Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR PROFILING BIOCHEMICAL SAMPLES

UW-Madison Researchers have developed a microfluidic device for profiling cell types, evaluating multiple functional read-outs in an efficient, user-friendly high-throughput manner. The device allows ...
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Jose Ayuso, Rithvik Turaga, Catherine Reed McBain, Seth Zima | P240110US01

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Medical Imaging System Providing Disease Prognosis

Recent Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) clinical trials have faced challenges at the mild-to-moderate dementia stage. There’s consensus that trials should focus on AD stage, such as MCI or the presymptoma...
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Vikas Singh, Vamsi Ithapu, Sterling Johnson, Ozioma Okonkwo | P150022US02

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SINGLE SENSOR TENSIOMETER

The ability to measure the absolute stress that ligaments, tendons, or muscle experience in vivo has considerable value in medical research and rehabilitative medicine. Prior techniques used in resear...
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Darryl Thelen, Dylan Schmitz, Stephanie Cone | P230321US01

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CALIBRATION TOOL FOR TISSUE TENSION SENSOR

UW-Madison researchers have developed a calibration device for use with their tensiometer device. The load measurement device electronically pairs with the tensiometer system to calibrate the tissue ...
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Darryl Thelen, Alex Reiter, Peter Adamczyk | P230020US01

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MONITORING AIRFLOW WITH B-MODE ULTRASOUND

UW-Madison researchers have developed a method and system for monitoring or quantifying airflow changes in a subject’s airway using B-mode ultrasound. Their approach is compatible with existing ultr...
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Guelay Bilen-Rosas, Humberto Rosas, Irene Ong | P200319WO01

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Toilet, Testing and Monitoring Systems

Systems for monitoring metabolites may include a sample collection system and a urinalysis system of or for a toilet.  The sample collection system may be automated to collect sample urine from a toi...
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Joshua Coon, Michael Westphall, Ian Miller, Lloyd Smith, Keaton Mertz | P200202WO01

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Apparatus For Assessing Human Balance Capability

An apparatus with one or more force plates senses of center-of-pressure and force-angle in the sagittal plane for a standing individual to provide an indication of balance capability based on the dedu...
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Kreg Gruben, Wendy Boehm, Kieran Nichols | P170077US01

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Otoscope Providing Low Obstruction Electronic Display

An otoscope provides a circular display allowing a compact housing providing improved simultaneous viewing of the display and the patient's ear for improved positioning and stabilization of the ot...
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Gregory Rebella, James Berbee, Azita Hamedani, Cameron Loper | P180152US01

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Methods Of Diagnosing Diseases Of Mucosal Surfaces

Provided are methods for assessment of surface rugosity of a layer of live cells using tools that determine contact angle and contact angle hysteresis.
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Nicholas Abbott, Christopher Murphy, Bernardo Yanez-Soto, Vijay Raghunathan | P160102US02

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Metabolic Biomarkers Of Autism

This invention provides methods and biomarkers for diagnosing autism by identifying cellular metabolites differentially produced in autistic patient samples versus non-autistic controls. Methods for i...
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Gabriela Cezar, Alan Smith | P09343US02

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