MUET- A patent titled “A SYSTEM OF SECURE TRANSMISSION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA FOR WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS “ that was accepted by IPO Pakistan in February 2018 and was open for any objection has now acquired the final status of “GRANTED PATENT” by IPO Pakistan and is “SEALED” now.
The inventors of this patent are Dr. Attiya Baqai, Dr. Fahim A. Umrani, and Dr. Bhawani S. Chowdhry – IICT-MUET.
This patent was filed in Intellectual Property Organization IPO Pakistan in February 2016 and is granted on 26 July 2018.
The patent is based on the development of an Optical Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) that uses infrared signaling in a secure manner. Furthermore, a novel protocol is developed and tested with the transmission and reception of physiological data/vital signs over a short range.
The Patent is based on a PhD project carried out by Dr. Attiya Baqai (Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, MUET) under supervision of Dr. Bhawani Shanker Chowdry (DEAN FEECE, MUET) and Dr. Fahim Aziz Umrani (Associate professor, Department of Telecommunication, MUET) and was funded by the Endowment Scheme Faculty Development Program under Institute of Information & Communication Technologies (IICT), Mehran University of Engineering & Technology Jamshoro. The inventors sincerely pay their gratitude to the worthy Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam Uqaili who really encouraged this research project to go for patent filing. This Ph.D. project has yielded in total 4 (national and international) journal papers, one Ph.D. symposium conference paper and one patent publication.
Mehran University has until now 14 patents with the status of filed patents, from which some are published and under evaluation. This is the first patent which is granted.
