Five Department Faculty Issued Patents in 2011

Five Chemistry and Biochemistry department faculty were issued United States patents in 2011 and were honored recently at the inaugural UT Austin Inventor of the Year award ceremony, sponsored by the UT Office of Technology Commercialization.  Brad Holliday, Alan Cowley, and Richard Jones were each inventors on a US patent titled, "Polymer-nanoparticle compositions and methods of making and using same." Grant Willson ("Image and part recognition technology" and "Compositions for dark-field polymerization and method of using the same for imprint lithography processes") and Brent Iverson ("Isolation of binding proteins with high affinity to ligands" and "Antibodies with increased affinities for anthrax antigens") were each inventors on two US patents issued in 2011.