SALT LAKE CITY, UT — (Marketwire) — 04/25/12 — Utah Genius (www.utahgenius.com), presented by Bateman IP Law Group, KSL and Zions Bank, today announced the winners of the 2012 Utah Genius Awards at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City. The awards serve as the state’s prime program for recognizing and paying tribute to the creative people and companies that contribute heavily to the state’s growth by securing numerous patents and trademarks.

“We are consistently impressed by the volume of patents and trademarks that come out of Utah,” said Randall B. Bateman, founder of Bateman IP. “The Utah Genius Awards serve as a reminder to us all of the incredible people and companies that call this state home.”

This year the Utah Genius Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Stephen C. Jacobsen, a prolific inventor, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah and founder of Sarcos, Inc. “Dr. Jacobsen is one of the world’s leading experts in robotics and the breadth of his innovations is truly awe-inspiring,” Bateman said.
The University of Utah is this year’s top patent-receiving organization.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized by the Utah Genius Awards,” said Jack Brittain, vice president for Technology Venture Development at the University of Utah. “It is the premier recognition program for Utah innovators. We look forward to it every year. The University of Utah is lucky to have incredibly talented faculty who make it possible for us to secure dozens of patents every year. We are committed to protecting and commercializing these inventions to help drive economic development for the state of Utah. We are very proud of the jobs, income and startup companies that we help generate.”

The 2012 Utah Genius award recipients are as follows:

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Stephen C. Jacobsen

Utah’s Top Inventors

• No. 1 David R. Hall, (Provo, UT) Patents Issued: 62
• No. 2 Gregory Jensen Boss (American Fork, UT) Patents Issued: 27
• No. 3 Scott Dahlgren (Alpine, UT) Patents Issued: 22
• No. 4 Robert L. Angell (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 18
• No. 5 Ronald Crockett (Payson, UT) Patents Issued: 17
• No. 6 Stephen R Carter (Spanish Fork, UT) Patents Issued: 16
• No. 7 T. Wade Fallin (Hyde Park, UT) Patents Issued: 14
• No. 7 Christopher L. Drenth (Draper, UT) Patents Issued: 14
• No. 7 Stephen C. Jacobsen (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 14
• No. 10 Paula Turner Durrand (Pleasant Grove, UT) Patents Issued: 13
• No. 11 Craig Cooley (Saratoga Springs, UT) Patents Issued: 12
• No. 12 Peter Saunders (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 11
• No. 12 Michael D. Rupp (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 11
• No. 14 Michael A. Vail (Santaquin, UT) Patents Issued: 10
• No. 15 Jeff Jepson (Spanish Fork, UT) Patents Issued: 9
• No. 15 Tyson J. Wilde (Provo, UT) Patents Issued: 9
• No. 17 Daniel J. Triplett (Providence, UT) Patents Issued: 8
• No. 17 E. Marlowe Goble (Logan, UT) Patents Issued: 8
• No. 17 Thomas R. Giallorenzi (Sandy, UT) Patents Issued: 8
• No. 17 Ashok V. Joshi (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 8
• No. 17 Austin McKinnon (Herriman, UT) Patents Issued: 8
• No. 17 William T. Dalebout (Logan, UT) Patents Issued: 8
• No. 17 Weston F. Harding (Lehi, UT) Patents Issued: 8

Utah’s Top Patent Companies

• No. 1 University of Utah, (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 49
• No. 2 Novell, (Provo, UT) Patents Issued: 48
• No. 3 Autoliv ASP, (Ogden, UT) Patents Issued: 44
• No. 4 Boart Longyear (South Jordan, UT) Patents Issued: 39
• No. 5 US Synthetic Corp. (Orem, UT) Patents Issued: 30
• No. 6 3form, (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 27
• No. 7 Lifetime Products, (Clearfield, UT) Patents Issued: 20
• No. 8 Merit Medical Systems, (South Jordan, UT) Patents Issued: 18
• No. 9 Ceramatec, Inc., (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 14
• No. 10 Ultradent Products, Inc., (South Jordan, UT) Patents Issued: 11
• No. 11 Icon IP, (Logan, UT) Patents Issued: 10
• No. 12 CLEARONE, (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 10
• No. 13 Utah State University Commercialization & Regional Development (Logan, UT) Patents Issued: 8
• No. 14 Zevex, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 6
• No. 14 Miche Bag, LLC (South Jordan, UT) Patents Issued: 6v
• No. 16 Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc (Provo, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 Ancestry.com (Provo, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) Patents Issued: 5v
• No. 16 Control4 Corporation (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 FUSION-IO (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 HandStands, (Bluffdale, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 HyClone Laboratories, Inc. (Logan, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 Mity-Lite, Inc. (Orem, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. (South Jordan, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 Red Leaf Resources, Inc. (Sandy, UT) Patents Issued: 5
• No. 16 Won-Door Corporation, (Salt Lake City, UT) Patents Issued: 5

