ßŮÁ¨´«Ă˝ (UAH) honored the achievements of inventors from two colleges and five departments who have been awarded patents during the past year. The annual patent award recognition was held on April 26 during the 2024 University Awards for Excellence program in the Student Services Building. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System.
“These talented individuals exemplify the spirit of innovation that thrives at UAH and extends into the broader marketplace, nurtured by the proactive efforts of our Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC),” said Kannan Grant, director of OTC. “Thanks to UAH’s strategic investment in its innovators, we have witnessed remarkable growth in our patenting endeavors.”
Grant noted these increases over the past five years: Technology disclosures at UAH have doubled; patent filings have risen by 45%, and the issuance of patents has soared by 150%.
Dr. Robert Lindquist, vice president for research and economic development, joined Grant to present plaques to the patent recipients.
The following patents were awarded to UAH researchers from the College of Engineering and the College of Science:
10,812,184, “Signal Analysis Systems and Methods,” Lingze Duan (Science, Physics) and Dipen Barot (Science, Optics)
11,620,108, “Random Number Generation Systems and Methods,” Aleksandar Milenkovic and Biswajit Ray (both of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
11,728,004, “Systems and Methods of Improving Radiation Tolerance of Three-Dimensional Flash Memory,” Aleksandar Milenkovic and Biswajit Ray (both of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
11,762,563, “Systems and Methods for Improving Radiation Tolerance of Memory,” Aleksandar Milenkovic and Biswajit Ray (both of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
11,728,000, “Systems and Methods for Detecting Counterfeit or Defective Memory,” Biswajit Ray, Umeshwarnath Surendranathan, Preeti Kumari, Md Raquibuzzaman (all of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
11,929,691, “Triboelectric Generator Systems and Methods for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Applications,” Gang Wang (Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), Moonhyung Jang and Yu Lei (both of Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering), and Jacob Lee (Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
11,815,463, “Reagent Synthesis and Testing Assays to Detect and Quantify Manganese (II),” Anna Merritt Holmes and Emanuel Waddell (both of Science, Chemistry)
11,701,685, “Systems and Methods for Forming Uniform Monolayers of Nanoparticles,” Jeffrey Weimer (Science, Chemistry) and Jimmie Mitchell (Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering)
11,716,867, “Controlled Method to Spontaneously Self-Assemble Uniform, Well-Ordered Films of Solid Nanoparticles,” Jeffrey Weimer (Science, Chemistry) and Cuong Nguyen (Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering)
11,812,540, “Continuous large area cold atmospheric pressure plasma sheet source,” Gabe Xu and Ryan Gott (both of Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
11,888,131, “Systems and Methods for Storing Batteries,” Guangsheng Zhang (Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
