Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
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Publication number: 20160003752Abstract: Computerized method and system for improving 3D reconstruction images involves applying the Extended Field Iterative Reconstruction Technique (EFIRT) to remove correlated noise, in addition to using COMET (constrained maximum relative entropy tomography) to eliminate uncorrelated noise, wherein the EFIRT is applied by performing a set of successive reconstructions on an extended field larger than a region of interest (ROI); and extracting and averaging the ROI from said set of successive reconstructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School CorporationInventors: Faisal MAHMOOD, Lars-Göran Wallentin ÖFVERSTEDT, Bo Ulf SKOGLUND
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Publication number: 20160002178Abstract: The present disclosure provides polyamine-fatty acid derived lipidoids (e.g., compounds of Formula (I) or (II)) and methods of preparing the lipidoids. A described lipidoid includes R—C(?O)—O— moieties (where R is a lipid moiety), which may be hydrolyzed into non-toxic fatty acids. Also provided are compositions including a described lipidoid and an agent (e.g., polynucleotide, small molecule, peptide, or protein). The present disclosure also provides methods, kits, and uses that involve the lipidoids or compositions for delivering an agent to a subject, tissue, or cell and/or for treating and/or preventing a range of diseases, such as genetic diseases, proliferative diseases, hematological diseases, neurological diseases, immunological diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory diseases, painful conditions, psychiatric disorders, and metabolic disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Owen Shea Fenton, Joseph Robert Dorkin, Daniel Griffith Anderson, Rebecca L. McClellan
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Publication number: 20160001198Abstract: Systems and methods for degassing liquids in nano-flow liquid applications (FIG. 3). In a chromatography embodiment, a system includes a buffer container, a degasser, a buffer pump, a nano-flow pump, and a separation column. The buffer pump is configured to move a buffer from the buffer container through the degasser and the nano-flow pump is configured to move the buffer from the buffer container or the degasser to the separation column.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: The Translational Genomics Research InstituteInventors: Tony Tegeler, Konstantinos Petritis
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Publication number: 20160002636Abstract: Oligonucleotides having a nucleotide sequence complementary to nucleotide numbers such as 2571-2607, 2578-2592, 2571-2592, 2573-2592, 2578-2596, 2578-2601 or 2575-2592 of the dystrophin cDNA (Gene Bank accession No. NM_004006.1) and therapeutic agents for muscular dystrophy comprising such oligonucleotides.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Orphan Disease Treatment Institute Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi MATSUO, Yasuhiro Takeshima, Makoto Koizumi
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Publication number: 20160000329Abstract: Apparatus and methods are presented herein that permit real-time, accurate detection of residual tumor in the operating room. The Raman-based wide-field imaging apparatus and methods described herein permit real-time imaging of tumor-targeted R-MR nanoparticles over a wide field.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer ResearchInventors: Moritz Kircher, Ricardo Toledo-Crow
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Publication number: 20160001803Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a position of a train, the apparatus includes a reader. The reader electrically irradiates beams along a plurality of directions toward a tag, combines signals received from the tag and obtains a beam direction information toward the tag, and then detects the position of the train using the beam direction information and a tag information of the tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: KOREA RAILROAD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Jungtai KIM, Jae Ho LEE, Sungsoo PARK, Jong Hyen BAEK
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Publication number: 20160002271Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently producing alkoxysilanes that are useful as various functional chemicals. In order to produce alkoxysilanes efficiently, an ethoxy- or methoxysilane and an alcohol are caused to react using, as a catalyst, for instance an inorganic solid acid having a regular-pore and/or layered structure. Zeolites, montmorillonites or the like can be used as the inorganic solid acid. When a zeolite is used as the catalyst, the silica/alumina ratio of the zeolite ranges preferably from 5 to 1000. The reaction can be promoted through irradiation of microwaves.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hiroshi Yamashita, Makiko Hatori, Michiyo Yoshinaga
