Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems configured to extract and separate one or more alkali and alkaline earth metals from biomass particles, and related methods.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle's control systems include an A-kit module that operates autonomy logic to generate a desired trajectory from sensor data. A B-kit module receives the desired trajectory and generates inputs for actuators such as steering, brake and throttle actuators based on the desired trajectory. Safing logic (which may be located in the A-kit, B-kit, both the A-kit and the B-kit or elsewhere within or outside of the vehicle) receives a sensor fault indication and executes a contingency trajectory such as a safing maneuver to bring the vehicle to a safe state.

Abstract: A polymer-ceramic composite membrane and methods of making the same. The composite membrane includes a polymer scaffold and a ceramic nanoparticle disposed within the polymer scaffold.

Abstract: A roof-mounted solar power system for generating electrical power that includes a plurality of solar modules adapted for generating electrical power from sunlight, and with each of the plurality of solar modules having substantially the same size, aspect ratio and surface coloring. The plurality of solar modules are mounted on the deck of a roof to form a bank of solar modules having at least one irregular edge. The solar power system further includes one or more non-power generating edge treatments having substantially the same size, aspect ratio and surface coloring as the solar modules and that are adapted for installation along the irregular edge. Each edge treatment is adapted for a cutting away of at least one corner thereof to smooth the irregular edge of the bank of solar modules to a regular edge.

Abstract: Techniques for providing eyewear or other head-worn personal electronic apparatus with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear or other head-worn personal electronic apparatus without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles. The electrical components can be partially or completely internal to eyewear or other head-worn personal electronic apparatus. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. Apparatus for presenting after-market electrical components are also disclosed.

Abstract: Operating a microservices registry hub that automatically discovers and sorts services. A microservice architecture application includes a plurality of services, the plurality of services are each an application program interface (API) performing a piecemeal function of an overall application function. The microservices registry hub stores an index of the services. The microservices registry hub is configured to enable consumption of services in execution environments. The service hub uses observation agents to monitor particular execution environments and generate a list of unsorted service data associated services available within that environment. That list is automatically pre-sorted based on a predetermined set of heuristic rules based on the index of the plurality of services. An administrator later goes through the pre-sorted service data and confirms whether or not that pre-sorting was correct.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining a parcel position error based on a comparison of load data and configuration data are provided. Embodiments describe a number of methods of determining the parcel position error such as by determining a parcel path from the load data.

Abstract: Aspects are provided herein for vehicle structures. The vehicle structures can include a caliper portion configured to apply a braking force, the caliper portion including an inner housing, an outer housing, and a bridge portion, wherein the bridge portion connects the inner housing and the outer housing. In various embodiments, the outer housing can include an inner surface configured to face a rotor, in which the inner surface includes a sweep area configured to allow the rotor to tilt during installation and removal of the rotor. The vehicle structures can further include an upright portion configured to couple to a wheel of a vehicle, the upright portion being connected to the inner housing. Further, the vehicle structure can include a stiffening portion that connects the upright portion to at least the bridge portion or the outer housing. In various embodiments, the vehicle structures can be 3D-printed.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for stabilization and blending of exposures. So-called Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) techniques use image manipulation software to compensate for camera motion. Unfortunately, existing EIS techniques cannot compensate for artifacts introduced by low shutter speed (e.g., blurs). Various embodiments of the present disclosure generate stabilized images from multiple exposures. In one exemplary embodiment, the stabilized exposures are blended using a linear sum of the color data for each pixel of the image. By stabilizing each exposure and linearly summing the light information, the camera shake can be removed, and the scene motion blur can be controlled. The stabilization and blending techniques enable a mathematical emulation of a selected shutter angle from many high-speed exposures.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, modes, and methods for mounting one or more electronic housings to each other and to a rack mount system, a table mount system, or wall mount system. The mounting system includes a first pair of matching sliding panels that interface with each other in a slidingly engaging manner. Each of the first pair of sliding panels can be mounted to housings prior to being engaged with each other; the engagement of the first pair of sliding panels removably fixes the two housings together; additional housings can be fixed to the first two in a substantially similar manner. The first pair of sliding panels includes a U-shaped sliding panel and a C-shaped sliding panel, and according to a second embodiment, a second pair of sliding panels includes a C-shaped sliding panel and a Pi-shaped sliding panel. The second pair of sliding panels operates in a substantially similar manner as the first pair of sliding panels.

