Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Biomarker for parkinson's disease and use thereof
    Patent number: 9804174
    Abstract: A antibody has as a target molecule a ubiquitin protein comprising a phosphorylated serine residue at position 65. In addition, a method is provided for specifically detecting Parkinson's disease at an early stage, in which a target molecule is a ubiquitin protein comprising a phosphorylated serine residue at position 65, a pharmaceutical composition for definitively treating or preventing Parkinson's disease, and a method for screening for the pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
    Inventors: Noriyuki Matsuda, Fumika Koyano, Kei Okatsu, Etsu Go, Mayumi Kimura, Yasushi Saeki
  • Method of preparing alloy catalyst for fuel cells and alloy catalyst for fuel cells prepared by the same
    Patent number: 9806347
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of preparing an alloy catalyst for fuel cells, which is suitable for mass production and can reduce manufacturing costs. The method includes vaporizing at least two catalyst precursors in separate vaporizers; supplying the at least two vaporized catalyst precursors to a reactor while preventing contact therebetween; and synthesizing an alloy catalyst in the reactor. The method can prepare an alloy catalyst through a one-step process unlike typical multi-step methods for preparing catalysts, and can prepare an alloy catalyst at a much lower temperature than the typical methods for preparing alloys, thereby enabling mass production and cost reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Hee-yeon Kim, Seok-yong Hong
  • Electronic circuit and method of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 9807886
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic circuit including a substrate having a flat device region and a curved interconnection region. A conduction line may extend along an uneven portion in the interconnection region and may be curved. The uneven portion and the conductive line may have a wavy shape. An external force applied to the electronic circuit may be absorbed by the uneven portion and the conductive line. The electronic device may not be affected by the external force. Therefore, functions of the electronic circuit may be maintained. A method of fabricating an electronic circuit according to the present invention may easily adjust areas and positions of the interconnection region and the device region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chan Woo Park, Jae Bon Koo, Sang Chul Lim, Ji-Young Oh, Soon-Won Jung
  • Method of handling downlink control information and related communication device
    Patent number: 9807747
    Abstract: A method of arranging downlink (DL) control information (DCI) for a network of a wireless communication system comprises configuring first DCI for a communication device of the wireless communication system; and transmitting the first DCI in a control region of a first physical DL shared channel (PDSCH) of a first subframe of a first component carrier to the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chia-Wen Hsieh, Chien-Min Lee
  • Device and method for generating audio data, and device and method for playing audio data
    Patent number: 9804815
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating audio data and an apparatus and method for playing audio data may be disclosed, in which the apparatus for playing the audio data may extract a descriptor related to a multichannel audio signal from a bitstream generated by the apparatus for generating the audio data, and play the multichannel audio signal, based on the extracted descriptor, and the descriptor may include information on an audio signal included in the multichannel audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Jae Hyoun Yoo, Tae Jin Lee, Kyeong Ok Kang, Kaoru Watanabe, Satoshi Oode, Ikuko Sawaya
  • Multilayer structure for a semiconductor device and a method of forming a multilayer structure for a semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9806013
    Abstract: A multilayer structure for a semiconductor device and a method of forming a multilayer structure for a semiconductor device. The multilayer structure comprises: a substrate having an electrically conductive portion thereon; a dielectric layer formed over the substrate; the dielectric layer comprising an opening over at least part of the electrically conductive portion; and a conductive pillar formed on the at least part of the electrically conductive portion; wherein the conductive pillar comprises walls defined by at least the opening of the dielectric layer and an opening of a patterned layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Institute of Technical Education
    Inventors: Teck Kheng Lee, Bok Leng Ser
  • Direct reforming catalyst for molten carbonate fuel cells, method for preparing the same and method for improving long-term stability thereof by wettability control on molten carbonate electrolyte
    Patent number: 9806346
    Abstract: Disclosed is a homogeneous catalyst having a single phase of Perovskite oxide, wherein at least one doping element is substituted at site A, site B or sites A and B in ABO3 Perovskite type oxide so that the wettability with a liquid molten carbonate electrolyte may be decreased. The catalyst may have high catalytic activity, inhibit catalyst poisoning caused by creepage and evaporation of a liquid molten carbonate electrolyte, maintain high reaction activity for a long time, provide high methane conversion, and allow production of synthetic gas having a high proportion of hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sung Pil Yoon, Hyoung-Juhn Kim, Chang Won Yoon, Seong Cheol Jang, Sun-Hee Choi, Jonghee Han, Hyung Chul Ham
  • Semiconductor devices having a gate stack
    Patent number: 9806169
