Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • Carbon nanocomposite sorbent and methods of using the same for separation of one or more materials from a gas stream
    Patent number: 9011805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carbon nanocomposite sorbents. The present invention provides carbon nanocomposite sorbents, methods for making the same, and methods for separation of a pollutant from a gas that includes that pollutant. Various embodiments provide a method for reducing the mercury content of a mercury-containing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Energy & Environmental Research Center Foundation
    Inventors: Edwin S. Olson, John H. Pavlish
  • Methods and compositions related to eosinophil regulation
    Patent number: 9012419
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for regulating eosinophils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Lori A. Wagner, Katrin Szardenings, Gerald J. Gleich, Tarek Aboul-Fadl Mohamed
  • High flux fluid separation membranes comprising a cellulose or cellulose derivative layer
    Patent number: 9010547
    Abstract: The present invention provides membranes having a coating layer comprising cellulose or cellulose derivative and a porous support comprising nanofibers prepared by a process of coating a solution comprising cellulose or a cellulose derivative dissolved in an ionic liquid on to a porous support layer. The present invention is useful for providing improved water flux and high rejection rates for oil/water emulsions. The present invention also provides fluid separation systems in UF, NF, RO and FO, incorporating membranes of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Benjamin Chu, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Hongyang Ma
  • System for real-time stereo matching
    Patent number: 9014463
    Abstract: A system for real-time stereo matching is provided, which provides improved stereo matching speed and rate by gradually optimizing a disparity range used in the stereo matching based on the stereo matching result of the previous frame image and thus reducing unnecessary matching computations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Byung In Moon, Seung-Ho Ok, Kyeong-ryeol Bae, Hyeon-Sik Son
  • System and method for copying text messages of a minor to be monitored by a guardian
    Patent number: 9015253
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems, and computer program products for copying text messages sent to or from a user, such as a child or minor to a location external to the user's mobile device, for review by a third party having a legal right to view the user's messages, such as a parent or guardian. One aspect of the invention is a method of copying a user's messages. The text message carrier server system receives a text message from a sender addressed to a receiver. It sends the text message to the receiver. It also checks a monitor list for the receiver or the sender, and when the receiver or the sender is on the monitor list, it sends a copy of the text message content to a remote text message monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Amber Watch Foundation
    Inventor: Keith Jarrett
  • Polymorphisms in genes affecting ace-related disorders and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9012143
    Abstract: A method for predicting a subject's risk factors for ACE-related disorders includes detecting the allelic status of one or more polymorphisms in a nucleic acid sample of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Ohio State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sadee, Andrew D. Johnson, Danxin Wang, Audrey C. Papp
  • Field effect transistor using graphene, phosphorus-doped graphene, and methods of producing the same
    Patent number: 9012889
    Abstract: A field effect transistor using a channel layer including a phosphorus-doped graphene and a method of fabricating the same are provided. Further, a phosphorus-doped graphene and a method of producing the same are provided. The field effect transistor includes: a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on a substrate; and a channel layer comprising a phosphorus-doped graphene, the channel layer electrically connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventor: Hyoyoung Lee
  • Variable path length photon trapping spectrometer
    Patent number: 9013700
    Abstract: A system and method of photon trapping spectroscopy to vary the path length of light for use in spectroscopy. The systems and method include a rotating reflector with slits for selectively permitting light to enter and exit into a reflection cavity containing a sample to be analyzed. After entering the cavity, but before exiting, the light is trapped and repeatedly reflects back and forth through a sample, effectively increasing the path length of light through a sample. The effective path length is quickly adjustable by altering the rotation speed of the rotating reflector to alter the time in which the light is trapped within the cavity. The systems and methods provide a spectroscope with a wide dynamic range, low detection limits, and usable with broadband and monochromatic light sources throughout the optical region (ultraviolet to infrared).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: UWM Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Aldstadt, III, Peter Geissinger, Beth A. Ruddy, Jörg C. Woehl, John A. Frost
  • Pharmaceutical anti-angiogenic composition including a MicroRNA-382 inhibitor
    Patent number: 9012426
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-angiogenic composition, and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical anti-angiogenic composition including a microRNA-382 inhibitor. The inventors of the present invention have confirmed that microRNA-382, the expression of which is elevated in stomach cancer cells in a low oxygen environment, affects the promotion of angiogenesis induced in a low oxygen environment. Therefore, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention inhibits microRNA-382 and thus inhibits angiogenesis and cell proliferation, and is expected ultimately to be valuably used in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Kyungpook National University Industry—Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: You Mie Lee
  • Transparent inorganic-organic hybrid materials via aqueous sol-gel processing
    Patent number: 9011592
    Abstract: A sol to form an inorganic-organic hybrid coating having a thick highly transparent hard coating is described. The hybrid coating is formed from a combined aqueous sol with least one hydrolyzable silane and at least one hydrolyzable metal oxide precursor where the only organic solvents present are those liberated upon hydrolysis of the silanes and metal oxide precursors. In one embodiment an inorganic-organic hybrid coating is formed by combination of a sol, prepared by the hydrolysis of tetraethoxysilane and ?-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane with an excess of water, and a sol, prepared by the hydrolysis of titanium tetrabutoxide and ?-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane with a deficiency of water. A plastic substrate can be coated with the combined sol and the combined sol gelled to a thickness of at least 5 ?m with heating to less than 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Asuka, Wolfgang M. Sigmund
