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With the support of the Technology Transfer Office (TTO), faculty members, graduate students, doctoral candidates and postdoc researchers from across the College of Natural Sciences, the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences and the Riccio College of Engineering were issued patents for 12 innovations at UMass Amherst during the second half of the 2026 fiscal year.

The TTO helps bring inventions and copyrightable works from UMass labs to the public through industry and startups. Among the patent recipients were university researchers who partnered with corporations including IBM, Adobe, Nissan and Samsung. In total, the university received 22 patents in FY26. 

More information about the patenting process and other ways the TTO can assist researchers, artists and companies can be found at umass.edu/tto.
 

The following patents were issued between January and June 2026:

• Online state space refinement for competence-aware systems (with Nissan North America Inc) – Shlomo Zilberstein (CICS), Connor Basich, Stefan Witwicki, Kyle Wray
   
• Retrieval-based, self-supervised augmentation using transformer models (with IBM) – Ankita Rajaram Naik (M.S. Computer Science ‘22), Michael Robert Glass, Gaetano Rossiello, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Xueqing Wu
   
• See-through type display apparatus and electronic device including the same (with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.) – Amir Arbabi (RCOE), Seunghoon Han, Hyun Sung Park
   
• Nanoporous structures and assemblies incorporating the same – James Watkins (CNS), Wenhao Li, Dong-Po Song
   
• Generation of stylized drawing of three-dimensional shapes using neural networks (with Adobe) – Evangelos Kalogeraki (CICS), Matthew Fisher, Aaron Hertzmann, Difan Liu
   
• Classification of different types of cache misses – Tongping Liu (RCOE), Jiaxun Tang, Hanmei Yang, Jin Zhou
   
• Devices and methods for energy harvesting from air humidity - Jun Yao (RCOE), Xiaomeng Liu
   
• Methods for predicting ER-mediated DNA damage – D. Joseph Jerry (CNS), Prabin Kumar Dhangada Majhi (CNS), Aman Sharma, Karen Dunphy
   
• Method of making a porous structure and porous structure made thereby – Reika Katsumata (CNS), Todd Emrick (CNS), James Pagaduan
   
• Device and method for measuring in-cell protein folding (with University of Maryland, Baltimore) – Anne Gershenson (formerly CNS), Dante Johnson, Lisa Jones
   
• Macromolecular ammonium and guanidinium halides for tuning color of perovskite nanocrystals – Todd Emrick (CNS), Christopher Cueto
   
• System and method for cultivation of oxygenic photogranule – Chul Park (RCOE), Joseph Gikonyo, Ahmed Abouhend