The C3RP office, under the direction of the Research and Graduate Program Office, facilitates and enhances the transfer of intellectual property, resources, and information between Cal Poly and the business community in an effort to improve the commercial value of inventions and creative work from the University and to make this intellectual property available to the public.

For more detailed information on the technologies available for licensing at Cal Poly follow the link in the title-description.

Department Patent Number Title - Description Date of Patent
Mechanical Engineering 7,249,923

6,955,513

 Flexible fastener - Fastener that can be used in many applications to connect or tighten, where two holes are not aligned, or where movement between the two objects is desired. July 31, 2007

October 18, 2005
Biology 6,180,147 Butterfly Diet - A semi-artificial diet for monarch butterfly larvae. January 30, 2001
Biology 6,058,878 Butterfly Rearing Method -  Method of breeding non-contaminated butterflies. Establishes and maintains Lepidoptera which are free of contamination. May 9, 2000
Mechanical Engineering 6,032,545 Thrust Vector Nozzle Flow Bench - Mechanical apparatus for testing thrust on a rocket or jet engine for better performance. March 7, 2000
Biology  5,457,041 Needle array and method of introducing biological substances into living cells using the needle array - Donated from SAIC October 10, 1995
Biology 5,270,644 Magnetometer for use in the in-situ measurement of magneto-tactic bacteria in aquatic environments and method of using same for predicting aquatic hypoxia - Donated from SAIC December 14, 1993
Computer Science 5,265,178 Fiber optic data communication system - Donated from SAIC November 23, 1993
Computer Science 4,996,663 Methods and apparatus for decontaminating hash tables - Donated from SAIC February 26, 1991
Computer Science 4,996,685 Technique for dynamically changing an ISDN connection during a host session - Donated from SAIC February 26, 1991
Dairy Science 5,445,845 Cheese making process August 29, 1995
Dairy Science 5,573,806 California cooking cheese November 12, 1996
Physics Patent Pending Optical method for measuring velocity using a dynamic grating NA
Chemistry & Biochemistry Patent Pending Shear-induced alignment of nanoparticles in coatings - method for distributing nanoparticles on substrate surfaces. NA
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Patent Pending Procedure for RFID tagging of reusable plastic containers NA
Chemistry and Biochemistry Patent Pending Atomic Tiles; A learning platform for Lewis Dot theory - Atomic tiles are a novel platform for teaching basic covalent bonding theory. Elements are fashioned into tiles with Lewis Dot theory incorporated into each tile. NA
Electrical Engineering Patent Pending Multi-Phase DC-DC Converter with bypass capacitor NA
Electrical Engineering Patent Pending Automated Consensus-based data verification method for highway detector testing NA
Animal Science Patent Pending Lycopene incorporation into egg yolks - Method to facilitate absorption of dietary lycopene, and subsequent incorporation into egg yolks of laying hens. NA
Animal Science Patent Pending Duck Feeding System - Method for the induction of fatty liver in ducks and geese and for production of foie gras, without need for force-feeding. NA
Material Engineering & Biochemistry Patent Pending Polymeric Splint - Instant mechanical/chemical splint for limbs. NA
Material Engineering & Biochemistry Patent Pending Rapid-Setting Polyurethane NA
 

For more information about these technologies please contact:

Jim Dunning
C3RP Project Administrator
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel 805-756-5551
Fax 805-756-1725
jdunning@calpoly.edu