U.S. PATENTS ISSUED |
Animal and plant biotechnology |
CRISPR therapy (Patent No. 12,152,242) Improved CRISPR methods to systemically affect gene editing via non-homologous end joining - Mizzou inventors: Dongsheng Duan, Chady Hakim*, Nalinda B. Wasala* and Yongping Yue
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Homologous recombination via transcriptional activation (Patent No. 11,932,858) A gene-editing system that allows researchers to identify desired target edits to a gene in organisms, such as plants, with low homologous recombination frequency - Mizzou inventor: Blake C. Meyers*
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Improved ultra-fast cooling system (Patent No. 11,937,596) Uniformly cryopreserves biological materials, including human and plant tissues, using little or no cryoprotectants |
Increasing plant oil content by altering a negative regulator of acetyl-coa carboxylase (Patent No. 11,959,087) A trait that increases the overall seed oil content in crops - Mizzou inventors: Jay J. Thelen and Matthew Salie*
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Small auxin upregulated gene for the improvement of root system architecture, waterlogging tolerance, drought resistance and yield in plants (Patent No. 11,905,518) A trait that creates a more extensive root system in soybean to increase resistance to waterlogging and drought stress - Mizzou inventors: Henry Thien Nguyen, Heng Ye and Babu Valliyodan*
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Computer software |
Systems and methods to improve management and monitoring of cardiovascular disease (Patent No. 12,102,415 and Patent No. 12,156,718) Software that measures aortic capacitance or compliance (ability to expand and contract in response to changes in blood volume and pressure) as indicators of cardiovascular disease - Mizzou inventors: Noah D. Manring and Patrice Delafontaine
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Diagnostics and detection |
Microfluidic device for capture of micrometer scale objects (Patent No. 11,890,616) A less invasive device to capture and measure the presence of circulating tumor cells in the bloodstream to improve cancer diagnostics - Mizzou inventors: Jae W. Kwon* and Jussuf Kaifi
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Therapeutics and treatments |
Amphiphilic peptide chaperones (Patent No. 11,911,436) Therapeutic peptides to reduce misfolded proteins associated with diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - Mizzou inventors: Santhoshkumar Puttur, Krishna Sharma and Sundararajan Mahalingam*
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Immunomodulation for the long-term prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases and foreign tissue rejection (Patent No. 12,023,367) FasL + IL-2 to induce immune tolerance for the treatment and/or prevention of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes - Mizzou inventor: Haval Shirwan
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Liquid collagen bioinks and methods to make and use collagen structures (Patent No. 12,167,965) Methods to fabricate stable injectable collagen microspheres without using cross-linking agents for therapeutics, orthopedics and other tissue engineering applications - Mizzou inventors: Sheila A. Grant, Colten Snider* and David Alan Grant
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Neuromuscular blocking agents (Patent No. 12,168,652) Novel fast-acting and quickly reversible boron-based neuromuscular blockers to paralyze muscles for procedures like tracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, electroconvulsive therapy and others - Mizzou inventors: George R. Kracke, Lalit N. Goswami*, Marion F. Hawthorne* and Satish Jalisatgi*
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Triblock peptide amphiphiles and micelles (Patent No. 12,006,350) Programmable peptide micelles for the delivery of therapeutics - Mizzou inventors: Caitlin Leeper*, Rui Zhang*, Bret Ulery, Josiah Smith* and Logan Morton*
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Engineering solutions |
Area selective nanoscale-thin layer deposition via precise functional group lithography (Patent No. 12,000,037) An improved method for high-resolution patterning of semiconductor substrates - Mizzou inventors: Matthew R. Maschmann and Matthias J. Young
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Forming conformable nanoscale coating on substrates (Patent No. 12,060,272) A new method for adding nanoscale coatings to increase durability, hydrophobicity or reactivity of materials - Mizzou inventors: Yangchuan Xing and Ahmed M Jasim
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Programmable metasurface for real-time control of broadband elastic rays (Patent No. 11,978,430) A method for creating programmable metasurfaces for use in active noise and vibration cancellation in communication systems - Mizzou inventors: Guoliang Huang*, Yangyang Chen* and Xiaopeng Li
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Three-phase oscillating heat pipe (Patent No. 12,104,854) Thermal management system for efficient cooling of electronic devices - Mizzou inventors: Bill Ma and Tingting Hao
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Devices and tools |
Heat exchanging liquid container (Patent No. 11,857,112) Thermally insulated containers that hold optimal temperature of hot or cold liquids for extended periods of time |
Drawn fused filament fabrication printing (Patent No. 12,103,222) Novel 3D printing technique and device to convert type A, B or AB blood to universal type O blood without residual foreign proteins - Mizzou inventors: Hsin-Yeh Hsieh, Mason W. Schellenberg*, Chung-Ho Lin, George C. Stewart and Shibu Jose
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Knee flexion device (Patent No. 12,005,018) A quantitative patient-controlled physical therapy device for treatment of pre- or post-surgery knee stiffness - Mizzou inventors: Trent Guess, Cory Crecelius, James L. Cook, Kylee Rucinski and Jonathan Williams
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Nursing multiskill training pad (Design Patent No. D1,025,206 ) A hyperrealistic model for medical professionals to practice critical skills such as wound packing, intravenous catheterization and medication injections - Mizzou inventor: Damon Coyle
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Thermal liquid container system (Patent No. 11,952,197) Thermal liquid containers that can rapidly change the temperature of a liquid to a desired range |
Tissue preservation system (Patent No. 11,864,554) A system that more than doubles the storage time and increases the viability of donor bone and cartilage grafts used in orthopaedic transplants - Mizzou inventors: Aaron M. Stoker and James L. Cook
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