Abstract: Systems and methods for providing various Human Resources (HR) services to a company are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of monitoring employment policies and updates thereto, the employment policies representing employment laws, rules, and/or regulations applicable to each of a plurality of jurisdictions (e.g., countries, states, provinces, etc.). The method also includes the step of displaying multiple options and fields on one or more screens of a User Interface (UI) of a remote user device allowing a user to enter information defining a job to be executed by a job candidate or new employee. Also, the method includes the step of detecting whether the information entered by the user complies with the employment policies.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a body, a suction source disposed in the body, a separator, and a post-motor filter. The body extends along a longitudinal axis between a front end and a rear end. A fluid flow path extends from a suction inlet to an air outlet. The suction source is configured to draw air and debris through the suction inlet along the fluid flow path. The suction source has a suction source inlet and a suction source outlet. The post-motor filter is disposed in the fluid flow path between the suction source outlet and the air outlet. The post-motor filter forms an aperture extending along the longitudinal axis. The post-motor filter is forward of the suction source. A first passageway extends from the separator to the suction source inlet. The first passageway extends through the aperture of the post-motor filter.

Abstract: An integrated circuit interconnect structure includes a metallization level above a first device level. The metallization level includes an interconnect structure coupled to the device structure, a conductive cap including an alloy of a metal of the interconnect structure and either silicon or germanium on an uppermost surface of the interconnect structure. A second device level above the conductive cap includes a transistor coupled with the conductive cap. The transistor includes a channel layer including a semiconductor material, where at least one sidewall of the conductive cap is co-planar with a sidewall of the channel layer. The transistor further includes a gate on a first portion of the channel layer, where the gate is between a source region and a drain region, where one of the source or the drain region is in contact with the conductive cap.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for fault detection of a coolant diverter valve. The coolant diverter valve is arranged in a coolant system to control flow of coolant from a coolant reservoir to a diesel exhaust fluid tank. At least a first sensor is provided for measuring the pressure and/or temperature of the coolant. During operation of the coolant diverter valve, as required from time to time, the coolant diverter valve is commanded to open by energising the coolant diverter valve and commanded to close by de-energising the coolant diverter valve. Based on readings from the first sensor a controller can determine if the coolant diverter valve has failed to close when the coolant diverter valve is de-energised.

Abstract: Reference voltage generators including a header circuit configured to pass current from a power supply to a time-to-digital converter, an amount of the current to pass determined by a thermometer code, and logic to update the thermometer code based on a comparison between an output of the time-to-digital converter and a digital code representing a reference voltage level.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for performing a clinical assessment of a neurological disease, disorder, or condition. In an aspect, a system may comprise sensors, which sensors are configured to acquire sensor data of the subject over a period of time; and which mobile electronic device, comprises: an electronic display; a wireless transceiver; and one or more computer processors configured to (i) receive the sensor data from the sensors, (ii) process the sensor data or features extracted therefrom using a trained algorithm to generate an output indicative of a state of a neurological disease, disorder, or condition of the subject, and (iii) based at least in part on the generated output, perform a clinical assessment on the subject.

Abstract: Neighboring gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having a conductive contact stressor between epitaxial source or drain regions are described. In an example, a first vertical arrangement of nanowires and a second vertical arrangement of nanowires above a substrate. A first gate stack is over the first vertical arrangement of nanowires. A second gate stack is over the second vertical arrangement of nanowires. First epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the first vertical arrangement of nanowires. Second epitaxial source or drain structures are at ends of the second vertical arrangement of nanowires. An intervening conductive contact structure is between neighboring ones of the first epitaxial source or drain structures and of the second epitaxial source or drain structures. The intervening conductive contact structure imparts a stress to the neighboring ones of the first epitaxial source or drain structures and of the second epitaxial source or drain structures.

Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) may comprise: receiving one or more discontinuous coverage parameters associated with a first SIM of the UE, identifying a default SIM of at least one service as the first SIM of the UE over a first non-terrestrial network (NTN), estimating a time period for completion of the at least one service based on one or more service parameters associated with the at least one service, configuring a second SIM of the UE to provide the at least one service based on the time period and the one or more discontinuous coverage parameters, and switching the default SIM of at least one service from the first SIM to the second SIM of the UE.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a system for character-to-character modeling for word suggestion and auto correction. The method is based on character-to-character modeling. The method involves data preparation using edit distance and hash table for encoder. The edit distance is employed for suitable candidate creation for touch input and thereafter, hash table is employed for removing invalid candidates. Furthermore, encoder-decoder model is used to encode valid candidates for touch input and then decode into word suggestions for completions. In addition, the present invention provides word suggestions from decoder, further optimized into more probable candidates using a language model with a scoring and ranking algorithm.

Abstract: Power delivery systems for integrated circuits that include a first metal path traversing first metal layers from a global power domain supply to a voltage regulator, a second metal path traversing second metal layers from a local power domain supply to the voltage regulator, and a third metal path traversing third metal layers from the local power domain supply to an integrated circuit. Electrical isolation gaps are formed between the first metal layers, the second metal layers, and the third metal layers.

Abstract: Disclosed are electronic devices that include an array of light emitting diodes and photosensors formed in a single semiconductor chip. The light emitting diodes may be structured as vertical exterior cavity surface-emitting laser diodes (VECSELs). The photosensors may be formed as resonant cavity photosensors (RCPDs). The VECSELs and the RCPDs of the array may be formed in a common set of semiconductor layers of the single semiconductor chip and separated by isolation regions formed in the common set of semiconductor layers. Also disclosed are dual chip transmitter-receiver systems including a first semiconductor chip having an array of both VECSELs and RCPDs formed in common set of semiconductor layers, and a second semiconductor chip electrically connected to the first semiconductor chip and including control circuitry to enable laser emission from the VECSELs and light reception by the RCPDs.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an optoelectronic sensing device having a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a resonance cavity photodetector (RCPD), and a tunnel junction. The VCSEL is at least partly defined by a first set of semiconductor layers disposed on a substrate. The first set of semiconductor layers includes a first active region. The VCSEL is configured to emit laser light towards the substrate, upon application of a first bias voltage, and undergo self-mixing interference upon reception of reflections or backscatters thereof. The RCPD is vertically adjacent to the VCSEL and is at least partly defined by a second set of semiconductor layers disposed on the substrate. The second set of semiconductor layers includes a second active region. The RCPD is configured to detect, upon application of a second bias voltage, the self-mixing interference. The tunnel junction is disposed between the first active region and the second active region.

Abstract: Various embodiments comprise endoscopes (e.g., arthroscopes) for viewing inside a cavity of a body. The endoscopes may include a tip, at least one solid-state emitter such as light emitting diode (LED), located at the distal end of the endoscope, an elongated member. The elongated member may include a plurality of lenses for transmitting light received from the tip member and an elongated conducting member for providing electric power to the solid-state emitter. The elongated conducting member may include conducting lines embedded in a flexible elongated insulating membrane. The tip member and the elongated member may be configured to dissipate heat generated by the solid-state emitter.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing and assembling a sandwich flexure mechanism assembly is set forth herein. The method involves manufacture of a monolithic sandwich flexure module having a multitude of out of plane rigid inter-stage connections between at least some sets of twin stages of the monolithic sandwich flexure module. The method further involves assembling an interconnect subassembly to intermediate bodies of the monolithic sandwich flexure module. The interconnect subassembly furnishing in-plane rigid inter-stage connections between pairs of the intermediate bodies that constitute sister stages of the monolithic sandwich flexure module. The method can further involve assembling a motion body, actuators, and displacement sensors at the monolithic sandwich flexure module.

Abstract: An AI accelerator apparatus using in-memory compute chiplet devices. The apparatus includes one or more chiplets, each of which includes a plurality of tiles. Each tile includes a plurality of slices, a central processing unit (CPU), and a hardware dispatch device. Each slice can include a digital in-memory compute (DIMC) device configured to perform high throughput computations. In particular, the DIMC device can be configured to accelerate the computations of attention functions for transformer-based models (a.k.a. transformers) applied to machine learning applications, including generative AI. A single input multiple data (SIMD) device configured to further process the DIMC output and compute softmax functions for the attention functions.

Abstract: Various implementations track an eye using both camera images and light sensor data, e.g., from a photosensitive surface or set of photodetectors. The camera need not capture images at a high capture rate since the light sensor data captured from the light sensor provides information about the eye during the time periods between camera frames. An eye tracking device may thus provide eye tracking with high temporal resolution using less power and resources and prior devices. The eye tracking device includes a lens (e.g., a diffractive optical element (DOE)) that splits received light onto the camera and light sensor. The camera and light sensor may be aligned, e.g., co-centered. Using such a lens to provide light to an aligned camera and light sensor facilitates tracking the eye characteristics by reducing the need for matching the data and/or accounting for multiple environmental light sources.

Abstract: In some examples, a data management and storage (DMS) platform, comprises peer DMS nodes in a node cluster, a distributed data store comprising local and cloud storage, and at least one processor configured to perform operations in a method of creating a local consolidated patch file from a patch file chain stored in the cloud storage. The operations include, in a first dry-run phase, creating a logical patch file image of data blocks in one or more cloud patch files stored in the cloud storage; in a second data-transfer phase, downloading at least some of the data blocks from the cloud patch files identified by the logical patch file image, the second data-transfer phase comprising a coalescing operation to construct a set of coalesced reads of the data blocks; and creating and storing, in the local storage, the local consolidated patch file using the downloaded data blocks.

Abstract: This disclosure provides techniques for facilitating modeling responses to variable parameters, and in particular embodiments, within the context of a price setting strategy for a retail club. A trained member response metric model may be trained using a training corpus. A modified price for a target item may be then be predicted, and used to calculate a predicted demand for the target item. The predicted demand may be used to calculate predicted sales of the target item, after which predict a member response metric score associated with the modified price may be determined using the first trained member response metric model and the predicted sales.

Abstract: An endoscope's solid-state camera and illumination emitter are mounted on opposite sides of a flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board is mounted at the distal end of the insertion shaft by engaging in a slot in a chassis. The chassis is formed as two subcomponents designed to mate together. The slot is formed as two opposing sub-slots each formed into the two subcomponents. The sub-slots are designed to capture the flexible circuit board during assembly, and to bend the flexible circuit board into a desired shape as the two chassis subcomponents are brought together. The camera is urged into a desired position by the resilience of the flexible circuit board as bent by the slot. The flexible circuit board has a retaining clip at its distal end. The retaining clip is clipped to hold the camera and illumination emitter in desired relationship within the distal tip of the insertion shaft.

Abstract: Herein is an accelerated interface between a database server and a storage area network (SAN). Persistent torage being managed for a database is spread across a number of storage buckets. Global distributed storage metadata is used only for tracking the location of storage buckets on different storage servers. With this approach, a very small amount of memory is needed at a global distributed level to maintain the map. Each storage bucket can have any number of mirrored replicas for further increasing speed and reliability. A database server contains a storage bucket map in memory, and uses the map to do database online transaction processing (OLTP) I/O and smart (i.e. offloaded) database operations on storage. This allows for direct I/O between database server and storage server with lower latency and without using slow and remote middleware such as a logical unit number (LUN) metadata server on a separate network element.