Patents Assigned to Brown
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Publication number: 20190030119Abstract: The methods and assays described herein relate to the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of subjects with emphysema, COPD, and/or cigarette-induced lung damage. In some embodiments, the methods and assays relate to subjects with a decreased level of NLRX1 expression. In some embodiments, the methods and assays relate to the administration of an agonist of NLRX1 and/or an inhibitor of MAVS.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicants: BROWN UNIVERSITY, YALE UNIVERSITYInventors: Jack A. Elias, Chun Geun Lee, Min-Jong Kang
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Patent number: 10181082Abstract: The method and system includes a plurality of test subject containers, each having a test subject therein. A plurality of video cameras is focused on the test subject containers to capture video of the behavior of each of the test subjects. The system and method also includes a storage system for storing the plurality of video from the cameras. The storage system may be local or cloud-based as is known in the art. The system further has one or more computers with a neural network configured to (a) retrieve the video from the storage system of the test subjects, (b) analyze the video to identify a plurality of observable behaviors in the test subjects, (c) annotate the video with the observed behavior classifications, and (d) store the annotated video in the storage system.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITYInventors: Thomas Serre, Youssef Barhomi, Zachary Nado, Kevin Bath, Sven Eberhardt
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Patent number: 10175705Abstract: This invention relates to a power mapping and modeling system for integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Brown UniversityInventors: Sherief Reda, Abdullah Nowroz, Kapil Dev
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Publication number: 20190002586Abstract: Described herein are methods and compositions relating to anti-Chi3L1 antibodies, antibody reagents, and antigen-binding fragments thereof which display superior properties, e.g., high sensitivity, high specificity, high binding affinity, neutralization activity ex vivo and in vivo (e.g., blocks Chi3L1-induced MAPK and AKT signaling). Methods of treatment, e.g., of treating cancer, obesity, and/or asthma by administering the compounds described herein are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: BROWN UNIVERSITYInventors: Jack A. ELIAS, Chun Geun LEE, Chuan Hua HE, Bing MA, Suchitra KAMLE, Chang-Min LEE
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Patent number: 10161051Abstract: This invention includes a catalytic copper electrode is selected from the group comprising copper nanofoam, copper aerogel, and copper nanoparticles. Particular note is made of the catalytic copper electrode having at least about 5 times and preferably about 10 times the electrochemically accessible surface area as determined by the Randles-Sevcik equation at 50 mV/s. particular note is made of the catalytic coper electrode being a copper nanofoam electrode. This invention further includes a method for the reduction of CO2 by the steps of (i) providing a membrane divided electrochemical cell comprising an anode in a first cell compartment, a catalytic-copper electrode in a second cell compartment containing an aqueous electrolyte in contact with the anode and cathode; (ii) introducing CO2 to said second cell compartment (iii) exposing said CO2 to said catalytic-copper electrode at a step potential between about ?0.8 and preferably about ?1.0 and about ?1.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Brown UniversityInventors: G. Tayhas R. Palmore, Sujat Sen, Dan Liu
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Patent number: 10157633Abstract: Methods, devices, and compositions for use with spintronic devices such as magnetic random access memory (MRAM) and spin-logic devices are provided. Methods include manipulating magnetization states in spintronic devices and making a structure using spin transfer torque to induce magnetization reversal. A device described herein manipulates magnetization states in spintronic devices and includes a non-magnetic metal to generate spin current based on the giant spin Hall effect, a ferromagnetic thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, an oxide thin film, and an integrated magnetic sensor. The device does not require an insertion layer between a non-magnetic metal with giant spin Hall effect and a ferromagnetic thin film to achieve perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Brown UniversityInventors: Gang Xiao, Qiang Hao
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Patent number: 10149986Abstract: The invention features methods for regulating vascular properties by controlling the membrane properties of endothelial cells using optogenetics and light. The invention features methods to transport therapeutics across the vascular barrier into tissues such as the brain and the lung, with high spatial and temporal precision, and for controlling vascular properties such as vascular tone, arterial diameter, and vascular growth.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignees: Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Tyler C. Brown, Christopher I. Moore
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Publication number: 20180344508Abstract: A dental guard (10) for preventing wear of the occlusal surfaces of a user's teeth resulting from bruxism is provided. The dental guard (10) can be can be custom-fitted to the teeth of the wearer. The guard (10) comprises a durable core (14) that is overmolded by a thermoplastic outer layer (12). The outer layer (12) can be softened through exposure to hot, but not boiling, water, and then formed around the user's teeth. The guard (10) may include one or more features (32, 84) that assist the user in proper positioning of the guard within his or her mouth during the custom fitting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Brown Innovation, LLCInventor: Thomas W. Brown
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Publication number: 20180344511Abstract: A dental guard (10) for preventing wear of the occlusal surfaces of a user's teeth resulting from bruxism is provided. The dental guard (10) can be can be custom-fitted to the teeth of the wearer. The guard (10) comprises a durable core (14) that is overmolded by a thermoplastic outer layer (12). The outer layer (12) can be softened through exposure to hot, but not boiling, water, and then formed around the user's teeth. The guard (10) may include one or more features (32, 84) that assist the user in proper positioning of the guard within his or her mouth during the custom fitting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Brown Innovation, LLCInventor: Thomas W. Brown
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Publication number: 20180345670Abstract: An apparatus for a lead-free piezoelectric ink-jet printhead is disclosed. Piezoelectric printheads, while more expensive are favored because they use a wider variety of inks. The piezoelectric printhead includes a diaphragm, a plurality of piezoelectric actuators comprising a lead-free piezoelectric material, at least one nozzle, at least one ink chamber, a top electrode, and a drive circuit. The deflection of the diaphragm on the body chamber contributes to a pressure pulse that is used to eject a drop of liquid from the nozzle. According to an exemplary embodiment, a lead-free piezoelectric printhead operated at smaller thicknesses and significantly higher electric fields is disclosed, along with methods of making such printheads.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicants: Xerox Corporation, Brown UniversityInventors: Peter J. Nystrom, Gary D. Redding, Angus Ian Kingon, Seunghyun Kim, Nicholas Mostovych
