Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • Method of post-treating zeolite membranes by using dye molecules
    Patent number: 11027241
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of post-treating a zeolite membrane, comprising treating a defective zeolite membrane with a chemical material such as a dye molecule, which has a size larger than that of the pores of the zeolite membranes and smaller than defects in the membrane, thereby healing the defects in the membrane. The post-treatment method performs post-treatment of the zeolite membrane under mild conditions (room temperature and normal pressure), thereby selectively healing the defects in the zeolite membrane and improving the performance of the zeolite membrane. In addition, the method may provide a high-performance membrane having a high separation factor, particularly under dry conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Jungkyu Choi, Kwan Young Lee, Sung-Won Hong
  • Device and method for extracting a targeted fraction from a sample
    Patent number: 11029310
    Abstract: A device and a method for isolating a target from a sample are provided. The target is bound to solid phase substrate to form a target bound solid phase substrate. The device includes a first plate having a first region for receiving at least a portion of the sample. A second plate is spaced from the first plate by a distance and has a first region for receiving a reagent. A force attracts the target bound solid phase substrate toward the first region of the second plate such that the target bound solid phase substrate in the portion of the sample are drawn through the air gap and into the reagent by the force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: David J. Beebe, Scott M. Berry
  • Valve incorporating temporary phase change material
    Patent number: 11027483
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of a valve that may be opened and closed using a thixotropic or “stress yield” material, or other material that temporarily changes phase upon application of energy to the material. More particularly, some embodiments may include a valve that is opened and closed using a granular gel that is a temporary phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Muse, Meghan Hughes, Carl David Crane, Thomas Ettor Angelini, Kyle D. Schulze, Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, Wallace Gregory Sawyer, Curtis Taylor
  • Water curtain head for preventing fire spread between floors in curtain wall building
    Patent number: 11027159
    Abstract: A water curtain head according to the present invention may comprise: a head body which is connected to a water supply pipe installed in an inner side of a building and has a water-releasing opening; and a deflector arranged adjacent to the water-releasing opening to allow water discharged by the water-releasing opening to pass therethrough. The deflector may comprise: a first spray nozzle formed on the front surface of the deflector to penetrate the front surface of the deflector; and a second spray nozzle formed to be recessed inward from a side surface of the deflector by a predetermined section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: Paratech Company Limited, Korea Fire Industry Technology Institute, Chung Ang University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Dongjoon Kim, Junseok Nam, Hongsun Ryou
  • 3D printed fluoropolymer-based energetic compositions
    Patent number: 11027484
    Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) printed fluoropolymer-based energetic compositions are made using 3D printing methods. The 3D printed fluoropolymer-based energetic compositions comprise a fluoropolymer and a reactive metal or metal oxide. The total weight percentage of the fluoropolymer and the reactive metal or metal oxide is 70-100% of the 3D printed fluoropolymer-based energetic composition, and the weight percentage of the reactive metal or metal oxide is 5-85 wt % of the total weight of the 3D printed fluoropolymer-based energetic material. The 3D printed fluoropolymer-based energetic material has a thickness of at least 200 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Frederick Rhoads, George Tsu-Chih Chiu, Ibrahim Emre Gunduz, Trevor John Fleck, Allison Kelly Murray, Steven Forrest Son
  • Method to make phosphoric acid and ammonium phosphates from phosphate minerals
    Patent number: 11027975
    Abstract: A method of producing phosphoric acid from at least one mineral containing phosphate and an element which is calcium, magnesium, iron, or aluminum. The method includes contacting the at least one mineral (or a combination of them) with a cation exchanger for a time and at a temperature sufficient to yield phosphoric acid from the mineral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventor: Phillip Warren Barak
  • Cathodes for use in lithium-air batteries
    Patent number: 11031605
    Abstract: A cathode (100) for use in a lithium-air battery can include a polymer binder (150) having a conductive material (120), phyllosilicate nanoparticles (110), a lithium salt (130), and a metal catalyst (140) distributed in the polymer binder (150). The cathode (100) can be porous to allow oxygen to diffuse from surrounding air into the cathode (100). A lithium-air battery can include a lithium metal anode, a solid electrolyte in contact with the lithium metal anode, and a cathode (100) in contact with the solid electrolyte. The cathode (100) can have a polymer binder (150) as a support matrix. The polymer binder (150) can be porous to allow oxygen to diffuse from surrounding air into the cathode (100). The cathode (100) can include the polymer binder (150), a conductive material (120), phyllosilicate nanoparticles (110), a lithium salt (130), and a metal catalyst (140) distributed in the polymer binder (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jan Miller, Xuming Wang, Jin Lin, Yue Lin
