Accurate Fluorescein Optical pH Sensing of Biofilms on Teeth and Food

This technology offers accurate optical pH sensing for biofilms using multiple wavelength emissions for data processing. This system can prevent tooth and gum disease before it occurs and produce proper patient care.

Active Control of Vortices for Skin Friction Reduction

This technology offers an active control of stationary vortices for aerodynamic structures to reduce CO2 emissions. This system enables skin friction reduction, a reduced drag, and an increased thermodynamic efficiency in engine use cases.

Adaptive Illuminance Control of Uniform and Uneven Topographies

This technology offers a shape adaptive lighting for non-uniform topographies in robust machine vision and inspection. This system can allow the generation of different lighting patterns, structures, and colors for complex, reflective components, and improve classical imaging capturing systems.

Air-Breathing Plasma Thruster With a Variable Spacing Cathode

This technology offers a platform for indefinite space flight using high-altitude air-breathing plasma thrusters and does not require on-board propellant. This system can accommodate varying air densities and be mechanically tuned between the thruster’s anode and cathodes.

Analog Front-End Circuitry for Biphasic Stimulus Signal Delivery Finding Use in Neural Stimulation

This technology uses a low voltage and modern bulk- complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor design that are highly programmable and allow experimentation with waveforms and simulation patterns for topologies.

Autonomous Vehicle Platoons Robust Against Communication and Sensor Failure

Platoons of autonomous vehicles controlled by a centralized adaptive cruise control are vulnerable to disruptions in communications between cars, and unreliable sensing information of the vehicles around them. By building methods to simulate a centralized command during communication loss, and to establish safety margins based on still-reliable sensor information during a sensor failure, a platoon of vehicles can guarantee safety in even emergency situations while suffering communication and sensor loss.

CapHarvester: A Stick-on Capacitive Energy Harvester Using Stray Electric Field from AC Power Lines

CapHarvester aims to replace cumbersome battery power for IoT devices by harnessing the energy from stray electric fields surrounding AC power lines in a home. It avoids the need for an ohmic connection to ground through a capacitive coupling-generated ground reference, allowing for diverse application and placement with minimal safety hazards.

Closed-loop High-fidelity Simulation Integrating Finite Element Modeling with Feedback Controls in Additive Manufacturing

This technology offers a first instance closed-loop simulation framework to quickly survey a parameter space by comparing feedback control results with experimental and analytical solutions. This computational architecture can be beneficial with costly and time-consuming experiments.

Compliant Adhesion: Local Suction Generation on Compliant Membranes

This technology offers softer and smaller possible pressure sources into vacuums near suction points. The suction attachment will address the concerns of tubes collapsing under vacuum.

Computationally Generated Grippers

This technology offers a custom gripper that can pick up a wide range of objects through the calculation of the optimal lifting points.

Deformable Self-balancing Adhesion Grippers

This technology offers a gripper for irregular surfaces where these mechanisms can be combinations of 1D or 2D self-balancing and self-similar structures.

Deployable Tubular Biopsy Device

This technology offers a biopsy tool design for the bile duct biopsy procedure. This method allows for improved navigational accuracy using thin, circumferential blades supported by a hollow sheath and actuated by a helical plunger.

Drill Guide System for Suture Anchor Insertion

The innovation offers specially engineered orthopedic drill guides for installation of suture anchors with minimal disruption of surrounding healthy tissue.

Dual Feedback Loops for Integrated Voltage and Clock Regulation

This technology offers an improved all-digital unified clock with power architecture to regulate a clock signal and a supply voltage in a single loop. This device allows for a more efficient operation of digital load to perform quicker computations than the existing digital systems with a first control loop and second control loop operating independently.

Energy-Efficient Modulated Backscatter Devices for Wireless Communication

This suite of technologies offers a versatile solution for low-energy wireless communication by creating a backscatter modulation communication device capable of working directly with conventional wireless receivers without specialized hardware.

Energy-Efficient Strain-Programmable Probabilistic Bits

The manipulation of quantum properties of electrons to store information has been used for decades, and its continued study is key to the development of new fields such as spintronics and quantum computing. The discovery of strain-induced properties of stacked CrSBr layers promises advances in both unparalleled control of key material properties, as well as energy efficiency, in the development of new information storage components.

Gloved Human-Machine Interface

This technology offers a vibrotactile feedback consisting of several systems, devices, circuits, or user interfaces adapted for activities for a bulky glove wearer that comprise tracking movement of the gloved hand and interpreting a gloved finger movement of a human.

