November Edition: Newly Issued Patents

Congratulations to Purdue University researchers across all campuses and academic disciplines. They have recently received 27 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:

Jean Paul Allain, no longer at Purdue

  • “Methods for Directed Irradiation Syntheses with Ion and Thermal Beams”

Gary Cheng, College of Engineering

Graham Cooks, College of Science

Meng Cui, College of Engineering and College of Science

Mingji Dai, College of Science

Letian Dou, College of Engineering

Arun Ghosh, College of Science

Jian Jin, College of Agriculture and College of Engineering

  • “Phenotype Imaging System with Automatic Leaf-Handling Mechanism”
  • “Portable Plant Health Analysis System and Method”

Nicole Key, College of Engineering

Alexander Kildishev, College of Engineering

Chi Hwan Lee, College of Engineering

Christina Li, College of Science

Andrea M. Liceaga, College of Agriculture

R. Byron Pipes, College of Engineering

Karthik Ramani, College of Engineering

Mohamed Seleem, no longer at Purdue

Fabio Semperlotti, College of Engineering

Vladimir Shalaev, College of Engineering

Darci J. Trader, College of Pharmacy

Kevin Trumble, College of Engineering

Pramey Upadhyaya, College of Engineering

Pavlos Vlachos, College of Engineering

Chunhua Zhang, awarded posthumously

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.