查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Products and parcels are increasingly prepared and routed through handling facilities where efficiency and flexibility are need ed while the good condition of each processed item must be maintained. Items acr oss wide ranges of weight and size may be passed through a single facility. For example, runs of products having similar or same weight and size may be handled by equipment that is later used to process entirely other products with regard t o mass and dimensions. In other examples, a processing or shipping facility may have a handling line of equipment across which products pass having weights and dimensions that vary from item to item in real time.
查看更多>>摘要：From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: “Subterranean operations often include tripping seg mented tubular strings into and out of a wellbore. Wellbores can extend several thousand meters into a subterranean formation to reach reservoirs of hydrocarbon fluids. Tripping of the tubular string into and out of the wellbore can require holding the tubular string via a retention feature in a drill floor such that t he weight of the tubular string is held by the retention feature while a tubular segment is being connected to the tubular string or removed from the tubular st ring. The retention feature can include a plurality of grippers, each with an en gagement surface that engages the tubular string when the retention feature is a ctivated, such that the grippers hold the tubular string suspended from the rete ntion feature. The engagement surfaces are disengaged from the tubular string to allow axial movement of the tubular string in the wellbore, such as when the tu bular string is connected to a top drive.
查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Franchised restaurants are ubiquitous throughou t the US economy. In the franchise system, a franchisor provides brand recogniti on, systems and procedures, contract pricing, and marketing support, in exchange for a percent of all revenues (typically ˜%), while a franchisee will operate the physical restaurant location. In many cases, the savings on foo d costs through contract pricing make up for a large portion of the royalty cost s. Support and resources provided by franchisors vary. Recent court cases have b egun to target franchisors, in cases focusing on questions relating to the amoun t of control that these entities exert over the business operations of their fra nchisees, thereby opening the franchisor up to litigation brought against a fran chise. As a result, franchisors have grown increasingly reluctant to provide gui dance on many pivotal aspects of a franchisee’s operations. It is incumbent upon franchisees to handle functions such as pricing, labor, HR, accounting, among o thers, at their sole discretion. Additionally, franchisors and franchisees deriv e profit differently. Franchisors receive a percentage of top line revenue from a franchisee, while a franchisee operates to maximize bottom line profits. These differing motivations can lead to inefficiencies when it comes to areas such as staffing and waste.
查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “ “The present disclosure relates to a gripping mechanism and an end effector. “Patent Literature (PTL) 1 discloses a robot hand. The robot hand includes a bas e portion, a gripping part that grips a gripping target object with a first grip ping part and a second gripping part, and a conformable portion. When the grippi ng target object is gripped, the conformable portion allows rotation of the firs t gripping part and the second gripping part about an axis in an extending direc tion from the base portion and allows rotation of the first gripping part and th e second gripping part in an opening and closing direction such that gripping su rfaces of the first gripping part and the second gripping part follow a shape of the gripping target object. As a result, it is possible to cause the gripping s urface of the gripping part to favorably follow the shape of the gripping target object.
查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “1. Field “The present disclosure relates to an anomaly determination apparatus that deter mines whether there is an anomaly in a transmission, which transmits power using gears. “2. Description of Related Art. “Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2011-79489 discloses a diagnosing app aratus that detects an anomaly of a drive mechanism including gears. The drive m echanism is used as a mechanism that winds up the webbing of a seat belt. The di agnosing apparatus detects an extracted amount of the webbing and determines tha t there is an anomaly in the drive mechanism when the extracted amount exceeds a predetermined amount.
查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Robotic vacuum cleaners can free people’s hands and replace users to clean the ground environment. Moreover, the robotic vacuum cleaners can automatically collect dust, achieving dust extraction uniformly. A fter the robotic vacuum cleaners complete a cleaning operation, dust collected t herein needs to be collected and extracted, and dust in dust boxes needs to be c leared to leave storage space for the next cleaning operation. However, there ar e dust-extraction blind areas in dust boxes of the robotic vacuum cleaners, maki ng it impossible to extract all the dust from the dust boxes, so the dust accumu lates in the dust boxes. Dust accumulation over time will lead to a difficulty i n dust cleaning and reduce the storage space of the dust boxes.”
查看更多>>摘要：News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Processing of substrates in semiconductor electronic devic e manufacturing may include a combination of different processes applied in the same substrate processing system. For example, the processes may include chemica l vapor deposition/atomic layer deposition (CVD/ALD) and physical vapor depositi on (PVD) applied within the same tool or platform. These processes may be applie d using different configurations of processing chambers coupled to a mainframe. Robots are located in a transfer chamber of the mainframe and are configured to move substrates between the various processing chambers.”
查看更多>>摘要：From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: “As users increasingly make online purchases, fulfi lment of such purchases and other orders may become increasingly complicated. Fo r example, a fulfillment center may have output of upwards of one million packag es per day. With such demands, efficiency of logistics related to processing ord ers and packages may be important. Accordingly, improvements in various operatio ns of order fulfillment, such as improvements to picking technology, sorting tec hnology, packing technology, and so forth may be desired, such that manual effor ts can be redirected to different tasks.
查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Medical professionals such as physicians, pharmacists, pharma cy technicians, etc. use shorthand abbreviations, commonly referred to as SIGs o r sig codes to specify directions for use of a medicine. Sig codes are commonly used to encode instructions for a patient to follow during a prescription regime n, and may be printed on packaging (e.g., in an information sheet accompanying a prescription, on a bottle, inhaler, etc.)
查看更多>>摘要：From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: “Embodiments of the present invention generally rel ate to improving document retrieval efficiency and/or document retrieval reliabi lity in document management systems.” Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also o btained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “In general, embodim ents of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing de vices, computing entities, and/or the like for generating a subset of related do cument objects for a predictive entity.
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