Radial and thickness control via biased multi-port injection settings

A gas distribution system is disclosed in order to obtain better film uniformity on a substrate in a cross-flow reactor. The better film uniformity may be achieved by an asymmetric bias on individual injection ports of the gas distribution system. The gas distribution may allow for varied tunability of the film properties.

Nitride film forming method and storage medium

There is provided a nitride film forming method which includes: performing a pretreatment in which a chlorine-containing gas is supplied while heating a substrate to be processed having a first base film and a second base film formed on the substrate to a predetermined temperature, and is adsorbed onto a surface of the first base film and a surface of the second base film; and forming a nitride film on the first base film and the second base film subjected to the pretreatment, by an ALD method or a CVD method, using a raw material gas and a nitriding gas, while heating the substrate to be processed to a predetermined temperature.

Fine-grained natural language understanding

A system capable of performing natural language understanding (NLU) without the concept of a domain that influences NLU results. The present system uses a hierarchical organizations of intents/commands and entity types, and trained models associated with those hierarchies, so that commands and entity types may be determined for incoming text queries without necessarily determining a domain for the incoming text. The system thus operates in a domain agnostic manner, in a departure from multi-domain architecture NLU processing where a system determines NLU results for multiple domains simultaneously and then ranks them to determine which to select as the result.

Method and system for tracking and determining a location of a wireless transmission

An apparatus for detecting and timing a transmitting device is disclosed. The device includes a receiving system receiving a signal containing at least a preamble code of a known length and at least one pulse within a receive window after the preamble code, a circuit receiving the at least one pulse comprising a zero-crossing circuit for indicting a zero-voltage crossing of the at least one pulse and a trigger device for latching the indication of zero-voltage crossing, and a ripple circuit counter, receiving the latched indication of said zero-voltage crossing and associating a time to the receipt of the latched indication. A system for detecting and locating a transmitting device is further disclosed. The system includes a plurality of sensor apparatus each determining a reception time of a signal and a processor for determining a location based on groups of the reception times

Robotically controlling surgical assemblies

A surgical system for selective connection to a robotic arm includes an instrument drive unit, an instrument support platform coupled to the instrument drive unit, an instrument carriage coupled to the instrument support platform, and a surgical instrument releasably coupled to the instrument carriage. The surgical instrument includes an end effector controllable to perform surgery in response to telemanipulation of actuators in the instrument drive unit.

Systems and methods for utilizing augmented Jacobian to control manipulator joint movement

Devices, systems, and methods for providing commanded movement of an end effector of a manipulator while providing a desired movement of one or more joints of the manipulator. Methods include augmenting a Jacobian so that joint movements calculated from the Jacobian perform one or more auxiliary tasks and/or desired joint movements concurrent with commanded end effector movement, the one or more auxiliary tasks and/or desired joint movements extending into a null-space. The auxiliary tasks and desired joint movements include inhibiting movement of one or more joints, inhibiting collisions between adjacent manipulators or between a manipulator and a patient surface, commanded reconfiguration of one or more joints, or various other tasks or combinations thereof. Such joint movements may be provided using joint velocities calculated from the pseudo-inverse solution of the augmented Jacobian. Various configurations for systems utilizing such methods are provided herein.

Method for maximizing air gap in back end of the line interconnect through via landing modification

A method of forming an interconnect to an electrical device is provided. The structure produced by the method may include a plurality of metal lines in a region of a substrate positioned in an array of metal lines all having parrallel lengths; and a plurality of air gaps between the metal lines in a same level as the metal lines, wherein an air gap is present between each set of adjacent metal lines. A plurality of interconnects may be present in electrical communication with said plurality of metal lines, wherein an exclusion zone for said plurality of interconnects is not present in said array of metal lines.

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE PERSONALISATION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

Methods and systems for allowing multiple parties to coordinate, including a computer server in communication with a network and a database, the computer server configured to run the platform and allow a vendor user to, and invite a customer user to use the platform via the network. Also, research the customer user by sending questions to the customer user and receive responses to the questions from the customer user, wherein the questions include stored platform questions, and prompt the customer user to upload personal information from a personal networked storage. In addition, send the customer user a product preferences template, receive answers to the product preferences template from the customer user via the network, and offer products to the customer user based on the received responses.

Computer systems and methods for creating asset-related tasks based on predictive models

Computer systems, devices, and methods are provided for improving the technology related to asset condition monitoring. For instance, an asset data platform may be configured to receive data related to asset operation, ingest, process, and analyze the received data, and then provide a set of advanced tools that enable a user to monitor asset operation and take action based on that asset operation. The set of advanced tools may include (1) an interactive visualization tool, (2) a task creation tool, (3) a rule creation tool, and/or (4) a metadata tool.

Distributed energy power source control method, apparatus and system for providing loads with dynamic power distribution modes

A distributed energy power source control method, apparatus and system are provided. The method includes the following steps. The total amount of energy provided by an energy supply apparatus for various loads in a system is read. Energy data of each load is collected, the energy data including: a power supply voltage, a power supply current, a reactive power, an active power, and power consumption. The total power consumption of all the loads in the system is calculated. An energy allocation policy is determined by comparing the total power consumption and the total amount of energy, the energy allocation policy including: allocating energy according to a priority level of each load, and switching energy modes according to a power factor of each load. The method, apparatus and system can provide loads with dynamic power distribution modes, thereby improving the working efficiency, reliability and stability of an entire power supply system.