Vectorized Channel Estimation and SINR Optimization for Ultra-Wideband Communications
TS-070631 — The Need
Ultra-wideband communication systems, including mmWave and optical wireless networks, demand highly accurate and low-latency channel estimation to maintain throughput and reliability. Existing methods, such as hybrid correlation and least squares estimators, suffer from high computational c…
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- Inventors: Cai, Jian-Feng; Mao, Chongchang; Xian, Poline Y.; Xue, Ye; Zhang, Haiming
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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…
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- Inventors: Javed, Nur Uddin; Ahmed, Qadeer
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Advanced LEO Satellite-Based Position, Navigation, and Timing Solutions
TS-069653 — Technology Bundle: T2025-037, T2025-053, T2025-055
The Need
Current global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) face significant challenges, including signal vulnerability to interference, limited coverage in urban and remote areas, and insufficient accuracy for high-precision applications. There is a critical need for more robust, accurate, and rel…
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- Inventors: Kassas, Zak; Kozhaya, Sharbel
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Sustainability-Aware Management of Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Fleets
TS-068477 — The Need
Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are critical to modern, highly automated environments, operating 24/7 to optimize tasks, increase throughput, and meet demanding operational requirements. However, most task allocation and charging solutions focus solely on maximizing performance metrics like…
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- Inventors: Brocanelli, Marco
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Bio-Matched Horn: A Novel 1-9 GHz On-Body Antenna for Low-Loss Biomedical Telemetry with Implants
TS-065135 — The use of wearable health devices has more than tripled in recent years due to the ability of these products to collect health data to detect potential health events (e.g., heart attacks), manage chronic diseases, and track physical activity. Wearable technologies have been shown to decrease the nu…
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- Inventors: Blauert, John; Kiourti, Asimina
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Stretchable Broad Impedance Bandwidth RFID Tag Antenna
TS-064336 — Introducing innovative stretchable RFID devices with a broad impedance bandwidth, addressing the critical limitations
of existing RFID systems in environments with variable characteristics.
Current passive UHF RFID systems falter in environments with fluctuating pressure, stress, and temperature due to their sensitivity to antenna deformation caused by changes in dielectric constant. A pressing need exists for stretchable RFID devices capable of operating seamlessly in diverse condit…
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- Inventors: Burkholder, Robert; Kiourti, Asimina; Shao, Shuai; Volakis, John
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
System and Method of Securing Vehicle-Pavement Interaction (Tago)
TS-063169 —
Road safety is a paramount concern. Unpredictable road conditions, such as bumps and uneven surfaces, can pose significant risks to drivers. There is a pressing need for a technology that can sense and alert drivers about these road surface conditions in real-time, enhancing safety and improving t…
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- Inventors: Athreya, Kannan; Sun, Wei
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
3D subwavelength photonic detector coupled with dielectric resonator antenna
TS-063055 — New LWIR detector combining a dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) with a semiconductor absorber for improved signal, noise, and speed performance
Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) detectors are crucial in various fields, but traditional detectors face significant drawbacks in terms of size, thermal noise, and coupling efficiencies. Current detectors use cryogenic cooling in the form of mercury cadmium telluride (MCT), a significant drawback d…
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- Inventors: Krishna, Sanjay; Ball, Christopher; Kazemi, Alireza; Ronningen, TJ; Shu, Qingyuan
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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…
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- 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…
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- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Protecting Bluetooth Low Energy from Address Tracking When Using Whitelisting
TS-052807 —
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is ubiquitous today due to its extremely low energy consumption and relatively large communication coverage. However, the devices communicated through Bluetooth are subject to address tracking attacks, where a nearby attacker can associate Bluetooth addresses to particul…
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- Inventors: Lin, Zhiqiang; Zhang, Yue
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Fiber-to-fiber platform for multi-layer ferroelectric on insulator waveguide devices
TS-050208 — The invention is a fiber-to-fiber solution that allows the advantages
of lithium niobate on insulator integrated photonic chips to be exploited in real world fielded systems.
