Abstract: Shopping carts and mobile shopping baskets equipped with one or more bag attachment mechanisms are discussed. The shopping carts and mobile shopping baskets may include multiple rows of bag attachment mechanisms located at varying distances from a top edge of a cart or basket side wall. The shopping carts and mobile shopping baskets may include bag attachment mechanisms on multiple side walls of the basket. The bag attachment mechanisms may take a number of forms including downward facing loop attachment mechanisms, clipping mechanisms and/or hook mechanisms.

Abstract: A hazard beacon has an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to detect that vehicle emergency indicators have been deployed, a plurality of separately strobe capable light segments forming a hazard symbol, and a microcontroller controlling operation of the plurality of separately strobe capable light segments.

Abstract: A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a vehicle telematics system that receives different types of identification information from different vehicle modules on the vehicle bus of a vehicle, identifies a vehicle platform based on the identification information by matching the identification information with information stored in a database that has been reverse engineered for a vehicle with a same and/or similar platform and identifies a set of communication data associated with the vehicle platform for communicating with the at least one vehicle module.

Abstract: Programming field programmable gate array (FPGA) digital electronic integrated circuits (ICs) or other ICs that support partial reconfiguration, a particular FPGA having reconfigurable partitions and primitive variations configurable in each of the reconfigurable partitions, comprises: before writing configuration bitstreams to the FPGA, compiling and storing primitive bitstreams for different primitive functions that can be implemented on the particular FPGA; receiving input in a graphical user interface to connect graphical blocks representing functional logic of an algorithm to implement on the particular FPGA, the graphical blocks relating to reconfigurable logic; automatically determining a subset of the primitive functions comprising particular primitive functions that correspond to the graphical blocks; obtaining, from the digital storage, a subset of the primitive bitstreams that corresponds to the subset of the primitive functions; using partial reconfiguration operations, writing the subset of the p

Abstract: A system provides for strobing or high conspicuity signaling with vehicle hazard and other lights depending upon inputs and parameters.

Abstract: A drug delivery vehicle comprising a vesicle conjugated to one or more targeting groups, wherein the targeting groups comprise an oligosaccharide which is Lewis A or Lewis B or a mimetic thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or PEGylated form of the oligosaccharide: (I) wherein R represents the point of attachment to the vesicle.

Abstract: A method for storage of excess energy which would otherwise be lost, the regulation of angular velocity, and prevention of excessive velocities is disclosed. The device consists of a bowl shaped container, divided into sections by radially oriented vertical walls, which holds a fluid (any appropriate liquid or set of small solid particles), and spins on its vertically oriented axis at various angular velocities. The floor of the device is formed in successive shapes of bowls and shelves, which allows for a kind of “gearing”. The invention allows more and more energy to be input into the device while the angular velocity is regulated within a particular range. A typical embodiment of the invention would include its attachment by a shaft at the axis to a vertical axis wind turbine.

Abstract: A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.

Abstract: A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for incremental snapshot recovery from a remote storage system. One method comprises, in response to a request to restore a snapshot from a remote storage system: obtaining, from a local storage system, a first bitmap for the first snapshot indicating differences with respect to a previous snapshot, comparing the first bitmap to an allocation bitmap of an earliest maintained snapshot to obtain a baseline bitmap representing a baseline version of the first snapshot; recovering the baseline version of the first snapshot, using the baseline bitmap, from the remote storage system. The snapshots may be stored in the remote storage system in a time order, and following the recovery of the first snapshot, a user may move forward or backward in time along a lineage of snapshots by copying only the changed blocks of bitmaps between two desired points in time.

Abstract: A method for storage of excess energy which would otherwise be lost, the regulation of angular velocity, and prevention of excessive velocities is disclosed. The device consists of a bowl shaped container, divided into sections by radially oriented vertical walls, which holds a fluid (any appropriate liquid or set of small solid particles), and spins on its vertically oriented axis at various angular velocities. The floor of the device is formed in successive shapes of bowls and shelves, which allows for a kind of “gearing”. The invention allows more and more energy to be input into the device while the angular velocity is regulated within a particular range. A typical embodiment of the invention would include its attachment by a shaft at the axis to a vertical axis wind turbine.

