Available Technologies by Category
Pulse Width Modulated Periodic Backflush
  • Cheaper – Extends the usable lifespan of filters
  • More Efficient – Improves recovery percentage by an average of 8.4-fold
  • Versatile – Can be applied to both biological and non-biological systems
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Pulse Shaping for Radio Frequency Identification Tags
  • Enables the same form of low-power communication mechanism via reflection instead of radiation
  • Smaller bandwidth occupancy, thus increasing number of devices being able to communicate in a portion of the spectrum.
  • Denser tag/node/sensor/transponder deployments while still adhering to FCC regulations can be achieved
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Pterin-Based Hydroxylation of Aromatic Monomers
  • Could provide substantial high value intermediates
  • Enzymatic catalysis is more energy efficient, yields less (industrial type) waste than chemically based methods
  • Higher level of precision than most chemical reactions
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Proton Conducting Polymer Membranes
  • High proton conductivity
  • Thermal stability 
  • Strong mechanical properties
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Protecting Cache Memories from Eviction-Based Attacks
  • Robust to attacks – tolerates years of continuous eviction-based attacks
  • Negligible slowdown – creates an miniscule slowdown of 1%
  • Storage efficient – requires a storage overhead of less than 100 bytes for new structures
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Prosthetic Anterior Cruciate Ligament
  • Simpler - Simplifies the operation
  • Safer - Prevents unnecessary damage and morbidity at a donor site
  • Readily available - Obviate need for harvest procedure
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PROGNOS: A Web-based Tool for Designing Engineered Nucleases
  • Algorithm specifically prepared to search entire genomes to identify off-target cleavage sites and design optimal primers for TALENs and ZFNs
  • Available as a simple, user-friendly web-based tool; no extraordinary bioinformatics or biochemical skill required
  • Capable of analyzing TALEN and ZFN sequences targeting human, rat, mouse, zebrafish, arabidopsis, yeast, D melanogaster,
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Privacy-Preserving Remote Biometric Authentication
  • Protective: Designed to eliminate privacy concerns associated with databases of people’s faces
  • Flexible: Supports various biometrics, including face, voice, iris, fingerprint, and gait
  • Remote authentication: Eliminates the need to always possess the enrollment device
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Predictive Maintenance System for Large-Scale Operations Offers Potential for Significant Cost Savings
  • Consistent workflow improvements: Offers repeatable and consistent enterprise-level improvements to the maintenance workflow.  
  • Proactive readiness: Improves maintenance scheduling, allowing for improved logistics, scheduling, virtual kitting, and part/component availability. 
  • Customizable: Customers can build and tailor their PMx solutions according to their needs, providing increased data control and an alternative to costly and limited solutions.
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Precision Needle Positioning Robotic System for MRI Guided Injection
  • Increased accuracy — robot capable of less than 100 micron accuracy
  • Increased speed — faster targeting of injection locations
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Powered Bilateral Knee Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation of Children and Adults
  • Lightweight: Uses one of the lightest available electromechanical actuators—just 0.5 kg—along with a mere 1.5 kg for the exoskeleton assembly
  • Back-drivable: Lowers the mechanical effort involved in back driving with a single-stage actuator
  • Efficient: Reduces battery consumption compared with existing systems
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Power Optimized Waveform
  • Range – greater wireless power range
  • Efficiency – greater wireless power efficiency
  • Reliability – increased wireless power reliability
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Power Generation via Traveling Domains
  • Improved methods and circuits for generating millimeter-wave oscillations
  • High-speed microwave data links
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Post-Processing Side Chain Cleavage to Enhance Conjugated Polymers
  • Advanced: Can increase electrical conductivity of doped polymer films by tenfold while decreasing the Seebeck coefficient from 46 μV/K to 18 μV/K, resulting in a doubling in thermoelectric power factor
  • Robust: Demonstrates an increase in both in-plane and through-plane thermal conductivity upon hydrolysis
  • Best-in-Class: Surpasses the S/cm value of any currently reported oligoether/glycol-based CP system
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Portable, Reusable, Micropower Radiation Monitors Provide Real-Time Assessment of Radiation Risk
  • Innovative radiation detection system provides real-time, on-demand, micropower detection in a versatile design.
  • The device materials offer higher conductivity (mobility) than silicon, resulting in reduced power needs (i.e., requiring power only during read-out).
  • Selection and layering of channel and gate materials enables tuning devices for different radiation types.
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Portable Multi-Parameter Cancer Diagnostic Tool
  • Powerful: Simultaneously measures multiple tissue parameters to determine electro-thermo-mechanical properties
  • Disposable: Uses single-use biochip components to eliminate cross-contamination
  • Versatile: Uses a variety of other micromotion-capable actuators and extends to other manufacturing techniques and different length scales
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Poroelastic Solutions for Spherical-Tip Indentation
  • Robust: Provides a rigorous theoretical base that takes into account poroelastic coupling and the effects of Poisson’s ratio as well as the compressibility of both fluid and solid phases on force relaxation
  • Intelligent: Can be used with sensors and processors to automatically direct an indentation tool and record pertinent data
  • Flexible: Accommodates both permeable and impermeable indentation tools
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Polymer-Polymer Fiber Composite for High Thermal Conductivity
  • Better mechanical properties – Process creates polymeric resin that is stronger and tougher than current methods
  • Easier to process – Polymers are easier to make and process than metal materials
  • Tunable electrical capabilities – Can be made as conducting or insulating
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Polymer-Based Removal of Pollutants from Contact Lenses
  • Effective: Removes large-particle pollutants as effectively as traditional cleaning solutions, and removes smaller pollutants and microplastics with significantly higher efficacy
  • Robust: Utilizes an elastic polymer that enables contact force between two elastic materials to do the work of removing particles of any size
  • Safe: Eliminates the need for soaking and rubbing removal methods that may tear or damage contact lenses
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Polymer Wrapping of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
  • Scalable – process can be easily scaled up to enable commercial applications
  • Flexible – PMMA wrap can be applied through a  variety of processing conditions
  • Removable – helical wrap allows PMMA to be removed without damaging nanotube
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