Abstract: Systems and methods to mitigate electrical voltage on a rotating plate are disclosed.

Abstract: A method includes providing, for each respective audio channel of a plurality of audio channels provided by an operating system of a computing device, a set of successive audio processing stages to apply to the respective audio channel. The method also includes providing, by the operating system, an application programming interface (API) configured to set a plurality of parameters for adjusting the set of successive audio processing stages for each respective audio channel. The method additionally includes receiving, via the API and from an application running on the computing device, one or more values for one or more parameters of the plurality of parameters. The method further includes adjusting, by the operating system, the plurality of audio channels based on the received one or more values for the one or more parameters.

Abstract: A process for producing nanoparticles of a substance, including in a first chamber, forming a dispersion of a substance in a fluid and bringing the fluid into a supercritical state; passing the dispersion from the first chamber through a cooling device or into a cooling zone in a second chamber, wherein the cooling device or cooling zone configured to reduce temperature of the dispersion below a temperature at which the fluid forms solid particles such that nanoparticles of the substance are formed, wherein the second chamber comprises a surface configured to receive the solid particles of the fluid and the nanoparticles of the substance; allowing pressure to decrease and/or temperature to increase in the second chamber to transform the solid particles into a gaseous state, removing the fluid in the gaseous state and with the nanoparticles remaining on the surface; and collecting the nanoparticles from the surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to semiconductor structures, and more particularly to asymmetric field effect transistors (FET) on fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) semiconductor devices for high frequency and high voltage applications and their method of manufacture. The semiconductor device of the present disclosure includes a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) layer disposed above a substrate, the SOI layer having a source region, a channel region, a drift region and a drain region, where the drift region adjoins the drain region and the channel region, a gate structure disposed on the channel region, a multilayer drain spacer disposed on a drain-facing sidewall of the gate structure and covering the drift region, and a source spacer disposed on a source-facing sidewall of the gate structure, where the source and drain spacers are asymmetric with each other.

Abstract: A nonwoven recyclable fabric and associated methods are provided. The fabric is formed from 100% polyester, and may also include surface coatings such as hydrophilic coatings to promote heat transfer as well moisture vapor transmission rates and/or a silicone coating to promote fabric smoothness and reduce abrasiveness of the fabric.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to semiconductor structures, and more particularly to asymmetric field effect transistors (FET) on fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) semiconductor devices for high frequency and high voltage applications and their method of manufacture. The semiconductor device of the present disclosure includes a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) layer disposed above a substrate, the SOI layer having a source region, a channel region, a drift region and a drain region, where the drift region adjoins the drain region and the channel region, a gate structure disposed on the channel region, a multilayer drain spacer disposed on a drain-facing sidewall of the gate structure and covering the drift region, and a source spacer disposed on a source-facing sidewall of the gate structure, where the source and drain spacers are asymmetric with each other.

Abstract: A method includes providing, for each respective audio channel of a plurality of audio channels provided by an operating system of a computing device, a set of successive audio processing stages to apply to the respective audio channel. The method also includes providing, by the operating system, an application programming interface (API) configured to set a plurality of parameters for adjusting the set of successive audio processing stages for each respective audio channel. The method additionally includes receiving, via the API and from an application running on the computing device, one or more values for one or more parameters of the plurality of parameters. The method further includes adjusting, by the operating system, the plurality of audio channels based on the received one or more values for the one or more parameters.

Abstract: A closed-loop system for the utilization of recycled woven and/or non-woven polyester fabric products in a plurality of high occupancy facilities includes at least one manufacturing facility to produce a plurality of recycled polyester fabric products from a recycled polyester fabric feedstock. A distribution network transports the plurality of recycled polyester fabric products to each of the plurality of high occupancy facilities, and a housekeeping network distributes and arranges recycled polyester fabric products in a plurality of rooms in a corresponding high occupancy facility. A collection network transports a plurality of compacted polyester fabric products from each of the plurality of high occupancy facilities back to the manufacturing facility. A corresponding closed-loop method for implementing the aforementioned closed-loop system is also disclosed.

Abstract: We describe instruments, and cartridges therefor, for processing droplets of water in oil-in-water emulsions, the droplets containing biological entities such as cells. In one embodiment a method of such processing comprises: providing a plurality of the entities in a fluid: preparing a droplet from said fluid: determining whether said droplet contains one or more entities of said plurality of entities, or whether said droplet does not contain a said entity; sorting said droplet dependent on an outcome of said determination; and dispensing said sorted droplet into a reservoir, wherein said dispensing comprises: identifying said sorted droplet for dispensing; extracting said sorted droplet from a first fluidic flow path of said fluid by transferring said sorted droplet from said first fluidic flow path into a second fluidic flow path; and ejecting said sorted droplet from said second fluidic flow path into said reservoir by applying pressure to said second fluidic flow path.

