Abstract: The present disclosure relates to beverage container (10) that includes a lower vessel (12) having a lower vessel neck (16), an upper vessel (22) that is attached to the lower vessel neck (16) and is sized and shaped to hold a liquid therein, a removable cap (40) that is attached to the upper vessel (22), a vessel seal (42) that serves as a liquid- tight barrier between the interior of the upper vessel (22) and the interior of the lower vessel (12), and a tether (44) attached to the vessel seal (42) at one end and the removable cap (40) at the other end. When the removable cap (40) is twisted or removed, it pulls on the tether (44), which pulls and releases the vessel seal (42), thereby allowing liquid from inside the upper vessel (22) to enter the interior of the lower vessel (12).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a monolithic thin-film lead assembly and methods of microfabricating a monolithic thin-film lead assembly. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a monolithic thin-film lead assembly that includes a cable having a proximal end, a distal end, a supporting structure that extends from the proximal end to the distal end, and a plurality of conductive traces formed on a portion of the supporting structure. The supporting structure includes one or more layers of dielectric material. The monolithic thin-film lead assembly may further include an electrode assembly formed on the supporting structure at the distal end of the cable. The electrode assembly includes one or more electrodes in electrical connection with one or more conductive traces of the plurality of conductive traces.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a railway collision protection and safety system having a vehicle device located on rail vehicles at a work zone, a personal protection unit located with rail workers at the work zone, and a dispatcher processor at a control center. An authority limit within the work zone may be determined by the dispatcher processor, and an authority exceeded signal is sent to the rail vehicle when the rail vehicle is determined to exceed the authority limit.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide a real-time Q&A interface, such as an online chatbot, either standing alone or as a live agent assistant, with predicative Q&A and resource suggestions. In one embodiment, the real-time Q&A interface uses data extracted from a user inquiry to identify and display a primary response, identify suggested inquiries from a knowledgebase and provide a user-selectable suggested inquiries indicator, and identify suggested content items from related content libraries or webpages and provide user-selectable suggested content item indicators. In one embodiment, the suggested content items include related videos and links to webpages with related content.

Abstract: A sealing assembly for a pump includes a header ring having a tapered radially outer surface and a sloped radially inner surface. The assembly also includes a first seal configured to couple to the header ring, the first seal having a groove that receives a bead extending from the header ring. The assembly further includes a second seal axially aligned with the first seal.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for secure data communication between two devices. A disclosed system responds to a request from an originating communication device in a first network to connect with a communication device in a second network, for communication, by receiving a request from the communication device in the first network, the request including payload data and a destination network address in the second network. The system then transmits the received payload data to the destination address in the second network after analyzing the payload data for network intrusion. When the analysis does not indicate network intrusion, the system determines a route to the destination network address by looking up the destination address in a routing table and forwarding the payload data to the destination network address in the second network. If the analysis indicates network intrusion, the system discards the payload data.

Abstract: A method of video encoding includes determining a predetermined condition associated with signaling data for a current block included in a current picture, the predetermined condition specifying whether a maximum number of merge mode candidates is different from a maximum number of IBC candidates. The method includes setting, based on the predetermined condition, a size of an index included in the signaling data for a candidate list of vector predictors to one of (i) the maximum number of merge mode candidates and (ii) the maximum number of IBC candidates. The method includes constructing the candidate list of vector predictors and retrieving a vector predictor from the candidate list of vector predictors in accordance with the index. The method includes encoding the current block in accordance with the retrieved vector predictor, and generating a coded video bitstream including the current picture and the signaling data.

Abstract: A wireless device determines a reference duration for contention window adjustment. The reference duration is from a beginning of a channel occupancy and until an end of a first slot where at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is transmitted. The wireless device determines a contention window value based on one or more new data indicators (NDIs) of one or more first transport blocks transmitted during the reference duration. The wireless device performs a listen before talk (LBT) procedure based on the contention window value. The wireless device transmits one or more second transport blocks based on the LBT procedure indicating a clear channel.

Abstract: The invention discloses a flexible plastic bag for cultivation of cells, including a top wall film and a bottom wall film, each having an inside and an outside, sealed to each other inside-to-inside by durable weld seams, optionally via one or more side wall films, to form a bag with an inner volume delimited by the durable weld seams; one or more ports through the top and/or bottom wall film for introduction and withdrawal of fluids; one or more frangible weld seams joining the insides of said top and bottom wall films, dividing the bag inner volume into a plurality of cultivation compartments; and one or more gripping means affixed to the top and bottom wall films, adjacent each of the frangible weld seams and adapted to break a specific frangible weld seam by pulling apart the gripping means on the top and bottom wall films.

