Abstract: The present invention relates in general to motor vehicle accessories, and more specifically, to a slidable bed liner that assists with the loading, unloading, and storage of cargo in a cargo storage area of a motor vehicle. A purpose of the invention is to provide for an extension of the cargo storage area to eliminate the need to crawl into the vehicle to reduce the risk of slip and falls. The slidable bed liner includes a platform having a plurality of series of slots traversing therethrough, wherein each series of slots of the plurality is configured to attach a particular storage accessory using an attachment piece. The storage accessories may include, e.g., an accessory for storing long handled tools, an accessory for storing a bucket, various sized containers, a retaining barrier, or an accessory for storing a bicycle.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for making three-dimensional objects from a bindable powder are shown and described. A three-dimensional retaining wall is printed into the bindable powder to enclose the three-dimensional object and a volume of unsolidified bindable powder surrounding the three-dimensional object. In order to provide a more stable printed retaining wall, the wall is printed at less than one hundred percent image saturation and/or less than one hundred percent voxel saturation to increase the speed of solidification. One-hundred percent image saturation refers to solidifying all of the voxels (or pixels) that overlap the printed three-dimensional retaining wall, and one-hundred percent voxel saturation refers to an amount of binder per voxel that is printed to form the three-dimensional object that the printed three-dimensional retaining wall wholly or partially encloses.

Abstract: An isolated or purified antisense oligomer for modifying pre-mRNA splicing in the CNOT3 gene transcript or part thereof.

Abstract: A method of operating a power plant is provided. The method includes generating, with one or more power generators, a total plant power. The method further includes providing a first portion of the total plant power to one or more auxiliary devices to meet an auxiliary demand. The auxiliary demand being generated through operation of the one or more auxiliary devices. The one or more auxiliary devices being one of thermally, fluidly, or mechanically coupled to the one or more power generators. The method further includes providing a second portion of the total plant power to a flexible firm skid disposed within the power plant to meet a flexible firm demand. The method further includes providing a third portion of the total plant power to a power grid outside of the power plant to meet a grid demand.

Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus includes a fluid delivery system and a recovery system and is operable to vacuum and/or mop a floor surface. The fluid delivery system has a supply tank that may form a portion of a recovery pathway. A fluid dispenser may dispense liquid through a mopping pad to the surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus may include wheels fore and aft of the mopping pad.

Abstract: New 7xxx aluminum alloys are disclosed. The new 7xxx aluminum alloys may comprise from 5-10 wt. % Zn, 1-3 wt. % Mg, 1-3 wt. % Cu, a thickness of at least 2 inches, from 10% to 40% recrystallized grains, and an average grain size of at least 300 micrometers. The new 7xxx aluminum alloys may have recrystallized areas and the ratio of intercept distances for the recrystallized areas to the average to grain size may be from 0.5 and 2.0. In some embodiments, at least some recrystallized grains are located on a periphery of unrecrystallized grains. The recrystallized grains may be achieved at least partially due to (i) the use of not greater than 0.11 wt. % Zr in the 7xxx aluminum alloy product, (ii) particle stimulated nucleation, or (iii) both.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for transforming natural language conversations into a visual output. In one aspect, a computer-implement method includes generating an input string by concatenating a natural language utterance with a schema representation comprising a set of entities for visualization actions, generating, by a first encoder of a machine learning model, one or more embeddings of the input string, encoding, by a second encoder of the machine learning model, relations between elements in the schema representation and words in the natural language utterance based on the one or more embeddings, generating, by a grammar-based decoder of the machine learning model and based on the encoded relations and the one or more embeddings, an intermediate logical form that represents at least the query, the one or more visualization actions, or the combination thereof, and generating, based on the intermediate logical form, a command for a computing system.

Abstract: A method of operating a power plant is provided. The method includes generating, with the one or more power generators, a total plant power. The method further includes supplying, with a back up power source, a backup power output. The method further includes providing a first portion of the total plant power to one or more auxiliary devices to meet an auxiliary demand. The method further includes providing at least one of a second portion of the total plant power and the backup power output to the flexible firm skid to meet the flexible firm demand. The method further includes providing a third portion of the total plant power to a power grid outside of the power plant to meet a grid demand.

Abstract: A method of operating a power plant includes generating, with one or more power generators, a total plant power. The method further includes providing a first portion of the total plant power to one or more auxiliary devices to meet an auxiliary demand. The method further includes providing a second portion of the total plant power to a flexible firm skid disposed within the power plant to meet a flexible firm demand. The method further includes providing a third portion of the total plant power to a power grid outside of the power plant to meet a grid demand. The method further includes receiving an increase in the grid demand that exceeds a power ramp rate of the one or more power generators. The method further includes adjusting an operation of the flexible firm skid to modify the flexible firm demand in response to the increase in the grid demand.

Abstract: A combined mass airflow sensor and hydrocarbon trap is provided for absorbing evaporative hydrocarbon emissions from an air intake duct of an internal combustion engine. The combined mass airflow sensor and hydrocarbon trap comprises a duct that supports a hydrocarbon absorbing sheet in an unfolded configuration within a housing. The duct communicates an airstream from an air filter to the air intake duct during operation of the internal combustion engine. An opening in the housing receives a mass airflow sensor into the duct, such that the mass airflow sensor is disposed within the airstream. Guide vanes extending across the duct reduce air turbulence within the airstream passing by the mass airflow sensor. Ports disposed along the duct allow the evaporative hydrocarbon emissions to be drawn into the interior and arrested by the hydrocarbon absorbing sheet when the internal combustion engine is not operating.

