Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • METHOD FOR INDUCING PREDICTION MOTION VECTOR AND APPARATUSES USING SAME
    Publication number: 20160366436
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for inducing a prediction motion vector and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method can include: a step of determining the information related to a plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors from peripheral predicted blocks of a predicted target block; and a step of determining the information related to temporal candidate prediction motion vectors on the basis of the information related to the plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce complexity and can enhance coding efficiency when inducing the optimum prediction motion vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University
    Inventors: Sung Chang LIM, Hui Yong KIM, Jin Ho LEE, Jin Soo CHOI, Jin Woong KIM, Jae Gon KIM, Sang Yong LEE, Un Ki PARK
  • APPLICATION OF BAICALIN IN PREPARATION OF DRUG FOR TREATING RICIN POISONING
    Publication number: 20160361334
    Abstract: Provided is an application of baicalin in preparation of a drug for treating ricin poisoning. A Hela cytoprotection test and a mouse ricin poisoning model have verified the recovery effect of baicalin on ricin poisoning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicants: JILIN UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xuming DENG, Zihe RAO, Jing DONG, Xuemei LI, Yong ZHANG, Yutao CHEN, Jiazhang QIU
  • METHODS TO IDENTIFY MACROMOLECULE BINDING AND AGGREGATION PRONE REGIONS IN PROTEINS AND USES THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20160364521
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and computational tools based, at least in part, on computer simulations that identify macromolecule binding regions and aggregation prone regions of a protein. Substitutions may then be made in these aggregation prone regions to engineer proteins with enhanced stability and/or a reduced propensity for aggregation. Similarly, substitutions may then be made in these macromolecule binding regions to engineer proteins with altered binding affinity for the macromolecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicants: Novartis AG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Naresh CHENNAMSETTY, Bernhard HELK, Bernhardt TROUT, Veysel KAYSER, Vladimir VOYNOV
  • CURVED PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160365501
    Abstract: Disclosed is a curved piezoelectric device maximizing an electrical potential of the piezoelectric material corresponding to an external mechanical stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Chong Yun KANG, Seok Jin YOON, Jin Sang KIM, Ji-Won CHOI, Seung Hyub BAEK, Seong Keun KIM, Woo-Suk JUNG, Beomjin KWON
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PERSISTENT INFECTIONS AND CANCER BY INHIBITING THE PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 (PD-1) PATHWAY
    Publication number: 20160362492
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment, prevention, or reduction of persistent infections, such as chronic infections, latent infections, and slow infections and cancer. The methods and compositions of the invention are also useful for the alleviation of one or more symptoms associated with such infections and cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicants: Emory University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Brigham and Women's Hospital, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Gordon Freeman, Arlene Sharpe, David M. Dorfman, Rafi Ahmed, Daniel Barber, E. John Wherry
  • PYROLYZED POROUS CARBON MATERIALS AND ION EMITTERS
    Publication number: 20160365216
    Abstract: Embodiments related to the use and production of porous carbon materials in ion emitters and other applications are described
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Paulo C. Lozano, Carla Perez Martinez, Corey P. Fucetola, Jimmy Andrey Rojas Herrera
  • Transmit power control method of terminal in direct communication between terminals, and terminal supporting the same
    Patent number: 9521629
    Abstract: A transmit power control method of a terminal in direct communication between terminals is disclosed. The terminal measures a path loss gain of a base station, and compares the measured path loss gain with a predetermined threshold value. The terminal sets a power value for direct communication in the case in which the measured path loss gain is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, and performs the direct communication at the set power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Taesoo Kwon, Ji Hyung Kim, Moon-Sik Lee
  • Large-scale circulating fluidized bed boiler
    Patent number: 9518730
