The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued four U.S. patents to UNM Rainforest Innovations during the months of April, May, and June for technologies invented at the University of New Mexico. The patents, issued during UNM Rainforest Innovations’ 2026 fiscal fourth quarter, are for a variety of technologies created by researchers in the Departments of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and the Center for High Technology Materials.
Issued Patent for “Method, System, and Apparatus for Page Sizing Extension”
Patent No. 12,613,807 issued on April 28, 2026
Inventors: Edward Grochowski, Julio Gago, Roger Gramunt, Roger Espasa, Rolf Kassa
(Ref. 2022-038)
A method, system, and apparatus may initialize a fixed plurality of page table entries for a fixed plurality of pages in memory, each page having a first size, wherein a linear address for each page table entry corresponds to a physical address and the fixed plurality of pages are aligned. A bit in each of the page table entries for the aligned pages may be set to indicate whether or not the fixed plurality of pages is to be treated as one combined page having a second page size larger than the first page size. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Issued Patent for “Integrated Bound-Mode Angular Sensors”
Patent No. 12,618,974 issued on May 5, 2026
Inventors: Steven R.J. Brueck, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Alexander Neumann
(Ref. 2019-100)
An angular sensitive time-of-flight position sensor device is provided and includes an array of pixels each comprising: a planar waveguide structure; a collection area with a grating pattern at a specific periodicity to couple incident light into the planar waveguide structure; at least one detector placed outside of the collection area and in a plane different from that of the planar waveguide structure; an output coupler to direct the light from planar waveguide to the at least one detector; a mask to shield the at least one detector from direct illumination; a narrow band light source that illuminates a field-of-view; a first electronics configured to detect the time-of-flight of light retroreflected, scattered, or both incident onto the position sensor and configured to provide distance ranging information; and a second electronics configured to interpret and retain time-of-flight information and configured to communicate with external electronics for system applications.
Patent No. 12,662,380 issued on June 23, 2026
Inventors: Sang M. Han, Brian Rummel, and Andre Chavez
(Ref. 2022-014)
A conductive composition is disclosed. The conductive composition includes a plurality of silver particles and one or more cellulose-based binders. The composition also includes an amount of glass frit, an organic solvent and a plurality of carbon nanotubes, where the conductive composition is formed into a cross-sectional triangular shape, which may include a top cross-sectional dimension and a bottom cross-sectional dimension, where a ratio of the top cross-sectional dimension to the bottom cross-sectional dimension is 0.8 or less. A screen-printed gridline and a method of printing gridlines is also disclosed where the gridlines may be incorporated into a solar cell device.
Patent No. 12,668,485 issued on June 30, 2026
Inventors: Tito Busani, Ravi Kiran Chityala, Arjun Aryal
(Ref. 2023-019)
Described here is a low-cost, conventional release using low concentrations of HF to overcome the stiction of MEMS structure.