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Portable Railroad Track Component Inspection System
Reference #: 01660 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for Potable Railroad Track Component Inspection System Background: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) stipulates routine track inspections to maintain railroad safety and efficiency. However, conventional manual inspections are not only inefficient and...
Published: 1/6/2025   |   Inventor(s): Yu Qian, Yi Wang
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Category(s): Software and Computing
Autonomous Drone for railroad track inspection
Reference #: 01564 The University of South Carolina is offering licensing opportunities for Autonomous Drone for railroad track inspection Background: The current practices suffer from three main drawbacks: 1) Human pilot cost is significant. The schedule of the drone-based track inspection is contingent on the pilot’s availability rather than...
Published: 3/15/2023   |   Inventor(s): Yu Qian, Yi Wang, Chen Chen
Keywords(s): autonomous drone, flight control, image processing, railroad track inspection, self-navigation
Category(s): Engineering and Physical Sciences
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
2021-355 Magnetically Activated Individual Cell Sorting Using Spin Orbit Torque
SUMMARY: UCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a magnetically activated cell sorting method with high throughput and low-cost operation. BACKGROUND: The use of cell sorting techniques has become indispensable for many applications in biology and biomedicine. Cell sorting is particularly important...
Published: 10/4/2024   |   Inventor(s): Abdon Sepulveda, Victor Estrada, Ruoda Zheng, Yilian Wang
Keywords(s): Cancer Immunotherapy, Chemical, Diagnostic Markers & Platforms, High-Throughput Screening, Imaging, Magnetic Field, Materials, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology, T Cell
Category(s): Life Science Research Tools > Microscopy And Imaging, Materials > Nanotechnology, Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Research Methods, Life Science Research Tools > Cell Counting And Imaging, Medical Devices > Medical Imaging
2021-002 System and Methods for Amplified Detection of Molecules on Microparticles
SUMMARYUCLA researchers in the Department of Bioengineering have developed a system to build immunocomplexes, generate and accumulate amplified signals, and perform the signal readout of a digital ELISA using standard benchtop instruments and techniques.BACKGROUNDDigital ELISA allows for the detection and measurement of protein biomarkers at a single-molecule...
Published: 7/19/2023   |   Inventor(s): Dino Di Carlo, Yilian Wang, Vishwesh Nilesh Shah
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Category(s): Life Science Research Tools > Research Methods, Life Science Research Tools > Lab Equipment, Life Science Research Tools > Antibodies, Diagnostic Markers > Immunology, Diagnostic Markers > Targets And Assays, Platforms > Diagnostic Platform Technologies
UAV-based Delivery of Solid Insecticide
Invention Summary: Mosquito borne diseases constitute more than half a billion illnesses and over a million deaths yearly. Wide-scale mosquito pesticide and larvicide dispersion (e.g., aerial dispersion) is no longer a viable option due to 1) posing public health concerns, and 2) urban area expansion into mosquito habitats, making mosquito control...
Published: 12/4/2024   |   Inventor(s): Randy Gaugler, Gregory Williams, Yi Wang
Keywords(s): Aerospace, Pest control
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Pest Control, Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering
New Non-Membrane Feeding Device And Diet Formulation For Mosquito Colony Production
Efficacy of artificial diets (BSA 10% and BSA 20%) for 10 generations of Aedes albopictus mosquito. These diets were prepared with distilled water and used in the new dietary system. For the blood feeding, the live guinea pig was used as a control. Mosquito feeding status on the new dietary system. (A) unfed, (B) half fed and (C) full fed. Arrow...
Published: 12/4/2024   |   Inventor(s): Randy Gaugler, Devi Suman, Kshitij Chandel, Yi Wang
Keywords(s): Animal feed, Pest control
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Pest Control, Technology Classifications > Healthcare & Life Sciences, Technology Classifications > Animal Health & Care
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
Autodissemination of an Insect-Growth Regulator for Mosquito Management
​ ​ Invention Summary: Container mosquitoes are prime public and veterinary health threats. They are the primary vectors of mosquito-borne viruses such as chikungunya, dengue, and zika which can cause illness among the humans. Stagnant water collected in small, squalid spaces form the habitat of these container mosquitoes. Conventional control...
Published: 12/4/2024   |   Inventor(s): Randy Gaugler, Yi Wang, Devi Suman
Keywords(s): Pest control
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture, Technology Classifications > Pest Control