Utah’s Top 20 Trademark Registrants

• No. 1 Shipley Business Development Services, INC. DBA Shipley Associates (Kaysville, UT) Trademarks Issued: 20
• No. 1 Monavie LLC (South Jordan, UT) Trademarks Issued: 20
• No. 3 CAO Group (West Jordan, UT) Trademarks Issued: 17
• No. 4 Handi Quilter, Inc. (North Salt Lake, UT) Trademarks Issued: 15
• No. 5 Max International, LLC (Salt Lake City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 14
• No. 6 RAMP (Park City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 10
• No. 7 Allegiance Software, Inc. (South Jordan, UT) Trademarks Issued: 8
• No. 7 E Nutrition Research, LLC DBA Oxytokin (Orem, UT) Trademarks Issued: 8
• No. 7 Overstock.com, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 8
• No. 10 Wing Enterprises, Inc. (Springville, UT) Trademarks Issued: 7
• No. 11 SocialNexus, Inc. (Spanish Fork, UT) Trademarks Issued: 6
• No. 11 Crexendo Business Solutions (Orem, UT) Trademarks Issued: 6
• No. 13 Advanced Concrete Technologies LLC (Orem, UT) Trademarks Issued: 5
• No. 13 NLU Products dba Body Guardz (Draper, UT) Trademarks Issued: 5 No. 13 Imagine Health, Inc. (Cottonwood Heights, UT) Trademarks Issued: 5
• No. 13 Orbit Irrigation Products, Inc. (North Salt Lake, UT) Trademarks Issued: 5
• No. 13 Zions Bancorporation (Salt Lake City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 5
• No. 18 4Life Research (Sandy, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 American Pension Services, Inc. (Riverton, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Bill Good Marketing (Draper, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Busy Life, LLC (Kaysville, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 C.R. England, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Called to Surf, LLC (Provo, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 CFOwise (Pleasant Grove, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Covey/Link, LLC (Alpine, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Hugger-Mugger Yoga Products, LLC (Salt Lake City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Ludaxx, LLC (Draper, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 National Energy Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Orca MD LLC (Park City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4
• No. 18 Priority Dispatch Corp. (Salt Lake City, UT) Trademarks Issued: 4

Sponsors: The Utah Genius Awards honor extraordinary intellectual and creative achievement.

The awards are presented by Bateman IP Law Group, KSL and Zions Bank. Sponsors include: GoEngineer, KUER, Salt Lake Chamber, Bennett Tueller Johnson& Deere, Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), and Springboard5.

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Governor Luo’s itinerary in Utah was filled with several events and meetings, all of which served to showcase and strengthen the Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership. From signing an Ecopartnership MOU with Utah’s Governor Herbert, to highlighting his Ecopartnership achievements during the first ever NGA US China Governors forum, Governor Luo’s consistent message is that the Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership is the most successful model of subnational cooperation between the US and China to date. Below is a brief overview of the events and activities Governor Luo participated in during his visit to Utah from July 13th -16th, 2011.

July 13th Signing Ceremony with Utah’s Governor Herbert.

Governor Luo’s official visit began with a private meeting with Utah’s Governor Herbert in his office. Following the meeting, Governors Herbert and Luo entered the Gold Room at the Utah State Capitol and signed an official sister state agreement between Utah and Qinghai. As part of the same ceremony, Governor Herbert signed an official declaration declaring July 13th -16th as “Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership Days”. An official Ecopartnership MOU, was signed by Ecopartnership leaders from Universities to strengthen and define the Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership, laying the ground work for future Subnational cooperation to take place between Utah and Qinghai within the Ecopartnership.

Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership Reception

Immediately following the signing ceremony, Governor Luo and over 150 leaders from local and national Government, Academia and the Private Sector gathered for a reception recognizing the Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership and welcoming Governor Luo to Utah. Highlights from the evening’s program included, short videos on the Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership and Xining City, speeches from Special Representative Reta Jo Lewis, Governor Luo of Qinghai, Spencer Eccles from Utah’s GOED, and a short program highlighting Utah’s rich history with China and how the Power of Trust through History has laid the foundation for current and future success of the Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership.

NGA US-China Governor’s Forum

During the first ever NGA US-China Governor’s Forum, Governor Luo’s topic was Green Energy Development and the environment. After a short video introducing Qinghai Province’s unique importance to China’s environment, Governor Luo shared his insights on strategies for Green Energy Development at the subnational level. The Utah-Qinghai Ecopartnership was highlighted when Governor Luo outlined the environmental projects already working in Qinghai and explained that these projects were made possible by the Ecopartnership platform established with Utah.

University of Utah Technology Lunch and Ecopartnership Company Site Visit

In an effort to expand and strengthen individual Ecopartnership technology ties, members from the Ministry of Science and Technology delegation from Qinghai attended a technology working lunch presented by Scientists at the University of Utah. Governor Luo also received an extensive technology briefing and a Lab tour at Ecopartnership Company Site: Ceramatec.

Utah Home Visit

Excepting Governor Luo, the entire Qinghai Delegation (32 Members) attended an outdoor BBQ and Western themed Hoedown at Ecopartnership intern Robert
Bassett’s ranch house. The evening included Horseback riding, carriage rides, trout fishing, ATV rides, children/family performances and Texas style steaks. The activities resulted in extremely warm, personal interactions and friendly gift exchanges between Utah Ecopartnership families and the Qinghai Delegation.

Mr. Spencer Ecceles, Mr. Dale Taylor, Governor Gary Herbert, Dr. Ashok Joshi, Mr. Anthony Nickens (from left to right)

The Governor of Utah, Mr. Gary Herbert, visited Ceramatec on May 13, 2011 to get updated on Ceramatec’s advanced energy research projects and address Ceramatec’s employees. Some of the technologies that were discussed included Ceramatec’s work in developing next generation batteries, heavy oil upgrading, synthetic fuel production and expanding its ceramic oxygen generating manufacturing capabilities in Utah with Air Products and Chemicals.

Accompanying Governor Herbert was Mr. Spencer Ecceles, Executive Director, Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

Ceramatec is very grateful for the opportunity to meet with the Governor of the great state of Utah. Ceramatec looks forward to solving some of our nation’s future “hard” energy challenges and bringing additional quality technical jobs to Utah.

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SHANGHAI — Jeremy Hanks had never been to China before, so a trade mission there this week along with 19 other Utah businesses, has proven enlightening.

“It’s more of a long-term strategic trip,” said Hanks, president of Orem-based Doba, a Web-based drop shipping platform. “It won’t result in an actual contract or a business deal from here but it definitely is helpful to understand basically a fourth of the world’s population.”

Representatives from a number of companies on the trip say they’re convinced it will bring future opportunities.

“Overall there’s potential for some long-term relationships here, so that we can bring back to Utah quality technical jobs,” said Anthony Nickens, vice president of Ceramatec Inc.

The trip included visits to Beijing and Shanghai, a pair of uber-fast growing cities with 20 million plus residents.

Another first-time visitor, Gov. Gary Herbert, said he was amazed by the scale of Chinese development and construction and impressed by the business community’s “embracement of free market principles.”

Herbert, making his first trip outside of North America as governor, said “it’ll translate into more jobs, more economic opportunity for Utahns and that’s the importance of this visit.”

In the Jinshan district of Shanghai, the governor signed a deal Thursday between that district, the state and Utah company Cosmas Inc., to invest in researching ways to turn methane from animal waste to fuel.

Also, Herbert said a half dozen governors from China’s 32 provinces will be coming to Salt Lake in July for a first-ever meeting in Utah with U.S. governors at the National Governor’s Association conference.

