Abstract: Methods and systems are described for facilitating lending of NFTs through an NFT marketplace system. In some embodiments a token marketplace system receives a request from a lender to create an NFT loan listing, verifies the lender's ownership of the token, and creates the listing. When a potential borrower requests to borrow the NFT, the system initiates a series of verification steps. These include requesting permission for a retrieval smart contract to act on behalf of the borrower's account and confirming that these permissions have been granted by the lendee. Upon successful verification, the system initiates a blockchain transaction to transfer the NFT to the borrower's account. The foregoing allows NFT owners to lend their NFTs to lendees in a trustless ecosystem.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating a target genome are disclosed.

Abstract: An aircraft comprises an aircraft body, multiple battery packs positioned on the aircraft body, a load balancing circuit positioned on the aircraft body and connected to a battery power node, multiple motors positioned on the aircraft body and connected to the battery power node, and multiple bypass circuits positioned on the aircraft body. The load balancing circuit comprises multiple current delivery circuits. Each current delivery circuit is connected between one of the battery packs and the battery power node. Each of the bypass circuits is connected to the battery power node and one of the battery packs to provide a signal path from the battery power node to the respective battery pack that bypasses a respective current delivery circuit for regenerative current from one or more of the motors.

Abstract: A system for awarding prizes to users via an electronic game of chance is disclosed. The system is configured to generate digital tokens that are cryptographically linked to respective virtual representations of a set of winnable items. The system further includes a mystery box system that is configured to serve a mystery box game to a client device, wherein the mystery box game includes a mystery box recipe that designates a respective probability of winning each winnable digital token of the set of digital tokens and is configured to randomly select a winning digital token from the set of digital tokens in accordance with the mystery box recipe. The mystery box system is further configured to award the winning digital token to the user, wherein the winning digital token is redeemable for the respective winnable item corresponding to the winning digital token.

Abstract: A method for integrating real-world items into video games is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a video game instance, a digital token corresponding to a real-world item from a video game integration system, the digital token being linked with the item and corresponding to an in-game benefit that is provided to an owner of the token. The method also includes facilitating, by the video game instance, a transaction by the user for the item the video game, wherein in response to the user transacting for the item, ownership data of the digital token is updated on a cryptographic ledger to assign ownership of the digital token to the user. The method also includes conferring, by the video game instance, the in-game benefit to the user in the video game and revoking the in-game benefit in response to the digital token no longer being assigned to the user.

Abstract: A system for integrating real-world items into video games is disclosed. The system is configured to generate a digital token that is cryptographically linked to an item identifier of a real-world item and to write the token to a cryptographic ledger, wherein the token corresponds to an in-game benefit in a video game that is unlocked for an owner of the token. The system includes a video game integration system that receives a request from an instance of the video game, wherein the request is indicative of the user and requests eligible digital tokens owned by the user; accesses the account of the user on the blockchain using a public address of the user to verify that the user is the owner of the digital token; and serves the digital token to the instance of a video game that unlocks the in-game benefit in response to receiving the token.

Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for personalized automation agents. One method involves determining an action to be performed on behalf of a user, identifying a relevant subset of data in a database of the database system associated with the user based on the action, generating a personalized input prompt for an execution plan for the action using the using that subset of data, providing the personalized input prompt to a service configurable to generate a personalized conversational response, receiving the personalized conversational response comprising textual content indicative of a sequence of steps of the execution plan from the service, automatically executing the execution plan in accordance with the sequence using the service to perform the action with respect to a data record in the database, and automatically providing a response to the client device indicative of the action with respect to the data record.

Abstract: Devices and methods for determining a direction of audio arrival from Ambisonics channels using azimuth and elevation segments is described herein. A method includes generating multiple blocks of samples from Ambisonics signals for a time interval, determining an azimuth angle estimate and an elevation angle estimate for the time interval when a defined number of blocks in the multiple blocks of samples are valid, generating the azimuth angle estimate based on maximum number of azimuth angle estimates present in an azimuth segment amongst a defined number of azimuth segments, and generating the elevation angle estimates based on maximum number of elevation angle estimates present in an elevation segment amongst a defined number of elevation segments, where the direction of arrival of the Ambisonics signals is based on the azimuth angle estimate and the elevation angle estimate.

Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for augmenting a received conversational user input to provide an augmented conversational user input to a chatbot or other artificial intelligence (AI) system configurable to generate a personalized conversational response to the received conversational user input using the augmented conversational user input. One or more personal models or other user data associated with the user providing the received conversational user input are utilized to identify a relevant subset of data associated with the user for generating the augmented conversational user input, where the personalized conversational response is influenced by the relevant subset of data associated with the user.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating a target genome are disclosed. This disclosure relates to novel compositions, systems and methods for altering a genome at one or more locations in a host cell, tissue or subject, in vivo or in vitro. In particular, the invention features compositions, systems and methods for inserting, altering, or deleting sequences of interest in a host genome.

