Abstract: A system for treating and/or diagnosing tissue from a tissue surface comprises: a console; an interface assembly; and a mobile device. The mobile device is configured to navigate a tissue surface and can comprise: a first tissue attachment assembly; a second tissue attachment assembly; and at least one articulation assembly. The interface assembly operably connects the console to the mobile device. The console is configured to manipulate the at least one articulation assembly via the interface assembly. The at least one articulation assembly is configured to navigate from a first tissue location to a second tissue location. The mobile device is configured to diagnose and/or treat tissue at the second tissue location. Methods of treating and/or diagnosing tissue are also described.

Abstract: A system for providing continuous positive air pressure therapy is provided. The system includes a patient interface, a flow generator, a sensor, and a computing device. Wireless transceivers allow wireless communication between the computing device and the flow generator and/or patient interface. Sensor data is communicated to the computing device and a leak determination is made by the computing device based on the sensor data. If a leak is detected, then troubleshooting options for correcting the leak are displayed to the patient on a display of the computing device. The troubleshooting options may be selected based on the sensed data, the type of patient interface, the type of flow generator, or characteristics of the patient using the device.

Abstract: Provided herein are dermal fillers including decellularized plant or fungal tissue from which cellular materials and nucleic acids of the tissue are removed; as well as methods and uses thereof for cosmetic and/or reconstructive applications. Also provided are methods for preparing such dermal fillers, and dermal filler kits.

Abstract: Provided herein are scaffold biomaterials including a decellularized plant or fungal tissue from which cellular materials and nucleic acids of the tissue are removed, the decellularized plant or fungal tissue having a 3-dimensional porous structure; wherein the decellularized plant or fungal tissue may optionally be at least partially coated or mineralized, wherein the scaffold biomaterial may optionally further include a protein-based hydrogel and/or a polysaccharide-based hydrogel, or both. Also provided herein are methods and uses of such scaffold biomaterials, including methods of manufacture as well as methods and uses for bone tissue engineering, for example.

Abstract: Provided herein are composite scaffold biomaterials including two or more scaffold biomaterial subunits, each including a decellularized plant or fungal tissue from which cellular materials and nucleic acids of the tissue are removed, the decellularized plant or fungal tissue having a 3-dimensional porous structure, the two or more scaffold biomaterial subunits being assembled into the composite scaffold biomaterial and held together via gel casting using a hydrogel glue; via complementary interlocking geometry of the two or more scaffold biomaterial subunits; via guided assembly based biolithography (GAB); via chemical cross-linking; or any combinations thereof. Methods for producing such scaffold biomaterials, as well as methods and uses thereof, are also provided.

Abstract: Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having germanium-doped nanowire/nanoribbon channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having germanium-doped nanowire/nanoribbon channel structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of nanowires above a substrate. Individual ones of the vertical arrangement of nanowires have a relatively higher germanium concentration at a lateral mid-point of the nanowire than at lateral ends of the nanowire.

Abstract: A method and device for authenticating software stored in non-volatile memory in a data processing device. The processor comprises an internal immutable memory, preferably a read only memory (ROM), and during the boot up procedure the software in external memory is authenticated using code that is stored in the internal ROM. The on-chip ROM is physically integrated with the processor itself, so the code stored in ROM can neither be tampered with nor replaced, and can therefore be assumed at all times to be authentic. Thus, in the method and device of the invention known good code is used to authenticate the untrusted code in external memory, so the integrity of the system is significantly improved.

Abstract: A system and method of creating and managing encryption keys in a data processing device generates subsequent encryption keys by combining the existing encryption key with an existing password and seed value. In the preferred embodiment, the initial encryption key is embedded during manufacture and is unknown to the user and manufacturer, thus ensuring that all subsequent encryption keys are derived from an unknown value. When a subsequent encryption key is generated, all data encrypted using the existing encryption key is decrypted using the existing encryption key and re-encrypted using the subsequent encryption key before the existing encryption key is overwritten. In a further aspect, during encryption/decryption the encryption key is combined with the sector address of the data to be encrypted/decrypted in order to generate a unique key for each sector of data to be encrypted/decrypted.

Abstract: The present invention provides a secure JTAG interface to an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). In the preferred embodiment the invention operates through the combined efforts of a Security Module (SM) comprising a state machine that controls the security modes for the ASIC, and a Test Control Module (TCM) which contains the JTAG interface. The TCM operates in either a restricted mode or an unrestricted mode, depending on the state of the SM state machine. In a restricted mode, only limited access to memory content is permitted. In an unrestricted mode, full access to memory content is permitted.

Abstract: An optical assembly includes a photodetector for detecting light signals. An optical fiber receives an input signal and has a light-emitting portion extending in front of the photodetector. A MEMS actuator is located between the light-emitting portion of the optical fiber and the photodetector. The MEMS actuator is controllably deflectable to partially obscure the photodetector and thereby vary the amount of light received.

Abstract: A boot method an apparatus arc described which reduce the likelihood of a security breach in a mobile device, preferably in a situation where a reset has been initiated. A predetermined security value, or password, is stored, for example in BootROM. A value of a security location within FLASH memory is read and the two values are compared. Polling of the serial port is selectively performed, depending on the result of such comparison. In a presently preferred embodiment, if the value in the security location matches the predetermined security value, then polling of the serial port is nut performed. This reduces potential security breaches caused in conventional arrangements where code may be downloaded from the serial port and executed, which allows anyone to access and upload programs and data in the FLASH memory, including confidential and proprietary information.