Abstract: A system for determining a characteristic of a laser includes a collection housing receiving a laser beam comprising a first pulse, a second pulse and a time period between the first pulse and the second pulse. A photon counting detector receives photons from the laser beam disposed to generate photon signals from the laser beam and generating a start signal. A fast diode generates a stop signal to provide a time reference of counted photons ns. A controller is coupled to the photon counting detector and the fast diode. The controller counts photons from the photon counting detector occurring during the time period between the first and second pulse and generates a first output signal corresponding to a power during the time period between the first pulse and the second pulse.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 21, 2021
Date of Patent:
July 12, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Abstract: A multiband sensing system includes an active multiband sensing unit configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal in multiple bands and communicate with a network. The active multiband sensing unit includes at least one transmitting antenna configured to transmit the RF signal. The multiband sensing system includes a passive multiband sensing unit including at least one receiving antenna configured to receive the RF signal, an acoustic actuator powered by the received RF signal including an actuating sensor element configured to actuate in response to receiving extracted modulated information of the RF signal, and an acoustic detector. The acoustic detector includes a detector transmitting antenna configured to backscatter a new frequency band signal to the active multiband sensing unit and a detector sensor element configured to sense data. The sensed data is modulated over the received RF signal to produce the new frequency band signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 26, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 12, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a representation for a fingerprint includes receiving, by a computer processor, an image of a given fingerprint. The method extracts particular attributes for the given fingerprint from the image using a first neural network. The first neural network is trained to identify particular attributes in fingerprints and constructs a first feature vector from the extracted particular attributes, where the first feature vector has a first fixed length. The method includes extracting textural features of the given fingerprint from the image using a second neural network, where the second neural network is trained to identify textural features that are not limited to particular attributes and constructing a second feature vector from the extracted textural features, where the second feature vector has a second fixed length. The method includes concatenating the first feature vector with the second feature vector to form a representation for the given fingerprint.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 28, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Inventors:
Joshua J. Engelsma, Kai Cao, Anil K. Jain
Abstract: A microscale gas breakdown device includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface and the second surface define a gap distance. The device includes a perturbation on the first surface or the second surface. The perturbation is defined by a height value and a radius value. The device includes a current source or a voltage source configured to apply a current or a voltage across the first surface and the second surface. In response to the current or the voltage being applied, a resulting discharge travels along a first discharge path in response to being exposed to a high pressure and a second discharge path in response to being exposed to a low pressure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 26, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 28, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Inventors:
Yangyang Fu, Peng Zhang, John P. Verboncoeur
Abstract: 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:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 2017
Date of Patent:
June 28, 2022
Assignee:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for determining the susceptibility of Parkinson's disease patients to optimized drug therapy (ODT) and or deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 2, 2016
Date of Patent:
June 7, 2022
Assignees:
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Inventors:
David Charles, Mallory Hacker, Caryl E. Sortwell, Jack W. Lipton
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to chemical compounds that modulate proteasome activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and use of these compounds and compositions for the treatment of disorders of uncontrolled cellular proliferation such as, for example, a cancer. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 30, 2019
Date of Patent:
May 31, 2022
Assignees:
BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Inventors:
Maria Gaczynska, Pawel A. Osmulski, Jetze Tepe, Matt Giletto
Abstract: Described herein are constructs, compositions and methods for precise in vivo imaging of the structures and dynamics of protein-based scaffolds with and without their designated cargos.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 19, 2021
Publication date:
May 26, 2022
Applicant:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Inventors:
Eric Jeffrey Young, Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Daniel Christopher Ducat
Abstract: A harmonic radar apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of fundamental frequencies towards a scene. A further aspect of the harmonic radar apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a reflected signal from the scene, the reflected signal being modulated based on the scene, and a re-radiated signal from a tag, the re-radiated signal being at a harmonic frequency of at least one of the plurality of fundamental frequencies transmitted by the transmitter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 24, 2022
