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.

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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

Bottle Clip

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

Toothbrush

U of M Inventors: Richard Nadeau

Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics

Annexin II Compositions

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

Contraceptive Agents

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

Therapeutic Compounds

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

Triptolide Prodrugs

U of M Inventors: Ashok Saluja, Satish Patil, Raj Suryanarayanan, Selwyn Vickers, Bruce Blazar, Gunda Georg, Cheryl Zimmerman, Juan Leal, Rohit Chugh

Use of Multipotent Adult Stem Cells in Treatment of Myocardial Infarction and Congestive Heart Failure

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

Cyclization Methods

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

Particle Functionalization

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

Solar Gasifier

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

Self-supporting Roof Panel

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

Coplanar Waveguide Transition

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

Method for Reducing Power Deposition in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Multiband Pulses and Multichannel Transmission

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

System and Method for Assessing Adenosine Triphosphate Hydrolysis Rate Using Double Saturation Transfer Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

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

System and Method for Iteratively Calibrated Reconstruction Kernel for Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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

System and Method for Reducing Radio Frequency Peak Voltage and Power Requirements in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Time-shifted Multiband Radio Frequency Pulses

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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