Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Modified foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) VP1 capsid protein
    Patent number: 9457075
    Abstract: The present invention provides a foot-and-mouth diseases virus (FMDV) VP1 capsid protein which comprises an entity of interest (EOI). The EOI sequence may, for example, be an epitope tag, an immunomodulatory molecule or a target molecule. The present invention also provides an FMDV vaccine which comprises such a VP1 capsid protein and its use to prevent FMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Julian Seago, Nicholas Juleff
  • Test device, semiconductor device and testing method thereof
    Patent number: 9459309
    Abstract: A test device for testing a semiconductor device including a TSV may comprise a ring oscillator including a plurality of inverters, a switch selectively connecting an output node of an inverter of the plurality of inverters and the TSV, and a controller controlling the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: SK HYNIX INC., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jun-So Pak, Jun-Ho Lee, Joung-Ho Kim
  • Method of formation of a TI-IGBT
    Patent number: 9461116
    Abstract: A TI-IGBT, comprising a first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor substrate, and a first doped layer; a short circuit region and a collector region disposed in parallel are formed in the first semiconductor substrate; the short circuit region and the collector region have different doping types; the second semiconductor substrate is located on the upper surface of the first semiconductor substrate, and has the same doping type with the short circuit region; the first doped layer is located between the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate, and covers at least the collector region; the first doped layer has the same doping type with the second semiconductor substrate, and has a doping concentration smaller than that of the second semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SHANGHAI LIANXING ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., JIANGSU CAS IGBT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangjun Zhu, Wenliang Zhang, Shuojin Lu, Xiaoli Tian, Aibin Hu
  • Semiconductor arrangements and methods for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9461068
    Abstract: Semiconductor arrangements and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. In one embodiment, the arrangement may include: a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate, comprising a base substrate, a buried dielectric layer, and a SOI layer; a back gate formed on the SOI substrate and passing through the buried dielectric layer to be in electric contact with the base substrate; fins formed from the SOI layer on opposite sides of the back gate; and back gate dielectric layers interposed between the back gate and the respective fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventor: Huilong Zhu
  • Powder shaping method and apparatus thereof
    Patent number: 9457517
    Abstract: A powder shaping method comprises: providing a powder on a target surface; providing a laser beam to illuminate the powder so as to form a pre-treated powder; and providing an energy beam to illuminate the pre-treated powder for enabling a shaping process. In addition, a powder shaping apparatus comprises a base, a target surface, a powder supply unit and an energy beam source system. The target surface is disposed on the base and can be fixed or moved on the base. The powder supply unit provides a powder on the target surface. The energy beam source system has a laser source and an energy source, the laser source provides a laser beam to illuminate the powder to form a pre-treated powder, and the energy source provides an energy beam to further illuminate the pre-treated powder to make a shaping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chung-Wei Cheng, Kuang-Po Chang, Cen-Ying Lin, Shu-Yi Wang
  • Batch fabrication method of three-dimensional photonic microstructures
    Patent number: 9459381
    Abstract: Provided is a batch fabrication method of three-dimensional photonic microstructures including a support structure fabricating step, a variable structure fabricating step, a thermal reflow step, and a three-dimensional photonic microstructure forming step. The batch fabrication method of three-dimensional photonic microstructures fabricates three-dimensional photonic microstructures having several shapes depending on a demand of a user through these steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ki-Hun Jeong, Jae-Jun Kim, Dongmin Keum
  • Methods of hydrolyzing pretreated densified biomass particulates and systems related thereto
    Patent number: 9458482
    Abstract: A method is provided in which pretreated and densified cellulosic biomass particulates can be hydrolyzed at a high solids loading rate as compared with the solids loading rate of loose hydrolysable cellulosic biomass fibers. The resulting high concentration sugar-containing stream can be easily converted to biofuels or to an entire suite of other useful bioproducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: THE MICHIGAN BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bryan Bals, Farzaneh Teymouri, Timothy J. Campbell, Bruce E. Dale
  • Phenoxypropanol derivative and pharmaceutical composition including the same
