Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Publication number: 20160134146
    Abstract: A battery control method based on ageing-adaptive operation window is provided, including: performing a multi-dimensional electrochemical impedance spectrum method to obtain a three-dimensional Nyquist-vs-SoC relation diagram; using an equivalent circuit model to analyze the Nyquist-vs-SoC diagram to obtain at least a major ageing factor; defining an operation window stress index, and based on the stress index defining a plurality of control reference points for the battery operation window; and based on the plurality of control points, performing the control of battery discharging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shou-Hung LING, Shih-Hao LIANG
  • Publication number: 20160130654
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method detecting and treating cancer, such as lung cancer. In some aspects, the method may include detecting cancer in a subject, which may comprise assessing the expression of a marker in a sample from the subject. For example, the marker may comprise Mcl-1. In some embodiments, if the subject is diagnosed as having cancer, the method may further provide administering a therapeutically effective amount of a substance that reduces the expression level of Mcl-1 to the subject and then administering a treatment modality that is known to treat the cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Timothy G. Whitsett, Nhan L. Tran
  • Publication number: 20160131560
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present application teaches methods and kits for clearing and optionally subsequently visualizing tissue containing bone. In some embodiments, the method includes serially incubating cleared bone in refractive index matching solutions with progressively higher refractive indexes. In some embodiments, the methods teach immunolabeling and/or staining tissue containing bone and optionally visualizing the immunolabeled and/or stained tissue containing bone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Viviana Gradinaru, Bin Yang, Jennifer Treweek, Ken Chan
  • Publication number: 20160130393
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thermoplastic polyester elastomer, which is formed by reacting 100 parts by weight of ester and 0.01 to 2 parts by weight of an epoxy resin with two epoxy groups, wherein the ester is formed by reacting a parts by mole of a hard-segment diol, b parts by mole of a soft-segment diol, and 1 part by mole of a diacid, wherein 1?a?3 and 0.005?b?1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiung LIAO, Jen-Chun CHIU, Cing-Jiuh KANG, Chung-Cheng LIN, Chin-Lang WU, Yu-Chuan HSU
  • Publication number: 20160130588
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for generating polycystronic nucleic acid vectors, said method comprising the steps of a) providing a first nucleic acid vector, said first nucleic acid vector comprising: i) an origin of replication placed in front of ii) at least one first gene of interest functionally cloned within a first expression cassette, said first expression cassette comprising a promoter sequence as well as a termination sequence, said first gene of interest being located between said promoter sequence and said termination sequence, iii) a marker gene together with its termination sequence, said marker gene being situated downstream of a target sequence for a recombinase, wherein the promoter necessary for the expression of said marker gene in a host cell is absent from said first nucleic acid vector, and optionally iv) a first further marker gene which is different from the marker gene of iii), said first further marker gene being situated within said first expression cassette of ii) or with
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (FMI)
    Inventors: Wassim Abdul RAHMAN, Nicolas Holger THOMÄ
  • Publication number: 20160133032
    Abstract: A device and a method for image reconstruction at different X-ray energies that make it possible to achieve image reconstruction with higher accuracy. A device for image reconstruction at different X-ray energies includes: an X-ray source 1 that irradiates a specimen to be imaged 2 with X-rays; an energy-dispersive detector 4 that detects a characteristic X-ray emitted from the specimen to be imaged 2; a signal processor that quantifies the peak of the characteristic X-ray detected by the detector 4; and an image reconstruction device that reconstructs an image on the basis of a signal from the signal processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: TOKYO METROPOLITAN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Akira MONKAWA, Shoichi NAKANISHI, Shinya ABE, Mikiya KONDO, Koh HARADA
  • Publication number: 20160131527
    Abstract: A two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy system and a 2D spectroscopic analysis method are disclosed. The 2D spectroscopy system includes: a light transmission delayer configured for forming a plurality of first light pulses from first light pulse and causing a relative time delay therebetween; a response pulse wave generator configured for generating a plurality of response pulse waves responds and having a relative time delay, and for irradiating the plurality of response pulse waves on the sample; an optical readout pulse array generator configured for forming an optical readout pulse array by splitting the second light pulse into a plurality of regions having different time delays and spatially discriminated from one another; and a reader configured for reading out by overlapping the optical readout pulse array with a signal generated from the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicants: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chan-Wook BAIK, Ogan GUREL, Benjamin Kwasi OFORI-OKAI, Christopher Alan WERLEY, Keith Adam NELSON, Stephanie Meng-Yan TEO
