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2D metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) electrodes
Problem: Current implantable devices for recording and stimulating electrical activity in the body are fabricated with metal based components. The metal components pose issues for long term implantation and functionality, including scarring, inflammation, degradation and fatigue. Furthermore, the physical properties of metals are typically inadequate...
Published: 6/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Flavia Vitale, Brian Litt
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices
Rapid manufacturing of soft, comfortable electrodes
Rapid, low-cost, and scalable production of comfortable electrode arrays suitable for measuring biosignals Problem: Medical electrodes convert ionic currents within the human body into electric currents used to diagnose and monitor diseases. The global medical electrode market is currently valued at over $1B and continues to grow in response to...
Published: 6/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Flavia Vitale, Nicolette Driscoll, Nicholas Apollo, Brian Litt
Keywords(s): Neurology
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Hardware & Components
PMU-Embedded Analytics for Online Event Detection and Classification in Power Grids
The energy requirement of the world is increasing exponentially every year. With the power demand sites concentrated in the region with the highest population density, energy production sites must be located remotely. This isolation requires lengthy and complicated grids to be designed and manufactured to transmit power over long distances. Grid failures...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Payman Dehghanian, Shiyuan Wang, Li Li
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment
Electrodes for Long Term In-Vivo Implantation and In-Vitro Use
Problem: Implantable devices for use in the body of a subject, such as neural prosthetic systems, have had limited success due to the challenges presented by the environment the devices are exposed to. Long-term interaction with the implantable device and the body takes a toll on these implantable devices. Impedance degradation, scar tissue formation,...
Published: 6/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Brian Litt
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Medical Devices
High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Mapping of Brain Activity Using Flexible Multiplexed Electrode Arrays with Long Term Stability and Safety
Flexible foldable actively multiplexed high density electrode array for mapping brain activity in-vivo Problem: Electrode arrays for recording and stimulating the brain are used throughout clinical medicine and basic neuroscience research, but are unable to sample large areas of the brain while maintaining high spatial resolution because of the need...
Published: 6/24/2024   |   Inventor(s): Brian Litt
Keywords(s): Neurodegenerative Diseases
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices
Classifying high-frequency oscillations in physiological recordings
Method for automatic and unsupervised classification of high-frequency oscillations in physiological recordings. Problem: Automatic detection and classification of high frequency oscillations (HFO) data for use in clinical diagnosis and therapy has been limited. Currently, researchers visually inspect for high frequency oscillations. Solution:...
Published: 2/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Brian Litt
Keywords(s): Bioengineering, Neurodegenerative Diseases
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Research Tools & Reagents, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Imaging
Measuring and manipulating neuronal signals using implantable electronic microsensor arrays
Problem: Most current implantable brain devices stimulate large regions of the brain without sensing. These devices are not able to access the fine multi-scale architecture comprising brain function and do not interact with the brain’s capacity for self-reorganization and repair. Solution: An implantable electronic micro-sensor array on...
Published: 2/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Brian Litt
Keywords(s): Neurodegenerative Diseases
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices
Transparent Graphene Electrodes to Image and Monitor Biological Tissues
Transparent electrode arrays for visualization, simultaneous imaging, and electrophysiology Problem: Calcium imaging is a versatile tool capable of resolving single neurons and their connectivity with single-cell spatial resolution in the brain. Unfortunately, its coarse temporal resolution limits its ability to detect neural activity with a single...
Published: 1/12/2024   |   Inventor(s): Brian Litt
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Materials
Distributed Feedback Fiber Laser Pumped by Multimode Diode Lasers
Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences and Canada's Carleton University recently succeeded in fabricating high reflectivity (>99%) Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) into phosphate glass fibers using UV light and a phase mask technique. With this new manufacturing technique, fiber lasers can be created as single monolithic...
Published: 4/3/2023   |   Inventor(s): Nasser Peyghambarian, Axel Schülzgen, Li Li, Jacques Albert
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources
All-Fiber Multicore Fiber Laser Devices
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a compact, power-scalable, alignment-free fiber laser that takes a new approach to stabilizing phase-locked operation of multi-core fiber lasers by completely removing all free space optical components. This high-brightness, all-fiber laser package uses passive optical fiber spliced at both ends...
Published: 4/3/2023   |   Inventor(s): Nasser Peyghambarian, Axel Schülzgen, Li Li
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Fiber Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lasers & Other Sources