Wearable Coils for Monitoring Human Body Kinematics
TS-067943 — Monitoring human physiological functions and performance during real-time activities is becoming increasingly popular in sporting and healthcare environments. Many studies now suggest that the quantitative evaluation of kinetic parameters, joint range of motion, heart rate, and breathing rate can be…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Kiourti, Asimina; Mishra, Vigyanshu
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
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; Arrey, Evelyn; Booth, Matthew; Liu, Enhao; Mashayekhi, Medhi
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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
Color Correction System for Accurate Colorimetric Smartphone Measurements
TS-066957 — The Need
Colorimetric tests and remote image analysis are used in a wide range of industrial and medical applications. Digital image-based measurements made with smartphones are a promising platform to quantify colors at low cost, but suffer from inconsistency and errors caused by lens quality, sen…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Dannemiller, Karen; Panescu, Jenny; Qin, Rongjun; Song, Shuang; Zhang, Guixiang
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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"
IR Precision: Revolutionizing Colorectal Cancer Metastasis Diagnosis with the CCML Library
TS-064834 — The Need: Colorectal cancer remains a significant global health challenge, particularly when it metastasizes to the liver. Accurate and rapid diagnosis of metastatic liver lesions is crucial for effective treatment planning and patient outcomes. Traditional diagnostic methods often lack the specific…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Coe, James; Allen, Heather; Bradley, Rebecca; Hitchcock, Charles; Martin, Edward
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Decision Support Tool for Prevention of Failure to Rescue Events
TS-064718 — A clinical decision support tool for minimizing failure to rescue events at hospitals.
Failure to rescue (FTR) is a serious issue in patient safety and healthcare quality for hospitalized patients. The term implies that rescue is possible, and death is, therefore, a failure. On any given day across the country, two-thirds of deaths in hospitals could be judged as preventable. In 2005,…
- College: OSU Wexner Medical Center
- Inventors: Garvey, Paula; Justice, Stephanie
- Licensing Officer: Schultz, Teri
A Regularized Conditional GAN for Posterior Sampling in Inverse Problems
TS-063238 — A novel regularization technique applicable for medical imaging applications that leverages conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) to generate reconstructed images in significantly shorter timeframes.
The Need
Several techniques are used for image reconstruction in the medical aren…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Bendel, Matthew; Ahmad, Rizwan; Schniter, Philip
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Methods for Recommending Search Terms to Clinicians
TS-063237 — Electronic Health Records (EHR) are used in over 88% of all US medical clinics to improve care and streamline data. In addition, they enable sharing of data to multiple providers dealing with the same patient, thereby enhancing efficiency and care.
The Need
In the last decade, medical practices…
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Ning, Xia; Peng, Bo; Ren, Zhiyun
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Patient Access Prioritization Score
TS-063212 — When a patient demonstrates signs of imminent clinical deterioration, it is essential to immediately assess and treat the patient to prevent intensive care unit transfer, cardiac arrest, or death. These tasks often include transferring the patient to other facilities with optimal capabilities.
T…
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Reinbolt, Raquel; Cohn, David
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Convolutional Neural Network to Assess Phayngeal and Laryngeal Pathology and Function on Nasopharyngolaryngoscopy
TS-063154 — Worldwide, 686,000 new head and neck (H&N) cancers are diagnosed yearly, and 375,000 people will die annually. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for an increasing subset of H&N malignancies called oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCC). Although it has a better prognosis than…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Krening, Samantha; Gifford, Ryan; Jhawar, Sachin; VanKoevering, Kyle
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Network-based Approach for Accurate Brain Modeling
TS-062628 — More than a billion people worldwide suffer from some neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, stroke, autism, addiction, and many others. These conditions result in more than 7 million deaths, with associated costs exceeding $1.5 trillion annua…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Cranmer, Skyler; Bhamidi, Shankar; Denny, Mathew; Desmarais, Bruce; Lu, Zhong-Lin; Stillman, Paul; Wilson, James
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Methods to measure biophysical attributes of the posterior eye
TS-062505 — The Need
Glaucoma and myopia are significant causes of vision loss worldwide, affecting millions of people and imposing a substantial socioeconomical burden. Effective vision care strategies are urgently needed to reduce blindness caused by these conditions and mitigate their associated risks. In v…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Liu, Jun; Kwok, Sunny
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
ANTENNA-IMPREGNATED FABRICS FOR RECUMBENT HEIGHT MEASUREMENT
TS-062493 —
Children whose heights or growth rates fall outside of the normal range can be identified as having short stature (less than the 3rd percentile) or tall stature (above the 97th percentile) or as having abnormal growth velocity. Serial height measurements over time are key to identifying these patt…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Kiourti, Asimina; Militello, Lisa
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Venc Design and Velocity Estimation for Phase-Contrast MRI (Free-breathing Accelerated MRI Portfolio)
TS-062482 — Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a versatile noninvasive imaging tool that is routinely used to evaluate many diseases and conditions. MRI offers exquisite soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution to enable comprehensive structural and functional assessment of internal organs. Recent innovations in data acquisition and processing can expand the clinical applications of MRI.
