Feb. 11, 2019
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Northern Arizona University professor of practice Bertrand Cambou one of 66 academic inventors to the inaugural class of NAI senior members. NAI is a member organization comprised of U.S. and international universities as well as governmental and nonprofit research institutes, with more than 4,000 members spanning more than 250 institutions worldwide.
Cambou joined NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems in 2015 and is the university’s most prolific inventor. He has authored or coauthored 48 patents in his career and has disclosed 32 inventions at NAU to date. These disclosures have led to 35 patent applications for NAU, six of which have been granted patents.