Patents Assigned to INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANCATS
  • Publication number: 20240292763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic transistor including a body including at least an electrolyte structure, a channel provided in contact with the electrolyte structure, a gate provided in contact with the electrolyte structure; at least three contact elements configured to be connected to an external circuit, at least one of the contact elements, referenced as a Gate contact element, being separated from the electrolyte structure by the gate, and the other contact elements, referenced as a Source contact element and a Drain contact element, being interconnected and being separated from the electrolyte structure by the channel. The electrolyte structure includes an oxygen ion conducting electrolyte structure, the oxygen ion conducting electrolyte structure including a BiMEVOX structure, Bi is Bismuth, ME is a Metal, V is Vanadium and OX is an OXide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE RECERCA EN ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Albert TARANCÓN RUBIO, Francesco CHIABRERA, Iñigo GARBAYO SENOSIAIN, Nerea ALAYO BUENO, Alex MORATA GARCÍA, Yunqing TANG
  • Publication number: 20240210337
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system and a method of analysing a physiological condition in an analyte. In particular, the disclosure pertains to systems, components of such systems, and methods of analysing a physiological condition in an analyte using hyperpolarization (HP) and magnetic resonance (MR) techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicants: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Irene MARCO RIUS, Jose YESTE LOZANO, Alba HERRERO GÓMEZ, Marc AZAGRA RODRÍGUEZ, Maria Alejandra ORTEGA MACHUCA, Javier RAMÓN AZCÓN
  • Patent number: 11994651
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a structured surface, includes: providing a transparent substrate; disposing a dewettable film over the substrate; annealing the dewettable film to form a plurality of islands; forming a coating over the plurality of islands; and etching the plurality of islands to form a structured array of surface features in the coating. A structured polymer and/or structured glass, includes: a structured array of surface features, such that the structured array of surface features has at least one dimension in a range of 0.5 nm to 5000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÒNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Prantik Mazumder, Valerio Pruneri, Juan Rombaut
  • Publication number: 20240137215
    Abstract: An optical system configured to apply a relative phase modulation between two orthogonal polarization modes using a double pass configuration, wherein the system is configured to act independently on each polarization state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: Fundació Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
    Inventors: Ignacio López GRANDE, Abigail STEIN, Valerio PRUNERI
  • Patent number: 11943548
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method using no switching elements for multiplexing and reading arrays of sensors whose electrical resistance is modulated by the signals to be measured are proposed. Sensor elements are arranged in groups and columns where each column is fed with a continuous voltage waveform of different amplitude, frequency and phase characteristics which then produce current signals that are modulated by the variable resistance signals to be measured. Modulated currents are summed row-wise and collected at the read-out circuits, either by applying a constant voltage to each row of the array or by connecting a capacitor and converting these current summations into output voltage signals. The read-out circuits de-multiplex each individual sensor signal to be measured by lock-in demodulation according to the frequencies and phases employed for the stimulation of each column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS (CSIC), UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA, FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT CATALÀ DE NANOCIÈNCIA I NANOTECNOLOGIA (ICN2), INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Anton Guimerà Brunet, Lluis Antoni Terés Terés, Michele Dei, Jose Agustín Cisneros Fernández, Francisco Serra Graells, José Antonio Garrido Ariza
  • Patent number: 11939394
    Abstract: The invention provides means and methods for inhibiting growth of a cancer. The means in some embodiments comprise proteins and antibodies that binds an extracellular part of a membrane associated member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor family and an extracellular part of a membrane associated member of a WNT signaling pathway. Further provided are various cells and assays that are helpful in the production of the proteins, antibodies and cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Merus N.V., Fundacio Institut de Recerca Biomedica, Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avancats
    Inventors: Mark Throsby, Ton Logtenberg, Johannes Carolus Clevers, Robert Gerhardus Jacob Vries, Eduard Batlle, Bram Herpers
  • Patent number: 11898963
    Abstract: Identifying 3D objects A method for identification of 3D objects comprises illuminating at least part of a 3D object with electromagnetic radiation, spectroscopically obtaining spectral data for one or more regions of the 3D object, and generating, at a data processing apparatus, an identification result for the 3D object using a trained machine learning model. The trained machine learning model processes the obtained spectral data for the one or more regions to generate one or more model outputs from which the identification result is derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÒNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Valerio Pruneri, Mehmet Alican Noyan, Anatoly Grudinin
