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Target Brands, Inc.

Columbia University

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC

Unirac Inc.

Del Monte Fresh Produce International Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Chrysler Corporation

Pittway Corporation

Mallinckrodt Medical, Inc.

Novartis Finance Corporation

Preformed Line Products Company

Norris Industries, Inc.

Thomas R Young

Adam Lee Hollenbeck

Richard A Friesner

Eric Helvie

Bruce J Berne

Robert Abel

Justine Rockers

Todd Ganshaw

Stacy Harris

Marcus Merideth

David S Alvarez

David A Aure

Kosta Papanikolaou

Philip E Hammer

Stephen T Lam

James Madison Ligon

Grant A Young

Rajinder Pal Singh

Dwight Steven Hill

Ebrahim Firoozabady

Norman B Robbins

Yeong-Chang Chou

Michael D Berg

Dale H Johnson

Hua Zhou

Arthur R Hoffman

Gary L Fillmore

Michael Alexander Young

Karl-Heinz Van Pee

John Zowtiak

Kostandinos Papanikolaou

Hsu-Hwei Chen

Tony Wondka

Chris E Wiggins

Jeff B Widergren

Sabine Kirner

Lester L Young

Jackson Tung

Kai Chee Li

Hao Guo

Donald W Lucas

Hui Ma

Francis A Palita

John Xianrong Liu

Jasper N Myers

Youngmin Kim

Virginia Margarita Fraga

Leonard Primes

Shreyas Sansuddi

Jansen J Uyeda

Ebrahim Firoozbady

Hans Sauter

Juan Luis Morales

Susan Haire

The systems and methods described herein relate to managing transportation of loads of items within a retail supply chain. A unified load tracking system aggregates information from multiple supply chain computing systems for presentation on a user interface accessible by multiple users. One user interface provide access to a multitude of information that is interconnected by a common, unique identifier for each movement of a load between an origin and destination. A load board is also provided which automates the spot market auction process and load tender process between carriers and a retail enterprise transportation management system.

Load tracking computing platform and user interface

Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative systems, structures, and methods for performing authenticated access to a structure. An illustrative system includes a connector configured to be operably connected to a personal electronics device and to receive an electric charge from the personal electronics device, a controller couplable to an electromechanical locking device and the connector, and a memory. The memory is configured to store computer-executable instructions configured to cause the controller to receive first authentication information, receive second authentication information from the personal electronics device, authenticate the personal electronics device responsive to the first authentication information and the received second authentication information, and activate an electromechanical locking device to unlock responsive to the electric charge and a successful authentication.

Systems, structures, and methods for accessing power locked panels

A system for managing door operation of a vehicle includes a door system and a doorjamb system configured for the door to close against. The door system includes a door having a handle mechanism, an indicator mechanism coupled to the handle mechanism and actuated by motion of the handle mechanism, and a latch feature configured to be engaged for latching the door closed. The doorjamb system includes a sensor configured to generate a sensor signal indicative of a state of the indicator mechanism, and a latching mechanism configured to secure and release the latch feature of the door. Control circuitry of the vehicle is coupled to the sensor and latching mechanism, and is configured to receive the sensor signal, and control the latching mechanism based on the sensor signal. The control circuitry determines state information for the vehicle and determines whether to secure or release the latch mechanism.

Automatic door release with mechanical linkage

A universal end clamp and method for clamping a solar module to a rail are configured for applying a torque to a clamp body and generating a compressive clamping force between the body and a lower flange of a solar panel module frame so that the lower flange of the module frame is clamped to the rail. The clamp is disposed underneath the solar module, where it cannot be seen. The components of the assembly that can move include threaded bolts, front and rear T-slides, drive blocks, cams, coil springs, leaf springs, and offset drive brackets.

Universal end clamp for mounting solar panels on structural rails

A software system operates to track transit times for shipments between facility locations within a supply chain. Carrier service level agreements are used to generate estimated transit times between a plurality of origins and destinations. Transit times are stored as edges between ZIP code nodes in a graph database. Facility locations are associated with the ZIP code node corresponding to their location. A user interface can access the data from the graph database to easily present the data to a user. In some examples, the data is stored based on ZIP code of each location. The user interface allows for 3 digit ZIP codes to be assigned to various user-defined regions to more easily manage the data on a broader level. Estimated transit times can also be accessed through an application programming interface for use by transportation management systems such as lead time estimation systems and inventory planning systems.

Systems and methods for estimating carrier transit times

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of base layers. A tunneling layer is disposed on the plurality of base layers. A contact layer is disposed on the tunneling layer. An alloyed metal contact is annealed on to the contact layer. The alloyed metal contact forms a first region and a second region in the contact layer. The first region of the contact layer diffuses into the tunneling layer. The second region of the contact layer resides over the tunneling layer. The tunneling layer facilitates electron mobility of the second region.

Localized tunneling enhancement for semiconductor devices

A wearable band and an associated method that forms a barrier against ticks including a useable section of material is a flat strip of material that is torn from a rolled up section, the useable section of material including: a first side, the first side including a first fastening material, wherein the first side faces away from the user, a second side, the second side including a second fastening material that opposingly corresponds to the first fastening material, wherein the second side fasces toward the user, and may have a track of adhesive disposed on the first side of the usable section, the track of adhesive extending completely around the limb of the user to create a barrier against a tick, such that the tick is trapped on the track of adhesive when the tick comes into direct contact with the track of adhesive.

Insect and tick barrier and method thereof

A new pineapple () variety of the Bromeliaceae family was developed, via genetic engineering of MD2, named 'Ros&#xe9;' is provided. Internal light red color with yellow spots, unique shell morphology and possibility of flowering control trait are traits of the new variety.

Pineapple plant named 'Ros&#xe9;'

An apparatus and method of employing modified twist-to-engage bolts that attach a photovoltaic (PV) module to an extrusion rail or channel within a rail are disclosed. In addition to a modified twist-to-engage bolt (e.g., 't-bolt'), a complementary bracket portion having alignment tabs locks in place and clamps the modules to the rail. The anti-rotation locking system prevents twist-to-engage bolts from disengaging without the removal of the complementary bracket.

Module clamp and fastener apparatus

Disclosed are methods and systems for tracking which data tiles have changed within an image frame. In an embodiment, each cell of a tile change list buffer may contain a frame number and updated when a tile is received from encoder. The frame number may be used as a base pointer for a particular frame buffer. When a frame is decoded, the contents of the tile change list buffer may be copied from the current tile change list buffer to the next buffer. This process may reduce memory traffic because the unchanged tile data does not have to be copied from frame to frame.

Image frame buffer management

A process and a composition to extend the freshness of fruits and vegetables are disclosed. The method comprises treating fresh fruit or vegetable structures with a solution comprising organic acids including N-acetyl cysteine.

Method for maintaining freshness of fruits and vegetables

Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., 'hydration sites'), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid.

Methods of calculating differences of binding affinities between congeneric pairs of ligands by way of a displaced solvent functional

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Thomas R Young