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Occupational Safety: Portable Exposure Assessment System for Prevention of Musculoskeletal Injury

CDC researchers have developed the Portable Exposure Assessment System (PEAS), a field-based, remotely deployed tool to monitor and provide early warning of working conditions that have a high likelihood of musculoskeletal injury. PEAS is a noninvasive, real-time, instrument-based system. Sensor technology simultaneously measures and collects data...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Bryan Wimer, Shengke Zeng, Christopher Pan

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, ResearchProducts > Research Equipment, Application > Software / Apps, Application > Medical Devices, Application > Diagnostics, TherapeuticArea > Neurology, Application > Research Materials, TherapeuticArea > Ophthalmology, TherapeuticArea > Cardiology, ResearchProducts > Computational models/software, Application > Non-Medical Devices, Application > Occupational Safety and Health, TherapeuticArea > Endocrinology, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, Application > Consumer Products, TherapeuticArea > Dental, TherapeuticArea > Oncology

Silica Exposure Safety: Mini-baghouse Systems and Methods for Controlling Particulate Release from Large Sand Transfer Equipment

CDC/NIOSH scientists have developed an effective point-source control for silica-containing dusts that can be generated from machinery on sites where hydraulic fracturing is occurring. The CDC/NIOSH mini-baghouse retrofit assembly is a bolt-on control designed to contain silica-containing respirable dusts generated during refill operations of sand...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Michael Breitenstein, John Snawder

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, TherapeuticArea > Dental, Application > Consumer Products, TherapeuticArea > Endocrinology, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, TherapeuticArea > Oncology, TherapeuticArea > Cardiology, Application > Medical Devices, Application > Non-Medical Devices, TherapeuticArea > Ophthalmology, Application > Occupational Safety and Health

Computer Controlled Aerosol Generator with Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Inhalation Testing Capabilities

This invention pertains to a CDC developed sonic aerosol generator that provides a controllable, stable concentration of particulate aerosol over a long period of time for aerosol exposure studies. Specifically, in situ testing data indicate uniform aerosol stability can be maintainable for greater than 30 hours at concentrations of 15 mg/m3 or more....

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): David Frazer, Bean Chen, Walter McKinney

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Diagnostics, Application > Medical Devices, Application > Research Materials, Application > Occupational Safety and Health, ResearchProducts > Computational models/software, TherapeuticArea > Cardiology, Application > Therapeutics, TherapeuticArea > Ophthalmology, Application > Software / Apps, Application > Consumer Products, TherapeuticArea > Dental, TherapeuticArea > Endocrinology, TherapeuticArea > Oncology, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, Application > Non-Medical Devices

Cable-line Safety System: Electro/hydraulic Emergency Stop Device for a Winch, Drum or Capstan

This CDC-developed invention entails a system of electrical and hydraulic circuits used to stop a rotating winch in an emergency. Amongst other locations, one stop switch can be positioned on a capstan winch horn. This location makes it available to a victim entangled in rope being retrieved on a gypsy drum. As designed, the stop circuit could be...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): John Bevan, Gregory Miller, Todd Ruff, Wayne Howie, Jennifer Lincoln, Lewis Martin, Robert Mckibbin, Curtis Clark, Chelsea Woodward

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Consumer Products, Application > Non-Medical Devices, Application > Medical Devices, Application > Research Materials, Application > Occupational Safety and Health

Inexpensive, Personal Dust Detector Tube/Dosimeter Operating on a Gas Detector Tube Platform

This CDC developed dust detector tube is designed to provide inexpensive, short-term, time weighted average dust exposure data feedback directly to device users. This invention operates upon a conventional gas detector tube platform and can be used with any low volume pump that can electronically measure pump back pressure. The device consists of three...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Harry Dobroski, Steven Page, Jon Volkwein

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Occupational Safety and Health, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, TherapeuticArea > Oncology, Application > Consumer Products, TherapeuticArea > Cardiology, TherapeuticArea > Dental, TherapeuticArea > Ophthalmology, TherapeuticArea > Endocrinology, Application > Non-Medical Devices, ResearchProducts > Research Equipment, Application > Medical Devices

A Simple Colorimetric Assay for Anti-malarial Drugs Quality Assurance and Rapid, On-site Counterfeit Detection

This CDC assay aims to lessen the anti-malarial drug counterfeiting epidemic by testing for the artemisinin-type drugs (the active compound), through the use of a simple, inexpensive colorimetric test. Poor quality and counterfeit drugs pose an immediate threat to public health and undermine malaria control efforts, resulting in resistant-parasites...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Michael Green

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Research Materials, TherapeuticArea > Endocrinology, Application > Occupational Safety and Health, Application > Diagnostics, TherapeuticArea > Dental, TherapeuticArea > Oncology, Application > Consumer Products, Application > Non-Medical Devices, TherapeuticArea > Ophthalmology, TherapeuticArea > Cardiology, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, Application > Medical Devices, Application > Software / Apps

Non-radioactive, Miniature Bipolar Aerosol Particle Charger for Personal, Portable Instrumentation

This CDC developed invention is a novel device for a miniature, nonradioactive bipolar charger to electrically charge aerosol particles for use in personal and portable aerosol instrumentation. Such devices are an integral component of aerosol instruments employing electrical mobility-based techniques. Current, commercial state-of-the-art mobility...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Chaolong Qi, Pramod Kulkarni

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Research Materials, TherapeuticArea > Ophthalmology, Application > Diagnostics, Application > Vaccines, Application > Occupational Safety and Health, TherapeuticArea > Dental, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, TherapeuticArea > Endocrinology, Application > Therapeutics, Application > Consumer Products, TherapeuticArea > Oncology, Application > Medical Devices, Application > Non-Medical Devices, TherapeuticArea > Cardiology

Antigen-capture Electrochemiluminescent Assay for Determining Rabies Vaccine Potency

CDC researchers developed a more efficient method of assessing rabies vaccine potency using an antigen-capture electrochemiluminescent (ECL) assay. This assay utilizes SULFO-NHS-Ester labeled murine monoclonal antibodies to quantify glycoprotein concentration, which is an indicator of vaccine potency. Currently, the potency of rabies vaccines is determined...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Charles Rupprecht

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Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Diagnostics, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, Application > Vaccines