Patents Assigned to The Australian National University
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Publication number: 20110292342Abstract: A system and method for assessing the function of parts of the nervous system of a subject by measuring the pupillary responses to at least one stimulus ensemble comprising a plurality of individual stimuli; the method comprising: presenting a sequence of selected individual stimuli from the at least one stimulus ensemble to the nervous system of a subject thereby evoking pupillary responses in at least one pupil of the subject, selected individual stimuli being concurrently presented in the sequence, wherein the individual stimuli are each individually balanced such that the pupillary responses evoked by individual stimuli in the ensemble are balanced according to the strength of the neural responses evoked by the individual stimuli; detecting responses of the pupil or pupils evoked by the stimuli using a sensor; and processing the detected responses to relate them to the function of the subject's neural responses to some or all of the individual stimuli of the ensemble.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Teddy Lee Maddess, Andrew Charles James
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Publication number: 20110283795Abstract: A device for detecting seismic acceleration including a proof mass; a base for providing a sensor acceleration, relative to the proof mass, based on the seismic acceleration; an optical fibre portion operatively connected between the proof mass and the base for providing a fibre tension based on the sensor acceleration, a fibre Fabry-Perot interferometer (FFPI) in the optical fibre portion for providing an optical characteristic representative of the fibre tension, and a compensator for applying a compensating tension to the FFPI to compensate for a change of the optical characteristic due to a temperature change of the FFPI.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2009Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Ian C. M. Littler, Jong H. Chow, David E. McClelland
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Patent number: 8049066Abstract: The present invention provides novel genes involved in cellulose biosynthesis and methods using such genes to modulate cellulose biosynthesis in fiber-producing plants such as cotton. The invention also provides methods for identifying and isolating alleles of these genes in a population of fiber-producing plants that correlate with the quality of the produced fibers.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Australian National UniversityInventors: Joanne Elizabeth Burn, Richard Edward Williamson
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Publication number: 20110194120Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of phase measurement, particularly optical phase measurement. In one form, the invention relates to a method and device for measuring the phase between distinct signals by converting phase variations between the signals into amplitude variations. In one embodiment the invention provides a method of arranging the structure of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional crystal to measure the phase between signals, comprising the steps of (i) providing a respective waveguide for each signal and (ii) providing a micro-cavity array arranged to provide a resonance output in response to the phase of the signals. The invention has application to a wide range of apparatus and devices across many industries including communications, food technology, pharmacology, medicine and biology.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicants: MONASH UNIVERSITY, THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Vajira Samapth AMARATUNGA, Haroldo Takashi Hattori, Malin Premaratne, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish
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Publication number: 20110181701Abstract: A method for processing image data of a sample is disclosed. The method comprises registering a first and a second images of at least partially overlapping spatial regions of the sample and processing data from the registered images to obtain integrated image data comprising information about the sample, said information being additional to that available from said first and second images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Trond Karsten Varslot, Andrew Maurice Kingston, Adrian Paul Sheppard, Mark Alexander Knackstedt, Robert Martin Sok, Shane Jamie Latham
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Publication number: 20110165070Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a radiolabeled synthetic polymer, the method comprising contacting a synthetic polymer with a carbon encapsulated nanoparticle composite having a radioactive particulate core in an aqueous medium comprising an electrolyte concentration or pH selected to promote short-range attractive forces between the nanoparticles and the synthetic polymer by attenuating long-range electrostatic repulsive forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: The Australian National UniversityInventors: Ross Wentworth Stephens, Timothy John Senden, David Wallace King
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Publication number: 20110165069Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a radiolabeled macromolecule, the method comprising contacting a macromolecule with a carbon encapsulated nanoparticle composite having a radioactive particulate core in an aqueous medium comprising a pH selected to promote short-range attractive forces between the nanoparticles and the macromolecule by attenuating repulsive electrostatic forces.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: The Australian National UniversityInventors: Ross Wentworth Stephens, Timothy John Senden, David Wallace King
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Publication number: 20110122904Abstract: A system and method for stabilising a plurality of output frequencies (wavelengths) of a plurality of lasers (106). The laser beams are combined using optical multiplexer (110) and coupled into length-imbalanced (armlength-mismatched) Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) (114) having an optical modulator (e.g. AOM) (122) in one of its arms. The output of the MZI is divided into corresponding beams via optical demultiplexer (128) and each beam is detected by a respective photo-diode (PD) (134). The individual electric signals, so generated, are demodulated using a corresponding plurality of phase-responsive devices (138) and the resulting phase-signals are directed to a plurality of servo-controllers (148) to control the central frequency of the respective lasers (106) via a corresponding plurality of feedback loop circuits (150). The lasers (106) can have different central frequencies which can also be individually tunned using offset modules (141) in the phase-responsive devices (138).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Australian National UniversityInventors: Ian C. M. Littler, Jong H. Chow, Malcolm B. Gray, David E. McClelland
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Publication number: 20110104173Abstract: This application relates to a method of inhibiting the degradation of an extracellular matrix associated with islet beta cells, said method comprising contacting said extracellular matrix with an effective amount of a heparanase inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2007Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: The Australian National UniversityInventors: Charmaine Simeonovic, Christopher Richard Parish, Andrew Ziolkowski
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Patent number: 7920270Abstract: An apparatus for interferometric sensing, comprising a plurality of single-longitudinal mode laser sources to each provide radiation at a corresponding plurality of selected wavelengths, and at least one modulator to frequency or phase modulate the radiation from each laser; a plurality of Fabry-Perot interferometers formed by Bragg Gratings written into optical fibre, each interferometer being responsive to one of the said plurality of wavelengths to each produce a reflected or transmitted optical output signal dependent on the corresponding interferometer path length; and one or more demodulators to demodulate the optical output signals and produce a corresponding plurality of measurement signals indicative of optical path lengths of the respective interferometers.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: The Australian National UniversityInventors: Jong H. Chow, Malcolm B. Gray, David E. McClelland
