Abstract: A wideband dual-polarized hourglass-shaped with wedge antenna for a 3G/4G/5G base station is designed using characteristic mode analysis to adjust resonant frequencies. The proposed antenna has a wide bandwidth when adding two pairs of wedges on the radiator, yielding two linear polarizations ±45°, and fulfilling all the requirements of 3G/4G and 5G antenna elements. The antenna is mechanically designed and easy to fabricate with die-casting, thus saving cost since only a single die is required for mass fabrication with low errors and large quantities.

Abstract: A Quorum network comprising an access controlled multi-tenant network is provided that is configured to enable access control and state isolation in a multi-tenancy Ethereum-based distributed ledger system. The access-controlled network includes one or more authenticating servers (also referred to as access controls) for providing permission control to the nodes in the network. In a standard multi-tenant network, each user of an entity (also referred to as an organization) is limited to only transacting with (also referred to as accessing) their own authorized resources. The access-controlled network utilizes an access controller to provide a singular truth for a set of managed nodes through a trusted entity (such as a Network Authorization Server).

Abstract: Solid state sources offers potential advantages including high brightness, electricity savings, long lifetime, and higher color rendering capability, when compared to incandescent and fluorescent light sources. To date however, many of these advantages, however, have not been borne out in providing white LED lamps for general lighting applications. The inventors have established that surface recombination through non-radiative processes results in highly inefficient electrical injection. Exploiting in-situ grown shells in combination with dot-in-a-wire LED structures to overcome this limitation through the effective lateral confinement offered by the shell the inventors have demonstrated core-shell dot-in-a-wire LEDs, with significantly improved electrical injection efficiency and output power, providing phosphor-free InGaN/GaN nanowire white LEDs operating with milliwatt output power and color rendering indices of 95-98.

Abstract: A system and method implemented on a computing device which tracks a condition of a payload and a container conveying the payload in shipment by a tracking module which receives signals from one or more sensors. The monitoring data is transmitted to a remote server which communicates in real-time, calculates a current condition or state of the payload and container, and which predicts one or more future conditions or states of the payload and container based on an expected environmental, operational and handling conditions. The predicted future condition is compared to estimated time of shipment completion and one or more prescribed condition thresholds corresponding to the type of the payload, container type and the shipping route. Responsive to predicting an impending violation of a payload handling condition, an intervention decision is made, and one or more notifications with optional digital preventive action procedures are transmitted to corresponding users.

Abstract: A centralized communication system is disclosed that provides a modular, extendible, and scalable communication system that can exchange information between any information systems or networked devices. Adapter interfaces are provided to modify message communications between medical systems in a hospital network, and a graphic interface is provided for modification of communication topology information pertaining to the adapter interfaces in the centralized communication system. The graphical interface provides one or more controls configured to modify at least a portion of the communication topology information, and displays an indication of the modification.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions and articles of manufacture involving neutral conjugated polymers including methods for synthesis of neutral conjugated water-soluble polymers with linkers along the polymer main chain structure and terminal end capping units. Such polymers may serve in the fabrication of novel optoelectronic devices and in the development of highly efficient biosensors. The invention further relates to the application of these polymers in assay methods.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions and articles of manufacture involving neutral conjugated polymers including methods for synthesis of neutral conjugated water-soluble polymers with linkers along the polymer main chain structure and terminal end capping units. Such polymers may serve in the fabrication of novel optoelectronic devices and in the development of highly efficient biosensors. The invention further relates to the application of these polymers in assay methods.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions and articles of manufacture involving neutral conjugated polymers including methods for synthesis of neutral conjugated water-soluble polymers with linkers along the polymer main chain structure and terminal end capping units. Such polymers may serve in the fabrication of novel optoelectronic devices and in the development of highly efficient biosensors. The invention further relates to the application of these polymers in assay methods.

Abstract: A waveguide comprising: a tapered-width first waveguide portion and second waveguide portions and a third waveguide portion, such that along a first direction, widths of a first and the second waveguide portions gradually increase towards a first end of the third waveguide portion, and a distance, in a second direction, between the first waveguide portion and the second waveguide portion gradually decreases from a second end of the first waveguide portion to the first end of the first waveguide portion, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; and the maximum distance Gmax between the second end of the first waveguide portion and a second end of the second waveguide portion is greater than 0.2 ?m and less than 0.48 ?m; and the waveguide has a refractive index between 2 and 4 at a 1550 nm wavelength.

