Abstract: A vehicle-bumper assembly includes a vehicle bumper and a rod having a first end fixed to the vehicle bumper and a second end spaced from the first end along an elongated axis of the rod. A collar is fixed to the rod between the first end of the rod and the second end of the rod, the collar including a pyrotechnically-activated release releasable from the rod. A spring is retained on the rod between the collar and the vehicle bumper.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a lightweight authentication service, system and method that securely authenticates the identity of a secure user equipment (UE) or a device in a communication network system. The service and associated methods work by creating two partial secrets namely a first partial secret and a second partial secret. The first partial secret is generated by the manufacturer or the owner of the UE, which is stored on a secure location on the UE and the second partial secret is stored in a database storage system on a server in a cloud running an authentication service. The encryption of information elements is done by multiplying the information elements with the square of random numbers, the encrypted secrets are randomized and before transmission on the channel. The disclosure also describes a receiver UE that could either request an authentication service, running in a cloud, to authenticate a sender UE.

Abstract: An electrical device that includes a stacked semiconductor device structure connected to a device substrate through a sidewall interconnect. The sidewall interconnect of the stacked semiconductor device structure is in contact with metal lines extending from a sidewall of the stacked semiconductor device structure to semiconductor devices positioned within an interior the stacked semiconductor device structure. The electrical device includes a heat spreader connected to the stacked semiconductor structure.

Abstract: A seat system includes a seat having a seatback and an arm supported by the seatback. The arm is extendable from a stowed position to an intermediate position and pivotable in a seat-forward direction from the intermediate position to a deployed position. A webbing guide is fixed to and movable with the arm. The webbing guide is at a top end of the seatback when the arm is at the stowed position and the webbing guide is spaced from the seatback in the seat-forward direction when the arm is at the deployed position. A retractor is supported by the seatback at the top end and a webbing extends from the retractor through the webbing guide.

Abstract: An open group chat (OGC) session is initiated between mobile devices registered to different telecommunications networks by first verifying whether each implicated network has a network-to-network interface (NNI) agreement with each other network. A first mobile device receives a request to initiate an OGC session between the first mobile device, a second mobile device registered to a second telecommunications network, and a third mobile device registered to a third telecommunications network. The first device determines, based on a response received from the second network, if an operator of the second network and an operator of the third network have an NNI agreement. If the received response indicates the operators of the second and third networks do not have an NNI agreement, the first mobile device sends a non-OGC message, such as a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message or a closed group chat (CGC) message, to the second and third devices.

Abstract: An assembly includes a vehicle seat including a seatback and a restraint frame including a first bar, a second bar spaced from the first bar, and a lap bar elongated from the first bar to the second bar. The seatback has a top end and a bottom end, is elongated along a first axis from the top end to the bottom end, and the first bar and the second bar each have a first end and a second end. The bars are elongated from the first ends to the second ends. The first ends of the bars are hingedly attached at the top end. The second ends are releasably lockable to the seatback at the bottom end. The restraint frame is hinged to the seatback and rotatable about a cross-seat axis from a raised position to a locked position.

Abstract: An assembly includes a seat bottom. The assembly includes a seatback supported by and movable relative to the seat bottom between an upright position and a reclined position. The assembly includes an actuator supported by the seat bottom and operatively coupled to the seatback to move the seatback from the reclined position to the upright position. The assembly includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to command the actuator to move the seatback to the upright position in response to detecting a pending vehicle impact.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle frame and a swing arm rotatably coupled to the vehicle frame at a rotatable connection. A track curves along a curved path. The track is fixed relative to the swing arm and spaced from the rotatable connection. An anchor is fixed relative to the vehicle frame. The track is slideably engaged with the anchor along the curved path of the track. A pyrotechnic actuator is between the vehicle frame and the swing arm.

Abstract: A vehicle body includes a door opening frame including a sill and a front portion and a rear portion each extending upwardly from the sill. The door opening frame has a top portion extending along a vehicle-longitudinal axis from the front portion to the rear portion. An airbag is mounted to the sill. A front cable and a rear cable are each connected to the airbag. At least one cable retractor is mounted to the vehicle body above the top portion of the door opening frame. The front cable in the undeployed position is packaged along the front portion and the top portion of the door opening frame from the airbag to the at least one cable retractor. The rear cable in the undeployed position is packaged along the rear portion and the top portion of the door opening frame from the airbag to the at least one cable retractor.

