Elwha LLC

Modern Electron, Inc.

The Invention Science Fund I LLC

Ventrk, LLC

Tony S Pan

Roderick A Hyde

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Jordin T Kare

Clarence T Tegreene

Victoria Y H Wood

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Nathan P Myhrvold

Charles Whitmer

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Robert C Petroski

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Eric Leuthardt

William David Duncan

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Max Nathan Mankin

William Henry Gates, Iii

Alistair K Chan

Michael Baym

Gary L McKnight

Mark A Malamud

Nicholas W Touran

David R Smith

Thomas A Weaver

Hon Wah Chin

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Tom Driscoll

Russell J Hannigan

Katherine E Sharadin

3ric Johanson

Eun Young Hwang

W Daniel Hillis

Ehren Brav

Conor L Myhrvold

Paul G Allen

Gleb M Akselrod

Nels R Peterson

Phillip Rutschman

Richard Glen Ellenbogen

Philip V Bayly

Andrew R Lingley

Maiken H Mikkelsen

Andrew T Koch

David Lozoff Brody

Raul Radovitzky

Anthony Vinson Smith

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

Christopher Charles Young

Maxime Jean Jerome Bilet

Chloe A M Fabien

Yong Sun

Elizabeth L Schubert

Terry Briggs

Clark J Gilbert

Edward K Y Jung

Desney S Tan

Paul Henry Dietz

David Lawrence Tennenhouse

Joel Cherkis

Neil Jordan

Patrick Neill

Gary Wachowicz

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Jie Jerry Liu

Craig J Mundie

Christian L Belady

Sean Michael James

Shaun L Harris

Gregory Joseph McKnight

Douglas M Carmean

Brian A Janous

Paul Duesterhoft

Richard M Gorski

Stephen E Clark

Arvind Kannan

Alexander Galt Hyde

Hsin-I Lu

Jason M Parker

Gary D Foley

Bran Ferren

Edward Stuart Boyden

William Kokonaski

Jeffrey A Bowers

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Eleanor V Goodall

Kenneth G Caldeira

Heinz Hermann Busta

Cameron A Myhrvold

Peter J Scherpelz

Michael Allan Schneider

Chuteng Zhou

Grace Hsu Huynh

Robert Dunne

William Gates

Eric C Leuthardt

Michael H Baym

Jr Lowell L Wood

Jesse R Iii Cheatham

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

Disclosed embodiments include vacuum electronic devices, methods of operating a vacuum electronic device, and methods of fabricating a vacuum electronic device. In a non-limiting embodiment, a vacuum electronics device includes a cathode and an anode. At least one focus grid is disposed between the cathode and the anode, and the at least one focus grid is physically disconnected from the cathode. The at least one acceleration grid is disposed between the cathode and the anode, and the at least one acceleration grid is further disposed adjacent the at least one focus grid. The at least one acceleration grid is physically disconnected from the cathode.

Electrostatic grid device to reduce electron space charge

Disclosed embodiments include conductive oxide-coated electrodes and methods of fabricating a conductive oxide-coated electrode. In a non-limiting embodiment, a conductive oxide-coated electrode includes: a conductive layer; and an oxide coating disposed on the conductive layer. In another non-limiting embodiment, a method of fabricating a conductive oxide-coated electrode includes: patterning a conductive layer; etching the patterned conductive layer; and disposing an oxide coating on the etched conductive layer.

Conductive oxide-coated electrodes via nano- or micro-structured materials

Disclosed embodiments include vacuum electronic devices and methods of fabricating a vacuum electronic device. In a non-limiting embodiment, a vacuum electronic device includes an electrode that defines discrete support structures therein. A first film layer is disposed on the electrode about a periphery of the electrode and on the support structures. A second film layer is disposed on the first film layer. The second film layer includes electrically conductive grid lines patterned therein that are supported by and suspended between the support structures.

