GNSS‑Denied LEO Navigation via Online Ephemeris Error Estimation
TS-073358 —
Reliable positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) in GNSS‑denied or disrupted environments remains a critical challenge for defense, transportation, and autonomous systems. While low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites offer powerful signals and rapid geometry changes, they are typicall…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Kassas, Zak; Watchi Hayek, Samer
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Long-Baseline Ephemeris Error Correction for LEO-Based PNT
TS-073339 —
Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) resilience is increasingly critical as GNSS vulnerabilities become more apparent in contested, denied, or degraded environments. Low Earth orbit (LEO) communication satellites offer a promising alternative PNT source, but their utility is limited by poorly…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Kassas, Zak; Saroufim, Joe
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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
A Novel Machine Learning Approach for Classification at the Network Edge
TS-073225 —
In today's world, we are increasingly using low-cost devices with limited resources (often referred to as "edge devices") which are supported by connected high-performance servers. However, these edge devices often can't handle complex tasks such as classifying data. To make this possible, we need…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Li, Chengzhang; Eryilmaz, Atilla; Ju, Peizhong; Shroff, Ness
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Cognitive Opportunistic Navigation Using Unknown Reference Signals
TS-073173 —
Modern navigation systems increasingly rely on signals of opportunity such as 5G and LEO satellite downlinks, but these signals often lack public reference‑signal specifications, may be dynamic or on‑demand, and can suffer from severe Doppler effects. Conventional receivers cannot reliably acq…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Kassas, Zak; Neinavaie, Mohammad
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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
Cooperative Navigation Strategy for Safer, Smarter Urban Intersections
TS-073111 —
Urban intersections are among the highest‑risk environments for automated and human‑driven vehicles due to occlusions, complex right‑of‑way, mixed traffic, and inconsistent connectivity. On‑board perception alone often misses beyond‑line‑of‑sight actors, while centralized or game…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Khan, Rahan; Ahmed, Qadeer; Hanif, Athar
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Immersive VR Platform for Human Reliability Assessment for Physical Security
TS-073103 —
Physical protection remains a major driver of nuclear plant operations and maintenance costs, yet current security risk models rely on conservative assumptions and sparse empirical data on how defenders and operators actually behave under extreme threat. They rarely capture errors of commission, k…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Dechasuravanit, Atitarn; Diao, Xiaoxu; Olatubosun, Samuel; Rownak, Md Ragib; Shafieezadeh, Abdollah; Yilmaz, Alper; Zhao, Yunfei
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Risk‑Informed Markov Decision Framework for Industrial Asset Management
TS-073031 —
Operators of large, complex facilities struggle to balance revenue, maintenance, and regulatory safety constraints under uncertainty. Existing tools typically optimize only a subset of factors without a unified, real‑time view of component health and future degradation. Advanced reactors and oth…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Zhao, Yunfei; Smidts, Carol
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Flexible Light-Addressable Sensor for High-Resolution Physiological Mapping
TS-072319 — The Need
Current methods for mapping electrical potential gradients in biological tissues, such as the brain, rely on high-density electrode arrays fabricated via costly microfabrication techniques. These rigid devices struggle to conform to complex tissue morphologies, limiting their effectiveness …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Li, Jinghua; Chen, Shulin; Jia, Yizhen; Liu, Tzu Li; Wang, Qi
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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
Free Energy Spectroscopy: Transforming Molecular Analytics for Next-Generation Biotech and Pharma
TS-071946 — Powering faster, smarter decisions with real-time molecular insights for research and therapeutic development.
Overview
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies often face delays and uncertainty in new drug development due to insufficient experimental insight into the shifting behaviors of large biomolecular complexes— processes critical to understanding disease and drug mechanisms. Free Energy Spectrosco…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Poirier, Michael; Bonin, Kalven; Bundschuh, Ralf; Castro, Carlos
- Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana
Forecast Amplifier-Triple Your Weather Ensemble Quickly and Affordably
TS-071915 — An ultra‑efficient probit‑space ensemble expansion approach triples the size of weather‑forecast ensembles by producing hundreds of realistic “virtual” members from existing runs using minimal compute time and expert statistical knowledge.
