In recent years, the University of Vermont has seen a dramatic increase in its intellectual property and technology transfer activity. Out of 80 patent applications filed since 1979, 34 were filed from 2005 through 2007.
In the last three fiscal years, OTT signed 28 licenses with diverse local, regional, national, and international companies. At the current rate, the number of licenses signed in FY '08 should double those in FY '07.
The Technology Transfer Office understands that successful collaboration is based on the merging of cultural and intellectual objectives, as well as reasonable economic expectations. Timely response to licensing activity is a core competency that has been developed over time and is a constant focus of our improvement efforts.
Our unique networking situation enables us to combine technologies from a variety of sources. This allows the technologies to reach critical mass and increases the probability that each will achieve its full potential.
Intracranial Pressure Device, William Lakin & Paul Penar
Pre-Seed Award
A recording device for monitoring and predicting changes in the intracranial pressure of brain injury patients.
Plomics, Inc., David Krag
Pre-Seed & Innovations Awards
A VCET company offering a proprietary, online information and collaboration system for breast cancer specialists.
TeleMedTest, Peter Zvara
Pre-Seed Award & Candidate for Innovations Award
A biotechnology company offering SonoUroFlow, a telephone-based sound recording technology used to monitor and analyze urine flow rate in patients.
Colon Cancer Diagnostic, RIchard Fiskel
Licensed to numerous diagnostic companies and used on patients today.
VTrim, Jean Harvey-Bernino
Pre-Seed & Innovations Awards
A scientifically validated online weight management program.
PhosphoReduc, Aleksandra Drizo
Pre-Seed & Innovations Awards
A wastewater phosphorus removal system that offers low cost, flexibility, and high efficiency.
Electrostatic Particle Exposure System, Gioseppe Petrucci
Pre-Seed Award
A device that accurately, quantitatively, and reproducibly exposes cell cultures to controlled quantities of aerosol particles, with applications in environmental monitoring and control.
Vermont Soy, Ming Ruo Guo
Pre-Seed Award
A program focused on the optimization of soy quality and growing methods in Vermont, using two experimental sites.
Functional Foods, Ming Ruo Guo
Pre-Seed Award
Symbiotic beverages that incorporate the nutrition of milk and the health benefits of prebiotics and probiotics.
Environmentally-Safe Pesticide, Scott Costa
A whey-based microfactory system that may make non-toxic fungal management of biological pests economically viable.
MicroGen, Jun-Ru Wu & Robert Adosca
Pre-Seed & Innovations Awards
This nano-cantilever design for devices used in wireless sensor networks can be installed in lighting systems to eliminate the cost of hard-wire retrofitting of buildings.
Self-Healing Cable, Dryver Huston
A conductor coating that reacts to abrasion by releasing a material at the abrasion site that hardens and toughens in response to moisture.
Disposable TIRFM System, Guy Kennedy
Candidate for Pre-Seed Award
An disposable microscope slide that offers an inexpensive way to gain the benefits of total internal reflected fluorescence microscopy.