Abstract: An autonomous beverage maker, system and method for fresh brewed coffee, tea, and other beverages, responsive to sensed demand or inputted command, makes an initial beverage extract concentrate in a turbulent manner under unpressurized conditions, and then a dilute/secondary extract under pressurized conditions and mixes the initial extract and dilute to complete a beverage batch, successive secondary extracts/dilutes being made as required or desired to meet flavor, strength, etc., successive batches being rapidly made as required to meet demand, maintain level, etc.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide tools for promoting a user's financial well-being by encouraging positive financial behavior through timely feedback, counseling and instruction. For example, some embodiments of the invention may provide real-time (e.g., in response to a transaction being performed, or in response to the user indicating he/she is contemplating a transaction) useful analysis and advice designed to encourage the type of ongoing financial behavior that leads over time to financial well-being. Some embodiments are directed to ascertaining a current financial path for a user and a typical financial path in one or more prior months, and causing information useful for rendering a representation of the current and typical financial paths on a graphical user interface to be transmitted via one or more networks to a mobile device associated with the user.

Abstract: An automatic beverage brewer for coffee, tea, and the like, and more particularly, which is customizable both in physical configuration including number and location of external brewing fonts, optionally in association with a bulk brewing font and receiving container, and in automatic operation to dispense hot water to the respective fonts and a main brewing basket or baskets responsive to user inputted beverage brewing commands.

Abstract: A dispensing station apparatus, system, and method for liquid personal hygiene product, including, but not limited to, liquid (including gel) soap, sanitizer, disinfectant and/or cleanser, such as for sanitizing, disinfecting or cleaning one's hands, and, more particularly, that is touchlessly automatically operable to dispense a discrete quantity of the liquid personal hygiene product responsive to sensed presence of a person's hand along a predetermined dispensing path, including rapidly in succession responsive to placement of a succession of hands placed in the path. The apparatus can optionally be modular, to enable configuring to include one or more dispensing stations at multiple positions and heights on a housing of the apparatus, and it can be overall height adjustable, and can include a variety of accessories, including personal protection shielding between the stations, and dispensers for gloves, masks, tissues, etc.

Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring network traffic. A server may receive data packets originated from a first remote computer system, the data packets having a destination of a second remote computer system. The server may determine a user of the first computer system and, based thereon, identify network traffic monitoring tools configured to connect to the server through respective distinct network addresses. The server may determine a routing path for the packets including a sequence of network addresses including the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools and a second network address corresponding to the second computer system. The second network address may be ordered after the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools in the sequence. The server may send, according to the routing path, the packets to the identified network traffic monitoring tools and the second computer system.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a water drainage system comprising: a plurality of lengths of drain pipe comprising a channel and a vertical wall, wherein (i) the vertical wall comprises one or more standoffs extending horizontally from the vertical wall and (ii) wherein the drain pipe comprises a top edge and a bottom edge, each of the top and bottom edges being bifurcated by a v-shaped notch.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a water drainage system comprising: a plurality of lengths of drain pipe comprising a channel and a vertical wall, wherein (i) the vertical wall comprises one or more standoffs extending horizontally from the vertical wall and (ii) wherein the drain pipe comprises a top edge and a bottom edge, each of the top and bottom edges being bifurcated by a v-shaped notch.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide tools for promoting a user’s financial well-being by encouraging positive financial behavior through timely feedback, counseling and instruction. For example, some embodiments of the invention may provide real-time (e.g., in response to a transaction being performed, or in response to the user indicating he/she is contemplating a transaction) useful analysis and advice designed to encourage the type of ongoing financial behavior that leads over time to financial well-being.

