Patents Assigned to DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Ground based satellite control system for control of nano-satellites in low earth orbit
    Patent number: 10829248
    Abstract: A ground based control system and method for controlling nanosatellites in low earth orbit to fly as an array, comprises arranging the nanosatellites, each of which has an illumination element in the array, and operating selected illumination elements to produce a display in which a pattern, shape or letters or words are detectable at a predetermined ground location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Oded Shmueli, Ehud Behar
  • CORROLE COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20200345846
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to compositions comprising a corrole and optionally a protein, wherein the composition are characterized by improved water solubility. The corrole may be a hydrophobic corrole, according to formula [I]. The protein may be a plasma protein. The plasma protein may be albumin. The compositions may be in nanoparticulate form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zeev GROSS, Matan SOLL
  • Apparatus and process for synthesizing natural gas using carbon dioxide and water in air
    Patent number: 10815442
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a natural gas using carbon dioxide and water in air that includes an air-compressing member, a water collecting member, a water storing member, a carbon dioxide collecting member, a water electrolysis member, and a methanation reaction member. The water electrolysis member electrolyzes water separated from compressed air. The methanation reaction member generates a natural gas by reacting hydrogen from the electrolysis and carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide collecting member. A method of producing a natural gas using carbon dioxide and water in air includes supplying hydrogen electrolyzed from water separated from air and carbon dioxide collected from the dry air to a methanation reaction member to generate a natural gas. A natural gas-synthesizing equipment system includes an apparatus for producing a natural gas using carbon dioxide and water in air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Sogang University Research & Business Development Foundation
    Inventor: Kyung Byung Yoon
  • Method for combined preparation of biodiesel
    Patent number: 10815507
    Abstract: The present invention provides, inter alia, a method for combined preparation of saccharides, alcohols (biofuel) and biodiesel using a composition comprising interior hydrophobic or hydrophilic medium encapsulated by a layer comprising cellulose, cellulose derivative material, and/or starch surrounded by a hydrophilic or hydrophobic medium, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yachin Cohen, Dmitry M. Rein, Lev Vaikhanski, Gilad Alfassi
  • Compositions and methods for therapeutics prescreening
    Patent number: 10815530
    Abstract: A theranostic composition and method for determining the cell-specific potency of drugs is provided. Further, compositions and methods useful for studying the therapeutic profile of one or more drugs within a cell microenvironment, including but not limited to a tumor, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Avi Schroeder, Zvi Yaari
  • CONTROL OF THE CONCENTRATION-POLARIZATION LAYER LENGTH IN A MICROCHANNEL-MEMBRANE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200330924
    Abstract: A microchannel-membrane device comprises a microchannel extending through at least one electrode, the microchannel having a predetermined depth; an ionic permselective medium, such as a membrane, across the microchannel between the electrodes; and a heater, or array of heaters, embedded below the microchannel on at least one side of the permselective membrane. The heaters can be either prefabricated or dynamically patterned using laser illumination with/without photoconductive coating. The heaters are on the depletion side of the membrane and induce a vortex which limits the growth of the diffusion area. Operation of the heaters allows for controlled positioning of the end of the diffusion area and with it also the position of the preconcentrated molecule plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Gilad YOSSIFON, Sinwook PARK
  • Monoclonal Olfml-3 antibodies and uses thereof
    Patent number: 10808026
    Abstract: Provided herein are monoclonal antibodies against Olfml-3. In some aspects, methods for treating angiogenesis-related conditions, such as cancer, are provided comprising administering an Olfml-3-binding antibody of the embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Research Development Foundation
    Inventors: Beat A. Imhof, Marijana Miljkovic-Licina, Philippe Hammel
  • Method for detection of an analyte/explosive on a sample surface
    Patent number: 10809242
    Abstract: Compositions comprising electrospun fibers and colorimetric detection encapsulated thereto are provided. Further, methods of use of said composition, including, but not limited to in-situ detection of molecules of interest, such as explosive compounds, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Eyal Zussman, Yuval Eshed, Reshef Gal-Oz
  • Microstructures and porous geometry modeling
    Patent number: 10810793
    Abstract: Methods for modeling a 3-dimensional (3D) object, comprising operating at least one hardware processor for, receiving a 3D volumetric model of the object, receiving a 3D model of a tile, paving multiple ones of the tiles in the interior domain of the 3D volumetric model, and providing a 3D filled model of the filled inner volume of the 3D volumetric model are provided. Computer program products and systems for doing same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventor: Gershon Elber
  • Digital constant on-time controller adaptable to a DC-to-DC converter
    Patent number: 10811966
    Abstract: A digital constant on-time controller adaptable to a direct-current (DC)-to-DC converter includes a current sensing circuit that senses stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a sense voltage; a semi-amplitude detector that detects half of a peak-to-peak amplitude of the sense voltage, thereby generating a semi-amplitude voltage; a DC voltage detector that detects a DC voltage across an effective series resistor of an energy storage circuit that provides the stored energy of the DC-to-DC converter, thereby generating a DC voltage; an arithmetic device that adds the sense voltage and the semi-amplitude voltage, from which the DC voltage and a predetermined reference signal are subtracted; and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator that generates a switch control signal according to a result of the arithmetic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Kai-Yu Hu, Chien-Hung Tsai
  • Low density microspheres
