Patent Roll Call, Fall 2017

Receiving a patent is an intellectual achievement for any researcher and a key commercialization milestone. A patent allows a researcher’s work to be shared with the rest of the world and advances innovation in and across important fields and industries, be they health care, the environment, education, or food production, to name just a few of the areas where University of Minnesota inventions have an impact.
Congratulations to the U of M researchers who were recently awarded patents for their discoveries.
Agriculture & Horticulture
Bolles
U of M Inventors: James Anderson, Jochum Wiersma
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Creative Works
U of M Inventors: Jessica Orr, Barry Kudrowitz
Protective Garments and Methods of Making
U of M Inventors: Theresa Lastovich, Karen LaBat, Linsey Griffin, Elizabeth Bye
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Software & Information Technology
Automated Verbal Fluency Assessment
U of M Inventors: Serguei Pakhomov, Laura Hemmy, Kelvin Lim
Parallel Processing with Cooperative Multitasking
U of M Inventors: George Karypis, Dominique LaSalle
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Life Sciences
Medical Technology
Ankle-foot Prosthesis for Automatic Adaptation to Sloped Walking Surfaces
U of M Inventors: Eric Nickel, Andrew Hansen
Device with Electrospray Coating to Deliver Active Ingredients
U of M Inventors: Da-Ren Chen, Robert Hoerr, David Pui
Fluoride Releasing Dental Composition and Dental Appliance
U of M Inventors: Katherine Lorentz, Nathan Lockwood, Brent Larson, Sam Schmitz, James Sieracki, Nathaniel Phillips
High Magnetic Moment Particle Detection
U of M Inventors: Yuanpeng Li, Balasubramanian Srinivasan, Jian-Ping Wang, Chengguo Xing
Intravenous Line Lifter Devices, Systems and Methods
U of M Inventors: Teresa Herriage, Mary Hooke, Bradley Slaker, Thomas Clancy Phillips
Silica-based Composite Ocular Device and Methods
U of M Inventors: Eduardo Reategui, Allison Hubel, Alptekin Aksan
Spinal Probe with Tactile Force Feedback and Pedicle Breach Prediction
U of M Inventors: David Nuckley, Arthur Erdman, Charles Ledonio, David Polly
U of M Inventors: Richard Nadeau
Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics
U of M Inventors: John Ohlfest, Michael Olin
CD200 Inhibitors and Methods of Use Thereof
U of M Inventors: Christopher Moertel, Michael Olin
Compositions and Methods for Controlling Infections
U of M Inventors: Patrick Schlievert, Marnie Peterson
Compositions and Methods Related to Tauopathy
U of M Inventors: Xiaohui Zhao, Karen Ashe, Michael Walters, Derek Hook, Morgan Le Naour
Compositions and Methods for Transplantation of Colon Microbiota
U of M Inventors: Michael Sadowsky, Matthew Hamilton, Alexander Khoruts, Alexa Weingarden
Compositions and Methods for the Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Disorders
U of M Inventors: Jakub Tolar, Bruce Blazar, Catherine Verfaillie
U of M Inventors: Shameem Sultana Syeda, Gunda Georg
Ergoline Derivatives as Dopamine Receptor Modulators
U of M Inventors: Suck Kim, Peter Dosa, Michael Walters
Hyperspectral Imaging for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
U of M Inventors: Robert Vince, Swati Sudhakar More
Induced pluripotent stem cells
U of M Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirai, Nobuaki Kikyo
Inhibitors of Beta-Catenin in Treatment of Colorectal Cancer
U of M Inventors: Zigang Dong, Ann Bode, Srinivasa Reddy Kanamata Reddy
Inlet and Outlet Geometries for a Vertical Three-Stream Microfluidic Device
U of M Inventors: Allison Hubel, Katie Douglass, Jacob Hanna
Method and Apparatus for Mapping a Structure
U of M Inventors: Lane Phillips, Victoria Interrante
Methods and Compositions for Applying Pharmacologic Agents to the Ear
U of M Inventors: Belinda Cheung, Ronald Sawchuk
Methods and Devices for Brain Cooling for Treatment and/or Prevention of Epileptic Seizures
U of M Inventors: John Miller, Steven Rothman, Matthew Smyth
Methods of Making and Using Chemically Self Assembled-Nanorings
U of M Inventors: Carston Wagner
Modified Factor VII or Factor VIIa Polypeptides
U of M Inventors: Gary Nelsestuen
Production of Insulin Producing Cells
U of M Inventors: Zhaohui Geng, Meri Firpo
Single-chain Variable Fragment Anti-CD133 Antibodies and Uses Thereof
U of M Inventors: Suresh Kumar Swaminathan, Daniel Vallera, John Ohlfest, Jayanth Panyam
Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 8 and Methods of Detection
U of M Inventors: Laura Ranum, Kellie Benzow, Melinda Moseley-Alldredge, Michael Koob
Systems and Methods for Noninvasive Spectral-Spatiotemporal Imaging of Cardiac Electric Activity
U of M Inventors: Bin He, Zhaoye Zhou
Thermal Contrast Assay and Reader
