Abstract: In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to part-invariant peak power management. One or more circuits can receive a plurality of instructions for a graphics processing device. The plurality of instructions can correspond to a respective plurality of power consumption values. The one or more circuits can determine that the respective plurality of power consumption values cause a threshold to be exceeded during a time period. The one or more circuits can generate a control signal to control a clock signal for the graphics processing device responsive to determining that the respective plurality of power consumption values cause the threshold to be exceeded.

Abstract: A method of producing a capacitor electrode includes forming an oxide layer on a foil. The method also includes heating the foil to a target temperature so as to induce defects in the oxide layer. The target temperature is about 350° C. to 560° C. and the duration of heating the foil to the target temperature is less than 6 minutes. The oxide layer is reformed so as to generate a reformed oxide layer that is an aluminum oxide with a boehmite phase and a pseudo-boehmite phase.

Abstract: Fabricating a capacitor includes using a first etching solution to etch a first sheet of material so as to generate a spent etchant. At least one chemical component is recovered from the spent etchant. A second etching solution is used to etch a second sheet of material. The second etchant includes at least one of the chemical components that was recovered from the spent etchant.

Abstract: A method includes injection molding a preform using a two phase injection system having a first phase in which a material is injected into the preform and a second phase in which the material is injected into the preform. The preform is disposed in a mold. The preform is blow molded into an intermediate article. The intermediate article is trimmed to form a finished container. The first phase includes injecting a material into the preform to form a single layer of the preform and the second phase includes injecting the material to form inner and outer layers and an intermediate layer between the inner and outer layers. The inner and outer layers include the material and the intermediate layer includes at least one additive. Finished containers are disclosed.

Abstract: A multi-functional walking cane includes an elongated rectilinear shaft having a centrally registered longitudinal axis, a handle adjustably coupled to the shaft, and a portable controller removably coupled to the shaft and spaced subjacent to the handle. Advantageously, the controller includes a programmable navigation determining mechanism, and an object-detecting mechanism in communication with the programmable navigation determining mechanism. In this manner, the controller cooperates with the programmable navigation determining mechanism and the object-detecting mechanism to thereby generate and emit output signals that facilitate directional travel for the blind user while preventing undesirable contact with hazardous obstacles during the directional travel. Notably, a portable earpiece is in wireless communication with the controller. Such an earpiece has a speaker for audibly emitting the output signals to the blind user.

Abstract: A tube support apparatus is provided for stabilizing tubing relative to a patient. The apparatus includes a brace configured for attachment to the patient and a support extending from the brace. The support defines a surface having a groove for receiving a tube and a channel oriented transverse to the groove. A clamp is coupled to the support and includes a bar that secures the tube within the groove. The bar has an inner surface with a pad positioned to lie in the transverse channel when the bar is engaged.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a knowledge base for facilitating interactions between users and an automated assistant. An example method is performed by one or more processors of a computing system. The example method may include receiving a transmission over a communications network from a computing device, the transmission including a plurality of transcripts of user interactions with the automated assistant or agents associated with the computing system, transforming ones of the transcripts into one or more question-and-answer (Q & A) pairs associated with a subject of the corresponding user interaction, and embedding ones of the Q & A pairs as vectors in a vector space for retrieval by the automated assistant during subsequent user interactions.

Abstract: A method of producing a capacitor electrode includes forming an oxide layer on a foil. The method also includes heating the foil to a target temperature so as to induce defects in the oxide layer. The target temperature is about 450° C. to 560° C. and the duration of heating the foil to the target temperature is less than 4 minutes. The oxide layer is reformed so as to generate a reformed oxide layer that is an aluminum oxide with a boehmite phase and a pseudo-boehmite phase.

Abstract: Fabricating a capacitor include using a first etching solution to etch a first sheet of material so as to generate a spent etchant. At least one chemical component is recovered from the spent etchant. A second etching solution is used to etch a second sheet of material. The second etchant includes at least one of the chemical components that was recovered from the spent etchant.

Abstract: As described herein, a N-Gram index may be created and the search may be conducted using the index, which will lead to faster search results. The N-Gram index may also include partial N-Gram components to capture more relevant data. Moreover, as described herein, the search may also take into account recent log data that has not yet been indexed. Techniques for building an index store using log data and efficiently searching the index store and log data to process search requests are described herein.

