Today, we’re thrilled to commemorate a pivotal moment in our company’s history as we reflect on one of our earliest issued patents, USPP502P, from Brooks D. Drain, a researcher at the UT Agricultural Experiment Station, for a groundbreaking variety of strawberry plant! This novel variety represents a significant advancement in strawberry cultivation, boasting a myriad (read more)
UTRF News
Inventor Spotlight: Robert Trigiano
UTRF is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2024. As part of this celebration, UTRF will highlight some of its long-term partnerships with UT inventors and startups in the coming months. One founder is Robert Trigiano, UT Knoxville Chancellor’s Professor and UTIA Institute Professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the UT Institute (read more)
UTRF Welcomes Three New Interns and One Returning Intern
To promote the commercialization of UT’s innovations and to help train the next generation of commercialization professionals, UTRF recently welcomed three new interns and one returning intern across its Knoxville and Memphis offices. In Knoxville, Andrea Gutierrez-Cortez and Lauren Williams, rising second-year law students at UT Knoxville, joined the team as Commercialization Analysts. Jacob Hale (read more)