Women inventors, in their own right — the record holds four lines

2008–2015 APPLICATIONS AND THE CANCER-PANEL RECORD · NAMED AS THE FACES NAME THEM

The patent record names women of this ground as inventors in their own right, and this article prints them under their own names and work, not as co-inventors' wives or staff. Amanda B. Hummon of Granger, a Notre Dame chemist (assistant professor 2009–2017, then Ohio State), stands with Steven Buechler on the discovery the Harper Cancer Research Institute reported in January 2015: gene panels — NOX4 and MMP3 among them — that distinguish right-sided from left-sided stage II colon cancers and predict relapse-free survival, with United States application US 20120172244, published 5 July 2012, claiming biomarkers for the prognosis and treatment choice between the two. The panels were "in the process of patenting" in Notre Dame's own telling, and this section prints them as a published application, not a granted patent. Hope G. Spradlin of Granger (once mis-indexed "Grainger") worked the Bayer and Siemens biosensor bench beside the men of the first article and ahead of several of them in the reagent art: a reagent composition built on GDH-PQQ (application published 21 August 2008), a test-sensor reagent using cellulose polymers (2009, with Edelbrock), and biosensor haematocrit and stability methods running to 2014 — applications all, printed as such. Neha P. Kamat of Granger, a young researcher in the same Notre Dame orbit as her co-inventor Prashant Kamat, is named on the application published 22 April 2010 for polymer vesicles that deliver their cargo on selective electromagnetic trigger. Deborah Herring of Granger stands alone on the application published 19 January 2012 for a wiper-arm assembly with a locking member — the one woman in this record whose field is machinery outright. The register's checklist floors — Alice Hamilton, Gertrude Muller, Ethel Mossman Jacobs — are Fort Wayne women of Fort Wayne's build; no Granger tie was found for any of them, and they are not imported here.

Sources:

1. Application US 20120172244 (published 5 Jul 2012), biomarkers for right- versus left-sided colon cancer — Hummon, Granger, IN; Harper Cancer Research Institute report, January 2015 (Hummon and Buechler; the gene panel; patenting in process).
2. Applications 20080199937 (21 Aug 2008), 20090152128, 20110115504, 20140061062 and 20140305808 — Spradlin, Granger, IN (biosensor reagents and methods, Bayer/Siemens line).
3. Application 20100098773 (22 Apr 2010), polymer vesicles — Kamat, Granger, IN; application 20120011695 (19 Jan 2012), wiper-arm assembly — Herring, Granger, IN.
4. Notable People, Schools and Awards & Honors re-read for this article, November 2026 — no inventive work attributed in the banked rolls.