Patents Assigned to Auckland Uniservices Limited
  • Yeast Strains and Methods of Use Thereof
    Publication number: 20130273197
    Abstract: The present invention relates to yeast strains and, in particular, to yeast stains for use in fermentation processes. The invention also relates to methods of fermentation using the yeast strains of the invention either alone or in combination with other yeast strains. The invention thither relates to methods for the selection of yeast strains suitable for fermentation cultures by screening for various metabolic products and the use of specific nutrient sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Goddard, Richard Clague Gardner, Nicole Anfang
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS USING SOFT-DECISION AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
    Publication number: 20130242971
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for receiving coded data signals in a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. A method of one embodiment of the invention includes, at step (100), formulating a decision function which estimates a transmitted data signal from a received noisy coded data signal. At step (102), a transmitted CDMA signal is received. The CDMA signal includes a plurality of multiplexed coded data signals from multiple users. At step (104), the CDMA signal is demultiplexed to extract and decode the coded data signals based on the decision function such that interference between the users is substantially reduced. Finally, at step (106), the receiver outputs a plurality of decoded data signals, each corresponding to a single user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Stevan Berber, Vojislav Kecman, Johnny Wei-Hsun Kao
  • SHORTING PERIOD CONTROL IN INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130234531
    Abstract: The present invention provides a power supply for an inductive power transfer (IPT) system, comprising a current-fed push-pull resonant converter comprising a parallel-tuned resonant tank and a pair of switches enabling selective shorting of the resonant tank; and a controller adapted to control a shorting period of the resonant converter by selectively operating the switches. Methods for controlling an IPT power supply are also disclosed. The power supply may be controlled to regulate the output of an IPT pick-up inductively coupled with the power supply in use, or to operate at a zero voltage switching (ZVS) frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: David BUDGETT, Aiguo HU, Bob WANG
  • INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM PRIMARY TRACK TOPOLOGIES
    Publication number: 20130229061
    Abstract: A multiphase IPT primary track conductor arrangement comprising a first phase conductor and a second phase conductor, the conductors being arranged substantially in a plane and so as to overlap each other and being arranged such that there is substantially balanced mutual coupling between the phase conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Mickel Bipin Budhia, Grant Anthony Covic, John Talbot Boys, Michael Le Galais Kissin
  • INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130207482
    Abstract: An inductive power transfer (IPT system) includes an AC-AC full-bridge converter (Tp1-Tp4) provided between the primary conductive path (Lpt) and an alternating current power supply (Vin). The system may include a controller for controlling the pick-up device to shape the input current drawn from the alternating current power supply (Vin).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Udaya Kumara Madawala, Duleepa Jayanath Thrimawithana
  • PEPTIDES, CONSTRUCTS AND USES THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20130210749
    Abstract: The invention provides novel peptides and constructs. In addition the invention provides methods for carrying compounds across the cell membrane, for antagonizing or destroying X-protein of HBV, treatment and/or management of HBV infection, treatment and/or prevention of HCC, and degradation of a target protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventor: Geoffrey Wayne Krissansen
  • Laser device
    Patent number: 8494014
    Abstract: A laser apparatus for producing mode locked pulses includes a closed optical system adapted to connect to a fiber grain medium to form a laser cavity. The fiber gain medium is adapted to receive pulses characterized by a first state and to output pulses characterized by a second state. The closed optical system is adapted to receive the pulses in the second state and output pulses in a state similar to the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Claude Aguergaray, Vladimir Kruglov, Neil Broderick, John Harvey, David Mechin
  • System and Method for Determining Motion
    Publication number: 20130138413
    Abstract: A method of generating model motion data representing the predicted motion of a physical system based on sensed motion data from one or more motion sensors within the physical system. The method generates a stream of model motion data representing the predicted motion of the physical system based on a dynamic motion model of the physical system based on initial estimates of system parameters. The method then optimizes the system parameters of the dynamic motion model based on processing of the streams of model motion data and sensed motion data from one or more motion sensors within the physical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventor: Auckland Uniservices Limited
  • Electric generator
    Patent number: 8432051
    Abstract: An electric power generator for generating a substantially constant frequency output from a varying mechanical speed input such as from a wind or water turbine, comprises a three-phase induction machine in which at least one stator winding is magnetically and electrically decoupled from at least one other stator winding which is arranged to be connected to an external load, and a power source is arranged to excite said at least one stator winding with an AC current at a desired output frequency. The power generator can be directly connected to the mains grid without requiring a power electronics rectifier and inverter stage to convert the generator output to constant frequency AC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventor: Udaya Madawala
  • ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS AND CIRCUITS INCLUDING SAID COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20130100575
