Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9343736
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a lithium-ion battery system comprising an anode, an anode current collector, and a layer of lithium metal in contact with the current collector, but not in contact with the anode. The lithium compensation layer dissolves into the electrolyte to compensate for the loss of lithium ions during usage of the full cell. The specific placement of the lithium compensation layer, such that there is no direct physical contact between the lithium compensation layer and the anode, provides certain advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Jie Xiao, Jianming Zheng, Xilin Chen, Dongping Lu, Jun Liu, Jiguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9343486
    Abstract: Provided is a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes a thin film transistor, a first electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, a self-light emitting pixel layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the self-light emitting pixel layer, a substrate in which an auxiliary wire is buried, the substrate being disposed on the second electrode, and a reflective pixel layer disposed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jonghee Lee, Jeong Ik Lee, Doo-Hee Cho, Jong Tae Lim, Ji-Young Oh, Joo Yeon Kim, Byoung Gon Yu, Hyunkoo Lee, Jun-Han Han, Hye Yong Chu
  • Patent number: 9339462
    Abstract: The invention provides delivery systems comprised of stabilized multilamellar vesicles, as well as compositions, methods of synthesis, and methods of use thereof. The stabilized multilamellar vesicles may comprise prophylactic, therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Darrell J. Irvine, Jaehyun Moon
  • Patent number: 9343393
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate assembly includes a semiconductor material layer, a first isolation layer, a second isolation layer, a first conductive pillar, and a second conductive pillar. The semiconductor material layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first isolation layer is located on the first surface of the semiconductor material layer. The second isolation layer is located on the second surface of the semiconductor material layer. The first conductive pillar, supplied with a first voltage, penetrates the semiconductor material layer, the first isolation layer, and the second isolation layer. The second conductive pillar is supplied with to a second voltage, and a part of the second conductive pillar is formed in the second isolation layer, the second conductive pillar penetrates the second isolation layer and touches the second surface of the semiconductor material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Peng-Shu Chen, Shih-Hsien Wu
  • Patent number: 9344315
    Abstract: A transmitting system, a receiving system, a transmitting method and a receiving method capable of implementing communications with multiple rates are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications
    Inventors: Qi Yang, Cai Li, Zhu Yang, Shaohua Yu
  • Patent number: 9342786
    Abstract: A method and system for selecting a batch of input data from available input data for parallel evaluation by a function is disclosed. The function is modeled as drawn from a Gaussian process. Observations are used to determine a mean and a variance of the modeled function. An upper confidence bound is determined from the determined mean and variance. A decision rule is applied to select input data from the available input data to add to the batch of input data. The selection of the input data is based on a domain-specific time varying parameter. Intermediate observations are hallucinated within the batch. The hallucinated observations are used with the decision rule to select subsequent input data from the available input data for the batch of input data. The input data of the batch is evaluated in parallel with the function. The resulting determined data outputs are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Andreas Krause, Thomas Desautels, Joel W. Burdick
  • Patent number: 9344477
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for an adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service using metadata of media content are provided. The media content may include a sequence of one or more periods. The metadata may include a start time attribute and/or a duration attribute of each of the periods. The metadata may determine a start time of each of the periods, and a start time of each of segments included in each of the periods. A terminal may access segments included in each of the periods, may decode and render data of media content included in the segments, and may play back the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Truong Cong Thang, Jin Young Lee, Seong Jun Bae, Jung Won Kang, Soon Heung Jung, Sang Taick Park, Won Ryu, Jae Gon Kim
  • Patent number: 9345123
