Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint mechanism that renders easy alignment between a striker and a latch. One mode of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint mechanism for restraining a wheelchair to a restraining member installed on a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint mechanism includes an engagement target portion and an engagement portion. The engagement target portion includes a striker having a rod shape extending in up-down directions. The engagement portion includes: a housing member to house the striker; a latch to limit separation of the striker from the housing member; and a guide member to guide the striker towards the housing member. The guide member includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface, which face each other in width directions of the wheelchair and have a distance therebetween decreasing towards the housing member.

Abstract: An apparatus for facilitating a compliance with requirements for users includes tags configured to be comprised in items. The tags are configured for establishing the compliance with a requirement for the user through a compliance monitoring device. The compliance monitoring device includes a detector configured for detecting the tags. The compliance monitoring device includes a processing device communicatively coupled with the detector. The processing device is configured for obtaining an identifier which is unique to each of the tags, obtaining a data, analyzing the data and the identifier of each of the tags based on the requirement, determining an anomaly in the establishing of the compliance with the requirement based on the analyzing, and generating a notification based on the determining. The compliance monitoring device includes a communication device communicatively coupled with the processing device. The communication device is configured for transmitting the notification to a device.

Abstract: An electrical system includes a battery, temperature sensor, and battery charging station connectable to the battery and to an alternating current (AC) power supply. The charging station includes connected battery charging and heating circuits. The charging circuit includes a first plurality of power switches configured to rectify an AC input voltage from the power supply into a direct current (DC) voltage for charging the battery during a battery charging mode. The heating circuit includes a voltage bus, transformer, series switch, and a second plurality of power switches downstream of the transformer. The heating circuit generates an AC battery current from the DC voltage and injects the same into the battery during a battery heating mode. An electronic controller controls the power switches and the series switch to perform the charging and heating modes, doing so via a corresponding method.

Abstract: The present application generally relates to stereochemically pure lipids that can be used, also in combination with other lipid components, such as neutral lipids, cholesterol and polymer conjugated lipids, to form lipid nanoparticles with oligonucleotides, to facilitate the intracellular delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids such as oligonucleotides, messenger RNA both in vitro and in vivo.

Abstract: Exemplary semiconductor processing systems may include a chamber body including sidewalls and a base. The system may include a substrate support extending through the base of the chamber body. The chamber body may define an access circumferentially extending about the substrate support at the base of the chamber body. The system may include one or more isolators disposed within the chamber body. The one or more isolators may define an exhaust path between the one or more isolators and the chamber body. The exhaust path may extend to the base of the chamber body. The systems may include a fluid source fluidly coupled with the chamber body at the access extending about the substrate support.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to prevent information from being read from a second cache location while information is being stored in a first cache location. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to prevent information from being read from a second cache location while information is being stored in a first cache location.

Abstract: A method for heating a battery pack of an electrified powertrain system having an electric motor includes determining a temperature of the battery pack. Responsive to the battery temperature being less than a predetermined threshold temperature, the method includes executing a self-heating mode of the battery pack. This includes injecting a high-frequency direct-axis alternating current voltage waveform that minimizes output torque and prevents rotation of a rotor of the electric motor. An AC current waveform is applied to the battery pack as a result of the voltage injection. A controller includes a temperature sensor configured for determining a temperature of the battery pack and a processor configured to perform the method. A motor vehicle includes the controller, an electrified powertrain system having the battery pack and an electric motor, and road wheels connected to and powered by electric motor.

Abstract: Provided are systems for controlling a data pipeline in a data pipeline ecosystem that include at least one processor to receive metadata parameters for a data pipeline, store the metadata parameters in a data repository, generate a logical representation of the data pipeline based on the metadata parameters, execute the data pipeline based on the metadata parameters of the data pipeline, and model the data pipeline using the directed acyclic graph (DAG) of the data pipeline. Methods and computer program products are also provided.

Abstract: Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide application-specific launch optimization. Aspects of the present disclosure include one or more cost functions for each application, where each cost function corresponds to a likelihood that a particular application should be placed into a particular pre-activation state. For each of the inactive applications, a respective one of the pre-activation states is selected based on comparing cost values obtained by evaluating the cost functions. Each of the inactive applications can be moved to or maintained in the respectively-selected pre-activation state to more efficiently provide an expedited application launch experience for a user.

