Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9419147
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making analog and digital electronics which includes a composite including a squishable material doped with conductive particles. A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device has a channel made from the composite, where the channel forms a primary conduction path for the device. Upon applied voltage, capacitive actuators squeeze the composite, causing it to become conductive. The squishable device includes a control electrode, and a composite electrically and mechanically connected to two terminal electrodes. By applying a voltage to the control electrode relative to a first terminal electrode, an electric field is developed between the control electrode and the first terminal electrode. This electric field results in an attractive force between the control electrode and the first terminal electrode, which compresses the composite and enables electric control of the electron conduction from the first terminal electrode through the channel to the second terminal electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Vladimir Bulovic, Jeffrey H. Lang, Sarah Paydavosi, Annie I-Jen Wang, Trisha L. Andrew, Apoorva Murarka, Farnaz Niroui, Frank Yaul, Jeffrey C. Grossman
  • Patent number: 9419108
    Abstract: One embodiment of present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure, which comprises: forming a gate stack on a semiconductor substrate and removing parts of the substrates situated on two sides of the gate stack; forming sidewall spacers on sidewalls of the gate stack and on sidewalls of the part of the substrate under the gate stack; forming doped regions in parts of the substrate on two sides of the gate stack, and forming a first dielectric layer to cover the entire semiconductor structure; selectively removing parts of the gate stack and parts of the first dielectric layer to form a channel region opening and source/drain region openings; forming a high K dielectric layer on sidewalls of the channel region opening; and implementing epitaxy process to form a continuous fin structure that spans across the channel region opening and the source/drain region openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Qingqing Liang, Huicai Zhong, Huilong Zhu, Chao Zhao, Tianchun Ye
  • Patent number: 9419296
    Abstract: Thermotechnical units of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) are integrated as a whole one. The units may include a burner, a reformer and a heat exchanger. The integrated units can be easily assembled into an SOFC system with cell stacks. Thus, the present invention has a simple structure, operates with ease, saves operational cost, runs with fewer utilities, decreases heat dissipation and enhances system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Wen-Tang Hong, Cheng-Nan Huang, Shih-Kun Lo, Hsueh-I Tan, Huan-Chan Ting, Chen-Po Lai
  • Patent number: 9416121
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester or prodrug thereof:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts General Hospital
    Inventors: Deborah Hung, Sarah Stanley, Tomohiko Kawate, Noriakie Iwase, Motohisa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9418835
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having silicon nitride with a tensile stress, the method comprising: c1) introducing and pre-stabilizing NH3 gas and N2 gas; c2) introducing silane; c3) igniting the gases by a radio-frequency source; c4) depositing SiN; and c5) processing the SiN by using a nitrogen ion implantation. According to the present disclosure, the nitrogen content in the SiN film can be enhanced by the nitrogen ion implantation and impinging, thereby increasing the density of the film. In this way, the acid resistance of the SiN with tensile stress is enhanced, so that the SiN with tensile stress may be integrated in a dual-strained liner of a gate-last process, so as to effectively improve the properties and reliability of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Guilei Wang, Jinbiao Liu, Junfeng Li
  • Patent number: 9419654
    Abstract: A method for arranging a plurality of message blocks in a lattice form and generating a message matrix includes deciding lengths of rows of the message matrix such that a length difference is equal to or less than a first critical point, deciding lengths of the message blocks such that a length difference is equal to or less than a second critical point, and arranging the message blocks in each row of the message matrix such that a length difference of columns of the message matrix is equal to or less than a third critical point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: SK HYNIX INC., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dae-Sung Kim, Jeong-Seok Ha, Chol-Su Chae, Seok-Jin Joo, Sang-Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 9415376
    Abstract: This invention relates to a visible-light-responsive photocatalyst for photocatalyticly oxidation desulphurization and method for preparation and application thereof. The catalyst is comprised of one type of metal MI, one type of metal oxide MIIOx and BiVO4 as the supporter, wherein the mass ratio of the sum of the two types of metal (MI+MII) to BiVO4 is from 1:5000 to 1:50; the mass ratio of the type of metal MI to the type of metal MII is from 1:50 to 50:1. The catalyst is used in the photocatalytic oxidation desulphurization. Under mild condition (room temperature, 1 atm), using O2 as the oxidant and xenon lamp (wavelength 420 nm<?<700 nm) as the light source, avoid the oil's absorption of light (mainly in the violet area which is below 420 nm), the desulphurization ratio of thiophene can be above 90%, meanwhile the oil won't be excited. The sulfur in thiophene can be oxidized to SO3 and absorbed by the absorbent after escaped from the reaction system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Can Li, Zongxuan Jiang, Feng Lin, Donge Wang, Yongna Zhang
