A total of six patents have been registered by a number of research groups at the university over the course of 2020, three of which were submitted this semester. The projects were submitted between May and November and are being led by research teams from the fields of architecture and health sciences (specifically the field of dentistry).
The first patent “Dispositivo y método formador en continuo de tubos compuestos rígidos de geometría variable” was presented by two researchers from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, Vicenç Sarrablo and Oriol Carrasco, alongside Lluís Gil from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC).
Vicenç Sarrablo has also been leading the patent project “Módulo de extensión prefabricado acoplable en voladizo a una fachada de un edificio”, and together with lecturer in architecture Jordi Roviras from UIC Barcelona, applied to register the third architectural patent, "Panel de revestimiento colector y/o emisor de energía térmica", in May.
The first patent project to be submitted in the field of health sciences was “Composition comprising nanoparticles, method for the preparation of a composition comprising nanoparticles and uses of the composition for dental treatment”, by UIC Barcelona researchers Fernando Durán-Sindreu, José A. González, Román Pérez and Firas Elmasmari, and Univeristy of Barcelona (UB) researchers Elena Sánchez y María L. García.
The research group comprising Román Pérez, Barbara Giordano, Fernando Durán-Sindreu and José A. González is developing another patent project under the title “An isoprene-based matrix composition (gutapercha)”, which was submitted in October.
Finally, Xavier Gil and Felipe Arias from UIC Barcelona, alongside María Pau Ginebra, J. M. Manero, Elisa Rupérez, Juan M. Pou, Antonio Riveiro, Rafael Comesaña, Jesús del Val, Fernando Lusquiños and Oscar Barro, all from the UPC, developed the patent “Método de fabricación aditiva para producir estructuras de una aleación de titanio de tipo beta con módulo elástico anisótropo y estructuras así producidas”.
It is worth noting that two of these patents are fruit of the Llavor 2018 funding project, awarded by the Government of Catalonia, and three of them are funded by the FEDER-OTRI project.
*Photo: Archikubik ©Adrià Goula
