June 11, 2018
The University of Pittsburgh announced that Pitt innovators were issued 10 U.S. patents in May 2018.
Featured Patent: U.S. 9,980,738 “Surgical Tool Monitoring System and Methods of Use”
Carl Snyderman, professor of otolaryngology and neurological surgery, Jeff Vipperman, professor of mechanical engineering & materials science and bioengineering, and colleagues, have developed a device that assists neurosurgeons in the painstaking and time consuming process of drilling through the skull without disturbing critical tissues underneath. Surgeons are trained to listen for changes in acoustical pitch generated by the vibrating bone as layers are penetrated. The invention provides a way to reliably assess proximity to the dura layer below the skull involving signal processing techniques and a device that monitors the acoustic and vibrational output of burr-type drills during cranial surgery and alert the surgeon whether drilling can proceed as normal, or more slowly and with greater caution. For information on licensing this innovation, contact Janice Panza at jpanza@innovation.pitt.edu.
Below is a list of all patents issued to Pitt Innovators in June 2018.
Patent Number |
Title | Inventor(s) | Licensing Manager | Status | |||
9,949,684 | Quantified Injury Diagnostics | Volker Mushal; Mattias Ahlden; Paulo Henrique Mendes de Araujo; Yuichi Hoshino; James Irrgang; Freddie Fu; Richard Debski | Carolyn Weber | Licensed | |||
9,957,438 | Compositions For, Solutions For, and Methods of Use Of Siloxane Based Aromatic Trisureas As Viscosifiers | Michael O’Brien; Mark Doherty; Jason Lee; Robert Perry; Robert Enick | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
9,955,881 | Electrode Systems, Devices and Methods | Tracy Cui; Nicolas Alba; Mingui Sun | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
9,968,714 | Biodegradable Elastomeric Patch For Treating Cardiac Or Cardiovascular Conditions | Kazuro Fujimoto; Kimimasa Tobita; Jianjun Guan; William Wagner; Bradley Keller | Alex Ducruet | Available for Licensing | |||
9,980,661 | Electrocardiogram Reconstruction From Implanted Device Electrograms | George Mendenhall; Jeffrey Williams; Samir Saba | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
9,980,641 | Optical Coherence Tomography As a Rapid, Accurate, Non-Contact Method of Visualizing the Palisades of VOGT | Lawrence Kagemann Jr.; Kira Lathrop; Joel Schuman | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
9,981,048 | Methods for Treatment and Prevention of Liver Disease | Ira Fox; Aaron Bell; Taichiro Nishikawa; Alejandro Gutierrez; Yoram Vodovotz | Andrew Remes | Optioned | |||
9,980,738
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Surgical Tool Monitoring System And Methods Of Use | Paul Johnson; Timothy Ryan Jeffrey Vipperman; Carl Snyderman | Available for Licensing | ||||
9,983,399 | Depth-Resolved Spatial-Domain Low-Coherence Quantitative Phase Microscopy For Unstained Tissue and Cells | Yang Liu; Hoa Vinh Pham; Shikhar Fnu |
Abhishek Sangal |
Available for Licensing | |||
9,981,974
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Small Molecules Targeting Androgen Receptor Nuclear Localization and/or Level in Prostate Cancer | Zhour Wang; Joel Nelson; Paul Johnston; John Lazo; Minh Bao Nguyen; Peter Wipf | Optioned | ||||
9,985,197 | Flexible Molecular Piezoelectric Device | Xinfeng Quan; Geoffrey Hutchison | George Coulston | Available for Licensing | |||