Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Screening method for BRAF inhibitors
    Patent number: 9279144
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, compositions and kits concerning resistance to treatment with an anti-cancer agent, specifically an inhibitor of BRAF. In particular embodiments, the invention concerns mutations in a BRAF sequence that confer resistance to a BRAF inhibitor. Identification of such mutations in a BRAF sequence allows the identification and design of second-generation BRAF inhibitors. Methods and kits for detecting the presence of a mutant BRAF sequence in a sample are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Levi Garraway, Caroline Emery
  • Cellular communication system allowing, by using a universal link, direct communication between terminals or simultaneous transmission and reception of signals between a base station and the terminals
    Patent number: 9282584
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cellular communication system allowing direct communication between terminals within a cell or simultaneous transmission and reception of signals between a base station and the terminals through a repeater to be made by introducing a universal link, and a communication method thereof. The communication method of the cellular communication system includes: transmitting, by a base station, universal link setting information and a transmission control signal to a first terminal within a cell, transmitting, by the base station, the universal link setting information and a reception control signal to a second terminal within the cell, and directly transmitting/receiving, by the first and second terminals, signals through the universal link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Keun Young Kim, Seung-Hwan Lee, Dong Seung Kwon
  • Method for manipulating droplet
    Patent number: 9279820
    Abstract: A method for manipulating a droplet by a droplet manipulating device including a flow channel, a first magnetic field generator, and a second magnetic field generator is provided. The first magnetic field generator includes two first magnetic field modules and are at two sides of the flow channel. The second magnetic field generator is between the two first magnetic field modules and includes multiple second magnetic field coils. The droplet is provided in the flow channel and includes a magnetic particle. A first magnetic field is produced on the flow channel by the first magnetic field modules, so the magnetic particle in the droplet has the direction of magnetic field corresponding to the first magnetic field. A second magnetic field is produced on the flow channel by the second magnetic field coils, for driving the magnetic particle in the droplet to be in motion in the flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shao-Hsing Yeh, Yu-Ying Lin, Chi-Han Chiou, Liang-Ju Chien
  • Compact laser projection systems and methods
    Patent number: 9279977
    Abstract: An automated adaptive optics and laser projection system is described. The automated adaptive optics and laser projection system includes an adaptive optics system and a compact laser projection system with related laser guidance programming used to correct atmospheric distortion induced on light received by a telescope. Control of the automated adaptive optics and laser projection system is designed in a modular manner in order to facilitate replication of the system to be used with a variety of different telescopes. Related methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle
  • Highly purified type A toxin preparation from infant botulism pathogen
    Patent number: 9278133
    Abstract: A novel type A botulinum toxin preparation is provided. A neuromuscular transmission blocking agent comprising as an active ingredient a highly purified type A botulinum toxin from Clostridium botulinum as infant botulism pathogen and a medicament for treating a disease with a muscle overactivity comprising as an active ingredient said toxin. In particular, the medicament of the present invention, as compared to the conventional known botulinum toxin preparations, has rapid efficacy of potential and is less diffusive and thus, having a broader safety margin, may be used as therapeutic medicament for decreasing local, muscle overactivity in a disease with a muscle overactivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: THE CHEMO-SERO-THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Harakawa, Hirotoshi Nakano, Yasushi Torii, Yoshitaka Goto, Miho Shinmura, Sachio Okuda, Ryuji Kaji, Shunji Kosaki
  • Light emitting element and fabricating method thereof
    Patent number: 9281451
    Abstract: A fabricating method of light emitting element. A substrate is provided. A plurality of first concaves and a plurality of second concaves are formed on the substrate, wherein a volume of each first concave is different from a volume of each second concave. A plurality of first light emitting diode chips and a plurality of second light emitting diode chips are provided, wherein a volume of each first light emitting diode chip is corresponding to the volume of each first concave, and a volume of each second light emitting diode chip is corresponding to the volume of each second concave. The first light emitting diode chips are moved onto the substrate such that the first light emitting diode chips go into the first concaves, and the second light emitting diode chips are moved onto the substrate such that the second light emitting diode chips go into the first concaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Wen-Yung Yeh, Kuo-Tung Tiao, Chia-Hsin Chao, Hsi-Hsuan Yen, Ming-Hsien Wu, Jui-Ying Lin, Ying-Chien Chu
  • Method and apparatus for manipulating near field using light scattering
    Patent number: 9279764
    Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating surface near-field light resulting from light emitted from a light source that passes through a scattering layer is disclosed. Also, a method of finding a phase of incident light to cause constructive interference at a target spot using light scattering to manipulate the surface near-field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yongkeun Park, Jung-Hoon Park, Yong-Hoon Cho, Chunghyun Park
  • Biosleeve human-machine interface
    Patent number: 9278453
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sensing human muscle action and gestures in order to control machines or robotic devices are disclosed. One exemplary system employs a tight fitting sleeve worn on a user arm and including a plurality of electromyography (EMG) sensors and at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU). Power, signal processing, and communications electronics may be built into the sleeve and control data may be transmitted wirelessly to the controlled machine or robotic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Christopher Assad
  • Sugar-derived gelator
    Patent number: 9278989
    Abstract: There is provided a novel gelator containing a sugar derivative. A gelator including a compound of Formula (1) or Formula (2): wherein each of R1 and R3 is independently a linear or branched alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 20, a cyclic C3-20 alkyl group, or a linear or branched alkenyl group having a carbon atom number of 2 to 20, n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 4, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 10, or an aryl group optionally having a substituent, and R4 and R5 are each a hydroxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES, NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiyasu Ono, Seiji Shinkai, Osamu Hirata
  • Normalizing electronic communications using feature sets
    Patent number: 9280747
    Abstract: Electronic communications can be normalized using feature sets. For example, an electronic representation of a noncanonical communication can be received, and multiple candidate canonical versions of the noncanonical communication can be determined. A first feature set representative of the noncanonical communication can be determined by splitting the noncanonical communication into at least one n-gram and at least one k-skip-n-gram. Multiple comparison feature sets can be determined by splitting multiple terms in training data into respective comparison feature sets. Multiple Jaccard index values can be determined using the first feature set and the multiple comparison feature sets. A subset of the multiple terms in the training data in which an associated Jaccard index value exceeds a threshold can be selected. The subset of the multiple terms can be included in the multiple candidate canonical versions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Jin, James Allen Cox
  • Sentence hiding and displaying system and method
    Patent number: 9280538
    Abstract: Provided herein is a sentence hiding and displaying system comprising: an image creating interface receiving an input of information on an original image, a plurality of sentences corresponding to the original image, and a language that needs to be hidden; an image creator configured to determine a sentence that needs to be hidden based on the plurality of sentences and the language that needs to be hidden, and to create on the original image an image where the sentence that needs to be hidden is hidden; a sentence display interface configured to receive an input of information on a language selected by a user; and a sentence extractor and displayer configured to parse a sentence expressed in the selected language of among sentences that need to be hidden based on the hidden image and the selected language, and to display the sentence expressed in the selected language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sang Kwang Lee, Ki Young Kim, Jin Kyeong Kim, Jin Tae Oh
  • Single-crystal apatite nanowires sheathed in graphitic shells and synthesis method thereof
    Patent number: 9278162
    Abstract: Heterogeneous nanowires having a core-shell structure consisting of single-crystal apatite as the core and graphitic layers as the shell and a synthesis method thereof are provided. More specifically, provided is a method capable of producing large amounts of heterogeneous nanowires, composed of graphitic shells and apatite cores, in a reproducible manner, by preparing a substrate including an element corresponding to X of X5(YO4)3Z is a chemical formula for apatite, adding to the substrate a gaseous source containing an element corresponding to Y of the chemical formula, adding thereto a gaseous carbon source, and allowing these reactants to react under optimized synthesis conditions using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and to a method capable of freely controlling the structure and size of the heterogeneous nanowires and also to heterogeneous nanowires synthesized thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Nam Jo Jeong, Jung Hoon Lee
  • MIT transistor system including critical current supply device
    Patent number: 9281812
    Abstract: Provided is a metal-insulator transition (MIT) transistor system including an MIT critical current supply device allowing MIT to occur between a control terminal and an outlet terminal of an MIT transistor for easily and conveniently driving the MIT transistor. A current supplier according to the present invention provides a critical current for allowing an MIT phenomenon to occur between the control terminal and the output terminal of the MIT transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Hyun-Tak Kim
  • Immunotherapy and diagnosis of mucormycosis using CotH
    Patent number: 9279002
    Abstract: The invention provided Mucorales CotH polypeptides and encoding nucleic acid molecules. The Mucorales CotH polypeptides and encoding nucleic acids can be advantageously used to diagnose, treat or prevent fungal conditions, in particular mucormycosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Ashraf S. Ibrahim, Mingfu Liu, Teklegiorgis Ghebremariam, Yue Fu, John E. Edwards, Scott Filler
