Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • Patent number: 8188010
    Abstract: A thin film superconductive wire material (16) and an electro conductive tape (15) are immersed in a solder bath (35) containing a solder, which includes Sn(tin) and Bi (bismuth), to bond the thin film superconductive wire material (16) and the electro conductive tape (15) and a composite superconductive wire material (10) is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., International Superconductivity Center, The Juridical Foundation
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Hirao Hirata, Shinichi Mukoyama, Yuh Shiohara
  • Patent number: 8188055
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that are AGT inactivators that include a folate residue, e.g., a compound of formula (I), wherein X1, X2, R1, and R2 are as described herein. Also disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also disclosed are methods of enhancing the chemotherapeutic treatment of tumor cells and inactivating AGT in a tumor cell. The methods comprise, inter alia, administering a compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Robert C. Moschel, Matthew Karl Moschel, legal representative, Anthony E. Pegg, Sahar Javanmard, Natalia Loktionova, Gary Pauly
  • Patent number: 8190633
    Abstract: A method of providing provenance management for a pre-existing application is provided. A provenance data selection is received. The provenance data selection indicates provenance data to present to a user. The provenance data is presented to the user as a version tree comprising a plurality of connected nodes. A node selection is received. The node selection indicates a node selected from the version tree. One or more nodes from a root node of the plurality of connected nodes to the node selected from the version tree are identified. One or more action parameters associated with the identified one or more nodes are identified. An action parameter of the one or more action parameters is associated with a previous interaction with a pre-existing application. Presentation of a state of the pre-existing application associated with the node selected from the version tree is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Juliana Freire, Claudio T. Silva, Steven P. Callahan, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Huy T. Vo
  • Patent number: 8188121
    Abstract: Novel aza analogues of dicationic terphenyl compounds for use in combating microbial infections are described. The compounds include those of Formula (III): wherein one of A1, Y1, and Z1 is N; Ar1 is phenylene; and Ar3 is a nitrogen-containing aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Tidwell, David W. Boykin, W. David Wilson, Reto Brun, Karl Werbovetz, Mohamed A. Ismail, Reem K. Arafa, Laixing Hu
  • Patent number: 8187821
    Abstract: The present invention provides for novel assays and the use of such assays for screening compounds that affect PGRMC1's and related homologue's ability to catalyze the incorporation of cholesterol into membranes. The present invention also provides for methods and compositions for affecting incorporation of cholesterol into membranes. The invention also provides for diagnostic and therapeutic kits for the methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Monica Mallampalli, James Metherall, Darren Warnick
  • Patent number: 8188063
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for treatment or prevention of injury to nerve cells. The method can use at least one A2A receptor modulator to prevent injury to or enhance the healing of the injured cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Yuesheng Jason Li, Joel M. Linden, Jayson M. Rieger
  • Patent number: 8186808
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a droplet jetting apparatus using electrostatic force, a manufacturing method thereof and an ink providing method thereof. The droplet jetting apparatus using electrostatic force includes a lower electrode unit in which a nozzle and a lower electrode positioned in the nozzle equipped in the upper part of a first substrate, and an ink inflow channel equipped in the lower part of the first substrate are integrally formed; an upper electrode unit having an upper electrode formed on the top surface of a second substrate and an ink discharge hole formed by being penetrated to the upper electrode from the bottom surface of the second substrate; and a bonding layer for bonding the lower electrode unit and the upper electrode unit with each other so that the nozzle is vertically aligned with the ink discharge hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate Collaboration
    Inventors: Sukhan Lee, Young Min Kim, Sang Uk Son, Jae Yong Choi, Do Young Byun
  • Patent number: 8187863
