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NC State patent
holders honored
During its 17th annual Inventors Awards Ceremony and Reception on Monday, May 1, NC State recognized 48 faculty members who were awarded U.S. patents in 2005 ranging from the “Bish” strawberry plant and a tobacco cultivar to inductively coupled electrical connectors and compositions for fracturing subterranean formations.
In 2005, NC State researchers received a total of 49 U.S. patents, which ties the largest number of patents the university has received in one year. NC State also received 49 patents in 2003.
NC State’s inventions not only help drive economic development today, they build the backbone of the future in fields such as technology, medical care, farming, ecology, and energy, said Rick Weddle, president and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, who delivered the ceremony’s keynote address.
For example, Dr. H. Troy Nagle, professor of biomedical engineering, and Sicel Technology, an NC State start-up company Nagle co-founded, developed a new sensor in 2005 that will give oncologists a new means of targeting and monitoring the amount of radiation delivered to tumors in breast-cancer patients.
To ensure
the region remains economically competitive and technologically relevant,
Weddle said, NC State must continue to be a national model for
such innovations.
As of May 2006, NC State had been issued 535 U.S. patents. In terms of how these patents impact quality of life, The Scientist magazine ranked NC State third in the nation for overall patent power in June 2005.
“NC State is made up of a great community of researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs,” Gilligan said during his closing remarks at the ceremony, which was held at the Capital City Club in Raleigh. “I would like to thank you for providing the quality intellectual property that allows NC State to compete with leaders of academic discovery.”
NC State’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), which helps researchers protect their intellectual property and transfer their innovations to industry for public benefit, was host for the ceremony and reception.
For more information about the OTT and patents held by NC State researchers, visit www.ncsu.edu/ott.
Posted May 19, 2006
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