Abstract: A system that facilitates message-based transfer of digital tokens is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes a tokenization system that generates unique digital tokens that are cryptographically linked to respective items, such that the unique digital tokens provide unique digital representations of unique units of the respective items. The system further includes an application programming interface system that interfaces with a messaging system that is configured to integrate handling of a digital token into a short messaging service, whereby transfer of the unique digital token from a first account of a first user to a second account of a second user is automatically executed upon sending a short message service message that incorporates the unique digital token therein.

Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention, systems are provided for a management system that receives a set of item attributes of an item offered for sale and generates a virtual representation of the item based on the item attributes. In embodiments, a ledger management system may generate a digital token corresponding to the item and cryptographically link the token to the virtual representation. In embodiments, a buyer marketplace system provides a digital marketplace whereby users view virtual representations of items, transact for items, validate and redeem a digital token, and burn the digital token such that the digital token is no longer redeemable or transferrable.

Abstract: In embodiments, a tokenization platform that enables gifting of items using digital tokens is disclosed. The tokenization platform includes a token generation system that generates digital tokens that are cryptographically linked with item identifiers and corresponding attributes of respective items, whereby the digital tokens provide digital representations of the respective items. The system includes a ledger update system that writes the digitals token to a cryptographic ledger and that updates the cryptographic ledger to reflect ownership data of the items, thereby facilitating transactions for the items using the digital tokens. The system also includes a transfer system configured to facilitate gifting of the items using the digital tokens, wherein upon recognition of a gift instruction received from a device associated with a gifting user, the transfer system initiates a transfer of a digital token corresponding to respective item to an account of a receiving user via the cryptographic ledger.

Abstract: A method for awarding prizes to users via an electronic game of chance is disclosed. The method includes executing, by a gaming device, a mystery game that includes a recipe that defines a respective probability corresponding to each respective winnable token and a manner by which a winning digital token is randomly selected. The method also includes randomly selecting the winning digital token from the set of winnable digital tokens based on the mystery box recipe, wherein the winning digital token is redeemable for a corresponding winnable item that is represented by the winning token. The method includes awarding the winning digital token to user, wherein the winning token is redeemable for the won item. The method includes upon selecting the winning digital token, transmitting a signal indicative of winning token to a mystery box system that initiates a transfer of the winning token to an account of the user.

Abstract: In embodiments a system for facilitating non-fungible-token-based autographs is disclosed. The system includes a secure data storage system that stores a set of NFTS, each NFT having a set of digital attributes and being cryptographically linked with a respective item identifier of a respective item of a set of items, wherein each item has a respective set of origination attributes that includes a respective celebrity signature. The system also includes a digital marketplace system that provides a graphical user interface that allows a user to transact for items via a user device and a token transfer system that receives a transaction request to transfer a respective NFT to an account of the user in response to the user transacting for the respective item that is cryptographically linked to the NFT, and in response to the transaction request, facilitates a transfer of the respective NFT to the user's account.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating a target genome are disclosed.

Abstract: A railroad brake stick includes a head made of non-metal material (e.g., polymer). The head includes a planar shape with a proximal end, a distal end, a lower side, and an upper side. The lower side includes a curved recess and the upper side on the distal end of the head includes a protrusion. The railroad brake stick further includes a substantially hollow shaft made of the composite material. The substantially hollow shaft includes a first end and a second end, the first end coupled to the proximal end of the head. The railroad brake stick further includes at least one magnet coupled to the substantially hollow shaft and an end cap coupled to the second end of the substantially hollow shaft.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that leverage smart contracts and distributed ledgers, such as blockchains, to provide a trustless or substantially trustless ecosystem that includes distributed ledger crawler functions, advertising functions, risk mitigation for secondary sales of distributed ledger tokens, and various methods of acquiring and using distributed ledger tokens, among other uses.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that leverage smart contracts and distributed ledgers, such as blockchains, to provide a trustless or substantially trustless ecosystem that includes distributed ledger crawler functions, advertising functions, risk mitigation for secondary sales of distributed ledger tokens, and various methods of acquiring and using distributed ledger tokens, among other uses.

Abstract: A cross-platform data migration method and a cross-platform data migration system include determining that a first database is compatible with a second database, receiving a user request associated with an instruction to migrate data from the first database to the second database, determining that backup data corresponding to a current state of the first database is available, mounting the backup data onto the second platform via a distributed file system protocol, converting the backup data from the source endian format to a target endian format, and restoring the backup data in the target endian format to the second platform.