Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Method and apparatus for medical image registration
    Patent number: 9563949
    Abstract: A method of medical image registration includes obtaining a first medical image generated before a medical surgery; obtaining a second medical image generated in real time during the medical surgery; extracting landmark points of at least two adjacent anatomical objects recognizable in the second medical image among a plurality of anatomical objects near an organ of interest of a patient from the first medical image and the second medical image; and registering the first medical image and the second medical image based on a geometrical correlation among the adjacent anatomical objects indicated by the landmark points of the first medical image and a geometrical correlation among the adjacent anatomical objects indicated by the landmark points of the second medical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Young-kyoo Hwang, Jung-bae Kim, Won-chul Bang, Do-kyoon Kim, Jong-beom Ra, Woo-hyun Nam, Chi-jun Weon
  • Techniques for estimating compound probability distribution by simulating large empirical samples with scalable parallel and distributed processing
    Patent number: 9563725
    Abstract: Techniques for estimated compound probability distribution are described. An apparatus comprising a configuration component, perturbation component, sample generation controller, an aggregation component, a distribution fitting component, and statistics generation component. The configuration component operative to receive a compound model specification and candidate distribution definition. The perturbation component operative to generate a plurality of models from the compound model specification. The sample generation controller operative to initiate the generation of a plurality of compound model samples from each of the plurality of models. The distribution fitting component to generate parameter values for the candidate distribution definition based on the compound model samples. The statistics generation component to generate approximated aggregate statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Mahesh V. Joshi, Richard Potter, Jan Chvosta, Mark Roland Little
  • Capacitance phase interpolation circuit and method thereof, and multi-phase generator applying the same
    Patent number: 9564906
    Abstract: A capacitance phase interpolation circuit including a first capacitance phase interpolation unit and a second capacitance phase interpolation unit is disclosed. The first capacitance phase interpolation unit includes a first capacitance group, wherein a plurality of capacitors in the first capacitance group are in a ring coupling, and the first capacitance phase interpolation unit receives a plurality of reference clock signals. The second capacitance phase interpolation unit is coupled to the first capacitance phase interpolation unit and includes a second capacitance group, wherein a plurality of capacitors in the second capacitance group are in a ring coupling, and each of the output clock signals is obtained via the first capacitance phase interpolation unit and the second capacitance phase interpolation unit by performing phase interpolation on all the reference clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiang Chang, Yu Lee, Nai-Chen Cheng, Ching-Yuan Yang
  • Anti-spp. subunit vaccine
    Patent number: 9561267
    Abstract: Provided in the present invention are anti-Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, especially proteins suitable for being used as the active ingredient of the Mycoplasma spp. subunit vaccines, and a vaccine prepared therefrom. Upon experimenting, it is confirmed that the proteins can elicit an immune response having sufficient strength to avoid the infection of Mycoplasma spp. in pigs. The vaccine can comprise one of the aforementioned proteins as an active ingredient, or can comprise two or more of the proteins to form a form of cocktail vaccine. The vaccine of the present invention is not only more safe than conventional vaccines, but also has equivalent or even better immune effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jiunn-Horng Lin, Jyh-Perng Wang, Ming-Wei Hsieh, Zeng-Weng Chen, Chien-Yu Fang, Hsueh-Tao Liu, Ping-Cheng Yang
  • Method for preparing photoluminescent carbon nanodots
    Patent number: 9562189
    Abstract: A method for preparing photoluminescent carbon nanodots includes preparing and drying a sample, ashing the sample, extracting the ashed sample with solvent, filtering the extracted sample, concentrating the filtered sample, dissolving the sample in water, and freeze-drying the dissolved sample. The sample is preferably a food waste residue or animal excrement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA BASIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyun-Uk Lee, Jou-Hahn Lee, Eun-Sik Park
  • Spammer group extraction apparatus and method
    Patent number: 9563770
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spammer group extraction apparatus and method, which extract spammer groups that interfere with fair trade and unbiased decision making by sending messages aimed at intentionally slandering other companies (other persons, other products, etc.) on social network services. The spammer group extraction apparatus includes a data collection unit for collecting pieces of data corresponding to social network services. A natural language processing unit preprocesses the pieces of data using a natural language processing algorithm based on big data. An abnormal behavior detection unit detects abnormal behavior based on user identifications (IDs) respectively corresponding to pieces of data, preprocessing of which has been completed. A spammer extraction unit extracts a spammer group using a user ID causing the abnormal behavior and an ID of a user group including the user ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Min Sik Kim, Ki Heon Kim, Min Kyung Cho, In Sung Park, Jong Cheoll Moon, Sang Woo Park
  • Method of analyzing 3D geological structure using structure index
    Patent number: 9563602