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Publication number: 20180344509Abstract: A dental guard (10) for preventing wear of the occlusal surfaces of a user's teeth resulting from bruxism is provided. The dental guard (10) can be can be custom-fitted to the teeth of the wearer. The guard (10) comprises a durable core (14) that is overmolded by a thermoplastic outer layer (12). The outer layer (12) can be softened through exposure to hot, but not boiling, water, and then formed around the user's teeth. The guard (10) may include one or more features (32, 84) that assist the user in proper positioning of the guard within his or her mouth during the custom fitting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Brown Innovation, LLCInventor: Thomas W. Brown
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Publication number: 20180344510Abstract: A dental guard (10) for preventing wear of the occlusal surfaces of a user's teeth resulting from bruxism is provided. The dental guard (10) can be can be custom-fitted to the teeth of the wearer. The guard (10) comprises a durable core (14) that is overmolded by a thermoplastic outer layer (12). The outer layer (12) can be softened through exposure to hot, but not boiling, water, and then formed around the user's teeth. The guard (10) may include one or more features (32, 84) that assist the user in proper positioning of the guard within his or her mouth during the custom fitting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Brown Innovation, LLCInventor: Thomas W. Brown
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Publication number: 20180339127Abstract: Systems tune, control, or remediate the intrinsic Circadian clock. A light controller sets spectral distribution, intensity of a bioactive spectral band to shift or entrain circadian response to enhance performance and/or synchronize with local or expected conditions. The systems enhance performance under conditions that might be changing, disrupted, or otherwise present an irregular phase or unnatural change in the subject's circadian status, for example, due to geographically discontinuous activity or spectrally deficient workplace illumination, or due to divergent individual sleep/wake behaviors of subjects in a structured group activity. An illumination recipe that compensates for the deficiency of lighting or of participant sleep or behavior patterns, or age- or disease-related changes, to evoke, shift, or align circadian response and improve behaviors such as classroom alertness, relaxation, excitability, attention, or focus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: BROWN UNIVERSITYInventors: Eliza Van Reen, Gustavo E. Fernandes, Jingming Xu, Mary A. Carskadon
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Patent number: 10134181Abstract: A system generates a clothing deformation model which models one or more of a pose-dependent clothing shape variation which is induced by underlying body pose parameters, a pose-independent clothing shape variation which is induced by clothing size and underlying body shape parameters and a clothing shape variation including a combination of the pose-dependent clothing shape variation and/or the pose-independent clothing shape variation. The system generates, for an input human body, a custom-shaped garment associated with a clothing type by mapping, via the clothing deformation model, body shape parameters of the input human body to clothing shape parameters of the clothing type and dresses the input human body with the custom-shaped garment.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITYInventors: Michael J. Black, Peng Guan
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Patent number: 10113861Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for measuring multidimensional stress characteristics in a substrate. Generally, the methods include applying a sequence of optical pump pulses to the substrate. The optical pump pulses induce a propagating strain pulse in the substrate. Optical probe pulses are also applied. By analyzing transient optical responses caused by the propagating strain pulse, multidimensional stress components characterizing the stress in the substrate can be determined. Multidimensional stress components may also be determined at a depth of a substrate. Multidimensional stress components may also be determined at areas adjacent a through-silicon via.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITYInventor: Humphrey J. Maris
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Patent number: 10113668Abstract: A system for conveying fluids at a subsea location includes a module having a flow line formed of plurality of linear sections. At least two of the sections have a geometrically parallel arrangement. The module includes an inlet supplying fluid to the flow line and an outlet receiving fluid from the flow line.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Austin Glenn Smith, Robert Hernandez, Michael Hardy
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Publication number: 20180307779Abstract: A system includes a robot having a module that includes a function for mapping natural language commands of varying complexities to reward functions at different levels of abstraction within a hierarchical planning framework, the function including using a deep neural network language model that learns how to map the natural language commands to reward functions at an appropriate level of the hierarchical planning framework.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Stefanie Tellex, Dilip Arumugam, Siddharth Karamcheti, Nakul Gopalan, Lawson L.S. Wong
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Patent number: 10106580Abstract: Provided herein are inventive enopeptin compounds of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Further provided are methods of preparation, use, and treatment.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Brown UniversityInventor: Jason K. Sello
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Publication number: 20180297215Abstract: A robot includes a gripping member configured to move and pick up the object, a camera affixed to the gripping member such that movement of the gripping member causes movement of the camera, the camera configured to measure and store data related to intensity of light and direction of light rays within the environment, an image processing module configured to process the data to generate a probabilistic model defining a location of the object within the environment, and an operation module configured to move the gripping member to the location and pick up the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: John Oberlin, Stefanie Tellex
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Patent number: 10087910Abstract: The present invention provides a system for engaging a fluid flow. The system comprising one or more foil members operationally connected to a feedback control loop system. In one embodiment, the foil member is a hydrofoil member or an airfoil member. The foil members are configured for one or more degrees of freedom of oscillatory movement within the fluid flow. The feedback control loop system comprises a sensor system, actuator system, and a controller system. The feedback control loop system configured for actuating the foil members and thereby optimizing the operation of the foil members to attain one or more optimization objectives. In operation, the foil members are situated in the fluid flow and are manipulated to attain one or more optimization objectives.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITYInventors: Shreyas Mandre, Kenneth Breuer, Benjamin Strom, Michael Miller, Jennifer Franck, Daegyoum Kim