The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has published a list of patents that have been awarded to University researchers during the past few months. Several MSI Principal Investigators, shown below, are on this list. The complete list can be found on the OVPR’s Inquiry blog, "Patent Roll Call, Fall 2017."
The PIs' MSI group pages are linked from their names (PI names are in bold).
Agriculture and Horticulture
James Anderson (Horticultural Science), Jochum Wiersma
Software and Information Technology
Serguei Pakhomov (Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems), Laura Hemmy, Kelvin Lim (Psychiatry)
Automated Verbal Fluency Assessment
George Karypis (Computer Science and Engineering), Dominique LaSalle
Parallel Processing With Cooperative Multitasking
Life Sciences
Da-Ren Chen, Robert Hoerr, David Pui (Mechanical Engineering)
Device With Electrospray Coating to Deliver Active Ingredients
Yuanpeng Li, Balasubramanian Srinivasan, Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Chengguo Xing
High Magnetic Moment Particle Detection
Eduardo Reategui, Allison Hubel (Mechanical Engineering), Alptekin Aksan
Silica-Based Composite Ocular Device and Methods
David Nuckley, Arthur Erdman (Mechanical Engineering; Director, Earl Bakken Medical Devices Center), Charles Ledonio, David Polly
Spinal Probe With Tactile Force Feedback and Pedicle Breach Prediction
Pharmaceutics and Diagnostics
Patrick Schlievert, Marnie Peterson (Microbiology)
Compositions and Methods for Controlling Infections
Xiaohui Zhao, Karen Ashe, Michael Walters (Medicinal Chemistry), Derek Hook Morgan Le Naour
Compositions and Methods Related to Taupathy
Michael Sadowsky (Director, BioTechnology Institute; Soil, Water, and Climate), Matthew Hamilton, Alexander Khoruts, Alexa Weingarden
Compositions and Methods for Transplantation of Colon Microbiota
Shameem Sultana Syeda, Gunda Georg (Director, Institute for Therapeutic Discovery and Development; Medicinal Chemistry)
Suck Kim, Peter Dosa, Michael Walters (Medicinal Chemistry)
Ergoline Derivatives as Dopamine Receptor Modulators
Hiroyuki Hirai, Nobuaki Kikyo (Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development)
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Allison Hubel (Mechanical Engineering), Katie Douglass, Jacob Hanna
Inlet and Outlet Geometries for a Vertical Three-Stream Microfluidic Device
Bin He (Biomedical Engineering), Zhaoye Zhou
Systems and Methods for Noninvasive Spectral-Spatiotemporal Imaging of Cardiac Electric Activity
Zhenpeng Qin, John Bischof (Mechanical Engineering), Taner Akkin
Thermal Contrast Assay and Reader
John Ohlfest, Michael Olin, Walter Low (Neurosurgery)
Therapeutic Composition for Treatment of Glioblastoma
Venkatram Mereddy, Sravan Jonnalagadda, Shirisha Jonnalagadda, Lester Drewes (Medical School – UM Duluth)
Meng Jing, Gianluigi Veglia (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics), Raffaello Verardi, Michael Bowser, Joseph Metzger (Chair, Integrative Biology and Physiology), Brian Thompson
Therapeutic Polynucleotides, Compositions, and Methods
Ashok Saluja, Satish Patil, Raj Suryanarayanan (Pharmaceutics), Selwyn Vickers, Bruce Blazar (Pediatrics), Gunda Georg (Director, Institute for Therapeutic Discovery and Development; Medicinal Chemistry), Cheryl Zimmerman, Juan Leal, Rohit Chugh
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Biological and Chemical Technologies
Alex John, William Tolman (Chair, Chemistry), Marc Hillmyer, Levi Hogan
Catalytic Ester Decarbonylation
Beeraiah Baire, Thomas Hoye (Chemistry), Dawen Niu, Brian Woods, Patrick Willoughby
Erin Surdo, Paige Novak (Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering), William Arnold (Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering)
Membranes for Wastewater-Generated Energy and Gas
James Gallagher, Marc Hillmyer, Theresa Reineke (Chemistry)
Monomers, Polymers and Articles Containing the Same From Sugar Derived Compounds
Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Ying Jing
Paul Chen, Min Addy, Erik Anderson, R. Ruan (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering)
Production of Biodiesel From Scum
David Kittelson (Mechanical Engineering), Jane Davidson (Mechanical Engineering), Brandon Hathaway
Design and Materials Technologies
Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Haibao Zhao, Hao Wang
Embedded Mask Patterning Process for Fabricating Magnetic Media and Other Structures
Jane Davidson (Mechanical Engineering), Louise Goldberg, John Carmody, Susan Mantell (Mechanical Engineering)
Thomas Chase (Mechanical Engineering), Jane Davidson (Mechanical Engineering)
Thermochemical Reactor Systems and Methods
Electrical and Nano Technologies
Sachin Sapatnekar (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Vivek Mishra
Cell-Level Signal Electromigration
Rhonda Franklin (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Xiaoli Ma, Georgios Giannakis (Director, Digital Technology Center; Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Estimating Frequency-Offsets and Multi-Antenna Channels in MIMO OFDM Systems
Ronald Siegel (Pharmaceutics), Babak Ziaie
Sensor Having Ferrogel With Magnetic Particles
Richa Pandey, Russell Holmes (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science), S. Matt Menke
Spectrally Tunable Broadband Organic Photodetectors
Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Mahdi Jamali
Spin Current Generation With Nano-Oscillator
Anand Gopinath (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Sung-Min Sohn, J. Thomas Vaughan
System and Method for Control of RF Circuits for Use With an MRI System
Steven Koester (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Ultra-Compact, Passive, Varactor-Based Wireless Sensor Using Quantum Capacitance Effect in Graphene