Abstract: An apparatus and method of locating a wireless power transmitter in which a variable load coupled to a wireless power receiver configured to receive a wireless power signal from the wireless power transmitter is controllably varied to maintain a harvested voltage of the wireless power signal within a predetermined range. By doing so, power supplied to a wirelessly powered appliance coupled to the wireless power receiver is maintained within an operational envelope of the wirelessly powered appliance.

Abstract: A catheter device that includes a conduit having an outer wall, an internal lumen, and proximal and distal ends. The conduit further includes first and second pluralities of electrical conduits embedded in the outer wall of the conduit, which are adapted to transmit electrical current therethrough in a first direction and an opposing second direction. The conduit is adapted to transition from a pre-collapsed state to a first collapsed state when the first plurality of electrical conduits transmits a first electrical current in a first direction and the second plurality of electrical conduits transmits a second electrical current in a second direction, and transition from the first collapsed state to a second expanded state when the first plurality of electrical conduits and the second plurality of electrical conduits transmit a third electrical current in the first direction.

Abstract: An electrical power distribution system includes a plurality of circuit protection devices coupled between an electrical power source and a plurality of electrical loads. Each circuit protection device includes a trip unit, a network interface communicatively coupled to a communication network including the circuit protection devices, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to store test operational parameters associated with the circuit protection device, receive a test message including test data representing an electrical condition in the electrical power distribution system, adjust the test operational parameters based on the test data to simulate a response of the trip unit to the electrical condition, generate circuit protection data based on the test data and the adjusted set of test operational parameters, and transmit the circuit protection data to at least one of the communication network and a remote access device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for a fire control mechanism that is implementable in a gun. The fire control mechanism is operable to cause projectiles to be fired by the gun. The gun may include a trigger, a barrel defining a bore axis, a firing component, and an actuator configured to i) obstruct the firing component while in a default position and ii) be displaced in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the bore axis in response to movement of the trigger, where displacement in the direction that is substantially perpendicular to the bore axis causes the firing component to be released and results in the gun firing a projectile. The gun may include an energy store located below the barrel when the gun is in an upright position, and the actuator may be displaced based on the energy store.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for testing guns by simulating firing a round of live ammunition. A striker may be used to apply force onto a gun, and one or more compressible rods may be used to modulate the application of force onto the gun. A system may include a striking mechanism configured for displacement along an arcuate path of travel that includes a first compressible rod, a second compressible rod coupled with a first component of the gun, an attachment mechanism coupled with a second component of the gun such that the second compressible rod is located in the arcuate path of travel, and a backstop mechanism coupled with the attachment mechanism. The attachment mechanism may stably hold the gun and the backstop mechanism may accommodate planar movement of the attachment mechanism, so as to simulate a shooter holding the gun.

Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for an authenticator to communicate with a client computer to authenticate access to a server. Authentication parameters are received to authenticate the client computer with the server, wherein the authentication parameters are for a domain name record for the server. The authentication parameters from the client computer are used to authenticate the client computer to access the server. A plurality of network addresses are received and used to identify the client computer in the network. In response to authenticating the client computer, the plurality of network addresses used to identify the client computer are forwarded to an access list for the server to allow the client computer to access the server. A message is sent to the client computer indicating access to the server allowed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for determining whether a user is holding a gun. The gun may include a sensor, such as a laser proximity sensor, a capacitive proximity sensor, a load cell, an accelerometer, or a biometric sensor, and the gun may determine whether a user is holding the gun based on an output generated by the sensor. A processor housed in the gun may identify activation of a proximity sensor, determine that a user is holding the gun based on the activation of the proximity sensor, and perform an action in response to determining that the user is holding the gun. The action performed by the processor may include performing a boot procedure, performing a health check procedure, visually indicating state information about the gun, audibly indicating state information about the gun, or tactilely indicating state information about the gun.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for the emulation of cloud computing service regions. An emulation system receives an API request including an indication of an endpoint associated with a target region of a cloud computing service from a system in a virtual private cloud. Attributes are extracted from the API request. A manipulated API request is generated from the extracted attributes of the API request. The manipulated API request includes an indication of an endpoint located in a standard region of the cloud computing service. The manipulated API request is transmitted to the endpoint located in the standard region of the cloud computing service.