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. In one embodiment, the method may include: forming a first shielding layer on a substrate, and forming one of source and drain regions with the first shielding layer as a mask; forming a second shielding layer on the substrate, and forming the other of the source and drain regions with the second shielding layer as a mask; removing a portion of the second shielding layer which is next to the other of the source and drain regions; forming a gate dielectric layer, and forming a gate conductor as a spacer on a sidewall of a remaining portion of the second shielding layer; and forming a stressed interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADAMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Huilong Zhu, Qingqing Liang, Huicai Zhong
  • System and method for predetermining the onset of impending oscillatory instabilities in practical devices
    Patent number: 9804054
    Abstract: A system for early detection of onset of oscillatory instabilities in practical devices is described. The system consists of a measuring device, an instability detection unit and a control unit. The measuring device is configured to generate signals corresponding to the dynamics happening inside the practical device. The instability detection unit is configured to diagnose the stability of the practical device from the signals that are generated by the measuring device. Further, the control unit is configured to control various operating parameters in the practical device based on the information obtained from the instability detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
    Inventors: Vineeth Nair Vinod, Gireeshkumaran Thampi, Sulochana Karuppusamy, Saravanan Gopalan, Sujith Raman Pillai Indusekharan Nair
  • Method of manufacturing organic light emitting device
    Patent number: 9806262
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting device, the method including forming a lower electrode on a lower substrate, forming an organic layer on the lower electrode, forming a light extraction layer including an adhesion layer and nanoparticles on an upper substrate, forming an upper electrode on the light extraction layer, and coupling the lower substrate to the upper substrate so that the upper electrode contacts the organic layer. The forming of the light extraction layer includes providing an adhesive between a first sacrificial substrate and the upper substrate, curing the adhesive to form the adhesion layer to form the adhesion layer, and removing the first sacrificial substrate to expose the adhesion layer. The first sacrificial substrate and the upper substrate are coupled to each other by the adhesion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byoung-Hwa Kwon, Jeong lk Lee, Hyunkoo Lee, Jong Tae Lim, Byoung Gon Yu, Jonghee Lee, Doo-Hee Cho, Hyunsu Cho
  • Human cytomegalovirus neutralizing antibodies and use thereof
    Patent number: 9803000
    Abstract: The invention relates to neutralizing antibodies, and antibody fragments thereof, having high potency in neutralizing hCMV, wherein said antibodies and antibody fragments are specific for one, or a combination of two or more, hCMV gene UL products. The invention also relates to immortalized B cells that produce, and to epitopes that bind to, such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and epitopes in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Institute of Research in Biomedicine
    Inventors: Antonio Lanzavecchia, Annalisa Macagno
  • Eulerian motion modulation
    Patent number: 9805475
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of amplifying temporal variation in at least two images includes converting two or more images to a transform representation. The method further includes, for each spatial position within the two or more images, examining a plurality of coefficient values. The method additionally includes calculating a first vector based on the plurality of coefficient values. The first vector can represent change from a first image to a second image of the at least two images describing deformation. The method also includes modifying the first vector to create a second vector. The method further includes calculating a second plurality of coefficients based on the second vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rubinstein, Neal Wadhwa, Frederic Durand, William T. Freeman, Hao-yu Wu, Eugene Inghaw Shih, John V. Guttag
  • Method and apparatus for providing eye-contact function to multiple points of attendance using stereo image in video conference system
    Patent number: 9807340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new eye-contact function providing method which provides a natural eye-contact function to attendances by using a stereo image and a depth image to estimate a precise depth value of the occlusion region and improve a quality of a composite eye-contact image when there are two or more remote attendances in one site at the time of a video conference using a video conference system and an apparatus therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: In Ki Hwang, Mi Suk Lee
  • Terminal for D2D communication and rejecting interference method thereof
    Patent number: 9807775
    Abstract: A terminal for performing device-to-device (D2D) communication, according to an embodiment of the present invention, includes an antenna configured to transmit/receive an uplink channel signal and a downlink channel signal, a duplexer configured to separate a transmission/reception signal of the antenna into the uplink channel signal and the downlink channel signal, a switch configured to switch the uplink channel signal in a time division duplex (TDD) scheme so as to separate the uplink channel signal into an uplink transmission block and a first reception block, and a second reception block configured to convert the downlink channel signal provided from the duplexer into a baseband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Heon Kook Kwon, Byung Su Kang, Kwangchun Lee
  • Photonic devices and methods of using and making photonic devices
    Patent number: 9806485
