Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and polymers based upon vinyl type monomers that contain pendant carboxylic acid groups and ester group functionality. The polymers may be prepared under selected conditions of partial neutralization to provide relatively high conversions and/or relatively high values of molecular weight and/or selected amounts of repeating unit tacticity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal chew including a resin and a method of direct injection molding the animal chew using a modified screw. The screw may incorporate, for example, additional flights or a larger transition zone. Additionally, the particle size of the resin may be less than 2000 microns.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to system recovery in a fault resilient manner by isolating errors associated with the management engine (ME) UMA memory. BIOS logs errors occurring on memory within the system. The ME UMA is invisible to the host OS, so the OS will not be notified about the errors occurring in the ME UMA range. When an error threshold has been reached for a memory unit in which ME UMA resides, ME UMA data is migrated to a previously reserved backup region of memory and the ME is notified of the new ME UMA location. The faulty memory is flagged for replacement at a next maintenance cycle. Embodiments may be applied to workstations that utilize ECC memory protection which utilize AMT (Active Management Technology) and ME UMA. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A woven chew toy for animals is provided including one or more of edible resins, such as rawhide, meat jerky, starch and combinations thereof in strip form interwoven together to provide a planar article.

Abstract: An implant delivery system comprising a catheter including at least one lumen, an implant configured to be received in the lumen, and a latching mechanism configured to be received in the implant. The latching mechanism may be configured to releasably couple the implant to a delivery wire and to transmit a torque through the delivery wire to cause at least a portion of the implant to rotate. The an implant may comprise a shaft, a spacer configured to interact with at least a portion of at least one cusp of a heart valve to at least partially restrict a flow of blood through the heart valve in a closed position, a garage configured to couple the spacer to a first end region of the shaft, and at least one anchor mechanism. The garage may define a cavity configured to receive the latching mechanism and to increase rotational and translational stability of the latching mechanism.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for implementing a high hole mobility p-channel Germanium (“Ge”) transistor structure on a Silicon (“Si”) substrate. One exemplary apparatus may include a buffer layer including a GaAs nucleation layer, a first GaAs buffer layer, and a second GaAs buffer layer. The exemplary apparatus may further include a bottom barrier on the second GaAs buffer layer and having a band gap greater than 1.1 eV, a Ge active channel layer on the bottom barrier and having a valence band offset relative to the bottom barrier that is greater than 0.3 eV, and an AlAs top barrier on the Ge active channel layer wherein the AlAs top barrier has a band gap greater than 1.1 eV. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.

Abstract: An overshoe that covers a footwear structure for protecting a walking surface. The overshoe includes a base and an upstanding portion, which extends around at least a portion of the base. A protrusion extends inwardly from an inner surface of the upstanding portion. The protrusion engages the footwear structure for releasably retaining the overshoe to the footwear structure.

Abstract: A projection apparatus and a light guide module for use in the projection apparatus are provided. The projector apparatus comprises an illumination mechanism, at least one digital micromirror device (DMD), and a light guide module, wherein the light guide module includes a plurality of interfaces. The illumination mechanism provides a light beam which travels through the plurality of interfaces of the light guide module along a first axis without any rotation. The light beam orderly performs total internal reflections on each of the interfaces of the light guide module. Accordingly, the light beam travels to the at least one DMD, and then the light beam is reflected along a second axis.

Abstract: A method and system for handling a management interrupt, such as a system management interrupt (SMI) and/or a platform management interrupt (PMI), includes allocating two or more processor cores from a plurality of processor cores to form a group of management interrupt handling processor cores. Generated management interrupts are directed to this first group of processor cores and not to remaining processor cores, which form a second group. At least one of the processor cores in the first group handles the management interrupt without disrupting the current operation of the processor cores in the second group.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that may include circuitry to generate, at least in part, and/or receive, at least in part, at least one request that at least one network node generate, at least in part, information. The information may be to permit selection, at least in part, of (1) at least one power consumption state of the at least one network node, and (2) at least one time period. The at least one time period may be to elapse, after receipt by at least one other network node of at least one packet, prior to requesting at least one change in the at least one power consumption state. The at least one packet may be to be transmitted to the at least one network node. Of course, many alternatives, modifications, and variations are possible without departing from this embodiment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for molding a pet toy having one or more fabric inserts molded into a portion of the surface of the toy. The mold may comprise a cover plate, a cavity plate and a separator plate, the cavity plate including one or more projections and the separator plate including one or more complementary-shaped openings such that pieces of fabric placed on the projections may have skirt areas engaged by the engagement of the separator plate to the cavity plate. The fabric may stretch when the mold is filled with rubber or plastic to form discrete fabric-covered areas on the toy.

Abstract: A method, device and network for compressing cable modem data signals and conserving bandwidth within the network. Cable modems transmit upstream data signals to a fiber node which compresses the data signals and transmits the compressed signals upstream to a headend which decompresses the data signals. The fiber node compression may be by a shaping filter or a fast Fourier transform (FFT) function. The headend decompression may be by an inverse shaping filter or an inverse FFT function.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accessing a redundant array of independent drives (RAID) storage device are disclosed. In some embodiments file data is broken into multiple segments. A cryptographic operation is performed on one or more segments to generate encrypted segment(s). One or more parity syndrome is computed from the encrypted segment(s) and the unencrypted segment(s). The encrypted segment(s), the unencrypted segment(s) and the parity syndrome(s) are striped onto different individual drives. Since the cryptographic operation is not performed on all the segments, it may also be performed concurrently with computing of parity syndrome(s) from other unencrypted segments.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an iron based alloy composition that may include iron present in the range of 45 to 70 atomic percent, nickel present in the range of 10 to 30 atomic percent, cobalt present in the range of 0 to 15 atomic percent, boron present in the range of 7 to 25 atomic percent, carbon present in the range of 0 to 6 atomic percent, and silicon present in the range of 0 to 2 atomic percent, wherein the alloy composition exhibits an elastic strain of greater than 0.5% and a tensile strength of greater than 1 GPa.

Abstract: Techniques for DC-to-AC conversion are disclosed, and may be embodied in a solar inverter device that can operatively couple to a power grid. The device includes a photovoltaic (PV) stack including series-connected PV modules. Each PV module is associated with a capacitor for storing output of that PV module. A positive terminator circuit switches a negative end of the PV stack to ground during positive half of grid cycle, and a negative terminator switches a positive end of the PV stack to ground during negative half of grid cycle. A connecting branch couples each PV module output to a common bus, each branch including control circuitry configured to selectively couple the corresponding PV module output to bus. During a first half of grid cycle, some of the capacitors discharge to the grid while a balance of the capacitors charge in preparation for discharge during a second half of grid cycle.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solar cell, includes: forming, on a silicon substrate whose conductivity type is p-type or n-type, a silicon layer including a dopant whose conductivity type is different from that of the silicon substrate; and diffusing the dopant included in the silicon layer into the silicon substrate by heat-treating the silicon layer.

Abstract: A method is provided for forming a welt in a single sheet of coverstock by folding and sewing. A second method is provided for forming a welt adjacent a seam formed by sewing two sheets of coverstock together, the method requiring less selvage from one of the sheets.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes at least one light source and a light source transforming apparatus. The light source transforming apparatus includes at least one light guiding medium and color-combining medium. The light source transforming apparatus is configured to receive incident light of the at least one light source and then transform the incident light into emergent light emitted from the color-combining medium and into a light integrator, wherein a divergent angle of the incident light is larger than a divergent angle of the emergent light, and a incident area of the light source is smaller than an emergent area of the color-combining medium.