Available Technologies by Category
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
Voice-Activated Robotic Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation and Assistance
  • Voice-activated movement controlled by the patient
  • Integrated smartphone application to recommend exercises and schedules
  • Quantitative performance metrics and analysis sent to the physical therapist
8130
Secure QR Code System for Distributed Large Payload Transmissions
  • Increases opportunities for utilization of QR codes for various applications
  • Overcomes limitations such as small payloads and limited linking capabilities in current QR technologies/systems
  • Incorporates the ability to transmit data with different layers – encrypted/unencrypted, compressed/uncompressed and others
8346
Methods for Dynamic Modeling and Closed-Loop Control of Inflammation
  • Dynamic Adjustments: can make dynamic adjustments to obtain control over the response
  • Predict Stimuli: will predict when pro- and anti-inflammatory stimuli should be applied to generate the appropriate temporal profile of cellular response
8026
Online Semantic Analysis by Text Embedding
  • Better performance compared to the conventional natural language processing methods
7869
Paraunitary Asymmetric Cryptosystem (PAC)
  • Short key size
  • Short key-setup time
  • Low complexity
3131
Method for Imaging Mass Spectrometry
  • Precise – Method allows for automatic, precise control of molecule deposition
  • Scalable – Deposition method can be done on large or multiple samples
  • Solvent-Free – Improved imaging quality by eliminating solvent in deposition
4202
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
Visualization of Exception Handling Constructs to Support Program Understanding
  • Novel approach for exception handling using three inter-connected views: quantitative, flow, and contextual
  • The program’s design was created with input from experienced Java developers who found the program effective for directing them to better practices for exception-handling constructs
  • Prototype developed in Eclipse for Java applications, and can be extended to object-oriented languages with similar exception handling
4684
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
High-Speed Measurement of Weld Penetration Depths
  • A fast, efficient, non-contact, and non-destructive technique for measuring weld penetration depths in thin structures
  • The developed algorithms are computationally efficient, which makes the developed technique suitable for real-time and off-line inspections
  • Can be used with a variety of welding processes
6977
Scatter Correction for Cone-beam CT in Radiation Therapy
  • Does not modify either the hardware or the imaging protocols of the clinical system
  • Effectively reduces the scatter signals in the CBCTY scan, and improves image quality
  • Does not require an increase in the dose to the patients
5135
BrainBraille
  • Increased information bandwidth and speed for BCI devices
  • Rapid learning of motions and associated meanings
  • Enhanced accuracy
8088
MINTED: Simultaneous Deformation and Temperature Imaging
  • Simultaneous recording of small-scale temperature and deformation fields at high spatial and time resolutions
  • Studies deformation, failure, and heating in a range of materials
  • Analyzes/monitors heating and failure of MEMS devices, microchips, and circuit board
8064
Organ Transplant Decision Aid
  • Simple – easy-to-use interface for entering patient and donor characteristics
  • Flexible – separate survival models use different variables which enhance the performance of each model
  • Multifaceted – calculates survival probabilities for multiple organs where current technologies only determine survival probability for kidneys
8001
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
Multi-Wavelength Microscopy
  • Groundbreaking - First noninvasive method of assessing the total cell content of a blood bag without breaching the bag and potentially damaging the contents or compromising manufacturing
  • Cheaper - Laser scanning multi-photon microscopy is 5 to 10 times more expensive
  • Improved Imaging – Consistent cross-section of the cells and reduced blurriness
7862
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
Wearable Technology for Joint Health Assessment
  • Sensitive bio-markers of knee healing process 
  • Can be used outside of clinical settings 
  • Provides quantitative measurements as opposed to qualitative ones
7000
Wearable Technology for Cardiovascular Activity
  • Non-invasive measure of cardiac function through wearable ballistocardiography
  • Regular measurements of systolic time intervals during normal daily activities
  • Could be used in harsh environmental conditions including underwater
6714