Licensing

A portion of New Renaissance Institute's research and development is of immediate commercial relevance and as such is submitted for patenting. The purpose of these patents is two-fold:

  • To provide licensing revenue to fund NRI's future research, particularly in highly academic areas that would be otherwise difficult to support, and
  • To provide contractual centerpiece and formal structure for licensing arrangements and technology transfer.

A wide range of patent licensing terms are available. Technology transfer packages range from simple patent and trade secret licensing to more formal reference designs and support services made by special arrangement to formalized joint development agreements. In these, New Renaissance Institute offers no legally binding guarantees and indemnifications, nor does it accept any legal liability.

New Renaissance Institute's patent status as of April 10, 2007 is as follows:

  • 26 issued patents (all US)
  • 29 pending published applications (all US, many with foreign filing options still active)
  • 22 pending unpublished applications (all US, most with foreign filing options still active)
  • A number of additional patent applications in preparation

The current portfolio of issued patents and pending patent applications relate pertain to technologies in the following areas:

  • Physical Optics for Light and Particle Beams
  • Monolithic Optical Processors
  • User Interfaces Providing Large Numbers of Simultaneously Controlled Parameters
    • 6D (x, y, pressure, roll, pitch, yaw) Touchpads and Touchscreens
    • Advanced mice
  • Sensor Technologies
  • Reconfigurable Lab-on-a-Chip (RLOC) Technologies
  • System-on-a-Chip (SOIC) Technologies
  • Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics
  • Nanotechnologies
  • Electronic Musical Instruments
  • Music and Stage Performance Technologies
  • Music Signal Processing and Control Signal Derivation
  • Parameter Extraction From Detected Dynamic Patterns
  • New Computation Technologies

Addition patents in preparation include technologies in the following areas:

  • Bioorganic Chemistry and Enzymomatics
  • Chemionics
  • Reactive Distillation R&D tools
  • Laboratory glassware apparatus
  • Dynamical systems control
  • Signal Representation
  • Data Visualization and Sonification
  • Environmental GIS.