UCLA Engineering: UCLA Engineer Magazine

Patents
16 patents were awarded to UCLA Engineering faculty in 2005-06.

Professor M-C Frank Chang, electrical engineering, was jointly awarded a patent for a CMOS imager having a JFET adapted to detect photons and produce an amplified electrical signal.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Robert T. M’Closkey and Eugene Grayver PhD ’00 were jointly awarded a patent for integrated low power digital gyro control electronics.

Professor Qibing Pei, materials science and engineering, was jointly awarded patents for electroactive polymers, electroactive polymer devices for moving fluid, and electroactive polymers transducers and actuators.

Professor Miodrag Potkonjak, computer science, was awarded a patent for a method and systems for identification of circuits and circuit design. He also was jointly awarded patents for a multiresolution Viterbi decoding technique and design and optimization methods for integrated circuits.

Electrical engineering chair Ali Sayed and Nabil R.Yousef PhD ’01 were awarded a patent for a method and apparatus for resolving multipath components for wireless location finding.

Professor Stefano Soatto, computer science, was awarded a patent for a method and system for selecting and designing eyeglass frames.

Electrical engineering professor Mihaela van der Schaar was jointly awarded a patent for a method and apparatus for a reconfigurable multimedia system.

Professor John Villasenor, electrical engineering, was jointly awarded a patent for a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless packet.

Electrical engineering professor Kang L. Wang and Jianlin Liu PhD ’03 were awarded a patent for relaxed SiGe films by surfactant mediation. Wang also was jointly awarded a patent for a horizontal current bipolar transistor and fabrication method.

Adjunct electrical engineering professor Ming Wu and Pei Yu Chiou MS ’04 were awarded a patent for systems and methods for optical actuation of microfluidics based on opto-electrowetting.

Professor Ya-Hong Xie, materials science and engineering, was awarded a patent for a method for fabricating shallow trenches.

Materials science and engineering professor Yang Yang, researcher Liping Ma, and Jie Liu PhD ’01 were awarded a patent for organic bistable device and organic memory cells.