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• Dr. Paul Swamidass, Director
Thomas Walter Center is pleased to provide assistance to the University Office Technology Transfer (OTT) in evaluating Auburn University Inventions, assess their suitability for patenting, and for selected inventions, where the potential markets are sizable, prepare business plans to promote new start up companies using advanced technologies.

OTT contacts are:


• Dr. Brian Wright, Associate Director, Technology Commercialization, AU
• Mr. A.J. Gokcek, J.D., Associate Director for IP Affairs and Compliance, AU.

Relevant courses for Auburn Students

• BUSI 2900 and INSY 7970 (sp- 2009): Intellectual Property Protection and Patent Application Drafting
Teachers:


• Mr. A.J.Gokcek, J.D
• Dr. Paul Swamidass

• Carpet Nylon Recycling technology licensed to Modular Carpet Recycling Inc, June 2007.

  

The commercialization initiative of the Center has enabled the licensing of a chemical engineering process invented at the university. It has resulted in the formation of Modular Carpet Recycling, Inc. (MCR), a new startup business to exploit an Auburn University technology to recover nylon from used carpets. This business was incorporated in June 2007. The recycling plants will keep waste carpet from going to landfills and produce 99+% pure nylon; this green technology will reduce the need for crude oil which is the raw material for virgin nylon. About 5 billion pounds of waste carpets are sent to landfills each year. The company has raised about $3 million in private capital (fully subscribed). Contact: swamidas@auburn.edu

Governor Jack Mitchell (Delaware) opens Modular Carpet Recycling Plant in Delaware

From left to right - Bruce Rudin; Alan Levin, Secretary of the Delaware Economic Development Office; Dori Connor, Delaware Senator; Christopher Coons, New Castle County Executive; Ron Simonetti, CEO and founder of Modular Carpet Recycling; Frank Hurd, Chairman of the Carpet America Recovery Effort; Governor Jack Markell
(source: Delaware Economic Development Office)

1. Startup Manufacturer Establishes Corporate Headquarters in Delaware, Delaware Economic Development Office, Monday, 07 June 2010
2. MCR Website
3. Carpet Recycling plant opening in Delaware, RecyclingToday.com, Tuesday, 08 June 2010
4. MCR new technologies to keep Delaware innovating, fibre2fashion.com, Tuesday, 08 June 2010
5. Startup Manufacturer Establishes Corporate Headquarters in Delaware, Official website of State of Delaware, Monday, 07 June 2010
6. Delaware nylon carpet recycler ramping up production, PlasticNews.com, Monday, 07 June 2010
7. Modular Carpet Recycling receives funding, News Release, July 2009
8. MCR Presentation

(Hot-linked items are available for licensing and/or joint technology development)

1. An efficient process of carpet nylon recycling
2. Magnetically elevated ring spinning system
3. High Density 3-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube Structures.
4. Preparation of High Energy Capacity Ruthenium Oxide
5. Improved Speech Recognition via Multiple Listening Pathways
6. Automatic Analog BIST with Pattern Generator and Analyzer
7. Soil Liquefaction Abatement for Earthquake Mitigation
8. Superior Removal of Arsenic from drinking water.
9. Process for effective production of drug nanoparticles of reduced size.
10. Motorized Orientation Mechanism for Wind Turbines, Satelite Antennas etc.
11. Estimating pore size distribution in soil and rock samples.
12. High Order Delta-Sigma Noise Shaping in Direct Digital Synthesis
13. Precise and rapid size selection of nanoparticle populations
14. Production of dense and uniform nanoparticle films
15. Improved Destruction of Chlorinated Compounds in Soil and Groundwater
16. In-situ Immobilization/Containment of Mercury in Contaminated Soils and Sediments
17. Destruction of Perchlorate and Nitrate in Spent Ion-Exchange Brine
18. Reformer for efficient production of ultraclean fuels from hydrocarbons.
19. A chaotic fermentor with vastly improved ethanol yields
20. Method of hot filament chemical vapor deposition of diamond
21. Method of Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of diamond
22. Rapid Polishing and Shaping of Diamond and Diamond Films
23. On-line handwritten character recognition
24. A novel method of Biomass pretreatment for ethanol production
25. System and Method for estimating reliability of components for testing and quality optimization
26. Freewill™: the Convertible, Portable Folding Bicycle-Scooter
27. Modular Snap-On Display System
28. A second channel between Cache and Memory for Decreased Queuing Delay
29. Low Cost Electroactive Polymer
30. Near Room Temperature for Bonding and Sealing Silicon Devices using Indium Cold Welding.
31. Free Piston Sterling Engine.
32. A Method to Support Scan Based Delay Testing of ICs.
33. Silicon Calibrated Tests for the Scan Based Delay Testing of ICs.
34. A Multimodal Electronic Voting System.
35. Laser Light Scattering-Based FFT Analysis of Biological Oscillators.
36. GPS-Free geographic routing protocol for intelligent vehicles.
37. Protein Kinetic Chip.
38. A method for performing the delay testing of ICs.
39. A wireless network, random access point transmission scheme for increasing security in secure localization.
40. A wireless multiple-protocol, node-based architecture for connectivity in heterogeneous networks.
41. Transit messaging system.
42. Modification of Smooth Polymeric Surfaces with nanofibres using electrospinning.
43. Fiber extrusion process for increased orientation and strength.
44. Liquefaction Abatement
45. Indium Cold welding
46. Automated reaction Kinetic Landscaper
47. Drug delivery evaluation devices
48. Personal GSM gateway for remote access VOIP
49. Angle of Attack measurements using MEMS
50. Lignin separation.
51. Mechanical Bearing
52. RESS Drug Nanoparticles.
53. Super critical fluids .
54. Integrated Microfluidic system to analyze stem cell differentiation and related factors.
55. Geo-textile Antennas
56. Grating for Moiré Interferometry.
57. Standardization of textiles.
58. Alternate markets for ethanol.
59. a. Non-crystalline cellulose with dramatically new properties.
    b. Inexpensive production of cellodextrins
60. Interpenetrating Phase Composite Metal Foam.
61. Fuel Cell Control System.
62. Antimicrobial applications of Carbon Nanotubes.
63. MEMS application in gyroscopes.