September Edition: Newly Issued Patents

September 22, 2026

Congratulations to Purdue University researchers who recently received 11 patents on their intellectual property from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Are you a researcher at a Purdue University campus who has made an innovation discovery? Disclose your innovation to the Office of Technology Commercialization online.

Most of these innovations are available to license and bring to market. Visit the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization’s website to learn more about these and other available innovations.

These are the primary investigators whose work was recently patented:

David Cappelleri

College of Engineering

Nicole Key

College of Engineering

Alexander Kildishev

College of Engineering

Metalenslet Laser Beam Homogenizer

Philip Low

awarded posthumously

Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP) – Targeted Antifibrotic Therapy

Paul Mort

College of Engineering

Fluidized Bed Granulation and Coating Systems and Methods

Andrea Vacca

College of Agriculture and College of Engineering

Method and System for a Flow-Isolated Valve Arrangement and a Three-Chamber Cylinder Hydraulic Architecture

Yang Xiao

no longer at Purdue

Transition Metal Carbides for Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Short Alkanes

During the 2025 calendar year, Purdue Research Foundation ranked #7 among U.S. universities for patents received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The information was published in a report from the National Academy of Inventors.

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