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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hybrid Meta-Surfaces for Active, Non-Volatile Light Manipulation Fast: Enables highly dense pixels with fast (nanosecond) switching capability Scalable: Can be fabricated with features down to nanometer sizes; the overall device can incorporate several meta-surfaces with different features over a large-size wafer Agile: Offers high switching robustness (up to 1012 cycles)	8530
Enhanced MIMO Framework for Optimized Wireless Communications Innovative: Overcomes the efficiency and complexity challenges of conventional detector frameworks Independent: Has a fixed complexity that remains unaffected by noise Sophisticated: Combines the high performance of K-best detection with the low-complexity scalar list detector	7343
A Method to Minimize 5G Signal Noise and Energy Consumption Efficient: Minimizes 5G energy noise and lowers overall energy consumption required for the exponential growth of 5G networks Reliable: Promises to improve signal reliability by suppressing bandwidth-intensive media without impacting end-user experience Economical: Improves affordability of signal routing for millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G services	8204
Four-Dimensional Electron Density Mapping of the Ionosphere Innovative: Produces the first four-dimensional image of electron density in the lower ionosphere Far-reaching: Leverages technology that can be used efficiently on a global scale Pragmatic: Yields a highly useful four-dimensional map to be used in military and commercial applications that rely on high-frequency communications	8349
Novel Wireless Network Architecture with Frame Aggregation Scheme Innovative: Addresses increased latency in the power-saving geophone relay scheme using an optimized frame aggregation analytical model High efficiency: Saves power with a carefully designed FA-PSGR scheme for extended survey duration Intelligent: Maintains real-time data acquisition by turning geophones on “sleep mode” during idle periods, reducing channel bandwidth	8404
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
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
A Bi-Directional Amplifier for 5G Communication Reverse isolation, higher gain, and better stability at millimeter-wave frequencies Doesn’t require high supply level Efficiently meets bandwidth and mobile data demand	7790
Dual-Polarized Antenna for OFDM Assists wireless devices conform to power transmission limits that normally accompany FCC transmit mask rules Power maximization and substantial gain in Signal-Noise Ratio at the receiver by combating fading on a subcarrier-by-subcarrier basis Minimal signal loss within the channel for each subcarrier through the use of polarization control	6492
Efficient, Reliable, Robust Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications Increased efficiency — Satisfies zero voltage switching condition at 50% duty cycle and shapes the drain voltage at other duty cycles to minimize power loss Improved reliability — Reduces peak drain swing Mitigated variation — Determines optimal adaptation settings for each process shifted device using on-chip sensors and digital logic	6210
Broadband Antenna Design Using a Tapered Double Balun Inexpensive alternate antenna design to conventional stripline antennas Improves gain and is compact in size/shape Enables improved bandwidth response by changing the length of the taper	4149
Environmental Context from Machine Readable Visual Markers High resolution — system can provide high resolution indoor location context	5429
Compressive Wireless Arrays for Bearing Estimation Efficient – Uses minimum possible samples to reconstruct space Passive – System listens to available signals, it does not send our signals that could cause interference Low Power – System uses low power consumption because it listens to available signals	4326
Multi Femto-Relays Reduced interference between femto cells that are located in close proximity Improved QoS for users in locations where traditional wireless coverage is limited or spotty Ability to deploy lower amount of infrastructure to achieve better coverage and load balancing between different devices	5400
Superjunction Collector Bipolar Transistors Higher breakdown voltages — higher breakdown voltages with no performance degradation Improved design- involving super junction collector features Scalable- operable at room temperature and voltage ranges from 1V to 20V	4797
BrainBraille Increased information bandwidth and speed for BCI devices Rapid learning of motions and associated meanings Enhanced accuracy	8088
Orthogonally Polarized Light as Selectable Wavelengths Future UDWDM-PON application Simplified ONU Low power dissipation ONU	6916
Programmable Analog Modulator/Demodulator Flexible Quick Programmable	3490
Programmable Voltage-Output Digital-Analog Converter Better resolution Quicker conversion time Efficient	3464
Blind Selected Mapping for OFDM Less distortions – achieves a better peak-to-average power ratio Cheaper – lower cost solution	3425
Solopulse Radar Two or three dimensional radar imaging can be achieved with a single transmitted radar pulse. Radar Imaging can be achieved without sensor or object motion at beamwidth resolution. Resolution improves with sensor or object motion.	7614
Mixed-Signal Doherty Power Amplifier Achieves high peak efficiency, back-off efficiency, and linearity Supports complex modulations with large bandwidths (> GHz) Compatible with many process technologies, including CMOS, SiGe, GaAs, and GaN	7496

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