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Interbody Cage with Spill-free Biological Material Compartment
Published Wednesday, October 16, 2019Spine surgeons often require the use of interbody cages to facilitate corrections of spinal deformities and to promote bone fusion in the disc spaces in between vertebrae. Current interbody cages have cavities that can be packed with bone graft material. However, it is difficult to keep the bone graft material contained in the cage...
Investigator(s): Charles Sansur, Steven Ludwig
Categories: Devices, Medical implants, Surgical devices
Keyword(s): Neurology, Spine, Interbody Cage, Spine Fusion
Docket: CS-2016-080
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System and Method for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Published Monday, September 30, 2019Sleep Apnea treatment represents a $6 billion market in the United States. Current treatment methods suffer from poor compliance rates. The inventors have proposed a novel ultrasound device to diagnose and treat sleep apnea.
Investigator(s): Amal Isaiah, Jeffrey Wolf
Categories: Devices, Imaging devices, Diagnostics, Imaging, Methods of Treatment
Keyword(s): sleep apnea
Docket: AI-2018-039
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Windle
Published Wednesday, July 31, 2019Executive SummaryRecreational pool space is divided by lane lines consisting of buoyant plastic disks strung along a steel cable. Each day, lane lines are moved into different configurations to accommodate different pool usage. A tensioner is used to relieve or apply tension from one end. Current tensioner designs possess many weaknesses...
Categories: Engineering
Keyword(s): Swimming, aquatics, line, cable, tensioner
Docket: PS-2018-096
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SoundsRight CAPTCHA
Published Wednesday, July 31, 2019Executive SummaryAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 61 million adult Americans live with a disability. Of those people, 4.6 percent (approximately 2.8 million) people are visually disabled. These vision impairments, including blindness, lead to difficulty when using computers. One common difficulty is the...
Categories: Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): CAPTCHA, accessibility
Docket: IS-2019-074
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Infectious Bronchitis Virus Vaccine using Newcastle Disease Virus Vector
Published Sunday, July 21, 2019BackgroundThe Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV) is of significance to the poultry industry due to its contagious nature and the economic losses caused from IBV infections and deaths in chickens. IBV targets the respiratory, renal and reproductive systems and egg production in chickens. Currently available IBV vaccines have several...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: LS-2016-184
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Novel Protein Targets For Anti-Tick Vaccines
Published Sunday, July 21, 2019Background Lyme disease is transmitted primarily through tick-bites and caused by spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi. By the 2014 Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates, incidence of Lyme disease has grown in the US from ~11,000 cases in 1995 to over 30,000 cases in 2014. Recent estimates place the number of new cases at 300,000 annually...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: LS-2019-012
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Nanotube enabled Thermoregulation Fabric
Published Sunday, June 30, 2019BackgroundThe global active wear market is centered on the value propositions of keeping the wearer dry at a comfortable temperature regardless of external conditions or activity level. Existing active wear technologies for temperature regulation include fabrics and yarns that wick away sweat or fabric weaves to allow for more airflow...
Keyword(s): smart fabric, Adaptive Thermal Management, Dynamic Gating of Infrared Radiation
Docket: PS-2018-146
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Infrared Spectroscopy Chamber for Environmentally Sensitive and Rough Materials
Published Tuesday, June 11, 2019Background:Spectroscopy, which involves the study of the electromagnetic interaction with matter, is a multibillion dollar market which is expected globally to reach 15.6 billion dollars in 2020 at a compounded annual growth rate of 3%. Market trends in this area are as a result of the increase in the development of next generation...
Keyword(s): IR spectroscoppy, FTIR, Sample Chambers
Docket: PS-2019-004
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On Demand First in First Out Droplet Generating Systems
Published Monday, June 3, 2019BackgroundMicrofluidics is a class of technology where the precise manipulation of fluids in very small channels and devices leads to improved devices in fields as different as medical diagnoses and inkjet printing. A subclass of microfluidic technology is Droplet-based Microfluidics where instead of manipulating a continuous flow, fluids are...
Keyword(s): Droplet Microfluidics, Pneumatic Actuation, Single cell analysis, Trap array
Docket: PS-2018-134
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Language Ladder Mobile App
Published Sunday, May 19, 2019Executive SummaryResearchers at the University of Maryland’s National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) have developed Language Ladder, a language learning web platform and mobile app for intermediate and higher level learners. Language Ladder has more than 100 languages and more than 900 video learning and compact learning models to provide...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-2018-169