Release Date: February 28, 2012 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo was issued 14 new U.S. patents in 2011, covering technologies ranging from an augmentative communications device for the speech-impaired to a dye for purging blood pathogens and for photodynamic therapy.
The patents and their inventors, who will be celebrated March 1 at UB's Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception, include:
-- Method and System for Synchronous Rectification, Patent No. 7,869,972
UB Inventors: Frederick Sachs and Stephen Besch, both of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics
-- Method for Treating Blood Coagulation Disorders, Patent No. 7,875,288; and Compositions of Less Immunogenic and Long-Circulating Protein-Lipid Complexes, Patent No. 7,875,289
UB Inventors: Sathy V. Balu-Iyer and Robert Straubinger, both of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Collaborators: Aaron Peng and Razvan Miclea, both formerly of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
-- Method of Using G-Matrix Fourier Transformation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (GFT NMR) Spectroscopy for Rapid Chemical Shift Assignment and Secondary Structure Determination of Proteins, Patent No. 7,880,468
UB Inventor: Thomas A. Szyperski, the Department of Chemistry
Collaborators: Seho Kim and Hanudatta Atreya, both formerly of the Department of Chemistry
-- Sensor and Method of Sensing Having an Energy Source and Detector on the Same Side of a Sensor Substance, Patent No. 7,897,108
UB Inventors: Albert H. Titus and Alexander N. Cartwright, both of the Department of Electrical Engineering; and Frank V. Bright, the Department of Chemistry
-- Chalcogenoxanthylium Dyes for Purging Blood Pathogens and for Photodynamic Therapy, Patent No. 7,906,500
UB Inventor: Michael R. Detty, the Department of Chemistry
Collaborator: David J. Donnelly formerly of the Department of Chemistry
-- G-Matrix Fourier Transformation (GFT) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Experiments for Resonance Assignment and Structure Determination of Organic Molecules, Patent No. 7,920,972
UB Inventor: Thomas Szyperski, the Department of Chemistry
Collaborator: Hanudatta S. Atreya, formerly of the Department of Chemistry
-- Azepans and Methods for Making and Using Same, Patent No. 7,968,708
UB Inventor: David G. Hangauer, the Department of Chemistry
Collaborators: Taher Hegab, formerly of the Department of Chemistry; Fengzhi Li and Xiang Ling, both of Roswell Park Cancer Institute
-- High Density Coupling of Quantum Dots to Carbon Nanotube Surface for Efficient Photodetection, Patent No. 8,003,979
UB Inventor: Paras N. Prasad, the Department of Chemistry
Collaborators: Namchul Cho, Kaushik Roy Choudhury, Yudhisthira Sahoo and Kwang Sup Lee, all formerly of the Department of Chemistry
-- Method for Detecting Analytes Using Surface Plasmon Resonance, Patent No. 8,004,676
UB Inventors: Paras N. Prasad and Wing Cheung Law, both of the Department of Chemistry
Collaborators: Przemyslaw Markowicz, formerly of the Department of Chemistry; Andrei Kabashin and Sergiy Patskovsky, both non-UB Inventors
-- Secure Fingerprint Matching by Hashing Localized Information, Patent No. 8,005,277
UB Inventor: Sergey Tulyakov and Venu Govindaraju, both of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Collaborators: Faisal Farooq and Sharat Chikkerur, both formerly of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
-- Production of Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles Having Surfaces that are Essentially Free of Residual Oxygen, Patent No. 8,029,698
UB Inventors: Eli Ruckenstein and Mark Swihart, both of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Collaborator: Fengjun Hua, formerly of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
-- Augmentative Communications Device for the Speech Impaired Using Commercial-Grade Technology, Patent No. 8,065,154
UB Inventors: Kris Schindler and Michael Buckley, both of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
-- Method for Using Gold Nanorods-siRNA Complexes, Patent No. 8,035,016
UB Inventors: Earl J. Bergey, Paras N. Prasad and Ken-Tye Yong, all of the Department of Chemistry; Supriya Mahajan and Stanley A. Schwartz, both of the Department of Medicine
Collaborators: Adela Bonoiu and Indrajit Roy, both formerly of the Department of Chemistry
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