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Non-intrusive data authentication systems and methods

Patent • #US10769286B2. Systems and methods are disclosed that create a separate digital and cryptographically secure signal “branch” to a secondary observer from a primary signal path of an information system. The information system may be a measurement system. The secure signal branch is creating without interfering with the primary signal path....

Non-Invasive Energy Meter

Featured Opportunity • Sandia has developed an energy monitoring device that measures energy from liquid flow systems (e.g., solar systems) using a simple technique that senses when the system is running and then estimates the BTU energy production. Current energy meters must be installed into the system to measure how much energy the...

Non-inverting multi-mode oscillator

Patent • #US10483912B1. Various technologies described herein pertain to non-inverting multi-mode oscillators. An oscillator circuit can include a non-inverting sustaining amplifier and a feedback network. The non-inverting sustaining amplifier includes an amplifier input and an amplifier output. The feedback network includes a crystal, an input portion, and an output portion. The crystal...

Nonaqueous redox flow battery electrolyte comprising an ionic liquid with a metal cation coordinated to redox-active ligands

Patent • #US10305133B2. Nonaqueous redox flow batteries (RFB) hold the potential for high energy density grid scale storage, though are often limited by the solubility of the redox-active species in their electrolytes. A systematic approach enables an increase the concentration of redox-active species in electrolytes for nonaqueous RFB, starting from a metal-coordination-cation-based...

Noncircular aperture imaging system

Patent • #US10154193B1. Various technologies pertaining to an imaging system with a noncircular aperture are described herein. An imaging objective with a noncircular aperture and an anamorphic lens is used to capture a plurality of image frames of a scene. Each image frame is captured at a different rotational orientation of the...

Nonlinear controller for nonlinear wave energy converters

Patent • #US10823134B2. The present invention is directed to a nonlinear controller for nonlinear wave energy converters (WECs). As an example of the invention, a nonlinear dynamic model is developed for a geometrically right-circular cylinder WEC design for the heave-only motion, or a single degree-of-freedom (DOF). The linear stiffness term is replaced...

Nonlinear Hourglass Buoy Design for Wave Energy Converters (WECs)

Featured Opportunity • This nonlinear hourglass buoy design optimizes power absorption in multi-resonant conditions and eliminates reactive power at the buoy level for more efficient wave energy converters (WECs) Ocean waves have the potential to deliver more available energy per square meter than other renewable sources such as solar or wind. Many different...

Nonlinear hydrostatic control of a wave energy converter

Patent • #US11326574B2. Increased energy harvesting is realized using a nonlinear buoy geometry for reactive power generation. By exploiting the nonlinear dynamic coupling between the buoy geometry and the potential wideband frequency spectrum of incoming waves in the controller/buoy design, increased power can be captured in comparison to conventional wave energy converter...

Nonlinear optical frequency conversion using metamaterial arrays

Patent • #US10054839B1. A method of nonlinear wavelength generation uses a nonlinear optical medium. An input flux of pump energy is applied to one or more dielectric optical resonators. Each resonator has an optical cavity comprising the nonlinear optical medium. Each resonator has at least one Mie resonance that is excited by...

Nonlinear power flow control for networked AC/DC microgrids

Patent • #US10666054B2. A method for designing feedforward and feedback controllers for integration of stochastic sources and loads into a nonlinear networked AC/DC microgrid system is provided. A reduced order model for general networked AC/DC microgrid systems is suitable for HSSPFC control design. A simple feedforward steady state solution is utilized for...

Norbornylene-based polymer systems for dielectric applications

Patent • #US8223472B1. A capacitor having at least one electrode pair being separated by a dielectric component, with the dielectric component being made of a polymer such as a norbornylene-containing polymer with a dielectric constant greater than 3 and a dissipation factor less than 0.1 where the capacitor has an operating temperature...

Object detection and tracking system

Patent • #US9665942B2. Methods and apparatuses for analyzing a sequence of images for an object are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, the method identifies a region of interest in the sequence of images. The object is likely to move within the region of interest. The method divides the region of interest...

Observer systems and methods

Patent • #US12487106B1. An observer system includes a support frame, a first support member, a second support member, and an observer. The first support member is attached to the support frame such that the first support member is rotatable relative to the support frame about a first axis. The second support member...

Octane Booster

Featured Opportunity • Generate high performance biofuels by optimizing how fuels are blended. The past century of fuel research was performed under the assumption that the Research Octane Number (RON) of a blended fuel is bounded by the RON values of the base fuel and the additive compound. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories...

Octane hyperboosting in fuel blends

Patent • #US10899988B1. The present invention relates, in part, to fuel mixtures and methods of preparing such mixtures. In particular, the mixture includes an alkenol additive that provides octane boosting.

Offset-fed reflector parallel plate antenna apparatus

Patent • #US12341250B1. An antenna apparatus described herein includes a first reflector element that comprises a first nonresonant waveguide cavity that is partially bounded by a first parabolic reflector surface. The apparatus optionally includes additional reflector elements arranged in parallel with the first reflector element, where the additional reflector elements include corresponding...

Offshore Wind Energy Simulation (OWENS)

Featured Opportunity • Offshore Wind Energy Simulator (OWENS) is a software toolset for the analysis, design, and certification of offshore, land-based, or marine hydrokinetic vertical-axis wind turbine systems. The OWENs toolset has the required physics models for coupled analysis of aero-hydroservo-elastic simulations necessary for design and certification of wind energy systems. Open all...

Oil and Gas

Portfolio • Advanced drilling concepts for economical access to resources Sandia's primary focus has been on the development of improved drilling and completion technologies such as drilling diagnostics, high temperature electronics, advanced drilling, and wellbore integrity to reduce and mitigate problems associated with circulation loss.

Omnidirectional antenna having constant phase

Patent • #US9614273B1. Various technologies presented herein relate to constructing and/or operating an antenna having an omnidirectional electrical field of constant phase. The antenna comprises an upper plate made up of multiple conductive rings, a lower ground-plane plate, a plurality of grounding posts, a conical feed, and a radio frequency (RF) feed...

On-chip entangled photon source

Patent • #US9500930B1. Various technologies pertaining to an on-chip entangled photon source are described herein. A light source is used to pump two resonator cavities that are resonant at two different respective wavelengths and two different respective polarizations. The resonator cavities are coupled to a four-wave mixing cavity that receives the light...

One-Pot Bioconversion of Distiller’s Grains to Advanced Biofuels

Featured Opportunity • Increases in bioethanol production throughout the US has led to an increase in the process co-product—distillers grains with solubles (DGS). DGS can be used to feed livestock, however, product inconsistency and contamination issues have greatly reduced demand, resulting in significant surplus. In order to commoditize this DGS surplus, a team...

Optical amplifier exhibiting net phase-mismatch selected to at least partially reduce gain-induced phase-matching during operation and method of operation

Patent • #US7880961B1. An optical amplifier, such as an optical waveguide amplifier (e.g., an optical fiber amplifier or a planar waveguide) or a non-guiding optical amplifier, that exhibits a net phase-mismatch selected to at least partially reduce gain-induced phase-matching during operation thereof is disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, an optical...

Optical analog-to-digital converter

Patent • #US7564387B1. An optical analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed which converts an input optical analog signal to an output optical digital signal at a sampling rate defined by a sampling optical signal. Each bit of the digital representation is separately determined using an optical waveguide interferometer and an optical thresholding element....
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