Notre Dame Licenses 8 Technologies Developed by Electrical Engineering Faculty
November 10, 2022
One of the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame’s primary missions is to commercialize the inventions that emerge from faculty research. The commercialization process moves faculty discoveries into the marketplace and into the hands of those who need them. An essential component of this is licensing inventions to outside companies. During fiscal year 2022, 19 technologies developed by Notre Dame faculty were licensed to companies. These licenses were executed through a record-breaking 14 license agreements, exceeding the previous record of 13 set in 2018. Eleven of the 19 technologies were licensed to new Notre Dame startups, six were licensed to outside companies, and two were licensed to previously announced Notre Dame startups.
“We’re thrilled with the increase in the number of Notre Dame technologies being licensed to outside companies,” said Kelley Rich, Notre Dame’s interim vice president, and associate provost for innovation. “Each executed agreement represents at least one novel faculty idea taking a great leap forward in terms of it being able to reach the marketplace and ultimately change people’s lives.”
Eight of the 19 licensed Notre Dame technologies were developed by the College of Engineering faculty. Congratulations to the following EE faculty for their achievements, several of whom are Wireless Institute (WI) affiliates.
- Gary Bernstein
- John Chisum – WI Affiliate
- Patrick Fay – WI Affiliate
- Doug Hall
- Bert Hochwald – WI Affiliate
- Anthony Hoffman
- Scott Howard – WI Affiliate
- Rob Kossler
- Nick Laneman – WI Affiliate
- Tom O’Sullivan – WI Affiliate
- Alexi Orlov
- Wolfgang Porod
- Tom Pratt – WI Affiliate
- Ken Sauer
- Alan Seabaugh
Author: Nicholas Swisher
To learn more about the IDEA Center and the Commercialization Engine, visit https://ideacenter.nd.edu/commercialization-engine/.