Bio-Inspired Directional Microphone for Precision Acoustic Detection
This invention introduces a diaphragm-less, viscosity-driven microphone that measures air particle velocity instead of pressure. Using microfabricated viscous-coupled elements, it achieves high directional sensitivity, broadband response, and resistance to environmental noise. Inspired by biological flow sensors, it enables compact, low-cost, and precise...
Published: 10/24/2025
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Inventor(s): Ronald Miles
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > Binghamton University
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Ultra-Sensitive Single-Layer MEMS Capacitive Platform with Repulsive Softening
This invention introduces a MEMS capacitive platform that cancels bias-induced stiffening with co-planar “repulsive” electrodes, boosting displacement response by over 6× without increasing noise, enabling simpler, smaller, and more sensitive microphones and sensors.
Background:
Capacitive MEMS sensors and actuators require a DC...
Published: 10/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Johar Pourghader, Ronald Miles
Keywords(s): Technologies
Category(s): Campus > Binghamton University
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Portable High-Resolution AFM with Electrostatic Levitation
This invention combines electrostatic levitation actuators with triboelectric nanogenerators to enable self-powered shock and vibration sensors. By directly converting motion to voltage and voltage to motion, it eliminates complex control systems, delivering compact, CMOS-compatible sensors for impact detection, fall alarms, and environmental monitoring....
Published: 9/24/2025
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Inventor(s): Shahrzad Towfighian, Ronald Miles, Mark Pallay
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Category(s): Campus > Binghamton University, Technology Classifications > Engineering, Technology Classifications > Electronics
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Interdigitated Comb Fins
Method of creating interdigitated fins on a planar microstructure to deflect in the direction normal to its plane that increases capacitive actuation and sensing.
Technology Overview:
This invention provides a method of creating interdigitated fins on a planar microstructure that is intended to deflect in the direction normal to its plane. ...
Published: 8/21/2025
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Inventor(s): Ronald Miles, Weili Cui
Keywords(s): #SUNYresearch, Technologies
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Electronics, Campus > Binghamton University
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