Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • System and method of otoscopy image analysis to diagnose ear pathology
    Patent number: 10932662
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods to detect a wide range of eardrum abnormalities by using high-resolution otoscope images and report the condition of the eardrum as “normal” or “abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Caglar Senaras, Aaron Christopher Moberly, Theodoros Teknos, Garth Fredric Essig, Jr., Charles Albert Elmaraghy, Nazhat Fatima Taj-Schaal, Lianbo Yu, Metin Nafi Gurcan
  • Materials for preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and compositions comprising same
    Patent number: 10933080
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a Ttyh1 gene expression inhibitor or a Ttyh1 protein activity inhibitor, and a method of preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Keejung Yoon, Juwan Kim
  • Liquid hydrogen storage material
    Patent number: 10934164
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid hydrogen storage material, and more particularly, a hydrogen storage material which contains m-phenyltoluene (m=2, 3) and undergoes reversible dehydrogenation/hydrogenation reactions or contains a binary eutectic mixture or a ternary eutectic mixture of m-phenyltoluene (m=2, 3, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Jeongwon Kang, Wonsik Han, Byeongsoo Shin, Joori Jung
  • Capsid-modified, RAAV3 vector compositions and uses in gene therapy of human liver cancer
    Patent number: 10934327
    Abstract: Disclosed are next-generation multi-mutated capsid protein-modified rAAV expression vectors, as well as infectious virions, compositions, and pharmaceutical formulations that include them. Also disclosed are methods of preparing and using these high transduction efficiency vector constructs in a variety of therapeutic applications including, inter alia, as delivery agents for the treatment or amelioration of one or more diseases or abnormal conditions in an affected mammal using in vivo and/or ex situ viral vector-based gene therapy protocols. Also disclosed are large-scale production methods for the multi-mutated, capsid-modified rAAV expression vectors, viral particles, and infectious virions, as well as use of the disclosed compositions in the manufacture of medicaments for use in a variety of in vitro and/or in vivo therapeutic methodologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventors: Arun Srivastava, Li Zhong, Sergei Zolotukhin, George Vladimirovich Aslanidi, Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Kim M. Van Vliet, Chen Ling
  • Six degrees-of-freedom quality assurance phantom for radiation therapy linear accelerators
    Patent number: 10932748
    Abstract: A three-dimensional phantom for providing displacement profiles for a CT table having 6 degrees of freedom includes a body having at a top face, a side face and an end face; the top face and the side face sharing a common edge; the top face and the end face sharing a common edge; and the side face and the end face sharing a common edge; wherein an angle formed by the top face and the end face is less than 90 degrees; the side face including a first isocenter mark and a first offset mark, wherein the first offset mark has an angle corresponding to the angle formed by the top face and the end face; and an isocenter marker at the isocenter of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Kyle Woods, Ahmet Ayan, Jeffrey Woollard, Nilendu Gupta
  • Detecting breast cancer
    Patent number: 10934594
    Abstract: Provided herein is technology for breast cancer screening and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting the presence of breast cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Ahlquist, William R. Taylor, Douglas W. Mahoney, Tracy C. Yab, John B. Kisiel, Hatim T. Allawi, Graham P. Lidgard, Michael W. Kaiser
  • Transmitter for transmitting multi-bit data
    Patent number: 10938392
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a driver circuit configured to drive a channel connected to a first node by controlling a turn-on impedance of a pull-up path, a turn on impedance of a pull-down path, or both according to a plurality of control signals; an encoder configured to generate the plurality of control signals according to a multi-bit data and a calibration signal; and a calibration circuit configured to generate the calibration signal including calibration information corresponding to the plurality of control signals, wherein the encoder determines activation and magnitude of each of the plurality of control signals according to the multi-bit data and the calibration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: SK hynix Inc., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Yongun Jeong, Suhwan Kim
  • Analog-to-digital converter and microphone including the same
    Patent number: 10938398
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a first operator configured to subtract an analog value from an analog signal; an amplifier configured to amplify an output of the first selector; a filter configured to filter an output of the amplifier; a quantizer configured to generate a digital bit stream from an output of the filter; and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to output the analog value according to the digital bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Suhwan Kim, Junsoo Cho, Youngtae Yang
  • Apparatus for charging and discharging battery
    Patent number: 10938223
    Abstract: A battery charging and discharging apparatus includes power converters connected in series and configured to convert respective output voltages of batteries corresponding to the power converters. Each of the power converters may include direct current to direct current (DC/DC) converters connected in parallel. The apparatus may further include a controller configured to control magnitudes of respective output voltages of the power converters based on respective states of the batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Jinyong Jeon, Taejung Yeo, Seong Chon Choi, Soon Ryung Lee, Bong Yeon Choi
  • Mobile monitoring of fracture healing in external fixators
    Patent number: 10932713
    Abstract: A device for and a method of monitoring the healing status of a fractured bone in a person's limb is disclosed. The external fixation device may include one or more rods or struts that incorporate strain gauges designed to measure the mechanical forces on the strut when force is applied to the fractured bone. The mechanical force data may be collected by an electronic module and transmitted to a computer for statistical analysis. The device may also include a foot insole sensor for measuring the foot plantar force to normalize the data collected by an external fixation device attached to a person's leg. The method of measuring the healing status of a fractured bone includes measuring the changes in mechanical forces exerted on the one or more struts, and based on the measurements, estimating the healing status of the bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Gregory S. Lewis, J. Spence Reid
  • Method of recovering copper from a dilute metal containing solution
