Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating subterranean formations with fluids containing superabsorbent polymer particles are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise introducing a treatment fluid into a well bore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation, the treatment fluid including an aqueous base fluid, and one or more superabsorbent polymer particles comprising a plurality of monomers and one or more crosslinkers wherein at least one crosslinker is a labile crosslinker.

Abstract: Systems and methods for using micro accelerations as a biometric factor for multi-factor authentication, the method including receiving, filtering, and determining an identifying pattern from micro acceleration data representative of the user, storing the identifying pattern for later use in authenticating the identity of the user, and using the identifying pattern as one factor in a multi factor authentication.

Abstract: A location system can be used to identify locations of assets in a clinical environment. An example location system receives, from a primary receiver, timing data indicating times at which multiple receivers including the primary receiver received a wireless signal from a tag. The multiple receivers may be located in the clinical environment. The example location system further identifies that the timing data includes a flag indicating that a user of the tag has requested assistance, identifies an identifier of the tag based on the timing data; and transmits, to a reporting system, a first message indicating an identifier of the tag and that the user of the tag has requested assistance.

Abstract: Systems and methods for cold-spraying coatings on rotors in motor assemblies for improving reliability of motor assembly use downhole in wellbores is provided. For example, a motor assembly can include a stator positioned downhole in a wellbore and rotor coupled to the wellbore. The rotor can include a base material and a first coating deposited onto the base material via cold spraying for reducing damage to the rotor. The first coating may include sprayed particles that have a melting point temperature that is higher than a temperature of a gas used in the cold spraying. In some examples, the rotor may include a second coating deposited onto the first coating via cold spraying, high velocity oxygen fuel coating, or high velocity air fuel. The first coating may have a first hardness that is less than a second hardness of the second coating.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a plant material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the plant material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the plant material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the plant material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the plant material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the plant material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for a payment delegation and linking system are provided. The system may generate a delegation request to send to an individual for payment of a portion of a value of a transaction. The delegation request may be sent to the individual with a payment URL embedded with a token. Upon initiation of payment in response to the delegation request, the token may be embedded in an unused field of a payment transaction record generated at the individual's device and may be transmitted from the individual's device to a payment processing system for processing and settlement. The payment transaction record may ultimately be received at the requestor's bank with the token intact. The token may be used to link the received payment transaction with the original delegated transaction. The original delegated transaction and the received payment transaction may be displayed together in a transaction summary.

Abstract: System and methods for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) fluid substitution are provided. NMR logging measurements of a reservoir rock formation are acquired. Fluid zones within the reservoir rock formation are identified based on the acquired measurements. The fluid zones include water zones comprising water-saturated rock and at least one oil zone comprising rock saturated with multiphase fluids. Water zones having petrophysical characteristics matching those of the oil zone(s) within the formation are selected. NMR responses to multiphase fluids resulting from a displacement of water by hydrocarbon in the selected water zones are simulated. A synthetic dataset including NMR T2 distributions of multiphase fluids is generated based on the simulation. The synthetic dataset is used to train a machine learning (ML) model to substitute NMR T2 distributions of multiphase fluids with those of water. The trained ML model is applied to the NMR logging measurements acquired for the oil zone(s).

Abstract: Systems and methods for processing image data representing a document to remove deformations contained in the document are disclosed. A system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may instruct the system to provide, to a machine learning system, a training dataset representing a plurality of documents containing a plurality of training deformations. The instructions may also instruct the system to use the machine learning system to process image data representing a target document containing a target document deformation. The machine learning system may generate restored image data representing the target document with the target document deformation removed. The instructions may further instruct the system to provide the restored image data to at least one of a graphical user interface, an image storage device, or a computer vision system.

Abstract: There is a need for more effective and efficient document processing solution. Accordingly, various embodiments of the present invention introduce various document processing optimization solutions. In one example, a method includes identifying a plurality of input pages each associated with a related input document of a plurality of input documents; for each input page of the plurality of input pages, generating a segmented page; processing each segmented page using a trained encoder model to generate a fixed-dimensional representation of the input page; determining, based at least in part on each fixed-dimensional representation, a plurality of document clusters; determining a plurality of processing groups, where each processing group is associated with one or more related document clusters of the plurality of document clusters; and performing the document processing optimization based at least in part on the plurality of processing groups.

