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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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The Committee on Patents of the Board of Trustees has examined the disclosure documents and other background materials related to these inventions and recommends approval. 1. Aqueous Shunt for Treatment of Glaucoma — Gholam A. Peyman, Professor of Ophthalmology and Physician/Surgeon, Donald R. May, Instructor in Ophthalmology, and Eric S. Ericson, Clinical Associate in Ophthalmology, Medical Center, inventors. On October 18, 1972, the rights of the University were transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation for development and possible patent application. O n behalf of the Foundation, University Patents, Inc. ( U P I ) , explored possibilities of the idea and reported on December 30, 1975, that U P I had been unsuccessful in furthering the idea and was abandoning any further efforts on the idea. The principal inventor, when made aware of this development, asked that patent rights be released to the inventors. In a meeting on August 5, 1976, the Foundation transferred its rights back to the University. It is recommended that the rights of the University in this idea be released to the inventors. 1. Field Gradient Separation of Isotopes — Henry Merkelo, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana, inventor. 3. Antigen-containing Synthetic Particle as an Antibody Assay Device — Irving F. Miller (50 percent), Professor of Chemical Engineering in Bioengineering and in Energy Engineering and Head of the Bioengineering Program, and Ljubomir Djordjevich (50 percent), formerly Lecturer in Bioengineering, Chicago Circle, inventors. 1 4. Passive Millimeter-wave Inverted Strip Dielectric Waveguide Components — Tatsuo Itoh, formerly Senior Research Engineer in Electrical Engineering and in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Army. 5. Fixed Bacterial Suspensions — Marius C. Teodorescu (40 percent), Associate Professor of Microbiology, Eugene P. Mayer (30 percent), Assistant Professor of Microbiology, and Sheldon Dray (30 percent), Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department, Medical Center, inventors. University Patents, Inc., reports that items 2 through 5 are patentable and commercially feasible. T h e concept disclosed in item 4 would be added to an idea previously transferred to the Foundation. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of the University in these four items be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, subject to the rights of the sponsors, if any. The committee also recommends that the Foundation distribute to the inventors 15 percent of net income received by the Foundation, after payment of any costs and expenses of securing a patent and of development and administration. In ideas involving multiple inventors, the parties involved have agreed to share the distributed income in the percentages shown after each name. 6. A Technique and System for Eliminating Plasma Noise — Larry F. Weber, Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Urbana, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy. 7. Polymer Membrane Electret for Storage of Electrical Energy — Irving F. Miller, Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Bioengineering Program and in Energy Engineering and Head of the Bioengineering Program, Chicago Circle, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. 8. Scanning Lens — W. F . Richards, formerly Instructor in Electrical Engineering, Urbana, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the Aerospace Corporation. University Patents, Inc., recommends that rights in items 6 through 8 not be

1 Dr. William Oberhardt of the Technicon Corporation is also a joint inventor and will be so named in the patent application.