Swindell & Pearson Limited

A vibrating mesh nebulizer for producing an aerosol for inhalation by a person, comprising: (a)a mouthpiece, a liquid container, and a piezo mesh disk that vibrates when the piezo mesh disk is actuated for aerosolizing liquid from the liquid container that comes into contact with the vibrating piezo mesh disk, wherein the aerosol so produced may be inhaled through the mouthpiece, wherein the mouthpiece covers the piezo mesh disk, and wherein the piezo mesh disk has a side facing the mouthpiece and an opposite side facing the liquid container; (b)an upper component, wherein the upper component contains the liquid container and the piezo mesh disk, wherein the liquid container is insertable into and removable from a first end of the upper component, opposite to a second end of the upper component at which the piezo mesh disk is located, when the upper component and a lower component are separated from each other; (c) the lower component connected to the upper component and containing circuitry and a power supply for actuating the piezo mesh disk resulting in vibration of the piezo mesh disk, and wherein the upper component and the lower component are configured to be detachable from each other for removing the liquid container from the upper component when depleted and inserting a replacement liquid container; and (d) a microcontroller for controlling actuation of the piezo mesh disk in producing the aerosol.

An apparatus for communications comprises a sample buffer, a beamformer and a processor. The sample buffer is configured to buffer respective subsets of digital sample streams obtained by converting analog signals from an antenna array. The analog signals corresponding to radio frequency signals received by the antenna array. The respective subsets extend across a portion of a duration. The portion is shorter in time than the duration. The respective subsets of the digital sample streams are time-synchronized with one another. The beamformer is configured to apply, to the digital sample streams extending across the duration, beam weights to the digital sample streams to obtain one or more beam signals that extend across the duration. The processor is coupled with the sample buffer. The processor is configured to determine a spatial characteristic for the radio frequency signals based at least in part on the respective subsets of the digital sample streams.

A controller system comprises one or more processors and a controller. The controller comprises a trackpad configured to operate in multiple different modes including a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the one or more processors are configured to receive touch data indicative of a touch of the trackpad. In the second mode, the one or more processors are configured to receive selection data indicative of a press of the trackpad at one of multiple selectable locations on the trackpad that correspond to up, down, left, and right input controls. The trackpad comprises: at least one of switches or pressure sensors associated with the multiple selectable locations; backlighting configured to emit light; and openings that encircle the at least one of the switches or the pressure sensors to allow the light to pass through the trackpad and visually indicate the multiple selectable locations.

A method of executing a computer routine of an arbitrary application and computer program instructions for performing the method are provided. The method comprises: receiving a webtask request that includes: client data; the computer routine; and client secrets associated with the computer routine. The method further comprises: determining one or more programming languages used in the computer routine; creating a webtask container in an isolated environment at a server, the webtask container is associated with a webtask cluster that includes one or more firewall rules; assigning computing resources to the webtask container to create an execution environment for the webtask request; executing the computer routine in the webtask container; determining computing resources consumed during execution of the computer routine; returning a calculated result based on the executed computer routine; and destroying the webtask container and the computer routine upon completion of the executing of the computer routine.

A heat exchanger for a cooking system is provided. The heat exchanger includes a fluid duct extending through the heat exchanger; a plurality of headers positioned about an outer perimeter of the heat exchanger, and a plurality of tubes. The plurality of headers comprise a plurality of first headers and a plurality of second headers. Each of the plurality of tubes extends from one of the plurality of first headers, across the fluid duct in a U-tube arrangement, and into one of the plurality of second headers.

According to various, but not necessarily all, examples there is provided a rain gutter comprising: a channel for rain water, at least one wall at least partially defining the channel, and a non-stick layer. The at least one wall comprises a side interior to the channel. The non-stick layer at least partially covering the side.

NMEG-αCGRP, a biologically active molecule, and systems and methods of use therefore, subcutaneous administration of NMEG-αCGRP, a non-toxic peptoid-peptide hybrid that possesses hypotensive action, employed as a therapeutic agent to treat and prevent various cardiovascular diseases, including, heart failure (pressure, as well as volume, overload), myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, and hypertension.

A head-mounted display comprises a main unit, a head strap and a face gasket. The main unit is configured to be positioned over eyes of a user. The head strap is configured to removably attach to the main unit. The head strap comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the head strap is configured to removably attach to a first side of the main unit. The second portion of the head strap is configured to removably attach to a second side of the main unit opposite the first side. The face gasket is configured to removably attach to a rear of the main unit.

Certain examples provide a computer-implemented method to determine a sub-graph of a graph consisting of nodes and edges, wherein the graph is representative of a digital map (100) of segments of navigable elements of a network of navigable elements in a geographical region, the method comprising: defining a plurality of triples of lines (M, L, N), wherein for each of the triples of lines a second line (L) is between a first line (M) and a third line (N); calculating, for each triple of lines, minimum cost paths between nodes or edges (V_M) intersecting the first line and nodes or edges intersecting the third line (V_N); determining access nodes or edges for each triple of lines based on nodes or edges intersecting the second line of the triple which are part of any of the calculated minimum cost paths between the first and third line of the triple; calculating minimum cost paths between the access nodes or edges of each of the plurality of triples of lines; and determining the sub-graph based at least in part on collecting each of the nodes and edges which are part of any of the calculated minimum cost paths between the access nodes or edges.

Certain examples provide a computer-implemented method (100) of generating sectioned map data (401), the method comprising an apparatus (10) performing the following: obtaining (21) map data (201) of a digital map, wherein the map data comprises: segment data (202) indicative of one or more segments (203) of one or more linear map features (204) of the digital map, and segment attribute data (205) indicative of: one or more attributes (206) associated with each segment, wherein the one or more attributes are selected from a first set of attributes (207), and at least one position (208) of each attribute within its respective segment, wherein the at least one position of each attribute within its respective segment is defined via linear referencing, and; obtaining (22) sectioning configuration data (301) for configuring sectioning of the map data, wherein the sectioning configuration data comprises an indication of a second set of attributes (307), wherein the second set of attributes is a subset of the first set of attributes, and wherein the sectioning configuration data enables sectioning of the map data to be performed based at least in part on the second set of attributes; and generating (23) sectioned map data (401), wherein the generation of the sectioned map data comprises sectioning the map data in accordance with the sectioning configuration data.