Inventions and Patent Applications at UT Reach Record High in 2013 KNOXVILLE – The University of Tennessee Research Foundation recorded an all-time high of 145 invention disclosures and filed a record 87 U.S. patent applications for FY 2013, according to its recently released annual report. The UT Research Foundation (UTRF) is a not-for-profit organization responsible (read more)
Inventions & Patents
UT Receives NSF Award To Commercialize Discovery
KNOXVILLE — Jimmy Mays, a chemistry professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has developed a substance that promises to replace conventional rubber in many products with something that is stronger, greener and easier to recycle. Now he’s joining forces with the College of Business Administration’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to turn his (read more)
UT Technology To Help Detect Deadly Disease
A group of researchers at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville has created technology that provides non-invasive detection of amyloidosis, a disease known to occur in Type 2 diabetes, myeloma, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer’s and other fatal or debilitating diseases. Currently there is no detection for amyloidosis available in the U.S., and (read more)