Abstract: Precast wall systems and methods for constructing a high-rise building using the precast wall system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of interconnected precast panels, each having a top end plate, a bottom end plate, a plurality of vertical bars disposed between the end plates and a cementitious material encasing the vertical bars and defining a plurality of sides of the respective panel. A first of the precast panels has a first column member half defining a right side of the first panel, a second of the precast panels has a second column member half defining a left side of the second panel such that, when the right side of the first precast panel and the left side of the second precast panel are disposed horizontally adjacent to each other, the first column member half and the second column member half collectively form a column member.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a method of projecting images of sewing patterns as templates onto fabrics. The contemplated application for the invention includes sewist making an article of clothing. As such, images of the patterns to be sewn are stored in a storage device for latter access from a computing device that sends them to a projecting device for projection. The projecting devices is then positioned, graduated, calibrated, and set for optimizing the cutting of the fabric. Thereafter, the operator may interactively modify the projected image, and as such initiates the cutting of the fabric, in accordance to the projected sewing patterns.

Abstract: Nucleic acids encoding endogenous Gag peptides can be isolated from various organisms. Nucleic acids encoding various endogenous Gag polypeptides can be isolated from human DNA. The nucleic acids can be used to express endogenous Gag polypeptides that can be assembled into capsids. Endogenous Gag polypeptides and capsids can be used package cargo and/or deliver it to cells, for example, to package and/or deliver a nucleic acid molecule for use in gene editing, such as a component involved in a CRISPR-Cas system.

Abstract: Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are recombinant Arc and endogenous Gag polypeptides, and methods of using recombinant Arc and endogenous Gag polypeptides.

Abstract: A mushroom blend comprises therapeutically effective amounts of the isolated strains Grifola frondosa (GF AM-P36), Ganoderma lucidum (GL AM-P38), and Pleurotus ostreatus (PO AM-GP37). Methods of use for supporting gut health include increasing SCFAs including butyrate in the gastrointestinal tract. A method is described for increasing microbial diversity in the gastro-intestinal tract in a human subject, including administering to the human subject an effective amount of a fungal prebiotic-containing composition comprising a blend of more than one fungal species. One useful blend of three species includes Ganoderma lucidum (“GL”), Grifola frondosa (GF), and Pleurotus ostreatus (PO). Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) including Lachnospiraceae, Lachnoclostridium and the various Ruminococcaceae are all dose-dependently increased when the mushroom blend is fed, which is significant for Lachnospiraceae UCG-004, Ruminococcaceae UCG-002, and Ruminococcaceae NK4A214.

Abstract: A brewing system for brewing a single flavored beverage of different varieties is disclosed which comprises a holder for receiving a flavored beverage packet (pod) of different sizes, said holder being a technically cantilevered receptacle to hold the flavored beverage packet (pod) beverage in a brewing position, a hinged cover which is secured by a latch, and introduces water in the sealed and enclosed brewing area to produce a flavored beverage drink that flows through the beverage packet and into a receptacle for consumption.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a water drainage system comprising: a plurality of lengths of drain pipe comprising a channel and a vertical wall, wherein (i) the vertical wall comprises one or more standoffs extending horizontally from the vertical wall and (ii) wherein the drain pipe comprises a top edge and a bottom edge, each of the top and bottom edges being bifurcated by a v-shaped notch.

Abstract: The present invention includes a nutritional supplement composition that may be used for livestock and the like, as well as to a livestock feed mixture containing same. Also included are methods of preparing the nutritional supplement composition, the livestock feed mixture, as well as methods of providing nutrition to livestock and the like. The livestock feed composition comprises: (a) a solid particulate livestock feed material and (b) a solidified particulate mixture of (i) free fatty acid and (ii) a calcium salt of a fatty acid, the calcium salt of a fatty acid being present in a molar ratio amount in the range of from about 25% to about 55% of the amount of the free fatty acid. The preferred mixture is a solid having an onset melt point of between about 140 and 170 degrees Fahrenheit, and a hardness of from about 5 to about 15 Shore A units at 170 degrees Fahrenheit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a support system comprising a post, said post extending upward vertically from a pad and further comprising upper and lower ends, wherein said lower end is secured to a lower flange; and a joist flange secured to the post opposite the lower flange; wherein the lower flange is secured to the post via a frictional fit.