Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Composite wall panel with low thermal conductivity and sufficient strength for structural use
    Patent number: 9249053
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite wall panel with good thermal insulation and sufficient strength for structural use which is designed for the fabrication of energy efficient building. The composite wall panel of the present invention comprises a foamed concrete core with sufficient compressive strength and low thermal conductivity which is sandwiched between two lightweight ductile fiber reinforced cementitious composite (FRCC) protective layers with low thermal conductivity, good barrier resistance to moisture/chloride ion/gas, multiple cracking as well as certain amount of steel reinforcements. These composite wall panels are useful in a variety of buildings in both cold and hot regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NANO AND ADVANCED MATERIALS INSTITUTE LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher Kin Ying Leung, Kwok Fai Cheung, Honggang Zhu, Sze Wai Lin
  • Parallel integrated bioreactor device and method
    Patent number: 9248421
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention introduces integrated fluid injection and mixing devices to enable pH control in a miniature parallel integrated bioreactor array system. In another embodiment, the environmental conditions of the growth chamber is enabled through fluidic injections in a miniature parallel cell culture system. In still another embodiment, the present invention utilizes gas switches to control oxygen concentration within a miniature parallel integrated bioreactor array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Harry Lee, Rajeev Ram, Klavs Jensen
  • Patterned conductive film, method of fabricating the same, and application thereof
    Patent number: 9253890
    Abstract: Provided is a patterned conductive film may include a conductive interconnected nano-structure film. The conductive interconnected nano-structure film may include a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. A conductivity of the first region may be at least 1000 times a conductivity of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yu-Pei Chang, Ming-Huan Yang, Chun-Yi Chiu
  • Wireless communication system and method of wireless communication
    Patent number: 9253716
    Abstract: A technique that can effectively utilize unused wireless link and realize high-quality wireless communication between a communication terminal and a base station and enables efficient distribution of radio resources over an entire wireless communication system is provided. A wireless communication system in which a base station and a communication terminal can conduct wireless communication by detecting a usable wireless link and changing a wireless link used for the connection is also provided. On the communication network side, in addition to a plurality of wireless communication networks and a base station, a server device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kentaro Ishizu, Homare Murakami, Goh Miyamoto, Ha Nguyen Tran, Stanislav Filin, Hiroshi Harada
  • Filterless color image sensor
    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
  • Transistor and method of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 9252222
    Abstract: Provided is a transistor. The transistor includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer provided on the substrate and having one side vertical to the substrate and the other side facing the one side; a first electrode extending along the substrate and contacting the one side of the semiconductor layer; a second electrode extending along the substrate and contacting the other side of the semiconductor layer; a conductive wire disposed on the first electrode and spaced from the second electrode; a gate electrode provided on the semiconductor layer; and a gate insulating layer disposed between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, wherein the semiconductor layer, the first electrode, and the second electrode have a coplanar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Haeng Cho, Sang-Hee Park, Chi-Sun Hwang
  • Method for loading and storing gas in nano-valved sorbents
    Patent number: 9249934
    Abstract: Adsorbent pellets coated with an outer nano-porous layer can be loaded with gas at loading pressures of 250 bar or greater, enabling a much higher loading than can be achieved at low pressures. The nano-porous layer provides nano-valves which can be sealed with an adsorbate such as ethanol or a hydrocarbon to close the nano-valves. The closed nano-valves maintain the high loading pressure inside the adsorbent pellets, and thus maintain the gas loading, during storage of the loaded nano-valved adsorbent pellets at much lower pressure. To release the gas, the nano-porous layer can be heated to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the adsorbate and open the nano-valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: Gas Technology Institute, University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., University of South Carolina
    Inventors: Shiguang Li, Shaojun Zhou, Howard S. Meyer, Miao Yu, Moises A. Carreon
  • Direct acting extensible and retractable arm mechanism, and robot arm provided with direct acting extensible and retractable arm mechanism
    Patent number: 9248576
    Abstract: A robot arm (50) of the present invention includes, as a direct acting extensible/retractable joint (J3), an arm section (2) constituted by an upper structure group (20) and a lower structure group (21). Groups (20) and (21), having an arrangement in which structures are connected in series, partially engage so as to form a direct rigid combined structure, and are separated so as to release the rigid structure. An arm length can be adjusted arbitrarily. Section (2) can have a plane surface having no gap to prevent entry of a finger/dust. Separation of Groups (20) and (21) allows an upper structure (22) and a lower structure (23) to rotate around their rotational axes, to realize compact storage inside a robot arm supporting member (1). It is thus possible to prevent significantly entry of a finger/dust, and provide a compact direct acting extensible and retractable arm mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Life Robotics R.E.D Inc.
