Available Technologies by Category
Therapeutic Compounds for Prostate Cancer Treatment
  • Prostate specific: This technology is a targeted approach for androgen receptor malignancies.
  • More effective: It offers a new treatment for tumors that have progressed to the hormone refractory stage.
  • Less toxic: Compounds are highly selective for targeted receptors.
5394
KIDSCRRT – A Device for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Children
  • Pediatric-friendly-  elimination of existing application of adult CRRT devices for pediatric care
  • Improved accuracy- novel pump and control system design complete with offset loop and fluid balance system
  • Versatile- easily integrated with other extracorporeal therapies
5363
Belief Propagation for Reputation Management
  • Robust to attacks
  • Computational efficiency
  • Detects malicious ratings
5328
Cause-Effect Analysis for Video Content
  • Enables characterizing the temporal structure of video events in an unsupervised manner, - a key to video analysis
  • Reduces the need for training data
  • Improves performance in retrieving and classifying social events from a video
5324
Crane Control Using Real-Time Location Systems
  • Relatively simple technology
  • Saves time that would be spent training operators
  • Can be applied to existing cranes
5318
Improved Projection Exposure System for Fabricating Nanomaterials
  • High speed processing: Enables rapid prototyping and large-scale manufacturing
  • Simple optics: Nano-scale patterning achieved without complex optical systems or photomasks
  • Cost effective: Replaces slow and expensive electron beam lithography
5283
Improving the Perceived Quality of Images for 3D-TV
  • Virtual images free of any geometric distortions
  • Not sensitive to depth maps with high percentage of bad matching pixels or poor depth map estimation
  • Minimal computational cost with no additional computational complexity
5260
Alveolar Breath Separation and Collection Device
  • Simple: this device has fewer components than prior devices
  • Inexpensive: this device is less expensive than previous devices due to its simpler design
4734
Patterning of Superhydrophobic Paper Surfaces
  • Versatile – allows for flexibility of paper and any array of “sticky” dots and lines
  • Simpler – space saving alternative to three-dimensional microfluidic products
  • Cheaper – made using paper and simple application process for “sticky” regions
4729
Periodic Arrays for Frequency-Based Beam Steering
  • Avoids individual control of array components
  • Reduced cost, smaller design equipment
4716
Visualization of Exception Handling Constructs to Support Program Understanding
  • Novel approach for exception handling using three inter-connected views: quantitative, flow, and contextual
  • The program’s design was created with input from experienced Java developers who found the program effective for directing them to better practices for exception-handling constructs
  • Prototype developed in Eclipse for Java applications, and can be extended to object-oriented languages with similar exception handling
4684
Frequency-Output Gyroscope
  • Low-cost
  • Constant resonant frequency of the drive mode
  • Better sensitivity – minimal detectable frequency is only limited by short-term stability and counting period length
4682
System for Bone Regeneration
  • Provides superior retention and release of osteoinductive protein
  • Reduces necessary dose of osteoinductive protein
  • Reduced cost of procedure
4660
Improved AZA-peptide Epoxides
  • Versatile: able to treat multiple diseases
  • Can be administered with or without other protease inhibitors 
3738
Power Optimized Waveform
  • Range – greater wireless power range
  • Efficiency – greater wireless power efficiency
  • Reliability – increased wireless power reliability
4570
REMS Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
  • Low cost – decreases expenses by being compatible with existing UHF or microwave passive RFID integrated circuits
  • Precise – because an RFID readers filters out unmodulated scatter components, an RFID-based REMS sensor is more precise
  • Allows passive interrogation of the sensor
4561
Method for Packaging Advanced Sensors and Electronics
  • High volume — device can be used for simultaneous sensing of thousands of proteins or nucleic acid sequences
  • Cheaper — utilizes low cost wafer-scale semiconductor manufacturing technologies
  • Versatile — can be used for many chemical and biochemical sensors
4514
Fluorescent Nanoprobes for Live-Cell RNA Imaging
  • Sensitive — can image single molecules with multiple emission wavelengths
  • Fast — probe is multivalent and bind to RNA in less than 10 minutes
  • Low cost — the alternative dual-label probes are more expensive
4513
Replaceable Heart Valve Prosthesis
  • Repeatable- method may be repeated multiple times
  • Versatile- mechanism may substitute more than one valve  
  • Lower-cost
3692
Method for Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Procedures
  • Minimally invasive: heart valve repair system breakdown allows for a smoother process
  • Futuristic: eliminates the need for cardiopulmonary bypass
  • Reduced risk: intends a lower mortality rate during procedure
4483