Congratulations to these UMN researchers who were awarded patents for their discoveries! In 2023, UMN researchers were issued 98 US patents (foreign patents not included).
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Engineering, Physical Sciences, or IT
Highly Stable Protein-containing Bioactive Coatings and Materials
Issued: 1/3/2023
Inventors: Ping Wang; Sarah Zhao; Andreas Buthe; Masahiko Ishii; Hongfei Jia; Songtao Wu; Liting Zhang; Minjuan Zhang
Patent number: 11,542,410
Incorporation of High Dielectric Constant (HDC) Material for Improved Transmit Efficiency in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Issued: 1/3/2023
Inventors: Gregor Adriany; Lance DelaBarre; Kamil Ugurbil; Myung Kyun Woo; Russell L Lagore; Jerahmie Radder
Patent number: 11,543,475
Stable Ammonia Absorbents
Issued: 1/10/2023
Inventors: Edward L Cussler Jr; Mohammadmahdi Malmali; Alon V McCormick
Patent number: 11,548,789
Chiral Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Tunnel Junction Based on Topological Magnetic Weyl Semimetals
Issued: 1/10/2023
Inventors: Tony Low; Jianping Wang; Duarte José Pereira de Sousa; Cesar Ascencio
Patent number: 11,552,242
Imaging and Characterization of Vessel Wall Dynamics Using Pulse-echo Ultrasound
Issued: 1/12/2023
Inventors: Yayun Wan; Dalong Liu; Emad S Ebbini; Andrew Jacob Casper
Patent number: 11,547,384
A Ultra-compact, Passive, Wireless Sensor Using Quantum Capacitance Effect in Graphene
Issued: 1/24/2023
Inventors: Steven J Koester
Patent number: 11,561,192
Cationic Block Polymer Micelles for Delivery of DNA, RNA, and Proteins
Issued: 1/31/2023
Inventors: Tim Lodge; Theresa Marie Reineke; Zhe Tan; Yaming Jiang; Mitra S Ganewatta
Patent number: 11,564,884
Highly Stable Protein-containing Bioactive Coatings and Materials
Issued: 1/31/2023
Inventors: Ping Wang; Sarah Zhao; Andreas Buthe; Masahiko Ishii; Hongfei Jia; Songtao Wu; Liting Zhang; Minjuan Zhang
Patent number: 11,566,149
Solid Contact Ion Selective Electrodes Based on Crosslinked Polymethacrylate Membranes
Issued: 1/31/2023
Inventors: Phil Buhlmann; Jinbo Hu; Xin Chen
Patent number: 11,567,030
Exchanged Coupled Composite Media with Soft Ultra-Low Damped Magnetic Insulator and Very High Ku Ferromagnet for atto-Joule Spin-Orbit Torque RAM
Issued: 1/31/2023
Inventors: Roy Bell; Randall H Victora
Patent number: 11,568,909
Silicone Membrane Based Reference Electrodes
Issued: 2/7/2023
Inventors: Phil Buhlmann; Andreas Stein; Xin Chen
Patent number: 11,573,194
Reduced Clock Pulse Width Digital Low-dropout Regulator
Issued: 2/7/2023
Inventors: Ulya Karpuzcu; Karen Khatamifard; Longfei Wang; Selcuk Kose
Patent number: 11,573,586
BioSignal Translator: 1D-Deconvolution Network for Inferring R-Peaks from Ambulatory PPG Signal
Issued: 2/14/2023
Inventors: Luke Robert Everson; Dwaipayan Biswas; Mario Konijnenburg; Nick Van Helleputte; Christiaan Van Hoof
Patent number: 11,576,623
Self-assembling Scaffolds for Biocatalysis
Issued: 2/14/2023
Inventors: Claudia Schmidt-Dannert; Guoqiang Zhang; Kelly K Wallin; Maureen Blacker Quin
Patent number: 11,578,317
Approaches to Reserve Strain in FeN Magnet
Issued: 2/14/2023
Inventors: Yanfeng Jiang; Jianping Wang
Patent number: 11,581,113
Parallel Data Processing for Service Function Chains Spanning Multiple Servers
Issued: 2/14/2023
Inventors: Yang Zhang; Zhi-Li Zhang; Vijay Gopalakrishnan; Bo Han; Muhammad Anwer
Patent number: 11,582,167
Highly Stable Protein-containing Bioactive Coatings and Materials
Issued: 3/7/2023
Inventors: Ping Wang; Sarah Zhao; Andreas Buthe; Masahiko Ishii; Hongfei Jia; Songtao Wu; Liting Zhang; Minjuan Zhang
Patent number: 11,597,853
Machine Learning Holography for Particle Field Imaging
Issued: 4/11/2023
Inventors: Jiarong Hong; Kevin P Mallery; Siyao Shao
