Abstract: Systems and methods associated with an electric vehicle are provided. The electric vehicle includes a sensor system, a communications system and a snow clearing system. The systems and methods detect, based on data from the sensor system, snow that may accumulate on a window of the electric vehicle. When snow is detected, a notification is provided, via the communications system, to a remote user device. The notification requests user acceptance of use of charge of a battery of the electric vehicle to operate the snow clearing system of the electric vehicle. The systems and methods receive, by the communications system, a response to the notification from the user device, and when the response indicates acceptance of the use of charge of the battery, the snow clearing system is activated. The snow clearing system is powered by the battery.

Abstract: Systems and methods for video conference content auto-retrieval and focus based on learned relevance is provided. A method may include determining collaborative documents each associated with at least one user participating in a video conference, and providing one or more first inputs to a machine learning model, the one or more first inputs identifying the plurality of collaborative documents, and comprising an indication of a request to identify a collaborative document that is most relevant to a first subject discussed during the video conference at a first point in time. The method may further include determining, based on one or more first outputs of the machine learning model, the collaborative document that is the most relevant to the first subject discussed during the video conference at the first point in time, and providing the determined collaborative document for presentation on one or more client devices while the first subject is being discussed during the video conference.

Abstract: A ride vehicle includes a platform including a front portion and a rear portion. The ride vehicle also includes a row of seats disposed on the platform. Each seat of the first row of seats is configured so a passenger loads from the rear and once seated the passenger faces the front portion. The ride vehicle is configured so that each passenger enters the ride vehicle via the rear portion.

Abstract: A method for secure online collaboration is provided. The method includes receiving, at a server of a cloud-based storage system, an encrypted edit from a first client device. The cloud-based storage system stores a plurality of documents in an encrypted form. The method also includes determining a document of the plurality of documents that is associated with the encrypted edit. The server is unable to decrypt both the document in the encrypted form and the encrypted edit. The method further includes determining a plurality of user accounts of collaborators of the document. The plurality of user accounts includes a first user account associated with the first client device. The method further includes providing the encrypted edit to one or more other client devices that are each associated with one of the plurality of user accounts.

Abstract: A data processing system implements receiving textual content from a first application on a first client device associated with a first user for analysis by a context adaptive writing assistant configured to provide suggestions for improving the textual content, obtaining contextual information indicative of a level of formality of the textual content; and categorizing the textual content as being associated with a first level of formality selected from a plurality of levels of formality. The system is further implements analyzing the textual content to identify one or more suggested improvements to the textual content; selecting a subset of suggested improvements from the one or more suggested improvements to the textual content to the first user based on the first level of formality associated with the textual content; sending the subset of suggested improvements to the first client device; and causing the first client device to display the subset of suggested improvements.

Abstract: An aerosol generating system includes a first housing, a second housing, and a third housing. The first housing defines a first passage and includes a liquid storage portion configured to contain an aerosol generating substrate. The second housing defines a second passage configured to be fluidly coupled to the first passage. The first passage and the second passage define an aerosol flow path. The second housing includes a heating element configured to heat the aerosol generating substrate. The third housing defines an inner chamber and an outlet. The inner chamber of the third housing is configured to receive at least the first housing. The third housing defines an air flow path between the third housing and at least the first housing. The air flow path is fluidly coupled to the outlet.

Abstract: The present invention provides a suturing device to minimize interference and obstructions during intricate surgeries. The curled suture device is significantly shorter than traditional suturing kits by featuring a needle attached to a specially manufactured thread incorporating a stopping mechanism preceding an angular, semi-rigid portion of thread followed by a curled portion of thread arranged in a corkscrew configuration. The stopping mechanism halts the movement of the thread as the needle and thread intermediate the needle and stopping mechanism is pulled through the suture point, securing the remainder of the thread for access. The semi-rigid portion of thread is thereby utilized in conjunction with its curled portion of thread, allowing for the user's unabated access to the corkscrew configuration to form a ready-made knot, minimizing interference and obstruction during surgery. The thread may be manufactured to form an additional semi-rigid and curled portions of thread upon creation of a knot.

Abstract: A system may include a turbine and a recuperative heat exchanger system. The recuperative heat exchanger system is configured to receive exhaust gases from the turbine. The recuperative heat exchanger system may include a precool section to cool the exhaust gases, a major heating section to receive the cooled the exhaust gases, and a minor heating section to receive the cooled the exhaust gases.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to real-time health monitoring for automotive radars. A computing device may receive radar data from multiple radar units that have partially overlapping fields of view and detect a target object located such that the radar units both capture measurements of the target object. The computing device may determine a power level representing the target object for radar data from each radar unit, adjust these power levels, and determine a power difference between them. When the power difference exceeds a threshold power difference, the computing device may perform a calibration process to decrease the power difference below the threshold power difference or alert the vehicle, including onboard algorithms, to the reduced performance of the radar.

Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing loss of audio during calls to and from a vehicle. In particular, systems and methods are provided for preventing the loss of audio for calls during an audio bus failure. Vehicles include interior microphones and speakers, which are connected via an audio bus. In some examples, the audio bus also includes other components such as a mixer, a transceiver, one or more cellular modems, an audio input module, and a digital signal processor. Using the audio bus, microphone input is beamformed and mixed and transmitted over a cellular network to a call recipient. Sound received back from the call recipient is received at the audio bus and transmitted to the vehicle via one or more speakers coupled to the audio bus. In some instances, the audio bus can fail, and alternative call procedures can be used to contact a remote advisor or other call recipient.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for generating a visualization of a three-dimensional (3D) world view from the perspective of a camera of a vehicle. For example, images of a scene captured by a camera of the vehicle and 3D content for the scene may be received. A virtual camera model for the camera of the vehicle may be identified. A set of matrices may be generated using the virtual camera model. The set of matrices may be applied to the 3D content to create a 3D world view. The visualization may be generated using the 3D world view as an overlay with the image, and the visualization provides a real-world image from the perspective of the camera of the vehicle with one or more graphical overlays of the 3D content.

Abstract: Photon generating substrates for light-directed oligonucleotide synthesis are disclosed. Light is generated within a solid-state stack that supports growing oligonucleotides. The light may be generated by microLEDs, a pass-through liquid crystal panel, or an LCoS system. Light passes through a transmissive layer on which growing oligonucleotides are attached. Patterning of the light is controlled by selective activation of the microLEDs or by selective control of the transparency of a liquid crystal layer. Photolabile blocking groups are selectively removed by exposure to patterned light emitted from the photon generating substrate.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems that enable face authentication embedding migration and drift-compensation. The techniques and systems include a user device that is updated to include both a current version of firmware and an updated version of the firmware. Then, an indication of a face-authentication attempt is received along with image data associated with a user's face. After successful authentication, using the current version of firmware on the image data, the user device uses the updated version of the firmware on the same image data to generate a new embedding. The new embedding is stored as part of a migration profile for the user. Additional new embeddings are collected over a series of subsequent face-authentication attempts until a complete set of new embeddings is stored for the migration profile. Then, the old profile is deleted and the migration profile becomes the enrollment profile used for face authentication.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a communication computing system within a computing network, wherein the computing network includes a plurality of disparate platforms configured to provide information concerning various topics; enabling a user to issue a verbal command concerning one or more of the plurality of disparate platforms; processing the verbal command to generate a platform-useable command based, at least in part, upon the verbal command; and providing the platform-useable command to at least a portion of the plurality of disparate platforms via the communication computing system.

Abstract: A bumper assembly of a vehicle includes a vehicle bumper and a first inflatable device supported by the bumper. The first inflatable device is deployable downwardly from the bumper from an undeployed position to a deployed position. A second inflatable device is supported by the bumper and spaced cross-vehicle from the first inflatable device. The second inflatable device is deployable downwardly from the bumper from an undeployed position to a deployed position. An uninflatable panel is below the bumper 12 and extends from the first inflatable device to the second inflatable device in the deployed position.

Abstract: An air pressure maintenance apparatus and method uses one or more high-pressure gas storage tanks coupled to an inflation hose via a calibrated rigid measurement chamber and automated system of valves to permit rapid inflation of a tire or other inflatable device to an accurate target pressure accounting for temperature effects, and recording accurate pre- and post-inflation pressure for analysis of deflation over time.

Abstract: A package, a carrier for packaging one or more articles and a blank for forming the carrier are disclosed. The carrier comprises an engaging panel with at least one article-receiving aperture disposed in engagement with a part of an article. The engaging panel has a first side edge, a first end edge, a corner defined by the first side and end edges, and a corner area. The article-receiving aperture comprises a first engaging edge across the corner area from the corner. The corner area is defined at least partially by the first engaging edge, and end portions of each of the first side and end edges extending from the corner, respectively. The corner area is folded with respect to the remainder of the engaging panel such that the end portion of the first side edge is angled with respect to an adjoining portion of the first side edge.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that relate to extracting digital watermarks from images, irrespective of distortions introduced into these images. Methods can include inputting a first data item into a channel encoder that can generate a first encoded data item that is greater in length than the first data item and that (1) includes the input data item and (2) new data this is redundant of the input data item. Based on the first encoded data item and a first image, an encoder model can generate a first encoded image into which the first encoded data is embedded as a digital watermark. A decoder model can decode the first encoded data item to generate a second data, which can be decoded by the channel decoder to generate data that is predicted to be the first data.

Abstract: A portal gear box assembly for an off-road vehicle that includes a housing that defines an input gear subassembly indent, an output gear subassembly indent, and one or more idler-gear subassembly indents. The assembly includes an input gear subassembly positioned in the input gear subassembly indent with an input gear connected to an input shaft, an output gear subassembly positioned in the output gear subassembly indent with an output gear connected to an output shaft, and an idler-gear subassembly positioned within the one or more idler-gear subassembly indents to connect the input and output gears with a removable adaptor that is selectively positionable in more than one configuration to alter the transmission ratio between the input and output gears.

Abstract: A technology is described for a repeater. A repeater can comprise: a server port; a donor port; a first uplink (UL) amplification and filtering path coupled between the server port and the donor port, wherein the UL amplification and filtering path is configured to pass a UL signal of a first band and a UL signal of a second band through a first bandpass filter; a first downlink (DL) amplification and filtering path coupled between the server port and the donor port, wherein the first DL amplification and filtering path is configured to pass a DL signal of the first band and a DL signal of a third band through a second bandpass filter.