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Publication number: 20160006813Abstract: A platform for context-aware experimentation includes a housing for one or more sensors for obtaining data pertaining to an on-going experiment, a communications subsystem for transmitting data obtained by the sensors, and a microcontroller for receiving data from the sensors, providing it to the communications subsystem, and possibly controlling the sensors. The housing may be a tube, which may be configured to hold a sample and may have a cap, or a waterproof package, which may have an opening to admit at least part of a sample. The platform may include a power source. The platform may include a computer processor, located outside the housing, for analyzing the data obtained by the sensors, determining the experimental context in which the sensors are operating and/or which experimental step in a protocol is being performed, and/or reminding users of required parameters for the steps in the protocol.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Charles Victor Fracchia, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20160004702Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth methods for selecting a preferred data set from distributed databases including a first database having a first probability attribute and a second database having a second probability attribute. One example method may include receiving a first data set from the first database and a second data set from the second database. The first data set includes a first monotonic attribute. The second data set includes a second monotonic attribute. It may further include selecting a candidate data set from one of the first data set and the second data set based on a comparison of the first monotonic attribute and the second monotonic attribute and determining whether the selected candidate data set is the preferred data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPURInventors: Arnab BHATTACHARYA, Shashwat MISHRA
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Publication number: 20160002823Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a donor concentration in a Ga2O3-based single crystal body. In addition, an ohmic contact having a low resistance is formed between a Ga2O3-based single crystal body and an electrode. A donor concentration in a Ga2O3-based single crystal body is controlled by a method which includes a step wherein Si, which serves as a donor impurity, is introduced into the Ga2O3-based single crystal body by an ion implantation method at an implantation concentration of 1×1020 cm?3 or less, so that a donor impurity implanted region is formed in the Ga2O3-based single crystal body, the donor impurity implanted region having a higher donor impurity concentration than the regions into which Si is not implanted, and a step wherein Si in the donor impurity implanted region is activated by annealing, so that a high donor concentration region is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, National Institute of Information and Communications TechologyInventors: Kohei SASAKI, Masataka HIGASHIWAKI
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Publication number: 20160002611Abstract: A trans-disciplinary system for cell-free biosynthesis includes a cell-free transcription-translation (TX-TL) tool and modular, generalizable microfluidic architectures. Both components of the system are independently functional and are combinable into a cell-free biosynthesis platform. In the first component, modular plasmid libraries are used to program bacterial cell-free TX-TL systems. Each plasmid holds one gene or operon, and all the genes are controlled by the same promoter, so that the stoichiometry of enzyme synthesis is determined by the stoichiometry of plasmids in the reaction. In the second part, in order to facilitate high throughput mixing and matching of gene units from the modular plasmid libraries, a modular, reconfigurable, flexible, and scalable microfluidic architecture is employed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Andreas Mershin, Vincent Noireaux, James Francis Pelletier, Neil A. Gershenfeld
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Publication number: 20160006569Abstract: Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for monitoring and using data in an electric power grid. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a sensor for measuring an electrical characteristic of a power line, electrical generator, or electrical device; a network interface; a processor; and one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Bora A. Akyol, Jereme Nathan Haack, Philip Allen Craig, JR., Cody William Tews, Anand V. Kulkarni, Brandon J. Carpenter, Wendy M. Maiden, Selim Ciraci
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Publication number: 20160000894Abstract: The invention relates to the discovery that administration of NY-ESO-1 protein, in combination with a saponin based adjuvant leads to an unexpectedly strong immune response against NY-ESO-1 expressing cells. Preferably, the combination is administered intramuscularly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: CSL Limited, Ludwig Institute for Cancer ResearchInventors: Jonathan Cebon, Ian Davis, Weisan Chen, Simon Green
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Publication number: 20160002549Abstract: A system for converting food waste into fuel includes at least one thermal decomposition reactor. The at least one thermal decomposition reactor is configured to transfer an organic waste, that is, food waste, through a region on which a sunlight is concentrated by at least one solar concentrator. A fermenter is disposed at a front end of the at least one thermal decomposition reactor, and any thermal energy remaining after being used in the at least one thermal decomposition reactor is additionally used in fermentation of the food waste. A method of converting food waste into fuel is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND BUILDING TECHNOLOGYInventors: TAE HYUNG KIM, EUN JU KIM
