As part of the Office of Research and Commercialization, the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is responsible for managing the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) intellectual property assets, and supporting the commercialization of discoveries made at UCF. UCF faculty, students, and staff make new discoveries every day. This collection highlights patents obtained by UCF.
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Patents from 2014
Method of Forming Composite Materials including Conjugated Materials attached to Carbon Nanotubes or Graphenes (CIP), Lei Zhai, Anindarupa Chunder, Jianhua Liu, and Jianhua Zou
Patents from 2013
Emissive Fibers Containing Up Converters Excited by GaAs Based Semiconductor Light Sources, Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe
Low voltage display or indicator systems employing combinations of up converters and semiconductor light sources., Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe
Up Converters and GaAs Based Semiconductor Light Sources System for Large Color Gamut Display and Projection Displays, Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe
Symbolic Switch/Linear Circuit Simulator Systems and Methods DIV, Issa Batarseh, Ghaith Haddad, Shadi Harb, and Ehab Shoubaki
Interactive Electronic Book Operating Systems and Methods, Issa Battarseh, Rawad Al-Haddad, Ghaith Haddad, and Rashad Oreifej
Gasdynamically-controlled dropets as the target in a laser-plasma extreme ultraviolet light source (EP), Robert Bunnell, Roy McGregor, Rocco Orsini, and Michael Petach
Methods and compositions for inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells (CON), Ratna Chakrabarti
Microfludic Mixer Having Channel Width Variation for Enhanced Fluid Mixing, Hyoung Cho, Ranganathan Kumar, and Ehsan Yakhshi
Nanocomposite semiconducting material with reduced resistivity DIV, Kevin Coffey, Glenn Boreman, Wilson Caba, Edward Dein, Vu Lam, Andrew Warren, and Guy Zummo
Thermite compositions from low temperature impact milling, Kevin Coffey, Edward Dein, Dickson Hugus, and Edward Sheridan
Methods for Forming Ignitable Heterogeneous Structures DIV, Kevin Coffey, Edward Dein, and Bo Yao
Optoelectronic Logic Gate for Real Time Data Mining in a Bit Stream, Peter Delfyett, Ibrahim Ozdur, Sarper Ozharar, and Franklyn Quinlan
Systems and Methods for Controlling Objects, Aristide Dogariu, Gabriel Biener, and Kiminobu Sugaya
PNMT as a novel marker for progenitor cells, Steven Ebert and Karl Pfeifer
Lasers Produced Plasma EUV Light Source with Prepulse Enhancement (Europe), Steven Fornaca, Jeffrey Hartlove, Armando Martos, Mark Michaelian, Henry Shields, and Samuel Talmadge
Process of production of high efficiency diffractive and refractive optical elements in multicomponent silicate glass by nonlinear photo ionization followed by thermal development., Leonid Glebov, Larissa Glebova, Julien Lumeau, Leo Siiman, and Vladim Smirnov
Ceramic Sensors for Wireless High-Temperature Sensing, Xun Gong and Linan An
Hybrid Solar Cell Integrating Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric Cell Elements for High Efficiency and Longevity., Nicoleta Hickman and Robert Reedy
Real-Time Chromakey Matting Using Image Statistics, Charles Hughes, Nicholas Beato, Mark Colbert, Kazumasa Yamazawa, and Yunjun Zhang
Method for Generating, Transmitting, and Receiving Power, Aravinda Kar and Bruce Marshall
Apparatus and Method of Forming High Crystalline Quality Layer, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick
Laser Assisted Nano Deposition, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick
Laser Formation of Graphene, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick
Variable Filter Length Local Tomography, Alexander Katsevich and Michael Frenkel
Cardiac Computed Tomography Methods and Systems Using Fast Exact / Quasi Exact Filtered Back Projection Algorithms, Alexander Katsevich, Yang Lu, Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu, and Jun Zhao
An Algorithm for Motion Estimation from the Tomographic Data, Alexander Katsevich, Michael Silver, and Alexander Zamyatin
In vitro model of latent mycobacterial infection, Pappachan Kolattukudy, Jaiyanth Daniel, Chirajyoti Deb, and Tatiana Sirakova
Systems for Extending WDM Transmission into the O Band, Guifang Li
