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ENERGY HARVESTING MULTISENSOR WILDFIRE MONITORING SYSTEM
Wildfires occur naturally in many ecosystems worldwide; however, the frequency of wildfires has increased in recent years. The United States National Interagency Fire Center reports that the total bur...
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Umit Ogras, Yigit Tuncel, Toygun Basaklar | P240049US01
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NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING CELESTIAL RADIO EMISSIONS
A UW-Madison researcher has developed a celestial guidance system that uses radio imaging of celestial bodies including the galactic plane received by an interferometric antenna array to provide robus...
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Kael Hanson | P220345US01
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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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LIQUID CRYSTAL-INFUSED SLIPPERY ANTI-FOULING SURFACES
Building off their earlier work with LC-infused multilayer films, the inventors developed a method for directly infusing LCs into porous PTFE membranes. The resulting materials have desirable ch...
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David Lynn, Harshit Agarwal | P210229US02
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ELECTROMECHANICAL FORCE SENSOR BASED ON EXTREMA DEGENERACY POINT WITH NONLINEAR RESPONSE
UW-Madison researchers and collaborators from Wesleyan University have shown, using an exceptional point (EP)-based PT-symmetric electromechanical accelerometer, that increases in technical noise can ...
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Ramathasan Thevamaran, Jizhe Cai, Tsampikos Kottos, Fred Ellis, Rodion Kononchuk | P220050US01
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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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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN SUBSURFACE FORMATIONS
A UW-Madison researcher has developed a method for predicting subsurface mechanical properties using distributed strain measurements obtained from applied perturbations. The method relies on model cha...
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Jesse Hampton | P190275WO01
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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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BIOLOGICAL SENSING AND COMMUNICATION USING OPTOGENETICS AND ELECTRONICS
UW–Madison researchers have combined the innate sensing capabilities of biological compounds with the power of electronics to create a hybrid “bio-electronic” network. This enables new biosensor...
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Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, Megan McClean | P200351US02
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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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High Performance, High Electron Mobility Transistors With Graphene Hole Extraction Contacts
Radiation detectors based on high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are provided. Methods for detecting ultraviolet radiation using the HEMTs are also provided. The transistors are constructed fro...
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Zhenqiang Ma, Tzu-Hsuan Chang | P170305US01
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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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Field Portable Smartphone Device for Water Quality Monitoring
• Water quality monitoring is often done by scientists at universities or government agencies who either collect samples in the field and transport them to stationary laboratories for analysis or in...
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Michael Zorn | T150032US02
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Device For Securing An Infrared Radiation Detector From Unwanted Infrared Radiation And Heat
A device is provided for securing a plurality of infrared radiation detectors from unwanted infrared radiation. The device includes a structure supporting the plurality of infrared radiation detectors...
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Hongrui Jiang, Seyyed Mohammad Moghimi | P180095US01
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Methods, Systems, And Media For Detecting The Presence Of An Analyte
In accordance with some embodiments, methods, systems, and media for detecting the presence of are provided. In some embodiments, a method of detecting an analyte is provided, the method comprising: c...
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Nicholas Abbott, Yankai Cao, Victor Zavala Tejeda, Huaizhe Yu | P170366US02
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Method To Make Scalable Ultrathin Hexagonally Faceted Metal-Organic Framework (Mof) And Method Of Using Same For Detecting Explosives And Other Nitro-Aromatic Compounds
A method to make metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in which a first aqueous solution of a transition metal salt is mixed with a second aqueous solution of an imidazole or alkyl-substituted imidazole to ...
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Sundaram Gunasekaran, Anu Prathap Mylamparambil Udayan | P180010US02
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Functional Surfaces For Liquid Crystal-Based Detection Of Chlorine Gas
Liquid crystal-based devices for detecting chlorine in a sample and methods of using such devices to detect chlorine are disclosed. Such devices have a substrate surface that includes either metal cat...
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Emmanouil Mavrikakis, Nicholas Abbott, Tibor Szilvasi, Nanqi Bao, Huaizhe Yu | P180037US02
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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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Apparatus For High-Speed Surface Relief Measurement
An apparatus for measurement of surface relief provides a phase sensitive camera and processing to reconstruct a wavefront profile matching the surface when illuminated with a known light source there...
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Zongfu Yu, Soongyu Yi | P190233US01
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Optical Phase Shift Solution: Compact and Easy to Install
Optical phase tuning is highly desired in many precision and imaging tools used by industry, in medicine and in biological research. Various optical phase shifters (OPS) and methods exist, each with c...
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Hongrui Jiang, Alireza Ousati Ashtiani | P170049US01
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Liquid Crystal-Based Assay for Rapid and Precise Detection of Endotoxin in the Presence of Masking Agents
Bacterial contamination is a major risk in biologics manufacturing and the presence of endotoxin, an outer membrane component of Gram-negative bacteria, is vigorously tested for in protein and DNA/RNA...
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Nicholas Abbott, Christopher Murphy, Jugal Gupta, I-Hsin Lin | P09241US02