Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • Patent number: 11542520
    Abstract: Method of increasing protein content in a eukaryotic cell comprising an NF-YC4 gene comprising modifying the transcriptional repressor binding site; method of producing a plant with increased protein content comprising crossing and selecting for increased protein content; method of increasing resistance to a pathogen or a pest in a plant cell or plant comprising an NF-YC4 gene comprising modifying the transcriptional repressor binding site, alone or in further combination with expressing QQS in the plant cell or plant; method for producing a plant with increased resistance to a pathogen or a pest comprising crossing and selecting for increased resistance to the pathogen or the pest; a cell, collection of cells, tissue, organ, or organism, such as a plant, in which the NF-YC4 gene comprises a promoter comprising a transcriptional repressor binding site that has been modified so that the transcriptional repressor cannot prevent transcription of the NF-YC4; plants and hybrids thereof; and seeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ling Li, Eve Syrkin Wurtele
  • Patent number: 11542439
    Abstract: A method of recycling gaseous hydrocarbons includes flowing a hydrocarbon gas composition from a secondary separator into a compressor unit to form a compressed mixture. The secondary separator includes a crude liquid hydrocarbon input stream from a primary separator. The method includes flowing the compressed mixture into a cooling unit to cool the compressed mixture, to form a cooled composition comprising liquid hydrocarbons. The method includes flowing the liquid hydrocarbons from the cooled composition into the primary separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation
    Inventor: Darren Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11540749
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for predicting presence of one or more neurological deficits. The system may include a microphone, a camera, one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to extract audio information including a period density entropy coefficient and a mel frequency cepstral coefficient from an audio feed received from the microphone. Additionally, the instructions may cause the processor to determine position and depth information of eye movement from a video feed received from the camera and detect features of interest including facial landmarks, spatial orientation of limbs, and positional information of limb movements from the video feed. The one or more processors may further extract the features of interest from the video feed and process the extracted features of interest by aligning the extracted features of interest to a common reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Omar Uribe, Mark McDonald, Andrew M. Southerland, Gustavo Rohde, Yan Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11541550
    Abstract: A robot skin apparatus includes polymer membranes encapsulating a pressure sensor. The sensor includes piezo-sensitive material in contact with a pair of electrodes in spaced relationship to form a circuit. The apparatus may include a flexible substrate, with the electrodes thereon. The piezo-sensitive material may be piezoresistive film. The electrodes may be symmetrically patterned on the substrate to form a substantially circular peripheral boundary. The apparatus may include pressure sensors on opposite sides of a plane for temperature compensation, a plurality of pressure sensors arrayed on the substrate, and a data acquisition system. A method of fabricating the apparatus includes a wet lithography process for patterning the piezoresistive film. A system includes a pair of gripper fingers, an actuator connected to the fingers, a robot skin apparatus positioned on one of the fingers, and an electronic unit for receiving data from the robot skin and controlling the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua R. Baptist, Mohammad Nasser Saadatzi, Zhong Yang, Ruoshi Zhang, Dan O. Popa
  • Patent number: 11541108
    Abstract: Targeted disruption of a specific gene and its subsequent restoration in obligate intracellular bacteria remains extremely challenging due to their absolute requirement for residence inside a host cell to replicate. Here, targeted allelic exchange mutations were created to inactivate two genes and then to restore one of the two genes of a rickettsial pathogen, Ehrlichia chaffeensis. These methods were then also successfully utilized in Ehrlichia canis and Anaplasma phagocyophilum. The resultant mutated pathogens are useful in immunogenic compositions for reducing the incidence of or severity of infection with ricksettsial pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Kansas State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Roman R. Ganta, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 11540897
    Abstract: A disposable x-ray side marker (100) comprises a non-metallic material (108) having a sufficiently high linear attenuation coefficient to be radiographically visible. The material (108) may be mouldable, and may be or comprise gypsum. The material (108) may have an average atomic number greater than or equal to 11, and may have a linear attenuation coefficient greater than that of mammalian soft tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS, AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
    Inventors: Aisling Snow, Fiona Snow
  • Patent number: 11545664
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method of manufacturing the anode active material, and a lithium secondary battery including the anode active material. The anode active material includes natural graphite particles configured such that flaky natural graphite fragment particles having uneven (??) surface defects are structured in a cabbage shape or at random and granulated, the surface and the inside of the natural graphite particles including a gap formed between the flaky natural graphite fragment particles, and a coating layer including amorphous or semicrystalline carbon formed on the surface of the flaky natural graphite fragment particles that form the gap and the surface of the natural graphite particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: KNU-Industry Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Sung Man Lee, Ki Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11545358
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method of forming a transition metal dichalcogenide thin film and a method of manufacturing a device including the same. The method of forming a transition metal dichalcogenide thin film includes: providing a substrate in a reaction chamber; depositing a transition metal dichalcogenide thin film on the substrate using a sputtering process that uses a transition metal precursor and a chalcogen precursor and is performed at a first temperature; and injecting the chalcogen precursor in a gas state and heat-treating the transition metal dichalcogenide thin film at a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature. The substrate may include a sapphire substrate, a silicon oxide (SiO2) substrate, a nanocrystalline graphene substrate, or a molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Changhyun Kim, Sang-Woo Kim, Kyung-Eun Byun, Hyeonjin Shin, Ahrum Sohn, Jaehwan Jung
