Johns Hopkins has a LOT of patents. But they emanate from two very distinct places, the school founded in 1876 in Baltimore and the Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland.However, they're not easily divisible given how their inventions are recorded with the U.S. Patent Office. Here's the whole list of patents and applications, a total of 1,632.
Here is the Hopkins IP as a short URL-- http://cli.gs/HopkinsIP.
The Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit center for engineering, research, and development. It's on a 399-acre campus, and home to 4,300 men and women. APL recruits the best and the brightest from top colleges, 68% of whom are engineers and scientists. The Lab works on more than 400 programs that protect our homeland and advance the nation's vision in research and space science, at an annual funding level of about $800 million. APL is also designated as a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC).
Johns Hopkins APL recently gave out some Invention awards. They recognized APL engineer Jack Roberts as a “Master Inventor,” joining 21 other past and current APL staff members who hold at least 10 patents. You can see Mr. Roberts' 10 patents here.
Roberts' latest invention (with two co-inventors) is United States Patent 7,413,809 issued on 08/19/2008 titled Impact resistant flexible body device--
An impact resistant device is provided comprising a flexible support matrix and a plurality of energy absorbing elements operatively connected to the support matrix, each element comprising at least one ceramic material and at least one strain rate sensitive material. The impact resistant device can be worn as body armor to protect the wearer from high velocity projectiles.
JHU APL has a superb Office of Technology Transfer, check it out on the web here.
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