Personalized Over-The-Air Federated Learning with Personalized Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
TS-073841 —
Current federated learning (FL) systems face significant challenges in efficiently aggregating model updates over wireless networks, especially in environments with diverse data and varying channel conditions. There is a critical need for a solution that enhances bandwidth efficiency, personalizat…
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- Inventors: Mao, Jiayu; Yener, Aylin
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment (VVE) Method for Autonomous Driving System Development and Evaluation
TS-073818 —
Autonomous and advanced driver-assistance systems require extensive testing across rare, hazardous, and edge-case scenarios to ensure safety and regulatory readiness. Existing approaches (pure simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, proving grounds, or public-road testing) each suffer from tradeoffs in …
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- Inventors: Guvenc, Levent; Aksun Guvenc, Bilin
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
PS3 Algorithm: Scalable Mixed‑Integer Optimal Control for Electrified Powertrains
TS-073768 —
Electrified and hybrid vehicle powertrains are increasingly complex, integrating mechanical, electrical, thermal, and emissions subsystems with both continuous and discrete decision variables. Existing energy management and co‑optimization approaches typically rely on simplified models, sequenti…
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- Inventors: Anwar, Hamza; Ahmed, Qadeer; Fahim, Muhammad
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Tunable Ferrite Nanoparticles for Optimized Heating and Magnetic Performance
TS-073587 —
Magnetic nanoparticles are widely used in applications such as magnetic hyperthermia, catalysis, sensing, and data storage, yet their performance is often limited by poor control over key magnetic properties. Existing materials typically rely on size or shape control alone, which provides limited …
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- Inventors: Getman, Rachel; Punyapu, Rohit
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Passive Joint DOA/FOA Sensing, Tracking, and Navigation with Unknown LEO Satellites
TS-073553 —
Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems increasingly seek alternatives or complements to GNSS due to vulnerability to interference, jamming, and limited performance in challenged environments. While low Earth orbit (LEO) communication satellites offer strong signals and favorable geometr…
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- Inventors: Kassas, Zak; Kozhaya, Sharbel
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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 
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- Inventors: Zhao, Yunfei; Smidts, Carol
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
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…
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- Inventors: Smidts, Carol; Diao, Xiaoxu; Li, Boyuan
- 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 …
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- Inventors: Yurtsever, Ekim; Giuliani, Michele; Rizzoni, Giorgio
- 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
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…
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- Inventors: Muthyala, Madhav Reddy; Paulson, Joel; Sorourifar, Farshud
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
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…
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- 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 s
oftware 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…
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- Inventors: Alexandrov, Boian; Forquer, Matthew; Jang, Eun; Luo, Yuxiang; Stewart, Jeffrey
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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: Giles, David
Automatic Mechanical Assembly Loops/Stacks Detection
TS-064578 — This s
oftware solution revolutionizes the process
of tolerance stack analysis in mechanical assemblies. It automatically detects and extracts tolerance stacks as the foundational step for precise tolerance analysis and schema generation.
This software solution revolutionizes the process of tolerance stack analysis in mechanical assemblies. It automatically detects and extracts tolerance stacks as the foundational step for precise tolerance analysis and schema generation.
The Need
Analyzing tolerance stacks in mechanical assembl…
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- Inventors: Haghighi, Payam; Shah, Jami
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
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…
- College: College
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- Inventors: Sun, Wei; Athreya, Kannan
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Vulnerability and Attackability analysis of automotive controllers using structural model of the system
TS-063239 — The Ohio State University has developed a vulnerability analysis technique for connected and autonomous vehicles that assesses the vulnerability and attackability of the automotive controllers to determine the security of the system.
The Need
Automated vehicle technologies improve safety, assis…
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- Inventors: Renganathan, Vishnu; Ahmed, Qadeer
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
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…
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- Inventors: Bendel, Matthew; Ahmad, Rizwan; Schniter, Philip
- 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
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- Inventors: Krening, Samantha; Gifford, Ryan; Jhawar, Sachin; VanKoevering, Kyle
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
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 …
- College: College
of
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- Inventors: Maneriker, Pranav; Burley, Codi; Parthasarathy, Srinivasan
- 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…
- College: College
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- Inventors: Lin, Zhiqiang; Morales, Marcelo
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
Fresh Caching of Dynamic Content: Algorithm and Implementation
TS-063024 — The Need
In today's data-driven world, efficient caching of dynamic content is crucial for delivering timely and responsive services. Conventional caching methods struggle to adapt to frequent updates in the back-end database, leading to suboptimal system costs and decreased user satisfaction. …
- College: College
of
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- Inventors: Abolhassani, Bahman; Eryilmaz, Atilla
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Novel Deep Learning Model for Reconnaissance of Infrastructure on Drones
TS-063007 — The Need
In disaster-stricken areas, timely and accurate reconnaissance is paramount for effective response and recovery efforts. Traditional methods of assessing damage to critical infrastructure, such as power distribution poles, often involve time-consuming manual inspections, leading to delays …
- College: College
of
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- Inventors: Shafieezadeh, Abdollah; Bagheri Jeddi, Ashkan
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
3DScope: Detecting 3D Model Clones
TS-057129 — Algorithm for extracting 3D models, indexing them using a value-insensitive normalization algorithm, and comparing the model indexes to detect cloned 3D models.
The unauthorized copying of 3D models robs designers of property, reduces innovation going into the creation of 3D models, creates liability for entities unknowingly using copied models, and indicates a lapse in IP security. With the vast amount of 3D assets in use, it is infeasible for humans to …
- College: College
of
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- Inventors: Zuo, Chaoshun; Lin, Zhiqiang
- Licensing Officer: Mess, David
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
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- Inventors: Das, Manirupa; Fosler-Lussier, Eric; Ramnath, Rajiv
- Licensing Officer: Giles, David
Point Prognostics: Closed Loop Particle Forecasting Platform for Decision Support and System Prognostics
TS-049903 — A scalable, adaptive computational platform (s
oftware) that performs accurate, predictive computer simulations in less time, with the end goal
of supporting a decision-making agency
A report by IOT Analytics evaluated the predictive maintenance (PdM) market at $1.5 billion in 2016 and anticipated a growth of 39% annually to $10.96 billion by 2022. Particle methods (broadly known as "Monte Carlo'' methods, or, MC) are a class of computational algorithms used in Pd…
- College: College
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- Inventors: Kumar, Mrinal; Yang, Chao "Chao"
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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…
- College: College
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- Inventors: Wood, Nathaniel; Hoelzle, David
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
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