Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for fabricating a metallic optical metasurface having an array of hologram elements. The method includes forming a first copper layer protected with a conducting or dielectric barrier layer over a backplane structure by a damascene process. The first copper layer comprises a plurality of nano-gaps vertically extending from the backplane structure. The plurality of nano-gaps is filled with a dielectric material. The method also includes removing the dielectric material and a portion of the conducting or dielectric barrier layer to expose the portions in the nano-gaps of the first copper layer. The method may further include depositing a dielectric coating layer over the top portion and exposed side portions of the first copper layer to form a protected first copper layer, and filling the gaps with an electrically-tunable dielectric material that has an electrically-tunable refractive index.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for and includes improved devices and methods for the production of Purified Hydrogen Peroxide Gas (PHPG) that is substantially non-hydrated and substantially free of ozone.

Abstract: A cell stack includes adjacent first and second battery cells respectively having a positive cell tab, a negative cell tab, and an outer surface. The outer surfaces are flush. The positive cell tab of the first battery cell protrudes from the outer surface of the first battery cell, and the negative cell tab of the second battery cell protrudes from the outer surface of the second battery cell. An isolative shield is positioned adjacent to the outer surfaces, and defines through-slots receiving therein a respective one of the cell tabs. A method includes providing the cell stack, inserting the cell tabs into the pair of through-slots of the isolative shield, positioning a primary surface of the isolative shield adjacent to the outer surfaces of the adjacent battery cells after inserting the cell tabs, and affixing the primary surface of the isolative shield to the cell stack.

Abstract: Custom in-ear monitors (headsets, headphones, earbuds, hearing aids) having improved audio fidelity characteristics and improved manufacturability are constructed by designing a virtual three-dimensional model housing including sound and vent tubes, and equipment mounting receptacles and clips; and fabricating the housing substantially simultaneously or all-in-one-go using, e.g., a 3D printer. The sound and vent tubes comprise features such as inflection points and profile variations that are impossible to construct using traditional subtractive manufacturing processes.

Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller configured to determine a position of a conveyor outlet relative to a storage compartment, and to select a target unloading area from a set of candidate target unloading areas. The set of candidate target unloading areas includes a target circle having a center at an unloading point and a radius corresponding to a threshold range from the unloading point, a bounding shape within the storage compartment, and a selected zone of a set of non-overlapping zones within the bounding shape. In addition, the controller is configured to engage product flow from the conveyor outlet to the storage compartment while the position of the conveyor outlet is within the target unloading area, and to terminate product flow from the conveyor outlet to the storage compartment while the position of the conveyor outlet is outside of the target unloading area.

Abstract: A technique for managing data received into a cache operates in cycles. To process a current batch of compressed blocks during a current cache processing cycle, a storage system obtains a new mapping structure and a new segment of contiguous storage space. If the system can place some of the current batch of compressed blocks into previously-allocated space, the system does so and partially populates the new mapping structure with entries for mapping the other compressed blocks that were not placed. The system then asserts a hold on the new mapping structure, so that the mapping structure is retained in cache at the end of the current cache processing cycle, and more completely populates the new mapping structure with entries for other compressed blocks during a later cache processing cycle before releasing the hold.

Abstract: A method for manipulating tissue of a patient includes a surgical instrument having a handle assembly, a shaft assembly, and an end effector. The method includes positioning a tissue within a gap between a cartridge and an anvil and against a guide pin to laterally position the tissue relative to the cartridge and the anvil. The method also includes moving a retaining pin from an open position to a closed position to capture the tissue and moving the cartridge toward the anvil in a closed configuration. Furthermore, the method includes inhibiting deflection of a distal end portion of the end effector wherein at least at least one of the guide pin or the retaining pin connects to the distal end portion. The method further includes forming a plurality of staples within the tissue and cutting the tissue with a knife.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a first sensor on a robot, first sensor data indicative of an environment of the robot. The method also includes identifying, based on the first sensor data, an object of an object type in the environment of the robot, where the object type is associated with a classifier that takes sensor data from a predetermined pose relative to the object as input. The method further includes causing the robot to position a second sensor on the robot at the predetermined pose relative to the object. The method additionally includes receiving, from the second sensor, second sensor data indicative of the object while the second sensor is positioned at the predetermined pose relative to the object. The method further includes determining, by inputting the second sensor data into the classifier, a property of the object.

Abstract: Techniques for processing I/O operations include: receiving a write I/O operation that writes first data to a target location, wherein the target location is represented as a logical device and offset within a logical address space of the logical device; storing a log record for the write I/O operation in a log file; and performing first processing of the log record. The log record includes log data, comprising the first data, and a log descriptor. The log descriptor includes a target logical address for the target location in a file system logical address space. The log descriptor includes a first value denoting the binary logarithm of an extent size of the first logical device. The first processing includes flushing the log record from the log file to store the first data of the log record on an extent of physical storage provisioned for the logical device.

