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Pipeline Inspection Robot

VALUE PROPOSITION Pipelines represent a major supporting industry for utilities and are used in a variety of applications such as for natural gas, water, and oil, as well as residential distribution. Natural gas pipelines alone travel over 2.5 million miles, delivering 28.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to customers in the United States alone....
Published: 7/22/2024   |   Inventor(s): Xiaobo Tan, Preston Fairchild, Claudia Chen, Yiming Deng, Mohand Alzuhiri, Zi Li
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Environmental, Test and Measurement

MRI RF Powered Voltage Sensor

VALUE PROPOSITION For Magnetic Resonance Imaging it is often desirable to measure electrophysical characteristics alongside MRI data. To do so, voltage sensors are employed. This technology is an RF powered voltage sensor which can be configurable to measure a variety of physical indicators with excellent resolution. The design minimizes interference...
Published: 7/22/2024   |   Inventor(s): Chunqi Qian
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Test and Measurement, Biotechnology

High Strain Rate Tensile Testing Apparatus

Executive Summary Characterizing the material response of thermoplastic polymers at intermediate strain rates (1s-1 to ≤ 200s-1), commonly encountered in automotive collisions and crashes, is critical for predicting their failure strength and post-impact behavior. However, investigative experimental techniques required to generate tensile stress-strain...
Published: 6/28/2024   |   Inventor(s): Mahmoodul Haq, Syed Hassan, Oleksii Karpenko
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Test and Measurement

Electrically Active Magnetic Nanoparticle-based Biosensors

Executive Summary Harmful microbes are present in various sources including water, food, plants, and through human-to-human transmission. The ability to detect them rapidly at a low cost is important to protecting the health and safety of humans and animals and the security of food chains. MSU researchers have developed novel nanoparticle-based biosensors...
Published: 3/29/2024   |   Inventor(s): Evangelyn Alocilja, Sudeshna Pal, Emma Setterington
Keywords(s): Biosensors, Magnetic Beads, Magnetic Separation, Molecular Sample Processing, Nanoparticles, Polyaniline Category(s): Biotechnology, Test and Measurement, Devices, Electrical

Laser Pulse Shaper

VALUE PROPOSITION This technology can continuously monitor internal dispersion and correct for temperature drifts caused by the environment or by laser deposited thermal energy. This Pulse shaper will be zero-dispersion and will be able to faithfully characterize input as well as output pulses. INTRODUCTION When a pulse shaper is used as a...
Published: 6/20/2024   |   Inventor(s): Marcos Dantus
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Analytical Instruments, Photonics, Test and Measurement

Recombinant Protein for Rare Earth Element Binding

Executive Summary Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential materials used in advanced technologies such as electronics, process catalysts, magnets, batteries and MRI contrast agents. Although used in small quantities for each application, they end up in surface water and soil during mining, processing and waste disposal. This presents growing environmental...
Published: 7/2/2024   |   Inventor(s): Harvey Lee, Connor Grady, Assaf Gilad
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Biotechnology, Environment, Test and Measurement

Microfluidic Apparatus For Respirometry

Executive Summary Cellular respiration is a set of metabolic processes responsible for the conversion of chemical energy in all aerobic organisms. In animal and plant cells this takes place in the mitochondria where food is broken down to CO2 and strongly reducing compounds. Energy released upon oxidation of the latter by molecular oxygen via a chain...
Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): Denis Proshlyakov, Julia Busik
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Devices, Pharmaceutical, Test and Measurement, Biotechnology

COMPACT DESIGN FOR WIRELESS POWERED RESISTIVE SENSORS

VALUE PROPOSITION Wireless sensors are used to measure different parameters that could not previously be measured. Many wireless sensors on the market today use inductance to measure parameters but there are limited measures that can be done using inductance. Resistive measurements rely on a resistive circuit to measure temperature, currently accurate...
Published: 6/25/2024   |   Inventor(s): Chunqi Qian, Wei Qian
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Devices, Test and Measurement

Surface TSPO in blood cells: Biomarker of peripheral and brain inflammation

INTRODUCTIONTranslocator Protein 18kDa (TSPO) is a nuclear encoded outer mitochondrial membrane protein that is ubiquitously expressed by most host cells. Initially, TSPO was a diazepam target, but it has also been referred to as an ‘orphan protein searching for a function’. Since the generation of these knockouts, TSPO has been determined...
Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): Norbert Kaminski, Robert Crawford, Lance Blevins
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Medical, Biotechnology, Test and Measurement

Fiber-Optic Interferometric Sensors

Executive SummaryFiber-optic sensors using optical interferometers have application for sensing a variety of parameters such as acoustic waves, strain, temperature, and refractive index. The technology is a demodulation method that does not require laser wavelength tuning. The technology provides adaptive ultrasound detection with improved accuracy...
Published: 2/17/2023   |   Inventor(s): Ming Han
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Analytical Instruments, Devices, Test and Measurement
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