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UNC currently holds 496 US Patents, contributing to our nations' intellectual capital and making a significant economic and social impact. Our recent US Patents to issue were:

Date IssuedPatent No.Title
Mar. 8, 2011 7,901,674 Aldehyde-Fixed Platelets with Internalized Paramagnetic or Magnetic Nanoparticles 
Mar. 8, 2011 7,902,417 A Dual Catalyst System for Alkane Metathesis 
Mar. 15, 2011 7,906,637 Compositions and Methods for Inducing or Inhibiting Activities of selected human cells 
Mar. 22, 2011 7,913,007 Systems, Methods, and Computer Readable Media for Preemption in Asynchronous Systems Using Anti-Tokens 
Mar. 22, 2011 7,910,716 Process for the selection of HIV-1 subtype C isolates, slected HIV-1 subtype isolates, their genes and modification and derivatives thereof 
Apr. 12, 2011 7,923,436 Methods and Compounds for Controlled Release of Recombinant Parvovirus Vectors 
Apr. 12, 2011 7,923,545 Caterpiller Gene Family 
May 10, 2011 7,939,326 Methods and Compositions for Enhancing Cell Adhesion Properties 
May 31, 2011 7,951,827 Synthesis and Antiprotozoal Activity of Dicationic 3.5 Diphenylisoxazoles 
Feb. 15, 2011 7,887,689 Method and Apparatus for Attaching Nanostructure-Containing Material on a Sharp Tip of an Object and Related Articles
Jan. 11,2011 7,867,484 Heparin and Heparan Sulfate Binding Chimeric Vectors
Jan. 4, 2011 7,862,829 Viral Adjuvants
Dec. 28, 2010 7,858,318 Methods and Compositions for Vitamin K Epoxide Reductase
Dec. 14, 2010 7,851,144 Compositions and Methods for Detecting Cancer
Dec. 7, 2010 7,846,748 Methods of Quantitation and Identification of Peptides and Proteins
Nov. 23, 2010 7,838,531 Farneslytransferase Inhibitors for Treatment of Laminopathies, Cellular Aging and Atherosclerosis
Nov. 2, 2010 7,825,279 Fused Ring Dicationic Anti-Protozoan Agents and Their Products
Nov 2, 2010 7,824,911 Hepatic Stellate Cell Precursors and Methods of Isolating Same
Nov. 2, 2010 7,826,595 Micro-Focus Field Emission X-Ray Sources and Related Methods
Oct. 5, 2010 7,807,400 Methods for identifying chemical Modulators of Ras Superfamily GTPase Activity
Sep. 21, 2010 7,799,526 Phosphoprotein Detection Reagent and Methods of Making and Using The Same
Sep. 14, 2010 7,795,299 Neo-Tanshinlactone and analogs as potent and selective anti-breast cancer
Sep. 7, 2010 7,790,154 Duplexed Parvovirus Vectors
Aug. 24, 2010 7,780,831 Rapid Assay for Detection ov von Willebrand Factor (vWf) Multimers and for Degradation of vWF by Agents such as ADAMTS13
Aug. 10, 2010 7,771,660 Electrophoretic Interactive Spectral Methods and Devices for the Detection and/or Characterization of Biological Particles
Aug. 10, 2010 7,772,458 Animal Model for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cystic Fibrosis
July 6, 2010 7,751,528 Stationary X-Ray Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Systems and Related Methods
June 29, 2010 7,745,456 Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activity of Novel Dicationic "Reversed Amidines"
June 22, 2010 7,742,564 Systems and Methods for Detecting an Image of an Object by Use of an X-Ray Beam Having a Polychromatic Distribution
June 16, 2010 7,727,736 Soluble Phospholipids for use in Clotting Factor Assays
May 25, 2010 7,723,483 Method for Enhancing or Inhibiting Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I
May 25, 2010 7,723,328 Methods of Facilitating Celel Survival Using Neurotrophin Mimetics
May 11, 2010 7,713,949 Compositions and Methods for Enhancing Paracellular Permeability across Epithelial and Endothelial Barriers
May 4, 2010 7,709,535 Novel Curcumin Analogues and Uses Thereof
April 20, 2010 7,700,543 Use of NF-kB Inhibition in Combination Therapy for Cancer
March 30, 2010 7,687,233 Methods and Compositions for the Correlation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Vitamin K Epoxide Reductase Gene and Warfarin Dosage
March 23, 2010 7,682,781 Method of Screening Metabolite of a Parent Candidate Compound for Susceptibility to Biliary Excretion
March 3, 2010 7,671,088 Water-Soluble Etoposide Analogs and Methods of Use Thereof
February 23, 2010 7,666,395 Compounds and Methods for the Treatment of Airway Diseases and for the Delivery of Airway Drugs
February 9, 2010 7,658,989 Nano- and Micro-Cellular Formed Thin-Walled Material, and Processes and Apparatuses for Making the Same
February 9, 2010 7,659,113 Delivery System
January 26, 2010 7,651,998 Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) of Alphavirus Infection
January 12, 2010 7,645,602 Methods and Compositions for Making Vitamin K Dependent Proteins
August 26, 2008 7,417,158 Cationic substituted benzofurans as antimicrobial agents
August 19, 2008 7,413,897 Primitive and proximal hepatic stem cells
August 12, 2008 7,410,999 Compounds, methods and compositions useful for the treatment of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infection and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection
August 12, 2008 7,410,989 Compounds, methods and compositions useful for the treatment of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infection and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection
June 10, 2008 7,385,708 Methods and systems for laser based real-time structured light depth extraction
September 23, 2008 7,427,488 Purified and Isolated Platelet Calcium Channel Nucleic Acids and Polypeptides and Therapeutic Screening Methods Using Same
October 14, 2008 7,435,495 Lliquid Materials for Use in Electrochemical Cells
October 2, 2008 7,442,685 DOT1 Histone Methyltransferases as a Target for Identifying Therapeutic Agents for Leukemia
October 7, 2008 7,432,278 Novel Dicationic Imidazo[1,2-a]Pyridines and 5,6,7,8-Tetrahydo-Imidazo[1,2-a]Pyridines and Antiprotozoal Agents
October 21, 2008 7,439,065

