Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to create training data, validate, deploy and test artificial intelligence (AI) systems in a virtual development environment, incorporating virtual spaces, objects, machinery, devices, subsystems, and actual human action and behavior.

Abstract: In another embodiment, a hip joint navigation jig is provided that includes an anatomical interface comprising a bone engagement portion. A registration jig is also provided that is coupled, e.g., removeably, with the anatomical interface. A rotatable member is provided for rotation about an axis that is not vertical when the jig is mounted to the bone adjacent to a hip joint and the registration jig is coupled with the anatomical interface. An anatomy engaging probe is coupled with the rotatable member for rotation about the axis and is translatable to enable the probe to be brought into contact with a plurality of anatomical landmarks during a procedure. An inertial sensor is coupled with the probe to indicate orientation related to the landmarks, the sensor being disposed in a different orientation relative to horizontal when the probe is in contact with the landmarks.

Abstract: Hardware enforced CPU core protection by identification of digital blocks as instructions or data. A method includes, at a memory controller shim, receiving, from a CPU core, a memory read request. The memory read request comprises an address for a block. The block at the address is requested from a memory. The block is received from the memory. At least one of a decryption key or an authentication key is accessed. At least one of a decryption transformation or an authentication transformation is performed on the block using the decryption key or the authentication key. When the decryption transformation or authentication transformation is deemed valid, a plain text version of the block is returned to the CPU core for consumption. When the decryption transformation or authentication transformation is deemed invalid, the CPU core is prevented from consuming the plain text version of the block.

Abstract: An assembly for a portable blender. The assembly having a housing that is configured for coupling to a container. The assembly has at least one battery, a motor electrically connected to the battery, a blade coupled to the motor, and a user input device operable to cause power to be sent from the battery to the motor so that the motor rotates the blade. At least a portion of the blade is positioned outside of the housing so that the blade is configured to be positioned in an interior space of the container when the housing is coupled to the container. The assembly may include a plurality of batteries each positioned radially outward from the motor with the batteries positioned circumferentially around the motor. A portable blender including the assembly and a container. The container having a dual-wall, vacuum insulated construction.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to various embodiments of methods for making an optical fiber. The methods may include drawing an optical fiber from a hollow-core preform. The hollow-core preform may include an annular support structure with an inner surface defining an interior cavity. The interior cavity may include a tube in direct contact with the inner surface of the annular support structure. The tube may include a wall defining an internal opening, the internal opening having a sealed end. The drawing may include regulating a pressure of the internal cavity to a predetermined pressure.

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a vehicle that includes an engine that may be automatically stopped and started are described. In one example, inhibiting of automatic engine stopping and starting may be based on comparing an engine off opportunity and a plurality of auxiliary logic performances. The plurality of auxiliary logic performances may be based on a plurality of auxiliary control routine blocks.

Abstract: A method for end-device (E-D) modulation by a generative-AI-prompted trigger, said method comprising the steps of: positioning a virtual representation of the E-D on a digital canvas displayed on a D1-coupled display representing a user's physical space; and generating a script to animate the digital canvas based on a user prompt of a large code model for instructing spatial effects across the E-D.

Abstract: A stator disk assembly for a brake assembly is disclosed. The stator disk assembly includes at least a pair lugs with a recess disposed therebetween, along with a separate stator clip that is separately mounted on each lug of this pair. The stator clip are configured such that a spline of a torque plate that is disposed in the recess will contact only the stator disk and not either of the stator clips in at least certain conditions (e.g., during a braking operation; until crushing of the stator disk). For instance, each of the two ends of each stator clip may be recessed back from the adjacent-most sidewall of the lug on which the stator clip is mounted.

Abstract: An optical fiber is provided that includes a core region, a cladding region having a radius less than about 62.5 microns; a polymer coating comprising a high-modulus layer and a low-modulus layer, wherein a thickness of the low-modulus inner coating layer is in a range of 4 microns to 20 microns, the modulus of the low-modulus inner coating layer is less than or equal to about 0.35 MPa, a thickness of the high-modulus coating layer is in a range of 4 microns to 20 microns, the modulus of the high-modulus inner coating layer is greater than or equal to about 1.6 GPa, and wherein a puncture resistance of the optical fiber is greater than 20 g, and wherein a microbend attenuation penalty of the optical fiber is less than 0.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.

