Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9252280
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) and a method for manufacturing the same. The MOSFET includes: a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer which comprises a semiconductor substrate, a buried insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer, the buried insulating layer being on the semiconductor substrate, and the semiconductor layer being on the buried insulating layer; a gate stack on the semiconductor layer; a source region and a drain region, which are in the semiconductor layer and on opposite sides of the gate stack; and a channel region, which is in the semiconductor layer and sandwiched by the source region and the drain region, wherein the MOSFET further comprises a back gate, the back gate being located in the semiconductor substrate and having a first doped region in a lower portion of the back gate and a second doped region in an upper portion of the back gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Huilong Zhu, Miao Xu, Qingqing Liang
  • Patent number: 9249358
    Abstract: A method for producing synthesis gas, including: 1) pre-processing a biomass raw material; 2) pyrolyzing the biomass raw material to yield a pyrolysis gas and a carbon powder; 3) separating the pyrolysis gas from the carbon powder and a solid heat carrier; 4) separating the carbon powder away from the solid heat carrier via a solid-solid separator; 5) conveying the generated pyrolysis gas to a condensate tank for spray condensation, condensing a condensable part in the pyrolysis gas to generate biological fuel oil, pressurizing the generated biological fuel oil by a high pressure oil pump and feeding to a gasification furnace to be gasified; and 6) feeding one part of non-condensable pyrolysis gas to a combustion bed to combust with air, and conveying the other part of the non-condensable pyrolysis gas to the pyrolysis bed as a fluidizing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Wuhan Kaidi Engineering Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kan Song, Manyi Jiang, Qin Sun, Shirong Zhang, Haiqing Zhang, Jinqiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9249401
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to CBH II chimera fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides, and host cells for producing the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Frances H. Arnold, Pete Heinzelman
  • Patent number: 9249445
    Abstract: Disclosed is a detection method for detecting a specific cell in a sample containing multiple cells including the specific cell. Specifically disclosed is a detection method for detecting a specific cell in a sample containing multiple cells including the specific cell, which comprises the following steps (1) and (2): (1) retaining cells contained in the sample on a microarray chip which comprises multiple microchambers, wherein each of the microchambers can contain multiple cells; and (2) confirming the presence or absence of the specific cell in the cells retained on the microarray chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shohei Yamamura, Shouki Yatsushiro, Masatoshi Kataoka
  • Patent number: 9250224
    Abstract: Disclosed is a test apparatus of accelerated photo-degradation measuring a degradation caused by photo-degradation in a material or a product by light containing UV light and visible light that simulate the solar light-inducing degradation. The apparatus includes a light irradiating unit configured to irradiate light using at least one electrodeless plasma lamp; a light condensing unit configured to collect light emitted from the light irradiating unit and irradiate the light uniformly into the surface of the specimen for the material or the product; and a specimen holder configured to fix the specimen, and the specimen holder being fixed at a predetermined position or rotated. Further, the at least one electrodeless plasma lamp generates light having a light power spectrum similar to a solar light in a region of UV light and short-wavelength visible light corresponding to a range of about 300-500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Doo Jin Byun
  • Patent number: 9252849
    Abstract: The present invention relates to communication using multiple antennas, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for adaptively adjusting, based on a channel environment, an interval and direction of multiple antennas each of a transmitter and a receiver. A communication method according to the present invention may include verifying information about a channel state based on a pilot signal transmitted for each antenna of a transmitter, adjusting intervals among antennas of a receiver based on the information about a channel state, calculating transmission capacity values according to the adjusted intervals among antennas, and setting an antenna to an antenna interval corresponding to a transmission capacity having a highest value among the transmission capacity values calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kyeong Pyo Kim, Kap Seok Chang, Woo Yong Lee, Seung Joon Lee, Hyun Kyu Chung
  • Patent number: 9252712
