T2 Patent Portfolio

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👁 patent portfolio	PATENT PORTFOLIO NASA maintains a portfolio of patents with commercial potential and makes them available to the public through our patent licensing program.

FEATURED TECHNOLOGIES

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Materials / Coatings
‘Diamond Maker’ Technology Simulates Subsurface Geology in Laboratories
Allows researchers ability to speciate natural elements while investigating geologic processes
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Aerospace
System for Flight Control of Extremely Fast (Hypersonic) Aircraft
Lift-augmenting, power-harvesting magnetohydrodynamic patch
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Robotics
Robotic System for Assembly and Maintenance of Lightweight Reconfigurable Structures
Hinged, alternating anchor-motion walking/crawling device for autonomous building with ultra-light, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials
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Communications
Signal Combiner for Wideband Communication
A frequency division multiplexer combined with an analog-to-digital converter increases efficiency
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Manufacturing
Regolith-Polymer 3D Printing
Building infrastructure using available resources