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Charles Whitmer

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Roderick A Hyde

Clarence T Tegreene

Nathan P Myhrvold

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Jordin T Kare

Victoria Y H Wood

Edward K Y Jung

Thomas A Weaver

Eric Leuthardt

William Henry Gates, Iii

Robert W Lord

Craig J Mundie

Mark A Malamud

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Tony S Pan

Robert C Petroski

Edward Stuart Boyden

Richard T Lord

David R Smith

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Michael A Smith

John Brian Pendry

Elizabeth A Sweeney

David Schurig

Royce A Levien

Jeffrey A Bowers

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Charles E Ahlfeld

David G McAlees

George Beedon Zimmerman

Douglas Christopher Burger

Desney S Tan

W Daniel Hillis

Howard Lee Davidson

Kenneth G Caldeira

Alistair K Chan

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Matthew Graham Dyor

John Rogers Gilleland

Richard F Rashid

Eric D Rudder

Paramvir Bahl

Ranveer Chandra

Lin Zhong

Tim Paek

Ashok Odedra

Geoffrey Frank Deane

Jon David McWhirter

John Latham

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

Joshua C Walter

Pablos Holman

Bran Ferren

William David Duncan

William Henry Mangione-Smith

Russell J Hannigan

Hon Wah Chin

Marc Tremblay

Stephen Hugh Salter

Steven Nabil Bathiche

James Robert Hamilton

Robert Victor Welland

Burton Jordan Smith

Nicholas W Touran

Gary William Flake

Peter L Hagelstein

Eric J Horvitz

Richard Neil Zare

Chris Demetrios Karkanias

Michael Baym

Stephen L Malaska

Paul D Holman

Robert Samuel Langer

Andrew David Wilson

Tom Driscoll

Eleanor V Goodall

Jaron Zepel Lanier

Willard Harvey Wattenburg

Paul G Allen

Max Nathan Mankin

Gleb M Akselrod

Alexander G Gounares

Nels R Peterson

Anoop Gupta

Wayne R Kindsvogel

Paul Henry Dietz

Gary L McKnight

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Nathan Kundtz

Daniel B Cook

Jie Jerry Liu

Christian L Belady

Sean Michael James

Shaun L Harris

Erez Lieberman

Gregory Joseph McKnight

A superconductor device includes a high superconductivity transition temperature enhanced from the raw material transition temperature. The superconductor device includes a matrix material and a core material. The enhancing matrix material and the core material together create a system of strongly coupled carriers. A plurality of low-dimensional conductive features can be embedded in the matrix. The low-dimensional conductive features (e.g., nanowires or nanoparticles) can be conductors or superconductors. An interaction between electrons of the low-dimensional conductive features and the enhancing matrix material can promote excitations that increase a superconductivity transition temperature of the superconductor device.

High temperature superconductor

Disclosed embodiments include nuclear fission reactor cores, nuclear fission reactors, methods of operating a nuclear fission reactor, and methods of managing excess reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor.

Standing wave nuclear fission reactor and methods

In an embodiment, a nerve stimulation system includes a headset and an earpiece which includes two or more ear-contacting elements, for example an ear canal insert, and a concha insert. Ear-contacting elements may be mounted onto an earpiece housing have projecting mounting structures, which provide mechanical and electrical connection between ear-contacting elements and housing through various materials and configurations. In an embodiment, a nerve stimulation system includes a neural stimulation subsystem including neural stimulation device control circuitry for use in combination with a personal computing device to control a neural stimulation device.

Nerve stimulation system, subsystem, headset, and earpiece

Illustrative embodiments provide for the operation and simulation of the operation of fission reactors, including the movement of materials within reactors. Illustrative embodiments and aspects include, without limitation, nuclear fission reactors and reactor modules, including modular nuclear fission reactors and reactor modules, nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors and reactor modules, modular nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors and modules, methods of operating nuclear reactors and modules including the aforementioned, methods of simulating operating nuclear reactors and modules including the aforementioned, and the like.

Enhanced neutronics systems

Techniques for ability enhancement are described. In some embodiments, devices and systems located in a transportation network share threat information with one another, in order to enhance a user's ability to operate or function in a transportation-related context. In one embodiment, a process in a vehicle receives threat information from a remote device, the threat information based on information about objects or conditions proximate to the remote device. The process then determines that the threat information is relevant to the safe operation of the vehicle. Then, the process modifies operation of the vehicle based on the threat information, such as by presenting a message to the operator of the vehicle and/or controlling the vehicle itself.

