Abstract: A percussive massage device includes a housing. The housing defines a handle portion and a corner where the handle portion meets another portion of the housing. The percussive massage device also includes a motor contained within the housing, a reciprocation shaft coupled to the motor and configured to reciprocate when the motor is active, and a heart rate sensor located at the corner.

Abstract: Suturing simulation systems and related methods comprising a table, a membrane housing associated with the table, a suturing membrane attached to the membrane housing, an internal camera disposed within the membrane housing, and at least one sensor associated with the table, wherein the internal camera and the at least one sensor are configured to collect suturing data. Other systems and methods include a data collection software module configured to synchronize the suturing image data from the internal camera and the suturing sensor data from the at least one sensor, thereby resulting in synchronized suturing data, and further can include a data processing software module configured process and extract metrics from the synchronized suturing data.

Abstract: A socket assembly comprises a housing and a first heat conducting member. The housing defines a first channel adapted to accommodate a first module inserted therein. The first heat conducting member is installed on the housing such that a bottom surface of the first heat conducting member is adapted to be in contact with the first module to dissipate the heat generated by the first module. The first heat conducting member includes a guiding feature protruding from the bottom surface and engaging with a guiding groove formed in the first module for guiding the first module to be inserted into the first channel. The guiding feature is adapted to be stationary relative to the bottom surface when the first module is guided to be inserted into the first channel and abutted against the bottom surface so as to move the bottom surface relative to the housing.

Abstract: A massage head for a percussive therapy device includes a base. The base is configured to connect a massage attachment to a reciprocating shaft of a percussive therapy device. The massage head also includes an end portion that includes a heater. The massage head also includes a medial portion located between the base and the end portion. The medial portion is configured to resiliently bias the end portion away from the base.

Abstract: Solutions for enforcing both syntactic and semantic correctness of domain-specific data queries include: receiving a data query; constraining an operation of the data query to enforce semantic correctness, wherein enforcing semantic correctness comprises: determining semantic information associated with each of a plurality of data entities; based on at least the semantic information, determining whether combining the two data entities of the plurality of data entities is allowed or is not allowed; based on at least determining that combining the two data entities is allowed, permitting combining the two data entities in the data query; and based on at least determining that combining the two data entities is not allowed, preventing combining the two data entities in the data query; and executing the data query. Some examples further include basing the permission on (at least) an ontology between the semantic information of the two data entities and a set of axioms.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for performing natural language-based data integration includes causing execution of a data integration application on a remote device via a network and causing surfacing of a GUI corresponding to the data integration application on a display of the remote device. The method includes receiving, via the GUI, a natural language input representing a data integration task, generating, via an LLM, a set of ordered activities corresponding to the data integration task represented by the natural language input, and selecting, via the LLM, one or more APIs for performing each activity within the set of ordered activities. The method also includes generating a data pipeline based on the set of ordered activities and the API(s) for performing each activity, as well as back-translating the data pipeline to a desired data format for execution by the data integration application.

Abstract: The present invention provides a virtual subscriber identity module (vSIM) for network connection. The vSIM includes a memory and at least one processor. The memory is configured to store a remote SIM (rSIM) implemented as a software card. The at least one processor is coupled to the memory and configured to: register to a first network and download a vSIM profile from a vSIM server via the rSIM; and complete a registration to a second network using the vSIM profile for activating a vSIM service to connect to the second network. The present invention further provides an apparatus including the vSIM, a vSIM server for communicating with the apparatus, and a method performed by the apparatus.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to consolidate event data structures in an electronic calendar. An event data structure for an event is received and features are extracted from the event data structure and another having an overlapping temporal location in the electronic calendar. The event data structure is classified as to whether it is duplicative of the other event data structure and the event data structures are rendered based on the classification. This rendering may involve consolidating the event data structures into a consolidated event data structure if they are duplicative, and prioritizing the event data structures relative to each other if they are not duplicative.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling arc/short between a wire and a work piece is described. A current path parallel to the wire/work is provided. The voltage drop across the parallel path can be preset, to limit the wire/work voltage, or it can be controlled to a desired level. The control can be in response to feedback.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing payroll data. A method may identify a plurality of payroll engines for a company, and for each respective payroll engine of the plurality of payroll engines: determine, from a plurality of data types, a respective subset of data types unique to the respective payroll engine and needed to process the payroll transactions based on the unique geographic location associated with the respective payroll engine, and determine a respective data format required by the respective payroll engine to process the payroll transactions. A method may receive payroll data of an employee associated with a first geographic location of the plurality of geographic locations, transform the payroll data corresponding to a first subset of data types into a first data format of the first geographic location; and transmit the payroll data transformed to a first payroll engine of the first geographic location.

