Patents Assigned to Fukuoka University
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Publication number: 20240274272Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor that performs an object detection to detect an object from a detection target image. The processor divides the detection target image into a group of first grid cells. The object is positioned to overlap a group of second grid cells included in the group of the first grid cells. At this time, the processor generates a bounding box in a respective second grid cell included in the group of the second grid cells. The processor surrounds a portion of the object positioned in the respective second grid cell with the bounding box generated in the respective second grid cell and displays, on a display, a position and shape of the object by a collection of a plurality of bounding boxes superimposedly on the detection target image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, National University Corporation OITA UNIVERSITY, Fukuoka Institute of TechnologyInventors: Toshiya KAMIYAMA, Makoto ISHIKAKE, Yusaku FUJITA, Tatsushi TOKUYASU, Yusuke MATSUNOBU, Masafumi INOMATA, Tsuyoshi ETOH, Yuichi ENDO, Kosuke SUZUKI, Youhei KOUNO, Hiroaki NAKANUMA, Yoshinori SHIRASAKA, Atsuro FUJINAGA
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Publication number: 20240180476Abstract: A muscle relaxation monitoring device monitors the state of muscle relaxation without placing an excessive burden on the patient. The muscle relaxation monitoring device has a current stimulator to supply a stimulating current to muscles of a patient, a reaction detector to detect a stimulus response of the muscle stimulated by the current stimulator. The stimulating current supplied to the muscles of the patient before the application of the muscle relaxant and the stimulating response corresponding to the stimulating current value are recorded in a memory, and when the stimulating response is saturated, the stimulating current value immediately before saturation is used as the optimum current value to be supplied to the patient after administration of the muscle relaxant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, Medical Strings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki SUGI, Yukito KAWAKAMI, Makoto TAROUMARU
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Patent number: 11986303Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes a heart rate counting unit for measuring an HR value indicating a heart rate on a basis of heart-rate data obtained by capturing heartbeats when a subject to be measured exercises, an analysis unit for performing power spectrum analysis on a heart rate variability frequency of the heart-rate data to calculate an LF value which is an integral value of low frequency components, and a detection unit for obtaining an HR/LF value by dividing the HR value by the LF value with respect to exercise intensity of the subject to be measured.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Fukuoka UniversityInventors: Yoshinari Uehara, Takuro Matsuda, Yukiya Tanoue
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Publication number: 20240124834Abstract: Provided is a cell sheet support that satisfactory adheres to cultured cell and has biodegradability. The cell sheet support contains a first polymer containing a structural unit derived from p-dioxanone. The cell sheet support further contains a second polymer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of polylactic acid, polyglycolic acid, polycaproic acid, and copolymers thereof. The content ratio of the first polymer to the total amount of the first polymer and the second polymer is not less than 50% by mass. The cell sheet support has a sheet shape having an average thickness of 10 ?m to 150 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Mai HAZEKAWA, Shigeru YAO
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Publication number: 20240093227Abstract: Provided is an oligonucleotide which may induce an editing activity of ADRC in cell and has excellent stability in a living body. The oligonucleotide includes a first oligonucleotide identifying a target RNA and a second oligonucleotide linked to the 5?-side of the first oligonucleotide. The first oligonucleotide consists of a target-corresponding nucleotide residue, an oligonucleotide of 10 to 24 residues at the 3?-side, and an oligonucleotide of 3 to 6 residues at the 5?-side. The second oligonucleotide has no nucleotide residue corresponding to a nucleotide residue of the target RNA or has a nucleotide residue which does not form a complementary pair at the 3?-end thereof and the number of residue is 3 to 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masatora FUKUDA, Makoto KOIZUMI, Shinzo IWASHITA
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Patent number: 11786478Abstract: A bubble manufacturing container of the present invention includes: a container body having an opening portion; and a rubber stopper provided on the opening portion of the container body. The rubber stopper is constituted so that the bubbles 1 of an inside of the container body are able to be taken by piercing an injection needle. It is preferred that the bubble manufacturing container has a fastening portion provided on the rubber stopper, having an opening and sealing the container body with the rubber stopper. Furthermore, it is preferred that the container body mounts a weight portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignees: SONOCORE, INC., FUKUOKA UNIVERSITYInventor: Katsuro Tachibana
