The list of patents received was supplied by the University’s Center for Science and Technology Commercialization.

Through the first half of FY 2010, the Center for Science and Technology Commercialization received 48 invention disclosures, filed 12 new U.S. patent applications, and distributed more than $144,000 to investigators and to support additional research.

Geoff W. Taylor and Scott W. Duncan
Method of Fabricating Semiconductor Devices Employing at Least One Modulation Doped Quantum Well Structure and One or More Etch Stop Layers for Accurate Contact Formation
Patent number 7,556,976, issued 7/7/09

Patrick T. Mather and Haihu Qin
Crosslinked Liquid Crystalline Polymer, Method for the Preparation Thereof, and Articles Derived Therefrom
Patent number 7,563,388, issued 7/21/09

Maurice Gell, Xinqing Ma, Eric Jordan, Nitin P. Padture, Liangde Xie, Danny Xiao and Anthony DeCarmine
Coatings, Materials, Articles, and Methods of Making Thereof
Patent number 7,563,503, issued 7/21/09

Patrick T. Mather, Changdeng Liu, Seung B. Chun and E. Bryan Coughlin
Crosslinked Polycyclooctene
Patent number 7,563,848, issued 7/21/09

Glenn F. King, Ashis K. Mukherjee, Stephen K. Wikel and Brianna Sollod McFarland
Acaricidal Compositions and Methods of Use Thereof
Patent number 7,575,758, issued 8/18/09

Lei Wang
Energy Efficient Clock Deskew Systems and Methods
Patent number 7,576,580, issued 8/18/09

Irving Goldschneider and Laijun Lai
Chimeric Cytokine of IL-7 and Beta-Chain of HGF and Methods of Use
Patent number 7,578,998, issued 8/25/09

Alexandros Makriyannis, Andreas Goutopoulos and Chen Li
Inhibitors of the Anandamide Transporter
Patent number 7,589,220, issued 9/15/09

Geoff W. Taylor and Jianhong Cai
Optoelectronic Circuit Employing a Heterjunction Thyristor Device to Convert a Digital Optical Signal to a Digital Electrical Signal
Patent number 7,595,516, issued 9/29/09

Joseph H. Yan, Peter B. Luh, Gary A. Stern, William E. Blankson, Ernan Ni, Ying Chen, Feng Zhao and Yaming Ma
Simultaneous Optimal Auctions Using Augmented Lagrangian and Surrogate Optimization
Patent number 7,599,866, issued 10/6/09

Patrick T. Mather, Ingrid A. Rousseau, and Haihu Qin
Shape Memory Main-Chain Smectic-C Elastomers
Patent number 7,601,274, issued 10/13/09

Bahram Javidi, Yeom Seokwon, Edward Carapezza and Inkyu Moon
Method and Apparatus for Recognition of Microorganisms Using Holographic Microscopy
Patent number 7,616,320, issued 11/10/09

Amir Faghri and Zhen Guo
Vapor Feed Fuel Cells with a Passive Thermal-Fluids Management System
Patent number 7,625,649, issued 12/1/09

Devendra S. Kalonia, Bajaj Harminder and Sharma K. Vikas
Dual-Detector Systems and Methods Having Utility in Biomolecular Measurements
Patent number 7,630,076, issued 12/8/09