Patents Assigned to Foundation
  • DC-DC converter control circuit, image display device using the same and driving method thereof
    Patent number: 9448573
    Abstract: A DC-DC converter control circuit with enhanced driving efficiency while securing circuit stability during light-load driving of the DC-DC converter through variation of an on/off duty ratio of a burst mode according to load. The control circuit includes a detection unit for detecting an amount of current and a voltage at an output stage of a DC-DC converter, and generating and outputting a differential voltage according to a level of the detected voltage, a comparison unit for comparing the differential voltage with a reference voltage having a triangle or sawtooth waveform, thereby generating a duty signal, and a converter controller for generating an on/off control signal corresponding to a duty ratio of the duty signal, and supplying the on/off control signal to the DC-DC converter, to control on/off of the DC-DC converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignees: LG Display Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Kyung-Min Lee, Joung-Woo Lee, Bong-Koo Kang, Chang-Hyun Sung, Ho-Young Yoon
  • Glycopeptide and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9446144
    Abstract: A glycolipopeptide comprising a carbohydrate component, a peptide component and a lipid component, for use as a therapeutic or prophylactic vaccine. Also provided are monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies that recognize the glycolipopeptide of the invention, as well as uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Geert-Jan Boons, Therese Buskas, Sampat Ingale, Margaretha Wolfert
  • Polyethylene glycol based oligomers for coating nanoparticles, nanoparticles coated therewith, and related methods
    Patent number: 9446153
    Abstract: In a composition aspect of the invention, a nanoparticle coating comprises repeating polyacrylic acid monomers covalently bound together in an aliphatic chain having a plurality of carboxylic acid functional groups and modified carboxylic acid functional groups extending therefrom. A first portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having a terminal methoxy functional group and a second portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having at least one terminal catechol group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Hedi Mattoussi, Goutam Palui, Hyon Bin Na
  • Method and system for detecting light and designing a light detector
    Patent number: 9450001
    Abstract: A light detection system which comprises an active region between a back contact layer and a front contact layer is disclosed. The active region comprises a quantum well structure having a quantum well between quantum barriers, wherein the quantum well comprises foreign atoms that induce an excited bound state at an energy level which is above an energy level characterizing the quantum barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventors: Asaf Albo, Gad Bahir, Dan Fekete
  • Analogue ionic liquids for the separation and recovery of hydrocarbons from particulate matter
    Patent number: 9447329
    Abstract: Systems, methods and compositions for the separation and recovery of hydrocarbons from particulate matter are herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method includes contacting particulate matter with at least one analogue ionic liquid. The particulate matter contains at least one hydrocarbon and at least one solid particulate. When the particulate matter is contacted with the analogue ionic liquid, the hydrocarbon dissociates from the solid particulate to form a multiphase system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Paul Painter, Phil Williams, Ehren Mannebach, Aron Lupinsky
  • Apparatus and method for no-till inter-row simultaneous application of herbicide and fertilizer, soil preparation, and seeding of a cover crop in a standing crop
    Patent number: 9445538
    Abstract: A no-till apparatus for application of herbicide and fertilizer, soil preparation, and seeding of a cover crop in a standing crop has inter-row assemblies configured to pass along inter-row areas between adjacent row lines of standing crop plants. Each assembly includes a fertilizer applicator, a no-till soil preparation element, a cover crop seed applicator, and a post-seeding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Gregory W. Roth, Corey Dillon, William Curran, Christian Houser
  • Carrier-antibody compositions and methods of making and using the same
    Patent number: 9446148
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions of antibodies and carrier proteins and methods of making and using the same, in particular, as a cancer therapeutic. Also described are lyophilized compositions of antibodies and carrier proteins and methods of making and using the same, in particular, as a cancer therapeutic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Svetomir N. Markovic, Wendy K. Nevala
  • Vaccinia virus polypeptides
    Patent number: 9446119
    Abstract: This document provides methods and materials related to polypeptides present in a vaccinia virus (e.g., membrane proteins such as vaccinia virus B5R, L1R, A33R, or A27L polypeptides). For example, methods for generating a vaccine comprising one or more of vaccinia virus polypeptides disclosed herein for preventing or treating Orthopoxvirus infection are provided. In addition, kits related to the use of vaccinia polypeptides are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Gregory A. Poland, Richard B. Kennedy
  • On-chip power converter circuit and on-chip power supply using the power converter circuit
    Patent number: 9450518
    Abstract: An on-chip power converter and an on-chip switching power supply implemented using a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) in place of an inductor. This MEMS device offers high inductance density and high Q factor. FBARs can be conveniently fabricated in a CMOS compatible process. FBARs also shows better EMI results than conventional inductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Faisal Khan, Abusaleh Imtiaz
  • Routing method and apparatus for setting optimum multi-hop hybrid V-MIMO transmission path for wireless ad hoc network
    Patent number: 9450857
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for setting the optimum transmission path for increasing energy efficiency in a wireless ad hoc network. More particularly, the present invention relates to setting an optimized data transmission path in a multi-hop data transmission environment in a wireless network comprising machine to machine (M2M) communication devices, which operate with limited energy, based on link information of the network, such as the position of a node in the network. And to this end, the present invention relates to a wireless M2M communication network protocol minimizing energy consumption by selecting the optimum transmission method for each of the hops from the following transmission methods: a single input single output (SISO) method; a virtual single input multiple output (V-SIMO) method; and a virtual multiple input multiple output (V-MIMO) method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jong-Moon Chung, Suhwook Kim, Donghyuk Han, Bonghoe Kim, Joonhyung Kim
  • Peptide domains that bind small molecules of industrial significance
    Patent number: 9447150
