Abstract: A tailgate deactivation system. A switch includes two terminals configured to be electrically coupled to a tailgate power circuit that supplies power to at least a portion of a tailgate of a vehicle, and an actuator configured to electrically couple the two terminals in an on state to allow power to flow in the tailgate power circuit, and to electrically decouple the two terminals in an off state to inhibit power from flowing in the tailgate power circuit.

Abstract: A method and system of detecting faults in rotor driven equipment includes generating data from one or more vibration sensors communicatively coupled to the rotor driven equipment. The data from the one or more machine wearable sensors is collected onto a mobile data collector. The data is sampled at random to estimate a maximum value. Further, a sampling error may be controlled under a predefined value. The data may be analyzed through a combination of Cartesian to Spherical transformation, statistics of the entity extraction (such as variance of azimuthal angle), big data analytics engine and a machine learning engine. A fault is displayed on a user interface associated with the rotor driven equipment.

Abstract: A system for detecting license plates is described. The system receives raw data comprising images of license plates. A base version of a ground truth is prepared based on the raw data, using a generic license plate detection (LPD). The system prepares input data for training a deep learning network. The deep learning network is trained with the prepared input data. A newly trained generic (LPD) is formed using data generated by the existing generic (LPD).

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for utilizing an access log of a proxy server device of a content delivery network (CDN) to detect and mitigate a denial of service (DOS) on a web or content server hosted by the CDN. Through an analysis of the content requests received at the proxy server listed in the access logs, one or more IP addresses may be identified as involved in a potential DOS attack or other suspicious behavior. Once identified, the suspicious activities of the one or more IP addresses may be tracked and aggregated over a particular period of time, with each detected suspicious request to the content server being counted. The count of suspicious requests to the content server may then be compared to one or more threshold values and a remediation action may occur when the thresholds are met or exceeded.

Abstract: A method for formulating a composition contains the step of coating a granular absorbent material with a coating agent to produce a coated absorbent material and mixing the coated absorbent material with a sanitation agent, wherein the coated absorbent material absorbs the sanitation agent to form the liquid loading composition. Liquid-loading compositions that can absorb liquids in many applications, including clean-up and farming, are also disclosed.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaning apparatus may include a debris container and a filtering system. The debris container may define a debris collection chamber and include a dirty air inlet and a clean air outlet. The filtering system may be at least partially disposed in the debris collection chamber, and may include a fluff screen and a fluff screen cover defining a cavity for receiving at least a portion of the fluff screen. The fluff screen and the fluff screen cover may both include tapered outer surfaces. The tapered outer surfaces may have opposing tapers.

Abstract: The systems and methods of a blockchain platform for distributed applications includes flexibility to implement a variety of client systems with a token usage and distributed computing based on separation of roles for a miner and a blobber. The message flow model between different parties including a client, a blobber and a miner allows for fast transactions on a lightweight blockchain by lightening the load on a mining network, i.e. a network of one or more miners. Offloading the work to a different group of machines allows for greater specialization in the design and specifications of the machines, allowing for the blockchain platform miners to be optimized for fast transaction handling and blockchain platform blobbers to be efficient at handling data for given transaction types.

Abstract: Apparatus and processes herein provide for converting hydrocarbon feeds to light olefins and other hydrocarbons. The processes and apparatus include, in some embodiments, feeding a hydrocarbon, a first catalyst and a second catalyst to a reactor, wherein the first catalyst has a smaller average particle size and is less dense than the second catalyst. A first portion of the second catalyst may be recovered as a bottoms product from the reactor, and a cracked hydrocarbon effluent, a second portion of the second catalyst, and the first catalyst may be recovered as an overhead product from the reactor. The second portion of the second catalyst may be separated from the overhead product, providing a first stream comprising the first catalyst and the hydrocarbon effluent and a second stream comprising the separated second catalyst, allowing return of the separated second catalyst in the second stream to the reactor.

Abstract: A system for automatic unloading of articles from a container or trailer comprising a control system comprising at least one processor configured via computer executable instructions to perform automated unloading operations utilizing a plurality of unloading apparatuses, generate, on a display, an identification for each of the plurality of unloading apparatuses, generate, on the display, an identification of an operating status for each of the plurality of unloading apparatuses, monitor the automated unloading operations, automatically detect an exception of an automated unloading operation performed by an unloading apparatus, halt the automated unloading operation based on a detected exception, and modify, on the display, the identification of the operation status of the unloading apparatus indicating that the automated unloading operation has halted.

