Licensing Opportunities

OIST Technology Licensing Section seeks out partners in industry with whom OIST researchers can work to develop new technologies. Potential partners are invited to contact the Technology Licensing Section:

• to license existing technologies from our patent portfolio
• to collaborate to further develop technologies from our technology portfolio
• to find members of the OIST research community with expertise in specific areas
• to propose projects that may be of mutual interest

The Technology Transfer Manager can be contacted at tls@oist.jp or +81-(0)98-966-8937.

A selection of technologies currently available for licensing is listed below:

		Technology Summary	Patent	Movie	News Article	POC	Lab Website
Artificial Intelligence
	Efficient Goal Estimation for Intelligent Systems		WO 2017/159126	JP only			Doya Unit
Drug Discovery
	Anti-Cancer Drug Screening		WO 2011/155253				Kitano Unit
	Disarming Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria		WO 2014/133197
	Micro & Nano Patterned Multiplex Biomaterials		WO 2017/135309				Shen Unit
	Multi-well Plate with Uniform Electric Field		WO 2017/047098				Shen Unit
	Synthesis of Novel Pharmaceutical Synthons		WO 2014/058035				Tanaka Unit
	Sulfone-substituted Cyclopropanes and Their One-step Synthesis		WO 2019/035479				STG
	Histamine-responsive Riboswitch		WO 2020/171070				Yokobayashi Unit
Health, Disease Diagnostics
	Evaluation of the degree of aging, using blood, urine or saliva metabolites		WO 2017/155100 WO 2019/208572				Yanagida Unit
	Evaluation of the risk of type-2 diabetes, using blood		WO 2020/105562				Yanagida Unit
	Evaluation of the risk of frailty, using blood		Filed				Yanagida Unit
ICT
	2D FFT with Simultaneous Edge Artifact Removal		WO 2017/013877				Skoglund Unit
	Microwave Amplification by a Spin Maser​		Filed				Konstantinov Unit
Materials
	Increased and Prolonged Catalytic Activity of Noble Metal Nano-Catalysts​		WO 2017/002357				Sowwan Unit
	Nanocrystallization of Amorphous Silicon Quantum Dots		WO 2014/141662				Sowwan Unit
	Printing and Photolithography-free fabrication of sealed TGV		Filed				Fried Unit
	Photoluminescent Mechanoresponsive Polymers		Filed				Khusnutdinova Unit
Instrumentation
	Enhanced Force Measurement		WO 2015/186356				Bandi Unit
	Temperature Contolled Microfluidic Platform		WO 2017/222079				Shen Unit
	Detachable Microfluidic System for Sparse Cell Seeding		Filed				Shen Unit
Renewable Energy
	Renewable Energy Forecast Error Correction		WO 2016/136237				Bandi Unit
	Alternative Energy Devices and Methods Based on Perovskite		WO 2016/027450				Qi Unit
	Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Barrier		WO 2019/208835				Shintake Unit
Sensing
	High-Throughput Nanoplasmonic Bioassay Chips		WO 2018/194184				Shen Unit
	In-situ Growth and Nanoparticle Decoration of Nanowires		WO 2017/033444				Sowwan Unit
	Ultrasensitive Nitrogen Oxide/Dioxide Gas Sensor Based On Iron Nanocubes		WO 2018/004011				Sowwan Unit
	Aceton Nanosensor		WO 2019/177169				Sowwan Unit
	RNA-based Histamine Sensor		Filed				Yokobayashi Unit
Optics
	All-Optical Nano-Positioner		US10215923				Nic Chormaic Unit
	Pulling Apart Photoexcited Electrons​		WO 2019/203269				Dani Unit
Environment
	Sustainable Wastewater Treatment by Bio-Electrochemical Waster to Energy MFC		Filed				Goryannin Unit