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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a novel manufacturing method to produce high-accuracy, optical encoders. Encoders are sensors that measure position, either linear or angular, and convert it into an electronic signal. Modern automation and robotics systems heavily rely on encoders for precision positioning and motion control. The global encoder market ...

Abstract For about 175,000 leg and hip fractures each year, the best treatment is for an orthopaedic surgeon to implant a stiff metal rod, or intramedullary (IM) nail, through the center of the bone and fix the nail to the bone with screws (distal locking). Distal locking can be difficult and time-consuming step and presents two major challenges. First, the procedure uses C-arm fluoroscopy for gui ...

Abstract Hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis (hfTC) is a disease in which patients cannot produce the bioactive form of the hormone Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23), which is secreted by osteocytes to rid the body of phosphate by acting on the kidney. hfTC is characterized by markedly elevated serum phosphate (Pi) which causes large intramuscular calcifications to develop. The calcifi ...

The STRATFI Earth 616 project will create a proof of concept secure Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based environment to provide near real-time visibility and traceability, along with associated securing of digital assets, for parts and data from an i

Magnesium metal, sometimes referred to as the “Green Metal” is important for defense and industrial use, as it is the lightest of all the structural and engineering metals. Magnesium also has superior mechanical properties such as high dampening capacity, heat dissipation, and shock absorbing capacity. Magnesium is 100% recyclable. Due to these factors, magnesium metal is in high demand in the ...

In this Phase IIB SBIR project for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) drug development, Neurodon LLC proposes to conduct preclinical development and IND-enabling activities on our novel, orally available lead and backup compounds that, in our preceding Phase II project, showed neuroprotection and beneficial effects on learning and memory in a transgenic model of AD. Despite the enormity of AD as a nationa ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will be to produce high-quality (accurate/high-resolution) soil maps for agronomists and farmers at scale. Accurate soil information is a fundamental driver of better, more-efficient crop/soil management. This new branch of technology will deliver developed map products across various cropping systems ...

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Shipboard Dimensional Analysis Tool (SDAT) was developed to enable transportability assessments of candidate vehicle designs aboard Naval ships prior to prototyping. SDAT integrates three-dimensional (3D) ship and vehicle data, enables users to place and visualize vehicles and their path within ship vehicle stowage spaces and on ramps, enables collision detection based on a user-defined cleara ...

This project will contribute to establishing a resilient supply chain for rare-earth elements (REEs) and other critical materials in the U.S., significantly reducing the reliance that now leaves us highly vulnerable to foreign control of rare-earth metals—the ‘vitamins of a modern society.’ Rare-earth metals enable advanced manufacturing, clean transportation, efficient computing, power gene ...