Abstract: Systems and methods of repairing tissue are disclosed. Systems and methods may repair an opening through a hip capsule. Systems and methods preferably repair the tissue while minimally encroaching on the tissue immediately behind the repair, such as the hip joint tissues. Some systems may repair the tissue with a suture passer having a needle that slides in axial alignment with the passer and includes a first recess for passing the suture in a first axial direction and a second recess for passing the suture in an opposing axial direction. Some systems may pass a portion of a repair construct in a retrograde direction, placing the repair construct in a preferred arrangement accommodating for the stresses on the tissue.

Abstract: A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container.

Abstract: A system is provided that predicts motor wear and failures before they occur. Telemetry data from motors in a motor application is collected and predictive algorithms are used to determine when a motor is aging and when it may fail. Identifying a potential failure in these types of applications can help mitigate risk of other equipment failures and realize cost savings. In one example, a motor aging detection system is provided that includes one or more DC motors, and a motor controller coupled to each motor. The motor controller reads three phase currents from each motor and converts the phase currents to digital values, calculates telemetry data including applied voltages, back electric-motive force, inductance, and resistance of each motor at periodic intervals, stores this telemetry data for each motor in a memory. An age detection circuit retrieves this information from the memory and determines age factors of the motor.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for incremental training of machine learning models to adapt to changes in an underlying data distribution. One example setting in which the techniques described herein may be beneficial is for incrementally training natural language models to enable the models to have or adapt to a dynamically changing vocabulary. Incremental training is provided as a feasible and inexpensive way of adapting machine learning models to evolving vocabulary without having to retrain them from scratch.

Abstract: A coupling assembly is provided which includes a coupling element and a retaining member. One of the coupling element and the retaining member includes at least one cam element and another of the coupling element and the retaining member includes at least one notch. Both the cam element and the notch have two oppositely sloped surfaces. In a coupled position of the coupling assembly, the cam element and the notch only contact each other at two sides through the sloped surfaces at the position of a contact portion at a base of the cam element and an associated contact portion of the notch at an open side of the notch.

Abstract: A shaving unit (20) for use in an electric shaver (1) comprises at least one hair-cuffing unit (21) comprising an external cutting member (23) having hair-entry openings (24) in a cutting track surface (25) and an internal cutting member having at least one hair-cutting element and being movable relative to the external cutting member (23), and abase member (22) supporting the at least one hair-cutting unit (21). The shaving unit (20) further comprises at least one skin-heating unit (30) comprising a skin-contacting member (31) having a skin-contacting surface (32) arranged adjacent to the at least one hair-cutting unit (21) to contact the skin during use of the shaving unit (20), and at least one infrared or near-infrared light source (33) integrated in the skin-contacting member (31), thermally coupled to the skin-contacting surface (32) and arranged to emit infrared or near-infrared light via the skin-contacting surface (32).

Abstract: A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container.

Abstract: A hand held personal care device (1) with an operative unit (3) connected to a main housing (2), a light source (24), and an optically transparent light guide (23) having a light receiving surface (27), a light emitting surface (6) and a light guiding member (31) extending from the light receiving surface to the light emitting surface for guiding light from the light receiving surface to the light emitting surface. The light source is arranged in a watertight chamber (51) of the main housing. The main housing includes an optically transparent wall portion (52) arranged adjacent to the light source and bounding the watertight chamber. The light guide is arranged outside the watertight chamber and the light receiving surface is arranged adjacent to the optically transparent wall portion in a position for receiving light from the light source via the optically transparent wall portion.

Abstract: A portable electronic device is disclosed comprising data processing means and a data repository containing: data records representative of locations relevant to or within a digital map; and data representative of an index associating words contained in the data records with the records in which those words appear. The device further comprises means for, in relation to a received search query including a search string, processing the search string to provide one or more search words; querying the index to identify data records containing the or each search word; and generating a rank for each of the one or more identified data records indicative of the relevance of each identified data record to the search query.

Abstract: Systems and methods for document processing that can process and understand the layout, text size, text style, and multimedia of a document can generate more accurate and informed document representations. The layout of a document paired with text size and style can indicate what portions of a document are possibly more important, and the understanding of that importance can help with understanding of the document. Systems and methods utilizing a hierarchical framework that processes the block-level and the document-level of a document can capitalize on these indicators to generate a better document representation.

