Abstract: A thin-film-coating/substrate two-layer thermal absorber/emitter structure is configured with controllable emission properties at ultra-high operating temperatures. The proposed two-layer thermal absorber/emitter structure is composed of a substrate made of a first material, and a thin-film layer/coating made of a second material and disposed on the substrate. The single thin-film layer or coating provides control and tuning of the emission properties of the overall two-layer thermal absorber/emitter structure. Both materials selected for the absorber/emitter structure possess high melt points to withstand extreme temperature variations. The two-layer thermal absorber/emitter structure reduces the complexity and cost of fabrication and manufacture and the likelihood of thermal failure.

Abstract: A hand-held knockout driver includes a main housing having a handle portion, a motor positioned within the main housing, a pump assembly driven by the motor, and a secondary housing coupled to the main housing and defining a bore therein. The hand-held knockout driver also includes a working piston moveable within the bore from a rest position to an actuated position to define a piston throw distance therebetween. The hand-held knockout driver also includes a draw stud coupled to the working piston, a die coupled to the secondary housing, and a punch coupled to the draw stud opposite the working piston for movement therewith relative to the die. The die has a depth greater than the piston throw distance.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting anomalous data updates in federated learning. In some aspects, the system receives a plurality of data updates. Each data update contains data in a first real-valued space. The system selects a first function to project the plurality of data updates into a second real-valued space. The system selects a second function to partition the second real-valued space into a plurality of sectors. The system generates a plurality of sector datasets associated with the plurality of sectors. The system processes the plurality of sector datasets to generate a relational data structure. The system determines outliers in the relational data structure corresponding to anomalous data updates.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product customize delivery of transactional documents. The method includes receiving a transactional document associated with a user. The method also includes obtaining a preferred document format for the user and a preferred delivery method for the user from a database. The method further includes identifying a current display format of the transactional document. In addition, the method includes modifying the current display format of the transactional document, wherein a modified transactional document has the preferred document format for the user. Lastly, the method includes transmitting the modified transactional document to the user using the preferred delivery method for the user.

Abstract: An improved technique for identifying a user's mobile device is discussed. A persistent and unified identifier that bridges mobile app to mobile web and to other web browser-compatible mediums is utilized. Using a unique verification identifier, the unified identifier is consistently verified, revived and distributed across application and browser mediums.

Abstract: An enterprise platform may retrieve, from a collaboration data store, information about a selected enterprise team. The enterprise platform may then transmit, from a set of integration tools to a workflow tool of a remote cloud-based environment, a data payload including a notification request associated with a channel. The enterprise platform may also transmit, from a runtime environment to a business communication platform of the cloud-based environment, a request to post a notification to the channel and arrange for a member of the selected enterprise team to receive an adaptive information card, pushed by the business communication platform via the channel, containing information associated with at least one of the integration tools. The member who receives the adaptive information card may also, via selection of a graphical icon on the card, respond to the business communication platform via bi-directional communication.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to maintain a register of interface endpoints for external devices coupled to physical hardware ports of host devices and virtual ports associated with virtual devices running on virtual computing instances. The processing device is also configured to generate, in response to establishment of a given service mesh enabling a given application running on a given virtual computing instance to consume data from a given external device coupled to a given physical hardware port of a given host device, a logical-to-physical mapping between (i) a given virtual identifier of a first interface endpoint in the register of interface endpoints and (ii) a given physical identifier of a second interface endpoint in the register of interface endpoints. The processing device is further configured to control exchange of data for the given service mesh based on the logical-to-physical mapping and one or more policies.

Abstract: An embodiment of the instant disclosure comprises a reversible heat pump and water heating system for conditioning a space and heating water. The system comprises a refrigerant circuit that includes a compressor, a source heat exchanger, a space heat exchanger, and an expansion device. A 4-way reversing valve alternates between heating and cooling modes of operation. The system includes a heat exchanger for heating water in the water heating loop, and a 3-way valve that either actuates the refrigerant flow through the water heater heat exchanger or bypasses at least a portion of the refrigerant flow around the water heater heat exchanger. The heat pump system is operable in at least five modes—space heating only, space cooling only, water heating only, and either space heating or space cooling combined with water heating.

