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True High-Dynamic Range Single Lens Video Camera
Published Tuesday, February 23, 2016BackgroundCurrent digital imaging arrays (sensors), whether CCD or CMOS, have a fundamentally limited dynamic range. For imaging in daytime conditions, direct sunlight coupled with reflections from the water surface and other bright objects causes saturation that could hide important details in parts of the image. Conversely, in dawn,...
Categories: Imaging devices, Sensors/Monitors, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): High-Dynamic Video, HDR, digital imaging, 525
Docket: PS-2015-032
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Multiple-Electron Aqueous Battery
Published Sunday, February 21, 2016Background:Lithium-ion batteries power much of our digital and mobile lifestyle. However, their adoption in more strategically important applications such as vehicle-electrification and grid-storage has been slower, mainly due to the concerns raised over their safety, cost, and environmental impact, which mostly arise from the non-aqueous...
Categories: Power Electronics, Engineering, Chemical, Materials
Keyword(s): Lithium-ion, battery, Grid-storage, Energy storage, Electric Vehicles
Docket: PS-2015-136
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Natural Replacement for Growth-Promoting Antibiotics in Chicken Feed
Published Sunday, February 21, 2016BackgroundFor years, the use of antibiotics to promote growth and weight gain in livestock has been a common practice. However, the desire of consumers for “antibiotic free” meat and pending government regulations has created the need for alternative growth promoters to be identified and developed. With increased attention on meat...
Categories: Agricultural
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: LS-2015-142
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Production of Isocyanates from Dinitrogen and Carbon Dioxide
Published Thursday, February 11, 2016BackgroundThe conversion of dinitrogen (N2) into ammonia (NH3) is an important chemical process both in living tissue (formation of amino acids and nucleotides) and industrial applications. However, current industrial methods for the production of ammonia is an energy-intensive process that is poorly understood. One industrial use for...
Categories: Chemical, Materials
Keyword(s): Polymers, Chemical Engineering, Nitrogen Sequestration, Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Docket: LS-2015-020
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Wireless Power Transfer Using Superconducting Oscillators
Published Monday, December 7, 2015The field of non-radiative modes of coupled resonance used for wireless power transfer has been of great recent interest. The transfer of energy over non-negligible distances has the advantage of being impervious to extraneous environmental objects, e.g., ferrous materials. Existing resonant inductive power transfer has provided a transfer of 60...
Categories: Power Electronics
Keyword(s): wireless power, power transfer
Docket: PS-2009-050
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Compliant Passive Grasping Technology for Arbitrary Shaped and Sized Objects
Published Monday, December 7, 2015BackgroundSuction grippers (also referred to as "vacuum grippers") can grasp objects for handling and manipulation. They enable active control of grasp, enhance grasp stability, and handle some objects such as large flat plates more easily than standard graspers. However, the application of suction cups to object manipulation has been...
Categories: Robotics, Industrial Processing, Robotics, Devices, Engineering
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2009-107
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Electronic Home Plate
Published Sunday, December 6, 2015Background:The human factor of umpires in baseball calling balls and strikes can be contentious even with the best of the best behind home plate. The “strike zone”, and its perception by a person two people behind the batter, is less than precise and the subjectivity of the call of ball or strike can affect the outcome of the game. This...
Categories: Robotics, Engineering, Microelectronics, Robotics, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Baseball, Home plate, Optical sensing, Softball
Docket: PS-2014-167
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Ion Intercalated Transparent Electrodes
Published Monday, November 30, 2015Background:Transparent electrodes are abundantly used in electronic devices such as displays, touch screens and solar cells. Highly transparent, conductive and flexible material such as graphene and its derivatives are abundantly utilized and studied as transparent electrodes. Large scale graphene based transparent electrodes are usually made...
Categories: Microelectronics, Engineering, Imaging devices
Keyword(s): graphene, reduced graphene oxide, transparent electrodes, touch screens, electronic displays, Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)
Docket: PS-2015-034
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Multifunctional Variable Refrigerant Flow System with a Thermal Energy Storage
Published Thursday, November 12, 2015Background:Commercial and residential buildings account for the majority of energy consumption in the United States. Therefore, there has been a great effort to improve the performance of cooling and heating systems in both residential and commercial buildings. The variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system is one of the most energy...
Categories: Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): Thermal Energy Storage, energy efficiency, cooling, heating,
Docket: PS-2015-039
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Atomic Layer Deposition for Metal Anode Passivation
Published Wednesday, November 11, 2015Background:Lithium metal is of great interest to the battery community: as the lightest and most electropositive alkali metal, Li has a low density, resulting in an extremely high specific capacity value of 3.86Ah/g and energy density of 11,701Wh/kg, making it the holy grail of battery anodes. Other light metals – Na, Mg, and Al – have...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Batteries, Lithium metal, Li-ion batteries, Energy storage, metal anode
Docket: PS-2014-155