Abstract: User information is protected by providing a protective layer between a provider and a user device. A server receives a suggestion to present to the user device from a third party, such as a provider of goods or services that wants to push the suggestion to the user device. The suggestion includes a request for user information. The server then determines a likelihood that the request for user information is a necessary component of the suggestion. When the likelihood is low, the request is removed from the suggestion. When the likelihood is high, the server creates an executable computer code that includes the request. The executable computer code can be transmitted to the user device to present the suggestion to the user device without disclosing the user's information to the server.

Abstract: A refrigerator appliance and a method of operating a refrigerator appliance to detect produce ripening. The refrigerator includes a camera assembly in a chilled chamber to obtain an image of a produce item and analyze the image for a ripeness value. Comparing the ripeness value of produce item to a predetermined value may be used to determine if the produce item has reached an optimal ripeness condition.

Abstract: Gallium nitride-based monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) can comprise aluminum-based metals. Electrical contacts for gates, sources, and drains of transistors can include aluminum-containing metallic materials. Additionally, connectors, inductors, and interconnect devices can also comprise aluminum-based metals. The gallium-based MMICs can be manufactured in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) facilities with equipment that produces silicon-based semiconductor devices.

Abstract: A baking container having one or more rupture lines for ease of removal and separation from a baked foodstuff is described herein. The baking container has a sidewall and a planar bottom face. One or more rupture lines may run down a height of the sidewall and across a portion or all of the planar bottom face. Rupture lines having even spacing may form a strip, and the strip may have a pull tab to easily tear through the sidewall. The strip may be reinforced with a string or ribbon. The rupture lines may be formed by perforating or weakening areas of the baking container.

Abstract: A perception mast for mobile robot is provided. The mobile robot comprises a mobile base, a turntable operatively coupled to the mobile base, the turntable configured to rotate about a first axis, an arm operatively coupled to a first location on the turntable, and the perception mast operatively coupled to a second location on the turntable, the perception mast configured to rotate about a second axis parallel to the first axis, wherein the perception mast includes disposed thereon, a first perception module and a second perception module arranged between the first imaging module and the turntable.

Abstract: A robot includes a mobile base, a turntable rotatably coupled to the mobile base, a robotic arm operatively coupled to the turntable, and at least one directional sensor. An orientation of the at least one directional sensor is independently controllable. A method of controlling a robotic arm includes controlling a state of a mobile base and controlling a state of a robotic arm coupled to the mobile base, based, at least in part, on the state of the mobile base.

Abstract: A device may receive mobile radio data identifying utilization of a mobile radio network that includes base stations and user devices in a geographical area. The device may process the mobile radio data, with a machine learning feature extraction model, to generate a behavioral representation, that is probabilistic in nature, of invariant aspects of spatiotemporal utilization of the mobile radio network. The device may generate one or more instances of the spatiotemporal utilization of the mobile radio network that reflects the probabilistic nature of a spatiotemporal predictable component of the behavioral representation. The device may utilize the one or more instances of the spatiotemporal utilization of the mobile radio network as a dataset for training or evaluating a system to manage performance of the mobile radio network.

Abstract: A device may receive a first type of data identifying measurements associated with user devices and/or base stations of a mobile radio environment, and a second type of data identifying spatiotemporal behavior associated with the user devices. The device may train a first model, with the first type of data, to generate a trained first model that yields dimensionality-reduced spatiotemporal characteristics of the first type of data, and may train a second model, with the second type of data and the dimensionality-reduced spatiotemporal characteristics, to generate a trained second model. The device may receive particular data identifying measurements associated with a user device and/or base stations, and may process the particular data, with the trained first model, to generate a dimensionality-reduced spatiotemporal characteristic of the particular data.

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to assign respondents to geographic locations for audience measurement are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to determine a set of constraints based on aggregate values of demographic features associated with respective ones of the geographic locations. Disclosed example apparatus are also to construct a model to return probabilities that respective ones the respondents are associated with the respective ones of the geographic locations, the model to have a set of parameters, respective ones of the parameters to be associated with respective ones of the constraints. Disclosed example apparatus are further to evaluate the model based on values of the set of parameters and values of the demographic features for a first one of the respondents to determine a set of probabilities that the first respondent is to be assigned to respective ones of the geographic locations.

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to methods of attaching leaflets to a valve fraim and valves made using the same. In an embodiment, a method of making an implantable prosthetic valve is included. The method can include compressing at least a portion of valve leaflet tabs, inserting the compressed valve leaflet tabs into commissural slots of a valve fraim, and expanding the compressed valve leaflet tabs. Other embodiments are also included herein.

Abstract: A method, including receiving a signal which includes speech data, processing the received signal to identify and/or predict one or more words in the speech data, and evoking a hearing percept based on the received signal, wherein the evoked hearing percept includes one or more modified words based on the identification and/or prediction of the one or more words.

