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Founded in 1836, Cambridge, MA-based MIT admitted its first students in 1865, four years after the approval of its founding charter. The opening marked the culmination of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers, a distinguished natural scientist, to establish a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America.
MIT has one of the most august IP portfolios on the globe, with a total of 894 U.S. patents and patent applications as of this date-- see them here from the most recent.
Most recently MIT won United States Patent Application 20090111734 for COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTING HEMOSTASIS AND OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES on 4/30/2009:
Compositions that include nanoscale structured materials or precursors thereof (e.g., self-assembling peptides) are described. The compositions can include other substances (e.g., a vasoconstrictor). Also described are methods for using the compositions to promote hemostasis, to protect the skin or wounds from contamination, to decontaiminate a site upon removal of previously applied compositions that provided a protective coating, and to inhibit the movement of bodily substances other than blood. The compositions are also useful in isolating tissue, removing tissue, preserving tissue (for, e.g., subsequent transplantation or reattachment), and as bulking, stabilizing or hydrating agents. Medical devices that include the compositions (e.g., a stent or catheter), bandages or other wound dressings, sutures, and kits that include the compositions are also described.
The six inventors are from Massachussets and Hong Kong--
- Ellis-behnke, Rutledge (Canton, MA)
- Zhang, Shuguang (Lexington, MA)
- Schneider, Gerald (Somerville, MA)
- So, Kwok-fai (Hong Kong)
- Tay, David (Hong Kong)
- Liang, Yu-xiang (Hong Kong).
MIT is a leader in robotics, too-- take a look at their "Humanoid Robotics Group" lab here.
See our blog from the last seven days, we highlighted the IP of America's colleges & universities.
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