Software • Sandia’s Cloud Hypervisor Forensics and Incident Response Platform (CHIRP) introduces a novel Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) based approach to provide intelligence and forensic artifacts from active VMs in cloud systems.
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CHIRP: Cloud Hypervisor Forensics and Incident Response Platform
Featured Opportunity • CHIRP is a cloud forensics platform that empowers analysts and defenders to collect evidence and incident response materials in real-time without disturbing the user environment or alerting the intruder. With more than 92% of enterprises now having a cloud presence and the frequency of large-scale data breaches rising over 273%...
Circuit arrangement and technique for setting matrix values in three-terminal memory cells
Patent • #US10489483B1. A method for programming substantially simultaneously more than one of the three-terminal memory cells that represent the values of a matrix to be multiplied by a vector is disclosed. Programming may be achieved by controlling the gate-drain voltage for more than one cell simultaneously to change each such cell's...
Circuit that includes a physically unclonable function
Patent • #US10256983B1. Described herein are various technologies pertaining to authentication of integrated circuits by using external factors to affect or modify an output of a physically unclonable function (PUF) circuit. In an example, the output of the PUF circuit in response to a challenge signal can be sensitive to changes in...
Circumferential flow foam heat exchanger
Patent • #US11209219B1. A heat exchanger is disclosed that includes a cold heat exchange zone including a foam material having an annular geometry and having fluid distribution and collection slots configured to distribute a cooling fluid circumferentially through the foam material.
Cloud forensics and incident response platform
Patent • #US11113388B2. A system, method, and device for cloud forensics and incident response is provided. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for performing cloud forensics and incident response includes intercepting, by a cloud incident response module (CIRM), communication between a virtual machine (VM) and a hypervisor. The method also includes extracting,...
CMOS compatible low-resistivity Al—Sc metal etch stop
Patent • #US12034050B1. An aluminum-scandium (Al—Sc) etch stop that is both CMOS compatible and highly conductive, and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The low volatility of Sc in Cl and strong covalent bond between Al—Sc leads to an increase in resistance to NaCl corrosion and makes it difficult to...
Co-notch and independent windowing to mitigate interference in SAR-based imagery
Patent • #US10591582B1. Various technologies for mitigating distortion in coherent image products generated from SAR data are described herein. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) datasets generated based upon SAR returns from first and second passes of a SAR platform over a scene are received. The SAR datasets can be co-notched at matching sample...
Coaxial microreactor for particle synthesis
Patent • #US8563325B1. A coaxial fluid flow microreactor system disposed on a microfluidic chip utilizing laminar flow for synthesizing particles from solution. Flow geometries produced by the mixing system make use of hydrodynamic focusing to confine a core flow to a small axially-symmetric, centrally positioned and spatially well-defined portion of a flow...
Coherent radar receiver that comprises a sigma delta modulator
Patent • #US10020968B1. Described herein are various technologies relating to processing a coherent signal. A receiver is configured to receive an analog signal, and process the analog signal to generate an input analog signal. The input analog signal has been modulated according to a suitable modulation sequence. A coherent signal sampler coherently...
Coinage Metal Nanoparticles for Nanoinks
Featured Opportunity • A simple, rapid, and volume-scalable method to produce high quality coinage metals for nanoinks Printed and flexible electronics are a fast-growing area of interest with commercial applications ranging from wearables, smart packaging, photovoltaics, to lighting and displays. Nanoparticle-based functional inks (nanoinks), particularly those with conductive properties, play a significant role...
Colorometric detection of water using MOF-polymer films and composites
Patent • #US9347923B1. A method including exposing a mixture of a porous metal organic framework (MOF) and a polymer to a predetermined molecular species, wherein the MOF has an open metal site for the predetermined molecular species and the polymer has a porosity for the predetermined molecular species; and detecting a color...
Combustion powered linear actuator
Patent • #US7263955B1. The present invention provides robotic vehicles having wheeled and hopping mobilities that are capable of traversing (e.g. by hopping over) obstacles that are large in size relative to the robot and, are capable of operation in unpredictable terrain over long range. The present invention further provides combustion powered linear...
