Abstract: A structure thermodynamic model, which models the physical characteristics of a controlled space, inputs a constraint state curve which gives constraints, such as temperature, that a controlled space is to meet; and outputs a state injection time series which is the amount of state needed for the controlled space to optimize the constraint state curve. The state injection time series curve is then used as input into an equipment model, which models equipment behavior in the controlled space. The equipment model outputs equipment control actions per control time (a control sequence) which can be used to control the equipment in the controlled space. Some embodiments train the models using training data.

Abstract: A cross reality system that provides an immersive user experience by storing persistent spatial information about the physical world that one or multiple user devices can access to determine position within the physical world and that applications can access to specify the position of virtual objects within the physical world. Persistent spatial information enables users to have a shared virtual, as well as physical, experience when interacting with the cross reality system. Further, persistent spatial information may be used in maps of the physical world, enabling one or multiple devices to access and localize into previously stored maps, reducing the need to map a physical space before using the cross reality system in it. Persistent spatial information may be stored as persistent coordinate frames, which may include a transformation relative to a reference orientation and information derived from images in a location corresponding to the persistent coordinate frame.

Abstract: An applicator instrument for dispensing surgical fasteners includes a housing, an elongated shaft, surgical fasteners disposed in the elongated shaft, a firing system for dispensing the surgical fasteners, a firing rod disposed within the elongated shaft and movable within a first plane, and an advancer disposed within the elongated shaft and moveable within a second plane. An actuator is coupled with the advancer for moving the advancer back and forth between retracted and extended positions. A staging assembly at the distal end of the elongated shaft aligns a leading surgical fastener with the first plane. The staging assembly includes a biasing device that is configured to be deflected away from the first plane by the advancer when the advancer is in the extended position and the staging assembly is configured to spring back into alignment with the first plane when the advancer returns back to the retracted position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a grill guard for a vehicle comprising a grill structural frame and a releasably fold down center assembly having a center structural frame and a latching assembly wherein the grill guard is attached to front of the vehicle by the grill structural frame; and the center assembly is attached to the grill structural frame and can be released and folded down by the latching assembly while the grill structural frame remains fixed in its original location attached to the front of the vehicle.

Abstract: This disclosure presents a process to determine an alignment parameter for geosteering a wellbore undergoing drilling operations. The process can receive one or more azimuthal image log data sets, one or more geology logs, and other input parameters. The image log data sets can be transformed to better approximate the geology logs, such as transforming a 3D representation to a 2D representation and flattening out curves represented in the original image log data. The geology logs or transformed image log data can then be moved to create an approximate alignment between the other log data. The movement, which can be a sliding movement, a linear movement, a tilting movement, an angling movement, or a rotating movement, can be used to determine the determined alignment parameter or final alignment parameter. The alignment parameter can be used as input into a geosteering system for the wellbore.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a methanobactin reducing Fe3+ ions to Fe2+ ions for use in medicine and a pharmaceutical composition comprising said methanobactin as well as to a process for reducing Fe3+ ions to Fe2+ ions ex vivo.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for enhanced geographical caching of estimated arrival times. A method may include receiving respective user inputs indicative of respective users being in transit to a destination location from within a geographic region; determining, for the first user and the second user, a first estimated time of arrival from a first geographical area to the destination location, the first geographical area including the first location and the second location; identifying a third location of the first device at a third time, wherein the third location is within the first geographical area; determining that a time-to-live (TTL) of the first estimated time of arrival has not expired at the third time; and refraining from recalculating the first estimated time of arrival.

Abstract: A cleaner assembly for an apparatus for making pouch products includes a cleaner roller and a poker roller. The cleaner roller may counter rotate with a rotatable drum of the apparatus, in contact with an upper surface of a first elastic layer on the rotatable drum, and at a greater tangential speed than at least one surface of an outer circumferential surface of the rotatable drum or an upper surface of the first elastic layer. The poker roller includes projections that are each configured to extend into one or more divots of the rotatable drum. The poker roller may counter rotate with the rotatable drum and at a same tangential speed as the at least one surface such that the projections extend into and out of separate, respective divots of the rotatable drum based on the counter rotation of the poker roller and the rotatable drum.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device capable of high efficiency DNA electrotransfer into cells via a single capacitive discharge. The principle of this system relates to the storage of a quantum of charge on a capacitor which is then discharged through an electrode array configured to produce an electric field having electric field potential gradients focused through a region by the array configuration and of sufficient in strength for efficient electrotransfer of DNA into cells. This DNA, or related ribonucleic acid molecules or indeed other charged molecules, upon entering the cells, can affect changes in biological function.

