Abstract: This invention relates to a fire collar (10). The fire collar includes a body (11) that is constructed from a flexible, elongate strip of steel (12) having a first end portion (13) associated with one end thereof and an opposing second end portion (14) associated with the opposite end thereof. The fire collar (10) also includes actuation means, including a plurality of torsion springs (28) manufactured from spring steel, such as spring steel having a diameter of 4 mm or 5 mm. Each torsion spring (28) includes a spring body (29) comprising one or more helical coils, and two tails, (30) and (31), that extend outwardly away from opposite ends of the body.

Abstract: A microfluidic device performs a method of partitioning droplets from a fluid reservoir containing particles that provides a non-Poissonian distribution of dispensed droplets containing a desired number of particles. Using an electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) device, droplets are dispensed having a Poissonian distribution of dispensed droplets containing a desired number of particles, and the droplets are interrogated to determine whether each dispensed droplet has a desired number of particles. Droplets that contain the desired number of particles are moved by EWOD operation to a reaction area on the EWOD device, and droplets that do not contain the desired number of particles are rejected and moved by EWOD operation to a holding area on the EWOD device that is different and spaced apart from the reaction area. The result is that droplets in the reaction area have a non-Poissonian distribution of droplets containing the desired number of particles.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for measuring an amount of total organic fluoride content of a PFAS containing sample, including: placing a sample comprising a PFAS compound in a measurement device, wherein the measurement device comprises an oxidation cell and a non-oxidation cell, wherein the oxidation cell comprises a boron-doped diamond electrode; measuring, using the measurement device, an amount of total inorganic fluoride of the sample before an oxidation; applying an electrical potential to a portion of the sample in the oxidation cell, wherein the electrical potential oxidizes the PFAS compound; measuring, using the measurement device, an amount of total organic fluoride of the sample after the oxidation to provide a measurement signal of the total organic fluoride; and determining a first derivative of the measurement signal of the total organic fluoride. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: A system is programmed and operated to perform a method of indicating health, status, or condition of a monitored target. In certain implementations, the method involves: obtaining at least one metric associated with the monitored target; determining a level of audio degradation to be applied to a source digital media file that conveys default audio content, wherein the level of audio degradation is determined as a function of the obtained at least one metric; modifying the source digital media file in accordance with the determined level of audio degradation, resulting in modified audio data; and controlling playback of the modified audio data to serve as an audible indicator of the health, status, or condition of the monitored target.

Abstract: An electro-wetting on dielectric (EWOD) device, comprises first and second substrates defining a fluid chamber therebetween, a plurality of electro-wetting electrodes on the first substrate, and at least one first electrode and at least two second electrodes on the second substrate. The device further includes a current sensor for sensing a difference between (1) a first current flowing between the first electrode and one of the second electrodes via a first fluid package in the fluid chamber of the EWOD device and (2) a second current flowing between the first electrode and another of the second electrodes via a second fluid package in the fluid chamber of the EWOD device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I: or a co-crystal, solvate, salt or combination thereof.

Abstract: Multi-layer ensembles of neural subnetworks are disclosed. Implementations can classify inputs indicating various anomalous sensed conditions into probabilistic anomalies using an anomaly subnetwork. Determined probabilistic anomalies are classified into remedial application triggers invoked to recommend or take actions to remediate, and/or report the anomaly. Implementations can select a report type to submit, or a report recipient, based upon the situation state, e.g.

Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a perspective view range image generated from sensor measurements of an environment. The perspective view range image includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional grid and including, for each pixel, (i) features of one or more sensor measurements at a location in the environment corresponding to the pixel and (ii) geometry information comprising range features characterizing a range of the location in the environment corresponding to the pixel relative to the one or more sensors. The system processes the perspective view range image using a first neural network to generate an output feature representation. The first neural network comprises a first perspective point-set aggregation layer comprising a geometry-dependent kernel.

Abstract: In various embodiments a computer-implemented method for providing sustainability insights to a user designing an object. The method includes determining a value of a sustainability metric associated with a design of an object; determining a target value for the sustainability metric; determining an amount of progress made towards achieving the target value for the sustainability metric based on the value of the sustainability metric and the target value for the sustainability metric; and displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a visual indication of the amount of progress made towards achieving the target value for the sustainability metric.