Abstract: A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.

Abstract: An elongate applicator body for use with a microwave applicator, the elongate applicator body including a tip portion, a first dielectric isolator having a first length, a first shunt, a second dielectric isolator having a second length, a second shunt, a third dielectric isolator having a third length, a microwave transmission line and an outer sleeve.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an expansion assembly for setting a liner hanger into mating engagement with an interior surface of a wellbore casing. In one embodiment, the expansion assembly comprises a cone mandrel and an expanding cone assembly positioned adjacent the cone mandrel. The expanding cone assembly includes a plurality of sections, the plurality of sections positioned adjacent each other, each separable by a space S, and together forming an annular ring. The plurality of sections are configured to expand radially outward to a first outer diameter when subjected to a linear downhole force when moving downhole and to contract radially inward to a second smaller outer diameter when moving uphole.

Abstract: A system includes a first lead connecting to existing vehicle wiring for activating a signal light of a right side of a vehicle, and a first strobing light module having a first microcontroller connected to the first lead and operating a first light capable of strobing operation. A second lead connects to existing vehicle wiring for activating a signal light of a left side of the vehicle, and a second strobing light module having a second microcontroller connects to the second lead and operating a light capable of strobing operation. The first and second microcontrollers are communicatively coupled and each provides a signal to the other when it has detected activation of its respective lead. The first and second microcontrollers both strobe their respective light capable of strobing operation upon receiving the signal from the other and the signal from their own respective lead.

Abstract: A hazard beacon has an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to detect that vehicle emergency indicators have been deployed, a plurality of separately strobe capable light segments forming a hazard symbol, and a microcontroller controlling operation of the plurality of separately strobe capable light segments.

Abstract: An automated refurbishment system for cleaning and testing recycled child-safe containers. The system takes in durable, child-safe container bodies and caps after usage, washes the container parts reduce an amount of contaminants, and then dries the washed parts. The system then assembles the child-safe container bodies to caps, and tests the assembled child-safe containers, to assess the functionality of the child-safe features. The clean and tested refurbished child-safe containers can then be reused to dispense controlled substances (e.g., pharmaceuticals). Specific modules of the system can be interchanged to allow compatibility with different styles and designs of child-safe containers. The refurbishment system facilitates the recycling and reuse of durable, child-safe containers as an alternative to the current practice of using single-use, disposable plastic child-safe containers to dispense prescription pills and other controlled substances.

Abstract: A cognitive Web browser detects that a user is viewing a Web page. The system captures contextual data that identifies the user, the Web page, temporal information, and the user's computer, location, and browser. Using artificially intelligent cognitive analytics, the system correlates the contextual data with patterns inferred from the user's past browsing habits to predict which page the user may want to view next and the paths to each of those destination. The system ranks each page on each path by its probability of being selected and displays the ranked pages as a dynamic hyperlinked list. The user may directly navigate to any of displayed pages with a single selection from the list. The contextual information, the dynamic list, and the user's selection are forwarded to a machine-learning application that uses the forwarded information to train the system to more accurately predict the user's future navigational preferences.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to blended analog-to-digital conversion for digital test and measurement devices. A first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts an analog signal into a first digital signal a first sampling rate. A digital filtering component generates a filtered digital signal by processing the first digital signal. An analog low pass filter filters the analog signal to generate a filtered analog signal. A second ADC converts the filtered analog signal into a second digital signal. A digital subtractor circuit subtracts the filtered digital signal from the first digital signal or the second digital signal. A digital adder circuit generates a blended digital signal by processing an output of the digital subtractor circuit and one of the first digital signal or the second digital signal.