Brookhaven Lab's Inventors Honored

January 20, 2015

While Brookhaven National Lab is renowned around the world for the seven Nobel Prizes awarded for work performed here, the Lab is also home to dozens of other innovators who have produced technologies, that they have patented and hope to bring to the marketplace. On Dec. 17, the Lab acknowledged the achievements of inventors whose work has resulted in issued patents in Fiscal Year 2014 or whose work has been the basis for licenses to industry.

Brookhaven received 21 issued patents in FY14. These patents are breakthroughs in all areas of science and include each of the Lab’s directorates. Laboratory Director Doon Gibbs and Associate Lab Director (ALD) for Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Martin Schoonen, ALD for Photon Sciences Steve Dierker, ALD for Nuclear & Particle Physics Berndt Mueller, and Interim ALD for Basic Energy Sciences John Hill participated in honoring some of the many innovators who work here.

The celebration also highlighted some of the inventions that are now commercialized, including life science breakthroughs in growth media technology and the T7 phage display system. In the physical sciences, technologies that have been commercialized include an aerosol analyzer, platinum-coated palladium nanoparticles, and three distinct kinds of fluorometers. Eleven teaching kits sold as products were also copyrighted.

To learn more about Technology Commercialization at the Lab visit: www.bnl.gov/techtransfer/

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