    Abstract: Provided are a cell chip and a system thereof that are capable of detecting optimal conditions for stem cell differentiation by mechanical stimuli. The cell chip for cell differentiation experimentation includes a plurality of cell chambers for storing cells and culture media, cell and culture medium injection ports for transferring the cells and culture media to corresponding cell chambers, fine passages for moving the cells and the culture media injected into the cell and culture medium injection ports to the cell chambers, pneumatic injection ports for injecting pneumatic pressures applied to the cell chambers, and apertures having circular films for transferring the pneumatic pressures injected through the pneumatic injection ports to corresponding cell chambers. Here, at least two of the apertures may have different areas to vary the magnitude of pneumatic pressure applied to corresponding cell chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Woo Young Sim, Sang Sik Yang
  • Patent number: 8188064
    Abstract: Methods for treating and preventing obesity, inhibiting adipocyte differentiation, inhibiting increased SCD-1 gene transcription, and/or reducing body fat in a subject include administering at least one analog of 1?,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 or 1?,25-dihydroxyvitamin D2 or a pharmaceutical composition that includes such an analog to a subject in need thereof. The analog may be a 19-nor vitamin D analog such as a compound of formula IA, a compound of formula IB, or a mixture thereof where the variables R1, R2, and R3 have the values described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Margaret Clagett-Dame, Hector F. DeLuca, Jamie M. Ahrens, James M. Ntambi, Brian Thomson
  • Patent number: 8188767
    Abstract: A complementary logic circuit contains a first logic input, a second logic input, a first dedicated logic terminal, a second dedicated logic terminal, a high-voltage terminal configured for connection to a high constant voltage a low-voltage terminal configured for connection to a low constant voltage, a p-type transistor, and an n-type transistor. The p-type transistor has an outer diffusion connection, a gate connection, an inner diffusion connection, and a bulk connection. The n-type transistor has an outer diffusion connection, a gate connection, an inner diffusion connection, and a bulk connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander Fish, Arkadiy Morgenshtein
  • Patent number: 8188789
    Abstract: A method and apparatus improve the performance of a carrier amplifier in a Doherty amplifier. The Doherty amplifier includes a power divider, a carrier amplifier, at least one peaking amplifier, offset lines, and a Doherty circuit. The power divider provides a power signal to each of the carrier amplifier and the at least one peaking amplifier. The carrier amplifier amplifies power of a signal inputted from the power divider. The at least one peaking amplifier amplifies power of a signal inputted from the power divider. The offset lines control a load impedance when the at least one peaking amplifier does not operate. When the at least one peaking amplifier does not operate, the Doherty circuit generates the load impedance of the carrier amplifier that is larger than twice a load impedance at the maximum output power of the carrier amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Young-Yoon Woo, Han-Seok Kim, Dong-Geun Lee, Bum-Man Kim, Jung-Hwan Moon
  • Patent number: 8190318
    Abstract: A system and method of determining and applying power split ratios to power sources within hybrid vehicles. The power split ratio is determined using a two-scale dynamic programming technique to achieve optimal state of charge depletion over the course of a trip. On the macro-scale level, a global state of charge profile is created for the entire trip. On the micro-scale level, the state of charge profile and accompanying power split ratio is recalculated at the end of each segment as the vehicle proceeds along the trip. Various trip modeling techniques are used to provide constraints for the dynamic programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: The UWM Research Foundation, Inc., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaoyu Li, Yosuke Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8186790
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing a drop from a Drop on demand (DOD) dispenser, the drop having a radius that is much smaller than the radius of the nozzle that expels the drop. Generally, the Ohnesorge number is less than about 0.1. Various embodiments of the invention are found within a four dimensional space defined in terms of the Ohnesorge number, the Weber number, the actuation frequency, and the initial conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Osman Basaran, Qi Xu
  • Patent number: 8188062
    Abstract: A method of delivering an oligonucleotide or a plasmid expressing an oligonucleotide into a target cell comprises introducing an oligonucleotide into a donor cell, particularly a stem cell, and contacting the target cell with the donor cell under conditions permitting the donor cell to form a gap junction with the target cell, whereby the oligonucleotide or a product of the oligonucleotide is delivered into the target cell from the donor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Peter R. Brink, Michael R. Rosen, Richard B. Robinson, Ira S. Cohen, Arthur Grollman
  • Patent number: 8190263
