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Distributed Infrastructure Sensors and Cues for Robotic Fire-Fighting and Safety System on a Lunar Base
This technology is a QR-code based local intelligence layer for lunar habitats, enabling robots and responders to retrieve floor maps, safe sensor limits, and step-by-step hazard responses to respond to emergencies. The use of fire-fighting robots, sensor networks and cues eliminate the need for a global map or large onboard database, minimizing the...
Published: 4/27/2026   |   Updated: 4/27/2026   |   Inventor(s): Jekan Thangavelautham, Alexis Munguia, Eryc Rodriguez, Drake Russ
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation > Robotics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering
A Sensitive 3D Lateral Flow Device
This technology is a lateral flow device (LFD), that enables the processing of significantly larger sample volumes while maintaining rapid detection times. By reimagining the structure of the nitrocellulose (NC) membrane—the heart of LFDs—in 3-dimensional structures, this invention incorporates shorter, thinner, and more focused flow sensing...
Published: 4/8/2026   |   Updated: 4/8/2026   |   Inventor(s): Jian Gu, Frederic Zenhausern
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Sensors & Controls > Biologic, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices > Diagnostic, Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Healthcare Portfolios > Infectious Diseases, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture, Technology Classifications > Energy, Cleantech & Environmental, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation
Systems and Methods for Concurrent Biochemical Immunoassay and Cellular Traction Force Measurement in Hydrogels
This invention relates to a platform that couples bead-based immunoassays with 3D traction force microscopy (TFM) within a single hydrogel substrate to quantify time-resolved biochemical cues and cell-generated mechanical forces at matched locations. This invention allows researchers to directly test how local molecular cues influence cell mechanics...
Published: 3/23/2026   |   Updated: 3/23/2026   |   Inventor(s): Alex McGhee, Kelvin Pond, A Departmental Work
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Life Sciences > Diagnostics, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Screening assays
Systems and Fabrication Methods for Resistor Designs Through Printing
This invention involves a fabrication method for directly embedding customized resistors into a 3D printed object. This entails using multiple low conducive filaments in order to flexibly customize the resistance of a trace, that acts as a resistor, printed through the combinations of the various low and medium range conductive filaments. Background:...
Published: 3/2/2026   |   Updated: 3/2/2026   |   Inventor(s): Suyun Bae, Takanori Fujiwara
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Analog Circuits, Technology Classifications > Sensors & Controls
Dark Eye Harvester
This invention involves using an insulated light-proof chamber that allows the harvesting of eyes or another light-sensitive biomaterial without light exposure, allowing visual rhodopsin to regenerate more efficiently. The chamber has a cylindrical shape and is attached to a chest cooler with handles on top to rotate the walls. The chamber has multiple...
Published: 2/9/2026   |   Updated: 2/9/2026   |   Inventor(s): A Departmental Work, Michael Brown
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Research Tools
Nanoscale Scanning Thermal Microscopy using Improved Thermocouple Probes
This technology is a scanning thermal microscope device. It utilizes a thermocouple with a sharp tip on its center fabricated from a cross-junction of coated and uncoated thin films and is suspended on a nanowire device. Radiation heat received at the tip is converted into a Seeback voltage signal for thermoelectric temperature sensing. This device...
Published: 11/24/2025   |   Updated: 11/24/2025   |   Inventor(s): Qing Hao, Christopher Horne, Liping Wang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Sensors & Controls, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Microscopy, Spectroscopy, Polarimetry
Technique for Measuring Particles with a Light Sheet Microscope
This invention is a companion device to the portable, field-deployable light sheet microscope device developed for detecting airborne particle morphology (UA26-002). This device has an improved, simplified design with an alternate optical configuration for imaging airborne particles as they pass through an air column. Background: Airborne particle...
Published: 10/14/2025   |   Updated: 10/14/2025   |   Inventor(s): Matthew Mavko, Dongkyun Kang, Momoka Sugimura, Yong Jun Kim, Nikolaus Anderson
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation
Handheld Electrofishing Removal Device
This technology is an electrofishing device designed for the removal of invasive fish species from streams and rivers. The device can emit a specific amount of current to create an electric field in the body of water which causes involuntary muscle spasms in nearby fish, drawing the fish towards the device. This technique was demonstrated to be capable...
Published: 2/10/2026   |   Updated: 9/29/2025   |   Inventor(s): Isaak Ulm, Nathan Williams, Anthony Saunders, John Esparza, Elyse Dilbeck-Stover, Jake Weithas
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Aquaculture, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation
Method and System for Detecting Refractive Flow Disturbances Using Time-Resolved Angular Filtering
This technology is a method for detecting refractive index variations in transparent media through passive optical imaging without the need for structured backgrounds or active illumination. This method involves use of thin films to convert angular deflections of ambient light caused by refractive index gradients into measurable intensity modulations...
Published: 12/23/2025   |   Updated: 9/4/2025   |   Inventor(s): Mohamed ElKabbash
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Microscopy, Spectroscopy, Polarimetry, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Remote Sensing, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation
A Piezo-Actuated Optomechanical Magnetometer
This technology provides a highly sensitive, compact device designed for precise magnetic field measurements across a wide frequency range. By integrating photonic structures with magnetostrictive and piezoelectric thin films, the invention efficiently converts magnetic fields into detectable signals. One notable benefit is its adjustable piezoelectric...
Published: 9/3/2025   |   Updated: 9/3/2025   |   Inventor(s): Matthew Eichenfield, Zachary Castillo, Brandon Smith
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection, Technology Classifications > Sensors & Controls > Motion & Force
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