Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • System and method for generating disparity map by matching stereo images
    Patent number: 10171795
    Abstract: A system for generating a disparity map includes: an image obtainer obtaining a left image and a right image; a matching cost calculator calculating a matching cost for each of a plurality of pixels of the left image and the right image; an accumulation and summation calculator calculating an accumulation value of one of the pixels based on the calculated matching cost, and calculating a relaxation accumulation value, which is an average of values obtained by multiplying each of relation coefficients between a disparity value of the one pixel and disparity values of surrounding pixels of the one pixel with the accumulation value of the one pixel; a disparity value deliver deriving a disparity value for each of the pixels based on the calculated relaxation accumulation value; and a disparity map generator generating the disparity map based on the derived disparity value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Min Woo Park, Won Seok Lee, Jung Pil Park, Geun Ho Jeong, Soon Ki Jung
  • Method of conversion of red phosphorous to soluble polyphosphides
    Patent number: 10167196
    Abstract: Soluble polyphosphides were successfully generated in a number of organic solvents by a reaction between shelf-stable red phosphorus and potassium ethoxide or other nucleophilic activators. The species were identified by 31P-NMR in solution. The reaction was scaled up to gram quantities by using a flow-chemistry process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Shatruk, David Tyler McQuade, Alina Dragulescu-Andrasi, Levi Zane Miller, Chongin Pak
  • Apparatus and methods for occluding a hollow anatomical structure
    Patent number: 10166024
    Abstract: A clamp having at least first and second elongate clamping portions adapted to be placed on opposite sides of the hollow anatomical structure. The first and second elongate clamping portions respectively include ends coupled together with respective resilient urging members configured to urge at least one of the first and second elongate clamping portions toward the other of the first and second elongate clamping portions from an open position into a clamping position to occlude the hollow anatomical structure. The clamp includes tissue ingrowth structure on the clamping portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: IDx Medical, Ltd., Atricure Inc., The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Warren P. Williamson, IV, Jason I. Glithero, Michael W. Goldenbogen, Chadd R. Tyler, Todd A. Hall, Delos M. Cosgrove
  • Method and device for monitoring data integrity in shared memory environment
    Patent number: 10168934
    Abstract: Provided is a method of memory access for a memory controller in an integrity monitoring system sharing memory with a host system. The memory access method may include: receiving a memory access command from a local processor of the integrity monitoring system; accessing a system memory of the host system according to the memory access command; receiving data corresponding to the memory access command from the host system; and forwarding the received data to the local processor, wherein the system memory includes a secure area, access to which is allowed when the memory controller receives a memory access command from the local processor. In a feature of the present invention, there are provided a method and apparatus that can monitor integrity of data processed in the host system in a SoC environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Hansu Cho, Brent ByungHoon Kang, Yunheung Paek, Seungwook Lee, Junbum Shin
  • Synthetic polymeric materials and devices thereof
    Patent number: 10167387
    Abstract: Provided herein is a polymeric material comprising a polymer host; and a guest molecule comprising a glycosaminoglycan; wherein the guest molecule is disposed within the polymer host, and wherein the guest molecule is covalently bonded to at least one other guest molecule. In some embodiments, the polymer host comprises a silicone-based polymer. In other embodiments, the glycosaminoglycan is chosen from hyaluronic acid and derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Susan P. James, Travis S. Bailey, Ketul C. Popat, David A. Prawel, Jackson T. Lewis, Richard L. Koch
  • Pharmaceutical composition for treating cerebrovascular diseases, containing stem cell-derived exosome as active ingredient
    Patent number: 10167448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating cerebrovascular diseases including stem cell-derived exosomes as an active ingredient. The stem cell-derived exosomes according to the present invention have superior nerve cell protective effects, such as inhibition of cerebral ventricular distention, reduction of hydrocephalus, and inhibition of nerve cell death and cellular inflammation in an intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) animal model, and thus, can be useful in treating cerebrovascular diseases including intraventricular hemorrhage, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation
    Inventors: Yun Sil Chang, Won Soon Park, Dong Kyung Sung, So Yoon Ahn
  • Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
    Patent number: 10170703
    Abstract: A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same, the condensed cyclic compound being represented by the following Formula 1:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sung-Wook Kim, Myeong-Suk Kim, Hwan-Hee Cho, Sam-Il Kho, Seung-Soo Yoon
  • Bra and garment with bra portion
    Patent number: 10165804