Abstract: A toy figure is presented herein. The toy figure includes a base, a body extending from the base, and a plurality of segments. At least some of the plurality of segments are configured to rotate relative to the base to transition the toy figure between a first configuration and a second configuration. The plurality of segments and the base cooperatively enclose the body in the first configuration, and the body is exposed in the second configuration.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for immersion cooling computer hardware is disclosed. An immersion cooler includes a tank enclosing a condenser and holding an operating liquid, with a head space over a surface of the liquid in the tank. The headspace is gaseously coupled to one or more bellows. One of the bellows, preferably all, are positioned below the tank, for example below a portion of the tank enclosing the condenser. Condensers or condensate collectors are further positioned on the gaseous coupling between the head space and one of the bellows, optionally in combination with a liquid drain or thermal element.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to cause information to be invalidated in a second cache location after information is stored in a first cache location. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuits are to perform an application programming interface (API) to cause information to be invalidated in a second cache location after information is stored in a first cache location.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method of displaying a portal is performed by a device including a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a user location in a first three-dimensional coordinate system of a first environment. The method includes obtaining an interest location in a second three-dimensional second coordinate system of a second environment. The method includes transforming the interest location to a transformed interest location in the first three-dimensional coordinate system. The method includes determining a portal location in the first three-dimensional coordinate system based on the user location and the transformed interest location. The method includes displaying, on the display at the portal location, a portal corresponding to at least a partial view of the second environment.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for immersion cooling computer hardware are disclosed. An immersion cooler includes a tank enclosing a condenser and holding an operating liquid, with a head space over a surface of the liquid in the tank. The head space is gaseously coupled to one or more bellows. One or more of the bellows is placed inside the tank. In some cases, the one or more of the bellows is placed inside the head space.

Abstract: Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The insulative levels have a same primary composition as one another. At least one of the insulative levels is compositionally different relative to others of the insulative levels due to said at least one of the insulative levels including dopant dispersed within the primary composition. An opening extends vertically through the stack. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.

Abstract: SR-IOV (single root IO virtualization) capable PCIe devices can implement virtual functions (VFs) that are assigned to VMs running on a host machine, thereby speeding IO operation by writing directly to the VMs' memory while bypassing the hypervisor managing the VMs. As such, VFs thwart the dirty page tracking that hypervisors use to minimize VM downtime when the VM is migrated between hosts. The SR-IOV PCIe devices can help resolve this problem by maintaining dirty page tracking data for VMs running on the host machine. The SR-IOV PCIe devices bypassing the hypervisor while writing into a memory page of the VM can set the dirty page tracking data to indicate the memory pages that are dirty (i.e., written to by the VF), and can provide access to the dirty page tracking data. The hypervisor can thereby obtain and use the dirty page tracking data.

Abstract: A printer includes a substrate support, a printhead assembly, first and second actuators, and a controller. The printhead assembly deposits material on a substrate supported on the substrate support. The first actuator is disposed at a side of the substrate support and coupled to a first linear track disposed along the side of the substrate support and oriented in a first direction. The second actuator is disposed at an end of the substrate support and coupled to a second linear track disposed along the end of the substrate support and oriented in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first and second actuators are positioned to engage with the substrate simultaneously. The controller moves the first and second actuators together to rotate the substrate.

Abstract: A content interaction system and method allow a user to simultaneously interact with a piece of content using three, four or five senses (such as sound, sight and smell in one example) of the user. In one embodiment, a presence detection element may detect the presence of a person adjacent to a piece of smart furniture of the content interaction system, may determine an identity and emotional state of the person and may recommend a piece of interactive content based on the emotional state of the person adjacent to a piece of smart furniture of the content interaction system.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint apparatus that renders easy adjustment of a restraining position of a wheelchair inside a vehicle. One aspect of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint apparatus configured to restrain a wheelchair inside a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint apparatus includes a main body having a seat belt, and a restrained mechanism to and from which the wheelchair is attachable and detachable; and a slide mechanism configured to cause the main body to slide with respect to the vehicle. The restraint mechanism is configured to restrain the wheelchair in a state where a part of the wheelchair is inserted to the restraint mechanism in a traveling direction of the wheelchair.

Abstract: Quantum Information Processing (QIP) with the availability of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) device(s) are available to work on quantum algorithms. Different problems, which are hard to solve by classical computation, but can be sped up (significantly in some cases) are also being populated. However, current approaches solve only two cluster max-cut problems. Mining the two cluster Max-Cut problem within the framework of quantum Ising model, embodiments of the present disclosure solve Quadratic Unconstrained D-ary Optimization (QUDO) problems by quantum computing with the identification of an appropriate Hamiltonian. More specifically, the problem is mapped to an Ising model to obtain a d-ray Quantum Ising Hamiltonian. The d-ray Quantum Ising Hamiltonian is then executed on one or more qudit processors, to obtain one or more resultant quantum states which are measured in a qudit computational basis to obtain at least one solution.