Patents Assigned to Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research
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Publication number: 20240138248Abstract: A process of forming an electrode interconnection between at least two adjacent unit devices in an integrated multilayer thin-film electronic device comprising: providing an intermediary device that comprises: a first electrode layer on a thin film substrate comprising a first patterned coating that includes at least two spaced apart first electrode sections of adjacent unit devices; a first functional layer comprising a substantially continuous coating over the first electrode layer; and a second functional layer comprising a second patterned coating on the first functional layer comprising at least two spaced apart functional sections, each functional section positioned on the first functional layer to overlay a portion of one of the first electrode sections so to define a gap portion between adjacent functional sections that includes a portion of that first electrode section and the first functional layer; and applying a second electrode layer over the second functional layer as a third patterned coating tType: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Doojin VAK, Regine CHANTLER, Hasitha WEERASINGHE
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Patent number: 11967023Abstract: A method for use in colourising a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of an environment, the method including determining timing information indicative of a time of capture of a frame; identifying at least some 3D points of the point cloud in the frame based on the position of the camera and determining a local point cloud that captures a scene in the immediate vicinity of the camera, wherein a visibility check is performed on the local point cloud to determine points in the local point cloud that are visible from the perspective of the camera for a given frame; and determining a candidate colour for the at least some of the 3D points using a colour of a corresponding pixel in the frame extracted from the video data; and, assigning a colour to one or more points of the 3D point cloud using candidate colours obtained from multiple frames.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Pavel Vechersky, Mark Cox, Paulo Borges, Thomas Lowe, Michael Bosse
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Publication number: 20240117326Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and means for producing nitrogenase polypeptides in the mitochondria of plant cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Ema Jayne JOHNSTON, Robert Silas ALLEN, Christina Maria GREGG, Shoko OKADA, Amratha MENON, Andrew Charles WARDEN, Matthew Craig TAYLOR, Craig Christopher WOOD
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Patent number: 11952612Abstract: The present invention relates to sensors and methods for detecting bacterial proteases in a sample. In particular, the present invention relates to sensors and methods for detecting Pseudomonas spp. protease activity in a sample. The sensors and methods may be used to detect or predict spoilage of a dairy product. The invention also relates to methods for preparing samples for protease assays.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Helen Dacres, Stephen Charles Trowell
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Patent number: 11938692Abstract: A soft material extruder including a housing having a cavity, an inlet configured to receive a material and an outlet. The extruder also includes a first intermeshed gear pair positioned in the cavity proximate the inlet, the first intermeshed gear pair that when driven is configured to draw material from the inlet into the cavity, a heating element positioned in the cavity proximate the outlet, wherein the heating element is configured to melt material in the vicinity of the outlet and a second intermeshed gear pair positioned in the cavity proximate the outlet, the second intermeshed gear pair forming a gear pump that when driven is configured to push molten material towards the outlet so that molten material is expelled from the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventor: Nicholas Hockings
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Publication number: 20240084214Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, NUSEED NUTRITIONAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Patent number: 11927553Abstract: An apparatus for bulk ore sorting using gamma activation analysis is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor system that includes one or more conveyor belts, surrounded by one or more radiation shields, to transport ore material along a transport path. A pulsed X-ray radiation source is configured to irradiate ore material at an irradiation region and one or more detectors are configured to detect a gamma radiation output from irradiated ore material at a detection region. The transport path has a bend, located between the irradiation region and the detection region, and about a vertical axis, of at least 45 degrees. The one or more detectors are configured to detect a radiation output from the irradiated ore material at times between X-ray pulses of the pulsed X-ray radiation source irradiating the ore material.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Peter Coghill, James Tickner, Chanel Tissot, Ian Carter, Nicholas Cutmore
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Patent number: 11917960Abstract: The invention provides an improved method for transformation of sorghum and the production of genetically modified sorghum. In particular, methods and means are described for the production of high quality, transformable sorghum plant cells which are maintained in culture for longer duration without losing their regenerative potential and their use for genetic transformation. The method also describes the use of improved media for efficient plant regeneration from transformed plant cells, thereby providing significant improvement in the stable transformation frequency of sorghum.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Srinivas Belide, James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh
