Abstract: The present invention relates to a deployment handle for a prosthesis delivery device and to a delivery device including such a handle. The handle assembly facilitates the controlled release of a prosthesis from the delivery device, while ensuring that various deployment steps are performed in a particular sequential order. The handle assembly comprises a main handle and a second handle which is rotatably and/or longitudinally moveable relative to the main handle. The second handle has an initial position on the main handle such that it prevents access to, and premature manipulation of, a proximal stent release mechanism, until the stent graft has been at least partially unsheathed.

Abstract: A method (200) and apparatus (1100) for generating quantitative data for biliary tree structures from volumetric medical imaging scan data. The method comprises performing segmentation (230; 300) of a volume of the medical imaging scan data to identify tubular biliary structures within the volume of the medical imaging scan data; for at least one segmented tubular biliary structure within the volume of the medical imaging scan data, computing (240; 800) at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for at least one location along the length of the tubular biliary structure; and outputting (250) quantitative biliary tree data comprising the at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for the at least one segmented tubular biliary structure.

Abstract: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device is disclosed. The MEMS device includes a device substrate having a MEMS component in a device region. A top cap is fusion bonded to the top surface of the device substrate and a bottom cap is fusion bonded to the bottom surface of the device substrate. The top and bottom caps encapsulate the MEMS components. A cap includes a via isolation which extends a thickness of the cap and surrounds the device region.

Abstract: Devices and method are provided for ultrasound transmission without the need for external couplants, such as gels, which are typically used in conventional ultrasound procedures. In particular, ultrashields are provided for use with ultrasound probes, wherein the ultrashields have specialized layers to provide an uninterrupted pathway of acoustic conductance from the probe to the surface of the body throughout the procedure while introducing minimal to no attenuation of ultrasound wave transmission. In addition, combinations of ultrashields and probe covers are provided to provide additional features such as a microbial barrier.

Abstract: A computer-implemented therapy management system is operated to collect patient data associated with medical device users. Treatment of the users is managed by healthcare professionals (HCPs), which include a customer HCP and a plurality of non-customer HCPs. The system receives a first set of attributes for a first individual patient or a first group of patients under care of the customer HCP, and a second set of attributes for a second individual patient or a second group of patients. The system identifies a first set of patient records associated with the customer HCP that satisfy the received first attributes, and a second set of patient records that satisfy the received second attributes, and compares patient outcomes from the first set of records against patient outcomes from the second set of records. A comparative therapy report is generated and communicated to a client device associated with the customer HCP.

Abstract: The system disclosed here includes a computer-implemented patient therapy management and coaching system, a database system to collect and maintain patient data associated with a plurality of medical device users that includes a trainee patient assigned to a coach, and a user device communicatively coupled to the patient therapy management and coaching system and associated with the coach. The management and coaching system is operative to: receive a patient request for coaching; process the request to automatically identify goals to be achieved by the trainee patient; communicate the goals to the coach's user device; receive an accepted goal selected from the identified goals; create a patient coaching program for the accepted goal; generate insight messages based on patient data collected for the trainee patient, the generated insight messages related to the patient coaching program; and deliver the generated insight messages to the user device associated with the coach.

Abstract: A split core current sensor a core subdivided into a first core section and a second core section, each of which have a first end and a second end. The first core section and the second core section are spaced apart by a gap. The sensor also includes a plurality of coil windings disposed about the core. A first coil winding is disposed proximate to the first end of the first core section; a second coil winding is disposed proximate to the second end of the first core section; a third coil winding is disposed proximate to the first end of the second core section; and a fourth coil winding is disposed proximate to a second end of the second core section. Each of the first core section and the second core section include a central portion disposed between the first and second ends that is free of coil windings.

Abstract: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device is disclosed. The MEMS device includes a device substrate with a top device surface and a bottom device surface having a MEMS component in a device region. A top device bond ring is disposed on the top device surface surrounding the device region and a bottom device bond ring is disposed on the bottom device surface surrounding the device region. A top cap with a top cap bond ring is bonded to the top device bond ring by a top eutectic bond and a bottom cap with a bottom cap bond ring is bonded to the bottom device bond ring by a bottom eutectic bond. The eutectic bonds encapsulate the MEMS device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tubular medical implant, such as a stent, includes introducing a liquid polymer material into an axial lumen of an elongate metal tube, the metal tube having an inner wall defining the lumen; allowing the polymer material to solidify within the metal tube lumen, the solidified polymer forming a high friction surface in contact with the inner wall of the metal tube; securing the metal tube, including the solidified polymer material therein, to a collet of a laser etching system; and laser etching a predetermined pattern of openings in the metal tube.

