Abstract: A system for automatically handling components to be assembled onto a product on an assembly line includes a carriage that is movable to and between a first, retracted position spaced from the assembly line, and a second position displaced from the retracted position in a direction toward the assembly line. A manipulator on the carriage supports a component mounting tool configured to receive and support at least one component for assembly to the product. The manipulator may be arranged in a first orientation when the carriage is in the first position, and may be pivoted to a second orientation when the carriage is in the second position, such that a component on the component mounting tool is supported in a pose for processing when the carriage is in the first position, and is supported in a pose for joining to the product when the carriage is in the second position.

Abstract: A cart for transporting objects includes a base with a wheel coupled thereto, a wall extending from the base, a braking system that selectively engages the wheel to thereby slow or prevent movement of the cart, the braking system includes a pair of pivot members coupled to the base that are each pivotable about separate pivot axes, a handle coupled to the wall and movable into and between a first handle position in which the braking system engages the wheel and a second handle position, an actuator member extending between the handle and the pivot members, and moving the handle to the second handle position causes the pivot members to pivot and the braking system to release the wheel.

Abstract: The method includes transporting tobacco into and through a shaft of a tongue of a compression box, and compressing the tobacco into a tobacco rod as the tobacco is transported through the compression box, the compression box including a first plate, a first portion of the first plate being formed over an upper portion of the shaft, the first portion running along a majority of a longitudinal length of the shaft.

Abstract: Cloud-based methods and systems for content sharing are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems may include one or more processors configured to: receive, from a client device, an instruction for sharing a designated digital asset; retrieve the designated digital asset from a storage device; determine provenance of the designated digital asset based on metadata of the designated digital asset; generate authentication information based on the provenance of the designated digital asset; identify sensitive information in the designated digital asset; generate a redacted version of the designated digital asset by modifying content of the designated digital asset to alter the identified sensitive information; and provide the redacted version and authentication information of the designated digital asset to a recipient of the designated digital asset.

Abstract: A method for identifying and uncovering and human trafficking is provided. The method includes the steps of displaying a code available to be read by an electronic device; transmitting information to the electronic device; and receiving new information input by a user from the electronic device. The method further includes software for performing the method.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, and methods to enhance control of a drone-load system, including through drone thrusters or load thrusters.

Abstract: A system for installing a novel engine shield in the opening of an aircraft engine that is too high off the ground to be accessed by the ground support technicians while standing on the ground that includes a housing of the shield that has a front section that extends away and downward from a rear section of the housing. The front section of the housing contains an installation pole port assembly that includes an opening or port in a structure that is operably connected to a drive screw via a universal joint. In some embodiments, the installation pole port assembly is positioned to be recessed within an opening in the front section of the housing. Other versions also include a photoluminescent material applied near or around the opening in the front section of the housing.

Abstract: A physician-prescribed and compounding pharmacy-compounded minoxidil-containing hair growth composition is described, containing minoxidil, glycerin, polysorbate-80, and propylene glycol in aqueous ethanol solution at pH in a range of from 3.8 to 5.2. The composition may contain additional ingredients such as finasteride, dutasteride, retinoic acid, tretinoin, sulfuric acid, hypochlorous acid, and citric acid. The described hair growth compositions are stable against minoxidil precipitation for at least 6 months at temperature in a range of from 5° C. to 32° C., and may contain physician-prescribed minoxidil at a concentration that is in a range of from 1.2 wt % to 12 wt %, based on total weight of the composition. Various methods of preparation of such compositions are additionally described.

Abstract: A blowout plate for removable attachment to the top surface an inline irrigation valve that has had its top works removed includes a generally elliptical plate having a centrally located outlet hole. The outlet hole is designed to be at least partially aligned with an outflow path of the valve. A plurality of apertures defining a variable mating profile for the blowout plate are defined through the plate proximate an outer perimeter of the plate. The variable mating profile is generated by unique combinations of the plurality of apertures to form a unique mating profile for attachment of the plate to a distinct valve with a corresponding screw hole pattern. The plate include a solid blank portion, or dead space, about the outlet hole and extending to the plurality of apertures that creates a watertight seal between the plate and a valve when the plate has been properly aligned thereabout.

Abstract: An energy collection system may collect and use the energy generated by an electric field. Collection devices are suspended from a support system. The collection devices are configured in one or more fluffed configurations. The support system is electrically connected to a load by a connecting wire. The collection devices may be made of any conducting material, but graphene, boron, silicene, carbon, and graphite are preferred. Diodes may be used to restrict the backflow or loss of energy.

Abstract: A modular transportation system including a transportation module with loading features, and methods of use. The transportation module comprising: a frame member having a front and a rear opposing ends, wherein the front end comprising an overhang member having an overhang portion protruding downwardly below the frame member; the overhang portion having at least one approach wheel; a base member comprising a plurality of ground wheels; a lifting assembly connected between the base member and the frame member; the lifting assembly configured to lift and lower the frame member relative to the base member; and a leg member comprising a leg body and at least one loading wheel; the leg body having a first end and a second end; the first end connected to the frame member; and the loading wheel connected to the second end. A cart and work cells reconfigure the system for specialty purposes.