Abstract: A lighting system, including: light emitting elements; a reset switch operable in a first and second state; non-volatile reset memory configured to record the state of the reset switch when power is provided to the system; a wireless communication system; non-volatile communication memory configured to store default settings and configuration settings; a control system operable, in response to initial power provision to the control system, between: a configured mode when an instantaneous reset switch state matches the recorded state, the configured mode including: connecting the wireless communication system to a remote device based on the configuration settings, receiving instructions from the remote device, and controlling light emitting element operation based on the instructions; and a reset mode when the instantaneous reset switch state differs from the recorded state, the reset mode including: erasing the configuration settings from the communication memory and operating the system based on the default

Abstract: A bulkhead arrangement for flooding a space comprises at least one bulkhead element, which has sealing elements at side boundary surfaces and one boundary surface toward the floor and which can be connected at side connection sites to an infrastructure and/or another bulkhead element for sealing off the space and then flooding the space with an extinguishing agent, wherein the bulkhead element comprises a variably adjustable outflow opening in the direction of the height of the bulkhead element.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for enabling more computationally efficient organization of files within a cloud storage system. A method includes: receiving information identifying a document and a set of folders; for each folder in the set of folders, using a trained model to predict a similarity measure between the folder and the document; for each folder in the set of folders, determining a score for the folder based on the predicted similarity measure for the folder; selecting a candidate folder from the set of folders using the scores of the folders within the set of folders; and providing, on a user interface, a selectable option to associate the document with the candidate folder.

Abstract: Techniques of generating recrawl policies for commercial offer pages include generating a multiple strategy approach using a number of different strategies. In some implementations, each strategy is an arm of a K-armed adversarial bandits algorithm with reinforcement learning. Moreover, in some implementations, the multiple strategy approach also uses a machine learning algorithm to estimate parameters such as a click rate, impression rate, and likelihood of price change, i.e., change rate, which was assumed known in the conventional approaches.

Abstract: A smart inventory management system is described for a dispensing and blend-in-cup beverage platform including a container having an information tag that is configured to store unique information specific to a particular product, a reader configured to read the stored information from the information tag, a control board configured to host a software based decision engine which is configured to interpret the information specific to a particular product and to control one or more system components based at least in part on the information, a pump controlled by the control board and configured to pump beverage concentrates out of the containers in order to dispense the beverage concentrate into a beverage holder, and a check valve located between an opening on the container and the pump, the check valve configured to provide backflush prevention of foreign solutions into the container.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for encrypting and decrypting a sensitive data item using a zero-knowledge encryption protocol. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to decrypt the sensitive data item from a client. The embodiment retrieves the requested sensitive data item from a data store. The embodiment generates a result set by replacing a ciphertext value of the sensitive data item to be stored in the result set with a placeholder identifier. The embodiment retrieves a data encryption key (DEK) block from a DEK manager, wherein the DEK block comprises a DEK associated with the sensitive data item. The embodiment generates and encrypts a cipher ticket comprising the ciphertext value of the sensitive data item. The embodiment then sends the result set, the cipher ticket, and the DEK block to the client for decryption of the ciphertext value of the sensitive data item.

Abstract: A controller for controlling operation of an aftertreatment system that is configured to treat constituents of an exhaust gas produced by an engine, the aftertreatment system including a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst, the controller configured to: generate a short-term cumulative degradation estimate of the SCR catalyst corresponding to reversible degradation of the SCR catalyst due to sulfur and/or hydrocarbons based on a SCR catalyst temperature parameter; generate a long-term cumulative degradation estimate of the SCR catalyst corresponding to thermal aging of the SCR catalyst based on the SCR catalyst temperature parameter; generate a combined degradation estimate of the SCR catalyst based on the short-term cumulative degradation estimate and the long-term cumulative degradation estimate; and adjust an amount of reductant and/or an amount of hydrocarbons inserted into the aftertreatment system based on the combined degradation estimate of the SCR catalyst.

Abstract: A lighting system, including: light emitting elements; a reset switch operable in a first and second state; non-volatile reset memory configured to record the state of the reset switch when power is provided to the system; a wireless communication system; non-volatile communication memory configured to store default settings and configuration settings; a control system operable, in response to initial power provision to the control system, between: a configured mode when an instantaneous reset switch state matches the recorded state, the configured mode including: connecting the wireless communication system to a remote device based on the configuration settings, receiving instructions from the remote device, and controlling light emitting element operation based on the instructions; and a reset mode when the instantaneous reset switch state differs from the recorded state, the reset mode including: erasing the configuration settings from the communication memory and operating the system based on the default

Abstract: Implementations relate to training a model that can be used to process values for defined features, where the values are specific to a user account, to generate a predicted user measure that reflects both popularity and quality of the user account. The model is trained based on losses that are each generated as a function of both a corresponding generated popularity measure and a corresponding generated quality measure of a corresponding training instance. Accordingly, the model can be trained to generate, based on values for a given user account, a single measure that reflects both quality and popularity of the given user account. Implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to utilizing such predicted user measures to restrict provisioning of content items that are from user accounts having respective predicted user measures that fail to satisfy a threshold.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure are capable of capturing a user's movement using inertial measurement units (IMUs) that are embedded in, or otherwise attached to, clothing. In one embodiment, a wearable system for capturing a user's bodily movements includes a wearable item mechanically coupled to an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The wearable item, when worn by a user, positions the IMU proximate to a body part of the user. The system further includes a processor communicatively coupled to the IMU and configured to receive the sensor data from the IMU, generate movement data based on the sensor data, and transmit the movement data to a device.