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Parametric Resonance Approach for Efficient, Versatile Acoustic Power Transfer for Implantable/Wearable Devices, Sensing, and Communications New class of transducers utilizes parametric resonance to convert acoustic energy from an ultrasonic source to a sustained electrical signal. Technology powers implantable biomedical devices, small wearable sensors, and other wireless charging applications. Simple yet robust generation of stable electromechanical frequency combs is also possible in both air and liquid environments using a capacitive micro-resonator array.	7635, 9075
Customizable Smart Charging Solution for Electric Vehicles in Residential Areas This customizable smart charger uses algorithms and a hardware prototype to control electric vehicle charging and optimize benefits to consumers and power grid operators. Consumers can charge according to their preference (e.g., minimize cost, maximize carbon-free energy usage, minimize charging time, or minimize battery degradation). The smart charger selects charging profiles that delay charging to avoid excessive loads on the power grid.	8980
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with Unique Input Design That Significantly Reduces Computational Costs of Complex Engineering Systems Neural network’s novel input can utilize first-order schemes and local patches and allows for discontinuities to be reflected accurately and with greater resolution than existing products. This adaptable ANN can be adopted by commercial and scientific research as a stand-alone solution or in conjunction with existing software. Lower costs for running complex and repetitive computations can be achieved by implementing this neural network with an input system that processes low-cost numerical solution patches arising from two or more converging solutions.	8963
Enhanced Cybersecurity for Networked Motion Control Systems with Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Increase cybersecurity with expression rewrite rules for encrypted dynamic control schemes that reduce the multiplicative depth of somewhat homomorphic encryption and improve numerical stability. New approach generates motion commands to servo systems without creating a security hole. Information decryption and control signal calculation can be performed and executed inside the plant, while all sensitive system information outside of the plant is always encrypted.	9012
Biologically Inspired Connected Advanced Driver Assistance System Cost-effective: Leverages existing vehicle infrastructure (e.g., sensors, lights) along with an affordable software upgrade to provide enhanced collision avoidance capabilities, typically for less than $500 Safety-enhancing: Designed to help prevent up to 94% of automotive crashes by providing reduced lag time and enabling faster driver reaction rates Convenient: Aims to optimize vehicle travel speeds and reduce traffic congestion and travel times	8918
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.	7680
Airborne Acoustic Sensing System for “Ear in the Sky” Capabilities on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Optimizes speech clarity: Uses acquired empirical data and iteratively refines the processing capability until the optimal signal to noise ratio (SNR) is achieved Improves covert detection: Enables acquisition of a live voice signal from a person of interest without detection by using UAS platforms to remotely acquire acoustic signals and using digital signal processing algorithms to filter, enhance, and localize the speech signal of interest Enhances warfare tools: Provides increased situational awareness, enhanced ISR capabilities, and helps identify potential security threats to deployed assets	6985, 7223
Chip-Scale Atomic Beam System Precision timekeeping (e.g., chip-scale atomic clocks primarily used in cell phone base stations) Navigation (e.g., interferometers used in underwater oil and gas exploration) Robotics	8896
Versatile Retroreflective Metastructures for Enhanced Electromagnetic Response Improved steep angle performance: Increases the angular range of reflectivity to greatly reduce the precision needed to produce a retroreflective response Increased bandwidth: Combines multiple periodic metasurfaces into a hybrid metastructure for greater bandwidth Versatile design: Can be designed for either single- or dual-polarized retroreflection, with metasurfaces of different periodicities combined for varying angles	8764
Raised Cosine (RC) Pulse Shaping for Next Generation Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) Links Small design: Uses direct modulation and detection with VCSEL-based MMF links for small form factor High speeds with low cost and power: Achieves speeds of 100 Gbps and higher while maintaining low cost and low power consumption with VCSEL MMF-based links and other direct-modulated lasers Low bandwidth requirements: Minimizes intersymbol interference and reduces the required electrical bandwidth to enable use with commercially packaged VCSELs that have bandwidth in the low 20 GHz range	7398
