| High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, Low-Power Wireless Tracking Tags |
- Low-cost, ultra-low power wireless tag for real-time asset tracking
- Passive wireless tag costs less than $1 to manufacture and can operate for several years with maintenance-free operation
- Compatible with off-the-shelf devices, making it ideal for efficient inventory control in multiple industries
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8943 |
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| Overvoltage Surge Protection System for Distributed Energy Resources |
- iMOV is a dynamic system capable of achieving voltage surge clamping within 20% of the system’s nominal voltage. This effectively provides protection for highly sensitive semiconductors present in DER-associated power converters.
- This system is built upon a metal oxide varistors (MOV) foundation, whose material composition inherently allows rapid device connection of 500 picoseconds for quicker response times.
- iMOV uses integrated microprocessors and sensors in a cloud-based architecture that provides protection against cyberattacks, reduces system cost, and allows system and power grid monitoring.
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9190 |
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| Bi-Channel Needle for Injection |
- The injection fluids are completely separated until the tip of the needle, preventing their mixing until they have reached the syringe’s distal tip.
- Since the specific volumes of each drug required will be added to the channels of the syringe, this device reduces the amount of fluid left in the syringe after injection.
- The needle allows the clinician to inject with syringes that are parallel to each other, as opposed to at some oblique angle.
- The length of the device is not limited to the current 1-inch syringe. It can be longer (even greater than 1 meter) for catheter-based procedures.
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9028 |
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| AI-Designed High Energy–Density High-Temperature Polymers |
- The present materials are capable of withstanding enormous electric fields at very high temperatures.
- The materials produced are extremely lightweight.
- Vehicles making use of these materials will be lightweight, and lighter vehicles consume less energy.
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9101 |
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| Microgeodes Enable Tunable Optical Response for Advanced Coatings/Paint |
- Microgeodes have a programmable structure of nanowires that allows their optical response to be engineered precisely over multiple spectral bands, from UV through mid-IR.
- Microgeodes combine the tunability and versatility of nanowires with the processability of microspheres to provide a photonic materials platform for a wide range of applications.
- Microgeode paints could reduce building surface temperatures by as much as 25°C, offering the potential for significant consumer savings while retaining aesthetically pleasing colors.
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8866 |
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| Monitor Vehicle Location and Maintain Vehicle Health During Long-Term Storage |
- Vehicle health and location monitoring system automatically establishes a mesh network for vehicle fleet monitoring by a human, drone, or mobile robot.
- Checks battery and other vehicle health status as well as determines locations of all connected vehicles in storage.
- When a vehicle is found with low battery levels, a mobile robot can safely provide a charge to the battery to get the vehicle running.
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8938 |
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| Variable Slope, Multi-Octave Radio Frequency Filters |
- Customizable: The combined signal may be applied to a standard low-pass, band pass, or high-pass optical filter. The filter can be implemented with any number of poles for a maximum defined-slope, and the choice of pass type may be made according to the desired slope direction.
- Variable: By moving the optical carrier up and down in frequency through the transition band, the slope of the RF signal can be continuously varied.
- Versatile: The technology can be used as is or it can augment existing RF lab equipment.
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7680 |
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| Lymphatic System-Specific Lipid Nanoparticles |
- This platform technology improves current targeting to lymphatic tissues and specifically lymphatic endothelial cells.
- Provides superior tissue targeting and functional delivery of mRNA to lymphatics via loco-regional dermal or subcutaneous avenues.
- mRNA-based platforms offer a transient and less immunogenic method of delivery compared to protein therapeutics or adeno-associated virus-based platforms.
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9056 |
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| Soft Wireless Sternal Patch for Detecting Systemic Vasoconstriction Using Photoplethysmography |
- A wireless, soft sternal patch includes integrated skin-like, photolithographically patterned electronics specifically tuned to continuously measure vasoconstriction from the sternum.
- In overnight trials, the device detected sleep apnea and hypopnea with 95% precision and 100% sensitivity compared to data professionally scored by licensed clinicians.
- Use of this patch on the chest could improve detection of key markers of numerous harmful health conditions.
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9170 |
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| Intelligent Eye-Tracking System Offers Next-Gen Technology for Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Applications |
- This system uses an AI accelerator chip with 4X higher throughput to achieve over 300 FPS, greatly improving processing speed without loss of accuracy.
- EyeCoD achieves faster communication time by using a lens-less camera that reduces distance between the camera and the accelerator chip.
- Using a “predict-then-focus” model, this system creates highly accurate images as well as improves visual privacy.
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9202 |
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| Targeted Single Cell Electroporation for Gene and Cell Therapy |
- The technology enables high efficiency delivery and high post-electroporation cell viability compared to current commercial electroporation systems.
- The technology performs in-flow single cell measurements integrated with electroporation unlike current commercial electroporation systems which have no single cell measurement capabilities.
