Abstract: Belts have an elongated portion having opposed first and second ends configured for connection to each other, the first end including a planar body defining a first aperture and a second aperture spaced apart from the first aperture, and the second end including a buckle having a body with a first protrusion configured to be received in the first aperture and a second protrusion configured to be received in the second aperture. The first end may have a first free end. The second aperture may be closer to the first free end than is the first aperture. The second end may have a second free end. The first protrusion may be closer to the second free end than is the second protrusion. The first aperture may have a first limit surface away from the second aperture. The second aperture may have a second limit surface away from the first aperture.

Abstract: A missile comprises a generally cylindrical body having a distal end and a proximal end; a nosecone having a pointed distal end and a proximal end, wherein the proximal ends of the body and nosecone are oriented toward each other; a forward angled section rotatably attached to the proximal end of the nosecone at its forward edge, the opposite end of the forward angled section having an angled edge perpendicular to the longitudinal axis except for the angle defined by the edge; a rear angled section rotatably attached to the proximal end of the body at its rear edge, the opposite end of the forward angled section having an angled edge matching the angled edge of the forward angled section, the angled edges of the forward angled section and the rear angled section being rotatably attached.

Abstract: A firearm rack assembly for securing at least one firearm that is removably attachable to a vehicle. The rack including a rifle attachment assembly, a pistol attachment assembly, an assembly post assembly wherein the rifle attachment assembly and pistol attachment assembly are removably joined to the assembly post and the assembly post is removably attachable to the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to articles comprising crosslinked polymer network comprising thioether crosslinks and process of making and using same. Such thiol-ene crosslinking reactions not only make the isocyanate crosslinking reaction unnecessary, but they also improve the article's strength due to chemical crosslinking between the article's resin layers, and reduce or eliminate post curing. Thus resulting in a sufficiently cured article in a much shorter time.

Abstract: A sling attachment device has a body having a strap facility adapted for attachment of a sling strap, a flexible elongated tether having a first end attached to the body, the tether having a free end opposite the first end, and the body defining a receptacle operable to receive the free end of the tether, such that the tether may be threaded through an aperture on a rifle and received by the receptacle to secure the strap to the rifle. The tether may have a selected first width along at least a portion of its length, and the free end may have a second width greater than the first width. A ball may be attached to the free end. The body may define a channel having a width larger than the first width and smaller than the second width. There may be an aperture adjacent to the channel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aerospace vehicle navigation and control system comprising a terrestrial illumination matching module for determining spacecraft position and attitude. The method permits aerospace vehicle position and attitude determinations using terrestrial lights using an Earth-pointing camera without the need of a dedicated sensor to track stars, the sun, or the horizon. Thus, a module for making such determinations can easily and inexpensively be made onboard an aerospace vehicle if an Earth-pointing sensor, such as a camera, is present.

Abstract: An acoustic imaging system responsive to an acoustic wave emitted from an object is disclosed. The system detects a deflection angle of an electromagnetic probe beam as it passes through a coupling element. The coupling element also couples the acoustic wave emitted from the object to an acoustic detector. The probe beam deflection angle is related to an angle of propagation of the acoustic wave through the coupling element. A filtering unit is configured to remove components of the signal from the acoustic detector that are outside of a range of angles, thereby improving the angular resolution of the acoustic detector. The acoustic wave may be generated by an acoustic source, such as an ultrasound transmitter, or an electromagnetic source such as a laser.

Abstract: Systems and associated methods for constructing neural networks (NN) without the benefit of predefined output spike times or predefined network architecture. Functions are constructed from other functions determined from an input construction training set of output variable type. Method aspects of the neural network modeler may comprise partitioning the construction training set, representing the partitions, restricting the representations, constructing subfunctions from the restrictions, and combining the subfunctions to model the target function. Specifically, subfunctions represented from partition-specific neural networks of output value type are created using two fundamental composition operations: same-constant composition and different-constants composition. Different choices of weights and delays lead to different NNs with different output spikes that implement the same function.

Abstract: A nasal simulator includes a three-dimensional (3D) printed nasal cavity within based on diagnostic imagery of a human nasal cavity. The nasal simulator comprising a fan system positioned to mimic air flow through the human nasal cavity. A first probe access bore is formed through the 3D printed nasal cavity to a first location having a first internal contour. An anemometer insert having an outer diameter sized to be slidingly received in and to pneumatically seal the first probe access bore, the anemometer insert having a distal contour that aligns with the first internal contour of the 3D printed nasal cavity, the anemometer insert having a longitudinal bore that is sized to receive a probe of an anemometer to detect characteristics of the air flow through the 3D cavity.

Abstract: A gallium oxide field effect transistor that is built on a base layer. A doped gallium oxide channel layer is disposed on top of the base layer, and a dielectric barrier layer is disposed on top of the gallium oxide channel layer. Source contacts and drain contacts are disposed on top of the dielectric barrier layer, with one each of the drain contacts disposed in an interdigitated manner between one each of the source contacts. The interdigitated source contacts and drain contacts thereby define channels between them, where alternating ones of the channels are defined as odd channels, with even channels disposed therebetween. Gate contacts are disposed on top of the dielectric barrier layer in only one of the odd channels and the even channels.