Abstract: An assembly includes a door panel. The assembly includes a door-trim panel movably supported by the door panel. The assembly includes an actuator between the door panel and the door-trim panel. The door-trim panel is selectively movable relative to the door panel in a cross-vehicle direction by the actuator.

Abstract: Some embodiments include an apparatus having a first delay line of a delay-locked loop (DLL) circuitry, the first delay line including an input node to receive an input clock signal and delay stages coupled in series with the input node; a first multiplexer including input nodes coupled to output nodes of a portion of the delay stages; and a second delay line of the DLL circuitry including an input node coupled to an output node of the multiplexer, and delay stages coupled in series with the input node of the second delay line, the second delay line including an output node to provide an output clock signal.

Abstract: An RF charging system for implantable medical devices. The RF charging system includes a radio frequency (RF) signal, a first antenna configured to transmit the RF signal, a second antenna configured to receive the RF signal transmitted by the first antenna, tune characteristics of the RF signal, and improve power transfer with impedance matching circuitry, an RF to direct current (DC) converter configured to convert the RF signal of the second antenna into a DC signal, and a battery management circuit configured to receive the DC signal and provide voltage to a battery.

Abstract: In some embodiments, bias circuits are provided that can generate resilient output supplies without consuming excessive power. In addition, other resilient and efficient bias circuits may be provided that can be used for biasing level shift and other high supply circuit blocks such as LDOs with thin gate transistors over a relatively wide high supply voltage operational range.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a novel composite material comprising a cellulosic material, a non-polar polymer and colloidal lignin nanoparticles enabling compatibility of said cellulosic materials and polymer. There is also provided a method for forming such composite material. The invention can be used in various applications utilizing biodegradable and waterproof composite materials.

Abstract: Unlike smart devices, Internet of things (IoTs), such as meter readers, generate very low revenue per user. Traditional tunnel/bearer based connection-oriented architectures do not scale economically for billions of IoT devices due to the amount of signaling overhead associated with GTP tunnel setup/tear down and the states related to GTP tunnels maintained at various parts of the mobile network. However, the mobility network can efficiently support massive stationary and/or mobile IoTs by reducing the amount of signaling overhead, the state of the IoTs kept in network, and simplifying the data plane when possible.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for hybrid bonding metallic bonding pads embedded in high-K dielectric material to form a high capacitance device. For example, a device comprises a first semiconductor structure bonded to a second semiconductor structure, and a plurality of metal pads at an interface portion between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure. The plurality of metal pads are disposed in a high-K dielectric layer. The plurality of metal pads and the high-K dielectric layer comprise at least one capacitor.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a door side panel. An armrest extends from a first end to a second end. The armrest is pivotably supported by the door side panel at the first end and the armrest is releasably connected to the door side panel at the second end. An airbag is inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position. The airbag is positioned between the armrest and the door side panel in the uninflated position to pivot the armrest from a lowered position to a raised position as the airbag inflates from the uninflated position to the inflated position.

Abstract: A system and method for cybersecurity reconnaissance, analysis, and scoring that uses distributed, cloud-based computing services to provide sufficient scalability for analysis of enterprise IT networks using only publicly available characterizations. The system and method comprise an in-memory associative array which manages a queue of vulnerability search tasks through a public-facing proxy network. The public-facing proxy network has search nodes configurable to present the network to search tools in a desired manner to control certain aspects of the search to obtain the desired results. A distributed data processing engine and cloud-based storage are used to provide scalable computing power and storage. Each of the cloud-based computing services is containerized and orchestrated for management and efficient scaling purposes.

Abstract: A communication system reserves a first portion of a transmitted frame for communication symbols and a second portion of the transmitted frame of symbols for a plurality of radar sensing symbols. The communication symbols are of variable length.

Abstract: A method and apparatus extracts solder from a redress site of multiple chips on a laminate structure. The method includes depositing conductive pads on a flexible insulating film with a same pitch as solder bumps on a laminate structure that are to be extracted. The flexible film is mounted on a retaining surface, and the conductive pads are heated at a temperature above a solder melting temperature. The retaining surface descends toward a laminate having solder thereon until the heated conductive pads come into contact with at least one solder bump. The retaining surface is retracted from contact and includes most of the at least one contacted solder bump that was on the laminate structure. The operations repeat until the solder remaining on die pads on the laminate is similar to an amount of initially arranged pre-solder.