Abstract: A method for analyzing a gaseous sample, by comparing an incident light wave and a transmitted light wave, the method comprising: i) illuminating the sample with a light source emitting the incident light wave propagating up to the sample; ii) detecting a light wave transmitted by the sample; iii) detecting a reference light wave emitted by the light source and representing a light wave reaching a reference photodetector without interacting with the sample; iv) repeating i) to iii) at different measurement instants; v) estimating, at each measurement instant, an intensity of the reference light wave; vi) taking into account the estimated intensity of the reference light wave and the detected intensity of the transmitted light wave to perform a comparison, at each measurement instant; and vii) analyzing the gaseous sample as a function of the comparison.

Abstract: Techniques are described for multi-factor authentication and device verification based at least partly on a periodically changing (e.g., rotating) security code. A rotating security code may be generated on a user device and used to sign a certificate. The certificate may be encrypted, using a private key stored on the user device, and communicated to a backend service for verifying that the user device is authorized to access secure information. The backend service may decrypt the certificate (e.g., using a public key associated with the private key), extract the security code from the decrypted certificate, and compare the extracted security code to a security code associated with the user device. If the codes correspond to one another, the user device may be verified and provided with access to secure information such as secure data, a secure portion of an application, and so forth.

Abstract: An electromechanical power switch device and methods thereof. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are devices including a semiconductor substrate, at least one integrated circuit device on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer on the at least one integrated circuit device, and an electromechanical power switch on the insulating layer. By way of example, the electromechanical power switch may include a source and a drain, a body region disposed between the source and the drain, and a gate including a switching metal layer. In some embodiments, the body region includes a first body portion and a second body portion spaced a distance from the first body portion and defining a body discontinuity therebetween. Additionally, in various examples, the switching metal layer may be disposed over the body discontinuity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous silane emulsions based on specific hydrolysable silanes anionic and non-ionic surfactants, a textile comprising a coating obtainable by impregnating the textile with the aqueous silane emulsion according to the present invention and the use of the aqueous silane emulsion according to the present invention for treating textiles. Moreover, the invention also encompasses a method of impregnating a textile with the aqueous silane emulsion according to the present invention as obtained via dilution from a concentrated system.

Abstract: Methods and devices for transvascular prosthetic chordae tendinae implantation are disclosed. A catheter is advanced into the left atrium. From an atrium side, the catheter can be anchored to a superior surface of a mitral valve leaflet and a leaflet anchor can be advanced into the mitral valve leaflet to secure the mitral valve leaflet to a leaflet suture. A ventricular anchor is anchored to the wall of the ventricle to secure the ventricular wall to a ventricle suture. The leaflet suture and the ventricle suture may be tensioned and connected by a suture lock to form an artificial chordae.

Abstract: An electronic system provides various features and functionality for managing resources. An alert may be sent when a mobile device crosses a geo-fence. The alert may describe how much of the resource is available for the types of transaction that are likely to occur within the geo-fence. The alert may request or confirm the allocation of the transaction to a resource pool or suggest alternative transactions.

Abstract: In various examples, live perception from sensors of a vehicle may be leveraged to detect and classify intersections in an environment of a vehicle in real-time or near real-time. For example, a deep neural network (DNN) may be trained to compute various outputs—such as bounding box coordinates for intersections, intersection coverage maps corresponding to the bounding boxes, intersection attributes, distances to intersections, and/or distance coverage maps associated with the intersections. The outputs may be decoded and/or post-processed to determine final locations of, distances to, and/or attributes of the detected intersections.

Abstract: A controller for controlling the display of secondary digital content displayed in an overlay above a primary video stream. The controller includes a touch interface device, a processor, and a memory storing non-transitory instructions. These instructions, when executed, can include (i) detecting a first input gesture by a user on the touch interface device, (ii) in response to detecting the first input gesture, selecting an application for display, (iii) detecting a second input gesture by the user on the touch interface device, (iv) in response to detecting the second input gesture, scrolling through a currently-displayed layer of the selected application displayed, (v) detecting a third input gesture by the user on the touch interface device, and (vi) in response to detecting the third input gesture, scrolling between layers of the selected application in a simulated Z-space.

Abstract: In implementations of collecting multimodal image editing requests (IERs), a user interface is generated that exposes an image pair including a first image and a second image including at least one edit to the first image. A user simultaneously speaks a voice command and performs a user gesture that describe an edit of the first image used to generate the second image. The user gesture and the voice command are simultaneously recorded and synchronized with timestamps. The voice command is played back, and the user transcribes their voice command based on the play back, creating an exact transcription of their voice command. Audio samples of the voice command with respective timestamps, coordinates of the user gesture with respective timestamps, and a transcription are packaged as a structured data object for use as training data to train a neural network to recognize multimodal IERs in an image editing application.

