Abstract: A device for removing material from a patient includes a catheter having a distal catheter end and defining a catheter lumen and a containing element coupled to the catheter. The containing element is deployable from the distal catheter end of the catheter and includes an outer wall portion. The outer wall portion includes an inner layer defining an inner chamber and an outer layer coupled to the inner layer. The inner layer and the outer layer form a distal folded edge defining a distal opening of the containing element in communication with the inner chamber. Implementations of the device may further include a control element extending through the catheter lumen and coupled to the containing element for selectively collapsing the inner chamber, a membrane for restricting flow through the outer wall portion, and/or a flow restriction formed by the containing element.

Abstract: Graphics processors and graphics processing units having dot product accumulate instructions for a hybrid floating point format are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor comprises an instruction unit to dispatch instructions and a processing resource coupled to the instruction unit. The processing resource is configured to receive a dot product accumulate instruction from the instruction unit and to process the dot product accumulate instruction using a bfloat16 number (BF16) format.

Abstract: An automatic door can include a plurality of millimeter wave (mmW) sensors that are each configured to sense a door area. Each mmW sensor includes a mmW radar configured to capture mmW radar data and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to measure an orientation of the mmW radar. Based on IMU data from the mmW sensors, the mmW radar data from the sensors can be combined so that the door areas can form a combined door area. Multiple targets can be detected and tracked through the combined door area at high resolutions and in a variety of environmental conditions. Control of the automatic door can be enhanced in a variety of ways by classifying the targets and predicting their movements in the combined door area. Further, the classification and prediction of targets can facilitate safe and reliable operation by filtering operation based on certain targets and/or motions.

Abstract: An expandable liner hanger includes an anchoring element having multiple circumferential ridges that include flow relief grooves which prevent buildup of hydrostatic pressure between the liner hanger and well casing during expansion of the liner hanger. Upon liner hanger expansion the ridges come in high interference with wellbore casing and couple the liner hanger to the wellbore casing. According to another embodiment of the invention, the ridges are formed by a spiral ridge extending along an outer periphery of the hanger thus providing a pressure relief passage for the fluid.

Abstract: A multi-speed transmission including a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers to achieve at least eighteen forward speed ratios and at least two reverse speed ratios is disclosed. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, a fourth planetary gearset, and a fifth planetary gearset. The plurality of selective couplers may include a number of clutches and a number of brakes. The multi-speed transmission may have five planetary gearsets and eight selective couplers. The eight selective couplers may include three clutches and five brakes.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate acceleration of matrix multiplication operations. The apparatus comprises a systolic array including matrix multiplication hardware to perform multiply-add operations on received matrix data comprising data from a plurality of input matrices and sparse matrix acceleration hardware to detect zero values in the matrix data and perform one or more optimizations on the matrix data to reduce multiply-add operations to be performed by the matrix multiplication hardware.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are mosaic coronavirus (MoCoV) spike (S) proteins or antigenic fragments thereof. Also disclosed herein are nucleic acid constructs comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences encoding a MoCoV S protein or antigenic fragment thereof. Also disclosed herein are coronavirus vaccine vectors comprising one or more polynucleotides encoding a MoCoV S protein or antigenic fragment thereof. Also disclosed herein are coronavirus vaccines comprising one or more MoCoV S proteins or antigenic fragments thereof and one or more carriers. Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, host cells, and kits comprising one or more of the MoCoV S proteins or antigenic fragments thereof, nucleic acid constructs, coronavirus vaccine vectors, and/or coronavirus vaccines.

Abstract: A robot assembly includes at least four load-bearing structural parts connected by joints between each two adjacent structural parts to form a chain, and a joint motor associated with each joint for the driven movement of the structural parts connected by the joint relative to each other. A control device is provided in one of the structural parts which is connected at both ends to an adjacent structural part via an associated joint. The control device is designed to control at least three of the joint motors, and the electrical connection of the control device to each of the joint motors necessary for the controlling process is provided by a separate control line dedicated to the associated joint motor.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV525601. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV525601, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV525601 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV525601 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV525601.

Abstract: A method for trapping noble gas atoms and molecules in oxide nanocages that includes providing oxide nanocages on a metallic substrate, ionizing a noble gas to form noble gas cations, applying a voltage to the metallic substrate, contacting the oxide nanocages with the noble gas cations, and deionizing the cations to form noble gas atoms and molecules that are trapped within the oxide nanocages. In one embodiment of the present device, polygonal prism organosilicate cages on a ruthenium thin film can trap noble gases.

