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Aravinda Kar, a UCF professor who has received 29 patents, was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors last week.<\/p>\n
Kar, of CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, is the 11th NAI Fellow from UCF. According to the nonprofit organization, it\u2019s the highest professional accolade bestowed solely upon academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.<\/p>\n
Those elected to the rank of NAI Fellow are named inventors on U.S. patents and were nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to innovation in areas such as patents and licensing, innovative discovery and technology, significant impact on society, and support and enhancement of innovation.<\/p>\n
With the election of the 2017 class there are now 912 NAI Fellows, representing over 250 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutes. The 2017 Fellows are named inventors on nearly 6,000 U.S. patents, bringing the collective patents held by all NAI Fellows to more than 32,000.<\/p>\n