Abstract: A selectively frictionally engaged hole cover for a bore hole cored from a paved surface that includes a cover plate configured to cover the bore hole and support vehicular traffic. An engagement mechanism is attached to the cover plate and extends down into the bore hole. The engagement mechanism is configured to be actuated by a user torque input that causes an engagement plate selectively shiftable relative to the cover plate to thereby shift an engagement member along a engagement member stop and thus radially outwardly or inwardly, causing the engagement mechanism to selectively engage or disengage the wall of the bore hole. When the engagement member is in frictional contact with the hole, unintentional extraction of the engagement mechanism is prevented. The selectively frictionally engaged hole cover effectively provides a temporary cover for a bore hole in a road, parking lot, or other paved surface.

Abstract: A secure firearm display apparatus and system, having the firearm display apparatus as a key component, where embodiments of the present invention disclose an apparatus for organizing and displaying guns in an upright orientation, providing secure storage and easy access. The custom design ensures compatibility with different handguns by adapting the post geometry to interface with the specific gun's magazine locking or retention mechanism according to the firearm's specifications. Multiple component variations can be combined to provide a custom system.

Abstract: A carbon dioxide capture and sequestration system comprises a growth module, a drying module, a sequestration module and a carbon dioxide recapture apparatus. The carbon dioxide recapture apparatus includes at least one conduit coupled to the growth module, the drying module, and the sequestration module for routing carbon dioxide liberated from at least one of the harvested algal biomass within the drying module and the dried algal biomass within the sequestration module to the growth module.

Abstract: A method for enacting a measurement circuit of a surface code on a plaquette of qubits of a qubit lattice comprises: (a) distributing among a sequence of time steps a set of one-qubit projective measurements on each of three auxiliary qubits of the plaquette; (b) distributing among the sequence of time steps a set of two-qubit projective measurements on each of four data qubits of the plaquette together with one of the three auxiliary qubits; (c) distributing among the sequence of time steps a set of two-qubit projective measurements on two or more auxiliary-qubit pairs selected from the three auxiliary qubits of the plaquette; and (d) advancing through each of the time steps of the sequence, executing the one- and two-qubit projective measurements distributed therein. In this method the measurement circuit corresponds to a stabilizer of the surface code, and the measurements generate measurement of a stabilizer operator.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, a formulation in a package, the formulation comprises one or more active agents and is co-mingled with a whipping agent prior to being filled under pressure into the package. The whipping agent is added in sufficient amounts to be dispersed in the formulation. The pressurized package is under sufficient pressure suitable to maintain the whipping agent dispersed in the formulation; and the pressurized package is under sufficient pressure to expel the formulation as a whipped formulation upon application of external force on the formulation in the package.

Abstract: A device includes a processor, and a memory storing executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor alone or in combination with other processors to perform the following functions: receive textual user input from a user describing a design to be generated; implement a first prompt generator to generate a first prompt for a Large Language Model (LLM) to restructure the user input; and implement a second prompt generator to generate a second prompt for a text-to-image model using output of the LLM to produce, the second prompt to prompt the text-to-image model to produce a proposed design based on the user input. The proposed design is provided to the user via an application comprising controls for further editing the proposed design.

Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to receive an audio signal obtained from a microphone, input the audio signal into a neural-network based AHS model, train the neural-network based AHS model based on input signals which are recursively generated from the audio signal during training of the AHS model, and output an AHS signal from the neural-network based AHS model in which AHS is applied to the audio signal, wherein the AHS signal is a version of the audio signal in which acoustic howling noise of the audio signal is suppressed and target audio of the audio signal is sustained.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising transmitting a user interface to be displayed to a user. The user interface can include one or more first interactive elements. The one or more first interactive elements display policy settings of a reinforcement learning model. The one or more first interactive elements are configured to allow the user to update the policy settings of the reinforcement learning model. The method also can include receiving one or more inputs from the user. The inputs include one or more modifications of at least a portion of the one or more first interactive elements of the user interface to update the policy settings of the reinforcement learning model. The method additionally can include training a neural network model using a reinforcement learning model with the policy settings as updated by the user to adjust rewards assigned in the reinforcement learning model. Other embodiments are described.

Abstract: An electronic trading venue (ETV) may prioritize maker orders that specify or are associated with cancel delay values by selecting a maker order to be matched with taker orders before competing maker orders, at the same price level for a given instrument, that have smaller or no cancel delay values. Such prioritization may occur even if the competing maker orders were received before the maker order. A cancel delay value indicates an amount of time that must pass after a request to cancel a maker order is received before the ETV actually cancels the maker order. Thus, in exchange for prioritization, maker orders will be subject to a cancelation delay that starts after a cancel request is received and during which a maker order will not be canceled. Takers may benefit from this by being able to match with a maker order before it can be canceled.