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Patenting - Annual Report 2024
1 July, 2025
Patenting activity in 2024 grew to include 29 researchers, students and alumni who reported 33 Formal IP milestones including Invention disclosures, patent applications, and granted patents.
The following patent activity was undertaken by our researchers in partnership with their respective Technology Transfer Offices (only MacDiarmid Institute researchers named on the patents are included here).
Patent applications
| Investigator | Patent title | Patent number |
|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Davis, Jake Hardy | Perovskite material and uses thereof | WO2024258297A1 |
| Margaret Brimble | Methanogen inhibitors (publication) | AU2023326615A1 |
| Margaret Brimble | Methanogen inhibitors (publication) | WO2024039250A1 |
| Margaret Brimble | Lipidated polymyxin analogues (publication) | EP4384533A1 |
| Shane Telfer, Elnaz Jangodaz | Multivariate metal-organic frameworks | AU2024900804A0 |
| Natalie Plank, Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, Roshan Khadka, Han Yue Zheng, Thanihaichelvan Murugathas | Sensor device and methods | US20240241077A1 |
| James Storey | Homopolar electric machine | AU2024901882A0 |
| Ren Dobson, Daniel Mak, Claude Meffan, Volker Nock | Microfluidic devices, systems and methods | AU2024900227A0 |
| Matt Cowan | Solid-state copper(i) sorbents for olefin separations | US20240367089A1 |
| Aaron Marshall, Leatham Landon Lane | Method for processing materials containing iron and zinc | AU2024903553A0 |
| Ben Ruck, William Holmes-Hewett, Jackson Miller, Catherine Pot, Eva Anton | Switchable magnetic device or dot for data storage (publication) | US20240147869A1 |
| Peng Cao, Yuguang PU | High-entropy oxides (publication) | EP4476172A1 |
| Geoff Waterhouse | A preparation method of cobalt phosphide nanomaterial by visible light reduction of cobalt salt in aqueous solution | China Patent application number: 202410405231.4 |
| Geoff Waterhouse | A visible light driven preparation method of reduced graphene oxide in aqueous solution | China Patent application number: 202410799941X |
| Geoff Waterhouse | A preparation method of heterojuncture catalysts and its application | China Patent application number: 2024118159548 |
| Geoff Waterhouse | A preparation method of biomass derived carbon supported FeP and its application | China Patent application number: 2024116665441 |
| Geoff Waterhouse | A preparation method of carbon enveloped CoP & carbon enveloped CoP on C3N4 and their applications | China Patent application number: 2024116665070 |
Patents granted
| Investigator | Patent title | Patent number |
|---|---|---|
| Simon Brown, Shawn Fostner, Saurabh Bose | Neuromorphic computing | EP3317224B1 |
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