February 16, 1995: Vol26n17: Honors for faculty inventors

By LISA WILEY
News Bureau Staff
Twelve inventors on the UB faculty were honored at a reception Feb. 13
in the Center for Tomorrow. Senior Vice Provost Kenneth Levy presented
the awards to the faculty members, recognizing their achievements as
inventors of patented devices, materials or drugs.
	The inventors are authors or co-authors of 11 United States
patents that were received in 1994, according to Kathleen R. Terry,
director of technology transfer at UB.
	In some cases, she noted, the UB faculty members were
co-inventors with colleagues employed by area companies. "I am
particularly pleased," Terry added, "with the number of patents that
have been received jointly with companies in Western New York."
	The UB faculty members are:
	Yong-Chul Shin, a research scientist and project manager in
the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition
(CEDAR), and Ramalingam Sridhar, associate professor of electrical and
computer engineering, inventors of a basic-synapse chip design with
novel four-quadrant operation. Seokjin Kim and Naidu C. R. Bogineni
were co-inventors. 
	Sridhar and Shin also were recognized for inventing a
specialized computer-chip implementation for character recognition and
other general applications.
	 Roger W. Mayne, professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering, inventor of a co-located piezoelectric sensor/actuator
for detecting stress or strain in a structure. Co-inventors were
Jeffrey Dosch and Daniel Inman, a former UB faculty member.
	 Wayne K. Anderson, professor of medicinal chemistry, inventor
of a drug useful as a fungicide, bactericide and as a growth inhibitor
for solid-tumor cancer.
	 Abir Mullick, assistant professor of architecture, inventor
of a sling apparatus useful for transporting the
mobility-disadvantaged into and out of bed. Robert C. Dearstyne was
the co-inventor.
	 Sargur N. Srihari, professor of computer science and director
of CEDAR, inventor of a computer algorithm that allows machines to
"read" human handwriting. Richard K. Fenrich was the co-inventor.
	Nady E. Nady-Mohamed, clinical assistant instructor of
gynecology and obstetrics, inventor of a medical device designed to
provide shielding and/or gripping means during abdominal surgery.
	 Joseph C. Mollendorf, professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering, inventor of a neck brace that is aesthetically pleasing.
Robert M. Catipovic and Lilian A. Pascale were co-inventors.
	 Timothy F. Murphy, professor of medicine and microbiology,
inventor of a vaccine to prevent ear infections in children. Michael
A. Apicella, a former UB faculty member, was co-inventor.
	 Jerome J. Schentag, professor of pharmaceutics, inventor of a
computer-controlled "smart pill," which can be electronically tracked
and instructed to deliver a drug to a predetermined location in the
gastrointestinal tract. David T. D'Andrea was  co-inventor.
	 Ho-Leung Fung, professor and chair of pharmaceutics, and John
A. Bauer, research assistant professor of pharmaceutics, inventors of
a drug that can be used in place of nitroglycerin for cardiovascular
treatments. The drug's improvement over nitroglycerin is that patients
do not develop tolerance or experience headaches.