  • Patent number: 9420469
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for identifying a rogue device having a media access control (MAC) address counterfeited/forged when a wireless intrusion prevention system controls an access to an access point (AP) and a wireless terminal which are not applied are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a sensor unit configured to collect MAC addresses, RSSI values, and RF feature values based on RF signals of wireless terminals; an RF feature database configured to store the collected MAC addresses, RSSI values, and RF feature values; and a terminal identification unit configured to identify whether a MAC of any one of the wireless terminals is forged by comparing information of the RF feature database with the RSSI value and the RF feature value of any one of the wireless terminals according to a MAC verification request of any one of the wireless terminals from the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyeok-Chan Kwon, Gae-Il An, Sok-Joon Lee, Jong-Sik Moon, Do-Young Chung, Sin-Hyo Kim
  • Patent number: 9415885
    Abstract: A device that has a device body defining an opening at one end thereof, a storage chamber within the device body for storing multiple doses of a substance therein, and a sliding stopper, sealing engageable with the device body, through which the chamber is filled. The stopper has a body and a flexible portion, which may be in the form of a plurality of flexible members, extending therefrom. The flexible portion or members are movable between first and second positions. In the first position, during filling, the portion or members are substantially laterally extending from the stopper body and engaging the opening of the device body. Accordingly, the axial position of the stopper with respect to the device body is secured during filling of the chamber therethrough. In the second position, after filling, the portion or members are substantially axially-extending from the stopper body and disengaged from the rim or opening of the device body. Accordingly, the stopper is axially slideable through the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Dr. Py Institute LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Py
  • Patent number: 9416168
    Abstract: Provided are engineered soluble hIL-17RA receptors with high affinity to hIL-17 that inhibit downstream IL17A induced signaling events in cells. Also provided are methods of inhibiting hIL-17A induced secretion of CXCL1 and/or IL-6 in cells, as well as methods of treating inflammation and/or inflammatory disorders in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ltd
    Inventors: Amir Aharoni, Marianna Zaretzky
  • Patent number: 9418452
    Abstract: The present invention obtains subband signals by performing a multiresolution decomposition by a wavelet frame with orientation selectivity or a filterbank with orientation selectivity that is a set of an approximate filter with no orientation and a plurality of detail filters with respective orientations on image data, and, when an image is reconstructed by summing the obtained subband signals, generates reconstructed image data that creates a floating illusion by attenuating or amplifying a subband signal corresponding to at least one of detail filters with a predetermined orientation relative to a floating direction, in which an image is desired to be floated due to an illusion, among the detail filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Hitoshi Arai, Shinobu Arai
  • Patent number: 9415754
    Abstract: A visual display for use by a user for navigation and obstacle avoidance. A typical user employs the invention in operating a vehicle. The display may include a conventional video feed. A visual arch metaphor is also provided. A ranging device mounted on the vehicle collects ranging data around the vehicle. As an example, the ranging device might collect 180 degrees of ranging data extending from the vehicle's left side, across the vehicle's front, and over to the vehicle's right side. The ranging data is correlated to a predefined color scale. The ranging data is also correlated to a position on the arch metaphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eskridge, Matthew Johnson, Chua Wei Liang Kenny
  • Patent number: 9416064
    Abstract: A method for producing controlled-release fertilizer coated with polyurethane is provided, wherein granular fertilizer is preheated under fluidized state in a fluidized bed; the surface of the granular fertilizer is pretreated after liquid paraffin being atomized; polyol and isocyanate are mixed in a nozzle, then atomized and sprayed onto the surface of the granular fertilizer; after the reaction materials are added, liquid paraffin is added for surface release treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: CHINESE ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES AND REGIONAL PLANNING
    Inventors: Xiangdong Yang, Bingqiang Zhao, Yanting Li, Juan Li, Zhian Lin, Liang Yuan
  • Patent number: 9417904
