UCLA Engineering: UCLA Engineer Fall 2004

2003-04 Patents

Electrical engineering professor Bahran Jalali was jointly awarded a patent for a method and apparatus for arbitrary waveform generation using photonics.

Jack W. Judy, electrical engineer professor, was jointly awarded a patent for a method and apparatus for ex vivo and in vivo cellular electroporation of gene, protein or drug therapy.

Electrical engineering professors William Kaiser and Gregory Pottie were jointly awarded a patent for a method for collecting data using compact internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS).

Carlo Montemagno, bioengineering professor and chair, was jointly awarded a patent for a nanosyringe array and method.

Majid Sarrafzadeh, computer science professor, was jointly awarded a patent for a method and system for progressive clock tree or mesh construction concurrently with physical design.

Electrical engineering professor John D. Villasenor was jointly awarded patents for error resilient video coding using reversible variable length codes, adaptive multiplexing/demultiplexing method and multiplexer/demultiplexer therefor, and video CODEC method in error resilient mode and apparatus therefor.

Ya-Hong Xie, materials science and engineering professor, was awarded a patent for an approach for reducing dislocation density in GaN and related alloy crystalline thin films.