Abstract: A tie post for use with a reusable twist tie, the tie post including: a first end being configured for removable attachment to the reusable twist tie; a post extending in a longitudinal direction from the first end configured for wrapping an elongated portion of the reusable twist tie around the post; and a second end having a surface for preventing the wrapped elongated portion of the reusable twist tie from moving in the longitudinal direction off of the post. The tie post can also be integrally formed on one of first and second end caps provided on the reusable twist tie.

Abstract: The following is an apparatus and a method that enables the automated collection and identification of airborne particulate matter comprising dust, pollen grains, mold spores, bacterial cells, and soot from a gaseous medium comprising the ambient air. Once ambient air is inducted into the apparatus, aerosol particulates are acquired and imaged under a novel lighting environment that is used to highlight diagnostic features of the acquired airborne particulate matter. Identity determinations of acquired airborne particulate matter are made based on captured images. Abundance quantifications can be made using identity classifications. Raw and summary information are communicated across a data network for review or further analysis by a user. Other than routine maintenance or subsequent analyses, the basic operations of the apparatus may use, but do not require the active participation of a human operator.

Abstract: A valve trim includes a body having a plurality of parallel flow passages extending from a first end of the body to a second end of the body, opposite the first end. Each flow passage includes a throat and an expansion chamber and each throat is nested between the expansion chambers of directly adjacent flow passages.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for using inter-device communications and user permissions to capture and transmit digital images of users who have opted in for other computing devices capturing their images at an event. For example, the disclosed systems can receive registration information corresponding to a user attending an event, including whether the user opts in to having digital images of the user captured during the event. During the event, the disclosed systems can provide the current location of the user to other computing devices at the event. Upon detecting a trigger, one or more of the computing devices can capture (and encrypt) a digital image of the user and provide the digital image for access by the user.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a handheld wireless endoscope image streaming apparatus. The apparatus may establish a wireless connection to a computer system. The apparatus may obtain, via a digital camera, video imagery via an endoscope, the video imagery including multiple frames. The apparatus may stream to a computer system video data.

Abstract: A retractable trailer cover adapted for mounting to an existing boat trailer and a method for retrofitting the trailer cover to the boat trailer. The trailer cover includes multiple ribs extending from one side to the other, a flexible cover material, two elongated tracks, and multiple wheels received within the tracks. The ribs are affixed to the wheels so as to be slidably mounted to the tracks. Mounting brackets can be spaced along each of the trailer cover sides, and the tracks can be affixed to the mounting brackets. To mount the trailer cover to the boat trailer, the mounting brackets can be attached to a frame of the boat trailer. The trailer cover can selectively be expanded and retracted to cover and uncover an associated boat and boat trailer and may be used with new or used trailers.

Abstract: A system detects tampering of an electronic system of a vehicle operated by a driver. The system receives historical occurrences of at least one diagnostic trouble code (DTC) generated by the onboard vehicle computing system based on sensor data received from a vehicle sensor during a trip. The system identifies a length of the trip and a speed of the vehicle when each DTC was generated. The system identifies a distance the vehicle had traveled when each DTC was generated. The system determines a subsequent trip was started, whether a driver operating the vehicle on the subsequent trip is a same driver or a new driver, whether DTCs were generated during the trip, and whether DTCs were generated during the subsequent trip. The system determines a tamper rating for the driver that indicates a likelihood that the driver has tampered with the vehicle.

Abstract: A dryer includes a pressure plate and a plurality of heating bulbs configured to emit short wave infrared radiation. A hood of the dryer is coupled to an exhaust vent and a fan. One or more sensors of the dryer measure a drying parameter corresponding to at least a portion of an article to be dried. One or more sensors in the exhaust vent monitor the air being drawn from under the hood and through the exhaust vent. A controller receives data from at least one of the sensors, and uses the data to regulate operation of each heating bulb independently of other heating bulbs of the dryer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating electrical power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation include one or more heat exchangers incorporated into mobile heat generation units, and which will receive a heated fluid flow from one or more heat sources, and transfer heat therefrom to a working fluid that is circulated through an ORC unit for generation of power. In embodiments, the mobile heat generation units comprise pre-packaged modules with one or more heat exchangers connected to a pump of a recirculation system, including an array of piping, such that each mobile heat generation unit can be transported to the site and installed as a substantially stand-alone module or heat generation assembly.

Abstract: A system for generating emergency egress advisement based on motion data and trained models for the building. A computing device can receive, from first detection devices, frequency of movement indicating routes frequented the most by users in the building, determine an initial emergency egress advisement for the building, receive, from the first detection devices, first motion data about the users, receive, from second detection devices positioned throughout the building or worn by the users, second motion data, iteratively train a model for the building by correlating the initial emergency egress advisement to corresponding (i) first motion data, (ii) second motion data, and (iii) historic user presence information across one or more model layers using one or more machine learning algorithms, the iterative training generating a trained model for the building, and update, based on the trained model, the initial emergency egress advisement for use during an emergency in the building.

