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Tokitae LLC

Terrapower, LLC

Gearbox LLC

Deep Science, LLC

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

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Equility LLC

Elwah LLC

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Enterprise Science Fund, LLC

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Roderick A Hyde

Clarence T Tegreene

Jordin T Kare

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Nathan P Myhrvold

Edward K Y Jung

Eric Leuthardt

Victoria Y H Wood

Robert W Lord

Charles Whitmer

Mark A Malamud

Royce A Levien

Elizabeth A Sweeney

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Thomas A Weaver

Richard T Lord

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

William Henry Gates, Iii

W Daniel Hillis

Tony S Pan

Alistair K Chan

Edward Stuart Boyden

Robert Samuel Langer

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Michael A Smith

Robert C Petroski

William David Duncan

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Jeffrey A Bowers

Craig J Mundie

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

David R Smith

Bran Ferren

John Brian Pendry

Chris Demetrios Karkanias

Matthew Graham Dyor

Michael Baym

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Jason Garms

Kristin Michele Tolle

Shawn P Firminger

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

David Schurig

Hon Wah Chin

Ralph G Dacey, Jr

Geoffrey Frank Deane

Desney S Tan

Daniel B Cook

Kenneth G Caldeira

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

Joshua C Walter

William Henry Mangione-Smith

Eleanor V Goodall

Peter L Hagelstein

Gary L McKnight

Stephen L Malaska

Howard Lee Davidson

Douglas Christopher Burger

Leroy E Hood

Gregory J Della Rocca

Pablos Holman

Richard F Rashid

Jon David McWhirter

Marc Eliot Davis

Xuedong D Huang

Nathan Kundtz

Paul D Holman

Paramvir Bahl

Ranveer Chandra

Paul G Allen

Lin Zhong

Daniel Hawkins

Tom Driscoll

Daniel Reed

Russell J Hannigan

Richard Neil Zare

Gary William Flake

Daniel A Gerrity

Alexander J Cohen

Carlo Giovanni Traverso

Burton Jordan Smith

Marc Tremblay

Steven Nabil Bathiche

James Robert Hamilton

Robert Victor Welland

William Tod Gross

Eric J Horvitz

Andrew David Wilson

Paul Henry Dietz

Gleb M Akselrod

Alexander G Gounares

Andrew F Glew

Anoop Gupta

Ruopeng Liu

Wayne R Kindsvogel

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Jie Jerry Liu

Christian L Belady

How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor

A thin-film all-organic electrochemical device is disclosed. The device includes one or more polymer chains. Each of the one or more polymer chains has reducing functional groups, oxidizing functional groups, and ionically conducting functional groups. The ionically conducting functional groups are disposed in between the reducing functional groups and the oxidizing functional groups. The device may produce a potential greater than 5 volts.

Thin-film all-organic electrochemical device

A superconductor device includes a high superconductivity transition temperature enhanced from the raw material transition temperature. The superconductor device includes a matrix material and a core material. The enhancing matrix material and the core material together create a system of strongly coupled carriers. A plurality of low-dimensional conductive features can be embedded in the matrix. The low-dimensional conductive features (e.g., nanowires or nanoparticles) can be conductors or superconductors. An interaction between electrons of the low-dimensional conductive features and the enhancing matrix material can promote excitations that increase a superconductivity transition temperature of the superconductor device.

High temperature superconductor

A computing device determines that the computing device is within wireless proximity to a secondary wireless device. Based on the computing device being within wireless proximity to the secondary wireless device, the computing device determines at least one function of the secondary wireless device, and generates an aggregate user interface for display on a display screen of the computing device. The aggregate user interface identifies the secondary wireless device and indicates the at least one function of the secondary wireless device. The computing device receives, via the aggregate user interface, a user input selecting the secondary wireless device. Responsive to the user input, the computing device presents a second user interface including one or more selectable features for operating the secondary wireless device.

Wireless device with an aggregate user interface for controlling other devices

A method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy including diverting a selected portion of energy from a portion of a nuclear reactor system to an auxiliary thermal reservoir and, responsive to a shutdown event, supplying a portion of the diverted selected portion of energy to an energy conversion system of the nuclear reactor system.

Method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy

Emulsion-based and micromolded ('MM') or three dimensional printed (“3DP”) polymeric formulations for single injection of antigen, preferably releasing at two or more time periods, have been developed. Formulations are preferably formed of biocompatible, biodegradable polymers. Discrete regions encapsulating antigen, alone or in combination with other antigens, adjuvants, stabilizers, and release modifiers, are present in the formulations. Antigen is preferably present in excipient at the time of administration, or on the surface of the formulation, for immediate release, and incorporated within the formulation for release at ten to 45 days after initial release of antigen, optionally at ten to 90 day intervals for release of antigen in one or more additional time periods. Antigen may be stabilized through the use of stabilizing agents such as trehalose glass. In a preferred embodiment for immunization against polio, antigen is released at the time of administration, and two, four and six months thereafter.

