Patents Assigned to Foundation
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Patent number: 10809267Abstract: Described herein are mass spectrometry systems and methods which improve the accuracy of isobaric tag-based quantification by alleviating the pervasive problem of precursor interference and co-isolation of impurities through gas-phase purification. During the gas-phase purification, the mass-to-charge ratios of precursor ions within at least a selected range are selectively changed allowing ions having similar unmodified mass-to-charge ratios to be separated before further isolation, fragmentation or analysis.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: Joshua J. Coon, Michael S. Westphall
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Patent number: 10807890Abstract: The invention provides a water purification system or a water treatment system comprising carbon nanotubes, as well as methods for purifying or treating water using the systems of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: University of Iowa Research FoundationInventors: David M. Cwiertny, Jason P. Haase
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Patent number: 10811604Abstract: A nonvolatile memory apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode separated from the first electrode, a resistive-change material layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and configured to store information due to a resistance change caused by an electrical signal applied through the first electrode and the second electrode, and a diffusion prevention layer provided between the first electrode and the resistive-change material layer and/or between the second electrode and the resistive-change material layer and including a two-dimensional (2D) material having a monolayer thickness of about 0.35 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB FoundationInventors: Minhyun Lee, Seongjun Park, Hyunjae Song, Hyeonjin Shin, Kibum Kim, Sanghun Lee, Yunho Kang
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Patent number: 10810793Abstract: Methods for modeling a 3-dimensional (3D) object, comprising operating at least one hardware processor for, receiving a 3D volumetric model of the object, receiving a 3D model of a tile, paving multiple ones of the tiles in the interior domain of the 3D volumetric model, and providing a 3D filled model of the filled inner volume of the 3D volumetric model are provided. Computer program products and systems for doing same are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventor: Gershon Elber
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Patent number: 10808893Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor light source includes a semiconductor chip configured to emit primary radiation, a Bragg mirror, and a luminescence conversion element configured to convert at least part of the primary radiation into secondary radiation having a longer wavelength, wherein the Bragg mirror is arranged between the semiconductor chip and the luminescence conversion element, the Bragg mirror is reflective for the secondary radiation and transmissive for the primary radiation, the Bragg mirror includes reflector layers of at least three different materials with different refractive indices, the Bragg mirror includes at least two different kinds of layer pairs, each kind of layer pairs being made up of reflective layers of two different materials, and the different kinds of layer pairs having different Brewster angles for p-polarized radiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, The Research Foundation For State University of New YorkInventors: Alan Lenef, David Klotzkin, Xin Wen
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Patent number: 10811593Abstract: Embodiments of the invention can be directed to controlling and/or engineering the size and/or volume of polar nanoregions (PNRs) of ferroelectric polycrystalline material systems. Some embodiments can achieved this via composition modifications to cause changes in the PNRs and/or local structure. Some embodiments can be used to control and/or engineer dielectric, piezoelectric, and/or electromechanical properties of polycrystalline materials. Controlling and/or engineering the PNRs may facilitate improvements to the dielectric, piezoelectric, and/or electromechanical properties of materials. Controlling and/or engineering the PNRs may further facilitate generating a piezoelectric material that may be useful for many different piezoelectric applications.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Fei Li, Dabin Lin, Shujun Zhang, Thomas R. Shrout, Long-Qing Chen
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Patent number: 10808026Abstract: Provided herein are monoclonal antibodies against Olfml-3. In some aspects, methods for treating angiogenesis-related conditions, such as cancer, are provided comprising administering an Olfml-3-binding antibody of the embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Research Development FoundationInventors: Beat A. Imhof, Marijana Miljkovic-Licina, Philippe Hammel
