Abstract: A coin exchange or recycling system useful for crediting change from a cash transaction at a point of sale; such change being available for use at any merchant location or kept as a means of reducing the clutter from leaving excess coins unused. This disclosure brings value to recirculating coin change from cash transactions.

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to systems and methods treating high-k materials for use in forming MIM capacitors. Including various high-density plasma nitridation processes or combinations of high-density plasma oxidation processes and high-density plasma nitridation processes are provided.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for using generative artificial intelligence to evaluate fine-tuned language models. In embodiments described herein, natural language text snippets are generated via a generative language model based on corresponding data. A language model is fine-tuned into a fine-tuned language model via a language model fine-tuning component using the natural language text snippets and the corresponding data as training data. Independent natural language text snippets are generated via the generative language model based on the corresponding data. Each independent natural language text snippet is different than each corresponding natural language text snippet. An evaluation metric of the fine-tuned language model is generated via an evaluation component based on the independent natural language text snippets and the corresponding data.

Abstract: Connected computing enables the use of highly diverse environments that support operating frameworks for contemporary civilization. But computing productivity and trustworthiness are undermined by such environments' largely inchoate organization. These environments and their identity infrastructures are fragmented, and unnecessarily unreliable, insecure, and insufficiently informative due to current computing entity (e.g., resource) identification infrastructure design, which lacks root identification reliability. Such reliability is enabled herein by a fundamentally accurate and authenticity ensuring, near-existential or existential quality, biometrically and liveness based, portable identification and provenance infrastructure. Such an infrastructure provides ubiquitously available identification information that can be used universally for identification processes.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to high efficiency inductively coupled plasma sources and plasma processing apparatus. Specifically, embodiments relate to grids to improve plasma uniformity. In one embodiment, a plasma processing apparatus is provided. The plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber, a substrate support disposed within the processing chamber, a grid support coupled to the processing chamber, and a grid. The grid is coupled to the grid support and disposed above the substrate support. The grid has a plurality of holes and one or more outer openings defined between a circumference of the grid and the grid support. Plasma received from a plasma source is configured to flow through the plurality of holes and the one or more outer openings of the grid towards the substrate support.

Abstract: A lubrication reservoir for a turbine engine for an aircraft or self-propelled flying machine, comprising a suction strainer in a lower part of the chamber, and at least one degassing device and at least one vent in an upper part. The reservoir is wherein, in order to make it possible to supply the strainer and prohibit lubricant from intruding into the at least one vent, it includes at least one first partition that separates the lower part from the upper part and is pierced with calibrated holes, two vents arranged on either side of a vertical median plane of the chamber and two vent ducts which extend into the upper part below the degassing device, each duct comprising a bend and having the bend located on the other side of the median plane with respect to the inlet thereof.

Abstract: A lubrication reservoir for a turbine engine for an aircraft or self-propelled flying machine, comprising a suction strainer in a lower part of the chamber, and at least one degassing device and at least one vent in an upper part. The reservoir is wherein, in order to make it possible to supply the strainer and prohibit lubricant from intruding into the at least one vent, it includes at least one first partition that separates the lower part from the upper part and is pierced with calibrated holes, two vents arranged on either side of a vertical median plane of the chamber and two vent ducts which extend into the upper part below the degassing device, each duct comprising a bend and having the bend located on the other side of the median plane with respect to the inlet thereof.

Abstract: A gaming apparatus is disclosed comprising: a. a top that includes an axially aligned gripping member extending from the upper surface of the body of the top and dimensioned to be held between the thumb and forefinger of a player, the body terminating in a contact point that supports the spinning top, the portion of the body above the contact point in an embodiment being generally conical and having a circular cross-section that tapers outwardly at least a predetermined distance along the axis of the top; b. a planar inclined receiving surface having an upper or elevated end onto which the player releases the spinning top at the commencement of play; c.

Abstract: A method includes identifying machine process parameters for an additive manufacturing process to produce a part, providing a real-world sensor to sense a characteristic associated with a real-world version of the additive manufacturing process, receiving sensor readings from the real-world sensor while the machine is performing the real-world version of the additive manufacturing process, generating, with a computer-based processor, physics-based features associated with the additive manufacturing process, and training a machine-learning software model based at least in part on the machine process parameters, the sensor readings, and the physics-based features to predict a behavior of the real-world sensor.

Abstract: A modular exercise apparatus includes a pair of vertical frame members secured in spaced-apart relation by two or more internally threaded cross bars the ends of which are fitted with L-shaped mounting brackets that are manually secured by threaded mounting bolts passing through opposing aligned apertures in the frame members and into the threaded ends of the cross bars, the frame members further stabilized by at least one flanged U-shaped supporting member secured to a base member of the frame members by a threaded mounting bolt, enabling the apparatus to be assembled without the use of tools to form a variable, stable configuration that allows one or two users to execute a wide variety of vigorous exercises, and disassembled for compact storage. For solo use, the frame members are reduced in length and weight facilitating ease of movement of the assembled unit, as well as the disposition for storage.

