Patents Assigned to Board of Regents, University of Texas
  • Publication number: 20160162788
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for event detection using roles and relationships of entities are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A training event and a set of entities participating in the training event are identified in a training data. For a first entity in the set of entities, a first role occupied by the entity in the event is determined. A behavior attribute is assigned to the first role. A relationship of the first role with a second role corresponding to a second entity in the set of entities is determined. An event rule is constructed to detect an event corresponding to the training event in new data and comprising a plurality of roles, behavior attributes, and the relationship. The plurality of roles includes the first role and the second role, and the plurality of behavior attributes includes the behavior attribute assigned to the first role.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicants: International Business Machines Corporation, Baylor College of Medicine, The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Linda H. Kato, Jacques J. Labrie, Meenakshi Nagarajan, William Scott Spangler, Ioana R. Stanoi, Anbu Karani Adikesavan, Benjamin J. Bachman, Lawrence A. Donehower, Olivier Lichtarge, Sam J. Regenbogen, Maria E. Terron-Diaz, Angela D. Wilkins, Curtis R. Pickering
  • Patent number: 9360514
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for facilitating heat transfer around an electronic component during thermal-cycle testing are presented. A system may include a core, a plurality of solid state heating/cooling devices, and a plurality of heat sinks. The core defines one or more cavities for receiving an electronic component. The system may include an air mover and a duct. In operation, the system may cool an electronic component to sub-ambient temperatures and heat it to above the boiling point of water. A method of thermal-cycle testing may include a core defining a cavity for receiving an electronic component, selectively inducing said heating/cooling devices to operate in a heating mode or a cooling mode, and measuring and recording conditions during the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Huy N. Phan, Dereje Agonafer
  • Patent number: 9363006
    Abstract: A method, wireless device and computer program product for expanding the coverage of a cellular network. A wireless device (e.g., cellular telephone) is able to communicate with a base station in a cell of the cellular network over a non-cellular interface via another wireless device in a cell through the use of multi-hopping. A wireless device may request permission to communicate with the base station over a non-cellular interface via hopping off another wireless device when its signal strength is below a threshold. Alternatively, a wireless device may receive a request to communicate with the base station over a non-cellular interface via hopping off the wireless device that sent the request when that wireless device has excess capacity in its bandwidth with the base station. By enabling wireless devices to communicate with a base station in such a manner, the effective capacity of the cellular network is expanded and the effective capacity of the cellular network is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Board Of Regents, The University Of Texas System
    Inventors: Vidur Bhargava, Sriram Vishwanath, Jubin Jose
  • Publication number: 20160152567
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to novel allosteric regulators of proteasome activity, methods for preparation and use, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Specifically piperidine-2-carboxylic acid derivatives containing 1-oxo-aroyl group and a lipophilic ester side chain are disclosed as allosteric inhibitors of proteasome 2S activity, and as therapeutic agents for the treatment of proteasome-associated disorders in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SY STEM
    Inventors: Pawel A. OSMULSKI, Maria E. GACZYNSKA
  • Publication number: 20160156153
    Abstract: Methods and systems include generating one or more mid-infrared frequencies based at least upon electron transitions in one or more quantum cascade heterostructures. The quantum cascade heterostructures are concurrently configured with a significant second-order nonlinear susceptibility, a significant third-order nonlinear susceptibility, and an insignificant group velocity dispersion. A set of mid-infrared frequencies (that may include a frequency comb) is generated in the quantum cascade heterostructures based at least upon a four-wave mixing of the one or more mid-infrared frequencies. The four-wave mixing arises at least from the significant third-order nonlinear susceptibility and the insignificant group velocity dispersion. A set of terahertz frequencies (that may include a frequency comb) is generated in the quantum cascade heterostructures based at least upon a difference frequency generation from mid-infrared frequency pairs selected from the set of mid-infrared frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Mikhail A. Belkin, Karun Vijayraghavan, Seungyong Jung
  • Patent number: 9353094
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) and methods of inhibiting IKK? and the NF-?B signaling and mTOR pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, THE BOARD OF REGENTS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Amarnath Natarajan, Qianyi Chen, Vashti C. Bryant, Rajkumar Rajule
  • Patent number: 9351984
    Abstract: A novel pharmaceutical composition is provided by which nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are added directly to phospholipid-containing oil such as lecithin oils or to a bio-compatible oil to which an phospholipid has been added to make a NSAID-containing formulation that possess low gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity and enhanced therapeutic activity to treat or prevent inflammation, pain, fever, platelet aggregation, tissue ulcerations and/or other tissue disorders. The composition of the invention are in the form of a non-aqueous solution, paste, suspension, dispersion, colloidal suspension or in the form of an aqueous emulsion or microemulsion for internal, oral, direct or topical administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventor: Lenard M. Lichtenberger
  • Patent number: 9353309
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for treating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation by contacting the hydrocarbon-bearing formation with a fluid that includes at least one of a polyol or polyol ether, wherein the polyol and polyol ether independently have from 2 to 25 carbon atoms; and at least one of a monohydroxy alcohol, ether, or ketone, wherein the monohydroxy alcohol, ether, and ketone independently have from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and wherein the at least one of a polyol or polyol ether is present in the fluid at at least 50 weight percent, based on the total weight of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Gary A. Pope, Jimmie R. Baran, Jr., John D. Skildum, Vishal Bang, Mukul M. Shama
  • Publication number: 20160147959
