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Available Technologies by Category
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
Increasing WiFi VoIP Call Capacity	Supports many calls per access points	4036
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
Ultra-Thin Interposer Assemblies for Higher Integrated Circuit Bandwidth	Scalable, with connections above, below, and beside the interposer Lower cost, less complex manufacturing through interposer-package integration Testable, both before and after device integration	5453
Environmental Context from Machine Readable Visual Markers	High resolution — system can provide high resolution indoor location context	5429
Cause-Effect Analysis for Video Content	Enables characterizing the temporal structure of video events in an unsupervised manner, - a key to video analysis Reduces the need for training data Improves performance in retrieving and classifying social events from a video	5324
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
Periodic Arrays for Frequency-Based Beam Steering	Avoids individual control of array components Reduced cost, smaller design equipment	4716
Power Optimized Waveform	Range – greater wireless power range Efficiency – greater wireless power efficiency Reliability – increased wireless power reliability	4570
REMS Sensors for Environmental Monitoring	Low cost – decreases expenses by being compatible with existing UHF or microwave passive RFID integrated circuits Precise – because an RFID readers filters out unmodulated scatter components, an RFID-based REMS sensor is more precise Allows passive interrogation of the sensor	4561
Container Security Device	Versatile: can be used on various types of containers Facilitated communication: the door sensors are able to communicate with a controller Efficient: does not require reduction or intrusion of cargo space	4461
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
Advance Mobility Improvement for Organic Field Effect Transistors	Dramatic increase in mobility: Yields a 2-order-of-magnitude increase in charge transport Fast: Achieves 100-fold improvements after a mere 5 minutes of ultrasound Simple: Requires only low-intensity ultrasound and eliminates the need for dielectric surface modifications or post-deposition treatment of the device	5187
Multi-Antenna Signaling for Low-Powered Communications	Low-power: can substantially reduce the power required by electronics to perform data exchange Greater range: techniques yield greater operational distances Low costs: RF tags can be manufactured cheaply	5147
Minimizing Power Failure from Weather Disruptions	Efficient – Allows power grid resilience for a community to be determined in the best possible manner by the electric utility while minimizing the impact of weather-related events Analytical – Capable of analyzing and determining spots most or least resilient as well as time durations between failure and recovery Customizable – Ability to tailor the model’s overall framework to include global and local parameters in the analysis and determination of performance issues	6665
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
High Data-Rate Wireless Communication	Works with any off-the-shelf Wi-Fi radios, requiring minimal or no hardware or firmware changes Works with all frequency bands Backwards-compatible for deployment in existing Wi-Fi network environments	4662
BrainBraille	Increased information bandwidth and speed for BCI devices Rapid learning of motions and associated meanings Enhanced accuracy	8088

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