Abstract: Product box for use in a shipping system for temperature-sensitive materials and shipping system including the product box. In one embodiment, the product box includes a front, a rear, a left side, and a right side. The upper edges of the front and the rear are higher than the upper edges of the left side and the right side. The box also includes upper flaps hingedly connected to the upper edges of each of the front, the rear, the left side, and the right side and further includes lower flaps hingedly connected to the lower edges of each of the front and the rear. When folded, the upper flaps of the front and the rear are spaced above the upper flaps of the left side and the right side, thereby forming an air gap. Wings at the upper edges of the four sides center the product box within a container.

Abstract: A hydrogen peroxide sterilization device for sterilizing a medical device, the hydrogen peroxide sterilization device including a hermetic outer container, a hydrogen peroxide pouch, and a hydrogen peroxide solution in the solution chamber. The hermetic outer container includes a sterilization enclosure configured to receive the medical device. The hydrogen peroxide pouch includes a permeable membrane enclosing a solution chamber and is configured to be positioned in the sterilization enclosure of the outer container. The permeable membrane is configured to allow hydrogen peroxide vapor to diffuse from the solution chamber through the permeable membrane into the sterilization enclosure.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry determines a transform candidate for a block in a current picture from a group of transform sets based on one of a feature vector {right arrow over (F)} or a feature scalar S extracted from reconstructed samples in one or more neighboring blocks of the block. Each transform set of the group of transform sets can include one or more transform candidates for the block. The one or more neighboring blocks can be in the current picture or a reconstructed picture different from the current picture. The processing circuitry reconstructs samples of the block based on the determined transform candidate.

Abstract: A system includes reception of a database query, determination of result set output columns associated with the database query, and determination, for each of the determined result set output columns, of one or more data sources associated with the result set output column. Sensitivity information is determined for each of the one or more data sources based on metadata, and result set sensitivity information is determined based on the determined sensitivity information. A result set is determined based on the database query, and the result set and the result set sensitivity information are transmitted.

Abstract: A system for analyzing and prescribing content changes to achieve target readability level evaluates a readability score for a file at least at a whole document level and a sentence level based on a designated readability index; identifies one or more sentences that contribute to the file having the whole document level readability score outside a desired readability score of the readability index; provides a visual indicator for each of the identified one or more sentences; and re-evaluating the readability score for the file at the whole document level upon at least one of the identified one or more sentences being changed.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for performing low-power vision sensing. One computing device includes a vision sensor configured to generate vision sensor data and an ambient computing system configured to repeatedly process the vision sensor data generated by the vision sensor according to a low-power detection process. If a detection is indicated by the low-power detection process, the ambient computing system wakes one or more other components of the computing device to perform a high-power detection process using the vision sensor data.

Abstract: An audio system for spatializing virtual sound sources is described. A microphone array of the audio system is configured to monitor sound in a local area. A controller of the audio system identifies sound sources within the local area using the monitored sound from the microphone array and determines their locations. The controller of the audio system generates a target position for a virtual sound source based on one or more constraints. The one or more constraints include that the target position be at least a threshold distance away from each of the determined locations of the identified sound sources. The controller generates one or more sound filters based in part on the target position to spatialize the virtual sound source. A transducer array of the audio system presents spatialized audio including the virtual sound source content based in part on the one or more sound filters.

Abstract: An apparatus for demonstrating at least a first shaving razor, having a first shaving surface with a first lubrication member, may include a first sheet of paper, a liquid composition, and a light source transmitting ultraviolet light onto the first sheet of paper. The liquid composition may include water and an ultraviolet dye. The apparatus may position the shaving razor to engage the first sheet of paper and to allow relative motion between the first lubrication member and the first sheet of paper such that the first lubrication member deposits the liquid composition onto the first sheet of paper.

Abstract: A reservoir component of an electronic vaping device includes an outer housing, an air inlet, a vapor outlet, an air passage communicating with the air inlet and the vapor outlet, and a reservoir. A magnetic, electrically conductive and resistive heater element is located adjacent the air passage. The heater element is configured to be in electrical communication with an alternator of a power supply component. A wick is in communication with the reservoir and is configured to draw pre-vapor formulation from the reservoir toward the heater element. The heater element is configured to heat pre-vapor formulation to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation and form a vapor.

Abstract: A computing platform executing an application may receive a response to a request for opening a network port for utilization by the application from a computing platform distinct from the computer platform executing the application. The computing platform executing the application may determine whether to open the network port for utilization by the application based on the response to the request. In some embodiments, the application may invoke at least one call to an application program interface (API) of an operating system (OS) running on the computing platform executing the application, and the request may be generated responsive to the at least one call to the API of the OS.