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Patent number: 11746202Abstract: Provided is a method for modifying a polypropylene resin molded body with a side chain crystalline block copolymer having a long alkane chain in a side chain, having a good interaction force with the polypropylene resin molded body, and having a function capable of modifying surface characteristics. Also provided is a modified polypropylene resin molded body. The method for modifying a polypropylene resin molded body includes a step of contacting a copolymer solution including a side chain crystalline block copolymer with a polypropylene resin molded body at a temperature of the copolymer solution of 40 to 120° C. The modified polypropylene resin molded body includes a base material of the polypropylene resin molded body and a site that includes the side chain crystalline block copolymer in at least part of the base material.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Shigeru Yao, Sho Hirai, Hideaki Obuchi, Ryoko Nakano, Tomohito Uchino
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Publication number: 20230265431Abstract: Provided is a short-chain guide RNA that is able to induce site-specific editing even when only a small number of nucleotides is attached to the target recognition site. The guide RNA includes a first oligonucleotide that identifies the target RNA, and a second oligonucleotide that links to the 3? end of the first oligonucleotide. The first oligonucleotide contains: a target-corresponding nucleotide residue that corresponds to an adenosine residue in the target RNA; an oligonucleotide of 15 to 30 residues that links to the 5? end of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and that has a base sequence complementary to the target RNA; and an oligonucleotide of 3 or 4 residues that links to the 3? end of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and that has a base sequence complementary to the target RNA. The second oligonucleotide contains 2 to 24 nucleotide residues, and induces site-specific editing of the target RNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Masatora FUKUDA
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Patent number: 11643658Abstract: Provided is a short-chain guide RNA that is able to induce site-specific editing even when only a small number of nucleotides is attached to the target recognition site. The guide RNA includes a first oligonucleotide that identifies the target RNA, and a second oligonucleotide that links to the 3? end of the first oligonucleotide. The first oligonucleotide contains: a target-corresponding nucleotide residue that corresponds to an adenosine residue in the target RNA; an oligonucleotide of 15 to 30 residues that links to the 5? end of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and that has a base sequence complementary to the target RNA; and an oligonucleotide of 3 or 4 residues that links to the 3? end of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and that has a base sequence complementary to the target RNA. The second oligonucleotide contains 2 to 24 nucleotide residues, and induces site-specific editing of the target RNA.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Masatora Fukuda
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Publication number: 20230136938Abstract: An object of the present invention is to find a useful means for removing an intraocular membrane. The present invention relates to an agent for use in intraocular membrane peeling surgery, which contains a solution containing a hydrogel-forming material and satisfies the following formula 1 with respect to the dynamic viscoelasticity measured at a temperature of 25 to 40° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz. 0<Vmax?3??(Formula 1) Provided that in the formula 1, Vmax (Pa/sec) is the maximum change rate of the storage elastic modulus after the initiation of gelation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, SEIKAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio HISATOMI, Kiyoshi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20230061732Abstract: An oligonucleotide that induces a site-specific editing for a target RNA, the oligonucleotide including a first oligonucleotide that specifies the target RNA, a second oligonucleotide that is linked to the 3?-side of the first oligonucleotide, a third oligonucleotide that is capable of forming a complementary pair together with the second oligonucleotide, and a first linking portion that links the second oligonucleotide and the third oligonucleotide. The first oligonucleotide is composed of a target-corresponding nucleotide residue that corresponds to an adenosine residue in the target RNA; an oligonucleotide of 10 to 30 residues linked to the 5?-side of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and having a base sequence complementary to the target RNA; and an oligonucleotide of 3-6 residues linked to the 3?-side of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and having a base sequence complementary to the target RNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masatora FUKUDA, Makoto KOIZUMI, Shinzo IWASHITA
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Publication number: 20220275359Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a guide RNA. [Solution] A guide RNA for editing a target RNA sequence, comprising an antisense nucleotide sequence complementary to a portion of the target RNA sequence, a short-chain ADAR-recruiting nucleotide sequence, and at least one functional nucleotide sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicants: Astellas Pharma Inc., Fukuoka UniversityInventors: Eiji YOSHIMI, Yukari MORIYA, Mariko MANDA, Masatora FUKUDA
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Publication number: 20220233599Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition containing mesenchymal stem cells that exhibit excellent therapeutic effects on various diseases, injured parts, wounds and decubitus. The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating a non-porcine animal, the pharmaceutical composition includes a neonatal pig-derived mesenchymal stem cell which produces at least one humoral factor selected from TGF-?1, TGF-?2, VEGF-A and VEGF-C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY, INC.Inventors: Shohta KODAMA, Masuhiro NISHIMURA, Shinichi MATSUMOTO, Osamu SAWAMOTO
