Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a rotorcraft comprising an airframe having an engine compartment, an engine disposed within the engine compartment, at least one fire bottle configured to hold a fire extinguishing agent, at least one agent tube coupled to the fire bottle and configured to carry the fire extinguishing agent to the engine compartment, and a nozzle on the at least one agent tube, the nozzle positioned below the engine and oriented in a upward-facing direction. The nozzle has at least one opening that is closed by a spring-loaded valve.

Abstract: A container suitable for capturing fire, said container comprising an outer housing having an open top and a closed bottom, an inner fire-containing receptacle fitting within the outer housing, a grate, and means to raise or lower one of the grate or fire-containing receptacle, said container comprising a lid fashioned to engage with the open top of the outer housing, and a tripod stand capable of suspending the container and comprising a lift system engaged to said lid to operate the lid from a position engaged with the open top to a position disengaged with the open top.

Abstract: A method and system for decoding a multi-layer video stream are described. The multi-layer video stream has at least a first and second layer. The method includes obtaining second-layer decoded data for the multi-layer video stream using a second decoding method, where the second-layer decoded data is indexed using a timestamp, receiving a call-back indicating an availability of first-layer decoded data for a frame of the first layer of the multi-layer video stream from a first decoding method, obtaining timing metadata for the first-layer decoded data, comparing the timing metadata with one or more timestamps for the second-layer decoded data to pair the first-layer decoded data for the frame with second-layer decoded data for the frame, and combining the first-layer decoded data for the frame and the paired second-layer decoded data to output a reconstruction of the frame of the video signal.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an interferometric range resolution apparatus comprising: an antenna and a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless pulses; a dish configured to direct the received wireless pulses to the antenna; and a processor electrically coupled to the antenna via the transceiver, the processor configured to provide range resolution of at least two objects along a same line-of-sight of the transmitted wireless pulses.

Abstract: A game platform program that enables users to play tabletop games using computer assistance for both the processing of the cognitive load of the game and presentation graphics. The game platform enables play between remote participants, saves game states, and enables ingestion of varied rules documents. Through use of the game platform, users are enabled to design game scenarios by assigning game platform graphic, animation, and adjudication assets to input received via user input platforms. User input platforms coordinate and sync with the game platform via shared authentication or handshaking APIs.

Abstract: A process and article for carbon sequestration including inducing a negative buoyancy in a carbon source with a non-buoyant material and submerging the carbon source into an aqueous anoxic environment. The negative buoyancy may be induced by bundling or baling the carbon source or by mixing it with a slurry.

Abstract: A photonic device for detecting rotation and a corresponding method for operation thereof are disclosed. The photonic device includes a readout structure coupled to a ring resonator at one or more coupling points. Light is split between a lower waveguide and an upper waveguide of the readout structure in a forward direction at a beam splitter. The light in the waveguides traveling in the forward direction is coupled into the ring resonator and subsequently back into the waveguides in a reverse direction. The light is spatially phase tilted and is combined at the beam splitter. The combined light is detected by a split detector.

Abstract: A transition duct assembly includes a shared connector, and a plurality of primary cooling pathways for cooling one or more systems or components. Each primary cooling pathway includes a transition duct in fluid communication with the shared connector, and a transition connector in fluid communication with the transition duct.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a rotorcraft comprising an airframe having an engine compartment, an engine disposed within the engine compartment, at least one fire bottle configured to hold a fire extinguishing agent, at least one agent tube coupled to the fire bottle and configured to carry the fire extinguishing agent to the engine compartment, and a nozzle on the at least one agent tube, the nozzle positioned below the engine and oriented in a upward-facing direction. The nozzle has at least one opening that is closed by a spring-loaded valve.

Abstract: The application provides a method, system and device for managing pest treatment and crop growth based on pheno logical model, the system comprising one or more network-interfacing sensors configured to acquire and communicate sensed data associated with the one or more crop locations, a digital data storage component for storing, over time, in association with the one or more crop locations, the sensed data, pest treatment application data, crop outcome data, and the pheno logical model for the one or more crop locations that provides pest treatment application suggestions in connection with the sensed data, and a digital data processor in network communication with the digital data storage component and operable to calculate a correlation between said crop outcome data and the pest treatment application data for the one or more crop locations.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a rotorcraft comprising an airframe having an engine compartment, an engine disposed within the engine compartment, at least one fire bottle configured to hold a fire extinguishing agent, at least one agent tube coupled to the fire bottle and configured to carry the fire extinguishing agent to the engine compartment, and a nozzle on the at least one agent tube, the nozzle positioned above the engine and oriented in a downward-facing direction. The nozzle has at least one opening and is configured to allow liquid to drain out of the at least one opening instead of allowing the liquid to flow into the at least one agent tube. The nozzle may have a chamfer opening that faces downward.

Abstract: A transition duct assembly includes a shared connector, and a plurality of primary cooling pathways for cooling one or more systems or components. Each primary cooling pathway includes a transition duct in fluid communication with the shared connector, and a transition connector in fluid communication with the transition duct.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for performing remote sensing using WMA. Embodiments include modulating an interrogation signal, transmitting the interrogation signal to a remote vibrating target, and receiving, at a first port of a WMA interferometer, a reflected signal. Embodiments also include splitting, by a first beam splitter, the reflected signal into first and second portions propagating down first and second waveguides, delaying, by a delay element, a phase of the reflected signal, and spatially phase shifting the reflected signal. Embodiments may further include splitting, by a second beam splitter, the first and second portions of the reflected signal into third and fourth portions propagating down the first and second waveguides, detecting an intensity difference between a first lobe and a second lobe of the third portion of the reflected signal, and calculating a Doppler frequency based on the intensity difference.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing an experiment for a workforce analytics system. One of the methods includes identifying team members who conduct work using a heterogeneous set of software tools including third party software tools. An experiment group of team members and a control group of team members are identified. Experiment activity data is received from use by the experiment group of the set of heterogeneous software tools and control group activity data is received from use by the control group of the set of heterogeneous software tools. A metric by which to measure the effect of a process change is identified. The effect of the process change is determined according to the metric and based on the experiment activity data and the control group activity data. Action is taken based on the effect of the process change.

Abstract: A transition duct assembly includes a shared connector, and a plurality of primary cooling pathways for cooling one or more systems or components. Each primary cooling pathway includes a transition duct in fluid communication with the shared connector, and a transition connector in fluid communication with the transition duct.

Abstract: A photonic device for detecting rotation and a corresponding method for operation thereof are disclosed. The photonic device includes a readout structure coupled to a ring resonator at one or more coupling points. Light is split between a lower waveguide and an upper waveguide of the readout structure in a forward direction at a beam splitter. The light in the waveguides traveling in the forward direction is coupled into the ring resonator and subsequently back into the waveguides in a reverse direction. The light is spatially phase tilted and is combined at the beam splitter. The combined light is detected by a split detector.