    Inventor: Woo-Keun Yoon
  • Directed evolution using proteins comprising unnatural amino acids
    Patent number: 9249408
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for screening polypeptide libraries that include variants comprising unnatural amino acids. In addition, the invention provides vector packaging systems and methods for packaging a nucleic acid in a vector. Compositions of vectors produced by the methods and systems are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang Liu, Meng-Lin Tsao, Vaughn Smider, Peter G. Schultz
  • Methods of generating neural stem cells
    Patent number: 9249391
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of generating neural stem cells from differentiated somatic cells. The present disclosure also provides induced neural stem cells generated using a subject method, as well as differentiated cells generated from a subject induced neural stem cell. A subject neural stem cell, as well as differentiated cells derived from a subject neural stem cell, is useful in various applications, which are also provided in the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: The J. David Gladstone Institutes
    Inventors: Yadong Huang, Karen Ring
  • Sensor for microwave image
    Patent number: 9247893
    Abstract: A sensor includes a tank filled with a matching medium, a metal body configured to surround an image object received in the tank, and a plurality of apertures disposed at constant intervals inside the metal body, wherein when any one of the plurality of apertures radiates microwaves to the image object, remaining apertures receive scattering microwaves from the image object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Jae Lee, Soon Ik Jeon, Jong Moon Lee, Jang Yeol Kim
  • MEMS device with multiple electrodes and fabricating method thereof
    Patent number: 9249008
    Abstract: A MEMS device with a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode is disclosed. These electrodes are disposed on a substrate in such a manner that (1) a pointing direction of the first electrode is in parallel with a normal direction of the substrate, (2) a pointing direction of the third electrode is perpendicular to the pointing direction of the first electrode, (3) the second electrode includes a sensing portion and a stationary portion, (4) the first electrode and the sensing portion are configured to define a sensing capacitor, and (5) the third electrode and the stationary portion are configured to define a reference capacitor. This arrangement facilitates the MEMS device such as a differential pressure sensor, differential barometer, differential microphone and decoupling capacitor to be miniaturized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yu Wen Hsu, Chin Fu Kuo, Chao Ta Huang, Chun Kai Mao, Chin Hung Wang
  • Semiconductor device structure, method for manufacturing the same and pixel structure using the same
    Patent number: 9252165
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure may include a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer is adjacent to the first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer. The first conductive layer is adjacent to the first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer. The effective Young's modulus of the second dielectric layer may be smaller than the Young's modulus of the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jing-Yi Yan, Chih-Chieh Hsu, Liang-Hsiang Chen, Chen-Wei Lin
  • Method for generating smart contents, method for executing smart contents and method for providing N-screen service of smart contents
    Patent number: 9253191
    Abstract: A method for generating smart contents includes contents protected by a digital right management (DRM) technology; and metadata including information necessary to use the contents. Further, the method includes a smart code for protecting copyright of the contents and position information which the smart code is downloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyeok Chan Kwon, Seungmin Lee, Sokjoon Lee, Yong Hyuk Moon, Dong Il Seo
  • Oxetane-cyclic epoxy compound, method of preparing the same, and composite sheet for display substrate including the same
    Patent number: 9249126
    Abstract: An oxetane-cyclic epoxy compound represented by Formula 1: where R1 is hydrogen, a methyl group or an ethyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: CHEIL INDUSTRIES, INC., KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Young Kwon Kim, Sang Keol Lee, Tae Ho Kim, Woo Jin Lee, Sung Kook Kim, Hyun Ae Jeon, Yun Joo Kim, Sang Yong Tak, Suk Yeon Park, Kyung Nam Kang
  • RNA monomers containing O-acetal levulinyl ester groups and their use in RNA microarrays
    Patent number: 9249175
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to RNA monomers comprising O-acetal levulinyl protecting groups at the 2? and/or the 5?-hydroxy functionalities of the ribose moiety. Said monomers may be incorporated into oligoribonucleotides or RNA polynucleotides. Furthermore, the invention is directed to methods for the synthesis of said RNA monomers, oligoribonucleotides and RNA polynucleotides, as well as methods for their deprotection and methods for the use of said compounds and compositions comprising said compounds. In particular, such compounds and compositions comprising them are used in methods for light-directed synthesis of RNA microarrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: The Royal Institute for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Masad Damha, Jeremy Lackey, Debbie Mitra, Marvin Wickens, Franco Cerrina, Saima A. Akhtar, Mark Somoza
  • Level-crossing based circuit and method with offset voltage cancellation
    Patent number: 9252658
    Abstract: A level-crossing based circuit with offset voltage cancellation includes a first level-crossing detector section having a first output capacitor, wherein the first level-crossing section is configured to charge the first output capacitor to a first voltage corresponding to an input signal. The first voltage includes a first offset voltage. The level-crossing based circuit also includes a second level-crossing detector section having a second output capacitor, wherein the second level-crossing detector section is configured to discharge the second output capacitor to a second voltage corresponding to the input signal such that the second voltage includes a second offset voltage that is substantially equal in magnitude to the first offset voltage and opposite in polarity to the first offset voltage relative to an average of the first voltage and the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Sunghyuk Lee, Hae-Seung Lee
  • 3-Dimensional parylene scaffold cage
    Patent number: 9248013
    Abstract: Thin parylene C membranes having smooth front sides and ultrathin regions (e.g., 0.01 ?m to 5 ?m thick) interspersed with thicker regions are disclosed. The back sides of the membranes can be rough compared with the smooth front sides. The membranes can be used in vitro to grow monolayers of cells in a laboratory or in vivo as surgically implantable growth layers, such as to replace the Bruch's membrane in the eye. The application further provides an implantable cage-like apparatus for culturing cells comprising the parylene membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, University of Southern California
    Inventors: Yu-Chong Tai, Bo Lu, Mark Humayun
  • Hardware-efficient signal-component separator for outphasing power amplifiers
    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
  • Graphene-based multi-junctions flexible solar cell
    Patent number: 9249016
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to structures for the conversion of light into energy. More specifically, the disclosure describes devices for conversion of light to electricity using photovoltaic cells comprising graphene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Adrianus I. Aria, Morteza Gharib