Abstract: A venting system for a battery includes a venting material disposed proximate to each cell of a plurality of electrochemical cells of the battery, the venting material configured to allow materials ejected due to a thermal event to flow through the venting material. The system also includes a venting device disposed in a fixed position relative to the venting material and the plurality of cells, the venting device including a structure for each cell. The structure includes a wall surrounding an area corresponding to a respective cell and extending away from the respective cell, the wall defining a venting path configured to direct ejected materials away from the respective cell.

Abstract: Systems and methods of caller identity verification and notification are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may include: configuring a notification application, executing at a first computing device associated with a first user, the first user associated with an entity; receiving, from the notification application executing on the first computing device, an indication when the first user initiates a particular call to a second user; determining an application associated with the entity and installed on the second computing device of the second user, the application having an icon displayed at a screen of the second computing device; and instructing the application, executing on the second computing device, when the second computing device has received the particular call from the first user, to update an appearance of the icon associated with the application to display an indicator with regard to that the first user is associated with the entity.

Abstract: Gateway certificate management can include detecting, at a gateway device located at a premises, a connection between the gateway device and a user device located at the premises. The connection can be created to request communications between the user device and a resource that is not located at the premises. The gateway device can determine if a certificate should be issued for the communications and can analyze a profile associated with the user device and a context associated with the communications, wherein the context comprises information identifying a type of data to be communicated via the communications. The gateway device can generate the certificate, the certificate including custom certificate data including communication context data that defines the type of data. The gateway device can enable the communications to allow the user device to communicate with the resource via the gateway device to send and receive the type of data.

Abstract: An arrangement for a drug delivery device is described. The arrangement includes: at least one electronic circuit, an antenna for wireless communication, and a body. The antenna is operatively connected to the electronic circuit, the antenna is flexible, and the antenna is adapted to follow a contour defined by the body.

Abstract: Isocyanate-functional polyurethane prepolymers are prepared by reacting a polymeric diol, a non-linear short chain diol, a multifunctional polyol, and a diisocyanate. Coating compositions comprising the isocyanate-functional polyurethane prepolymers and a polyamine curing agent can be used to prepare topcoats that meet the demanding performance requirements of aerospace and other applications.

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: Methods, systems, and products are provided for remote administration of hot receptacles according to embodiments of the present invention. Embodiments include receiving, by a slave unit from a master unit, a signal containing an on-off value in dependence upon whether power is currently being delivered to the master from a switched-controlled receptacle and delivering power, by the slave to slave-serviced appliances in dependence upon the on-off value.

Abstract: A hair styling device for heating hair is provided. The device comprises an induction heating plate arranged to be heated by penetration with a varying magnetic field and an induction heating assembly configured to generate the varying magnetic field.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, network security systems (e.g., network security algorithms) may uniquely identify an underlying algorithm and configuration used to produce domain names. For instance, network security techniques described herein may consider a collection of fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs) (e.g., taken from related network traffic data) and produce a value that can serve to uniquely identify the underlying generating algorithm and configuration used to produce the collection of FQDNs. In some examples, such may include implementation of statistical techniques to capture characteristic information about the amount of randomness, length, and distribution of characters in the collection of FQDNs. In some aspects, values of the characteristic information are adjusted based on a determined set of precision parameters. In some aspects, a single value may be produced, which can then be stored for later use in comparing with other values produced from some subsequent collection of FQDNs.

Abstract: A network device may select a target reliability from a table that includes a list of target reliabilities not associated with a default reliability, and may provide the target reliability to a user equipment. The user equipment may be configured to associate the target reliability with a channel quality indicator (CQI) process that computes CQI values that satisfy the target reliability.

Abstract: Coordinated Frequency Division Multiple Access (C-FDMA) may be provided. C-FDMA may include determining sub-channels of a channel for each of a plurality of Access Points (APs). The sub-channels may then be assigned to the plurality of APs. Transmit Opportunities (TxOps) may be scheduled for the plurality of APs on the sub-channels.

Abstract: A machine system includes a machine having a work tool assembly coupled to a back machine end and including a linkage adjustable among raised, lowered, and middle linkage positions in a vertical operating range. A work tool coupled to the linkage has an angular orientation dependent upon the position of the linkage and is pivotable at a greater pivoting ratio to the raised linkage position and a reduced pivoting ratio to the lowered linkage position. The configuration enables maintaining the work tool at a desired service orientation in a ground-penetrating portion of the vertical operating range, whilst tucking the work tool at the raised linkage position to facilitate loading of the machine onto a trailer.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a tray device including a frame having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a thickness, wherein the top surface of the frame has a first recessed region having a sidewall around at least a portion of a perimeter, and a ledge extending laterally from the bottom of the sidewall of the first recessed region, wherein the sidewall defines at least a portion of a first shape, a second recessed region having a sidewall around at least a portion of a perimeter, and a ledge extending laterally from the bottom of the sidewall of the second recessed region, wherein the sidewall defines at least a portion of a second shape, and wherein the depth of the first recessed region is deeper into the thickness of the tray than the depth of the second recessed region.

