AIDRIN (AI Data Readiness Inspector)
TS-067116 — AIDRIN (AI Data Readiness INspector) is a system designed to comprehensively evaluate datasets through a diverse range
of metrics, giving an overall perspective on their readiness for AI applications.
In the contemporary digital landscape, the explosive growth in data generation has created a pressing need for efficient and scalable database systems. Traditional databases struggle with the increasing volume, variety, and velocity of data, leading to performance bottlenecks, high operational cos…
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- Inventors: Byna, Suren; Hiniduma, Kaveen
- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- Inventors: Menq, Chia-Hsiang; Yang, Been-Der
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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…
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- Inventors: Soghrati, Soheil; vemparala, Balavignesh; Yang, Ming
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
"Courseseeds" micro curriculum revenue generator selling individual lessons from full courses.
TS-064247 — The Need: In the era of educational upheaval, where traditional models are giving way to the demand for flexibility and customization, Courseseeds emerges as the solution. Recognizing the shifting landscape of education and the desire for individualized learning experiences, Courseseeds addresses th…
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- Inventors: Ezell, Jonathan
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
How Are You Feeling Today? Organizational Mental Health Indicator and Real-Time Help Application
TS-064244 — The Need: Organizations, particularly college campuses, are facing a growing challenge in addressing student mental health issues. The rising prevalence of severe psychological problems, anxiety disorders, and depression among students necessitates a proactive and effective solution. The existing ga…
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- Inventors: Ezell, Jonathan; Kaufman, Michael
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Systems and Methods of Reminding Drivers of the Stalking Vehicles on the Road
TS-063308 —
In today’s world, privacy and safety are paramount. Being followed by other vehicles during driving can be unnerving and potentially dangerous, leading to privacy leakage and even significant traffic accidents. There is a pressing need for a solution that can detect abnormal following vehicl…
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- Inventors: Sun, Wei; Srinivasan, Kannan
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
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…
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- Inventors: Krening, Samantha; Gifford, Ryan; Jhawar, Sachin; VanKoevering, Kyle
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Thermotropic liquid crystal-based sensors for naked-eye detection of SARS-CoV-2 with ultrahigh sensitivity and selectivity
TS-063069 —
In the wake of the global pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, the need for rapid, accurate, and efficient diagnostic methods for respiratory viral infections has become more critical than ever. Traditional diagnostic methods, while reliable, are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and lack the neces…
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- Inventors: Wang, Xiaoguang; Qin, Rongjun; Rather, Adil; Xu, Yang
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Auditing Fairness Online through Interactive Refinement
TS-063038 — The Need
In the era of machine learning, high-stakes decisions are increasingly being made by black box models, leading to concerns about accountability and fairness. These models can exhibit inherent biases, raising the need for a system that ensures accountability and fairness in decision-making …
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- Inventors: Maneriker, Pranav; Burley, Codi; Parthasarathy, Srinivasan
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Method and system for generating data-enriching augmented reality applications from a domain-specific language
TS-063032 — The Need
In the age of augmented reality (AR), there's a growing opportunity for a comprehensive solution that facilitates the seamless exploration of real-world data through camera-based AR applications. These applications require the ability to extract, cache, and enrich information, enhancin…
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- Inventors: Nandi, Arnab; Burley, Codi; Sarkhel, Ritesh "Ritesh"
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Counterattacking Smart Contract Exploits: An Active Defense Approach
TS-063027 — The Need
Smart contracts have revolutionized the way transactions are conducted, but their unique nature makes them susceptible to exploitation. Despite extensive efforts in vulnerability identification, exploitable vulnerabilities persist, resulting in substantial financial losses. To mitigate thi…
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- Inventors: Lin, Zhiqiang; Morales, Marcelo
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment Method for Autonomous Driving System Development and Evaluation
TS-054005 — This technology is a Vehicle-in-Virtual Environment (VVE) method for testing and evaluating Autonomous Vehicles (AV). The VVE approach is a safe, reliable, repetitive, and scalable method
of testing AVs, decreasing the risks and costs
of testing AVs on public roads.
The demand for autonomous vehicles continues to grow as companies and cities realize the effect on the costs, safety, and efficiency that AVs have on everyday lives. Initiatives such as MCity in Detroit, Michigan, and Smart City in Columbus, Ohio, show a strong commitment to the development of aut…
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- Inventors: Guvenc, Levent; Aksun Guvenc, Bilin
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
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…
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- Inventors: Das, Manirupa; Fosler-Lussier, Eric; Ramnath, Rajiv
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Process Monitoring of Internal Temperature Distribution of Powder Bed Fusion Parts
TS-047605 — An ensemble kamlan filter (EnKF) state observer algorithm and process monitoring method for more quickly and accurately estimating the internal temperature gradient
of Powder Bed Fusion parts for enhanced process monitoring and control.
Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is a subset of additive manufacturing processes that performs a layer-by-layer fabrication of metal components by selectively melting metal powder disbursed over the earlier layer. PBF processes encompass methods such as selective laser sintering (SLS), direct metal laser s…
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- Inventors: Wood, Nathaniel; Hoelzle, David
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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…
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- Inventors: Ezell, Jonathan; Kaufman, Robert; Kaufman, Michael
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
DG-WAVE: A Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) Finite Element-Based Wave Model
TS-039058 — DGWAVE is a simple and efficient (finite element-based) wave modeling s
oftware package for simulating wind-driven waves in marine environments. Model input, execution and visualization
of output, which includes time series
of significant wave heights, are handled through an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI).
There are many applications that require studying wind-driven waves in marine environments. Modeling waves is a necessary tool to study these specific results, because a model allows for the researcher to be in a different location from the body of water, as well as control all of the potential va…
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- Inventors: Kubatko, Ethan; Nappi, Angela; West, Dustin
- 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
DV8: The Spatial-Temporal Interactive Air Traffic Performance Visualization and Analysis Tool
TS-037833 — Optimization
of air traffic infrastructure through efficient flight routing - reduces fuel cost, avoids adverse weather, improves "on-time" flight performance metrics.
America's air traffic control infrastructure has not been updated in decades and lags behind the rest of world. In lieu of a complete rebuild using GPS and digital messaging, other upgrades could be made to optimize the efficiency of flight routing. These types of upgrades would be software ba…
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- Inventors: Young, Seth; Meyer, Nicholas; Nandi, Arnab
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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