On Feb. 13, Fermilab recognized 31 laboratory employees who received patents or filed records of invention in 2017, honoring them with the Fermilab Inventor Awards.
Five patents were issued to Fermi Research Alliance LLC in 2017.
Office of Partnerships and Technology Transfer Manager Cherri J. Schmidt hosted the awards ceremony and presented the awards. Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer, Fermilab Chief Operating Officer Tim Meyer and DOE Fermi Site Office Deputy Manager Mark Bollinger all spoke at the event.
Kevin Soules, associate at OL Patents, an intellectual property law firm, presented a special lecture titled “Innovation and Patents: From Practical to Peculiar.”
A reception followed the ceremony.
Conduction cooling systems for linear accelerator cavities
Patent no. 9,642,239
Robert Kephart
Mike Weis, Yvacheslav Yakovlev, Timergali Khabiboulline, Ivan Gonin, Nigel Lockyer
Superconducting multicell trapped mode deflecting cavity
Patent no. 9,786,464
Ivan Gonin
Timergali Khabiboulline
Andrei Lunin (not pictured)
Vyacheslav Yakovlev
Alexander Zholents (not pictured)
Mike Weis, Tom Zimmerman, Farah Fahim, Nigel Lockyer
Wafer scale pixilated detector system
Patent no. 9,794,499
Grzegorz Deptuch (not pictured)
Farah Fahim
Tom Zimmerman
Nigel Lockyer, Arden Warner, Mike Weis
Electromagnetic boom and environmental cleanup application for use in conjunction with magnetizable oil
Patent no. 9,797,538
Arden Warner
Tim Meyer, Todd Johnson, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
Flat profile laser beam shaper
Patent no. 9,759,924
Todd Johnson
Tim Meyer, Igor Mandrichenko, Margherita Wiersma, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
DES Publications Board and DES Speakers Bureau databases
Elizabeth Buckley-Geer (not pictured)
Igor V. Mandrichenko
Margherita Wiersma
Tim Meyer, Stephen White, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
ILC water level database
Stephen P. White
Tim Meyer, Thomas Strauss, Tom Nicol, Sandor Feher, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
Cold mass positioning system
Sandor Feher
Tom Nicol
Thomas Strauss
Tim Meyer, Tanaji Sen, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
Beam-beam simulation
Tanaji Sen
Tim Meyer, Patrick Riehecky, Olga Terlyga, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
KCRON
Patrick Riehecky
Olga Terlyga
Tim Meyer, Patrick Riehecky, Daniil Frolov, Gregory Saewert, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
High-speed driver for particle beam deflector
Daniil R. Frolov
Gregory W. Saewert
Scott Oplt, Tim Meyer, Thomas Kroc, Ben Ogert, Mark Austin, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
Patient treatment platform subsystem
Mark Austin
Al Bart (not pictured)
Barb Bennett (not pictured)
Glenn Lee (not pictured)
Thomas Kroc
Ben Ogert
Scott Oplt
Brian Pientak (not pictured)
Tim Meyer, Grzegorz Deptuch, Farah Fahim, Thomas Zimmerman, Nigel Lockyer, Mark Bollinger
FASPAX data package
Grzegorz Deptuch
Farah Fahim
Thomas Zimmerman