Abstract: A computer-implemented image-based property condition determination system and method are provided. The method includes determining one or more element condition ratings from individual images of the property; and determining an overall property condition based on available element condition ratings of the property. An overall condition rating of a portfolio comprising a plurality of properties is determined using the condition ratings of properties in the portfolio.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method, apparatus, and machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: identifying a chunk of computer code from a larger process to be executed as a distributed computation; creating a job request specifying the chunk of computer code and data on which the chunk of computer code is to operate; selecting a device from a plurality of devices to process the job request; transmitting the job request to the selected device; receiving a job result from the selected device; continuing the larger process based on the job result.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include package substrates. In an embodiment, the package substrate comprises a core, where the core comprises glass. In an embodiment, a first layer is under the core, a second layer is over the core, and a via is through the core, the first layer, and the second layer. In an embodiment a width of the via through the core is equal to a width of the via through the first layer and the second layer. In an embodiment, the package substrate further comprises a first pad under the via, and a second pad over the via.

Abstract: A system for reporting digital data representing objects or events comprising: a capture device in communication with an immutable storage system; computer instructions adapted to: capture a digital asset identification; retrieve digital asset registration from the immutable storage system according to the digital asset identification wherein the digital asset registration includes metadata taken from the group consisting of a location information, a temporal information, an individual information, an object information, an asset type, a creation information, a description, and any combination thereof, displaying a graphical representation of the location, the temporal information includes a date and time the digital asset registration was recorded on the storage system, wherein the creation information includes a validation type, individual information, and a storage type, and, calculate a digital asset rating level according to the validation type, individual information, and storage type, and associate the

Abstract: A structure thermodynamic model, which models the physical characteristics of a controlled space, inputs a constraint state curve which gives constraints, such as temperature, that a controlled space is to meet; and outputs a state injection time series which is the amount of state needed for the controlled space to optimize the constraint state curve. The state injection time series curve is then used as input into an equipment model, which models equipment behavior in the controlled space. The equipment model outputs equipment control actions per control time (a control sequence) which can be used to control the equipment in the controlled space. Some embodiments train the models using training data.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to create training data, validate, deploy and test artificial intelligence (AI) systems in a virtual development environment, incorporating virtual spaces, objects, machinery, devices, subsystems, and actual human action and behavior.

Abstract: Candidate function data can include data for multiple candidate functions that may indicate whether insurance claims are likely to involve certain issues, such as comparative negligence issues. A real-time claim identifier can use the candidate function data to determine, in near real-time, if claim data for a new insurance claim submitted to an insurance company satisfies at least one of the candidate functions. If the claim data satisfies at least one of the candidate functions, the insurance claim can be assigned to a corresponding destination in the insurance company, such as a department that processes comparative negligence claims, for further processing.

Abstract: Tools and techniques are described to automate line testing when wiring devices (such as equipment and sensors) to controllers. Controllers have access to databases of the devices that are controlled by them, including wiring diagrams and protocols, such that the controller can automatically check that each wire responds correctly to stimulus from the controller. After testing, a reporting device rapidly shows the results of the line testing.

Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to a method, device, and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium for controlling a system having a plurality of devices including one or more of the following: calculating a demand curve for a controlled space representing at least one target amount of state for delivery to the controlled space; creating a cost function that compares the demand curve to simulated state curves produced by a model of the controlled system based on respective sets of control actions issuable to the plurality of controlled devices; performing an optimization method that tunes a candidate set of control actions to reduce a cost output by the cost function based on the candidate set of control actions; and issuing control actions of the candidate set of control actions to respective ones of the plurality of controlled devices to cause the controlled system to deliver state to the controlled space.

Abstract: A model receives a target demand curve as an input and outputs an optimized control sequence that allows equipment within a physical space to be run optimally. A thermodynamic model is created that represents equipment within the physical space, with the equipment being laid out as nodes within the model according to the equipment flow in the physical space. The equipment activation functions comprise equations that mimic equipment operation. Values flow between the nodes similarly to how states flow between the actual equipment. The model is run such that a control sequence is used as input into the neural network; the neural network outputs a demand curve which is then checked against the target demand curve. Machine learning methods are then used to determine a new control sequence. The model is run until a goal state is reached.