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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): People using wheelchairs are more active than ever before. Their wheelchair is a mobile station, a base from which they work, play and interact. Access from their wheelchair is essential, yet people are constrained by limitations imposed by existing mounts. Accessible mounting technology increases the independence and mobility of people with disabilities, resu ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): People using wheelchairs are more active than ever before. Their wheelchair is a mobile station, a base from which they work, play and interact. Access from their wheelchair is essential, yet people are constrained by limitations imposed by existing mounts. Accessible mounting technology increases the independence and mobility of people with disabilities, resu ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An estimated 5.4 million Americans had Alzheimer's disease in 2012 and a 50% increase in this number is expected by 2030. The majority of these patients (70%) will live at home where they receive 75% of their care frominformal caregivers, unpaid individuals such as family members, friends, and neighbors. These caregivers provide valuable services, often a ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Military Satellite Communication (MILSATCOM), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have a current and future need for advanced commercially available inherently radhard primitive cell libraries to support new designs for satellites and other spacecraft. American Semiconductor Inc. proposes the use of double gated Flexfet technology for ...

Architecture Technology Corp. (ATC) proposes a reverse-engineering toolset named AfterShock. This toolset will use dynamic analysis and will build one work done for ATC's static reverse-engineering tool, Earthquake. AfterShock will use Valgrind, an open-source dynamic code modifying tool, to gather data from execution traces of the target program. AfterShock will then analyze and convert thos ...

Jackpine Technologies, teamed with Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions, present a plan to build an Air Traffic Control Tactical Briefcase (ATCTB). The ATCTB will be used by personnel who require airspace situational awareness, but need to hand carry their ATC equipment. In addition to providing the necessary functionality, the system will need to meet size, ruggedness and relia ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Koronis Biomedical Technology Corporation KBT proposes to develop and evaluate a miniature ultra low power pulse oximeter for long term wearable monitoring There continues to be a clinical need for an unobtrusive pulse oximeter sensor that is small and can be worn comfortably for extended periods of time without battery change or recharge KBT will use eye s ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A new wireless network standard called Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) makes possible the creation of a wearable electroencephalograph (EEG) instrument that can transmit 256 full-bandwidth channels in real time. A wireless interface for high channel count EEGs, like those used with intracranial monitoring, would allow patients to be more comfortable during their evaluat ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation proposes to develop a small, light-weight ambulatory sternal skin conductance measurement and recording tool for monitoring hot flashes in research studies. Packaging for the proposed tool is based on an electrocardiograph (ECG) system used for long-term cardiac monitoring. The application lessons and much of the literal ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the Western world. The hallmark of the disease is retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) dysfunction with subsequent death of the foveal photoreceptors. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) have been demonstrated to repair damaged tissues including heart muscle and nerve under selected conditions. ...