    Patent number: 10808094
    Abstract: Low-density thermoplastic expandable microspheres are disclosed. Various low-density structures, in particular, sandwich panels, based on foam prepared from the low-density microspheres, are also disclosed. Process of preparing low-density polymeric microspheres, per se, and the corresponding low-density structures, based on the microsphere foam, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Lev Vaikhanski, Yachin Cohen
  • Nitrate removal
    Patent number: 10800687
    Abstract: A reactor closed to the atmosphere and method using same for nitrate removal are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Michal Green, Sheldon Tarre, Razi Epsztein
  • Fluidized bed and hybrid suspension electrodes for energy storage and water desalination systems
    Patent number: 10800679
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode including conductive particles, which sediment under gravitational force and a liquid fluidizing medium flowing through the electrode, in which the conductive particles are suspended and optionally further including conductive particles, which do not sediment under gravitational force when the fluidizing medium flows in the electrode. Further provided are electrochemical devices and energy storage systems including the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Technion Research and Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Hagai Cohen, Ilya Loiferman, Matthew Suss
  • SAR ADC and a reference ripple suppression circuit adaptable thereto
    Patent number: 10804917
    Abstract: A reference ripple suppression circuit adaptable to a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a plurality of code-dependent compensation cells, each including a logic circuit and a compensation capacitor. A first plate of the compensation capacitor is coupled to receive a reference voltage to be compensated, and a second plate of the compensation capacitor is coupled to receive an output of the logic circuit performing on an output code of the SAR ADC and at least one logic value representing a bottom-plate voltage of a switched digital-to-analog converter (DAC) of the SAR ADC. (k?1) of the code-dependent compensation cells are required maximally for k-th switching of the SAR ADC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Soon-Jyh Chang, Hao-Sheng Wu
  • Motion-aware keypoint selection system adaptable to iterative closest point
    Patent number: 10803343
    Abstract: A motion-aware keypoint selection system adaptable to iterative closest point (ICP) includes a pruning unit that receives an image and selects at least one region of interest (ROI) composed of a selected subset of points on the image; a point quality estimation unit that generates point quality of each point in the ROI according to a frame rate; and a suppression unit that receives the point quality and generates keypoints by screening the ROI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Chen, Wen-Yuan Hsiao, Ming-Der Shieh
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VOLUMETRIC MODELS
    Publication number: 20200320784
    Abstract: There is provided a method of design and analysis of a geometric object comprising: receiving an initial definition of the geometric object in a coordinate system; generating a volumetric model according to the initial definition, the volumetric model comprises: volumetric cells each represented by one or more multivariate of three variables or more functions, and intra object general border surfaces in general orientation each defines topological adjacency between at least two of said plurality of volumetric cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Gershon ELBER, Fady MASSARWI
  • Motion-aware keypoint selection system adaptable to iterative closest point
    Patent number: 10796194
    Abstract: A motion-aware keypoint selection system adaptable to iterative closest point (ICP) includes a pruning unit that receives an image and selects at least one region of interest (ROI) composed of a selected subset of points on the image; a point quality estimation unit that receives the ROI and generates point quality; and a suppression unit that receives the point quality and generates keypoints. In one embodiment, a near edge region (NER) is selected as the ROI. In another embodiment, the point quality estimation unit generates point quality according to point motion and point depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himaz Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Chen, Wen-Yuan Hsiao, Ming-Der Shieh
  • APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR SEPARATION OF WATER FROM DISSOLVED SOLUTES BY FORWARD OSMOSIS
    Publication number: 20200306695
    Abstract: Provided herein is forward osmosis-based water purification process, that includes contacting a solution of a soluble draw agent with a dehydrated insoluble draw agent, separating the now hydrated insoluble draw agent from the now concentrated draw solution, and exerting a stimulus on the hydrated insoluble draw agent for extracting water therefrom, thereby regenerating a dehydrated insoluble draw agent, wherein the osmotic concentration (osmolality) of the insoluble draw agent is greater than the osmotic concentration of the diluted draw solution, and the insoluble draw agent is impermeable to the soluble draw agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Alexander KRAYTSBERG, Yair EIN-ELI
  • SERINE PROTEASE MOLECULES AND THERAPIES
    Publication number: 20200308565
    Abstract: Cell-targeted serine protease constructs are provided. Such constructs can be used in methods for targeted cell killing such as for treatment cell of proliferative diseases (e.g., cancer). In some aspects, recombinant serine proteases, such as Granzyme B polypeptides, are provided that exhibit improved stability and cell toxicity. Methods and compositions for treating lapatinib or trastuzumab-resistant cancers are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Research Development Foundation
    Inventors: Michael G. ROSENBLUM, Khalid Amanali MOHAMEDALI, Lawrence H. CHEUNG
  • METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF MAGNESIUM AND CALCIUM IONS FROM SALINE WATER, FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SOFT AND DESALINATED WATERS
    Publication number: 20200299165
    Abstract: Provided is a novel Nanofiltration-DiaNanofiltration (NF-DiaNF) system and method for extracting divalent ions from saline water (e.g., seawater) to produce solutions rich in divalent ions (in particular Mg2+, Ca2+ and SO42?), while minimizing the concentrations of undesirable species (e.g., Cl?, Br?, B and Na+). The solutions may be added to water (e.g., desalinated, soft, drinking or irrigation water) to enrich the water with divalent ions, thereby improving its quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Ori LAHAV, Liat BIRNHACK, Paz NATIV, Oded NIR