Most Impactful Faculty Inventors of 2020 (Fiscal Year)

Office of Technology Commercialization


A. Product on the Market in FY20 and Years Prior with College of Engineering IP Licensed from Purdue Research Foundation

Charles Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Ernest Blatchley

Lyles School of Civil Engineering & Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Charles Bouman

Electrical and Computer Engineering & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Andrew Brightman

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Srinivasan Chandrasekar

Industrial Engineering

Eugenio Culurciello

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Sherry Harbin

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & Basic Medical Sciences

Daniel Hirleman

Mechanical Engineering

Y. Charlie Hu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Klod Kokini

Mechanical Engineering

Bob McCullouch

Construction Engineering and Management

Zoltan Nagy

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Eric Nauman

Mechanical Engineering & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

J. Paul Robinson

Basic Medical Sciences & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Bernard Tao

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Nien-Hwa Linda Wang

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

George Wodicka

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Wenbin Yu

Aeronautics and Astronautics


B. New License Signed with an Existing Company in FY20 for College of Engineering IP

Eugenio Culurciello

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

J. Paul Robinson

Basic Medical Sciences & Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

You-Yeon Won

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Yuehwern Yih

Industrial Engineering


C. New FY20 College of Engineering Startups Based on Purdue Intellectual Property

QCML Labs

Supriyo Datta
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Neurava LLC

Pedro Irazoqui
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering &
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Leafspec Ag Technologies LLC

Jian Jin
Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Maijker Corp

Martin Byung-Guk Jun
Mechanical Engineering

Aizenn Inc.

Byunghoo Jung
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cryptomed LLC
Hemachrome LLC

Young Kim
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

OmniVis LLC

Tamara Kinzer-Ursem
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Rescue Biomedical LLC

Hyowon Lee
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

OmniVis LLC

Jacqueline Linnes
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Aizenn Inc.

Kaushik Roy
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Al-Medic LLC

Juan Wachs
Industrial Engineering

OmniVis LLC

Steven Wereley
Mechanical Engineering

Vision Express Inc.

Song Zhang
Mechanical Engineering


D. Issued US Patents in FY20 from the College of Engineering with a Corporate Partner

Jan Allebach

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Color Table Compression ∙ 10,341,533
Printing Device Supply Component ∙ 10,356,285
Generating an Object Map from a Plurality of Binary Images ∙ 10,460, 219
Assigning Halftone Screens Based on Color and Content ∙ 10,530,967
Printing Device Supply Component ∙ 10,498,931
Printing Device Component ∙ 10,630,868
Printing Device Supply Component ∙ 10,574,862
Color Table Compression ∙ 10,674,043

Vaneet Aggarwal

Industrial Engineering

Method and System for Scalable Video Streaming ∙ 10,674,166

Joerg Appenzeller

Electrical and Computer Engineering

A Phase Transition Based Resistive Random-Access Memory ∙ 10,505,109

David Corti

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Aqueous Ink Composition ∙ 10,696,044

Supriyo Datta

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Single Nanomagnet Memory Device for Magnetic Random Access Memory Applications ∙ 10,497,416

Elias Franses

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Aqueous Ink Composition ∙ 10,696,044

Pedro Irazoqui

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Optical Pressure Treatment through Electrical Stimulation ∙ 10,493,274
High-Resolution, Selective and Self-Optimizing Haptic and Electrotactile Display and Methods of Use ∙ 10,517,791

Ernesto Marinero

Materials Engineering

Single Nanomagnet Memory Device for Magnetic Random Access Memory Applications ∙ 10,497,416

Guillermo Paniagua

Mechanical Engineering

Tip Structure for a Turbine Blade with Pressure Side and Suction Side Rails ∙ 10,533,429

Kinam Park

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering & Industrial and Physical Pharmacy

Collagen-Binding Synthetic Peptidoglycans, Preparation, and Methods of Use ∙ 10,689,425

Minghao Qi

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Optical Coupler Having Exposed Subwavelength Gratings for Coupling Electromagnetic Field ∙ 10,444,434

Amy Reibman

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Color Table Compression ∙ 10,341,533
Printing Device Supply Component ∙ 10,356,285
Generating an Object Map from a Plurality of Binary Images ∙ 10,460, 219
Assigning Halftone Screens Based on Color and Content ∙ 10,530,967
Printing Device Supply Component ∙ 10,498,931
Printing Device Component ∙ 10,630,868
Printing Device Supply Component ∙ 10,574,862
Color Table Compression ∙ 10,674,043

Kaushik Roy

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electronic Comparison Systems ∙ 10,476,487

Matthew Ward

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

High-Resolution, Selective and Self-Optimizing Haptic and Electrotactile Display and Methods of Use ∙ 10,517,791

You-Yeon Won

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Polymer Lung Surfactants ∙ 10,485,820