    Abstract: Described herein are small peptide domains and consensus sequences that bind small target molecules of industrial importance, e.g., metals such as nickel, ? carotene, and isoflavones such as genistein. Also described are fusion proteins containing such binding domains fused to proteins or to peptide domains like GST or CBD that bind other ligands and can be used to immobilize the target binding domain on a support. One class of fusion proteins that is useful in industrial settings are fusions that contain concatemers of target binding domains, which increases the binding equivalents per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignees: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
    Inventors: Thomas P. Binder, Aragula Gururaj Rao, Yasufumi Yamamoto, Paul D. Hanke
  • Omni-directional shear-horizontal wave magnetostrictive patch transducer and method of winding coil
    Patent number: 9450169
    Abstract: Provided is a transducer. The transducer includes a permanent magnet that generates a magnetostatic field, a patch disposed below the permanent magnet and formed of a material that deforms according to a magnetic field, an insulator disposed on a top surface of the patch, and a coil wound around the patch and the insulator in a certain form and allowing a magnetomotive field to be induced on the patch according to an applied current. The wound coil has a form in which directions of the magnetostatic field generated by the permanent magnet and the magnetomotive field generated by winding the coil are orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Yoon Young Kim, Hong Min Seung, Hoe Woong Kim
  • Use of NK-1 receptor antagonists in management of visceral pain
    Patent number: 9446029
    Abstract: Methods for managing visceral pain in mammalian subjects are described, in which a NK-1 receptor antagonist is administered to the subject before, during or after administration of general anesthesia. The methods and uses of NK-1 receptor antagonists described herein provide improved visceral pain management and MAC reduction when used with volatile anesthetics for general anesthesia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Pedro Boscan, David Twedt
  • Method of inducing a proinflammatory immune response to human ?-lactalbumin
    Patent number: 9446104
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for immunization against human breast cancer are disclosed. A breast cancer vaccine comprises an immunogenic polypeptide comprising human ?-lactalbumin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Vincent K. Tuohy, Justin M. Johnson, Ritika Jaini
  • Tracked ultrasound vessel imaging
    Patent number: 9445780
    Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus, such as including a processor circuit, can be used to construct a first image of a plane parallel to the surface of an ultrasonic imaging transducer, the plane corresponding to a locus at a specified depth within a first region of tissue. The apparatus can obtain information about a location of a vessel in the first image, then obtain, from a second region of tissue, imaging information corresponding to loci in planes parallel to the surface of the transducer, the planes at depths automatically determined at least in part using the obtained information about the location of the vessel in the first image. In an example, the apparatus can automatically determine an adjusted depth corresponding to the location of the vessel in the second region, and construct a second image of a plane corresponding to the adjusted depth within the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: John A. Hossack, Michael I. Fuller, Travis N. Blalock
  • Polyethylene glycol based oligomers for coating nanoparticles, nanoparticles coated therewith, and related methods
    Patent number: 9446152
    Abstract: In a composition aspect of the invention, a nanoparticle coating comprises repeating polyacrylic acid monomers covalently bound together in an aliphatic chain having a plurality of carboxylic acid functional groups and modified carboxylic acid functional groups extending therefrom. A first portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having a terminal methoxy functional group and a second portion of the modified carboxylic acid functional groups are modified by a PEG oligomer having at least one terminal sulfur moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Hedi Mattoussi, Goutam Palui, Hyon Bin Na
  • Kinase inhibitors and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9447158
    Abstract: The present invention relates to kinase inhibiting compositions and uses thereof. The invention further provides isolated kinase inhibiting peptides and uses thereof for inhibiting hyperplasia, for inhibiting the growth of neoplasms, and for inducing programmed cell death in a cell population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Alyssa Panitch, Brandon Seal, Brian Ward
  • Osmotically driven dispense pump and related components for use in high pressure applications
    Patent number: 9447781
    Abstract: A high pressure osmotic dispense pump (10) having a substantially continuous delivery rate and extended delivery times is described and disclosed. The dispense pump (10) includes a semi-permeable membrane (12) which is substantially free of distortions and lateral stretching stresses. The membrane housing (14) and configuration of the present invention allows for consistent and accurate flow rates at the micro-liter level and improved control of the surface area of the semi-permeable membrane (12). This osmotic pump (10) also includes optional methods for activating and deactivating the osmotic process and/or controlling flow rates. Along with these features, the pump can be amplified or modulated to increase the dispense rate and/or adjust the flow rate during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Trent Deem, Phil Ligrani, Bradley C. Hansen
  • FORCE SENSOR AND MULTIAXIAL FORCE/TORQUE SENSOR USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20160265987
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method and apparatus describing a force sensor that includes a ground unit that is a grounded conductor that changes its position according to an external force, and including a flat panel module that is a conductor of a flat panel shape, and a protruding module that is a conductor protruding from a lower surface of the flat panel module, a substrate of a flat panel shape arranged in a predetermined distance from the lower surface of the flat panel module, and having a hole through which the protruding module may be inserted, a first electrode formed on an upper surface of the substrate, to generate a capacitance together with the flat panel module upon receiving power, and a second electrode formed on the substrate, to generate a capacitance together with the protruding module upon receiving power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Research and Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hyouk Ryeol CHOI, Ui Kyum KIM, Dong Hyuk LEE
  • MODIFIED HYDROPHOBIC SPONGES
    Publication number: 20160263552
    Abstract: Articles are provided for absorbing fluids. In embodiments, the articles of the present disclosure are modified to make them hydrophobic, thereby decreasing their affinity for water and similar liquids, while increasing their affinity for other hydrophobic materials, including oil. After use, the articles, in embodiments polyurethane sponges, may have their absorbed materials removed therefrom, and the articles may then be reused to absorb additional materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Benjamin Chu, Benjamin Hsiao, Zhe Wang