    Patent number: 9458120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel phenoxypropanol derivative, represented by the structure of Chemical Formula I, and a racemate thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a solvate thereof and a hydrate thereof, wherein * represents an (R)-form or an (S)-form, X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen and substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n represents the number of X and an integer of 1 to 5, wherein at least a hydrogen is substituted with halogen in the substituted linear or branched alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms. The derivative can be used for blocking T-type calcium channel and/or TREK channel, and for preventing and/or treating T-type calcium channel- and/or TREK channel-associated diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KORBA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Eun-Joo Roh, Kye-Jung Shin, Changjoon Justin Lee, Soo Jin Oh, Jung-Eun Park, Jeong Eun Yang, Eun Mi Hwang, Dong Ho Woo, Soon-Hyouk Lee, Dong-Gyu Kim, Hee-jung Chun, Wan-Keun Ji, Yun-Soo Na
  • Method to reduce large OLAP cube size using cell selection rules
    Patent number: 9460172
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques for providing one or more reduced-size rule cubes indicating cell rules. A computer-program product embodied in a machine-readable storage medium includes instructions to cause a computing device to select a cell rule to include in a rule cube based on applicability of the cell rule to a selected portion of a data cube; analyze the cell rule to identify a wildcarded dimension in a specification of cells of the data cube that are subject to the cell rule; and generate the rule cube indicating applicability of the cell rule to the selected portion of the data cube, wherein a cell of the rule cube corresponds to multiple cells of the data cube, and wherein the wildcarded dimension of the rule cube is reduced in length in comparison to a length of the wildcarded dimension of the data cube. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Qing Gong, Amy Spelman Davis, Ryan Norris, Enrico Stevanoni
  • Thermoelectric conversion material and method for manufacturing same
    Patent number: 9461228
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion material excellent in thermoelectric performance and flexibility and capable of being produced in a simplified manner and at a low cost, and a method for producing the material. The thermoelectric conversion material has, on a support, a thin film of a thermoelectric semiconductor composition containing thermoelectric semiconductor fine particles and a conductive polymer, and the method for producing a thermoelectric conversion material includes a step of applying the thermoelectric semiconductor composition containing thermoelectric semiconductor fine particles and a conductive polymer onto the support and drying it to forma thin film thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: LINTEC CORPORATION, KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kunihisa Kato, Tsuyoshi Mutou, Koji Miyazaki
  • Power frequency parameter simulation system for a power transmission line and control method thereof
    Patent number: 9460636
    Abstract: A power frequency parameter simulation system for a power transmission line and a control method thereof, the system includes a simulation main circuit (1), an interference power supply (2) and a procedure controller (3). In the system, a power frequency parameter of a 10 to 100 kilometers of 500 kV power transmission line is simulated in a lumped parameter manner; and the control method includes the following steps of: a step to detect the automatically zeroing during starting up, a step to control the reduction of the length of a simulation line and a step to control a simulation interference voltage. A long-distance power transmission line is realized to be moved into a room and be tested by means of the power frequency parameter test system, so the various inconveniences of on-site measurement are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: ANHUI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SUZHOU HD ELECTRIC CO., LTD., STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC)
    Inventors: Zhong Fu, Jiantao Ye, Daowen Yang, Zinian Chen, Wei Li, Dengfeng Cheng, Yongkang Huang, Jingjing Dong, Wenhui Tong, Cuicui Wang
  • Optical coupling device
    Patent number: 9459409
    Abstract: An optical coupling device comprises an optical fiber block including a first block part and a second block part contacting with one side of the first block part, an optical fiber penetrating the optical fiber block and having an end surface exposed at a bottom surface of the optical fiber block, a semiconductor chip disposed below the optical fiber block and having an optical input/output element disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor chip to correspond with the end surface of the optical fiber, and a planarization layer disposed on the top surface of the semiconductor chip and having a recess region. A bottom surface of the first block part has a higher level than that of the second block part. The bottom surface of the second block part contacts with a bottom of the recess region. The optical fiber is optically coupled with the optical input/output element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Myungjoon Kwack, Gyungock Kim, Jaegyu Park, Ki Seok Jang, Jiho Joo
  • Multiplex Q-PCR arrays
    Patent number: 9458497
    Abstract: This invention provides methods and systems for measuring the concentration of multiple nucleic acid sequences in a sample. The nucleic acid sequences in the sample are simultaneously amplified, for example, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the presence of an array of nucleic acid probes. The amount of amplicon corresponding to the multiple nucleic acid sequences can be measured in real-time during or after each cycle using a real-time microarray. The measured amount of amplicon produced can be used to determine the original amount of the nucleic acid sequences in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Arjang Hassibi, Babak Hassibi, Haris Vikalo
