Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for improving a tolerance to a salt stress or a drought stress of a plant, and a method for preparing transformed plant exhibiting improved tolerance to salt stress or drought stress. The nucleotide sequences of the present invention are involved in salt or drought stress-tolerance, therefore may be effectively used for cultivating the plants with novel functional features which are less affected by climates and environments of the cultivated areas.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 10, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 6, 2019
Assignee:
Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
Inventors:
Woo Taek Kim, Jae Hwan Hwang, Dong Hye Seo
Abstract: The present invention relates to a biguanide derivative compound capable of effectively preventing and treating immune diseases. The biguanide-based derivative compound according to the present invention inhibits the generation of IL-17 and TNF-?, which are inflammatory cytokines, increases the activity of regulatory T cells having an immunomodulatory function, and exhibits excellent therapeutic effects in animal models of immune diseases. Accordingly, the biguanide-based derivative compound can be usefully used as an immunosuppressant or a pharmaceutical composition capable of preventing or treating various immune diseases, such as autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and transplant rejection, caused by the dysregulation of immune responses.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 25, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 6, 2019
Assignee:
The Catholic University of Korea Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
Inventors:
Mi-La Cho, Chul-Woo Yang, Dong-Yun Shin, Min-Jung Park, Seon-Yeong Lee, Sung-Hee Lee, Eun-Ji Yang, Hye-Jin Son, Eun-Kyung Kim, Jae-Kyung Kim
Abstract: This document provides devices and methods for the treatment of heart conditions. For example, this document provides a percutaneous temporary epicardial pacemaker device and system for treating heart arrhythmia.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 22, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 6, 2019
Assignee:
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for filtering a reference pixel. A method of smoothing a reference pixel may include determining whether or not to perform smoothing on a reference pixel based on the size of a transform block and information about an intra-prediction mode for the transform block and determining a smoothing method by comparing the size of the transform block with the size of a maximum transform block. Accordingly, image coding efficiency can be increased, and picture quality can be improved.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2018
Date of Patent:
August 6, 2019
Assignee:
Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
Inventors:
Byeung Woo Jeon, Ho Young Lee, Kwang Hyun Won
Abstract: Provided according to embodiments of the present invention are methods of monitoring individuals that include securing a photoplethysmograph probe to at least one of a pre-auricular region and a post-auricular region of the individual and obtaining photoplethysmography signals from the photoplethysmography probe. Photoplethysmography probes and helmets related to such methods are also described herein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 17, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 6, 2019
Assignee:
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard J. Melker, Neil Euliano, Brian Fuerhlein
Abstract: The present invention provides a sun position tracking method based on a black sun effect of an image sensor, a computer program including commands for causing a computer system to perform the method, and a solar sensor using the method. The sun position tracking method includes processing a plurality of images captured using a plurality of image sensors installed to capture a plurality of images of the sun irrespective of the position of the sun to estimate the center point of the black sun and track the position of the sun.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 6, 2019
Assignee:
Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
Inventors:
Sukhan Lee, Rashid Saleem, Jaewoong Kim
Abstract: A method for determining a location of a disturbance in a power system is provided. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of sensors distributed across the power system; determining, with one or more processors, for each sensor, an extremum of the data corresponding to the sensor; interpolating, with the one or more processors, the extrema; and presenting, on one or more display units, a location corresponding to a global maximum of the interpolated extrema as the location of the disturbance. The method may further include, if a difference between the largest extremum and each of remaining extremum is greater than a predetermined threshold, skipping the interpolating step and the presenting step, and presenting a location of the sensor corresponding to the largest extremum as the location of the disturbance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 16, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 6, 2019
Assignee:
University of Tennessee Research Foundation
Inventors:
Shutang You, Dao Zhou, Ling Wu, Yilu Liu
Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus according to the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current block, and performing intra-prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode. The deriving of the intra-prediction mode may comprise decoding a predetermined mode sameness indicator.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 24, 2017
Publication date:
August 1, 2019
Applicants:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University, Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
Inventors:
Jin Ho LEE, Sung Chang LIM, Jung Won KANG, Hyun Suk KO, Ha Hyun LEE, Dong San JUN, Seung Hyun CHO, Hui Yong KIM, Jae Gon KIM, Do Hyeon PARK, Jin Soo CHOI, Hae Chul CHOI
Abstract: A thin film valve includes at least one chamber for storing a fluid required for biological/chemical analysis, a plurality of chamber for performing a biological/biochemical reaction, or connecting, at least one chamber performing the biological or biochemical reaction to enable a movement of the fluid flow, a flow path arranged to communicate with the hole on the flow path, a thin film closing membrane for closing the fluid hole, a thin film valve including the hole and the fluid hole closing membrane, a multilayered plurality of substrates forming the fluid path, the fluid hole and the chamber, a rotatable disk forming the fluid path, fluid hole, the plurality of chambers, a heat generator, laser beam generator heating the thin film valves, a light detector for detecting amount of light passing through the membrane and closing the fluid hole, and a feedback controller for controlling the focusing actuator.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 9, 2019
Publication date:
August 1, 2019
Applicants:
Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University, CDgene Inc.
