The Invention Science Fund I LLC

Elwha LLC

Terrapower, LLC

Searete LLC

Deep Science, LLC

Gearbox LLC

Elwah LLC

Thomas A Weaver

Roderick A Hyde

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Clarence T Tegreene

Charles Whitmer

Nathan P Myhrvold

Victoria Y H Wood

Jordin T Kare

Edward K Y Jung

Eric Leuthardt

Edward Stuart Boyden

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Michael A Smith

William Henry Gates, Iii

David Schurig

William David Duncan

John Brian Pendry

Jeffrey A Bowers

David R Smith

Robert W Lord

Robert C Petroski

George Beedon Zimmerman

Charles E Ahlfeld

Joshua C Walter

David G McAlees

John Latham

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Kenneth G Caldeira

Bran Ferren

W Daniel Hillis

Alistair K Chan

Jon David McWhirter

Stephen Hugh Salter

Geoffrey Frank Deane

Ashok Odedra

Kevan D Weaver

Tony S Pan

John Rogers Gilleland

Royce A Levien

Pavel Hejzlar

Mark A Malamud

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Richard T Lord

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Daniel A Gerrity

Keith David Rosema

Glenn B Foster

Hon Wah Chin

Peter L Hagelstein

Ehud Greenspan

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Paul G Allen

Pablos Holman

Nicholas W Touran

Thomas M McWilliams

Thomas M Burke

Tyler S Ellis

Jonatan Hejzlar

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Richard Neil Zare

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

Daniel B Cook

Paul D Holman

Max Nathan Mankin

Ehren Brav

Stephen L Malaska

Douglas Christopher Burger

Andrew F Glew

Craig J Mundie

Burton Jordan Smith

John L Manferdelli

Eun Young Hwang

Richard Thomas Witek

Alois Antonin Langer

Robert R Richardson

Willam D Duncan

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

A nuclear fission reactor, flow control assembly, methods therefor and a flow control assembly system. The flow control assembly is coupled to a nuclear fission module capable of producing a traveling burn wave at a location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly controls flow of a fluid in response to the location relative to the nuclear fission module. The flow control assembly comprises a flow regulator subassembly configured to be operated according to an operating parameter associated with the nuclear fission module. In addition, the flow regulator subassembly is reconfigurable according to a predetermined input to the flow regulator subassembly. Moreover, the flow control assembly comprises a carriage subassembly coupled to the flow regulator subassembly for adjusting the flow regulator subassembly to vary fluid flow into the nuclear fission module.

Nuclear fission reactor, flow control assembly, methods therefor and a flow control assembly system

Various methods for sensing and/or heating that utilize nanostructures or carbon structures, such as nanotubes, nanotube meshes, or graphene sheets, are disclosed. In some methods, at least a pair of contacts are electrically coupled with a given nanostructure or carbon structure to sense a change or to pass a current for heating.

Systems and methods for selective sensing and selective thermal heating using nanostructures

According to various embodiments, a mobile device continuously and/or automatically scans a user environment for tags containing non-human-readable data. The mobile device may continuously and/or automatically scan the environment for tags without being specifically directed at a particular tag. The mobile device may be adapted to scan for audio tags, radio frequency tags, and/or image tags. The mobile device may be configured to scan for and identify tags within the user environment that satisfy a user preference. The mobile device may perform an action in response to identifying a tag that satisfies a user preference. The mobile device may be configured to scan for a wide variety of tags, including tags in the form of quick response codes, steganographic content, audio watermarks, audio outside of a human audible range, radio frequency identification tags, long wavelength identification tags, near field communication tags, and/or a Memory Spot device.

Systems and methods for scanning a user environment and evaluating data of interest

Various sensors and arrays of sensors that utilize nanostructures or carbon structures, such as nanotubes, nanotube meshes, or graphene sheets, are disclosed. In some arrangements, at least a pair of contacts are electrically coupled with a given nanostructure or carbon structure to sense a change.