    Abstract: The invention provides an electric circuit device including a conductive element configured to provide an electrical input to an electrical component, the resistivity of the conductive element being variable based at least on the extent of deformation thereof, and a deformable body coupled directly or indirectly to, or integral with, the conductive element such that deformation of the body causes the conductive element to deform, thereby varying the resistance thereof and altering the input to the electrical component. Said devices may be used singularly or in combination as logic elements within electrical circuits, providing drive and/or control functionality. Particular embodiments provide improved electrostatic generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Benjamin Marc O'Brien, Iain Alexander Anderson, Thomas Gregory McKay, Emilio Patricio Calius
  • FUNGICIDAL COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE
    Publication number: 20130078272
    Abstract: Antifungal compounds, an antifungal compound extracted from Epicoccum purpurascens, also known as Epicoccum nigrum, methods of producing the antifungal compounds, isolates and compositions comprising the antifungal compounds, and methods of using the antifungal compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventor: Silas Granato Villas-Boas
  • Resonant inverter
    Patent number: 8406017
    Abstract: A resonant inverter includes inductive elements (L1, L2) that allow the number of magnetic components in the inverter to be reduced. The elements (L1, L2) may be designed with a leakage inductance to eliminate the need for a large DC inductor. They may also perform the function of a current splitting transformer. The inverter switches may also be driven directly from the inverter circuit without a separate controller being required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventor: Aiguo Hu
  • Conducting polymers and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8378058
    Abstract: A conducting polymer including a conducting linker to connect a probe to the polymer, the linker including an unsaturated organic chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, Christian Soeller, Hui Peng, Vittorio Capno, Ralph Cooney
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING GASTRO-INTESTINAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20130035576
    Abstract: A gastro-electrical activity mapping system and comprises a catheter insertable through a natural orifice into the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract and comprising an array of electrodes for contacting an interior surface of a section of the GI tract to detect electrical potentials at multiple electrodes, and a signal analysis and mapping system arranged to receive and process electrical signals from multiple electrodes of the array and spatially map GI smooth muscle electrical activity as an activation time map, a velocity map, or an amplitude map, which may be in the form of contour plots and may be mapped on an anatomical computer model of at least the section of the GI tract and may be animated. A GI mapping method and catheter are also claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Gregory Brian O'Grady, Leo Koon-Wah Cheng, Peng Du, Jonathan Christopher Erickson, Path Lessop-Pullan
  • TRANSFORMER AND PRIMING CIRCUIT THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20120299514
    Abstract: The invention relates to transformers. More particularly, the invention relates to transformers using (preferably electrostatic and more preferably dielectric elastomer) transducers such as generators and actuators. The invention further provides a priming circuit therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Iain Alexander Anderson, Thomas Gregory McKay, Benjamin Marc O'Brien, Emilio Patricio Calius
  • CELL PROGRAMMING
    Publication number: 20120301965
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with methods for reprogramming of mammalian somatic cells and in particular to reprogramming of mature mammalian somatic cells into multi-potent precursor cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Bronwen Jane Connor, Mirella Dottori, Christof Maucksch
  • ANTI-NEOPLASTIC USES OF ARTEMIN ANTAGONISTS
    Publication number: 20120282266
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the prophylaxis and treatment of breast cancer using one or more antagonists of artemin function, such as anti-artemin polynucleotides or anti-artemin antibodies and antibody fragments, and uses of these antagonists. In particular, the invention relates to the resensitisation of therapy-resistance breast cancer cells to anti-cancer therapies by antagonism of artemin functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Peter Edward Lobie
  • TINNITUS TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20120283593
    Abstract: A tinnitus masking system for use by a person having tinnitus The system comprises a sound delivery system having left and right ear-level audio delivery devices and is configured to deliver a masking sound to the person via the audio delivery devices such that the masking sound appears to originate from a virtual sound source location that substantially corresponds to the spatial location in 3D auditory space of the source of the tinnitus as perceived by the person. The masking sound being represented by left and right audio signals that are converted to audible sound by the respective audio delivery devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Grant Donald Searchfield, Kei Kobayashi, Samuel Irving
  • Communication system for inductive power transfer system
    Patent number: 8294555
    Abstract: A return communication system and method for an Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) System allows a pick-up device (3) to receive an instruction and supply a load (36) in such a way that a predetermined variation occurs in current in the primary conductive path (2) of the system The variation may be detected and decoded to determine a response from the pick-up to the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventor: Stephen D. Tetlow
  • IGF-1 to improve neural outcome
    Patent number: RE43982
    Abstract: A method of treating injuries to or diseases of the central nervous system that predominantly effects glia and/or non-cholinergic neuronal cells characterized in that it comprises the step of increasing the active concentration(s) of insulin-like growth factor 1 and/or analogues thereof in the central nervous system of the patient. The present invention also provides therapeutic compositions comprising insulin-like growth factor 1 and/or analogues thereof for administration to a patient at or following a neural insult, which compositions are useful in minimizing damage to the central nervous system that would otherwise occur following the insult.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Genentech Inc., Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Peter Gluckman, Karoly Nikolich