Abstract: A face mask, comprising: a left half and a right half; one or more adhesive portions; and one or more release-coating portions; wherein the left half and right half are divided by a center axis; wherein the adhesive portions are strips located along an outer portion of the left half and the right half; wherein the face mask comprises a symmetrical folded configuration and an unfolded configuration; wherein the left half and the right half are configured to releasably engage one another in the symmetrical folded configuration; wherein the left half and the right half are configured to releasably engage a wearer's face in the unfolded configuration.

Abstract: A pocket bra including a strap assembly, the strap assembly including a chest strap, two shoulder straps, a left cup, and a right cup. Each of the left and right cups define an area to receive a breast of a wearer and further include an inside surface and an outside surface. The strap assembly is attached to the left cup and the right cup, whereby the strap assembly is operable to connect the left cup and the right cup to the wearer. A pocket is formed on each of the two shoulder straps, each pocket including an opening capable of repeated receiving and removal of an item when being worn by the wearer. The pockets are positioned on inside surfaces of the shoulder straps such that they face the wearer when the pocket bra is worn.

Abstract: A trailer includes a first power equipment having an equipment battery pack, a charging device having a primary battery pack, and a docking station electrically connected to the primary battery pack. When the first power equipment is positioned in the docking station, the docking station supplies power from the primary battery pack to the equipment battery pack to recharge the equipment battery pack.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for autonomous vehicle recovery. In particular, systems and methods are provided for vehicle recovery prioritization in a fleet of vehicles when multiple vehicles request recovery. Stranded vehicles in need of recovery assigned a risk profile and prioritized based on the risk profile. The risk profile can be based on a number of factors, such as a risk level for the vehicle due to the vehicle's situation, the presence of passengers in the vehicle, and congestion caused by the vehicle. Recovery response can be based on the recovery prioritization. Vehicle sensors and computing power can be used to inform onboard processors and/or central computers of a risk profile for the vehicle, and dispatch can trigger a response plan according to a recovery response framework.

Abstract: An optically transparent coplanar microwave slot antenna is provided including a conductive mesh and a feedline connectively coupled to the conductive mesh wherein the conductive mesh includes a plurality of Christmas tree shaped slots arranged in a dipole configuration wherein each of the plurality of Christmas tree shaped slots is formed from a triangular slot, a trapezoidal slot and a rectangular slot.

Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for spatially combining a plurality of 5G new radio (NR) carrier signals or channels for transport via a common frequency channel through a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) or other communications medium link or network. To overcome a loss of receiver ability to discriminate/process individual spatial components, each baseband signal and/or carrier signal including a spatial component has imparted to it a respective channel component Øn configured to modify amplitude, phase shift, and/or time delay of the baseband signal and/or carrier signal such that multiple spatial component bearing signals stacked/combined within a HFC frequency channel or slot include channel characteristics sufficiently distinct so as to enable a receiver to identify, discriminate, and otherwise process desired spatial components.

Abstract: A method of determining a problem with data packet transmission speed over a first communication medium coupled between a plurality of content servers and an ISP communication device. The method comprises repeatedly measuring the data packet transmission speed over the first communication medium coupled between each of the plurality of content servers and the ISP communication device, and determining there is a problem with the data packet transmission speed over the first communication medium coupled between one of the plurality of content servers and the ISP communication device when the repeatedly measured data packet transmission speeds over the first communication medium coupled between the one of the plurality of content servers and the ISP communication device is substantially different from the repeatedly measured data packet transmission speeds over the first communication medium coupled between other of the plurality of content servers and the ISP communication device.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine media exposure of a panelist are disclosed. An example apparatus include memory; computer readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to: determine an anonymized identifier from media monitoring data corresponding to a personal people meter of a panelist; filter anonymized census data from a plurality of media devices based on the anonymized identifier; when second media data different than first media data is included in the media monitoring data during a same time duration, tag the time duration as corresponding to multiple media exposure; and credit exposure to media for the panelist based on the tag.

Abstract: Systems and methods of alerting an occupant of a vehicle to an obstacle to a side of the vehicle. The systems and methods include receiving turn indicating data from at least one vehicle system, receiving perception data from a perception system of the vehicle, predicting a vehicle turn based on the turn predicting data, generating an obstacle alert, which is output through an output device of the vehicle, when an obstacle is detected within a first sized detection zone or a second sized detection zone using the perception data, and switching from using the first sized detection zone to using the second sized detection zone for generating the obstacle alert in response to predicting the vehicle turn. The second sized detection zone is extended as compared to the first sized detection zone.

Abstract: The various conveying embodiments disclosed are directed to systems, methods and components enabling extendible conveying mechanisms to reach into trailers and storage containers so that operators may safely and ergonomically load and unload objects such as packages, etc. The disclosed embodiments include a modular driving apparatus suitable for driving an extendible conveyor as well as supporting and moving an associated interface conveyor and configurable (e.g., width and height) operator platform. Also disclosed is a telescoping, bi-directional conveyor embodiment and a movable conveyor interface.

