Patents Assigned to California Institute Research Foundation
  • High density epidural stimulation for facilitation of locomotion, posture, voluntary movement, and recovery of autonomic, sexual, vasomotor, and cognitive function after neurological injury
    Patent number: 11957910
    Abstract: Methods of enabling locomotor control, postural control, voluntary control of body movements (e.g., in non-weight bearing conditions), and/or autonomic functions in a human subject having a spinal cord injury, a brain injury, or a neurological neuromotor disease are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Victor Reggie Edgerton, Roland R. Roy, Yury Gerasimenko, Joel W. Burdick, Susan J. Harkema, Jonathan Hodes, Yu-Chong Tai, Mandheerej S. Nandra, Claudia A. Angeli, Thomas Anthony Desautels
  • Smokeless slow burning cast propellant
    Patent number: 4112849
    Abstract: 1. A cast, combustible composition comprising: granular ammonium nitrate; catalytic amounts of a powdered combustion catalyst intimately mixed with the ammonium nitrate, said catalyst being selected from the group consisting of zirconium hydride, cobalt, nickel, alloys of cobalt, nickel, and zirconium, and the oxides of cobalt and nickel; and an elastic, combustible, crosslinked, resinous fuel consisting of a copolymer which is preponderantly methyl acrylate in sufficient amount to fill the voids between the granules of ammonium nitrate and catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1949
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: California Institute Research Foundation
    Inventor: John Leslie Jones