Patents Assigned to CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
  • Patent number: 11748297
    Abstract: A hardware encryption module with reconfigurable security algorithms for randomly selecting block ciphers, stream ciphers, and their components, for internet of things (IoT) and data security applications. A corresponding system contains a hardware number generator for generating unique secrets in digital and wireless communication protocols. The system contains a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator for creating deterministic random sequences for the reconfigurable logic module. The system contains a multiplexing scheme to send keys and cipher texts in accordance with a wireless communication protocol. The hardware encryption module can be used to reconfigure block cipher algorithms, modes of operation, key scheduling algorithms, confusion functions, and/or round orders, based on reconfigurable logic. One type of reconfigurable logic allows stream cipher algorithms and key mixing keys to be changed at random.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
    Inventors: Reza Abdolee, Vida Vakilian
  • Patent number: 11452949
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to an apparatus comprising a phase separator configured to separate a mixture comprising (i) water containing NaCl and (ii) oil and/or gas into separate streams comprising the water, the oil (when oil is in the mixture), and the gas (when gas is in the mixture), an electrochemical membrane separation cell configured to separate sodium and chloride ions in the water stream to form a stream comprising a first sodium hydroxide solution and a stream comprising (i) hydrochloric acid and/or (ii) chlorine gas, a compressor configured to compress a gas containing CO2, a spray dryer configured to mix aqueous NaOH and the compressed gas to form sodium carbonate, and a cyclone separator configured separate the sodium carbonate from any excess components of the aqueous NaOH and/or the compressed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
    Inventor: Dayanand Saini
  • Patent number: 11165540
    Abstract: Space-time coded massive (STCM) and space-frequency coded (SFC) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems and methods of making and using the same are disclosed. The STCM-MIMO system utilizes two massive MIMO antenna arrays that transmit data over two or more channel vectors to a user with at least one receive antenna. This configuration permits the system to use the asymptotic orthogonal qualities of massive MIMO pre-coding to eliminate the interference from other users' channel vectors and signals. The system also maintains the diversity of space-time codes to recover lost data through treating each transmitting massive MIMO array similarly to a 2×1 Alamouti space-time code. The STCM-MIMO wireless system can significantly outperform those using space-time coding techniques only. The SFC massive MIMO wireless system may be similar to the STCM-MIMO wireless system, except for the encoder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
    Inventors: Reza Abdolee, Jeremy J. Ice, Vida Vakilian
  • Publication number: 20200344040
    Abstract: A hardware encryption module with reconfigurable security algorithms for randomly selecting block ciphers, stream ciphers, and their components, for internet of things (IoT) and data security applications. A corresponding system contains a hardware number generator for generating unique secrets in digital and wireless communication protocols. The system contains a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator for creating deterministic random sequences for the reconfigurable logic module. The system contains a multiplexing scheme to send keys and cipher texts in accordance with a wireless communication protocol. The hardware encryption module can be used to reconfigure block cipher algorithms, modes of operation, key scheduling algorithms, confusion functions, and/or round orders, based on reconfigurable logic. One type of reconfigurable logic allows stream cipher algorithms and key mixing keys to be changed at random.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
    Inventors: Reza ABDOLEE, Vida VAKILIAN
  • Publication number: 20190160395
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to an apparatus comprising a phase separator configured to separate a mixture comprising (i) water containing NaCl and (ii) oil and/or gas into separate streams comprising the water, the oil (when oil is in the mixture), and the gas (when gas is in the mixture), an electrochemical membrane separation cell configured to separate sodium and chloride ions in the water stream to form a stream comprising a first sodium hydroxide solution and a stream comprising (i) hydrochloric acid and/or (ii) chlorine gas, a compressor configured to compress a gas containing CO2, a spray dryer configured to mix aqueous NaOH and the compressed gas to form sodium carbonate, and a cyclone separator configured separate the sodium carbonate from any excess components of the aqueous NaOH and/or the compressed gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
    Inventor: Dayanand SAINI
  • Publication number: 20180251885
    Abstract: A method of depositing germanium on one or more substrates is disclosed. The method includes placing a source of germanium and the substrate(s) in a vapor deposition system, and heating the source of germanium in the vapor deposition system at a temperature near, at or above a melting point of elemental germanium, while flowing an inert gas over the source of germanium towards the substrate(s) for a length of time sufficient to deposit the germanium onto the substrate(s). The source of germanium is in the solid phase at ambient or room temperature. The substrate(s) may be or include one or more silicon or silicon-coated substrates, gallium nitride substrates or silicon dioxide-based substrates. The method may further include cleaning the source of germanium and the substrate(s) prior to placing the source of germanium and the substrate(s) in the vapor deposition system. The source of germanium may be elemental germanium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
    Inventors: Yize Stephanie LI, John NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20180141037
    Abstract: An ion exchange column and a method of using the same are disclosed. The ion exchange column includes first interconnected chambers supporting a first portion of an ion exchange resin, second interconnected chambers supporting a second portion of the ion exchange resin, and a housing or casing enclosing the first and second interconnected chambers and the first and second ion exchange resin portions. The second chambers are physically isolated and/or separated from the first chambers. The ion exchange column is configured to cause a fluid passing through the first or second interconnected chambers to travel along a path that is longer than a height of the interconnected chambers. The present column and method improve efficiencies of fluid treatment and resin regeneration relative to a conventional dual-column design, and increase residence time between the resin and the fluid or regenerant relative to an otherwise identical single-column design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
    Inventors: Dayanand SAINI, Usama SULTAN, Mina A. GHEBRYAL