Abstract: Provided are devices, methods, and systems for temperature control of individual containers in a thermocycler for polynucleotide synthesis. Provided herein are devices, methods, and systems comprising a circuit patch having a heating element that is placed over a reaction container on a lid of the reaction container or directly over the reaction container Provided herein are devices, methods, and systems comprising a single-piece sensor assembly for a thermistor plate assembly comprising a sensor holder having a sensor pad that is in contact with the container holder.

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a device comprises a memory operable to store a malware defense profile associated with a malware application. The device further comprises a processor operably coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to intercept a probe sent by an application. The probe seeks to obtain information associated with an environment in which the application runs. The processor is configured to determine that the application that sent the probe corresponds to the malware application and, in response, determine a response to send to the malware application. To determine the response, the processor is configured to obtain the malware defense profile associated with the malware application, select an attribute of the malware defense profile to include in the response, prepare the response comprising the selected attribute, and send the response to the malware application. The selected attribute comprises a type of information that the probe seeks to obtain.

Abstract: A method for maintaining a fluid containment asset is described. The method comprises: configuring a first schedule having a first work task on the fluid containment asset for a first project; performing the first work task on the fluid containment asset based on the first schedule; measuring a work task performance for the first work task performed based on the first schedule; collecting first work task data corresponding to the first work task performed; building a first predictive model based on at least the first work task data; configuring a second schedule using the first predictive model, wherein the second schedule has a second work task for a second project; and performing the second work task on the fluid containment asset based on the second schedule.

Abstract: A system for communicating email messages using tokens receives a request to send an email message to a receiver. The email message is associated with a sender's email address. The system determines whether the sender's email address is associated with a token from a plurality of tokens stored in a token-email address mapping table. The system generates a particular token for the sender's email address in response to determining that the sender's email address is not associated with a token, where the particular token uniquely identifies the sender's email address. The system sends the email message using the particular token instead of the sender's email address, such that the sender's email address remains anonymous from the perspective of the receiver.

Abstract: A system for identifying email messages associated with phishing threats accesses an email message sent to a receiving computing device, where the email message is associated with a sender's email address. The system determines whether the sender's email address is associated with a token from a plurality of tokens stored in a token-email address mapping table. The system determines that the email message is associated with a phishing threat, in response to determining that the sender's email address is not associated with a token from a plurality of tokens from among a token-email mapping table.

Abstract: The invention relates to an MRI apparatus and a method of MRI involving the acquisition of a first and a second MRI image with mutually different orientations between the BO magnetic field and the object to be investigated. For instance, when imaging structures such as a tendon, due to the magic angle effect, this results in a change in image contrast. According to the invention, a coregistration can be performed between the first and the second MRI image. Moreover, the orientation of a structure within the object can be determined on the basis of the different orientations and the image intensity in the first and the second MRI image. The invention further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method and a method of shimming the BO magnetic field of the apparatus.

Abstract: A dental handpiece includes a head portion supporting a turbine for a removable rotating dental tool, and a handle portion having an internal cavity. One or more conduits extend at least partially through the internal cavity toward the head portion. At least one of the conduits is a drive fluid tube delivering drive fluid to the head portion for rotating the turbine. A wireless communication device within the internal cavity is attached to at least one of the conduits. At least a section of the handle portion surrounding the wireless communication device is formed of a dielectric material. The wireless communication device is configured to wirelessly communicate with an external reader or writer and store data related to at identification, use, and/or maintenance of the handpiece. An electrically inert substrate material encapsulates the wireless communication device, which is electrically isolated from other components of the handpiece.

Abstract: A system for preventing communications from detected phishing domains receives a communication associated with a particular domain. The system determines that the particular domain is a phishing domain. In response, in one embodiment, the system registers the particular domain in a Domain Name System (DNS) server to block the communication and future communications associated with the particular domain from being received at computing devices operably coupled with the DNS server. In another embodiment, the system registers the particular domain in the DNS server, such that the communication and future communications associated with the particular domain are re-routed to a particular server to monitor phishing activities implemented on the communications, where the phishing activities comprise attempting to obtain login credentials and private information associated with receivers of the communication and future communications.

Abstract: A system for phishing domain detection receives a communication associated with a particular domain. The system extracts a first set of features from the communication, the first set of features including a name of the sender, a name of the domain, a time of receipt, a sentiment message, and attachment file associated with the communication. The system compares the first set of features with a second set of features associated with a historical communication labeled with a phishing domain. In response to determining that the first set of features corresponds to the second set of features, the system determines that the particular domain is the phishing domain.