Integrated Alkali Dispenser Collimator Precise: Reducing the “spread” of vapor via collimation can reduce potential signal-to-noise ratio degradation and avoid contamination of nearby electronic components. Simple: Generating a directed atomic beam from the dispenser can be achieved via integrated packaging. Cooler: Placing a spacer material between the dispenser and collimator creates a sealed gap that not only prevents leakage, but also allows the vapor to cool (via rapid thermalization with the collimator plate).	8872
Gaussian Switch Sampling (GauSS) for Training Deep Neural Networks Better analyses: It provides a method to analyze models and their interaction with data. Improved accuracy: By matching or outperforming existing technologies in terms of test accuracy on in-distribution as well as out-of-distribution applications, GauSS is more selective and finds samples that help the network learn as well as remember things previously learned. Versatile: The strategy is based exclusively on learning dynamics and, therefore, can be generalized across networks, data, and training methods.	8757
A Mechanical Topological Insulator-Based Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Novel: Offers the first known design of its kind, addressing the signal loss challenges of applying acoustic wave technologies to mechanical applications Practical: Enables potential development of a single mechanical platform to accomplish both filtering and channeling using inexpensive components that avoid high battery usage Signal-protecting: Guides waves from input(s) to output(s) with minimal signal loss and topological protection from backscattering	8802
RobocallGuardPlus Advanced: Uses a unique smart virtual assistant with a voice interaction model that generates natural conversation to filter out robocalls Robust: Blocks robocalls that other methods may miss, such as those that evade call block lists through caller ID spoofing Unique: Provides the first known system to block mass, evasive, and targeted robocalls using natural, interactive conversation methods rather than relying solely on caller ID and block lists	8817
Wearable Health Monitoring Device Improves Data Quality and Accuracy High performance: Captures real-time, real-world data of multiple physiological signals with a significant reduction in MA interference Chest-mounted: Provides more accurate ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate, and activity detection than existing wrist-worn commercial monitors Comfortable: Adheres securely and discretely to the skin using a breathable soft membrane for continuous conformal contact, eliminating excessive sweating and skin irritation	8691
Advanced Battery-Free Interface for Internet of Things Technologies Decreased power demand: Uses zero-threshold voltage transistors and analog backscatter communication to allow for power supply via ambient power harvesting. Eco-friendly: Leverages a battery-free design for each tag to decrease the large number of bulky batteries disposed of each year Wider range, greater intake: Demonstrates distance capabilities three times (15 m) the range of existing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology; MARS transistor allows for a larger volume of input tags to be received concurrently and continuously	8734
Real-Time Mobilization of Computer Software Applications Comprehensive: Overcomes speed, traffic, and interface limitations of basic remote computing Resourceful: Allows for seamless function without a high data usage burden Efficient: Applies unique transformation services to accelerate and enhance the user’s mobilized application experiences	5798
AwareSite Proximity Safety Sensing System for Construction and Other Work Sites Improved work safety and efficiency: Not only are accidents prevented when workers and equipment operators are alerted that they are crossing set safety boundaries, their proximity and movement data are also stored in the cloud and can be used to analyze work patterns that could improve safety, work process efficiency, and more. Low-cost and flexible hardware: The system uses inexpensive custom PPU devices but can also be paired with workers’ personal smartphones for connecting to the system. User friendly and reliable: System setup and operation is simple. Beacons use Bluetooth® low-energy technology and can last more than one year without changing batteries.	7970, 7971
Rapid Mobilization of Essential Enterprise Applications Rapid: Significantly reduces time needed to mobilize an enterprise application as compared to conventional mobilization solutions Cost-efficient: Leverages a cloud-based, codeless platform that saves on both time and budget Flexible: Demonstrates potential to efficiently provide mobile functionality for a wide variety of applications necessary for business operations	5583
