Abstract: A non-volatile memory system includes a control circuit connected to non-volatile memory cells. The control circuit is configured to simultaneously program memory cells connected to different word lines that are in different sub-blocks of different blocks in different planes of a die.

Abstract: A portable, self-contained vacuum tongue cleaning device uses a removable cleaning head so that different heads can be used with different users. The device includes a debris and saliva separator that removes the debris and saliva from the vacuum flow. This separator is carried by the cleaning head in order to minimize required cleaning of the base of the device. The base carries a vacuum pump, a power supply, a switch, and an inlet that allows the power supply to be recharged. The device is configured for emergency use in an oral surgeon's office wherein vacuum flow is required during surgeries.

Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more controllers, programmed to responsive to detecting a mismatch between a biometric information of a user collected via a biometric sensor and a biometric record, send a lockup signal to a mobile device enrolled with the vehicle to lock an application; and responsive to successfully performing an authentication through an interaction with the application in a lockup mode, send an unlock signal to the mobile device to unlock the application.

Abstract: A reel system that includes a drum that receives a coil of flexible pipe. A first flange that removably couples to a first side of the drum. A second flange that removably couples to a second side of the drum. The first flange and the second flange secure the coil of flexible pipe to the drum.

Abstract: A method may include creating a priority order among two or more transport media based on an availability of each transport medium when a request to establish an outbound communication session is received. The method may further include receiving the request to establish an outbound communication session with a contact and selecting a transport medium of the two or more transport media based on the priority order and one or more user identifications associated with the contact. The method may also include selecting a software controller in response to the selection of the transport medium based on the software controller being associated with the selected transport medium and sending the request to establish the outbound communication session to an electronic device by the selected software controller through the selected transport medium. The method may also include establishing the outbound communication session with the electronic device through the selected transport medium.

Abstract: A mobile drilling machine may include a drilling mast having a mast frame, a movable drill motor assembly, and a pivot; a machine frame including front and back portions, an engine, a ground engaging assembly, and a coupling assembly including first and second side plates, where the mast is pivotably coupled at the pivot between the first and second side plates; at least one primary fluid cylinder coupled to the machine frame to apply a force to the mast at a position above the pivot along the mast to assist in moving the mast between a stowed position to a drilling position; and a secondary fluid cylinder coupled to the machine frame to apply a force to the mast at a position below the pivot along the mast to assist the at least one primary fluid cylinder when the mast is at a negative drilling angle.

Abstract: A device may determine values for a set of metrics related to a set of event messages being processed, by a set of server devices, from a set of queues. The values for the set of metrics may be determined as the set of event messages are being processed. Each of the set of queues may be associated with a different subset of event messages and a different subset of server devices. The device may determine to scale a quantity of server devices included in the set of server devices. The quantity of server devices may be scaled to increase the quantity of server devices or to decrease the quantity of server devices. The device may provide a set of instructions to scale the quantity of server devices. The device may perform an action to facilitate accessibility of data related to processing of the set of event messages.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle with an internal combustion engine is provided that includes regulating a pressure in a fuel tank by scheduling an engine start-up event based on a rate of change of the fuel tank pressure to reduce fuel tank venting emissions, where the rate of change of the fuel tank pressure is determined based on an ambient temperature and an in-tank pressure.

Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes, for each of multiple hosts: identifying visual leaf pages hosted by the host that are each a web page including image data defining an image or a video that is prominently displayed relative to all other content of the web page, identifying a set of hub pages hosted by the host that each link to at least one of the visual leaf pages through an image-based link, and for each hub page, generating cluster data representing the visual leaf pages to which the hub page links by determining, for each visual leaf page, a set of feature values that each indicate pre-defined features of the visual leaf page, and generating, from the sets of feature values, a set of central feature values as the cluster data for the hub page that indicate a central tendency of each respective pre-defined feature.

Abstract: Priority scanning of files written by malicious users in a data storage system is described herein. A data storage system as described herein can include a user lookup component that obtains identities of users that have made at least one modification to a first file stored on the data storage system, resulting in a set of modifying users; a comparison component that compares respective modifying users of the set of modifying users to respective malicious users of a set of malicious users; and a scan priority component that, in response to the comparison component identifying at least one match between a modifying user of the set of modifying users and a malicious user of the set of malicious users, assigns a first scan priority to the first file that is higher than a second scan priority assigned to a second, different file stored on the data storage system.

