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Thin Bilayer Paints to Enable Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling (Case No. 2026-014)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have formulated a novel bilayer coating that enables high-performance passive daytime radiative cooling. Background: Conventional technologies for cooling buildings are highly energy-intensive, consuming about 19% of U.S. residential electricity and contributing to greenhouse...

Published: 12/8/2025 | Inventor(s): Aaswath Raman, Aryan Zaveri, Justin Louie

Keywords(s): advanced thermal control materials, advanced thermal paint, alternative cooling, background radiation, concentrated solar radiation, energy conversion, energy conversion applications, Energy Efficiency, Energy Generation & Storage, Energy Generation, Transmission, or Storage, energy management, Energy Management System, energy-efficient cooling, heat dissipation, infrared (IR) radiation, infrared-reflectance, Paint, paint architecture, passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC), photothermal materials, pigmented coating, real-time thermal management, Renewable Energy, Renewable energy sources, solar reflectance, thermal control, thermal control materials, Thermal Energy Storage, thermal management, thermal management systems, thermal metamaterials, thermal stability, ultraviolet reflectance, visible reflectance

Category(s): Materials, Materials > Functional Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Energy Transmission, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency, Chemical, Chemical > Coatings, Adhesives & Inks, Chemical > Industrial & Bulk Chemicals, Energy & Environment > Thermal

Nanocomposite Scintillators (Case No. 2024-126)

Summary: UCLA researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a novel nanocomposite material for high-efficiency radiation detection and monitoring. Background: Scintillators are materials that emit light when they absorb radiation, such as gamma rays or x-rays. The photons generated by the scintillators can...

Published: 9/15/2025 | Inventor(s): Qibing Pei, Ziqing Han

Keywords(s): adhesive material, Algorithm Optical Coherence Tomography, anode material, artificial electromagnetic materials, artificial-intelligent materials, background radiation, Biomaterial, Biomaterial 3D Printing, bulk material, Composite Material, composite scintillators, Computed tomography, Computerized Tomography scan (CT), Diffraction Tomography, Drug Delivery Microporous Material, fast scintillators, gamma spectroscopy, High resolution computed tomography, high-Z organometallics, hole transporting material, Hyperelastic Material, intercalated materials, material characterization, Materials, meta materials, metal nanocomposites, microarchitectured materials, nanocomposite scintillators, Nanocomposites, Nanomaterials, Nanoparticle, Nanoparticles, nanostructured materials, neutrino detection, Optical Tomography, Optoelectronic materials, photonic materials, positron emission tomography (PET), radiation detection, Raw materials supplier, scintillators, second harmonic generation, Smart Material, Solar Cell Metamaterial, Surgical Instrument Optical Coherence Tomography, suturable biomaterial, X-Ray Computed Tomography

Category(s): Chemical, Chemical > Chemical Sensors, Materials, Materials > Functional Materials

Method of Proficient Typing Using a Limited Number of Classes (Case No. 2024-063)

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a novel software algorithm to rapidly predict text using small keyboards for various applications, including mobile computing, gaming, and human-computer interactions. Background: Advancements in mobile computing have drastically changed everyday life...

Published: 10/15/2025 | Inventor(s): Jonathan Kao, Shreyas Kaasyap, John Zhou, Johannes Lee, Nima Hadidi

Keywords(s): Advanced Computing / AI, advanced computing methods, all-optical diffractive computing, Artificial Neural Network, Artificial Neural Network Artificial Neuron, assistive communication, background radiation, Bandwidth (Computing), Brain computer interface, brain machine interface, Classroom management software, Cloud Computing, composite scintillators, Database management/data entry, deep physical neural network, design software, edge computing, fast scintillators, gamma spectroscopy, graph neural network, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), high-Z organometallics, Human/Brain computer interfaces (BCI/HCI), human-centered computing, material characterization, Medical science computing, mobile computing, modular robotic system, nanocomposite scintillators, neural network, neural networks, neutrino detection, Optical computing, positron emission tomography (PET), predictive text, primary school software, radiation detection, recurrent neural networks, Robotics, robotics control, scintillators, second harmonic generation, secondary school software, self-sustaining computing, soft robotics, Software, Software & Algorithms, Software Development Tools, Software-enabled learning, Spatial computing, Stochastic Computing (SC), T6 keyboard, T9 keyboard, visual computing, wafer-scale computing

Category(s): Software & Algorithms, Software & Algorithms > Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Software & Algorithms > Communication & Networking