Abstract: A method includes injection molding a preform using a two phase injection system having a first phase in which a material is injected into the preform and a second phase in which the material is injected into the preform. The preform is disposed in a mold. The preform is blow molded into an intermediate article. The intermediate article is trimmed to form a finished container. The first phase includes injecting a material into the preform to form a single layer of the preform and the second phase includes injecting the material to form inner and outer layers and an intermediate layer between the inner and outer layers. The inner and outer layers include the material and the intermediate layer includes at least one additive. Finished containers are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for improving service to a user encountering a language barrier. The user may encounter a language barrier when speaking to an agent or using a computer application of an organization. The user may use a VR headset to translate its request for assistance into a language used at the organization and transmit the translated request to an AI virtual assistant. The AI virtual assistant may confirm its understanding of the user's request, determine an agent in a team in the organization that can assist the user, and transfer the user to that agent. The user and the agent may each speak in a language in which they are proficient, even though the other is not proficient in that language, to resolve the user's request. An API may integrate the AI virtual assistant with the VR headset to facilitate real-time communication between the user and the agent.

Abstract: A method for improving service to hearing impaired customers who may be located remotely from a brick-and-mortar location of an organization. The customer may use a VR headset to translate a request for assistance from sign language into text. The VR headset may transmit the text of the request to an AI virtual assistant. An API may integrate the AI virtual assistant with the VR headset. The AI virtual assistant may confirm its understanding of the request with the customer, determine a team in the organization that can assist the customer, and transfer the customer to an agent in the team that does not know sign language. The API may integrate the AI virtual assistant with the VR headset to conduct real-time communication between the customer who is communicating with sign language and the agent who is communicating with speech or text to resolve the request.

Abstract: A data platform for developing and deploying a user application within a unified security context. The data platform authorizes a first user to use an editor to access source code of a user application based on security policies of a security context and authorizes the first user to use an application and data manager to set usage privileges for a second user to use the user application based on the security policies of the security context. To provide the user application to the second user, the data platform deploys the user application by instantiating a User Defined Function (UDF) server and an application engine of the UDF server within the security context, instantiating the user application as an application of the application engine within the security context, and authorizing access by the user application to databased on the security policies of the security context.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a container includes injecting a first material into a first mold to form a top portion of a preform. The first material and a second material are injected into the first mold to form a bottom portion of the preform. The preform is disposed in a second mold. The preform is blow molded into a finished container.

Abstract: A method for improving service to hearing impaired customers at a brick-and-mortar location of an organization. The customer may use a virtual reality (“VR”) headset to translate a request for assistance from sign language into text. The VR headset may transmit the text of the request to an artificial intelligence (“AI”) virtual assistant. An application programming interface (“API”) may integrate the AI virtual assistant with the VR headset. The AI virtual assistant may confirm its understanding of the request with the customer, determine a team in the organization that can assist the customer, and transfer the customer to an agent in the team that does not know sign language. The API may integrate the AI virtual assistant with the VR headset to conduct real-time communication between the customer who is communicating with sign language and the agent who is communicating with speech or text to resolve the request.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present a valve assembly that includes a valve body having a gas passage bore, a valving bore extending along a longitudinal axis and intersecting the gas passage bore, a first bearing surface concentric with the longitudinal axis and a radially spaced apart second bearing surface concentric with the longitudinal axis, wherein an interface of the gas passage bore and the valving bore defines a flow port radially intermediate the first bearing surface and the second bearing surface. The valve assembly further includes a shaft valve extending along the longitudinal axis and rotatably mounted in the valving bore.

Abstract: The present invention relates to insulin analogs, particularly insulin analogs having shortened B chains. The present invention also relates to the crystal structure of insulin from the venom of cone snails and to methods of using the crystal and related structural information to screen for and design insulin analogs that interact with or modulate the insulin receptor. The present invention also relates to therapeutic and prophylactic methods using insulin analogs.

Abstract: As described herein, a N-Gram index may be created and the search may be conducted using the index, which will lead to faster search results. The N-Gram index may also include partial N-Gram components to capture more relevant data. Moreover, as described herein, the search may also take into account recent log data that has not yet been indexed. Techniques for building an index store using log data and efficiently searching the index store and log data to process search requests are described herein.

Abstract: In some implementations, an optical amplifier system includes a pump system including a pump laser source configured to output multimode pump light at a first wavelength, and a multicore fiber laser having an input end optically coupled to the pump laser source and an output end. The multicore fiber laser may include a multicore active fiber having multiple cores to convert the multimode pump light to multiple single-mode pump light outputs at one or more second wavelengths, where the multiple cores have respective laser cavities defined by fiber gratings on each of the multiple cores. The optical amplifier system may include a fiber amplifier, optically coupled to the pump system, including multiple amplifier components, in one or more active fibers, that are to be pumped by respective cores, of the multiple cores, of the multicore active fiber.