Abstract: A method of making a radioisotopic power source, including receiving a predetermined amount of a plurality of Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) particles within a reactor vessel, degassing the received predetermined amount of the MOF. The degassing includes placing the predetermined amount of the MOF under vacuum conditions, heating the received predetermined amount of the MOF above a first predetermined temperature for a first predetermined time period, and sealing the heated MOF. The method also includes cooling the heated and sealed predetermined amount of the MOF to a second predetermined temperature, while maintaining a pressure of the reactor vessel to a first predetermined pressure value for a second predetermined time period, receiving a predetermined amount of a plurality of beta emitter particles at a gaseous state and mixing the predetermined amount of beta emitter particles with the cooled predetermined amount of the MOF.

Abstract: An example memory apparatus includes clock circuitry. The clock circuitry can generate first and second clock signals based on a system clock signal, with the first and second clock signals being mutually out of phase. The apparatus can include detection circuitry to provide a detection result indicating whether an initial operation of a self-refresh exit operation coincides with a rising edge of the first clock signal or a rising edge of the second clock signal. The apparatus can include processing circuitry to provide an odd clock signal and an even clock signal based first and second clock signals and the detection result. The processing circuitry can provide the odd clock signal and the even clock signal out of phase or in phase with the first clock signal and the second clock signal depending on the detection result.

Abstract: A night vision system along with an image intensifier tube and method for forming the tube are provided. The night vision system incorporates the image intensifier tube in both an analog channel as well as a digital channel, with an addressable display within the analog image intensifier tube analog channel configured to create an electronically addressable output. An analog image intensifier tube is included in the digital imager for presenting binary digital signals representative of an image, or of symbol indicia, and registering those digital representation from the digital imager onto one or more electron multipliers of the analog image intensifier tube within the analog channel. The provided night vision system also utilizes a cathodoluminescent screen, which is a highly efficient light source that reduces system power.

Abstract: Crash attenuator assemblies are operable to decelerate errant vehicles traveling along roadways. The crash attenuator assemblies include guide rails anchorable to a ground surface adjacent a roadway. Frame assemblies are supported on the guide rails and are displaced upon impact by errant vehicles. The frame assemblies are spaced longitudinally along the guide rail such that a bay is defined between adjacent ones of the frame assemblies. An energy absorption cartridge is disposed within one of the bays and includes a cartridge shell and an energy absorption body encased in a shell chamber of the cartridge shell. The energy absorption body is at least partially formed from an anisotropic polymeric foam material that exhibits a first energy absorption value when compressed in a first body direction and a second energy absorption value when compressed in a second body direction that is transverse to the first body direction.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to verify connection between a first and second electronic device is described herein, comprising: an ethernet cable connected at a first end to a first device at a first connector and connected at a second end to a second device at a second connector, and wherein the ethernet cable comprises four twisted pairs of conductors; a voltage source in the first device connected to a first end of a first conductor of a first twisted pair in the ethernet cable; a resistor with a first known resistance value located in the second device connected at a first end of the resistor to a second end of the first conductor of the first twisted pair and a second end of the resistor connected to a second end of a second conductor of the first twisted pair; a connection verification circuit located in the first device connected to a second end of the second conductor of the first twisted pair of the ethernet cable, wherein the connection verification circuit is adapted to generate a connection verification

Abstract: An electronic door system includes a door frame, a door hingedly coupled to the door frame, an electronic locking mechanism coupled to the door, one or more lights coupled to the door frame, a camera system including at least two of a camera, a proximity or motion sensor, or a doorbell, and a wiring harness extending through the door frame and the door. The wiring harness is coupled to the electronic locking mechanism, the one or more lights, and the camera system. The wiring harness is configured to electrically couple to an external power source.

Abstract: A system and method for imaging gas emissions is provided which may include a laser transmitter responsive to a first and second control signals to produce a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) first optical output, an optical routing network configured to accept the first optical output and route at least a first portion to an optical receiver, and a controller programmed to generate the second control signal, respond to input from the wavelength reference unit to generate the first control signal and deliver the first control signal to the laser transmitter, and to calculate, using the second control signal and input from the optical receiver, a path absorption.