    Abstract: A large-size circulating fluidized bed boiler, comprising: a furnace having a vertical furnace center line; and at least two groups of cyclones, each cyclone of each group of cyclones having an inlet gas pass communicated with the furnace. A furnace cross section formed by outer sidewalls and located at the inlet gas pass of the cyclone is a polygon having 2×n sides, and n is a positive integer greater than 1. The polygon is axially symmetric with respect to a perpendicular bisector of each side of the polygon, and when n is 2, the polygon is a square. Triangles formed by two endpoints of an inlet of the inlet gas pass of each cyclone at the cross section and an intersection of the furnace center line and the cross section are congruent. A single flow field in communication with each of the inlet is formed in the cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Qinggang Lu, Ming Gao, Yunkai Sun, Guoliang Song, Xiaofang Wang, Yongjie Na, Dongyu Wang, Haigang Wang
  • Methods for generating cardiomyocytes
    Patent number: 9517250
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method of generating cardiomyocytes from post-natal fibroblasts. The present disclosure further provides cells and compositions for use in generating cardiomyocytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: The J. David Gladstone Institutes
    Inventors: Deepak Srivastava, Masaki Ieda
  • Resource access control in a system-on-chip
    Patent number: 9519596
    Abstract: A method for controlling access of a processor to a resource, wherein the processor has an instruction set including a virtualization extension, may include executing a resource access instruction by the processor using the virtualization extension, whereby the resource access instruction conveys a virtual address (VA) and a virtual machine identifier. The method may also include translating the virtual address to a physical address based on the virtual machine identifier, and looking-up an access control rule table using the physical address as a search key. Each entry of the rule table includes a virtual machine identifier. The method further includes controlling access to the resource based on the output of the rule table and a match between the virtual machine identifier returned by the table and the virtual machine identifier conveyed in the resource access instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS, TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE
    Inventors: Antonio-Marcello Coppola, Georgios Kornaros, Miltos Grammatikakis
  • Small molecule inhibitors of USP1 deubiquitinating enzyme activity
    Patent number: 9518032
    Abstract: Provided are small molecule inhibitors of ubiquitin specific protease 1 (USP1) activity and methods for their use in treating and characterizing cancers. The small molecule USP1 inhibitors of the invention are particularly useful in the treatment of cancers that are resistant to DNA cross-linking agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan D. D'Andrea, Gregory D. Cuny, Ross L. Stein, Marcie Glicksman, April Case, Jun Xian, David Wilson, Min Huang
  • Multifunctional nitrileoxide compound
    Patent number: 9518009
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of the formula (I): wherein: R2 and R3 represent each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; A represents an s-valent organic group; and s is an integer of 2-10. This nitrileoxide compound has stable and can be easily produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tadashi Kanbara, Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Haruhisa Masuda, Haruhiko Mouri, Toshikazu Takata, Satoshi Uchida, Yasuhito Koyama, ChenGang Wang, Shunsuke Monjiyama, Hiromitsu Sogawa
  • Data transmission apparatus and method for transmitting data in delay-insensitive data transmission method supporting handshake protocol
    Patent number: 9521016
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission apparatus and method for transmitting data in a Delay-Insensitive (DI) data transmission method supporting a handshake protocol. The data transmission apparatus includes a sender which outputs a binary-valued logic signal based on binary-valued logic, and an encoder which encodes the binary-valued logic signal input through input wires into a multi-valued logic signal based on multi-valued logic and transmits the encoded multi-valued logic signal to a decoder through output wires. Here, the encoder includes a mapping table which stores input variables including the number of input wires and the number of output wires smaller than the number of input wires and the multi-valued logic signal corresponding to the input variables, and encodes the binary-valued logic signal into the multi-valued logic signal with reference to the mapping table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Myeong Hoon Oh
  • Transesterification catalyst and method for producing biodiesel fuel using transesterification catalyst
    Patent number: 9518238
    Abstract: To provide a catalyst for production of a biodiesel fuel, which is capable of producing a biodiesel fuel with high selectivity, at a high yield, and at a low cost even in the presence of a water content and a free fatty acid, and a biodiesel fuel production method using the catalyst. Use of a titanium-containing mesoporous silica containing Ti and Si as skeleton constituent elements and having a pore diameter of 5 nm or greater as a transesterification catalyst enables a biodiesel fuel to be produced with high selectivity at a high yield through transesterification between an oil and an alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Shih-Yuan Chen, Makoto Toba, Yuji Yoshimura, Takehisa Mochizuki