The Need
A major limitation of MRI is slow data acquisition, which can compromise patient comfort, drive up costs, and increase susceptibility to motion. The clinical adoption of volumetric imaging for musculoskeletal and neuro applications, the growing
demand for free-breathing real-time imaging …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Zhao, Shen; Ahmad, Rizwan; Potter, Lee
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
SCTaware: Empowering Health Equity through Virtual Sickle Cell Trait Education
TS-062440 — The Need: Sickle Cell Trait (SCT) affects a significant portion of the population, posing a pressing public health concern. Lack of awareness and limited access to understandable information about SCT's reproductive implications contribute to health disparities among affected individuals. In-per…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Chan, Peter; McCorkle, Benson; Shen, Yvette
- Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana
Collaborative Interaction System- Wearable Technology for Collaborative Interaction for Children with Disabilities
TS-062336 — The Need: Enhancing Collaborative Interaction for Children with Disabilities
Millions of children in the United States with physical or cognitive disabilities face challenges in participating fully in play and forming meaningful connections with their parents and caregivers. The lack of touch and c…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Swearingen, EunKyoung "Kyoung"; Kiourti, Asimina; Swearingen, Scott; Thrane, Susan
- Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana
Visual Function Mapping Technology: Enhancing Vision Care and Diagnostics
TS-062335 — The Need: In the field of ophthalmology and vision care, there is a critical need for accurate and comprehensive measurements of visual function over the entire visual field. Conditions such as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetes, stroke, pituitary disease, brain tumors, and n…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Lu, Zhong-Lin; Lesmes, Luis; Xu, Pengjing "PJ"; Yu, Deyue
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Rapid Identification of Eye Disorders
TS-062311 — The Need: Early detection of eye disorders, such as amblyopia and myopia, is crucial for effective treatment and improved long-term outcomes, especially in children and young adults. Traditional screening methods for amblyopia often require specialized instruments and expertise, making them costly, …
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Lu, Zhong-Lin; Huang, Chang-Bing; Jia, Wuli; Lesmes, Luis; Zhou, Jiawei
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Methods for Measuring Contrast Sensitivity
TS-062308 — The Need:
Visual sensitivity testing plays a crucial role in assessing human vision and detecting potential visual impairments. However, traditional methods often lack the precision required to isolate specific frequency-specific channels in the visual system. There is a commercial need for a techn…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Lu, Zhong-Lin
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
An AI Solution for Mobile Stroke Detection for TeleMedicine, Hospital and Paramedic Use
TS-060782 — Problem Statement:
Diagnosis of arterial occlusion and an associated stroke can be lengthy, delaying patient access to treatment. As large vessel occlusions account for 24 to 46% of acute ischemic strokes and may require treatment in a comprehensive stroke center, early diagnosis is key.
Solution:…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Yilmaz, Alper; Gulati, Deepak Kumar
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
3D Clinical Image-based Pre-surgical planning Tool
TS-053757 —
Modernity has brought with it increased complexity in many areas of our lives, an important one being the healthcare industry. Surgical procedures require increased precision while employing intricate methods. With approximately 20 million surgeries performed each year in the United States alone, …
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Powell, Kimerly; Adunka, Oliver; Hittle, Bradley; Keith, Jason; Kerwin, Thomas "Thomas"; Stredney, Donald; Wiet, Gregory
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Pheno - A modern, multi-faceted, data-driven technology platform for addressing low back and neck pain
TS-052847 —
Back and neck pain is one of the world’s biggest health problems, and one which most people will experience during some stage in their lives. An estimated 80% of people will face this issue, although the severity of the pain may differ. Approximately 50 billion USD are spent by Americans eac…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Marras, William; Aurand, Alexander "Alex"; Dufour, Jonathan; Knapik, Gregory; Prasath, Prasath Mageswaran
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Louie: An Augmented Reality Sensory Trigger Wayfinding System for People with Autism
TS-043077 — An Augmented Reality Sensory Trigger Wayfinding System for People with Autism
Millions of people on the Autism spectrum face challenges getting from place to place due to sensory sensitivities to sounds, sights, smells, tastes, physical feelings, and crowds. Due to these triggers, people with Autism have a strong need to know where they are going and what will be there so t…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Ezell, Jonathan; Kaufman, Robert; Kaufman, Michael
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
At-Home Digital Platform for Scoring Skin Disease
TS-038429 —
An automated image analysis system for the recognition and quantification of skin disease
Acne and rosacea are skin diseases that affect around 85% of individuals, the former being the most common skin condition afflicting up to 50 million people. There is no gold standard for evaluation of these skin diseases, and their treatment efficacy is generally determined according to a poorly …
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Kaffenberger, Benjamin; Gurcan, Metin
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Family HealthLink: A Health Risk Assessment Tool
TS-037825 — An online interactive tool that helps a patients and physicians assess a likelihood of cancer or heart disease, based on family history.
Physician documentation of family history in the EPIC® EMR for breast and ovarian cancer has been a common practice for many years, but documentation and assessment for other cancer types (and extended family history) have remained sparse and incomplete (Sweet, Sturm et al. 2015). In addition …
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Sweet, Kevin; Newman, David "David"; Sturm, Amy; Westman, Judith "Judy"
- Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya
Multi-carrier processing in auditory prosthetic devices
TS-014871 — Encoding strategy for improvement of speech understanding in a noisy environment for audiotory prosthetic devices.
There are about 275 million adults globally with moderate to severe hearing loss and 360 million adults with mild hearing loss. The current solutions to allow these people to hear better include hearing aids, hearing loss counseling, cochlear implants, alerting devices, and other communication aid…
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Apoux, Frederic; Healy, Eric
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"