Congratulations to these UMN researchers who were awarded patents for their discoveries! In 2022, UMN researchers were issued 103 US patents (foreign patents not included).
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Engineering, Physical Sciences, or IT
Exchange-spring Fe16N2-Fe Permanent Magnet in Bulk Form
Issued: 1/4/2022
Inventors: Yanfeng Jiang; Jianping Wang
Patent number: 11,217,371
Preparation of Fe16N2, Fe16(NC)2 Film and Fe16N2/Fe16(NC)2 Multi-Layer Structure by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Method
Issued: 1/4/2022
Inventors: Yanfeng Jiang; Jianping Wang
Patent number: 11,214,862
Approaches to Reserve Strain in FeN Magnet
Issued: 1/4/2022
Inventors: Jianping Wang; Yanfeng Jiang
Patent number: 11,217,370
Renewable Aromatic Surfactants Composition
Issued: 2/1/2022
Inventors: Mahesh Mahanthappa; Christoph Krumm; Paul J Dauenhauer; Kristeen Esther Joseph; Dae Sung Park
Patent number: 11,236,057
3D Printed Active Electronic Materials and Devices
Issued: 2/1/2022
Inventors: Michael McAlpine; Yong Lin Kong
Patent number: 11,239,422
A Robust Variational Method for Segmenting Individual Bone Objects in 3D Clinical/Source CT Data
Issued: 2/22/2022
Inventors: Jeff Calder; Tarun Gangwar; Dominik Schillinger; Takashi Takahashi
Patent number: 11,257,214
Smart Load Management System
Issued: 2/22/2022
Inventors: Sourav Kumar Patel; Murti v Salapaka; Blake Richard Lundstrom
Patent number: 11,258,300
Highly Stable Protein-containing Bioactive Coatings and Materials
Issued: 2/22/2022
Inventors: Ping Wang; Andreas Buthe; Masahiko Ishii; Hongfei Jia; Songtao Wu; Minjuan Zhang
Patent number: 11,254,898
3D Segmentation of Plants
Issued: 3/15/2022
Inventors: Michael Elias Bazakos; Vassilios Morellas; D J Mulla; Nikolaos P Papanikolopoulos; Dimitris Zermas
Patent number: 11,275,941
Low-discrepancy Deterministic Bit-stream Processing
Issued: 3/15/2022
Inventors: Mohammadhassan Najafi; David J. Lilja; Marcus Riedel; Kiarash Bazargan; Sayed Abdolrasoul Faraji; Bingzhe Li
Patent number: 11,275,563
Active Knit Compression Stockings
Issued: 3/22/2022
Inventors: Julianna Marie Abel; Rachael Margaret Granberry; Brad Holschuh; Kevin Paul Eschen
Patent number: 11,280,031
Polyethylene and Polypropylene Block Copolymers
Issued: 3/22/2022
Inventors: Frank S Bates; Geoffrey Coates; Anne M LaPointe; James Eagen
Patent number: 11,279,780
Chemical Sensors With Non-Covalent Porphyrin Modification of Graphene
Issued: 4/5/2022
Inventors: Phil Buhlmann; Steven J Koester; Justin Theodore Nelson; Xue Zhen
Patent number: 11,293,914
Magnetic Casting Approach for Fe16N2 Permanent Magnet Mass Production
Issued: 4/12/2022
Inventors: Jianping Wang; Yanfeng Jiang
Patent number: 11,302,472
Exploiting Dynamic Timing Slack for Power Savings
Issued: 4/12/2022
Inventors: Hari Cherupalli; John Sartori; Rakesh Kumar
Patent number: 11,301,030
Low Friction, Long-Stroke Rolling Diaphragm Cylinder for Passive Hydraulic Rehabilitation Robot
Issued: 4/12/2022
Inventors: Will Durfee; Saeed Hashemi
Patent number: 11,300,116
Training for Estimation of Frequency-offsets and Multi-antenna Channels in MIMO-OFDM
Issued: 4/12/2022
Inventors: Georgios B Giannakis; Xiaoli Ma
Patent number: 11,303,377
