Patents

The Biochip Collaborative actively pursues the intellectual property relevant to its research advances and welcomes inquiries for licensing, commercialization, and product and company development. The portfolio includes structures, methods, and advances in biofabrication, microfluidics, biomaterials, and biomolecular assembly and functionalization.

Inquiries should be referred to Professors William Bentley or Gary Rubloff, or to UM Ventures (umventures.org).

Current patents and patent publications include:

  1. " Fabrication and Integration of Polymeric BioMEMS ", U.S. Patent No. 7,375,404, issued May 20, 2008.
  2. " Spatially Selective Deposition of Polysaccharide Layer onto Patterned Template ", U.S. Patent No. 7,790,010, issued Sep. 7, 2010.
  3. " Biolithographical Deposition and Materials and Devices formed therefrom ", U.S. Patent No. 7.820,227, issued Oct. 26, 2010.
  4. " Controlled Electrochemical Deposition of Polysaccharide Films and Hydrogel and Materials Formed Therefrom ", U.S. Patent No. 7,883,615, issued Feb. 8, 2011.
  5. " Assembly of Chitosan onto an Electrode Surface ", Pub. No. US 2007/0172821, 7/26/2007.

Additional patent applications are pending on most recent work.