Patents Assigned to Board of Trustee of Michigan State University
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Patent number: 12008462Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which allow mobile devices, and other resource constrained applications, to more efficiently and effectively utilize deep learning neural networks using only (or primarily) local resources. These systems and methods take the dynamics of runtime resources into account to enable resource-aware, multi-tenant on-device deep learning for artificial intelligence functions for use in tasks like mobile vision systems. The multi-capacity framework enables deep learning models to offer flexible resource-accuracy trade-offs and other similar balancing of performance and resources consumed. At runtime, various systems disclosed herein may dynamically select the optimal resource-accuracy trade-off for each deep learning model to fit the model's resource demand to the system's available runtime resources and the needs of the task being performed by the model.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Mi Zhang, Biyi Fang, Xiao Zeng
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Publication number: 20240182331Abstract: An electrode deionizer and method remove polarized molecules of an ionic cluster in a fluid. In another aspect, electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis forces are used between electrodes to move a polarized molecular cluster in an electric field, which are then trapped in an activated-carbon on an anode. A further aspect uses dielectrophoresis to reduce the size of polarized molecules of an ionic cluster in a fluid. Yet another aspect of the present apparatus and method employ RF power in addition to DC power.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicants: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USAInventors: Qi Hua FAN, Keliang WANG
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Publication number: 20240183787Abstract: Disclosed herein are fusion peptides comprising a fluorescent domain and a rare earth element detection domain capable of binding to a rare earth element and fluorescing when exposed to light when a rare earth element is bound and compositions thereof. The fusion peptide may further comprise a leader domain and a tail domain. The fusion peptide acts as a biosensor to detect and quantify rare earth elements. Methods for imaging internal body structures, detecting rare earth elements in a biosample or environmental sample, and cleaning an environmental site are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Harvey LEE, Connor GRADY, Assaf GILAD
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Patent number: 12000740Abstract: A sensor apparatus is provided. Multiple opposite and self-powered sensors are provided in another aspect of the present apparatus. A further aspect employs a sensor apparatus including a first pair of flexible piezoelectric sensors attached to opposite sides of an exterior surface of a workpiece and at least a second pair of flexible piezoelectric sensors attached to opposite sides of the exterior surface of the workpiece. Another aspect of the present apparatus uses pairs of thin film piezoelectric sensors which are configured to detect bending curvature of a workpiece in at least two dimensions by sending voltage output signals from both of the sensors of a first pair and/or both of the sensors of at least a second pair to a controller and/or electrical circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Yunqi Cao, Nelson Sepulveda-Alancastro, Henry D'Souza
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Publication number: 20240162674Abstract: A laser system employs a laser, a pulse shaper, and a controller configured to measure phase variations on pre-compressed laser pulses. In another aspect, a laser apparatus and method include programmed software instructions which measure phase variations of ultrafast laser pulses. A further aspect of the present system and method includes a laser, an active pulse shaper, and a controller which measure and/or correct distortions of laser pulses with ?/2 scanning.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Marcos DANTUS, Jacob Anthony STAMM, Jorge Guillermo BENEL MOGROVEJO
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Publication number: 20240142321Abstract: A soft pressure sensing apparatus is provided. In one aspect of the present pressure sensing apparatus, a polymeric member, including conductive particles therein, is located between offset angled and crossing sets of electrodes. A further aspect includes a controller configured to calculate at least one regularized least-squares algorithm, to reduce cross-talk between the resistive members. In another aspect, a pressure sensor apparatus includes a piezoresistive film encapsulated between layers of substantially perpendicular electrodes to create a resistor network circuit where the ability to reconstruct cell resistance from measured two-point resistance. A method of manufacturing a pressure sensor includes using a mechanical vinyl cutter for the electrodes and/or piezoelectric resistive members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Xiaobo TAN, Hongyang SHI, Nelson SEPULVEDA, Claudia CHEN, Yu MEI
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Patent number: 11963538Abstract: A yeast-containing dough that is used to form a leavened dough product having a desired degree of leavening is initially formed as two separate dough subcomponents that, when combined, leavens through a fermentation reaction process to form a dough having the desired degree of leavening. The first dough subcomponent includes a leavening activator, flour, salt and water, while the second dough component includes a biological leavening agent, flour, and water. When combined, the leavening agent reacts in the presence of the biological leavening activator through a fermentation process to form the dough having a desired degree of leavening, which can then be heated to a temperature exceeding a viability temperature of the leavening activator to terminate the fermentation process and form the leavened dough product. The dough can also be combined with at least one non-dough component to form the leavened dough product.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Edward J. Szczygiel, Kaylan Hayman, Karl Seiwert, Ran Tao
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Patent number: 11961333Abstract: Gait, the walking pattern of individuals, is one of the important biometrics modalities. Most of the existing gait recognition methods take silhouettes or articulated body models as gait features. These methods suffer from degraded recognition performance when handling confounding variables, such as clothing, carrying and viewing angle. To remedy this issue, this disclosure proposes to explicitly disentangle appearance, canonical and pose features from RGB imagery. A long short-term memory integrates pose features over time as a dynamic gait feature while canonical features are averaged as a static gait feature. Both of them are utilized as classification features.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Xiaoming Liu, Ziyuan Zhang
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Patent number: 11958672Abstract: The disclosed articles, apparatus, methods, and compositions provide for the integration of different and environmentally-friendly processes for extraction, stabilization, and formulation of active compounds with health and/or other benefits from lignocellulosic by-products of food processes. The active compounds can include one or more of polyphenols, flavonoids, o-diphenols, anthocyanins, and phenolic acids. A high-pressure, high-temperature extraction process provides a means to recover a substantial portion of the active compounds from a biomass feedstock. The corresponding extract can be encapsulated, which provides a convenient form for stabilization and delivery of the active compounds into a final product, for example an active packaging material or corresponding actively packaged food item.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Bahar Aliakbarian, Mojgan Nejad