Abstract: A rotary engine, has: housings secured to one another, the housings including a first side housing, a second side housing, and a rotor housing disposed between the first side housing and the second side housing; and a rotor rotationally received within a rotor cavity defined by the first side housing, the second side housing, and the rotor housing; wherein the first side housing, the rotor housing, and the second side housing are cooled in parallel via respective coolant passages including: a first side housing coolant passage extending through the first side housing; a second side housing coolant passage extending through the second side housing; and a rotor housing coolant passage extending through the rotor housing, and wherein the coolant passages are free of inter-passage connection between the housings.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to methods and systems for inventions disclosure and automated disclosure form generation.

Abstract: A handheld portable oxygen concentrator device is disclosed. The device may comprise a first column and a second column, a product buffer, a plurality of valves in fluidly coupling the first column, the second column, the one or more pumps, and the product buffer. The device may comprise a controller configured to cycle repeatedly through the following phases: (a) raising pressure in the first column by connecting the first column to a positive pressure pump and releasing concentrated oxygen in the first column to the product buffer, (b) equalizing the pressure in the first column and the second column by connecting the first column to the second column, (c) lowering the pressure in the first column by connecting the first column to a negative pressure pump, and (d) equalizing the pressure in the first column and the second column by connecting the first column to the second column.

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a semiconductor package or a chip package, and more particularly methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for implementing a semiconductor package or a chip package including a one or more channel vias. In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a first layer comprising a channel; a first via extending though the first layer to a first surface of the channel; and a line connecting the first via to a pad. In some cases, the first surface is located at a bottom of the channel.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to extended reality (XR) device thermal load management. Thermal data associated with an XR device can be received. A determination can be made that a condition is met for offloading a thermal load of the XR device. One or more edge processing devices within the environment of the XR device can be identified. At least one edge processing device with sufficient computing resources for balancing the thermal load of the XR device can be selected. The XR device can be instructed to offload the thermal load to the selected at least one edge processing device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving data and predetermined tags associated with the received data. Content in the received data is summarized, and a machine learning model is used to analyze the summarized content as well as the received data. The received data is divided into clusters of information, and tags are generated for the clusters of information by merging (i) the predetermined tags, and (ii) details produced by the machine learning model. The generated tags are also output.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to receive a request, from an application running on a virtual computing instance, to consume data from an external device coupled to a physical hardware port of a host device, the external device having a first interface with a physical driver running on a host operating system of the host device, the first interface having a first interface type. The processing device is also configured to instantiate a second interface on the host operating system of the host device, the second interface having a second interface type different than the first interface type. The processing device is further configured to establish a service mesh for the application by linking the instantiated second interface with (i) a virtual driver running on the virtual computing instance and (ii) the physical driver running on the host operating system of the host device.

Abstract: In the disclosed transaction processing system, a system and method are described that increase the ease of access and use of different currency networks by consumers using customizable transaction devices. The customizable transaction devices may be re-programmed prior to or during a currency transaction in accordance with the consensus protocol of the currency network associated with the currency transaction. The currency network further includes one or more host devices, each of which include an interface configured to communicate with a transaction device for the purposes of re-programming a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) of the transaction device according to one or more currency network consensus protocols. Optimizing the performance of transaction devices for proof-of-work or other consensus protocol processing decreases the latency associated with validating currency network transactions, thereby increasing the suitability of cryptocurrency for retail transactions.

Abstract: Carbide-based fuel assembly includes outer structural member of ceramic matrix composite material (e.g., SiC—SiC composite), insulation layer of porous refractory ceramic material (e.g., zirconium carbide with open-cell foam structure or fibrous zirconium carbide), and interior structural member of refractory ceramic-graphite composite material (e.g., zirconium carbide-graphite or niobium carbide-graphite). Spacer structures between various layers provide a defined and controlled spacing relationship. A fuel element bundle positioned between support meshes includes a plurality of distributively arranged fuel elements or a solid, unitary fuel element with coolant channels, each having a fuel composition including high assay, low enriched uranium (HALEU).

Abstract: Examples described may related to an imaging sensor used by a vehicle, including a light sensor. The light sensor comprises a plurality of cells aligned in a plurality of horizontal rows and a plurality of vertical columns. The apparatus further includes an optical system configured to provide the light sensor with a field of view of an external environment of the apparatus. Additionally, the system includes a processing unit configured to: divide the plurality of horizontal rows of the light sensor into one or more enabled rows and one or more disabled rows; obtain image data from the light sensor by sampling one or more cells in the one or more enabled rows; and store the received image data in a memory.