  • Patent number: 11892473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system comprising an electronic apparatus which comprises: —an electronic device comprising: —a gate electrode (G, BE); —a dielectric (D) arranged over the gate electrode (G, BE); and —a charge sensing structure (CE) with a 2-dimensional charge sensing layer to provide a gate capacitance (Cg) between the charge sensing structure (CE) and the gate electrode structure (G, BE) and a quantum capacitance (Cq) resulting in a total capacitance (Ctot); —a voltage detector to detect an output voltage (Vo) stored in the total capacitance (Ctot). The system further comprises means to apply a gate voltage (Vg) to the gate electrode structure (G, BE) selected to: —make the device operate around most sensitive point of fermi level of the charge sensing structure (CE); and —tune the quantum capacitance (Cq). The present invention also relates to an electronic apparatus adapted to allow the tuning of its quantum capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÒNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANçATS
    Inventors: Stijn Goossens, Frank Koppens, Gerasimos Konstantatos
  • Publication number: 20240016430
    Abstract: Methods are provided of measuring and improving attention of a person with first and second eyes. These methods include: displaying one or more stimuli aimed at attracting attention of the person; obtaining, through an eye tracker, positions of the first and second eyes over time; calculating, from the obtained positions of the first and second eyes, a gaze direction evolution for each of the eyes and corresponding angular velocity evolution for each of the gaze directions; determining a motion synchrony evolution of the first and second eyes by comparing the calculated angular velocity evolution of the first eye with the calculated angular velocity evolution of the second eye; and measuring the attention of the person depending on the determined motion synchrony evolution. Computer programs, systems and computer systems that are suitable to perform such methods of measuring and improving attention are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: Universitat De Barcelona, Institució Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avançats
    Inventor: Hendrik Anne SUPÈR
  • Publication number: 20240011982
    Abstract: A method involves detecting in a sample an autoantibody binding specifically to one or more from Gluk1, Gluk2, Gluk3, Gluk4 and Gluk5, preferably Gluk2. An autoantibody binds specifically to one or more from Gluk1, Gluk2, Gluk3, Gluk4 and Gluk5, preferably Gluk2. A diagnostically useful carrier with a solid phase with an immobilized polypeptide contains one or more from Gluk1, Gluk2, Gluk3, Gluk4 and Gluk5, preferably Gluk2 or a variant thereof. The autoantibody can be used for diagnosing a neurological autoimmune disease or a cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: FUNDACIÓ DE RECERCA CLINIC BARCELONA-INSTITUTE D'INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
    Inventors: Josep Dalmau, Lidia Sabater, Francesc Graus
  • Publication number: 20230414649
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel compounds comprising antisense oligonucleotides that regulate the splicing of NUMB. In particular, an antisense oligonucleotide for reducing inclusion of NUMB exon 9 in a population of mature NUMB transcripts is provided. The antisense oligonucleotide comprises a sequence of at least 7 nucleotides that is complementary to a target region within exon 9 of a NUMB transcript. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antisense oligonucleotide and methods of treating a proliferative disease using the compounds or compositions of the invention are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: FUNDACIÓ CENTRE DE REGULACIÓ GENÒMMICA, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS, FUNDACIÓN DEL SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONSE ONCO
    Inventors: Jordi HERNÁNDEZ RIBERA, Juan Alberto VALCÁRCEL JUÁREZ, ELIAS BECHARA, Manuel SERRANO MARUGÁN, Miguel ROVIRA DEL OLMO, Pablo José FERNÁNDEZ MARCOS
  • Publication number: 20230357057
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method to prepare a graphene coated sponge comprising: filling mineral wool with a solution comprising graphene material by successive squeezing to obtain a mineral wool soaked with graphene material; transferring the mineral wool soaked with graphene material into a hydrothermal reactor and submitting it to heating from 60 to 240° C. for 5 minutes to 72 hours to have graphene material bonded to mineral wool and cleaning the heated material to remove the unbonded graphene material and reaction by-products from the graphene coated mineral wool. The present invention also relates to a graphene coated sponge obtained by the mentioned method and the use of such graphene sponge as water-treating agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicants: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Fundació Institut Català de Recerca de l'Aigua (ICRA)
    Inventors: Jelena RADJENOVIC, Luis Miguel BAPTISTA PIRES, Giannis-Florjan NORRA, Nick DUINSLAEGER
  • Patent number: 11811378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device, comprising: —a GFET; —noise suppression means comprising: —a modulation unit applying to a gate (G) of the GFET a signal Vg with frequency fm to modulate charge carrier density of a graphene channel around the charge neutrality point between charge carrier density values at frequency fm, —a control unit (CU), and—a demodulation circuit which is CMOS-implemented and that: —comprises first and second circuital branches alternately switchable to demodulate an electrical signal of frequency fm; or—is configured to generate and apply a signal Vb with frequency fmb to a source (S) of the GFET continuously, simultaneously and with a delay td to induce a phase with respect to Vg to yield a maximal demodulated output signal (So). The present invention also concerns to a method for suppressing noise for the device of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: FUNDACIÓ, INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTÒNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Stijn Goossens, Frank Koppens, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Carles Monasterio
  • Publication number: 20230346977
