Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Clix Network, Inc.

Highspot, Inc.

Black Hills Media, LLC

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Stryker Corporation

Ivy Sports Medicine, LLC

Zamora Radio, LLC

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Paul A Viola

Jeremy S De Bonet

Cha Zhang

Gang Hua

Michael J Jones

Patrice Y Simard

Scott Raymond Harris

Michael Shilman

Ross Garrett Cutler

Yong Rui

David Wortendyke

Kumar Hemachandra Chellapilla

Oliver J Sharp

Robert S Wahbe

James Russell Rinker

Xinding Sun

Pei Yin

Steven Mark Drucker

Joshua John Watson

David Bargeron

Li Jiang

Sanaz Ahari

Mukund Narasimhan

Michael David Revow

Scot Gellock

Jason Leonard Peacock

Stephen Thomas Safarik

Varsha Raghavan

Hiu Chung Law

Eric J Horvitz

Jin Li

Lili Cheng

Brandon William Porter

John Charles Krumm

Matthew Graham Dyor

Erik B Christensen

Bodin Dresevic

James Christopher Curlander

Cormac E Herley

Milind V Mahajan

Zhaowei Charlie Jiang

Charles Edward Jacobs

Leon Robert Warman

Goran Predovic

Ahmad A Abdulkader

Amit Kumar

Radoslav Petrov Nickolov

Gershon Parent

Ming Ye

Trausti Thor Kristjansson

Andrew Paul McGovern

Milan Vukosavljevic

Nate Dire

David Benjamin Liu

Gregory T Buehrer

Richard Zemel

Steve Macbeth

Alex Wilson Nash

Mark Armin Patel

Jakub Jan Szymanski

Gregory Druck

Brian Satzinger

Steven Millet

In one embodiment, the present invention is a system for repairing a meniscus including: a suture assembly including a first anchor, a second anchor, and a flexible suture connecting the first anchor and the second anchor, the flexible suture including a slide knot between the first anchor and the second anchor; and an inserter including a needle having a longitudinal extending bore and an open distal end, the bore being configured to receive the first anchor and the second anchor, a housing operatively connected to a proximal end of the needle, the housing having a lumen and a slot, the slot including a first portion, a second portion, a first shoulder and a second shoulder and a pusher configured to rotate and slide within the lumen of the housing and the longitudinal extending bore of the needle, the pusher having an extension extending through the slot and configured to be maneuverable through the first portion and second portion and engageable with the first shoulder and second shoulder.

Systems and methods for all-inside suture fixation for implant attachment and soft tissue repair

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) expandable landing marker system may include a an expandable volume. The landing marker may be expanded prior to arrival of a UAV delivering an item to be received by the landing marker. The landing marker may be expanded by regulating an amount of fluid in the volume. An anchor may be coupled to the landing marker to restrain movement of the expanded landing marker. An optional retraction mechanism may retract the landing marker. The landing marker can be retracted with the deposited item, moving the item to a location for later retrieval.

Unmanned aerial vehicle expandable landing marker system

An electronic marker may provide an approach notification to enable people to understand and interpret actions by a UAV, such as an intention to land or deposit a package at a particular location. The marker may communicate a specific intention of the UAV and/or communicate a request to a person. The marker may monitor the person or data signals for a response from the person, such as movement of the person that indicates a response. The marker may be equipped with hardware and/or software configured to provide notifications and/or exchange information with a person or the UAV at or near a destination. The marker may include a display, lights, a speaker, and one or more sensors to enable the UAV to provide information, barcodes, and text. The marker can provide final landing authority and can 'wave-off' the UAV if an obstacle or person exists in the landing zone.

