Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards a process for producing a (poly)alkylene glycol monoalkyl ether. The process includes providing an admixture of a crystalline metallosilicate molecular sieve catalyst and an oxide of a metal and reacting in a liquid phase process an olefin and a (poly)alkylene glycol in the presence of the admixture to yield the (poly)alkylene glycol monoalkyl ether. Reacting the olefin and the (poly)alkylene glycol in the presence of the admixture is at a temperature of 80° C. to 200° C.

Abstract: An economy advisory system includes a circuit and a display. The circuit is configured to receive a route plan remainder of a vehicle and receive a plurality of consumption factor values of the vehicle while the vehicle traverses the route plan. The plurality of consumption factor values is controllable by a driver of the vehicle. The circuit is further configured to modify the plurality of consumption factor values based upon a plurality of modification factor values, calculate a plurality of potential range changes of the vehicle based on the route plan remainder and the plurality of consumption factor values as modified, and identify a group that has at least one of the plurality of potential range changes and a corresponding at least one of the plurality of modification factor values. The display is in communication with the circuit and is configured to present the group to the driver.

Abstract: An optical system, and method related thereto, includes a camera configured to capture images. The camera has an adaptive aperture plane configured to change both an aperture size and an aperture shape in response to an aperture signal. The camera also includes a first polarized surface and second polarized surface positioned relative to the adaptive aperture plane, such that light strikes the first polarized surface, the adaptive aperture plane, then the second polarized surface. First and second lenses may be located on opposite sides of the adaptive aperture plane. An image sensor is beyond the second polarized surface and configured to output image signals, and a processor is configured to execute image perception algorithms based on the image signals. The image perception algorithms alter the aperture size and the aperture shape by sending an aperture signal from the processor to the camera for subsequent captured images.

Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating a user, the method including receiving an image of a user of a device, identifying a first facial descriptor of the user from the received image and from previously captured images of the user, and determining a difference between the first facial descriptor from the received image and that from the previously captured images. The method further includes identifying a second facial descriptor of a non-user from the previously captured images of the user, and applying facial recognition to images stored in a plurality of second social networking profiles associated with a first social networking profile of the user to identify the second facial descriptor from the images stored in the second social networking profiles. Based on the difference and the second facial descriptor, the user may be authenticated.

Abstract: A user computing device configured to receive update configurations from a back-end server over a second network responsive to the user computing device making a selection request associated with a retail machine over a first network, and the user computing device receiving confirmation data indicating configurations of the retail machine have changed from the retail machine over the first network, and the user computing device transmitting the confirmation data to the backend server over the second network.

Abstract: A semiconductor guide pin is disclosed. Specific implementations may include a heatsink, one or more substrates coupled together, one or more pressfit pins coupled to the one or more substrates, and two or more guide pins coupled to the one or more substrates, where the two or more guide pins may have a height greater than the one or more pressfit pins.

Abstract: This document describes an access point device and associated systems and methods. The techniques and systems include an access point device that includes a housing with an antenna carrier, a circuit board assembly, a heat sink, and a heat shield positioned within the housing. The housing includes a top housing member connected to a bottom housing member. The top housing member includes a concave-down top-end portion connected to a generally cylindrical vertical wall via rounded corners. The antenna carrier supports multiple antennas positioned proximate to an inner surface of the vertical wall. The heat sink is positioned between the antenna carrier and the circuit board assembly. The circuit board assembly is positioned between the heat shield and the heat sink, and the heat shield is positioned between the circuit board assembly and the bottom housing member.

Abstract: Methods and systems for applying gaze adjustment techniques to participants in a video conference are disclosed. Some examples may include: receiving, at computing system, image adjustment information associated with a video stream including images of a first participant, identifying, for a display layout of a communication application, a location displaying the images of the first participant, determining, based on the received image adjustment information, a location displaying images of a second participant for the display layout, the received image adjustment information indicating that an eye gaze of the first participant being directed toward the second participant, computing an eye gaze direction of the first participant based on the location displaying images of the second participant, generating gaze-adjusted images based on the desired eye gaze direction of the first participant and replacing the images within the video stream with the gaze-adjusted images.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a polarization shifter including a lower substrate having disposed thereon first and second transmission lines for coupling to a feed network, an upper substrate having disposed thereon third and fourth transmission lines for respective communicative coupling to orthogonally-polarized elements of a radiating element, and a dielectric layer residing between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, the upper substrate being configured to mechanically couple to the radiating element, the dielectric layer coupling the first transmission line with the third transmission line and coupling the second transmission line with the fourth transmission line, the upper substrate being rotatable relative to the lower substrate to effect polarization adjusting for the radiating element to facilitate avoidance of interference or passive intermodulation (PIM). Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: An electronic device, which comprises a display element and a heat-activated adhesive film (HAF). The heat-activated adhesive film may have a planar surface complementary to and in contact with a planar surface of the display element. Another planar surface for the HAF, opposite to the planar surface of the HAF in contact with the planar surface of the display element, is complementary to and in contact with a planar surface of a laminate layer. The HAF becomes adhesive and bonds to both the display element and the laminate by being exposed to a heat source. There may also be a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) layer added to the laminate layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nanoporous structure on a substrate includes: additively forming a precursor structure from at least one of a metal oxide or a metal cluster compound on a substrate; exposing the precursor structure to a vapor of an organic linker; and reacting the at least one of the metal oxide or the metal cluster compound in the precursor structure with the organic linker to form the nanoporous structure comprising a metal-organic framework.

