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A Solution for Community-Based Parking:
Vehicle Information Systems
Ultrasonic sensor on car detects parked cars and vacant spaces.
Invention Summary:
Searching for available on-street parking is a persistent urban challenge, leading to increased congestion, wasted time, and higher emissions.
Creating a spot-accurate map of parking availability challenges GPS location accuracy limits. To address this need,...
Published: 10/11/2024
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Inventor(s): Marco Gruteser, Suhas Mathur
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software & Copyright, Technology Classifications > Software & Algorithms, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Telecommunications & Networking
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Novel cermet composite for nuclear waste immobilization
1.5-inch diameter cermet synthesized using hot uniaxial sintering
Invention Summary:
Nuclear power generates ~10% of electricity globally and ~20% in developed economies. High-level waste, expected to be produced at the back end of advanced reactor fuel cycles, includes metals, oxides, halide salts, and carbon/graphite...
Published: 10/9/2024
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Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel, John Vienna, John McCloy, S Sundaram, Aditya Kumar, Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Jake Amoroso
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Energy & Battery, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Polymers/Composites/Materials
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Enhancing CAR Macrophage Efferocytosis via Surface Engineered Lipid Nanoparticles Targeting LXR Signaling
CAR-Macrophage efficiently uptakes apoptotic cell and cholesterol crystals via β-cyclodextrin, activating the LXR pathway and promoting cholesterol efflux
Invention Summary:
Atherosclerosis is considered the major cause of cardiovascular disease, leading to ischemic heart disease and ischemic strokes, the 1st and 5th largest causes of...
Published: 9/20/2024
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Inventor(s): Skylar Chuang, Ki-Bum Lee
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Healthcare & Life Sciences, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology
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Ion‐exchangeable transparent and opaque glass‐ceramics
Photos of heat-treated glass-ceramics
Invention Summary:
Recently, the display glass industry is transitioning from using glass to glass‐ceramic due to its higher mechanical strength. Similarly, instead if aluminum, glass-ceramic is becoming the preferred material for back covers of smartphones and other devices to enable effective wireless...
Published: 8/23/2024
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Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel, Qianhui Qin
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Polymers/Composites/Materials
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Flame Synthesis of Carbon-Based Films on Liquid Surfaces
Schematic of an ethylene-air premix flame impinging on the liquid surface of a distilled water bath, producing carbon-based films on the liquid surface
Invention Summary:
The production of thin, carbon-based films on liquid surfaces often leaves behind MgO impurities, requires additional purification steps, and is reliant on the use of substrates,...
Published: 8/15/2024
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Inventor(s): Stephen Tse, Chuiyuan Meng, Bernard Kear
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Electronics/Semiconductor, Technology Classifications > Nanotechnology, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Polymers/Composites/Materials, Technology Classifications > Sensors
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Surgical Artificial Intelligence Ureteral Injury Prevention System for Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery
Image legend: The software will offer surgeons a real‐time monitoring system for the position of the ureters
Invention Summary:
Overall incidence of significant ureteral injury in gynecologic and colorectal surgeries is 1.7% and 1.9%, respectively. The risk of injury is higher in cases with a complex history of prior surgery, radiation, inflammatory...
Published: 10/7/2024
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Inventor(s): Hussam Shwaib
Keywords(s):
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Medical Imaging, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Software & Algorithms
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IoT-enabled Smart Ionizer air purifier system for protection against viral infections
3D printed and image-rendered prototype of the Smart Ionizer device.
Invention Summary:
Portable ionizers have been used on the market as air purifiers for the mitigation of viral infections and pollutants in the air. The production of positive or negative ions in the air can attach to negatively and positively-charged viruses in the air,...
Published: 10/7/2024
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Inventor(s): Banmali Banerjee, Vaishali Singhal, Rithika Sriram, Muhammad Khan, Sabarinath Ramachandran, Jihao Yang, Pranav Tripathi
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Consumer & Household Goods, Technology Classifications > COVID-19, Technology Classifications > Electronics/Semiconductor, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Software & Algorithms, Technology Classifications > Telecommunications & Networking
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Detecting Driver Phone Usage Exploiting Inertial Sensors
Scheme showing how the technology determines the cell phone location.
Invention Summary:
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), “The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year. With nearly 660,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting...
Published: 6/28/2024
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Inventor(s): Marco Gruteser, Richard Martin, Yan Wang (Non-RU), Yingying Chen (Non-RU)
Keywords(s): Wireless
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software & Copyright, Technology Classifications > Software & Algorithms, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering
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Electroosmotic Acoustic Transducer
Electro-mechanical transduction is achieved when the ionic fluid is acoustically or electrically excited within the device’s capillaries
Invention Summary:
Sound generating devices have varying applications in fluidic and soft tissue environments; including speakers for private and recreational swimming pools, medical diagnostic...
Published: 9/18/2024
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Inventor(s): Francisco Diez-Garias, Thomas Hansen
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Telecommunications & Networking
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Proximity Doping for Silicon Structures
Long-term passivation stability of Phosphorus-doped polysilicon samples
Invention Summary:
In semiconductor industries, Spin-on-dopants (SOD) are being used as an alternative to conventional solution for forming doped poly-Si junctions and homogeneously diffused junctions. However, SOD also has its own limitation; Organic residues remained...
Published: 9/16/2024
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Inventor(s): Ngwe Zin, Vibhor Kumar, Munan Gao
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Electronics/Semiconductor, Technology Classifications > Energy & Battery, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering
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