TISSUE STAPLER HAVING A THICKNESS COMPENSATOR INCORPORATING AN ANTI-MICROBIAL AGENT

A staple cartridge assembly for use with a surgical stapler. The assembly has a cartridge body having a support portion with a plurality of staple cavities with openings. There is also a plurality of staples, wherein at least a portion of each the staple is removably stored within a staple cavity. Each the staple is movable between an unfired position and a fired position, and is deformable between an unfired configuration and a fired configuration. The assembly also includes a compressible tissue thickness compensator configured to be captured within the staples. The compressible tissue thickness compensator at least partially covers the staple cavity openings. The compressed tissue thickness compensator is configured to assume different compressed heights within different the staples. The compressible tissue thickness compensator comprising a lyophilized foam having an anti-microbial agent embedded therein.

PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS

A noninvasive blood pressure monitor. The noninvasive blood pressure monitor may include an inflatable cuff, a pressure transducer, one or more air pumps, and a processor. The processor may control the air pump(s) so as to initiate inflation of the cuff. The processor may also identify an oscillometric signal in an output of the pressure transducer, and may determine an envelope of the oscillometric signal. The processor may also determine one or more characteristics of the envelope of the oscillometric signal, and may control the air pump(s) so as to stop inflation of the cuff based on the one or more characteristics of the envelope of the oscillometric signal.

Augmented reality guidance for imaging systems

Systems, devices and methods for augmented reality guidance of surgical procedures using multiple head mounted displays or other augmented reality display devices are described. In addition, systems, devices and methods using head mounted displays or other augmented reality display systems for operating surgical robots and/or imaging systems are described.

POP-UP RETIAL FRANCHISING AND COMPLEX ECONMIC SYSTEM

This invention is directed to a system and method of the virtual creation and subsequent, automated or semiautomated, development or construction of popup retail storefronts, popup events, mobile popup shops, food trucks, popup storefront modular high rise smart buildings, or popup retail franchises, which include the machine learning interoperation or integration of various virtual marketplace environments, blockchain & block-lattice architectures, interactive data engineering geographic information systems, and interactive data visualization devices. Embodiments of this present invention may include an interoperative or integrated real property search mechanism, a virtual design environment, social graph networking graph learning generated frameworks for retailers by which a joint-usership experience or popup event co-sponsorship may be facilitated in the creation and launch of one or more popup shops or popup events at one or more remote locations, a commercial shelf space or commercial space marketplace environment or auction place environment, and other integrated user interfaces.

RESOLVING SPATIAL ARRAYS USING DECONVOLUTION

Methods for determining a location of a feature on an array include: (a) providing a first array with a first plurality of features immobilized on a first substrate; (b) providing a second array with a second plurality of features immobilized on a second substrate; (c) aligning the first array with the second array; (d) hybridizing a first barcoded oligonucleotide of the first array to a second barcoded oligonucleotide of the second array, thereby producing a combined nucleic acid that includes first and second spatial barcodes; (e) determining all or a portion of the sequence of the combined nucleic acid; and (f) identifying the second barcoded oligonucleotide associated with the first barcoded oligonucleotide in the combined nucleic acid, and determining the location of a second feature in the second array.

Turbine-driven fracturing system on semi-trailer

The present disclosure is directed to a system for fracturing operation in oil/gas fields. The disclosed fracturing system is integrated onto a semitrailer that can be conveniently transported to any oil field. The disclosed fracturing system further includes major components needed for delivering high-pressure fracturing fluid into a wellhead, including but not limited to at least one power generation source and at least one plunger pump driven by the at least one power generation source via simple transmission mechanisms utilizing reduction gearbox and/or transmission shafts. The power generation source, in particular, includes a turbine engine capable of being powered by 100% natural gasified liquid fuel. The fracturing system further includes hydraulic and cooling component for serving the various needs for the turbine engine, the reduction gearbox, and the plunger pump, such as lubrication of various moving parts.

Spatially encoded biological assays

The present invention provides assays and assay systems for use in spatially encoded biological assays. The invention provides an assay system comprising an assay capable of high levels of multiplexing where reagents are provided to a biological sample in defined spatial patterns; instrumentation capable of controlled delivery of reagents according to the spatial patterns; and a decoding scheme providing a readout that is digital in nature.

Method and system for using artificial intelligence to assign patients to cohorts and dynamically controlling a treatment apparatus based on the assignment during an adaptive telemedical session

A method includes receiving data pertaining to a user that uses a treatment apparatus to perform a treatment plan. The data includes characteristics of the user, the treatment plan, and a result of the treatment plan. The method includes assigning the user to a cohort representing people having similarities to the characteristics of the user. The method includes receiving second data pertaining to a second user, the second data comprises characteristics of the second user. The method includes determining whether at least some of the characteristics of the second user match with at least some of the characteristics of the user, assigning the second user to the first cohort, and selecting, via a trained machine learning model, the treatment plan for the second user, and controlling, based on the treatment plan, the treatment apparatus while the second user uses the treatment apparatus.

Power distribution device, power distribution trailer, electric drive system and operation method thereof

A power distribution device, a power distribution trailer, an electric drive system and an operation method of the electric drive system are provided, the power distribution device includes: a starting power source, a switchgear room, and a tool room sequentially arranged along a first direction, the switchgear room includes a power inlet-line cabinet and a load feed outlet-line cabinet that are sequentially arranged along the first direction; at least one of the power inlet-line cabinet and the load feed outlet-line cabinet is a gas insulated switch cabinet, a cable terminal of at least one gas insulated switch cabinet is provided with a cable crimping copper bar, the gas insulated switch cabinet is matched with the cable crimping copper bar, a common cold shrinkable terminal connector can be combined with the cable crimping copper bar to realize the connection of an external device to the gas insulated switch cabinet through the cold shrinkable terminal connector.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TREATMENT PLANS TO ENHANCE PATIENT RECOVERY BASED ON SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONS

A method is disclosed for generating a treatment plan to modify an attribute of a user, wherein the attribute of the user is associated with an attribute of an occupational task. The method includes receiving data associated with the user, wherein the data comprises the modified attribute of the user and the attribute of the occupational task; accessing a database comprising data associated with exercises associated with the modified attribute of the user and the attribute of the occupational task; and generating, via an artificial intelligence engine, the treatment plan comprising an exercise of the exercises associated with the modified attribute of the first user and the attribute of the occupational task, wherein the artificial intelligence engine generates the treatment plan comprising the exercise based on the data associated with the user and the data associated with the exercises.