Patents Assigned to Board of Trustees of the University
  • Data storage device performing in-storage processing
    Patent number: 11763041
    Abstract: A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device, a volatile memory device, a data encryption circuit configured to encrypt data outputted from the nonvolatile memory device, a data decryption circuit configured to decrypt encrypted data output from the data encryption circuit and configured to provide the decrypted data to the volatile memory device, and a processor configured to perform a first process that controls installation of a first in-storage program in the data storage device, a second process configured to manage a mapping table storing a relation between a logical address and a physical address of the nonvolatile memory device, and a third process configured to execute the first in-storage program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: SK hynix Inc., The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Jian Huang, Xiaohao Wang, Luyi Kang, Jong Ryool Kim, Hyung Jin Lim, Myeong Joon Kang, Chang Hwan Youn
  • Systems and methods for improving radiation tolerance of memory
    Patent number: 11762563
    Abstract: A system for improving radiation tolerance of memory senses an amount of radiation exposure and, based on the sensed amount of radiation exposure, determines whether to perform one or more techniques for mitigating the effects of the radiation exposure. As an example, the system may perform a data refresh operation by re-writing data that has been corrupted by radiation, or the system may adjust the reference voltage used to read memory cells. In another example, the system may perform a fault repair operation by re-programming cells that have erroneously transitioned from a program state to an erase state. The system may selectively perform different radiation-mitigation techniques in a tiered approach based on the sensed amount of radiation in order to limit the adverse effects of the more invasive techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Inventors: Biswajit Ray, Aleksandar Milenkovic
  • Substituted benzothiophene analogs as selective estrogen receptor degraders
    Patent number: 11759450
    Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure relates to relates to substituted benzothiophene analogs which are useful as selective degraders of estrogen receptor, methods of making same, pharmaceutical compositions comprising same, and methods of treating one or more clinical conditions associated with estrogen receptor, such as a cancer, including breast cancer, or osteoporosis. 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 disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Gregory R. Thatcher, Rui Xiong, Jiong Zhao, Yunlong Lu, Lauren Gutgesell, Carlo Ivan Rosales, Yangfeng Li
  • Composite dry adhesive and methods of making and using a composite dry adhesive
    Patent number: 11760906
    Abstract: A composite dry adhesive includes (a) an adhesive layer comprising a shape memory polymer and (b) a resistive heating layer comprising a shape memory polymer composite on the adhesive layer. The shape memory polymer composite includes conductive particles dispersed in a shape memory polymer matrix, where the conductive particles have a concentration sufficient to form a conductive path through the resistive heating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Seok Kim, Jeffrey D. Eisenhaure
  • 3D reduced graphene oxide foams embedded with nanocatalysts, synthesizing methods and applications of same
    Patent number: 11761099
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing a three-dimensional (3D) reduced graphene oxide (RGO) foam embedded with water-splitting nanocatalysts includes providing at least one solution containing at least one precursor of nanocatalysts, and a graphene oxide (GO) aqueous suspension; mixing the GO aqueous suspension with the at least one solution to form a mixture suspension; and performing hydrothermal reaction in the mixture suspension to form a 3D RGO foam embedded with the nanocatalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
    Inventors: Wei Zhao, Daoyuan Wang
  • Apparatus And Method To Reduce The Thermal Resistance Of Semiconductor Substrates
    Publication number: 20230290707
    Abstract: A semiconductor heat sink made of a first material including a plurality of spaced-apart depressions and an area surrounding the depressions filled with one or more materials having a heat conductivity greater than the first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
    Inventors: Amirreza Ghadimi Avval, Samir El-Ghazaly, Gregory J. Salamo, Shui-Qing Yu
  • Frontally polymerized polymeric body and method of producing a polymeric body having spatially varying properties
    Patent number: 11753501
    Abstract: A frontally polymerized polymeric body includes, according to a first embodiment, a deformable polymer comprising polydicyclopentadiene (pDCPD) and/or poly(5-ethylidene-2-norbornene) (pENB), where the deformable polymer has a fracture strain of at least about 0.5 mm mm?1. According to a second embodiment, the frontally polymerized polymeric body includes a first polymer comprising pDCPD and/or pENB, and a second polymer adjacent to the first polymer also comprising the pDCPD and/or the pENB. The second polymer is more or less deformable than the first polymer. Thus, the frontally polymerized polymeric body exhibits spatially varying mechanical and/or other properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Moore, Nancy R. Sottos, Benjamin A. Suslick, Katherine Stawiasz, Justine E. Paul