“We’ve already had some success with some of our business contacts, so it’s been profitable and productive and I think even more is yet to come,” Herbert said.

The trip included a reception Monday to Herbert’s predecessor and now U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr.’s residence in Beijing.

Those on the trip say Herbert’s presence, along with the link to the former Utah governor, opened doors in the authoritarian capitalist country.

“(It’s) very helpful,” said Rich Hartvigsen, vice president Nu Skin Enterprises. “When the governor is here we get meetings with very high-level government officials. When he doesn’t come we typically get meetings with mid-level government officials.”

Utah Valley University plans a conference on “Doing Business with China” next month.

School President Matt Holland envisions many future China-related projects, particularly after local businesses requested them.

“They said you need to help us with China,” Holland said. “We don’t see nearly enough going on with respect to China studies, it’s the future of the economic world in many respects.”

The four state lawmakers on the trade mission, Reps. David Clark, R-Santa Clara, Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, and Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, paid their own way, as did 20 companies and organizations who sent representatives.

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Methanol is a feedstock for scores of chemicals such as formaldehyde, acetic acid and biodiesel. The global demand for methanol in 2008 was 39 MMTPA of which North America consumed approximately 8 million Tons. The proposed research will result into development a novel catalyst to convert CO2 to methanol. Preliminary economic calculations indicate commercial feasibility of such a schematic and hence a significant market impact is possible. Methanol itself can be converted to gasoline via commercially known processes (e.g. Mobil Methanol-to-Gasoline) process.

Current commercial manufacturing process for methanol utilizes natural gas as feedstock to produce syngas (steam reforming) which is then converted to methanol over a catalyst (Cu-Zn-Alumina). The commercial catalyst is active only in the presence of carbon monoxide.CO2 activation using existing catalysts is a significant challenge. To convert CO2 to methanol, new class of catalysts needs to be discovered. The research will focus upon development of novel hierarchical zeolite based promoted catalysts. The primary metal will be selected from Cu, Fe, Co and Ni. Promoters will be chosen from ZrO2, CeO2 and other rate earth. The performance of zeolite based catalysts will be compared to that of commercial Cu-Zn-Al2O3 based catalyst. The catalyst will advance the state-of-the art in CO2 conversion.

Biodiesel plants – and there will be 2,000 worldwide by 2016 – produce massive amounts of impure, toxic and volatile glycerine as a byproduct.

Now a sister company, Ceramatec Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah, has developed an electrochemical and ceramic membrane technology that can bolt right on to a biodiesel plant and reprocess that glycerine into useable substances.

The prototype biodiesel catalyst system was built by DEW and handed over to a representative of the global agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland at an event Wednesday at DEW’s Ottawa headquarters.

The unit and two more to follow will be installed at an ADM plant in Missouri.

ADM director of research Jim Foster said the Ceramatec technology will reduce the company’s need to store glycerine and improve plant safety and its environmental impact.

In a large biodiesel plant, the technology would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 57 per cent.

After ADM’s early adoption of the technology, the relative handful of sizeable biodiesel refiners in the world will “come knocking on our door,” said DEW president Tim Dear. “What this is all about is converting technology into jobs.”

Doug Coors, CEO of Ceramatec, said “the opportunities abound for all kinds of growth throughout many countries.”

“It’s a big deal for DEW,” said Craig Campbell, DEW’s vice-president of business development. “It’s a new direction for us and we wouldn’t have had this opportunity if the Coors family hadn’t purchased us.”

CoorsTek, headquartered in Golden, Colo., and owned by the brewing family, bought DEW in June 2008.

It also recently acquired Ceramatec, whose research scientists developed the biodiesel catalyst technology. Ceramatec holds more than 60 patents for its breakthroughs, many of them involving ceramic membranes.

DEW and CoorsTek expect it could be 18 months before a new plant is opened to support Ceramatec’s product line.

But a decision about which province will land it could come in six to eight months.

Campbell said DEW has committed to producing a business plan for CoorsTek once they have determined what federal support may apply – be it job-creation funding, regulatory certainty or tax measures.

Then they’ll look at provinces and “open up the bidding.”

“We can’t say it’s going to be in Atlantic Canada but we can’t say it won’t be,” said Campbell. “We are most comfortable with Atlantic Canada because that’s what we know.”

