Abstract: A system and method arranged to enable a user to access crisis-related resources and/or other resources of interest quickly and privately to the user. The system includes a downloadable computer program configured to operate on a mobile communication device and configured to access the internet. The system also includes a database of information accessible through the mobile communication device, wherein the information of the database includes crisis and/or other resource information in the form of website links, telephone number links or both. The system also includes a resource access function configured to enable the user to access a resource of the database either through a direct link to a website of the resource, a direct link to call a telephone number of the resource or both without requiring the user to conduct an internet search to find and access the resource.

Abstract: A device operative to transfer power wirelessly includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC), memory that stores operational instructions, and processing module(s). The DSC generates a drive signal based on a reference signal and provides the drive signal to a first coil via a single line and via a resonating capacitor, and simultaneously senses the drive signal via the single line, to facilitate electromagnetic coupling to a second coil to transfer power wirelessly to another device. The DSC also detects electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. The processing module(s) generates the reference signal and processes the digital signal to determine the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. In some examples, the processing module(s) adapts the reference signal based on detection of the other device (e.g., based on interpreting the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal).

Abstract: A system and method arranged to enable a user to access recovery-related resources and/or other resources of interest quickly and privately to the user. The system includes a downloadable computer program configured to operate on a mobile communication device and configured to access the internet. The system also includes a database of information accessible through the mobile communication device, wherein the information of the database includes recovery and/or other resource information in the form of website links, telephone number links or both. The system also includes a resource access function configured to enable the user to access a resource of the database either through a direct link to a website of the resource, a direct link to call a telephone number of the resource or both without requiring the user to conduct an internet search to find and access the resource.

Abstract: Techniques are described for operating a display comprising an array of emitters arranged in at least one column. A data shifting circuit stores digital data or an analog representation thereof in a first storage element. The data shifting circuit outputs the digital data or analog representation multiple times to a display driver circuit, using a multiplexer. The first storage element can be a shift register or a capacitor. Digital data can be internally shifted within the data shifting circuit, through multiple shift registers, prior to output to the display driver circuit. An analog representation can be stored and read from the same capacitor without internal shifting. The display driver circuit drives a different emitter of the column each time. A scanning assembly including a reflective surface that receives light from the emitter array forms an output image by rotating the reflective surface in synchronization with driving of the emitters.

Abstract: A system for provisioning computerized devices of a plurality of tenants is provided. The system includes a security credential management system (SCMS) host connected to the devices and that is operable to receive provisioning requests from respective ones of the devices needing certificates, each provisioning request indicating a tenant identifier uniquely identifying a tenant, at least one registration authority that is communicatively connected to the SCMS host and transmits the provisioning requests to SCMS backend components based on the tenant identifier of each provisioning request.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to SA alkylation reactor systems. The reactor system involves a closed reactor vessel comprising a shell, a vapor outlet, and an emulsion outlet. The reactor system also involves a distributor located at the lower portion of the reactor vessel, a mixer fluidly connected with the distributor, and an emulsion pump fluidly connected with the mixer and the emulsion outlet, wherein the emulsion pump is located outside the reactor vessel. This disclosure also relates to a split SA alkylation reactor system wherein a single horizontal reactor vessel is divided to accommodate two reactor systems. This disclosure also relates to alkylation processes using the reactor systems. This disclosure also relates to methods of converting an HF alkylation unit to a SA alkylation unit. This disclosure also relates to converted SA alkylation units and alkylation processes performed in the converted SA alkylation units.

Abstract: A modular room includes a floor having an upper surface, and a lower surface. The floor defines a floor height between the upper surface and the lower surface, and the floor defines a through aperture. At least three walls have a lower end connected to the floor and an upper end extend away from the floor, a ceiling is connected to the upper end of the walls, and a drain body is positioned in the floor aperture. The drain body has an upper surface and a lower surface and defines a drain body height between the upper and lower surfaces. The drain body height is less than the floor height, such that the drain body does not extend above the upper surface of the floor or below the lower surface of the flow while the drain body is positioned in the aperture in the floor.

Abstract: An eye is illuminated with light propagating substantially normal to a pupil plane of the eye. Illuminating the eye includes illuminating an ellipsoidal combiner that has a foci at a center of rotation of the eye. The light propagates through the pupil to become incident on the retina.

Abstract: An example system may include one or more application platforms (e.g., VMs) that run a registration authority and are communicatively connected to one or more compute engines that perform cryptographic computations required by the registration authority. The system may also include one or more application platforms that run an enrollment certificate authority and that are communicatively connected to one or more compute engines that perform cryptographic computations required by the enrollment certificate authority. It may further include one or more application platforms that run a pseudonym certificate authority and that are communicatively connected to one or more compute engines that perform cryptographic computations required by the pseudonym certificate authority. It may also include one or more load balancers communicatively connected to the one or more compute engines, the one or more load balancers to perform operations comprising distributing at least one request to the one or more compute engines.