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a garment having a cup portion with two cups, a body portion integrated with the cup portion, and a band are disposed on the garment such that is extends beneath the cup portions. The band is either on the body portion or adjacent the body portion. The garment also has support structures with a configuration, each following proximately a contour of the lower part of its respective cup, wherein a portion of the support structure is formed on and fixed to the band and a portion of the support structure extends on the body of the garment and is attached thereto. As such the support structure configuration is approximately arcuate. The garment also has additional control regions. The control is provided by fabric or materials that have less stretch than the body fabric from which the body of the garment is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Cupid Foundations, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Angelino, John David Blancuzzi, Lisa Ann Hand, Brenda Lee Wilson
  • Methods and systems for monitoring resistance and work of breathing for ventilator-dependent patients
    Patent number: 10165966
    Abstract: Methods for non-invasively and accurately estimating and monitoring resistance and work of breathing parameters from airway pressure and flow sensors attached to the ventilator-dependent patient using an adaptive mathematical model are provided. These methods are based on calculations using multiple parameters derived from the above-mentioned sensors. The resistance and work of breathing parameters are important for: assessing patient status and diagnosis, appropriately selecting treatment, assessing efficacy of treatment, and properly adjusting ventilatory support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated, Convergent Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Banner, Neil Russell Euliano, Andrea Gabrielli, Nawar Nazar Yousif Al-Rawas
  • Blocking IL-9 signaling in conjunction with chemotherapy to treat cancer
    Patent number: 10166292
    Abstract: This document provides methods and materials related to using inhibitors of IL-9 signaling in conjunction with chemotherapy to treat cancer (e.g., solid tumors). For example, methods and materials for using inhibitors of IL-9 signaling (e.g., anti-IL9 antibody preparations) in conjunction with chemotherapy to treat cancer (e.g., solid tumors such as breast cancer tumors or colon cancer tumors) or to reduce the growth rate of cancer (e.g., solid tumors such as breast cancer tumors or colon cancer tumors) within a mammal are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Dominique B. Hoelzinger, Sandra J. Gendler, Peter A. Cohen, Ana L. Dominguez, Shannon E. Smith, Joseph Lustgarten
  • Using customer premises to provide ancillary services for a power grid
    Patent number: 10169833
    Abstract: Techniques for providing ancillary services to a power grid using customer premises such as commercial buildings. The techniques may involve receiving a regulation signal from a grid operator that is specific to a commercial building and modifying power consumption by at least one power consumption component in the building based on the regulation signal. The power consumption component may be a fan of a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. Conducted experiments demonstrate that up to 15% of fan power capacity may be deployed for regulation purposes while maintaining indoor temperature deviation to no more than 0.2° C. The regulation signal may be tracked in a frequency band from about 4 seconds to 10 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventors: Prabir Barooah, Sean Meyn
  • SUMOylation assay and related reagents
    Patent number: 10167496
    Abstract: Provided herein and methods and kits for identifying inhibitors of SUMOylation. The provided methods include contacting a candidate agent with (i) a SUMO-conjugating peptide comprising an N-terminal linker and a detectable tag, and (ii) a SUMO comprising a metal complex, under conditions that allow binding between the SUMO-conjugating peptide and the SUMO, and detecting the detectable tag thereby determining the level of binding between the SUMO-conjugating peptide and SUMO. A reduced level of binding as compared to the level of binding in the absence of the candidate agent indicating the agent inhibits SUMOylation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: The UAB Research Foundation
    Inventors: William J. Placzek, Mary-Ann Bjornsti, Christine M. Wright, Robert H. Whitaker
  • Simulation of endogenous and exogenous glucose/insulin/glucagon interplay in type 1 diabetic patients
    Patent number: 10169544
    Abstract: A simulator for in-silico testing of Type 1 diabetes patients uses a model that puts in relation plasma concentrations, i.e., glucose G and insulin /, with glucose fluxes, i.e. endogenous glucose production (EGP), glucose rate of appearance (Ra), glucose utilization by the tissues (U), renal extraction (E), and insulin fluxes, i.e., rate of insulin appearance from the subcutaneous tissues (SC) and insulin degradation (D). A module is also included to describe counter-regulation, i.e. glucagon kinetics, secretion and action. A glucagon subcutaneous absorption model enables simulation of dual hormone control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Marc D. Breton, Boris P. Kovatchev, Chiara Dalla Man, Claudio Cobelli, Francesco Micheletto
  • Epicardial ablation catheter and method of use
    Patent number: 10166066
    Abstract: An aspect of various embodiments of the present invention system and method provide, but not limited thereto, a novel means for epicardial ablation using a double-curve steerable sheath and a double-curve deflectable open irrigated-tip/suction catheter that can be guided around the apex of the heart and adjusted so as to position the distal tip optimally. The catheter can also both deliver fluid to and withdraw fluid from the pericardial space. Access to the epicardial surface of the heart is via a subxiphoid entry. The method and means presented include, but are not limited to, steering, energy delivery, bipolar mapping, placement and use of electrodes, irrigation, suction of irrigation fluid, and other details of the subject invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Srijoy Mahapatra, George T. Gillies