DEW has made the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland governments aware of the company’s plans, said Dear. Nova Scotia had representatives at the Ottawa event talking up the province’s interest in landing the jobs.

Campbell says Miramichi, home to DEW’s main manufacturing plant, has proven itself a capable workforce.

It’s also a plus that the company is familiar with Atlantic Canada, he said, but no jurisdiction has the inside track on landing the jobs at this stage.

“Miramichi is a very impressive manufacturing operation,” said Campbell. “We would like to go to the general manager and engineering staff at Miramichi and ask, ‘Can you do this?’ and I think the answer is likely to be ‘Yes we can and here’s how.’

“Politics and regulatory issues may mean it needs to be somewhere else – but I know these can be built in a mass quantity in Miramichi.”

DEW has operated in Miramichi since 1994, focusing on lightweight armour plating and restoration of armoured military vehicles.

In August the firm landed a $130-million contract to supply the Canadian Forces with hundreds of mobile shelters.

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In its first round of awards for 2010, the CCTF endorsed 12 projects — covering research in the fields of carbon capture, combustion and gasification design, coal-to-hydrogen conversion and post-combustion methods — that serve the fund’s mission of stimulating research that would enhance and improve clean coal technologies, particularly with the use of sub-bituminous coal at high elevations.

The CCTF also recommended a $285,000 supplemental request for Emery Energy’s 2007 project, to complete construction of a gasifier.

“The state’s investment in advanced technologies to lower the carbon impact of coal utilization and to expand markets for Powder River Basin coal is stimulating innovation,” says Mark Northam, director of the School of Energy Resources (SER) at the University of Wyoming, which administers the fund. “The Clean Coal Task Force is eager to put the remaining funds to work by funding the highest impact research.”

The 12 approved projects from the initial 2010 RPF received $6,992,300, leaving about $7 million remaining for additional projects. A second RPF will be issued Jan. 31, by the SER.

The largest allocation of funds, $1,330,344, was awarded to the UW Department of Renewable Resources to conduct a three-year test of the SequesTech process to capture post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO²) from flue gas using fly ash particles at the Jim Bridger power plant in Sweetwater County.

The smallest award, $420,004, was granted to Brigham Young University to develop simple, low-cost and environmentally sound methods to prepare high-performance, iron-base Fischer-Tropsch catalysts that can be scaled to commercial manufacture.

The Energy and Environmental Research Center received three endorsements:  A $500,000 award to evaluate the feasibility of using dry cooling technology to meet the cooling needs of power plants located in arid environments; $280,156 to design, fabricate, demonstrate and evaluate an advanced contracting device that uses solvents for capturing CO²; and $150,000 to determine if bromine compounds and/or brominated carbons interfere with Continuous Mercury Monitor results.

The Laramie-based Western Research Institute and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) both received two approvals.

The WRI was awarded $1.1 million, the second-largest allocation, to build and test a metallic membrane-based hydrogen separation device to operate on simulated and coal-derived synthesis gas, and evaluate performance criteria of the device.

The second WRI award was for $450,000 to evaluate the heat and mass transfer properties and reaction kinetics of FT reactions in the Compact Heat Exchange Reactor (CHER).

The LLNL received a pair of $500,000 awards. One project will recover, modernize and consolidate much of the historic test data from the UCG tests performed in Wyoming during the 1970s and ‘80s. The second project will develop a conceptual custom design for treating saline formation waters that are produced to create accommodation space for CO² to be stored in geologic formations in Wyoming.

The other CCTF-endorsed projects for 2010:

• A $596,105 award to Ceramatec to demonstrate the scale-up of a novel Fischer-Tropsch unit using syngas generated by gasification of Wyoming coal for conversion to JP5 fuel.

• A $540,691 award to the University of Utah to determine the effects of oxy-combustion of Powder River Basin coals on boiler tube deposits and mercury speciation.

• A $340,000 award to TDA Research, Inc., to demonstrate a process to make ultrapure hydrogen from coal by using a system based on coal gasification, warm-gas desulfurization and sulfur-tolerant, high-temperature membrane reactors.

The technology fund, which began in 2007 with just $2.5 million, is now supporting 33 projects with nearly $24 million in funding from the state and $28 million in outside funding.

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