Electronic Compensation of Nonlinear Effects ofSemiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Guifang Li and Xiaoxu Li
Compensation of Optical Transmission Impairments Using Digital Backward Propagation, Guifang Li, Eduardo Mateo, and Fatih Yaman
Compensation of Transmission Impairments in Polarization Multiplexed Systems, Guifang Li, Eduardo Mateo, and Fatih Yaman
Method of adaptive solar tracking using variable step size, Wasfy Mikhael, Issa Batarseh, Nasser Kutkut, and Raghuram Ranganathan
Quick Change Lamp Ballast Assembly, Michael Pepper, John Elmes, and Donald Yochum
Aqueous Method for Making Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, J. Manuel Perez Figueroa and Sudip Nath
Synthesis of Hyperbranched Amphiphylic Polyester and Theranostic Nanoparticles thereof, J. Manuel Perez Figueroa and Santimukul Santra
Fluorescent cytotoxic compounds specific for the cellular polyamine transport system, Otto Phanstiel
Polyamine transporter selective compounds as anticancer agents, Otto Phanstiel and Navneet Kaur
Gas Permeable Chemochromic Compositions for Hydrogen Sensing., Ali Raissi, Gary Bokerman, Nahid Mohajeri, and Nazim Muradov
Hybrid Differential Optical Sensing Imager, Nabeel Riza and Hassan Foroosh
Method For Forming Thermally Stable Nanoparticles on Supports, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Farzad Behafarid, and Ahmed Naitabdi
Multimodal nanoparticles for non-invasive bio-imaging, Swadeshmukul Santra, Niclas Bengtsson, Scott Brown, Stephen Grobmyer, Huabei Jiang, Brij Moudgil, Edward Scott, Parvesh Sharma, Glenn Walter, and Qizhi Zhang
Cubic Semiconductor Alloys for Deep UV Applications, Winston Schoenfeld
Lanthanide Doped Nanocrystalline Ceria Coating For Increasing Oxidation Resistance Of Stainless Steel And Associated Methods, Sudipta Seal
Sol-Gel Composite AR Coating For IR Applications (DIV-method), Sudipta Seal, Edit Braunstein, Erik Brinley, and Leslie Kramer
Method for whisker formation on Metallic Fibers and Substrates, Sudipta Seal, Weifeng Fei, and Suresh Kuiry
Method of Forming Functionalized Fly Ash Particles, Sudipta Seal, Larry Hench, and David Reid
Systems and Methods for Modeling Three-Dimensional Objects From Two-Dimensional Images, Mubarak Shah, Saad Khan, and Pingkun Yan
Solar Gutter and Soffit Facia Systems., Jeffrey Sonne and Robin Vieira
Systems and Methods for Inducing Effects in a Signal, Kenneth Stanley and Scott DeBoer
Mesenchymal stem cells with increased developmental potency by expressing Nanog, Kiminobu Sugaya and Angel Alvarez
Methods and products for biasing cellular development, Kiminobu Sugaya, Angel Alvarez, and Amelia Marutle
Method of promoting apoptosis of glioblastoma tumor cells, Kiminobu Sugaya, Angel Alvarez, and Stacey Mount
Hydrophilic Particle Enhanced Heat Exchange and Method of Manufacture CIP, Ming Su, Louis Chow, and Edward Mahefkey
Method of inhibiting AB-type bacterial toxins and treatment for associated diseases, Michael Taylor and Kenneth Teter
Compounds that suppress cancer cells and exhibit antitumor activity (US), James Turkson and Patrick Gunning
STAT3 inhibitor having anti-cancer activity and associated methods (EP), James Turkson, Andrew Hamilton, Richard Jove, and Said Sebti
STAT3 inhibitor having anti-cancer activity and methods (US), James Turkson, Andrew Hamilton, Richard Jove, and Said Sebti
Liquid Crystals Composition and Liquid Crystal Display With Patterned Electrodes, Shin-Tson Wu, Chao-Lung Chin, Sebastian Gauza, Zhibing Ge, Hsu-Kuan Hsu, and Linghui Rao
Supramolecular Structures Comprising At Least Partially Conjugated Polymers Attached to Carbon Nanotubes and Graphenes, Lei Zhai, Anindarupa Chunder, Jianhua Liu, and Jianhua Zou
Patents from 2012
Method for Synthesizing Bulk Ceramics and Structures from Polymeric Ceramic Precursors, Linan An, Weifeng Fei, and Arnold Hill
Pump Cavities for Diode Laser Array Pumped Laser Rods, Michael Bass and Ying Chen
Composite cavity for enhanced efficiency of up conversion., Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe
Symbolic Switch/Linear Circuit Simulator Systems and Methods, Issa Batarseh, Ghaith Haddad, Shadi Harb, and Ehab Shoubaki
Microwave-Assisted Formation of Sulfonium Photoacid Generators, Kevin Belfield and Ciceron Yanez
