http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATlist.jsp Recently published technologies from The University of Texas at Austin Office of Technology Commercialization en-us Copyright 2013, UT Office of Technology Commercialization. All rights reserved. webmaster@otc.utexas.edu 26 Feb 2013 00:00:01 CST 26 Feb 2013 16:11:47 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/images/LogoOTCRSS.png http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATlist.jsp 135 135 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=1024 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=1024 The Panopticon is a fully automated incident handling and response system capable of managing security events for very large distributed network infrastructures. The Panopticon can retrofit with all top leading SIEM providers such as Arcsight, Q1Labs, and NitroSecurity.... jjain@otc.utexas.edu 26 Feb 2013 16:02:39 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=1023 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=1023 Stache provides an enterprise or highly distributed environment with a secure web-based solution to store sensitive credentials or strings (passwords, license keys, procedures, etc.) using FIPS 140-2 compliant hardware security modules (HSMs). Additionally, users are able to securely share and update this information as needed (e.... jjain@otc.utexas.edu 26 Feb 2013 16:01:39 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=1022 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=1022 The Application Registry (AppReg) is a web-based risk management and inventory control tool designed to track applications (in-house developed, cloud-based, purchased, open source) in use within an enterprise. Furthermore, AppReg allows management to understand how well applications are being developed, who is responsible for them, what sort of data they may process, etc.... jjain@otc.utexas.edu 26 Feb 2013 16:00:20 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=984 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=984 Researchers in the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a unique optimization technique that could dramatically increase recoveries in unconventional reservoirs. The researchers envision a method and a down-hole tool configuration that enables the simultaneous injection of fluids and production of hydrocarbons in existing wellbores to allow for significantly higher hydrocarbon recoveries at minimal cost.... lnichols@otc.utexas.edu 13 Sep 2012 08:29:16 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=946 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=946 The inventors have genetically engineered E. coli to synthesize the MPL lipid A structure on its surface. MPL can be harvested directly from this bacterium without risk of contamination with other potentially toxic lipid A species, eliminating the need for subsequent chemical processing.... tbaughman@otc.utexas.edu 27 Jul 2012 14:14:36 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=850 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=850 Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an innovative strategy for regenerating structurally organized cartilage tissue which has the capability of mimicking the zonal characteristics of natural articular cartilage. This technology offers the advantage of regenerating cartilage tissue that more closely matches native articular cartilage in structure and function.... tbaughman@otc.utexas.edu 26 Jul 2012 14:24:07 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=939 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=939 This breaking rate meter provides a simple tool that can be used in the field to measure the breaking rate and total breaking energy of the emulsion. Test results indicate that this tool can identify whether the emulsion is cationic or anionic, whether it is partially broken, and whether it has significantly higher or lower viscosity than desired.... mgreen@otc.utexas.edu 17 Jul 2012 12:02:44 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=938 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=938 The invention produces muconic acid using a feedstock of glucose through a heterologous pathway expressed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, thereby preventing the safety and environmental hazards associated with the current industrial process.... mgreen@otc.utexas.edu 17 Jul 2012 11:55:20 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=839 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=839 Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a novel synthetic route to generate thermally rearranged polymers with higher permeability than those synthesized by existing methods. Such materials can be used for gas separation applications, such as carbon dioxide separation from a natural gas feed stream.... lnichols@otc.utexas.edu 17 Jul 2012 11:52:40 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=955 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=955 This technology provides an easy and non-invasive method for monitoring and detecting PML, potentially allowing this ailment to be caught in early stages before brain damage can take place. This new procedure is simple, cheap, and non-invasive. Testing can be performed on serum, blood, and potentially even urine.... tbaughman@otc.utexas.edu 19 Jun 2012 16:23:39 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=928 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=928 Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a process that effectively enables determination of optimal spacing between fractures, allowing for minimal cost and maximum production from horizontal, hydraulically fractured unconventional wells.... lnichols@otc.utexas.edu 06 Jun 2012 15:33:04 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=974 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=974 Inventors at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a unique device, an acoustic source, that enables rapid non-contact scanning of bridge and roadway infrastructure through established stress-wave NDT methods. The device, when used with existing stress-wave NDT testing equipment, enables much faster data generation and a higher scanning rate at a significant cost reduction when compared to conventional or non-contact ultrasound and stress wave generating instruments.... lnichols@otc.utexas.edu 21 May 2012 10:43:25 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=962 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=962 The Simulation-Medical Data Server is modeling software which can emulate the treatment and movement of multiple patients across multiple locations to provide medical planners and disaster management personnel the opportunity to train with realistic situations through their various digital management systems or using analog human in the loop systems.... jjain@otc.utexas.edu 15 May 2012 10:30:58 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=935 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=935 Dr. Manthiram and his team have developed a novel nano-composite material that we believe can replace carbon anodes for certain applications in lithium-ion batteries. This technology offers much higher gravimetric capacities than carbon anodes, as well as much higher volumetric capacities.... mgreen@otc.utexas.edu 09 May 2012 14:38:10 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=905 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=905 A significant fraction of the cost of manufacturing high-performance non-woven fibers is linked to the details of the process that is used. For example, the cost of heated air in melt blowing or solvent management in electrospinning can dominate the overall cost of manufacturing non-wovens.... lnichols@otc.utexas.edu 10 Apr 2012 10:21:24 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=933 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=933 Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a method for synthesizing and depositing thin films of GeSx and other chalcogenide glasses via chemical and electrochemical means. The process takes advantage of room-temperature ionic liquid reactants and electrochemical deposition to form thin films of GeSx with a high level of precision and control.... lnichols@otc.utexas.edu 28 Mar 2012 09:14:36 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=934 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=934 The method used in this invention makes pixel predictions in digital images by computing Bayesian optimal estimates using conditional moments. The estimates are learned by examining a set of natural images where values of the the missing, corrupted, or low-resolution image pixels are known.... jjain@otc.utexas.edu 13 Mar 2012 08:46:36 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=910 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=910 This invention uses a biologically-inspired method based on first principles to estimate defocus. Namely, it uses natural scene statistics, wave-optics characterization of the optical system, and properties of the photosensor array, together with Bayesian statistical analysis.... jjain@otc.utexas.edu 28 Feb 2012 14:47:45 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=922 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=922 Unlike other signal processing techniques, this invention utilizes dispersion in a useful manner. The invention consists of a transmitter (with a laser and multiple electro-optic modulators) and a reciever (with multiple photodetectors) that are coupled to a multimode fiber and operated in conjunction to transmit one or more datastreams across the fiber.... jjain@otc.utexas.edu 28 Feb 2012 14:06:17 CST http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=846 http://www.otc.utexas.edu/ATdisplay.jsp?id=846 Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a non-invasive vaccine delivery method that can be administered orally by placing a thin "breath-strip"-like material loaded with antigen. This is achieved by a process of attaching and drying a recombinant vaccine to a biocompatible cellophane-like material, which can be rapidly absorbed upon contact with the tongue or cheek.... wick@otc.utexas.edu 28 Feb 2012 10:19:14 CST