Abstract: In one implementation, a device may identify features of a prompt to be sent to a language model that are indicative of a type of data that the prompt would cause the language model to access. The device may determine whether data control policies apply for the prompt based on the type of data that the prompt would cause the language model to access. The device may determine, based on the features, whether processing of the prompt by the language model violates an applicable data control policy. The device may prevent the language model from processing the prompt when the processing of the prompt violates the applicable data control policy.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques that can be implemented in a gun. The gun may include or be coupled with a slide cover. The slide cover may include a first slide cover recess along a latitudinal axis of the slide cover, the first slide cover recess comprising a first cavity of a first portion of the slide cover and a first cavity of a second portion of the slide cover. The slide cover may include a second slide cover recess along the latitudinal axis of the slide cover, the second slide cover recess comprising a second cavity of the first portion of the slide cover and a second cavity of the second portion of the slide cover. The slide cover may include a first retainer coupling a sight component with the slide cover such that a longitudinal axis of the sight component is substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the slide cover.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, devices, and techniques that can be implemented at a gun, such as an electromechanical gun. The gun may include a barrel located within a slide and a cylindrical spring enveloping the barrel. The barrel may be configured to act as a guide rod for the cylindrical spring, and the cylindrical spring may be configured to bias the slide in a forward battery position. The gun may include an electronic component such as an energy store, a processor, or a circuit board, located under the barrel and forward of the trigger when the gun is in an upright position. The gun may include a physical transmission medium that electronically couples the electronic component with an additional electronic component located rearward of the trigger, and the physical transmission medium may be at least partially encapsulated by a trigger guard.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for determining whether a user is holding a gun. The gun may include a sensor, such as a laser proximity sensor, a capacitive proximity sensor, a load cell, an accelerometer, or a biometric sensor, and the gun may determine whether a user is holding the gun based on an output generated by the sensor. A processor housed in the gun may identify activation of a proximity sensor, determine that a user is holding the gun based on the activation of the proximity sensor, and perform an action in response to determining that the user is holding the gun. The action performed by the processor may include performing a boot procedure, performing a health check procedure, visually indicating state information about the gun, audibly indicating state information about the gun, or tactilely indicating state information about the gun.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques, systems, and devices that support indicating gun state information. One or more electronic components may be used to indicate the gun state information, and the electronic components may be coupled with a gun. The gun may identify a state of the gun based on a compute component including a data signal, and the compute component may be coupled with the gun. The gun may select a representation of the state of the gun, where the representation of the state of the gun is compatible with an electronic component coupled with the gun. The gun may indicate, at the electronic component and based on the compute component, the state of the gun with the representation of the state of the gun. Indicating the state of the gun may include displaying an icon, illuminating the electronic component with a color, or pulsating the electronic component.

Abstract: A fuel cell electrical power generation system is described herein. The system uses the pressure of a raffinate stream to compress hydrogen separated from the raffinate stream used for PEM fuel cells. A reformer, such as a methanol steam reformer, is used to generate a gases stream including hydrogen. The hydrogen is separated from other products of the reformer. To increase the pressure of the hydrogen for use in a PEM fuel cell, the raffinate is expanded in a turbocharger. The expansion of the relatively higher raffinate stream is used to operate a compressor that compresses the relatively lower hydrogen. The compressed hydrogen is used as a hydrogen input for the PEM fuel cell.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein enable routine autonomous execution of at least some major phases of aerostat operation in response to commands from human or automated external operators, a built-in decision-making capacity, or both. Various embodiments combine one or more actively controlled tethers, aerodynamic aerostat control surfaces, mechanical assistive devices (e.g., jointed arms attached to a ground station), and/or active propulsors attached to the aerostat to govern aerostat behavior during launch, flight, and landing phases of operation. Some embodiments enable automatic autonomous performance of all phases of routine post-commissioning aerostat operation, including launch, flight, and landing, without any routine need for availability of a human crew.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method by a site router agent at an edge site includes receiving a first message from a message router at an edge backend, where a destination field of the first message includes a destination information, determining that the first message is destined to a first application instance by comparing a first unique identifying information associated with the first application instance with the destination information, storing the first message into a storage communicatively connected to the site router agent, establishing a network connection with the first application instance, and sending the first message to the first application instance upon establishing the network connection.

Abstract: An apparatus and method selectively resume an interrupted operation of a wirelessly powered appliance after an unintentional power loss. An interrupted operation may be selectively resumed, for example, based upon one or more of a detected movement (or lack of detected movement) of the wirelessly powered appliance, a detected temperature of and/or in the wirelessly powered appliance, and a detected fault in a wireless power transmitter and/or wireless power system that supplies power to the wirelessly powered appliance.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of locating a wireless power transmitter in which a variable load coupled to a wireless power receiver configured to receive a wireless power signal from the wireless power transmitter is controllably varied to maintain a harvested voltage of the wireless power signal within a predetermined range. By doing so, power supplied to a wirelessly powered appliance coupled to the wireless power receiver is maintained within an operational envelope of the wirelessly powered appliance.

Abstract: Techniques described include methods, systems, products, devices, and/or apparatuses related to food processing systems related methods, and food items produced therewith. For example, the food processing system may be configured to fabricate food aggregates from multiple food elements. The food processing system includes a first press body and a second press body. The second press body is positioned and oriented opposite to the first press body and reconfigurable from a first configuration to a second, non-planar configuration. The second, non-planar configuration of the press body is different from the first configuration. At least one of the first or second press bodies is movable in a manner that decreases space between the first and second press bodies, to compress the food elements and form the food aggregate. A dispenser of the food elements is positioned and configured to dispense the food elements between the first and second press bodies.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method by a site router agent at an edge site includes receiving a first message from a message router at an edge backend, where a destination field of the first message includes a destination information, determining that the first message is destined to a first application instance by comparing a first unique identifying information associated with the first application instance with the destination information, storing the first message into a storage communicatively connected to the site router agent, establishing a network connection with the first application instance, and sending the first message to the first application instance upon establishing the network connection.