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: Embodiments of the invention include a method and system for real time server-side rendering of webpages. When a request is received at a server from a requesting device for a webpage, the server queries a database for a logical page definition of the webpage responsive to the request. From the logical page definition, the server identifies a plurality of independent reusable blocks that collectively constitute the webpage. The server then renders each block of the plurality on the server to form a markup representation of the webpage in real time. The server then transmits the rendered markup representation of the page to the requesting device.

Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for concurrently programming the same data pattern in multiple sets of non-volatile memory cells. Voltage are applied to bit lines in accordance with a data pattern. A select voltage is applied to drain select gates of multiple sets of NAND strings. The system concurrently applies a program pulse to control gates of a different set of selected memory cells in each respective set of the multiple sets of the NAND strings while the select voltage is applied to the drain select gates of the multiple sets of the NAND strings and the voltages are applied to the plurality of bit lines to concurrently program the data pattern into each set of the selected memory cells.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a query specifying an operation to perform on a first table of a plurality of data blocks stored. Each data block in the first table includes a respective reference count indicating a number of tables referencing the data block. The method also includes determining that the operation specified by the query includes copying the plurality of data blocks in the first table into a second table and, in response, for each data block of the plurality of data blocks in the first table copied into the second table, incrementing, the respective reference count associated with the data block in the first table, appending, by the data processing hardware, into metadata of the second table, a reference of the corresponding data block copied into the second table.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improved security authentication are disclosed. In some embodiments, an improved system for security authentication may include a plurality of computing devices, and a server system communicatively coupled to the plurality of computing devices. The server system may be configured to receive a request for security authentication, determine an authorization providing computing device from among the plurality of computer devices based on authentication preferences stored in a database communicatively coupled to the server system, generate and transmit authentication information to the determined authorization providing computing device, receive, from an initiating computing device an authentication input, determine whether the received authentication input matches the transmitted authentication information, and complete the request for security authentication when the received authentication input matches the generated and transmitted authentication information.

Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a bottom portion, a top portion, and a lightweight crown portion covering an opening in the top portion. The crown portion may include two or more integral ribs to stiffen the crown portion. The crown portion may be a composite crown portion formed in a mold by applying heat and pressure. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: A method of processing boxes includes shuttling a box in a first direction and cutting to separate outer flaps of the box from one another as the box moves past a cutting tool in the first direction, wherein the outer flaps overlie inner flaps. The method includes engaging a set of opening guides with the outer flaps of the box to drive the outer flaps open. The method includes opening inner flaps using shape memory and shuttling the box in the first direction over an inclined plane after the inner and outer flaps are open to flatten the box.

Abstract: Modified bacteria and methods for the construction of metabolic pathways inside bacteria to produce biomolecules including cannabinoids, cannabinoid precursors, and cannabinoid derivatives are disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for using a third party dynamic QR code on a personal mobile device to complete a transaction at an ATM. The customer may stage a transaction using a mobile application on a mobile device. Upon the staged transaction being authenticated and approved, a machine readable image may be transmitted to the mobile device. When the customer visits the ATM, the machine readable image on the mobile device may be captured by the ATM and sent to an application server from the ATM. The application server may associate the ATM with the staged transaction that is staged using the mobile application, and send instructions to the ATM to dispense cash according to the staged transaction.

Abstract: A system uses a fleet of AVs to assess visibility of target objects. Each AV has a camera for capturing images of target objects. AVs provide the captured images, or visibility data derived from the captured images, to a remote system, which aggregates visibility data describing images captured across the fleet of AVs. The AVs also provide condition data describing conditions under which the images were captured, and the remote system aggregates the condition data. The remote system processes the aggregated visibility data and condition data to determine conditions under which a target object does not meet a visibility threshold.

Abstract: The inventive disclosures are directed to an improved fluid-applied waterproofing membrane that features two or more layers of waterproofing materials, in cold or hot liquid form, that provide a waterproofing barrier coating combined with an electrically-conductive mesh embedded in at least one of the two or more layers of waterproofing materials, wherein the electrically-conductive mesh provides the fluid-applied waterproofing membrane with intrinsic leak-detection capability.

Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for creating an optical component having a spatially controlled refractive index and uniform anti-reflective layer. The method may involve alternately depositing and dewetting two or more thin metal material layers on the substrate to form a mask having a spatially varying nano-particle distribution, and with an increased thickness beyond what could be achieved using a single, thick layer of the same material. The substrate may then be etched, using the mask, to imprint a spatially patterned nanostructure pattern on a surface the substrate in accordance with the mask.

Abstract: A method of video decoding performed in a video decoder includes receiving compressed geometric data corresponding to a three dimensional (3D) space. The method further includes generating a resolution occupancy map. The method further includes reconstructing a point cloud using the compressed geometric data and the resolution occupancy map. The method further includes performing a smoothing operation on one of the (i) reconstructed point cloud and (ii) the generated resolution occupancy map.

Abstract: Methods and digital circuits provide frequency correction to frequency synthesizers. Dual switched-capacitor voltage detectors connected to an input signal periodically sample the voltage of the input signal, and then determine a fundamental frequency of the input signal from the output of the dual switched-capacitor voltage detectors. The sample period of the dual switched-capacitor voltage detectors is proportional to a time period between a previous pair of voltage peaks detected in the input signal, thereby eliminating harmonic components in the original signal which might otherwise cause errors in frequency estimation without causing unwanted sluggishness in the transient response of the frequency detection process. The time period between the previous pair of detected voltage peaks is used to create a decay signal that initiates a capacitor decay time for each voltage detector.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for speech recognition using attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A sequence of feature vectors indicative of the acoustic characteristics of the utterance is generated. The sequence of feature vectors is processed using a speech recognition model that has been trained using a loss function that uses N-best lists of decoded hypotheses, the speech recognition model including an encoder, an attention module, and a decoder. The encoder and decoder each include one or more recurrent neural network layers. A sequence of output vectors representing distributions over a predetermined set of linguistic units is obtained. A transcription for the utterance is obtained based on the sequence of output vectors. Data indicating the transcription of the utterance is provided.

Abstract: An example method may include obtaining first beamforming feedback from a station based on first sounding signals from a first set of antennas selected from multiple antennas of an access point, and obtaining second beamforming feedback from the station based on second sounding signals from a second set of antennas selected from the multiple antennas of the access point. The method may also include, using the first beamforming feedback and the second beamforming feedback, determining correlational relationships between pairs of the multiple antennas of the access point, and deriving a beamforming steering matrix from the correlational relationships.

Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that may cause a processor to receive a user credential from a terminal, in which the user credential is stored in a machine-readable code on a user device and the terminal obtained the machine-readable code from the user device. The processor may also identify at least one authentication factor associated with the user based on the user credential, in which the authentication factor(s) includes a physical location associated with the user and/or a time-based factor. The processor may further determine whether the authentication factor(s) indicates that the user is to be granted access to the terminal and based on a determination that the authentication factor(s) indicates that the user is to be granted access to the terminal, may grant the user access to the terminal.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for interlinking multiple independent and separately-scalable blockchains to provide transactional provenance. The disclosed systems and methods leverage a combination of blockchain and graph data structures to interoperate between blockchains without requiring a single data structure while still providing a single chain of custody and provenance for a particular set of actions.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.

Abstract: Various embodiments described herein are generally directed to techniques for managing fraud rules and generating authentication directions according to location data from one or more client devices. Embodiments may include using a payment server informed by a client device application to manage and/or apply fraud rules for transactions. In embodiments, fraud rules may be managed based on location data provided by a client device application and/or location data associated with at least one transaction system. In some embodiments, fraud rules may be managed based on location data provided by multiple client device applications and/or location data associated with at least one transaction system. In some embodiments, rules may be managed for an individual authorization request according to information from at least one client device application and location data for a transaction system associated with the authorization request.