Patents Assigned to Council on Postsecondary Education
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Patent number: 11586872Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an RFID tag for use with a metal fastener where the fastener operates as the antenna of the RFID tag. The RFID tag includes a microchip for storing data. The chip is electrically coupled to the metal fastener in order to receive and transmit the RF signal, the metal fastener thereby operating as the antenna for the RFID tag.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignees: Pilgrim Screw Corporation, Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Geoffrey Grove, Tao Wei, Otto Gregory
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Publication number: 20210357721Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an RFID tag for use with a metal fastener where the fastener operates as the antenna of the RFID tag. The RFID tag includes a microchip for storing data. The chip is electrically coupled to the metal fastener in order to receive and transmit the RF signal, the metal fastener thereby operating as the antenna for the RFID tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicants: Pilgrim Screw Corporation, Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Geoffrey Grove, Tao Wei, Otto Gregory
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Publication number: 20210283281Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds, complexes, compositions, and methods for the detection of cancer. Specifically, the compounds, complexes, compositions of the present technology include pH (low) insertion peptides. Also disclosed herein are methods of using the complexes and compositions of the present technology in diagnostic imaging to detect cancer in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2017Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicants: MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER, RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, PHLIP, INC.Inventors: Jason S. LEWIS, Dustin DEMOIN, Yana K. RESHETNYAK, Oleg A. ANDREEV, Donald M. ENGELMAN, Narissa VIOLA-VILLEGAS
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Publication number: 20200293850Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an RFID tag for use with a metal fastener where the fastener operates as the antenna of the RFID tag. The RFID tag includes a microchip for storing data. The chip is electrically coupled to the metal fastener in order to receive and transmit the RF signal, the metal fastener thereby operating as the antenna for the RFID tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicants: Pilgrim Screw Corporation, Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Geoffrey Grove, Tao Wei, Otto Gregory
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Publication number: 20200246420Abstract: The invention features methods and compositions for eliciting an anti-tumor response in a subject comprising administering to the subject a pHLIP® construct comprising an antibody recruiting molecule linked to one or more pHLIP® peptides by a non-cleavable linker compound. The construct increases the amount of the antibody recruiting molecule on the surface of a diseased cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicants: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education, Yale University, Yale UniversityInventors: Yana K. Reshetnyak, Oleg A. Andreev, Anna Moshnikova, Donald M. Engelman
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Patent number: 10690551Abstract: The subject of the present invention relates to a device that can be applied to the surface of a ceramic matrix composites (CMC) in such a way that the CMC itself will contribute to the extraordinarily large thermoelectric power. The present invention obtains greater resolution of temperature measurements, which can be obtained at exceedingly high temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONInventors: Otto Gregory, John Rhoat, Kevin Rivera, Tommy Muth
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Publication number: 20200179434Abstract: The present invention provides compositions derived from cranberry including xyloglucan and pectic oligosaccharides, and iridoid terpene glycosides. These compositions can be used in conjunction with antibiotics to synergistically kill bacterial persister cells and inhibit bacterial quiescent phenotypes, thereby improving treatment outcomes in recurrent and other infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: David ROWLEY, Jiadong SUN, Robert DEERING, Navindra SEERAM, Paul COHEN
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Patent number: 10635963Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an RFID tag for use with a metal fastener where the fastener operates as the antenna of the RFID tag. The RFID tag includes a microchip for storing data. The chip is electrically coupled to the metal fastener in order to receive and transmit the RF signal, the metal fastener thereby operating as the antenna for the RFID tag.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: Pilgrim Screw Corporation, Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Geoffrey Grove, Tao Wei, Otto Gregory
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Patent number: 10574028Abstract: The present disclosure provides a unique digitally integrated, self-trained pre-distortion curve generation method and apparatus for semiconductor lasers (SCLs) to generate linearly swept optical signals that are applicable to a wide range of sweep velocities and semiconductor laser types. The method requires no prior knowledge of the frequency response of the laser and is highly accurate.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Tao Wei, Zheyi Yao, Yan Sun
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Patent number: 10519035Abstract: The invention provides a method to form and functionalize monolayers on a silicon-rich silicon nitride surface or a silicon surface formed by a nanopore fabrication method known as dielectric breakdown. Thermal, photochemical and radical processing can be used to hydrosilylate nascent silicon and silicon nitride surfaces with various reagents. The conventional need for hydrofluoric acid etching prior to coupling functional groups to the surfaces is thereby completely avoided.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Rhode Island Council On Postsecondary EducationInventors: Jason R. Dwyer, Y. M. Nuwan D. Y. Bandara, Buddini Iroshika Karawdeniya, Julie C. Whelan
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Publication number: 20190326642Abstract: An electrolyte composition including (i) at least one aprotic organic solvent; (ii) at least one conducting salt; (iii) at least one pyridine-SO3 complex of formula (I) wherein R is selected independently at each occurrence from F, C1 to C10 alkyl, C2 to C10 alkenyl, and C2 to C10 alkynyl, wherein alkyl, alkenyl, and alkynyl may be substituted by one or more substituents selected from F and CN; and n is an integer selected from 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; and (vi) optionally one or more additives; and its use in electrochemical cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicants: BASF SE, RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, STATUTORY SUCCESSOR TO THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OFInventors: Frederick Francois CHESNEAU, Arnd GARSUCH, Michael SCHMIDT, Brett LUCHT, Julien DEMEAUX, Yingnan DONG, Bo ZHANG