Electronic landing marker

A system may include sensor modules configured to generate sensor signals representative of an environment surrounding a vehicle, and a sensor configured to be coupled to the frame of the vehicle at a location spaced from a first sensor module and configured to generate sensor signals representative of movement of the first sensor module relative to a portion of the frame. The system may also include a sensor processor configured to receive the sensor signals representative of movement of the first sensor module and estimate relative motion of the first sensor module relative to the portion of the frame of the vehicle. The sensor processor may also be configured to calculate, based at least in part on the relative motion estimation, a position, orientation, and/or velocity of the vehicle, and a position of objects in the surrounding environment and/or movement of the objects in the surrounding environment.

Determining and using relative motion of sensor modules

System and method for all-inside suture fixation for implant attachment and soft tissue repair

Described are systems and methods for surveying a destination as an unmanned aerial vehicle ('UAV') descends toward the destination. To confirm that the destination is clear of objects and includes a safe landing or delivery location, such as a substantially planar surface, the UAV may capture and process images at different altitudes during the descent. Feature points of a first image captured at a first altitude may be paired with feature points of a second image captured at a second, different altitude. A homography may be computed to confirm that the paired feature points lie in the same plane and then the two images may be registered based on the paired feature points. The registered images may then be processed to determine depth information and determine if descent of the UAV is to continue or be aborted.

Aerial vehicle descent with delivery location identifiers

A stereo camera pair may be used to determine deformation and/or strain on a member based on differences in calculated movement of the cameras that capture images. In some embodiments, a first camera may be mounted to a first end of a member and a second camera may be mounted to a second end of the member opposite the first end. As the member bends, twists, or deforms in other ways, the deformation may be detectable based on differences in images captured by the first and second camera. This data may be used to detect possible wear or damage to the member, as a control input to a vehicle to reduce possible wear or damage to the member, as a prompt to initiate maintenance or inspection of the member, and/or for other reasons.

Imagery-based member deformation gauge

Systems and methods for selecting items of interest for an organization from a set of feeds, based on the interests that users have demonstrated through their interactions with existing content, are described herein. In some embodiments, the system is part of a content management service that allows users to add and organize files, media, links, and other information. The content can be uploaded from a computer, imported from cloud file systems, added via links, or pulled from various kinds of feeds.

News feed

Unmanned aerial vehicle descent

A passive control system can be implemented that converts an active control system on a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a passive control system. In the event that a system health of an active control system on the UAV is compromised, or in other instances, a passive control mechanism can be deployed to restore at least some in-flight stability. In various examples, the passive control system can monitor UAV attitude, velocity, and position to determine an active control system health. In other examples, the passive control system may receive an indication from the active control system itself. In some examples, the passive control mechanisms may include increasing an offset of a center of thrust and the center of gravity of the UAV. In other examples, the passive control mechanisms may include deploying control surfaces that induce a drag force that impedes translational and rotational movement.

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deployment of passive control stabilizers

Techniques for organizing information, such as documents, presentations, web sites and web pages, audiovisual media streams, and the like are describe. This disclosed techniques include creating and using an interest graph to support the distribution of information to a user via a feed containing information items likely to be of interest to the user. An interest graph expresses the affinity between people and information&#x2014;the likelihood that a particular piece of information is of interest to a particular person. The interest graph is based on an understanding of relationships, monitoring of user behavior, and analysis of each piece of information. The interest graph represents many kinds of relationships, including: between users and other users, users and items, and users and collections. The interest graph can be computed using data both from a set of items and from user behavior.

Interest graph-powered feed

A method, which identifies information of interest within an organization, determines use data that characterizes relationships among information items within the organization, where the information items include user data and collections of information items. The method generates interest data indicating affinities among the information items based on the determined use data. After receiving a query for data regarding the information items, the method responds to the query by providing one or more results based on the generated interest data. More details are provided herein.

Interest graph-powered search

A method of playing preselected content by a processor-based communications device includes receiving an Internet radio broadcast from a personal radio server system, pre-selecting audio elements, storing the pre-selected audio elements, and playing the stored pre-selected audio elements by the processor-based communications device.

Method and system for providing an audio element cache in a customized personal radio broadcast

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Paul A Viola