Abstract: The present computer system and method identify or infer a topic or an entity from unstructured data text, filter passages mentioning the topic and/or entity, and execute a Large Language Model (LLM) with the passages mentioning the topic for inferring at least one entity associated with the topic. The LLM may further infer a relationship between the topic and each of the at least one entity. The computer system and method further distil the topic, the at least one entity and the relationship therebetween into distilled inferred knowledge.

Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to bi-directional hybrid-feedback driven self-healing and self-scaling language transpiler system may include bi-directional hopping to support multi language transpilation, automatic conversion of a mapping into a transformation specification, a hybrid feedback mechanism to update the transformation mappings, automatic scaling and/or creation of enterprise wide mapping and token (e.g., grammar) vocabulary, and/or a self-healing and/or corrective translation capability to perform automatic correction of any partial transpilations over time from a learned mapping.

Abstract: A kitchen appliance includes: a housing; a cooking chamber located in the housing; a rack moving mechanism configured to adjust a vertical height of a rack located in the cooking chamber; and a controller connected to the rack moving mechanism and configured to operate the rack moving mechanism to move the rack vertically. The controller has a plurality of heating programs, and the controller operates the rack moving mechanism to move the rack to a second vertical height from a first vertical height, the second vertical height being based on a selected one of the heating programs.

Abstract: Improved cold seal packaging rollers for packaging machines, as disclosed herein, may be configured to define a turned-up or bend along each edge portion of a packaging created by the packaging machine for avoiding jams of the packaging in automated packing systems. The improved cold seal packaging rollers may be incorporated directly into the cold seal packaging machine, replacing the standard rollers, or external to the machine to manipulate a completed packaging. The improved cold seal packaging rollers may comprise a first gear and a second gear, each having a circumferential toothed portion and a circumferential beveled portion. The circumferential beveled portion of the first gear may be angled inwardly toward a central axis as it moves away from the circumferential toothed portion. The circumferential beveled portion of the second gear may be angled outwardly away from a central axis as it moves away from the circumferential toothed portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for altering visual media. In some embodiments, user interfaces capturing visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), playing back visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), editing visual media (e.g., that has a synthetic depth-of-field effect applied), and/or managing media capture.

Abstract: Events in an interactive application (e.g., a location-based parallel reality game) are triggered by a user's real-world activity meeting one or more criteria. A background process executing on the user's client device periodically extracts activity data from an activity monitoring application (e.g., a fitness application) and provides it to a server hosting the interactive application. The server determines whether received activity data triggers an event and, if so, sends a notification of the event to the client device.

Abstract: A method comprising performing simulations to determine energy transfer between the bulk fluid motion of gases through a combustion chamber and resonant acoustic modes of the combustion chamber using a simulation model. The method also comprises configuring one or more combustion chamber parameters for the simulation model to shape the resonant acoustic modes to diminish coupling between the resonant acoustic modes and driving mechanisms at a head portion of the combustion chamber and to enhance coupling between the resonant acoustic modes and damping mechanisms at an aft portion of the combustion chamber. The method further comprises determining whether the combustion chamber meets a predetermined performance level in response to determining that the combustion chamber meets a predetermined combustion stability level.

Abstract: An assembly of at least one radiation detector, at least one radiation emitter and a housing configured to be positioned inside the ear canal of a person or animal, the detector(s) and emitter(s) being provided in or on the housing, the emitter(s) being configured to emit radiation away from the housing and the detector(s) being configured to receive radiation directed toward the housing. No overlap may be provided between the field of view of the radiation detector(s) and the emitter(s), such as by providing a blocking element.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides world-controlled augments and application-controlled augments. World-controlled augments can be controlled directly by a shell in the artificial reality environment. To allow even inexperienced users to develop world-controlled augments, a world-controlled builder system is provided. Application-controlled augments may be resource intensive (e.g., using eye-tracking, social-media tie-ins, etc.), may support complicated interactions among themselves, may require or have extensive use of inputs and permissioned resources, and are controlled by their hosting application. When a running application is halted, the application closes its application-controlled augments but can choose to have the XR system run a “place-holder” world-controlled augment for as long as the application is not running. The place-holder world-controlled augment preserves the appearance of the application in the artificial reality environment but uses few system resources.

Abstract: An air data probe includes a probe body including a probe wall. The probe body is formed from a first material by direct energy metal deposition. An insert is positioned in the probe wall. The insert is formed from a second material different from the first material. The insert is encapsulated in the probe wall via the direct energy metal deposition. A method of forming an air data probe includes forming one or more thermally conductive inserts, and encapsulating the one or more inserts into a wall of an air data probe via direct energy metal deposition. The air data probe is formed from a first material and the one or more inserts are formed from a second material different from the first material.

