Abstract: A cantilever sensor (e.g., piezoelectric sensor) includes a beam with a sensor or electrode at a proximal end and a tip that extends from the sensor to the distal (unsupported) end of the beam. The tip is modified to modify (e.g., tune) the resonant frequency of the cantilever sensor. The resonant frequency of the cantilever sensor is tuned by using a material for the tip with a stiffness (e.g., a Young's Modulus) and/or a mass or density that results in the desired resonant frequency. The resonant frequency of the cantilever sensor can also be tuned by modifying the shape of the tip to have a higher vertical structure in a Z direction transverse to a length of the beam of the sensor.

Abstract: Clock generation circuit generating multiple divided signals satisfying respective desired offsets. A phase locked loop (PLL) is used to generate a PLL output having a frequency which is a desired multiple of that of a reference clock. The circuit divides the PLL output by a corresponding divisor to generate a corresponding divided signal, wherein each divided signal is offset from a common reference by at least an associated desired time offset. The common reference is timed with respect to the reference clock when the reference clock is available and with respect to a time reference signal otherwise. This arrangement is extended to use the internal time reference signal even for the cases where the reference clock is present by blocking the reference clock while the output systems across PLLs are aligned using the internal time reference signal to ensure desired offsets across different PLLs with a small uncertainty.

Abstract: A method for making a cantilever sensor includes forming a beam extending between a proximal portion and a distal end, and forming and attaching an electrode on the proximal portion. The beam is attached to a substrate in cantilever form so that the proximal portion of the beam is anchored to the substrate and the distal end of the beam is unsupported. The method includes modifying the resonance frequency of the cantilever sensor by forming at least the tip of the beam of a material having one or both of a density and Young's modulus that provides the desired resonant frequency, or by forming at least the tip of the beam so that it has a greater height in a Z direction transverse to a length of the beam than the proximal portion of the beam to thereby tune a resonant frequency of the sensor.

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: An integrated circuit (IC) includes input/output (I/O) ports, each operating using one of a pair of unequal power supplies during normal operation of the IC. A lower supply of the pair of unequal power supplies is required to be used as the power supply for the I/O port when a first input signal to the IC is received from an external source on a first I/O port of the I/O ports. The voltage range of the logic excursions of the first input signal is greater than the range from a magnitude of the lower supply to a constant reference potential. A regulation loop derives a derived lower supply having a magnitude equaling that of the lower supply from the higher supply of the pair of unequal power supplies, and applies the derived lower supply on a power supply node of the first I/O port.

Abstract: A method of making a piezoelectric sensor includes forming piezoelectric layer(s) to define a beam extending between a proximal portion and a distal end. The method also includes modeling a strain distribution on the beam based on a force applied to the beam, and defining an outer boundary with a shape substantially corresponding to a contour line of the strain distribution on the beam. The method also includes forming an electrode having said outer boundary shape, and attaching the electrode to the beam. The method also includes attaching the beam to a substrate in cantilever form so that the proximal portion of the beam is anchored to the substrate and the distal end of the beam is unsupported.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sensor (e.g., for use in a piezoelectric MEMS microphone) includes a substrate and a cantilever beam attached to the substrate. The cantilever beam has a proximal portion attached to the substrate and extending to an unsupported distal end. An electrode is disposed on or in the proximal portion of the beam and has an outer boundary with a shape substantially corresponding to a contour line of a strain distribution plot for the cantilever beam resulting from a force applied to the cantilever beam.

Abstract: Electronic acoustic devices and methods of operating the same include a microphone having a frequency response including a resonance frequency, a reference microphone having a frequency response including a resonance frequency, the microphone and the reference microphone configured to substantially simultaneously receive a common acoustic signal to produce a transduced signal of the microphone and a transduced signal of the reference microphone, the resonance frequency of the reference microphone being different than the resonance frequency of the microphone, and an equalization module configured to equalize the frequency response of the microphone based on the transduced signal of the microphone and the transduced signal of the reference microphone.

Abstract: One disclosed method involves receiving, at a first application programming interface (API) endpoint of a computing system, a first API call requesting performance of a first type of operation; invoking, by the computing system and based on the first API call, a first process to send at least a second API call to a second API endpoint of a first system of record; receiving, by the computing system and from the first system of record, a first response to the second API call; and sending, from the computing system to a source of the first API call, a second response that is based at least in part on the first response.

