Abstract: A system that uses autonomous robots for 3D manufacturing an object where the robots have different tool heads for performing different manufacturing operations.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 5, 2020
Publication date:
May 12, 2022
Applicant:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Inventors:
Wenchao Zhou, Lucas Galvan Marques, Zachary Hyden
Abstract: A robotic platform system having a lower stage with a motorized cartesian carriage, an upper stage, and a needle insertion module that connects both stages together.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 12, 2021
Publication date:
May 12, 2022
Applicant:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure is directed to a method for activation/enhancement of cell growth of a plant. The method also stimulates the production of pharmaceutically active metabolites, including alkaloids, in plant cell cultures. The method includes providing a nano-sized material contained agent, and treating the plant with the nano-sized material contained agent to allow sufficient interaction of cells of the plant with the nano-sized material so as to activate/enhance the cell growth of the plant or to stimulate the production of pharmaceutically active metabolites.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2018
Date of Patent:
May 10, 2022
Assignee:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Abstract: A device for measuring strain and volume of a soil sample including an enclosure adapted to receive a soil sample within another enclosure. A base adapted to hold the sample enclosure. The device also has a plurality of moveable arms located between the enclosures which may be a spaced distance apart and adapted to move around the sample. Cameras as included on the arms.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 17, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 3, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
Abstract: A system and method for selective heating and/or sintering of a material including first and second substrates, an array of one or more resistive heating elements arranged on a planar surface of a substrate and material to be heated located on the other substrate.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 31, 2021
Publication date:
March 24, 2022
Applicant:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Inventors:
Wenchao Zhou, Austin Van Horn, Nicholas Holt, Lucas Galvan Marques
Abstract: Methods of delivering therapeutic agents by administering compositions including a bacterial collagen-binding polypeptide segment linked to the therapeutic agent to subjects in need of treatment with the therapeutic agent are provided. In these methods, the therapeutic agent is not a PTH/PTHrP receptor agonist or antagonist, basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) or epidermal growth factor (EGF). The bacterial collagen-binding polypeptide segment delivers the agent to sites of partially untwisted or under-twisted collagen. Methods of treating collagenopathies using a composition including a collagen-binding polypeptide and a PTH/PTHrP receptor agonist are also provided. In addition, methods of treating hyperparathyroidism, and hair loss using compositions comprising a collagen binding polypeptide and a PTH/PTHrP receptor agonist are provided. Finally, methods of reducing hair regrowth by administering a composition including a collagen binding polypeptide and a PTH/PTHrP receptor antagonist are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 22, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 22, 2022
Assignees:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, The Kitasato Institute, Montefiore Medical Center, National University Corporation Kagawa University
Inventors:
Tulasi Ponnapakkam, Sagaya Theresa Leena Philominathan, Joshua Sakon, Ranjitha Katikaneni, Takaki Koide, Osamu Matsushita, Robert C. Gensure, Nozomu Nishi
Abstract: Engineered FGF1 and FGF2 polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides and DNA constructs, vectors and compositions including these engineered polypeptides are provided herein. The engineered FGF1 and FGF2 polypeptides are more stable than their wild-type counterparts and may be more effective at treating a variety of conditions that FGF1 and FGF2 are useful for treating such as wound healing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 18, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 8, 2022
Assignee:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Abstract: An integrative computational soil mapping system and process that reduces the required number of soil property measurements without jeopardizing the statistical precision of the resulting digital soil maps. The integrative computational soil mapping system and process saves monetary resources and time by reducing the number of soil property measurements required to produce digital soil maps and by offering soil sample locations which capture the maximum amount of representativeness of the soil characteristics in a determined area. In addition, the inventive system and process are integrative computational soil mapping that utilize algorithms based on state-of-the-art computational statistics and machine learning methods for the production of digital soil property maps and also provides soil sampling locations to collect new soil property measurements.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 30, 2021
Publication date:
March 3, 2022
Applicants:
Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
Inventors:
Bryan Andre Fuentes Ponce, Phillip Ray Owens, Minerva Justine Dorantes
