Patents Assigned to Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the state of Arizona acting for and on behalf of
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Publication number: 20160181182Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of providing an electronic device. The method can comprise: providing a first device substrate; providing one or more first active sections over a second side of the first device substrate at a first device portion of the first device substrate; and after providing the first active section(s) over the second side of the first device substrate at the first device portion, folding a first perimeter portion of the first device substrate toward the first device portion at a first side of the first device substrate so that a first edge portion remains to at least partially frame the first device portion. The first edge portion can comprise a first edge portion width dimension smaller than a first smallest cross dimension of one or more pixel(s) of one or more semiconductor device(s) of the first active section(s). Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of ArizInventors: Joseph Smith, Emmett Howard, Jennifer Blain Christen, Yong-Kyun Lee
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Publication number: 20160181288Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of providing an electronic device. The method includes: (i) providing a carrier substrate, (ii) providing a device substrate comprising a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the device substrate having a flexible substrate, (iii) coupling the first side of the device substrate to the carrier substrate; and (iv) after coupling the first side of the device substrate to the carrier substrate, providing two or more active sections over the second side of the device substrate, each active section of the two or more active sections being spatially separate from each other and having at least one semiconductor device. Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of ArizInventors: Joseph Smith, Emmett Howard, Jennifer Blain Christen
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Patent number: 9365691Abstract: Porous materials are fabricated using interpenetrating inorganic-organic composite gels. A mixture or precursor solution including an inorganic gel precursor, an organic polymer gel precursor, and a solvent is treated to form an inorganic wet gel including the organic polymer gel precursor and the solvent. The inorganic wet gel is then treated to form a composite wet gel including an organic polymer network in the body of the inorganic wet gel, producing an interpenetrating inorganic-organic composite gel. The composite wet gel is dried to form a composite material including the organic polymer network and an inorganic network component. The composite material can be treated further to form a porous composite material, a porous polymer or polymer composite, a porous metal oxide, and other porous materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Dong-Kyun Seo, Alex Volosin
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Patent number: 9347932Abstract: The present invention describes a device and method for measuring flow rate from air flow using acoustic resonance. It is shown that the device can be used to measure breath flow rate and biomarker concentration within human breath.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Nongjian Tao, Francis Tsow, Anant Rai
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Patent number: 9334250Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of formula (I): compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of using these compounds in a variety of applications, such as treatment or suppression of diseases associated with decreased mitochondrial function resulting in diminished ATP production and/or oxidative stress and/or lipid peroxidation.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting For and on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Sandipan Roy Chowdhury, Omar Khdour, Sidney Hecht
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Patent number: 9330336Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for on-line boosting of a classifier are provided, comprising: receiving a training sample; for each of a plurality of features, determining a feature value for the training sample and the feature, using the feature value to update a histogram, and determining a threshold for a classifier of the feature; for each of the plurality of features, classifying the training sample using the threshold for the classifier of the feature and calculating an error associated with the classifier; selecting a plurality of best classifiers from the classifiers; and, for each of the plurality of best classifiers, assigning a voting weight to the one of the plurality of best classifiers.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of, Arizona State UniversityInventors: Nima Tajbakhsh, Hong Wu, Wenzhe Xue, Jianming Liang
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Patent number: 9308511Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for fabricating porous materials using thixotropic gels. A shear force is applied to a thixotropic material causing the material to flow. Multiple components are added to the thixotropic material while applying the shear force causing the multiple components to be distributed in the material. The shear force is removed such that the static properties of the thixotropic material in the absence of the shear force retain a distribution of the multiple components in the thixotropic material to form a composite gel material that includes liquid within a network of inter-connected solid particles that include the distributed plurality of components. The liquid in the composite gel material is removed to form a porous composite material.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Dong-Kyun Seo, Alex Volosin
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Patent number: 9309298Abstract: The present invention provides polypeptides, compositions thereof, and methods for use of the polypeptides in treating bacterial infection and for use as disinfectants.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Stephen Johnston, Valeriy Domenyuk, Chris Diehnelt
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Patent number: 9306151Abstract: Threshold gates and related circuitry are disclosed. In one embodiment, a threshold gate includes a threshold realization element and a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element. The MTJ element is switchable from a first resistive state to a second resistive state. To realize a threshold function with the MTJ element, the threshold realization element is configured to switch the magnetic tunnel junction element from the first resistive state to the second resistive state in accordance with the threshold function. In this manner, the threshold gate may implement a threshold function that provides an output just like a complex Boolean function requiring several Boolean gates.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Sarma Vrudhula, Nishant S. Nukala, Niranjan Kulkarni
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Patent number: 9296654Abstract: A product formed from a first material including a geopolymer resin material, a geopolymer resin, or a combination thereof by contacting the first material with a fluid and removing at least some of the fluid to yield a product. The first material may be formed by heating and/or aging an initial geopolymer resin material to yield the first material before contacting the first material with the fluid. In some cases, contacting the first material with the fluid breaks up or disintegrates the first material (e.g., in response to contact with the fluid and in the absence of external mechanical stress), thereby forming particles having an external dimension in a range between 1 nm and 2 cm.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Dong-Kyun Seo, Dinesh Medpelli, Danielle Ladd, Milad Mesgar
