Patents Assigned to Auckland Uniservices Limited
  • Methods and apparatus for quantification of nucleic acid amplification by monitoring impedances
    Patent number: 10167501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for amplifying, detecting, and optionally quantifying, nucleic acids. In one aspect the method comprises (a) providing a reaction volume comprising (i) a first electrode comprising an electrochemically-active conducting polymer, a first single-stranded nucleic acid molecule capable of hybridizing to a target nucleic acid, wherein the first nucleic acid molecule is covalently attached to the electrochemically-active conducting polymer, and (ii) a second electrode, (b) providing a reaction mixture to the reaction volume, the reaction mixture comprising a target nucleic acid, a nucleic acid polymerase, a redox couple, and nucleic acid amplification reagents, (c) amplifying the nucleic acid, and (d) measuring the impedance of the first electrode at least once during the nucleic acid amplification reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Nihan Aydemir, Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, Clive William Evans, David Edward Williams
  • Efficiency non-self tuning wireless power transfer systems
    Patent number: 10158250
    Abstract: A primary resonant network for a wireless power transfer has a primary winding capable of being energized to provide a magnetic field, and a reactive component selected to constrain the reactive loading on a power supply which energizes the primary resonant network. The reactive component is selected dependent on a given variation in inductance or capacitance of the primary resonant network and a given variation in inductance or capacitance of a secondary resonant network coupled to the primary resonant network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: Grant Anthony Covic, Chang-Yu Huang
  • Ion mirror, an ion mirror assembly and an ion trap
    Patent number: 10147591
    Abstract: An ion mirror (10) for use in a time of flight mass spectrometer (100) comprises a first conductor (20) for producing a quadratic field along a first axis (80), and a second conductor (30) for producing a quadratic field along a second axis (90), the axes (80, 90) being orthogonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: Peter Derrick, Igor Filippov
  • Multi power source charging apparatus including inductive power transfer
    Patent number: 10106046
    Abstract: An apparatus for charging a battery, the apparatus including a first power transfer coupling arranged to selectively couple to the battery to charge at a high power transfer rate and a second power transfer coupling arranged to selectively couple to the battery to charge at a lower power transfer rate, wherein the second power transfer coupling comprises a pickup pad electrically coupled to the battery, wherein power is transferred to the pickup pad from a charging pad by inductive power transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: John Talbot Boys, Grant Anthony Covic
  • CARBON MONOXIDE RELEASING MOLECULES
    Publication number: 20180273564
    Abstract: Disclosed are carbon monoxide releasing complexes comprising a transition metal, at least one carbon monoxide ligand, and a pH responsive ligand that modulates the release of carbon monoxide, compositions comprising such complexes, and methods of using such compounds for treating various diseases and conditions and preserving cells, tissue or organs for transplantation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Christian HARTINGER, Leonard James WRIGHT
  • Inductive power transfer pick-up circuit with output current doubler
    Patent number: 10079510
    Abstract: An inductive power transfer (IPT) pick-up circuit has a full-wave rectifier (D1-D4) coupled to a resonant circuit (L1 C1) and adapted to rectify an AC current received from the resonant circuit. A pair of inductors (L2 L3) are provided, being arranged to couple the rectifier to an output (VLoad) of the pick-up circuit and alternately store and release energy to the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: John Talbot Boys, Nicholas Athol Keeling
  • Inductive power transfer converters and system
    Patent number: 10075086
    Abstract: An IPT system for wireless power transfer is provided, in particular an IPT system capable of operating at high frequencies. In one aspect there is provided an IPT transmitter comprising a push-pull resonant converter having a resonant frequency and configured to operate at a switching frequency below the resonant frequency and dependent on a switching characteristic of a second converter configured to inductively couple to said transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: Udaya Kumara Madawala, Duleepa Jayanath Thrimawithana
  • Inductively powered mobile sensor system
    Patent number: 10069341
    Abstract: An inductively powered sensor system includes a primary conductive path 100 capable of being energised to provide an electromagnetic field in a defined space 1. An inductive power pick-up 120 is associated with a sensor 124 and is capable of receiving power from the field to supply the sensor 124. The system includes a first sensing means to sense the power available to the pick-up 120 and control means to increase or decrease the power available to the sensor dependant on the sensed power available. A method of inductively powering a sensor, an inductively powered sensor and an animal enclosure including one or more primary conductive path of an inductive power supply are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Simon Charles Malpas, Aiguo Hu, David Budgett
  • Inductive power transfer control using energy injection
    Patent number: 10056784
    Abstract: The invention relates to inductive power transfer (IPT) systems, and has particular relevance to control of IPT systems, and to operation of IPT system primary power supplier. There is provided a method for controlling an IPT system primary power supply having a switched resonant circuit; the method comprising: determining the value of a parameter of the system; determining an energy injection switching pattern having a duration dependent on the parameter value; controlling the resonant circuit according to the determined energy injection switching pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: David Mortimer Budgett, Aiguo Hu, Ho Yan (Alex) Leung, John Daniel McCormick
  • Shorting period control in inductive power transfer systems
    Patent number: 9998179
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: David Budgett, Aiguo Hu, Bob Wang
  • TINNITUS TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20180126115
    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: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Grant Donald Searchfield, Kei Kobayashi, Samuel Irving
  • OXIDATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20180118590