  • Publication number: 20160133696
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a FinFET DEVICE is provided in the invention, comprising: a. providing a substrate (100);b. forming a fin (200) on the substrate (200); c. depositing a doping material layer (300) on the semiconductor structure formed after the step b; d. forming a first shallow trench isolation (400) on the semiconductor formed after the step c; e. removing a portion of the doping material layer (300) which is not covered by the first shallow trench isolation (400); f. performing an annealing process to form a doped region (500) in a channel region which is in the middle portion of the fin; g. forming a second shallow trench isolation (600) on the semiconductor formed after the step f; h. forming a source region and a drain region in opposite portions of the fin and forming a gate stack on the middle portion of the fin. Comparing with the prior art, punch through effect will be restrained and process complexity will be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Institute of Microlectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Haizhou Yin, Keke Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160133917
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a cathode for a thin film battery includes depositing a cathode active material on a substrate, and crystallizing the cathode active material by irradiating laser onto the cathode active material. The cathode active material may be deposited on the substrate at normal temperature, and a light and easily processable polymer substrate may be used by crystallizing the cathode active material at low temperature using laser. A thin film battery including the cathode fabricated by the above method has excellent charging/discharging characteristics such as high discharge capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ji-Won CHOI, Seok Jin YOON, Jin Sang KIM, Chong Yun KANG, Seung Hyub BAEK, Seong Keun KIM, Beomjin KWON, Haena YIM
  • Publication number: 20160134436
    Abstract: The present invention relates to wireless network technologies, and particularly to a chain-type wireless sensor network-oriented hybrid media access control (MAC) method. The present invention fully considers features of a chained or linear topology of a wireless sensor network applied in power transmission line monitoring and the like, adopts different access policies at different periods of the network, and proposes a method of time division access control Pipelined TDMA during busy periods and contention access control S-XMAC during idle periods. During busy periods, a pipelined scheduling transmission method is used to avoid the problem of hidden terminals so as to improve transmission reliability and resource utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Haibin YU, Wei LIANG, Xiaoling ZHANG, Chaofan MA
  • Patent number: 9336488
    Abstract: The present inventions generally relate to a leaf node ranking method in decision trees for spatial prediction and its recording medium. The leaf node ranking method in decision trees includes a learning step to form a decision tree having one root node, in which each parent node has multiple child nodes, using training data sets for spatial prediction; and a leaf node ranking step from the decision tree that finishes the learning. In the learning step, each node of the decision tree stores both the number of classes according to class distribution of training data and structures for storing the number. In the leaf node ranking step, a rank of a leaf node is determined using the number of classes according to class distribution, which is stored in each node on a path from the root node to the leaf node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GOESCIENCE & MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Young Kwang Yeon, Seong-Jun Cho, Jong Gyu Han
  • Patent number: 9334170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material having a CHA framework structure, said zeolitic material comprising zeolite crystals having a core-shell structure, wherein said process comprises the steps of (1) providing a mixture comprising one or more sources for Z2O5, one or more sources for X2O3, optionally one or more structure directing agents, and seed crystals having a CHA framework structure, wherein the CHA framework structure of the seed crystals comprises YO2, X2O3, and optionally Z2O5, and wherein the seed crystals have a diameter of 450 nm or greater; (2) crystallizing the mixture provided in (1) to afford zeolite crystals comprising a core of seed crystal provided in step (1) and a shell crystallized on the seed crystal; wherein Z is a pentavalent element, Y is a tetravalent element, and X is a trivalent element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignees: BASF SE, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Bilge Yilmaz, Ulrich Müller, Feng-Shou Xiao, Takashi Tatsumi, Dirk de Vos, Xinhe Bao, Weiping Zhang, Hermann Gies, Hiroyuki Imai, Bart Tijsebaert, Limin Ren, Chengguan Yang
  • Patent number: 9336026
