Patents Assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
  • Patent number: 11232883
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite comprising an elastomer with an embedded network of liquid metal inclusions. The composite retains similar flexibility to that of an elastomer but exhibits electrical and thermal properties that differ from the properties of a homogeneous elastomer. The composite has applications for wearable devices and other soft matter electronics, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Andrew Fassler, Michael Bartlett, Navid Kazem, Matthew J. Powell-Palm, Jonathan A. Malen
  • Patent number: 10964326
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is method of performing speech recognition using audio and visual information, where the visual information provides data related to a person's face. Image preprocessing identifies regions of interest, which is then combined with the audio data before being processed by a speech recognition engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventor: Ian Richard Lane
  • Patent number: 10919183
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method that is used to create three-dimensional synthetic vascular networks. Micromachining and molding techniques are used to create a template in a shape that mimics a biological network. Cellular material can be seeded around the template or a space created by the template and grown into an engineered tissue-construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation, University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Philip R. LeDuc, O. Burak Ozdoganlar, Mary E. Wilson, Emrullah Korkmaz, Yadong Wang, Donna Beer-Stolz
  • Publication number: 20200328007
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite comprising an elastomer with an embedded network of liquid metal inclusions. The composite retains similar flexibility to that of an elastomer but exhibits electrical and thermal properties that differ from the properties of a homogeneous elastomer. The composite has applications for wearable devices and other soft matter electronics, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Andrew Fassler, Michael Bartlett, Navid Kazem, Matthew J. Powell-Palm, Jonathan A. Malen
  • Patent number: 10749450
    Abstract: An electrostatic clutch is described comprising a plurality of micron-scale thickness electrodes, adjacent electrodes being separated by a thin film of dielectric material. A power source and controller apply a voltage across two electrodes, causing an electrostatic force to develop. When engaged, a force can be transferred through the clutch. A tensioning device maintains the alignment of the clutch when the electrodes are disengaged, but permits movement in at least one direction. In some embodiments, multiple clutches are connected to an output to provide variable force control and a broad range of torque input and output values. Moreover, the clutch can be used as an energy-recycling actuator that captures mechanical energy from negative work movements, and returns energy during positive work movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Steven Collins, Stuart Diller
  • Patent number: 10720261
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite comprising an elastomer with an embedded network of liquid metal inclusions. The composite retains similar flexibility to that of an elastomer but exhibits electrical and thermal properties that differ from the properties of a homogeneous elastomer. The composite has applications for wearable devices and other soft matter electronics, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Andrew Fassler, Michael Bartlett, Navid Kazem, Matthew J. Powell-Palm, Jonathan A. Malen
  • Publication number: 20200177109
    Abstract: An electrostatic clutch is described comprising a plurality of micron-scale thickness electrodes, adjacent electrodes being separated by a thin film of dielectric material. A power source and controller apply a voltage across two electrodes, causing an electrostatic force to develop. When engaged, a force can be transferred through the clutch. A tensioning device maintains the alignment of the clutch when the electrodes are disengaged, but permits movement in at least one direction. In some embodiments, multiple clutches are connected to an output to provide variable force control and a broad range of torque input and output values. Moreover, the clutch can be used as an energy-recycling actuator that captures mechanical energy from negative work movements, and returns energy during positive work movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Steven Collins, Stuart Diller
  • Publication number: 20190363648
    Abstract: An electrostatic clutch is described comprising a plurality of micron-scale thickness electrodes, adjacent electrodes being separated by a thin film of dielectric material. A power source and controller apply a voltage across two electrodes, causing an electrostatic force to develop. When engaged, a force can be transferred through the clutch. A tensioning device maintains the alignment of the clutch when the electrodes are disengaged, but permits movement in at least one direction. In some embodiments, multiple clutches are connected to an output to provide variable force control and a broad range of torque input and output values. Moreover, the clutch can be used as an energy-recycling actuator that captures mechanical energy from negative work movements, and returns energy during positive work movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Steven Collins, Stuart Diller
  • Publication number: 20190319556
    Abstract: An electrostatic clutch is described comprising a plurality of micron-scale thickness electrodes, adjacent electrodes being separated by a thin film of dielectric material. A power source and controller apply a voltage across two electrodes, causing an electrostatic force to develop. When engaged, a force can be transferred through the clutch. A tensioning device maintains the alignment of the clutch when the electrodes are disengaged, but permits movement in at least one direction. In some embodiments, multiple clutches are connected to an output to provide variable force control and a broad range of torque input and output values. Moreover, the clutch can be used as an energy-recycling actuator that captures mechanical energy from negative work movements, and returns energy during positive work movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Steven Collins, Stuart Diller
  • Patent number: 10039651
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a direct skeletal attachment (DSA) device including a micro-miniature chainmail skin-to-DSA interface. The interface comprises various porous architectures for skin ingrowth and integration as barriers against pathogens. Failure of skin-to-DSA interfaces can occur due to mismatches in mechanical compliance between pliable skin and more rigid DSA interfaces. To address this problem, in embodiments disclosed herein is an interface having a gradient in mechanical compliance or link mobility, ranging from fully flexible, to less compliant, to rigid where it attaches to the main DSA body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Lee E. Weiss, Gary K. Fedder
  • Patent number: 9927512