Nanostructure sensors and sensing systems

Various heaters and arrays of heaters that utilize nanostructures or carbon structures, such as nanotubes, nanotube meshes, or graphene sheets, are disclosed. In various arrangements, at least a pair of contacts are electrically coupled with a given nanostructure or carbon structure to pass a current for heating.

Nanostructure heaters and heating systems and methods of fabricating the same

A helmet testing apparatus including a movable member, a sensor coupled to the movable member and configured to acquire compliance data regarding a liner disposed within a shell of a helmet through engagement of the sensor with the liner, and a processing circuit configured to determine a rating for the helmet based on the compliance data and predetermined compliance parameters for the helmet.

Systems and methods for helmet liner evaluation

Described embodiments include a self-propelled vehicle, method, and system. The self-propelled vehicle includes an autonomous driving system configured to dynamically determine maneuvers operating the vehicle along a route in an automated mode without continuous input from a human driver. The vehicle includes an input device configured to receive a real-time request for a specific dynamic maneuver by the vehicle operating along the route from the human driver. The vehicle includes a decision circuit configured to select a real-time dynamic maneuver by arbitrating between (i) the received real-time request for the specific dynamic maneuver from the human driver and (ii) a real-time determination relative to the specific dynamic maneuver received from the autonomous driving system. The vehicle includes an implementation circuit configured to output the selected real-time dynamic maneuver to an operations system of the vehicle.

Driver training in an autonomous vehicle

A vehicle drivetrain includes a magnetic bearing. The vehicle drivetrain includes a motor configured to provide a rotational driving force. The rotational driving force is received by a shaft, and the magnetic bearing is configured to support the shaft. The shaft is configured to drive a wheel of the vehicle.

Vehicle drivetrain with active magnetic bearings

A motor vehicle system includes a motor vehicle including an aircraft landing portion, and an actively propelled unmanned aircraft configured to be supported on the aircraft landing portion. The vehicle and aircraft are configured such that the vehicle can provide at least one of fuel and electrical energy to the aircraft while the aircraft is supported on the aircraft landing portion.

Motor vehicle with captive aircraft

A turbine blade includes a core element having a base portion, a tip portion, and an intermediate portion extending between the base portion and the tip portion. The intermediate portion includes a non-uniform cross-section and is a high-strength fiber material. The turbine blade further includes a shell disposed around the core element, and the volume between the core element and the shell forms a void.

Dual element turbine blade

An electrochemical device (such as a battery) includes at least one electrode having a fluid surface and one or more sensors configured to detect an operating condition of the device. Fluid-directing structures may modulate flow or retain fluid in response to the sensors. An electrolyte within the device may also include an ion-transport fluid, for example infiltrated into a porous solid support.

Instrumented fluid-surfaced electrode

An audio surveillance system includes a plurality of nodes and each node includes a microphone, a speaker, and a control unit. The microphone is configured to detect sound and the speaker is configured to provide sound. The control unit is configured to receive a plurality of inputs from the plurality of nodes and the plurality of inputs are based on a detected sound; determine a location of the source of the detected sound based on the plurality of inputs; classify the detected sound according to predefined alert conditions and based on the location of the source of the detected sound; provide an alert to a monitoring device regarding the detected sound based on the classification of the detected sound; and control at least one node from the plurality of nodes to provide an audio response to the detected sound.

Detection and classification of abnormal sounds

Methods and articles are provided for generating electricity from carbon-based photosynthate produced by a plant. The methods include providing the plant with a composition including COand/or a composition that generates CO, harvesting a carbon-based photosynthate from the plant, processing the carbon-based photosynthate to produce energy, and converting at least some of the energy into electricity. An apparatus for converting the carbon-based photosynthate into COand heat, and an apparatus for converting the heat of combustion into electricity is also provided. An apparatus is also disclosed for providing the plant with a composition including COand/or a composition that generates CO.

Production of electricity from plants

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Thomas A Weaver