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Clarence T Tegreene

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Roderick A Hyde

Nathan P Myhrvold

Jordin T Kare

Edward K Y Jung

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Robert W Lord

Victoria Y H Wood

Charles Whitmer

Mark A Malamud

Eric Leuthardt

Royce A Levien

Richard T Lord

John D Rinaldo, Jr

William Henry Gates, Iii

Thomas A Weaver

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Tony S Pan

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

W Daniel Hillis

Michael A Smith

Jeffrey A Bowers

Robert Samuel Langer

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Edward Stuart Boyden

David R Smith

Craig J Mundie

Robert C Petroski

Alistair K Chan

William Henry Mangione-Smith

John Brian Pendry

Bran Ferren

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Chris Demetrios Karkanias

Matthew Graham Dyor

Jason Garms

Kristin Michele Tolle

Shawn P Firminger

David Schurig

William David Duncan

Alexander J Cohen

Daniel Hawkins

Pablos Holman

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Geoffrey Frank Deane

Marc Eliot Davis

Gregory J Della Rocca

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Xuedong D Huang

Desney S Tan

Douglas Christopher Burger

Hon Wah Chin

Leroy E Hood

Peter L Hagelstein

Howard Lee Davidson

Richard F Rashid

Ralph G Dacey, Jr

Tom Driscoll

Michael Baym

Stephen L Malaska

Paramvir Bahl

Ranveer Chandra

Gary L McKnight

Lin Zhong

Gene Fein

Richard Neil Zare

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

Daniel Reed

Joshua C Walter

Nathan Kundtz

Andrew F Glew

Gary William Flake

John R Lewis

Burton Jordan Smith

Steven Nabil Bathiche

James Robert Hamilton

Paul G Allen

Robert Victor Welland

William Tod Gross

Eleanor V Goodall

Eric J Horvitz

Andrew David Wilson

Paul Henry Dietz

Hakan Urey

Christopher A Wiklof

Alexander G Gounares

Anoop Gupta

Ruopeng Liu

Matthew Stephen Reynolds

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

David Brady

Daniel B Cook

Jie Jerry Liu

Wayne R Kindsvogel

Christian L Belady

Sean Michael James

Charles David Melville

A computing system determines that a transportation vehicle is transporting a first end user to a first destination location. Based on a set of factors, the system determines that a driver of the transportation vehicle is able to travel to a rendezvous location to rendezvous with a second end user while the transportation vehicle is progressing to the first destination location along an original route. The system determines an alternate route for the transportation vehicle to travel to the rendezvous location that satisfies the set of factors, and directs the driver of the transportation vehicle to the rendezvous location to rendezvous with the second end user along the alternate route.

Real-time carpool coordinating system

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

Systems and related methods utilizing one or more mote-related content indexes.

Using mote-associated indexes

A method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy including diverting a selected portion of energy from a portion of a nuclear reactor system to an auxiliary thermal reservoir and, responsive to a shutdown event, supplying a portion of the diverted selected portion of energy to an energy conversion system of the nuclear reactor system.

Method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy

Portage storage containers including controlled evaporative cooling systems are described herein. In some embodiments, a portable container including an integral controlled evaporative cooling system includes: a storage region, an evaporative region adjacent to the storage region, a desiccant region adjacent to the outside of the container, and an insulation region positioned between the evaporative region and the desiccant region. A vapor conduit with an attached vapor control unit has a first end within the evaporative region and a second end within the desiccant region. In some embodiments, the controlled evaporative cooling systems are positioned in a radial configuration within the portable container.

Temperature-controlled portable cooling units

According to various embodiments, an array of elements forms an artificially-structured material. The artificially-structured material can also include an array of tuning mechanisms included as part of the array of elements that are configured to change material properties of the artificially-structured material on a per-element basis. The tuning mechanisms can change the material properties of the artificially-structured material by changing operational properties of the elements in the array of elements on a per-element basis based on one or a combination of stimuli detected by sensors included in the array of tuning mechanisms, programmable circuit modules included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, data stored at individual data stores included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, and communications transmitted through interconnects included as part of the array of elements.

Artificially-structured materials with smart elements

Computer-implemented systems utilizing sensor networks for sensing temperature and motion environmental parameters, and performing at least operations of electronically establishing, based on pattern recognition criteria, correspondence of a plurality of representative features a plurality of characteristics of an occurrence, where a first instance of the occurrence occurred within a first time period of a plurality of time periods; electronically discovering, based on the correspondence, a second instance of the occurrence in an environment during a second time period of the plurality of time periods; and electronically causing, based on the discovery of the second instance of the occurrence, a change in the environment via an electronically-controlled device.

Event detection using pattern recognition criteria

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively constrict or selectively dilate, thereby compressing or relieving compression against at least one body part of a subject. Such selective constriction or dilation can improve muscle functioning or joint functioning during use of motion-conducive equipment, such as an exercise bike or rowing machine.

Garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator responsive to the sensor and related methods

Systems and methods are described herein for providing wireless power to a mobile device, such as an aerial mobile device like an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A navigational constraint model may prescribe a navigation path along which a wireless power transmission system can provide wireless power to the mobile device. Deviations from the prescribed path may require the mobile device to self-power. The prescription of a navigation path allows for the use of reduced-complexity wireless power transmitters that are fully capable of servicing the prescribed path. Multiple embodiments of prescribed paths with various limitations and features are set forth herein, along with multiple embodiments of wireless power transmission systems of reduced complexity and functionality to fully service the various embodiments of prescribed paths.

Wireless power transfer along a prescribed path

Computationally implemented methods and systems that are designed for receiving a request for transporting one or more end users towards a destination location; providing a travel plan for facilitating the one or more end users to travel to the destination location from a starting location, the travel plan identifying at least two route legs including at least one transport route leg that calls for at least one transportation vehicle unit to transport the one or more end users over the transport route leg; and directing the at least one transportation vehicle unit to rendezvous with the one or more end users at a rendezvous location in order to transport the one or more end users over the transport route leg. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

Systems and methods for travel planning that calls for at least one transportation vehicle unit

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

In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to a first mote, at least including: a first-mote directional antenna; wherein the first-mote directional antenna comprises a plurality of first antennas elements; ad hoc programmed computer processor which is configured to perform at least causing to establish a first communication link between the first mote and a second mote, based on a first direction; where the first direction corresponds to a first state of the plurality of first antennas elements; monitoring, in real time, the initial communication link data; determining, based on the initial communication link data, a second; selectively varying an antenna property operatively associated with the plurality of first antennas elements to establish a second state, corresponding to the second direction, and causing to establish a second communication link between the first mote and the second mote, based on the second state.

Mote networks using directional antenna techniques

System and methods are described herein for providing wireless power to a target device, such as a laptop computer, a mobile phone, a vehicle, robot, or an unmanned aerial vehicle or system (UAV) or (UAS). A tunable multi-element transmitter may transmit electromagnetic radiation (EMR) to the target device using any of a wide variety of frequency bands. A location determination subsystem and/or range determination subsystem may determine a relative location, orientation, and/or rotation of the target device. For a target device within a distance range for which a smallest achievable waist of the Gaussian beam of the EMR at an operational frequency is smaller than the multi-element EMR receiver of the target device, a non-Gaussian beamform may be determined to increase efficiency, decrease overheating, reduce spillover, increase total power output of rectenna receivers on the target device, or achieve another target power delivery goal.

Non-Gaussian beamforming for wireless power transfer optimization

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Clarence T Tegreene