Abstract: An apparatus for video coding using dual deblocking filter thresholds may include a processor generating a reconstructed frame by decoding an encoded bitstream and outputting the reconstructed frame. Decoding may include generating a decoded block by decoding a portion of the encoded bitstream, identifying a first deblocking threshold index from the encoded bitstream, identifying a second deblocking threshold index from the encoded bitstream, generating a reconstructed block based on the decoded block, and including the reconstructed block in the reconstructed frame. Generating the reconstructed block may include deblocking based on the first deblocking threshold index and the second deblocking threshold index.

Abstract: Techniques for providing an efficient virtualization layer structure in a data storage system. The techniques include implementing multiple layers of indirection for accessing host data in the data storage system, including a mapping layer, a virtualization layer, and a physical layer. The virtualization layer includes virtual layer blocks (VLBs), each VLB including virtual pointers. Each virtual pointer is pointed to by one or more leaf pointers in the mapping layer, and points to a data block in the physical layer. The techniques include generating, for each virtual pointer in the VLB, reference count metadata to keep track of the number of leaf pointers pointing to the virtual pointer, and maintaining, in a metadata page, the reference count metadata for the virtual pointers in a three (3)-way mirror. The techniques include maintaining each VLB of the virtualization layer in a RAID stripe across multiple physical drives in the data storage system.

Abstract: A method of laser spot welding a workpiece stack-up (10) that includes at least two overlapping steel workpieces (12, 14, 150) is disclosed. The method includes directing a plurality of laser beams (24, 24?, 24?) at the top surface (20) of the workpiece stack-up to create a molten steel weld pool (92) that penetrates into the stack-up. The molten steel weld pool is then grown to penetrate further into the stack-up by increasing an overall combined irradiance of the laser beams while reducing the total projected sectional area (88) of the laser beams at a plane of the top surface of the workpiece stack-up. Increasing the overall combined irradiance of the laser beams may be accomplished by moving the focal points (66, 66?, 66?) of the laser beams closer to the top surface or by reducing the mean angle of incidence (86) of the laser beams so as to reduce the eccentricity of the individual projected sectional areas of the laser beams.

Abstract: An adhesive tape dispenser and applicator which folds one or both edges of tape being applied over upon themselves is constructed with an edge folding guide having a planar surface, two inwardly converging edges and tape guides cooperating to fold the edges of the tape. A method of threading tape onto a folding tape dispenser is also described.

Abstract: As disclosed herein, optimal native genomic loci have been identified in dicot plants, such as soybean plants, that represent best sites for targeted insertion of exogenous sequences.

Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein L1 and L2 are each independently a covalent bond or a divalent linking group, R is a detectable label or therapeutic drug and B is an albumin binding moiety. Also provided are compositions including a compound of Formula (I) together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and methods for imaging prostate cancer cells using a compound of Formula (I).

Abstract: Techniques for fabricating a slanted structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a slanted surface-relief structure in a material layer includes forming a thin hard mask on top of an intermediate mask layer, etching the intermediate mask layer at a slant angle using the thin hard mask to form a slanted intermediate mask, and etching the material layer at the slant angle using the slanted intermediate mask to form the slanted surface-relief structure in the material layer. The intermediate mask layer is characterized by an etch rate greater than an etch rate of the material layer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing operations based on LIDAR communications are described. An example device may include one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to receive data associated with a modulated optical signal emitted by a transmitter of a first LIDAR device and received by a receiver of a second LIDAR device coupled to a vehicle and the device, generate a rendering of an environment of the vehicle based on information from one or more LIDAR devices coupled to the vehicle, and update the rendering based on the received data. Updating the rendering includes updating an object rendering of an object in the environment of the vehicle. The instructions further cause the device to provide the updated rendering for display on a display coupled to the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle having a communication system is disclosed. The system includes two electrical couplings, coupled by way of a rotary joint having a bearing waveguide. Each electrical coupling includes an interface waveguide configured to couple to external signals. Each electrical coupling also includes a waveguide section configured to propagate electromagnetic signals between the interface waveguide and the bearing waveguide of the rotary joint. Additionally, the rotary joint is configured to allow one electrical coupling to rotate with respect to the other electrical coupling. An axis of rotation of the rotary joint is defined by a center of a portion of the waveguides. Yet further, the rotary joint allows electromagnetic energy to propagate between the waveguides of the electrical couplings.

Abstract: A plurality of bypass lines are configured to selectively engage a corresponding plurality of food flow paths in a food processor. Each bypass line fluidly communicates with an inlet of a pressure regulating valve such that a common pressure occurs at a spaced position in each food flow path providing an equal pressure at the pressure regulating valve.

Abstract: A method of estimating the residual energy of a battery. The method comprises determining the battery's state of charge (SOC) and dischargeable capacity to determine the battery's state of energy (SOE), determining the battery's reference dischargeable energy (Eref) and total dischargeable energy (Etot), and comparing the state of energy to the total dischargeable energy to find the residual energy of the battery. The various functions of the method use battery current, cell temperature, and state of health (SOH) as variables for consideration.