Abstract: An introducer hub assembly, such as an introducer hub assembly of a leadless cardiac pacemaker, including a hemostatic seal having a cross-slit configuration, is described. The hemostatic seal can be retained between a hub cap and an introducer hub. The hemostatic seal includes a first section having first slits intersecting along a longitudinal axis of the introducer hub, and a second section having second slits intersecting along the longitudinal axis. The first slits are angularly offset relative to the second slits to reduce a likelihood that fluid will leak directly through the seal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a gas turbine engine and an engine power extraction system. The gas turbine engine includes a first rotational assembly. The first rotational assembly includes a propeller and a first shaft coupled to the propeller. The first shaft is configured for rotation about a rotational axis of the propulsion system. The engine power extraction system includes a fluid pump, a fluid motor, and a generator. The fluid pump is operably coupled to the first shaft. The fluid pump is in fluid communication with the fluid motor. The fluid pump is configured to pressurize and direct a hydraulic fluid to the fluid motor causing the fluid motor to rotatably drive the generator to generate an electrical power output.

Abstract: Present invention deals with a method for preparing water-absorbing polymers, so called superabsorbents. The invention is based on the finding that extruding hydrogel through a hole plate (13) obeying a complex design rule diminishes negative influence of thixotropy and increases the absorption speed of the superabsorbent made from the hydrogel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system which assists rescuers in efforts to locate persons in the event of potentially harmful condition in a structure. An example system includes a sensory node which gathers sensor data including occupancy data. The system uses the sensory node to gather and process condition data to establish normal behavioral characteristics of the data. Threshold levels are determined from this processing. An alert is transmitted when conditions are detected that fall outside those threshold levels. The alert includes information regarding the detected conditions, occupancy information, and structure data. An example system includes a portable device that receives the alert along with the information provided with the alert and uses that information to alert a user and provide a display that provides alert and occupancy data such that occupants of the structure can be located and provided with assistance if required.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting fraudulent activity includes a device property data processing circuit, a security analysis circuit, an alert circuit, and an alert provisioning circuit. The device property data processing circuit is structured to interpret device property data corresponding to a device registered with an Internet of Things (IoT) device registry. The security analysis circuit is structured to determine, based at least in part on the device property data, that the device is subject to a fraud event. The alert circuit is structured to generate, responsive to the determined fraud event, a message that identifies the device. The alert provisioning circuit is structured to transmit the message.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting fraudulent activity includes a device property data processing circuit, a security analysis circuit, an alert circuit, and an alert provisioning circuit. The device property data processing circuit is structured to interpret device property data corresponding to a device registered with an Internet of Things (IoT) device registry. The security analysis circuit is structured to determine, based at least in part on the device property data, that the device is subject to a fraud event. The alert circuit is structured to generate, responsive to the determined fraud event, a message that identifies the device. The alert provisioning circuit is structured to transmit the message.

Abstract: A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes an engine, a fuel system and an air system. The fuel system includes a fuel circuit, a fuel source, a heat exchanger and a turboexpander. The fuel circuit is configured to direct fuel from the fuel source, through the heat exchanger and the turboexpander, to the engine for combustion. The heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat energy from combustion products generated by the combustion of the fuel in the engine into the fuel in the fuel circuit. The air system is discrete from the engine. The air system includes an air compressor and the turboexpander. The air system is configured to expand the fuel directed across the turboexpander by the fuel circuit to power operation of the air compressor.

Abstract: Optimizing copy operations in a storage array, includes combining, in dependence upon a metadata optimization policy, a plurality of copy operations into a single copy operation and splitting the single copy operation into an optimized set of executable copy operations that copy data based on memory alignment.

Abstract: An introducer hub assembly, such as an introducer hub assembly of a leadless cardiac pacemaker, including a hemostatic seal having a cross-slit configuration, is described. The hemostatic seal can be retained between a hub cap and an introducer hub. The hemostatic seal includes a first section having first slits intersecting along a longitudinal axis of the introducer hub, and a second section having second slits intersecting along the longitudinal axis. The first slits are angularly offset relative to the second slits to reduce a likelihood that fluid will leak directly through the seal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and compositions that are useful for enriching a particular population of nucleic acids (a “population of interest”) within a complex mixture of nucleic acids. The population of interest may make up a minor portion of a complex mixture of nucleic acids. The methods and compositions provided herein are useful for detecting, predicting, diagnosing, or monitoring a disease or disorder, particularly a disease or disorder caused by a foreign microbe or pathogen.