Abstract: A device that is configured to receive an authentication request for a first user. The authentication request includes a first authentication fingerprint and a first vital sign information. The device is further configured to identify a second authentication fingerprint from a memory that matches the first authentication fingerprint and to identify a second vital sign information that is associated with the second authentication fingerprint. The device is further configured to compare the first vital sign information from the authentication request to a tolerance threshold value. The device is further configured to generate an authentication response based on the comparison and to send the authentication response to a network device.

Abstract: A device that is configured to capture biometric information for a user using a first biometric sensor that is configured to capture biometric information that identifies physical characteristics of the user. The device is further configured to capture device information for a user device that is associated with the user. The device is further configured to generate an authentication fingerprint for the user based on a combination of the biometric information and the device information. The device is further configured to obtain vital sign information using a second biometric sensor that is configured to capture vital sign information that identifies a physical state of the user. The device is further configured to generate an authentication request that includes the authentication fingerprint and the vital sign information and to send the authentication request to a network device.

Abstract: A plurality of accessory components for use in respective reel to reel sectioning, serial sectioning, and array tomography sectioning described herein incorporate mechanical and electro-mechanical engineering to provide accessory tools for attachment to and use with a microtome, as shown in several of the figures of this disclosure.

Abstract: The present disclosure features methods and compositions for modulating lipid metabolism to achieve improved production and quality of recombinant products, such as next generation biologics. Modulation of lipid metabolism as described herein includes, for example, introducing a lipid metabolism modulator described herein to a cell or a cell-free system. Also encompassed by the present disclosure are engineered cells with improved production capacity and improved product quality, methods for engineering such cells, and preparations and mixtures comprising the products from such cells.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for establishing a user Internet of Things (“IoT”) system is provided. The method may be performed by a central IoT hub run on a user's personal computing device. The method may include detecting user devices in electronic communication with the central IoT hub and onboarding, to the user IoT system, user devices determined to be in conformance with baseline security protocols and performance characteristics. The onboarded user device may be IoT nodes. The method may include monitoring enterprise data to pre-emptively identify and address probable failures of the IoT nodes prior to failure of the IoT nodes. The method may also include addressing known failures for each IoT node on the user IoT system.

Abstract: A method of controlling a gas mixture for a laser includes receiving as an input one or more of a plurality of concentration values. Each of the concentration values respectively corresponds to a constituent of a plurality of constituents of air. In the method, a blend of the plurality of constituents of air is generated based on the received one or more of the concentration values. The method also includes determining whether the blend of the plurality of constituents of air is within a threshold range for a ratio of the concentration values for the plurality of constituents of air. A flow of the blend of the plurality of constituents of air is controlled to be routed through an output circuit for use as the gas mixture for the laser following a determination that the blend of the plurality of constituents of air is within the threshold range.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor. The memory stores identification information of a user. The processor receives from a device a request for the identification information of the user and in response to the request, appends a data element to the identification information to produce a protected message. The processor also encrypts the protected message to produce an encrypted message and communicates the encrypted message to the device. The data element executes in response to the encrypted message being decrypted, and the data element encrypts the identification information when the data element executes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to stable and high-producing site-specific integration (SSI) host cells, e. g. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-derived host cells, methods to produce and to use them.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adapter that is attachable to an engine vacuum source (e.g., insertable into an end of a vehicle-engine vacuum hose) to receive a cleaning fluid from a canister (e.g., aerosol can) and to meter the cleaning fluid into the vacuum source. The adapter may include a vacuum-source insert and a nozzle receiver. In addition, the adapter may include a fluid path between the vacuum-source insert and the nozzle receiver that meters a flow of cleaning fluid.

Abstract: Disclosed are chimeric polypeptides based on viral membrane fusion proteins. More particularly, the present invention discloses chimeric polypeptides that comprise a virion surface exposed portion of a viral fusion protein and a heterologous structure-stabilizing moiety, and to complexes of those chimeric polypeptides. The present invention also discloses the use of these complexes in compositions and methods for eliciting an immune response to a fusion protein of an enveloped virus, or complex of the fusion protein, and/or for treating or preventing an enveloped virus infection. The present invention further discloses the use of the heterologous structure-stabilizing moiety for oligomerizing heterologous molecules of interest.