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Flexible Hybrid Fastener with Increased Bond Strength and Optimized Sealing Capacity
Executive Summary Fasteners are often installed through holes drilled in individual pieces to be joined. While significant advancements have been made in fasteners over the past several decades, construction techniques such as using composites (including wood, fiberglass, and carbon fiber), in particular, have exposed serious limitations to existing...
Published: 12/1/2025   |   Inventor(s): Gary Cloud
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Category(s): Advanced Materials, Defense, Mechanical, Subassemblies and Components, Energy
Low Interception Wireless Communication Method
Executive Summary Wireless communications are carried on electromagnetic waves that travel through physical space between a transmitter and receiver. This represents a potential area of vulnerability whereby eavesdroppers may ‘listening in’ to this data if they’re within range of the signal’s transmitter. Various approaches...
Published: 11/3/2025   |   Inventor(s): Huacheng Zeng
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Category(s): Communication, Defense, Data Processing/Analysis
Sensing Platform for Dynamic Soil Properties in Autonomous Vehicles
VALUE PROPOSITION A sensing platform which generates real-time soil property data for offroad autonomous vehicle control. The target application of this technology in autonomous vehicle guidance for off-road applications. Such vehicles could include Humvees and agricultural tractors. While not limited to autonomous vehicles, this system could also...
Published: 7/1/2025   |   Inventor(s): Nizar Lajnef, Mahmood Haq, Satish Udpa
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Category(s): Agriculture, Defense, Test and Measurement, Transportation
Secure and Efficient Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Transmission System with Disguised Jamming
VALUE PROPOSITION The use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal modulation has become widespread in current electronics. Currently 4G, 5G, LTE and other data and telecommunications systems utilize this modulation technique due to its numerous advantages.. With integration of OFDM into consumer, government, and corporate fields,...
Published: 4/22/2025   |   Inventor(s): Tongtong Li, Jian Ren, Yuan Liang
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Category(s): Computer Software, Telecommunications and Internet, Defense
Treatment Process for Reduced Corrosion in CFRP/Metal Hybrids
­ Executive Summary Carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites (CFRPs) are often mechanically fastened to metals such as aluminum alloys in lightweight aircraft applications. Since both materials are electrically conductive, galvanic corrosion of the less noble metal can occur, leading to degradation over time. MSU researchers have developed...
Published: 10/9/2025   |   Inventor(s): Greg Swain, Isuri Dammulla
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Category(s): Advanced Materials, Defense, Transportation
Recoverable Liquid Nanofoam Energy Absorbers
​Executive Summary Energy absorption and dissipation systems such as shock absorbers, springs, foams and padding are used in a wide variety of applications where protection is required. In the protective equipment segment, users continue to search for new technologies to increase impact resistance with reduced weight. Sports and military helmets in...
Published: 10/9/2025   |   Inventor(s): Weiyi Lu
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Category(s): Advanced Materials, Defense, Subassemblies and Components
Novel, Multi-Impact, Energy Diverting, Energy Absorbing, Repairable Helmets
Executive Summary This technology addresses brain injuries while wearing a helmet. A novel technique adds an outer layer to helmet shells to absorb multiple impacts and divert energy away for the skull to reduce concussions. The innovation can also reduce projectile penetration in a way that is repairable and re-healable for low or multiple low-velocity...
Published: 10/9/2025   |   Inventor(s): Mahmood Haq, Lawrence Drzal
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Category(s): Advanced Materials, Defense, Transportation
Isotope Tagging For Workpiece Authentication
Executive SummaryOver the last 50 years, the U.S. Department of Justice has ranked art crime behind only drugs and arms in terms of highest-grossing criminal trades. While many incidents go unreported making it difficult to estimate the volume and total economic value lost, Interpol estimates have put the losses worldwide due to forgery and theft at...
Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): Wolfgang Bauer, Bradley Sherrill
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Category(s): Chemicals, Defense
User Authentication via Keyboard Typing Behavior
Executive SummaryBiometrics (the measurement and analysis of physical or behavioral characteristics) can be used to identify and authenticate an individual, and to manage access to sensitive information or resources. A limitation with use of a single-point physical biometric (such as a fingerprint) is that access may be granted indefinitely, even after...
Published: 6/8/2021   |   Inventor(s): Xiaoming Liu, Joseph Roth, Dimitris Metaxas
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Category(s): Computer Software, Defense, Computer Hardware
User Authentication via Keyboard Typing Sound
Executive SummaryBiometrics (the measurement and analysis of physical or behavioral characteristics) can be used to identify and authenticate an individual, and to manage access to sensitive information or resources. A limitation with use of a single-point physical biometric (such as a fingerprint) is that access may be granted indefinitely, even after...
Published: 6/8/2021   |   Inventor(s): Xiaoming Liu, Joseph Roth, Arun Ross, Dimitris Metaxas
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Category(s): Computer Software, Defense, Computer Hardware
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