  • System and method for controlling dehydration of fuel cell stack
    Patent number: 9461316
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling dehydration of a fuel cell stack include a fuel cell stack including an anode which receives hydrogen from a hydrogen supplier and a cathode which receives air from an air supplier. A reactor collects hydrogen and oxygen discharged from the fuel cell stack so that the collected hydrogen and oxygen are reacted, thereby increasing relative humidity of hydrogen supplied to the anode, and thus raising water content of the catalytic layer of the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, INHA INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE
    Inventors: In Woo Jang, Sun Bo Shim, Sung Ho Lee, Hyun Chul Ju
  • LUMINESCENT SUBSTRATE FOR USE IN ARTIFICIAL BIOLUMINESCENT ENZYME
    Publication number: 20160281129
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bioluminescent substrate suitably usable in a series of artificial luciferases (ALuc), and the invention provides a wavelength-shifted spectrum with a selective high intensity luminescence and high luminescence stability obtained by the use of the substrate together with ALuc. The luminescent substrate for ALuc obtained by the invention can be included together with a suitable luminescence solution in a luminescence kit. The bioluminescent substrate for ALuc of the invention can exhibit unprecedented excellent luminescence specificity and functionality in the conventional bioluminescence probe, two-hybrid assay, bioluminescent capsule, and reporter gene assay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sung Bae KIM, Hiroshi IZUMI, Hiroaki TAO, Masaki TORIMURA, Akihiro WAKISAKA
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING A TREATMENT FOR B-CELL NEOPLASIAS
    Publication number: 20160282354
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods for identifying a subject having a B cell neoplasia or related condition responsive to treatment with lenalidomide and lenalidoinide-related compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., THE BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
    Inventors: BENJAMIN LEVINE EBERT, STEVEN A. CARR, JAN KRÖNKE, NAMRATA D. UDESHI, EMMA FINK
  • METHODS TO FORM AND OPERATE MULTI-TERMINAL POWER SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20160285270
    Abstract: A method for forming and operating a multi-terminal power system, includes: connecting multiple sending terminals to a network of a power system; and local control of each sending terminal to behave as a constant-power source such that both output voltage and output current of the sending terminal may simultaneously vary in response to changing external circuit conditions while maintaining constant a product of the output voltage and the output current of the sending terminal. At least one sending terminal may include a capacitive output converter having a capacitor connected between two output terminals and a controlled current source connected in parallel to the capacitor, or an inductive output converter having an inductor connected to an output terminal and a controlled voltage source connected in series with the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Jian SUN
  • LIVER TISSUE CULTURING DEVICE, LIVER TISSUE CULTURING SYSTEM, LIVER TISSUE CULTURING METHOD, AND LIVER FUNCTION EVALUATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160281064
    Abstract: A device for culturing a liver tissue has a culture chamber to which at least two flow channels, which are at least for introducing and discharging a culture medium, are connected. A gel which serves as a cell scaffold material is housed in the culture chamber. A co-culture system containing an endothelial cell-derived cell, a hepatocyte-derived cell and a mesenchymal cell is co-cultured on the gel in such a way that the co-culture system has a tubular structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicants: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yoichi FUJIYAMA, Yoh-ichi TAGAWA
  • PROCESS FOR MAKING CARBON-BASED NANO-RODS FROM SWITCHABLE IONIC LIQUIDS AND DEVICES AND PROCESSES INCORPORATING SAME
    Publication number: 20160279600
    Abstract: A method of making carbon-based nano-rods from switchable ionic liquids (SWIL) that incorporates the SWIL is disclosed. Resulting nano-rods provide adsorption and spontaneous desorption of water at selected relative humidity values that find use in selected applications and devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Satish K. Nune, David J. Heldebrant, David B. Lao, Jian Liu, Greg A. Whyatt
  • HEAT EXCHANGER FOR STEAM GENERATOR AND STEAM GENERATOR COMPRISING SAME
    Publication number: 20160282064
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a steam generator according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a plate and channels formed on the plate by an photo-chemical etching method, wherein the channels comprise: a primary heat transmission section formed in a manner of having a bent or curved flow path so as to be extended longer than the length at which one side and the other side are connected in a straight line; and a flow path resistance section, formed having a smaller width than the width of the channels formed on the primary heat transmission section and being connected to the one side of the primary transmission section in a manner of having a bent or curved flow path so as to be extended longer than the length at which an inlet and an outlet are connected in a straight line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Juhyeon YOON, Young In KIM