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Patents and Intellectual Property


1. The MITRE Corporation

US Patent, October 1994 an Apparatus and Method for a System for Security Constraint Processing during database query update and design operations. (With William Ford and Marie Collins, J. O’Keeffe).

US Patent, January 1996
, An Apparatus and method for a system for handling the inference problem based on Nonmonotonic Typed Multilevel Logic.

US Patent, December 1997
, An Apparatus and method for a system for Expert inference control (with William Ford).

Status of my patents: In 2003, former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s company (Intellectual Ventures) wanted to purchase 4 patents from MITRE. Three of them were mine. MITRE also as a bonus gave them additional patents together with the 4 must have patents for $2m approx. Each of the inventors was given $7K.

2.      The University of Texas at Dallas

Patent Application:  Systems and Methods for Detecting a Novel Data Class
UTD-10-017 (Application Number 61/376,427)

Intellectual Property Disclosures
09-037
Policy Management for Assured Information Sharing in a Coalition Environment
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PI: Bhavani Thuraisingham
Latifur Khan
Murat Kantarcioglu
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10-017
Classification and Novel Class Detection in Concept-Drifting Data Streams under Time Constraints
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PI: Latifur Khan
Mohammad Mehedy Masud (UTD post-doc)
Bhavani Thuraisingham

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10-019

Biological Weapon Attack Simulation Using Social Network and Game Theoretic Modeling

PI: Murat Kantarcioglu
Ryan Layfield (former PhD Student)
Bhavani Thuraisingham

 

 
Disclosure Number: 10-054  

Title: Agglomerative Clustering using Label Propagation for Location Mining                                                                 Inventors: S. Abrol, L. Khan, B. Thuraisingham    
                                                                                         

 University Spin-Off Company
We have started a spin-off company with UTD titled: “Knowledge and Security Analytics, LLC” in August  2010.  The company founder is Bhavani Thuraisingham and major shareholders are  UTD, Latifur Khan, and Murat Kantarcioglu. This spinoff company will be a holding company from which we will apply for SBIR/STTR and also form multiple spin-off companies.

http://www.knowledge-security.com/