Abstract: A tow rack comprises a tongue releasably couplable to a towing vehicle and a beam assembly having a cradle for securing therein a tire of a towed vehicle. The beam assembly is couplable to the tongue and horizontally pivotable relative to the tongue. The beam assembly also comprises an anti-pivot mechanism to selectively prevent horizontal pivoting of the beam assembly relative to the tongue.

Abstract: A line retrieval system comprises a retrieval device having a radially magnetized magnet adapted to be magnetically coupled to an object disposed on an opposite side of a structure for drawing the object in a desired direction relative to the structure.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, computer program product and method of performing operational validation on a system are provided. The system may include a CPU with a cache, a communications network, and a plurality of devices exchanging data during a test. When the test is ready to be performed, the CPU may set up a pool of buffers in the cache. The pool of buffers may generally have a set of locations corresponding to locations in an actual destination buffer and a set of locations corresponding to locations in an actual source buffer. During the performance of the test, data is exchanged over the communications network to and from the source and destination buffers. Snooping logic in the cache may snoop data on the communications network. The data snooped may be entered in appropriate locations in the pool of buffers. This allows the CPU to perform operational validation by using cached data instead of data that is in the actual source and destination buffers.

Abstract: A system includes a base unit, a plurality of connectors disposed in the base unit each operable to couple to a module, and each module operable to couple to at least one terminal unit. The system further includes a host processor residing in the base unit and coupled to a communications network, and a first high speed switch residing in the base unit having a plurality of ports coupled to the plurality of connectors and further coupled to the host processor.

Abstract: A device for a medical instrument comprises an information tag connector adapted to couple with the medical instrument, the information tag connector further adapted to removably couple with at least one accessory.

Abstract: Performing operations using quantum correlithm objects includes establishing real states, where each real state comprises an element of a real space, and encoding the real states as quantum objects representing a correlithm object. The correlithm object is projected to the real space using a measurement basis, and measurement values corresponding to the measurement basis are determined. The projected correlithm object is retrieved according to the measurement values.