Technology is advancing faster than ever, with major demand for instant communication and instant information among other industries. In order to facilitate this ever-growing industry, a technology called waveguides were invented. A waveguide confines the wave to propagate in one dimension, so tha…
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- Inventors: Reano, Ronald; Nagy, Jonathan "Tyler"; Patton, Ryan; Prabhakar, Karan
- 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…
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- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih; Moon, Haksu; Volakis, John
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Method for Antenna Pattern Characterization based on Compressive Sensing
TS-041753 — Near-field measurement method for testing industrial antennas
Radiation pattern measurement/characterization is one of the key final steps in the performance verification and documentation of industrial antennas. One method of testing radiation pattern of an antenna is use of a very controlled test environment that is expensive to build and maintain. Another…
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- Inventors: Sertel, Kubilay; Nahar, Niru; Saqueb, Syed An Nazmus
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Turf Whisperer: Location Selective Data Delivery via Low-Power Acoustic Transmissions
TS-037839 — A way to use audio systems to send information to select locations and people, without the public hearing it.
With the advent of digital communications platforms such as mobile devices, information is able is to be disseminated almost instantly, to anywhere in the world. However, some aspects of modern infrastructure have not caught up to the information age, with facilities such as supermarkets and airpo…
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- Inventors: Koksal, C. Emre; Indukuri, Harihara Varma
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
A novel way to complete navigation with a GPS enabled device without maintianing a consistent signal
TS-037496 — Topoplogy Based Large Scale Indoor/Outdoor Geo-Navigation for Mobile Platforms Guided by GIS and BIM
Mobile devices with GPS systems are seeing increase in use over the last decade, it is not hard to say that geo‐localization and navigation have become important aspects of our lives. GPS is limited in certain settings where the signal is degraded or blocked such as city centers with high‐rise…
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- Inventors: Yilmaz, Alper; Gupta, Ashish
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Referenceless and Frequency Independent Radio Reciever
TS-037378 — A radio receiver that operates without the need for locally generated reference signals.
A radio frequency signal may typically consist of a single frequency carrier signal, modulated with some information signal. The purpose of a receiver is to extract the information signal from the carrier. This is commonly accomplished by mixing the received signal with one or more local reference…
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- Inventors: Novak, Markus; Bojja venkatakrishnan, Satheesh; Volakis, John
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Antenna with Addressable Pixel Elements
TS-015040 — A programmable antenna for rapid application switching
Development of reconfigurable antennas is desired by the aerospace, automotive, and communications industries. Current designs utilize a set of radiating elements connected to a transmission line with embedded amplitude and phase shift elements. An alternative technique is to use antenna modules w…
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- Inventors: Walton, Eric; Montgomery, Bruce
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Multiple Antenna System
TS-015039 — Joining several independent satellite antennas above a single parabolic dish
Previously, it was necessary to have three separate parabolic dish antennas, each with positioning equipment, to receive signals from three different satellites. In order to make these multiple independent contacts, communications arrays grow quickly in size with increased costs for each addition.…
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- Inventors: Walton, Eric
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Ultra-wideband Antenna integrated compact balun and feed structure
TS-014994 — An Ultra-wideband (8 to 1 continuous bandwidth), extremely low pr
ofile, wide angle scanning, phased array with integrated compact balun and feed structure
Tightly Coupled Dipole Arrays (TCDAs) are popular due to their wide bandwidth, good scan performance, low profile, and low cross polarization. However, to realize their full potential, a wideband balanced feed is required. Compact wideband baluns are difficult to realize, and previous dipole array…
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- Inventors: Doane, Jonathan; Sertel, Kubilay
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Stretchable and Flexible E-Fiber Wire Antennas
TS-014971 — A new process to fabricate stretchable and flexible wire antennas with conductive fibers (E-fibers)
Current processes to manufacture flexible, mechanically durable antennas on E-fibers yield non-stretchable prototypes and lack fine print details. The geometric accuracy of printed antennas is less than 1 mm, and the devices are prone to failure due to fatigue and wear from deformation. The antenn…
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- Inventors: Volakis, John; Kiourti, Asimina
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder