Abstract: A necklace keeper or clasp for securing a jewelry item and for receiving one or more charms. The clasp includes a support member constructed of a support ring that extends less than a full circle so as to define a support ring gap, and a top head piece that extends upwardly from the support ring. A sliding lock pad engages with the top head piece and is normally biased to an extended position. A guide ring is providing having a channel for receiving a support ring and extending less than a full circle so as define a guide ring gap. The sliding lock pad has a lock position in which it engages the support ring to inhibit relative rotation between the support ring and the guide ring; and has a release position in which there is relative rotation between the support ring and the guide ring so that the respective supporting ring gap and guide ring gap each align.

Abstract: A cable passthrough includes a first layer having a first edge and an aperture, and a second layer overlapping the first layer. The passthrough is configured to be installed on a roof deck, such that the aperture is configured to align with an aperture formed within the roof deck. The passthrough is configured to receive at least one cable having a first end and a second end. The second end of the cable is capable of extending outwardly from the first edge of the first layer and the first edge of the second layer of the passthrough. The cable is configured to be positioned intermediate the first layer and the second layer.

Abstract: A multi-user process receives input from multiple remote clients to manipulate avatars through a virtual environment modeled in a host memory. The environment includes portal objects operable to transport avatars, which are modeled objects operated in response to client input, between defined areas of the virtual environment. The portals are customizable in response to client input to transport avatars to destinations preferred by users. Adjacent defined areas are not confined in extent by shared boundaries. The host provides model data for display of the modeled environment to participating clients.

Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes a housing having a generally cylindrical inner surface defining a generally cylindrical cavity within the housing, a stator operatively disposed within the generally cylindrical cavity, the stator including a plurality of stacked laminations wherein each lamination has an outer circumferential edge and a plurality of finger elements extending inward, and a layer of polymer disposed between a generally cylindrical outer surface of the stator and the generally cylindrical inner surface of the housing, such that the stator is fastened to the housing by the polymer. A method of manufacturing the electric motor assembly includes disposing a stator within a housing such that a gap is defined between the stator and the housing and the stator is not directly connected to the housing, and substantially filling the gap with a polymer capable of fastening the stator to the housing by only the polymer.

Abstract: A digital positioner for a valve includes a valve controller configured to obtain a set point value for a valve travel of a valve, and generate a pulse-width modulated current signal based on the set point value. The digital positioner also includes a current-to-pressure converter configured to receive the pulse-width modulated current signal from the valve controller, convert the pulse-width modulated current signal to a pulse-width modulated pressure signal, and provide the pulse-width modulated pressure signal to a pneumatic actuator in the valve to adjust a position of the valve.

Abstract: Techniques to provide mobile access to content are disclosed. A request from a mobile application running on a mobile device to access content is received at a connector node. A user credential associated with the request is used to identify at the connector node a policy associated with the request. A policy metadata associated with the policy is provided from the connector node to the mobile application running on the mobile device. The mobile application may include application code that is responsive to the policy metadata to perform, with respect to the request to access content, an action indicated by the policy.

Abstract: Oral cannabinoid pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating sleep disorders using the oral cannabinoid pharmaceutical compositions are described.

Abstract: A computerized method and computing platform provides for managing a skill-based competition via network-based submissions. The method includes providing event rules across a communication network to a first user, the event rules relating to competing in the skill-based competition. Via the communication network, the method includes receiving an entry submission from the first user, the entry submission including score data and video data relating to a video feed of the first user competing in the skill-based competition. The method includes analyzing the video feed of the first user competing in the skill-based competition using at least one photogrammetry processing technique, including validating if the first user was in compliance with the event rules while competing in the skill-based competition. Based thereon, a verification score is compared with the score data and the method manages a leaderboard data set as part of managing the competition.

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing secure communications for IoT devices. In various embodiments, a gateway or computing device might provide connectivity between or amongst two or more Internet of Things (“IoT”) capable devices, by establishing an IoT protocol-based, autonomous machine-to-machine communication channel amongst the two or more IoT capable devices. For sensitive and/or private communications, the gateway or computing device might establish a secure off-the-record (“OTR”) communication session within the IoT protocol-based, autonomous machine-to-machine channel, thereby providing encrypted machine-to-machine communications amongst the two or more IoT capable devices, without any content of communications that are exchanged amongst the IoT capable devices over the secure OTR communication session being recorded or logged.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing one or more perceived or technical problems or proposed solutions, and proposing a result are disclosed. In accordance therewith, a query is received as an input, one or more documents that are most closely semantically related to the query are retrieved, a set of concept terms derived from each of the query and the retrieved semantically related documents is obtained, a list of generic Solution Prompts, each of which generic Solution Prompt thereof includes a placeholder for insertion of a word or phrase from the set of concept terms, is provided, and a morphological analysis is applied to combine the list of generic Solution Prompts with the obtained set of concept terms to create a list of Specific Solution Prompts.