Abstract: A swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) apparatus includes a plurality of wavelength-tunable light sources. The SS-OCT apparatus includes a first optical coupler configured to receive an output from each of the plurality of wavelength-tunable light sources. The optical coupler is configured to split the received output from the plurality of wavelength-tunable light sources into a reference optical path and a sample optical path. The sample optical path is configured to illuminate a sample. The SS-OCT apparatus includes a second optical coupler configured to receive return optical signals from the reference optical path and the sample optical path, and to output an optical interference signal. The SS-OCT apparatus includes a detector configured to detect the optical interference signal; and a controller configured to receive an electrical signal based on the detected optical interference signal. The controller is configured to generate a depth profile of the sample using compressed sensing.

Abstract: Systems and methods for tensioning an electrical cable adapted to be manipulated by one or more remotely operated robotic appendages. Tensioners mounted to a rigid object configured to adjust the tension of a connecting line attached to an electrical cable such that the tension of the connecting line is applied to a length of the electrical cable such that another portion of the electrical cable becomes slack, thereby allowing one or more robotic appendages to remove, replace, repair, or conduct any alteration or modification to said electrical cable or to a rigid object that supports the electrical cable.

Abstract: A headgear portion or assembly for use in combination with a breathing apparatus in some configurations is at least substantially inelastic and is three dimensional in shape. The headgear portion or assembly can comprise a plastic core, a substrate and a textile casing. The substrate and textile casing have retaining structures to attach the textile casings to the substrates and the substrates to each other.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are polypeptides and polypeptides complexes comprising a half-life extending antibody or antibody fragment. In some embodiments, the half-life extending antibody or antibody fragment is a single domain antibody.

Abstract: A multi-stage driver circuit has a transmission line coupled to an output of the multi-stage driver circuit. The transmission line has inductive elements and programmable capacitive elements selected to shape the transmitted data signal. The programmable capacitive elements have a first capacitor with a first terminal coupled to a first power supply conductor, and a first transistor with a first conduction terminal coupled to a second terminal of the first capacitor, and a second conduction terminal coupled to a second power supply conductor. The programmable capacitive elements have a register with a first output coupled to a control terminal of the first transistor. The programmable capacitive elements are selected to shape the transmitted data signal by observing operational dynamics of the multi-stage driver circuit.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to the scalable synthesis of carbonaceous perimorphic materials, including carbonaceous perimorphic frameworks, on recyclable templates, and using recyclable process liquids. The present disclosure also demonstrates novel perimorphic architectures. In particular, perimorphic frameworks comprising synthetic anthracitic networks are demonstrated. Using these methods, three-dimensional architectures constructed from graphenic carbon can be scalably produced.

Abstract: Described are systems and methods to determine hair patterns presented in content items. The determined hair patterns may be associated with the content items to facilitate indexing, filtering, etc. of the content items based on the determined hair patterns. In exemplary implementations, a corpus of content items may be associated with an embedding vector that includes a binary representation of the content item. The embedding vectors associated with each content item can be provided as inputs to a trained machine learning model, which can process the embedding vectors to determine one or more hair patterns presented in each content item while eliminating the need for performing image pre-processing prior to determination of the hair pattern(s) presented in the content item.

Abstract: Provided are methods for activating an antigen-presenting cell and eliciting an immune response by inducing pattern recognition receptor activity, and CD40 activity. Also provided are methods for activating an antigen-presenting cell and eliciting an immune response by inducing CD40 activity without prostaglandin E2. Also provided are methods for activating an antigen-presenting cell and eliciting an immune response by inducing an inducible chimeric molecule comprising a region of a pattern recognition receptor or an adaptor thereof.

Abstract: A portable communications device is adapted with a controlled self-erasing option to programmably store user content and key data based on a desired limited lifespan for such data. This allows for improved security in the event the device is misplaced or lost as the onboard user data eventually becomes physically destroyed and unreadable to a third party without requiring a remote access destruction capability.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method for using a remote control to train a trainable transmitter is provided. The method includes receiving a user input at a user interface of the remote control, broadcasting to a controllable device a first radio frequency communication via a first security protocol in response to receiving the user input at the user interface, the first communication including a first fixed code and a first changing code. The method further includes measuring a duration of the user input and broadcasting to the controllable device and the trainable transmitter a second radio frequency communication via a second security protocol different than the first security protocol in response to the measured duration of the user input satisfying a user input duration condition, the second radio frequency communication including the first fixed code and the first changing code.