Abstract: A pillow is described. The pillow includes an elongate outer fabric cover at least partially forming a closed elongate tube with the outer cover. The pillow also includes at least one aperture in the closed elongate tube, the at least one aperture having a selective closure associated therewith. Further, the pillow includes at least one baffle formed within the elongate tube. The at least one baffle is formed of fabric and is coupled to the outer cover at at least three points around the interior of the elongate tube. Further still, the pillow includes a filling material disposed within the elongate tube, the filing material comprises individual pieces of filling material. The filling material is configured with a size that it may bypass the baffle, but not generally freely. The elongate outer fabric and the filling material are configured to be bendable to any of a variety of shapes.

Abstract: A pillow is described. The pillow includes an elongate outer fabric cover at least partially forming a closed elongate tube with the outer cover. The pillow also includes at least one aperture in the closed elongate tube, the at least one aperture having a selective closure associated therewith. Further, the pillow includes at least one baffle formed within the elongate tube. The at least one baffle is formed of fabric and is coupled to the outer cover at at least three points around the interior of the elongate tube. Further still, the pillow includes a filling material disposed within the elongate tube, the filing material comprises individual pieces of filling material. The filling material is configured with a size that it may bypass the baffle, but not generally freely. The elongate outer fabric and the filling material are configured to be bendable to any of a variety of shapes.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to mitigating effects of motion sickness on a passenger in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing sensor data about the passenger to produce a passenger state that characterizes a current physical condition of the passenger while riding in the vehicle. The method includes determining whether the passenger state correlates with symptoms of motion sickness in the passenger. The method includes controlling, in the vehicle, a vehicle component to adjust a current configuration relative to the passenger when the passenger state correlates with the symptoms.

Abstract: An example embodiment designs a real-world object by defining a first model of the object being produced using an additive manufacturing (AM) process, where behavior of the object being produced is given by a first equation which includes a first plurality of corresponding sensitivity equations for a first plurality of design variables. Similarly, such an embodiment defines a second model of the object after being produced, wherein behavior of the object after being produced is given by a second equation which includes a second plurality of corresponding sensitivity equations for a second plurality of design variables. In turn, the second model is iteratively optimized with respect to a given one of the second plurality of design variables using both the first plurality of corresponding sensitivity equations and the second plurality of corresponding sensitivity equations.

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to mitigating effects of motion sickness on a passenger in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing sensor data about the passenger to produce a passenger state that characterizes a current physical condition of the passenger while riding in the vehicle. The method includes determining whether the passenger state correlates with symptoms of motion sickness in the passenger. The method includes controlling, in the vehicle, a vehicle component to adjust a current configuration relative to the passenger when the passenger state correlates with the symptoms.

Abstract: A method includes identifying machine process parameters for an additive manufacturing process to produce a part, providing a real-world sensor to sense a characteristic associated with a real-world version of the additive manufacturing process, receiving sensor readings from the real-world sensor while the machine is performing the real-world version of the additive manufacturing process, generating, with a computer-based processor, physics-based features associated with the additive manufacturing process, and training a machine-learning software model based at least in part on the machine process parameters, the sensor readings, and the physics-based features to predict a behavior of the real-world sensor.

Abstract: A modular exercise apparatus includes internally threaded cross bars the ends of which are fitted with L-shaped mounting brackets secured in position between a pair of vertical frames by opposing manually threaded mounting bolts passing through aligned apertures in the frames and into the ends of the cross bars, the frames further stabilized by at least one U-shaped flanged supporting member secured to a base member of the frame by a threaded mounting bolt, so that the apparatus can be quickly and securely assembled without the use of tools to form a variable yet stable configuration that allows one or two users to execute a wide variety of vigorous bodyweight exercises, and can be easily disassembled to assume a compact configuration for storage, e.g., in a closet or beneath a bed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing accurate, scalable, and predictive 3D printing simulations using numerical methods for part-level simulations. Complex parts can be discretized into finite elements using independent and arbitrary meshing. The real additive manufacturing tooling path and printing time of a printing machine are simulated and applied to the mesh of finite elements using an intersection module that combines the finite element mesh with the tool path information of the printing machine in a geometric sense. This allows for localized heating effects to be simulated very accurately, and for cooling assessments to be precisely computed given the intersection module's computation of partial facets and volumes of the finite elements at any given time in the printing simulation.

Abstract: A stationary exercise apparatus allows one or two users to execute a wide variety of bodyweight exercises including pull-ups, dips, crunches, leg raises, and inclined push-ups. The apparatus can quickly and easily be folded into a compact configuration for storage, e.g., in a closet or under a bed, without the use of tools.