The following Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty received patent awards at the Patent and Innovation 2015 Awards Luncheon, held May 8 at the Anneberg Presidential Conference Center:
Dara Childs, Ph.D.
Annular Seal for Non-Contact Sealing of Fluids in Turbomachinery
Patent # 8,844,936
Issue Date: 9/30/2014
David E. Claridge, Ph.D.
Charles H. Culp III, Ph.D. (Department of Architecture)
Systems and Methods for Multi-Stage Air Dehumidification and Cooling
Patent # 8,641,806
Issue Date: 2/4/2014
David E. Claridge, Ph.D.
Charles H. Culp III, Ph.D. (Department of Architecture)
Jeffrey Haberl, Ph.D. (Department of Architecture)
System and Method for Efficient Multi-Stage Air Dehumidification and Liquid Recovery
Patent # 8,685,145
Issue Date: 4/1/2014
David E. Claridge, Ph.D.
Charles H. Culp III, Ph.D. (Department of Architecture)
Jeffrey Haberl, Ph.D. (Department of Architecture)
System and Method for Efficient Air Dehumidification and Liquid Recovery with Evaporative Cooling
Patent #8,685,142
Issue Date: 4/1/2014
David E. Claridge, Ph.D.
Charles H. Culp III, Ph.D. (Department of Architecture)
Jeffrey Haberl, Ph.D. (Department of Architecture)
System and Method for Efficient Air Dehumidification and Liquid Recovery
Patent # 8,685,144
Issue Date: 4/1/2014
David Staack, Ph.D.
Plasma Treatment and Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition onto Temperature Sensitive Biological Materials
Patent # 8,920,361
Issue Date: 12/30/2014
Hung-Jue Sue, Ph.D.
Xi Zhang, Ph.D. (Department of Electrical Engineering)
Dispersion and Retrieval of De-Bundled Nanotubes
Patent # 8,894,963
Issue Date: 11/25/2014
Alan Palazzolo, Ph.D
“Shaftless Flywheel”
Patent # 8,633,625
Issue date: 1/21/2015
Co-Inventors Alan Palazzolo, Zhiyang Wang and Randall Tucker.