Abstract: A consumer appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a user interface attached to the cabinet, a motor mounted within the cabinet, and a control board in electrical communication with the user interface and the motor. The user interface may include one or more connected electrical elements. The control board may be configured to initiate an initial operation. The initial operation may include activating the control board and detecting the one or more connected electrical elements from a predetermined plurality of potential electrical elements. The initial operation may further include selecting an operating personality from a plurality of preset personalities based on detecting the one or more connected electrical elements. The initial operation may still further include directing the motor according to the selected operating personality.

Abstract: An adjustor configured to position an antenna coupled to a mounting element includes an adjustor nut having a bore extending along a longitudinal axis of the adjustor nut. At least a portion of the bore has inner threads configured to engage corresponding threads on a first portion of the mounting element positioned within the bore. A tool interface is positioned near a proximal end region of the adjustor nut and an external fastening mechanism positioned near a distal end region of the adjustor nut. A preload nut configured to engage the external fastening mechanism and configured to apply a load onto a second portion of the mounting element is positioned between a portion of the adjustor nut and the preload nut. Rotation of the adjustor nut around the longitudinal axis causes movement of the first portion along the longitudinal axis while the load is applied onto the second portion.

Abstract: A downhole centrifugal pump includes a motor, and impeller, and a shaft having a longitudinal axis and a non-circular cross section in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The shaft is connected to the motor and the impeller such that rotational power provided by the motor to the shaft is provided to the impeller.

Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a device management system with a restore prevention utility are provided. A request is received, at a control server, for an installation file for a restore prevention application. Based on receiving the request, the control server circumvents communication of the installation file based on transmitting a response code. The response code is an informational code that operates as an indicator to wait for a final response. Transmitting the response code triggers maintaining a pending state for the restore prevention application at the controlled device.

Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for electrically coupling two electrical components. Opposing ends of the connector are coupled to each of the electrical components. At the first end, the connector is disposed in an opening of the first electrical component to establish electrical connection. The first end includes multiple contact portions that are equally biased against the sides of the opening.

Abstract: A bicycle drive system includes a front face gear, a rear face gear, a drive shaft, and a front roller-toothed gear assembly coupled to the first end of the drive shaft, and a rear roller-toothed gear assembly coupled to the second end of the drive shaft. Both the front roller-toothed gear assembly and the rear roller-toothed gear assembly include one or more roller elements. The roller-toothed gear assemblies are advantageous in ensuring the bicycle drive system is highly efficient, and is only minimally or not at all affected by dirt, water, contaminants, or other foreign matter typically experienced in un-clean riding conditions.

Abstract: Methods and devices to implement a combined physical and digital project planning system are described. The system functions by optically processing notes on a planning board, and converting the information embodied in the notes into digital information. The digital information can then be accessed by multiple users. The digital information is updated when notes are added, removed, or rearranged.

Abstract: A tracking device with a screen that displays the mode of the tracking device on a screen. The device modes may include sleep mode, monitor mode, locate mode, and emergency mode. Each mode represents a frequency of transmission and which can be changed by the software developer or by the consumer in their software application. The sleep mode will be the fewest frequency pings and may be the mode in which the tracking device is operating while it is in a geofence. Monitor mode will be a higher frequency of pings and a locate mode may be yet a further increased number of pings per given time interval. The emergency mode will be entered when, for example, the pet is outside of the geofence and the owner needs to receive an intense number of pings to assure proper location, especially if the pet is moving.

Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to the pairing of a pairing initiator device and a pairing responder device for communication. The pairing initiator device and the pairing responder device range with each other to determine the distance between the pairing initiator device and the pairing responder device. Based on the distance being below a threshold distance, the pairing initiator device and the pairing responder device wirelessly pair with each other without further input from the user.

Abstract: The turbine assembly includes a shaft, a plurality of rotor disks, a plurality of blades, and at least one cutting mechanisms. The rotor disks are spaced axially along, and coupled to, the shaft and include a radially outer portion. The blades are spaced circumferentially around the radially outer portion. The cutting mechanisms are configured to cut the blades from the rotor disk during a disk over speed condition.

Abstract: The wireless management system for energy storage systems includes a plurality of smart cells arranged into a two-dimensional array and a plurality of distributed management units. The smart cells and management units communicate with each other wirelessly via capacitive coupling (not radio). The communication links have extremely short range (typically under 3 mm), are relatively directional, and are electronically-steerable in the plane of the array. The smart cells may also include at least one power resistor and switch for passive cell balancing. The circuitry in the smart cells is typically incorporated into a flexible sheet that wraps around the energy storage device like a label. This system is extremely reliable because it is massively redundant, fault tolerant, and eliminates the wires used in conventional monitoring systems.