Abstract: A pest trap includes a trap module and a connector module. The trap module is disposed on a columnar standing structure. The trap module includes a trap body that cooperates with an outer surrounding surface of the columnar standing structure to define an inside path therebetween for a pest to move therein. The connector module is connected to the trap module. The connector module defines a tunnel that has a first opening through which the tunnel is in spatial communication with the inside path, and that is for the pest to move therethrough. An inner surface of the trap body is at least partially slippery for the pest.

Abstract: A vent cover for an information handling system including: a body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a plurality of slots positioned within the body and extending between the first and the second surface, the plurality of slots including: first slots having a first length and extending between a first diameter and a second diameter of a first annulus; and second slots having a second length and extending between the second diameter and a third diameter of a second annulus, the first annulus including the second annulus.

Abstract: A modular pest scouting system includes a trapping module and a pest redirect module. The trapping module is for catching pests. The pest redirect module is detachably attached to the trapping module. The pest redirect module is for luring the pests to move toward the trapping module so as to be caught by the trapping module.

Abstract: Systems for improving fire safety in agricultural machinery are configured for detecting, at least partially controlling, and/or suppressing adverse fire-related conditions. The adverse fire-related conditions can include sparks, embers, and/or flames in the agricultural machinery.

Abstract: A method for determining a trust indicator is provided. The method may include interpreting, via an Internet of Things Universal Identifier (IoT UID) processing circuit, an IoT UID corresponding to a device and identifying, via a record management circuit and based at least in part on the IoT UID, a record in a database corresponding to the device. The method may further include determining, via a trust analysis circuit and based at least in part on the record, a risk indicator of the device and transmitting, via an indicator provisioning circuit, the risk indicator.

Abstract: An electronic aiming system includes an electro-mechanical reticle having a plurality of electrically powered holdover indicators disposed on a primary crosshair of the reticle, the holdover indicators configured to be individually selected and energized to a visible state, a rangefinder configured to generate range data, a computing device configured to generate ballistics data; and a processor configured to receive the range data and ballistics data, select, based at least in part on either or both of the range data and ballistics data, one or more of the holdover indicators, and energize the selected holdover indicator or indicators to the visible state.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing custom-ordered beverages is disclosed. The apparatus includes cup dispensers, beverage dispensing systems having dispensing heads, two cup-transfer mechanisms, two pick-up stations, and a disposal bin. Each of the pick-up stations includes a conveyer and a set of beverage pick-up windows. The first cup-transfer mechanism transports a cup from a cup dispenser to a dispensing head to fill the cup with beverage. The second cup-transfer mechanism transports the cup with filled beverage to one of two pick-up stations. A conveyer at one of the two pick-stations moves the cup with filled beverage and stops to present it at each pick-up window at one of the two pick-stations. If a customer does not pick the cup within an allocated amount of time, it will be dropped into the disposal bin.

Abstract: Some disclosed examples involve writing a test pattern of bits to one or more fields of at least one test packet and injecting the at least one test packet into a packet processing system of a network device. Some disclosed examples involve causing the at least one test packet to loop multiple times through ingress and egress portions of the packet processing system, trapping the at least one test packet and determining whether the test pattern of the at least one test packet has been altered.

Abstract: A method of operation is provided during which a gaseous fuel is directed through a gas manifold to a plurality of fuel injectors during a first mode of operation. The gaseous fuel may be or otherwise include hydrogen gas. A gas turbine engine includes the gas manifold, a liquid manifold and the fuel injectors. A first liquid fluid is directed through the liquid manifold to the fuel injectors during the first mode of operation. The first liquid fluid may be or otherwise include water. A second liquid fluid is directed through the liquid manifold to the fuel injectors during a second mode of operation. The second liquid fluid may be or otherwise include liquid fuel.

Abstract: A modular cooking apparatus is disclosed. The modular cooking apparatus includes a housing for containing a first and second interchangeable cooking modules. The first interchangeable cooking module contains a first oven, and the second interchangeable cooking module contains a second oven. The second oven is different from the first oven. The modular cooking apparatus also includes a control panel for receiving cooking inputs, a controller for controlling the first and second interchangeable cooking modules, and a single power plug for receiving electrical power from a wall outlet.