Assignees:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jeffrey Nanzer, Stephan Gary Bush, Faiz Feisal Sherman
Abstract: A method for treating or inhibiting the progression of placental insufficiency syndrome in a subject in need thereof is provided. The method includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including irisin.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 13, 2020
Publication date:
May 19, 2022
Applicant:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Inventors:
Sascha DREWLO, Hamid-Reza KOHAN-GHADR, Eugenia JOHNSON
Abstract: 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:
Application
Filed:
November 16, 2021
Publication date:
May 19, 2022
Applicant:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Inventors:
Yungi CAO, Nelson Sepulveda-Alancastro, Henry Dsouza
Abstract: 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:
Application
Filed:
September 3, 2021
Publication date:
May 12, 2022
Applicant:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Abstract: The invention relates to nucleic acids encoding a p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase and to inhibitory nucleic acids adapted to inhibit the expression and/or translation of a p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase RNA. Inhibition of p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase in plants improves the incorporation of monolignol ferulates into the lignin of plants, giving rise to plant biomass that is more easily processed into useful products such as paper and biofuels.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2019
Date of Patent:
May 10, 2022
Assignees:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, The Board of Trustees of Illinois State University
Inventors:
Curtis Wilkerson, John Ralph, Saunia Withers, John Sedbrook
Abstract: A soft gripper apparatus is provided. In another aspect, a soft gripper includes tribo-skin pressure sensors, an internal bending sensor, at least one flexible gripping finger and an actuator. A further aspect of a soft gripper apparatus employs longitudinally elongated, laterally spaced apart and self-powering, electrically conductive strips that sense and send a bending signal to a programmable controller indicative of a bending angle of a gripping finger within which the strips are encapsulated. Another aspect of a gripping apparatus includes at least one workpiece pressure sensor and/or at least one bending sensor, which are connected to a programmable controller and electrical circuit to automatically determine a characteristic of the workpiece.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 1, 2021
Publication date:
May 5, 2022
Applicant:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Abstract: The present disclosure provides, among other things, compositions and methods useful for inhibiting biofilm-forming bacteria. For example, the compositions and methods described herein can be used to inhibit the proliferation, viability, and/or biofilm-forming activity, of biofilm-forming bacteria.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 26, 2019
Date of Patent:
May 3, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Abstract: Gait, the walking pattern of individuals, is one of the most important biometrics modalities. Most of the existing gait recognition methods take silhouettes or articulated body models as the gait features. These methods suffer from degraded recognition performance when handling confounding variables, such as clothing, carrying and view angle. To remedy this issue, a novel AutoEncoder framework is presented to explicitly disentangle pose and appearance features from RGB imagery and a long short-term memory integration of pose features over time produces the gait feature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 22, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2022
Assignees:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Ford Global Technologies LLC
Inventors:
Xiaoming Liu, Jian Wan, Kwaku Prakah-Asante, Mike Blommer, Ziyuan Zhang, Luan Tran, Xi Yin, Yousef Atoum
Abstract: A vector distribution method for operation of a power amplifier of a wireless transmitter including receiving, by a first amplifier circuit, a first input vector and a second input vector. The first input vector includes data derived from an input signal of the wireless transmitter and the second input vector includes other data derived from the input signal of the wireless transmitter. The method includes, in response to receiving the input signal, instructing the first amplifier circuit to output an output signal at a high voltage.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2020
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2022
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Abstract: An energy absorbing apparatus includes particles with nanopores in a liquid. A further aspect employs a reusable energy absorbing apparatus including gas-liquid interactions in nanopores. Another aspect of the present apparatus uses oversolubility of gas in a solution to enhance bubble nucleation in hydrophobic nanopores or nanochannels, which suppresses gas outflow while promoting liquid outflow from particles. Still another aspect includes anions within an aqueous electrolytic solution, containing nanoporous material therein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 12, 2021
Publication date:
April 21, 2022
Applicant:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
Abstract: A quantum dot microscope apparatus is provided. A further aspect employs a tilted or tapered end or tip on a microscopic probe. Another aspect of the present apparatus employs a probe including a quantum dot with only one tunneling lead connected to a power source. A manufacturing aspect includes creating a tapered or asymmetrically shaped specimen-facing end of a probe where a quantum dot is located on the end. A further manufacturing aspect includes using focused ion-beam milling to create a tip or end of a quantum dot microscope probe.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 5, 2021
Publication date:
April 21, 2022
Applicants:
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Inventors:
Stuart Holden TESSMER, Eric William GOODWIN, Oleksandr LEVCHENKO