Philips monitors elderly’s water usage to determine their ability to live at home
Philips is monitoring the behavior of a subject based on their usage of water outlets of a water supply system in a building. The system monitors personal water usage to determine the suitability of a subject to remain living at…
A Saudi Arabian researcher is monitoring respiratory waveforms for developing a personalized mechanical ventilator.
A researcher at Royal Commission Yanbu Colleges and Institutes, located in Saudi Arabia, is monitoring respiratory waveforms to reduce ventilator-induced lung injury and ventilator asynchrony.
Wireless EEG headphones
mBrainTrain, located in Serbia, is using wireless EEG headphones to acquire biophysiological signals for the purpose of assessing mental states.
Innovative World Solutions is developing an alert and response integration system.
Innovative World Solutions, located in Asburn VA, is developing an alert and response integration system that protects, benefits, and ensures the well-being, supervision, and oversight of people.
Researchers at Imperial College London and University of Hong Kong are helping reproductive disorder patients with a new robotic platform
Imperial Innovations, the technology transfer office for Imperial College London, is diagnosing active tuberculosis and determining the risk of a latent tuberculosis infection progressing to active tuberculosis.The LKS Faculty of Medicine…
Google’s ML algorithm for detecting eye diseases is reaching a larger market.
Google is determining an ergonomic assessment for a user via a wearable garment with sensors.Google and Verily's machine learning algorithm for detecting two leading causes of preventable blindness in adults has entered clinical use in…
General Electric deploys School of Etiquette
General Electric is using digital technology to improve people's emotional intelligence by making suggestions during inter-personal interactions based on the situations, relationships, and context.
ElMindA is estimating brain function using spatiotemporal parcellation.
ElMindA, located in Israel, is analyzing neurophysiological data using spatiotemporal parcellation based on activity-related features in the data. Each parcel (capsule) is then used to estimate brain function, especially as applied…
CSTS Health Care is generating treatment plans based on molecular targets.
CSTS Health Care, located in Canada, is identifying drugs and generating treatment plans for patients based on molecular targets that have been identified using information associated with the patient and a reference biological network…
Bose can read minds (at least the auditory cortex)
Bose, located in Framingham MA, is sensing the auditory cortex with a wearable device and triggering actions of the wearable device, such as changing a type of music played, changing the volume of the music, acknowledging a notification,…
Walmart is communicating with out-of-reach transport vehicles via intermediate drones
Walmart is controlling transport vehicles that are located beyond a communication range of a central control station via intermediate control vehicles, such as UAVs.
Verizon is multicasting service area information for drone networks
Verizon is multicasting service area information associated with a vehicle network, such as that of autonomous drones, to permit control devices to perform actions.
Prodrone is using UAVs to search for lost children
Prodrone, located in Japan, is using UAVs to search for people, such as a lost child, within a predetermined range such as inside or outside a building. The system compares image data retrieved by the UAVs with a database to perform…
NEC is improving UAV flight control
NEC, headquartered in Japan, is improving the operability and working efficiency of flight control for UAVs.
NantMobile is offering wide area AR based on maps obtained via drones
NantMobile, located in Culver City CA, is providing wide area augmented reality (AR) location-based services based on an initial map obtained via a drone.
HERE Global is enabling vehicle-drone interaction
HERE Global, located in the Netherlands, is enabling intelligent inspection and interaction between a vehicle and a drone, such as retrieving vehicle specification data.
GeoNetwork UAVs enforce geofencing
GeoNetwork, a free and open source cataloging application, is enforcing rules within a geofence using a fencing agent on a UAV.
DJI drone finds missing teenager
DJI is determining whether a UAV is in ground mode, in which the UAV is being carried by a carrier, or in flight mode, in which the UAV has been released from the carrier.The police of the City of Fremont in California used a DJI Mavic 2…
Drones protest overtime work on railroad
BNSF Railway, headquartered in Fort Worth TX, is using a UAV system to inspect its railroad assets.BNSF is currently the only railroad company to be working with the FAA to test flying UAVs beyond visual line-of-sight, and is now able to…
Bell Helicopter has partnered with NASA and the FAA to develop a cloud-based UAV traffic management system.
Bell Helicopter, headquartered in Fort Worth TX, is developing a hybrid unmanned aircraft system that has a vertical takeoff and landing flight mode and a forward flight mode.NASA and the FAA are partnering with private companies such as…
The U.K. military is planning to deploy fleets of drones, possibly from BAE Systems
BAE Systems, headquartered in the UK, is developing a digital light processing (DLP) guidance system for drones and other air-borne devices. It uses a DLP mirror array at a laser source to track the location of the drone.The U.K. Ministry…
Drexel University is making significant progress in photovoltaic research.
Researchers at Drexel University, located in Philadelphia PA, are developing nano-enhanced, high-efficiency bulk photovoltaic devices using non-centrosymmetric crystals.Two of those researchers and others at Drexel University have recently…
Nanoco Technologies is preparing CIGS core-shell nanoparticles
Nanoco Technologies, located in the UK, is preparing core-shell nanoparticles for use in CIGS-based thin-film photovoltaic devices.
Beijing Juntai Innovation is soldering solar cell hetero-junctions to form strings
Beijing Juntai Innovation is soldering the hetero-junctions of intrinsic thin-film solar cells to form a string. The method involves measuring and regulating the temperature in the soldering chamber.
US Court of Appeals rules on diagnosis patentability
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled earlier this month that a way to diagnose a severe neurological disorder cannot be patented, as it covers a law of nature. Instead of clarifying the patenting for medical…
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