Abstract: A stator disk assembly for a brake assembly is disclosed. The stator disk assembly includes at least a pair lugs with a recess disposed therebetween, along with a separate stator clip that is separately mounted on each of the lugs. The stator clips are configured such that a spline of a torque plate barrel that is disposed in the recess will contact only the stator disk and not either of the stator clips in at least certain conditions (e.g., during a braking operation). For instance, each of the two ends of each stator clip may be recessed back from the adjacent-most sidewall of the lug on which the stator clip is mounted.

Abstract: A method for an image-captured initialization of an array of devices, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a video stream featuring a plurality of end devices in a gaming station, wherein said end device renders at least one of a lighting, haptic, or air-blowing effect from a specific location within the gaming station; detecting the plurality of end devices by vision processing at least a frame of the gaming station stream; and positioning a virtual representation of the detected end devices on a digital canvas representing a user's physical space based on a tonal frequency-dependent light-emission from a frequency-defined end device.

Abstract: Stator clips may be disposed in the recesses of aircraft brake stator disks to increase the lug strength of the stator disk. The clips may interface with the splines of a torque plate and may comprise ridges that reduce contact between the torque plate barrel and the clip, while maintaining the overall integrity of the clip structure. Furthermore, reduced contact may enable a reduction in drag, improving brake performance.

Abstract: An optical fiber is provided that includes a core region, a cladding region having a radius less than about 62.5 microns; a polymer coating comprising a high-modulus layer and a low-modulus layer, wherein a thickness of the low-modulus inner coating layer is in a range of 4 microns to 20 microns, the modulus of the low-modulus inner coating layer is less than or equal to about 0.35 MPa, a thickness of the high-modulus coating layer is in a range of 4 microns to 20 microns, the modulus of the high-modulus inner coating layer is greater than or equal to about 1.6 GPa, and wherein a puncture resistance of the optical fiber is greater than 20 g, and wherein a microbend attenuation penalty of the optical fiber is less than 0.03 dB/km, and wherein an outer diameter of the coated optical fiber is less than or equal to 175 microns.

Abstract: Chip cards that are protected from unauthorized access to information and instructions stored in the chip card's chip by unauthorized persons using illicit devices that emulate chip readers to interrogate the chips in chip cards and obtain or download confidential data stored in the chips. The chip cards are disabled when not ready to be used, such that the chips cannot be accessed by illicit devices, thus protecting the chip card owner and/or issuer from potential losses.

Abstract: A gripping assembly for gripping at least one conduit routed within a vertically adjustable medical boom head assembly includes a support, and a plurality of grip paddles pivotally mounted to the support and arranged around a central pathway for routing the at least one conduit, wherein the grip paddles are configured to pivot inwardly relative to the central pathway to grip the at least one conduit running through the central pathway.

Abstract: An amplifier system may include at least one input source, a converter configured to provide voltage rails to an amplifier, the voltage rails including a first voltage rail and a second voltage rail, a MOSFET arranged at a secondary side of the system at the first voltage rail, a second MOSFET arranged at the first voltage rail, a third MOSFET arranged at the second voltage rail, a fourth MOSFET arranged at the second voltage rail; and, a first capacitor arranged at the first voltage rail and a second capacitor arranged at the second voltage rail, the first and forth MOSFETS are configured to operate simultaneously with one another and the second and third MOSFETs are configured to operate simultaneously with one another and opposite of the first and fourth MOSFETs so as to allow synchronous rectification so that the first and second capacitors reciprocally and mutually exclusively charge and discharge.

Abstract: Methods and systems to provide compressed air to one or more air consumers external to the engine via exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine are presented. In one example, the exhaust gas may be routed to drive an air turbine of an air compression system. The air compressed at the compression system may be stored in a tank and/or provided to the one or more air consumers.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a system for cannabis stem harvesting configured to specifically separate the leaves and buds from the stem. The system includes a frame member, die member, first rotating cylindrical member, second rotating cylindrical member, and a rotation system. The die member is coupled to the frame member and includes a plurality of orifices disposed within a plate. The first and second rotating cylindrical members are coupled to the frame member in a vertical configuration and oriented substantially adjacent to the die member. The vertical configuration of the first and second rotating cylindrical members defines a pinch region therebetween as a region across which a first and second circumferential surface of the first and second rotating cylindrical members are closest in proximity. The rotation system is coupled to the frame member and at least one of the first and second rotating members.

Abstract: An air delivery assembly having a baffle and an ionizer. The baffle is constructed to affect air flow such that air flowing through the air delivery assembly has an air velocity and a direct flow to the ionizer that is effective to deliver ions through a diffuser of the air delivery assembly and up into a room. The air delivery assembly may be included with a damper and/or an upper diffuser to form an air terminal, which may be used in a raised floor air distribution system.