Available Technologies by Category
Guided Injection of Charged Cargo for Intracellular Delivery
  • Novelty – use of an electrically-charged liquid beam of electrospray
  • Improved control – control of action on the scale of single cell/single pores
  • Diversity – arbitrary diverse set of cargo
8275
Instrumented Ankle-foot Orthosis
  • User friendly – fully wearable and portable
  • Objective data – enhances patient outcomes
7547
Scalable Vapor Condenser for Power Generation
  • Reduced cost – reduction of sub-cooling in the condenser allows increased thermodynamic efficiency gains for cycles
  • Reduced complexity – simpler components, unlike conventional condenser technologies
  • Scalable – applicable to utility scales ranging from small electronic devices to large power plants
7101
A Process to Chemically Modify Polymeric Materials
  • Cost reduction – cost is reduced due to technique simplification
  • Efficiency – technique has no requirement for repeated cycling
  • Flexibility – VPI can be applied at any stage in production processes
7445
Quasicoherent Receiver Solution for Improved Signal
  • Low cost – short reach optics are the lowest priced optical interconnects available
  • Simple – quasicoherent receivers are significantly less complex than digital coherent receivers
  • Efficient – use of a full-wave rectifier increases output and efficiency because of AC supply
8051
Alternative Plastic Solution Using Chitin Nanofibers
  • Environmentally friendly – made from renewable materials and biodegradable
  • Competitive – permeability comparable or better than industry standard
  • Cheap – made from a low cost and renewable resources 
8145
Resonators for Temperature-Stable Oscillators
  • Reduced motional resistance – by using the distributed arrangement for the mode shape
  • Performance scaling –added design freedom of the resonator
  • Compatibility –no dimensional constraints
7780
Clash Detection and Resolution Optimization for Building Designs
  • Simpler-  minimizes component changes and saves time for design changes
  • Efficient- improves the efficiency of design coordination
  • Increased precision- reduces 17% of irrelevant clashes and automatically groups relevant clashes, thereby decreasing more than 50% of the clashes initially reported
8199
WiMove: Ceiling-Based Access Point for Wireless Communications
  • Ceiling-based access point: allows for optimal line of sight and reduces noise by physical barriers
  • Faster communication: utilizes machine-learning algorithms to re-position line of sight
8154
Wireless Neurovascular Monitoring System
  • Minimally invasive: minimal impact on hemodynamics (dynamics of blood flow)
  • Flexible and stretchable: able to conform to complex vessel geometry
  • Longer range: improved wireless detection range
7908
Integrated Cascaded Atomic Beam
  • Reduced cost – due to fabrication techniques that enable mass manufacture and spread of technology
  • Increased generation of collimated atomic beams – due to the miniaturizing of clocks
  • Maximized accuracy of the clock – by improving signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
7917
Water-Soluble Mold for Sample Analysis
  • Inexpensive: difference in materials used from existing practices, lowers manufacturing costs  
  • Universal adoption: no requirement of expensive cleanrooms facilities and associated personnel
  • Environmentally: conscious- non-toxic process eliminates need for organic solvent and waste treatment
8138
MANTIS: Wireless YouTube Load-Shifting
  • Shorter download times- videos are downloaded during non-peak hours
  • Decreases data usage-  due to less online traffic during download
  • Less cost- due to less bandwidth required
8155
Alternative Methods for Producing Fixed Nitrogen
  • Increased efficiency - directly oxidizes nitrogen to create nitric acid
  • Sustainable practice - less energy-intensive process than existing practices
  • Cost saving – elimination of heat and pressure during production 
7924
Variable Center of Gravity for Coaxial Aircraft
  • Efficient- improved payload capacity and increased efficiency
  • Cheaper- reduction in maintenance cost per flight hour due to decreased complexity of rotating components
  • Simpler- reduction in the mechanical complexity
7654
Soft-Switching, Solid-State Transformers and Converters
  • Cost savings- larger transformers are expensive to build and costly to maintain
  • Space savings- simple, symmetrical architecture with minimal device and component count
  • Higher reliability- less power losses
7292
A Technique for Integrating Photographs for Medical Imaging Examinations
  • Prevents the application of incorrect patient identification at the time of medical image generation
  • Allows the correlation of serial imaging studies by ensuring that all studies are from the same patient
  • Avoids the generation of incorrect reports
6402
Online Semantic Analysis by Text Embedding
  • Better performance compared to the conventional natural language processing methods
7869
Digital-to-Analog Converter Model for Optical Link Simulations
  • Efficient- can simulate frequency dependent effects in a computationally efficient manner
7593
Constellation Diagrams to Model Biomolecules’ Electrostatic Properties
  • Low computational cost – reduces algorithm run-time via reduction in complexity of computing molecular electrostatic properties
  • Digitally encoded molecular electrostatic properties – utilizes orthogonal basis functions
  • Visual toolsets- to analyze molecular electrostatic properties and generates 4D plots of molecular electrostatic properties
8245