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Patent number: 10807943Abstract: Non-lactone carbocyclic modulators of bacterial quorum sensing. Pharmaceutical composition containing such modulators. Methods employing such modulators for modulation of quorum sensing. Compounds are exemplified by those of formula: A-[Z]n-L1-[Y]—NH-L2-HG, where A is an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group having one or two 5- or 6-member rings with up to 1-3 heteroatoms in a ring, or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C12 acyclic aliphatic group and HG is an optionally substituted cyclopentyl group. Compounds include those where n is 1 or 0, Z is —CO—, —O—CO—, —CO—O—, —NH—CO—, —CO—NH—, —NH—CO—NH—, —O—, —S—, or —NH2, Y is —NH—CO—, —CO—CH2—C(Y1)-, or —SO2—, where Y1 is —OH, —SH, —NH2 or —F; and L1 and L2 independently are —[CH2]p1- and —[CH2]p2-, where p1 and p2, independently, are 0 or integers ranging from 1-3.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: Helen E. Blackwell, Christine E. McInnis
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Patent number: 10811241Abstract: The invention generally relates to methods for analyzing an analyte in a sample. In certain embodiments, the methods involve providing a capture module, the module configured to capture an analyte in a sample in an ambient environment and generate ions of the analyte, wherein the capture module comprises a cartridge and a porous substrate within the cartridge that is connected to a voltage source, and wherein the porous substrate further comprises an internal standard; capturing the analyte in the sample to the porous substrate of the capture module; generating ions of the analyte and the internal standard held by the porous substrate via the voltage source that is coupled to the porous substrate; and analyzing the generated ions of the analyte and the internal standard in a mass analyzer that is operably coupled to the capture module.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Robert Graham Cooks, Ahmed Mohamed Hamid, Alan Keith Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang
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Patent number: 10808139Abstract: A colored paint that imparts a superhydrophobic surface on an object is a suspension of hydrophobic particles in a polymeric binder and a plasticizer in a solvent or mixed solvent, wherein at least a portion of the hydrophobic particles are colored particles. Colored particles can be ultramarine, iron oxide, chromium oxide, or any other colored metal oxide. The hydrophobic particles can be metal oxide particles that are surface functionalized with a fluorinated alkyl silane or an alkyl silane. The binder is a mixture of PDVF and PMMA in a ratio of 3:1 to 10:1. The plasticizer is a mixture of triethyl phosphate and perfluoro(butyltetrahydrofuran) or other perfluorinated hydrocarbon. Surfaces coated using this paint display contact angles in excess of 150° and resist abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Wolfgang M. Sigmund, Yung-Chieh Hung
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Patent number: 10811613Abstract: An object is to provide a novel polycyclic aromatic compound and an organic electroluminescent element using the same. By providing a novel polycyclic aromatic compound having a diarylamino group and having a plurality of aromatic rings linked to each other via a boron atom, an oxygen atom, or the like, options of a material for an organic EL element are increased. In addition, by using the novel polycyclic aromatic compound as a material for an organic electroluminescent element, an excellent organic EL element is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: Kwansei Gakuin Educational Foundation, JNC CorporationInventors: Takuji Hatakeyama, Guofang Wang, Yohei Ono, Yuko Yamaga, Kazushi Shiren
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Patent number: 10808970Abstract: An absorption refrigeration system (ARS), includes a sorbent-refrigerant pair that has an ionic liquid (IL) sorbent and a refrigerant that displays a lower critical lower critical solution temperature (LCST) at a temperature of 50 to 100° C., wherein the separation of the sorbent from the refrigerant occurs upon heating the sorbent-refrigerant pair to a temperature above the LCST. This liquid-liquid phase separation requires significantly less energy to desorb the refrigerant from the sorbent than vapor-liquid phase separation in traditional ABSs.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated, University of Notre DameInventors: Saeed Moghaddam, Abhilash Paneri, Edward Maginn
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Patent number: 10811117Abstract: A method for SRAM yield estimation includes: generating a first perturbation vector depending on a DC voltage input condition for an assist operation section of a SRAM which is an estimation target; calculating a first margin on the basis of the first perturbation vector; performing an AC simulation during the assist operation section depending on the DC voltage input condition; generating a second perturbation vector depending on a DC voltage input condition for a normal operation section which is set when the AC simulation is ended; calculating a second margin on the basis of the second perturbation vector; and selecting a minimum margin from among the first margin and the second margin and estimating a yield of the SRAM on the basis of the selected margin.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Korea University Research and Business FoundationInventors: Jongsun Park, Woong Choi
