2006 Issued Patents
The following U.S. patents were issued to University of Virginia inventors in 2006:
| Issue Date | Patent No. | Patent Title | Inventor(s) |
| 03/21/06 | 7,014,889 | Process and Apparatus for Plasma Activated Depositions in a Vacuum | James F. Groves, Ph.D., Derek D. Hass, Ph.D., Haydn N.G. Wadley, Ph.D., Goesta Mattausch, Ph.D., Henry Morgner, Ph.D., Siegfried Schiller |
| 03/28/06 | 7,019,112 | Peptides Recognized by Melanoma-Specific A1-, A2- and A3-restricted Cytoxic Lymphocytes, and Uses Therefor | Craig L. Slingluff Jr., M.D., Donald F. Hunt, Ph.D., Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Ph.D., Andrea L. Cox, M.D., Ph.D.,Victor H. Engelhard, Ph.D., David J. Kittlesen, Ph.D., Jonathan C. Skipper, Ph.D., Ronald C. Hendrickson, Ph.D. |
| 03/28/06 | 7,019,027 | 2-Amino-3-Aroyl-4,5 Alkylthiophenes: Agonist Allosteric Enhancers at Human A1 Adenosine Receptors | Joel M. Linden, Ph.D., Ray A. Olsson, M.D., Peter J. Scammells, Ph.D. |
| 04/11/06 | 7,025,425 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for the Evaluation of Glycemia Control in Diabetes from Self-monitoring Data | Boris P. Kovatchev, Ph.D., Daniel J. Cox, Ph.D. |
| 04/11/06 | 7,026,167 | Systems and Methods for the Analysis of Protein Phosphorylation | Donald F. Hunt, Ph.D., Forest M. White, Ph.D., Scott B. Ficarro, Ph.D. |
| 04/11/06 | 7,026,358 | Oral General Anesthetics and Metabolitically Resistant Anticonvulsants | Milton L. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 04/25/06 | 7,034,533 | Method and System for Rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Gases with Reduced Diffusion-induced Signal Loss | John P. Mugler III, Ph.D., James R. Brookeman, Ph.D. |
| 06/20/06 | 7,064,217 | Agonists and Antagonists of Sphingosine-1-phosphate Receptors | Timothy L. Macdonald, Ph.D., Kevin R. Lynch, Ph.D. |
| 06/27/06 | 7,067,020 | Bulk-solidifying High Manganese Non-ferromagnetic Amorphous Steel Alloys and Related Method of Using and Making the Same | S. Joseph Poon, Ph.D., Gary J. Shiflet, Ph.D., Vijayabarathi Ponnambalam |
| 07/04/06 | 7,070,398 | Axial-Flow Blood Pump with Magnetically Suspended, Radially and Axially Stabilized Impeller | Paul E. Allaire, Ph.D., Houston G. Wood III, Ph.D., Ronald Kipp, Wei Jiang, Ph.D., Zongli Lin, Ph.D., Guoxin Li, Ph.D., Don B. Olsen, M.D. |
| 08/22/06 | 7,094,547 | Sperm Specific Proteins | Zhonglin Hao, M.D., Ph.D., John C. Herr, Ph.D., Friederike L. Jayes, Ph.D., Jagathpala Shetty, Ph.D., Michael J. Wolkowicz, Ph.D. |
| 09/19/06 | 7,110,921 | Method for Designing a Profile Die for Polymer Extrusion | James J. Kauzlarich, Ph.D. |
| 10/24/06 | 7,125,550 | Human Sperm Specific Lysozyme-Like Proteins | John C. Herr, Ph.D., Arabinda Mandal, Ph.D., Friederike L. Jayes, Ph.D., Jagathpala Shetty, Ph.D., Michael J. Wolkowicz, Ph.D. |
| 10/31/06 | 7,129,057 | Human Testis Specific Serine/Threonin Kinase 3 | John C. Herr, Ph.D., Pablo E. Visconti, Ph.D., Zhonglin Hao, M.D., Ph.D., Gregory S. Kopf, Ph.D. |