Abstract: A traveling wave multipole comprising two or more pairs of segmented electrodes arranged around a central axis; and a voltage supply. The voltage supply configured to supply the segments of each pair of electrodes with a different RF and DC potential; and match RF and DC potentials with a location of an ion of target m/z moving through the traveling wave multipole such that as the ion travels along the multipole the ion experiences the same RF and DC potentials while another ion of a second target m/z concurrently experiences a different RF and DC potentials at another location within the traveling wave multipole.

Abstract: A storage system in one embodiment comprises a plurality of storage devices and a storage controller. The storage controller is configured to receive a delete instruction for a storage volume, and responsive to receipt of the delete instruction, to suspend any further changes to address metadata for the storage volume, to transfer the address metadata for the storage volume to persistent storage, and to delete the storage volume while also at least temporarily maintaining its data pages. The storage controller subsequently receives an undelete instruction for the deleted storage volume, and responsive to receipt of the undelete instruction, retrieves the address metadata from persistent storage and recovers the storage volume utilizing the address metadata. An expiration timer may be started in conjunction with the deletion of the storage volume, and responsive to the undelete instruction being received after a specified expiration time of the expiration timer, the undelete instruction is rejected.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for testing and applying codes to electronic shopping carts. For instance, the method may include monitoring a shopping cart associated with an e-commerce website and with a user; in response to detecting a change to the shopping cart, testing codes with respect to a present content of the shopping cart to determine valid codes; selecting at least one of the valid codes; determining a status of the session; and performing an action based on the status and the at least one selected code. The testing the codes with respect to the present content of the shopping cart may include: cloning the shopping cart to form a cloned shopping cart in a shadow session; and/or obtaining the codes; and testing the codes on the cloned shopping cart in the shadow session to determine the valid codes.

Abstract: A premises management system may monitor the location of a vehicle, and may perform an action based on the location of the vehicle.

Abstract: A low cost, rapid, flexible radiation detector uses inorganic metal halide precursors and dyes that respond to self-quenching hybrid scintillation. Remote, high-contrast, laser sensing can be used to determine when exposure of the detector to radiation occurs (even temporally).

Abstract: A photonic edge coupler includes a slab waveguide and a ridge waveguide. The ridge waveguide includes a silicon wire waveguide, which includes a tapered portion. A first end of the slab waveguide is joined to the ridge waveguide at a junction, and a second end of the slab waveguide forms a first facet. The ridge waveguide defines a longitudinal axis that is associated with a direction of a light signal therein. The first facet is angled at less than 90 degrees relative to the longitudinal axis associated with the direction of the light signal therein. The first facet is disposed opposite to a laser facet associated with a laser waveguide. The longitudinal axis of the ridge waveguide defines a first center point, and the laser facet and the associated laser waveguide define a second center point. The second center point is laterally offset from the first center point.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a running board assembly for a motor vehicle and a corresponding method. An example method includes supplying current to a motor to move a running board between a retracted position and a deployed position, monitoring a level of the current, and permitting the level of current to exceed a threshold (i.e., overcurrent is permitted) in response to a user input.

Abstract: Frac pumps have valve bodies. The valve bodies comprise a head and a compressible seal. The head provides a valve surface adapted to engage the valve seat. The compressible seal is carried on the head radially inward of the valve surface and is adapted to engage the valve seat. It is mounted between the head and a valve guide having a plurality of legs. The face of the compressible seal has a slightly curved, convex sealing surface.

Abstract: A technique for managing a deduplication digest cache (DDC) includes assigning each digest entry of the DDC to one of multiple entry lists, scoring the entry lists based at least in part on the deduplicability of the data represented by the digest entries in the entry lists, and selecting for eviction from the DDC entries assigned to the lowest-scoring entry list. In this manner, entries assigned to entry lists that perform more poorly in terms of deduplicability tend to be evicted more quickly than entries assigned to entry lists that perform better.

Abstract: A fluid-driven actuator system includes a fluid-driven actuator and at least one proportional control valve and at least one pump connected to the fluid-driven actuator to provide fluid to operate the fluid-driven actuator. The at least one pump includes at least one fluid driver having a prime mover and a fluid displacement assembly to be driven by the prime mover such that fluid is transferred from the pump inlet to the pump outlet. The fluid-driven actuator system also includes a controller that establishes at least one of a speed and a torque of the at least one prime mover to adjust at least one of a flow in the fluid-driven system to a flow set point and a pressure in the fluid-driven actuator system to a pressure set point and concurrently establishes an opening of the at least one proportional control valve to adjust at least one of the flow to the flow set point and the pressure to the pressure set point.