    Abstract: A system for predicting medical events and conditions that are reflected in gait may include a data capture subsystem configured to capture data pertaining to a position and/or motion of a patient, a data analysis and outcome generation subsystem configured to analyze the captured data and to generate output pertaining to a likelihood of the patient experiencing a medical event or medical condition, and a user interface subsystem configured to provide the output to a user, e.g., healthcare provider, and to receive feedback from the user. Methods for predicting medical events and conditions reflected in gait are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Gian-Luca Mariottini, Aaron N. Staranowicz, Christopher T. Ray
  • Publication number: 20160145279
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that are useful for inhibiting the STAT6 pathway. Also provided are related pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the compounds. In some embodiments, the compounds may be used to treat a disease such as, e.g., an allergic lung disease, allergic rhinitis, chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, or a cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicants: Baylor College of Medicine, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: John S. McMURRAY, Pijus Kumar MANDAL, Pietro MORLACCHI, Morgan KNIGHT, David B. CORRY
  • Publication number: 20160143967
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves compositions and methods for treating brain cancers having mutations in the retinoblastoma (Rb) pathway using an oncolytic adenovirus comprising an alteration in the Rb binding site of E1A, and a targeting motif inserted in the Ad fiber protein. The adenovirus is able to kill the tumor cells without harming cells with a wild-type retinoblastoma pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicants: DNATRIX, Inc., Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems
    Inventors: Juan FUEYO-MARGARETO, Candelaria MANZANO-GOMEZ, Charles CONRAD, Fred LANG, W.K. Alfred YUNG, Frank TUFARO
  • Publication number: 20160145250
    Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases such as cancer. In certain aspects, compounds which can inhibit Skp2 are provided. Specifically chromenone derivatives are disclosed that have the capability toward reducing differentiation of pluripotent, multipotent or totipotent cells and thus have therapeutic utility in the treatment of a proliferative disease such as cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Shuxing ZHANG, Hui-Kuan LIN, Chia-Hsin CHAN, John Kenneth MORROW
  • Publication number: 20160144176
    Abstract: A method for treating neural deficits resulting from multiple sclerosis, involving assessing a subject's motor, sensory, cognitive, or emotional deficits caused by multiple sclerosis; selecting a rehabilitative task based said deficits; determining the subject's acceptable performance threshold for the rehabilitative task; and providing a paired training therapy. The paired training therapy comprises having the subject to perform a trial of the rehabilitative task; classifying the subject's performance on the trial as either acceptable or unacceptable, wherein an acceptable performance is performance at or above the subject's acceptable performance threshold, and an unacceptable performance is performance below the subject's acceptable performance threshold; and reinforcing acceptable performance by selectively stimulating the subject's vagus nerve after completion of the acceptable performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Michael P. Kilgard, Robert L. Rennaker, II
  • Patent number: 9346997
    Abstract: A nanostructured particulates formed from a redox active, luminescent phenyl substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon are provided herein. The nanostructured particulates may be used for determining the presence of an analyte of interest in a sample by detecting the emitted electromagnetic radiation generated by exposing a reagent mixture, which includes the nanostructured particulates and the sample, to electrochemical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Allen J. Bard, Fu-Ren F. Fan, Khalid Omer
  • Patent number: 9346855
    Abstract: Described herein are modifications and adaptations of iron storage proteins for a novel photo-initiated approach to cancer therapy whereby cells are killed via production of iron-generated hydroxyl radicals. The iron is photo-released from a protein scaffold that includes tumor-targeting peptides and/or proteins fused to the exterior surface of the protein scaffold. One or more photosensitizers are coupled to the protein shell. The multiple tumor-targeting peptides and/or proteins will bind to specific hyperexpressed receptors on the cancer cells. After binding of the photosensitizer-iron-loaded protein to the cancer cells, photochemical excitation of the photosensitizers with tissue-penetrating near-infrared light triggers release of “free” ferrous iron, which in oxic or mildly hypoxic intracellular environments generates toxic hydroxyl radicals via Fenton chemistry. This light-triggered release of “free” iron overwhelms the cancer cells' defenses against free radicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventor: Donald M. Kurtz, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9345886
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for paired training include timing controls so that training and neural stimulation can be provided simultaneously. Paired trainings may include therapies, rehabilitation and performance enhancement training. Stimulations of nerves such as the vagus nerve that affect subcortical regions such as the nucleus basalis, locus coeruleus or amygdala induce plasticity in the brain, enhancing the effects of a variety of therapies, such as those used to treat tinnitus, stroke, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: MICROTRANSPONDER, INC., THE BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Michael P. Kilgard, Larry Cauller, Navzer Engineer, Christa McIntyre Rodriguez, Will Rosellini
  • Patent number: 9345790
    Abstract: Novel, non-toxic cobalt-based contrast and imaging agents for use in enhanced medical imaging modalities and processes are described, as well the manufacture of markers containing such contrast agents is described, and uses for such imaging markers and contrast agents in a variety of therapeutic applications and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, The University of Houston System
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Karen Martirosyan
  • Publication number: 20160136240
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes the fusogenic activity of the Myomaker protein. This polypeptide, when expressed in non-muscle cells, is able to drive fusion of the cell with a muscle cell, but not with other non-muscle cells. The use of this protein and cell expressing it in the delivery of exogenous genetic material to muscle cells also is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas Sy stem
    Inventors: Eric OLSON, Douglas P. MILLAY
  • Publication number: 20160136205
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to methods and compositions for modulating cytokine responses in subject infected by a pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventor: Charles T. Spencer
  • Publication number: 20160138133
    Abstract: Methods for extraction and recovery of rare earth elements are disclosed. In one aspect, heap leaching with a leach solution comprising sulfuric acid is used to extract rare earth elements including yttrium and light and heavy rare earth elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventor: Nicholas E. Pingitore, JR.