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The following entries received the highest overall scores from the panel of judges.
They are listed in alphabetical order by title.
A Smart Point of Care Human Blood Analysis Device
A Sustainable Energy Technology : Generating Electricity and Producing Base
Advanced Method of Multi-stage Cold Forming of Titanium Opens Up New Perspectives
Aerogels from Environmental Wastes for Novel Engineering Applications
Aluminum Powered Electricity Generation
Ammonia Recovery System for Wastewater
An Automated System for Printing of Nano and Microscale Electronics and Sensors
Applying Topology and Lattice Optimization to Reduce Stress Shielding from Hip Implants
Augmented Associate: Wearable Embedded Sensors for Future Manual Assembly
Automotive Stampings: Stronger than Titanium, Lighter than Aluminum to Make Vehicles >100lbs Lighter
Autonomous Anomaly Investigation Platform for Underwater Survey and Inspection
Autonomous UAS with ADS-B and Artificial Intelligence
Balance Assessment and Stability Alert Sensor
Bi-Toroid Transformer (BiTT) Load Isolation Transformer
Bio-Grid Antimicrobial Ceiling
BlinkEye: Communicate with a Blink of an Eye
Box-less, Omnidirectional and Full-Range Speaker
Braiding Technology Based Stent Concept for Endoluminal Usage in Coronary Bifurcations
CareWear Wearable Light Therapy
Composite Elastic Skins for Shape-Changing Structures
Continuously Controllable Diesel Fuel Injector
Culture and Tissue Patch for Organ-on-a-Chip
Dab - Unobtrusive ECG Holter Patch
ecoSPEARS: Sorbent Polymer Extraction and Remediation System
Efficient Carbon Capture and Conversion to Materials and Fuel
Emulsified Zero-Valent Iron (EZVI)
Enhancing Rock Penetration Efficiency by a Novel Bio-inspired Drill
Fiber Optic Augmented Reality System (FOARS) Vividly Displays Strain Measurements
FuelBOX : Smart and Connected Fuel Quality Sensor
Future Antenna Miniaturization Mechanism: Magnetoelectric Antennas
Graphene Based Inks for Printed Electronics
High Reynolds Number Nanofiber Production Technique
HiLLo-ORC : Semi-Hermetic Expander Technology for Converting Waste Heat to Electricity
Hyper4 - High Efficiency Engine
Implantable Sensor Technology Platform for Advanced Prosthetic Control
In Situ Performance Monitoring of Piezoelectric Sensors and Accelerometers
IoT Water Control Management (WCM)
ISCAD - Electrical Drive with 0% Rare Earths, 25% Higher Driving Range and 100% Safety
Large Area Projection Sintering, a 3D Printing Technology
Lightweight Liquid Hydrogen Storage for Electric Aircraft
Meridian® FLEX Camera Testing Platform for Automotive Safety Applications
Miniaturized Air-Curtains for a Safer Breathing Environment
Miniaturized Batteryless and Wireless Monitoring Unit
Moses' Corridor for Laser Lithotripsy
Novel Fixed Flexing Linear Solar Energy Collector
Pelican: A New Approach to Fueling Space Exploration
Photo-Acoustic Sub Part-Per-Billion Chemical Sensing
Powering Desalination with Recycled Aluminum
Precious Car-Go [TM] Hot Car Death Prevention Alert
ReGen-X Stepper Motor for EV Regenerative Acceleration
Remote Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics for Aircraft
Shark Inspired Structures for Improved Aerodynamics
Slotted Waveguide Antennae Stiffened Structures (SWASS)
Smart Lightweighting of Cars with 200kg
SOMAVAC® 100 Sustained Vacuum System
Streamliners Incorporated Miniskirt: Aerodynamic Fuel Savings for All Types of Semi Trailers
Stretchable Electronics for Stroke Recovery
SurgiBox: The Operating Room in a Backpack
Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR)
Transparent Armored Building Blocks for a New World View
Tri-Rotor Aircraft Capable of Vertical Takeoff and Landing and Transitioning to Forward Flight
Two-stroke Rotary Engine (Quasiturbine)
U-decipher Device for the Speech Impaired
Ultra-Low Power Analog-to-Digital Converter with Nano-electromechanical Relays
Ultra-low Power Compact Re-programmable Digital Circuits Using Micro-electromechanical Resonators
Ultrasound Tool to Break Down Blood Clots
UNA Smart - HOT BREW ON THE GO
Vara: Revolutionary Firearm Safety
VForce® Green Clean Game Changing Technology
Wandering Threads - Virtualizing SMP
X-Limb: The World's Most Usable Prosthetic Hand for Upper-Limb Amputees
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