Single-Input Optical Gate Drive Architecture for Power Electronics
TS-077144 —
Medium-voltage and high-voltage power electronics require robust isolation between control and power stages to ensure safe, reliable operation. Existing gate drive architectures typically rely on multiple isolated power supplies, signal isolation components, and communication channels, increasing …
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- Inventors: Wang, Jin; Yang, Juchen
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Adaptive Long-Context Multimodal Modeling for City-Scale Accident Risk Prediction
TS-077096 —
Urban traffic accidents are difficult to predict because risk changes rapidly with traffic conditions, weather, human activity, road characteristics, and events occurring elsewhere in a city. Existing prediction approaches often rely on fixed historical windows or isolated data sources, limiting t…
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- Inventors: Guha Neogi, Pinaki Prasad; Mohammadshirazi, Ahmad; Ramnath, Rajiv
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
High-Selectivity Solid-State Solar-Blind UV Photodetector with Ultra-Low Dark Current
TS-076823 —
Solar-blind UV detection (200–280 nm) is essential across defense, fire detection, secure optical communications, environmental monitoring, and space applications. Existing solutions — photomultiplier tubes and filtered silicon photodetectors — are bulky, fragile, require high op…
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- Inventors: Rajan, Siddharth; McGlone, Joseph "Joe"; Wriedt, Nathan
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Function-Based Molecular Detection of Active Mold Growth in Buildings
TS-076675 —
Indoor moisture and mold remain persistent challenges for residential, commercial, healthcare, and institutional buildings. Existing mold assessment methods often measure the presence of fungal species or biomass but struggle to distinguish active mold growth from normal background microbial popul…
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- Inventors: Dannemiller, Karen; Balasubrahmaniam, Neeraja
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Alkane Dehydrogenation with Value adding Product
TS-076593 —
Light olefins are essential feedstocks for polymers and other high-value chemicals, but conventional alkane dehydrogenation is energy-intensive and constrained by reaction equilibrium. High operating temperatures can reduce selectivity, accelerate catalyst degradation, and promote unwanted byprodu…
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- Inventors: Fan, Liang-Shih; Cheng, Zhuo; Hu, Jason; Jiang, Xiaofeng
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Ultra-Fast Intensity Measurement Technique for Advanced UV Photodetectors
TS-076541 —
Ga2O3 ultraviolet photodetectors are increasingly being deployed in applications such as water purification, industrial process monitoring, environmental sensing, defense systems, and advanced manufacturing. However, many emerging wide-bandgap photodetector technologies exhibit nonlinear responses…
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- Inventors: Rajan, Siddharth; Orlandini, Davide; Wriedt, Nathan
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Frame-Resolved Ultrasonic Imaging for Weld and Defect Inspection
TS-076522 —
Manufacturers across aerospace, energy, transportation, and advanced manufacturing sectors require reliable methods to inspect critical components without destructive testing. Conventional ultrasonic inspections often provide only bulk through-thickness information, making it difficult to isolate …
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- Inventors: Bourgeois, Desmond; McGinnis, Sean
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Enhanced Light Extraction in Tunnel-Junction UV LEDs
TS-076325 —
UV LEDs, particularly those operating at shorter wavelengths, face persistent challenges in achieving high optical efficiency. Conventional device architectures can suffer from significant internal absorption and inefficient light extraction, limiting wall-plug efficiency and increasing power requ…
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- Inventors: Rajan, Siddharth; Akyol, Faith; Jamal-Eddine, Zane; Zhang, Yuewei
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Fiber-Coupled Multi-Layer Lithium Niobate Photonic Platform
TS-076198 —
Advanced photonic systems for communications, sensing, computing, and quantum technologies increasingly rely on lithium niobate due to its exceptional electro-optic and nonlinear optical properties. However, existing high-performance lithium niobate photonic devices face major commercialization ba…
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- Inventors: Reano, Ronald; Nagy, Jonathan "Tyler"; Patton, Ryan; Prabhakar, Karan
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
High-Performance Lightweight Polypropylene Foams via Pressure-Induced Structuring
TS-076188 —
Polypropylene (PP) is an attractive engineering polymer due to its low cost, recyclability, chemical resistance, and favorable processing characteristics. However, conventional PP is notoriously difficult to foam because of its low melt strength and highly crystalline structure, often resulting in…
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- Inventors: Lee, L James; Chiu, Debbie Yven; Fu, Dajiong; Li, Dachao; Yen, Ying-Chieh
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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