In-situ Imaging and Data Analytics for Coaxial Monitoring of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing

This technology offers an in-situ imaging and data analytic method for the coaxial monitoring of laser powder bed fusion. This system can quickly gather data, process its quality and stability, and automatically generate alarms.

Input Driven Self-Clocked Dynamic Comparator

This technology offers a method to reduce the switching power for a dynamic comparator. It uses an input driven self-clocking mechanism instead of a constant clock that can consume less dynamic power and run faster.

Method and Apparatus for Compressed Sensing Analog-to-Digital Conversion

The invention is methods, systems, and devices for compressed sensing analog to digital conversion. Common compressed-sensing techniques are limited by potential inaccuracy and imprecision, power inefficiency, long delays, and large circuit areas. This invention eliminates the issues and provides an efficient and accurate data compression method.

Perfect Plane Mechanism

This technology offers a mechanical linkage for perfect movement. This device can be used to move a point in a plane, on a large diameter sphere, or on a line or circle, and combines movement to reduce constraint.

Photopatterning of Hydrogel Biomaterials

The solution is a generalizable and intuitive strategy using lasers to print 3D non-discrete patterns across cellular scales in biomaterials.

Plant-Based Mosquito Attractant Mixture

This invention discloses the compositions of a highly effective, novel mosquito attractant mixture for use in a variety of high-impact public health research and development areas.

Porcupine: Swift and Versatile DNA-based Molecular Tagging

The use of DNA to make molecular tags, or nano-scaled “barcodes”, promises to use pre-existing expertise in manipulating biomolecules to invisibly track and identify objects of interest in a difficult-to-forge way. However, the synthesis of such biomolecules is by no means inexpensive, and current efforts in this space require large overhead and take long times to decode a tag. This technology solves both issues by providing an easy-to-use approach to DNA-based molecular tagging, able to be decoded in real time with an inexpensive, portable device.

Printed Energy Harvesting Wearables

This technology utilizes composite materials as the fabric additive to enable the development of stretchable high-performance thermoelectric power generators. The durability of the wearable device is improved by undergoing 15,000 stretching cycles without mechanical or electrical failure.

Retina Template Matching in Teleophthalmology

RetinaMatch is an efficient and accurate retinal matching technique that uses adapter-based optics in a smartphone and can lead to proper care and diagnoses for teleophthalmology. This technology offers high quality images to mitigate misdiagnoses and address the challenge of automated retinal image matching and registration.

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Self Interference Cancellation from a Wireless Transmitter to Receiver

This technology cancels the leakage in a transceiver, a component that transmits signal, by eliminating interference issues, and allowing the receiver to detect weak signals.

Sensing From Everting Tube Robots

This technology offers a freely everting tube robot that can sense acoustic signals and pressure changes. It can limit insertion forces and the spread of bacteria in sensitive biological environments.

Stream Wise Vortex Fire Extinguisher for Space Environments

This technology offers a new type of fire extinguisher for use in microgravity environments. This system can mitigate fire in space by using vortex generators to quench flames with sufficient speed and strength.

Twisted MoTe2 Bilayer Device for Qubit Technologies

In the quest to unlock the potential of quantum computing, researchers have delved into the realm of quantum materials seeking to harness their unique properties such as the quantum Hall effect. This technology demonstrates the long-predicted fractional quantum anomalous hall effect, using twisted bilayers of molybdenum ditelluride in a novel multi-gate transistor device to demonstrate the effect in practice. This technology shows vast potential as a laboratory for experimenting with the fractional quantum anomalous hall effect, and as a transformative innovation working towards realizing a topological quantum computer.

Ultrasonic Levitation for Microwell Plates

This technology aims to bring sensitivity in robotic manipulation to general-use robots previously matched only by specialized surgical tools. Using ultrasonic waves, the contactless approach allows the picking up and moving of small, delicate objects only millimeters in size.

Using Supplemental Encrypted Signals to Mitigate Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Teleoperated Systems

Teleoperated robotics need an increased security system to avoid misuse, tampering, and harmful security threats. This technology offers a mitigation system that protects against replay, spoofing, false data injection, and man-in-the-middle attacks using two independent detection systems. This multi-detector system uses encrypted signals to control inputs in the operators’ remote devices’ that will quickly and reliably detect malicious feedbacks.

Z-Ring Wearable Sensor

The Z-Ring is a wearable input technology that leverages bio-impedance sensing to facilitate a wide range of interactions, including gesture input, object recognition, user identification, and interaction with passive user interfaces.