Pitt innovators were issued 14 U.S. patents in April 2025.
Featured patent: 12,285,235: Touch Probe Passively Powered Wireless Stent Antenna for Implanted Sensor Powering and Interrogation
Pitt innovators have developed and prototyped “smart” stents capable of wirelessly reporting the degree of restenosis, or re-narrowing of an artery, alerting the patient to the need for a hospital visit before damage due to heart attack, blood clot, or aneurysm can occur. For more information on this technology, including licensing, contact us at partner@pitt.edu.
Below is a listing of all patents issued to Pitt innovators in April 2025. You can also search all Pitt technologies available for licensing.
| Patent Number |
Title | Inventor(s) | Licensing Manager | Status | |||
| 12,269,866 | Compositions and Methods for the Treatment of Carboxyhemoglobinemia | Mark Gladwin; Jesus Bravo | Maria Vanegas | Licensed | |||
| 12,283,654 | Cathodes and Electrolytes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries and Methods of Manufacture | Moni Datta; Prashant Kumta; Ayyakkannu Manivannan ; Partha Saha | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,285,235 | Touch Probe Passively Powered Wireless Stent Antenna for Implanted Sensor Powering and Interrogation | Michael Gimbel; Michael Rothfuss; Ervin Sejdic | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,280,195 | Expandable Percutaneous Cannula | Vinay Badhwar; Antonio D’Amore; Daniel McKeel; William Wagner | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,268,773 | Shear Thinning Therapeutic Composition, and Related Methods | Xiaochu Ding; Jin Gao; Yadong Wang | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,280,075 | Ultrasound-Guided Retetestis Injection/Aspiration Device | Kyle Orwig; Hanna Pulaski | Maria Vanegas | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,285,545 | Regeneration of Vital Tooth Pulp | Jingming Chen; Patrick Donnelly; Herbert Ray; Tyler Swenson; Juan Taboas | Janice Panza | Optioned | |||
| 12,280,112 | Magnetic Delivery System and Hydrogel Fixative for Therapeutic Cells | Yogev Baruch; Kory Blose; Timothy Chung; John Curci; Trevor Kickliter; Aneesh Ramaswamy; David Vorp; Justin Weinbaum | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,286,442 | Methods and Materials for Increasing Transcription Factor EB Polypeptide Levels | Beibei Chen; Toren Finkel; Yuan Liu | Maria Vanegas | Licensed | |||
| 12,263,270 | Acoustic Extracellular Matrix Hydrogels and Their Use | Stephen Badylak; George Hussey | Alex Ducruet | Licensed | |||
| 12,286,589 | Method of Oil Recovery Using Compositions of Carbon Dioxide and Compounds to Increase Water Wettability of Formations | Dustin Crandall; Robert Enick; Angela Goodman; Deepak Tapriyal | Janice Panza | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,262,985 | Optimizing Magnetic Resonance Imaging Protocols for Increased Speed | Rafael Ceschin; Vanessa Schmithorst | Connor Perryman | Available for Licensing | |||
| 12,266,445 | System and Method for Characterizing Cellular Phenotypic Diversity From Multi-Parameter Cellular and Sub-Cellular Imaging Data | Srinivas Chennubhotla; Samantha Furman; Filippo Pullara | Tara Branstad | Licensed | |||
| 12,272,071 | Scalable and High Precision Context-Guided Segmentation of Histological Structures Including Ducts/Glands and Lumen, Cluster of Ducts/Glands, and Individual Nuclei in Whole Slide Images of Tissue Samples from Spatial Multiparameter Cellular and Sub-Cellular Imaging Platforms | Srinivas Chennubhotla; Om Choudhary; Jeffrey Fine; Akif Tosun | Tara Branstad | Licensed |