Office of Intellectual Property

The Office of Intellectual Property manages UAH’s intellectual property. During the past five years, UAH researchers have created almost $1 million in license and royalty fees.

For more information or to license UAH technology contact:

William Gathings, PhD
256.824.6620
gathinw@uah.edu

For more information on the University’s patents go to the U.S. Patent Office and enter the patent number.

Patents Awarded (since 1988)
Superconducting thin film fabrication4,929,595
Holographic interconnect system5,056,039
High temperature processing of cuprate oxide superconductors1,339,720
Infrared achromatic retarder4,961,634
Infrared spectopolarimeter5,045,701
Method for separation, recovery and recycling of plastics from municipal solid waste4,844,351
Preparation and use of polyethylene glycol5,252,714
Multi-mode waveguide hologram using non-coherent light5,295,208
Waveguide hologram illuminators5,515,184
Preparation of ceramic metal coatings5,330,826
Chromium alloy electrodeposition & surface fixation of calcium phosphate ceramics5,338,433
Inertia and inductance switches5,334,963
Integrated rainbow hologram5,293,259
Side illuminated multimode waveguide hologram5,465,311
Electro-optical holographic display5,581,378
Waveguide hologram illuminators5,854,697
Method for electro-optically rendering a holographic image5,757,522
Apparatus and method for determining concentration of species in substance5,739,916
Photonic bandgap apparatus and method for delaying photonic signals
Method and apparatus for accurately measuring blood oxygen saturation within a retinal vessel with light having several selected wavelengths5,776,060
Method and apparatus for accurately measuring the transmittance of blood within a retinal vessel5,935,076
Apparatus and method for fluid analysis5,870,185
Microresonator and associated method for producing and controlling photonic signals with a photonic bandgap delay apparatus6,028,693
Modified brushite surface coating, process therefore, and low temperature conversion to hydroxyapatitie6,045,683
Opthalmic optic devices6,000,798
Optical scanning spectroscopic apparatus and associated method6,244,712
Method and apparatus for measuring microgravity acceleration6,244,113
Nickel cobalt phosphorous low stress electroplating6,406,611
Valve having ceramic components and associated fabrication method6,460,559
System and method for performing a defined function on an optical beam6,392,791
Valve having ceramic components and associated fabrication method6,698,715

Patents Pending
Image quality mapper for progressive eyeglasses
Trivalent chromium electroplating compositions and processes
Application and method for displaying an object using real-time in 3 dimensional stereoscopic format
Nickel cobalt phorous low stress electroplating
Full cycle, low cost, low distortion phase modulation from multi-layered dielectric stack with terahertz optical bandwidth
Real time analog creation of holographic fourier transform matched filters
Method and analysis for measuring blood oxygen saturation in a retinal vessel by
preferentially detecting single pass optical signals
Liquid crystal adaptive lens with circular electrodes and related fabrication methods and control methods
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Nucleic acid detector and method of detecting targets within a sample
Waveguide including at least one photonic crystal region for directing signals propagating there through
Crystallization cassette for the growth and analysis of macromolecular crystals and an associated method
Method, system and computer program product for collecting and storing radiation and position data
MEMs mocroelectromechanical system security device and associated method
Waveguide microcantilever with differential optical readout: method of readout: achieving compace waveguide bends and beamsplitters
Microgravity pulling device
Thermally insulating vacuum honeycomb offset panel with radiation shields
Method for optimizing, modeling and synthesizing discrete continuous signals


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