    Abstract: A method of analyzing a 3D geological structure using a structure index. The method includes the steps of estimating physical property values on common coordinates to calculate two or more physical property models on the same 3D grid (L×M×N); normalizing the physical property models, thus obtaining normalized physical property models which are then represented in a scatter plot of physical properties; converting distribution positions of the normalized physical property models on the scatter plot of physical properties into type angle (TA) and into type intensity (TI); determining a minimum of TI values, which classifies two or more classes on a scatter plot of the TA and TI values, to be a threshold; and analyzing the 3D geological structure based on a local extreme point and/or points in the scatter plot for the TA and TI using the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Gyesoon Park, Chul-Ho Heo
  • One-way transmission and reception with delayed TCP ACK message and monitoring for UDP and TCP frames
    Patent number: 9565162
    Abstract: A one-way data transmission and reception system and method, which mitigate the problem of a buffer overflow that may occur on a reception system while also mitigating the problem of data loss caused by a link error that may occur in the unidirectional line of a physical one-way data transmission system. The one-way data transmission system includes a first interface unit connected to a first network. A second interface unit is unidirectionally connected to a reception system connected to a second network. An interface integration module unit transmits a delayed Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Acknowledgement (ACK) frame to a TCP session established with a device of the first network unit through the first interface unit, and transmits one or more identical data frames to the reception system through the second interface unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Dongwook Kim, Byunggil Min, Yeop Jang, Woonyon Kim, Jungtaek Seo
  • Hybrid silicon and carbon clathrates
    Patent number: 9564633
    Abstract: A composition comprising a Type 1 clathrate of silicon having a Si46 framework cage structure wherein the silicon atoms on said framework are at least partially substituted by carbon atoms, said composition represented by the formula CySi46-y with 1?y?45. The composition of may include one or more guest atoms A within the cage structure represented by the formula AxCySi46-y wherein A=H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr, Be, Mg, Ca. Sr, Ba, Ra, Eu, Cl, Br, or I or any metal or metalloid element and x is the number of said guest atoms within said cage structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwai S. Chan, Michael A. Miller
  • Robot motion data processing system using motion data reduction/restoration compatible to hardware limits
    Patent number: 9561591
    Abstract: A robot motion data processing system has a data extraction module for intermittently extracting restoration motion data from a successive input motion trajectory formed for controlling a motion of a robot, and a data restoration module for restoring an output motion trajectory approximate to the input motion trajectory by using restoration motion data extracted from the data extraction module. The output motion trajectory is restored to satisfy a condition that the robot operating according to the output motion trajectory does not exceed a hardware operation limit of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Doik Kim, Jung Min Park, Sungon Lee, Jaeyoung Park, Seokmin Hong
  • Method of non-destructive evaluation of intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSSC) in structural components made of metal alloys, and the method of lifetime evaluation of the structural components
    Patent number: 9562843
    Abstract: A method of non-destructive evaluation of stress corrosion cracking of structural components made of metal alloys, and a method of evaluation of the remaining lifetime of the structural component made of metal alloys are provided, in which a change in properties of the structural components made of metal alloys being used in operating nuclear power plants is measured according to the degree of atomic ordering (or short range ordering) of alloying atoms, and stress corrosion cracking of the structural components made of metal alloys is thus evaluated. The properties to be measured may be one or more selected from a group consisting of hardness, electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Young-Suk Kim, Sung-Soo Kim, Dae-Whan Kim
  • Method for producing hexagonal boron nitride film using borazine oligomer as a precursor
    Patent number: 9562287
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a high-quality boron nitride film grown by using a borazine oligomer as a precursor through a metal catalyst effect. The method solves the problems, such as control of a gaseous precursor and vapor pressure control, occurring in CVD (Chemical vapor deposition) according to the related art, and a high-quality hexagonal boron nitride film is obtained through a simple process at low cost. In addition, the hexagonal boron nitride film may be coated onto various structures and materials. Further, selective coating is allowed so as to carry out coating in a predetermined area and scale-up is also allowed. Therefore, the method may be useful for coating applications of composite materials and various materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Myung Jong Kim, Sungchan Park, Hyunjin Cho, Sukang Bae, Jin-Hyung Park, Jung Ho Kang, Sang Ook Kang, Changhyup Lee
  • Method for preparing controlled release fertilizer with water-based coating on the basis of closed circulating fluidized bed, and device therefor
    Patent number: 9561988
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making a controlled release fertilizer with water-based coating using a closed large numerically controlled fluidized bed and a device therefor: collecting a granular fertilizer with a suitable granule size into a barrel; sucking the same into a coating cavity by negative pressure and making the same fluid; directing a water-based coating liquid into a spray gun, then spraying the liquid onto the surface of the fertilizer granules after nebulization; collecting the impurities in the air discharged from the coating cavity by means of a cyclone separator; dehumidifying the air discharged from the cyclone separator by means of a fluidized drying tower; and then the coating is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF SOIL CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Changwen Du, Yazhen Shen, Jianmin Zhou