  • On-chip nanoscale storage system using chimeric DNA
    Patent number: 11755922
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that can provide portable, real-time accessible DNA memories. An example DNA-based data storage system includes a loading region configured to receive a plurality of DNA-based data storage elements in a suspension fluid and a plurality of microtubes disposed in a capture/release region. The microtubes are configured to capture and release the DNA-based data storage elements. The DNA-based data storage system also includes a linearization region configured to linearize the DNA-based data storage elements and a readout region with a readout device configured to provide information indicative of the respective DNA-based data storage elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Olgica Milenkovic, Nagendra Athreya, Apratim Khandelwal, Jean-Pierre Leburton, Xiuling Li, Charles Schroeder, SeyedKasra Tabatabaei, Bo Li
  • Method for increasing plant yield
    Patent number: 11751522
    Abstract: A method for increasing yield or vigor of a plant is provided, which includes the selective removal of the plant's shoot apical meristem at a period between vegetative growth stage 1 and vegetative growth stage 2, or between vegetative growth stage 2 and vegetative growth stage 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventor: Ken N. Paige
  • DNA-based image storage and retrieval
    Patent number: 11755640
    Abstract: An embodiment may involve obtaining an image composed of color channels, wherein each of the color channels represents colors therein with n bits per pixel; quantizing each of the color channels to be represented by m bits per pixel; using a space-filling curve to convert each of the color channels as quantized into respective vectors; generating, for each of the respective vectors, a respective set of m arrays, wherein the m arrays for a particular vector of the respective vectors contain indices of where a fixed value selected from a range of 0 to m?1 is found in the particular vector; applying, to each of the m arrays for each of the respective vectors, differential encoding and compression of the indices therein; mapping each of the m arrays for each of the respective vectors to blocks of nucleotides; synthesizing the blocks; and storing, in a DNA-based storage medium, the blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Chao Pan, S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi, SeyedKasra Tabatabaei, Alvaro G. Hernandez, Charles M. Schroeder, Olgica Milenkovic
  • SiGeSn laser diodes and method of fabricating same
    Patent number: 11757257
    Abstract: A laser diode including a double heterostructure comprising a top layer, a buffer layer formed on a substrate, and an intrinsic active layer formed between the top layer and the buffer layer. The top layer and the buffer layer have opposite types of conductivity. The active layer has a bandgap smaller than that of the buffer layer or the top layer. The double heterostructure includes Ge, SiGe, GeSn, and/or SiGeSn materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
    Inventors: Shui-Qing Yu, Yiyin Zhou, Wei Du
  • PPAR-alpha agonist treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders
    Patent number: 11752115
    Abstract: Described herein are PPAR? agonists, including, but not limited to, endocannabinoids that can be used for treatment of a neuropsychiatric disorder and/or symptom thereof. Also described herein are pharmaceutical formulations containing an effective amount of a PPAR? agonists, including but not limited to endocannabinoids, where the effective amount is effective for treating a neuropsychiatric disorder and/or symptom thereof. Also described herein are methods of treating a neuropsychiatric disorder and/or a symptom thereof in a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Graziano Pinna, Andrea Locci
  • METHODS AND MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR PRODUCING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES
    Publication number: 20230279379
    Abstract: A method and microfluidic device for increasing the production of extracellular vesicles are provided which include the use of a cell-adhesive substrate for culturing extracellular-vesicle-producing cells, wherein the cell-adhesive substrate is a hydrogel having a Young's modulus of about 0.1 kPa to about 5 kPa and the hydrogel is functionalized with one or more cell adhesive peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: STEPHEN LENZINI, JAE-WON SHIN
  • Grape plant named ‘Compassion’
    Patent number: 11744221
    Abstract: A grape plant designated as ‘Compassion’ or a progeny thereof are provided herein. Also provided are pollen, tissues or cells of the plant. The plants or plant parts may be used for breeding or creating transgenic plants. Products made using the grapes of the plant are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
    Inventor: John Reuben Clark
  • HDAC inhibitors and therapeutic methods using the same
