The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued nine U.S. patents to UNM Rainforest Innovations during the months of July, August and September for technologies invented at the University of New Mexico. The patents, issued during UNM Rainforest Innovations’ 2025 fiscal first quarter, are for a variety of technologies created by researchers in the Departments of Internal Medicine; Chemical & Biological Engineering; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; the Center for Micro-Engineered Materials; and the Center for High Technology Materials.
Issued Patent for “Small Molecules with Anti-Protozoan Activity”
Patent No. 12,029,728, issued July 9, 2024
Inventors: Ivy Hurwitz, Alexander Aksenv, Danielle Nicole Turner, Snezna Rogelj
(Ref. 2018-105)
The present disclosure describes a method of treating an infection, including a parasitic infection, using compounds of the invention. The compounds of the invention can selectively eradicate intracellular mammalian and human parasites.
Issued Patent for “Perovskite Material for Methane to Ethylene Conversion”
Patent No. 12,036,535, issued July 16, 2024
Inventors: Kannan Ramaiyan, Angelica Benavidez, Fernando Garzon, Luke Denoyer
(Ref. 2021-057)
The present invention describes a catalyst comprising a barium niobate-based cubic perovskite structure where, Mg and Ca has been used to dope the niobium sites along with Fe, Ni, Co, Y, and Pr.
Issued Patent for “Achievement of Close to Pure wideband Circular Polarization in Printed Antenna Arrays”
Patent No. 12,046,817, issued July 23, 2024
Inventors: Marios Patriotis, Christos Christodoulou, Sudharman Jayaweera, Firas Nazem Ayoub
(Ref. 2019-066)
Described here is a circularly polarized antenna having a plurality of arrays. The arrays comprised of a plurality of antenna elements which are consecutively orthogonal to each other.
Patent No. 12,048,565, issued July 30, 2024
Inventors: Vince Calhoun, Jing Sui
(Ref. 2018-048)
The present invention is directed to a system and methods of predicting undiagnosed mental disorders in a patient and determining the best medication-class treatment for the mental disorder through the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging of functional connectivity of the brain representative of a certain mental disorder.
Issued Patent for “Metal-Carbon-Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites for Metal Contacts on Photovoltaic Cells”
Patent No. 12,074,228 issued August 27, 2024
This technology is currently licensed.
Inventors: Sang M. Han, Omar Abudayyeh, David Wilt, Nathan Gapp
(Ref. 2015-123)
A solar cell structure is disclosed that includes a first metal layer, formed over predefined portions of a sun-exposed major surface of a semiconductor structure, that form electrical gridlines of the solar cell; a network of carbon nanotubes formed over the first metal layer; and a second metal layer formed onto the network of carbon nanotubes, wherein the second metal layer infiltrates the network of carbon nanotubes to connect with the first metal layer to form a first metal matrix composite comprising a metal matrix and a carbon nanotube reinforcement, wherein the second metal layer is an electrically conductive layer in which the carbon nanotube reinforcement is embedded in and bonded to the metal matrix, and the first metal matrix composite provides enhanced mechanical support as well as enhanced or equal electrical conductivity for the electrical contacts against applied mechanical stressors to the electrical contacts.
Issued Patent for “Enhanced Frequency Bandwidth of Cantilever Beam using Transverse Movable Mass”
Patent No. 12,075,703 issued August 27, 2024
Inventors: Nathan M. Jackson, Luis Alfredo Rodriguez Milian
(Ref. 2020-012)
Frequency bandwidth of a cantilever beam system can be enhanced using a movable mass having motion in a cavity of a mass attached to cantilever beam, where the motion is transverse to the cantilever beam. In various embodiments, a cantilever beam apparatus includes a cantilever beam, a first mass, and a second mass. The first mass can be attached to the cantilever beam, with the first mass having a cavity arranged transverse to the cantilever beam. The second mass can be disposed in the cavity such that the second mass is movable in the cavity in a direction transverse to the cantilever beam. Apparatus, systems, and methods associated with enhanced frequency bandwidth of cantilever beam using transverse movable mass are applicable in a variety of applications.
Issued Patent for “Rugged, Single Crystal Wide-Band-Gap-Material-Scanning-Tunneling-Microscopy/Lithography Tips”
Patent No. 12,078,654, issued September 3, 2024
Inventors: Steven R.J. Brueck, Daniel Feezell, John Randall, Tito Busani, Joshua B. Ballard, Mahmoud Behzadirad, Ashwin Krishnan Rishinaramangalam
(Ref. 2016-077)
Provided is a composite metal-wide-bandgap semiconductor tip for scanning tunneling microscopy and/or scanning tunneling lithography, a method forming, and a method for using the composite metal-wide-bandgap semiconductor tip.
Issued Patent for “Interferometric Lithography Grating-Mask-based Wafer-Scale Large-Area Nanopatterning”
Patent No. 12,092,959, issued September 17, 2024
Inventors: Steven R.J. Brueck, Alexander Neumann, Vineeth Sasidharan
(Ref. 2021-037)
According to examples of the present disclosure, a method for large-area, full-wafer nanopatterning is disclosed. The method includes providing a laser light source; providing beam conditioning and translation optics to expand the beam to illuminate a full wafer area; providing a grating beam-splitter; providing recombination optics to direct at least two beams from the grating beam splitter to a full wafer photoresist-coated target; and exposing the full wafer photoresist-coated target.
Issued Patent for “System and Methods for Constructing Single Stage N-Sorters and N-Filters”
Patent No. 12,093,663, issued September 17, 2024
Inventors: Robert B. Kent, Marios S. Pattichis
(Ref. 2022-025)
Described here are a system and methods for using carry chain logic, a product term splitting methodology, and a new Sum-of-Products (SOP) output multiplexer (mux) equation to build faster and larger sorting blocks.