Abstract: A content item to be displayed via a display of an electronic device may be associated with a first set of grey values or a set of color values. The electronic device may generate, maintain, or at least have access to one or more mappings that map the set of color values and/or the first set of grey values to a second set of grey values. Based on the one or more mappings, the electronic device may convert a color value of the set of color values or a first grey value of the first set of grey values to a second grey value of the second set of grey values. The content item may then be displayed utilizing the second grey value.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated system-on-chip device. The device is configured on a single silicon substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The device has a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block. The device further includes a driver interface and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device. In an example, a control block is configured to receive and send instruction(s) in a digital format to the communication block and is configured to receive and send signals in an analog format to communicate with the silicon photonics device.

Abstract: A borderless display utilizes a support frame having a bulged periphery (or outer portion), and a flexible electrophoretic display (EPD) structure that is curved at least partly around the support frame. The bulged outer portion of the support frame allows the flexible EPD structure to be wrapped around the outer portion of the support frame without damaging elements of the EPD structure in the process. Meanwhile, the center portion of the support frame can be made thinner, as compared to the thickness of the support frame at the bulged, outer portion. In this manner, the overall profile (in the z-direction) of the electronic device can be made as thin as possible without damaging fragile elements in the EPD structure.

Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embody software that is operable when executed to determine, based on cardiac-activity data, a shift in sympathovagal balance (SVB) during the period of time; obtain an emotional-state characteristic the emotional-state characteristic being based on brain-wave activity data; and determine, based on the SVB shift and the emotional-state characteristic, an estimate of an emotional state of the user during the period of time.

Abstract: An electronic device with a flexible display subassembly is provided. The display stack may use two layers of adhesives having different elastic properties to improve mechanical impact resistance, with a first adhesive layer made of a viscoelastic material and a second adhesive layer having a low modulus of elasticity. The display stack may also include a hot melt protective sheet (HMPS) covering the display subassembly. The HMPS may be wrapped around the two side edges of a rigid substrate to attach directly to the substrate, thereby aiding in the adhesion of the display stack to the substrate. The display stack may also includes a patterned back protective sheet in which the protective backing layer is removed along the curved portions of the display stack.

Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus may include a power converter having a power supply input for receiving an input power supply voltage generated by a power supply, an output for generating an output voltage to a load, and a power inductor coupled between the power supply input and the output may and further include an energy storage element coupled to the power supply input, the power inductor, and the output such that operation of the power inductor is split temporally between delivering energy to the energy storage element and delivering energy to the load, and operation of the energy storage element is split temporally between delivering energy to the load and receiving energy from one or both of the power supply and the load.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system comprises at least one processor and controls an application session. The system suspends a first application session of a first user conducted for an application on a computing device. A second application session is established for a second different user from the first application session and conducted on the computing device for the same application. The second application session is associated with a set of conditions for terminating the second application session. The second application session is terminated in response to occurrence of the set of associated conditions. The first application session is resumed in response to termination of the second application session. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for controlling an application session in substantially the same manner described above.

Abstract: A perfusion apparatus as disclosed for withdrawing a fluid medium from a bioreactor during the growth of a cell culture on microcarriers within the bioreactor. Also disclosed is a method for culturing cells in a bioreactor contained on microcarriers. The perfusion apparatus includes a hollow tubular member attached to a filter member. The filter member has a pore size and volume capable of withdrawing a fluid medium at a relatively high flow rate from the bioreactor.

Abstract: A method and system for protecting video and image files processes from original files to detect skin tones of persons appearing in the media. Pixels determined to contain skin tones are blurred or blacked out, and the pixel locations and their original color values are stored in a metadata file. The metadata file is encrypted and stored with the redacted video file. Thereafter, when an authorized person wants to see an unredacted version of the video, the system decrypts the metadata and reconstituted the video, replacing the redacted pixels with their original color values, and inserting a unique watermark into the video that identifies the requesting person. The watermarked video is then provided to the requesting person.

Abstract: A clock generator and a method to control an associated system are described. The clock generator (e.g., a PLL) can include a charge pump that can generate a current, and a controller coupled to the charge pump. The controller can determine a characteristic impacting operation of the clock generator and control the charge pump to adjust the current based on the determined characteristic to adjust a bandwidth of the clock generator. The clock generator and method can include adjusting the bandwidth to compensate for variations (e.g. PVT variations) that impact the operation of the clock generator to maintain constant or substantially constant bandwidth independent of such variations.

Abstract: A processing chamber including multiple plasma sources in a process chamber top. Each one of the plasma sources is a ring plasma source including a primary winding and multiple ferrites. A plasma processing system is also described. A method of plasma processing is also described.