    Abstract: Examples of the present invention include integrated erbium-doped waveguide lasers designed for silicon photonic systems. In some examples, these lasers include laser cavities defined by distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) formed in silicon nitride-based waveguides. These DBRs may include grating features defined by wafer-scale immersion lithography, with an upper layer of erbium-doped aluminum oxide deposited as the final step in the fabrication process. The resulting inverted ridge-waveguide yields high optical intensity overlap with the active medium for both the 980 nm pump (89%) and 1.5 ?m laser (87%) wavelengths with a pump-laser intensity overlap of over 93%. The output powers can be 5 mW or higher and show lasing at widely-spaced wavelengths within both the C- and L-bands of the erbium gain spectrum (1536, 1561 and 1596 nm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Purnawirman Purnawirman, Michael R. Watts, Ehsan Shah Hosseini, Jonathan B. Bradley, Jie Sun, Matteo Cherchi
  • Fabrication process for production of SOFC-MEA with a pore array anode structure for improving output power density
    Patent number: 9806367
    Abstract: A fabrication process for production of planar type solid oxide fuel cell with high electrical conductivity and low fuel gas impedance is disclosed. It is a tape casting to produce an anode substrate furnished with a pore array structure on one or plurality of layers of the anode green tape on the utmost outside of the anode. It is to implement the process of solid oxide fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (SOFC-MEA) with precision abrasion to remove nickel depleted layer on the anode surface to complete the production of a unit cell. The fabrication of anode with pore array structure provides a good conduction effect for fuel gas and the solid oxide fuel cell with this treatment has features of high electrical conductivity and low fuel gas impedance to improve the performance of SOFC unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Tai-Nan Lin, Jen-Yuan Kuo, Hong-Yi Kuo, Wei-Xin Kao, Chun-Yen Yeh
  • SIGNAL CODEC DEVICE AND METHOD IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170309287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a codec device and method for encoding/decoding voice and audio signals in a communication system, wherein: a fixed codebook excited signal is generated by using a pulse index for a voice signal; a first adaptive codebook excited signal is generated by using a pitch index for the voice signal; a fixed codebook signal is generated by multiplying the fixed codebook excited signal by a fixed codebook gain; a first adaptive codebook signal is generated by multiplying the first adaptive codebook excited signal by a first adaptive codebook gain; and a synthesized filter excited signal is generated by adding the fixed codebook signal and the first adaptive codebook signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Mi-Suk LEE
  • Highly available network architecture for a LTE based communication network
    Publication number: 20170311253
    Abstract: A highly available network architecture for a LTE based communication network. Embodiments herein disclose an architecture for a highly available and resilient Long Term Evolution (LTE) based wireless communication network, wherein the network comprises of at least one Base Station (BS) further comprising of a merged LTE eNodeB (eNB) and a LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) entities and except for a single active BS, the other BSs can act as a backup for the currently active BS. Embodiments herein disclose a network architecture for a highly available and resilient architecture for Long Term Evolution (LTE) based wireless communication network, wherein a LTE radio interface is used for connectivity between components of the LTE communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    Inventors: Abhay Karandikar, Pranav Kumar Jha, Akshatha Nayak M, Pon Nidhya Elango, Pravin P. Magar
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING INFORMATION ABOUT INPUT DEVICE USING MARKER OF THE INPUT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170309041
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for deriving information about an input device using a marker thereof. Multiple cameras create multiple images by capturing the input device. A position recognition device derives the 3D positions of the markers of the input device using the multiple images and corrects information about the positions and angles of the multiple cameras based on the 3D positions of the markers. Also, the position recognition device derives the position and angle of the input device. The input device may comprise multiple input devices, and the multiple markers of the multiple input devices may be used to correct the information about the positions and angles of the multiple cameras depending on the coupling of the multiple input devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Ho-Chul SHIN
  • PROTEIN PRODUCTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20170306378
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a protein of interest, comprising introducing a protein expression vector which comprises a gene fragment a gene fragment comprising a DNA encoding a protein of interest and a selectable marker gene and transposon sequences at both terminals of the gene fragment, into a suspension mammalian cell; integrating the gene fragment inserted between a pair of the transposon sequences, into a chromosome of the mammalian cell to obtain a mammalian cell capable of expressing the protein of interest; and suspension-culturing the mammalian cell; and a suspension mammalian cell capable of expressing the protein of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicants: KYOWA HAKKO KIRIN CO., LTD, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Re search Organization of Information and Systems
    Inventors: Koichi KAWAKAMI, Keina YAMAGUCHI, Risa OGAWA, Masayoshi TSUKAHARA