Featured Inventions
Autonomous Logistics
PinMe: Software for Tracking a Smartphone User Around the World
Overview: Software that can determine the location of a smart device or vehicle independently of GPS by using the device’s sensor data, facilitating advanced supply chain analytics and autonomous logistics with ubiquitous, non-proprietary mobile devices. Learn More |
Autonomous Logistics
US2016140729A1: Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Logistics
Overview: Novel sensor fusion system that helps smart devices, drones, and autonomous vehicles to know where they are in time and space, impacting advanced supply chain analytics, autonomous logistics and increasing availability of these machines. Learn More |
Autonomous Logistics
US2017199269A1: Techniques for Navigating UAVs Using Ground-Based Transmitters
Overview: Technology that improves tracking, monitoring, and navigation of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through a GPS-independent, radio frequency-based approach, increasing the reliability of UAVs and optimizing autonomous logistics. Learn More |
Autonomous Logistics
US8447443B1: Algorithm to Optimize Autonomous Logistics and Manufacturing
Overview: Technology that measures changes in external conditions and adjusts key performance parameters, increasing the reliability of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), improving machine availability, and optimizing autonomous logistics. Learn More |
Autonomous Logistics
US8919842B2: Highly Dexterous Humanoid Robot -- "Robonaut"
Overview: Highly dexterous, strong, mobile robot that is capable of operating equipment and machines designed for humans (e.g. hand-held power tools) and substituting for humans (in wide range of workplaces) to complete dangerous tasks, enhancing speed, accuracy, and operational safety across the supply chain. Learn More |
Autonomous Logistics
US9266518B2: Modular Robotic Vehicle (MRV)
Overview: Remote-controllable electric vehicle that is easy to maneuver and park, even in dense urban areas, capable of becoming the next-generation automobile and transforming the ability to deliver the “last-mile”. Learn More |
Continuous Wireless
Track Code # 13-08: Near Field Wireless Power Transfer System
Overview: Technology that boosts the efficiency and speed of wireless charging to power robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial machinery, and other devices, broadly impacting the supply chain by increasing the uptime of these machines. Learn More |
Continuous Wireless
US2018375942A1: Cloud Communication for Industry 4.0
Overview: Cloud-based communication method that enables machines to share information with each other in the Internet of Things, allowing for industrial automation and effective resource management across a constantly changing network of devices. Learn More |
Cyber Security
US2013159310A1: Software to Detect and Prevent Data Breaches Using Similarity-Based Information
Overview: Algorithm and device that can learn from historical data (e.g. fraudulent activity and data breaches) to predict future events, identify the source, and stop the event from occurring, enabling enhanced cyber security. Learn More |
Fashion Supply Chain
US2019043269A1: System for Virtually Trying on Clothes Using Single View Images
Overview: Technology that computes a rich and realistic 3D model of a human body and its outfits from a single photograph with minimal human interaction, impacting e-commerce, v-commerce, and the fashion supply chain and enhancing the consumer experience. Learn More |
Food Supply Chain
IR CU18117: Automated Disease Detection in Crops Using Drones and Deep Learning
Overview: Machine learning system that uses images from drones and other unmanned vehicles to rapidly screen crops and trap diseases at their source, making agriculture more sustainable and impacting the food supply chain. Learn More |
Food Supply Chain
US2018284092A1: pH-Sensitive Nanoparticles for Detecting and Preventing Food Spoilage
Overview: Low-cost method to more accurately detect and prevent food spoilage by using pH, instead of sell-by/consume-by dates, optimizing the food supply chain and providing enhanced consumer transparency. Learn More |
Inventory Intelligence
US2017023652A1: Frame-Suspended Magnetoelastic Tags for Tracking Small Items
Overview: Technology that enables the production of low-cost, miniaturized magnetoelastic tags with the ability to track small, previously untrackable items, reducing theft and boosting inventory intelligence. Learn More |
Inventory Intelligence
US8864038B2: Secure Asset Tracking and Fraud Prevention with Radioactive Isotopes
Overview: Technology that allows for secure tracking of valuable items and prevention of counterfeiting in the supply chain, boosting inventory intelligence and reducing shrinkage. Learn More |
Inventory Intelligence
US8870060B2: Fast Barcode Reader Enabled by Dispersive Fourier-Transform Imaging
Overview: Technology that enables machines to read barcodes 10,000 times faster than current method, accelerating asset tracking and boosting inventory intelligence. Learn More |
Inventory Intelligence
US9336421B1: Passive Smart Container for Inventory Intelligence
Overview: Smart container that actively tracks small, easily-misplaced items (e.g. bulk bins, pills, liquids, grains, electronic components, single-serve items in main or secondary impulse centers, etc.), minimizing short shipments and enhancing inventory intelligence. Learn More |
Inventory Intelligence
US9465965B1: Smart Enclosure Using RFID for Inventory Tracking
Overview: Smart container that reads RFID tags to track which items have been removed from it, boosting inventory intelligence from complex and/or understaffed retail environments. Learn More |
Inventory Intelligence
US9694518B2: Nanotechnology to Detect Counterfeits Using Breath-Activated Images
Overview: Nanopillar array-based technology that reveals an image when exposed to moisture or vapor (e.g. human breath), facilitating the detection of counterfeits, improving customer experience, and enhancing inventory intelligence. Learn More |
On-Demand Manufacturing
US2017067154A1: Microplasma-Based 3D Printing to Create Complex Objects
Overview: Novel 3D printing technology that allows complex objects to be generated from different kinds of materials, enabling on-demand, distributed manufacturing closer to the consumer. Learn More |
Supply Chain Analytics
NASA Software Catalog: Performance Logging Services (PLS) for Supply Chain Analytics
Overview: Software that can predict and monitor supplier delivery performance in real time with minimal CPU and memory usage, enabling advanced supply chain analytics in complex (or simple) retail environments. Learn More |