Commercialization Highlights
Page • Learn about the latest partnerships and commercialization successes resulting from Sandia technology transfer. Materials scientist elected to National Academy of InventorsTina Nenoff has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Sandia’s economic impact soars to $5.2B in 2024Sandia made its biggest financial impact ever in 2024, contributing...
Communication device and method of making the same
Patent • #US10235614B1. A communication device for receiving an interrogation signal at a first carrier frequency and for transmitting a response signal at a second carrier frequency is disclosed. The interrogation signal comprises the first carrier frequency modulated at the second carrier frequency. The communication device includes a sensor coupled to a...
Communication enabled fast-acting imbalance reserve
Patent • #US10574056B1. A system and method for control of dispatchable resources on an electrical power distribution grid is disclosed. The disclosed method provides improved response to power imbalance based on a communications signal independent of system frequency. The communication signal provides a feed-forward control of dispatchable power resources. A communications network...
Communication systems, transceivers, and methods for generating data based on channel characteristics
Patent • #US8270602B1. Examples of methods for generating data based on a communications channel are described. In one such example, a processing unit may generate a first vector representation based in part on at least two characteristics of a communications channel. A constellation having at least two dimensions may be addressed with...
Compact antenna arrays with wide bandwidth and low sidelobe levels
Patent • #US8830125B1. Highly efficient, low cost, easily manufactured SAR antenna arrays with lightweight low profiles, large instantaneous bandwidths and low SLL are disclosed. The array topology provides all necessary circuitry within the available antenna aperture space and between the layers of material that comprise the aperture. Bandwidths of 15.2 GHz to...
Compact atom interferometry inertial navigation sensors with tailored diffractive optics
Patent • #US12424810B1. Various optical systems for use in a light pulse atomic interferometer (LPAI)-based one-, two-, or three-axis accelerometer or gyroscope are disclosed. As an LPAI accelerometer or gyroscope may employ many different laser beams to implement the LPAI functionality, ways of combining these different laser beams to thereby simplify the...
Compact convertible universal single pass/double pass optical system
Patent • #US12436024B1. A compact convertible single pass (SP)/double pass (DP) optical system is disclosed. The convertible optical system is convertible in the sense that the optical system can be configured to have any one of multiple configurations, including SP/DP, DP/SP, just SP, or just DP. This flexibility in the configuration is...
Compact grating magneto-optical trap sensor head for inertial navigation in dynamic environments
Patent • #US12449256B1. A compact grating-mirror magneto-optical trap (GMOT) cold atom inertial sensor head is disclosed. To make the sensor head compatible with the high vibration levels encountered in dynamic environments, the number of optical ports in the vacuum chamber is minimized and various components, including fixed optical components and a reflective...
Compact ion chamber based neutron detector
Patent • #US9170340B1. A directional neutron detector has an ion chamber formed in a dielectric material; a signal electrode and a ground electrode formed in the ion chamber; a neutron absorbing material filling the ion chamber; readout circuitry which is electrically coupled to the signal and ground electrodes; and a signal processor...
Compact laser source with frequency modulators generating multiple lines
Patent • #US11545815B1. A compact laser source and a single sideband modulator used therein is disclosed. The compact laser source includes a seed laser and one or more channels, with each channel generating one or more output laser beams having corresponding different wavelengths. The compact laser source can be formed in whole...
Compact low frequency radio antenna
Patent • #US7450081B1. An antenna is disclosed that comprises a pair of conductive, orthogonal arches and a pair of conductive annular sector plates, wherein adjacent legs of each arch are fastened to one of the annular sector plates and the opposite adjacent pair of legs is fastened to the remaining annular sector...
Compact particle accelerator
Patent • #US9750122B1. A compact particle accelerator having an input portion configured to receive power to produce particles for acceleration, where the input portion includes a switch, is provided. In a general embodiment, a vacuum tube receives particles produced from the input portion at a first end, and a plurality of wafer...
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