US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Karen Buehler

Charles R Welch

Claudia Quigley

Gary Proulx

Richard Gallimore

Kevin Abraham

David Degroot

Robert M Ebeling

A two person portable apparatus () for reducing the core temperature of one or more human beings includes a trough () made of a waterproof, flexible fabric () and a generally rectangular frame (). Portions () of the fabric () are looped over sides () of the frame () so that the trough is supported by and suspended from the frame. The apparatus includes four legs () hinged to corners of the frame and pivotable inwardly under the trough. Cooling water is placed in the trough and the hands and forearms of human beings are immersed in the cooling water.

Arm immersion cooling apparatus and method

A structural element employing hydrostatic pressure to compress cohesion-less particles to significantly increase the load carrying capacity of the element along a load-bearing axis, a system for deploying said structural element and a method for deploying said structural element using the system.

Hydrostatically enabled structure element (HESE)

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Northbridge, MA, United States of America

Karen Buehler