Abstract: A glass container inspection system an inspection area disposed along a conveyor belt and a computing system. The conveyor belt moves a plurality of glass containers through the inspection area. The inspection area has a plurality of cameras and a plurality of light sources, and the computing system is in communication with the plurality of cameras. The plurality of cameras are configured to capture images of a finish of each of the glass containers as the glass containers move through the inspection area, and the plurality of light sources are configured to produce light proximate a field of view of each camera of the plurality of cameras. The computing system is configured to analyze the captured images and determine if the finish of each of the glass containers has a defect.

Abstract: In various embodiments a computer-implemented method for providing sustainability insights to a user designing an object. The method includes determining a first value of a sustainability metric associated with a design of an object, displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a visual indication of the first value of the sustainability metric, and detecting a change to the design of the object. The method further includes, in response to detecting the change to the design of the object, determining a second value of the sustainability metric and displaying, via the GUI, a visual indication of the second value of the sustainability metric.

Abstract: A method monitors radiation incidence onto an object being prepared for and/or undergoing radiation delivery. The monitoring method includes: emitting a light field onto a surface of an object being prepared for and/or undergoing radiation delivery, the light field at least substantially corresponding to radiation incidence of the radiation delivery; monitoring the light field being reflected from the surface of the object; and processing the monitored light field to determine the radiation incidence of the radiation delivery relative to the object at least partially based on the monitored light field.

Abstract: A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.

Abstract: A fishing lure graphic application assembly includes a reservoir having a bottom wall and a perimeter wall that attached to and extends upwardly from the bottom wall. A dipping system is positioned adjacent to the reservoir and engages a fishing lure blank and a dissolvable film, places the dissolvable film in a quantity of water positioned in the reservoir such that graphic is released onto a surface of the water, extend the fishing lure blank through the graphic such that the graphic adheres to the fishing lure blank, and lifts the fishing lure blank upwardly out of the water.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a monitoring system for use with a medical apparatus to monitor the position of a patient. The monitoring system can include at least one visual sensor providing visual data, at least one processing unit configured to generate, based on the visual data, one or more views; and at least one display for displaying the one or more generated views.

Abstract: A sound pressure metrology instrument determines sound pressure from index of refraction and includes: a light source that produces source light; the optical cavity that: receives an acoustic field from the sound source; receives the source light from the light source; produces acoustic-modified light from the source light; and communicates the acoustic-modified light to the photodetector; the photodetector that receives the acoustic-modified light from the optical cavity, produces an acoustic-modified signal from the acoustic-modified light, and communicates the acoustic-modified signal to the analyzer module; the analyzer module in electrical communication with the photodetector and that receives the acoustic-modified signal from the photodetector and determines the sound pressure of the acoustic field produced by the sound source from the modulations in the index of refraction of the acoustic medium inside the optical cavity encoded in the acoustic-modified light.

Abstract: An apparatus a multiple layer structure having a sub-portion defining an impact zone, and having an inner composite fiber layer, an outer composite fiber layer overlying the inner composite fiber layer, and a woven glass layer, where the inner composite fiber layer, outer composite fiber layer, and the woven glass layer overly the impact zone.

Abstract: An association metric for record attributes associated with cardinalities that are not necessarily the same is used for training and/or applying an entity resolution (ER) model. A pair of records includes (a) a first record indicating a first set of values for a first attribute and (b) a second record indicating a second set of values for a second attribute. Each of the first set of values and each of the second set of values are compared to determine individual association metrics. A first-level reduction operation is applied to subsets of the individual association metrics to determine reduced association metrics. A second-level reduction operation is applied to the reduced association metrics to determine an association metric, for the pair of records, for training and/or applying an ER model.

Abstract: A roller shade assembly includes a roller tube including a first end opposite a second end, the roller tube defining an opening longitudinally extending between the first and second ends, and an idler assembly partially received by the opening at the first end, the idler assembly including an idler housing, a plunger received by the idler housing, and a biasing member configured to apply a biasing force onto the plunger, wherein the plunger is configured to slide relative to the idler housing, and the plunger is configured to selectively engage a bracket member.