    Abstract: An indoor ultrasonic location tracking system that can utilize standard audio speakers to provide indoor ranging information to modern mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. The method uses a communication scheme based on linearly increasing frequency modulated chirps in the audio bandwidth just above the human hearing frequency range where mobile devices are still sensitive. The method uses gradual frequency and amplitude changes that minimize human perceivable (psychoacoustic) artifacts derived from the non-ideal impulse response of audio speakers. Chirps also benefit from Pulse Compression, which improves ranging resolution and resilience to both Doppler shifts and multi-path propagation that plague indoor environments. The method supports the decoding of multiple unique identifier packets simultaneously. A Time-Difference-of-Arrival pseudo-ranging technique allows for localization without explicit synchronization with the broadcasting infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Rowe, Patrick Lazik
  • Patent number: 9830813
    Abstract: Scalable urban traffic control system has been developed to address current challenges and offers a new approach to real-time, adaptive control of traffic signal networks. The methods and system described herein exploit a novel conceptualization of the signal network control problem as a decentralized process, where each intersection in the network independently and asynchronously solves a single-machine scheduling problem in a rolling horizon fashion to allocate green time to its local traffic, and intersections communicate planned outflows to their downstream neighbors to increase visibility of future incoming traffic and achieve coordinated behavior. The novel formulation of the intersection control problem as a single-machine scheduling problem abstracts flows of vehicles into clusters, which enables orders-of-magnitude speedup over previous time-based formulations and is what allows truly real-time (second-by-second) response to changing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen F. Smith, Gregory J. Barlow, Xiao-Feng Xie
  • Patent number: 9823260
    Abstract: Described herein is a method to induce surface trafficking of the delta-Opioid Receptor (DOR) and its applications, including, leveraging the antinociceptive potential of DOR agonists to treaty neurologic disorders and to be analgesics without the adverse consequences normally associated with chronic treatment by MOR agonists by inducing surface trafficking of the delta-Opioid Receptor (DOR) and screening compounds to identify additional targets for stimulated DOR delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: Carnegie Mellon University, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Manojkumar A. Puthenveedu, Daniel J. Shiwarski, Amynah Pradhan
  • Patent number: 9797187
    Abstract: Devices that incorporate phase change materials in containment vessels promote conduction of thermal energy between the phase change materials within the containment vessels and the surrounding air. In some embodiments, the containment vessels are transparent to enable visual awareness of the operation and functionality of the PCMs. In some embodiments, the containment vessels are design to passively promote air flow across the surfaces of the containment vessels. In some embodiments, the containment vessels include embedded structures to promote the conduction of thermal energy to and from the interior of the containment vessel. In some of these embodiments, the intent is to target the location of crystal ‘seeds’ and control crystal growth, thus gaining greater control over thermal transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Dale Timothy Clifford, Shi-Chune Yao
  • Publication number: 20170236518
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a GPU-accelerated speech recognition engine optimized for faster than real time speech recognition on a scalable server-client heterogeneous CPU-GPU architecture, which is specifically optimized to simultaneously decode multiple users in real-time. In order to efficiently support real-time speech recognition for multiple users, a “producer/consumer” design pattern is applied to decouple speech processes that run at different rates in order to handle multiple processes at the same time. Furthermore, the speech recognition process is divided into multiple consumers in order to maximize hardware utilization. As a result, the platform architecture is able to process more than 45 real-time audio streams with an average latency of less than 0.3 seconds using one-million-word vocabulary language models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Richard Lane, Jungsuk Kim
  • Publication number: 20170236057
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a deep learning model that can be used for performing speech or image processing tasks. The model uses multi-task training, where the model is trained for at least two inter-related tasks. For face detection, the first task is face detection (i.e. face or non-face) and the second task is facial feature identification (i.e. mouth, eyes, nose). The multi-task model improves the accuracy of the task over single-task models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Richard Lane, Bo Yu
  • Publication number: 20170236516
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is method of performing speech recognition using audio and visual information, where the visual information provides data related to a person's face. Image preprocessing identifies regions of interest, which is then combined with the audio data before being processed by a speech recognition engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventor: Ian Richard Lane
  • Patent number: 9731422
    Abstract: The present invention are methods for fabrication of micro- and/or nano-scale adhesive fibers and their use for movement and manipulation of objects. Further disclosed is a method of manipulating a part by providing a manipulation device with a plurality of fibers, where each fiber has a tip with a flat surface that is parallel to a backing layer, contacting the flat surfaces on an object, moving the object to a new location, then disengaging the tips from the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Metin Sitti, Yi{hacek over (g)}it Mengüç
  • Publication number: 20170218167
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite comprising an elastomer with an embedded network of liquid metal inclusions. The composite retains similar flexibility to that of an elastomer but exhibits electrical and thermal properties that differ from the properties of a homogeneous elastomer. The composite has applications for wearable devices and other soft matter electronics, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Andrew Fassler, Michael Bartlett, Navid Kazem, Matthew J. Powell-Palm, Jonathan A. Malen
  • Publication number: 20170222576
    Abstract: An electrostatic clutch is described comprising a plurality of micron-scale thickness electrodes, adjacent electrodes being separated by a thin film of dielectric material. A power source and controller apply a voltage across two electrodes, causing an electrostatic force to develop. When engaged, a force can be transferred through the clutch. A tensioning device maintains the alignment of the clutch when the electrodes are disengaged, but permits movement in at least one direction. In some embodiments, multiple clutches are connected to an output to provide variable force control and a broad range of torque input and output values. Moreover, the clutch can be used as an energy-recycling actuator that captures mechanical energy from negative work movements, and returns energy during positive work movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation
    Inventors: Carmel Majidi, Steven Collins, Stuart Diller