Helper Virus-Free AAV Production

November 4, 2008 7,447,209 Methods, systems, and computer program products for modeling and simulating application-level traffic characteristics in a network based on transport and network layer header information
December 16, 2008 7,465,583 Duplexed parvovirus vectors
January 27, 2009 7,482,141 Methods and compositions for vitamin K epoxide reductase
February 24, 2009 7,495,026 Neo-tanshinlactone and analogs as potent and selective anti-breast cancer agents
April 7, 2009 7,514,674 Octapole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometers
April 7, 2009 7,514,593 Animal Model for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cystic Fibrosis
April 14, 2009 7,517,893 Novel Biochalcophenes and Their Prodrugs as Antiprotozoal Agents
April 28, 2009 7,524,665 Methods and Compositions for Vitamin K Epoxide Reductase
May 12, 2009 7,531,338 Purified and Isolated Heparan Sulfate 3-O-Sulfotransferase Isoform 5 Nucleic Acids and Polypeptides and Therapeutic and Screening Methods Using Same
July 21, 2009 7,563,589 Reconstituted Histone Methyltransferase Complex and Methods of Identifying Modulators Thereof
August 4, 2009 7,569,681 Caterpiller Gene Family
Sept 15, 2009 7,589,066 Potent and Specific Immunoproteasome Inhibitors
Oct 13, 2009 7,601,494 Method of Screening Candidate Compounds for Susceptibility to Biliary Excretion
Oct 20, 2009 7,604,934 Method of Screening Candidate Compounds for Susceptibility to Billary Excretion by Endogenous Transport Systems

UNC also holds10 US Trademarks, representing unique products or applications associated with the activities of UNC-Chapel Hill.  Our 2008 Trademarks to issue were:

Date Issued Trademark No. Title
January 29, 2008 3,375,526 boHP
January 29, 2008 3,375,524 BOHP