Technologies | Office of Technology Licensing

Available Technologies by Category
Instrumented Ankle-foot Orthosis	User friendly – fully wearable and portable Objective data – enhances patient outcomes	7547
Innovative Ion Mobility Spectrometry with Open-Air Assembly	Protective: Potentially helps protect the technician against contact with ionic hazards Rapid: Separates ions through fast detection of differences in their mass, charge, and cross-section Convenient: Leverages an open-air arrangement that significantly reduces time for experiment setup and sample preparation	4885
Innovative Draw-based Fabrication of Patterned Structures Beyond Prismatic Geometries	Innovative: Pioneers a new method, expanding the applications of drawing lithography for shapes other than sharp point geometry Straightforward: Introduces a simpler procedure that, unlike photolithography, does not require a cleanroom or ultraviolet (UV) curing, making it viable for continuous manufacturing Flexible: Includes parameters that can be tuned to produce patterns of different sizes and shapes	8329
Inkjet Printed Reflect Array with Van-Atta Operation	Low cost Fully inkjet-printed Flexible	7140
Inkjet Printed Multi-Layer mm-Wave Antennas and Passive Components	New manufacturing inkjet printing process to create massively scalable 2D and 3D antennas and passive components allows for rapid fabrication and low costs. The novel innovation is both flexible and portable, enabling on-demand customization with minimal additional costs. The ink manufacturing process has extensive applications from printed RF capacitators and inductors to smart cities, wearables, and skins.	6332
Injection Device for Eye Disease	Safer: Simplifies delivery and lowers the risk of complications Easier: Device can be operated by a non-surgically trained individual using only a single hand Increased Bio-availability: Less drug needed due to injection efficiency	7193
Infrared-Emitting Quantum Dots	Robust – more stable than current quantum dots Tunable – optical properties are tunable based on size, structure, and composition of the quantum dots Efficient IR-emission – allows for enhanced display definition and multi-band IR scene projection	7893
Increasing WiFi VoIP Call Capacity	Supports many calls per access points	4036
Increasing Medium-Chain Fatty Acid (MCFA) Yield in Bacterial Host with Engineered Enzyme	High performance: Increases the yield of MCFAs during chemical and biopolymer synthesis Enabling: Improves the microbial production of chemicals that require the expression of heterologous enzymes Adaptable: Potentially applies to methods of engineering other heterologous enzymes to interact with endogenous proteins in order to produce molecules of interest in a bacterial host	7595
Incorporation of Phase Change Materials into Fibers	Improved thermally modulated fibers with high mass loading Implementing a heat/sink source directly into the fiber next to the sorbent material Enhanced pressure swing adsorption processes	7459
In-Vitro Human Bone Marrow-on-a-Chip	Comprehensive – Reconstructs the three environments of bone marrow, current technologies reconstruct two Quick – Does not require lengthy implantation period within an animal model Personalized – Allows for patient specific drug screening bone marrow tests	7883
IMUTube: Converting Videos of Human Activity into Virtual IMU Data Streams	Automated: Automates wearable sensor data collection, which can in turn be used to train HAR models by simply giving them access to large-scale video repositories Accurate: Demonstrated recognition accuracy in some cases comparable to models trained only with non-virtual (“real”) sensor data in benchmark studies Superior: Outperformed models using real sensor data alone by adding only small amounts of real sensor data to the virtual sensor dataset in benchmark studies	8538
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
Improving Quantitative Phase Imaging to Enhance Reliability and Broaden Applications	Universal application of an OBM/qOBM optical phase imaging device is made possible by the optimized SNR that identifies configurations with fewer limitations (e.g., conditions, tissue). The simulated SNR can identify non-intuitive geometries for optical phase imaging devices that previously may not have been identified by the arduous experimental optimization process. Optimized SNR when OBM/qOBM devices take in-vivo and in-situ measurements have been proven reliable across multiple types of tissue.	8936
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
Improved Privacy: A Data Security Solution	Easy-to-use – Overcomes usability problems and/or server modifications of existing privacy solutions Standalone – Ability to be used as a standalone program that provides better isolation than other products Secure – Allows the provider or online entity to enhance the user’s confidence that the personal data will be not be compromised	6426
Improved Liquid Sanitization Cyclic Filtration System	Biological, chemical, and physical contaminants are extracted from liquids and discharged as separated waste while the system is in operation Extracted contaminates are continually flushed from the system to reduce residue accumulation on the filtration membranes Self-cleaning filter design allows the system to operate more efficiently than traditional water filtration methods	6000
Improved Electrically Driven Temperature Swing Adsorption (ETSA) System for Faster, More Productive Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide	This electrically driven temperature swing adsorption (ETSA) system uses sorbent-coated carbon fibers that exhibit Joule heating and rapid temperature swings for improved CO₂ direct air capture (DAC). Over ten times faster temperature controls and six times faster CO₂ desorption rate in ETSA than temperature swing adsorption (TSA) operation under the same DAC condition The dual-layered structure composed of a Joule heating core and CO₂adsorbing coating layer result in a larger amount of CO₂ chemisorption.	9063
Improved AZA-peptide Epoxides	Versatile: able to treat multiple diseases Can be administered with or without other protease inhibitors	3738
Improved Adaptive Control System Using Selectable Parameters	Faster: Requires less complexity in the code, enabling faster control response times Smoother: Improves control stabilization and tracking performance Versatile: Augments existing nonadaptive control systems without modifying the gains employed in those systems	5619