Modern weather models are extremely complex, and each forecast can only be simulated a limited number of times. This means forecasters often have just 50–100 versions of a prediction to work with, even though the atmosphere itself is vastly more complicated. With so few samples, important de…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Chan, Man-Yau "Joseph"
- Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana
GRAFT-Stereo: Cost-Effective, High-Accuracy 3D Depth Perception
TS-071747 —
High-accuracy 3D depth perception is critical for autonomous systems, but current stereo camera methods falter in complex outdoor environments. While LiDAR can improve accuracy, its effectiveness plummets when using sparse data from affordable, lower-beam sensors, making high performance prohibiti…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chao, Wei-Lun "Harry"; Asare Boateng, Jeffery; Jeon, Sooyoung; Krishna, Sanjay; Musah, Tawfiq; Yoo, Jinsu
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
AI-Powered Smart Home System for Visual Organization Task Automation
TS-071692 — The Need
Modern smart home systems often lack contextual awareness and actionable intelligence, limiting their usefulness in daily home management. Consumers are seeking more intuitive, proactive solutions that go beyond simple automation to offer real-time insights, task generation, and physical in…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Wisniewski, Dan; Cazares, Richard; Schneller, Aspen; Starrett, Sean; Terveer, Michael
- Licensing Officer: Sharick, Joe
Efficient Cyclic Redundancy Check Encoding with Low-Complexity LFSR Design
TS-071388 — The Need
Cyclic redundancy checks (CRC) are utilized in digital communication and storage systems for error detection. Current CRC encoding and decoding methods in digital communication and storage systems are complex and require a high gate count, leading to inefficiencies in hardware design. There…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Zhang, Xinmiao; Cai, Jiaxuan; Tang, Yok Jye
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
SPARKLE: Machine Learning Platform for Rapid Organic Battery Material Discovery
TS-071386 — The Need
The search for sustainable, high-performance battery materials is hindered by reliance on finite metal-based resources and slow, trial-and-error development cycles. Organic electrode materials (OEMs), composed of earth-abundant elements, offer a more sustainable path but present challenges …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Paulson, Joel; Muthyala, Madhav; Park, Jay; Sorourifar, Farshud; Zhang, Shiyu
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
VerDiff: Automated Vulnerability Version Detection for Open Source Security
TS-071385 — The Need
Open source software is foundational to modern development, yet it introduces significant security risks due to outdated dependencies and inaccurate vulnerability advisories. Public databases often fail to identify all affected versions of software, leaving organizations exposed. With vulne…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Anwar, Md Sakib; Lin, Zhiqiang; Yagemann, Carter
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Efficient Machine Learning Prediction of Solvation Thermodynamics
TS-071267 — The Need
Modeling solvent effects on catalytic surfaces is critical for designing industrial processes like biomass conversion, fuel synthesis, and electrocatalysis. Traditional multiscale simulations combining density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) offer accuracy but are comp…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Getman, Rachel; Punyapu, Rohit; Shi, Jiexin
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
A Generalized Mistuning Model for Bladed Disk Systems
TS-070971 — The Need
Modern gas turbines and compressors rely on bladed disks, which are highly sensitive to mistuning caused by manufacturing tolerances, wear, or damage. Existing modeling tools are fragmented, complex, and often limited to specific mistuning types. Industry will greatly benefit from a unified…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: D'Souza, Kiran; Krizak, Troy
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
AI-Driven Intersection Safety System for Vulnerable Road User Protection
TS-070954 — The Need
Intersections are among the most dangerous areas on U.S. roadways, accounting for approximately 25% of traffic fatalities and nearly half of all injuries annually. Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), including pedestrians and cyclists, face increasing risk due to complex traffic dynamics and limi…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Yurtsever, Ekim; Giuliani, Michele; Rizzoni, Giorgio
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
HyperXtract: Rapid, Memory-Efficient Data Extraction for Nanopore Data
TS-070331 —
Accelerate discovery and streamline workflows with a next-generation platform for high-throughput nanopore data extraction.