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Patent number: 9228075Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition for inhibiting a gas hydrate formation, the composition including an ionic liquid compound and polyvinylcaprolactam. The composition can reduce the formation rate of a gas hydrate under the same environment in small quantity, thus remarkably extending the induction time of a gas hydrate formation.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Korea Institute of Energy ResearchInventors: Seong-Pil Kang, Dongwook Lee, Howon Ra, Kisub Kim
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Patent number: 9227228Abstract: Provided is a mail sorting system including: a detection unit configured to output a detection signal for a length of a mail inserted to a conveyor belt; a crossbelt driving unit configured to control a motor interworking with a crossbelt including a central region and first and second lateral regions adjacent to both sides based on the central region where the mail is moved and arranged from the conveyor belt; and a control unit configured to transmit a motor control signal which controls at least one of an rpm and a rotational speed of the motor so that the mail is arranged on any one of the central region and the first and second lateral regions based on the detection signal, to the crossbelt driving unit, in order to easily discharge the mail from a destination discharge point by disposing the inserted mail at a setting region of the crossbelt.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Ki Hak Kim, Sung Woo Jun, Jong Heung Park
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Patent number: 9229183Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-channel receiver optical sub assembly. The a multi-channel receiver optical sub assembly includes: a multi-channel PD array, in which a plurality of photodiodes (PDs) disposed on a first capacitor, and including receiving areas disposed at centers thereof and anode electrode pads arranged in an opposite direction at an angle of 180 degrees based on the receiving areas between the adjacent PDs is monolithically integrated; a plurality of transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) arranged on a plurality of second capacitors, respectively, and connected with the anode pads of the respective PDs through wire bonding; a submount on which the first capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Mi-Ran Park, Jong Sool Jeong, Hyun Soo Kim, Byungseok Choi, Young Tak Han, O-Kyun Kwon
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Patent number: 9231847Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for processing a packet for routing and verifying a path in a domain. The apparatus for processing the packet includes an authentication processing unit configured to authenticate a transmission path of a packet in a corresponding node inside a domain; and a transmission processing unit configured to verify whether or not authentication has been performed such that a reception packet passes through the corresponding node and whether or not the packet has passed through an immediately previous node that is passed through along the transmission path and transmit the packet.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventor: Chang-Gyu Lim
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Patent number: 9231191Abstract: A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device includes a reference layer having a surface, a tunnel insulating layer formed over the surface of the reference layer, a free layer formed over the tunnel insulating layer, and a magnetic field providing layer formed over the free layer. A magnetization direction in each of the reference layer and the free layer is substantially perpendicular to the surface. The magnetic field providing layer is configured to provide a lateral magnetic field in the free layer, the lateral magnetic field being substantially parallel to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Sheng-Huang Huang, Kuei-Hung Shen, Yung-Hung Wang
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Patent number: 9230849Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing an ultra-thin material on insulator through adsorption by a doped ultra-thin layer. In the method, first, an ultra-thin doped single crystal film and an ultra-thin top film (or contains a buffer layer) are successively and epitaxially grown on a first substrate, and then a high-quality ultra-thin material on insulator is prepared through ion implantation and a bonding process. A thickness of the prepared ultra-thin material on insulator ranges from 5 nm to 50 nm. In the present invention, the ultra-thin doped single crystal film adsorbs the implanted ion, and a micro crack is then formed, so as to implement ion-cut; therefore, the roughness of a surface of a ion-cut material on insulator is small.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Zengfeng Di, Da Chen, Jiantao Bian, Zhongying Xue, Miao Zhang
