Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Deeya Energy, Inc.

Science Cadets, Inc.

Imergy Power Systems, Inc.

Apple Inc.

Cooligy, Inc.

Uptoke, LLC

Other

Neah Power Systems, Inc.

Golden Gate Battery LLC

Saroj Kumar Sahu

Gopalakrishnan R Parakulam

Peter Kiesel

Jessica Louis Baker Rivest

Ajay Raghavan

Majid Keshavarz

Divyaraj Desai

Bhaskar Saha

Ali Firouzi

Vedasri Vedharathinam

Craig Eldershaw

Martin Sheridan

Rick Winter

Francisco Eduardo Torres

Anurag Ganguli

Sean Roark Garner

Ranjeet Balakrishna Rao

Chang-Jun Bae

Armin R Volkel

Thomas W Kenny

Kenneth E Goodson

Chockkalingam Karuppaiah

Scott J Limb

Hoe Jin Hah

Mark Munch

Artem Mishin

Karthik Kadirvel

Geun-Chang Chung

Richard J Steele

Ashutosh Kole

Gabriel Iftime

Eric J Shrader

Thomas Charles Greening

Dong Yu

Gary Lee Stirk

Lars Wilko Sommer

Suresh Kumar Surapalan Nair

Ge Zu

Howard Allen Wilson, Iv

Binod Kumar Agrawal

Alexander Lochbaum

Tobias Staudt

Anwesh Patnaik Sahu

Daniel J Lenehan

Mohamed Alamgir

Bruce R Conway

Adam J Tavin

Julian Schwartz

Jason R Levin

Jagat Banerjee

PandariNath Siddineni

Vasanthan Mani

Bokkyu Choi

Gyu-Ok Hwang

Derek Reiman

Kamran M Hasan

Abdul Salam Assaad

Chris D'Couto

Veluchamy Rasu

Jessphin Joy

Leya Mary Anto

Daiphi Davis

Joy Vadakkan Thomas

James Juma

Madhushree Patnaik

Binod Kumar Agarwal

Suresh Kumar Natarajan

Ronal Ray Thompson

Richard Steele

Martin J Sheridan

Siddineni Pandarinath

An optical reservoir computing (ORC) system has a near-UV light emitting diode modulator (LED-M), a beam expander (BE), a fluorescer array (FA), an optical integrator (OA), a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM), and a photo-detector array (PDA). The LED-M receives an input electrical signal and outputs an optical signal passing through the BE, being made incident upon the FA, being processed in the OA, and being multiplexed onto the LC-SLM. 'Non-Linearity' is introduced by overlapping responses to input signals by the FA. “High Dimensionality” is provided by the random but fixed time-wavelength multiplexing onto an imaging plane by a Fresnel-Kohler Integrator (FKI). “Fading Memory” is provided by different decay time constants of the fluorescers. A method of using the ORC system comprises the steps of minimizing an error function of difference between a measured state of the PDA and a target state of the PDA by a regression model.

Optical reservoir computing system and method of using the same

A method uses an apparatus for fabricating a zinc plated copper electrode for a zinc anode battery. The method comprises the steps of: placing a zinc sheet and a copper sheet in a container of the apparatus; applying a first positive potential to the copper sheet; applying a first negative potential to the zinc sheet; passing a first predetermined current density; applying a second positive potential to the zinc sheet; applying a second negative potential to the copper sheet; and passing a second predetermined current density.

Battery having zinc plated copper electrode and method of making the same

A zinc bromine electrochemical cell comprises an anode-side subassembly, an insulating porous separator, and a cathode-side subassembly. The anode-side subassembly comprises an anode current collector, an anode sheet, and an anode insulating net. The cathode-side subassembly comprises a cathode insulating mesh, a cathode graphite felt, and a cathode current collector. The zinc bromine electrochemical cell is rollable, foldable, or stackable.

Rollable, foldable, and stackable zinc bromine electrochemical cell

A zinc bromine electrochemical cell comprises an anode-side subassembly, an insulating porous separator, and a cathode-side subassembly. The anode-side subassembly comprises an anode current terminal, an anode current collector, an anode support, an anode sheet, and an anode insulating net. The cathode-side subassembly comprises a cathode insulating mesh, a cathode graphite felt, a cathode sheet, a cathode current collector, and a cathode current terminal. The anode-side subassembly and the cathode-side subassembly are separated by the insulating porous separator.

Zinc bromine electrochemical cell

A battery pack comprises a master battery management system, three or more battery blocks, three or more local battery management systems, three or more optical or magnetic isolated communications, and a wire assembly. Each of the three or more battery blocks comprises a plurality of battery cells connected in parallel so that form a common equipotential positive terminal and a common equipotential negative terminal. The three or more battery blocks comprises a low battery block, a high battery block, and one or more mid-range battery blocks between the low battery block and the high battery block. The negative terminal of each of the one or more mid-range battery blocks is electrically connected to the positive terminal of a respective adjacent battery block of the three or more battery blocks.

