Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide compliance management tools such as for respiratory pressure therapy. In some versions, a respiratory pressure therapy system may include one or more processors, such as of a data server, configured to communicate with a computing device and/or a respiratory pressure therapy device. The respiratory pressure therapy device may be configured to deliver respiratory pressure therapy to a patient for a session. The computing device may be associated with the patient. The processor(s) may be further configured to compute a therapy quality indicator of the session from usage data relating to the session. The therapy quality indicator may be a number derived from contributions of a plurality of usage variables for the session in the usage data. The processor(s) may be further configured to present, such as by transmitting, the therapy quality indicator to the computing device. The therapy quality indicator may promote patient compliance.

Abstract: A superconductor device includes a high superconductivity transition temperature enhanced from the raw material transition temperature. The superconductor device includes a matrix material and a core material. The enhancing matrix material and the core material together create a system of strongly coupled carriers. A plurality of low-dimensional conductive features can be embedded in the matrix. The low-dimensional conductive features (e.g., nanowires or nanoparticles) can be conductors or superconductors. An interaction between electrons of the low-dimensional conductive features and the enhancing matrix material can promote excitations that increase a superconductivity transition temperature of the superconductor device.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including using a memory controller to monitor at least one parameter related to power level of a host processor of a host device, and dynamically adjusting at least one of a clock frequency and a voltage level of an error-correcting code (ECC) subsystem of the memory controller based on the at least one parameter to control power usage of the host device.

Abstract: An aircraft includes an engine and an electric power system. The electric power system includes a permanent magnet machine. The permanent magnet machine includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator.

Abstract: An apposition device having a first elongate element movably coupled with a second elongate element. The second elongate element is deployable distal to the structures to be apposed, in a position transverse to the first elongate element. The first elongate element may be pulled to pull the second elongate element to move the structures into apposition. A third element may be positioned proximal to the structures to hold the structures in apposition. The third element may be a ratcheting element fixable in place with respect to the first elongate element. The apposition device may be deployed with a fine gauge needle. The second elongate element may be deployed from a side port in the needle facilitating deployment, and/or movement of the second elongate element with respect to the first elongate element and into a deployment configuration. Such arrangement may allow control of the first elongate element independent of the needle.

Abstract: A Physical Unclonable Function, PUF, apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of PUF cells that each comprise a first potential divider and a second potential divider. The apparatus also comprises a determination unit that comprises a selection unit for selecting at least one of the plurality of PUF cells, and a readout unit coupled to each selected PUF cell. The readout unit is configured to determine a PUF value for the selected PUF cell based on a difference between a first analog voltage at the first potential divider and a second analog voltage at the second potential divider.

Abstract: A control panel for an appliance defines a display direction and includes a printed circuit board defining a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface along the display direction, and a through hole passing through the printed circuit board from the first surface to the second surface. A console cover is mounted to the first surface of the printed circuit board, a standoff feature is positioned between the console cover and the printed circuit board to create a localized gap between the console cover and the printed circuit board, a retention feature engages the second surface to retain the printed circuit board against the console cover, and an electronic component mounted to the printed circuit board and having an electrical contact that extends through the through hole where it forms a connection joint that is positioned within the localized gap.

Abstract: A computing device comprising a secure browser extension for a web browser monitors for satisfaction of one or more operating conditions to identify whether one or more unauthorized applications are intercepting web browser communications. Based on satisfaction of at least one operating condition, the secure browser extension of the computing device sends an HTTPS request to a known service via the web browser. The secure browser extension receives an HTTPS response to the HTTPS request via the web browser. The secure browser extension determines whether the certificate included in the HTTPS response is trusted by the secure browser extension. Based on determining the certificate is not trusted, the secure browser extension terminates the web browser session and generates a notification for display at the computing device that indicates web browser communications are compromised.

Abstract: An orchestration system of or otherwise available to a web platform centralizes the execution of workflow components of a workflow associated with a job posting hosted by the web platform using various software services internal and/or external to the web platform. The workflow components and attributes thereof are determined based on the job posting. Domain-specific language (DSL) instructions for the various workflow components are generated. First DSL instructions are invoked by the orchestration system to cause an execution of a first workflow component of the workflow by a first software service. The orchestration system obtains an output of the first workflow component, such as values of relevant attributes, and, based on the output and in some cases information derived other than from the first workflow component, invokes next DSL instructions to cause an execution of a next workflow component of the workflow by another software service.

Abstract: An operation management system is disclosed. The operation management system may receive a video stream from a wearable device of a user that is performing an operation in a physical environment. The operation management system may process, using an operation performance model, a set of frames of the video stream that indicates a state of a performance of the operation by the user. The operation management system may determine, based on the state of the performance by the user, a next task of the operation. The operation management system may configure display data that is associated with a physical object that is associated with the next task. The display data may be associated with an indicator that identifies the physical object and/or task information associated with performing the next task. The operation management system may provide the display data to the wearable device.