Electrochemical Sensors with Redox Buffers Attached to Colloid Imprinted Mesoporous Carbon as Solid Contact
Issued: 4/19/2022
Inventors: Phil Buhlmann; Jinbo Hu; Andreas Stein; Xue Zhen
Patent number: 11,307,165
A Data Remanence Based Approach to Extract a Stable Secret Key from an SRAM Memory
Issued: 4/19/2022
Inventors: Muqing Liu; Chen Zhou; Chris H. Kim; Keshab K. Parhi
Patent number: 11,309,018
Polylactide Foams with Tunable Mechanical Properties and Wettability
Issued: 4/19/2022
Inventors: Philip Thomas Dirlam; David J Goldfeld; Marc Andrew Hillmyer
Patent number: 11,306,192
A High Capacity Regenerable Adsorbent for the Removal of HYDROGEN SULFIDE from Gas Streams and Its Implementation in an Adsorption System
Issued: 4/26/2022
Inventors: Michael Tsapatsis; Yasser Fowad Mohamed Al Wahedi; Balasubramanian Veerappan Vaithilingam; Saleh Al Hashimi
Patent number: 11,311,855
3D Printed Stretchable Tactile Sensors
Issued: 5/3/2022
Inventors: ShuangZhuang Guo; Michael McAlpine
Patent number: 11,320,323
Lane Departure Warning System to Alert the Driver of Unintended Lane Drifting on Freeways and Highways
Issued: 5/3/2022
Inventors: Muhammad Faizan; Imran Hayee; Shah Hussain
Patent number: 11,320,284
Fast Algorithm to Simulate the Response of PDC Bits
Issued: 5/3/2022
Inventors: Emmanuel Michel Detournay; Kaixiao Tian; Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Patent number: 11,321,506
Hybrid Charge Trap Transistor-MRAM Memory Devices
Issued: 5/10/2022
Inventors: Jianping Wang; Protyush Sahu
Patent number: 11,328,757
Multilayer Approach to Increase the Stability of Curtain Coating
Issued: 6/28/2022
Inventors: Marcio Da Silveira Carvalho; Lorraine F Francis; Alireza Mohammad Karim; Wieslaw J. Suszynski; Vinita Yadav; Saswati Pujari
Patent number: 11,369,988
Feed-Forward XOR Physical Unclonable Functions
Issued: 6/28/2022
Inventors: Keshab K. Parhi; Sandeep Avvaru
Patent number: 11,374,774
The Use of Computer Vision for the Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Smooth Muscle Neoplasms of the Uterus
Issued: 9/20/2022
Inventors: Alexander Moses Truskinovsky; Nikolaos P Papanikolopoulos; Anoop Cherian; Panagiotis Dimitrios Stanitsas; Vassilios Morellas
Patent number: 11,449,985
Adaptive Refocusing of Ultrasound Arrays Using Synthetic-aperture Imaging Data
Issued: 10/4/2022
Inventors: Hasan Aldiabat; Emad S Ebbini; Dalong Liu; Parker Dean O'brien
Patent number: 11,458,337
Manipulation of Voltage Controlled Magnetic Anisotropy Engineered Through Hole-Doped Layers
Issued: 10/4/2022
Inventors: Thomas Jon Peterson; Jianping Wang; Delin Zhang; Anthony Hurben
Patent number: 11,462,682
Square-Root Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter (SR-MSCKF)
Issued: 10/11/2022
Inventors: Stergios Roumeliotis; Kejian Wu
Patent number: 11,466,990
Sliding Windowed Infinite Fourier Transform (SWIFT)
Issued: 10/11/2022
Inventors: Logan L Grado; Tay Ivan Netoff; Matthew Douglas Johnson
Patent number: 11,468,144
Engineered Phosphotriesterases for Organophosphorus Compounds Remediation
Issued: 10/11/2022
Inventors: Mikael Hocine Elias; Eric Chabriere; David Daude
Patent number: 11,466,261
Low Cost Sorting Network Circuits Using Unary Processing
Issued: 10/18/2022
Inventors: Kia Bazargan; David J Lilja; Mohammadhassan Najafi; Marc Riedel
Patent number: 11,475,288
High Precision Vehicle Navigation
Issued: 11/1/2022
Inventors: Stergios Roumeliotis; Anastasios Mourikis
Patent number: 11,486,707
NBTI-Aware Digital Low-dropout Regulator
Issued: 11/8/2022
Inventors: Ulya Karpuzcu; Karen Khatamifard; Longfei Wang; Selcuk Kose
Patent number: 11,493,945
Phosphorous Containing Solid Catalysts
Issued: 11/15/2022
Inventors: Michael Tsapatsis; Paul J Dauenhauer; Limin Ren; Hong Je Cho; Raul F Lobo; Wei Fan
Patent number: 11,498,062
Controlling Parallel Data Processing for Service Function Chains
Issued: 11/15/2022
Inventors: Yang Zhang; Zhi-Li Zhang; Vijay Gopalakrishnan; Bo Han; Muhammad Bilal Anwer
Patent number: 11,502,910
FeN Powder with Anisotropic Shape
Issued: 11/29/2022
Inventors: Jianping Wang; Yanfeng Jiang
Patent number: 11,511,344
Development of High Gain and High Aperture Efficiency Virtual Element Arrays
Issued: 11/29/2022
Inventors: Rhonda Franklin; Aditya Dave
Patent number: 11,515,638
Exact Repair Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage Systems
Issued: 11/29/2022
Inventors: Soheil Mohajer; Mehran Elyasi
Patent number: 11,513,898
High Precision Vehicle Navigation
Issued: 12/6/2022
Inventors: Stergios Roumeliotis; Anastasios Mourikis
Patent number: 11,519,729
Network-Assisted Raft Consensus Protocol
Issued: 12/20/2022
Inventors: Yang Zhang; Zhi-Li Zhang; Marco Platania; Vijay Gopalkrishnan; Bo Han
Patent number: 11,533,220
Highly Stable Protein-containing Bioactive Coatings and Materials
Issued: 12/27/2022
Inventors: Ping Wang; Sarah Zhao; Andreas Buthe; Masahiko Ishii; Hongfei Jia; Songtao Wu; Liting Zhang; Minjuan Zhang
Patent number: 11,535,773
Food, Ag-Tech, and Natural Resources
Reducing Seed Fiber in Pennycress
Issued: 1/18/2022
Inventors: Ratan Chopra; M David Marks; Cristine Handel; John C. Sedbrook; Tim Ulmasov; Maliheh Esfahanian; Gary Hartnell
Patent number: 11,224,237
Domestication of the Weed Thlaspi arvense: Creation of Early Flowering Winter Types
Issued: 5/24/2022
Inventors: M David Marks; Kevin M Dorn
Patent number: 11,337,391
Domestication of the Weed Thlaspi Arvense: Improving Oil Quality
Issued: 7/26/2022
Inventors: Donald L Wyse; Kevin M Dorn; M David Marks; John C. Sedbrook
Patent number: 11,396,657
New Ways to Create Useful Fatty Acids in Plants
Issued: 8/9/2022
Inventors: Ratan Chopra; M David Marks
Patent number: 11,408,008
MN 1220 Grapevine 'Clarion'
Issued: 12/6/2022
Inventors: Matthew Daniel Clark; James Luby; Peter R Hemstad
Patent number: PP34,794
Human or Animal Health Sciences
Catheter devices, systems and methods for injection of adhesive materials
Issued: 1/11/2022
Inventors: Bharathi D Jagadeesan; Sean Lester Moen
Patent number: 11,219,751
Bottom-up Approach RF Pulses in Magnetic Resonance
Issued: 1/11/2022
Inventors: Manu Veliparambil Subrahmanian; Gianluigi Veglia
Patent number: 11,221,384
SING - Scalable Self-calibrated Interpolation of Non-Cartesian Data with GRAPPA
Issued: 1/25/2022
Inventors: Mehmet Akcakaya; Seng-Wei Chieh; Steen Moeller
Patent number: 11,231,475
Accelerated Image Acquisition Using 2D Pulse Segments as Virtual Receivers for GRAPPA
Issued: 1/25/2022
Inventors: Michael Garwood; Alexander J Gutierrez; Jarvis David Haupt; Michael F Mullen
Patent number: 11,231,476
Genetically Modified Cells, Tissues, and Organs For Treating Disease
Issued: 2/1/2022
Inventors: Christopher Burlak; Bernhard J. Hering
Patent number: 11,234,418
Viral Gene Delivery Vectors with User-selectable Tropism
Issued: 2/1/2022
Inventors: Daniel Schmidt
Patent number: 11,236,360
Anesthesia Monitoring Device and Method
Issued: 2/8/2022
Inventors: Jenna C Iaizzo; Jesus A Cabrera; Paul A Iaizzo; John P Mehawej; Kevin D Ruda; Will Durfee; Jason Paul Mcconnell
Patent number: 11,241,171
Intracellular Genomic Transplant and Methods of Therapy
Issued: 3/8/2022
Inventors: Branden Scott Moriarity; Beau Richard Webber; Modassir Choudhry; Douglas C Palmer; Nicholas P Restifo; Steven A. Rosenberg
Patent number: 11,266,692
TAL Effector Nucleases for Precise Genome Engineering
Issued: 3/15/2022
Inventors: Daniel F Voytas; Feng Zhang; Adam J. Bogdanove
Patent number: 11,274,294
Integration of Low-Loss High Permittivity Materials with RF Coil for Denoising Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Maximizing SNR
Issued: 3/15/2022
Inventors: Wei Chen; Xiao-Hong Zhu; Hannes Wiesner; Byeong-Yeul Lee; Qing X Yang; Maryam Sarkarat; Michael Lanagan; Sebastian Rupprecht; Navid Gandji
Patent number: 11,275,132
A Novel Cell Release Method for Affinity-based Cell Separation
Issued: 3/22/2022
Inventors: Wei Shen; Mengen Zhang; Bin Xu
Patent number: 11,280,789
Immunomodulators and Immunomodulator Conjugates
Issued: 3/22/2022
Inventors: David M Ferguson
Patent number: 11,279,701
Synthetic Standards for Marker Gene Sequencing
Issued: 4/5/2022
Inventors: Kenny B. Beckman; Daryl M Gohl
Patent number: 11,286,518
Method of Generating Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells from Pluripotent Cells
Issued: 4/19/2022
Inventors: Sunny Chan; Robert W Arpke; Michael Kyba
Patent number: 11,306,287
Lung Biopsy Tool
Issued: 4/19/2022
Inventors: Amit Goyal; Brian James Krohn; Michael Greminger; Anastasia Zink; Roy Joseph Cho; H. Erhan Dincer; Felix Daniel Zamora; Gills Nyuyfoni Fai; Sarah Ostlie
Patent number: 11,304,685
Treatment of Graft Versus Host Disease
Issued: 4/26/2022
Inventors: Bruce R Blazar; Ryan P Flynn; Alexandra Zanin-Zhorov
Patent number: 11,311,541
Laser Assisted Gold Nanorod Warming: a New Platform Technology for Cryopreservation of Zebrafish Embryos, Germplasm and Other Millimeter Sized Tissues and Biomaterials
Issued: 4/26/2022
Inventors: John C Bischof; Kanav Khosla; Zhenpeng Qin; Mary Hagedorn; Cari Suzanne Dutcher
Patent number: 11,311,008
Multi-Modal and Multi-symptom Neuromodulation Therapy
Issued: 5/3/2022
Inventors: Edward Mark Bello; David Escobar Sanabria; Luke Aaron Johnson; Matthew Douglas Johnson; Gregory Frederick Molnar; Jerrold Lee Vitek
Patent number: 11,318,311
Temporal Sparse Imaging of Cardiac Electric Activity: Methods and Apparatus
Issued: 5/17/2022
Inventors: Bin He; Long Yu
Patent number: 11,331,030
Cyclic peptides and methods of use thereof
Issued: 5/17/2022
Inventors: Mark David Ericson; Carrie Haskell-Luevano
Patent number: 11,332,499
Real-time Base Editing Assay
Issued: 5/17/2022