  • Enhanced anti-carious dentifrices, rinses, lozenges, candies and chewing gums and methods of using same
    Patent number: 9011823
    Abstract: Mouth rinses, dentifrices, lozenges, confections, chewing gums, and similar delivery vehicles containing non-toxic soluble calcium are used prior to administration of a fluoride-containing composition to increase the effectiveness of the fluoride therapy. An effective amount of calcium is released into the oral cavity and allowed to penetrate into the oral tissue. Calcium-bound fluoride deposits form in the oral tissue upon subsequent administration of the fluoride-containing composition to provide increased salivary, plaque and oral tissue fluoride concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: ADA Foundation
    Inventors: Gerald L. Vogel, Laurence C. Chow, Shozo Takagi
  • Apparatus for energy efficient stimulation
    Patent number: 9014813
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for providing efficient stimulation. As an example, a variable compliance regulator can be connected to supply a compliance voltage to a power supply rail, which compliance voltage can vary dynamically based on a stimulus waveform. A pulse generator can be configured to provide an output waveform to one or more output based on the stimulus waveform for delivery of electrical therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Foutz, D. Michael Ackermann, Cameron C. McIntyre
  • Methods and systems for enhancing data
    Patent number: 9014501
    Abstract: Methods and systems for data analysis using covarying data. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of one or more lagged covariance matrices of data obtained over time may be generated and used to enhance the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew T. Sornborger
  • Synthesis of dioxyheterocycle-based polymers
    Patent number: 9012600
    Abstract: A method of polymerization for the preparation of conjugated polymers and copolymers comprising dioxypyrrole and/or dioxyfuran repeating units involves the halogen, N-haloimide, or N-haloamine promoted polymerization of monomers and/or oligomers comprising one or more dioxypyrrole and/or dioxyfuran units. The polymerization can be carried out over a wide range of temperatures and can be carried out with or without a solvent. The monomers allow the preparation of polymers having an oligomeric repeating unit comprising a conjugated unit other than a dioxypyrrole or dioxyfuran that is bound to two dioxypyrrole or dioxyfuran units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Reynolds, Frank Antonio Arroyave-Mondragon
  • Triazanonane derivatives or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for enhanced fluorine-18 labeling
    Patent number: 9012604
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a triazanonane derivative indicated by the chemical formula 1 below, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for preparing same, and the triazanonane derivative according to the present invention forms a complex with a metal-fluoride and displays an effect of increasing the labeling efficiency up to 78-90% when labeling F-18, thus enabling use in various radioactive medicine labeling (In the chemical formula 1, R1, R2, A. E. X, n and m are as defined in the present description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Snur & DB Foundation
    Inventors: Jae Min Jeong, Dinesh Shetty, Dong Soo Lee, June-Key Chung, Myung Chul Lee
  • Method of diagnosing Sjogren's disease
    Patent number: 9012158
    Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for determining whether an individual has Sjögren's disease (SD). The method entails determining in a biological sample from the individual the presence of antibodies directed to salivary gland protein 1 (SP-1), parotid secretory protein (PSP), carbonic anhydrase 6 (CA6), or determining a combination of the antibodies. Determining that the individual has SD is based on the presence of the antibodies. The method provides for detection of early SD. Kits for antibody detection containing the antigens to which the antibodies of SD patients are directed are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Research Foundation For The State University of New York
    Inventors: Julian L. Ambrus, Jr., Long Shen
  • Oblique centerline following display of CT colonography images
    Patent number: 9014439
    Abstract: A method for displaying colonography images includes presenting a series of oblique images of the colon at sequential locations along the colon centerline. Each image is generally centered on the centerline, presents a field of view generally perpendicular to the centerline, and is oriented with the bottom of the colon down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: C. Daniel Johnson, Michael J. Carston, Robert J. Wentz, Armando Manduca
  • Method for synthesizing electrode material using polyol process
    Patent number: 9011810
    Abstract: An electrode material obtained using a polyol process and a synthesis method is provided. The synthesis method includes steps of preparing a mixed solution by mixing a transition metal compound, a polyacid anionic compound and a lithium compound with a polyol solvent; and obtaining a resultant product by reacting the mixed solution in a heating apparatus. There is an advantage in that the electrode material, which has crystallinity due to a structure such as an olivine structure or a nasicon structure, can be synthesized using a polyol process at a low temperature without performing a heat treatment proces. The nanoelectrode material synthesized by the method has a high crystallinity, uniform particles, and a structure having a diameter ranging from several nanometers to several micrometers. Further, the electrode material has a high electrochemical stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University
    Inventors: Jae Kook Kim, Dong Han Kim, Tae Ryang Kim
  • Nucleic acids encoding mosaic clade M human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope immunogens
    Patent number: 9011873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding mosaic clade M HIV-1 Env polypeptides and to compositions and vectors comprising same. The nucleic acids of the invention are suitable for use in inducing an immune response to HIV-1 in a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Duke University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Research Foundation
    Inventors: Bette T. Korber, William Fischer, Hua-Xin Liao, Barton F. Haynes, Norman Letvin, Beatrice H. Hahn
  • Method and system for treatment of neuromotor dysfunction
    Patent number: 9011310
    Abstract: Effective systems and methods for improving neural communication impairment of a vertebrate being and affecting motor activity of a peripheral body part including a first signal-providing component configured to provide pulsed peripheral stimulation signals at the peripheral body part, a second signal-providing component configured to provide a pulsed motor cortex stimulation signal to a motor cortex area, a substantially DC signal-providing component configured to provide direct current spinal stimulation signal at a neural spinal junction and a controller component configured to control timing of the pulsed peripheral stimulation signals and the pulsed motor cortex stimulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    Inventor: Zaghloul Ahmed