Abstract: Operations of a method include receiving a configuration request requesting configuration management of a base configuration package that describes infrastructure of an application. The operations include determining, for the base configuration package, a plurality of package functions. Each package function of the plurality of package functions extends functionality of the base configuration package. The operations include determining, for the base configuration package and the plurality of package functions, a change-proposal function. The change-proposal function proposes one or more of the plurality of package functions to extend the functionality of the base configuration package. The operations include transmitting, to a user device, the change-proposal function and receiving, from the user device, approval of the change-proposal function.

Abstract: A battery clamp system for a battery includes a terminal receiving portion configured to be coupled to a terminal of the battery. The battery clamp system includes an anti-rotation projection coupled to the terminal receiving portion. The anti-rotation projection is configured to be coupled to the battery. The anti-rotation projection extends along an axis that is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the battery clamp system. The battery clamp system includes a first flange coupled to the terminal receiving portion that extends along a first flange axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The battery clamp system includes a second flange coupled to the terminal receiving portion so as to be spaced apart from the first flange. The first flange is configured to cooperate with the second flange to couple the terminal receiving portion to the battery.

Abstract: A communication device and method can include one or more processors operatively coupled to memory, a sensor and an output device, where the one or more processors to perform operations of identifying target person locations using internet searching and short range communication enabled devices such as Bluetooth LE devices.

Abstract: A sports board formed of expanded polypropylene (EPP) foam and a method for making the sports board using a steam-chest molding process includes molding the sports board to finished shape, such that no post-molding processing of the board is required, and such that the sports board is of monolithic construction and fully recyclable. The molding process is configured to form a continuous exterior skin of the board, to resist water ingression, the exterior skin including one or more purchase surface areas, each purchase surface area including a plurality of protrusion clusters, each protrusion cluster formed by controlled extrusion of the EPP foam into steam vents distributed in a predefined pattern within the mold cavity to form steam vent markings. The molding process is configured such that selected areas of the board surface are contoured for undisrupted water flow over the board and to resist breakage or chipping in use.

Abstract: A transformer-transducer model for unifying streaming and non-streaming speech recognition includes an audio encoder, a label encoder, and a joint network. The audio encoder receives a sequence of acoustic frames, and generates, at each of a plurality of time steps, a higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame. The label encoder receives a sequence of non-blank symbols output by a final softmax layer, and generates, at each of the plurality of time steps, a dense representation. The joint network receives the higher order feature representation and the dense representation at each of the plurality of time steps, and generates a probability distribution over possible speech recognition hypothesis. The audio encoder of the model further includes a neural network having an initial stack of transformer layers trained with zero look ahead audio context, and a final stack of transformer layers trained with a variable look ahead audio context.

Abstract: An air filter assembly includes a housing having an interior surface that defines an interior volume, a filter element positioned within the interior volume and having a filter media, an air intake formed in the housing, a debris outlet formed in the housing, a filtered air outlet formed in the housing, and a plurality of ribs. The filter element is spaced from the interior surface so that a gap is formed between the filter element and the interior surface to allow air to flow between the filter element and the interior surface. The plurality of ribs extend into the interior volume of the housing so that air flowing from the air intake is directed into the gap and around the filter element to complete a cyclonic filtering pass before flowing along a second airflow pass through the filter element. The outlet passage is configured to direct filtered air into a third airflow pass in a direction opposite to the second airflow pass.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, an extruded foam is formed from a composition comprising from 1 to 99 wt % of a silicone-functionalized polyethylene comprising a reaction product of the polymerization of ethylene and (meth)acrylic ester functionalized polydimethylsiloxane, and a physical blowing agent. The foam has a density of less than or equal to 0.200 g/cm3 as measured in accordance with ASTM D1622-88 at 25° C.

Abstract: An armrest assembly for a vehicle seat may have at least one rest element and a support element which is connected to the rest element. The rest element may be adjustable relative to the support element between at least one resting position, one stowage position and/or a plurality of comfort positions. At least one first adjustment unit may be provided and configured to hold the rest element so as to be movable in at least two degrees of freedom in each assumable and/or assumed position on the support element. A seat having the armrest assembly is also provided.

Abstract: This document relates to alignment of time-varying signals, such as sound. One example includes a method or technique that can be performed on a computing device. The method or technique can include inputting a first time-varying signal and a second time-varying signal into a trained model. The method or technique can also include performing temporal alignment of the first time-varying signal to the second time-varying signal using an attention layer of the trained model to obtain a temporally-aligned first time-varying signal. The method or technique can also include enhancing the second time-varying signal based at least on the temporally-aligned first time-varying signal, and outputting the enhanced second time-varying signal.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for making armored cables. An example method for making an armored cable includes forming a strip stock into an armor tubing; welding a seam of the armor tubing in a welding zone; inserting at least one of a first optical fiber or a first wire into a first end of a first guide tube, wherein: the first guide tube extends through the welding zone; the first guide tube protects the at least one of the first optical fiber or the first wire during the welding of the seam; and the first guide tube is not part of the armored cable after the making of the armored cable; and supporting the first guide tube within the armor tubing by a plurality of support legs such that the first guide tube does not contact the armor tubing.