Inventors: Reuben Harris; Amber Renee St Martin; Daniel James Salamango
Patent number: 11,332,749
Ketamine/Propofol Admixture ("Ketofol")
Issued: 6/14/2022
Inventors: Jayanth Panyam; Wayne T Nicholson; Nathan J Smischney
Patent number: 11,357,743
Expression of Non-cleavable CD16a by Human ESC/iPSC-derived NK Cells to Enhance Their Therapeutic Performance
Issued: 6/28/2022
Inventors: Bruce Walcheck; Jianming Wu; Yawu Jing; Dan S Kaufman; Zhenya Ni
Patent number: 11,370,825
Magnetic Nanowires for Exosome Purification and Nano-barcodes and High Frequency Identification (HFID) Tags
Issued: 7/5/2022
Inventors: Rhonda Franklin; Jaime Modiano; Bethanie J. Hills Stadler; Wen Zhou
Patent number: 11,379,677
Gene Targeting in Plants Using Geminiviruses and Customizable Endonucleases
Issued: 7/12/2022
Inventors: Daniel F Voytas; Nicholas J Baltes
Patent number: 11,384,360
Synergistic Anticancer Therapy
Issued: 7/12/2022
Inventors: Chun Wang; Sam Hanson
Patent number: 11,382,929
Optimizing Human Regulatory T Cell Therapy through ID of Active miRNA/mRNA Complexes
Issued: 7/19/2022
Inventors: Bruce R Blazar; Keli Lee Hippen; Ramiro Garzon; Yapings Sun; Pavan R Reddy
Patent number: 11,390,848
N-Acetylgalactosamine-derived Block-co-Polycations for Liver-Targeted Delivery
Issued: 7/26/2022
Inventors: Theresa Marie Reineke; Bharat S Wagh; Yogesh Khemchandra Dhande
Patent number: 11,396,571
Ultrasonic hearing system and related methods
Issued: 7/26/2022
Inventors: Cory D Gloeckner; Hongsun Guo; Mark Hamilton; Hubert Hyungil Lim
Patent number: 11,399,240
Methods for Targeting of Brain Tumor Cells with the Zika Virus
Issued: 8/9/2022
Inventors: Craig John Bierle; Andrew T Crane; Walter C. Low; Clairice Michelle Pearce; Maple Liudan Glass Shiao; Joseph P Voth; Christopher J Sipe; Nikolas Toman; Matthew R Chrostek
Patent number: 11,406,697
Recellularization to Prevent Thrombosis
Issued: 8/16/2022
Inventors: Stefan Kren; DNC Doris A Taylor
Patent number: 11,414,644
Improving Gene-editing by Covalent Co-delivery of Donor-DNA
Issued: 8/23/2022
Inventors: Wendy Ryan Gordon; Eric Jackson Aird; Klaus Lovendahl
Patent number: 11,421,208
Methods for the Analysis, Description, and Display of Body Surface Mapping Data
Issued: 8/23/2022
Inventors: Antonia Eugenia Curtin; Alan Jay Bank; Kevin Victor Burns; Ryan Michael Gage
Patent number: 11,419,539
Super-Resolution Digital-to-Analog Converter Based on Redundant Sensing
Issued: 8/23/2022
Inventors: Anh Tuan Nguyen; Jian Xu; Zhi Yang; Diu Khue Luu
Patent number: 11,424,755
Bioresorbable and Elutable Microspheres as Embolic Agents
Issued: 9/13/2022
Inventors: Jafar Golzarian; Lihui Weng
Patent number: 11,439,725
Tunable Neural Electrodes for MRI-Compatible Brain Signal Recordings
Issued: 9/13/2022
Inventors: Wei Chen; Xiao-Hong Zhu; Rajesh Rajamani; Corey Cruttenden; Mahdi Ahmadi
Patent number: 11,439,810
Small molecule cap-dependent inhibitors
Issued: 9/13/2022
Inventors: Carston R Wagner; DaQing Yang; Aniekan M. Okon
Patent number: 11,439,656
Detecting Concussive Head/Brain Injury by Measuring Volitle Organic Compound Changes Expressed and Detected in Human and Animal Breath
Issued: 9/13/2022
Inventors: Gregory Peterson; Justin Nelson; Greg Sherwood
Patent number: 11,442,056
