Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Omer Inan was one of eight faculty members honored by the College of Engineering for their excellence in research, service, teaching, inventorship, and commercialization. He received the Outstanding Achievement as an Inventor Award.

Inan is an inventor or co-inventor on 22 issued patents and more than 30 pending applications. The inventions span professional audio electronics, vascular wearables, IV infiltration detection, musculoskeletal sensing, and neuromodulation. They have been licensed to multiple startups and multinational corporations. Two separate technologies stemming from his Georgia Tech research have received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Device Designation, a program created to highlight devices that address life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating conditions.

Inan’s research group has invented several wearable medical devices with clinical translation across multiple diseases. The most significant is CardioTag — a wearable chest patch that simultaneously captures electrocardiogram, photoplethysmogram, and seismocardiogram signals, making it the first multimodal wearable sensor of its kind. The device recently received 510(k) clearance from the FDA.

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