Patents Assigned to Institute of Technology
  • Publication number: 20190315628
    Abstract: A two-dimensional hydrogen boride-containing sheet of the present invention has a two-dimensional network that consists of (HB)n (n?4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicants: University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takahiro Kondo, Junji Nakamura, Hiroaki Nishino, Asahi Fujino, Tomohiro Fujimori, Hideo Hosono, Masahiro Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 10446872
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte material represented by Formula 1: L1+2x(M1)1?x(M2)(M3)4??Formula 1 wherein 0.25<x<1, L is at least one element selected from a Group 1 element, M1 is at least one element selected from a Group 2 element, a Group 3 element, a Group 12 element, and a Group 13 element, M2 is at least one element selected from a Group 5 element, a Group 14 element, and a Group 15 element, and M3 is at least one element selected from a Group 16 element, and wherein the solid electrolyte material has an I-4 crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Gerbrand Ceder, Jaechul Kim, Lincoln Miara, William Richards, Tomoyuki Tsujimura, Yan Wang, Naoki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10443054
    Abstract: Cancer invasion is a hallmark of metastasis. The mesenchymal mode of cancer cell invasion is mediated by elongated membrane protrusions driven by the assembly of branched F-actin networks. Described herein are compositions and methods for assessing and treating a subject having metastatic cancer or at risk of developing metastatic cancer, e.g., metastatic breast cancer, through the determination of Lamellipodin protein or gene expression levels in the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
    Inventors: Frank B. Gertler, Guillaume Carmona, Matthias Krause, Upamali Perera
  • Patent number: 10441921
    Abstract: An apparatus for enhanced anti-fouling of a submerged surface includes a bath of a feed liquid that includes water; a fouling structure in contact with the feed liquid; and a gas feed configured to introduce a gas into contact with the fouling structure and the feed liquid to separate the fouling structure from the feed liquid with a gas layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: David Elan Martin Warsinger, Jaichander Swaminathan, John H. Lienhard, Amelia Tepper Servi
  • Patent number: 10444355
    Abstract: Provided are an optical modulating device and a system employing the same. The optical modulating device includes a phase modulator including a meta surface including a nanoantenna configured to couple light incident on the phase modulator, and including a quantum well layer having a multi-quantum well and configured to modulate a phase of light by modulating a refractive index according to an electrical control, and a reflective layer provided at on the phase modulator opposite to a side of the meta surface of the phase modulator and configured to resonate light coupled through the nanoantenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ragip Pala, Harry Atwater, Muhammad Alam, Duhyun Lee, Byunghoon Na, Seunghoon Han
  • Patent number: 10442117
    Abstract: A vent hole cleaning system is disclosed. The cleaning system is comprised of a housing containing a work table and a support column. The system further comprises a robotic arm mounted on the support column. Further, a subsystem is mounted at an end, opposite to the support column, of the robotic arm. The subsystem may comprise a scanner configured to generate a contour profile of a mold. Further, a vision system may be mounted on the subsystem. The vision system may be communicably connected to the scanner. Further, the system may comprise a cleaning head communicably connected to the vision system and the scanner to enable precision positioning on the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, CEAT Tyres Ltd.
    Inventors: Ramesh Kumar Singh, Sachin Alya, Rinku Kumar Mittal, Adbul Rahim, Shashikant Kharat, Pratik Sampatraj Parmar, Kumar Keshav
  • Patent number: 10444007
    Abstract: A spectral imaging system includes an autocorrelator to generate different autocorrelations when the moving reflector in the autocorrelator is at different positions so as to reconstruct spectral images. The system also includes a position measurement system to measure the actual positions of the moving reflector when autocorrelations are taken. These actual locations, instead of the desired locations in conventional methods, are then used to reconstruct the spectral image. This approach can address the misalignment of the moving reflector from its desired location (due to external disturbances, slow actuator dynamics, and other factors) in conventional spectral imaging techniques and allow the development of high-resolution, high-stability, portable imaging spectrometers for the general public.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yi Chen Mazumdar, Ian W. Hunter
  • Patent number: 10446783
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a pair of first electrodes arranged separated from and opposing each other on a first surface of a substrate; a light-emitting layer arranged on at least one of the first electrodes; a second electrode arranged on the light-emitting layer; and a bridge layer connecting the first electrodes. The bridge layer is formed of a material having a resistance that falls within a range of 100 k? to 100 M?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Hosono, Yoshitake Toda, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Naomichi Miyakawa, Satoru Watanabe, Toshinari Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10446259
    Abstract: Integrative analysis of metabolites is essential to obtain a comprehensive view of dysregulated biological pathways leading to a disease. Despite the great potential of metabolites their system level analysis has been limited. Global measurements of the metabolites by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (MS) detects metabolites features changing in a disease. However, identification of each feature is a bottleneck in metabolomics, in which a fraction of them are identified via tandem MS. Consequently, the scarcity of these data add additional barriers to decipher their biological meaning, especially in relation to other 'omic data such as proteomics. To address these challenges, a novel network-based approach called PIUMet is described. PIUMet infers dysregulated pathways and components from the differential metabolite features between control and disease systems without the need for the prior identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Leila Pirhaji, Ernest Fraenkel
