University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

• Print

• Comments

Published: March 1, 2012

UB 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:

• 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, 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, Department of Chemistry
• Chalcogenoxanthylium Dyes for Purging Blood Pathogens and for Photodynamic Therapy, Patent No. 7,906,500
  UB Inventor: Michael R. Detty, 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, 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, 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, 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, and 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; and 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