Patent number: 11,625,002
Information Transfer Across Multiple Resolutions and Time Using Ordering Constraint Among Instances
Issued: 4/11/2023
Inventors: Anuj Karpatne; Ankush Khandelwal; Vipin Kumar
Patent number: 11,625,913
Framework for Co-registration of Multiparametric Prostate MRI Data
Issued: 4/25/2023
Inventors: Ethan Leng; Greg Metzger; David Henry Porter
Patent number: 11,633,146
Method for Fabricating Periodic Structures
Issued: 4/25/2023
Inventors: Russell James Holmes; John David Myers-Bangsund; Thomas Robert Fielitz
Patent number: 11,637,243
Method, Systems and Devices for Providing Adjusted Video Content According to Point Cloud Density
Issued: 5/2/2023
Inventors: Bo Han; Feng Qian; Jackson Jarrell Pair; Cheuk Yiu Ip
Patent number: 11,641,498
Fast Response Sensor Arrays
Issued: 5/30/2023
Inventors: Steven J Koester; Greg Sherwood; Justin Nelson
Patent number: 11,662,325
A Liquid-plasma Discharge Device and Method for Biodiesel Synthesis
Issued: 6/20/2023
Inventors: Shaobo Deng; Xiao Wu; Jun Zhu
Patent number: 11,679,369
A Method for Producing a Weak Anion Exchange Media from Peat
Issued: 6/27/2023
Inventors: Liudmyla Kildyshova; Douglas A Green; Igor Kolomitsyn
Patent number: 11684912
Structure and Methods for Making Infrared Photodetector
Issued: 6/27/2023
Inventors: Sang-Hyun Oh; Daehan Yoo
Patent number: 11,688,820
Highly Stable Protein-containing Bioactive Coatings and Materials
Issued: 7/4/2023
Inventors: Ping Wang; Andreas Buthe; Masahiko Ishii; Hongfei Jia; Songtao Wu; Minjuan Zhang
Patent number: 11,692,156
Active Flow Splitter for 2DLC
Issued: 7/4/2023
Inventors: Peter William Carr; Marcelo Filgueira; Carl W Sims; Klaus Witt
Patent number: 11,692,980
Methods for Kernel-based Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Machine Learning
Issued: 7/4/2023
Inventors: Steen Moeller; Mehmet Akcakaya
Patent number: 11,694,373
Atomically Thick Electrodes for Manipulating and Detecting Particles and Molecules
Issued: 7/25/2023
Inventors: Steven J Koester; Sang-Hyun Oh
Patent number: 11,707,748
Methods for Scan-Specific Artifact Reduction in Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Machine Learning
Issued: 8/1/2023
Inventors: Mehmet Akcakaya; Steen Moeller; Chi Zhang
Patent number: 11,714,152
Switch-Mode Power Transformer in a Wave-Powered, Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant
Issued: 8/22/2023
Inventors: James D Van de Ven; Jeremy W Simmons II
Patent number: 11,731,081
Electric-field Manipulated Exchange Coupling for Bidirectional Switching of Spin Memory and Logic Applications
Issued: 8/22/2023
Inventors: Jianping Wang; Delin Zhang; Protyush Sahu
Patent number: 11,735,242
3D Printed Organ Model with Physical Properties of Tissue and Integrated Sensors
Issued: 8/29/2023
Inventors: Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani; Michael McAlpine; Kaiyan Qiu; Rob Sweet
Patent number: 11,741,854
Apparatus and Process for Materials Synthesis and Fabrication of Anisotropic FeN Magnet
Issued: 8/29/2023
Inventors: Yanfeng Jiang; Jianping Wang; Shihai He
Patent number: 11,742,117
Reduced Complexity Modular Polynomial Multiplication for R-LWE Cryptosystems
Issued: 9/5/2023
Inventors: Keshab K Parhi; Xinmiao Zhang
Patent number: 11,750,366
Methods for Adjusting Hydraulic Pump/Motor Valve Timing: (1) Pressure Shifted Valve Timing & (2) Displacement Adjusted Valve Timing
Issued: 9/19/2023
Inventors: Thomas Richard Chase; James D Van de Ven; Grey Charles Boyce-Erickson
Patent number: 11,761,357
A Data Remanence Based Approach to Extract a Stable Secret Key from an SRAM Memory
Issued: 9/26/2023
Inventors: Chris H Kim; Muqing Liu; Keshab K. Parhi; Chen Zhou
Patent number: 11,769,548