Abstract: A surgical staple is provided. The surgical staple includes a crown having a center portion and a foldable portion, and a pair of legs extending orthogonally from the crown and configured to puncture tissue. The crown and the pair of legs are fabricated from a biodegradable metal such that biodegradation causes the center portion to separate from the foldable portion and the pair of legs, and the foldable portion and the pair of legs are absorbable within the tissue.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass a variety of polymers derived from polycyclic olefin monomers, such as hydrocarbon functionalized norbomenes. The polymers so formed function as ionomers and are suitable as anion exchange membrane for fabricating a variety of electrochemical devices, among others. More specifically, the ionomeric polymers used herein are derived from a variety of quaternized amino functionalized norbornene monomers and are lightly crosslinked (less than ten mol %). The membranes made therefrom exhibit very high ionic conductivity of up to 198 mS/cm at 80° C. This invention also relates to using an anion conducting solid polymer electrolyte as the ion conducting medium between the two electrodes and the ion conducting medium within the electrodes acting as the ionic conduit between electroactive material and electrolyte. The electrochemical devices made in accordance of this invention are useful as fuel cells, gas separators, and the like.

Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a sensor, a heat pipe, and a cover. The sensor includes a sensor housing. The sensor housing includes a sensor window oriented generally vertically and a top surface fixed relative to the sensor window above the sensor window and oriented generally horizontally. The heat pipe is fixed relative to the sensor, wherein the heat pipe is elongated from a first end to a second end, the first end is contacting the top surface, and the second end is spaced from the top surface. The cover covers the top surface and the heat pipe, and the cover is shaped to define a vertical gap between the top surface and the cover.

Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion comprising a material having a first density and an interior cavity having a filler material therein comprising a material having a second density. The golf club head also includes a first mass portion coupled to the body portion and a second mass portion coupled to the hosel portion. The first mass portion and the second mass portion comprise a material having a third density. A port on the body portion is configured to receive the first mass portion. At least a portion of the first mass portion is below a horizontal midplane of the body portion. The first density is greater than the second density. The third density is greater than the first density.

Abstract: Systems and methods for mitigating wind throb in vehicles are disclosed herein. An example method includes detecting wind throb in a cabin of a vehicle due to opening of a first window of the vehicle, determining when a seat that is adjacent to a second window of the vehicle is unoccupied, opening the second window when the seat is determined to be unoccupied so as to compensate for the wind throb, determining that the first window has been closed, and closing the second window in response to closing of the first window.

Abstract: A slurry outlet system including a top sub having a seal, a closure sleeve positionable in an open position spaced from the top sub during a slurry pumping operation and a closed position wherein the closure sleeve sealingly interacts with the seal, a protector sleeve disposed to protect the seal and movable upon the closure sleeve becoming sufficiently close to the protector sleeve. A method for pressure sealingly closing a slurry outlet system including bringing a closure sleeve into proximity with a top sub of the slurry outlet system, displacing a protector sleeve, with the closure sleeve, off a seal of the top sub and simultaneously making sealing contact between the closure sleeve and the seal.

Abstract: Methods of powering a radio that is mounted on a tower of a cellular base station are provided in which a direct current (“DC”) power signal is provided to the radio over a power cable and a voltage level of the output of the power supply is adjusted so as to provide a substantially constant voltage at a first end of the power cable that is remote from the power supply. Related cellular base stations and programmable power supplies are also provided.

Abstract: A system and method to dynamically analyze digital media and select multimedia assets or items to render with correlated IP-connected media and apps. Hierarchical Taxonomy, Engagement-based and Neural-based asset matching is rendered with rule-based and Diminishing Perspective decision-making. A user can listen, view and interact with the correlated and rendered material using an input device native to the computing device being used to access the IP-connected media. Embodiments extract features from the digital media. The extracted features are semantically analyzed for an understanding of characteristics associated with the respective features. Topics are extracted from the digital media based on the characteristics. Stored assets are correlated to the extracted topics to select an asset based on characteristics of the extracted topics correlating with the selected asset. The selected asset is rendered with the digital media.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a single use continuous recovery, flow-through harvest vessel and corresponding method for harvesting culture medium and simultaneously either leaving the microcarrier beads behind in the vessel or flowing microcarrier beads and medium back into a bioreactor.

Abstract: A value chain system that provides recommendations for designing a logistics system generally includes a machine learning system that trains machine-learned models that output logistics design recommendations based on training data sets that each respectively defines one or more features of a respective logistic system and an outcome relating to the respective logistics system; an artificial intelligence system that receives a request for a logistics system design recommendation and determines the logistics system design recommendation based on one or more of the machine-learned models and the request; and a digital twin system that generates an environment digital twin of a logistics environment that incorporates the logistics system design recommendation, and one or more physical asset digital twins of physical assets. The digital twin system executes a simulation based on the logistics environment digital twin, the one or more physical asset digital twins.

Abstract: An apparatus for video encoding includes processing circuitry that determines that a current block is not coded in an intra block copy (IBC) mode. Responsive to the determination that the current block is not coded in the IBC mode, the processing circuitry determines whether a size of the current block is greater than a threshold. The processing circuitry encodes a mode prediction flag into a coded bitstream based on the size of the current block being greater than the threshold. The mode prediction flag indicates whether the current block is coded in an intra prediction mode.