Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the inventive concepts, provided is a robotic vehicle comprising at least one processor in communication with at least one computer memory device, a navigation system operatively controlling a drive system to navigate the mobile robot along a predetermined path, at least one sensor configured to acquire real-time sensor data, and a dynamic path adjust system comprising computer program code executable by the at least one processor to cause the navigation system to at least partially and/or temporarily deviate from a current path by generating a dynamically determined path or path segment based on the real-time sensor data and/or an indication in the current path to switch to dynamic path adjust. The robotic vehicle can be configured to switch path to a current and/or original path after executing a dynamically determined path adjustment. A corresponding method is also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for providing input mechanisms.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatuses and processes for replacing a used wax guard with a new wax guard for a hearing aid using an apparatus, comprising: a unibody housing having at least one first recess configured to receive and store a used wax guard for a hearing aid and at least one second recess containing a new replacement wax guard for the hearing aid, the first recess and the second recess having a diameter from 5 mm-10 mm, the first recess having a fastener configured to receive and attach to the used wax guard. The housing may optionally have an ergonomic gripping surface, an easy-to-read first label identifying the first recess and an easy-to-read second label identifying the second recess, a rectilinear shape with the first recess on a first side and the second recess on a second side, a unitary body with no moving parts, and/or at least one air vent hole in communication with the first recess.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for processing dairy bottle recyclate in a new production of dairy bottles (closed-loop; bottle-to-bottle). The invention also provides a multilayer plastic bottle for containing and storing dairy products, obtainable by a method according to the invention.

Abstract: Provided herein is a method for modifying a polynucleotide or an analogue or derivative thereof, comprising reacting the polynucleotide or analogue or derivative thereof with a compound of formula (I), wherein RH, L1, #, R, n and RP are as defined or derivative thereof, uses of a compound of formula (I), and such compounds per se.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first edge application server (EAS) discovery message from an application client that is external to the UE. The UE may transmit a second EAS discovery message to an edge enabler server (EES) based at least in part on the first EAS discovery message. The UE may receive, from the EES, an EAS response message. The EAS response message may indicate a failure of a discovery request associated with the application client or the EAS response message may indicate an EAS associated with the application client. The UE may transmit an indication of the failure of the discovery request or an indication of the EAS to the application client. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Described herein are resilient floor coverings. Also described herein are methods for manufacturing same. 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: Medical devices, systems and methods for occluding a left atrial appendage of a heart with an implantable medical device and three-dimensional imaging. In one embodiment, the imaging is facilitated with a controller coupled to one or more magnetic field generators and a display, the one or more magnetic field generators configured to generate a magnetic field within the anatomy of a patient and the display provides the imaging and display information thereon. The medical system also includes a medical device delivery system for delivering the implantable medical device. The medical device includes one or more magnetic field location sensors therewith that are operatively coupled to the controller. With this arrangement, the sensors are sized and configured to facilitate providing the three-dimensional imaging within the heart that is viewable on the display to assist a physician to safely and effectively implant the medical device.

Abstract: A system and method for vulnerability detection. A method includes: tokenizing device attribute data for a device into at least one set of first tokens, wherein each of the first tokens is formatted according to a token schema; creating at least one device attribute string, each device attribute string including one of the first tokens; matching each of the at least one device attribute string to combinations of device attributes stored in a vulnerabilities database in order to identify at least one matching combination of device attributes for the device, wherein the vulnerabilities database stores mappings between combinations of device attributes and vulnerabilities, wherein each combination of device attributes in the vulnerabilities database includes second tokens formatted according to the token schema; detecting at least one vulnerability of the device based on the at least one matching combination of device attributes and the mappings in the vulnerabilities database.

Abstract: An approach is provided for distributed output device credential caching. An output device authenticates a user for accessing the output device. The output device receives a request to access a protected remote resource. The output device determines that credentials, for accessing the protected remote resource, are not stored at the output device. The output device retrieves data that specifies output device peers. The output device obtains the credentials by querying the output device peers specified by the data that specifies the output device peers. The output device verifies that the credentials are currently valid for the protected remote resource. The output device services the request by accessing the protected remote resource using the credentials.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a system is configured to replay and/or reconstruct execution events and system states in real time or substantially in real time starting from the point when execution of a target program has stopped to the point when the user desires to step through the target program's execution in order to debug the software. In an embodiment, a system is configured to efficiently collect trace data that is sufficient to reconstruct the state of a computer system at any point of time from the start of execution to the time execution was stopped. Efficient and effective debugging of the software can be performed using embodiments of the disclosed methods, systems, and devices.

Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.

Abstract: The present invention is in the technical field of synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and cell cultivation. The present invention relates to newly identified sialyltransferases having alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase activity on the galactose residue of lactose. The invention also describes methods for the production of a 3?sialylated oligosaccharide using any one of the newly identified sialyltransferases as well as the purification of the 3?sialylated oligosaccharide. The present invention also provides a cell for production of the 3?sialylated oligosaccharide and the use of the cell in a cultivation or incubation.

Abstract: A network computer system and method are provided in which each user of a group of users is monitored during a respective online session where the user performs a sequence of M activities, to selectively engage users of the group. A determination is made as to the impact of friction for each user of the group of users with respect to an intention of the respective user, and an action is performed for the user based at least in part on the determined impact of friction.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for managing versions of code. The method includes obtaining a first version of a code, determining whether the first version of the code creates a first conflict with respect to an ancestor version of the code, wherein the ancestor version of the code comprises a set of code that has a dependency relationship on another version of the code, in response to determining that the first version of the code creates the first conflict with respect to the ancestor version of the code, cause the first conflict to be resolved.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer system for performing an operation with respect to a target table are disclosed. The method includes performing first and second jobs, and obtaining other resulting files based at least in part on a second set of unmatched rows among the target table and the source table that results from the first set of unmatched rows having been processed in the second job, and obtaining a resulting table based on (i) second job resulting file(s), and (ii) other resulting files. Performing the first job includes determining a set of matching target table files and storing target table information indicating for each of the set of matching target table files, a particular set of rows having matching rows. Performing the second job includes performing a first matching action based on matched rows and a second matching action based on a subset of unmatched rows.

Abstract: In a wavelength selective switch, an input port transmits an input beam, and diffraction grating disperses the input beam into optical channels. A liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) switch assembly has a phase grating profile and has addressable pixels, which are liquid crystal based. The LCoS switch assembly can selectively direct first-order diffracted beams of the optical channels for output to selected output ports. A tunable optical wedge adjacent the LCoS switch assembly can direct higher-order diffraction beams in the space between the output ports to reduce crosstalk. The wedge is a liquid crystal cell having spaced-apart resistive layers and having liquid crystal material disposed between the layers. In the wedge, the liquid crystal material can produce a phase profile in response to bias voltages applied to the resistive layers, and a beam steering angle of the phase profile can direct at least the second-order diffracted beams towards the port spacing between the ports.

Abstract: A surgical robotic system is provided including a suspension structure, a manipulator arm for holding a surgical instrument, one or more actuators to adjust a pose of the manipulator arm, and a control system configured to establish a master-slave coupling between a user input device as a master device and the manipulator arm as a slave device. The manipulator may be manually reconfigurable from a first configuration in which the manipulator arm assumes a first pose to a second configuration in which the manipulator arm assumes a second pose which is mirrored with respect to the first pose about a mirroring plane which runs through a tip of the surgical instrument. The control system may temporarily disable the master-slave coupling the enable said manual reconfiguration, and after the manual reconfiguration, resume the master-slave coupling from the second pose.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames corresponding to an utterance and generating a reference speaker embedding for the utterance. The method also includes receiving a target speaker embedding for a target speaker and generating feature-wise linear modulation (FiLM) parameters including a scaling vector and a shifting vector based on the target speaker embedding. The method also includes generating an affine transformation output that scales and shifts the reference speaker embedding based on the FiLM parameters. The method also includes generating a classification output indicating whether the utterance was spoken by the target speaker based on the affine transformation output.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for expediting mobility. One example method generally involves receiving signaling, from a serving cell of a first radio access technology (RAT), indicating a first list of frequencies associated with the first RAT and corresponding priority levels: performing idle measurements for frequencies in the first list, while camped on a serving cell of a second RAT: setting cell reselection thresholds to apply to the idle measurements for the frequencies in the first list, based on a relative priority of the serving cell of the second RAT to the frequencies in the first list: and performing cell reselection procedures based on the idle measurements for the frequencies and the determined cell reselection thresholds.