    Abstract: Methods of treating various medical conditions by neuromodulation of target sites of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway. Such medical conditions include unilateral motor deficits, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, speech or cognitive deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, visual deficits associated with hemispheric lesions, learning disorders associated with hemispheric lesions, vertigo and/or dizziness, gait disturbances, hereditary/genetic disorders, congenital malformations, infectious disease, degenerative disorders, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic disorders. A method of enhancing memory, learning and/or cognitive capacity in a normal individual by stimulating a target site of a cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway and/or a cortical-ponto-cerebellar pathway is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Andre Machado, Ali Rezai
  • Patent number: 8186839
    Abstract: An optical module that effectively observes a rapidly moving event or object is provided. The optical module includes first and second mirrors, and an optical signals detector, which are installed in a body thereof. The first mirror has a wide field of view and detects the event or object over a wide observing region. The second mirror observes the event or object detected by the first mirror at a high resolution. The focal length of the second mirror is greater than that of the first mirror. The optical signal detector detects an optical signal in light transmitted from the first mirror or the second mirror. The body forms apertures which correspond to the first and second mirrors, respectively and provides an optical path from the first and second mirrors to the optical signal detector. Therefore, the optical module can observe the event or object detected by the first mirror at a high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Industry Collaboration Foundation of Ewha University
    Inventors: Il Hung Park, Jae Hyoung Park
  • Publication number: 20120130666
    Abstract: In order to inspect a board, a measurement area is set on a board, and reference data and measurement data of the measurement area are acquired. Then, a conversion condition is established for the measurement area, and a conversion relation is acquired according to a distortion degree between reference data and measurement data. Thereafter, validity of the conversion relation is verified by using at least one of verifying that a comparison feature object satisfies the conversion relation, verifying that a verification feature object selected from feature objects satisfies the conversion relation and verifying that a pad formed on the board satisfies the conversion relation. Then, the conversion condition is confirmed, and an inspection area for inspecting a measurement target is set according to the confirmed conversion condition. Thus, an inspection area may be correctly set so that distortion is compensated for.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, KOH YOUNG TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Soo-Young Cho, Bong-Ha Hwang, Min-Young Kim
  • Publication number: 20120127175
    Abstract: A computerized method of mapping a plurality of model fragments covering a selected object. The method comprises receiving a representation of an object, generating a parameterized data model of the object according to said representation, the parameterized data model having a plurality of elements, setting a plurality of model fragments each cover a portion of the parameterized data model, applying, using a processor, a set cover algorithm to identify a subgroup of the plurality of model fragments so that a union of a plurality of members of the subgroup covers said parameterized data model, and outputting the subgroup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd.
    Inventor: Gershon ELBER
  • Publication number: 20120126327
    Abstract: A resonator and a method for manufacturing a resonator are provided. The method may include doping a wafer, and forming on the wafer a substrate, a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, and at least one nanowire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: KOREA UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL & ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In Sang SONG, Sung Woo HWANG, Yun Kwon PARK, Byeong Kwon JU, Jae Sung RIEH, Jea Shik SHIN, Hee Tae KIM
  • Publication number: 20120127486
    Abstract: A method of inspecting a substrate is disclosed. The method of inspecting a substrate, comprises: obtaining phase data per projecting part with regard to a substrate, by projecting pattern beam onto the substrate having a target object formed thereon through a plurality of projecting parts in sequence; obtaining height data per projecting part with regard to the substrate by using the phase data per the projecting part; compensating tilt of the height data by using the height data per projecting part; modifying the tilt-compensated height data per projecting part; and obtaining integrated height data by using the modified height data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, KOH YOUNG TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hee-Tae Kim, Min-Young Kim