Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry can decode prediction information of a chroma coding block (CB) from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information indicates an intra block copy (IBC) mode for the chroma CB and the chroma CB includes one or more chroma units. The processing circuitry can determine a chroma block vector (BV) for one of the one or more chroma units based on at least one luma unit collocated with the one of the one or more chroma units. The at least one luma unit is coded in the IBC mode. The processing circuitry can reconstruct at least one sample in the one of the one or more chroma units based on the chroma BV. The at least one luma unit and the chroma CB can be associated with separate luma-chroma coding trees.

Abstract: A polymer composition may include one or more monomeric units, with an internal crosslinker, internal breaker, scale control additive or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A liquid level sensor includes a liquid level responsive member that moves in response to changing liquid level, an electrically conductive contact associated with the liquid level responsive member, a circuit including a rectifying element and a) one or more conductive elements, or b) one or more resistive elements or c) one or more conductive elements and one or more resistive elements, wherein the contact is arranged to engage at least one of the elements in a, b, or c, and a power supply. The power supply is adapted to provide a voltage to the circuit causing a current flow in a first direction in the circuit wherein the current flows through the contact and to provide a current flow in a second direction in the circuit wherein the rectifying element prevents current flow through the contact.

Abstract: Techniques for fabricating a slanted structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a slanted structure on a material layer includes forming a mask layer on the material layer, and implanting ions into a plurality of regions of the material layer at a slant angle greater than zero using an ion beam and the mask layer. The slant angle is measured with respect to a surface normal of the material layer. Implanting the ions into the plurality of regions of the material layer changes a refractive index or an etch rate of the plurality of regions of the material layer. In some embodiments, the method further includes wet-etching the material layer using an etchant to remove materials in the plurality of regions of the material layer. In some embodiments, the method includes either simultaneous or post-implantation etching of modified material through a dry etching process using reactive etchants in feed gas.

Abstract: A vessel dissector used in conjunction with an endoscope is provided with a lumen for receiving the endoscope; a blunt dissecting tip provided on a distal end of an elongated cannula permitting tissue dissection while viewing internal body structures via an objective lens of the endoscope; and a vessel severing tool extending through at least a portion of the elongated cannula and translatable longitudinally relative to the elongated cannula, and the vessel severing tool comprises an electrode-carrying member translatable circumferentially within an arcuate slot extending through an outer surface of the vessel dissector, wherein the arcuate slot comprises an inner radius, an outer radius and a central radius, wherein the outer radius is greater than the inner radius and the central radius is located between the outer radius and the inner radius so the arcuate slot provides a uniform opening through which the electrode-carrying member can extend and retract.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, system, and program product for depositing, holding and/or distributing collateral in the form of a stable value token for a security token, the tokens being on the same underlying blockchain. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods, systems and program products for lending digital assets, such as crypto currency, and related products.

Abstract: A method performed at an electronic device includes: executing an application; establishing a session between the executing application, a remote server associated with the application, and a media device that transmits output from the session to an output device, wherein the output from the session includes output from the executing application; and presenting to users of one or more second electronic devices on which the application is not executing and/or installed a session identifier associated with the session, wherein the session identifier facilitates joining of the session by the second electronic devices and identifies a controller configuration implementable on each of the one or more second electronic devices for enabling the users of the one or more second electronic devices to interact with the session.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the preparation of methyl 2-(1H-indole-3-carbonyl)thiazole-4-carboxylate (ITE) and related compounds with high yield, purity, and scalability. The processes apply the use of a Weinreb amide intermediate as a scaffold for the preparation of ITE and structural analogs.