Abstract: A doped substrate having a substrate comprising at least one of a glass material, a single crystal material, a poly-crystalline material, a ceramic material, or a semiconductor material. The doped substrate includes a dopant comprising one or more transition metals, one or more rare earth elements, or a combination of both, the doped substrate characterized in that a spectral laser output of the doped substrate exhibits a nominally single frequency having a linewidth less than about 5 nm.

Abstract: A compression device for applying controllable compression to a portion of the anatomy of a user, includes a body, at least one memory wire embedded in the body and configured to contract in length upon application of a current so as to reduce an effective length of the body and apply a compressive force to the portion of the anatomy of the user, and a controller configured to selectively apply current to the memory wires to contract the memory wires and reduce the effective length of the body. The controller includes a circuit board supported by the body and a microcontroller mounted to the circuit board, the microcontroller programmed to actuate the memory wires according to a compression protocol stored in a memory associated with the microcontroller. Each memory wire has a first end fixedly connected to the circuit board and a second end fixed relative to the body.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a display disposed to facilitate presenting an augmentation of content in an environment of a rider of the vehicle; a circuit for registering at least one of location and orientation of the vehicle; a machine learning circuit that determines at least one augmentation parameter by processing at least one input relating to at least one of the rider and the vehicle; and a reality augmentation circuit that, responsive to the at least one of the location or the orientation of the vehicle, generates an augmentation element for presenting in the display, the generating based at least in part on the at least one augmentation parameter.

Abstract: A utility garment has a front garment portion adapted for positioning at a wearer's chest, a rear garment portion adapted for positioning at a wearer's back, the front portion and rear portion being removably detachable at a plurality of attachment facilities, each attachment facility including a front facility portion connected to the front garment portion and a rear facility portion connected to the rear garment portion, at least a first one of the front facility portion and the rear facility portion comprising first and second bodies, the first body defining a first cable passage and the second body defining a second cable passage, the first cable passage and the second cable passage being registered with each other and adapted to receive a single cable, and the first body and second body being spaced apart from each other to define a latch receptacle space.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microfluidic flow process for making monomers, monomers made by such processes, and methods of using such monomers. In such process, microfluidic reaction technology is used to synthesize cyanation reaction products orders of magnitude faster than is possible in batch and continuous syntheses. The aforementioned process does require strictly regulated, highly toxic cyanogen chloride. Thus the aforementioned process is more economically efficient and reduces the environmental impact of thermosetting resin monomer production, and produces thermosetting resin monomers in greater purity than obtained through typical processes.

Abstract: A transportation system includes an artificial intelligence system for processing a sensory input from a wearable device in a self-driving vehicle to determine an emotional state of a rider and optimizing a vehicle operating parameter to improve the rider emotional state. The artificial intelligence system detects the rider emotional state in the self-driving vehicle by recognition of patterns of emotional state indicative data from a set of wearable sensors worn by the rider. The patterns are indicative of at least one of a favorable emotional state and an unfavorable emotional state of the rider. The artificial intelligence system is to optimize, for achieving at least one of maintaining a detected favorable emotional state of the rider and achieving a favorable emotional state of a rider subsequent to a detection of an unfavorable emotional state, the operating parameter of the vehicle in response to the detected emotional state of the rider.

Abstract: A transportation system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) system for processing a sensory input from a wearable device in a self-driving vehicle to determine an emotional state of a rider and optimizing a vehicle operating parameter to improve the rider emotional state. The AI system includes a recurrent neural network to indicate a change in the emotional state of the rider by a recognition of patterns of emotional state indicative wearable sensor data from a set of wearable sensors worn by the rider. The patterns are indicative of a first degree of a favorable emotional state of the rider and/or a second degree of an unfavorable emotional state of the rider. The AI system further includes a radial basis function neural network to optimize, for achieving a target emotional state of the rider, the vehicle operating parameter in response to the indication of the change in the rider emotional state.

Abstract: A sling slider element has a frame defining an aperture, a rotor pivotally connected to the frame, the rotor received in the frame aperture, the frame and rotor configured to receive a strap, and the rotor movable with respect to the frame between a disengaged position in which the strap is free to slide with respect to the rotor and an engaged position in which the strap is engaged to the frame and rotor. The frame may include a pivot pin spanning the aperture. The frame aperture may be rectangular, and the rotor may be rectangular. The frame may be a planar body, and the rotor may have a planar body portion coplanar with the frame when in the engaged position. The rotor may have a handle element extending away from the planar body portion. The handle element may extend perpendicularly from the planar body portion.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Tripsacum dactyloides x Miscanthus sacchariflorus plant named ‘Mammoth’ that is characterized by its highly vigorous growth habit, its very tall plant height, its strong upright stems that do not fall over or flop, its leaves that are green in color with white center veins, and its lack of flower production.