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SOIL GAS-FLUX MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

Soil produces or consumes gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and oxygen through normal biological and geological processes. Current soil gas-flux measurement systems are ex...
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Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, Jingyi Huang, Francisco Arriaga, Christian Martinez, Hendri Winanto, Adam Nygard | P230171US01

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CELL-BASED DNA SENSORS AND METHODS OF USING SAME

UW-Madison researchers have developed cell-based DNA sensors to achieve easy, accurate, and cost-effective detection of pathogens. Using synthetic biology, the inventors engineered the naturally compe...
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Ophelia Venturelli, Yu-Yu Cheng, Zhengyi Chen | P210411US02

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Testing the Strength of Soft Materials

Soft materials are everywhere. In many applications, valuable information about the strength of these materials enables more precise control in everything from cutting and processing soft foods to des...
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Melih Eriten, Corinne Henak | P220230US01

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ALKALI METAL OPTICAL CLOCK

UW researchers have invented a Cesium Lattice Optical Clock (CLOC) for high performance and simple operation in a compact form factor. The novel design uses a “forbidden” optical transitio...
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Mark Saffman, Shimon Kolkowitz, Arjav Sharma | P220217US01

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UW-Madison researchers, working in collaboration with researchers from Cornell, developed metal-oxide based liquid crystal (LC) sensors for monitoring catalytic reactions. The inventors used a previou...
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Emmanouil Mavrikakis, Jake Gold, Trenton Wolter, Nicholas Abbott, Nanqi Bao, Huaizhe Yu, Ayushi Tripathi | P220044US01

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Capacitive Touch Sensor

A capacitive touch sensor is provided, The capacitive touch sensor includes a plate having an upper surface and lying in a plate plane. A generally planar, first electrode is spaced from the plate alo...
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Hongrui Jiang, Jayer Fernandes | P160417US01

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Optical Fiber Thermal Property Probe

An optical fiber sensor extends coaxially with a controllable heater to provide high-resolution axial measurement of thermal properties such as thermal convection of the surrounding, Heat removal by e...
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Mark Anderson, Matthew Weathered | P170028US02

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Wavefront Detector for Advanced Imaging

A wavefront sensor system suitable for integration into an integrated circuit light detector may provide for wave angle sensors having varying functional relationships between the wave angle and signa...
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Zongfu Yu, Soongyu Yi, Dianjing Liu | P180193US01

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Ion Source

An ion source device for producing an ion beam may include a housing having an opening, a first electrode, and a second electrode. A portion of the first electrode and the second electrode may be loca...
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Andrew Seltzman | P170357US01

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High Efficiency Room Temperature Infrared Sensor

An infrared (IR) detection sensor for detecting IR radiation. The IR detection sensor including a plurality of nanowires positioned adjacent to each other so as to define a layer. The layer has an out...
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Hongrui Jiang, Seyyed Mohammad Moghimi | P180031US01

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