Abstract: A u-shaped metal portion and a u-shaped plastic portion can be coupled together to define an interior rib receiving cavity between both the metal sides and the plastic sides. The u-shaped metal portion can include a first metal rib retention barb extending interiorly of the plastic portion in the interior rib receiving cavity and can be designed to engage the rib to couple the dual material U-base fastener to a first component rib with the rib received within the interior rib receiving cavity. The u-shaped plastic portion can include a first plastic aperture retention wing extending exteriorly of the metal portion and designed to engage a second component aperture to couple the dual material U-base fastener to the aperture with the inner plastic and outer metal insertion ends extending through the aperture.

Abstract: Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the device including a near field transducer, the near field transducer having a peg and a disc, the peg having a region adjacent the ABS, the peg including a plasmonic material selected from gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), aluminum (Al), or combinations thereof; and at least one other secondary atom selected from germanium (Ge), tellurium (Te), aluminum (Al), antimony (Sb), tin (Sn), mercury (Hg), indium (In), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), silver (Ag), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), and combinations thereof, wherein a concentration of the secondary atom is higher at the region of the peg adjacent the ABS than a concentration of the secondary atom throughout the bulk of the peg. Methods of forming NFTs are also disclosed.

Abstract: Kiosk systems are used for personalizing articles. The articles may include an item to be personalized assembled with components of packaging in a pre-hooped configuration. The system may include a housing and a personalization system within the housing. The personalization system may include a plurality of system components for personalizing the article. The system may also include a conveying system within the housing. The conveying system may be used to transfer the article in the pre-hooped configuration between the system components of the personalization systems. The system may also include a control system in the housing and/or remote from the housing. The control system may receive a personalization order and in response the control system may control the system components of the personalization systems and the conveying system so that the article is personalized without human intervention once within the housing.

Abstract: A method includes providing a transformer with primary and current injection windings, a primary switch connected to the primary winding, a parasitic capacitance reflected across the primary switch, a secondary rectifier means, and a current injection circuit including a current injection switch connected to the current injection winding, and a unidirectional current injection switch connected to the current injection winding. The method includes switching on the current injection switch to start a current injection flowing from a controlled voltage source, through the unidirectional current injection switch and further through the current injection winding. The current injection reflects into the primary winding, thereby discharging the parasitic capacitance reflected across the primary switch. The method includes turning on the primary switch with a delay time after the current injection switch turns on and turning off the current injection switch after the current injection reaches zero amplitude.

Abstract: Omega-3 compositions, dosage forms, and methods of use are disclosed herein. The omega-3 compositions and dosage forms disclosed herein may comprise DHA and EPA. The omega-3 compositions and dosage forms disclosed herein may comprise re-esterified triglycerides. Methods of treatment using the compositions and dosage forms are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention provide a continuum measure of visibility from a single image without prior knowledge of the camera system or the cameras in the system. This may be, for example, a score on the weather visibility quality of the image, ranging from good to poor, or a numeric score representing the weather visibility quality of the terrain in the image. This may be done without prior knowledge of the camera system, the camera that took the image, or the environment. It is also done with the single image without using multiple images, or reference images. The system derives a real-time continuum measure of visibility from a single daytime image, with unknown camera quality, system configuration, and environmental conditions.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described, and one method includes acquiring a frequency offset for a demodulator receiving one symbol rate in combination with acquiring another frequency offset for another demodulator, based on sweeping the other frequency offset until detecting a qualifying symbol pattern or acquiring the frequency offset for the demodulator receiving one symbol rate, whichever occurs first. Associated with acquiring the other frequency offset based on acquiring the frequency offset for the demodulator receiving one symbol rate, setting the other frequency offset includes adjusting the frequency offset for the demodulator receiving one symbol rate.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a tool for annealing a magnetic stack. The tool includes a housing defining a heating chamber; a holding mechanism to hold at least one wafer in a single line within the heating chamber, a heating mechanism to heat the at least one wafer; and a magnetic field generator to generate a magnetic field whole field lines pass through the single line of wafers during a magnetic annealing process; wherein the holding mechanism comprises a wafer support of holding the single line of wafers between the heating mechanism and the magnetic field generator.