Abstract: An electrically inactive betavoltaic battery, an electrically active betavoltaic battery, and methods of making the same are provided. In implementations, a method of making an electrically active betavoltaic battery includes: providing an electrically inactive betavoltaic battery device having one or more diodes incorporating a semiconductor material layer having a stable non-radioactive isotope; and irradiating the electrically inactive betavoltaic battery device with thermal neutrons, thereby causing the conversion of at least a portion of the stable non-radioactive isotope to a radionuclide and creating the electrically active betavoltaic battery, wherein the semiconductor material layer acts as both an electron emitter and an electron absorber simultaneously.

Abstract: A machine includes an engine that includes a plurality of cylinders, one or more controllers, and a monitoring and reporting module. The monitoring and reporting module receives, from the one or more controllers, and via a first data link of the machine, cylinder pressure data associated with the plurality of cylinders and stores the cylinder pressure data in a data structure. The monitoring and reporting module receives, from the one or more controllers, and via a second data link of the machine, operational information associated with the engine and determines, based on the operational information, that one or more trigger criteria are satisfied. The monitoring and reporting module generates, based on determining that the one or more trigger criteria are satisfied, a data file that includes a portion of the cylinder pressure data and transmits the data file to a device not included in the machine.

Abstract: A memory controller and a physical interface layer may accommodate multiple memory types. In some examples, the memory controller and/or PHY may include a register that includes operating parameters for multiple operating modes. Different operating modes may be compatible with different memory types. In some examples, the memory controller and physical interface may be included in a system for testing multiple memory types. The system may provide multiple interfaces for communicating with the memory. The different communication types may be used for performing different tests and/or simulating different types of devices that may utilize the memory.

Abstract: A personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device, a system and methods of using the personal area network that includes a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device can act as an aggregator of the data that is being acquired by the one or more sensors and from other devices that are within wireless signal range of the personal area network in order to send some or all of the data over a wireless low power wide area network to remote locations within a larger network for subsequent processing, user notification, analysis of location-determination, contact tracing or the like. Data may flow in a bidirectional manner between the wearable electronic device and at least some of the other devices within the personal area network. In one form, the aggregated data may be used to provide information related to one or more operational parameters of an industrial asset and, if necessary, take control-based action in order to adjust one or more such operational parameters.

Abstract: A surgical system for ablating a tissue, the system comprising: (a) an ablation mechanism comprising a first electrode and an opposed second electrode, wherein the ablation mechanism is configured to receive a tissue between the first electrode and the second electrode, and wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is movable to allow the first electrode and the second electrode to accommodate variable tissue thicknesses therebetween; and (b) a clamping mechanism configured to release and apply clamping pressure to the tissue between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the ablation mechanism is configured to automatically individually adjust at least one of an ablation energy output of the first electrode and an ablation energy output of the second electrode to accommodate variable tissue thicknesses between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: An adaptive surface texturing method is provided for use with a part formed of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) to be coated with an environmental barrier coating (EBC). The method includes coating a CMC surface of the part with an initial coating, determining a contour and an undulation pattern of the CMC surface and designing a texturing pattern to follow the contour and the undulation pattern and to be formed in the initial coating based on a thickness of the initial coating and an average particle size of a slurry of the EBC.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method may receive an authorization request from a first device to access a resource. The method may validate, using a localhost listener, the authorization request by verifying an origin header of the authorization request based on a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in a trusted domain. In response to determining the authorization request is valid, the method may obtain a credential associated with the authorization request from a second device and validate proximity of the first device and the second device. In response to determining the first device is co-located with the second device, the method may approve the authorization request.

Abstract: A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers comprising laterally-spaced memory-block regions having horizontally-elongated trenches there-between. Two of the first tiers have different vertical thicknesses relative one another. Channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the first tiers and the second tiers. Through the horizontally-elongated trenches, first conductive material is formed in void space in the two first tiers. The first conductive material fills the first tier of the two first tiers that has a smaller of the different vertical thicknesses in individual of the memory-block regions. The first conductive material less-than-fills the first tier of the two first tiers that has a larger of the different vertical thicknesses in the individual memory-block regions.

Abstract: A downhole tool comprises a tool housing defining a flow passage therethrough from a first to a second end thereof. A poppet is axially movable on a poppet mandrel positioned in the tool housing. The poppet mandrel has at least one outlet port defined therein. A pilot valve is rotatable about the poppet mandrel. Rotation of the pilot valve opens and closes the at least one outlet port in the poppet mandrel to permit and block flow therethrough, and wherein the opening and closing of the at least one outlet port moves the poppet axially on the poppet mandrel.

