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Invention of the Year Nominees
Nominees for the 13th Annual Invention of the Year and the Government Purpose Innovation Award
The Lab will honor its top inventors and inventions during the 13th Annual Invention of the Year reception on April 23, from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. in the Kossiakoff Center.
| The winning invention - to be revealed at the ceremony - was chosen from the following nominees. These nominees were selected from the 259 inventions reported in 2011 by 460 staff members and collaborators. |
Again this year is a Government Purpose Innovation Award which will recognize an invention that specifically meets a critical sponsor need. |
| The Invention of the Year nominees are: | The Government Purpose Innovation Award nominees are: |
| Small Motor Controller Harry Eaton, Douglas Wenstrand |
Executable Specification System Engineering George Cancro, Eliezer Kahn, Russell Turner, Stephen Williams |
| RIO MS ASIC Mark Martin, Richard Meitzler |
Dynamic Resource Manager for Multiple Space Surveillance Sensors with SP Tasker Schedule Initialization Jesse Clarke, Eric Klatt, Sean martin, Nishant Mehta, Andrew Newman, Benjamin Rodriguez |
| Lossy Method to Compress and Decompress Acoustic Array Data for Transmission Over Low Bandwidth Links Robert Patterson, G. Scott Peacock, Franz Riggieri |
Tactile Feedback Device for Dexterous Telepresence Robert Armiger, Jenna Graham, Matthew Johannes, Steven Manuel |
| Release Actuator Using the Difference in Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Dissimilar Materials When Heated Clint Apland, Michael Marley, David Persons, David Weir |
Constrained Probability of False Alarm Classification Joshua Broadwater, Craig Carmen, Ashley Llorens |
| Agile IR Scene Projector Based on Carbon Nanotubes David Brown, Raul Fainchtein, Andrew Monica, Karen Siegrist |
A Systems Biology Approach for the Discovery of Novel, Nucleic Acid-based Virulence Factors Released by Bacteria During Infection Mekbib Astatke, Christopher Bradburne, Lucy Carruth |
| Erosive Rain Environment Sensor and Method of Use Robert Bamberger, Ryan Bishop, Dale Clemons, Kenneth Grossman, Bruce Land |
Global Navigation Satellite System Mission Planner Marc Camacho, Gary Winkler |
| Carbon Nanotube High Temperature RF Length Sensor Ned Brokloff, Michael Lotito, Stergios Papadakis |
WxASR Playback Tool 1.0 Albert de Baroncelli, Stephen Shaw, Christopher Wellons |
| Hyperspectral Imaging for Skin Cancer Detection Amit Banerjee, Philippe Burlina, Luis Garza, Saurabh Vyas |
Immersive Augmented Reality for Mobile Data Fusion Christopher Gifford, Brian Montgomery, Zachary Whitley |
| Sub 10nm, Temperature Controlled Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for Topical Drug Delivery Jason Benkoski, Xiomara Calderon-Colon, Luis Garza, Sewon King, Amanda Nelson, Marcia Patchan, Julia Patrone, Jennifer Sample, Mellisa Theodore, Joshua Wolfe |
The GAIA Collaboratory Steven Babin, Nathan Bos, Glen Fountain, Maegen Nix, Larry Paxton, Christina Pikas, Alysen Regiec, Giuseppe Romeo, Robert Schaefer, Margaret Simon, Shadrian Strong, Evan Sultanik, William Swartz, Michele Weiss |
| Automated Pneumothorax Detection Philippe Burlina, Ryan Mukherjee |
C Code Generator for ExecSpec Andrew Harris |
| Method for Estimation of Traffic Congestion Parameters for Wireless MANETs Derya Cansever, Steven Holt, Tibor Schonfeld, Sean Sprouse |
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| A Method of Learning a Ranking Function Using a Discounted Cumulative Margin Penalty Craig Carmen, Carlos Renjifo |
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| 3D Architecture for Flexible Readout and Signal Processing of an Array of Sensors Charbel Rizk |
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| Automatic Navigation, Intelligence, and Mobility Add-on to Off-the-Shelf Robots Christopher Brown, Michael Kutzer |
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| An outside panel of representatives from industry, the high-tech sector and patent law selected the overall top invention based on its benefit to society, improvement over existing technology, and commercial potential. | The Government Purpose Innovation Award was selected by an internal APL team of subject matter experts. |