Abstract: A processor may receive a request to authenticate an endpoint device associated with a media streaming session, the media streaming session delivered to the endpoint device via a cellular access network, generate an authentication key, and transmit the authentication key to the endpoint device via a short message service message. The processor may further receive a calculated response from the endpoint device, the calculated response based upon the authentication key and a seed key of the endpoint device, determine whether the calculated response matches an expected response based upon the authentication key and the seed key, and authenticate the endpoint device based upon whether the calculated response matches the expected response.

Abstract: An electrically heated tubing bundle includes one or more tubes configured to allow a fluid to flow therethough, and an electrical resistance heater. The electrical resistance heater includes a plurality of heater wires each having a predetermined electrical resistance, the heater wires extending along at least a portion of the one or more tubes, one or more power wires connected to a power supply, and a connection system having a plurality of input and power leads at a power side of the connection system and a plurality of output and return leads at a probe side of the connection system. The one or more power wires are connected to respective power and input leads.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH960231. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH960231, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH960231 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH960231.

Abstract: An RFID interrogator transceiver with various improvements is proposed. A digital interface element implemented in a field-programmable gate array permits the use of a low-cost, low pin count microcontroller unit to control various integrated circuits within the transceiver both with the complexity afforded by the microcontroller unit and with the speed afforded by the field-programmable gate array. A transmit waveform generation architecture which can store opcodes in a segmented random access memory permits both leisurely loading of information over a digital interface from a low-cost microcontroller unit and fast playback over a wireless interface during low-latency RFID exchanges. Finally, a dual digital second-order resonator infinite-impulse-response filter permits a more hardware efficient channel bandpass filter solution than a finite-impulse-response filter and can be easily adjusted to accommodate RFID backscatter link frequencies and frequency tolerances.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for performing transmission control protocol segmentation on a server on a chip using coprocessors on the server chip. A system processor manages the TCP/IP stack and prepares a large (64 KB) single chunk of data to be sent out via a network interface on the server on a chip. The system software processes this and calls the interface device driver to send the packet out. The device driver, instead of sending the packet out directly on the interface, calls a coprocessor interface and delivers some metadata about the chunk of data to the interface. The coprocessor segments the chunk of data into a maximum transmission unit size associated with the network interface and increments a sequential number field in the header information of each packet before sending the segments to the network interface.

Abstract: A gate valve can include a gate, a gasket seal, and a first body half that defines a first process fluid aperture. One or more replaceable rings can engage the first body half to secure or support the gasket, the gate, or another replaceable ring.

Abstract: Yard management systems and methods are described. A yard management system comprises a database holding load information, a mobile application associated with a user account and executable on a mobile device. The mobile application when executed acquires the identifications of the load, queries the database for the load information, and generates a machine-readable representation corresponding to the identifications of the load, an autonomous yard vehicle configured to mechanically couple with a cargo trailer. The system further comprises a computing system programmed to, in response to detecting the mobile device at the transfer location, navigate to the cargo trailer and guide the coupling between the autonomous yard vehicle and the cargo trailer.

Abstract: An example operation may include a system comprising one or more of receiving a heartbeat failure notification in a VNFCI when the VNFCI is in standby state, sending to a Virtual Network Function Manager (VNFM), by an operational state machine, a next state request message, determining if a peer VNFCI is online when an administrative state of the peer VNFCI is online, determining an operational state of the peer VNFCI when the peer VNFCI is online, sending a first next state response message with a standby state to the VNFCI when the peer VNFCI operational state is active, sending a second next state response with an active state to the VNFCI when the peer VNFCI operational state is not active, examining, in the VNFCI, a next state attribute in a received next state response message, staying in a standby state when the next state attribute is standby, and transitioning to active state when the next state attribute is active.

Abstract: A system for contact information integration with search results, comprising a queue manager; an enterprise communications system; and a search engine. Upon receipt of search query from a user, the search engine submits a request to the queue manager. The queue manager: obtains from the enterprise communications system a communications status comprising an estimated wait time; sends a notification to the search engine advising the search engine of the estimated wait time for service; and upon receiving from the search engine a request to generate a callback to the user from the enterprise of a specific communications type, directing an enterprise communications system of the enterprise that is associated with the specific communications type to initiate a callback to the user from whom the search engine query was received in response to the callback request received from the search engine.

Abstract: A device may receive third-party data associated with merchants and may receive customer interest data associated with customers of the merchants, wherein the customer interest data includes data identifying locations of the customers and birthdates of the customers. The device may train a machine learning model, with the third-party data and the customer interest data, to generate a trained machine learning model. The device may receive, from a user device, data identifying a location and a birthdate of a particular customer of a particular merchant, wherein the particular merchant is one of the merchants, and may process the data identifying the location and the birthdate of the particular customer, with the trained machine learning model, to determine a predicted interest of the particular customer. The device may perform one or more actions based on the interest of the particular customer.

Abstract: A method to partially decrease a reflectivity of a region on a mirror platform includes isolating the region on a surface of the mirror platform and removing a first material from the surface of the mirror platform within the region. The reflectivity of the mirror platform is decreased within the region.