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A Scalable Method for Minimizing Beam-Training Overhead in mmWave Communications
TS-068475 — The Need
As mmWave technology becomes the backbone of 5G and other advanced communication systems, the demand for fast, reliable, and scalable beamforming solutions has surged. Traditional beam-training methods are computationally intensive and time-consuming, leading to delays in establishing high-…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Athreya, Kannan; Chen, Wei-Han; Liu, Xin; Parthasarathy, Srinivasan
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Self-Calibration Technique for mmWave Antenna Arrays Based on Everyday Communication Behaviors
TS-068472 — The Need
The increasing adoption of mmWave technologies in 5G, IoT, and other advanced communication networks highlights a critical need for cost-effective, efficient, and scalable antenna calibration solutions. Traditional calibration methods rely on expensive laboratory setups and specialized equi…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Athreya, Kannan; Chen, Wei-Han; Liu, Xin
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
A Novel MIMO Architecture for Multi-user Power line communication
TS-062843 — This MIMO-PLC architecture is the first scalable MIMO architecture on a single power line. It improves the throughput for power line communication (PLC) by utilizing the existing power delivery infrastructure and allows for high data rates in rural areas.
Home networking and the Internet of Things (IoT), especially voice and video communications, require high throughput, reliable coverage, and sustainable connectivity. However, the performance is dramatically decreased when the wireless signals go through the walls and ceilings. The densely deploye…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Athreya, Kannan; Chen, Bo; Guruvenkata, Vivek; Sun, Wei
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
RF Energy Harvesting Wireless Mobile Device Charger
TS-062601 —
Only a small fraction of the radio frequency (RF) energy transmitted by smartphones and other wireless devices is used to communicate with a wireless access point. It would be useful to collect or harvest the unused RF signals in order to convert them to direct current (DC) power and supplement th…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih; Koksal, C. Emre; Shroff, Ness; Tallos, Roland
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Passive RF Rectifier Circuit Design with Harmonic Harvester
TS-062596 —
Conventional rectifying circuit designs convert alternating-current (AC) signals into direct-current (DC) signals via the used of diodes. Low-barrier Schottky diodes are used in low AC power cases such as with ambient radio frequency (RF) signals. Ideally, each diode is only turned on during the p…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Method to Create Patterned Thin Films of Lithium Niobate for Hybrid Integrated Photonics
TS-062492 —
Photonic integration is driven by demand for smaller size, lower cost, lower power consumption, easier assembly, higher reliability, and greater data density in modern photonic devices and systems. Among the many platforms, silicon photonics is particularly promising for photonic integration due t…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Reano, Ronald; Chen, Li
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
An Extremely Low Profile Ferrite-Loaded Wideband VHF Antenna Design
TS-043725 — VHF Antenna with significant height reduction with capability to operate in a wideband
VHF antennas operating over the frequency range of 30-3000 MHz are widely used for short-distance terrestrial communications. Monopole antennas are the most commonly used for VHF communications. However, monopoles require a quarter wavelength height and have narrow bandwidth. Some attempts have be…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih; Moon, Haksu; Volakis, John
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Learning Optimal Empirical Reward iNtelligence (LOERN) with Cyber Maintenance Applications
TS-040341 — A software solution designed to optimize cyber security decision making and reduce maintenance costs.
As the world becomes more and more connected, our systems become more and more vulnerable. If cyber security can become more automated, risk-based decisions can be made more quickly and rationally. Organizations can then leverage this decision-making to improve their security without increasing co…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Allen, Theodore; Hou, Chengjun
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Artificial Skin Design for Human Surrogates
TS-015001 — This artificial skin technology produces a similar reflectivity as human skin in the 76-77 GHz frequency range and can be effectively used on mannequins for pedestrian pre-collision system (PCS) evaluations.
According to fatality crash data from the 2003-2012 Fatality Analysis Report System (FARS) in United States, there was an average of around 4,400 pedestrian fatalities per year, accounting for 11-14% of all traffic fatalities and the numbers have continued to rise in recent years.In Japan, the nea…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih; Chen, Ming; Chien, Stanley; Sherony, Rini
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