Abstract: There is provided a system for modulating user commands via command input images displayed on a graphical user interface based on a user viewing direction relative to the displayed command input images and the graphical user interface. The system uses an image capturing device for capturing real time images of a user's face, eyes and irises and determines the eye orientation. The system separates the graphical user interface into interface portions and determines a correlation between the eye orientation and one or more portions to determine if any of the foregoing are viewed portions. The system determines whether a viewed portion contains a command input image and only allows user input commands via the command input image to be processed if the image is within a viewed portion.

Abstract: A piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems microphone is provided comprising a substrate including at least one wall defining a cavity, the at least one wall defining an anchor region around a perimeter, a piezoelectric film layer forming a membrane, the piezoelectric film layer being supported at the anchor region by a spring region, and an electrode disposed over the piezoelectric film layer. A method of manufacturing such a MEMS microphone is also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting electrical connection and disconnection on an USB Type-A charging port like power adapters, power banks and car chargers having one or more USB Type-A charging port of an USB device. The system includes: a voltage source; a MOSFET SWITCH gate driver, in USB type-A connected state, that operatively couples MOSFET SWITCH with voltage source and VBUS supply of USB type-A port; charge pump; a current sense differential amplifier; and a control unit configured to: monitor VBUS current, and detect potential disconnected state of connected USB type-A port; and monitor VBUS voltage and compare VBUS voltage with predetermined voltage to sense external condition such that VBUS voltage drops because of load capacitance and load current. The control unit is further configured to, when the duty cycle has reached a minimum VBUS current, detect the USB type-A disconnection with a charge pump state.

Abstract: There is provided a system and for simultaneously displaying multiple graphical user interfaces via the same display. The multiple graphical user interfaces are hosted by one or more remote host controllers. A user device is in operative communication with the one or more remote host controllers and comprises an interface display for displaying one or more of the multiple graphical user interfaces. A system controller is in operative communication with the user display device. The system controller has a processor with an associated memory of processor executable code that when executed provides the controller with performing computer-implementable steps comprising separating the interface display in two or more interface display portions and selectively providing for two or more of the graphical user interfaces to be simultaneously displayed via respective ones of the two or more interface display portions.

Abstract: A method for making a piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone is provided, comprising depositing a piezoelectric film layer onto a substrate; selectively etching the piezoelectric film layer to define lines; removing the substrate to define a cavity; and breaking the piezoelectric film layer along the lines, such that the microphone has at least two cantilevered beams. The piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone is also provided.

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: A piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone is provided comprising a substrate including walls defining a cavity and at least two of the walls defining a respective anchor region each, a piezoelectric film layer defining at least two beams, each respective beam supported by the substrate at each anchor region, the beams being free along a portion of their respective lengths and also connected at a connecting region away from the respective anchor regions; and an electrode disposed over the piezoelectric film layer. A method of manufacturing such a MEMS microphone is also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system to facilitate temperature-aware redistribution of power in a power sourcing device comprising plurality of ports. The method can include monitoring, by using one or more sensors coupled to the power sourcing device, a first temperature associated with a first port of the plurality of ports to obtain a first set of signals and executing, at the power sourcing device, based on a second set of signals obtained from the first set of signals, a first set of instructions associated with redistribution of power from the first port to second port of the plurality of ports, wherein the second set of signals can indicate exceeding of the first temperature above the predefined threshold temperature value.

Abstract: A microelectromechanical system microphone includes a piezoelectric diaphragm, upper inner electrodes and upper outer electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the diaphragm, and lower inner electrodes and lower outer electrodes disposed on a lower surface of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is divided into a plurality of sectors, a first of the sectors including an inner and an outer upper electrode physically disconnected from an inner and an outer upper electrode on a second sector adjacent to the first sector, and an inner and an outer lower electrode physically disconnected from an inner and an outer lower electrode on the second sector. A first via extends between and electrically couples the upper and lower inner electrodes of the first sector and a first bond pad. A second via extends between and electrically couples the upper and lower outer electrodes of the second sector and a second bond pad.

Abstract: System and method for fault identification and fault handling in MPSD are provided. The system includes: a multi-port power sourcing device including multiple ports, a master is configured to: send a slave discovery request to multiple slave ports, receive a slave discovery response from the multiple slave ports; reset the watchdog timer in the multiple ports by sending watchdog refresh instruction periodically; each of the multiple ports experience watchdog timer timeout upon failing to receive the watchdog refresh instruction, generate their corresponding port reset upon watchdog timer timeout, to resolve one or more faults associated with the corresponding port; the multiple ports include a role change staggered timer which is triggered upon the corresponding watchdog timer timeout, and reset upon receiving the watchdog refresh instruction from master; the slave ports for which role change staggered timer times out first, changes the role to start functioning as the new master port.

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.