February Edition: Newly Issued Patents

Congratulations to Purdue University researchers across all campuses and academic disciplines. They have recently received 19 patents on their intellectual property from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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.

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.

These are the primary investigators whose work was recently patented:

Hany Abdel-Khalik, College of Engineering

• “System Architecture and Method of Processing Data Therein”

Alina Alexeenko-Peroulis, College of Engineering

• “Tunable Water-Based Microthruster Devices and Methods”

Ji-Xin Cheng, College of Engineering

• “Ultrafast Chemical Imaging by Widefield Photothermal Sensing of Infrared Absorption”

Jo Davisson, College of Pharmacy

• “Arylnaphthalene Compounds as Vacuolar-ATPase Inhibitors and the Use Thereof”

Letian Dou, College of Engineering

• “Mechanically Robust and Self-Healable Perovskite Solar Cells”

William Horton, College of Engineering

• “Shape-Morphing Fins for Frost Removal”

Jian Jin, College of Agriculture and College of Engineering

• “Portable Plant Health Analysis System and Method”

Kee Hong Kim, College of Agriculture

• “Compositions and Methods for Regulating Body Weight and Metabolic Syndromes”

Philip Low, College of Science

• “Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP)-Targeted Imaging and Therapy”
• “Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor (LHRH-R) Conjugates and Uses Thereof”

Zheng Ouyang, College of Engineering

• “Systems and Methods for Quantifying and Analyte Extracted from a Sample”

Betsy Parkinson, College of Science

• “Bioactive Peptide Molecules Discovered by a Combination of Bioinformatics Technique and Chemical Synthesis”

Karthik Ramani, College of Engineering

• “Robot Navigation and Robot-IOT Interactive Task Planning Using Augmented Reality”

Kenneth Sandhage, College of Engineering

• “Methods, Materials Systems, and Devices for Inhibiting Infiltration and Penetration of Molten Salts into Solid Materials”

Herman Sintim, College of Science

• “Inhibitor of Kinase Networks and Uses Thereof”

Steven Son, College of Engineering

• “Optical Sensitizer Device and Method for Low-Energy Laser Ignition of Propellants”

Nien-Hwa Wang, College of Engineering

• “Preparation of Rare Earth Metals and Other Chemicals from Industrial Waste Coal Ash”

Jonathan Wilker, College of Science

• “Tuning the Strength and Ductility of a Biomimetic Adhesive Through Breakable Bonds: Designing the ‘Ideal Adhesive’”

Jonathon Ziulkowski, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

• “Magneto Safety Guard”

During the 2022 calendar year, Purdue Research Foundation ranked #4 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.