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a planarized printed electronic device includes performing a surface treatment on a base substrate to provide a surface treated base substrate and facilitate release during a delamination process; printing a layer having an electrode pattern onto the surface-treated base substrate; forming an organic material layer comprised of an organic material on the base substrate on which the printed layer is printed such that the printed layer is embedded therein to provide an embedded layer; providing a target substrate onto which the embedded layer is to be transferred; laminating by sandwiching the embedded layer between the base substrate on which the embedded layer is formed and the target substrate; delaminating by detaching the embedded layer from the base substrate; and transferring the printed layer onto the target substrate to provide a planarized printed layer. Large areas with reduced defects due to surface roughness are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yong Suk Yang, In-Kyu You, Minseok Kim, Soon-Won Jung, Bock Soon Na, Sang Chul Lim
  • Patent number: 9340837
    Abstract: The invention pertains to sequences, methods, and kits useful in the identification of and differentiation between Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei. The methods generally involve the addition of oligonucleotides to mixtures containing nucleic acid isolated from a sample and performing nucleic acid amplification on the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jolene Bowers, David Engelthaler, Paul Keim
  • Patent number: 9340814
    Abstract: A method for producing a recombinant protein includes steps of: (a) culturing a transformed cell in a protein-free and lipid-free medium containing no exogenous growth factors, in which the transformed cell is produced by transfecting a cell of a cell line derived from Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells, the cell line is adapted to a protein-free and lipid-free medium, and the cell is capable of proliferating in a suspended state in a protein-free and lipid-free medium containing no exogenous growth factors, with a vector containing a gene coding for the protein to be produced under the control of a promoter operable in the cell, and (b) recovering the protein produced by the transformed cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: Kyokuto Pharmaceutical Industrial Co., Ltd., National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Tetsuji Sasaki, Akiyoshi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 9340431
    Abstract: A method of producing inorganic compound particles is provided. It includes a step of impregnating a melt liquid of second raw particles into first raw particles by heating a raw material including them at a temperature, which equals to or higher than an eutectic temperature between a region-II (solid-liquid phase range) and a region-I (solid phase range) in a phase diagram and lower than the melting temperature of the inorganic compound. The first raw particles contain an element with a melting point equals to or higher than a melting point of the inorganic compound. The second raw particles contain an element with a melting point lower than the inciting point of the inorganic compound. The method also includes a step of synthesizing inorganic compound particles by a synthetic reaction in the first raw particles between the elements contained in the first and second raw particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, MITSUBA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Isoda, Naoki Shioda
  • Patent number: 9340765
    Abstract: A method to suppress biofilm formation in a growth chamber of a chemostat is described. The method includes the steps of adding a lysis agent to an isolated portion of the growth chamber, and reuniting the isolated portion with the rest of the growth chamber. The microfluidic chemostat includes a growth chamber having a plurality of compartments. Each of the compartments may be fluidly isolated from the rest of the growth chamber by one or more actuatable valves. The chemostat also included a nutrient supply-line to supply growth medium to the growth chamber, and an output port to remove fluids from the growth chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Frederick Balagadde, Carl L. Hansen, Emil Kartalov, Stephen R. Quake
  • Patent number: 9341530
    Abstract: Provided are a biocompatible pressure sensor which can be implanted into a body to wirelessly measure an internal pressure of the body outside the body, and a method of manufacturing the biocompatible pressure sensor. The biocompatible pressure sensor includes a coil inductor, a capacitor electrically connected with the coil inductor to constitute an LC resonant circuit together with the coil inductor, a flexible membrane disposed while being spaced apart from the coil inductor with an internal space interposed therebetween and surrounded by a housing, and a pressure displacement member fixed to one surface of the flexible membrane facing the coil inductor. The flexible membrane is transformed by external pressure to change a distance between the coil inductor and the pressure displacement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Soo-Hyun Lee, Ji-Yoon Kang, Chang-Kun Park, Byung-Joo Kang
  • Patent number: 9342792