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Patent number: 9289787Abstract: A nozzle for producing a liquid jet or a single-file stream of droplets of a fluid, methods using the nozzle, and an injector comprising the nozzle of the invention for providing the liquid jet or single-file stream of a fluid to a vacuum system are described.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: R. Bruce Doak, John Spence, Uwe Weierstall, Daniel P. DePonte
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Patent number: 9267076Abstract: Described herein are multi-segmented nanowires, nanosheets and nanobelts, and devices and methods using them for the generation of multicolor and white light.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Cun-Zheng Ning, Zhicheng Liu, Leijun Yin, Fan Fan, Hao Ning, Sunay Turkdogan, Patricia L. Nichols
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Patent number: 9261519Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of natural isotopes 44Ca/42Ca 87Sr/86Sr as biomarkers to measure changes in bone mineral balance and loss.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Ariel Anbar, Joseph Skulan, Gwyneth Gordon, Jennifer Morgan
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Patent number: 9242900Abstract: Preparing porous materials includes forming a mixture including a geopolymer resin and a liquid between which a nanoscale (1-1000 nm), microscale (1-1000 m), and/or milliscale (1-10 mm) phase separation occurs. The mixture is solidified (e.g., at an ambient temperature or a relatively low temperature), and a portion (e.g., a majority or a significant majority) of the liquid is removed from the solidified mixture. The liquid can include organic liquids from agricultural, geological, industrial, or household sources. The porous materials have accessible pores with a range of pore sizes including nanoscale pore sizes, microscale pore sizes, milliscale pore sizes, or a combination thereof. The porous material may be treated further to form another material, such as a composite.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Dong-Kyun Seo, Dinesh Medpelli, Jungmin Seo
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Publication number: 20160005170Abstract: Measuring the number of glomeruli in the entire, intact kidney using non-destructive techniques is of immense importance in studying several renal and systemic diseases. In particular, a recent Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique, based on injection of a contrast agent, cationic ferritin, has been effective in identifying glomerular regions in the kidney. In various embodiments, a low-complexity, high accuracy method for obtaining the glomerular count from such kidney MRI images is described. This method employs a patch-based approach for identifying a low-dimensional embedding that enables the separation of glomeruli regions from the rest. By using only a few images marked by the expert for learning the model, the method provides an accurate estimate of the glomerular number for any kidney image obtained with the contrast agent. In addition, the implementation of our method shows that this method is near real-time, and can process about 5 images per second.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of ArizInventors: Jayaraman Jayaraman Thiagarajan, Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, Andreas Spanias, David Frakes
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Publication number: 20160003953Abstract: Some embodiments include a system. The system includes a sensor device having a sensor element having a sensor output and an amplification element having at least one amplification stage, an amplifier input, and an amplifier output. The sensor output can be coupled to the amplifier input. Further, each amplification stage of the amplification stage(s) can have at least four thin film transistors, an input node, and an output node. Meanwhile, the sensor element can detect a physical quantity and/or an event and can provide an electric signal to the amplification element in response to detecting the physical quantity and/or the event, and the amplification element can amplify the electric signal received from the sensor element. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of ArizInventors: George Kunnen, David Allee
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Patent number: 9192944Abstract: A microfluidic device for size-based particle separation and methods for its use, where the microfluidic device comprises: (a) an inlet reservoir, where the inlet reservoir is configured for communication with an inlet electrode, (b) an insulator constriction coupled to the inlet reservoir via a microchannel, where the insulator constriction comprises an insulating material, and (c) a plurality of outlet channels each defining a first end and a second end, where the first end of each of the plurality of outlet channels is coupled to the insulator constriction, where the second end of each of the plurality of outlet channels is coupled to one of a plurality of outlet reservoirs, and where the plurality of outlet reservoirs are configured for communication with one or more outlet electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Alexandra Ros, Bahige G. Abdallah, Tzu-Chiao Chao
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Patent number: 9181375Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to potassium ion sensors and monomers derived from such sensors. The disclosure also provides for polymers (e.g., random copolymers, nanoparticles, polymer thin films, and sensors) having polymerized monomeric potassium ion sensors as described herein. These compounds and polymers are useful for measuring intracellular and extracellular potassium ion concentrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Yanqing Tian, Deirdre Meldrum, Xianfeng Zhou, Fengyu Su, Roger H. Johnson, Cody Youngbull
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Patent number: 9184194Abstract: Multi-band photodetectors can be formed by series connecting unipolar and, optionally, bipolar semiconductor structures, each having different photodetection bands. Under default mode of operation, the detector with highest resistance and lowest current will be the current limiting device and will be the active photodetector. When the active photodetector is illuminated with strong light in its own detection band it will be optically biased. This active photodetector will no longer be the highest resistance device, and the next photodetector will be the active photodetector. Repeating this operation pattern, allows switching photodetection bands of the multi-band photodetector. The resistances, dark current and photocurrent of the devices should be engineered to have proper switching. Moreover, the illuminating surface, and photodetector placement should be optimized for proper light biasing. The current passing through the device will always be equal to the current of the active photodetector.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Oray Orkun Cellek, Yong-Hang Zhang
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Patent number: 9175041Abstract: The present invention relates to the crystal structures of dolastatin 16, dolamethylleuine and dolaphenvaline. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing dolamethylleuine and dolaphenvaline. The present invention further relates to computer readable medium with crystal structural data and/or information stored thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: George R. Pettit, Thomas Smith, Jun-Ping Xu, Delbert Herald