    Abstract: Described herein is a fixed-point piece-wise linear (FP PWL) approximation technique for computations of nonlinear functions. The technique results in circuit designs having relatively few and simple arithmetic operations, short arithmetic operands and small-sized look-up tables and the circuits resultant there from can be efficiently pipelined to run at multi-GSamples/s throughputs. In one exemplary embodiment, the FP PWL approximation technique was used in the design of an energy-efficient high-throughput and high-precision signal component separator (SCS) for use with in an asymmetric-multilevel-outphasing (AMO) power amplifier. The FP PWL approximation technique is appropriate for use in any application requiring high-throughput, area and power constrained hardware implementations of nonlinear functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yan Li, Zhipeng Li, Yehuda Avniel, Alexandre Megretski, Vladimir Marko Stojanovic
  • Patent number: 9249444
    Abstract: Disclosed are genes that, when overexpressed in cells expressing alpha-synuclein, either suppress or enhance alpha-synuclein mediated cellular toxicity. Compounds that modulate expression of these genes or activity of the encoded proteins can be used to inhibit alpha-synuclein mediated toxicity and used to treat or prevent synucleinopathies such as Parkinson's disease. Also disclosed are methods of identifying inhibitors of alpha-synuclein mediated toxicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Susan L. Lindquist, Aaron D. Gitler
  • Patent number: 9252368
    Abstract: A cyclic azine compound of formula (1): wherein, Y is C—H or a nitrogen atom, Ar1 is a C6-18 aromatic hydrocarbon group, which may be substituted with an C1-4 alkyl group or a phenyl group, Ar2 is a hydrogen atom, or a C6-18 aromatic hydrocarbon group, which may be substituted with a phenyl group or a pyridyl group, or is a nitrogen-containing condensed ring C9-15 aromatic group, Ar3 is a nitrogen-containing condensed ring C9-15 aromatic group, X is a phenylene group, and n is an integer in the range of 0-3. The cyclic azine compound is useful as a constituent of an organic electroluminescent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: TOSOH CORPORATION, SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hidenori Aihara, Yuji Oka, Keisuke Nomura, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Naoki Uchida
  • Patent number: 9251626
    Abstract: An augmented reality system includes a plurality of mobile devices. Each mobile device includes: an image capturing unit capturing a real image of a target marker to generate a captured image; a storage unit storing a reference image of the target marker, an individual virtual object and a plurality of interactive composite virtual objects; a wireless communication unit capable of short-distance wireless communication with another mobile device located within a predetermined range; a processing unit determining whether the captured image matches the reference image; and a display unit controlled by the processing unit to display one of the individual virtual object, the interactive composite virtual objects and the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventors: Ren-Chiun Wang, Shih-Shin Hu
  • Patent number: 9248108
    Abstract: A medicament for reducing the risk of having an aneuploid pregnancy in a woman with reduced ovarian ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity level, the medicament includes putrescine. A use of putrescine for reducing the risk of having an aneuploid pregnancy in a woman with reduced ovarian ODC activity levels. A method for reducing the risk of having an aneuploid pregnancy in a woman with reduced ovarian ODC activity levels by administering putrescine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Xingquan Johné Liu, Yong Tao
  • Patent number: 9252181
    Abstract: A color image sensor is disclosed. In one aspect, the color image sensor includes: a photo-sensitive cell having a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and a chalcogenide material located between the lower electrode and the upper electrode; and an image sensing circuit for measuring the wavelength or intensity of incident light based on an electric characteristic value generated from the photo-sensitive cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Su Youn Lee, Byung Ki Cheong, Doo Seok Jeong
  • Patent number: 9252241
    Abstract: Disclosed are a self-aligned thin film transistor capable of simultaneously improving an operation speed and stability and minimizing a size thereof by forming source and drain electrodes so as to be self-aligned, and a fabrication method thereof. The method of fabricating a thin film transistor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: forming an active layer, a gate insulator, and a gate layer on a substrate; forming a photoresist layer pattern for defining a shape of a gate electrode on the gate layer; etching the gate layer, the gate insulator, and the active layer by using the photoresist layer pattern; depositing a source and drain layer on the etched substrate by a deposition method having directionality; and forming a gate electrode and self-aligned source electrode and drain electrode by removing the photoresist layer pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Him Chan Oh, Chi Sun Hwang, Sang Hee Park
  • Patent number: 9252937