Using Smart Macros to Optimize User Actions on Smartphones Improves user experience: Provides near-desktop level experience for the mobile phone environment Easy to use: Reduces user burden by presenting programmable macros in a simple and user-friendly manner Causes minimum overhead: Does not contain any process that degrades the remote desktop performance because of high requirements for the central processing unit (CPU) or memory	5501
Super Aggregation: Multihoming for Wireless Devices Performance-improving: Improves the aggregate performance of multiple heterogeneous wireless interfaces used simultaneously compared to the performance each could achieve on its own Proven: Indicates TCP acceleration achieved in wireless data networks when tested on two mobile platforms, including a laptop computer and an Android™ mobile phone Impactful: Addresses the performance improvement needs of ubiquitous, widely used mobile technologies	4712
Fully Passive, Long-Range Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) via 5G Large coverage: Provides a unique combination of large angular coverage and turn-on sensitivity in both planar and bent configurations Long range: Demonstrates the potential for RFIDs with practical reading ranges over 1.8 km Scalable: Scales in size to a precise degree, enabling selection of the optimal tradeoff between size and harvested power/reading range	8141, 8439
Adaptive Broadband Impedance Matching in Ultrasound Front-End Electronics High performance: Improves power transfer and acoustic reflectivity Flexible: Enables multimodal and tunable operation of CMUTs Efficient: Provides optimal matching for co-design of CMUT electronics	8342
Purely Passive Radio-Frequency Identification Powerful: Projected to support energy harvesting sensors at distances over 100 meters from readers and/or radio transmission sources Efficient: Enables conversion of RF energy at higher efficiency and at higher output voltages than current electronic energy harvesting methods Widely applicable: May advance RFID applications in a wide range of fields including computing, sensing, and communication	7194
A First-of-its-Kind Power Amplifier-Based Network for Efficient Broadband Operations Unmatched: Provides first-of-its-kind broadband performance with 26-41 GHz instantaneous 1 dB power gain bandwidth and 25.8-41.3 GHz instantaneous P1dB output power bandwidth—both of which far out-perform currently available techniques Simplified: Sidesteps the need for any tuning or reconfiguration while still providing best-in-class broadband performance Efficient: Significantly improves power amplifier back-off and average efficiency with two efficiency peaks and deep power back-off (12 dB), and maintains better than 38% power-added efficiency at P1dB	8158, 8159
Flight Control System for Miniature Aerial Robots Lightweight: Features a core electronics board that weighs less than half a gram Flexible: Contains a core electronics board that can be conveniently reprogrammed for expanded functionality Compact: Offers a small form factor with an area of about 2 square centimeters	8591
A Low-Loss Broadband Quadrature Signal Generation Technique for Highly Balanced Signals Superior: Provides lower loss, wider bandwidth, better mismatch reduction, zero power consumption, and more balanced quadrature signals compared with other currently available technologies Validated: Achieves an average IRR of 37.5 dB across 40-76 GHz and 33.5 dB across 40-102 GHz, with each stage of the network enhancing IRR by approximately 8 dB in verification of proof-of-concept image-reject mixers Convenient: Eliminates the need for additional calibration and tuning and has reduced sensitivity to fabrication process variations	7888
Polarization-Based Method for Mitigating Wireless Signal Interference Both During Transmission and Receipt Improves mitigation of co-channel interference: Particularly useful for OFDM-based systems, this method improves mitigation of co-channel interference in the frequency domain. By optimizing the SINR as a function of the frequency component, this method provides improved suppression performance relative to single polarization-filter solutions. Maximizes SINR: A set of frequency-dependent MMSE filter weights can be applied to suppress interference, which maximizes the SINR. Flexible: This method can be applied to OFDM, CDMA systems, and various other communication systems having different modulation formats that may or may not require additional processing.	4087
Heat Dissipation for Microelectronic Systems via Capillary Trap Effective: Dissipates large heat fluxes via 3D heat spreading and evaporative cooling that could approach kW/cm2 and beyond while keeping the surface temperature under 90oC Preventive: Mitigates coolant dry-out at the critical heat flux levels that result in a rapid and large temperature rise and thus cause device burn-out Efficient: Exploits high cooling capabilities associated with phase-change heat transfer through evaporation	6272