U of M Inventors: Zhenpeng Qin, John Bischof, Taner Akkin
Therapeutic Composition for Treatment of Glioblastoma
U of M Inventors: John Ohlfest, Michael Olin, Walter Low
U of M Inventors: Venkatram Mereddy, Sravan Jonnalagadda, Shirisha Jonnalagadda, Lester Drewes
Therapeutic Polynucleotides, Compositions, and Methods
U of M Inventors: Meng Jing, Gianluigi Veglia, Raffaello Verardi, Michael Bowser, Joseph Metzger, Brian Thompson
U of M Inventors: Ashok Saluja, Satish Patil, Raj Suryanarayanan, Selwyn Vickers, Bruce Blazar, Gunda Georg, Cheryl Zimmerman, Juan Leal, Rohit Chugh
U of M Inventors: Marta Serafini, Uma Lakshmipathy, Yuehua Jiang, Shannon Buckley, Morayma Reyes, Leo Furcht, Catherine Verfaillie
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Engineering & Physical Sciences
Biological and Chemical Technologies
Catalytic Ester Decarbonylation
U of M Inventors: Alex John, William Tolman, Marc Hillmyer, Levi Hogan
Beeraiah Baire, Thomas Hoye, Dawen Niu, Brian Woods, Patrick Willoughby
Membranes for Wastewater-Generated Energy and Gas
U of M Inventors: Erin Surdo, Paige Novak, William Arnold
Monomers, Polymers and Articles Containing the Same from Sugar Derived Compounds
U of M Inventors: James Gallagher, Marc Hillmyer, Theresa Reineke
U of M Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Ying Jing
Particulate Sorption Medium Prepared from Partially Decomposed Organic Matter
U of M Inventors: Igor Kolomitsyn
Production of Biodiesel from Scum
U of M Inventors: Paul Chen, Min Addy, Erik Anderson, R. Ruan
U of M Inventors: David Kittelson, Jane Davidson, Brandon Hathaway
Vascular Characterization Using Ultrasound Imaging
U of M Inventors: Andrew Casper, Emad Ebbini, Yayun Wan, Dalong Liu
Design and Materials Technologies
Block Copolymer Materials for Directed Assembly of Thin Films
U of M Inventors: Frank Bates
Embedded Mask Patterning Process for Fabricating Magnetic Media and Other Structures
U of M Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Haibao Zhao, Hao Wang
U of M Inventors: Jane Davidson, Louise Goldberg, John Carmody, Susan Mantell
Thermochemical Reactor Systems and Methods
U of M Inventors: Thomas Chase, Jane Davidson
Electrical and Nano Technologies
Bandage or Garment Combined with a Wirelessly Coupled Magnetic Resonance Coil
U of M Inventors: J. Thomas Vaughan
Cell-level Signal Electromigration
U of M Inventors: Sachin Sapatnekar, Vivek Mishra
Channel Tracking and Transmit Beamforming with Frugal Feedback
U of M Inventors: Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Omar Mehanna
Constrained Key Frame Localization and Mapping for Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation
U of M Inventors: Esha Nerurkar, Stergios Roumeliotis
U of M Inventors: Rhonda Franklin
Estimating Frequency-offsets and Multi-antenna Channels in MIMO OFDM Systems
U of M Inventors: Xiaoli Ma, Georgios Giannakis
Direct Fuel Injectors with Variable Injection Flow Rate
U of M Inventors: Zongxuan Sun, Chien Shin Wu
Inverse Sliding-Window Filters for Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation Systems
U of M Inventors: Stergios Roumeliotis, Kejian Wu
Iterative Kalman Smoother for Robust 3D Localization for Vision-aided Inertial Navigation
U of M Inventors: Stergios Roumeliotis, Dimitrios Kottas
U of M Inventors: Kamil Ugurbil
Sensor Having Ferrogel with Magnetic Particles
U of M Inventors: Ronald Siegel, Babak Ziaie
Spectrally Tunable Broadband Organic Photodetectors
U of M Inventors: Richa Pandey, Russell Holmes, S. Matt Menke
Spin Current Generation with Nano-Oscillator
U of M Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Mahdi Jamali
U of M Inventors: Jianyi Zhang, Qiang Xiong
System and Method for Control of RF Circuits for Use with an MRI System
U of M Inventors: Anand Gopinath, Sung-Min Sohn, J. Thomas Vaughan
U of M Inventors: Steen Moeller, Edward Auerbach, Kamil Ugurbil, Essa Yacoub
System and Method for Multi-ROI MRI Imaging Using an RF Loop Coil
U of M Inventors: Gregor Adriany, Curtis Corum, Michael Garwood, Djaudat Idiyatullin, Donald Nixdorf
System and Method for Patient-Specific Planar Visualization of Volumetric MRI Data
U of M Inventors: Jutta Ellermann, Mikko Nissi, Patrick Morgan
U of M Inventors: Kamil Ugurbil, Edward Auerbach
Ultra-compact, Passive, Varactor-based Wireless Sensor Using Quantum Capacitance Effect in Graphene
U of M Inventors: Steven Koester
Ultralow Power Carbon Nanotube Logic Circuits and Method of Making Same
U of M Inventors: Weichao Xu, Chris (Hyung-il) Kim
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Meher Khan
Meher previously served as communications associate for the Office of the Vice President for Research. She now works in the U of M's Clinical and Translational Science Institute as a communications specialist.