Barker Brettell LLP

There is provided a computer implemented method (300) of testing the functioning of a telephone recording device. The method comprises: establish (301) a call with a telephone device, the call comprising transmitting a pre-recorded audio to the telephone device; obtaining (303) a recording of audio of the call, recorded at a telephone recording device associated with the telephone device; transcribing (305) the recorded audio of the call to obtain a transcription of the audio of the call; comparing (307) the transcription of the recorded audio of the call to a transcription of the pre-recorded audio that was transmitted to the telephone device to determine a similarity score; if the similarity score is below a predetermined threshold: providing (309) an alert that the telephone recording device associated with the telephone device is not functioning correctly.

A device for generating liquid droplets comprising a body configured to hold a liquid, one or more piezoelectric actuators disposed within the body, and one or more piezoelectric sensors disposed on an underside of the body, wherein the piezoelectric sensors are configured to generate an electrical signal which is configured to activate the piezoelectric actuators. The one or more piezoelectric actuators are configured to oscillate at an ultrasonic frequency to atomise the liquid within the body to generate a plurality of droplets. A system for maintaining hydration of a biostructure, the system comprising the aforementioned device for generating liquid droplets, a hydration chamber, and a tubing configured to convey liquid droplets generated by the device into the hydration chamber. The hydration chamber comprising a chamber lid configured to fit over a printing plate, wherein the chamber lid comprises an inlet to receive the tubing.

One embodiment is a rotorcraft (100) including a rotor system (120) and a transmission system (300) for providing rotational power to the rotor system (120), the transmission system (300) comprising a housing and a planetary pinion gear (500, 602, 702, 808) disposed in the housing. The rotorcraft (100) further includes a restraint assembly (600, 700, 800) associated with the planetary pinion gear (500, 602, 702, 808), the restraint assembly (600, 700, 800) configured to restrict radial deflection of the planetary pinion gear (500, 602, 702, 808) during operation thereof subsequent to a crack-through failure of the planetary pinion gear (500, 602, 702, 808).

A process and apparatus for automatic flow coating internal and external surfaces of a medical device, particularly catheter, more particularly intravascular catheter.

A method (500) for testing actuator pressures, including setting (502) a test actuator and one or more restraining actuators to a quiescent state, where the test actuator and one or more restraining actuators are connected to a same movable element, determining (504) a quiescent pressure delta that is associated with a sum of a first pressure for the test actuator and one or more second pressures for the one or more restraining actuators, disengaging (506) the test actuator from the movable element, where the disengaging includes setting the test actuator to avoid applying pressure to the movable element, determining (510) a test pressure delta that is associated with a sum of third pressures for the one or more restraining actuators after the disengaging of the test actuator, and providing (516) a notification regarding failure of the test actuator according to a relationship between the test pressure delta and a threshold.

The present invention relates to a computer implemented method 500 for preventing a security threat in a computing network. The method comprises receiving 501 a data packet originating associated with an autonomous system number (ASN) and determining 503 if the ASN is in a list of stored ASNs, wherein the list of stored ASNs comprises ASNs each associated with a previous data packet received by the computer network. If the received ASN is not in the list, the method further comprises blocking (505) the received data packet from being sent to the destination IP address in the computer network.

A method comprising using at least one hardware processor to: crop a check image using edges of the check in the image; detect semantic elements on the images of the check; use keypoints as the locations obtained from these "stable" regions; match the keypoints of the test check to the keypoints of the reference check by semantic; use obtained homography to further obtain more matching keypoint pairs for ambiguous cases when multiple instances of a given semantic field are found; when the homography is not degenerated, then use the obtained homography to unwarp the reference or the test image to match the same positions for image comparison or to transform the coordinates from reference to test image for a precise comparison and fraud detection; and when the homography is degenerated, then the compute homography to match the check corners, then use the computed homography to unwarp the reference or the test image to match the same positions for image comparison or to transform the coordinates from reference to test image for a precise comparison and fraud detection.

A manifold mounting system for an electronics rack can include a manifold assembly (102) and mounting assembly (107). The manifold assembly can include a manifold tube (104) extending between upper and lower ends along a longitudinal axis (118) with first and second walls opposite each other, multiple ports (106) extending from a third wall, and a guide pin (120, 122) extending from the third wall. The mounting assembly can include a bracket for securing the manifold assembly to the electronics rack. The bracket can include a front flange with a slot for receiving the guide pin, opposing side flanges each with at least one aperture, and at least one fastener extending through the apertures and through the first and second walls when mounted.

A device for enabling the reuse of a complete battery pack for electric vehicles (EV) is disclosed. The device allows reuse of a battery pack at a significantly lower cost than alternative methods that require the battery pack to be opened, batteries to be taken out and installed in a new pack with a new battery monitoring system (BMS), and undergoing certification as a new system. The disclosed device includes a controller having a software program operating therein and which is electrically coupled to a battery pack and provides electrical input and output signals to the BMS of the EV battery, which relate to optimal operating parameters of the battery pack including depth of discharge (DoD), depth of charge (DoC), charge rate, and temperature. The controller enables reuse of the complete battery pack without reopening and mimics electrical signaling compared to a car or other electric vehicles.

A system includes an intraocular pseudophakic contact lens (114, 300) configured to be implanted in an eye (102) and mounted on or attached to an artificial intraocular lens (112) in the eye. The system also includes an external lens (116) configured to be positioned in front of the eye. The intraocular pseudophakic contact lens and the external lens form a telescopic Galilean vision system. The external lens may include a spectacle lens or a contact lens. The intraocular pseudophakic contact lens may include an optical lens (302) configured to provide a minus power optical magnification, and the external lens may be configured to provide a plus power optical magnification. The optical lens of the intraocular pseudophakic contact lens may include a central portion (312) configured to provide a minus power optical magnification and an annular portion (314) surrounding the central portion and configured to provide a different power optical magnification or no optical magnification.