Abstract: Instruments and cartridges for processing droplets in emulsions containing biological entities such as cells. A method of such processing comprises providing a plurality of the entities in a fluid; preparing a droplet from the fluid; determining whether the droplet contains one or more entities of said plurality of entities, or whether said droplet does not contain a said entity; sorting said droplet dependent on an outcome of the determination; and dispensing the sorted droplet into a reservoir. The dispensing may comprise identifying and extracting the sorted droplet from a first fluidic flow path of said fluid by transferring the sorted droplet from into a second fluidic flow path and then ejecting the sorted droplet into a reservoir by applying pressure to the second fluidic flow path. The droplet contents may be tracked so that the contents of an individual droplet can be sorted, selectively dispensed, and retrieved.

Abstract: A bone fusing implant device includes an elongated body extending along a longitudinal direction, and has one or more elongated grooves extending along the longitudinal direction on an outer surface of the elongated body and one or more elongated ridges alternating with the one or more elongated grooves and extending along the longitudinal direction on the outer surface of the elongated body. The elongated body includes a first segment having an outer surface with cortical threads, a second segment having an outer surface with cancellous threads, a top segment and a bottom segment. The first segment is configured to engage a cortical bone with the cortical threads and the second segment is configured to engage a cancellous bone with the cancellous threads. The cortical threads and the cancellous threads are formed on the one or more elongated ridges and do not extend into the one or more elongated grooves.

Abstract: A sealing cushion for a respiratory mask assembly has a patient interface portion having a resiliently deformable membrane for engagement with a patient's face, and an aperture formed therein for receiving a nasal and/or mouth region of the patient's face. An inner surface of the deformable membrane comprises a plurality of projections arranged in separate groups of projections positioned in a plurality of localized regions of the deformable membrane. The projections in each of the separate groups of projections are arranged such that each projection in the group of projections engages with an adjacent projection in the group of projections when the deformable membrane is deformed during engagement of the deformable membrane with the patient's face, in use, thereby providing the deformable membrane with an increased resistance to further deformation.

Abstract: A multi-die integrated circuit device and a method of fabricating the multi-die integrated circuit device involve a substrate. Two or more dice include components that implement functionality of the multi-die integrated circuit. The components include logic gates. The multi-die integrated circuit device also includes a spacer disposed between the substrate and each of the two or more dice. Each of the two or more dice makes direct electrical contact with the substrate without making direct electrical contact with the spacer through holes in the spacer.

Abstract: Semiconductor structures are provided in which a first chip on a substrate has at least one first protruding section, the first protruding section including first interconnect locations, a second chip on the substrate having at least one second protruding section, the second protruding section including second interconnect locations and the first chip and the second chip are arranged such that the first protruding section is interdigitated with the second protruding section.

Abstract: A multi-die integrated circuit device and a method of fabricating the multi-die integrated circuit device involve a substrate. Two or more dice include components that implement functionality of the multi-die integrated circuit. The components include logic gates. The multi-die integrated circuit device also includes a spacer disposed between the substrate and each of the two or more dice. Each of the two or more dice makes direct electrical contact with the substrate without making direct electrical contact with the spacer through holes in the spacer.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for removing a sound recording from an audio recording (e.g., an audio recording embedded in a media file) are presented. The system can include an identification component, a first subtraction component and a second subtraction component. The identification component identifies a sound recording in a mixed audio recording. The first subtraction component determines a local linear transformation of the sound recording and subtracts the local linear transformation of the sound recording from the mixed audio recording to generate a new mixed audio recording. The second subtraction component compares one or more segments of the sound recording with one or more corresponding segments of the new mixed audio recording and reduces a power level of the new mixed audio recording based at least in part on correlation of the one or more corresponding segments with the one or more segments.

Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the anchoring member and having an annular first portion coupled to the anchoring member and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The extension member is folded in a delivery configuration such that the first portion overlaps the second portion. When released from the a delivery catheter, the extension member unfolds such that the first portion extends radially outwardly from the anchoring member and the second portion extends radially outwardly from the first portion.

Abstract: Semiconductor structures are provided in which a first chip on a substrate has at least one first protruding section, the first protruding section including first interconnect locations, a second chip on the substrate having at least one second protruding section, the second protruding section including second interconnect locations and the first chip and the second chip are arranged such that the first protruding section is interdigitated with the second protruding section.

Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member having an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the fixation frame and extending radially outward therefrom. The extension member includes a plurality of wires, at least a portion of which include an inner core surrounded by an outer material. The wires include a plurality of recesses extending through at least a portion of the thickness of the outer material, and a therapeutic agent in the recesses for delivery to the anatomy when the prosthetic heart valve device is positioned at a native annulus.

Abstract: A process for producing nanoparticles of a substance, including in a first chamber, forming a dispersion of a substance in a fluid and bringing the fluid into a supercritical state; passing the dispersion from the first chamber through a cooling device or into a cooling zone in a second chamber, wherein the cooling device or cooling zone configured to reduce temperature of the dispersion below a temperature at which the fluid forms solid particles such that nanoparticles of the substance are formed, wherein the second chamber comprises a surface configured to receive the solid particles of the fluid and the nanoparticles of the substance; allowing pressure to decrease and/or temperature to increase in the second chamber to transform the solid particles into a gaseous state, removing the fluid in the gaseous state and with the nanoparticles remaining on the surface; and collecting the nanoparticles from the surface.