Inventions

ECE researchers are known for their entrepreneurial spirit. They are patenting inventions by the dozens and creating startups every year to market their products.

Startups

Acomni is piloting a Wi-Fi enabled thermostat-monitor — the Ondo — that predicts heating and cooling costs based on temperature settings.

Avirtek builds autonomic cybersecurity technology to self-protect networks, applications and data.

Bioevidence Detection Systems creates technology for gathering and analyzing evidence at crime scenes.

Codelucida develops custom methods of low density parity-check based error-correction for solid-state and hard drives.

Epiphany of Systems Science builds systems for unmanned aerial swarms, radio frequency situational awareness, and collaborative intelligent radio networks.

Lunewave designs and manufactures specialized Luneburg lens antennas and radar sensors that can act as the “eyes” of self-driving cars.

MIAO IC Design develops radiation-hardened, low-power, variable bandwidth/resolution sigma delta converters for space systems and seismic exploration.

MicroBioSystems of Arizona and sister companies MicroBioSystems of Utah and Canyon View Diagnostics produce handheld sensors that test for contaminants in operating rooms, bacteria in water, bioterrorism agents, and blood-borne diseases such as HIV, malaria and TB.

Ocotillo Electromagnetics designs components of medical devices to treat memory disorders. 

Signal Dynamics LLC advances wireless health monitoring systems.

Sonoran Analytical Instruments and Diagnostics contributes to bendable and wearable hybrid electronics.

U.S. Patents Issued (2012-2016)

Akoglu, Ali

• “Reconfigurable processing,” 2012. No. 8,281,297 B2.

Bilgin, Ali

• “System and method for motion-compensated compressed sensing for dynamic imaging,” 2013. No. 8520928.
• “System and method for field map estimation.” 2017. No. 9,733,329.
• “System and method for estimating phase measurements in magnetic resonance imaging.” 2018. No. 10,067,211.

Bose, Tamal

• “Cognitive radio device,” 2012. No. 8,295,341 B2.
• “Efficient outphasing transmitter,” 2012. No. 8,290,086.

Ivan Djordjevic

• “Rate adaptive irregular QC-LDPC codes from pairwise balanced designs for ultra-high-speed optical transports,” 2016. No. 9,367,387.
• “Optimum signal constellation design and mapping for few-mode fiber based LDPC-coded CO-OFDM,” 2015. No. 9,203,555.
• “Optical communication system, device and method employing advanced coding and high modulation order,” 2015. No. 9,203,544.
• “Adaptive LDPC-coded multidimensional spatial-MIMO multiband generalized OFDM,” 2015. No. 9,197,249.
• “Ultra-high-speed optical transport based on adaptive LDPC-coded multidimensional spatial-spectral scheme and orthogonal prolate spheroidal wave functions,” 2015. No. 9,184,873.
• “Nonbinary LDPC coded modulation without bandwidth expansion for high-speed optical transmission,” 2015. No. 9,166,728.
• “Multidimensional coded-modulation for high-speed optical transport over few-mode fibers,” 2015. No. 9,094,125.
• "Modified orthogonal polynomials based hybrid coded-modulation for multi-Tb/second optical transport,” 2015. No. 9,071,383.
• “LDPC-coded modulation for ultra-high-speed optical transport in the presence of phase noise,” 2015. No. 9,036,992.
• “Spatial domain based multi-dimensional coded modulation for multi Tb per second serial optical transport networks,” 2015. No. 8,977,121.
• “Superimposed training and digital filtering coherent optical receivers,” 2013. No. 8,538,278.
• “GLDPC encoding with Reed-Muller component codes for optical communications,” 2013. No. 8,386,879.
• “Polarization mode dispersion compensation in multilevel coded-modulation schemes using BLAST algorithm and iterative polarization cancellation,” 2013. No. 8,385,439.
• “Modified progressive edge-growth LDPC codes for ultra-high-speed serial optical transport,” 2013. No. 8,381,065.
• “Simultaneous PMD compensation and chromatic dispersion compensation using LDPC coded OFDM,” 2012. No. 8,234,549.
• “Ultra high-speed optical transmission based on LDPC-coded modulation and coherent detection for all-optical network,” 2012. No. 8,234,538.
• “Multi-dimensional LDPC coded modulation for high-speed optical transmission systems,” 2012. No. 8,219,874.
• “Mitigation of fiber nonlinearities in multilevel coded-modulation schemes,” 2012. No. 8,185,796.
• “Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensation in polarization multiplexed coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems,” 2012. No. 8,184,993.
• “High speed LDPC decoding,” 2012. No. 8,181,091.
• “Multidimensional turbo product codes and generalized low-density parity-check codes with component Reed-Solomon codes for optical transmission,” 2012. No. 8,176,381.
• “Methods and systems for polarization multiplexed multilevel modulation for optical communication,” 2012. No. 8,175,466.
• “LDPC-coded multilevel modulation scheme,” 2012. No. 8,140,934.
• “LDPC codes and stochastic decoding for optical transmission,” 2012. No. 8,099,645.

Dvorak, Steve

• “Method for measuring absolute magnitudes and absolute phase relationships over a wide bandwidth,” 2012. No. 8,296,086 B2.
• “Vector signal measuring system, featuring wide bandwidth, large dynamic range, and high accuracy,” 2012. No. 8,155,904 B2.

Fink, Wolfgang

• “Method and system for training a visual prosthesis,” 2012. No. 8,260,428.
• “The method of automatic feature analysis, comparison and abnormality detection.” 2017. Chinese, No. ZL201380058287.7.
• “Apparatus for electrical stimulation of a cell and method of use.” 2018. No. 9,867,988.
• “Automatic feature analysis, comparison, and anomaly detection.” 2018. Japanese, No. JP6272892B2.

Marcellin, Michael

•  “Lifting-based view compensated compression and remote visualization of volume rendered images,” 2012. No. 8,126,279.

Xin, Hao

• “Millimeter-wave reflect-array for compressive threat detection in security screening applications.” 2018. No. 9,970,870.