Abstract: A 3-D printing system comprising a plurality of printers. The printers are motorized to allow movement in X and Y directions or to rotate freely. Each printer may have one or more printheads. Also provided is a surface independent from said printers adapted to receive a printed object.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 8, 2021
Publication date:
March 3, 2022
Applicant:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Inventors:
Wenchao Zhou, Lucas Galvan Marques, Robert Austin Williams
Abstract: This invention relates generally to a system and process for early detection of biological ammonia oxidation in water utilizing a fluorescence-based sensor and process. Various embodiments are configured to read increases in a fluorescence excitation-emission wavelength pair that is responsive to a period of time (days to weeks or even longer) prior to the onset of biological ammonia oxidation, which is considered to be a nitrification event. Fluorescence excitation/emission pairs that have proven to be reliable include a fluorescence excitation wavelength of about 230 nm and an emission wavelength of about 345 nm and an excitation wavelength of 325 and an emission wavelength of 470. The system and process enable drinking water utilities to improve management of its distribution systems and facilitate earlier corrective actions, resulting is less loss of treated water through flushing and other tangible benefits.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 30, 2019
Date of Patent:
February 22, 2022
Assignees:
BOARD OF TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE
ADMINISTRATOR OF U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Inventors:
Julian Fairey, Thien Duc Do, Ashley Pifer, David Wahman
Abstract: A system and method for selective heating and/or sintering of a material including first and second substrates, an array of one or more resistive heating elements arranged on a planar surface of a substrate and material to be heated located on the other substrate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 3, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 15, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
Inventors:
Wenchao Zhou, Austin Van Horn, Nicholas Holt, Lucas Galvan Marques
Abstract: Methods of increasing the tolerance of a plant to an herbicide and seeds for carrying out these methods are provided herein. The methods include treating the seeds of the plant with an insecticide prior to planting. The insecticide treatment makes the resulting plant more resistant to herbicides and in particular to post-emergence herbicides as compared to untreated seeds. The plants suitably do not have complete natural or complete engineered resistance to the herbicide. The treated seeds are then planted in a field and the herbicide is applied to the field. The resulting plants growing from the treated seeds have increased tolerance to the herbicide as compared to plants grown from seeds not treated with the insecticide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 4, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 11, 2022
Assignee:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Inventors:
Gus Lorenz, Robert Scott, Jarrod Hardke, Jason Norsworthy
Abstract: A method creating a patterned film with cuprous oxide and light comprising the steps of electrodepositing copper from a solution onto a substrate; illuminating selected areas of said deposited copper with light having photon energies above the band gap energy of 2.0 eV to create selected illuminated sections and non-illuminated sections; and stripping non-illuminated sections leaving said illuminated sections on the substrate. An additional step may include galvanically replacing the copper with one or more noble metals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 7, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 4, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
Abstract: A rice cultivar designated CLL16 is disclosed herein. The present invention provides seeds, plants, and plant parts of or derived from rice cultivar CLL16. Further, it provides methods for producing a rice plant by crossing CLL16 with itself or another rice variety and methods for controlling weeds in the vicinity of a rice plant of rice cultivar CLL16 using an AHAS-inhibiting herbicide. The invention also encompasses any rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by the methods disclosed herein, including those in which additional traits have been transferred into CLL16 through the introduction of a transgene or by breeding CLL16 with another rice cultivar.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 17, 2020
Date of Patent:
December 28, 2021
Assignee:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Abstract: The present invention provides probiotic compositions comprising isolated bacterial strains, referred to herein as LactX, StrepX1 and StrepX3. Methods of using the compositions to increase growth rate in pigs and enhance pig production are also provided.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 10, 2021
Publication date:
December 16, 2021
Applicant:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
Inventors:
Jiangchao Zhao, Xiaofan Wang, Tsungcheng Tsai, Charles V. Maxwell
Abstract: Description and specification of a new and distinct cultivar of peach tree named ‘A-858P’ which originated from a hand-pollinated cross of ‘White Diamond’ (female, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,464) x A-609P (male, non-patented, unreleased genotype) is provided. This new peach tree can be distinguished by its mid-early ripening, peen-tao (flat) shape, medium fruit size, semi-freestone flesh adherence, attractive skin, good flavor, and high tree health suitable for home garden use.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 30, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 1, 2022
Assignee:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS