Patents Assigned to Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
  • Patent number: 11975718
    Abstract: A method for providing a driving guideline in a moving object may include: triggering a driving guideline provision instruction in the moving object; based on the implemented triggering, generating, by the moving object, a driving guideline; outputting the generated driving guideline; and driving, by the moving object, based on the driving guideline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jae Jun Ha, Ilsoo Yun, Sangmin Park, Sungho Park, Harim Jeong, Cheolwoo Kwon, Jiwon Kim, Kiyeon Park
  • Publication number: 20240141530
    Abstract: A method for producing a copper composite structure is disclosed. The method for producing a copper composite structure includes a first step of forming a copper pillar structure; and a second step of annealing the copper pillar structure under a nitrogen atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Chang-Koo KIM, Jun-Hyun KIM, Sanghyun YOU
  • Publication number: 20240132458
    Abstract: A NLRP3-inhibitory compound 7 (NIC7) and a potent derivative NIC7w are disclosed. NLRP3-inhibitory compound 7 (NIC7) and a potent derivative NIC7w are a novel small-molecule inhibitor for inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasomes are identified. These compounds inhibit main elements of the NLRP3 signaling pathway, primarily IL-1? and caspase 1, and improve cognitive behaviors of mice in Alzheimer disease mouse models. Compositions of NIC7 and NIC7w are suitable as a therapeutic agent in treating, preventing, or improving the conditions of Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sangdun CHOI, Muhammad HASEEB, Javaid NASIR, Yasmeen FARZANA, Jee Yeon SEO, Jae Kyung HEO, Ho Chul SHIN
  • Patent number: 11965051
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a polyolefin block copolymer, the method comprising: a first step of coordination polymerization of an olefin monomer with a transition metal catalyst in the presence of organozinc; and a second step of continuously adding a diacyl peroxide compound to perform polymerization, and to a polyolefin block copolymer prepared therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Bun Yeoul Lee, Sung Dong Kim, Su Jin Gwon, Tae Hee Kim
  • Publication number: 20240125433
    Abstract: There are disclosed a monitoring system and method for a hydrogen refueling station and a computing device for executing the same. The monitoring system for a hydrogen refueling station according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an Internet of things (IoT) sensor mounted on each of components of the hydrogen refueling station and configured to generate sensing data by measuring preset monitoring elements and an analysis server configured to obtain the sensing data and monitor a state of the hydrogen refueling station based on the obtained sensing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Bong Sik OH, Joong-Soon JANG, SangChul PARK
  • Publication number: 20240125698
    Abstract: A gadget for retroreflected signal measurement is disclosed. The gadget for measuring the retroreflected signal includes a partitioning wall; a portable terminal receiving portion disposed on one surface of the partitioning wall; a biosensor receiving portion disposed on the other surface of the partitioning wall and constructed to receive a biosensor therein; a light exit channel defined in the partitioning wall and at one side thereof; and a light-receiving channel adjacent to the light exit channel and defined in the partitioning wall, wherein light passes through the light exit channel and then is reflected from the biosensor, and then is incident into the light-receiving channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hyun Chul YOON, Ka Ram KIM, Kyung Wom LEE, Jae-ho KIM
  • Publication number: 20240111965
    Abstract: The electronic device for improving the inference performance of a pre-trained language model according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a processor for sequentially passing input data through a plurality of transformer layers of the pre-trained language model and obtaining output data, wherein the processor calculates a probability distribution for prediction results received from each transformer layer in each of a plurality of middle layers connected to each rear end of the plurality of transformer layers, and measures a confidence level of the prediction results based on an entropy value calculated by using the probability distribution, and wherein when a confidence level less than a predefined value is measured in a predefined number of consecutive middle layers among the plurality of middle layers, the processor outputs a prediction result of the first middle layer as the output data by taking the last first middle layer among the consecutive middle layers as an exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tae-Sun Chung, Zhen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240108632