Micromolded or 3-D printed pulsatile release vaccine formulations

In some embodiments, an affixed group of pharmaceutical vials with frangible connectors includes: a plurality of pharmaceutical vials arranged as a group of pharmaceutical vials, each of the plurality of pharmaceutical vials shaped and positioned to minimize a total volume of the group of pharmaceutical vials, each of the pharmaceutical vials including at least one external side with a surface configured to reversibly mate with a corresponding external side and a surface of an adjacent pharmaceutical vial; and a plurality of frangible connectors, wherein at least one frangible connector is affixed to the surface of at least two of the plurality of pharmaceutical vials within the group of pharmaceutical vials, and at least one frangible connector is affixed to each of the plurality of pharmaceutical vials.

Affixed groups of pharmaceutical vials including frangible connectors

Systems for producing hydrogen gas for local distribution, consumption, and/or storage, and related devices and methods are disclosed herein. A representative system includes a pyrolysis reactor that can be coupled to a supply of reaction material that includes a hydrocarbon. The reactor includes one or more flow channels positioned to transfer heat to the reaction material to convert the hydrocarbon into an output that includes hydrogen gas and carbon particulates. The system also includes a carbon separation system operably coupled to the pyrolysis reactor to separate the hydrogen gas the carbon particulates in the output. In various embodiments, the system also includes components to locally consume the filtered hydrogen gas.

Systems and methods for local generation and/or consumption of hydrogen gas

Portage storage containers including controlled evaporative cooling systems are described herein. In some embodiments, a portable container including an integral controlled evaporative cooling system includes: a storage region, an evaporative region adjacent to the storage region, a desiccant region adjacent to the outside of the container, and an insulation region positioned between the evaporative region and the desiccant region. A vapor conduit with an attached vapor control unit has a first end within the evaporative region and a second end within the desiccant region. In some embodiments, the controlled evaporative cooling systems are positioned in a radial configuration within the portable container.

Temperature-controlled portable cooling units

According to various embodiments, an array of elements forms an artificially-structured material. The artificially-structured material can also include an array of tuning mechanisms included as part of the array of elements that are configured to change material properties of the artificially-structured material on a per-element basis. The tuning mechanisms can change the material properties of the artificially-structured material by changing operational properties of the elements in the array of elements on a per-element basis based on one or a combination of stimuli detected by sensors included in the array of tuning mechanisms, programmable circuit modules included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, data stored at individual data stores included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, and communications transmitted through interconnects included as part of the array of elements.

Artificially-structured materials with smart elements

Ingestible radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are disclosed. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, an RFID tag including a flexible substrate foldable between a planar configuration and a tubular configuration, a conductive element disposed on the flexible substrate, and an RFID tag chip electrically coupled with the conductive element; a capsule structured and dimensioned for ingestion by a biological subject, the capsule including a shell structured and dimensioned to enclose a medication for the biological subject simultaneously with the RFID tag when the flexible substrate is in the tubular configuration, but not when the flexible substrate is in the planar configuration; and a pH switch structure coupled to an exterior surface of the capsule, the pH switch configured to deactivate the RFID tag in a first configuration and to permit activation of the RFID tag in a second configuration within the biological subject.

Ingestible RFID tag and reader system

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively constrict or selectively dilate, thereby compressing or relieving compression against at least one body part of a subject. Such selective constriction or dilation can improve muscle functioning or joint functioning during use of motion-conducive equipment, such as an exercise bike or rowing machine.

Garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator responsive to the sensor and related methods

Salt formulations, which are resistant to moisture and cooking conditions, are described herein. The formulations provide particles of micronutrients and vitamins encapsulated within heat resistant pH-sensitive water-insoluble polymers, which are packaged within a salt shell. The pH-sensitive, water-insoluble, thermally stable materials stabilize the micronutrients, particularly at high temperatures, such as during food preparation and cooking, and release the micronutrients at the desired locations such as the stomach, small intestine, etc. Preferred pH-sensitive polymers release at a low pH, less than the pH present in the stomach. The particles can be used to deliver daily-recommended doses of micronutrients simultaneously with salt, eliminating the need for vitamin pills. This is particularly important in populations suffering from severe malnutrition.

Fortified micronutrient salt formulations

Disclosed embodiments include nuclear fission reactor cores, nuclear fission reactors, methods of operating a nuclear fission reactor, and methods of managing excess reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor.

Standing wave nuclear fission reactor and methods

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Lowell L Wood, Jr