Abstract: Systems and methods for overmolding a card are provided. A chip fraud prevention system include a device including a chip and a substrate. The chip may be at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket, and the substrate may be at least partially encompassed by the overmold.

Abstract: Materials that are processable as spin coated films with a refractive index of less than about 1.25 are presented. These compositions include metal organic frameworks in a solvent system, with the MOFs including a metal or metal cluster (e.g., zirconium oxide) having organic linkers (e.g., maleic acid, benzene dicarboxylic acid) and optional endcaps to alter pore size, compositional stability, steric, and other properties of the material. The formed films are processable at low temperatures, thus allowing them to be processed on plastics. The provided materials find use in, for example, silicon photonics, augmented reality applications, virtual reality (VR) applications, CMOS image sensors, and micro-OLED applications.

Abstract: A dry powder inhalation device has a means to aerosolize powdered medicament and introduce the aerosolized medicament to an airflow directed to a user outlet. The device has a primary deagglomeration structure in the form of a baffle through which the airflow passes downstream of the means to aerosolize the powdered medicament and a secondary deagglomeration structure which is a tortuous passage through which the airflow passes downstream of the primary deagglomeration structure. The deagglomeration structures cause disruption to the airflow in their vicinity whereby the particles of the aerosolized powdered medicament are deagglomerated due to the primary deagglomeration structure and the secondary deagglomeration structure. The insert defines a tortuous passage which has a trajectory with a centre line, whereby the centre line has two or more major bends, involving a first point of inflection between a pair of adjacent bends of the two or more major bends.

Abstract: An access closure device for closing an opening in tissue is provided. The access closure device may comprise an implant delivery system and a sealant delivery mechanism. The implant delivery system may comprise a suture, a procedural sheath, a delivery tube, an deployable implant and a suture attached to the implant. The sealant delivery mechanism may comprise a sealant deliverable over a suture through the procedural sheath, configured to settle proximal an implant located in an access track.

Abstract: We describe a computing machine (ex-machine) that uses self-modification and randomness to enhance computation. An ex-machine program can compute languages that a standard machine cannot compute. An ex-machine has three types of instructions: standard, meta and random. One or more meta instructions self-modify the machine as it executes. Sometimes standard instructions are expressed in the C programming language or a hardware description language (VHDL). In an embodiment, random instructions take measurements from a random source that measures quantum events. In an embodiment, an ex-machine receives a computer program as input, containing only standard instructions. An ex-machine can combines random instructions and meta instructions to self-modify its instructions, so that it can evolve to compute (verify) the correctness of the computer program that it received as input.

Abstract: A brain-computer interface system includes a video processor for producing a display signal, a temporal controller for producing a plurality of repetitive visual stimulus (RVS) signals with different respective temporal aspects, a display device that receives the display signal and displays a corresponding image on a plurality of different display regions and receives the RVS signals and displays corresponding RVS in respective ones of the display regions, an electroencephalographic (EEG) sensor for sensing a visually-evoked cortical potential (VECP) signal in a user with eyes fixated on a viewed one of the display regions, and a VECP processor for processing the VECP signal to identify the respective temporal aspect of the respective RVS of the viewed display region to estimate the eye fixation location. The RVS are generated independently of the display update/refresh rate and at sufficiently high frequencies to avoid flicker perceptible to the user.

Abstract: A machine learning platform operating at a server is described. The machine learning platform accesses a dataset from a datastore. A task that identifies a target of a machine learning algorithm from the machine learning platform is defined. The machine learning algorithm forms a machine learning model based on the dataset and the task. The machine learning platform deploys the machine learning model and monitors a performance of the machine learning model after deployment. The machine learning platform updates the machine learning model based on the monitoring.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for serial pass-through techniques for memory device interfaces are described. Memory interface circuitry may be configured to receive a command via a first interface having a first set of terminals to configure the memory interface circuitry for a pass-through mode. As part of the pass-through mode, the memory interface circuitry may receive data from an external device via the first interface and output the data to one or more memory devices via a second interface having a second set of terminals. In some examples, the received data may be associated with a write burst, in which the memory interface circuitry may serially receive multiple portions of the data to write to a buffer of the memory interface circuitry. After reaching a threshold quantity of data, the buffer may output the portions of the data to the one or more memory devices via the second interface.

Abstract: A multi-tenant service platform provides network services, such as content delivery, edge compute, and/or media streaming, on behalf of, or directly for, a given tenant. The service platform offers a policy layer enabling each tenant to specify levels of acceptable performance degradation that the platform may incur so that the platform can use electricity with desirable characteristics to service client requests associated with that tenant. Service nodes in the platform (e.g., edge servers) enforce the policy layer at the time of a service request. Preferably, the ‘quality’ of the electricity is a measurement of source of the energy, e.g., whether it is sourced from high-carbon fossil fuels (low-quality) or low-carbon renewables (high-quality). If the desired quality of electricity cannot be achieved, the node can resort to using less electricity to handle the request, which is achieved in a variety of ways.

