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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   |   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   |   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   |   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   |   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
Device and Methods for Telehealth Wound Care
An inexpensive, hand-held optical device capable of imaging wounds for telehealth monitoring of healing and vascular structure. Background: Open sores and wound healing are a pressing concern in medical care of limited mobility patients. For instance, diabetic foot ulcers are associated with a 25% five year mortality rate as well as other complications....
Published: 2/19/2026   |   Inventor(s): Wenyao Xu, Jun Xia, Alexander Gherardi, Tianyu Chen
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Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Medical Imaging
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   |   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   |   Inventor(s): Dryver Huston, Henry Firsch, Dylan Burns, Tian Xia
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Medical Imaging
Device and Method for Wound Monitoring and Diagnosis using Radio-Frequency Technologies
A device to monitor wound healing non-invasively without disturbing the dressing to reduce the risk of infection and complications. Background: Chronic wound healing affects nearly 6 million Americans per year at a cost of $20 billion. Proper wound healing needs to be monitored in many patients including burn victims as well as pressure venous leg...
Published: 2/19/2026   |   Inventor(s): Wenyao Xu, Jun Xia, Xiaoyu Zhang
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Medical Imaging
Synthetic Gene Circuits
­Engineering synthetic gene circuits allows scientists to design cells to perform any number of tasks such as biosensing, therapeutic or commodity production or bioremediation to name a few. An important design principle when engineering sophisticated synthetic gene circuits is modularity as it breaks the system down into small modules, thereby...
Published: 2/26/2026   |   Inventor(s): Rong Zhang, Hanah Goetz, Juan Melendez-Alvarez, Xiao Wang, Xiaojun Tian
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Category(s): Computing & Information Technology, Genomic Assays/Reagents/Tools, Life Science (All LS Techs)
Dual Scan Photoacoustic Mammoscope
Photoacoustic mammography uses fast-pulse lasers to heat tissue and images the resulting acoustic wave. The process eliminates radioactivity and the inconsistencies of ultrasounds. Use light to listen for breast cancer. As strange as it sounds ultrasound images can be generated using light. In photoacoustic imaging tissue is heated by exposure...
Published: 2/19/2026   |   Inventor(s): Jun Xia, Nikhila Nyayapathi, Huijuan Zhang
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > University at Buffalo, Technology Classifications > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Medical Imaging
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