Success Stories
 Low Plasticity Burnishing (LPB) Aerospace and Medical Applications Attained
This low-plasticity burnishing (LPB) apparatus produces a repeatable and stable deep layer of compressive surface residual stress. Lambda Research created Surface Enhancement Technologies, LLC (SET) to license, market, and provide LPB. |
 Collaboration Could Lead to Quieter Airports
Under a partnership made possible by NASA’s Partnerships Seed Fund program, through the Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP), NASA’s Glenn Research Center tested a patent- pending over-the-rotor acoustic metallic foam liner that reduced noise up to 4 dB on an FJ44 turbofan engine manufactured by Williams International. |
 Endotronix Licenses Two NASA Patents to Develop More Accurate, Less Invasive Ways to Measure Cardiovascular Conditions in the Human Body
In July 2008, Endotronix, Inc. licensed two patents from NASA's Glenn Research Center for radio frequency (RF) Bio-MEMs sensor technology that can eventually help thousands of people avoid the potentially life-threatening complications of hypertension, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and congestive heart failure. |
 Endevco Corporation Licenses Three NASA Patents to Enable a New Line of High-Temperature, Harsh-Environment Silicon Carbide Pressure Sensors
In October 2007, Endevco Corporation (link opens new browser window) licensed three patents covering two technologies from NASA's Glenn Research Center that will enable it to jump start a new line of high-temperature, harsh-environment pressure |
 Space Power Pallet Flight Experiment: Boeing Phantom Works
NASA's Glenn Research Center and Boeing Phantom Works are designing a 2 kilowatt power out hydrogen-oxygen regenerative fuel cell (RFC) for a "human-rated space power flight experiment" that would be attached to the International Space Station. |
 Atomic Oxygen Textured Surfaces for Blood Glucose & Other Analyte Monitoring: Light ● Pointe Medical
As a result of NASA’s research on low Earth orbital atomic oxygen interactions with spacecraft materials, this technology was discovered and thereafter developed in collaboration with Light ● Pointe Medical. |
 NextGen CNS Test Bed: Sensis Corporation
NextGenCNS Test Bed helps provide integrated wireless communication and surface capabilities for safe and efficient airport operations. Glenn Research Center is evaluating WiMax technology in a new protected frequency spectrum for advanced situational awareness and secure information sharing. |
 ESP-6000™ Energy Storage Platform: Deeya Energy Inc.
DeeyaEnergy is commercializing the L-Cell redoxflow technology originally developed by NASA, combining the electrochemical efficiency of a battery with the bulk energy capacity of a fuel cell in a robust, low-cost product platform. |
 Radio Frequency (RF) Telemetry for Bioelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Sensors and Actuators: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
This effort leverages GRC Radio Frequency (RF) technology to develop novel miniature conformal antennas and signal processing circuits for RF telemetry to and from biomicroelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS) sensors and actuators through electromagnetic coupling. |
 Silicon Germanium Cryogenic Power Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors: GPD Optoelectronics Corporation
Transistors are the backbone of computer technology and power systems. These silicon-germanium (SiGe) HBTs are power-level devices capable of operating at cryogenic temperatures below liquid-nitrogen temperature (–196ºC) to as low as ~40 K (–230ºC). |