Abstract: A vehicle including a vehicle cargo area includes a hinge pin in a wall of the vehicle cargo area, a cargo cover defining first and second slots, a single-piece clip which includes a first fixing feature positioned in the first slot, and a second fixing feature positioned in the second slot. The clip defines a channel receiving the hinge pin.

Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive data in a data flow, extract a data visa from the data flow, wherein the data visa is related to the data, and determine a reputation of the data from the data visa. The data visa can include reputation determination information obtained by previous network elements in the data flow. In addition, the electronic device can update the data visa, and communicate the updated data visa and data to a next network element in the data flow.

Abstract: The invention discloses a flexible mountable RFID tag antenna. The object of the invention to present an RFID tag antenna which has a flexible and flat design, which is mountable on conductive surfaces without disadvantages in reading the data of the RFID chip and does not increase cost and complexity in the RFID tag manufacturing process and which can be mounted on any curvature structure will be solved by a flexible mountable RFID tag antenna comprising an RFID chip for storing data and an antenna structure operatively connected to the RFID chip for operating across RFID frequency band, wherein the RFID tag antenna is mounted on a dielectric layer and the RFID tag antenna laterally overlaps the dielectric layer at one edge of the dielectric layer forming an overlapping part, whereas the overlapping part of the RFID tag antenna forming an extended L-shaped antenna structure in its cross-sectional view and whereas the RFID tag antenna is suitable to be attachable to a conductive layer.

Abstract: Playback devices may receive video content and an age of a playlist associated with the video content. A playback device may use the age of the playlist to schedule output of video fragments of the video content. The playback device may adjust the output of the video content until an actual output time of a video fragment is substantially the same as the scheduled output time for the video fragment.

Abstract: An athletic performance streaming system comprises a sensor system configured to removably attach to an article of clothing worn by an athlete and one or more external devices. The sensor system comprises one or more sensors configured to measure one or more athletic performance parameters for the athlete and a computing unit configured to monitor and transmit the one or more athletic performance parameters. The one or more external devices is remote from the article of clothing. The sensor system is configured to stream the one or more athletic performance parameters in real time to the one or more external devices.

Abstract: A sorting system for inspected parts includes a storage assembly, a conveyance system, and a controller. The storage assembly has a plurality of bins configured to receive and store the inspected parts. The conveyance system is configured to deliver the inspected parts to the storage assembly. The controller programmed to, assign part types to each of the plurality of bins. The controller is further programmed to operate the conveyance system to deliver each of the inspected parts to one of the plurality of bins having a matching part type. The controller is further programmed to, in response to a full condition of the storage assembly, empty the inspected parts from a first the plurality of bins.

Abstract: In an aspect, a system comprising a computing device. The computing device is configured to determine a drag minimization axis of a rotor connected to an aircraft. The rotor includes a first end and a second end. The rotor is configured to rotate about an axis. The computing device is further configured to determine a halting point of the rotor, wherein the halting point includes a drag minimization axis of the rotor. The computing device is configured to send a halting command to at least a magnetic element to halt the rotor, wherein the halting process is configured to stop a movement of the rotor and position the rotor in the halting point. The position of the rotor in the halting point includes the first end pointing in one direction of the drag minimization axis and the second end pointing in an opposite direction of the first end.

Abstract: A vehicle washer brush panel and channel well device, and methods for manufacturing the same. The vehicle washer brush panel includes a contiguous section, elongated brush panel fingers, and partially embedded nodules. A method for manufacturing a vehicle washer brush panel includes creating a hole near an edge of a cloth brush panel, sandwiching the cloth brush panel between an upper section and a lower section of a die, aligning a mold cavity of the die with the hole, and mold-injecting an injection material through an injection orifice of the die so that the injection material fills the hole in the cloth brush panel and the mold cavity of the die. A vehicle washer channel well device includes an elongated well, a first flange, a second flange, a first elongated screw channel, and a second elongated screw channel. One or more vehicle washer channel well devices are secured to a frame.

Abstract: Vehicle parking monitoring systems and methods are disclosed herein. An example method can include receiving images from a camera of a parking spot, each of the images being time stamped, determining presence of a vehicle in the images, placing a bounding area around a region of interest of the vehicle, the region of interest including no personally identifiable information, retaining the bounding area and discarding a remainder of the images, and determining when the vehicle is no longer present based on a change in the bounding area of the images.

Abstract: Paraffin compositions including mainly even carbon number paraffins, and a method for manufacturing the same, is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method involves contacting naturally occurring fatty acid/glycerides with hydrogen in a slurry bubble column reactor containing bimetallic catalysts with equivalent particle diameters from about 10 to about 400 micron. The even carbon number compositions are particularly useful as phase change material.