MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING AN IN VITRO LYMPH NODE

    公开(公告)号:US20200276586A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-03

    申请号:US16650218

    申请日:2018-10-02

    Abstract: A 3D microfluidic device for use as an in vitro lymph node is described. The microfluidic device has a body with a semi-circular inner wall and a first channel located adjacent along the semi-circular inner wall, the first channel corresponding to a subcapsular sinus region of a lymph node, a second channel located adjacent the first channel, the second channel corresponding to a reticular network, and a bottom cavity and top cavity, centrally located, corresponding to a paracortex and follicle of a lymph node, respectively. The various compartments of the device are separated by circumferentially and horizontally located rows of micro-pillars. A lab-on-a-chip device incorporating the microfluidic device is also described.

    Electrostatically manipulated flames for compact heat generation

    公开(公告)号:US10677455B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-09

    申请号:US15739641

    申请日:2016-06-24

    Abstract: The location and morphology of an electrostatically manipulated flame can be controlled through the action of an electrostatic field on the flame, virtually independently of overall mixture composition and imposed strain rate. An electrostatically controlled burner can manipulate a position of a flame between an oxidizer source and a fuel source by way of one or more electrodes configured to produce an electrostatic field proximate to one of the fuel source and the oxidizer source.

    METHOD FOR SECURE DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION USING MULTILAYERED CYPHERS

    公开(公告)号:US20200036690A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16047375

    申请日:2018-07-27

    Abstract: A method for secure device-to-device communication using multilayered ciphers is provided. A selected cipher is employed to generate a pair of encryption/decryption keystreams for enabling multilayered encryption/decryption on a pulsed-index communication (PIC) packet(s). In examples discussed herein, a first layer encryption/decryption is performed by encrypting/decrypting a PIC data(s) (PD(s)) in the PIC packet(s) based on a first of the pair of encryption/decryption keystreams. In addition, a second layer encryption/decryption is performed by encrypting/decrypting selected control information (e.g., information related to encoding/decoding the PD(s)) in the PIC packet(s) based on a second of the pair of encryption/decryption keystreams. By performing multilayered encryption/decryption on the PIC packet(s), it is possible to defend against malicious attacks in single-channel device-to-device communication without compromising such key performance indicators (KPIs) as complexity, latency, power consumption, and footprint.

    Direct data detection for MIMO communications systems

    公开(公告)号:US10348388B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US15996910

    申请日:2018-06-04

    Inventor: Arafat Al-Dweik

    Abstract: In this work, we present a novel receiving device design for communications systems that incorporates multiple antennas at the transmitting device/receiving device. Unlike existing systems, the new system does not require prior knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) at the receiving device side to extract the information symbols from the received signal. Consequently, complexity reduction and bit error rate improvement can be jointly achieved. Moreover, the new system may offer spectral efficiency enhancement since it does not require nulling to prevent the pilot symbols as in the case of conventional systems. The results obtained show that in certain scenarios the proposed system can offer up to 15 dB of bit error rate improvement over conventional systems. Moreover, the new system can provide about 16.6% of the spectral efficiency improvement.

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