Abstract: A percussive massage device includes a housing. The housing defines a handle portion and a corner where the handle portion meets another portion of the housing. The percussive massage device also includes a motor contained within the housing, a reciprocation shaft coupled to the motor and configured to reciprocate when the motor is active, and a heart rate sensor located at the corner.

Abstract: A massage head for a percussive therapy device includes a base. The base is configured to connect a massage attachment to a reciprocating shaft of a percussive therapy device. The massage head also includes an end portion that includes a heater. The massage head also includes a medial portion located between the base and the end portion. The medial portion is configured to resiliently bias the end portion away from the base.

Abstract: A percussive therapy device includes a housing, a motor, a reciprocation shaft coupled to the motor and configured to reciprocate when the motor is active, an infrared radiation emitter contained in the housing, and a fan. The housing includes a window including a surface. The fan is configured to direct air along an air flow path, and a portion of the air flow path extends along the surface of the window.

Abstract: A method includes determining, based on an image having an initial viewpoint, a depth image, and determining a foreground visibility map including visibility values that are inversely proportional to a depth gradient of the depth image. The method also includes determining, based on the depth image, a background disocclusion mask indicating a likelihood that pixel of the image will be disoccluded by a viewpoint adjustment. The method additionally includes generating, based on the image, the depth image, and the background disocclusion mask, an inpainted image and an inpainted depth image. The method further includes generating, based on the depth image and the inpainted depth image, respectively, a first three-dimensional (3D) representation of the image and a second 3D representation of the inpainted image, and generating a modified image having an adjusted viewpoint by combining the first and second 3D representation based on the foreground visibility map.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of treating a coenzyme A reduction, elevation, sequestration, toxicity, or redistribution (CASTOR) disease such as, for example, defects in fatty acid oxidation enzymes, methylmalonic acidemia, glutaric acidemia, propionic academia, and HMG-CoA lyase, via small molecule modulators of CoA levels. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for tier-specific data compression, comprising comparing costs associated with a plurality of storage configurations for storing data based on one or more usage characteristics of data, wherein each storage configuration of the plurality of storage configurations corresponds to a particular storage tier of a plurality of storage tiers and a particular compression algorithm of a plurality of compression algorithms and based on the comparison of the costs, storing the data using a storage configuration of the plurality of storage configurations.

Abstract: A system and method that include receiving sensor data during drilling of a portion of a borehole in a geologic environment. The system and method also include selecting a drilling mode from a plurality of drilling modes based at least on a portion of the sensor data. The system and method additionally include simulating drilling of the borehole using the selected drilling mode and generating a state of the borehole in the geologic environment based on the simulated drilling of the borehole. The system and method further include generating a reward using the state of the borehole and a planned borehole trajectory and using the reward through deep reinforcement learning to maximize future rewards for drilling actions.

Abstract: Compositions and methods related to the synthesis and application of poly(aryl ether)s are generally described.

Abstract: A method includes introducing one or more waste plastic feedstocks in neat form to a fluid catalyst cracking unit, and processing the one or more waste plastic feedstocks in neat form in the presence of a catalyst under fluidized catalytic cracking conditions.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for performing natural language-based data integration includes causing execution of a data integration application on a remote device via a network and causing surfacing of a GUI corresponding to the data integration application on a display of the remote device. The method includes receiving, via the GUI, a natural language input representing a data integration task, generating, via an LLM, a set of ordered activities corresponding to the data integration task represented by the natural language input, and selecting, via the LLM, one or more APIs for performing each activity within the set of ordered activities. The method also includes generating a data pipeline based on the set of ordered activities and the API(s) for performing each activity, as well as back-translating the data pipeline to a desired data format for execution by the data integration application.