The Need
Nanopore sensing is revolutionizing genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics, but the explosive growth in data volume has outpaced the capabilities of current analysis tools. Researchers often face bottlenecks due to slow processing speeds, memory limitations, and the need for specialized har…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Bandara, Nuwan
- Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana
Precision Soil Health: The Key to Sustainable, High-Yield Farming
TS-070310 —
An integrated soil health assessment and management platform that empowers growers to boost yields and sustainability through data-driven decisions.
Soil health is the cornerstone of sustainable agriculture, yet traditional management often overlooks the complex interactions that drive crop performance and environmental outcomes. Many growers struggle to optimize yields and reduce input costs due to limited, fragmented soil data. This techno…
- College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
- Inventors: Dick, Richard; Renz, Peter
- Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana
GPS Independent Lane Level Vehicle Localization
TS-069654 — Technology bundle containing T2025-148 and T2024-150.
The Need
Reliable vehicle localization is critical for autonomous and human-driven vehicles, especially in GPS-denied environments such as dense urban areas, tunnels, and off-road farms and construction sites. Current localization methods relying solely on GPS are prone to signal loss and inaccurac…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Javed, Nur Uddin; Ahmed, Qadeer
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Motion-Guided Deep Image Prior (M-DIP) for Dynamic Image Reconstruction in Cardiovascular MRI
TS-069527 — The Need
Cardiovascular MRI (CMR) data acquisition is often time-consuming and relies on complex reconstruction methods that do not fully exploit the spatial and temporal structure of CMR data. There is a need for a more efficient, unsupervised approach that can accelerate CMR imaging while maintai…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ahmad, Rizwan; Chen, Chong; Sultan, Muhammad
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
SyMANTIC – Novel Symbolic Regression to Discover Accurate Models from Data
TS-069523 — The Need
In many scientific and industrial fields, there is a critical need for interpretable and accurate models that can be derived from complex datasets. Traditional machine learning methods often produce black-box models that lack transparency and interpretability, making it difficult to unders…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Muthyala, Madhav Reddy; Paulson, Joel; Sorourifar, Farshud
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Joint Activity Testing (JAT): A Testing & Evaluation Methodology for Human-Machine Teams
TS-068443 —
In high-stakes industries, the integration of humans and advanced automation systems demands evaluation methods that reliably predict performance under varying challenges. Current testing methods often focus on individual components, failing to assess how human-machine teams operate as a unit, par…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Morey, Dane; Rayo, Michael
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Vision System Using MDP-Based Tracking for Automated Dimensional Analysis
TS-068440 —
Accurate measurement of physical attributes, such as dimensions, alignments, and surface features, is essential for ensuring quality and consistency across industries. Traditional measurement methods, often reliant on manual tools and human oversight, are time-intensive, prone to errors, and lac…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Allen, Theodore "Ted"; Rodriguezbuno, Ramiro; Zhang, Yifei
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Computational Design of Experiment Framework for Processing of Metal Alloys
TS-067792 — A software tool for optimizing the manufacturing process for metal alloys.
Metallic alloys are composed of a homogeneous mixture of two or more metals or of metals and nonmetal or metalloid elements to provide specific characteristics or structural properties. Alloys are used in many applications, such as aircraft, offshore drilling, automobiles, and others.
Obtaining t…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Alexandrov, Boian; Forquer, Matthew; Jang, Eun; Luo, Yuxiang; Stewart, Jeffrey
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Optimal and Pure Leaf Classification Trees for Machine Learning (ML) Decision-Making
TS-067550 — A method to improve the performance and accuracy of ML-based decision trees.