Abstract: A retaining ring can be shaped by machining or lapping the bottom surface of the ring to form a shaped profile in the bottom surface. The bottom surface of the retaining ring can include flat, sloped and curved portions. The lapping can be performed using a machine that dedicated for use in lapping the bottom surface of retaining rings. During the lapping the ring can be permitted to rotate freely about an axis of the ring. The bottom surface of the retaining ring can have curved or flat portions.

Abstract: A child stroller includes a frame member and a wheel attachment member including a first end and a second end. A wheel is coupled to the first end, with the second end coupled to the frame member. The stroller further includes a shock absorber having a body, an upper end coupled to the frame member, a lower end coupled to the wheel attachment member, and a spring mechanism disposed within the body. The spring mechanism includes an upper portion exhibiting a first spring constant, and a lower portion exhibiting a second spring constant different from the first spring constant.

Abstract: A medical system useful in the determination of future disease progression in a subject. More specifically the present invention applies machine learning techniques to aid prediction of disease pathology and clinical outcomes in subjects presenting with symptoms of cognitive decline and to expedite clinical development of novel therapeutics.

Abstract: An indication is made for each task category of a plurality of task categories, of a first attribute that indicates a data set to be collected, a second attribute that indicates a first predetermined amount of time within which a central processing unit (CPU) stops executing a task of the task category, and a third attribute that indicates a second predetermined amount of time within which the CPU that was executing the task of the task category collects the data set. In response to occurrence of an event, a plurality of CPUs are stopped to collect a plurality of data sets, based on first attributes, second attributes, and third attributes of task categories corresponding to tasks executing on the plurality of CPUs.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical carrier (20) comprises a lid part (22) and a bottom part (24), wherein at least one of the lid part (22) and the bottom part (24) has a first wall section (26, 30) with a thickness of 180-250 ?m, preferably 185-225 ?m, even more preferably 190-220 ?m, and most preferably about 215 ?m, and a second wall section (28, 32) with a thickness of 350-450 ?m, preferably 375-425 ?m, more preferably 390-410 ?m, and most preferably about 400 ?m. The first wall section (26) of the lid part (22) defines an entire top portion of the lid part (22). Alternatively or additionally thereto, the first wall section (30) of the bottom part (24) defines an entire bottom portion of the bottom part (24).

Abstract: A plurality of processing entities are maintained. An indication is made of a primary processing entities group for a task control block (TCB). An indication is made of a secondary processing entities group for the TCB. In response to determining that the secondary processing entities group has processing cycles available for processing additional TCBs, the TCB is moved from the primary processing entities group to the secondary processing entities group for processing.

Abstract: A virtualized infrastructure for guiding delivery drones, a drone delivery method, and a wingless delivery drone are disclosed that includes a container for storing payloads; a plurality of thrust motors arranged in an array on an X-Y surface below and parallel to a bottom surface of the payload container; and a drone electrical system configured to control the operations of the array of the thrust motors so as to fly the container from the first address to the destination address upon receiving the optimal flight route from the virtualized infrastructure and to maintain the balance to payload container.

Abstract: The present invention is directed towards providing automated workflows for the identification of a reading order from text segments extracted from a document. Ordering the text segments is based on trained natural language models. In some embodiments, the workflows are enabled to perform a method for identifying a sequence associated with a portable document. The methods includes iteratively generating a probabilistic language model, receiving the portable document, and selectively extracting features (such as but not limited to text segments) from the document. The method may generate pairs of features (or feature pair from the extracted features). The method may further generate a score for each of the pairs based on the probabilistic language model and determine an order to features based on the scores. The method may provide the extracted features in the determined order.

Abstract: The invention proposed the design of an optical system using the principle of Cassegrain telescopes for a long wave radiation range, which consists of two main components: the first component comprising the two reflective mirrors, in which surface distortion of mirror 1 is parabolic, surface distortion of mangin mirror 2 is aspheric; the second component is a relay consisting of three lenses: lens 1, lens 2, and lens 3 arranged after the medial image plane correspondingly; it plays an important role in fixing the pupil's position to match the position of the cold shield of the sensor and eliminating absolutely the aberration to ensure receiving good quality image at the sensor plane.

Abstract: The invention proposes the two-axis direct drive mechanical mechanism of a multi-sensor observation device for unmanned aerial vehicles. This is a mechanical mechanism to perform rotate pan-tilt axis by direct drive motor. This mechanism include main components: assembly pedestal, assembly pan-axis and assembly tilt-axis. Electronic circuits, encoders, mechanism, motor are optimized arranged and scientifically designed to the layout space and the weight of the structure. This mechanism can integrate optical sensors such as infrared cooling cameras, high resolution camera, laser rangefinder.

Abstract: The present invention is a semi-automated process to extract object motion and attributes from utilizing a remote sensing methodology using Earth Observation data from single pass satellite imagery. Many single pass satellite sensors collect imagery that include a panchromatic and multispectral image with a slight temporal offset. The method of the present invention performs image processing, object segmentation, object measurement, image normalization and image matching and velocity calculation to extract physical attributes of the object, object location, and object motion.