Abstract: A system and method for the safe delivery of treatment energy to a patient, which includes verification of system integrity before, during, or after the delivery of treatment energy and provides several mechanisms for rapid termination of the delivery of potentially harmful energy to the patient when a fault condition in the device and/or system is identified. The system may include an energy generator having processing circuitry to determine if there is a fault condition in the system and to automatically terminate a delivery of treatment energy when the processing circuitry determines there is a fault condition. The method may generally include performing a series of pre-checks, synchronizing a treatment energy delivery to the proper segment of the heart's depolarization pattern, configuring the system for treatment energy delivery, delivering the treatment energy, and performing post-treatment evaluation.

Abstract: A method of characterizing a surface topography includes determining scale-dependent parameters. Each of the scale-dependent parameters represents a statistical characterization of a distribution of at least one of a first-order or higher-order derivative of surface height or h determined from one or more measurements of the surface at each of multiple distance scales. For at least one of the one or more measurements, the first-order or higher-order derivative of surface height is determined at the multiple distance scales in real space defined via a scaling factor ? which is greater than or equal to 1 and which is multiplied by the smallest possible distance scale or resolution provided by the at least one of the one or more measurements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing a composition selected from the group consisting of organic solvent-based pastes, inks, paints and coating formulations with retroreflective properties, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing an organic solvent-based paste, ink, paint or coating formulation without retroreflective properties: b) providing a retroreflective organic solvent-based composition consisting of, based on the total weight of the retroreflective organic solvent-based composition: 10-49.85 wt. % of organic solvent: 50-85 wt. % of spherical glass beads having a median particle diameter D50, as measured with laser diffraction, between 1 and 1500 ?m, and a refractive index, measured at a wavelength ? of 589 nm, between 1.5 and 2.8:0.15-3.5 wt. % of thickener; and 0-10 wt.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic solvent-based retroreflective ink, paint or coating composition, having a first Brookfield viscosity ?1 at a shear rate of 0.5 rpm of between 0.2 and 8 Pas and a second Brookfield viscosity ?2 at a shear rate of 20 rpm that is between 80 and 450 mPa·s, with the proviso that ?2 is at least 2 times lower than ?1, wherein the organic solvent-based retroreflective ink, paint or coating composition consists of, based on the total weight of the composition: • 25-75 wt. % of organic solvent: • 1-85 wt. % of spherical glass beads: • 0.15 1.2 wt. % of thickener; and • 0-30 wt. % of one or more further ingredients: wherein the Brookfield viscosities ?1 and ?2 are measured with a #2 spindle in a 600 ml beaker having a diameter of 8.25 cm at a temperature of 25° C.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a training dataset. The training dataset includes training patterns each including a 3D point cloud of a respective travelable environment. The generating method includes, for each 3D point cloud, obtaining a 3D surface representation of the respective travelable environment, determining a traveling path inside the respective travelable environment, and, generating a virtual scan of the respective travelable environment along the traveling path, thereby obtaining the 3D point cloud. Such a method forms an improved solution for generating a training dataset of 3D point clouds.

Abstract: A chemical reactor is implemented on a substrate. The chemical reactor has multiple ducts for transporting a fluid and/or gas during use of the chemical reactor, in which the ducts optionally include pillar structures and at least one connection duct connected between two of the multiple ducts for transporting the fluid and/or gas from one duct to another. In the connection duct, a series of individual pillar structures are positioned behind each other in the longitudinal direction of the connection duct.

Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to bi-directional hybrid-feedback driven self-healing and self-scaling language transpiler system may include bi-directional hopping to support multi language transpilation, automatic conversion of a mapping into a transformation specification, a hybrid feedback mechanism to update the transformation mappings, automatic scaling and/or creation of enterprise wide mapping and token (e.g., grammar) vocabulary, and/or a self-healing and/or corrective translation capability to perform automatic correction of any partial transpilations over time from a learned mapping.

Abstract: A microfluidic device (100) comprising: a substrate (110) having a liquid channel (120), an ordered set of pillars (130) positioned in the channel (120), the individual pillars (130) comprising at least one pair of fins that form a chevron-shaped cross-section with the substrate, and being arranged in pairs of rows, adjacent rows being laterally displaced with respect to one another by half a pillar in length, the pillar length being measured perpendicular to the average liquid direction, thereby forming microchannels between the pillars, and the rows being staggered so that the microchannels formed between pillars of successive rows at each position along the longest pillar side have substantially the same width.