Abstract: A sensor device for detecting a target microorganism in tap water in real time, the sensor device includes: a substrate; and a microorganism detection unit configured to detect the target microorganism. A microorganism mounting unit and a signal recognition unit are provided on the microorganism detection unit, and a hydrothermal synthesis unit and a signal disturbance blocking unit are provided on the signal recognition unit to detect an electrochemical reaction occurring in the microorganism mounting unit as an impedance signal value and to measure or detect the target microorganism.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 21, 2018
Publication date:
August 1, 2019
Applicant:
Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
Inventors:
Joonhong PARK, Seongchan JUN, Jihyun KIM, Youngmo JUNG
Abstract: The present invention relates to a vaccine composition comprising cyclic peptides of the present invention, antibodies to cyclic peptides, or an anticancer composition comprising them, and the vaccine composition of the present invention exhibit an inhibitory activity for metastasis of cancer. In addition, the antibodies of the present invention bind to the tumor-specific antigen TM4SF5 with high affinity, and significantly inhibit the growth, metastasis and invasion of cancer cells expressing the tumor-specific antigen TM4SF5, and thus can be used for diagnosis, prevention or treatment of various cancers expressing TM4SF5.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 11, 2017
Publication date:
August 1, 2019
Applicant:
Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Hallym University
Abstract: The invention relates to methods of treating or preventing organophosphate poisoning in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject isoflurane, enflurane, halothane, sevoflurane, desflurane, xenon or argon in a therapeutically effective amount.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 18, 2017
Publication date:
August 1, 2019
Applicant:
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
Inventors:
Jishnu K.S. KRISHNAN, Aryan M. NAMBOODIRI, John R. MOFFETT, Arun PEETHAMBARAN, Narayanan PUTHILLATHU, Ranjini VENGILOTE
Abstract: A system and method which allows the basic checkpoint-reverse-mode AD strategy (of recursively decomposing the computation to reduce storage requirements of reverse-mode AD) to be applied to arbitrary programs: not just programs consisting of loops, but programs with arbitrarily complex control flow. The method comprises (a) transforming the program into a formalism that allows convenient manipulation by formal tools, and (b) introducing a set of operators to allow computations to be decomposed by running them for a given period of time then pausing them, while treating the paused program as a value subject to manipulation.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 13, 2017
Publication date:
August 1, 2019
Applicant:
Purdue Research Foundation
Inventors:
Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Barak Avrum Pearlmutter
Abstract: Aspects of the application relate to methods and compositions for delivering therapeutic nucleic acids to neural cells or tissue in a subject. Additional aspects of the application relate to therapeutic nucleic acids, for example therapeutic ribozymes, that are useful for inhibiting viral reactivation in a subject.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 21, 2017
Publication date:
August 1, 2019
Applicants:
University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated, Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University & Agricultural & Mechanical College
Inventors:
David C. Bloom, Alfred S. Lewin, Donna M. Neumann, Zachary L. Watson, Sonal Sanjeev Tuli, Gregory Scott Schultz
Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding. The method for image decoding includes comparing whether a size of a current transform block and a size of a smallest transform block (smallest transform unit (STU)) are the same as each other, and decoding information indicating whether transformation is performed on the current transform block and determining whether to perform inverse transformation on the current transform block based on the decoded information indicating whether the transformation is performed when the size of the current transform block and the size of a smallest transform block are the same as each other.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 2018
Date of Patent:
July 30, 2019
Assignee:
Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
Abstract: Materials and methods for treating an infection or disease, activating an immune cell at a site of infection or disease, and for directly killing microorganisms, using response-selective carboxy-terminal C5a analogs, are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 12, 2018
Date of Patent:
July 30, 2019
Assignees:
Board of Regents of The University of Nebraska, San Diego State University Research Foundation
Inventors:
Sam D. Sanderson, Joy Arlene Phillips, Edward Leroy Morgan, Marilyn Louise Thoman, Tamsin Sheen, Kelly S. Doran, Elizabeth Louise Virts, Tammy Kielian, Mark Hanke
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus and method for position measurement in a wireless communication system. An operating method of a terminal in the wireless communication system includes transmitting a signal for requesting for positioning, and receiving positioning signals for the positioning of the terminal from a plurality of other terminals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 8, 2016
Date of Patent:
July 30, 2019
Assignees:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive active material for a lithium battery, a method of preparing the same, and a lithium battery including the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a positive active material having excellent high-capacity and thermal stability, a method of preparing the same, and a lithium battery including the same.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2014
Date of Patent:
July 30, 2019
Assignee:
Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University