Ability enhancement

A nuclear fission reactor, flow control assembly, methods therefor and a flow control assembly system. The flow control assembly is coupled to a nuclear fission module capable of producing a traveling burn wave at a location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly controls flow of a fluid in response to the location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly comprises a flow regulator subassembly configured to be operated according to an operating parameter associated with the nuclear fission module. In addition, the flow regulator subassembly is reconfigurable according to a predetermined input to the flow regulator subassembly. Moreover, the flow control assembly comprises a carriage subassembly coupled to the flow regulator subassembly for adjusting the flow regulator subassembly to vary fluid flow into the nuclear fission module.

Nuclear fission reactor, flow control assembly, methods therefor and a flow control assembly system

Various methods for sensing and/or heating that utilize nanostructures or carbon structures, such as nanotubes, nanotube meshes, or graphene sheets, are disclosed. In some methods, at least a pair of contacts are electrically coupled with a given nanostructure or carbon structure to sense a change or to pass a current for heating.

Systems and methods for selective sensing and selective thermal heating using nanostructures

Breast monitoring systems are described including a breast sensor device having a substrate fabricated to substantially conform to one or more breasts of a subject, dynamically bendable optical fibers, and a connector; a light source configured to operably couple with the optical fibers through the connector; a photodetector configured to operably couple with the optical fibers through the connector and positioned to detect light transmission through the optical fibers; a reporting device; and a microcontroller including a microprocessor and circuitry, the circuitry including input circuitry configured to receive a first set of signals and at least one second set of signals from the photodetector; calculation circuitry configured to calculate a curvature delta value based on a comparison of the first and at least one second set of signals, and calculate a breast volume delta value from the calculated curvature delta value; and reporting circuitry.

Systems, devices and methods for monitoring breastfeeding

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a garment system including at least one muscle or at least one joint activity sensor, and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one muscle or the at least one joint activity sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively compress against or selectively relieve compression against at least one body part of a subject. Embodiments disclosed herein also relate to methods of using such garment systems.

Garment system including at least one muscle or joint activity sensor and at least one actuator responsive to the sensor and related methods

Garment systems including a flexible compression garment, at least one sensor, and at least one therapeutic stimulation delivery device operable responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one sensor, effective to provide therapeutic radiation to a body part of a subject. Methods of using such garment systems are also described.

Garment system including at least one therapeutic stimulation delivery device and related methods

Breast monitoring systems and methods are described including a flexible substrate fabricated to substantially conform to one or more breasts of a subject; dynamically bendable optical fibers associated with the flexible substrate; a light source operably coupled to the optical fibers; a photodetector positioned to detect light reception from the optical fibers; a reporting device; and a microcontroller including a microprocessor and circuitry, wherein the circuitry includes input circuitry configured to receive a first set of signals and at least one second set of signals from the photodetector; calculation circuitry configured to calculate a curvature delta value based on a comparison of the received first and at least one second set of signals, and calculate a breast volume delta value from the calculated curvature delta value; and reporting circuitry configured to transmit a signal to the reporting device based on the calculated breast volume delta value.

Described embodiments include a system, method, and apparatus. The apparatus includes a magnetic substrate at least partially covered by a first negative-permittivity layer comprising a first plasmonic outer surface. The apparatus includes a plasmonic nanoparticle having a magnetic element at least partially covered by a second negative-permittivity layer comprising a second plasmonic outer surface. The apparatus includes a dielectric-filled gap between the first plasmonic outer surface and the second outer surface. The first plasmonic outer surface, the dielectric-filled gap, and the second plasmonic outer surface are configured to support one or more mutually coupled plasmonic excitations.

Magnetic plasmonic nanoparticle positioned on a magnetic plasmonic substrate

Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring a request for particular image data that is part of a scene, transmitting the request for the particular image data to an image sensor array that includes more than one image sensor and that is configured to capture the scene that is larger than the requested particular image data, receiving only the particular image data from the image sensor array, and transmitting the received particular image data to at least one requestor. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

Devices, methods and systems for visual imaging arrays

Systems and related methods for controlling delivery of a stimulus to a pinna of a subject with a stimulator worn on the pinna are described. A wearable stimulation device includes a mechanical, electrical, or other type of stimulator secured to a pinna of a subject. A personal computing device in communication with the wearable stimulation device controls delivery of stimuli and other aspects of operation of the device. In some aspects recommendations regarding neural stimuli and other stimuli or experiences to be delivered in association with the neural stimuli are provided via a computing system in communication with the personal computing device or the wearable stimulation device.

Method and system for controlling ear stimulation

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