  • Photonics structure with integrated laser
    Patent number: 11029466
    Abstract: There is set forth herein a method including a substrate; a dielectric stack disposed on the substrate; one or more photonics device integrated in the dielectric stack; and a laser light source having a laser stack including a plurality of structures arranged in a stack, wherein structures of the plurality of structures are integrated in the dielectric stack, wherein the laser stack includes an active region configured to emit light in response to the application of electrical energy to the laser stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: William Charles, John Bowers, Douglas Coolbaugh, Daehwan Jung, Jonathan Klamkin, Douglas La Tulipe, Gerald L. Leake, Jr., Songtao Liu, Justin Norman
  • Induction PCR
    Patent number: 11028432
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and kits are provided for performing PCR and other thermal cycling reactions in <20 seconds per cycle, using induction heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: BioFire Diagnostics, LLC, University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: David Jones, Carl T. Wittwer
  • System and methods for large scale copper extraction
    Patent number: 11027320
    Abstract: A method for extracting an elemental metal from agricultural waste including collecting a sample of the waste and performing an electrochemical extraction on the waste to producing a metal precipitate and a byproduct. The method further including collecting the metal precipitate and byproduct produced via the electrochemical extraction for further reaction, recycling, sale, or reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Sam Jalali, Terry E. Engle
  • Use of anti-CGRP antibodies and antibody fragments to treat diarrhea in subjects with diseases or treatments that result in elevated CGRP levels
    Patent number: 11027018
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for treating diarrhea, both chronic or acute forms, by the administration of a therapeutically or prophylactically effective amount of antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for CGRP. In particular the methods prevent or reduce diarrhea in conditions or treatments resulting in elevated CGRP levels, e.g., in the GI tract (colon) that are associated with diarrhea and/or improper electrolyte and fluid excretion from the bowel or urinary system. More specifically, this invention relates to treatments using the anti-CGRP antibodies and fragments described herein, and binding fragments thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: The University of Iowa Research Foundation, H. LUNDBECK A/S
    Inventors: Andrew F. Russo, Eric A. Kaiser, Ana Recober, Adisa Kuburas, Ann C. Raddant, Brian R. Kovacevich, John Latham, Jeffrey T. L. Smith, Leon F. Garcia-Martinez
  • Apparatus, system, and method for smart roadway stud control and signaling
    Patent number: 11028543
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes a roadway stud control system including a local stud control system positioned along a first section of a roadway, a plurality of roadway studs, each roadway stud disposed on a surface of the first section of the roadway and communicably coupled to the local stud control system, wherein the local stud control system is configured to communicate a control signal to control at least one aspect of the plurality of roadway studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: MZC Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Harriet Anderson Langford, A. Philip Langford, Alan J. Anderson, John Picard, Allison Kelly Beaton, Glenn Le Faou, Laura Churcher, James Salisbury, Marie Buda, Edward Colby, Andy Milton
  • Methods of improving mycorrhization in plants and genetically modifed plants with improved mycorrhization
    Patent number: 11028404
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods of improving mycorrhization in a plant or plant cell. Another aspect of this disclosure is directed to a genetically modified plant or plant cell with improved mycorrhization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Wellington Muchero, Jessy L. Labbe, Lee E. Gunter, Jin-Gui Chen, Sara S. Jawdy, Xiaohan Yang, Gerald A. Tuskan, Juan Wang, Olaf Czarnecki, Priya Ranjan
  • Sequence generation method for polar code, storage medium thereof, and data transmission method and apparatus using same
    Patent number: 11032025
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a communication technique which fuses a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support higher data transmission rates after a 4G system, and system thereof. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security, and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A transmission method is provided, the method including: identifying at least one bit for polar coding, identifying a first sequence having a length of 2N that corresponds to a length of the at least one information bit, encoding the information bit through the polar coding, and transmitting the encoded information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Min Jang, Sanghyo Kim, Jonghwan Kim, Yeonjoon Choi
