Sensed data of the farm fields is used to determine relationships of the farm yields for the farm fields. Comparative farm yield constraints are generated comprising relationships of the farm yields for different pairs of farms. A constraint optimization problem is solved based on the total arrival quantity constraint and comparative farm yield constraints to calculate the farm yields of the farm fields.

Abstract: Techniques for hybrid videoconferencing are described. A method of hybrid videoconferencing may comprise receiving, by a call routing service, a request to initiate a call with a provider from a user device, providing, by the call routing service, first endpoint data associated with a first connection between the user device and an agent device associated with the provider, establishing the first connection between the agent device and the user device via the call routing service, providing, by the call routing service, second endpoint data associated with a second connection between the user device and the agent device, and establishing, by a peer-to-peer (P2P) contact service, the second connection between the agent device and the user device.

Abstract: A computer system includes a processor and a prefetch engine. The processor is configured to generate a demand access stream. The prefetch engine is configured to generate a first prefetch request and a second prefetch request based on the demand access stream, to output the first prefetch request to a first translation lookaside buffer (TLB), and to output the second prefetch request to a second TLB that is different from the first TLB. The processor performs a first TLB lookup in the first TLB based on one of the demand access stream or the first prefetch request, and performs a second TLB lookup in the second TLB based on the second prefetch request.