NOUN Academicians Secure Patent Rights For Groundbreaking Inventions

Academic unit of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) person recorded landmark achievements successful probe and innovation arsenic immoderate of them were awarded patent rights by the Federal Government.

According to a property connection by the manager of Media and Publicity, NOUN, Ibrahim Sheme, starring the awardees is Dr. Musa Runde of NOUN’s Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, who successful collaboration with colleagues crossed antithetic faculties and institutions, secured 2 abstracted patents.

One of the patents is Haeme Detector for Postpartum Haemorrhage Patent, awarded to Dr. Musa Runde (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science), Dr. Adaobi Mac-Ozigbo (Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences), Dr. Oyewole Oyelami Abiodun (Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science), and Mrs. Eunice Olokona Opeyemi (Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences).

The invention introduces a Haeme Detector designed to assistance successful the accelerated recognition and absorption of postpartum haemorrhage, a life-threatening information and 1 of the starring causes of maternal mortality.

The instrumentality has the imaginable to importantly trim preventable maternal deaths successful Nigeria and beyond.

The 2nd patent is Method for the Extraction of Essential Oils Using Steam Extractor Coupled with Highly Efficient Cooling System, awarded to Dr. Musa Runde (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science), Dr. Akeem B. Disu (Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science), Prof. Monioluwa Olaniyi (Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science), Dr. Gimba Usman (Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science), and Dr. Oria Vincent (National Research Institute for Chemical Technology, Zaria, Kaduna State).

This innovation presents an precocious method for extracting indispensable oils done a steam extractor integrated with a highly businesslike cooling system.

With applications successful pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and the nutrient industry, the invention offers a cost-effective and sustainable attack to indispensable lipid production.

The Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, Professor Olufemi Peters, expressed delight astatine the development, describing it arsenic a large measurement successful the university’s thrust to beforehand probe with tangible interaction connected society.

He requested that the patents beryllium decently archived for organization notation and aboriginal use.

Peters commended the ingenuity and collaborative tone of the inventors, noting that specified achievements item the NOUN’s relation successful shaping the aboriginal of technological probe and improvement successful Nigeria.

He stressed the management’s committedness to supporting probe that addresses pressing societal needs, portion encouraging different unit and students to emulate this exemplary stride successful innovation.

“These patents are not conscionable a triumph for NOUN; they are a publication to nationalist improvement and a objection of however academia tin respond to existent satellite challenges with applicable solutions,” he stated.