Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

Licensing Success Stories

Marathon Ashland has a non-exclusive license to US Patent 5,892,228 co-invented with Professor John Cooper that is a novel way of using Raman spectroscopy to determine octane numbers.

APS Technology has an exclusive license to a patent pending for a Remote Fiber-Optic Down-Hole Fluid Analyzer Sensor that was co-invented with Professor John Cooper.

Osram Sylvania has a non-exclusive license to lighting products co-invented by Professor Karl Schoenbach.

Laser Light Technologies has an exclusive license to field controlled plasma discharge devices (U.S. Patents 5,561,348 and 5,765,073) co-invented by Professor Karl Schoenbach.

The web search engine company "Ask Jeeves" has a source license to Coordinated Browsing (Co-Browser) technology created by Professor Kurt Maly and Professor Mohammed Zubair that allows a group of users to surf the web together in distance learning.