  • Methods for generating cardiomyocytes
    Patent number: 9517251
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method of generating cardiomyocytes from post-natal fibroblasts. The present disclosure further provides cells and compositions for use in generating cardiomyocytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: The J. David Gladstone Institutes
    Inventors: Deepak Srivastava, Masaki Ieda
  • Voice recognition system for replacing specific domain, mobile device and method thereof
    Patent number: 9520126
    Abstract: A voice recognition system that divides a search space for voice recognition into a general domain search space and a specific domain search space. A mobile terminal receives a voice recognition target word from a user, and a voice recognition server divides a search space for voice recognition into a general domain search space and a specific domain search space and stores the spaces and performs voice recognition for the voice recognition target word through linkage of the general domain search space and the specific domain search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung Hi Kim, Sang Hun Kim, Ki Hyun Kim, Sang Kyu Park, Soo Jong Lee
  • Method for preparing a soda-lime-silica glass basic formulation and a method for extracting aluminum from coal ash for co-production of glass
    Patent number: 9517965
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing a soda-lime-silica glass basic formulation and a method for producing soda-lime-silica glass, comprising the steps of: pre-desiliconizing silicon-containing powdery industrial waste with a sodium hydroxide solution; introducing carbon dioxide for carbonation decomposition, and filtering to obtain a silicic acid precipitate and a sodium carbonate solution; drying the silicic acid precipitate to obtain silicon dioxide; adding lime milk into the filtered sodium carbonate for causticization, and filtering to obtain a sodium hydroxide solution and a calcium carbonate precipitate; drying the calcium carbonate precipitate; using said silicon dioxide and part of the calcium carbonate and adding sodium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy, Shenhua Group Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Qi Sun, Lijun Zhao, Baodong Wang, Xiaoting Liu
  • Three dimensional montage generation system and method based on two dimensional single image
    Patent number: 9519998
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional montage generation system and method based on a two-dimensional single image. An embodiment of the present disclosure may generate a three-dimensional montage in an easy, fast and accurate way by using a two-dimensional front face image data, and estimate face portions, which cannot be restored by using a single photograph, in a statistic way by using a previously prepared face database. Accordingly, an embodiment of the present disclosure may generate a three-dimensional personal model from a single two-dimensional front face photograph, and depth information such as nose height, lip protrusion and eye contour may be effectively estimated by means of statistical distribution and correlation of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ig Jae Kim, Yu Jin Hong
  • Method and apparatus for transmitting beamforming report frame for transmit beamforming
    Patent number: 9520926
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a beamforming report frame for transmit beamforming is provided. The method may include acquiring, by a receiver, data of a signal transmitted by a transmitter, selecting either media access control (MAC) software or MAC hardware, to assign a sequence number based on a type of the data, and assigning a sequence number to the management frame based on the data, using either the MAC software or MAC hardware that is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jee Yon Choi, Je Hun Lee, Sok Kyu Lee
  • Gas chromatography chip and multi-layered gas chromatography chip assembly thereof
    Patent number: 9518962
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gas chromatography chip including: a substrate having an upper substrate and a lower substrate; a gas supply connecting part formed on one plane of one surface of the substrate or on one plane of an opposite surface of the substrate; a gas discharge connecting part formed another plane of the one surface of the substrate or on another plane of the opposite surface of the substrate; a micro channel continuously extending from the gas supply connecting part to the gas discharge connecting part to form a micro channel part and having a circular cross-section; at least two position alignment markers formed on one surface or an opposite surface of the opposite surfaces of the substrate; and a heat transfer part and a temperature control unit for controlling a temperature of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Basic Science Institute
    Inventors: Sang-Goo Kim, Sung-Min Lim