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
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Open source software is foundational to modern development, yet it introduces significant security risks due to outdated dependencies and inaccurate vulnerability advisories.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
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
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
Concept Discovery from Text via Knowledge Transfer
TS-050856 — A better way for systems to organize, file, or index documents or content based on actual or anticipated information needed in the form of a user query or natural language question.
Data Processing and (IT)-related activities, ranging from web hosting to automated data entry services are more important than ever due to the large amounts of data collected through technology. According to IBIS World, "Companies will increasingly capture more data, requiring the outside exp…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Das, Manirupa; Fosler-Lussier, Eric; Ramnath, Rajiv
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David