Abstract: The present disclosure provides immunomodulatory compositions comprising live Caulobacter crescentus (CC). Immunomodulatory compositions of the present disclosure are useful for modulating an immune response in an individual. The present disclosure thus provides methods of modulating an immune response in an individual, involving administering an immunomodulatory composition comprising live CC to the individual.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for tracking objects comprise one or more optical sensors for capturing one or more images of a scene, wherein the one or more optical sensors capture a wide field of view and corresponding narrow field of view for the one or more images of a scene, a localization module, coupled to the one or more optical sensors for determining the location of the apparatus, and determining the location of one more objects in the one or more images based on the location of the apparatus and an augmented reality module, coupled to the localization module, for enhancing a view of the scene on a display based on the determined location of the one or more objects.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transceiver for transmission of data coded according to a Bi-phase Mark Coding (BMC) protocol through a configurable channel (CC) of a USB type-C port. The transceiver includes: a transmitter configured to receive the coded BMC data and transmit the coded BMC data through the CC line. The transmitter includes: a low dropout (LDO) regulator configured to receive a reference voltage (VREF) and generate a local programmable supply voltage; a delay control logic configured to receive the BMC data, and including flipflops connected in series, wherein, output from each flipflop is delayed with respect to input received by the flipflop; and a transmitter driver configured to receive output from each flipflop of the delay control logic, the transmitter driver including a NMOS switches and a PMOS switches. The transceiver includes an eye correction receiver configured to receive output from the transmitter driver of the transmitter.

Abstract: A multiport universal serial bus (USB)-C based power supply device including a USB type-C port configured to supply power to a connected type-C external device, at least one USB type-A port configured to supply power to at least one connected type-A external sink device, a configurable power source and a controller operatively coupled with the configurable power source, the USB type-C port and at least one of the USB type-A port. The controller is configured to generate, based on the generated type-C and type-A power profile, at least one of a digital communication signal and a feedback control signal, which correspond to a power value to be supplied, based on the generated power profile, to the type-C port and the at least one type-A port respectively. Operation of the multiport USB-C based power supply device by a single controller facilitates compact construction of the multiport USB-C based power supply device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DFT architecture for ICs and a method for testing the ICs with the proposed DFT architecture. The present disclosure also includes a focus on USB PD protocol with respect to the DFT architecture. The present disclosure also includes focus on testing IC with single I/O pin. The DFT architecture primarily comprises of a test mode controller and reuses the USBPD protocol framework logic comprising analog USBPD CC circuitry in analog block and the USBPD signaling, protocol logic in digital block for the test purposes. The DFT architecture is implemented with analog test modes and digital test modes using a single I/O pin, wherein analog test modes comprises of analog trims and observation modes and digital test modes comprises of LBIST, ATPG and digital observation modes. The method disclosed is directed to the functions associated with testing the USBPD ICS using single I/O pin.

Abstract: A computing system includes a vision-based user interface platform to, among other things, analyze multi-modal user interactions, semantically correlate stored knowledge with visual features of a scene depicted in a video, determine relationships between different features of the scene, and selectively display virtual elements on the video depiction of the scene. The analysis of user interactions can be used to filter the information retrieval and correlating of the visual features with the stored knowledge.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I) are provided herein. Such compounds, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions thereof, are useful for treating diseases or conditions, including conditions characterized by excessive cellular proliferation, such as cancer and tumors, as well as viral infections such as HIV.

Abstract: Elastic Parylene films produced via chemical vapor deposition polymerization (CVDP) on a substrate are disclosed.

Abstract: A method, machine readable medium and system for semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data includes determining ground data points of the 3D point cloud data, categorizing non-ground data points relative to a ground surface determined from the ground data points to determine legitimate non-ground data points, segmenting the determined legitimate non-ground and ground data points based on a set of common features, applying logical rules to a data structure of the features built on the segmented determined non-ground and ground data points based on their spatial relationships and incorporated within a machine learning system, and constructing a 3D semantics model from the application of the logical rules to the data structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for implementing a USB-IF certified programmable power supply algorithm on a USB-C port. The method involves using a software code running on a microcontroller which monitors voltage and current being supplied by a power supply controller IC on a VBUS line of the USB-C port. Based on the detected voltage/current corrective actions are taken by the software code to bring the voltage/current to accepted levels as requested by a port partner. Further, a PPS accelerator is configured to compute an average or a new current/voltage value and provide the computed average or a new current/voltage value to a microcontroller for subsequent decision making and for other related assessment process.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for enabling power sharing in a multi-port power sourcing device. The system comprises of a multiport power sourcing device having a plurality of ports and a plurality of pre-defined resistances configured to each port of the plurality of ports and is configured to receive input parameters related to plurality of ports, total power capacity of the device and maximum power of each port, determine a second set of parameters associated with pre-defined resistances, execute a first set of instructions based on the input parameters and the second set of parameters, execute a second set of instructions based on the executed first set of instructions to facilitate implementation via a request-response communication interface to discover and track any or a combination of number and status of the plurality of ports based on the determined second set of parameters.

Abstract: Fibrous filter medium that includes a melt-blown filter layer comprising melt-blown fibers and a high-efficiency glass-containing filter layer comprising glass fibers.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing an adhesively bonded structure including first and second components including first and second outer surfaces, respectively, at least the first component being a first metal component, the first and second outer surfaces facing one another and partially overlapping, and the adhesively bonded structure including an adhesive layer received between overlapping portions of the first and second outer surfaces. The method includes deforming the first outer surface of the first metal component along a first isolated path extending beside the first edge of the adhesive layer along at least a majority of a length of the first edge of the adhesive layer.

Abstract: Example methods and systems for capability-aware service request distribution are described. In one example, a network element may obtain a set of capability information associated with multiple load balancers capable of service request handling and identify varying capability levels among the multiple load balancers. The network element may assign unequal path cost information to the multiple load balancers to indicate the varying capability levels. The unequal path cost information may include (a) a first path cost that is assigned to the first load balancer; and (b) a second path cost that is assigned to the second load balancer and different to the first path cost to indicate the lower capability level of the second load balancer compared to the first load balancer. In response to detecting a service request, the service request may be steered towards one of the multiple load balancers based on the unequal path cost information.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products implementing hierarchical classification techniques are disclosed. A hierarchical classification system receives training data including labeled transaction records. The system determines tag sequences from the training data. The system clusters the tag sequences into clusters. The system determines a cluster-level classifier that is trained to predict a cluster for an input transaction record. The system determines a respective cluster-specific classifier for each cluster. The system trains the cluster-specific classifier to predict a label of entity of interest for an input transaction record, given a particular cluster. Upon receiving a test transaction record, the system first applies the cluster-level classifier to determine a particular cluster for the test transaction record, and then determines a label of entity of interest of the test transaction record by applying a cluster-specific classifier of that particular cluster.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for peer to peer discovery of remote applications are presented. A client device may discover available remote peers and remotely access applications hosted thereon. The client device may send a discovery message over a network and locate one or more peer devices with available remote access. The peer device may respond with a list including applications installed and currently executing application instances that the client device may remotely access. The peer device may dynamically generate the list based on analyzing applications installed on the peer device and application instances executing on the peer device. The client device may initiate remote access of a selected application hosted on the peer device. The peer device may execute the selected application in a remote mode by hooking input and output interfaces associated with the application, and the application may be executed in a shadow desktop environment.

Abstract: Provided herein are the extended release pharmaceutical composition suitable for once or twice daily dosing comprising riociguat and at least one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The present invention also relates to method for preparing extended release composition and method of using these dosage forms for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension and related diseases. The present invention provides extended release composition of riociguat which are expected to exhibit desired technical attributes such as assay, stability and release profile suitable for once or twice daily administration.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for efficient navigation in a navigation space includes determining semantic features and respective 3D positional information of the semantic features for scenes of captured image content and depth-related content in the navigation space, combining information of the determined semantic features of the scene with respective 3D positional information using neural networks to determine an intermediate representation of the scene which provides information regarding positions of the semantic features in the scene and spatial relationships among the sematic features, and using the information regarding the positions of the semantic features and the spatial relationships among the sematic features in a machine learning process to provide at least one of a navigation path in the navigation space, a model of the navigation space, and an explanation of a navigation action by the single, mobile agent in the navigation space.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for visual localization includes extracting appearance features of an image, extracting semantic features of the image, fusing the extracted appearance features and semantic features, pooling and projecting the fused features into a semantic embedding space having been trained using fused appearance and semantic features of images having known locations, computing a similarity measure between the projected fused features and embedded, fused appearance and semantic features of images, and predicting a location of the image associated with the projected, fused features. An image can include at least one image from a plurality of modalities such as a Light Detection and Ranging image, a Radio Detection and Ranging image, or a 3D Computer Aided Design modeling image, and an image from a different sensor, such as an RGB image sensor, captured from a same geo-location, which is used to determine the semantic features of the multi-modal image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for facilitating dynamic power allocation and distribution in a multi-port power sourcing device. The method comprises receiving, by a first set of instructions to be executed on a multi-port power sourcing device, the one or more input parameters at the multi-port power sourcing device. The first set of instructions is executed at the multi-port power sourcing device. The first set of instructions pertains to power distribution and operational decision-making across each of the port of the multi-port power sourcing device. Further, a second set of instructions are executed based on the executed first set of instructions. The second set of instructions is executed to manage operations pertaining to a single port of the plurality of ports of the multi-port power sourcing device. The executed first set of instructions control the second set of instructions via a request-response communication interface.