    Abstract: For each pair of a plurality of slave lasers B for which injection synchronization is performed by a master laser M, by controlling the intensity of light exchanged between two slave lasers B and an optical path length between the two slave lasers B using a slave-to-laser intensity control unit IA and an inter-slave laser optical path length control unit IP, the magnitude and the sign of pseudo ising interaction Jij between the two slave lasers B are implemented. After the plurality of slave lasers B arrive at a steady state, by measuring relative values of the oscillation phases of the plurality of slave lasers B with respect to the oscillation phase of the master laser M by using an oscillation phase measuring unit PM, pseudo ising spins ?i of the plurality of slave lasers B are measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, Research Organization of Information and Systems, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Shoko Utsunomiya, Kenta Takata, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Kai Wen
  • Publication number: 20160129045
    Abstract: Provided is a composition for wound-healing containing adult stem cells and elastin-like polypeptides, and more specifically, to a composition for wound-healing capable of effectively treating skin wounds by simultaneously administering elastin-like polypeptides along with adult stem cells thereby increasing the viability of the adult stem cells transplanted on the wounds and promoting angiogenesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Won Bae JEON, Seong Kyoon CHOI, Jin Kyu PARK
  • Publication number: 20160130620
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for simultaneously degrading lignin and cellulose and for boosting effect on the cellulase activity using a specific catalyst. Since the present disclosure allows for the preparation of sugars by degrading not only lignin but also cellulose and hemicellulose using the enzymes which were previously known only as lignin-degrading biocatalysts, it provides the advantage that the preparation of a hydrolysate as a source material for the production of biofuels or biochemicals from lignocellulosic biomass can be simplified and facilitated. As a result, the present disclosure can reduce enzyme cost and can provide improved production efficiency by simplifying the biofuel production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yunje KIM, Youngsoon UM, Han Min WOO, Gyeongtaek GONG, Kyoungseon MIN
  • Publication number: 20160133710
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first region having a first semiconductor material and a second region having a second semiconductor material. The second region is formed over the first region. The semiconductor device also includes a current blocking structure formed in the first region between first and second terminals of the semiconductor device. The current blocking structure is configured to reduce current flow in the first region between the first and second terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Bin Lu, Alison de Nazareth Matioli, Tomas Apostol Palacios
  • Publication number: 20160129477
    Abstract: The trommel assembly (1) with a spiral assembly having a decaying spiral pitch (3) comprises rotating drum structure with the decaying spiral assembly (2) and screen panels (6) made of polymeric material or rubber compounds. The pitch (3) is at a maximum at the inlet and at a minimum at the outlet providing increased screening efficiency. Maximum pitch produces low media height with increased inlet velocity and minimum pitch increases media height. The spiral (2) is of single start, double start or multi start configuration. The pitch (3) decreases along the trommel such that screening efficiency is improved without affecting the retention time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicants: Tega Industries Limited, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    Inventors: Vikranth Racherla, Santanu Dashmahapatra, Tanmay Moharana, Biswadeep Paul
  • Publication number: 20160132039
    Abstract: A cutting tool controller and method of controlling are provided. The method includes providing a swing angle for the cutting tool, obtaining a swing vector of the cutting tool through kinematics calculation according to the swing angle, using the swing vector of the cutting tool to calculate a set of possible solutions of a swaying angle of the cutting tool, selecting a possible solution satisfying an operation condition of the machine from the set of possible solutions, using the selected possible solution to calculate an offset of positions of the cutting tool before and after swaying, so as to generate a compensation vector, calculating required compensation values for three axes of the machine according to the compensation vector, and outputting a control command including the compensation values, such that the cutting tool of the machine or a working table for placing the workpiece thereon of the machine moves correspondingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Che-Wei Hsu, Chien-Yi Lee, Yi-Ying Lin, Shih-Je Shiu, Yung-Ming Kao
  • Publication number: 20160128588
    Abstract: A probe suitable for deep-brain recording and stimulation is provided. The probe comprises a wire bundle that includes a plurality of wires, an integrated circuit having a plurality of electrodes, and an interposer that joins the wire bundle and the integrated circuit such that each of the plurality of electrodes is electrically connected with a different wire of the plurality of wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Melosh, Matt R. Angle, Jun Ding, Andreas Schaefer, Mina-elraheb S. Hanna