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Swarm Cognitive Small-scale Structural Sensing and Control
Summary: MARSBots are low-cost swarm microrobots equipped with cameras and sensors that use augmented reality (AR) for the autonomous inspection of hard-to-reach structural areas, detecting cracks and early signs of damage. Technology Overview: MARSBots are small, flexible-legged microrobots designed to inspect confined or hazardous spaces without...
Published: 3/11/2026   |   Updated: 3/11/2026   |   Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Tian Xia, Dylan Burns, Alireza Fath, Nicholas Hanna, Yi Liu, Christoph Sauter
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
Multileg Robot Sensor System
Summary: This invention introduces three robotic systems through a quadruped robot dog equipped with multi-sensor feet for environmental and structural sensing in challenging or hazardous locations. Technology Overview: The invention centers around a Quadruped Robot Dog (QRD) that integrates sensors on its feet to measure moisture, temperature, humidity,...
Published: 3/11/2026   |   Updated: 3/11/2026   |   Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Alireza Fath, Tian Xia, Nicholas Hanna, Dylan Burns, Yi Liu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
Continuous Wave Augmented Reality Ground Penetrating Radar
Summary: This invention upgrades a handheld ground-penetrating radar (GPR) by adding augmented reality (AR) mapping and multi-sensor capabilities to make subsurface detection more accurate and easier to visualize. Technology overview: The new system improves on a traditional handheld continuous-wave GPR by integrating AR and SLAM (simultaneous localization...
Published: 3/11/2026   |   Updated: 3/11/2026   |   Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Tian Xia, Dylan Burns, Joshua Girard
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
Automated water sensing and sampling system
This wireless drone can autonomously navigate a site, retrieve multiple water samples without cross contamination, sense multiple parameters of water quality in real-time, and integrate that information into a geophysical information system with minimal human operator intervention. Technology Overview: Water resources are an essential part of many...
Published: 10/2/2025   |   Updated: 10/2/2025   |   Inventor(s): Tian Xia, Dryver Huston, Dylan Burns, Soheyl Faghir Hagh, Parmida Amngostar
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Environment & Energy
Photogrammetric and Multisensor Position Registration for Ground Penetrating Radars
This innovation utilizes geophysical instruments (i.e., GPR) moving across the ground to figure out what is under the earth’s surface. The question involves finding out where the object is located within a centimeter. To overcome the localization or registration challenge, the team turned to the smartphone technology and incorporated photogrammetry...
Published: 5/21/2025   |   Updated: 5/21/2025   |   Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Tian Xia, Dylan Burns
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering
Ground Penetrating Radar and Mapping for Underground Infrastructure Maintenance
This technology uses full waveform digitization of the returning signals to significantly reduce the number of launch signals needed Background: Critical to the identification and repair of crumbling and unstable infrastructure is the use of ground penetrating radar systems to scan below the surface for dangers present. However, the FCC has mandated...
Published: 5/21/2025   |   Updated: 5/21/2025   |   Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Henry Firsch, Dylan Burns, Tian Xia
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Medical Imaging
Scalable, Low Voltage Device For Liquid Crystal-Based Technologies
A multi-stable liquid crystal (LC) device based on saddle-spray director variation that enables fast optoelectronic switching and has low power requirements. Problem: LC devices are crucial for a number of modern technologies including monitors, electronic switches, and storage devices. These devices rely on an optoelectrical process by which applied...
Published: 9/9/2025   |   Updated: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Shu Yang, Yu Xia, Timothy Atherton, Douglas Cleaver, Andrew DeBenedictis, DaeSeok Kim
Keywords(s): Optics & Photonics 
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Hardware & Components, Technology Classifications > Materials
Cholesterol Template for Synthesizing Non-Polar Chiral Nanoparticles
Yields Colloidal Chiral Nanoparticles with Consistent Size and Useful Optical Properties This cholesterol ligand template enables the preparation of nonpolar inorganic chiral nanoparticles. Chirality is a fundamental geometrical property with various objects in our universe, enabling matter to adopt three-dimensional arrangements. Chiral molecules...
Published: 1/20/2026   |   Updated: 4/3/2024   |   Inventor(s): Yunwei Cao, Tianyuan Xiao
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Chemical, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Materials
Interconnected Nanocrystal Networks for Hosting Metastable Rock-Salt Materials at Ambient Conditions
Produces Ambient, Metastable High-Energy, and High-Pressure Structures in a Controllable Manner Interconnected nanocrystal networks are emerging as a new form of matter with the ability to host metastable crystal phases at ambient conditions. Solids from a collection of atoms can adopt various structural phases with respective physical and chemical...
Published: 1/20/2026   |   Updated: 7/25/2023   |   Inventor(s): Yunwei Cao, Tianyuan Xiao, Derek LaMontagne
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Materials
Multicellular Living Drug Platform for Targeted Treatment of Various Diseases
Isolated Micro-Ecosystems Secrete Drug Molecules at Controlled Doses and Locations This drug platform employs living multicellular assemblies that can deliver drug molecules in controlled patterns to specific tissues in order to perform complex therapeutic functions. Unlike standard small-molecule drugs and biopharmaceuticals, living drugs are therapeutic...
Published: 1/20/2026   |   Updated: 11/5/2021   |   Inventor(s): Yunwei Cao, Tianyuan Xiao, Shouguang Jin, Yousong Ding
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Chemical, Technology Classifications > Research Tools > Therapeutics
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