    Abstract: Ophthalmic therapeutic agents having as pharmaceutically active ingredient a poorly water soluble drug of formula 1 are described. Specifically, an ophthalmic formulation containing an inclusion complex of a poorly soluble drug of formula 1 enclosed in cyclodextrin or a cyclodextrin derivative in an aqueous solution of pH 10 or higher is administered to a patient in need of optic nerve protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: PINOTBIO, INC., AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Young-joon Park, Sang-won Jeon, Ju-yeong Kim, Jin-soo Lee, Hyun-yong Cho
  • Patent number: 11948195
    Abstract: The present embodiment provides an assessment education device and method for a debt management capability, the device and method generate an event that causes psychological confusion in rounds on a debt management assessment scenario and provide education contents when a user who is in a psychologically confused state repays the debt, such that individuals attempting to repay the debt can be induced to make rational decisions in a situation in which various debts are nixed and the debt management capability of individuals can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Do Yeong Kim, Do Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20240099620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for checking mental health using contents, and may include collecting text data, which is content uploaded to at least one service server providing a social network service, by an electronic apparatus, performing preprocessing by which the electronic apparatus removes obsolete text from the text data and converts the extracted meaningful text to lowercase letters, performing, by the electronic apparatus, labeling of preprocessed meaningful text, performing, by the electronic apparatus, word embedding for the labeled meaningful text, and checking the mental health status of a user who has uploaded the text data by applying the word embedding result to a deep learning algorithm by the electronic apparatus, and it is possible to apply to other exemplary embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tae-Sun Chung, Kamil Zeberga Kerbaga
  • Publication number: 20240104756
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a depth of a tread groove may include: a camera module capturing a video including an upper end portion of a tire while rotating around an upper end portion of the tire having a plurality of tread grooves, the video including a plurality of frames; a control module obtaining, based on the plurality of frames, a cross-sectional width of the tire in units of pixels by adding widths and depths of each of the plurality of tread grooves in units of pixels, a width of an inner block in units of pixels, and a width of an outer block in units of pixels, the inner and outer blocks are disposed on the tire; and a conversion module converting the depth of the tread groove in units of pixels into the depth in units of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jung Mo KOO, Kyoung Soo WE, Hye Yeon LEE, Gwang Jin KIM, Hyung Il KOO
  • Patent number: 11939633
    Abstract: A COTL1 gene or protein maintains and regulates the homeostasis of hematopoietic stem cells. A method of diagnosis and treatment of blood-related disease caused either by abnormalities in the homeostasis of hematopoietic stem cells, which result from a mutation in the COTL1 gene or a decrease in the expression of the COTL1 protein, or by an imbalance between the differentiation or proliferation and damage or death of hematopoietic stem cells, or by abnormalities in mitochondrial homeostasis are disclosed. The COTL1 gene or protein plays an important role in regulating mitochondrial morphology, and when it is knocked down, the number of hematopoietic stem cells decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seon-Yong Jeong, Eunkuk Park, Gijeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20240093307
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a serum exosomal SF3B4 marker composition for diagnosing early stage hepatocellular carcinoma for noninvasive in vitro diagnosis, wherein, by analyzing an expression level of SF3B4 in plasma proteins as well as expression of SF3B4 in exosomes present in sera of hepatocellular carcinoma patients, the possibility as the most suitable liquid biopsy marker was identified, and a new noninvasive biomarker with high diagnostic accuracy in early stage hepatocellular carcinoma for which no reliable biomarker exists at this present was discovered. As such, by using exosomes to identify cancer cell genomes and proteomes without biopsy, the exosomes are highly applicable in the future as a diagnostic biomarker that is useful in a disease group with a high risk in the biopsy such as hepatocellular carcinoma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Soon Sun KIM, Jung Woo EUN, Jae Youn CHEONG, Hyo Jung CHO, Ho Chul KANG, JuA SON
  • Publication number: 20240093243
    Abstract: A method for producing induced pluripotent stem cells by using CRISPR/Cas system is disclosed. The method includes a step of inserting a reprogramming factor by using a CRSPR/Cas system containing in a safe harbor of somatic cells a delivery means including two guides RNAs and a Cas protein-encoding nucleic acid. The method can prevent mutation in an off-target region and integrate a reprogramming factor into an on-target region safely and specifically, and regulates the reprogramming factor with doxycycline to guarantee consistent expression, whereby induced pluripotent stem cells can be effectively produced. In addition, the induced pluripotent stem cells produced by the method exhibit multipotent markers similar to those of human embryonic stem cells and can differentiate into derivatives of all the three germ layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sangdun CHOI, Javaid NASIR