Training for Estimation of Frequency-offsets and Multi-antenna Channels in MIMO-OFDM
Issued: 10/17/2023
Inventors: Georgios B Giannakis; Xiaoli Ma
Patent number: 11,792,061
Apparatus and Methods for 3D Printing on Moving Freeform Surfaces
Issued: 10/24/2023
Inventors: Michael McAlpine; Zhijie Zhu
Patent number: 11,794,413
3D Printed Extrusion-Based Microfluidics
Issued: 11/21/2023
Inventors: Steven J Koester; Michael McAlpine; Ruitao Su; Joshua Uzarski
Patent number: 11,820,061
Adaptive Refocusing of Ultrasound Arrays Using Synthetic-aperture Imaging Data
Issued: 11/28/2023
Inventors: Hasan Aldiabat; Emad S Ebbini; Dalong Liu; Parker O'Brien
Patent number: 11,826,585
Highly Stable Protein-containing Bioactive Coatings and Materials
Issued: 12/5/2023
Inventors: Ping Wang; Andreas Buthe; Masahiko Ishii; Hongfei Jia; Songtao Wu; Minjuan Zhang
Patent number: 11,834,635
Core-shell FeN Nanoparticles for Permanent Magnet
Issued: 12/5/2023
Inventors: Jianping Wang; Jinming Liu; Yanfeng Jiang; Bin Ma; Yiming Wu
Patent number: 11,837,393
Methods of Making Nanoselenium Materials and the Products Resulting Therefrom
Issued: 12/26/2023
Inventors: Abdennour Abbas; Snober Ahmed
Patent number: 11,850,568
Development of a 3D Printed Damper on the Head Gimbal Assembly Circuit of a Hard Disk Drive
Issued: 12/26/2023
Inventors: Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani; Michael McAlpine; Zhijie Zhu
Patent number: 11,854,583
Food, Ag-Tech, and Natural Resources
Delivery of Developmental Regulators in Whole Plants for the Induction of Genetic Alterations in Meristematic Tissue
Issued: 3/21/2023
Inventors: Michael Maher; Ryan Anthony Nasti; Daniel F Voytas
Patent number: 11,608,506
Reducing Seed Fiber in Pennycress
Issued: 5/16/2023
Inventors: Ratan Chopra; M David Marks; John C. Sedbrook; Tim Ulmasov; Maliheh Esfahanian; Gary Hartnell
Patent number: 11,647,765
Identification of Reduced Seed Glucosinolate Lines in Pennycress that can Improve Seed Meal Value
Issued: 6/27/2023
Inventors: Ratan Chopra; M David Marks; John C. Sedbrook; Tim Ulmasov
Patent number: 11,685,927
Domesticating Pennycress - Reduced Seedpod Shatter
Issued: 7/25/2023
Inventors: M David Marks; John C Sedbrook; Ratan Chopra; Maliheh Esfahanian
Patent number: 11,707,029
Forsythia cultivar branded as Spring Fling®
Issued: 12/5/2023
Inventors: Steve T McNamara; Peter C Moe
Patent number: PP35518
HILAGE: Haploid Inducer Line for Accelerated Genome Editing
Issued: 12/19/2023
Inventors: Benjamin Campbell; Junqi Liu; Robert M Stupar
Patent number: 11,845,943
MN 121 Pear, branded as JUICY JEWEL®
Issued: 12/19/2023
Inventors: David S Bedford; James Luby
Patent number: PP35551
Human or Animal Health Sciences
Percutaneous Method and Devices for Longer-lasting RFA Therapeutic Relief from Chronic Pain Symptoms
Issued: 1/3/2023
Inventors: Bryce Beverlin; Akshay Gupte; Catherine E Taylor; Bryan Clark; David Wechter
Patent number: 11,540,874
Novel Enrichment Approaches for the Development of Highly Specific Monoclonal Antibodies to Peptide in the Context of MHC II
Issued: 1/24/2023
Inventors: Justin Al Spanier; Brian Thomas Fife; Marc Jenkins; Justin J Taylor
Patent number: 11,560,432
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Catheter and Related Systems and Methods
Issued: 2/14/2023
Inventors: Ahmed Selim
Patent number: 11,577,058
Device to Increase Vascular Compliance
Issued: 2/21/2023
Inventors: Eric F Little; John A Scandurra; Christopher J Scorzelli; Karl E Vollmers
Patent number: 11,583,420
CISH knock out cells for cell therapy
Issued: 2/21/2023
Inventors: David Andrew Largaespada; Riley Scott McIvor; Branden Scott Moriarity; Beau Richard Webber; Modassir Choudhry; Steven A Rosenberg; Douglas C Palmer; Nicholas P Restifo
Patent number: 11,583,556
Tri-Tube Heart Valve for Strong Commissures
Issued: 2/28/2023
Inventors: Robert T Tranquillo; Zeeshan Hayder Syedain
Patent number: 11,589,982
Decellularized Biologically-engineered Tubular Grafts and Valves
Issued: 3/7/2023
Inventors: Lee A Meier; Zeeshan Hayder Syedain; Robert T Tranquillo
Patent number: 11,596,512
Conformable Dual-mode Ultrasound Transducers for Neuromodulation
Issued: 3/7/2023
Inventors: Emad S Ebbini
Patent number: 11,596,812
Deep Brain Stimulators (DBS) for Treatment of Glioblastoma
Issued: 4/11/2023
Inventors: Clark Chin-Chung Chen; Gregory Frederick Molnar
Patent number: 11,623,085
A Framework for Automated Detection of Prostate Cancer on Histopathology Slides
Issued: 4/18/2023
Inventors: Joe Koopmeiners; Ethan Leng; Greg Metzger; Jonathan C Henriksen; Stephen C Schmechel
Patent number: 11,631,171
A Method for Diagnosis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) in Infected Animals
Issued: 5/9/2023
Inventors: Swati Sudhakar More; Robert Vince
Patent number: 11,642,023
Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes
Issued: 5/9/2023
Inventors: Branden Scott Moriarity; Modassir Choudhry; Steven A Rosenberg; Douglas C Palmer; Nicholas P Restifo; Beau Richard Webber
Patent number: 11,642,374
Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes
Issued: 5/9/2023
Inventors: Riley Scott McIvor; Branden Scott Moriarity; Beau Richard Webber; Modassir Choudhry; Douglas C Palmer; Nicholas P Restifo; Steven A Rosenberg
Patent number: 11,642,375
Peptide Activation of Resident Memory T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
Issued: 5/9/2023
Inventors: David Masopust; Vaiva Vezys
Patent number: 11,642,401
FRET-based Method for Monitoring in Real-time, the Actin-binding Activity of Proteins in Live Cells and Identifying Modulators of Actin Binding Activities
Issued: 5/23/2023
Inventors: Adam Avery; Tom S Hays; David D Thomas; Michael E Fealey; Robyn T Rebbeck
Patent number: 11,656,221
CD200 Inhibitors and Methods of Use
Issued: 6/6/2023
Inventors: Michael R Olin
Patent number: 11,666,645
Cinchona Alkaloid Copolymers as Transfection Agents for Enhanced Gene Delivery and Gene Editing
Issued: 6/6/2023
Inventors: Theresa Marie Reineke; Craig Howard Van Bruggen
Patent number: 11,667,784
ETV2 Construct
Issued: 6/13/2023
Inventors: Mary Grace Garry; Daniel J Garry; Naoko Koyano; Tara L Rasmussen
Patent number: 11,673,928
An Affinity Matured Antibody Targeting Perlecan
Issued: 6/20/2023
Inventors: Stephen M Kalscheuer; Jayanth Panyam; Vidhi D Khanna
Patent number: 11,680,105
Glyco-engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Targeted Therapeutic Carriers
Issued: 6/27/2023
Inventors: Swayam Prabha; Tanmoy Sadhukha; Buddhadev Layek
Patent number: 11,684,638
Identification of Chemical Compounds that Enhance the Differentiation and Maturation of Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Mygenic Cells
Issued: 7/11/2023
Inventors: Rita Perlingeiro; Sridhar Selvaraj; Ricardo Gonzalez
Patent number: 11,697,798
Acceleration of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation Through Inhibition of ERK Signaling Under Defined Conditions
Issued: 7/18/2023
Inventors: Ann M Parr; Patrick Walsh; James Robert Dutton
Patent number: 11,702,629
System and Method of Stimulating, Extracting, and Collecting Liquid from Human Breast Tissue
Issued: 8/1/2023
Inventors: Hannah Catherine Bearinger; Courtney Hill; Jarrod Kenneth Neuharth; Christie Traczyk
Patent number: 11,712,498
Analyte Sensing in Physiological Gas Samples
Issued: 8/1/2023
Inventors: Justin Nelson; Greg Sherwood; David W. Kelly
Patent number: 11,714,058
Programmable Genetic Device for Synthetic Speciation and Genetic Biocontainment
Issued: 8/8/2023
Inventors: Michael J Smanski; Maciej Maselko
