Faculty Innovations, Patents & Technology Transfers
DCP faculty have been very active in technology innovations as well as disclosing their inventions with UF Innovate for potential patent filing with US Patent & Trade Office (USPTO). Since FY2020, forty-four inventions have been disclosed. Out of these 44 invention disclosures, 38 patents were filed with USPTO. Eleven DCP faculty are lead inventors of these 38 patents filed with USPTO and they represent all the units in the college. All these patents filed are technology patents. Six of these have been licensed to for-profit companies.

Disclosure Title | Lead Inventor | Inventors |
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Investigation of Exergy-based Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings | C Anumba | C Anumba, M Nwodo |
Health impact Indoor Environmental Quality (HiIEQ) Smart Air Multi-Sensor Device | R Srinivasan | S Ahrentzen, S Hegde, S M S Nirjon, R Srinivasan |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based Non-Intrusive Building Envelope (Windows and Roofs) Energy Measurement System for Community-wide Mapping of Energy Wastage | R Srinivasan | B Shah, R Srinivasan |
Taxonomy Editor Software | A Costin | A Costin |
Drone-based Lowest Floor Elevation (dLFE) | R Srinivasan | R Aggarwal, S Kakade, Q laganapathy Manohar, Qusai Nalawala, R Srinivasan |
Semi-automated BIM-based Building Permit Code Checking Software | R Srinivasan | N Nawari, R Srinivasan |
Storm Shutter Panel Design | M Kuenstle | J Bernal, M Kuenstle, C Rios, M Almanzar |
Prevention through Design Environmental Material Intelligence Center (PtD-EMIC) | L Platt | L Platt |
Virtual Building Construction Inspection for Permitting | R Srinivasan | N Nawari, R Srinivasan |
Virtual Zoning Review | R Srinivasan | N Nawari, R Srinivasan |
Variable Air Variable Refrigerant Flow (VAVRF) | R Srinivasan | B Manohar, R Srinivasan |
Multi Access Edge Computing for Remote Locations | A Costin | A Costin, J McNair |
Multifunctional Framing End-Effector for Industrialised Construction | A Alwisy | A Alwisy |
Multifunctional Installation End-Effector for Industrialised Construction | A Alwisy | A Alwisy |
Flexible Framing Robotic Workstation for Industrialised Construction | A Alwisy | A Alwisy |
Multifunctional Robotic Workstation for Industrialised Construction | A Alwisy | A Alwisy |
Magazine-Style Automated Material Supply Station | A Alwisy | A Alwisy |
Onsite Sustainable Sanitation Prototypes for Water and Nutrient Recycling | N Nawari | N Nawari, M Volk, H Wittmann |
Automatic Accessibility Mapping (AAM) Using AI-Assisted Drone Technologies | N Nawari | S Dugan, N Nawari |
Virtual Review System for Land Development | N Nawari | A Dugan, N Nawari |
Virtual Permitting System for Civil Infrastructure | N Nawari | S Dugan, N Nawari |
Blockchain-GIS based Framework for Land Registration | N Nawari | B Alem, O Lawal, N Nawari |
Streamlined Single Software Workflow with ML-based Point Cloud Clustering for Virtual Reality Building Inspection | R Srinivasan | Jithin Gopinadhan, Ravi Srinivasan |
Revit Addin for Automated Form R405-2020 Generation for Compliance with Florida Energy Efficiency Code for Building Construction | R Srinivasan | D Balakrishnan, R Srinivasan |
Systems, Methods, and Applications for the Construction of Bridge Digital Twin | A Costin | A Adibfar, A Costin |
UI/UX for Autodesk Revit: Building Code Check Plugin | R Srinivasan | D Balakrishnan, N Nawari, R Srinivasan |
Kinetic Facade System | B Walters | M Mcglothlin, A Sadat, B Walters |
1st Generation: Computerized Shading Devices | R Sharston | R Sharston |
2nd Generation: Environmentally Conscious & Dynamically Adaptive Building Envelope | R Sharston | R Sharston |
Method and System for Inclined Layer Additive Construction | C Wang | C Wang |
AI-Assisted Code Compliance Checking for Building and Land Development | N Nawari | N Nawari |
Methodology to Predict Temporal Degradation of Thermal and Optical Performance of Window Glazing Systems in the Field Non-destructively | R Srinivasan | R Aggarwal, R McCluney, D Onatayo, B Shah, R Srinivasan |
Novel Process for Fault Detection and Diagnosis Augmented with Criticality Analysis | C Anumba | C Anumba, K Asare, R Liu |
Reference Architecture for Digital Twin-based Predictive Maintenance within Constructed Facilities | C Anumba | C Anumba, K Asare, R Liu |
Design-Manufacturing Digitalization Software for Multi-Functional Robotic Stations for Industrialized Construction | A Alwisy | A Alwisy, BeB n Tehrani |
Non-Invasive Method to Determine the Argon Gas Content and Thermal Properties of Glazing | R Srinivasan | R Aggarwal, R McCluney, D Onatayo, B Shah, R Srinivasan |
Systems and Methods for Transforming Building Information Models (BIM) into Digital Twins | K Ochoa | C Anumba, D Balakrishnan, Y Delavar, C Elias, R Issa, K Ochoa, R Srinivasan |
Hardware Security for Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks | A Costin | Q Abiru, A Costin, J McNair, K Morman, U Sunkara |