Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for authenticating to a computer system. In some examples, a method includes receiving a request from a user device for authentication, the request specifying a username. The method includes determining grid information associated with the username by accessing a repository of grid information for usernames, the grid information specifying a color set. The method includes sending the color set to the user device, causing the user device to display a grid of colored tiles, each colored tile having a color specified by the color set. The method includes receiving a sequence of tile selections from the user device, each tile selection specifying a user selection of one of the colored tiles. The method includes granting or rejecting the request for authentication based on the sequence of tile selections and the grid information associated with the username.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tourniquet including a tourniquet ring configured to resiliently constrict around a body part of a subject. The tourniquet ring defines a plurality of openings. A handle moves the tourniquet ring onto the body part and includes a first strap having a first end secured to the tourniquet ring at one of the openings and a second end secured to the tourniquet ring at one of the openings. A second strap has a first end secured to the tourniquet ring at one of the openings and a second end secured to the tourniquet ring at one of the openings.

Abstract: A method and system for providing a second line service (“SLS”) feature to a subscriber using a telecommunications device (“TD”) which includes receiving at a switch on the network of the subscriber's primary service provider a communication made up of a trigger and a directory number. When the communication is received at the primary service provider's switch, the switch parses the communication and detects the trigger. Once the switch has received the communication, the switch additionally transmits a query message to a SLS platform that manages the SLS feature. As a result of the switch's query message transmission, the switch receives a reply to the query message from the SLS platform. Based at least in part on the reply to the query message, the switch can route the communication such that the switch connects one or multiple voice channel circuit between the subscriber's TD and the terminating TD.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire, in particular a commercial-vehicle tire, having a one- or multi-ply carcass, a multi-ply belt or breaker and having a profiled tread with grooves formed to a profile depth, wherein the profiled tread is provided at the tire shoulders either with a respective block row (2) or with a respective profile rib (7), wherein the blocks (1) of the shoulder-side block rows (2), or the shoulder-side profile ribs (7) each have a peripheral edge (1a, 7a) laterally delimiting the ground contact patch of the tire, or a shoulder rounding with a radius of up to 30.0 mm, wherein shoulder flank surfaces that extend in a radial direction adjoin the peripheral edges or the shoulder roundings, and wherein, in the case of shoulder roundings, an imaginary section line is defined between an envelope of the tread that is continued beyond the shoulder rounding and the shoulder flank surface that is continued beyond the shoulder rounding.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to implement a cognitive artificial intelligence training mechanism for simulating patients for developing artificial intelligence based medical solutions. The cognitive artificial intelligence training mechanism perturbs non-image based information of a real patient from a real patient data set forming perturbed non-image based information. The cognitive artificial intelligence training mechanism generates an artificial patient data in an artificial patient data set using the perturbed non-image based information and a non-perturbed medical image of the real patient. The cognitive artificial intelligence training mechanism then trains an operation of a learning algorithm utilized by the cognitive data processing system using real patient data in the real patient data set and the artificial patient data in the artificial patient data set.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may identify, in a geographic region, a number of sites satisfying one or more criteria based at least on geographic data accessed from one or more data sources. The system may generate, for the geographic region, a number of communication network graphs each satisfying one or more network coverage conditions. Each communication network graph may include a number of nodes corresponding to the sites and a number of edges corresponding to communication network connections between the sites. The system may rank the communication network graphs based on one or more performance parameters. The system may select an optimized communication network graph for the geographic region from the communication network graphs based on their respective rankings.

Abstract: In an example, an air filter system includes an air filter and a thermally conductive particulate sensor (TCPS). The TCPS includes a temperature sensor to measure a first temperature of the TCPS at a first time, measure a second temperature of the TCPS at a second time, and provide the measured first temperature and the measured second temperature to a controller. The controller to determine an actual rate of temperature change based on the measured first temperature and the measured second temperature, compare the actual rate of temperature change to a target rate of temperature change, and provide a notification when a difference between the actual rate of temperature change and the target rate of temperature change is greater than an accumulation threshold indicative of a threshold amount of particulate accumulation on the TCPS.

Abstract: A method for resynchronizing at least one batch job is provided. The method may include detecting a type of region switch request. The method may further include stopping execution workloads on a primary system based on the switch request. The method may further include suspending software and hardware data replication from the primary system to the secondary system. The method may further utilizing proxy replication engine to determine a point-in-time (PIT) at which the execution is stopped and the suspension. The method may also include switching the replication of the software and hardware data to occur the secondary system to the primary system. The method may further include synchronizing the software and hardware data up to the determined point-in-time (PIT). The method may also include activating the execution of the plurality of workloads on the secondary system based on the determined point-in-time (PIT), switching, and synchronizing.

Abstract: A power supply for a gate driver circuit is provided. The power supply is configured to supply a logic voltage, a positive voltage and a negative voltage to the gate driver circuit such that a gated semiconductor driven by the gate driver circuit does not inadvertently turn on. The gate driver power supply is configured such that the logic voltage becomes a steady-state voltage prior to the positive voltage becoming a steady-state voltage and remains above a first voltage value until the positive voltage is less than a second voltage value.

Abstract: An augmented reality device engages in a mutual exchange of negotiated services with another device. The negotiation comprises a first exchange of respective zero-knowledge proofs, and second exchange of credentials followed by verification of the credentials by a trusted third party, and further exchanges of information comprising services provided by the augmented reality device to the other device, and vice versa. The services are used, in embodiments, to customize an augmented reality experience.

