Scientists made it possible for the drug to cross the barrier - a protective membrane which prevents most larger molecules from entering the brain - using focused ultrasound beams guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The current cycle, called solar cycle 25, began in December 2019.Īn anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: In a new study, researchers temporarily made the blood-brain barrier more permeable, allowing a monoclonal antibody to target cancer that had spread to the brain. The sun is in the early days of its current solar activity cycle, each of which lasts 11 years. Thursday's flare appeared to also spawn a coronal mass ejection, SWPC officials said. The eruption could supercharge Earth's northern lights and potentially interfere with satellite-based communications. 30-31), just in time for Halloween, reported. NASA officials called the solar eruption a "significant solar flare," adding that it was captured in real-time video by the space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory.Ī coronal mass ejection from the flare, a huge eruption of charged particles, could reach Earth by Saturday or Sunday (Oct. The flare caused a temporary, but strong, radio blackout across the sunlit side of Earth centered on South America, the group wrote in an statement. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), which tracks space weather events. EDT (1535 GMT), according to an alert from the U.S. reports: The sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, that peaked at 11:35 a.m. airports.Ī major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday in the strongest storm yet of our star's current weather cycle. Bruggink said the TSA's checkpoint design guides, employee testimony and expert testimony showed that with a few exceptions, SecurityPoint's tray-recycling method was "universally used as the default method for all lanes" at the largest U.S. Judge Eric Bruggink of the Court of Federal Claims said in an August opinion unsealed Friday that the government owes SecurityPoint $103.6 million in royalties from 2008 through the date of the opinion.
The court rejected the government's arguments that SecurityPoint's patent was invalid in 2015, leaving questions about the extent of the government's infringement and how much it owed in damages.Īfter a trial last year, Senior U.S. The government conceded that it had used the technology since 2008 in 10 airports including Dallas/Fort Worth, Boston Logan, Phoenix Sky Harbor and all three major Washington, D.C.-area airports. government for patent infringement in 2011. The court said the TSA began using the same method with its own equipment later that year at most or all of the airports under its control, and SecurityPoint sued the U.S. The TSA had success testing SecurityPoint's technology and equipment, but refused SecurityPoint's offer.
Petersburg, Florida-based SecurityPoint's founder Joseph Ambrefe offered the TSA a license to his patent in 2005 in exchange for the exclusive right to advertise on the trays at U.S. airports since 2008 without compensating it. Court of Federal Claims said the TSA used SecurityPoint Holdings Inc's patented methods for most of its security screenings at the largest U.S.
Reuters reports: In an opinion (PDF) made public Friday, the U.S. government owes a patent holding company at least $103 million because of the Transportation Security Administration's misuse of its technology for handling trays at airport security checkpoints, a Washington, D.C.-based federal court said.