Enabling Multi-Beam, High-Capacity Massive MIMO for 5G Communications and More State-of-the-art: Is the first Rx-array design of its kind, autonomously achieving modulated blocker suppression and desired signal beamforming simultaneously without the need for a digital beamforming aid Robust: Enables multi-beam high-capacity massive MIMO to address the demands of both commercial and defense applications Scalable: Employs ASFs that achieve 4-element spatial filters with sharpened selectivity that can be extended to larger array sizes of thousands of elements and cancellation of any number of interference signals	8120
Enabling Privacy-Preserving Search Over Fuzzy Databases Privacy-preserving: Improves the security of biometric-based surveillance, identification, or searches for individuals using their biometric data over private databases Timely: Addresses the requirements of recent and emerging privacy protection regulations and policies Practical: Fills a gap in privacy-preserving search technologies, which currently do not accommodate searching of fuzzy data such as biometrics	8506
A First-of-its-Kind, Ultra-Low Voltage Single-Element Amplified Backscatter System Streamlined: Uses a single element—one tunnel diode with few passive components—to achieve dual functionality of simultaneous oscillation and reflection-amplification Efficient: Combines the features of conventional RFIDs and tunnel diode-based reflection amplifiers while using an extremely low biasing voltage of only 88 mV, consuming only 20 μW, and offering a reflection gain of 48 dB Long range: Provides the highest observed gain in the literature for a given input power	8375
Microfluidic CODES with Innovative Machine-Learning Analysis Scalable: Set-up allows for the integration of multiple microfluidic devices to increase throughput volume. Versatile: Machine learning analysis can be applied to other microfluidic devices integrated with the same Coulter sensor network. Pragmatic: This innovation improves the capabilities of lab-on-a-chip systems to provide an affordable solution for low-resource settings.	7107, 8032
Utilizing Impedance Spectroscopy for Advanced Characterization of Particles Comprehensive: Simultaneously measures both spatial and dielectric properties of particles Streamlined: Helps resolve signal interference from coincident cells—a challenge of other assessment techniques Precise: Offers complex impedance as a new level of particle feature assessment, integrating it with other measurements such as elasticity and size for more predictive analyses	8049
A Sensor That Converts Everyday Objects into Microphones Lower cost: The SATURN microphone’s simpler and less expensive fabrication technique results in lower overall costs. Better performance: The microphone geometry, attachment methods, and size and spacing of holes are optimized to maximize the recovery of sound and generation of power. This results in better performance compared to commercially available microphones of this type, recovering sound up to 5,000 Hz. Versatile: Its thin, flexible, and passive form make it configurable to a large number of applications.	7915
Electromagnetic (EM) Metastructures Multi-use: Provides structural support in conjunction with static and in situ EM performance Efficient: Reduces size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) parameters Flexible: Integrates non-standard material systems	8469
‘Intelligent’ Power Amplifier Architecture AI-assisted: Provides the PA self-reconfigurability and robust adaptive operation over environmental changes High performance: Features low latency and fast response capabilities required for many fifth-generation (5G) applications Improved learning efficiency: Incorporates into control algorithms multiple RL frameworks, including CAB, multi-armed bandit, contextual bandit, and actor-critic with experience replay	8377
Advancing Multi-Band, Multi-Mode Radio Frequency (RF) Technology Efficient: Increases transceiver capabilities while maintaining economical power consumption through reusable organic substrates Adaptable: Grants access to multiple frequency ranges in the same device Easily integrated: Offers implementation in small form factor module with less than 1.1-millimeter thickness	2888
The Sliding-Window Queue-Proportional Sampling (SW-QPS) Algorithm High performance: Offers a novel switching framework that eliminates batching delays without sacrificing throughput performance Advanced: Computes matchings of much higher quality than state-of-the-art and widely used regular switching algorithms Efficient: Achieves at least 88 percent throughput with a computational complexity of just O(1) per port	8540
Optical Architecture Enables High-Performance Chips High performance: Provides efficient, practical, and manufacturable optical computing solutions for a variety of platforms Efficient: Permits a new way of designing high-performance computing and decision-making tasks using manufacturable solutions with high-speed processing, despite fabrication imperfections Flexible: Offers photonic chips in a variety of material platforms (i.e., silicon, silicon nitride) and meta-surface arrays implemented in hybrid platforms that combine dielectrics and nonlinear/reconfigurable materials	8437

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