Patents and Licensing Opportunities
NIA’s research staff is actively working to advance the state-of-the-art of all aspects of aerospace science and technology. This work includes inventing such things as new materials for aircraft structures, energy conversion, sensing, and actuation, new methodologies for testing aerospace components, maintaining the safety of the National Air Space, and many others. NIA makes its intellectual property available through the licensing process.
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Patent No. | Date Issued | Title | NIA Inventor(s) | Other Inventor(s) |
| 7,415,876 | 8/26/2008 | Pressure sensor system | Hubbard, Jr., J.* | Pullen; D. |
| 7,446,459 | 11/4/2008 | Hybrid Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Transducer System | Xu, T-B.* | Jiang, X.; Su; J.; Rehrig, P.; Hackenberger,W. |
| 7,510,802 | 3/31/2009 | Multilayer Ferritin Array for Bionanobattery | Chu, S-H.*; Kim, J-W.; Park, Y. | Choi, S.; Lillehei, P.; King, G.; Elliott, Jr., J. |
| 7,666,939 | 2/23/2010 | Dispersions of carbon nanotubes in polymer matrices | Park, C. | Wise, K.*; Siochi, E.; Harrison, J.; Lillehei, P.; Lowther, S. |
| 7,704,553 | 4/27/2010 | Depositing nanometer-sized particles of metals onto carbon allotropes | Watson, K.*; Ghose, S. | Fallbach, M.; Smith, J.; Delozier, D.; Connell, J. |
| 8,083,986 | 12/27/2011 | Fabrication of Advanced Thermoelectric Materials by Hierarchical Nanovoid Generation | Park, Y.; Chu, S-H.; Kim, J-W. | Choi, S.*; Elliott, J.; King, G. Kim; Lillehei, P.; Stoakley, D. |
| 8,529,825 | 9/10/2013 | Fabrication of nanovid-Imbedded Bismuth Telluride with Low Dimensional System | Chu, S-H.*; Choi, S.H.; Kim, J-W.; Park, Y. | Elliott, J.R.; King, G.C.; Stoakley, D.M. |
| 8,680,749 | 3/24/2014 | Piezoelectric Multi-Layer-Stacker Hybrid Actuation/TransductionSystem | Xu, T-B.* | Jiang, X.; Su, J. |
| 9,137,883 | 9/15/2015 | Robust, Flexible and Lightweight Dielectric Barrier Discharge Actuators Using Nanofoams/Aerogels | Sauti, G.*; Xu, T-B. | Siochi, E.J.; Wilkinson, S.P.; Meador, M.B.; Guo, H.N. |
| EPO: 10-159441 | 1/28/2016 | Boron Nitride Nanotubes | Smith, M.W.; Jordan, K.; Park, C. | |
| * Lead Inventor | ||||