Abstract: Techniques manage application systems in an application environment. The application environment includes a first application system, a second application system and a third application system. First snapshot information of a first group of snapshots of the first application system is obtained, the first application system being in active state. Second snapshot information of a second group of snapshots of the second application system is obtained, the second application system being in standby state. It is determined whether the second application system and the third application system have a common snapshot based on the first snapshot information and the second snapshot information. Data is synchronized to the third application system depending on whether the second application system and the third application system have a common snapshot. Overheads required during data synchronization may be reduced as far as possible, and the efficiency of data synchronization may be improved.

Abstract: A SiC MOSFET device with alternating p-well widths, including an undulating channel, is described. The undulating channel provides current paths of multiple widths, which enables optimization of on-resistance, transconductance, threshold voltage, and channel length. The multi-width p-well region further defines corresponding multi-width Junction FETs (JFETs). The multi-width JFETs enable improved response to a short-circuit event. A high breakdown voltage is obtained by distributing a high electric field in a JFET of a first width into a JFET of a second width.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a client device may obtain an external signal. The hardware components of an integrated circuit of the client device may be reconfigured from a first configuration to a second configuration based on information in the external signal such that one or more portions of the integrated circuit that was previously inaccessible is now accessible and an application may access the one or more portions of the integrated circuit. Further, in response to a trigger, the components of the integrated circuit may reconfigure from the second configuration to the first configuration such that the one or more portions of the integrated circuit is inaccessible.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a spatio-temporal embedding of a sequence of point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining a temporal sequence comprising a respective point cloud input corresponding to each of a plurality of time points, each point cloud input comprising point cloud data generated from sensor data captured by one or more sensors of a vehicle at the respective time point; processing each point cloud input using a first neural network to generate a respective spatial embedding that characterizes the point cloud input; and processing the spatial embeddings of the point cloud inputs using a second neural network to generate a spatio-temporal embedding that characterizes the point cloud inputs in the temporal sequence.

Abstract: A therapeutic device includes a generally rigid but elastically deformable sheet body including a bridge portion, first and second support portions extending outwardly from the bridge portion in opposite directions along a longitudinal dimension, and adhesive or an adhesion member on a first surface along the bridge portion that is adapted for adhesion to skin of a user above a target site. The therapeutic device also includes first and second projections on the first surface proximate to lateral edges of the sheet body. The sheet body is configured to assume a neutral configuration in which the first and second projections space the bridge portion and the adhesive or the adhesion member apart from the target site by an air gap, a depressed position during affixation of the first surface to the target site, and an adhesion configuration after affixation of the first surface to the target site.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to therapeutic agents and combinations thereof (e.g., pharmaceutical compositions) for the treatment of a viral infection in a subject, tissue or cell.

Abstract: An antenna mounting assembly of a base station antenna includes: a pole clamp configured to clamp the pole; and a first pivoting arm and a second pivoting arm, a first end portion of the first pivoting arm being pivotally connected to a radome body of the antenna, a second end portion of the second pivoting arm being pivotally connected to the pole clamp, and an opposing second end portion of the first pivoting arm being pivotally connected to an opposing first end portion of the second pivoting arm through a pivoting portion. One of the second end portion of the first pivoting arm and the first end portion of the second pivoting arm is provided with a guide post, and the other is provided with a guide groove.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method that includes depositing a spalling layer onto a surface that includes a substrate, depositing a device comprising a III-V material onto the spalling layer, resulting in the forming of a stack, and dividing the stack substantially at a plane positioned within the spalling layer to form a first portion that includes the substrate and a second portion that includes the PV device, where the spalling layer includes a first layer configured to provide a compressive stress and a second layer configured to provide a tensile stress, the first layer and the second layer form an interface, the dividing occurs as result of the interface, and the compressive stress and the tensile stress are strain-balanced so that a total strain within the spalling layer is approximately zero.

Abstract: Catheter blood pumps that include an expandable pump portion, which include an expandable impeller housing. The housings include an expandable blood conduit that defines a blood lumen, and one or more pluralities of expandable struts extending axially from an end region of the expandable blood conduit. At least one of the pluralities of struts are non-unitary with a blood conduit at the end region.

Abstract: A wireless system network for managing one or more GPS-tracked spraying tanker systems commissioned to proactively spray environmentally-safe anti-fire (AF) chemical liquid on surfaces of buildings, surrounding property, and ground to inhibit fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wild fire. The wireless system network includes a command center in operably communication with a wireless communication network.