Abstract: A method of making a spot size converter comprising a multi-tip waveguide comprising a first and a second waveguide portions, the method comprising the steps of: coating a multilayer wafer comprising a waveguide material layer with a resist material; exposing the coated resist material to a deep UV beam or an electron beam; developing resist material to form an partial waveguide pattern within the resist material; transferring the partial waveguide pattern to the waveguide material layer, forming an initial waveguide; placing a second layer of resist material over the initial waveguide; patterning a tapered gap region shape in the second layer of resist material by exposing the second layer of resist material to a deep UV beam or an electron beam; and transferring the tapered gap region shape to the waveguide material layer of the initial waveguide to form a tapered gap region inside the initial waveguide.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing, a plurality of first adhesive portions arranged between the first housing and the second housing, and spaced apart from each other along a first perimeter portion of the first housing, and a plurality of second adhesive portions arranged between the plurality of first adhesive portions and arranged along a second perimeter portion of the first housing, wherein the first adhesive portions include an adhesive support portion extending in one direction and a first adhesive material arranged on one side or both sides of the adhesive support portion, and the second adhesive portions include a second adhesive material.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions and articles of manufacture involving neutral conjugated polymers including methods for synthesis of neutral conjugated water-soluble polymers with linkers along the polymer main chain structure and terminal end capping units. Such polymers may serve in the fabrication of novel optoelectronic devices and in the development of highly efficient biosensors. The invention further relates to the application of these polymers in assay methods.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure encompass methods and compositions for maintaining a healthy fibrin network in an individual. The disclosure includes methods of targeting fibrin in an individual for the purpose of restoring fibrin that is subject to a level of fibrinolysis that is deleterious, such as excessive or reduced with respect to the general population. Such modifications of fibrin in an individual may include direct targeting of fibrin with the A2 domain of von Willebrand factor or a functional derivative or fragment thereof. In specific embodiments, the methods restore to a normal level any imbalance between coagulation and inflammation.

Abstract: A centralized communication system is disclosed that provides a modular, extendible, and scalable communication system that can exchange information between any information systems or networked devices. Adapter interfaces are configured to adapt message communications between at least one medical device and at least one external device, and graphic interface for control and modification of a communication topology of the centralized communication system is displayed, a first user selection a respective representation corresponding to the first adapter interface is received, and one or more first controls configured to cause a display of the routing information associated with the first device and to modify communication between the first adapter interface and the first device are provided responsive to the first user selection.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions and articles of manufacture involving neutral conjugated polymers including methods for synthesis of neutral conjugated water-soluble polymers with linkers along the polymer main chain structure and terminal end capping units. Such polymers may serve in the fabrication of novel optoelectronic devices and in the development of highly efficient biosensors. The invention further relates to the application of these polymers in assay methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems and computer program products that enable generating a shift handover report for display. The invention comprises (i) receiving a plurality of operator shift reports, (ii) parsing data from the received operator shift reports, and selecting a set of shift report data from the parsed data, wherein the selection is based at least on output received from a decision engine that is configured to (a) receive one or more of text data, tabular data, image data, audio data or video data, parsed the operator shift reports, and (b) output a score indicating suitability of shift report data corresponding to the input data, for inclusion within a shift handover report, (iii) generating and storing a shift handover report comprising the selected set of shift report data, and (iv) displaying the generated shift handover report comprising the selected set of shift report data.

Abstract: There is provided a method and system for qualification testing in a social network service. Qualification testing provides access control into a social network, wherein qualification is based on answers to questions related to a topic. In one example, members admitted to the network provide guidance, notes and research assistance to another member. The social network members access the social network from an external networked computing service, such as another social network, to facilitate easy connection to potential members. The social network may be implemented as an application overlay to the external service, or may access connections in the external network.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems and computer program products that enable the optimized synchronization of data between mobile client devices assigned to field operators in an industrial plant and a centralized repository for plant data. The invention optimizes synchronization of data between mobile client devices assigned to field operators in an industrial plant and a centralized repository for plant data by selecting a reduced set of data records associated with a field operator, for data synchronization based on one or more of a set of data record selection parameters, and a set of version synchronization rules to ensure that only data records that are relevant to a field operator's foreseeable activities in a shift are downloaded to the field operator's mobile client device.

Abstract: There is provided a method and system for qualification testing in a social network service. Qualification testing provides access control into a social network, wherein qualification is based on answers to questions related to a topic. In one example, members admitted to the network provide guidance, notes and research assistance to another member. The social network members access the social network from an external networked computing service, such as another social network, to facilitate easy connection to potential members. The social network may be implemented as an application overlay to the external service, or may access connections in the external network.

Abstract: A threshold detection circuit includes a plurality of capacitors. A plurality of switching circuits is coupled to the capacitors such that a first end of each of the capacitors is coupled to a corresponding photon sensor during detection intervals, and the first end of each capacitor is coupled to a variable initialization value during reset intervals. A threshold number of the capacitors are initialized to a first value and the remaining capacitors are initialized to a second value during reset intervals. A comparator is coupled to a second of the capacitors to generate a detection event in response to the threshold number of photon sensors sensing one or more incident photons during detection intervals.