  • Flux-switching linear permanent magnet machine with yokeless translator
    Patent number: 9281735
    Abstract: Advantageous motors, such as flux-switching linear synchronous motors (FSLSMs) are provided. In an FSLSM, all magnets can be magnetized in the same direction. In addition, an FSLSM can be yokeless and can have two stators displaced from one another by half a pole pitch. FSLSMs of the subject invention are cost-effective and provide high thrust, and can operate well even under fault conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Arun Gandhi, Leila Parsa
  • Apparatus and method for separating two phase-modulated signals having different amplitudes
    Patent number: 9281977
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for separating two phase-modulated signals having different amplitudes. A separation method for a phase-modulated signal may include: receiving, using a single antenna, a first received signal and a second received signal that are modulated and thereby transferred from a transmitter; calculating an attenuation level of each of the first received signal and the second received signal by dividing each of the first received signal and the second received signal into a real number portion and an imaginary number portion; calculating a difference between the first received signal and the second received signal; and separating and thereby demodulating the first received signal and the second received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Jong Soo Lim
  • Method and apparatus for tracking user's gaze point using mobile terminal
    Patent number: 9280204
    Abstract: A method for tracking a user's gaze point using a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes detecting the user's eye area from a camera that is mounted in the mobile terminal and selecting reference points of the eye area, detecting a pupil corresponding to an interest area that is obtained from the reference points, generating a first virtual grid of the eye area using a pickup image of a gaze point of the pupil corresponding to each corner of the display and generating a second virtual grid having the same division areas as those of the first virtual grid in the display, and mapping a position of the pupil within the second virtual grid area corresponding to a position of the pupil within the first virtual grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Soo Chang Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Seung Chan Bang, Hee-Jae Lee, Sang-Goog Lee
  • Motion picture encoding apparatus and method thereof
    Patent number: 9282342
    Abstract: Provided is a video encoding apparatus, including a signal separator to separate a differential image block into a first domain and a second domain, based on a boundary line included in the differential image block, the differential image block indicating a difference between an original image and a prediction image with respect to the original image, a transform encoder to perform a transform encoding with respect to the first domain using a discrete cosine transform (DCT), a quantization unit to quantize an output of the transform encoding unit in a frequency domain, a space domain quantization unit to quantize the second domain in a space domain, and an entropy encoder to perform an entropy encoding using outputs of the quantization unit and the space domain quantization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation, University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Sung-Chang Lim, Ha Hyun Lee, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong, Suk Hee Cho, Hae Chul Choi, Jong Ho Kim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woo Hong, Dong Gyu Sim, Seoung Jun Oh, Gwang Hoon Park, Mun Churl Kim, Neung Joo Hwang, Sea Nae Park
  • Apparatus and method for measuring semiconductor carrier lifetime
    Patent number: 9279762
    Abstract: In a semiconductor carrier lifetime measuring apparatus A1 of the present invention, at least two types of light having mutually different wavelengths are irradiated onto a semiconductor X to be measured, a predetermined measurement wave is irradiated onto the semiconductor X to be measured, a reflected wave of the measurement wave that has been reflected by the semiconductor X to be measured or a transmitted wave of the measurement wave that has transmitted through the semiconductor X to be measured is detected, and the carrier lifetime in the semiconductor X to be measured is obtained based on the detection results so as to minimize the error. Accordingly, the semiconductor carrier lifetime measuring apparatus A1 configured as described above can more accurately measure the carrier lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobelco Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazushi Hayashi, Hiroyuki Takamatsu, Yoshito Fukumoto, Shingo Sumie
  • Throw type compact reconnaissance robot
    Patent number: RE45917
    Abstract: Provided is a throw-type compact reconnaissance robot, which is used for military purposes or counter-terrorism and is capable of ensuring a long operational time as well as drop safety by efficient spatial layout of a battery. The throw-type compact reconnaissance robot includes a cylindrical body (100) with a camera (140), drivers (200) made up of two tires (270) that are disposed on opposite sides of the body (100) and is drivable individually, and battery units (300) supplying power used to operate the robot and disposed in inner spaces of the tires (270) of the drivers (200) on the opposite outermost sides of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, DUKSAN MECASYS INC.
    Inventors: Soohyun Kim, Kyung-Soo Kim, Jeehyoung Kim, Wonsuk Jung, Chulyoung Kim, Yunsic Hong, Hyunsoo Park, Kyuje Yoo, Seoung Ho Lee, Min-Gu Lee, Doo-Yeol Koh, Bong Soo Kang