Abstract: A high pressure, free radical polymerization process to form an ethylene-based polymer, the process comprising at least the following step: polymerizing a reaction mixture comprising ethylene, using a polymerization system comprising the following: (A) a reactor configuration comprising at least one reactor that comprises at least two reaction zones, a first reaction zone (reaction zone 1) and an ith reaction zone (where i?2); wherein the ith reaction zone is the last reaction zone, and wherein i is the total number of reaction zones; (B) at least two ethylene-based feed streams, a first ethylene-based feed stream and an nth ethylene-based feed stream, wherein the first ethylene-based feed stream is sent to the first reaction zone, and the nth ethylene-based feed stream is the last ethylene based feed stream sent to the reactor configuration; wherein n?i; and RZn/RZ1 does not equal 1.

Abstract: An aspect of implementing globally optimized partial deduplication of storage objects includes gathering pages that share a common feature, dividing the pages into groups based on commonality with corresponding representative pages, where each is assigned as a representative dedupe page for the corresponding groups. For each group in the groups of pages, an aspect also includes writing the pages to a corresponding physical container.

Abstract: An Asset Management System and a method for managing a fleet of assets is provided. The system is capable of determining use states and high-use periods of a fleet of mobile workstations. Use states are determined by sensors resident on mobile workstations, the sensors operable to detect the occurrence of a specified event. The Asset Management System is able to interpret data sent by the sensors and determine a type of use and use state for each mobile workstation based on the data or lack of data sent by the sensors. The Asset Management System is operable to determine periods of high-use across the fleet of mobile workstations. The Asset Management System is also operable to determine a return-on-investment level of each mobile workstation in the fleet and generate a heat map based on those levels.

Abstract: A method comprising causing a simulation machine for molecular dynamic simulation to determine that a topological distance that separates two particles is less than a threshold. The simulation machine includes nodes connected by a network. The nodes collectively representing a volume with each node corresponding to a portion of the simulation space. A topological relationship between the nodes corresponds to spatial relationship thereof in the simulation space. The simulation volume is occupied by particles that interact with each other. The two particles are among these particles. The simulation volume includes node boxes, each of which is handled by one of the nodes. Each of the nodes is implemented as an application specific integrated circuit that includes a combination of first and second hardware elements. The first hardware elements are especially designed to perform pairwise interactions. The second hardware elements operate to provide potentially interacting particles to the first hardware elements.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for storing excess energy from at least one energy producing source, as thermal energy, using an existing geologic formation. First and second storage zones formed in a geologic region may be used to store high temperature and medium high temperature brine. When excess energy is available from the energy producing source, a quantity of the medium high temperature brine is withdrawn and heated using the energy supplied by the energy source to form a first new quantity of high temperature brine, which is then injected back into the first storage zone. This forces a quantity of medium high temperature brine present in the first storage zone into the second storage zone, to maintain a desired quantity of high temperature brine in the first storage zone and a desired quantity of medium high temperature brine in the second storage zone.

Abstract: Implementations provide an improved drag-and-drop operation on a mobile device. For example, a method includes identifying a drag area in a user interface of a first mobile application in response to a drag command and receiving a drop location in a second mobile application that differs from the first mobile application. The method may also include determining that a drop location is a text input control and the drag area is not text-based, performing a search for a text description of the drag area, and pasting the text description into the text input control. The method may also include determining that a drop location is an image input control and that the drag area is text based, performing a search using the drag area for a responsive image, and pasting the responsive image into the image input control.

Abstract: This invention is for tracking at least one plant. A method of this invention comprises: putting at least one seed or at least one stem in a corresponding at least one pot; positioning a corresponding at least one RFID tag with respect to the seed or stem in a manner, wherein the RFID tag comprises a strap; packaging a harvested material into a packaged product and attaching the RFID tag from the potted plant, or a product RFID tag that is associated with the plurality of tags to the packaged product; confirming a request for authorization by a RFID buy card; and after confirming ID information, transferring at least one product.

Abstract: Systems and processes are provided to prevent light ends such as methane, ethylene and ethane from building up in an olefin/paraffin separation system that uses a combination of a membrane and distillation column for this separation. In one embodiment a small stripper column is provided downstream from a selective hydrogenation reactor. In the other embodiment, a surge vessel with a receiver is added to the retentate stream of the membrane unit.