Abstract: A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container.

Abstract: Topological superconductor devices with gates formed in two gate layers are described. A topological superconductor device includes a superconducting wire having a first junction near a first end of the superconducting wire and a second junction near a second end, opposite to the first end. The topological superconductor device further includes: (1) a first side-plunger gate and a second-side plunger gate formed in a first gate layer of the topological superconductor device, (2) a middle-plunger gate formed in the first gate layer of the topological superconductor device, (3) a first cutter gate formed in a second layer, different from the first layer, of the topological superconductor device, and (4) a second cutter gate formed in the second layer of the topological superconductor device. The plunger gates are operable to tune respective sections of the superconducting wire and the cutter gates are operable to open and close the respective junctions.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a stent with a compressible and expandable mesh structure of webs which are interconnected by web connectors into one piece and define rhomboid cells, wherein each cell is defined by two straight webs and two S-shaped curved webs which connect the straight webs together, and wherein (i) in a non-operational state, the mesh structure has a fully expanded non-operational diameter Dexp which is between 3.0 mm and 5.0 mm, (ii) a ratio between a fully compressed diameter Dkomp of the mesh structure and the non-operational diameter Dexp of the mesh structure is between 1:7 and 1:12, and (iii) the webs have a web height, measured in a radial direction, which is at least 0.05 mm and at most 0.09 mm, so that the mesh structure has a radial force of at least 0.5 N, in particular at least 0.6 N, between the fully compressed diameter Dkomp and an operational diameter which is at most 90% of the non-operational diameter Dexp.

Abstract: A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container.

Abstract: A trace-data-processing device for reconstructing an execution flow of a program performed by a source device under test or under observation, herein DUT, using at least one source-specific trace-data stream is disclosed. The trace-data-processing device comprises a trace-data-processing unit, which is configured to identify in the trace-data stream at least one instruction-synchronization message and branch messages. Moreover, the trace-data-processing device is configured to generate runtime-information data indicative of an at least partial reconstruction of the execution flow, using the identified trace messages, a pre-defined branch identifier allocated to each branch instruction address in the program that is associated with a direct branch instruction and pre-stored reconstruction information stored in a reconstruction memory.

Abstract: A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container.

Abstract: A cup holder assembly includes a plurality of contacts that are configured to contact a cup so that a majority of an opening into the cup is uncovered by the cup holder, and the plurality of contacts are connectable to one or more cup holder guide rods of an assembly that dispenses and mixes or blends beverages.

Abstract: A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container.

Abstract: A cup holder assembly includes a plurality of contacts that are configured to contact a cup so that a majority of an opening into the cup is uncovered by the cup holder, and the plurality of contacts are connectable to one or more cup holder guide rods of an assembly that dispenses and mixes or blends beverages

Abstract: A trace-data-processing device for reconstructing an execution flow of a program performed by a source device under test or under observation, herein DUT, using at least one source-specific trace-data stream is disclosed. The trace-data-processing device comprises a trace-data-processing unit, which is configured to identify in the trace-data stream at least one instruction-synchronization message and branch messages. Moreover, the trace-data-processing device is configured to generate runtime-information data indicative of an at least partial reconstruction of the execution flow, using the identified trace messages, a pre-defined branch identifier allocated to each branch instruction address in the program that is associated with a direct branch instruction and pre-stored reconstruction information stored in a reconstruction memory.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.

Abstract: A trace-data processing device comprises an input to receive source-specific trace data streams comprising trace messages carrying execution-flow information on a program execution flow performed by a source device under test or under observation, hereinafter DUT. A trace-data processing unit (526, 1100) derives from the trace data stream runtime information associated with the program execution flow performed by the DUT. The trace-data processing unit comprises a message-distribution stage (1104), a plurality of parallel message-processing stages (1106.1, . . . 1106.N), and a result consolidation stage (1108) connected with the message-processing stages. The message-distribution stage (1104) distributes the received trace data stream (T1?) over the message-processing stages in the form of respective trace data sequences. The message-processing stages (1106.1, . . . 1106.N) generate from the trace data sections runtime information sequences.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.

Abstract: A trace-data processing device comprises an input to receive source-specific trace data streams comprising trace messages carrying execution-flow information on a program execution flow performed by a source device under test or under observation, hereinafter DUT. A trace-data processing unit (526, 1100) derives from the trace data stream runtime information associated with the program execution flow performed by the DUT. The trace-data processing unit comprises a message-distribution stage (1104), a plurality of parallel message-processing stages (1106.1, . . . 1106.N), and a result consolidation stage (1108) connected with the message-processing stages. The message-distribution stage (1104) distributes the received trace data stream (T1?) over the message-processing stages in the form of respective trace data sequences. The message-processing stages (1106.1, . . . 1106.N) generate from the trace data sections runtime information sequences.

Abstract: In a stent intended for implantation in a living body and having a bridge structure in which at least two bridges are coupled to one another at at least one node region on at least one of the bridges near the node region, the section modulus of the bridge varies along the length thereof, and the stresses arising at the node region upon deformation of the stent are distributed in the longitudinal direction of the bridge.

Abstract: In a stent intended for implantation in a living body and having a bridge structure in which at least two bridges are coupled to one another at at least one node region on at least one of the bridges near the node region, the section modulus of the bridge varies along the length thereof, and the stresses arising at the node region upon deformation of the stent are distributed in the longitudinal direction of the bridge.

Abstract: A method and corresponding equipment for emulation of a target programmable unit, which has at least one CPU, by means of an external emulation device, which is coupled to the target programmable unit by means of a communication link, comprising: transferring predetermined initialization data through the communication link to the emulation device for initializing the emulation; transferring through the communication link to the emulation device a CPU clock signal and emulation data; emulating the target programmable unit in the external emulation device using the transferred emulation data; ascertaining respective trace data from the emulation in the external emulation device and storing and/or outputting the trace data; deriving respective target integrity-control data and emulation integrity-control data from respective target-internal data and emulation-internal data; and transferring the derived target integrity-control data from the target programmable unit to the external emulation device.

Abstract: A method and corresponding equipment for emulation of a target programmable unit, which has at least one CPU, by means of an external emulation device, which is coupled to the target programmable unit by means of a communication link, comprising: transferring predetermined initialization data through the communication link to the emulation device for initializing the emulation; transferring through the communication link to the emulation device a CPU clock signal and emulation data; emulating the target programmable unit in the external emulation device using the transferred emulation data; ascertaining respective trace data from the emulation in the external emulation device and storing and/or outputting the trace data; deriving respective target integrity-control data and emulation integrity-control data from respective target-internal data and emulation-internal data; and transferring the derived target integrity-control data from the target programmable unit to the external emulation device.