Decision trees are popular machine learning (ML) methods used in classification and regression problems, and they have numerous applications in the real world. Various industries use decision trees to help decide strategies, investments, and operations. In addition, they are used in healthcare to he…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Allen, Theodore "Ted"; Arrey, Evelyn; Booth, Matthew; Liu, Enhao; Mashayekhi, Medhi
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Unlocking Hidden Opportunities: The Power of Multi-Solution Spatial Aggregation
TS-067434 — The Need
Spatial aggregation is crucial in numerous industries where data from low-level spatial units, such as census blocks, must be grouped into larger, meaningful regions. Traditional approaches often struggle with the computational complexity of these tasks and tend to focus on finding a singl…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Xiao, Ningchuan
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Dust Analysis: A Novel Approach to Monitoring Viral Spread
TS-066962 — The Need
Viral disease surveillance (e.g. influenza, SARS-CoV-2) in high-risk settings faces several challenges, such as asymptomatic carriers, incomplete reporting, resource limitations, and delayed diagnosis of traditional swab test methods. These challenges could allow a virus to silently spread…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Dannemiller, Karen; Faith, Seth; Hull, Natalie; Nastasi, Nick; Renninger, Nicole
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Smartphone Detection Kit for Airborne Formaldehyde and Allergens
TS-066960 — The Need
Indoor air can be polluted by various sources, including building materials, furniture, cleaning products, and even people. Exposure to these resulting contaminants and allergens can lead to a variety of health problems, such as respiratory irritation, allergies, and even cancer. It is cur…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Dannemiller, Karen; Parquette, Jonathan; Qin, Rongjun
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
BDAMPER: Advanced Application Software for Dynamic Analysis and Design of Friction Damper Structures
TS-066234 —
In the realm of rotating machinery and structural engineering, the need to manage and mitigate vibrations is paramount. Excessive vibrations can lead to material fatigue, operational inefficiency, and catastrophic failures. Industries require a sophisticated, accurate, and versatile tool to design…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Menq, Chia-Hsiang; Yang, Been-Der
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
3D Object-based Segmentation-based Quantification of Spatial Protein Organization (OBS3D)
TS-066233 — Protein analysis is foundational to understanding human physiology and is helpful for basic research, diagnosis, guiding treatment, and monitoring of human disease. There are several widely used platforms for evaluating protein function. The primary tools used in protein analysis on cells and tissues include antibody/aptamer, fluorescent detection systems, and mass spectrometry.
Colocalization analysis is the current standard technique for assessing spatial association of co‐labeled proteins in cells using multicolor immunofluorescence images. However, these tools are limited because multiple antigens nearby exhibit overlapping staining, which leads to inaccurate analys…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Veeraraghavan, Rengasayee
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
A Cybersecurity Vulnerability Prioritization System Including Identifying "Super-Critical" Vulnerabilities, predicting "Dark Host" Vulnerabilities, and Addressing Economic Costs
TS-066063 — Our cybersecurity vulnerability maintenance system stands as a pillar of modern security strategy, transforming reactive security measures into a preemptive defense mechanism. This integration of technology and economics ensures that your most critical assets are protected efficiently and effectively, making it an invaluable tool for any organization serious about security.
In today’s hyper-connected world, the escalation in cyber threats poses significant risks to organizational data and systems. Vulnerabilities within network infrastructures can lead to massive security breaches, as demonstrated by incidents like the 2017 Equifax hack. Effective vulnerability…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Allen, Theodore "Ted"; Liu, Enhao
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
SimulationAI -- AI-Enabled Software Solution for Physics-Based Simulations
TS-066058 — By adopting our AI-driven solution, engineering teams can achieve more in less time, push the boundaries of innovation, and significantly cut down costs, all while maintaining or increasing the reliability and accuracy of their structural and material analysis. This is not just an evolution in FEM technology—it's a revolution.
In an era where precision and efficiency drive the success of engineering projects, the finite element method (FEM) remains indispensable but is burdened by high operational and computational costs. These costs often lead to overlooked uncertainty factors, suboptimal designs, and significant finan…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Soghrati, Soheil; vemparala, Balavignesh; Yang, Ming
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Revolutionizing Literacy Instruction with LetterWorks: Bridging Tradition and Technology
TS-065840 — The Need
Incorporating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into literacy instruction is imperative, especially for at-risk populations, yet research in this area remains limited. The demand for effective tools to enhance literacy learning among struggling readers is critical. Teachers…
- College: College of Education & Human Ecology
- Inventors: Rodgers, Emily; D'Agostino, Jerome
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
IDEAS: Revolutionizing Early Childhood Education with Automated Interaction Analysis
TS-065825 — The Need: In early childhood education settings, understanding children's interactions, both social and linguistic, is paramount for effective teaching and development monitoring. However, manual observation and analysis of these interactions can be time-consuming and subjective, hindering educa…
- College: College of Education & Human Ecology
- Inventors: Gonzalez Villasanti, Hugo "Hugo"; Justice, Laura
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
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