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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
Atomic Metal Catalysts Innovative: Generates new isomers by changing the order in which atoms are added in a hetero-atomic cluster (can maximize available catalytic sites) Efficient: Creates and optimizes active isomers of atomic metals such as Au and Pd, increasing the catalytic efficiency of these high-demand metals (requires minimal precious catalytic metal) Scalable: Provides a scalable process resulting in theoretically predictable catalytic properties	6451, 5217
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
Self-Powered Highly Stretchable Sensing Interface for Gesture Recognition Self-contained: Includes a signal processing pipeline, providing gesture recognition for an extensive range of input modalities without the need for external power or sensing equipment Assistive: Enables eyes-free, unobtrusive, and ergonomic interaction with computing devices embedded in wearables Versatile: Demonstrates far-reaching potential for applications beyond gesture recognition including in actuation and data acquisition	7987
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
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
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
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	8702
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
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
Molecular Flux Measurement Device and Method Efficient: Enables a 3x increase in MBE speed compared with metal organic chemical vapor deposition Controlled: Provides flux stability and control by enabling in-situ measurement of a signal related to the flux, achieving 0.001% flux stability under optimal conditions Reliable: Enables signal measurement in real time, providing high accuracy and reproducibility	3556
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
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
Fully Integrated, Piezoelectric Standalone MEMS Frequency Combs Compact: Provides a fully integrated package with a smaller footprint (30 μm x 30 μm) compared with CMOS-MEMS configurations Robust: Offers higher sensitivity and enhanced detection limit compared with the previous state of the art Low noise: Lowers shot noise levels associated with electronics and MEMS circuitry by eliminating the need for circuitry like electronic amplifiers	7875
Optical Delay Scanner Efficient – provides 10-times lower wave-front aberration than the best comparable dispersion-free delay line Simple – simplifies the spectroscopic coherent Raman imaging (CRI) approach	8211
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
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
Electron Deficient Materials for Use in Electronics Higher electron mobilities	3201
Fluid Management System for Hemofiltration Compact- size addresses concern of restricted bed-side space Age-friendly- potential use in any age group, from newborns to adults	4209
Highly Efficient Electrically Conductive Adhesives The developed approach offers many advantages such as reduced materials cost Low processing temperature Compatible with low cost, flexible substrates such as paper and PET	5486
Laser Rastering and Photoprocessing to Create Graphene Sheets Large-scale production of graphene Can be performed in a variety of environments from ambient to inert. Patterned graphene features readily and easily achieved	5116
Method to modify the Conductivity of Graphene Does not require the application of a dielectric layer to the graphene Graphene does not need to be chemically modified Maintains quality of graphene	5042
Programmable Analog Modulator/Demodulator Flexible Quick Programmable	3490
Smart Petri Chip: Electronic-Photonic Cellular Sensing Platform Large-scale throughput, real-time cellular monitoring, and re- usability with no contamination Easily and inexpensively replaced Modules can be designed for various functions	6864
Methods of Recycling and Replacing Lithium Ion Batteries Low cost – low energy use compared to other methods Environmentally friendly – low emissions High purity – accurate separation of high value metals from other components	7892, 7941
High-Precision Microphone for Body-Worn Devices Wearable small form-factor (micro-chip technology) Increased sensitivity (micro-gravity sensitivity) Large bandwidth (DC to 10kHz) and wide dynamic range (120dB)	7891
Programmable Voltage-Output Digital-Analog Converter Better resolution Quicker conversion time Efficient	3464
Short Distance Gait Pace Meter Accessible – Large-one-touch buttons, large results font, audible and visible sensor cues Inexpensive – Device components low-cost, installation standard wall-mount Convenient – As simple as recording weight or height: Press a button, walk, record speed.	7783
Antenna-Less RFID Tag Cheaper – minimized transmission components significantly reduces manufacturing costs Flexible – tags can be reprogrammed to perform different functions Smaller - reduced number of components allows for smaller chips	7744
Joule Heating and Carbon Fibers Energy Efficient – Heat is applied locally rather than to the fibers and the surroundings Conductive Carbon Fibers – Due to the inclusion of CNT materials Versatile – Many carbon materials can be stabilized using this process	6543
Fast Evaporating Polymers and Copolymers Cross-linking Incorporation of small molecules that are capable of amplification Residue reduction Waste elimination	7472, 7645
Methods to Impart Color and Patterns on Metal Long Lasting: Does not wear off or fade Stream-lined: Eliminates the need for paint touch-ups and repairs Cost Effective: Prevents costly repair of material damage caused by paint	7327
Neuromodulation of Vagal Stimulation Enhances anti-inflammatory effects of vagus nerve stimulation Pairs electrical stimulation with kilohertz electrical stimulation nerve block to achieve directional stimulation Quick, reliable anti-inflammatory clinical effects	7275
Sol-Gel Films and High Energy Capacitor Device Sol-gel materials are a targeted research area for thin film energy storage and enhanced storage capabilities for wide variety of applications All solution-processing including ready-to-spin recipes Compatible with flexible substrates and roll-to-roll processing	6993
Motor Function Recovery System for Stroke Patients Unconventional: Passive stimulation unlike traditional therapy or rehabilitation Tactile: No electrostimulation, more comfortable to patients Convenient: Little to no effort/attention required	7689, 7692, 7693, 7694, 7695

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