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Patent number: 11958031Abstract: A method of simultaneously modifying degradation rates of at least two compounds including a first compound having a first unmodified degradation rate constant k1 and a second compound having a second unmodified degradation rate k2 is provided. The method includes combining a first composition including the first compound with a second composition including the second compound, degrading the first compound and forming a first degradation product; and degrading the second compound and forming a second degradation product. The second degradation product modifies the first unmodified degradation rate constant k1 of the first compound to a first modified degradation rate k1? and the first degradation product modifies the second unmodified degradation rate k2 of the second compound to a second modified degradation rate k2?. Compositions resulting from the method are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: John R. Dorgan, Bin Tan
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Patent number: 11948367Abstract: A method and system for multi-object tracking is set forth. Object data for boundaries of a plurality of objects are received. Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filtering is performed on the object data to form a filtered set of object data. Ultimately, the filtered set of object data is used to control the operation of the vehicle. Identifiers and probabilities are associated with the objects to reduce the set of object data.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Hayder Radha, Su Pang
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Patent number: 11939588Abstract: Described herein are modified plants, plant cells, and plant seeds that have at least one mutant loss-of-function JAZ gene and at least one loss-of-function cdk8 gene. Such plants are highly resistant to pests and environmental stress and have restored growth and increased seed yield compared to plant lines with a jazD genetic background.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Gregg A. Howe, Qiang Guo
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Patent number: 11939649Abstract: The disclosure relates to sintering compositions that can be used in three-dimensional printing or additive manufacturing processes. The sintering compositions generally include one or more metallic iron-containing powders and a minor amount of a boron-containing powder as a sintering aid. Sintered models or products formed from the sintering compositions have substantially improved density and surface roughness values relative to models formed without the boron-containing powder.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYInventor: Patrick Kwon
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Patent number: 11939905Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes multiple fuel injections external to a pre-chamber. A further aspect provides an engine pre-chamber ignition apparatus which employs a pre-assembled and/or removable cartridge including an ignitor and a fresh air inlet but not a fuel inlet injector directly mounted thereto. Another aspect of a vehicular engine apparatus includes a fuel injector positioned externally to a pre-chamber which delivers an initial greater quantity of fuel for combustion and then a later and smaller quantity of fuel for pre-chamber ignition.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventor: Harold Schock
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Publication number: 20240082811Abstract: A plasma activated biochar filter is provided. In another aspect, Fluorine-based reactive gas is used in a plasma reactor to activate biochar. A further aspect employs a substrate flocked with plasma activated biochar. Yet another aspect employs plasma activated and fluorinated biochar on a porous substrate to act as an oil-fluid separating filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USAInventors: Qi Hua FAN, Keliang WANG
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Patent number: 11930302Abstract: A two-dimensional image of a vehicle occupant in a vehicle is collected. The collected two-dimensional image is input to a machine learning program trained to output one or more reference points of the vehicle occupant, each reference point being a landmark of the vehicle occupant. One or more reference points of the vehicle occupant in the two-dimensional image is output from the machine learning program. A location of the vehicle occupant in an interior of the vehicle is determined based on the one or more reference points. A vehicle component is actuated based on the determined location. For each of the one or more reference points, a similarity measure is determined between the reference point and a three-dimensional reference point, the similarity measure based on a distance between the reference point and the three-dimensional reference point.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Robert Parenti, Adil Siddiqui, Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Yasodekshna Boddeti
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Publication number: 20240057573Abstract: Methods of infecting a mosquito with Wolbachia and controlling a mosquito population with the Wolbachia-infected mosquito are provided herein. The method includes microinjecting a suspension including Wolbachia cells and buffer into a target mosquito embryo to produce a Wolbachia-infected G0 female. The suspension including Wolbachia cells and buffer is obtained by homogenizing a donor insect embryo, tissue, and/or whole body infected with Wolbachia to form a homogenate and the Wolbachia cells are separated from the homogenate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Zhiyong XI, Meichun ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240057888Abstract: A method for identifying brain-state dependent functional areas of unitary pooled activity (FAUPAs) using a statistical model that does not require a priori knowledge of the activity-induced ideal response signal time course is provided. A system for identifying a functional network in a brain of a living object includes a FAUPA identifier configured to identify FAUPAs by analyzing a plurality of images of the brain over a predetermined period. The plurality of images include a plurality of voxels, and the FAUPA identifier analyzes each voxel of the plurality of voxels in relation to one or more surrounding voxels of each voxel until each voxel of the plurality of voxels is evaluated. A brain network identification module configured to construct the functional network based on the identified FAUPAs that are functionally connected. A display module configured to display images of the brain depicting the FAUPAs included in the functional network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventor: Jie HUANG
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Patent number: 11903388Abstract: Described herein are methods for obtaining useful compounds from lichens.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Frances Trail, Ludmila Roze, John E. Linz
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Patent number: 11897087Abstract: A polishing apparatus is provided. Another aspect pertains to a self-leveling polishing apparatus for smoothing diamonds. Yet another aspect of the present system uses a ball and swivel joint in a diamond polishing machine. A further aspect employs a polishing apparatus including a diamond-holder, an elongated arm using gravity to apply downward polishing pressure of the diamond workpiece against a polishing wheel, and a sweeping transmission to cause the holder to radially move across the rotating polishing wheel.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USAInventors: Aaron Hardy, Timothy A. Grotjohn, Edward K. Drown, Michael Becker