Abstract: Techniques for low power gunshot detection are disclosed. Infrared information is collected using a gunshot sensor device. The infrared information is collected using mid-infrared band sensing to provide motion detection. Additional infrared information is buffered using the gunshot sensor device. The additional infrared information is collected using near-infrared band sensing. The buffering is enabled by the motion detection. Acoustic information is collected using the gunshot sensor device. The collecting acoustic information is enabled by the motion detection. A gunshot is detected using the gunshot sensor device. The detecting is based on the additional infrared information and the acoustic information. The detecting includes monitoring the acoustic information to identify a high-intensity gunshot sound and correlating the high-intensity gunshot sound to the infrared information that was buffered.

Abstract: Techniques are described for performing fetal heart rate (FHR) analytics using machine learning techniques. According to an embodiment, computer-implemented method comprises training a machine learning model using a supervised machine learning process to identify patterns in training cardiotocograph data that correspond to defined physiological events associated with respective fetuses and mothers of the fetuses represented in the training cardiotocograph data. The method further comprises receiving new cardiotocograph data for a fetus and mother in real-time over a period of labor and applying the machine learning model to the new cardiotocograph data as it is received to identify the patterns in the new cardiotocograph data.

Abstract: A speed nut provides a separable housing, when closed, defining an internally threaded cavity for engaging a threaded shaft, and when open, allowing movement of the speed nut along the shaft without engagement of the threads. Interdigitated knuckles on the housing portions provide robust resistance against axial shifting when the nut is used to apply axial force to the threaded shaft. The knuckles may also provide a hinge point allowing the nut to be opened and closed with a simple hinging action and a means for locking the nut portions together through a releasable pin passing through the opposite knuckles.

Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for an dual-faced clutch collar for a transmission. In one example, a dual-faced clutch collar positioned on an output shaft of a gearbox comprises a clutch collar spline, where the clutch collar spline mates with the output shaft; a first face having a first set of axially protruding teeth to engage a high torque coupling, the first set of teeth having a first profile; and a second face having a second set of axially protruding teeth to engage a low torque coupling; the second set of teeth having a second profile; the second profile being different from the first profile. The first profile may be a courser tooth profile, to allow for maximum load carrying capacity, and the second profile may be a finer tooth profile, to allow for quicker gear engagements and more neutral space (e.g., due to reduced tooth depths).

Abstract: A hierarchical approach is provided to integrate functions and components into the various systems and subsystems within a distribution network, including standardization of modular and scalable power electronics power blocks with embedded diagnostics and prognostics.

Abstract: A method of mitigating jamming of a reflected energy ranging system for an autonomous vehicle is presented. The system comprises at least one transmission antenna, at least two receiving antennas, and a controller comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method comprises emitting an energy signal with the transmitter antenna, contacting a target with the energy signal, and reflecting the energy signal off the target and back towards the receiving antennas as a reflected energy signal. The method further comprises receiving a composite energy signal comprising at least the reflected energy signal and a jamming energy signal with the at least two receiving antennas, analyzing the composite energy signal with the processor to blindly extract at least the reflected energy signal and the jamming energy signal, and identifying which of at least the reflected energy signal and the jamming energy signal corresponds to the target with the processor.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for optimizing a cellular network using machine learning. In particular, a network-optimization controller uses machine learning to determine an optimized network-configuration parameter that affects a performance metric of the cellular network. To make this determination, the network-optimization controller requests and analyzes gradients determined by one or more user equipments, one or more base stations, or combinations thereof. By using machine learning, the network-optimization controller identifies different optimized network-configuration parameters associated with different local optima or global optima of an optimization function, and selects a particular optimized network-configuration parameter that is appropriate for a given environment. In this manner, the network-optimization controller dynamically optimizes the cellular network to account for both short-term and long-term environmental changes.

Abstract: The invention is related to a method of manufacturing a wall panel and a wall panel system. The method includes forming a glass-fiber reinforced cementitious layer including the steps of: pouring or injecting a slurry of uncured cementitious product into a mold, embedding glass fiber reinforcing material therein, and curing the cementitious product to obtain a cured cementitious product having a first side and a second side; and applying, to the second side of the cured cementitious product, an insulation layer, the insulation layer comprising a foam.

Abstract: A device may receive receipt information associated with items in an order. The receipt information may include item identifiers and price descriptors associated with the items in the order. The device may receive product information associated with the items in the order. The product information may include product identifiers based on images of the items in the order and object descriptors. The device may map a first item identifier for a first item in the order and a first product identifier for determining that the first item corresponds to a first price descriptor and a first object descriptor. The device may map a second item identifier for a second item in the order and a second product identifier for determining that the second item corresponds to a second price descriptor and a second object descriptor. The device may assign the first and second items to respective first and second sub-receipts.

Abstract: An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: receive first HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a first server of a first database proprietor and second HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a second server of a second database proprietor, the first HLL data including obfuscated first user impression data and the second HLL data including obfuscated second user impression data; generate union HLL data based on the first HLL data from the first database proprietor and the second HLL data from the second database proprietor by performing a union of data sets of the obfuscated first user impression data represented in the first HLL data and the obfuscated second user impression data represented in the second HLL data; and determine a total number of deduplicated unique audience members based on the union HLL data generated by the vector analyzer.