PULLMAN, Wash. – Faculty who were awarded patents in 2011 will be among the honorees at the annual Showcase celebration of employee excellence on Friday, March 30. Those faculty, and their patents, are:
Kelvin Lynn, compositions of doped, co-doped and tri-doped semiconductor materials.
Kelvin Lynn, semiconductive materials and associated uses thereof.
Cornelius Ivory, vortex-stabilized electrophoretic devices and methods.
Orest Pilskalns, strategies for annotating digital maps.
Zhihua Jiang and Jennifer Michal, polymorphisms in fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) gene and their associations with measures of marbling and subcutaneous fat depth in beef cattle.
Zhihua Jiang and Jennifer Michal, urotensin 2 and its receptor as candidate genes for beef marbling score, ribeye area and fatty acid composition.
Zhihua Jiang and Jennifer Michal, association of UQCRC1 SNPS with fat deposition and fatty acid composition.
Craig Frear and Shulin Chen, combined nutrient recovery and biogas scrubbing system integrated in series with animal manure anaerobic digester.
Craig Frear and Shulin Chen, heterotrophic algal high cell density production method and system.
Joseph Harding and John Wright, C-met receptor regulation by angiotensin IV (AT4) receptor ligands.
David Bahr, energy converters and associated methods.
Vaithianathan Venkatasubramanian, systems and methods for electromechanical oscillation monitoring.
Bruce Barritt, apple tree named “WA 2.”
Kimberlee Kidwell, “Diva” soft white spring wheat.
Kimberlee Kidwell, “Diva” soft white spring wheat.
Kimberlee Kidwell, “Babe” soft white spring wheat.
Kimberlee Kidwell, “JD” soft white spring club wheat.
Patrick Moore, “Cascade Bounty” raspberry.
Patrick Moore, “Cascade Dawn” raspberry.