    Patent number: 11739064
    Abstract: Histone deacetylases inhibitors (HDACIs) and compositions containing the same are disclosed. Methods of treating diseases and conditions wherein inhibition of HDAC provides a benefit, like a cancer, a neurodegenerative disorder, a peripheral neuropathy, a neurological disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, hypertension, malaria, an autoimmune disease, autism, autism spectrum disorders, and inflammation, also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Alan Kozikowski, Irina Gaisina
  • Doped carbonaceous materials for photocatalytic removal of pollutants under visible light, making methods and applications of same
    Patent number: 11738330
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing a doped carbonaceous material includes mixing a carbon precursor material with at least one dopant to form a homogeneous/heterogeneous mixture; and subjecting the mixture to pyrolysis in an inert atmosphere to obtain the doped carbonaceous material. A method of purifying water includes providing an amount of the doped carbonaceous material in the water as a photocatalyst; and illuminating the water containing the doped carbonaceous material with visible light such that under visible light illumination, the doped carbonaceous material generates excitons (electron-hole pairs) and has high electron affinity, which react with oxygen and water adsorbed on its surface forming reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as hydroxyl radicals and superoxide radicals, singlet oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, that, in turn, decompose pollutants and micropollutants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
    Inventors: Anindya Ghosh, Bijay P. Chhetri
  • Slotted substrate integrated air waveguide antenna array
    Patent number: 11735827
    Abstract: A slotted Substrate Integrated Air Waveguide (slotted SIAW) antenna array comprising a ground plane having a reflective planar surface formed of a conductive material; an air waveguide structure fixably attached to, or formed onto, the reflective surface of the ground plane and having a slotted aperture defined, in part, by two conductive side walls that terminates at a conductive end wall, where a portion of the conductive side walls and a portion of the conductive end wall define an aperture-facing radiative conductive surface of the aperture and electrically couples with a conductive antenna feedline; and a slotted cover plate fixably attached to, or formed onto, the slotted-waveguide structure and having an area that fully covers the slotted aperture and has two or more radiating slotted apertures coincident to the slotted aperture and to the reflective planar surface of the ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama
    Inventors: Linfeng Li, Stephen Yan
  • Biomarker detection from fluid samples
    Patent number: 11732293
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods which utilize an array of wells to isolate pathogens and nucleic acid detection techniques to accurately and rapidly detect pathogens in fluid samples, even in very low concentrations, including from solid or semi-solid samples that have been fluidized. The provided systems and methods dry the fluid sample to deposit a fraction of the total volume in a number of wells and perform nucleic acid detection on individual wells to detect even individual pathogens and provide a quantitative analysis of the amount of pathogen within the sample. Also provided are methods and systems for precise delivery of dried materials, including biomolecules that are enzymes of use in the process, to microwells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Rashid Bashir, Anurup Ganguli
  • Blackberry plant named ‘APF-404T’
    Patent number: PP35368
    Abstract: Description and specifications of a new and distinct cultivar of blackberry plant named ‘APF-404T’ which originated from seed produced by a hand-pollinated cross of Arkansas selections ‘APF-185T’ (a non-patented, unreleased breeding selection) x ‘A-2444T’ (a non-patented, unreleased breeding selection) is provided. This new cultivar of blackberry plant can be distinguished by its thornless canes, primocane-fruiting tendency, and large, sweet fruit. The plants have consistently good plant health and produce fruit suitable for home gardens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
    Inventor: John R. Clark
  • Grape plant named ‘A-1400’
    Patent number: PP35378
    Abstract: The new cultivar of grape originated from a hand-pollinated cross of ‘Dunstan-210’ (female parent, not patented) and ‘Black Monukka’ (male parent, not patented) made in 1970. The seedlings fruited in the summer of 1973 in a vineyard near Clarksville, Ark. and one was selected for its potential as a table grape for utilization in the southern United States. The original vine was tested as ‘Ark. 1400’. The new cultivar of grapevine is a white, seedless table grape which provides advancements in Pierce's Disease tolerance (Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al.) for the southern region of the United States. This cultivar produces large, attractive fruit clusters with berries that have a neutral flavor and palatable, thin skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
    Inventors: John R. Clark, James N. Moore