Abstract: A system for recognizing and purchasing items, including smart glasses having a user system integrated therein and having a user interface for displaying items for purchase on the smart glasses, the user system including software that recognizes and tags items available to purchase that a user views through the smart glasses, wherein the user can select an item for purchase with a one-click purchase function, the user system storing user payment and address information on non-transitory computer readable media. A method of shopping with smart glasses, by a user viewing an item with smart glasses, the smart glasses identifying the item for purchase, the user selecting the item for purchase, and the user purchasing the item with a one-click purchase function.

Abstract: The novel wing design disclosed herein has a cambered, swept wing design for aircraft application that can achieve steady state flight via the integration of an electric motor driven lift-thrust system that can provide both vertical thrust for take-off and horizontal thrust for flight propulsion by the selective use of fan blades connected to the motor.

Abstract: A hand held device that injects animals with medicine and other substances contains a removable adapter. The removable adapter has mechanical connections to a frame. The frame has a mechanism for moving or advancing a syringe, which is part of the removable adapter. The removable adapter has an electronic device that begins in an non-configured state, but as specific medicines or substances are used with the removable adapter, the electronic device is put into a configured state. When the removable adapter is attempted to be used with other substances which are not compatible with the original substance, the electronic device prevents use of the device.

Abstract: A crane with at least one main carrier which is moveable and a crane trolley which is mounted on the at least one main carrier for movement, a winch carrier being fastened to the crane trolley, and a load suspension apparatus which is moveable up and down in the vertical direction by cables hanging on the winch carrier, the load suspension apparatus having gripping tools for releasably gripping a load. The crane has at least one camera and at least one control stand for a crane driver, and the control stand has at least one screen. At least one assistance graphic can be superimposed on the at least one screen onto the display of the image recorded instantaneously by the camera, as an aid for the crane driver for orienting the load suspension apparatus and/or the gripping tool of the load suspension apparatus relative to the load to be gripped.

Abstract: An analog front-end architecture for a capacitive pressure sensor with a low-noise amplifier unit for amplification of sensor signals from the sensor. The amplifier unit includes first and second integrator units for integrating charges injected into input terminals of the amplifier unit and for outputting integrated charges to output terminals of the amplifier unit, a feedback unit, and a startup unit. The feedback unit reinjects integrated charges from the integrator unit into the input terminals of the amplifier unit. The startup unit is switchable between first and second switching states and is configured, in the first switching state, to route the charges injected into the input terminals past the first integrator unit into the second integrator unit and from the second integrator unit into the feedback unit, and, in the second switching state, to route charges injected into the input terminals directly into the first integrator unit.

Abstract: An embodiment of a storage device for medical products includes a cabinet defining an enclosure having a plurality of compartments. In addition, the storage device includes a plurality of storage containers, each storage container configured to be inserted into a corresponding one of the plurality of compartments. Further, the storage device includes an actuation assembly including a plurality of arms that are configured to engage the plurality of storage containers so as to secure the plurality of storage containers in the plurality of compartments. Still further, the storage device includes a release mechanism that is configured to simultaneously actuate each of the plurality of arms to release the plurality of storage containers from the plurality of compartments.

Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing NOx in a heat generation unit are provided. A method includes introducing an exhaust gas from a catalytic cracking unit to a combustion zone of a heat generation unit to produce a combusted exhaust gas, wherein the exhaust gas contains two or more of carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, and nitrogen oxide. The method further includes introducing a sour water stripper (SWS) vapor stream from a SWS unit to the heat generation unit at a location after the combustion zone and before a heat recovery zone of the heat generation unit. The method also includes allowing the SWS vapor stream to react with the combusted exhaust gas to produce a processed exhaust gas with decreased NOx content as compared to the NOx content when the exhaust gas is processed under similar conditions but without an interaction with the SWS vapor stream.

Abstract: Generally, an air dehumidification system useful in dehumidifying gases to produce gases having low dew points. Specifically, an air dehumidifier and methods of making and using an air dehumidifier including a plurality of modules each containing a water capture material which absorbs water from a supply airflow in an adsorption mode and releases water vapor in a desorption mode, wherein one or more of the plurality of modules concurrently operate in the adsorption mode to reduce the dew point of the supply airflow as one or more of the plurality of modules operate in the desorption mode to regenerate the water capture material.

Abstract: A method of encoding video streams includes, at an encoding device, receiving a first video stream frame from a first server device at the encoding device at a first receipt time; receiving a second video stream frame from a second server device at the encoding device at a second receipt time; encoding the first video stream frame with the encoding device; determining a delay duration based at least partially on a first encoding duration of the first video stream frame and the second receipt time; and transmitting a delay instruction based at least partially on the delay duration to the second server device.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a nanocomposite including a carbonaceous perimorph, the perimorph having a diameter of less than 1,000 ?m and comprising interconnected cells, each of a plurality of the cells comprising a carbonaceous cell wall possessing an average thickness of less than 100 nm or smaller and a morphology corresponding to a surface region of a, non-metallic template particle, the template particle having a diameter of less than 1,000 ?m, and an interior space bounded and enclosed by the cell wall.