Abstract: In a first aspect, a method for monitoring a golf swing is provided that includes coupling a mobile telephone to a golf club and employing the mobile telephone coupled to the golf club to monitor acceleration of the mobile telephone as the mobile telephone swings while a user swings the golf club, collect acceleration information based on the monitored acceleration of the mobile telephone as the mobile telephone swings, analyze the collected acceleration information to determine one or more characteristics of the golf swing based on the collected acceleration information, and output information regarding the one or more characteristics of the golf swing on the display of the mobile telephone. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A hitch assist system is provided herein that includes a sensing system configured to detect a trailer proximate a vehicle. The hitch assist system also includes a controller for determining an environmental visibility level; determining an offset from a first sensor in high visibility levels and from a second sensor in low visibility levels; and maneuvering the vehicle along a path to align a hitch ball with a coupler of the trailer.

Abstract: The power generation system includes a fuel-cell subsystem having a fuel-cell configured to generate an electrical power. The power generation system further includes a power electronics subsystem electrically coupled to the fuel-cell subsystem and configured to process at least a portion of the electrical power generated by the fuel-cell subsystem. The power generation system also includes a first conduit fluidly coupled to the power electronics subsystem and configured to supply at least a portion of a fuel stream to the power electronics subsystem. The power electronics subsystem is configured to heat the portion of the fuel stream to form a pre-heated fuel stream. Moreover, power generation system includes a second conduit fluidly coupled to the power electronics subsystem and the fuel-cell subsystem and configured to supply the pre-heated fuel stream to the fuel-cell subsystem. The fuel-cell is configured to generate the electrical power using the pre-heated fuel stream.

Abstract: A lighting assembly that provides integrated forward projecting light and side lighting to give a user a broader field of light. The assembly also incorporates daytime running lights to increase visibility during the day and night. The lighting assembly includes a cooling system suitable for dissipating the heat generated by light sources and electrical components of the assembly.

Abstract: A method for determining a steering angle amplitude of a steering wheel of a vehicle likely to occur during a lane change, including determining a steering angle measured value of a steering wheel of a vehicle at a time of measurement during a lane change; determining a steering angular velocity measured value of the steering wheel at the time of measurement; and determining a steering angle amplitude likely to occur during the lane change at a later point in time than the time of measurement based on the at least the steering angle measured value at the steering angular velocity measured value at the time of measurement.

Abstract: A fitting connectable to an end portion of a pipe generally includes a tubular insert member configured to be received at least partly within the end portion of the pipe, and a retention member coupled to the insert member and configured to be received at least partly within the end portion of the pipe. The retention member operates in conjunction with the insert member to engage the end portion of the pipe and impart an increased force against an inner wall of the pipe in response to forces tending to separate the fitting from the end portion of the pipe. The insert member includes a plurality of reinforcement ribs formed on its inner surface which provide support to the insert member and help prevent damage thereto from transverse bending forces applied during installation.

Abstract: A method may include accessing an artery in communication with an ophthalmic artery of a subject, and advancing a microcatheter along the accessed artery so as to align a distal end of the microcatheter with an ostium of the ophthalmic artery, wherein the microcatheter includes a lumen having a guidewire positioned therein. In addition, the method includes proximally withdrawing the guidewire relative to the microcatheter so as to enable a distal portion of the microcatheter to assume a curved relaxed configuration, and cannulating the ostium with the distal portion of the microcatheter when the distal portion is in the curved relaxed configuration.

Abstract: A system and method includes: a pharmacy server receiving a customer ID code to allow a customer wireless access to his medical data file stored on the server; the server receiving compliance determination data to determine whether the customer is taking prescription medicine according to directions; activating a shell script on the wireless device from the server when the compliance determination data indicates that the customer is taking the medicine properly; and de-activating the shell script on the wireless device when the compliance determination data indicates that the customer is not taking the medicine properly, whereby the shell script provides wireless operation of a software application.