  • Autonomous vehicle assistance device
    Patent number: 9562777
    Abstract: Provided is an autonomous vehicle assistance device and method that may precisely determine a position of a vehicle based on input position error information. The autonomous vehicle assistance device includes a communicator configured to receive satellite navigation information, correction information transmitted from a base station, and position error information transmitted from a fixed body, and a vehicle position determiner configured to calculate first position information corresponding to the received satellite navigation information and correction information and to calculate a current position of a vehicle by correcting the first position information based on the position error information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Woo Yong Kang
  • Standard plasmid for assaying genetically modified organism, and analysis method and assay kit using same
    Patent number: 9562267
    Abstract: Provided is a standard plasmid for assaying a genetically modified plant, a method for quantitatively analyzing a target transgene within the genetically modified plant using the standard plasmid, and a kit for quantitatively analyzing the genetically modified plant including the standard plasmid, wherein the standard plasmid of the present invention is possible to be utilized for assaying a genome containing a 5-enoyl-4-pyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) gene or a cry1Ab gene, and in particular, significantly useful as a standard material capable of analyzing whether the genetically modified plant such as soybean RRS or GM maize MON810 is incorporated or an incorporation ratio thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Hyong Ha Kim, Woo Jeong Kim, Su Kyung Lee, Jung Keun Suh, Young Hye Seo
  • Anti-CD40 antibodies
    Patent number: 9562104
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for the expression, secretion and use of novel compositions for use as, e.g., vaccines and antigen delivery vectors, to delivery antigens to antigen presenting cells. In one embodiment, the vector is an anti-CD40 antibody, or fragments thereof, and one or more antigenic peptides linked to the anti-CD40 antibody or fragments thereof, including humanized antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: BAYLOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jacques F. Banchereau, Gerard Zurawski, Sandra Zurawski, SangKon Oh
  • Constructing custom knowledgebases and sequence datasets with publications
    Patent number: 9563741
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of custom knowledgebases and sequence datasets, as well as related methods, are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, one or more computer-readable media may comprise a custom knowledgebase and an associated sequence dataset. The custom knowledgebase may comprise a plurality of assertions that have been automatically extracted from a plurality of publications, where each of the plurality of assertions encodes a relationship between a subject and an object. The sequence dataset may comprise a plurality of called biological sequences, where each of the plurality of called biological sequences is associated with one or more of the plurality of assertions of the custom knowledgebase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: William Eugene Dunbar Godbold, Boyu Yang
  • Method for producing lactide directly from lactic acid and a catalyst used therein
    Patent number: 9561492
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for directly producing lactide by subjecting lactic acid to a dehydration reaction in the presence of a catalyst comprising a tin compound, preferably, a tin (IV) compound, wherein lactide can be produced directly or by one step from lactic acid, without going through the step of producing or separating lactic acid oligomer. The method of the present invention has advantages of causing no loss of lactic acid, having a high conversion ratio to lactic acid and a high selectivity to optically pure lactide, and maintaining a long life time of the catalyst. Further, since lactic acid oligomer is not or hardly generated and the selectivity of meso-lactide is low, the method also has an advantage that the cost for removing or purifying this can be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dong Won Hwang, Jong-San Chang, Pravin P. Upare, U-Hwang Lee, Young Kyu Hwang
  • Engineered glass seals for solid-oxide fuel cells
    Patent number: 9564643
    Abstract: A seal for a solid oxide fuel cell includes a glass matrix having glass percolation therethrough and having a glass transition temperature below 650° C. A deformable second phase material is dispersed in the glass matrix. The second phase material can be a compliant material. The second phase material can be a crushable material. A solid oxide fuel cell, a precursor for forming a seal for a solid oxide fuel cell, and a method of making a seal for a solid oxide fuel cell are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: UT-BATTELLE, LLC, BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wayne Surdoval, Edgar Lara-Curzio, Jeffry Stevenson, Joseph Thomas Muth, Beth L. Armstrong, Amit Shyam, Rosa M. Trejo, Yanli Wang, Yeong Shyung Chou, Travis Ray Shultz
  • Method of generating implicit terrain data by performing lossless compression and lossy compression and electronic apparatus for performing the method
    Patent number: 9563969
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of generating implicit terrain data and an electronic apparatus for performing the method, and more particularly to a method of generating implicit terrain data and an electronic apparatus which are capable of minimizing a size of data while maintaining geographical quality of original terrain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNCATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sang Won Ghyme, II Kwon Jeong