Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • Patent number: 7667995
    Abstract: A method for creating a logic state for teleporting quantum information using a single photon is described. The method includes receiving a photon with an initial polarization and causing a first semiconductor crystal to have a first spin orientation. The photon interacts with the first semiconductor crystal for producing a resulting polarization dependent upon the first spin orientation. Causing the photon to interact with the first semiconductor crystal generates a maximally entangled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: University of Iowa Research Foundation, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Michael N. Leuenberger, Michael E. Flatté, David D. Awschalom
  • Patent number: 7666285
    Abstract: A disposable microsensor is designed, fabricated and tested for standard BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) measurements. A transparent Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) substrate is used for sensor fabrication. Standard lithographic procedures in addition to techniques like screen printing and electroplating are used to fabricate the sensor. A microbial strain of Trichosporon Cutaneum is immobilized over one pair of sensor electrodes while the other is used as a reference. Depending on the respiratory activities of the microbial strain in different samples, the BOD values of the samples can be measured in terms of difference between the output signals. The sensor layer is attached to an injection-molded passive microfluidic channel on the top. Advantages of the BOD microsensor include, but are not limited to, fast BOD measurement, disposability because of its low cost, chemically inert polymer substrate, flow-through sample injection scheme and integration of on-chip optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyoung Jin Cho, Shekhar Halakatti, Anjum Mehta
  • Patent number: 7665621
    Abstract: A self movable boom system is provided. The self movable boom system include: a boom disposed on a plane perpendicular to a building clamp structure; and a moving unit apparatus including a circumferential moving unit which is disposed between the boom and the building clamp structure to move the boom on a plane perpendicular to the building clamp structure, a lifting-up unit of which one end is disposed toward the circumferential moving unit and of which other end is disposed toward the building clamp structure to move the boom along a longitudinal direction of the building clamp structure, and a boom moving unit which moves an object along the longitudinal direction of the building clamp structure and along a longitudinal direction of the boom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Korea University Industrial & Academic Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Nak Ju Doh, Gwi Tae Park, Kyung In Kang, Ung Kyun Lee, Tae Hoon Kim, Sung Hoon An, Tae Koo Kang, Jeong Eom Lee, Seoung Kyou Lee
  • Patent number: 7666455
    Abstract: Methods for increasing the amount of resveratrol in a peanut material are provided, comprising the steps of providing a peanut kernel, size-reducing the peanut kernel, abiotically stressing the size-reduced peanut kernel, and incubating the abiotically stressed size-reduced peanut kernel under conditions capable of increasing the amount of resveratrol in the size-reduced peanut kernel. Resveratrol-enhanced peanut compositions prepared according to these methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc.
    Inventors: Anna V. A. Resurreccion, Jaime L. Rudolf, Robert Dixon Phillips, Manjeet Chinnan
  • Patent number: 7668586
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of detecting a neurodegenerative disease in a mammal by activating brain tissue of the mammal by application of radiation under conditions effective to promote a simultaneous multiphoton excitation of the brain tissue and to emit a fluorescence characteristic. The fluorescence characteristic is then compared to a standard fluorescence emitted by exciting healthy brain tissue of the mammal under the same conditions used to carry out the activating step. Brain tissue where the fluorescence characteristic differs from the standard fluorescence is identified as potentially having a neurodegenerative disease. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to a method of producing an image of brain tissue from a mammal by activating brain tissue of a mammal with radiation applied under conditions effective to promote a simultaneous multiphoton excitation of the brain tissue and to produce fluorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley T. Hyman, Richard Christie, Brian Bacskai, Watt W. Webb, Warren R. Zipfel
  • Patent number: 7666250
    Abstract: A process of producing magnesium metal includes providing magnesium carbonate, and reacting the magnesium carbonate to produce a magnesium-containing compound and carbon dioxide. The magnesium-containing compound is reacted to produce magnesium metal. The carbon dioxide is used as a reactant in a second process. In another embodiment of the process, a magnesium silicate is reacted with a caustic material to produce magnesium hydroxide. The magnesium hydroxide is reacted with a source of carbon dioxide to produce magnesium carbonate. The magnesium carbonate is reacted to produce a magnesium-containing compound and carbon dioxide. The magnesium-containing compound is reacted to produce magnesium metal. The invention further relates to a process for production of magnesium metal or a magnesium compound where an external source of carbon dioxide is not used in any of the reactions of the process. The invention also relates to the magnesium metal produced by the processes described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tenessee Research Foundation, Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation
    Inventors: James G. Blencoe, Lawrence M. Anovitz, Donald A. Palmer, James S. Beard
  • Patent number: 7666981
    Abstract: A class of proteins useful as inhibitors of prostasin and method for identifying them are provided. These proteins have the structure wherein the amino acids P1-P4 from the scissile bond are respectively leu-ile-ala-arg and the amino acids at positions P5-P15 are serpin sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl X. Chai, Li-Mei Chen
  • Patent number: 7666601
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic and amino acid sequences of a taste cell receptor that serves as a sensor for the bitter taste of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), antibodies to such PTC taste receptor, methods of detecting such nucleic and amino acid sequences, and methods of screening for modulators of such PTC taste receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, The University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Dennis Drayna, Un-Kyung Kim, Mark Leppert
  • Patent number: 7666131
    Abstract: A peri-arterial blood flow booster apparatus for improving blood pressure and flow, to be implanted around a blood vessel of a patient. The booster comprises a pressure applying device (56) comprising at least one balloon (44), placed alongside a portion of the blood vessel and a restrainer (54) for restraining the balloon and providing counter-forces. It further comprises a control console (60) comprising: an inflating unit (66) for rapidly inflating and deflating the balloon, the inflating unit connected to the balloon; sensing means (68) for sensing electrocardiograph signals of the patient; a control unit (72) for controlling the operation of the inflating unit correlating to the electrocardiograph signals detected by the sensing means. When the balloon is inflated the restrainer forces it to compress the portion of the blood vessel preventing backflow and exerting forces on the blood vessel forcing blood within the portion of the blood vessel to flow antegradely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.
    Inventors: Gabi Weizman, Aaron Hoffman
  • Patent number: 7666414
    Abstract: Modified antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, to the extracellular domain of human prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) are provided. The modified anti-PSMA antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, have been rendered less immunogenic compared to their unmodified counterparts to a given species, e.g., a human. Pharmaceutical compositions including the aforesaid antibodies, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors and host cells for making such antibodies and fragments are also disclosed. Methods of using the antibodies of the invention to detect human PSMA, or to ablate or kill a PSMA-expressing cell, e.g., a PSMA-expressing cancer or prostatic cell, either in vitro or in vivo, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Neil Bander
  • Patent number: 7666840
    Abstract: The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed ?-conotoxins herein), about 10-30 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: The University of Utah Research Foundation, Cognetix, Inc.
    Inventors: Maren Watkins, Baldomero M. Olivera, David R. Hillyard, J. Michael McIntosh, Robert M. Jones
  • Patent number: 7667055
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for the production of polycyclic fused ring compounds. The polycyclic fused ring compounds are produced by protecting a polycyclic fused ring polyol with a bridging silicon-based protecting group and attaching a suitable side chain. Polycyclic fused ring compounds and intermediate compounds are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Phong Vu, Robert A. Holton
  • Patent number: 7666378
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a composition comprising a Gd3+-Eu3+ white phosphor composition, methods of making the composition, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. Meltzer, Sergey Feofilov, Yi Zhou
  • Patent number: 7668211
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for a waveguide pumping gain guided index antiguided fiber laser having a fiber selected for a refractive index crossover at a wavelength between a pump wavelength and a laser emission wavelength. A waveguide pumping system pumps a light having a pump wavelength into the fiber allowing a laser light to be captured by a gain guided process in the core while the pump light, propagating in the cladding is coupled to the core. The fiber selection includes selecting a fiber with a cladding material having a refractive index less than a core material refractive index for a pump wavelength and a core refractive index at the laser emission wavelength is less than the cladding refractive index at the same laser emission wavelength to allow the pump light to propagate through the cladding as a conventional wave guided fiber laser, white the laser emission is captured within the core as an index antiguided, gain guided wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: University of Central Florida, Research Foundation, Inc., Clomson University
