Available Technologies by Category
Automated Medical Image Interpretation for Tissue Segmentation
  • Increased accuracy: Computer processing removes the need to manually interpret boundaries
  • Fast: The algorithm is extremely rapid, repeatable, and accurate
  • Versatile: Programs can be implemented in assembly or machine language
5107
BrainBraille
  • Increased information bandwidth and speed for BCI devices
  • Rapid learning of motions and associated meanings
  • Enhanced accuracy
8088
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,
6047, 6058
A Machine Learning Algorithm for Material Property Predictions
  • Faster: this approach provides a speed up of several orders of magnitude relative to the current methods
  • Accuracy: despite faster speed, accuracy is not compromised
  • Efficient: solves electronic structure problems
7969
Congestion Control and Power Conservation in Wireless Networks
  • Energy Efficient – Components enter low-power mode when not actively in operation
  • Reduced Network Congestion – Cycles process prevents access points from becoming clogged with multiple data transfer processes
  • Higher Throughput – Unlimited amount of data can be transferred
7900
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
Advanced Techniques in Floating-Gate Transistor Programming
  • Precise
  • Smaller switch count
  • Fewer parasitic
3458
Disease Progression Modeling
  • Accurate - Provides continuous time modeling, which is more appropriate for medical data due to patients being monitored at irregular intervals
  • Multipurpose - Could be used for disease staging, characteristic progression pattern discovery, prediction of the future state of disease, fast local progression detection, and to enable understanding of disease progression
6466
PUPS: Pressure Ulcer Prevention System
  • Enhanced quality of care: Patients are less likely to develop a hospital-acquired infection
  • Lower cost: Minimizes costs from “never events” such as pressure ulcers
7541
Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Test
  • Relatable: Does not rely on genetic detection, making it more general and directly relatable to traditional ASTs used clinically
  • Faster: Can perform ASTs in 1/8th of the time of current ASTs
  • Improved accuracy: Decreases technician time and handling, improving accuracy and treatment
7492
Improved Privacy: A Data Security Solution
  • Easy-to-use – Overcomes usability problems and/or server modifications of existing privacy solutions
  • Standalone – Ability to be used as a standalone program that provides better isolation than other products
  • Secure – Allows the provider or online entity to enhance the user’s confidence that the personal data will be not be compromised
6426
Multi-Layer Inkjet-Printed Capacitors
  • Quick — Rapid fabrication of extremely high frequency (EHF) components in minutes
  • Low cost — Does not require a clean room and low chemical and material waste
  • Convenient — Equipment is small enough to allow on-the-spot printing and modifications in remote locations
6332
Apparatus and Method for Protecting Log Information
  • Hardware and software to prevent ‘log’ data tampering
  • System logs impenetrable and non-modifiable
  • Disables the ability to remove or tamper with trace data
6327
Sensing Methodology for Intelligent Traffic Sign Inventory
  • Ability to measure signs faster and safer
6321
Configurable Hyper-Referenced Associative Object Schema (CHAOS)
  • Efficient application of tools and algorithms
  • Simplifies the extract, load, and transform phase of data processing
7316
Fuel-Optimal Flight in Uncertain Wind
  • Accurate: Process uncertainty model provides more accurate results than current models
  • Efficient: Optimization model provides fuel-optimal air speed over flight path
  • Novel: First method to leverage knowledge of wind forecast uncertainty in a random process framework
5878
Using Hardware "Fingerprints" to Enhance Network Security
  • Long-Term Solution: Because no software client is required, this technique can be used to identify both current and future unmanageable devices.
  • Failsafe: Because it relies on inherently unique signatures tied to hardware’s diverse compositions, component manufacturers, and physical differences, the system is difficult to defeat by unauthorized—or even authorized—users.
  • Reduced Vulnerability: As a network-based solution, this method eliminates the security vulnerabilities associated with software additions at each node.
5818
DejaVu: Automated Suggestions for Email Responses on Mobile Devices
  • Potential to decrease time spent replying to emails
  • Reply suggestions are relevant due to robust information curator and database in the system architecture
7245
Improved Adaptive Control System Using Selectable Parameters
  • Faster: Requires less complexity in the code, enabling faster control response times
  • Smoother: Improves control stabilization and tracking performance
  • Versatile: Augments existing nonadaptive control systems without modifying the gains employed in those systems
5619