Abstract: An induction energy transmission system includes a support plate, a supply unit arranged below the support plate and including a supply induction element for inductively providing energy, a household appliance designed for placement on the support plate and including a receiving induction element designed to receive the inductively provided energy, and a control unit designed to control the supply unit and to identify automatically the household appliance placed on the support plate.

Abstract: A robotic assembly includes a robot and a module, wherein the robot is configured to selectively move the module substantially linearly. The robot includes at least one motor-driven component. The robot is configured to separate from the module after selectively moving the module substantially linearly to a desired location. The module is configured to selectively retain its position after the robot selectively moves the module substantially linearly to a desired location. The module selectively performs a function while the module selectively retains its position in the desired location. The module is configured to selectively release its position to remove the module from the desired location.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for battery current monitoring. An example apparatus includes a haptic device, an isolation switch to deliver power from a battery to the haptic device, an integrator to integrate a signal based on a current from the battery to the haptic device to generate an integrator output, and control logic to control the isolation switch based on a comparison of the integrator output to a threshold.

Abstract: Automated device for the controlled feeding of substances to animal containment recipients in an animal breeding facility, including at least one rack for such animal containment recipients, said racks being arranged in lines (1) comprising a plurality of animal containment recipients (2), in which said recipients are arranged in the form of a grid on the rack (1); wherein the device includes a robot (3) with a locomotion platform, a lifting mechanism, a feeding platform, a feeding circuit and a central processing unit, and travels on a horizontal, linear track (9) having a reflective strip (10). The automated device solves the problems of the prior art, as it travels between various lines of racks (1), preventing the need for installing individual systems for each rack (1), having high precision in terms of Cartesian coordinates when feeding the animals in the recipients (2), and including laser scanning sensors (30) and optical sensors for following a reflective strip (32).

Abstract: Soil maps are rarely used for the elaboration of road layouts, and there are no known algorithms that incorporate soil information dynamically. The best way to incorporate this knowledge of soils is to interpret the soil maps into a derived (interpreted) map known as the “road, pipelines and operational locations aptitude map”. This study generated an innovative algorithm that incorporates soil aptitude maps for road layouts, pipeline lines and escape routes. The novelty of the algorithm is that this aptitude information (interpreted from a map of soil classes) is collated together with relief and hydrography information. Thus, it is hypothesized that, in addition to the characteristics of the relief and proximity of watercourses, the soil map can help the decision-maker to unveil regions with serious problems that increase the costs of construction and maintenance of roads, pipelines, escape routes and operating locations.

Abstract: An induction energy transmission system includes a support plate, a supply unit arranged below the support plate and including a supply induction element designed to inductively provide energy, a control unit designed to control the supply unit, and a small household appliance for placement on the support plate. The small household appliance includes a receiving induction element designed to receive the inductively provided energy. An operating unit is arranged outside the small household appliance and designed for operation of the small household appliance by a user.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate graphics rendering is disclosed. The apparatus comprises sequencer hardware to operate in a tile mode to render objects, including performing batch formation to generate one or more batches of received objects, performing tile sequencing for each of the objects to compute tile fill intersects for each of the objects and performing a play sequencing of each of the objects.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an optimization the provision request responses are presented. A request is received. One or more attributes associated with the request are obtained. Historical data associated with one or more attributes is obtained. An algorithm is selected from a plurality of algorithms based on the historical data. Request results are determined using the selected algorithm and provided to the client device.

Abstract: Techniques for managing network-accessible infrastructure metadata are provided. A method includes receiving a resource request comprising resource metadata corresponding to a network-accessible infrastructure resource, determining whether to commit the resource request based at least in part on a constraint associated with the network-accessible infrastructure resource, and, in accordance with a determination to commit the resource request: generating, by the computer system, a resource identifier describing resource metadata in accordance with the resource request, storing, by the computer system, the resource metadata in a data store in communication with the computer system, receiving, by the computer system, a data request to provide the resource metadata described by the resource identifier, and providing, by the computer system, the resource metadata described by the resource identifier in accordance with the data request.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing event information enhancement. At an enhancement data server, a data enhancement request from a client device is received. In response to the data enhancement request, a plurality of event records from an event log is obtained. Thereafter, self-enriched information is generated based on at least a part of the event records by aggregating event records based on an entity identifier and an item identifier. Then, the self-enriched information is enhanced with data from a first data source based on a first matching protocol using the entity identifier and/or enhancing the self-enriched information with data from a second data source based on a second matching protocol using the item identifier. Furthermore, at least one entity profile for the at least one entity based on the enhanced self-enriched information is generated and provided to the client device.