- The technology enables automatic feedback control and real-time optimization of electroporation parameters at the single-cell level unlike current commercial electroporation systems which apply the same parameters to all cells in a batch at a bulk scale.
- The technology enables selected or targeted electroporation and delivery to selected cells or cell types from a mixture of cells unlike current commercial electroporation systems which require upstream or downstream cell sorting steps.
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9086 |
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| Lymphoid Tissue System Harnesses Ex Vivo Immune Reactions for Rapid Antibody Production and Immune Response Prediction |
- This immunocompetent system uniquely accounts for the unexpected activation of various immune cells to allow proper immune cell differentiation, recapitulating an effective immune response.
- The chemokine gradient is switchable, allowing the immune cell differentiation needed for an appropriate immune reaction.
- An ex vivo system supports immune response creation in a controlled environment, allowing reproduction of immunologic events for developing improved therapeutics.
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9196 |
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| Expandable Back Drive–Resistant Wedge Improves Payload Support and Security in Satellite and Other Limited-Access Applications |
- This expandable wedge designed to resist back drive creates a more predictable load path for limited-access payloads, such as small satellite installations.
- The design reduces the likelihood of payload damage caused by sudden shock loading that can occur due to the higher stresses of cantilevered loads.
- Two offset, spring-activated pawls make the cartridge resistant to vibration by holding the wedge in place once proper contact has been established.
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9002 |
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| Solar Cell Manufacturing Technique Increases Efficiency and Lowers Costs |
- This double-side polysilicon/silicon oxide TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) solar cell concept provides a simple and low-cost way to passivate front and back surfaces of silicon wafers to enhance efficiency.
- Provides current and voltage comparable to full-area double-side TOPCon but with no appreciable absorption in front polysilicon and without compromising short circuit current density
- Includes a novel and fast way to pattern polysilicon using laser-induced selective oxidation
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8888 |
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| Bioabsorbable, Permeable, and Flexible 3D Auxetic Implants Offer Large-Volume Soft Tissue Reconstruction |
- A novel 3D auxetic architecture offers enhanced compressive flexibility, permeability, and nonlinear mechanical behavior.
- This high-performance technology has the potential to generate implants with soft tissue-mimetic biomechanical properties and high mass transfer capacity.
- Implants can be customized for patients by adjusting the strut width and intervals and by fitting the complex anatomic geometry of the defect based on patient medical data.
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8821 |
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| Tunable MEMs Gas Sensor Improves Selectivity and Sensitivity |
- Versatile: Customizes MEMS chemical sensors, compatible with a variety of sensing materials, allowing for the detection of numerous gas-phase analytes
- Easy to manufacture: Uses batch-fabricated sensors compatible with COTS electronics
- Highly sensitive: Offers sub parts-per-million detection limits for volatile organic compounds
- Enhanced selectivity: Combines gravimetric and impedimetric responses to demonstrate enhanced discrimination between multiple VOCs
- Powerful: Enables the simultaneous observation of both mass loading and dielectric changes in polymeric sensing films upon sorption of an analyte
- Innovative: Uses the transient response characteristics of a sensor response to a gated exposure event, rather than steady-state sensor data
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8269, 8987 |
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| Advanced Error Measurement System for Additive Manufacturing Machines |
- Advanced technology for precise error measurement in AM machine optomechanical systems
- Innovative laser-based method to identify and correct focal errors in PBF-LB AM machines
- Comprehensive approach enhances machine performance and output quality
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9241 |
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| Algorithm for Optical Microscopy Image Denoising and Restoration |
- Miro performs consistent noise correction independent of the image sampling rate (working even with sparse images).
- MIRO is compatible with all major imaging systems and camera types.
- Unlike existing approaches, MIRO uses pattern, uniform, and non-uniform noise statistics to correct microscopy-relevant noise sources.
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9103 |
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| Device Continuously Separates Functionalized Magnetic Microparticles from Solids to Yield Benefits for the Pharmaceutical Industry and More |
- Magnetic force is used to enhance traditional solid-solid separation techniques to yield a high-purity product stream and continuously return catalyst to a reactor.
- The device is capable of continuous separation for multiple hours and can be parallelized or ran in series to improve solids throughput and separation efficiency.
- This technology could help accelerate the adoption of continuous, heterogeneously catalyzed reactive crystallizations and, more generally, expand the chemistries and processes fit for continuous manufacturing.
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8806 |
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| Distributed Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Chain Significantly Improves Drone Navigation When GPS Fails |
- The robust Distributed PNT Chain enables a swarm of drones or other autonomous platforms to effectively navigate when they are denied GPS access.
- The system shares and processes all available sensor data to significantly improve the robustness and reliability of drone teams.
- The highly modular system is interoperable with preexisting GPS INSs and supports variable and evolving platform geometries.
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9046 |
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