LETU Professor Awarded Fellowship

LONGVIEW – LeTourneau University chemistry professor and patent agent Dr. Gary DeBoer has been awarded a summer faculty fellowship grant to work in the technical engagement office of the U.S. Air Force Research Lab. Unlike previous summer fellowships DeBoer has had working as a scientist with the Lab, this year he will work in intellectual property and technology transfer. He will be working with scientists to identify their patentable research. They will be working on obtaining patent protection and licensing of inventions to commercial manufacturers. DeBoer hopes to apply the air force model of technical engagement to LETU by developing a program to provide LETU faculty with an incentive to think about their patentable work, pursue patents and benefit from the return coming through revenues associated with licensing of their patent rights.