    Patent number: 10934192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of removing and/or recovering metals from a dilute metal containing solution. In particular, the invention concerns a method for recovering copper from a dilute copper-iron bearing mining water, particularly from a copper-iron bearing mining wastewater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Aalto University Foundation sr
    Inventors: Mari Lundström, Kirsi Yliniemi
  • Atropisomerism for enhanced kinase inhibitor selectivity
    Patent number: 10934300
    Abstract: The invention provides a series of conformationally stable and selective kinase inhibitors, and methods of using the kinase inhibitors. The effect of atropisomerism on kinase selectivity was assessed, finding improved selectivity compared to rapidly interconverting parent compounds. The compounds herein are atropisomers having increased kinase selectivity, and are for use in treating conditions that benefit from selective kinase inhibition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Gustafson, Sean T. Toenjes, Sean M. Maddox
  • System and method for occupancy-driven register airflow control
    Patent number: 10935266
    Abstract: An HVAC register airflow control system and an air flow control method are provided. A housing of the system is in fluid communication with an air source for supplying an airflow. The housing includes an air outlet to the enclosed space. A detection sensor detects occupancy information of the enclosed space. A controller generates a control signal based on the occupancy information and controls the shape change of a damper made of a shape memory material. The damper is controlled to switch between a first operative configuration for preventing the airflow from entering the enclosed space and a second operative configured for permitting the airflow to enter the enclosed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Ya Wang, Zhangjie Chen
  • Silicon nanowire structure embedded in nickel silicide nanowires for lithium-based battery anodes
    Patent number: 10938026
    Abstract: The present invention provides a silicon nanowire structure embedded in nickel silicide nanowires for lithium-based battery anodes and anodes including the same. In particular, a Si nanowire structure embedded in NiSix nanowires according to the present invention may provide a solution to a problem, such as disconnection of Si nanowires from a current collector shown when the Si nanowires are expanded by alloying with Li or contracted during the use of a battery, and the like, by flexibly embedding the Si nanowires in the NiSix nanowires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kyo Min Shin, Sa Heum Kim, Hong Seok Min, Mihai Robert Zamfir, Je Mee Joe, Didier Pribat, Yeo Jin Lee
  • Computerized system for efficient augmentation of data sets
    Patent number: 10937548
    Abstract: A method of improving data sets, for example, of patients, each being characterized by relatively low-cost medical data, identifies those patients where the acquisition of higher cost medical data would best inform an estimate of the higher cost medical data for the remaining patients. In this way scarce medical resources can be more efficiently applied in characterizing a potential patient pool, for example, for a clinical trial when resources are not available for extensive medical characterization of each trial participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Won Hwa Kim, Seong Jae Hwang, Nagesh Adluru, Sterling Johnson, Vikas Singh
  • Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter
    Patent number: 10938402
    Abstract: A successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC) coupled to receive a first input voltage to generate a first output voltage; a second DAC coupled to receive a second input voltage to generate a second output voltage; a comparator having a positive input node coupled to receive the first output voltage of the first DAC, and a negative input node coupled to receive the second output voltage of the second DAC; a SAR controller that controls switching of the first DAC and the second DAC according to a comparison output of the comparator, thereby generating an output code; a first calibration circuit coupled between the positive input node of the comparator and a ground voltage; and a second calibration circuit coupled between the negative input node of the comparator and the ground voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Che-Wei Hsu, Soon-Jyh Chang
  • Degree-of-distraction estimation system based on unconstrained bio-information
    Patent number: 10937546
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for estimating a degree of distraction based on unconstrained bio-information. The present invention provides a system for estimating a degree of distraction based on unconstrained bio-information, the system comprising: a degree-of-distraction measurement chair comprising a seating unit, a message transmission unit, a pressure detection unit, and a support unit, which are formed in this order from the top to the bottom thereof, wherein the pressure detection unit formed on the support unit comprises a smart sensor including three load cells arranged at three vertices of a triangular shape on a plane; and a mobile smart terminal configured to receive information regarding the degree of distraction from the message transmission unit of the degree-of-distraction measurement chair through the Bluetooth communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dongseo University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Woo Jin Hwang, Do Un Jeong, Gi Hyun Hwang, Dae-Soo Cho
  • Bioconversion of levulinic acid in genetically engineered hosts
    Patent number: 10934563
    Abstract: Described is a recombinant expression vector that enables a cell transformed to contain and express the vector to use levulinic acid as a carbon source, thereby converting levulnic acid into 2-butanne. Also described are genetically modified cells transformed to contain and express the vector and methods of using the cells to produce 2-butanone from a medium containing levulinic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Brian Frederick Pfleger, Jacqueline Marie Rand, Christopher Robert Mehrer, Matthew Ryan Incha
  • Holly plant named ‘RutHol3’
    Patent number: PP32856
    Abstract: A new Ilex plant named ‘RutHol3’ is characterized by a combination of its upright, narrow growth habit, its attractive burgundy new growth, its glossy green mature foliage, its quick growth and resistance to spider mites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: John M. Ruter
  • Coleus plant named ‘UF16-91-25’
    Patent number: PP32873
    Abstract: ‘UF16-91-25’ is a new Coleus plant with a combination of novel characteristics that include vigorous compact mounded growth habit, excellent heat tolerance, and consistent tri-colored pink, maroon, and lime green foliage. ‘UF16-91-25’ has superior stability in foliage color in both sun and shade conditions, maintaining stable color in all conditions. ‘UF16-91-25’ has not been observed to produce flowers in any trial conducted to date, so it has long season performance as an annual plant in the landscape until late Fall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Clark