Abstract: There are provided systems and methods relating to checking and confirming merchandise purchased at shopping facilities. In one form, the system includes: a shopping cart containing merchandise items to be purchased; a sales transaction database; a point-of-sales system that creates transaction records identified by transaction identifiers; and a mobile device used by an employee that includes a sensor to scan a paper or digital receipt to obtain the transaction identifier and a camera to capture images of the items in the shopping cart. The system also includes a control circuit that receives the transaction identifier, accesses the database using the identifier to determine the purchased items; analyzes the images of the merchandise items in the shopping cart and creates a computer vision receipt listing detected items; compares the purchased items with the detected items; and takes an action if there is a discrepancy.

Abstract: An innovative passive cooling solution with sealed UAV enclosure system allows heat from a semiconductor chip to be dissipated to the ambient environment through evaporation/condensation phase-change cooling and air cooling a heat sink such as a fin without any additional power consumption to operate cooling solution. One example of such a solution may include a pipe with a fin and a fluid. The pipe may include a wick structure along an inner surface of the pipe configured to allow the fluid to travel within the wick structure and to allow a vapor form of the fluid to exit the wick structure towards a center of the pipe.

Abstract: A method of improving a field operation that comprises a gas injection may include assessing a plurality of potential injection gases against a plurality of values of a plurality of parameters associated with a plurality of samples, where each of the plurality of potential injection gases comprises an acidic component, and where the plurality of parameters comprises fluid chemistry parameters and rock properties. The method may also include determining a proposed injection gas from among the plurality of potential injection gases for the field operation that comprises the gas injection to be performed using a first wellbore in fluidic communication with a first subterranean formation, a second wellbore in fluidic communication with the first subterranean formation, a third wellbore in fluidic communication with a second subterranean formation, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A transaction record is created showing a purchase transaction of a customer. A CV profile showing a list of items in the transaction obtained from images is also obtained. The items in the transaction record are compared to items on the list. When there is a discrepancy, an action to take is determined.

Abstract: A proximity sensor including a structure suspending at least one lens above a circuit board, light emitters operable to project light beams through the lens along a common projection plane, light detectors operable to detect amounts of light arriving through the lens at the detector, wherein an object in the projection plane reflects light from an emitter to one or more of the detectors, and wherein each emitter-detector pair, including one of the emitters and one of the detectors, when synchronously activated, is expected to generate a greater detection signal at the activated detector than the other detectors, were they to be synchronously activated with any of the emitters, when the object is located at a specific 2D location in the projection plane corresponding to the emitter-detector pair, and a processor identifying gestures performed by the object based on amounts of light detected by the detector of each emitter-detector pair.

Abstract: A pancreatin preparation having reduced viral infectivity includes one or more pancreatin enzymes and peracetic acid (PAA). At least one pancreatin enzyme may be derived from an animal source such as a porcine pancreas gland. In a particular embodiment, the one or more pancreatin enzymes are selected from the group consisting of lipases, proteases, and amylases.

Abstract: An occlusion device includes a braided mesh body and at least one pinch member. The braided mesh body comprises plural strands each having a first end portion and a second end portion. The plural strands fold over to bring the second end portions of the plural strands adjacent to the first end portions of the plural strands forming a double-layer of the braided mesh body. In an example occlusion device, at least one of the plural strands is radiopaque, and the at least one pinch member is non-radiopaque.

Abstract: Medical devices and methods of using medical devices are disclosed. An example tissue retraction device includes a first engagement member having a first end and a second end, a second engagement member having a first end and a second end, a first elastic member attached to the second end of the first engagement member, and a first alignment member having a first end, a second end and a lumen extending therethrough. Further, the tissue retraction device has a first length, the first alignment member has a second length, the first elastic member extends within the lumen of the first alignment member and the second length of the first alignment member is less than or equal to the first length of the tissue retraction device.

Abstract: This disclosure provides recombinant DNA constructs and transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency, and enhanced drought tolerance or water use efficiency. Transgenic plants may include field crops as well as plant propagules and progeny of such transgenic plants. Methods of making and using such transgenic plants are also provided. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed, and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, devices and systems for associating consumable data with an assay consumable used in a biological assay. Provided are assay systems and associated consumables, wherein the assay system adjusts one or more steps of an assay protocol based on consumable data specific for that consumable. Various types of consumable data are described, as well as methods of using such data in the conduct of an assay by an assay system. The present invention also relates to consumables (e.g., kits and reagent containers), software, data deployable bundles, computer-readable media, loading carts, instruments, systems, and methods, for performing automated biological assays.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises a server for database search and knowledge mining. The server may learn different table's semantics, relationships, and usage by parsing historical query logs and analyzing tables' metadata (e.g., table descriptions). The analytic server may generate a graph database based on the table relationships obtained from the parsing. The graph database may be a relationship graph where tables are the nodes and edges represent the relationships among tables. When the server receives a query, the server extract semantics of the query, and return a set of tables that are semantically similar to the query. The set of tables may be a list of tables whose semantic similarities with the query satisfies a threshold. The analytic server may further generate a graph including the list of tables to show the relationships of these tables.

Abstract: A sheet folding up and rolling machine comprises a frame member, which has an input tunnel at a side thereof and an output tunnel at the other side thereof. A feeding cylinder assembly has at a feeding cylinder and two pressing wheels pivoted in the frame member behind the input tunnel for drawing a sheet into the frame member. Five folding cylinders are pivoted in the frame member behind the feeding cylinder assembly for turning the path of the sheet. Two guiding plates are secured in the frame member corresponding to the feeding cylinder assembly and the folding cylinders respectively for guiding the sheet. Two limiting members are secured in the frame member, each of which has an opening facing to the folding cylinders respectively for the sheet can run into the limiting members to be folded up. A pair of rolling cylinders are pivoted in the frame behind the folding cylinders for rolling the folded sheet.

Abstract: A device is provided for tearing off a series of perforated paper sheets and folding the detached paper sheets. The device is composed of a frame, at least two paper feeding rollers, at least three paper folding rollers, a plurality of paper guiding plates, at least one paper confining element corresponding in location to the paper folding rollers, and a linking member consisting of a transmission belt, a paper feeding wheel and a paper folding wheel. The transmission belt is driven by a driving unit to actuate the paper feeding wheel and the paper folding wheel, which in turn actuate the paper feeding rollers and the paper folding rollers.