Abstract: A distributed game engine for provisioning resources for an online game includes a plurality of management nodes and a plurality of processing nodes. The management nodes are configured to distribute functional portions of the distributed game engine over the plurality of processing nodes. A resource allocation mode is constructed from user inputs game states of the online game and success criteria included in game play training data. A resource allocation agent is used to access the resource allocation model and to communicate with a configuration agent to identify the processing nodes required for processing specific ones of the functional portions for the online game, based on the resource allocation dictated by the resource allocation model. A process synchronization layer interfaces with the processing nodes and the management nodes to provision the resources for executing the functional portions for the online game in order to produce video frames for rendering at client devices of the users.

Abstract: A tie-bar assembly including a tie-bar pocket, a first tie-bar attachable to the tie-bar pocket, and a second tie-bar attachable to the tie-bar pocket in a manner such that the second tie-bar is coupled to the first tie-bar. During construction, the first tie-bar is attached to the tie-bar pocket. This assembly is fastened to the form. After the first slab is poured the first tie-bar and the tie-bar pocket are embedded in the first slab. The form is removed, and the interior of the tie-bar pocket and a bent portion of the first tie-bar are exposed. The bent portion of the second tie-bar is then inserted into the tie-bar pocket and engages with the first tie-bar. The second slab is then poured and encapsulates the second tie-bar.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to manufacturing training data by leveraging an automated pipeline that manufactures visualization training datasets to train a machine learning model to convert a natural language utterance into meaning representation language logical form that includes one or more visualization actions. Aspects are directed towards accessing an original training dataset, a visualization query dataset, an incremental visualization dataset, a manipulation visualization dataset, or any combination thereof. One or more visualization training datasets are generated by: (i) modifying examples in the original training dataset, the visualization query dataset, or both to include visualization actions, (ii) generating examples, using the incremental visualization dataset, the manipulation visualization dataset, or both, that include visualization actions, or (iii) both (i) and (ii).

Abstract: A process and associated system for creating color effects using extrudable material, such as plastic and metal for example, are presented. Flows of first and second viscous materials of respective colors are provided and then combined in a predetermined pattern to form a stream of combined viscous material. In a first aspect, the flow rate of the first viscous material is caused to vary over time in order to vary an amount of the first viscous material in the stream. In a second aspect, which may be used alone or in combination with the first aspect, the first and second viscous materials have distinct viscosities to reduce an amount of color blending between the first color and the second color in the stream of combined viscous material.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for an air filter configured to be mounted onto air inlets of turbochargers and superchargers. The air filter comprises a proximal base including an inlet receiver configured to receive an air inlet, a clamp to secure the air inlet within the inlet receiver, and a first opening aligned with a screw mechanism of the clamp. A filter medium fastened to the proximal base is configured to remove particulate matter and other contaminates from an incoming air stream. A distal end cap fastened to the filter medium comprises a second opening aligned with the first opening. A conduit within an interior cavity of the air filter is disposed between the first opening and the second opening, facilitating tightening and loosening the clamp by extending an appropriate tool through the interior cavity so as to engage the screw mechanism of the clamp.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to select and present level-change way points for indoor navigation systems are disclosed. An example method includes: receiving, from a client device having a navigation system interface, a request for navigation directions from a starting point to a destination point; identifying, by one or more processors, a plurality of level-change way points based on a starting level associated with the starting point; determining, by one or more processors, a subset of two or more of the plurality of level-change way points based on a destination level associated with the destination point; selecting, by one or more processors, a selected level-change way point from the subset based upon one or more criteria; and providing, to the client device, directions to present an indication of a location of the selected level-change way point in the navigation system user interface.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium that distributes skill bundles that can guide robot execution. One of the methods includes receiving data for a skill bundle from a skill developer. The data can include a definition of one or more preconditions for a robotic system to execute a skill; one or more effects to an operating environment after the robotic system has executed the skill; and a software module implementing the skill. The software module can define a state machine of subtasks. A skill bundle can be generated from the data received from the skill developer. Data identifying the generated skill bundle can be added to a skill registry. The skill bundle can be provided to the execution robot system for installation on the robot execution system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible and scalable artificial intelligence and analytics platform with advanced content analytics and content ingestion. Disparate contents can be ingested into a content analytics system of the platform through a content ingestion pipeline operated by a sophisticated text mining engine. Prior to persistence, editorial metadata can be extracted and semantic metadata inferred to gain insights across the disparate contents. The editorial metadata and the semantic metadata can be dynamically mapped, as the disparate contents are crawled from disparate sources, to an internal ingestion pipeline document conforming to a uniform mapping schema that specifies master metadata of interest. For persistence, the semantic metadata in the internal ingestion pipeline document can be mapped to metadata tables conforming to a single common data model of a central repository.

Abstract: A physiological patient monitoring system with a patient-facing interface is disclosed. The patient interface can be used by the patient to communicate with hospital staff without actually requesting attendance and can request attendance for specific purposes. The patient interface may also track patient treatment and inform patients of the details of their treatments.

Abstract: A system for localizing a region of interest (ROI) within a patient's body is disclosed. An embodiment of the system may comprise a pad that can be placed in association with the patient's body; one or more markers which are placed within a patient's body in association with the ROI, each marker being associated with one or more antennas and a unique collective ID; a locator comprising one or more antennas for transmitting/receiving a microwave (MW) signal into/from the patient's body in order to identify the one or more markers and a processing unit that is configured to control the operation of the system and for determining the distance from the locator to each one of the one or more markers.