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for simulating a distributed business process are disclosed. The methods and apparatus simulate an interdependent business process, such as a financial transaction system, in a secure distributed manner. Each business entity that is part of the interdependent business process models itself on a local client device at any chosen level of detail. A simulation server connects the separate client based simulations into one large simulation. Details of each local simulation may be hidden from other simulation participants. However, interruptions in business flow caused by simulated disruptions introduced at the simulation server and/or a client device are propagated to all of the effected simulation participants via the simulation server. In addition, if a client based model is not available, the server supplies a software agent to replace the inputs and outputs normally associated with that portion of the overall simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Norwich University Applied Research Institutes
    Inventors: Andrew W. Cutts, Robert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9334228
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a dialkyl carbonate, in which a dialkyl carbonate such as dimethyl carbonate is economically prepared in an environmentally-friendly manner at a higher yield while reducing generation of a by-product. The method for preparing the dialkyl carbonate includes reacting urea, an alkyl carbamate having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or a mixture thereof with a monovalent alcohol having 1 to 3 carbon atoms in the presence of a room temperature ionic liquid and a catalyst including a salt of a transition metal or a rare earth metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Joon Hyun Baik, Jae Cheon Koh, Kyong Tae Kim, Dong Jun Koh, Young Sam Sa, Yun Min Kim, Chul Ung Kim
  • Patent number: 9334309
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel agents for broad spectrum influenza neutralization. The present invention provides agents for inhibiting influenza infection by bind to the influenza virus and/or hemagglutinin (HA) polypeptides and/or HA receptors, and reagents and methods relating thereto. The present invention provides a system for analyzing interactions between infolds and the interaction partners that bind to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Ram Sasisekharan, Karthik Viswanathan, Venkataramanan Soundararajan, S. Raguram, Viswanathan Sasisekharan, Vidya Subramanian
  • Patent number: 9338755
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for radiosonde power control based on position estimation, including a radiosonde system including a radiosonde that may collect weather information, receive Global Positioning System (GPS) information, and transmit a signal including the collected weather information, and a receiver that may receive the signal, and the radiosonde may also recognize a current position based on the GPS information and control a transmission power based on a distance between the current position and a position of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Hong Soon Nam
  • Patent number: 9336609
    Abstract: An image and message encoding system, encoding method, decoding system and decoding method are provided. The encoding method includes the following steps. An original image having a first resolution is provided. A message data is provided. The original image and the message data are combined to be an integrated image having a second resolution. The second resolution is greater than the first resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jwu-Sheng Hu, Jiun-Yan Chen, Hsin-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 9337102
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises, including forming a plurality of fins on a substrate, forming, a dummy gate stack on the fins forming a gate spacer on opposite sides of the dummy gate stack, forming source/drain trenches by etching the fins with the gate spacer and the dummy gate stack as a mask, forming source/drain extension regions on the bottom and sides of the trenches by performing lightly-doping ion implantation; and by performing epitaxial growth in and/or on the source/drain trenches, removing the dummy gate stack to form a gate trench; and forming a gate stack in the gate trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Huaxiang Yin, Changliang Qin, Xiaolong Ma, Guilei Wang, Huilong Zhu
  • Patent number: 9336922
    Abstract: A fabrication method of thermoelectric materials using core-shell structured nano-particles and thermoelectric materials fabricated by the same are provided. The method includes preparing core-shell structured nano-particles having thermoelectric elements coated on the surface thereof (step 1); adding and mixing the prepared core-shell structured nano-particles of step 1, bismuth (Bi) salts, tellurium (Te) salts and a surfactant in a solvent (step 2); adding and dispersing a reducing agent in the mixture of step (step 3); and heating the mixture of step 3 in which reducing agent is added and dispersed (step 4). According to the present invention, thermoelectric materials, nano-phase is homogeneously dispersed inside of thermoelectric grain boundary, can be fabricated and if the fabricated materials are used after sintering and bulking, the thermoelectric materials are maintained in a state that the nano-particles remain in dispersed phase even after sintering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
    Inventors: Kyung Tae Kim, Gook Hyun Ha
  • Patent number: 9336077
    Abstract: There are provided a method and apparatus for decoding an LDPC code. In this specification, a first result is calculated by performing the calculation of a check node having two inputs forward and recursively, a second result is calculated by performing the calculation of the check node having the two inputs backward and recursively, and the check node is calculated using the first result and the second result as the inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Ik Park, Heung Mook Kim