Two-photon absorbing water-soluble fluorescent probe as a near-neutral pH indicator, Kevin Belfield and Sheng Yao
Dynamic Reflectarray Technology for Electro-Optical Sensors, Glenn Boreman, Edit Braunstein, James Ginn, Thomas Haberfelde, Andrew Hawkins, David Shelton, and Gene Tener
Ethanol Based Gel Fuel for a Hybrid Rocket, John Brandenburg, Matthew Fox, and Rodrigo Garcia
On Site Wastewater Treatment Using a Functionalized Green Filtration Media Sorption Field (DIVB), Ni-Bin Chang and Ammarin Makkeasorn
Subsurface Upflow Wetland System for Nutrient and Pathogen Removal in Wastewater Treatment Systems, Ni-Bin Chang and Martin Wanielista
Fabrication of ZnO Nanorod-Based Hydrogen Gas Nanosensor, Lee Chow, Guangyu Chia, and Oleg Lupan
Thermally Conductive Porous Element-Based Recuperators, Louis Chow, Jian-Hua Du, Jayanta Kapat, Yeong-Ren Lin, William Notardonato, and Wei Wu
Degradation of TATP, TNT, and RDX Using Mechanically Alloyed Metals, Christian Clausen, Rebecca Fidler, Michael Sigman, and Cherie Yestrebsky
Nanocomposite Semiconducting Material with Reduced Resistivity, Kevin Coffey, Glenn Boreman, Wilson Caba, Edward Dein, Vu Lam, Andrew Warren, and Guy Zummo
Thermite Compositions, Articles and Low Temperature Impact Milling Processes for Forming the Same, Kevin Coffey, Edward Dein, Dickson Hugus, and Edward Sheridan
Ignitable Heterogeneous Structure and Methods for Forming, Kevin Coffey, Edward Dein, and Bo Yao
Diffraction Free, Self-Bending Airy Wave Arrangement, Aristide Dogariu, Demetrios Christodoulides, and Georgios Siviloglou
Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production and Method for its Preparation, Cunping Huang, Nazim Muradov, and Ali Raissi
LASER PROCESSING OF METAL NANOPARTICLE / POLYMER COMPOSITES, Qun Huo and Hui-Chuan Cheng
Dispersions of Carbon Nanotubes in Copolymer Solutions and Functional Composite Materials and Coatings Therefrom, Qun Huo, Lei Zhai, and Jianhua Zou
Articles Comprising Crystalline Layers on Low Temperature Substrates, Aravinda Kar and Sachin Bet
Method of Fabricating Solid State Gas Dissociating Device By Laser Doping, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick
In vitro model of latent mycobacterial infection (DIV I), Pappachan Kolattukudy, Jaiyanth Daniel, Chirajyoti Deb, and Tatiana Sirakova
In vitro model of latent mycobacterial infection (DIV II), Pappachan Kolattukudy, Jaiyanth Daniel, Chirajyoti Deb, and Tatiana Sirakova
Electronic Post-Compensation of Optical Transmission Impairments Using Digital Backward Propagation, Guifang Li, Xin Chen, Gilad Goldfarb, Inwoong Kim, Xiaoxu Li, Eduardo Mateo, Fatih Yaman, and Likai Zhu
Dispersion Compensation Using Digital Infinite Impulse Response Filtering, Guifang Li and Gilad Goldfarb
Electronic Compensation of Impairments Using Wavelet Filters for Backward Propagation, Guifang Li and Gilad Goldfarb
Systems and Methods of Polarization Time Coding for Optical Communications, Guifang Li and Yan Han
Catalyst for the Evolution of Hydrogen from Borohydride Solution, Clovis Linkous, Danielle Nangle, and Darlene Slattery
Devices with Adjustable Dual-Polarity Trigger - and Holding-Voltage/Current for High Level of Electrostatic Discharge Protection in Sub-Micron Mixed Signal, Juin Liou, Joseph Bernier, Javier Salcedo, and Donald Whitney
Orthogonal Frequency Coding for Surface Acoustic Wave Devices (CIP DIV), Donald Malocha and Nikolai Kozlovshi
Iterative Adaptive Solar Tracking Having Variable Step Size, Wasfy Mikhael, Issa Batarseh, Nasser Kutkut, and Raghuram Ranganathan
Adaptive Methods Employing Optimal Convergence Factors For Processing Complex Signals and Systems, Wasfy Mikhael and Raghuram Ranganathan
Systems and Methods for Graphical Rendering, Amar Mukherjee and Weifeng Sun
Systems and Methods for Graphical Rendering., Amar Mukherjee and Weifeng Sun
Systems and Methods for Graphical Rendering., Amar Mukherjee and Weifeng Sun
Method and an Apparatus for Hydrogen Production from Water., Nazim Muradov
Three-Dimensional Carbon Fibers and Method and Apparatus for their Production (DIV), Nazim Muradov
Visual Hydrogen Detector with Variable Reversibility, Nazim Muradov
Apparatus for Hydrogen and Carbon Production Via Carbon Aerosol-Catalyzed Dissociation of Hydrocarbons DIV, Nazim Muradov, Ali Raissi, and Franklyn Smith