Patent number: 11,718,858
Rolling Shutter Compensation for Vision-aided Inertial Navigation
Issued: 8/8/2023
Inventors: Stergios Roumeliotis; Chao Guo
Patent number: 11,719,542
Methods to Enhance Myocardial Regeneration and/or Repair
Issued: 8/15/2023
Inventors: Daniel J Garry; Mary Grace Garry; Bhairab Nath Singh
Patent number: 11,725,217
Detection of the Ensemble of Conformational States of Toxic Tau Oligomers as Therapeutic Targets by FRET-based Biosensors
Issued: 8/15/2023
Inventors: Jonathan Nathaniel Sachs; Chih Hung Lo
Patent number: 11,726,081
Novel Monoclonal Antibody for Anti-fibroblast Activation Protein Alpha
Issued: 8/29/2023
Inventors: Aaron LeBeau; Hallie M. Hintz
Patent number: 11,738,050
FRET-based Assay for Probing Lipid Transfer Activity
Issued: 8/29/2023
Inventors: Rhoderick E Brown Jr; Yong-guang Gao
Patent number: 11,740,235
3D Printed Organ Model with Physical Properties of Tissue and Integrated Sensors
Issued: 8/29/2023
Inventors: Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani; Michael McAlpine; Kaiyan Qiu; Rob Sweet
Patent number: 11,741,854
Magnetic Nanowires for Exosome Purification and Nano-barcodes and High Frequency Identification (HFID) Tags
Issued: 9/5/2023
Inventors: Rhonda Franklin; Jaime Modiano; Bethanie J. Hills Stadler; Wen Zhou
Patent number: 11,748,583
Ultrasonic Hearing System and Related Methods
Issued: 9/19/2023
Inventors: Cory D Gloeckner; Hongsun Guo; Mark Hamilton; Hubert Hyungil Lim
Patent number: 11,765,523
Contamination Resistant Interconnection for Peritoneal Dialysis
Issued: 9/26/2023
Inventors: Thomas Owen Viker; Aaron Paul Tucker; Ibrahim Olawale Yekinni
Patent number: 11,766,553
Size Standards for Next-generation Sequencing
Issued: 9/26/2023
Inventors: Kenny B Beckman; Daryl M Gohl
Patent number: 11,767,554
Retinoic Acid Receptor Antagonists as Male Contraceptive Agents
Issued: 10/10/2023
Inventors: Gunda Georg; Narsihmulu Cheryala
Patent number: 11,780,828
3D Bioprinted in vitro Metastatic Models via Reconstruction of Tumor Microenvironments
Issued: 10/10/2023
Inventors: Michael McAlpine; Fanben Meng; Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari
Patent number: 11,781,101
Intestinal Microbial Flora Reconstituent for Treatment of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease and Other Intestinal Maladies
Issued: 10/31/2023
Inventors: Matthew J Hamilton; Alexander Khoruts; Michael Jay Sadowsky; Alexa Weingarden
Patent number: 11,801,269
Hyperspectral Imaging as a Tool for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
Issued: 11/21/2023
Inventors: Swati Sudhakar More; Robert Vince
Patent number: 11,819,276
Enhanced Methods for Microbiota Therapy in the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Issued: 11/21/2023
Inventors: Matthew J Hamilton; Alexander Khoruts; Michael Jay Sadowsky; Christopher Staley
Patent number: 11,819,523
Super-Resolution Digital-to-Analog Converter Based on Redundant Sensing
Issued: 11/21/2023
Inventors: Anh Tuan Nguyen; Jian Xu; Zhi Yang; Diu Khue Luu
Patent number: 11,824,555
CD200 Inhibitors and Methods of Use
Issued: 11/28/2023
Inventors: Michael R Olin
Patent number: 11,826,408
Positive Selection Modules for Programmable Transcription Factors
Issued: 12/5/2023
Inventors: Michael J Smanski; Maciej Maselko
Patent number: 11,834,665
Detecting a Health Condition
Issued: 12/5/2023
Inventors: Justin Nelson; Greg Sherwood
Patent number: 11,835,435
Novel Antivirals Targeting HIV-1 Capsid
Issued: 12/26/2023
Inventors: Zhengqiang (ZQ) Wang; Stefan G Sarafianos
Patent number: 11,850,247
Programmable Assembly of Virus Composites for Receptor-targeted Gene Delivery
Issued: 12/26/2023
Inventors: Wendy Ryan Gordon; Daniel Schmidt; Alina Catherine Zdechlik
Patent number: 11,851,671