Patents Assigned to Bringham Young University
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Patent number: 10082492Abstract: In one general aspect, an apparatus includes a probe including an exterior probe element including a first plurality of links defining a first flexible element. The exterior probe element defines a guard ring. The probe also includes an interior probe element including a second plurality of links defining a second flexible element and disposed within at least a portion of a perimeter defined by the exterior probe element. The apparatus includes a waveform generator electrically coupled to the exterior probe element and the interior probe element.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Bringham Young UniversityInventors: Brian A. Mazzeo, William S. Guthrie, Jared Baxter, Jeffrey D. Barton
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Patent number: 9889116Abstract: Equol (7-hydroxy-3(4?hydroxyphenyl)-chroman), the major metabolite of the phytoestrogen daidzein, specifically binds and blocks the hormonal action of 5?-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in vitro and in vivo. Equol can bind circulating free DHT and sequester it from the androgen receptor, thus altering growth and physiological hormone responses that are regulated by androgens. These data suggest a novel model to explain equol's biological properties. The significance of equol's ability to specifically bind and sequester DHT from the androgen receptor have important ramifications in health and disease and may indicate a broad and important usage for equol in the treatment and prevention of androgen-mediated pathologies. Thus, equol can specifically bind DHT and prevent DHT's biological actions in physiological and pathophysiological processes.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignees: BRINGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Edwin Douglas Lephart, Trent D. Lund, Robert J. Handa
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Patent number: 8765692Abstract: Modified glycolipid compounds are provided. Also disclosed are methods for activating an NKT cell, methods of stimulating an immune response in a subject, and methods suitable for labeling NKT cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignees: The Scripps Research Institute, The University of Chicago, Bringham Young UniversityInventors: Paul B. Savage, Luc Teyton, Albert Bendelac
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Patent number: 8414690Abstract: Heat-exchangers and biogas conditioners including a heat exchange member disposed between upper and lower flanges of the apparatus in which at least the heat exchange member is formed of a highly thermally conductive material (e.g., at least 50 W/m?K) such as aluminum or aluminum alloy. A bed of zeolite is loaded within the apparatus so as to be in contact with the heat exchange member. The heat exchange member is shaped and configured so that any given location of the zeolite bed is no more than about 3 inches from the heat exchange member comprising the highly thermally conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Bringham Young UniversityInventors: Jaron C. Hansen, Lee D. Hansen
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Patent number: 8340318Abstract: A method for measuring performance of a noise cancellation system that is operable to cancel noise is provided. The method includes generating a first model of a target noise. The first model represents the target noise in a form that is received at a location remote from a noise source of the target noise and within a defined environment. The method also includes generating a second model of a cancellation noise. The cancellation noise is configured to at least partially cancel the target noise when combined with the target noise. The second model represents the cancellation noise in a form that is received at the location. The method also includes determining, using the first model and the second model, a cancellation error value indicative of only a portion of the target noise that remains when the target noise and the cancellation noise are combined.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., Bringham Young UniversityInventors: David C. Copley, Benjamin Mahonri Faber, Scott D. Sommerfeldt
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Patent number: 8302834Abstract: A probe for friction stir welding MMCs, ferrous alloys, non-ferrous alloys, and superalloys, as well as non-ferrous alloys, the probe including a shank, a shoulder, and a pin disposed through the shoulder and into the shank, wherein the pin and the shoulder at least include a coating comprised of a superabrasive material, the pin and shoulder being designed to reduce stress risers, disposing a collar around a portion of the shoulder and the shank to thereby prevent movement of the shoulder relative to the shank, and incorporating thermal management by providing a thermal flow barrier between the shoulder and the shank, and between the collar and the tool.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignees: MegaStar Technologies LLC, Bringham Young UniversityInventors: Tracy W. Nelson, Carl D. Sorensen, Scott M. Packer, Paul Allen Felter
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Patent number: 7152776Abstract: A probe for friction stir welding MMCs, ferrous alloys, non-ferrous alloys, and superalloys, as well as non-ferrous alloys, the probe including a shank, a shoulder, and a pin disposed through the shoulder and into the shank, wherein the pin and the shoulder at least include a coating comprised of a superabrasive material, the pin and shoulder being designed to reduce stress risers, disposing a collar around a portion of the shoulder and the shank to thereby prevent movement of the shoulder relative to the shank, and incorporating thermal management by providing a thermal flow barrier between the shoulder and the shank, and between the collar and the tool.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignees: SII MegaDiamond, Inc., Advanced Metal Products, Inc., Bringham Young UniversityInventors: Tracy W. Nelson, Carl D. Sorensen, Scott Packer, Paul Allen Felter
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Patent number: 6767904Abstract: A series of novel steroid derivatives are described. The steroid derivatives are antibacterial agents. The steroid derivatives also act to sensitize bacteria to other antibiotics including erythromycin and novobiocin.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2001Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Bringham Young UniversityInventors: Paul B. Savage, Chunhong Li