Abstract: A base station transmits indications to a wireless device. The indications include: a wake-up indication indicating downlink control channel monitoring, for a plurality of cells, during a discontinuous reception (DRX) on duration of a DRX cycle; and a dormancy indication indicating a switching to a dormant bandwidth part of a cell, from the plurality of cells, to stop downlink control channel monitoring. During the DRX on duration and based on transmitting both the wake-up indication and the dormancy indication, the base station: stops transmitting a downlink control channel on the cell, while maintaining the cell activated; and receives a channel state information report for the dormant bandwidth part.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electric drive unit (EDU) having a motor-driven torque converter includes receiving a request signal indicative of a requested output torque of the EDU, and operating the motor at a target motor speed using the requested output torque. The target motor speed minimizes system losses while achieving the requested output torque. When the requested output torque remains below a calibrated threshold and a turbine speed is less than a corner speed of the motor, a torque converter clutch (TCC) transitions to or remains in a locked state. The controller commands the TCC to transition to an unlocked state to reach the target motor speed, thereby selectively enabling torque multiplication. A powertrain system includes a driven load and the EDU. A computer readable storage medium may include executable instructions for performing the method.

Abstract: A system for initiating a command of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft includes a flight controller configured to receive a topographical datum, receive a sensor datum from a sensor, identify an air position as a function of the sensor datum and the topographical datum, determine a command, including an actuator command, as a function of the identified air position and the determining of the command includes identifying at least one flight component of the eVTOL aircraft to be adjusted to perform the determined command, and initiate the command to adjust the identified flight component.

Abstract: A nonce is sent to a user communication device. Obfuscated biometric data is received from the user communication device. The obfuscated biometric data is generated by an obfuscation process that uses the nonce and first biometric data. The first biometric data is generated from a biometric of a user at the user communication device. For example, the first biometric data may be biometric data from a fingerprint scan. The obfuscation process is reversed by using the first nonce to produce the first biometric data. The first biometric data is compared to known biometric data of the user. In response to the first biometric data being within a threshold of the known biometric data, the user is authenticated.

Abstract: During operation, a computer system may receive, from an electronic device, an access request to access a shared network in a multi-tenant system, where the electronic device associated with a tenant in the multi-tenant system. Then, the computer system may identify a second computer system, which may be associated with an MSP of the shared network and that provides authentication and/or authorization to the shared network for users associated with the tenant. Moreover, the computer system may provide, to the second computer system, an authorization request for the electronic device. Next, the computer system may receive, from the second computer system, an authorization response, where the authorization response approves access by the electronic device to the shared network. Furthermore, the computer system may provide, to the electronic device, an access response, where the access response includes information specifying access privileges of the electronic device in the shared network.

Abstract: A head unit system for controlling motion of an object includes a secondary object sensor and a head unit device that include shear thickening fluid (STF) and a chamber configured to contain the STF. The chamber further includes a front channel and a back channel. The head unit device further includes a piston housed at least partially radially within the piston compartment and separating the back channel and the front channel. The piston includes a first piston bypass and a second piston bypasses to control flow of the STF between opposite sides of the piston. The chamber further includes a set of fluid flow sensors and a set of fluid manipulation emitters to control the flow of the STF to cause selection of one of a variety of shear rates for the STF within the chamber to control motion of the object with regards to a secondary object.

Abstract: A method is performed by a network node connected to one or more additional network nodes via a local area network (LAN). The network node and the one or more additional network nodes form a cloud. The method includes setting a first timer to a first value, the first timer being associated with determining whether one of the one or more additional network nodes is an active controller in the cloud. The method includes starting the first timer. The method includes determining, before the first timer expires, whether a first message that indicates the one of the one or more additional network nodes is the active controller is received. Based on determining the first message is received before the first timer expires, the method includes synchronizing with the one of the one or more additional network nodes that is the active controller, and restarting the first timer.

Abstract: An electrified drivetrain system that maximizes power density, is readily packaged, and improves drivability is described. It includes a propulsion system having an axial-flux rotating electric machine, a torque converter having a selectable one-way clutch, and an output member that is couplable to a drivetrain. The axial-flux rotating electric machine include a first rotor coaxially arranged with a first electric stator. The torque converter includes a fluidic stator, a pump, a turbine and a torque converter clutch. The axial-flux rotating electric machine is arranged coaxially with the torque converter. The first rotor of the axial-flux rotating electric machine is coupled to the pump of the torque converter, and the turbine of the torque converter is rotatably coupled to the output member.

Abstract: A system for determining customer interest in goods includes one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. The processors are configured to receive customer location data from a smart device associated with a customer and to monitor, based on the customer location data, a current location of the customer. The processors are further configured to receive location data indicating locations of tags associated with goods for sale and determine that the customer is interested in a particular good for sale based on the current customer location remaining in proximity to the location of the particular tag for a predetermined period of time. The processors also conduct a search of pricing of the particular good at one or more other retailers and send a price comparison to the customer.