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Patent number: 10808003Abstract: Provided are a newly developed tandem malonate-based amphipathic molecule, a method of preparing the same, and a method of extracting, solubilizing, stabilizing, crystallizing or analyzing a membrane protein using the same. In addition, the compound may be used to efficiently extract membrane proteins having various structures and characteristics from a cell membrane, compared to a conventional compound, to stably store the proteins in an aqueous solution for a long time, and may be used in functional and structural analysis thereof. The analysis of the structures and functions of the membrane proteins is one of the most attractive fields in current biology and chemistry, which are closely related to new drug development.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University Erica CampusInventors: Pil Seok Chae, Hazrat Hussain
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Patent number: 10807944Abstract: The instant invention describes hydrazide-containing compounds having therapeutic activity, and methods of treating disorders such as cancer, tumors and cell proliferation related disorders, or affect cell differentiation, dedifferentiation or transdifferentiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., The Scripps Research InstituteInventors: Daiqing Liao, William R. Roush, Ryan L. Stowe
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Patent number: 10808313Abstract: A method for fabricating structures includes on a substrate includes providing the substrate having a substrate surface, and providing a set of control parameters to an ion beam source and to a thermal source corresponding to a desired structure topology. The method further includes using directed irradiation synthesis to cause self-organization of a plurality of structures comprising at least one of the group of nanostructures and microstructures in a first surface area of the substrate by exposing the substrate surface to an ion beam from the ion beam source and to thermal particles from the thermal source. The ion beam has a first area of effect on the substrate surface, and the thermal particles has a second area of effect on the substrate surface. Each of the first area of effect and the second area of effect including the first surface area.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Jean Paul Allain, Osman J. El-Atwani, Juan Jose Pavon Palacio
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Patent number: 10810071Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and methods for detecting power bugs. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for analyzing a computer code includes generating a control flow graph for at least a portion of the computer code at a processor. The method further includes identifying power bugs by traversing the control flow graph if the control flow graph exits without performing a function call to deactivate power to any component of a device configured to execute computer executable instructions based on the computer code after performing a function call to activate power.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Yu Charlie Hu, Abhilash Jindal, Samuel Midkiff, Abhinav Pathak
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Patent number: 10808229Abstract: The invention provides a composition useful to prepare high titer influenza viruses, e.g., in the absence of helper virus, which includes internal genes from an influenza virus vaccine strain or isolate, e.g., one that is safe in humans, for instance, one that does not result in significant disease, and genes from vaccine seed virus isolates which include a HA gene segment with a HA2 sequence encoding a HA2 that confers enhanced growth in cells in culture, such as Vero cells.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (“WARF”)Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Taisuke Horimoto, Shin Murakami
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Patent number: 10808260Abstract: Methods of increasing the resistance of plants, in particular soybeans, to nematodes, in particular soybean cyst nematodes, are provided herein. The methods include increasing the expression of Glyma18g02580, Glyma18g02590 and/or Glyma18g2610 in cells of a plant and in particular in root cells of a plant to increase the resistance of the plant and plant cells to nematodes. The methods include increasing the expression using constitutive promoters or by increasing the copy number of the polynucleotides. Constructs for expressing these polypeptides, transgenic cells, transgenic plants and methods of generating the same are also provided. Methods of screening plant cells for resistance or susceptibility to nematodes are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Andrew Farmer Bent, Matthew Hudson, Brian Diers, Sara Melito, David Edward Cook, Teresa Hughes, Adam Bayless, Jianping Wang, Tong Geon Lee, Xiaoli Guo
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Patent number: D899464Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Lukas Benjamin Inhestern, James Braun, Guillermo Paniagua Perez