  • Patent number: 11543547
    Abstract: An early earthquake detection method may comprise acquiring a frame image from a camera; acquiring a vibration signal from the frame image; removing a noise signal due to vibration of the camera from the vibration signal; acquiring a motion signal obtained by magnifying subtle motions from the noise signal-removed vibration signal; extracting vibration characteristics from the motion signal; estimating an occurrence of an earthquake by extracting a peak signal from the vibration characteristics; and determining whether an earthquake occurs by receiving earthquake estimation information from at least one other camera located within a certain range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation
    Inventors: Dai Jin Kim, Jong Hoon Park
  • Patent number: 11541605
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for performing quality control assessments of a three dimensional (3D) printing system. In particular, the present disclosure provides a phantom designs for use in 3D printing systems, as well as methods of quality control for a 3D printing system performed using a 3D printed phantom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Shuai Leng, Kiaran P. McGee, Jane M. Matsumoto, Joel L. Kuhlmann, Jonathan M. Morris
  • Patent number: 11545353
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to logical operations in mass spectrometry. The system comprising a mass spectrometer comprising one or more ion traps; and a central processing unit (CPU), and storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to apply one or more scan functions to the one or more ion traps, the scan functions being combine together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Robert Graham Cooks, Dalton Snyder, Lucas Szalwinski
  • Patent number: 11544213
    Abstract: A neural processor is provided. The neural processor includes a matrix device which is configured to generate an output feature map by processing a standard convolution operation and which has a systolic array architecture, and accelerators with an adder-tree structure which are configured to process depth-wise convolution operations for each of elements of the output feature map corresponding to lanes of the matrix device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Dongyoung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn, Sunjung Lee, Jaewan Choi
  • Patent number: 11542454
    Abstract: The present invention is toward a base oil or lubricant additives, methods of using the same, lubricant compositions including the same, and methods of forming the lubricant compositions. A base oil or lubricant additive has Structure I or Structure II as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: George A. Kraus, Kyle Podolak, Derek Lee White, Sriram Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 11542524
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for a suicide gene approach comprising an expression vector comprising a cell cycle-dependent promoter driving the expression of a suicide gene. Also provided herein are methods to render proliferative cells sensitive to a prodrug after transplantation but avoids expression of the suicide gene in post-mitotic cells, such as neurons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Research Development Foundation
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Krause, Michel Dubois-Dauphin, Vannary Tieng Caulet
  • Patent number: 11542254
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to 4-substituted benzoylpiperazine-1-substituted carbonyls having a structure represented by a formula: derivatives thereof, and related compounds; synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating disorders, e.g., various tumors and cancers, associated with ?-catenin/BCL9 protein-protein interaction dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSISITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Haitao Ji, Min Zhang
  • Patent number: 11541601
    Abstract: There is provided a method of representing a three dimensional (3D) object using univariate curves, comprising: receiving an initial definition of a 3D object representation, calculate a covering set of univariate curves, the covering set comprising at least one non-planar univariate curve, wherein the covering set of univariate curves represent the volume of the 3D object within a tolerance requirement, and generating a representation of the 3D object based on the set of univariate curves, wherein the set of univariate curves represent the volume of the 3D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Gershon Elber, Ben Ezair
  • Patent number: 11541372
    Abstract: An adsorbent for a target compound can include porous carbon particles having pores with a predominant pore size less than 10 nm, and magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) nucleated on the carbon surface and within the pores of carbon particles to provide a carbon magnetic nanoparticle adsorbent (C-MNA). A method for removing target compounds with an adsorbent, a system for removing contaminants from a liquid, and a method for adsorbing target compounds from a fluid are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, Constantinos Tsouris, Samuel F. Evans, Marko R. Ivancevic
  • Patent number: 11542542
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to improved methods for detecting nucleic acids using DNA fingerloop stem loop structures, wherein the DNA fingerloop stem loop structures diminish base pairing of a detection probe to a mismatched target nucleic acid. The present disclosure also relates to improved methods for amplifying nucleic acids. Further disclosed are chimeric fingerloop DNAs for use in methods for modulating protein expression levels and/or RNA stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventor: Richard A. Lease
  • Patent number: 11541241
    Abstract: This document describes methods and materials for improving the delivery of electroporation. For example, this document describes methods and devices for delivering electroporation while mitigating risks of ventricular fibrillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventor: Samuel J. Asirvatham
  • Patent number: PP34899
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Coleus (Coleus scutellarioides) plant named ‘UF19-79-2’ is a new Coleus plant, selected for having a combination of desirable traits that make it well-suited for good performance as an annual plant in the summer landscape. ‘UF19-79-2’ has foliage that is consistently dark red in color across the plant in both sun and shade trial conditions. ‘UF19-79-2’ is exceptional because it has an extremely vigorous upright and spreading habit, which is not typical of most predominantly red leaf colored Coleus plants. It is upright and spreading in habit, but it is more highly branched and uniform in shape than most dark red Coleus plants that have been produced to date. Since red foliage is one of the most popular consumer choices for garden plants, ‘UF19-79-2’ should have high utility for use in any part of the garden landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Clark