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of oxidizing a substrate comprising contacting the substrate, an oxidant, and a solid phase comprising a plurality of pendant groups having affinity for a substrate to be oxidised and an oxidation catalyst. Also disclosed is a solid phase and membrane for use in the method. Also disclosed is a method for preparing the solid phase, and system for oxidizing a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Leonard James WRIGHT
  • Local demand side power management for electric utility networks
    Patent number: 9954361
    Abstract: A demand side electric power supply management system is disclosed. The system comprises an islanded power system having a point of coupling to a supply grid. The islanded power system supplies a plurality of electric loads, each of which is associated with a load controller to control the maximum power demanded by that load. A measuring means associated with the point of coupling measures the total power transfer between the grid and the islanded system, and a system controller monitors the measured power transfer relative to a set point and provides a control signal to a plurality of load controllers. Each load controller receives substantially the same control signal and determines the maximum power which each load associated with the load controller is allowed to draw from the islanded power system based on information contained in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: Grant Anthony Covic, John Talbot Boys
  • Inductive power transfer control
    Patent number: 9912250
    Abstract: An inductive power transfer (IPT) control method is disclosed for controlling the output of an IPT pick-up. The invention involves selectively shunting first and second diodes of a diode bridge to selectively rectify an AC current input for supply to a load, or recirculate the AC current to a resonant circuit coupled to the input of the controller. By controlling the proportion of each positive-negative cycle of the AC input which is rectified/recirculated, the output is regulated. Also disclosed is an IPT controller adapted to perform the method, an IPT pick-up incorporating the IPT controller, and an IPT system incorporating at least one such IPT pick-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: John Talbot Boys, Grant Anthony Covic, Chang-Yu Huang
  • OPTICAL DETECTION OF FLUORESCENCE
    Publication number: 20180024065
    Abstract: A system for quantifying fluorescence elicited on a substance or sample. The system has an excitation light source configured to direct light to an waveguide network. The network has a probe tip adapted to transmit excitation light to the sample and receive fluorescence light elicited from the sample. A detector is configured to receive fluorescence light from the waveguide network and output a signal corresponding to the fluorescence light power, and a control system including a memory component configured to store signal to noise ratio threshold values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Frederique VANHOLSBEECK
  • KINASE INHIBITOR PRODRUG FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER
    Publication number: 20170360790
    Abstract: Compositions containing and methods of administering TH-4000 are useful in treatment of cancer alone or in combination with other anti-cancer agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicants: Auckland UniServices Limited, Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Vorn Patterson, Jeffrey Bruce Smaill, Shevan Silva, Christopher Paul Guise, Matthew Roy Bull, Victoria Jackson, Tillman Pearce, Nipun Davar
  • Gaze-controlled interface method and system
    Patent number: 9829975
    Abstract: A gaze-controlled interface system for enabling a user to interact with an electronic visual work presented on an electronic display screen. The system has an electronic display screen configured to present the electronic visual work and an eye gaze tracker configured to sense the user's gaze position on the display screen and generate representative gaze signal. A processor receives and processes the gaze signal to enable the user to interact with the electronic visual work based on gaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: Gerald Artur Norbert Weber, Christof Lutteroth, Abdul Moiz Penkar
  • Local demand side power management for electric utility networks
    Patent number: 9787093
    Abstract: A demand side electric power supply management system is disclosed. The system comprises an islanded power system having a point of coupling to a supply grid. The islanded power system supplies a plurality of electric loads, each of which is associated with a load controller to control the maximum power demanded by that load. A measuring means associated with the point of coupling measures the total power transfer between the grid and the islanded system, and a system controller monitors the measured power transfer relative to a set point and provides a control signal to a plurality of load controllers. Each load controller receives substantially the same control signal and determines the maximum power which the or each load associated with the load controller is allowed to draw from the islanded power system based on information contained in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventors: Grant Anthony Covic, John Talbot Boys, Joshua Reuben Lee
  • Multi power sourced electric vehicle
    Patent number: 9767955
    Abstract: An inductive power transfer pad for transmitting wireless power to a wireless power receiver separable from the inductive power transfer pad. The inductive power transfer pad includes a coil having at least one turn of a conductor in a first layer and a plurality of ferromagnetic slabs arranged in a second layer substantially parallel to that of the coil, the ferromagnetic slabs being arranged so as to be spaced apart from one another about the coil with their lengths extending across a longitudinal length of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Auckland Uniservices Limited
    Inventors: John Talbot Boys, Grant Anthony Covic
  • Vehicle or moving object detection
    Patent number: 9747792
    Abstract: The present application relates to the detection of moving vehicles and other objects, in particular though not exclusively for the application of switching stationary charging pads for moving electric vehicle charging. There is provided an electric vehicle detecting apparatus for switching a charging pad for charging a vehicle transmitting a locating signal, the apparatus comprising two sensors separated in the direction of travel of the vehicle, and a detector arranged to detect the vehicle by comparing the locating signals received by each of the two sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Auckland UniServices Limited
    Inventor: John Talbot Boys