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Patent number: 7872242Abstract: The present invention provides a method for extracting a charged particle beam from a charged particle source. A set of electrodes is provided at the output of the source. The potentials applied to the electrodes produce a low-emittance growth beam with substantially zero electric field at the output of the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignees: FEI Company, Australian National UniversityInventors: Roderick Boswell, Orson Sutherland
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Publication number: 20110002847Abstract: A method of forming an injectable radioactive composition, the method comprising the steps of: (a) depositing a solid form of technetium onto a carbon crucible; (b) preheating the solid form of technetium to remove any carrier; (c) plasma ablating the technetium and portions of the carbon crucible; (d) allowing the carbon and technetium metal to co-condense from the gas phase to produce a nanoparticle composite aerosol in an inert gas; (e) dispersing the nanoparticle composite in water containing a low concentration of surfactant using an electrostatic precipitator; (f) size fractionating the nanoparticle dispersion by filtration with hydrophilic membranes of known pore size.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2006Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: The Australian National UniversityInventors: Rodney James Browitt, Beverley Ann Browitt, William Martin Burch, Timothy John Senden, Ross Wentworth Stephens
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Publication number: 20100257633Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining a plant with increased stress resistance relative to a wild-type plant, comprising: (a) introducing at least one mutation or exogenous nucleic acid into the genome of one or more plant cells which results in reduced activity associated with SAL1 or a homologue thereof in said one or more plant cells; (b) regenerating one or more plants from said one or more plant cells; and (c) selecting one or more plants that have increased stress resistance relative to a wild-type plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Barry James Pogson, Philippa Bronwyn Wilson, Jan Bart Rossel
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Publication number: 20100218805Abstract: A substrate assembly (100) for a photovoltaic device, the assembly including an array of elongate semiconductor substrates (101), each of the elongate substrates (101) having opposite faces bounded by longitudinal edges, the elongate substrates being electrically interconnected and maintained in a longitudinally parallel arrangement by an electrically conductive material (102) disposed between the opposing longitudinal edges of adjacent ones of said elongate substrates (101) such that the opposite faces of each elongate substrate remain substantially entirely exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2007Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Vernie Allan Everett, Andrew William Blakers
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Publication number: 20100203064Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of modulating repair of a wound. The method includes modulating expression and/or activity of Flightless I in cells involved in repair of the wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicants: WOMENS & CHILDRENS HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ADELAIDE RESEARCH & INNOVATION PTY LTD, THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Allison June Cowin, Hugh Douglas Campbell, Barry Powell
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Patent number: 7750206Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding an enzyme of the starch biosynthetic pathway in a cereal plant, wherein the enzyme is selected from the group consisting of starch branching enzyme I, starch branching enzyme II, starch soluble synthase I, and debranching enzyme, with the proviso that the enzyme is not soluble starch synthase I of rice, or starch branching enzyme I of rice or maize.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2005Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, The Australian National University, Biogemma SASInventors: Zhongyi Li, Matthew Morell, Sadegur Rahman
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Patent number: 7696252Abstract: Methods for the formation of colloidal suspensions. The method includes combining an aqueous substance with a second substance that is normally immiscible with the aqueous substance, to form a mixture, and before, during or after the combining removing dissolved gases from one or both of the aqueous and second substance, whereby the aqueous and second substances mix and form a colloidal suspension. The methods for the formation of colloidal suspensions include methods for the formation of emulsions as well as particulate dispersions. The methods used to form the colloidal suspensions in accordance with the present invention produce colloidal suspensions that are stable for periods from an hour to several weeks in the absence of surfactants or stabilizing agents.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2003Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Australian National UniversityInventor: Richard M Pashley
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Publication number: 20100044580Abstract: The present invention provides a method for extracting a charged particle beam from a charged particle source. A set of electrodes is provided at the output of the source. The potentials applied to the electrodes produce a low-emittance growth beam with substantially zero electric field at the output of the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2004Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicants: FEI Company, Australian National UniversityInventors: Roderick Boswell, Orson Sutherland
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Publication number: 20100021074Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the attitude of a vehicle (such as an aircraft) in a space having at least two opposed viewable regions, each region being viewed by a respective first sensor for sensing a first frequency band of electromagnetic radiation and a respective second sensor for sensing a second frequency band of electromagnetic radiation, wherein respective first and second data sets from the first and second sensors for each regions are produced, these second data sets are subsequently modified and combined with the first data sets to form respective third data sets for each region. The attitude of the vehicle is then adjusted until the third data sets are substantially equal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicants: The Commonwealth of Australia, The Australian National UniversityInventors: Javaan Singh Chahl, Friedrich G. Stange, Naig L. Bouffant
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Publication number: 20090308430Abstract: A solar cell interconnection process for forming a solar cell sub-module for a photovoltaic device, the process including the steps of mounting a plurality of elongate solar cells (101) on a crossbeam (102) on patches of solderable material (201) which is used to maintain solder in position, the elongate solar cells being in a substantially longitudinally parallel and generally co-planar configuration: and establishing one or more conductive pathways (204) extending between adjacent cells to electrically interconnect the elongate solar cells via the contacts (202, 203): wherein the one or more conductive pathways are established by wave soldering.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2006Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: The Australian National UniversityInventors: Vernie Allan Everett, Andrew William Blakers, Klaus Johannes Weber