Innovations in Measurements and Standards | Innoget

Innovations in Measurements and Standards | Innoget

Alireza Daneshvar posted this:
Pharmacy Student and Researcher at Tehran University of Medical Sciences

COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Kit Designing and developing vaccines, cures and diagnostic kits can be considered as the first priority for every country which is in the first line of fighting against coronavirus. Now there is only PCR test and IgG/IgM test for COVID-19 assessment. One of the most important problems of this diagnostic test is the time needed by the device to detect infected persons. This problem makes big companies in the field of pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturing to design and develop rapid test kits. Our research team found that there are some specific proteins on the viral membrane which can make some reagents undergo a specific chemical reaction. Every reaction has a specific product related to substrates, so by detection of products with indicator reagents we are able to identify the virus in saliva. Indicator reagents usually change the reaction mixture color so by color change we can approve that the person is infected by COVID-19.

COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Kit

Arkadiusz Rudawski, PhD posted this:
Technology Broker at Center for Technology Transfer, Cracow University of Technology

Flexure-based manipulator for 2D micro-motion The offer applies to a prototype of a flexure-based manipulator for 2D micro-motion tools using ordinary electric drives controlled by a joystick. The goal of further work is to prove that it is possible to build a cheap manipulator that performs typical works under a microscope.

Flexure-based manipulator for 2D micro-motion

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Novel motion nanosensor based on mechanical amplification In the past years there is an increasing interest to incorporate in any electronic device a motion sensor to provide interaction: measuring our reactions, position or motion. Therefore, the motion sensors should be low-cost but more precise. A nanosensor based on a motion amplifier mechanism is presented. The design can amplify extremely small displacements (nanometers) up to 200 times. Partners to further develop the system and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

Novel motion nanosensor based on mechanical amplification

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Novel acoustic wave device and filter for its use in high frequency applications An acoustic wave device with one or more dielectric compensating layers that compensates the spurious signals by substantially temperature-independent nonlinearities occurring within the device has been developed. A direct application of this device has been the development of a novel acoustic filter. Partners to further develop the system and/or to establish commercial agreements with technical cooperation are sought.

Novel acoustic wave device and filter for its use in high frequency applications

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Novel sensor for in vivo nano-mechanical characterization A nanoforce sensor has been designed to be able to work in aqueous environments. The system is based on a motion amplifier mechanism that allows to amplify extremely small displacements (nanometers) up to 200 times, providing the possibility to characterize the mechano-transduction mechanisms either of a single cell or a tissue in a 3D gel scaffold. Partners to further develop the system applying to specific assays and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

Novel sensor for in vivo nano-mechanical characterization

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

High resolution non-contact measurement of biophysical parameters A prototype of a novel laser-based displacement sensor enabling subnanometric resolution measurements of biophysical parameters has been developed. The system is in addition extremely compact (few cm3), robust and non-contact. Partners to further develop the current prototype, to pursue novel applications, and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

High resolution non-contact measurement of biophysical parameters

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

A low-complexity and low-power receiver for wireless communications A superregenerative receiver for digital phase-modulated signals has been developed and patented. The technology described herein extends for the first time the conventional superregenerative receiver to be able to detect PSK signals with a minimum of additional circuitry. Taking advantage of both the lowcomplexity and low-power from superregenerative receivers and the more efficient power transmission achieved by PSK modulations. Partners to further develop the system and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

A low-complexity and low-power receiver for wireless communications

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Non-Intrusive and contact less procedure to test and characterize RF and mmW integrated analogue circuits with DC or low frequency temperature measurements with applications to failure analysis A new procedure that is able to test (go-no go) and to characterize (i.e. to extract high frequency figures of merit, such as central frequency, 1dB compression point) high frequency analogue circuits by using off-chip temperature measurement techniques, such as infra-red camera, reflectometry, interferometry, etc... The technique has applications in the field of design debugging or failure analysis. It allows to test and characterize the individual blocks that constitute a complete system (e.g. low noise amplifier, mixer, power amplifier), even when their electrical outputs are not accessible to the classical instrumentation equipment. Partners to further develop the system and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

Non-Intrusive and contact less procedure to test and characterize RF and mmW integrated analogue circuits with DC or low frequency temperature measurements with applications to failure analysis

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

New robust and reliable chromatic dispersion measurement system New chromatic dispersion measurement techniques have been developed to improve some weakness of current commercial analyzers. The technology based on detection of amplitude nulls allows a significant reduction of the cost and complexity. Partners to further develop the system and/or to establish commercial agreements with technical cooperation are sought.

New robust and reliable chromatic dispersion measurement system

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Optical communication receiver with an SQRT nonlinear equalizer In a high bit rate optical transmission, the inclusion of a simple non-linear equalizer implementing the square-root mathematical function, just after the photo-detector and before the conventional electronic equalizer (FIR, MLSE, analog,..), linearizes the overall systems and highly improves the transmission performances.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Method to code the signal amplitude by folding and auxiliary information labels A simple technique improves the power budget of cost-effective optical analog and OFDM systems by transmitting the signal absolute value and adding a label with the sample sign or region.

Method to code the signal amplitude by folding and auxiliary information labels

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

A new workflow, algorithmic approach and software tool to analyze LC/MS and NMR samples in metabolomics A new algorithm is able to greatly increase the power of any statistical test based on Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy (LC/MS) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) based metabolomic data. This software tool is able to construct prediction models in an almost fully automatic fashion. Built models contain a critical pre-processing step that improves dramatically the results of standard prediction algorithms. Partners to further develop the system and/ or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

A new workflow, algorithmic approach and software tool to analyze LC/MS and NMR samples in metabolomics

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Measuring Technique for Reducing the Number of Voltage Sensors in a Modular Multilevel Converter Using this measuring technique, each voltage sensor is able to measure the capacitor voltages of multiple Sub-Modules (SMs) of a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC). The proposed technique highly reduces the number of voltage sensors used in MMCs, reducing the costs and complexity of the data acquisition system. Partners to further develop the system and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

Measuring Technique for Reducing the Number of Voltage Sensors in a Modular Multilevel Converter

Unitat de Valorització de la URV posted this:
Licensing Manager at Fundació URV

Automatic feature descriptor in agriculture images using neural networks Software that recognizes user-defined objects in aerial images for agriculture and derives quantitative estimators for plant count (N), green area index (GAI), growth stage (GS), deficient leaf area fraction (DLAF), and weeds area fraction (WAF), and potentially further measures. It employs a pre-trained multi-layer neural network model to classify regions of an image. The network is trained based on good examples of distinct types of objects that are provided by experts in aerial photography for agriculture. Afterwards, any provided aerial image or video can be analyzed with the pretrained software trained once.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Environmental Quality Assessment of contaminated soils Environmental quality of soils is determined using analytical chemistry methods, with expensive and sophisticated equipment. Toxicity assays provide a global response regarding the danger of contaminated soil to living organisms. However bioassays are based in lengthy experimental procedures (between 7 and 28 days) to provide reliable results. Normalized soil assays use different species of earthworms and collembola that must be grown and maintained in specialized facilities. Partners to further develop the technology and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

Environmental Quality Assessment of contaminated soils

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