Self-navigation to Enable Efficient 3D DWI SE-EPI Multislab Multiband Imaging
Issued: 9/20/2022
Inventors: Mehmet Akcakaya; Steen Moeller; Sudhir Ramanna
Patent number: 11,445,933
Combined Intraoral and Face MRI Coil
Issued: 9/20/2022
Inventors: Gregor Adriany; Donald R Nixdorf; Djaudat Idiyatullin; Ali Calgar Ozen
Patent number: 11,448,714
Inhibitors of Bacterial Histidine Kinases
Issued: 9/27/2022
Inventors: Erin E Carlson; Manibarsha Goswami
Patent number: 11,452,714
A Method for Discovery of Cell-free Nucleic Acid Markers of Disease
Issued: 10/4/2022
Inventors: Jaime Modiano; Milcah Carol Scott; John R Garbe
Patent number: 11,462,296
Treating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) with Intratracheal Liothyrinine (T3)
Issued: 10/4/2022
Inventors: David H Ingbar; Jianxun Lei; Timothy P Rich; Robert J Schumacher; Maneesh Bhargava
Patent number: 11,458,094
NOD2-Active Benzimidazole-Thiophene-2-Carboxamides
Issued: 10/11/2022
Inventors: Janardhan Banothu; Michael Brush; Sunil A David; Collin James Gustafson; Kathryn Trautman
Patent number: 11,465,998
Compositions and Methods for Preventing and Treating Graft Versus Host Disease
Issued: 10/18/2022
Inventors: Heather E Stefanski; Bruce R Blazar; Benjamin G Vincent; Jonathan S Serody; James Coghill; Danny W Bruce
Patent number: 11,471,517
Method and Device to Remedy Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Issued: 10/18/2022
Inventors: Thomas Owen Viker; Andrew Khair; Adam Lin Choe; Julianna Marie Abel; Henry Howard Koon
Patent number: 11,471,283
Utilizing Periodic Irradiation to Enhancing Sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance Detection
Issued: 10/18/2022
Inventors: Silvia Mangia; Shalom Michaeli; Hanne Mari Laakso; Timo Liimatainen
Patent number: 11,474,174
New Derivatives and Salts of"pseudo-GSH" for Use in the Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Issued: 10/25/2022
Inventors: Swati Sudhakar More; Abbas Raza; Robert Vince
Patent number: 11,479,579
System and Method for Functional Assessment of Myocardial Viability
Issued: 11/15/2022
Inventors: Mehmet Akcakaya; Sebastian Daniel Weingaertner
Patent number: 11,500,052
Hyperspectral Imaging as a Tool for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Screening of Potential Therapeutics/Prophylactics Against AD
Issued: 11/22/2022
Inventors: Robert Vince; Swati Sudhakar More
Patent number: 11,503,999
Novel Therapeutics for the Treatment of Glaucoma
Issued: 11/22/2022
Inventors: Peter I Dosa; Gunda Georg; Michael Anthony Walters; Michael P Fautsch
Patent number: 11,505,572
Systems and methods for assessing and training wrist joint proprioceptive function
Issued: 11/29/2022
Inventors: Juergen Konczak; Leonardo Cappello; Lorenzo Masia; Giulio Sandini
Patent number: 11,510,840
Peripherally Restricted Combination Therapy for Inflammatory or Cancer-related Chronic Pain
Issued: 12/20/2022
Inventors: George L Wilcox; Daniel Bruce; Carolyn Ann Fairbanks; Eyup Akgun; Philip S Portoghese
Patent number: 11,529,340
Engineered, Inducible, Antibiotic-delivering Probiotic Bacteria
Issued: 12/27/2022
Inventors: Gary M Dunny; Juan Borrero Del Pino; Yiannis Kaznessis; Katherine G Landuyt
Patent number: 11,533,915