Abstract: A cable clamp includes a shell having a shell base, a first sidewall and a second sidewall forming a channel extending in a first direction to receive a cable therein. A wedge resides between the first and second sidewalls and includes a wedge base facing the shell base. A shim resides between the wedge base and the shell base, and the cable fits between the shim and the shell base. Movement of the shell relative to the wedge causes the cable to engage more tightly between the shim and the shell base. In one embodiment, a blade element resides between the shim and the shell base. The blade may be a separate element from the shim or attached to or integrally formed with the shim. The wedge may include a recessed area or a cutout portion to accommodate the blade. A cutting edge of the blade element faces toward the cable and will cut the cable in response to an excessive force along the first direction being applied to the cable within the channel.

Abstract: A method of adjusting lighting to reduce sky glow. The method includes the steps of detecting, by a plurality of sensors, an amount of cloud coverage in a region of the troposphere; determining, by a sky glow reduction circuitry, whether the amount of clouds is greater than, less than, or equal to a predetermined cloud coverage threshold; and adjusting, by a light output controller circuitry, a light output of a plurality of light sources to reduce sky glow if the amount of clouds is less than or equal to the predetermined cloud coverage threshold. The adjusting step is at least partially based on a predetermined policy.

Abstract: An actuator assembly for a power tool includes an actuator with a permanent magnet. The actuator is moveable between a first position for a first mode of operation, and a second position for a second mode of operation. A first positioning member is adjacent the first position composed of a ferromagnetic material to attract the permanent magnet. A second positioning member is adjacent the second position and composed of a ferromagnetic material to attract the permanent magnet. An electromagnet may be energized to move the actuator between the first position and the second position. When the electromagnet is not energized and the actuator is in the first position, the actuator is retained in the first position. When the electromagnet is not energized and the actuator is in the second position, the actuator is retained in the second position. When the electromagnet is energized, the actuator moves between the first and second positions.

Abstract: Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a second deck over a first deck. The first deck has first memory cell levels, and the second deck has second memory cell levels. A pair of cell-material-pillars pass through the first and second decks. Memory cells are along the first and second memory cell levels. The cell-material-pillars are a first pillar and a second pillar. An intermediate level is between the first and second decks. The intermediate level includes a region between the first and second pillars. The region includes a first segment adjacent the first pillar, a second segment adjacent the second pillar, and a third segment between the first and second segments. The first and second segments include a first composition, and the third segment includes a second composition different from the first composition. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of preparing a therapeutic exosome using a protein newly-identified to be enriched on the surface of exosomes. Specifically, the present invention provides methods of using the proteins for affinity purification of exosomes. It also provides methods of localizing a therapeutic peptide on exosomes, and targeting exosomes to a specific organ, tissue or cell by using the proteins. The methods involve generation of surface-engineered exosomes that include one or more of the exosome proteins at higher density, or a variant or a fragment of the exosome protein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula I and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing influenza. The compounds are cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitors.

Abstract: A plastic item, such as a beverage bottle, conveys two distinct digital watermarks, encoded using two distinct signaling protocols. A first, printed label watermark conveys a retailing payload, including a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) used by a point-of-sale scanner in a retail store to identify and price the item when presented for checkout. A second, plastic texture watermark conveys a recycling payload, including data identifying the composition of the plastic. The use of two different signaling protocols assures that a point-of-sale scanner will not spend its limited time and computational resources working to decode the recycling watermark, which lacks the data needed for retail checkout. In some embodiments, a recycling apparatus makes advantageous use of both types of watermarks to identify the plastic composition of the item (e.g., relating GTIN to plastic type using an associated database), thereby increasing the fraction of items that are correctly identified for sorting and recycling.

Abstract: A suspension mechanism for installation on a rigid caster, one on each caster fork leg, includes a pivot arm and an abutment arm pivotally secured to the fork leg, with the abutment arm between the pivot arm and the fork leg. An elastically compressible spring is sandwiched between the pivot arm and the abutment arm. The wheel axle is coupled to and between the pivot arms. Impacts experienced by the wheel are cushioned by the spring as they are transferred to the abutment arm fork leg. The mechanism is installed by uncoupling the wheel axle from the fork legs, pivotably securing the pivot and abutment arms to the fork legs with the abutment arms extending between the pivot arms and the fork legs, sandwiching a spring between the pivot arms and the abutment arms; and, coupling the wheel axle to the pivot arms for rotatably securing the wheel thereto.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods to identify immunogenic G. Parasuis proteins, compositions comprising such immunogenic proteins, kits comprising such immunogenic proteins, and methods of using such immunogenic proteins to prevent G. Parasuis in pigs.

Abstract: Noninvasive imaging plays an important role in determining the size of the transcatheter heart valve (THV) in preparation of a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. The identification of the coronary cuspid landmarks or nadirs of each cusp plays a key role in determining the reference points for the two-dimensional (2D) images of the THV. Rather than using nadirs that are currently identified manually upon inspection of 2D computed tomography (CT) images, the methods and systems of the present disclosure utilizing structured 3D dataset of cusps to simultaneously determine the nadirs, which are especially beneficial, particularly when the sizes of cusps have significant difference (i.e., Type 1 aortic valve with two fused leaflets) or the aortic root has a bicuspid configuration rather than a tricuspid configuration.