Abstract: Systems as described herein may include authorizing the sharing of data and sharing data between a variety of systems. A request to share data may be provided to a first system. The system may create sharing session data on a distributed ledger accessible by a number of systems. Sharing session data may be stored using a transaction stored on a distributed ledger. A second system may obtain the sharing session account and verify the sharing session. On verification of the sharing session, a variety of data may be shared between the systems identified in the sharing session data. The sharing session data may be established between two or more systems. The distributed ledger may be maintained by the systems themselves and/or a distributed network system. In a variety of embodiments, encrypted data may be stored and/or obtained using the distributed ledger.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, to detect system problems using social media. One of the method includes monitoring posts on a plurality of social network sites. The method includes identifying posts that include at least one of a plurality of keywords, at least some of the keywords indicative of system problems. The method includes tagging the identified posts. The method includes determining, based on the tagged posts, that a system problem is occurring. The method also includes raising an alert regarding the system problem.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for improvements in cloud services by sharing estimated and actual usage data of cloud services recipients with the cloud services provider. The sharing of this data allows the cloud services provider to better apportion cloud resources between multiple cloud services recipients. By analyzing information included in the shared data (e.g., information about one or more applications that use the cloud resources), the cloud services provider may categorize the applications and/or the functions of those applications into authorized and unauthorized uses, the determination of which, is used to further efficiently apportion the cloud services resources.

Abstract: Aspects described herein may provide detection of a feature of an authorization code image (ACI) incorporated onto a document, thereby allowing for validation of the document. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by an instance of a variable protocol that may specify how to generate the ACI to have a particular feature as well as how to detect the particular feature of the ACI. A recipient of the document incorporating the ACI may detect the particular feature of the ACI. If the detected feature matches an expected feature, then the ACI and the document may be determined to be authentic.

Abstract: Secure protocols for external-facing authentication are provided for both user templates stored on their devices and the biometric measurement captured by external sensors of an access device. The protocols provide different levels of security, ranging from passive security with some leakage to active security with no leakage. A packing technique is also provided. Zero-knowledge techniques are used during enrollment to validate a norm of user templates and knowledge of the plaintext biometric template. Once enrolled, the verifier can sign the encrypted template for use in a later matching phase with an access device.

Abstract: A patient support apparatus includes a frame and a mattress positioned on the frame. The mattress has an electronic component positioned within an interior of the mattress. An inductive power transmitter is coupled to the frame. An inductive power receiver is positioned within the interior of the mattress and electrically coupled to the electronic component.

Abstract: Conventional task planners assume that the task-plans provided are executable, hence these are not task-aware. Present disclosure alleviates the downward refinability assumption, that is, planning can be decomposed separate symbolic and continuous planning steps by introducing bi-level planning, a plan which is a series of actions that the robot needs to take to achieve the goal task is curated. Firstly, abstract symbolic actions are converted to continuous vectors and used therein to enable interaction with an environment. Images of objects placed in the environment are captured and concepts are learnt from the captured images and attributes of objects are detected. A hierarchical scene graph is generated from the concepts and attributes wherein the graph includes interpretable sub-symbolic representations and from these interpretable symbolic representations are obtained for identifying goal task.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are method, system, and computer program product embodiments for filtering website records based on user gestures. In an embodiment, a method can include presenting, via a user device, at least one of a plurality of search filters or a plurality of website records. Further, the method can include receiving, via a touch screen interface of the user device, a user gesture comprising a graphical representation of a search filter input, the user gesture being provided over at least one of a search filter of the plurality of search filters or a website record of the plurality of website records. Additionally, the method can include determining the search filter input from the user gesture, filtering the plurality of web site records based on the search filter input, and presenting, via the user device, a filtered plurality of website records.

Abstract: Organizations are struggling to ensure business continuity without compromising on delivery excellence in the face of pandemic related uncertainties which exists along multiple dimensions effected by authorities. This uncertainty plays out in a non-uniform manner thus leading to highly heterogeneous evolution of pandemic. Present disclosure provides digital twin based systems and methods for business continuity plan and safe return to workplace wherein a simulation-based data-driven evidence-backed approach is implemented that captures details pertaining to virus, individualistic characteristics of employees and their dependents, offices, locations of the employees and offices, and various pandemic control measures that are in effect and need to be explored using a hybrid modelling and simulation approach that combines fine-grained actor/agent model and coarse-grained stock-and-flow model.

Abstract: Failure analysis of industrial plants are stored in various types of documents associated with industrial plant. The documents are used by operators of plant to address any deviation that is active in plant. The operator generally has prior knowledge of relevant processes, equipment and sensors described in a deviation scenario in these documents. However, a system that is envisaged to aid operator in real-time does not have this information readily available as this knowledge is spread across documents. Currently available systems manually curate failure knowledge thereby making the process time consuming and prone to human errors. Present disclosure provides method and system for performing extracting and collating failure knowledge from diverse sources in industrial plant.