Abstract: Techniques for using scoring algorithms utilizing containers for flexible machine learning inference are described. In some embodiments, a request to host a machine learning (ML) model within a service provider network on behalf of a user is received, the request identifying an endpoint to perform scoring using the ML model. An endpoint is initialized as a container running on a virtual machine based on a container image and used to score data and return a result of said scoring to a user device.

Abstract: A method of managing an energy storage system that includes a plurality of smart energy storage cells, and a related method of operation for said smart cells. The cells are arranged into a two-dimensional array, and at least one management unit for controlling and monitoring the smart cells is coupled to the array. The smart cells and management units engage in wireless communication that has relatively short range and is relatively directional, with the direction being electronically-steerable in the plane of the array. The management method assigns direction codes to each smart cell which the cells utilize to steer the directions of their communication links, thereby organizing the smart cells into a plurality of serially-linked communication networks. The methods include steps for automatically determining the size and arrangement of the array, including the orientation of each smart cell.

Abstract: A radiography camera system includes an exposure container made from radiation shielding material and having a curved channel therein that terminates inside the exposure container, a first conduit portion having a first end coupled to the exposure container, a switch coupled to a second end the first conduit portion, a second conduit portion having a first end coupled to the switch, a guide tube coupled to the switch, a crank coupled to a second end of the second conduit portion, and a cable disposed in the crank and having a connector for a source assembly on an end thereof, the cable actuating the switch to cause the cable to feed through one of: the first conduit portion or the guide tube when the crank unwinds the cable. The exposure container may be made from depleted uranium, tungsten, and/or lead. The curved channel may be J-shaped.

Abstract: Cable brace brackets and a system for bracing are provided. The cable brace bracket includes two hooks of different sizes and having a bracket angle between them that is less than 90°. The system using to cable brace brackets connected with a cable. One hook of each bracket is held against a surface using a threaded rod through the surface, and the other hook is interlocked with loops at the end of the cable.

Abstract: An apparatus for pointing wireless communication antennas may include (1) a mount that secures (A) a wireless communication antenna that transmits wireless communication signals to a remote wireless communication antenna that is secured on a remote mount and (B) an array of pointing antennas that receives, from a remote array of pointing antennas mounted on the remote mount, a beacon signal that indicates a location of the remote array of pointing antennas, (3) a motorized drive that physically orients the mount, and (4) a processing device that (A) determines, based at least in part on the beacon signal, an orientation of a boresight axis of the wireless communication antenna relative to a boresight axis of the remote wireless communication antenna and (B) directs the motorized drive to orient the mount such that the wireless communication antenna's boresight axis aligns with the remote wireless communication antenna's boresight axis.

Abstract: A determination that a machine learning data set is to be shuffled is made. Tokens corresponding to the individual observation records are generated based on respective identifiers of the records' storage objects and record key values. Respective representative values are derived from the tokens. The observation records are rearranged based on a result of sorting the representative values and provided to a shuffle result destination.

Abstract: An adjustor configured to position an antenna coupled to a mounting element includes an adjustor nut having a bore extending along a longitudinal axis of the adjustor nut. At least a portion of the bore has inner threads configured to engage corresponding threads on a first portion of the mounting element positioned within the bore. A tool interface is positioned near a proximal end region of the adjustor nut and an external fastening mechanism positioned near a distal end region of the adjustor nut. A preload nut configured to engage the external fastening mechanism and configured to apply a load onto a second portion of the mounting element is positioned between a portion of the adjustor nut and the preload nut. Rotation of the adjustor nut around the longitudinal axis causes movement of the first portion along the longitudinal axis while the load is applied onto the second portion.

Abstract: A system and method for efficiently protecting branch prediction information. In various embodiments, a computing system includes at least one processor with a branch predictor storing branch target addresses and security tags in a table. The security tag includes one or more components of machine context. When the branch predictor receives a portion of a first program counter of a first branch instruction, and hits on a first table entry during an access, the branch predictor reads out a first security tag. The branch predictor compares one or more components of machine context of the first security tag to one or more components of machine context of the first branch instruction. When there is at least one mismatch, the branch prediction information of the first table entry is not used. Additionally, there is no updating of any branch prediction training information of the first table entry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to clonal expansion of somatic cells in subjects, and acquired selective advantage of cell clones during the lifetime of a subject. In particular, the invention relates to methods for predicting the development of cancer based on the observation of specific genetic mutations in somatic cell clones, as well as to methods for treating or preventing cancer in a subject, in which clonal expansion of cells comprising specific modifications is observed.