LSU Engineering Awarded Nine Patents in Current Fiscal Year

January 28, 2021

BATON ROUGE, LA – Since July 1, 2020, LSU has been awarded 15 patents in this current fiscal year. Nine of these have gone to the College of Engineering and its faculty and researchers.

The following are the patents issued:

  • Single-Well, Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage Process for Oil Recovery—issued on July 7, 2020, to LSU Petroleum Engineering Professor Dandina Rao and LSU Petroleum Engineering PhD student Bikash Saikia.
  • Soft Tissue Fixation Device—issued on July 22, 2020 to LSU Biological & Agricultural Engineering Professor Todd Monroe and  LSU School of Veterinary Medicine Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Equine and Comparative Orthopedic Research Mandi Lopez.
  • Computer Implemented System and Method for High-Performance Visual Tracking—issued on Aug. 25, 2020, to LSU Computer Science Associate Professor Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Vice President of Engineering at Ailectric Robert DiBiano, SODIUM-24 Founder Malcolm Stagg, Facebook Maps Research Scientist Saikat Basu, Jerry Weltman, and Manhoar Karki, research scientist at The National Institutes of Health.
  • Universal Molecular Processor for Precision Medicine—issued on Nov. 10, 2020, to LSU Mechanical Engineering Professors Michael C. Murphy and Sunggook Park, University of North Carolina Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering Steven Soper, University of North Carolina Electronics Design Engineering and Electronics Facility Manager Collin McKinney, University of North Carolina Research Instructor Mateusz Hupert, Cornell University Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Francis Barany, and John William Efcavitch, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Molecular Assemblies.
  • Method for Identification and Enumeration of Nucleic Acid Sequences, Expression, Splice Variant, Translocation, Copy, or DNA Methylation Changes Using Combined Nuclease, Ligase, Polymerase, Terminal Transferase, and Sequencing Reactions—issued on Nov. 10, 2020, to LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Sunggook Park, Cornell University Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Francis Barany, University of North Carolina Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering Steven Soper, and John William Efcavitch, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Molecular Assemblies.
  • Contact-Type Endoscope Sers Probe and Related Methods—issued on Nov. 24, 2020, to LSU Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Martin Feldman and LSU Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor DooYoung Hah.
  • Universal Molecular Processor for Precision Medicine—issued on Dec. 2, 2020, to LSU Mechanical Engineering Professors Michael C. Murphy and Sunggook Park.
  • High Strength Concrete-Like Fluorogypsum-Based Blends and Production Methods—issued on Dec. 15, 2020, to LSU Agricultural Center Assistant Professor Maria Teresa Gutierrez-Wing, LSU Research Assistant Yasser Bigdeli, University of California-Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Michele Barbato, and Charles Davis Lofton, senior staff engineer at Geosyntec Consultants.
  • Biomolecular Processing Platform and Uses Thereof—issued on Dec. 22, 2020, to LSU Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Chair and Professor Dimitris Nikitopoulos, LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Dorel Moldovan, LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Michael C. Murphy, LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Sunggook Park, LSU Chemistry Researcher Robin McCarley, University of North Carolina Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering Steven Soper, University of North Carolina Electronics Design Engineering and Electronics Facility Manager Collin McKinney, Cornell University Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Francis Barany, University of Miami Associate Director of Shared Resources George Grills, and Clarkson University Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Chair and Professor Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy.
     

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