Inventor Recognition Program

CURRENT MODE CLOCK DISTRIBUTION

Inventors: Matthew Guthaus, Associate Professor Computer Engineering; Riadul Islam (previously PhD Student at UCSC)

In a high-performance computer system design, the clock network consumes a significant amount of power and causes the most switching noise. High power consumption requires larger batteries while switching noise degrades the accuracy of sensitive sensor measurements in modern Systems-on-Chips. Prof. Matthew Guthaus, faculty in Computer Engineering, and his graduate student Riadul Islam, now a faculty at University of Michigan Dearborn, have developed the concept of a current-mode clock distribution to address these problems. Current-mode clocking senses current flow rather than a traditional voltage swing in clock wires and thereby eliminates most of the noise and power problems in traditional clock distribution schemes. Current-mode clocking simultaneously increases the potential maximum speeds of computer chips for performance improvements.

SELF-BIASED AND SUSTAINABLE ELECTROHYDROGENESIS DEVICE

Inventors:

Yat Li, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Hanyu Wang; Gongming Wang

The rapid growth of global population leads to the increasing demand for energy and clean water. Water splitting represents a promising solution for generating hydrogen gas, a clean chemical fuel that can be used in fuel cells. However, fresh water is also a valuable resource for human survival. A better approach would be to use wastewater instead of clean water. This invention describes a microbial-photoelectrochemical device that can simultaneously remove organic waste in the municipal wastewater and recover the wasted energy in organic matters for hydrogen production, with the help of sunlight.  It provides a new solution that can address the need for wastewater treatment and the increasing demand for clean energy.

THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HIV INCLUDING IDENTIFICATION AND MANIPULATION OF PARTICULAR DOMAINS ASSOCIATED WITH IMMUNOGENICITY

Inventors:

Phillip Berman, Distinguished Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Sara O’Rourke, Researcher, Biomolecular Engineering
William Scott, Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

This patent describes HIV viral proteins with engineered mutations. In particular, the engineered mutations help expose antibody epitopes in the viral proteins that raise broadly neutralizing antibody responses, which could in turn result in a more effective HIV vaccine.