Abstract: A method for operating a machine learning model is presented. The machine learning model includes a plurality of sequential transformer blocks. The method comprises receiving input data at a transformer block and processing the input data via a mixture of experts layer. At an auxiliary classifier, a measure of perplexity of the processed input data is determined. Based on the determined measure of perplexity, one or more experts in a downstream transformer block that will subsequently process the input data are indicated. Weight matrices are then fetched for the indicated one or more experts.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for creating a photo product design with minimal user inputs includes generating a first portion of a photo product design by a product design module in response to user input, determining one or more layout parameters from the user input to the first portion of the photo product design by a user design learning module, automatically creating a second portion of the photo product design by an intelligent product creation engine at least in part in response to the one or more layout parameters, and automatically making a physical photo product based on at least the first portion and the second portion of the photo product design.

Abstract: Techniques for optically detecting a subject chemical species within an atmospheric environment are disclosed. Image data is obtained representing multispectral imagery of a geographic region captured through the atmospheric environment. The image data includes an array of band-specific intensity values for each of a plurality of spectral bands, including a sample spectral band having increased sensitivity to the subject chemical species as compared to a plurality of reference spectral bands. A background reflectance map is generated that includes an array of inter-band intensity values in which each inter-band intensity value represents a filtered combination of band-specific intensity values of albedo-normalized arrays for a grouped subset of the plurality of reference spectral bands. The albedo-normalized array of band-specific intensity values for the sample spectral band is compared to the background reflectance map to obtain an index array of intensity variance values for the subject chemical species.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical combination prevention and treatment of RNA virus infection and/or a disease associated with this infection, of acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including viral and bacterial pneumonia and COVID-19, using aprotinin (APR) and an anti-RNA ingredient. A pharmaceutical kit and pharmaceutical composition in the form of an aqueous solution (APC) or a lyophilizate (PCL) for a pharmaceutical combination treatment and prevention of RNA virus infection and/or a disease associated with this infection.

Abstract: Systems and methods for mitigating certain spoofing of vehicle features are disclosed herein. An example method can include determining input torque values obtained from a steering torque sensor associated with a steering wheel of a vehicle, wherein the input torque values are obtained over a period of time, determining road disturbances using a road disturbance model, applying a driver model that is indicative of human driver hands-on-wheel behaviors, determining when input torque values are indicative of a spoof or human interaction with the steering wheel using the input torque values, the road disturbance model, and the driver model, and executing a remediating measure when the input torque values are indicative of the spoof.

Abstract: The invention provides to improved methods for the modification of genes in plant cells, and plants and seeds derived therefrom. More specifically, the invention relates to the increased efficiency of targeted gene mutation by combining gene repair oligonucleotides with approaches that enhance the availability of components of the target cell gene repair mechanisms.

Abstract: A method, system, and integrated circuit are provided for monitoring a battery within a host device for abnormal conditions. A first temperature is determined for a battery at a first state-of-charge (SOC) of the battery during a charge action. A second temperature for the battery at a second SOC of the battery during the charge action is determined, and a current delta-SOC for the charge action is determined. A memory in the host device holding delta-SOC temperature data associated with a plurality of delta-SOCs is accessed. Based on this, a determination is made as to whether a battery temperature increase for the charge action at the current delta-SOC is abnormal, the delta-SOC temperature data including at least first data associated with a normal battery performance profile and second data associated with an abnormal battery performance profile.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is electrically connected to a power source through an electrical contact and at least one bump disposed on the electrical contact. The semiconductor device may be an LED on a CMOS wafer with the electrical contact spaced apart from it and disposed on the wafer. The semiconductor device and the electrical contact have side coating material disposed to surround them, and the at least one bump may be stacked to reach or nearly reach the top surface of the side coating material. This allows wire bonding of the semiconductor device to an external power source through the easily accessible bump(s), whose top surface is exposed by the side coating material.

Abstract: For one embodiment, an autonomous vehicle system interacts with a chassis control system to provide enhanced driving modes based on current sensor signals. A computer-implemented method of selecting a driver mode of an autonomous vehicle is described. The computer-implemented method includes initializing, with a chassis control system, driving operations in a conservative driver mode of an autonomous vehicle. The computer-implemented further includes receiving, with a computing system, sensor signals from a sensor system of the autonomous vehicle and determining whether the sensor signals are received periodically. For periodically received sensor signals, the computer-implemented determines a capability level of a plurality of capability levels for the autonomous vehicle and switches from the conservative driver mode to a permissive driver mode when the capability level indicates full capability of the autonomous vehicle.