    Abstract: A cyber-physical system and a method of monitoring a virtual machine thereof are provided. The cyber-physical system includes a plurality of target controllers that includes middleware operating based on different operating systems and that control different targets, and a system monitor that includes integrated middleware of analyzing and synthesizing information collected from the middleware. First virtual machines corresponding to virtualization of the target controllers and a second virtual machine corresponding to virtualization of the system monitor are independently formed through a virtual machine monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jin Ah Shin, Taeho Kim, Chae Deok Lim
  • Patent number: 9420592
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of avoiding channel interference by a sensor node including a multi transmission and reception unit in a wireless sensor network. The method includes setting channel A in channel group A for a first wireless transmission and reception unit, and setting channel B in channel group B for a second wireless transmission and reception unit, checking interference for the channel A, detecting interference for the channel B if interference is detected in the channel A, and performing communication through a channel where interference has not been detected among the channel A and the channel B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byeong Cheol Choi, Jae Hong Ruy
  • Patent number: 9415047
    Abstract: This invention relates to the use of a compound in formula (I) and its salts acceptable pharmaceutically in preparation of vasodilative drugs: Wherein, R1, R2, X, Y, A and B are defined in the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: Liaoning Emmy Biological Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shenyang Emmy Pharmaceutical Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Lirong Zhang, Jie Zhou, Xin Zhou
  • Patent number: 9420412
    Abstract: A vehicle position calibration method and apparatus thereof are disclosed. The vehicle position calibration method is applicable to a vehicle having a mobile calibration positioning device and at least a vehicle having a positioning device to be calibrated. The method starts with the mobile calibration positioning device transmitting a message of positioning precision level to the positioning device to be calibrated. Then, the positioning device to be calibrated sends a calibration request to the mobile calibration positioning device according to the message of positioning precision level; then the mobile calibration positioning device detects a relative position between the mobile calibration positioning device and the positioning device to be calibrated according to the calibration request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Ping-Fan Ho
  • Patent number: 9417327
    Abstract: A selection method of satellites for RTK positioning calculation includes initializing a mask threshold of the elevation angle mask and/or the signal strength mask, setting the mask threshold as a first mask threshold other than a mask threshold which carried out an initial setting, performing a first RTK positioning calculation based on a signal from the satellite, performing a first quality check about a positioning solution in the first RTK positioning calculation, and when the first quality check is under the threshold of the ratio test, performing a second RTK positioning calculation based on the signal from the satellite newly chosen via the first mask threshold and performing a second quality check about a second positioning solution in the second RTK positioning calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, AN INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTION
    Inventor: Hideki Yamada
  • Patent number: 9419235
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a gel containing a nano-carbon material, which allows the gelling medium used to be selected from a wide range of substances, is applicable to other nano-carbon materials in addition to carbon nanotubes, and can be implemented in an extremely simple manner. A method for producing a gel containing a nano-carbon material of the present invention as a means for achieving the object is characterized in that a nano-carbon material is stir-mixed with a gelling medium that satisfies the following conditions (but is not an ionic liquid), the gelling medium being in a liquid or molten state: (1) the gelling medium is in a liquid state at ambient temperature or melts when heated; and (2) the gelling medium contains, in the molecule, two or more rings of at least one kind selected from optionally substituted aromatic hydrocarbon monocyclic ring and optionally substituted aromatic heteromonocyclic ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Toshifumi Konishi, Takayuki Mochizuki, Koichiro Matsui
  • Patent number: 9415343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogen separation membrane which coats granular ceramic onto the surface of a porous metal support and which coats a hydrogen permeation metal thereon so as to inhibit diffusion between the support and a hydrogen separation layer, and to a method for manufacturing same. As a result, the metal support can be modularized with ease, the hydrogen permeation layer can be made thinner to increase the amount of hydrogen permeation, the use of a separation material can be minimized, and the hydrogen separation membrane can have higher competitiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Energy Research
    Inventors: Jong-Soo Park, Kyung-Ran Hwang, Shin-Kun Ryi, Tae-Hwan Kim, Chun-Boo Lee, Sung-Wook Lee