Patent Roll Call, Spring 2015

Patents play an important role in bringing cutting-edge research to the market. By protecting intellectual property, patents allow research breakthroughs to thrive in the market and become solutions to real-world problems.
Congratulations to these University of Minnesota faculty who were recently awarded patents for their discoveries. To learn more about reporting an invention, contact the Office for Technology Commercialization at 612-624-0550 or umotc@umn.edu.
Engineering and physical sciences
Nanoparticles with grafted organic molecules
Inventors: Lorenzo Mangolini, Uwe Kortshagen and Rebecca Anthony
System and method for making metallic iron with reduced CO2 emissions
Inventors: Richard Kiesel and David Englund
Pulse gap cycling for improved SWIFT
Inventors: Curtis Corum, Djaudat Idiyatullin, Steen Moeller and Michael Garwood
Replication of patterned thin-film structures for use in plasmonics and metamaterials (see license)
Inventors: David Norris, Sang Eon Han, Aditya Bhan, Prashant Nagpal, Nathan Lindquist and Sang-Hyun Oh
Wireless communication system having linear encoder
Inventors: Georgios Giannakis and Zhengdao Wang
For more information on licensing engineering and physical sciences technologies, contact Dale Nugent or Eric Hockert.
Life sciences
Pharmaceuticals and diagnostics
Lantibiotics and uses thereof
Inventors: Daniel O’Sullivan and Ju-Hoon Lee
For more information on licensing pharmaceuticals and diagnostic technologies, contact Rajesh Udupa.
Medical technology
Fractalkine binding polynucleotides and methods of use (see license)
Inventors: Efrosini Kokkoli, Brett Waybrant, Srinand Sreevastan and Ping Wang
Haemophilus parasuis polypeptides and methods of use
Inventor: Simone Oliveira
Liquid embolic material including carboxymethyl chitosan crosslinked with carboxymethyl cellulose
Inventors: Jafar Golzarian and Lihui Weng
Catheter insertion sterilization
Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Joseph Hale, Nikhil Murdeshwar and Bryan Rolfes
Thermochemical ablation of bodily tissue
Inventor: Erik Cressman
Tracking a guide member
Inventors: Victoria Interrante and Lane Phillips
For more information on licensing medical technologies, contact Kevin Anderson or Rebecca Gerber.
Software and information technology
Automated mapping of land cover using sequences of aerial imagery
Inventors: Shyam Boriah, Ankush Khandelwal, Vipin Kumar, Varun Mithal and Karsten Steinhaeuser
For more information on licensing software and IT technology, contact Andrew Morrow.

Kevin Coss
Kevin is a writer with the Office of the Vice President for Research.