  • Patent number: 10442875
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for selective olefin (e.g., ethylene) polymerization comprising metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are generally provided. In some embodiments, a MOF comprises a plurality of metal ions, each coordinated with at least one ligand comprising at least two unsaturated N-heterocyclic aromatic groups arranged about an organic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Mircea Dinca, Robert J. Comito
  • Patent number: 10448407
    Abstract: The embodiments herein disclose a method and system for interference cancellation in a Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) including a base station serving a User Equipment (UE), and a plurality of neighbor base stations. Further, the method includes sharing a parameter associated with the base station serving the UE and the plurality of neighbor base stations in the HetNet. Further, the method includes determining whether the UE is experiencing interference from the neighbor base station based on the parameters. Further, the method includes coordinating with the base station serving the UE to cancel the level of interference experienced by the UE based on the transmission mode associated with each base station serving the UE and the neighbor base station interfering at the UE. The transmission mode is one of a Single-Input and Multiple-Output (SIMO) and Multiple-Output and Multiple-Output (MIMO) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD
    Inventor: Kiran Kumar Kuchi
  • Patent number: 10442982
    Abstract: To deliver surfactants or tracers to underground oil fields, inorganic encapsulated surfactant nanoparticles or microparticles that are stable for several weeks under high temperature and high salt conditions can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Nurxat Nuraje, Yu Lei, Hiroshi Atsumi, Xunpei Liu
  • Patent number: 10441669
    Abstract: Multifunctional chelators, metal complexes thereof, compositions thereof, and methods of making and use in diagnostic imaging and treatment of cellular disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Hyun-Soon Chong
  • Publication number: 20190309357
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein utilized RNA targeting effectors to provide a robust CRISPR-based diagnostic with attomolar sensitivity. Embodiments disclosed herein can detect broth DNA and RNA with comparable levels of sensitivity and can differentiate targets from non-targets based on single base pair differences. Moreover, the embodiments disclosed herein can be prepared in freeze-dried format for convenient distribution and point-of-care (POC) applications. Such embodiments are useful in multiple scenarios in human health including, for example, viral detection, bacterial strain typing, sensitive genotyping, and detection of disease-associated cell free DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Omar ABUDAYYEH, James Joseph COLLINS, Jonathan GOOTENBERG, Feng ZHANG, Eric S. LANDER
  • Publication number: 20190310400
    Abstract: An image sensor includes an optical sensor layer including a plurality of light-sensitive cells configured to sense light to generate electrical signals, and a color filter array layer disposed on the optical sensor layer and including a plurality of color filters respectively facing the plurality of light-sensitive cells. Each of the plurality of color filters includes a nanostructure in which a first material having a first refractive index and a second material having a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index are arranged. The first material and the second material are alternatively positioned at an interval less than a central wavelength of a color of the color filter. Thus, a thin image sensor having good wavelength selectivity and suitable for obtaining high resolution images is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seunghoon HAN, Yu HORIE, Andrei FARAON, Sungwoo HWANG
  • Publication number: 20190307121
    Abstract: Methods related to depositing oil on surfaces and methods related to contacting surfaces at least partially covered by oil with droplets are generally provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Kripa K. Varanasi, Maher Damak, Jolet De Ruiter
  • Publication number: 20190307390
    Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring autofluorescent signals from lipopigments associated with various disease states are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Moungi G. Bawendi, Rakesh Jain, Oliver Thomas Bruns, Jessica Ann Carr, Klaus van Leyen, Wilhelmus Kwanten, Ivy Xiaoyu Chen
  • Publication number: 20190312168
    Abstract: Photovoltaics configured to be manufactured without epitaxial processes and methods for such manufacture are provided. Methods utilize bulk semiconducting crystal substrates, such as, for example, GaAs and InP such that epitaxy processes are not required. Nanowire etch and exfoliation processes are used allowing the manufacture of large numbers of photovoltaic cells per substrate wafer (e.g., greater than 100). Photovoltaic cells incorporate electron and hole selective contacts such that epitaxial heterojunctions are avoided during manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Phillip R. Jahelka, Harry A. Atwater, Wen-Hui Cheng, Rebecca D. Glaudell
  • Publication number: 20190307882
    Abstract: The invention, in some aspects, relates to polypeptide molecules and their encoding nucleic acid molecules and use of such molecules to target opsins to the soma of cells in which they are expressed. Compositions of the invention may be delivered to cells and subjects and used in methods to modulate electrical activity of cells in which they are expressed, and for treatment of diseases and conditions in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Or A. SHEMESH, Changyang LINGHU, Edward BOYDEN
  • Publication number: 20190309325
    Abstract: (Technical problems to be solved) To provide a method for selecting mineral of molybdenum. (Means for solving the problems) Composition comprising M13 phage for separating a substance containing molybdenum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicants: SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo YAMASHITA, Akira MIURA