Abstract: An exemplary imaging device includes an optical sensor having an optical axis, a lens positioned to focus light from a scene onto the optical sensor, a matrix of variable-phase optical elements that are dimensioned to introduce at least two different phase delays into a wavefront of a light signal received from the scene through the lens, a housing that secures the matrix of variable-phase optical elements between the optical sensor and the lens, and a processing subsystem programmed to determine a phase difference associated with the light signal based on the at least two different phase delays. Related systems and methods are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating communication with autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain rasterized LIDAR data associated with a surrounding environment of an autonomous vehicle. The rasterized LIDAR data can include LIDAR image data that is rasterized from a LIDAR point cloud. The computing system can access data indicative of a machine-learned lane boundary detection model. The computing system can input the rasterized LIDAR data associated with the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle into the machine-learned lane boundary detection model. The computing system can obtain an output from the machine-learned lane boundary detection model. The output can be indicative of one or more lane boundaries within the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A fluid machine and method of operating the same includes a pump portion having a pump impeller chamber, a pump inlet and a pump outlet, a turbine portion having a turbine impeller chamber, a turbine inlet and a turbine outlet and a shaft extending between the pump impeller chamber and the turbine impeller chamber. The fluid machine also includes a first bearing and a second bearing spaced apart to form a balance disk chamber. A balance disk is coupled to the shaft and is disposed within the balance disk chamber and a turbine impeller coupled to the impeller end of the shaft disposed within the impeller chamber. A first thrust bearing is formed between the balance disk and the first bearing. The thrust bearing receives fluid from at least one of the pump outlet or the turbine inlet.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments generally relate to a transaction card with an integrated card stand. The transaction card comprises a substrate having a card thickness, and first and second card surfaces, the second card surface being substantially coextensive with the first card surface. The transaction may further comprise a card stand pivotable relative to the second card surface and having a stand thickness.

Abstract: A tool for mounting a protective sleeve onto a wire. According to example forms, the protective sleeve is resiliently-flexible and longitudinally-slitted and the wire is in the form of an audio cable. The tool includes a tube-mounting assembly and a wire holder. According to some example forms, the tool includes a handle for grasping the tool during use. In some example forms, the wire is in the form of a charging cable.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous composition for coating substrates comprising: one or more emulsion copolymer, the emulsion copolymer being a copolymerization product of a monomer mixture comprising a monomer of formula I, wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl, X is a divalent organic alkylene oxide group, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 50 and R2 is hydrogen or an aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and a phosphate surfactant. When incorporated into a coating composition, the coating composition show both improved stain-resistance properties and anti-clogging properties.

Abstract: A power inverter includes primary switches, a transformer, a rectifier, a high voltage (HV) bus, an H-bridge, a detector, and a feedback controller. The transformer receives a switched direct current (DC) signal from a battery. The H-bridge outputs an AC signal to a stepped load. The detector detects a step-up load change by monitoring the stepped load. The feedback controller regulates a duty cycle of the AC signal, thereby reducing total harmonic distortion (THD) affecting the power inverter and the stepped load. The feedback controller further regulates the duty cycle of the AC signal by temporarily setting the primary switching duty cycle at a maximum allowable level in response to the step-up load change.

Abstract: A composition for use as a binder system for road marking formulations and methods for making thereof is disclosed. The binder system is provided as pellets. The method provides for making the pelletized binder system, and mixing the pelletized binder system with fillers and other components, heating the mixed ingredients forming into a molten mixture for applying on a road surface. The pelletized binder system comprises at least a resin and an elastomer in one embodiment; at least a resin and a plasticizer in a second embodiment; and at least a resin, an elastomer, and a plasticizer in a third embodiment.

Abstract: An image sensor may include imaging pixels with non-destructive readout capabilities. Each imaging pixel may include a substrate having a photosensitive area that generates charge in response to incident light. The charge may accumulate at a front side of the substrate adjacent to a floating gate. The voltage of the floating gate may depend on how much charge is accumulated. The voltage of the floating gate may be repeatedly sampled to monitor the amount of incident light received over time. A first reset transistor may clear the substrate of accumulated charge. A second reset transistor may reset the voltage of the floating gate. The imaging pixel may be split between multiple wafers if desired and may include nMOS and pMOS transistors.

Abstract: Tobacco products comprising smokeless tobacco products and active ingredients, including those that antagonize nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, the TRPV1 channel, and/or the TRPA1 channel are disclosed. Nicotine replacement therapies comprising active ingredients, including those that antagonize nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, the TRPV1 channel, and/or the TRPA1 channel. The active ingredient may reduce or eliminate sensory irritation arising due to use of the product. Analgesic compositions comprising active ingredients. Methods of reducing taste and sensory irritation by employing an active ingredient.

Abstract: Techniques to perform event-based synchronization of data are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received, during the course of performing a synchronization event-based synchronization with a synchronization client, that a user of the synchronization client has provided an input associated with a request to access a file or other object the changes to which have not yet been downloaded completely to the synchronization client. Download of the changes to the file other object with respect to which the input associated with a request to access is associated is reprioritized, to enable the synchronization client to provide access to the file or other object more quickly than would have been possible without the reprioritization.

Abstract: Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention provide a continuum measure of visibility from a single image without prior knowledge of the camera system or the cameras in the system. This may be, for example, a score on the weather visibility quality of the image, ranging from good to poor, or a numeric score representing the weather visibility quality of the terrain in the image. This may be done without prior knowledge of the camera system, the camera that took the image, or the environment. It is also done with the single image without using multiple images, or reference images. The system derives a real-time continuum measure of visibility from a single daytime image, with unknown camera quality, system configuration, and environmental conditions.