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides gene constructs containing a nucleic acid sequences encoding a mammalian s-KL, operatively linked to a muscle cell-specific promoter, for use in the treatment of motor impairment that may manifest, for example, in a neuromuscular disorder or disease, utilizing viral and non-viral vectors with muscle cell and motor neuron tropisms containing gene constructs containing a nucleic acid sequence encoding a mammalian s-KL, operatively linked to a promoter such as a muscle cell-specific promoter, is delivered in pharmaceutical compositions containing the expression vector, isolated cells containing the expression vector, and methods of treating motor impairment and motor neuron diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Consorcio Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron-Institut de Recerca
    Inventors: Assumpció Bosch Merino, Sergi Verdés Franquesa, Mireia Herrando Grabulosa, Xavier Navarro Acebes, Miguel Chillon Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20230291174
    Abstract: A method for physical random number generation includes the steps of: modulating the gain of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser periodically from the lower threshold to the upper threshold and back; maintaining the gain per round trip positive for a longer period than the round trip time of the cavity; maintaining the net gain per round trip negative for a longer period than the round trip time of the cavity, in order to create optical pulses of random amplitude; detecting the optical pulses; converting the optical pulses into electrical analog pulses; and digitising the electrical analog pulses into random numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avancats
    Inventors: Valerio PRUNERI, Carlos ABELLAN SANCHEZ, Waldimar AMAYA, Morgan MITCHELL
  • Patent number: 11710758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optoelectronic apparatus, comprising: —an optoelectronic device comprising: —a transport structure (T) comprising a 2-dimensional layer; —a photosensitizing structure (P) to absorb incident light and induce changes in the electrical conductivity of the transport structure (T); and—drain (D) and source (S) electrodes electrically connected to the transport structure (T); —a read-out unit to read an electrical signal, generated at a transport channel of the transport structure (T), after an integration time interval tint has passed, and during a taccess that is at least 10 times shorter than tint, wherein tint is longer than a predetermined trapping time ?tr. The present invention also relates to a reading-out method, comprising performing the operations of the read-out unit of the apparatus of the invention, and to the use of the apparatus as a light detector or as an image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÔNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Stijn Goossens, Frank Koppens, Gerasimos Konstantatos
  • Patent number: 11705248
    Abstract: System and computer-implemented method for detecting and categorizing pathologies through an analysis of pulsatile blood flow. The method has a pulsatile blood flow signal of a subject, extracting a set of features from the pulsatile blood flow signal; and categorizing a pathology based on the extracted features. The extracted features may be predetermined features or features learned through a machine learning algorithm. For the categorization, a classification or a regression algorithm may be used to provide an index or a value score as a biomarker. Additional static features of the subject may be used in the categorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES, INSTITUCIO CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANCATS, HEMOPHOTONICS, S.L.
    Inventors: Turgut Durduran, Jonas Fischer, Ameer Ghouse, Udo Weigel
  • Patent number: 11686680
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for probing a sample comprising a light source for emitting an illuminating light beam, a birefringent element for splitting the illuminating light beam into two sheared beams, a reflective element for reflecting the two sheared beams, wherein the apparatus is configured such that the reflected beams propagate through the birefringent element for recombining the reflected beams, and a detector for detecting the recombined beam, wherein the sample is arrangeable in the optical path of the sheared beams or at the backside of a reflective surface in the optical path of the sheared beams, the reflective surface exhibiting a surface plasmon resonance or a localized surface plasmon resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES FOTÔNIQUES, INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS
    Inventors: Valerio Pruneri, Roland Alfonso Terborg, Josselin Pello, Marc Jofre, Pedro Martinez
  • Patent number: 11672816
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel compounds comprising antisense oligonucleotides that regulate the splicing of NUMB. In particular, an antisense oligonucleotide for reducing inclusion of NUMB exon 9 in a population of mature NUMB transcripts is provided. The antisense oligonucleotide comprises a sequence of at least 7 nucleotides that is complementary to a target region within exon 9 of a NUMB transcript. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antisense oligonucleotide and methods of treating a proliferative disease using the compounds or compositions of the invention are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS, FUNDACIÓ CENTRE DE REGULACIÓ GENÒMICA, FUNDACIÓN DEL SECTOR PÚBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACION
    Inventors: Jordi Hernández Ribera, Juan Alberto Valcárcel Juárez, Elias Bechara, Manuel Serrano Marugán, Miguel Rovira Del Olmo, Pablo José Fernández Marcos
  • Publication number: 20230053910
    Abstract: A method involves detecting in a sample an autoantibody binding specifically to one or more from Gluk1, Gluk2, Gluk3, Gluk4 and Gluk5, preferably Gluk2. An autoantibody binds specifically to one or more from Gluk1, Gluk2, Gluk3, Gluk4 and Gluk5, preferably Gluk2. A diagnostically useful carrier with a solid phase with an immobilized polypeptide contains one or more from Gluk1, Gluk2, Gluk3, Gluk4 and Gluk5, preferably Gluk2 or a variant thereof. The autoantibody can be used for diagnosing a neurological autoimmune disease or a cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Fundació Clinic per a la Recerca Biomèdica (FCRB)
    Inventors: Josep Dalmau, Lidia Sabater, Francesc Graus