Abstract: A self-assembled metal mesh transparent conductive film and the method of fabricating the same are provided in the present invention. Some key aspects of the present invention are as follows: 1) to control the opening size in self-assembled metal mesh transparent conductive film; 2) to tune the surface energy of substrate using surface treatment; 3) to improve transparency of metal mesh by low-temperature method such as chemical etching; 4) to increase the conductivity of metal mesh without high temperature annealing; and 5) to strengthen the metal mesh film by post-treatment. The transparent conductive film of the present invention can be formed on rigid or flexible substrates. The present method enables tuning the transparency and conductance of the metal mesh film through tuning the opening size of metal mesh, and is also cost-effective due to low process cost and high material utilization rate.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) antenna unit is described. The RF antenna unit includes a feed portion, at least first and second selective grounding portions each configured to selectively enable or disable an electrical coupling to a substrate, and at least first and second conductive arms. The first conductive arm provides electrical conduction between the feed portion and the first grounding portion, extending from the first grounding portion towards and beyond the feed portion. The second conductive arm provides electrical conduction between the feed portion and the second grounding portion, extending from the second grounding portion towards and beyond the feed portion. First and second inverted F antenna (IFA) elements are defined by the feed portion, the respective first or second grounding portion and the respective first or second conductive arm. The feed portion is common to both the first and second IFA elements.

Abstract: A golf club head including a club face defined by a toe end, a heel end, a top rail and a sole. The golf club head including a plurality of grooves disposed on the club face between the top rail and the sole. Each groove extends between the toe end and the heel end. Depths of the grooves vary in a direction extending between the top rail and the sole and in a direction extending between the heel end and the toe end. Widths of each of the plurality of grooves vary in a direction extending between the heel end and the toe end.

Abstract: An adjustable ladder and stair system has a folding stair assembly including a ladder-member having a first-end, a second-end, a plurality of rungs equidistantly spaced between a first-rail and a second-rail, and a securer, a stair-member having a stair-portion, a first-rail-slide-mechanism, a second-rail-slide-mechanism, a first-rail-locking-mechanism, and a second-rail-locking-mechanism. The ladder-member may be secured in a vertical position parallel to a substantially vertical item desired to be ascended via the securer. The stair-member is adjustable to accommodate a desired angle. The folding stair assembly provides an apparatus for safely accessing a substantially vertical item desired to be ascended such as a roll off garbage bins.

Abstract: Provided is a Precision Voltage Reference (PVR). In one example, the PVR includes a resonator having an oscillation frequency, the resonator including a first proof-mass, a first forcer located adjacent a first side of the first proof-mass, and a second forcer located adjacent a second side of the first proof-mass. The PVR may include control circuitry configured to generate a reference voltage based on the oscillation frequency of the resonator, at least one converter configured to receive the reference voltage from the control circuitry, provide a first bias voltage to the first forcer based on the reference voltage, provide a second bias voltage to the second forcer based on the reference voltage, and periodically alter a polarity of the first and second bias voltages to drive the oscillation frequency to match a reference frequency, and an output configured to provide the reference voltage as a voltage reference signal.

Abstract: A system and method may be used to monitor and/or control material processing where a process beam is moved in a wobble pattern, such as a wobble-welding process. While at least one process beam is moved according to a wobble pattern on a processing site (e.g., a weld site) of a workpiece, an ICI system moves an imaging beam at least partially independently of the process beam to one or more measurement locations on the wobble pattern and obtains ICI measurements (e.g., depth measurements) at those locations. The ICI measurement(s) may be used, for example, to evaluate keyhole and/or melt pool characteristics during a welding process. Although the present application describes wobble welding processes, the systems and methods described herein may also be used with other material processing applications where a laser or other energy beam is wobbled or dithered during processing including, without limitation, additive manufacturing, marking and material removal.

Abstract: A FET IC structure made using a back-side access process that mitigates or eliminates thermal conductivity problems. In some embodiments, electrically-isolated thermal paths are formed adjacent the FET and configured to conduct heat laterally away from the FET to generally orthogonal thermal pathways, and thence to thermal pads externally accessible at the “top” of the completed IC. In some embodiments having a thermally-conductive handle wafer, electrically-isolated thermal paths are formed adjacent a FET and configured to conduct heat laterally away from the FET. Thermal vias are formed sufficiently so as to be in thermal contact with the handle wafer and with the conventional metallization layers of the device superstructure, at least one of which is in thermal contact with the lateral thermal paths. In some embodiments, the lateral thermal paths may use dummy gates configured to conduct heat laterally away from a FET to generally orthogonal thermal pathways.

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine that includes a compression ratio linkage for adjusting engine compression ratio are described. The systems and methods provide different ways of changing a compression ratio of an engine based on forecast or anticipated engine operating conditions. In one example, the forecast or anticipated engine operating conditions may include a forecast or anticipated transmission gear shift.

Abstract: This application describes compounds, compositions, and methods which are useful in treating, preventing, inhibiting, ameliorating, or eradicating the pathology and/or symptomology of a disease caused by a parasite.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rivet connection of a fiber composite component. The method includes positioning a first component which contains a fiber composite material in an overlap joint with a second component, laser-drilling a shared through-hole at least through the fiber composite material of the first component, inserting a rivet into the through-hole and fixing the rivet to the first and to the second component.