Abstract: A charging system includes first and second ports supported by a single power supply, which is configured to support Universal Serial Bus (USB) Power Delivery (PD) power levels. A controller is configured to provide a negotiated PD power level from the single power supply to the first port when, in operation, only a single first device is connected to the charging system via the first port. The controller is further configured to reduce the power available to the first and second ports to a preset level from the single power supply when, in operation, a second device is connected to the charging system via the second port such that the first and second devices are both connected to the charging system.

Abstract: A method for pollutant sensor placement for pollutants from point sources is described. Data about environmental characteristics for a geographic region are received from a plurality of environmental sensors. The geographic region includes pollutant sources that emit a pollutant. The received data from one or more of the plurality of environmental sensors are transformed into common data having a common spatial and temporal discretization across the geographic region. Predicted emission plumes are generated for the pollutant sources within the geographic region that identify pollutant detection regions for the pollutant when the pollutant is emitted by the pollutant sources using the common data. Sensor locations for a plurality of pollutant sensors are greedily selected across the common spatial and temporal discretization according to a number of predicted emission plumes that are detectable by the plurality of pollutant sensors.

Abstract: An introducer assembly (10) includes a catheter (12) having a proximal end (14), a distal end (16) extending to a distal tip of the introducer assembly, and an outer catheter wall. The catheter (12) includes a medical device holding portion (34) proximate the distal end, a guide wire lumen (100) extending between the proximal and distal ends, and a side opening (50) extending through the outer wall to the guide wire lumen. The side opening (50) and the guide wire lumen (100) are simultaneously open and the guide wire lumen and side opening are able to receive a guide wire therethrough. The catheter (12) is flexible at least in the location of the side opening, such that a guide wire (28) fed from the distal end (16) can pass through to the proximal end (14) when the catheter is substantially straight and can pass from the distal end through the side opening (50) when the catheter is curved at the location of the side opening.

Abstract: The description relates to hinged devices, such as hinged computing devices. One example can include a first portion and a second portion that are rotatably secured relative to a hinge axis through a range of rotation from a closed orientation to an open orientation. The example can also include an oblong friction shaft and a friction band secured to the first portion and defining an oblong aperture configured to receive the oblong friction shaft. At the closed orientation a major axis of the oblong friction shaft is aligned with a major axis of the oblong aperture to provide a relatively low resistance to rotation and at the open orientation the major axis of the oblong friction shaft is rotated relative to the major axis of the oblong aperture to provide a relatively high resistance to rotation.

Abstract: Representation learning for text and speech has improved many language-related tasks. However, existing methods only learn from one input modality, while a unified representation for both speech and text is needed for tasks such as end-to-end speech translation. Consequently, these methods cannot exploit various large-scale text and speech data and their performance is limited by the scarcity of parallel speech translation data. To address these problems, embodiments of a fused acoustic and text masked language model (FAT-MLM) are disclosed. FAT-MLM embodiments jointly learn a unified representation for both acoustic and text input from various types of corpora including parallel data for speech recognition and machine translation, and pure speech and text data. Within this cross-modal representation learning framework, an end-to-end model is further presented for fused acoustic and text speech translation.

Abstract: Systems and methods that adaptively grant amounts of bandwidth to a remote device for upstream transmissions. The systems and methods may adaptively grant a first amount of bandwidth during a first interval, and vary the amount of bandwidth proactively granted over subsequent intervals using a metric of usage of the proactive bandwidth granted.

Abstract: A method for selective extraction of lithium from geothermal brines using host-guest complexes of host molecules such as calixarene, dendrimeric polymers, hyper-branched polymers, and/or acid-catalyzed resins complexed with synergists such as organic acids, condensation polymers, olefin/maleic anhydride copolymers, and/or chelants.

Abstract: A surgical mask having partitions that isolate the respiration from the nose and mouth of a wearer into two separate compartments or volumes.

Abstract: In aspects of digital media playback based on UWB radios, a system includes ultra-wideband (UWB) radios associated with respective media devices in an environment. A media playback manager receives location information for each of the media devices in the environment based on a position of the UWB radio associated with a respective media device. The media playback manager determines a location of each of the media devices relative to a position of a person in the environment. The media playback manager can then initiate communication of the digital media to a media device for digital media playback of the digital media, where the digital media is communicated to the media device based on the determined position of the person relative to the location of the media device in the environment.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for video coding. The video coding includes decoding one or more previously encoded frames of a video source that are designated as reference frames for the video source, searching the reference frames for one or more candidate pixel blocks for an input frame of the video source, and encoding the input frame based on the one or more candidate pixel blocks.

Abstract: Disclosed is a winch with a spool having an axis of rotation and a helical groove formed thereon and a line around the spool in the helical groove. The winch also includes a motor configured to rotate the spool in a first direction to wind the line on the spool and a second direction to unwind the line from the spool. The helical groove includes a line cradle shaped to carry the line with a portion of the line protruding from the helical groove, and a channel extending below the line cradle. A portion of the channel is not occupied by the line. The winch also includes a line guide adjacent to the spool and configured to move axially along the spool. The line guide includes a tab that engages the channel to cause the line guide to move axially along the spool to wind or unwind the line.