  • Patent number: 11933881
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing source data of a synthetic aperture radar in a satellite, including receiving source data generated based on a signal returned after an electronic device steers a beam from a synthetic aperture radar and backscatters, setting a plurality of subswaths after the electronic device parses the source data, storing based on the plurality of subswaths after the electronic device decodes the source data; and generating image data after the electronic device calls the decoded source data in the order of the plurality of subswaths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Kim, Kyeongrok Kim
  • Publication number: 20240088320
    Abstract: A bio-sensing device having a photoelectric element is disclosed. The bio-sensing device includes an infrared pulse generator configured to irradiate infrared pulsed light to a target; the photoelectric element configured to receive the infrared pulsed light which has transmitted through the target, and to generate photocurrent based on the received light; and a sensing element configured to measure a magnitude of either a first peak current of the photocurrent corresponding to a leading edge of the infrared pulsed light or a second peak current of the photocurrent corresponding to a trailing edge of the infrared pulsed light, and to analyze the target based on the measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hyung Tak SEO, Mohit KUMAR
  • Patent number: 11922622
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a breast image analysis method with four mammogram images which are input to a convolutional neural network as one input and a system therefor and the system includes an image receiving unit which receives four mammogram images; an image size adjusting unit which adjusts a size of a mammogram image received from the image receiving unit; a preprocessing unit which performs preprocessing on the mammogram image adjusted by the image size adjusting unit; a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based CNN learning unit which generates learning information by learning the mammogram image preprocessed by the preprocessing unit; and a CNN inference unit which receives the learning information learned from the CNN learning unit and a mammogram image to be classified from the image receiving unit to diagnose a breast abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Myung Hoon Sunwoo, Ji Hoon Bae
  • Publication number: 20240066703
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for diagnosing a defect of a collaborative robot, the method comprising the steps in which: an electronic device generates a sensing data structure for managing sensing data collected from at least one collaborative robot; the electronic device generates an operation data structure for managing operation data associated with the operation of the collaborate robot; the electronic device generates a malfunction data structure for managing malfunction data of a point in which the severity of the operation equals to or is higher than a threshold; and the electronic device stores data collected from the at least one collaborative robot in accordance with the structures. Application to other embodiments is also possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jung Won LEE, Ye Seul PARK, Dong Yeon YOO, Yang Gon KIM, Su Bin BAE
  • Patent number: 11913064
    Abstract: An optical gene biosensor is disclosed. The optical gene biosensor includes a substrate; a molecular beacon anchored to the substrate, wherein the molecular beacon includes an oligonucleotide specifically binding to a target nucleic acid molecule and a first compound bound to a first terminal of the oligonucleotide; an optical marker specifically binding to the first compound, wherein the optical marker is configured to retro-reflect irradiated light; a light source for irradiating the optical marker with light; and a light-receiver for receiving light retro-reflected from the optical marker. The optical gene biosensor may perform accurate quantitative analysis of a target nucleic acid molecule using both non-spectral and spectral light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hyun-Chul Yoon, Jae-Ho Kim, Yong-Duk Han, Hyeong-Jin Chun
  • Publication number: 20240059741
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for prevention or treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. CSNP1, CSNP2, CSNP3, and CSNP4 bind to receptor the binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to inhibit the interaction of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 with ACE2, thereby interfering with the mechanism that SARS-CoV-2 enters cells or evades immunity. Thus, a composition comprising CSNP1, CSNP2, CSNP3, or CSNP4 as an active ingredient is provided as a pharmaceutical agent for prevention or treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hyun Goo WOO, Masaud SHAH, Sung Ung MOON