Abstract: A comfortable insert comprises a retention structure sized for placement under the eyelids and along at least a portion of conjunctival sac of the upper and lower lids of the eye. The retention structure resists deflection when placed in the conjunctival sac of the eye and to guide the insert along the sac when the eye moves. The retention structure can be configured in many ways to provide the resistance to deflection and may comprise a hoop strength so as to urge the retention structure outward and inhibit movement of the retention structure toward the cornea. The insert may move rotationally with deflection along the conjunctival sac, and may comprise a retention structure having a cross sectional dimension sized to fit within folds of the conjunctiva. The insert may comprise a release mechanism and therapeutic agent to release therapeutic amounts of the therapeutic agent for an extended time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a catamaran hull system to improve performance characteristics. The catamaran hull system comprises a hull having a bow and a stern, at least one transverse step, and a posi-flow inductor system. The posi-flow inductor system includes an interior inductor channel extending vertically up the hull and terminating above a waterline when the hull is at rest, and a posi-flow cover plate attached to the hull and covering the interior inductor channel to form a posi-flow duct. This catamaran hull system provides a solution that reduces suction, improves air flow to the transverse step, and enhances overall hull efficiency. Overall, it offers improved performance, stability, and handling characteristics for catamaran vessels.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and their pharmaceutical compositions that can be administered to a host such as a human in need thereof for the treatment of a disorder, such as cancer, mediated by mutant BRAF. The compounds efficiently degrade Class I, II and III mutant BRAF proteins.

Abstract: In various examples, a technique for verifying data integrity is disclosed that includes receiving a request to access a data block of a plurality of data blocks stored in a non-secure memory. The technique further includes identifying, in a secure memory, an authentication token associated with the data block. The technique also includes generating an updated authentication token based on the data block. The technique further includes determining whether the updated authentication token corresponds to the identified authentication token stored in the secure memory. The technique still further includes in response to determining that the updated authentication token corresponds to the identified authentication token stored in the secure memory, performing one or more operations using the data block.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described for secure data transmission. An example system includes a first end-point device, an intermediate device, and a second-end point device. The first end-point device determines the format requirements of the communication link between the first end-point device and the intermediate device, and the communication link intermediate device and the second end-point device. Based on the format requirements, the first end-point device configures the data packet for transmission, such that the data packet, when received at the intermediate device, is re-configured and routed to the second end-point device. When the second end-point device receives the data packet, it verifies the data packet to confirm that the packet has maintained its integrity throughout transit.

Abstract: A sensor for monitoring wetness in a diaper or other absorbent article includes a housing that attaches to the absorbent article. The sensor may include inner and outer housing portions that capture an edge of the absorbent article between the housings. The sensor may include contacts that electrically connect with a pair of contact strips embedded in the absorbent article. The distance between the embedded strips may vary depending on the size of the absorbent article. The sensor may include multiple pairs of contacts that are spaced apart to match the distance between the contact strips for the variously sized absorbent articles. In this way, depending on the pair of contacts connected to the contact strips, the sensor may indicate the size of the absorbent article. The sensor may have a housing with a cavity and a lid that closes the cavity. The lid may be secured with a latch.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to playing and managing audio items. In some examples, an electronic device provides intuitive user interfaces for playing and managing audio items on the device. In some examples, an electronic device provides seamless transitioning from navigating a stack of items corresponding to groups of audio items to navigating a list of menus. In some examples, an electronic device provides for quick and easy access between different applications that are active on the device. In some examples, an electronic device enables automatic transmission of data associated with audio items to be stored locally on a linked external device.

Abstract: The present invention is related to, among other things, the devices and methods that improve the accuracy and reliability of an assay, even when the assay device and/or the operation of the assay device has certain errors, and in some embodiments the errors are random.

Abstract: A computer-implemented real-time payment system for clearing and settlement of transactions is described. The real-time payment system is adapted to implement a method of automated liquidity maintenance. The real-time payment system receives transactions for clearing and settlement from a plurality of participants, each of which has a liquidity position in the real-time payment system. At least some of the participants have a funded liquidity position in a central bank. The real-time payment system determines whether the liquidity position of each of the participants meets predetermined rules. If the liquidity position of any of the participants does not meet a predetermined rule applicable when the determination is made, the system requests an adjustment for that liquidity position so that it complies with that predetermined rule. The real-time payment system also coordinates with the central bank to use one of the funded liquidity positions to support that adjustment to a liquidity position.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic gaming system using common playing cards including player computing devices that provide individualized gaming interfaces for players and a gaming computing device that can: based on sets of playing cards with one set being dealt successive to another set, continuously identify the sets, based on a request to play a game of roulette from at least one player computing device, identify a first set of playing cards, receive, from at least one player computing device, a bet on an outcome of the game of roulette, identify, among the first set of playing cards, a first card, determine a roulette value for the first card using mapping data, the mapping data indicating a mapping of card values to roulette values, transmit, to the at least one player computing device, data representative of the first card and the respective roulette value, and determine the game outcome.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to optimize resources of a medical device system, including to analyze physiologic information of a patient occurring over specific time periods relative to a prior heart failure event, to adjust, in response to a detected or received trigger event, a baseline value for the patient from a long-term baseline value to one of a shorter-term baseline value or a static value indicative of a baseline value at a prior time relative to the detected or received trigger event, to determine a readmission score for the patient based on the analyzed physiologic information, and to provide a control signal to control a mode or operation of the medical device system based on the readmission score to optimize resources of the medical device system.