MuAMO: an Intelligent Maintenance Optimization Framework for Safety-Critical Systems
TS-073254 —
Industries operating safety‑critical and asset‑intensive systems struggle to leverage the full value of disparate maintenance data sources. Current maintenance management and optimization tools operate in silos, limiting real‑time decision‑making, automation, and scalability. No existing s…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Khafizov, Marat; Pietrykowski, Michael; Vaddi, Pavan Kumar; Zhao, Yunfei
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
DPRA: Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Cyber Security Risk Analysis
TS-073146 —
As industrial systems become increasingly digital and interconnected, traditional risk assessment tools struggle to capture how cyber threats interact with physical processes in real time. Existing methods typically assess hardware failures or isolated cyber events, but they cannot model how attac…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Vaddi, Pavan Kumar; Zhao, Yunfei
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Model-Based, Multi-Criteria Optimization for Sensor Placement and Selection
TS-073138 —
Designing online monitoring (OLM) for safety‑critical systems is constrained by scarce early‑stage operational data and by quantitative models that are slow to build, brittle across configurations, and costly to iterate. This creates expensive sensor networks with blind spots, poor diagnosabil…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Olatubosun, Samuel; Rownak, Md Ragib; Vaddi, Pavan Kumar
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
BLIPS: Deductive Early‑Stage Failure Analysis for Complex Systems
TS-072984 —
Complex systems are entering the market faster while safety verification grows harder, especially when detailed designs or operational data don’t yet exist. Traditional tools (FMEA, FTA, PRA) either require finalized designs, focus on forward propagation, or struggle with partial failures and fu…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Mansoor, Ali; Diao, Xiaoxu; Smidts, Carol
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Propagation-Based Fault Detection and Sensor Optimization for Complex Industrial Systems
TS-072175 — The Need
Modern industrial and energy systems are increasingly complex, making timely fault detection and discrimination critical for safety, reliability, and cost control. Existing fault diagnosis methods often struggle with transient states, require extensive historical data, or lack interpretabil…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Li, Boyuan
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Sacrificial Layer to Facilitate Welding of Thin Foils
TS-065430 — Cost-effective method to prevent damaged electrodes when welding thin foils.
Manufacturing of automotive lithium-ion batteries and battery packs is attracting growing attention with the driving demands of electric vehicles. During battery assembly, multi-layers of metal films, functioning as anodes, cathodes, or bus-bars are welded together. Achieving satisfying weld quali…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Liu, Xun; Kwon, Ho; Shah, Umair
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Ultrasonically assisted wire additive manufacturing process and apparatus
TS-054013 — The ultrasonically assisted wire additive manufacturing process and apparatus is a new innovation that uses power ultrasound (UA) for benefits in processing molten metals. The UA energy is directly app
lied in the local deposition pool, which makes this new hybrid process app
licable for building parts with any size and geometry.
Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process of 3D printing for industrial use. Instead of countertop devices printing small toys from plastic, industrial AM is used on a much larger scale to create engine blocks, plane components, and many other products made of metal alloys. AM is traditionally do…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Liu, Xun; Pfeifer, Eddie "Ed"; Wang, Tianzhao
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Ultrasonic Resistance Spot Welding Process and Apparatus
TS-041781 — An improvement to ultrasonic and resistance spot welding
Ultrasonic welding is widely used in the electronics industry to weld together wiring in delicate circuits and on microcircuits. It is also used in the automotive industry, medical industry, and packaging industry, often to weld dissimilar materials or plastics. The major advantages in ultrasonic …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Liu, Xun; Benatar, Avraham "Avi"; Kimchi, Menachem
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Synthesis of Hydrogen Gas
TS-014807 — Production of Hydrogen gas using economical and environmentally friendly catalysts.
Stable and reusable catalysts improve the efficiency of industrial scale material production. However, hexavalent Chromium (VI) and other common catalysts are known to cause various health effects. Furthermore, there are substantial risks associated with greater concentrations of chromium in the w…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ozkan, Umit; Natesakhawat, Sittichai; Wang, Xueqin; Zhang, Lingzhi
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan