Bayh-Dole Innovations

The Bayh-Dole Act, which passed in 1980, represents a fundamental change in U.S. government innovation policy. It provides ownership and title to any invention made in whole or in part with federal funds to universities and small business. The following innovations were made possible by the Bayh-Dole Act, and are featured in AUTM's Better World Project:

• 3D Virtual Colonoscopy
• Airport scanners for detecting explosives in shoes
• Adaptive Liquid Crystal Lens
• Aeroseal
• Aguru Images and Scanner
• ALEKS Intelligent Tutor
• Allegra
• Amebic Dysentry Vaccine
• Amevive/alefacept (to treat psoriasis)
• An Effective Therapeutic for Sickle Cell Disease
• Androgen Synthesis Inhibitor Technology for Prostate Cancer
• Argan Nut Cracker and milk cooler
• Artificial Lung
• Automation Technology Speeds DNA Analysis
• Bartonella alpha Proteobacteria Growth Medium
• Berkeley-Darfur Stoves
• BioArray BeadChip
• Biochip Point-of-Care Diagnostic
• Bioengineered, EFSB-Resistant Variety of Eggplant
• BioFront Technologies
• Biosorption activated media filtration system
• Black Silicon
• Blood test detecting brain injuries
• Bluepro Water Filtration System
• Brainport Vision Device
• Bt Booster Crop Protection
• Carbon Nanotechnology Lowers Cost of Hydrogen Fuel Cell
• Cellulosic Ethanol
• Children’s vaccine for Rotavirus
• Color-Coded Beads Prevents Unwanted Pregnancies
• Controlled Environment Agriculture
• Cool Roof Technology
• CornBoard
• Crash impact cylinders
• Diagnosis, Potential Therapy for Pre-Eclampsia
• Discovery of the Cystic Fibrosis Chromosome
• DriveScribe Mobile App
• Early detection and protection against Osteoporosis
• ecoMOD
• EnergyPlus
• Epivir (AIDS therapy)
• eSight 3 electronic glasses
• Firefighting drones
• First Crush Pill Crusher
• FluMist
• Fluxless Soldering
• Gleevec
• Google
• GroupSystems software 
• Guglielmei detachable coil and Matrix detachable coil
• High-definition television
• Honeycrisp apples
• HPV Vaccine
• HyperCyt™ HighThroughput Flow Cytometry System
• Inficomm and trapped annular pressure mitigation
• Infrascanner
• Intelligent Essay Assessor
• Invinsa Crop Stress Protection
• IRENE
• i-Scaler
• Isolex Magnetic Cell Selection System
• Kinemed
• Keratinocyte Growth Factor 
• Late Blight Resistant Potato
• Lead-Free Solder Makes Electronics Production Safer
• Learner Web
• LouseBuster™
• Low-cost Antimalarial Drugs
• Low Swirl Injector
• Lyrica
• Mathematics for Business Decisions
• MATS Food Sterilization System
• MenAfriVac Meningitis Vaccine
• MetalMaster heavy metal removal solutions
• Millimeter Wave Holographic Body Scanner technology
• Minichromosone Technology for Developing Seed Products
• Modular Ballistic Protection System (MBPS)
• Mouseopause
• MuniRem
• My Virtual Tutor
• Native Oxide from Aluminum-Bearing Group III-V Semiconductor Material
• New Surgical Tool Fights Glaucoma
• Nicotine patch
• Noise Filtering Device
• Non-lethal pest control
• Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) Technology
• One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasmas
• Online Education Portals
• Organ preservation solutions
• Organo-Metallic Reagents
• OWL (Online Web-Based Learning)
• P-15
• Paper-based diagnostic chip
• Perpetua Power Puck
• Photo Tourism
• PhyloChip: DNA for Rapid Profiling of Microbial Populations
• Pin Bone Wizard
• Pipe-Scan
• Plasmid Rescue System for Flu Vaccine
• Point of care immunoassay for diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis
• Preservation and Storage Medium for Biological Materials
• Propylene glycol from renewable sources
• Pseudomonas PcrV Antibody Therapy
• Quinoline Derivatives
• READ 180
• Reusable Energy-Absorbing Crash Cylinder
• Reverse Osmosis Membrane
• Shrub Willow 
• Synthetic Vitamin D ( Zemplar™)
• Taxol
• Telemedical Retinal Image Analysis and Diagnosis
• The Jolene Instruction Manual
• Tovaxin
• Unique Photovoltaic Cells 
• V-chip
• Virtual exposure therapy
• Yervoy
• Zerit (AIDS therapy)