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Patent number: 11390865Abstract: A method for inducing a site-directed RNA mutation is provided. The method includes repairing an RNA mutation by converting target adenosine, which is located at a target editing site of a target RNA, into inosine. The method for inducing a site-directed RNA mutation involves reacting the target RNA having a target adenosine with a target editing guide, which has been constructed so as to form a complementary strand with target RNA, to form a double-stranded complex, and converting the target adenosine to inosine by causing ADAR to act on the double-stranded complex, inducing A-to-I editing capability. The converted inosine is further translated into guanosine.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Masatora Fukuda, Hiromitsu Umeno
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Publication number: 20220176016Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing, by a method in which an expensive manufacturing apparatus is not required, an implant material having osteoconductivity superior to that of an implant material containing an aromatic polyether ketone. The present invention pertains to: said method including immersing an aromatic polyether ketone in a strong base solution in the absence of a calcium ion, and immersing an aromatic polyether ketone, which is obtained by the immersing, in a liquid containing a phosphorus-containing compound; and an implant material obtained by said method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY, SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, FUKUOKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Takumi Okihara, Yoshiki Takada, Naoto Saito, Kaoru Aoki, Naoyuki Nishimura, Hisao Haniu, Shigeaki Moriyama, Katsuya Ueda
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Publication number: 20210228675Abstract: A composition for inhibiting the formation of hypertrophic scar, comprising at least one of a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence having a dipeptide sequence represented by Pro-Hyp or Hyp-Gly, a chemically-modified form thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, NITTA GELATIN INC.Inventors: Shiro JIMI, Masahiko KIMURA, Naoki INOUE, Maiko SHIMIZU, Seiko KOIZUMI
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Patent number: 10959960Abstract: A bubble manufacturing container 20 of the present invention includes: a container body 21 having an opening portion; and a rubber stopper 221 provided on the opening portion of the container body 21. The rubber stopper 221 is constituted so that the bubbles 1 of an inside of the container body 21 are able to be taken by piercing an injection needle. It is preferred that the bubble manufacturing container 20 has a fastening portion 222 provided on the rubber stopper 221, having an opening and sealing the container body 21 with the rubber stopper 221. Furthermore, it is preferred that the container body 21 mounts a weight portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: SonoCore, Inc., Fukuoka UniversityInventor: Katsuro Tachibana
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Publication number: 20200392496Abstract: Provided is a short-chain guide RNA that is able to induce site-specific editing even when only a small number of nucleotides is attached to the target recognition site. The guide RNA includes a first oligonucleotide that identifies the target RNA, and a second oligonucleotide that links to the 3? end of the first oligonucleotide. The first oligonucleotide contains: a target-corresponding nucleotide residue that corresponds to an adenosine residue in the target RNA; an oligonucleotide of 15 to 30 residues that links to the 5? end of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and that has a base sequence complementary to the target RNA; and an oligonucleotide of 3 or 4 residues that links to the 3? end of the target-corresponding nucleotide residue and that has a base sequence complementary to the target RNA. The second oligonucleotide contains 2 to 24 nucleotide residues, and induces site-specific editing of the target RNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicants: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Masatora FUKUDA
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Patent number: 10721848Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a high-quality manufacturing object by using component information per unit of individual electronic component or per unit of package in a plurality of electronic components that have been packaged. The manufacturing apparatus is a manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a product by taking out each electronic component from packaged components in which a plurality of electronic components are packaged.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignees: Fukuoka University, Zuken, Inc., Fuji CorporationInventors: Hajime Tomokage, Yoshihisa Katoh, Hidemichi Kawase, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hirohiko Matsuzawa, Kazuhiro Kusunoki, Hiroshi Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20200078409Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition contains adipose tissue derived reproductive cells including adipose stem cells, vascular endothelial cells and vascular pericytes. The composition is administrated into an intrauterine cavity of a subject and used for treatment of infertility. A method for producing the pharmaceutical composition includes treating an adipose tissue with a disaggregation agent to obtain a disaggregated tissue; concentrating reproductive cells from the disaggregated tissue by centrifugal separation treatment; and recovering concentrated reproductive cells. A method for treatment of infertility of a subject includes administering a pharmaceutical composition into an intrauterine cavity of a subject. The pharmaceutical composition contains adipose tissue derived reproductive cells including adipose stem cells, vascular endothelial cells and vascular pericytes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: FUKUOKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Shingo MIYAMOTO, Fusanori YOTSUMOTO