Suspended grid structures for electrodes in vacuum electronics

Devices, systems, and methods that may be used to controllably deliver alcohol to a subject using an inhaler, wherein the inhaler may include a housing having a flow channel coupled to an ethanol-containing inhalant reservoir, an actuator configured to facilitate release of the inhalant, a constituent sensor, and a control unit. The control unit may accept parameters associated with the subject, create an inhalant delivery regime, and control operation of the actuator based at least partially on a sensed constituent level to facilitate release of an ethanol-containing inhalant from the reservoir into the flow channel in accordance with the regimen.

Methods, systems, and devices related to delivery of alcohol with an inhaler

Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods of dispensing one or more medicaments to a subject. The systems and methods utilize at least one flexible compression garment having one or more medicament dispensers therein.

Systems for dispensing a medicament to a subject and related methods

Disclosed embodiments include vacuum electronics devices and methods of fabricating a vacuum electronics device. In a non-limiting embodiment, a vacuum electronics device includes: an electrode; a first film layer disposed on the electrode about a periphery of the electrode; and a second film layer disposed on the first film layer, the second film layer including a plurality of electrically conductive grid lines patterned therein that are supported only at the periphery of the electrode by the first film layer.

A method of pollinating a plant includes receiving, with a processing circuit, plant data regarding a plant having flowers, and controlling, by the processing circuit, operation of an robotic device to selectively pollinate a portion of the plurality of flowers based on the plant data. The robotic device includes sensors configured to acquire plant data, a pollination device configured to pollinate flowers of a plant, a collection device configured to collect pollen, and a pollination prevention device configured prevent a flower from being pollinated.

Systems and methods for selective pollination

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

Described embodiments include a system and a method. A system includes a first ultrasound transmitter acoustically coupled to a conducting layer of a display surface and configured to deliver a first ultrasound wave to a selected delineated area. The first ultrasonic wave has parameters sufficient to induce a non-linear vibrational response in the conducting layer. A second ultrasound transmitter is acoustically coupled to the conducting layer and configured to deliver a second ultrasound wave to the selected delineated area. The second ultrasonic wave has parameters sufficient to induce a non-linear vibrational response in the conducting layer. A controller selects a delineated area in response to an indication of a touch to the display surface, and initiates delivery of the first and second ultrasonic waves. A convergence of the first and second ultrasonic waves at the selected delineated area produces a stress pattern perceivable or discernible by the human appendage.

Tactile feedback generated by non-linear interaction of surface acoustic waves

A method for facilitating physiological data acquisition includes scheduling a medical appointment between a patient and a medical provider. The medical appointment is to be conducted at a medical provider location on an appointment date. The method also includes selecting a medical device configured to acquire physiological data regarding the patient. The method further includes sending, to a fulfillment system, a request to provide the medical device to a patient location prior to the appointment date. The patient location is remote from the medical provider location.

Systems and methods for facilitating physiological data collection prior to appointment

Disclosed embodiments include vacuum electronics devices and methods of fabricating a vacuum electronics device. In a non-limiting embodiment, a vacuum electronics device includes: an electrode; a plurality of grid supports disposed on the electrode, each of the plurality of grid supports having a first width; and a plurality of grid lines, each of the plurality of grid lines being supported on an associated one of the plurality of grid supports, each of the plurality of grid lines having a second width that is wider than the first width.

Shadowed grid structures for electrodes in vacuum electronics

A system and associated methods of operation for regulating an environmental variable (such as ambient room temperature) within a target zone. The system includes an occupancy sensor configured to monitor the target zone and determine a number of inhabitants present within the zone. The occupancy sensor generates an occupancy signal communicating the number of detected inhabitants to an environmental control system. Upon receiving the occupancy signal, the environmental control system regulates an environmental variable within the zone based on the number of inhabitants present in the zone.

Systems and methods for regulating an environmental variable within a target zone having multiple inhabitants

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

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