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Patent number: 10403767Abstract: A far-field radiative thermal rectification device uses a phase change material to achieve a high degree of asymmetry in radiative heat transfer. The device has a multilayer structure on one side and a blackbody on other side. The multilayer structure can consist of a transparent thin film of KBr sandwiched between a thin film of VO2 and a reflecting layer of gold. When VO2 is in its insulating phase, the structure is highly reflective due to the two transparent layers on highly reflective gold. When VO2 is in the metallic phase, Fabry-Perot type of resonance occurs and the tri-layer structure acts like a wide-angle antireflection coating achieved by destructive interference of partially reflected waves making it highly absorptive for majority of spectral range of thermal radiation. The instant structure can form the active part of a configuration that acts like a far-field radiative thermal diode.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Yi Zheng, Alok Ghanekar, Gang Xiao
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Patent number: 10371588Abstract: Strain gages for use with ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), and methods of manufacture therefore. The strain gages use the CMC as a strain element. For semiconductor CMCs, for example SiC fiber-reinforced SiC CMC, their large gage factor enables high sensitivity, high accuracy strain measurements at high temperatures. By using a single elemental metal such as platinum, or another high temperature conductive material, the strain gages can operate at temperatures over 1600° C. The conductive material is preferably deposited on a dielectric or insulating layer, and contacts the CMC substrate through openings in that layer. The materials can be deposited using thin film vacuum techniques or thick film techniques such as pastes or inks. The strain gages can be configured to measure only the mechanical strain independent of the apparent or thermal strain. The strain gages can be incorporated into a bulk CMC structure during layup, and can optionally measure the strain of only desired fiber weave orientations.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Otto Gregory, John T. Rhoat, Kevin Rivera
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Patent number: 10351958Abstract: A method is disclosed for electroless plating of thin metal film directly onto a substrate. The method includes the steps of: cleaning the substrate to remove organic material; etching a surface of the substrate to remove an oxygen-containing surface layer; soaking and rinsing the substrate in a plurality of baths following etching; and electroless plating the metal onto the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Council On Postsecondary EducationInventors: Jason Rodger Dwyer, Julie C. Whelan, Y. M. Nuwan D. Y. Bandara, Buddini I. Karawdeniya
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Publication number: 20190190234Abstract: The present disclosure provides a unique digitally integrated, self-trained pre-distortion curve generation method and apparatus for semiconductor lasers (SCLs) to generate linearly swept optical signals that are applicable to a wide range of sweep velocities and semiconductor laser types. The method requires no prior knowledge of the frequency response of the laser and is highly accurate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Tao Wei, Zheyi Yao, Yan Sun
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Patent number: 10188710Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition used to suppress immunity in an animal, wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises an isolated T-cell epitope peptide containing an amino acid sequence of PLLLLLLXLPXRA (SEQ ID NO: 5), wherein X is an amino acid.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Phyllis Losikoff, Stephen Gregory, Anne DeGroot, William Martin
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Publication number: 20190027615Abstract: A far-field radiative thermal rectification device uses a phase change material to achieve a high degree of asymmetry in radiative heat transfer. The device has a multilayer structure on one side and a blackbody on other side. The multilayer structure can consist of a transparent thin film of KBr sandwiched between a thin film of VO2 and a reflecting layer of gold. When VO2 is in its insulating phase, the structure is highly reflective due to the two transparent layers on highly reflective gold. When VO2 is in the metallic phase, Fabry-Perot type of resonance occurs and the tri-layer structure acts like a wide-angle antireflection coating achieved by destructive interference of partially reflected waves making it highly absorptive for majority of spectral range of thermal radiation. The instant structure can form the active part of a configuration that acts like a far-field radiative thermal diode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: YI ZHENG, ALOK GHANEKAR, GANG XIAO
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Patent number: 10126316Abstract: Disclosed is a method of measuring tacrolimus levels in a subject. In exemplary embodiments, the method comprises the steps of: collecting oral fluid from the subject; homogenizing the oral fluid; combining the homogenized oral fluid with a precipitating solvent; separating oral fluid components on a liquid chromatography column by gradient elution with a mixture of a solvent A and a solvent B, wherein the solvent A is about 2 mM ammonium acetate/0.1% (v/v) formic acid in water and solvent B is about 2 mM ammonium acetate/0.1% (v/v) formic acid in MeOH and wherein the amount of solvent B is increased from about 50% (v/v) to about 98% (v/v); and quantifying the amount of tacrolimus in the oral fluid by mass spectrometry.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education, Statutory Sucessor to the Rhode Island Board of Education, and Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher EducationInventors: Fatemeh Akhlaghi, Mwlod Ghareeb
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Patent number: 9814781Abstract: An environmentally sensitive membrane binding polypeptide, pH (low)-sensitive membrane peptide (pHLIP) has improved insertion kinetics balanced with solubility to selectively target acidic tissues.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignees: Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education (Statutory Successor to Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education), Yale UniversityInventors: Yana K. Reshetnyak, Oleg A. Andreev, Donald M. Engelman
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Patent number: 9784723Abstract: A non-detonable source of at least one of an explosive or explosive vapor is disclosed, as well as a method of preparing the explosive or explosive vapor that includes the step of mixing the explosive with at least 50% inert material which retains the explosive vapor until heat is applied.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Council on Postsecondary EducationInventors: Jimmie C. Oxley, James L. Smith, Jonathan N. Canino