  • siRNA compositions that specifically down regulate expression of a variant of the PNPLA3 gene and methods of use thereof for treating a chronic liver disease
    Patent number: 11028393
    Abstract: The invention provides siRNA compositions that specifically downregulates expression of a variant of the PNPLA3 gene and methods of use thereof for treating a chronic liver disease or alcoholic liver disease (ALD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Wanqing Liu, Yoon Yeo
  • Polypeptide assemblies and methods for the production thereof
    Patent number: 11028383
    Abstract: The application discloses multimeric assemblies including multiple oligomeric substructures, where each oligomeric substructure includes multiple proteins that self-interact around at least one axis of rotational symmetry, where each protein includes one or more polypeptide-polypeptide interface (“O interface”); and one or more polypeptide domain that is capable of effecting membrane scission and release of an enveloped multimeric assembly from a cell by recruiting the ESCRT machinery to the site of budding by binding to one or more proteins in the eukaryotic ESCRT complex (“L domain”); and where the multimeric assembly includes one or more subunits comprising one or more polypeptide domain that is capable of interacting with a lipid bilayer (“M domain”), as well as membrane-enveloped versions of the multimeric assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: University of Washington, University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Neil King, Wesley Sundquist, Joerg Votteler, Yang Hsia, David Baker, Jacob Bale, Marc Lajoie, Gabriel Butterfield, Elizabeth Gray, Daniel Stetson
  • Systems and methods for proteomic activity analysis using DNA-encoded probes
    Patent number: 11028427
    Abstract: Systems, kits, and methods for detecting and quantifying proteomic activity using DNA-encoded probes are provided, where the proteomic activity may be enzymatic activity or ligand binding affinity. Such systems and methods encode quantitative proteomic activity information into DNA sequence populations and utilize DNA-linked substrates or ligands as activity probes. The systems, kits, and methods that are directed to detecting ligand affinity further include crosslinking steps to ensure the integrity of the DNA-linked ligands during purification and washing. Signal detection involves the chemical manipulation of a probe population downstream of sample exposure and application of purifying, selective pressure for desired products. Selection-induced changes in DNA abundance between the initial pool and the purified pool indicate sample activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Casey J. Krusemark, Kyle E. Denton, Dongwook Kim, Rachael R. Jetson
  • Method of communicating between a client-server system and remote clients
    Patent number: 11030869
    Abstract: A method of selectively broadcasting a message to a client by a server without knowing the client's internet protocol (IP) address includes receiving video feeds of an area of interest from one or more cameras, performing target recognition and tracking on one or more targets, including position of the one or more targets, extracting target-specific context parameters from the one or more recognized and tracked targets, encoding the target-specific context parameters into a header, thereby generating a context address for the one or more targets, appending the context address to a message for the one or more targets from a predetermined set of messages based on the position of the one or more targets, thereby generating one or more packets of information, and broadcasting the one or more packets wirelessly to one or more client mobile devices each associated with the one or more targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: He Wang, Siyuan Cao, Habiba Farrukh
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING SUSPENDED DUST CONCENTRATION
    Publication number: 20210166373
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides to a novel two-target method for measuring the concentration of dust clouds, and an apparatus system that uses the novel two-target method. Cornstarch, corn dust, and saw dust are tested with the apparatus system with the method. This method used the light extinction coefficient of a dust cloud between two targets using a digital camera. This extinction coefficient is linearly related to the concentration of the dust, and the mass extinction coefficient is the key value for this measurement method. The mass extinction efficiency (K) depend greatly on the physical and chemical properties of the dust particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Rose Prabin Kingsly Ambrose, Yumeng Zhao, Zhongzhong Niu
  • COMPOSITION COMPRISING BRANCHED POLYGLYCEROL FOR CONTROLLING FREEZING
    Publication number: 20210163805
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising branched polyglycerol for controlling freezing, more specifically, the composition has a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 20,000 g/mol and a branching of 0.1 to 1, and may control enhancement or inhibition of ice recrystallization by adjusting a content of polyglycerol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicants: Korea University Research and Business Foundation, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dong June AHN, Byeong Su KIM, Sang Yup LEE, Woo Hyuk JUNG, Min Seong KIM, Young Joo HONG