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Patent number: 11913011Abstract: Methods are described for selecting or producing a cereal plant comprising a functional restorer gene for wheat G-type cytoplasmic male sterility and nucleic acids and/or polypeptides for use therein.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: BASF SE, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Mark Davey, Antje Rohde, Ruvini Ariyadasa, Aswinkumar Singaram Natarajan, Alexander Whan, Jonny Jacobs, Colin Robert Cavanagh, Michel Van Thournout, Arne Verstichele, Andrew Spriggs, William Bovill, Jose Barrero Sanchez
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Patent number: 11898869Abstract: A system for generating a map of an environment, the system including a plurality of agents that acquire mapping data captured by a mapping system including a range sensor. The mapping data is indicative of a three dimensional representation of the environment and is used to generate frames representing parts of the environment. The agents receive other frame data from other agents, which is indicative of other frames representing parts of the environment generated using other mapping data captured by a mapping system of the other agents. Each agent then generates a graph representing a map of the environment by generating nodes using the frames and other frames, each node being indicative of a respective part of the environment, and calculating edges interconnecting the nodes, the edges being indicative of spatial offsets between the nodes.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventor: Gavin Catt
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Publication number: 20240040982Abstract: The present invention relates to cereal grain comprising an aleurone, an embryo, a starchy endosperm and a reduced level and/or activity of a mitochondrial single-stranded DNA binding (mtSSB) polypeptide, a RECA3 polypeptide or a TWINKLE polypeptide. Grain of the invention, or aleurone therefrom, has improved nutritional properties, and hence is particularly useful for human and animal feed products.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Dong-Qi LI, Chun-Ming LIU, Xiao-Ba WU, Xue-Feng YAO, Jin-Xin LIU, Ronald Chun-Wai YU, Crispin Alexander HOWITT, Philip John LARKIN
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Patent number: 11883449Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing total gas production and/or methane production in a ruminant animal.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Meat & Livestock Australia Limited, James Cook UniversityInventors: Lorenna Machado, Marie Elisabeth Magnusson, Nigel William Tomkins, Robert Douglas Kinley, Peter Canisius Denys, Nicholas Andrew Paul
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Patent number: 11877539Abstract: A process for preparing a polymeric membrane for soil materials used in crop production comprising providing an aqueous dispersion of polyurethane and spraying the aqueous dispersion onto soil materials to be used in crop production to form a polymeric membrane.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Raju Adhikari, Philip Casey, Keith L. Bristow, George Freischmidt, John Hornbuckle
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Patent number: 11881361Abstract: The invention is directed to a photovoltaic apparatus comprising a carrier substrate. The carrier substrate carries printed structures comprising: a plurality of photovoltaic modules, each module including first and second terminals and a plurality of photovoltaic cells electrically connected between the first and second module terminals; a first bus bar extending along one side of the photovoltaic modules; a second bus bar extending along an opposite side of the photovoltaic modules; and a plurality of intermodule rails, each inter-module rail being associated with a photovoltaic module.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Doojin Vak, Karl Weber, Andrew Faulks, RĂ©gine Chantler
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Publication number: 20240004097Abstract: Described embodiments generally relate to a method of determining parameters of VTI anisotropy of a subsurface shale formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Marina PERVUKHINA, Roman BELOBORODOV, Michael Benedict CLENNELL, Claudio DELLE PIANE, Yevhen KOVALYSHEN, Valeriya SHULAKOVA
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Publication number: 20230416186Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid wherein the docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid may be preferentially esterified at the sn-2 position of triacylglycerol, and processes for producing and using the lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty LtdInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine, Xue-Rong Zhou
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Patent number: 11852501Abstract: A system for generating a costmap for use in planning a path through an environment, the system including one or more suitably programmed processing devices configured to obtain a map of the environment, acquire traversal data indicative of an ability to traverse parts of the environment, for each part of the environment, calculate a traversal indicator indicative of the ability to traverse the part, the traversal indicator being calculated in a colour space, and colourise the map using the traversal indicators to thereby generate a colourised costmap indicative of an ability to traverse the environment, the colourised costmap allowing path planning to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Paulo Borges, Thomas Lowe, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Riley Bowyer
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Patent number: 11851725Abstract: The present invention relates to an ironmaking feedstock comprising a solid CaFe3O5 phase. The ironmaking feedstock may be produced by a process comprising reacting a combination of a calcium source and magnetite at elevated temperature under reducing conditions sufficient to produce the solid CaFe3O5 phase. The product may be in the form of agglomerates such as pellets, with a compressive strength such that the product is suitable for transportation.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignees: Swinburne University of Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Suneeti Purohit, Geoffrey Brooks, Muhammad Akbar Rhamdhani, Mark Pownceby
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Patent number: D1009221Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Yutong Zhu, Christian Hornung, Michael Horne
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Patent number: D1009222Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Yutong Zhu, Christian Hornung