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Multifunctional Energy Harvesting Skin
Published Tuesday, November 10, 2015Energy harvesting technologies currently enable wireless sensors to be operated without a battery but still require recharging or periodic replacement. Vibration is a widely available ambient energy source. Piezoelectric energy conversion from vibration is the most efficient approach known. A cantilever beam type generator is a popular device for...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Clean Technology
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2009-029
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Graphene Oxide Water Separation Membranes for Water Purification
Published Monday, October 26, 2015Background:In recent years, nanomaterials have been extensively used in membrane synthesis and surface modification to improve membrane performance (e.g., flux, antibacterial property, fouling resistance, photocatalytic property) and to optimize the operation of membrane processes (e.g., energy consumption, maintenance requirement)...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2013-125
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Kidney Viability Assessment System
Published Monday, October 26, 2015Background:Kidney transplantation is a lifesaving therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease. Currently, over 100,000 patients are annually waiting for kidney transplants, with organ shortages posing a major problem in kidney transplantation. While the vast majority of kidneys used for transplantation are obtained from heart-...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2013-151
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Safe, Low-Cost, High-Energy-Density, Solid-State Li-ion Batteries
Published Tuesday, October 20, 2015BackgroundThe adoption of the lithium-ion batteries in the consumer electronics, electric vehicle, and aerospace industries has grown exponentially over the years. Despite this growth, a call for a safer and more efficient rechargeable battery solution is at hand since lithium-ion batteries’ dangerous pressurized flammable liquid...
Categories: Devices, Engineering, Microelectronics, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): Soild-state, Lithium-ion, battery, 525
Docket: PS-2013-033
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Flapping Wing Insect-Inspired Micro Aerial Robotic Vehicle
Published Monday, October 12, 2015BackgroundMicro aerial vehicles (MAVs) at an insect scale would represent a phenomenal improvement in discrete reconnaissance vehicles. They would be especially advantageous for rapid exploration of small spaces and exploiting contextual camouflage. The ubiquitous occurrence of natural examples of insect-scale flapping flight suggests that...
Categories: Robotics, Robotics, Aerospace
Keyword(s): MAVs, Micro aerial vehicles, drones, Robotics
Docket: PS-2013-046
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Fly-Ear Inspired Miniature Acoustic Sensor System
Published Monday, October 12, 2015Conventional directional microphones have various constraints when attempting to deliver high performance along with a small footprint. There is performance degradation when size decreases relative to the target sound wavelength. Thus, there is a need for a miniature microphone that is able to provide excellent sound source localization....
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Microelectronics, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2010-023
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System Health Management based on Hybrid Dynamic Bayesian Network Modeling
Published Monday, September 28, 2015BackgroundAs systems become more complex, there is a need to monitor different subsystems and components to detect failure. Even a relatively simple system, like a commercial UAV, can have dozens of sensors and components, each of which can be a point of failure. However, basic monitoring of these components is not enough, since failure may...
Keyword(s): reliability, engineering, safety, drones, autonomous systems
Docket: IS-2015-018
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Malware Detection with Download Graph Analytics
Published Monday, September 28, 2015BackgroundMalware detection on computers, tablets, smartphones, and other devices is a recurring issue in the software security field, as anti-malware vendors and malware developers use ever more complex techniques to identify and hide malware, respectively. Analysis of malicious executables can be difficult due to obfuscation, hiding, and...
Keyword(s): malware, cybersecurity, antivirus, software
Docket: IS-2015-122
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Event Category Matrix for Temporal Event Sequences
Published Monday, September 28, 2015BackgroundData analysts have encountered a consistent problem in starting their analyses due to visual complexities. The visual complexity of temporal event sequences in an aggregated view increases with the addition in the number of categories in the dataset. Some existing methods try to solve this problem by automatically simplifying the...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-2015-043
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Construction Method of Polar Codes
Published Sunday, September 27, 2015BackgroundPolar codes are a recently development type of linear block error correcting code that have several potential useful properties, including efficient encoding and decoding complexity, fully capacity achieving, and low error probabilities given sufficient block length. However, polar codes also have certain drawbacks, including high...
Keyword(s): Polar codes, error correction codes, ECC, Reed-Solomon, non binary, storage, communications systems
Docket: IS-2015-116