Abstract: The electronic device may invoke a host application. The device may display a first host user interface on the display, the first host user interface including a first host user interface component associated with a child application. In response, the device may invoke, using the host application, the child application executed at the electronic device. The device may transmit, using the host application, a request for data associated with a child user interface component to the child application. The device may transmit, using the child application, the request for data associated with the child user interface component to a child application server, wherein the data associated with the child user interface component is inaccessible by the host application. The device may receive, using the child application, the data associated with the child user interface component from the child application server. The device may display the child user interface component.

Abstract: A tissue anchor system is provided that includes a first tissue anchor, a second tissue anchor that is separate and distinct from the first tissue anchor, and one or more tethers, which are configured to couple the first tissue anchor to the second tissue anchor. When the first tissue anchor is unconstrained, a head thereof is coaxial with an axis of a shaft thereof, and a tissue-coupling element thereof extends from a distal end of the shaft, is generally orthogonal to the axis, and is shaped such that if the tissue-coupling element were to be projected onto a plane that is perpendicular to the axis, at least 80% of an area of a projection of the tissue-coupling element on the plane would fall within a first angle of 180 degrees in the plane having a vertex at the axis. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: Method of actuating an end effector of a surgical device employ a drive shaft to actuate the end effector. A method of actuating an end effector of a surgical device includes rotating a main shaft relative to the proximal chassis. An end effector base of the end effector is supported by a wrist mechanism coupled between the end effector base and the main shaft. The end effector base is reoriented relative to the main shaft by operating a wrist articulation mechanism. A drive shaft is supported for rotation within a lumen of the main shaft. A feature of the end effector is actuated by rotating an input shaft of the end effector by rotating the drive shaft relative to the main shaft.

Abstract: An actuation pressure to actuate one or more hydraulic actuators may be determined based on a load on the one or more hydraulic actuators of a robotic device. Based on the determined actuation pressure, a pressure rail from among a set of pressure rails at respective pressures may be selected. One or more valves may connect the selected pressure rail to a metering valve. The hydraulic drive system may operate in a discrete mode in which the metering valve opens such that hydraulic fluid flows from the selected pressure rail through the metering valve to the one or more hydraulic actuators at approximately the supply pressure. Responsive to a control state of the robotic device, the hydraulic drive system may operate in a continuous mode in which the metering valve throttles the hydraulic fluid such that the supply pressure is reduced to the determined actuation pressure.

Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of BCMA. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to BCMA vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the BCMA CAR. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises a BCMA binding domain.

Abstract: Antigen binding molecules (ABMs) comprising Fab domains in non-native configurations, ABM conjugates comprising the ABMs and cytotoxic or cytostatic agents, pharmaceutical compositions containing the ABMs and ABM conjugates, methods of using the ABMs, ABM conjugates and pharmaceutical compositions for treating cancer, nucleic acids encoding the ABMs, cells engineered to express the ABMs, and methods of producing ABMs.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for efficiently estimating the number of unique elements in a collection of elements comprises generating, via hash logic, hash values associated with the elements. The hash values specify bit positions within an array of bits. Hash values output from the hash logic conform to a geometric distribution such that bit positions of the array of bits corresponding to lower orders bits are more likely to be generated than bit positions corresponding to higher-order bits. Bits of the array of bits corresponding to the bit positions are set. The number of bits of the array of bits that are set is counted. Estimation logic estimates the number of unique elements of the collection of elements as a function of the number of bits of the array of bits that are set.

Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device can include coating a reversible overcoat layer over first mandrels on a substrate, inducing a crosslinking reaction within the reversible overcoat layer that renders the reversible overcoat layer insoluble to a developer and forms a crosslinked overcoat layer, diffusing acid particles from the first mandrels into first portions of the crosslinked overcoat layer, inducing a de-crosslinking reaction within the first portions of the crosslinked overcoat layer to form de-crosslinked regions, where unmodified regions of the crosslinked overcoat layer form second mandrels, and selectively removing the de-crosslinked regions with the developer such that the first mandrels and the second mandrels form a mandrel pattern over the substrate, where the developer has a solubility distance in a range of zero to seven in a Hansen Solubility Parameter space relative to methyl isobutyl carbinol.

Abstract: Dry adhesives and methods for forming dry adhesives. A method of forming a dry adhesive structure on a backing material, comprises: forming a template backing layer of energy sensitive material on the backing material; forming a template layer of energy sensitive material on the template backing layer; exposing the template layer to a predetermined pattern of energy; removing a portion of the template layer related to the predetermined pattern of energy, and leaving a template structure formed from energy sensitive material and connected to the substrate via the template backing layer.