  • Microfabricated calorimeter for RF power measurement
    Patent number: 10168365
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio frequency (RF) power calorimeter having a load electrically coupled to a RF input, a variable low-frequency power source electrically coupled to the load and configured to apply low-frequency bias to the load. The RF power calorimeter includes a thermal medium thermally coupled to the load. Additionally, the RF power calorimeter includes an outlet temperature sensor thermally coupled to the thermal medium, the outlet temperature sensor being positioned to measure the temperature of the thermal medium due to heating by the load. The RF power calorimeter also has circuitry configured to use temperature measurements of the thermal medium in thermal contact with an RF load in combination with the low-frequency bias to measure average power of an RF source electrically coupled to the RF input. Also disclosed in a method of measuring RF power using the RF power calorimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Bird Technologies Group Inc., The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Joel D. Meltzer, Albert H. Titus, Bilel Neji, Jing Xu
  • Methods and apparatus for a single inductor multiple output (SIMO) DC-DC converter circuit
    Patent number: 10170990
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) direct current (DC-DC) converter circuit, with the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit having a set of output nodes. The apparatus also includes a panoptic dynamic voltage scaling (PDVS) circuit operatively coupled to the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit, where the PDVS circuit has a set of operational blocks with each operational block from the set of operational blocks drawing power from one supply voltage rail from a set of supply voltage rails. Additionally, each output node from the set of output nodes is uniquely associated with a supply voltage rail from the set of supply voltage rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Benton H Calhoun, Aatmesh Shrivastava
  • Methods of subtyping CRC and their association with treatment of colon cancer patients with oxaliplatin
    Patent number: 10166210
    Abstract: A gene expression signature identifies stage II colon cancer patients who will receive benefit from oxaliplatin. Oxaliplatin has been shown to lengthen the survival of colon cancer patients, when it is combined with 5-fluorouracil plus leucovorin (FULV) in NSABP clinical trial C-07. Gene expression signatures are used first to classify tumors with regard to their respective subtypes, enterocyte, TA, goblet, inflammatory and stem-like and detection of expression of the enterocyte subtype directs treatment of the patient with oxaliplatin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NSABP Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine Lea Pogue-Geile, Nan Song, Soonmyung Paik
  • System and method for use in electron microscopy
    Patent number: 10170272
    Abstract: An electron beam shaping unit for use in electron beam column and a method for designing thereof is presented. The electron beam shaping unit is configured for affecting electron beams of high density or strong electron-electron repulsion. These 5 beams can always be modeled with multi electron wave function. The electron beam shaping unit comprises a mask unit configured for affecting propagation of electrons therethrough to thereby form a propagating electron beam having, at far field, radial shape as determined by multi-electron non-linear function being an eigen function determined by a multi-electron Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Ido Kaminer, Maor Mutzafi, Gal Harari, Mordechay Segev
  • Pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer including 2-methoxy-4-(3-(4-methoxyphenyl)prop-1-en-1-yl)phenol as active ingredient
    Patent number: 10166203
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an anticancer use of a novel compound, i.e., 2-methoxy-4-(3-(4-methoxyphenyl)propyl-1-en-1-yl)phenol. The compound of the present disclosure effectively inhibits the growth of cancer cells and tumors in vitro and in a xenograft animal model. The compound of the present disclosure illustrates an anticancer activity by inhibiting a DNA binding activity of transcription factor STAT 3 in cancer cells, inducing apoptosis of cancer cells, and reducing the expression of a cell cycle regulatory protein. The compound of the present disclosure can be developed as an active ingredient of a strong anticancer drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Chungbuk National University Industry—Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Jin-Tae Hong, Hee-Pom Lee, Young-Wan Ham, Chun-Sik Kim, Heon-Sang Jung
  • Method for manufacturing barrier film with enhanced moisture resistance and barrier film manufactured by the same
    Patent number: 10170643
    Abstract: A barrier film and a method of manufacturing the barrier film are provided. The method includes performing high-pressure thermal treatment under certain conditions on an oxide thin film deposited by sputtering deposition or atomic layer deposition (ALD) to manufacture a barrier film with improved moisture resistance. According to the method, moisture resistance of the barrier film can be improved at a low process temperature by using both thermal energy and pressure energy. The barrier film provided herein can be useful as a barrier film for solar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Ji Yong Lee, Jeong Woo Park, Hyun Jae Kim