Tech-to-Market

The battery and fuel cell industries are driven by technological innovation that must be protected to gain a commercial edge. ESRC team members seek to balance their professional academic need to publish with the need to protect intellectual property that has commercial potential.

Prior to publication, novel ideas that could lead to inventions are disclosed to WVU’s Office of Technology Transfer whose team of IP experts evaluate the concepts. Those that meet WVU’s criteria are then processed and submitted to the U.S. Patent Office. This ensures prospective industrial partners that their investments of time and money needed to move technology from the lab to the market place are protected.

Inventions are the property of West Virginia University in accordance with the WVU Faculty Handbook. On behalf of the university and its faculty inventors and innovators, the WVU OTT works with companies interested in licensing the university’s intellectual property.The office also negotiates intellectual property agreements for collaborative research. And the WVU OTT can help faculty members who wish to create their own companies to commercialize their invention.

 ESRC Team Member Patents 

High Temperature Electrochemical Characterization of Molten Metal Corrosion, US Patent 8,173,007 by Jing Xu, Frank Goodwin, Yinglu Jiang, Xingbo Liu

Inorganic Solid Electrolyte Glass Phase Composite and a Battery Containing an Inorganic Solid Electrolyte Glass Phase Composite Inorganic solid electrolyte for Li‑ion batteries, US Patent 8,865,354 B2 by Hui Zhang, Yinglu Jiang, Xingbo Liu