    Inventors: Vikas Sudesh, Timothy McComb, Martin Richardson, William Hagemann, Michael Bass, John Ballato, Anthony Siegman
  • Publication number: 20100038698
    Abstract: A flash memory cell string and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The flash memory cell string includes a plurality of cell devices and switching devices connected to ends of the cell devices. Each of the cell devices includes a semiconductor substrate, a tunneling insulating layer, a charge storage node, a control insulating layer, and a control electrode which are sequentially laminated on the semiconductor substrate. In each cell device, a source/drain region is not formed. The switching device does not include a source or drain region in a side connected to the cell devices. The switching device includes a source or drain region in the other side that is not connected to the cell devices. The source or drain region does or does not overlap the control electrode. Accordingly, it is possible to improve a miniaturization property and performance of NAND flash memory cell devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: Jong-ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20100039562
    Abstract: A pixel compositor device for routing an incoming stream of pixel data having been rendered elsewhere and bound for being projected. The device includes a plurality of digital signal inputs each adapted for receiving a plurality of pixel information from the incoming stream of pixel data. The digital signal inputs are in communication with at least one buffer for the pixel information once received by the device. A processing unit is included for image warping the pixel information by performing, on each of a respective of the pixel information: (i) a mapping relating to location of the respective pixel information, and (ii) a scaling function. The geometric mapping can be performed by applying an interpolation technique; and the scaling function can be any of a number of photometric correction functions (alpha-blending, color uniformity correction, image brightness or contrast adjustment, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicants: University of Kentucky Research Foundation (UKRF), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Ruigang Yang, Anselmo Lastra
  • Publication number: 20100039127
    Abstract: A method and system for assessment of a pipe (110) is provided. The system can include a probe (100) having first (120) and second (130) electrodes and a processor (200) in communication with the probe (100). The probe (100) can be in a medium (140) proximate to a section of the pipe (110) to be analyzed. The section of the pipe (110) can have a coating (115) thereon. The processor (200) can measure a difference in potential between the first (120) and second (130) electrodes. The processor (200) can determine a local impedance with respect to the section of the pipe (110) based at least in part on the difference in potential. The processor (200) can evaluate a condition of the coating (115) on the section of the pipe (110) based at least in part on the local impedance or a parameter derived from the local impedance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc
    Inventor: Mark E. Orazem
  • Publication number: 20100040815
    Abstract: An energy absorbing system has an inner tube and an outer tube that are stitched together. The inner tube contains a set of fibers oriented in a first direction and the outer tube has a second set of fibers oriented in a direction different from the first direction. Preferably these orientations are equal and opposite to each other. The inner tube may be hollow, but preferably has a cellular core. The outer tube may be spaced apart from the inner tube to create an annular cavity that is filled with a cellular material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Chandrashekhar Tiwari, Edward C. Smith, Charles E. Bakis, Michael A. Yukish, William Kong
  • Publication number: 20100042391
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for visualizing subsurface velocity structure by processing signals through waveform inversion in the Laplace-Fourier domain, and a recording medium storing a program for implementing the method. A receiver receives a seismic signal from a target region, and a signal processor processes the seismic signal to generate image data for visualizing the subsurface structure of the target region. The signal processor performs the waveform inversion in the Laplace-Fourier domain, thereby obtaining a velocity model similar to an true structure of the target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventor: Changsoo SHIN
  • Publication number: 20100041078
    Abstract: Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) can be used as a recreational party drug, aphrodisiac, and attenuator of other drugs and make a person a vulnerable target of robbery or rape. The present invention provides methods and kits for detection of GHB in a sample using an antibody-based assay. Antibodies that specifically bind to GHB or the conjugates of GHB and its derivatives to larger molecules and methods for detecting GHB or its derivatives in bodily fluids and non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks by employing such antibodies in ELISA or RIA assays are provided by the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Kestutis G. Bendinskas, Tia Hendershott, James A. MacKenzie