Patent Roll Call, Spring 2018

Congratulations to the University of Minnesota researchers who were recently awarded patents for their discoveries.
Software & Information Technology
Determining Parking Space Occupancy Using a 3D Representation
U of M Inventors: Vassilios Morellas, Doug Cook, Theodore Morris, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
U of M Inventors: Yingling Fan, Gediminas Adomavicius, Julian Wolfson
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Congestion Monitoring Using Ad Hoc Control
U of M Inventors: M. Imran Hayee, Umair Ibrahim
Vision-aided Inertial Navigation
U of M Inventors: Stergios Roumeliotis, Anastasios Mourikis
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Life Sciences
Medical Technology
Beam Steering With Resonance Along a Trajectory
U of M Inventors: Michael Garwood, Carl Snyder, Angela Styczynski Snyder, J. Thomas Vaughan
Computer Visualization of Anatomical Items
U of M Inventors: Daniel Keefe, Dane Coffey, Arthur Erdman
Gene Targeting Methods and Tools
U of M Inventors: Rita Perlingeiro, Michael Kyba, Fabrizio Rinaldi, Daniel Voytas
Genetically Modified Cells, Tissues, and Organs for Treating Disease
U of M Inventors: Bernhard Hering, Christopher Burlak
Localisation of Magnetic Particles by Means of SWIFT-MRI
U of M Inventors: Curtis Corum, Michael Garwood, Djaudat Idiyatullin, Steen Moeller
U of M Inventors: Gregory Metzger, Chaitanya Kalavagunta, Joseph Koopmeiners, Stephen Schmechel, Christopher Warlick
Method and Remotely Adjustable Reactive and Resistive Electrical Elements
U of M Inventors: J.Thomas Vaughan, Carl Snyder
Sensor for Tension Measurement
U of M Inventors: Rajesh Rajamani, Kalpesh Singal
Sideband Processing for Magnetic Resonance
U of M Inventors: Curtis Corum, Ryan Chamberlain, Michael Garwood, Djaudat Idiyatullin, Steen Moeller
Simulated, Representative High-fidelity Organosilicate Tissue Models
U of M Inventors: Rob Sweet, Daniel Burke, Troy Reihsen
TAL Effector-mediated DNA Modification
U of M Inventors: Daniel Voytas, Feng Zhang
Thermochemical Ablation of Bodily Tissue
U of M Inventors: DNC Eric Cressman
Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics
Adeno-associated Virus Mediated Gene Transfer to the Central Nervous System
U of M Inventors: R McIvor, Lalitha Belur, Carolyn Fairbanks, Walter Low
U of M Inventors: Zigang Dong, Ann Bode, Srinivasa Reddy Kanamata Reddy
Cardio-Embolic Stroke Prevention
U of M Inventors: Farzad Azimpour, Robert Wilson
Compositions and Methods for Inducing Immune Responses Against Bacteria in the Genus Staphylococcus
U of M Inventors: Patrick Schlievert, Marnie Peterson
Compositions and Methods Involving Endogenous Retrovirus Proteins
U of M Inventors: Robyn Leary, Anindya Bagchi, Aaron Sarver
Device and Method for Gait Synchronized Sensory Stimulation of the Lower Extremities
U of M Inventors: Khalaf Bushara
Generation of Natural Killer Cells and Lymphoid Tissue Inducer-like (LTI-Like) NK-22 Cells
U of M Inventors: Michael Verneris, Yong-Oon Ahn, Bruce Blazar, Jeffrey Miller
Immunomodulators and Immunomodulator Conjugates
U of M Inventors: David Ferguson, Courtney Aldrich, John Ohlfest
Magnetic Biomedical Sensors and Sensing System for High-Throughput Biomolecule Testing
U of M Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Md Tofizur Rahman, Yi Wang
Material Analysis of Anatomical Items
U of M Inventors: Daniel Keefe, Dane Coffey, Arthur Erdman, Chi-Lun Lin
Opioid Receptor Modulators and Use Thereof
U of M Inventors: Horace Loh
Primers, Assays and Methods for Detecting an E. coli Subtype
U of M Inventors: James Johnson
U of M Inventors: Han Joo
System and Method for Determining a Spatial Thermal Property Profile of a Sample
U of M Inventors: John Bischof, Jeunghwan Choi, Harishankar Natesan
Therapeutic Formulations and Methods
U of M Inventors: Steven Patterson, Alexandre Monteil, Herbert Nagasawa, Robert Vince
Triorthogonal Reagents for Dual Protein Conjugation
U of M Inventors: Mark Distefano, Mohammad Rashidian
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Engineering & Physical Sciences
Biological and Chemical Technologies
Genetically Modified Diazotrophs and Methods of Using Same
U of M Inventors: Brett Barney, Carolann Knutson, Marnie (Mary) Plunkett
Cellulose Ethers Esterified with Dicarboxylic Acids
U of M Inventors: Marc Hillmyer, Ligeng Yin
U of M Inventors: Simo Sarkanen, Yi-ru Chen-Sarkanen, Yun-Yan Wang
U of M Inventors: Marc Hillmyer, Frank Bates, Justin Kennemur
Recovery of Monomer from Polyurethane Materials by Depolymerization
U of M Inventors: Marc Hillmyer, Frank Bates, Derek Batiste, Christopher Macosko, Alexander Mannion, Tessie Panthani, Debbie Schneiderman, Marie Vanderlaan, Jay Wang
Silica Encapsulated Biomaterials
U of M Inventors: Alptekin Aksan, Lisa Kasinkas, Eduardo Reategui, Michael Sadowsky, Lawrence Wackett
Design and Materials Technologies
Devices Having a Volume-displacing Ferrofluid Piston
U of M Inventors: Pieter Gagnon, Mohsen Saadat
Electrospray Ionizer for Mass Spectrometry of Aerosol Particles
U of M Inventors: Christopher Hogan, Sigin He
Methods for Manufacturing Nano-gap and Angstrom-gap Articles
U of M Inventors: Sang-Hyun Oh, Xiaoshu Chen
U of M Inventors: Lucy Dunne, Guido Gioberto
Electrical and Nano Technologies
U of M Inventors: Lorraine Francis, C Frisbie, Woo Jin Hyun, Somman Lim
Ion-Selective Electrodes and Reference Electrodes with a Solid Contact Having Mesoporous Carbon
U of M Inventors: Andreas Stein, Phil Buhlmann, Jinbo Hu
Magnetic Search Coil for Measuring Real-time Brownian Relaxation of Magnetic Nanoparticles
U of M Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Liang Tu
Spin Magneto-optical Modulator
U of M Inventors: Mo Li, Jian-Ping Wang
State Estimation of Electrical Power Networks Using Semidefinite Relaxation
U of M Inventors: Georgios Giannakis, Hao Zhu
Ultra High Density Integrated Composite Capacitor
U of M Inventors: Ramesh Harjani, Saurabh Chaubey, Rakesh Palani
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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.