High voltage battery pack having electrically isolated decentralized battery management system

A system includes a first optical sensor sensitive to both a parameter of interest, Parameter1, and at least one confounding parameter, Parameter2 and a second optical sensor sensitive only to the confounding parameter. Measurement circuitry measures Min response to light scattered by the first optical sensor, where M=value of Parameter1+K*value of Parameter2. The measurement circuitry also measures Min response to light scattered by the second optical sensor, where M=value of Parameter2. Compensation circuitry determines a compensation factor, K, for the confounding parameter based on measurements of Mand Mtaken over multiple load/unload cycles or over one or more thermal cycles. The compensation factor is used to determine the parameter of interest.

Method and system to separate optically measured coupled parameters

An air sanitizer generates active airflow utilizing ultraviolet spectrum of light in the UV-C band (200-280 nm). The source of the UV-C is an array of light emitting diodes (LED) that shine the UV-C down a housing of the air sanitizer. A fan draws the contaminated air into the housing. The contaminated air is sanitized by the UV-C light inside the housing and is expelled through apertures at the other end of the housing. Leaking of the potential harmful UV-C light outside of the housing is eliminated by an optical baffle covering the apertures. The electronics design for the air sanitizer contains an LED driver with temperature compensation to optimize the service life of the LEDs. A UV light flux detector facing the UV-C LEDs measures the relative reduction of UV light flux over time and reports the efficacy of the UV-C LEDs during the operation of the air sanitizer.

Ultraviolet C-band air sanitizer

A particulate matter sensing device includes a light source to generate a pulsed light at a first wavelength in response to a drive pulse. The device further includes one or more photodetectors. A thin-film filter is formed over the photodetectors and is tuned to be transparent to scattered light having a second wavelength substantially equal to the first wavelength. The scattered light is produced as a result of scattering of the pulsed light by the particulate matter. A charge collection circuit of the plurality of photodetectors electronically rejects background light.

Compact particulate material sensor

A battery includes a folded bicell battery stack with an embedded fiber optic cable and sensor. A cell casing encloses the bicell stack with at least one fiber optic cable is embedded within the battery. The fiber optic cable includes an internal portion disposed within the cell casing and having at least one optical sensor disposed thereon. An external portion of the fiber optic cable protrudes from the casing. A sealing gasket is disposed at least partially around the fiber optic cable and between the cell sealing edges at a point of entry of the fiber optic cable into the battery.

Embedded fiber optic cables for battery management

A portable communication device includes one or more sensors, a pair of electrodes associated with each sensor, and a processing circuit configured to apply a bias supply voltage to the pair of electrodes and to process output signals from the sensors. Each sensor is an ionic liquid sensor tuned for sensing a smell associated with a chemical species. The processing circuit further includes an artificial intelligence engine to enhance smell recognition capabilities of the device.

Systems and methods for environment sensing

An intelligent web-enabled plant growing system controls environmental conditions inside it to grow sprouts, microgreens and plants from seeds placed in it without much intervention of humans through the growing process. Photographs of the sprouts, microgreens and plants are taken periodically by a camera. A computer then uploads the photographs to a server. The server runs artificial intelligence programs to determine the state of the growth and suggests back to the computer how to operate the controls for environment. A user application program on a remote computer or mobile device reports the state of the box, enables the user to buy seeds, enables the user to make own recipes, and enables multiple users to share their growing experience and custom recipes.

Intelligent web-enabled plant growing system and method of growing plant

An electrolyte membrane for a reformer-less fuel cell is provided. The electrolyte membrane is assembled with fuel and air manifolds to form the fuel cell. The fuel manifold receives an oxidizable fuel from a fuel supply in a gaseous, liquid, or slurry form. The air manifold receives air from an air supply. The electrolyte membrane conducts oxygen in an ionic superoxide form when the fuel cell is exposed to operating temperatures above the boiling point of water to electrochemically combine the oxygen with the fuel to produce electricity. The electrolyte membrane includes a porous electrically non-conductive substrate, an anode catalyst layer deposited along a fuel manifold side of the substrate, a cathode catalyst layer deposited along an air manifold side of the substrate, and an ionic liquid filling the substrate between the anode and cathode catalyst layers. Methods for manufacturing and operating the electrolyte membrane are also provided.

Apparatus and method associated with reformer-less fuel cell

A method of fabricating an electrochemical energy storage cell such as a battery or supercapacitor involves positioning a portion of a fiber optic cable that includes at least one optical fiber sensor over a current collector layer. The electrode material of the energy storage cell is deposited over the current collector layer and the fiber optic cable.

Battery with embedded fiber optic cable

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