    Abstract: A scheduling method of giving a chance for transmission to a plurality of terminals in the same time period, and a device therefor are provided. The scheduling method includes: transmitting first scheduling information to terminals in a network, the first scheduling information defining transmitting/receiving terminals and a transmission time period; receiving channel measurement information including inter-terminal interference information from the terminals in the network; and generating second scheduling information defining transmission time periods and a plurality of transmitting/receiving terminals that do not interfere with each other by using the channel measurement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Geun Jin, Jin Kyeong Kim, Woo Yong Lee, Hyun Kyu Chung
  • Patent number: 9248161
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition, and methods of use thereof, for treating ocular boundary deficiency, symptoms associated therewith, or undesired condition that is associated with or causes ocular boundary deficiency at the ocular surface. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention comprises a human PRG4 protein, a lubricant fragment, homolog, or isoform thereof, suspended in an ophthalmically acceptable balanced salt solution. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may also comprise one or more ophthalmically acceptable agents selected from the group consisting of an ophthalmically acceptable demulcent, excipient, astringent, vasoconstrictor, emollient, sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic acid, and surface active phospholipids, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for topical administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Benjamin Sullivan, Tannin A. Schmidt, David A. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9249084
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a (2R,3R)-3-(3-substituted phenyl)-2-methyl n-pentanamide compounds as shown in the formula I and the preparation method thereof, wherein, the substituents are as defined in the specification, the present invention further relates to a use of the above compounds for the preparation of tapentadol II or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, and the intermediates involved in the preparation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Topharman Shanghai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Zhang, Rongxia Zhang, Guanghui Tian, Jianfeng Li, Fuqiang Zhu, Xiangrui Jiang, Jingshan Shen
  • Patent number: 9249170
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds and methods of catalyzing ethenolysis reactions, optionally on an industrial scale. In certain embodiments, the catalysts bear cyclic alkyl amino carbene (CAAC) ligands with an ortho substituent, such as a methyl substituent, on an N-aryl ring. When used to catalyze ethenolysis reactions, certain such compounds produce a turnover number greater than 50,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Vanessa M. Marx, Mohand-Ameziane Melaimi, Scott C. Virgil, Benjamin K. Keitz, Robert H. Grubbs, Guy Bertrand
  • Patent number: 9250404
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-channel optical module and a manufacturing method of the same. The optical module includes a base block having a cavity on one edge of the base block; a substrate arranged on the other side of the base block that faces the cavity; an integrated circuit (IC) chip mounted on the substrate; a platform arranged in the cavity; electrical contacts connected to the IC chip, wherein the electrical contacts are formed on the platform; an optical device array block arranged in the platform, wherein the optical device array block is connected to the electrical contacts; a plurality of optical fiber cores aligned with the optical device array block; and an optical fiber array block fixing the plurality of optical fiber cores, wherein the optical fiber array block is bonded to the platform and to the optical device array block and is fixed in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Kwon-Seob Lim
  • Patent number: 9253858
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for controlling a lighting network. The apparatus for controlling lighting network includes a control device and a plurality of control gears. The control device generates and transfers commands to control lighting. The plurality of control gears receives the commands from the control device and control lighting. The control device assigns a right to use a lighting network to the control gears, and the control gears send information about a change in a lighting state or error details to the control device using the right to use a lighting network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyun-Jong Kim, Tae-Gyu Kang, You-Jin Kim, Dae-Ho Kim, Hyun-Seok Kim, Sang-Kyu Lim, Il-Soon Jang, Jin-Doo Jeong, In-Su Kim, Seong-Hee Park, Jung-Sik Sung, Hyun-Chul Kang, Myung-Soon Kim, Hyun-Joo Kang
  • Patent number: 9251964
    Abstract: A porphyrin-based compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1 or 2. A dye for a dye-sensitized solar cell includes the porphyrin-based compound so that the dye has improved photoelectric conversion efficiency. A dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dye layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the dye layer includes the porphyrin-based compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hyojeong Jo, Jungeun Nam, Daehwan Kim, Jinkyu Kang