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, Spring 2018.
The PIs' MSI pages are linked from their names (PI names are in bold).
Software and Information Technology
Vassilios Morellas, Doug Cook, Theodore Morris, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos (Computer Science and Engineering)
Determining parking space occupancy using a 3D representation
Yingling Fan, Gediminas Adomavicius, Julian Wolfson (Biostatistics)
Life Sciences
Medical Technology
Daniel Keefe (Computer Science and Engineering), Dane Coffey, Arthur Erdman (Mechanical Engineering; Director, Medical Devices Center)
Computer visualization of anatomical items
Rita Perlingeiro (Medicine), Michael Kyba (Pediatrics), Fabrizio Rinaldi, Daniel Voytas (Genetics, Cell Biology and Development)
Gene targeting methods and tools
Gregory Metzger (Radiology), Chaitanya Kalavagunta, Joseph Koopmeiners, Stephen Schmechel, Christopher Warlick
Rajesh Rajamani (Mechanical Engineering), Kalpesh Singal
Sensor for tension measurement
Daniel Voytas (Genetics, Cell Biology and Development), Feng Zhang
TAL effector-mediated DNA modification
Pharmaceutics and Diagnostics
R McIvor, Lalitha Belur, Carolyn Fairbanks, Walter Low (Neurosurgery)
Robyn Leary, Anindya Bagchi, Aaron Sarver (Biomedical Health Informatics)
Compositions and methods involving endogenous retrovirus proteins
Michael Verneris, Yong-Oon Ahn, Bruce Blazar (Pediatrics), Jeffrey Miller
Generation of natural killer cells and lymphoid tissue inducer-like (LTi-like) NK-22 cells
David Ferguson (Medicinal Chemistry), Courtney Aldrich (Medicinal Chemistry), John Ohlfest
Immunomodulators and immunomodulator conjugates
Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Md Tofizur Rahman, Yi Wang
Magnetic biomedical sensors and sensing system for high-throughput biomolecule testing
Daniel Keefe (Computer Science and Engineering), Dane Coffey, Arthur Erdman (Mechanical Engineering; Director, Medical Devices Center), Chi-Lun Lin
Material analysis of anatomical items
John Bischof (Mechanical Engineering), Jeunghwan Choi, Harishankar Natesan
System and method for determining a spatial thermal property profile of a sample
Mark Distefano (Chemistry), Mohammad Rashidian
Triorthogonal reagents for dual protein conjugation
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Biological and Chemical Technologies
Brett Barney (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering), Carolann Knutson, Marnie (Mary) Plunkett
Genetically modified diazotrophs and methods of using same
Marc Hillmyer, Frank Bates, Derek Batiste, Christopher Macosko (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science), Alexander Mannion, Tessie Panthani, Debbie Schneiderman, Marie Vanderlaan, Jay Wang
Recovery of monomer from polyurethane materials by depolymerization
Alptekin Aksan, Lisa Kasinkas, Eduardo Reategui, Michael Sadowsky (Director, BioTechnology Institute), Lawrence Wackett (BioTechnology Institute)
Silica encapsulated biomaterials
Design and Materials Technologies
Christopher Hogan (Mechanical Engineering), Sigin He
Electrospray ionizer for mass spectrometry of aerosol particles
Sang-Hyun Oh (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Xiaoshu Chen
Methods for manufacturing nano-gap and angstrom-gap articles
Electrical and Nano Technologies
Andreas Stein, Phil Buhlmann (Chemistry), Jinbo Hu
Ion-selective electrodes and reference electrodes with a solid contact having mesoporous carbon
Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Liang Tu
Magnetic search coil for measuring real-time brownian relaxation of magnetic nanoparticles
Mo Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Spin magneto-optical modulator
Georgios Giannakis (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Hao Zhu
State estimation of electrical power networks using semidefinite relaxation