Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9187577
    Abstract: A filled nanoparticle includes a nanosized polymer shell encapsulating a reactive chemical. In another aspect, a filled nanoparticle includes a nanosized polymer shell encapsulating a core which includes a reactive functional group attached to a polymer. A miniemulsion polymerization process of producing filled nanoparticles includes: providing a mixture comprising monomer, initiator or catalyst to aid polymerization, reactive chemical, surfactant and water; shearing the mixture to form a miniemulsion of nanosized particles dispersed in water, the nanosized particles comprising the monomer combined with the reactive chemical; and then heating the miniemulsion to polymerize the monomer and produce filled nanoparticles comprising a nanosized polymer shell encapsulating the reactive chemical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Ramanathan S. Lalgudi, Jeff J. Boyce, Barry L. McGraw
  • Patent number: 9188453
    Abstract: A method of determining service routes for a plurality of crews is provided. Outage data identifying a plurality of service outage source locations, a number of affected customers associated with each location of the plurality of locations, and a type of repair to perform at each location of the plurality of locations is received. A repair time is estimated for each location. Crew data identifying a plurality of crews and a start location for the plurality of crews is received. A service route for each crew is determined based on a crew skill indicator associated with each crew satisfying the type of repair to perform at each location and based on the estimated repair time for each location. The service route for a crew of the plurality of crews includes the start location as a first location and at least one location of the plurality of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Kathy Ball, Albert Hopping
  • Patent number: 9188480
    Abstract: The color filter array 21a comprises seven or more types of color filters including a first color filter. The seven or more types color filters have different spectral sensitivity characteristics. The seven or more types of color filters are arranged in a two-dimensional form. Among the seven or more types of color filters, at least two types of color filters are designated as a color filter of interest. Two color filters arranged at a first interval on both sides of the color filter of interest along a first direction are of the same type. Two color filters arranged at a second interval on both sides of the color filter of interest along a second direction that is different from the first direction are of the same type. Among the color filters, at least one type of color filter have a density higher than that of the other types of color filters, thereby realizing acquisition of highly accurate gradient information from a multiband color filter array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Masayuki Tanaka, Yusuke Monno, Masatoshi Okutomi, Sunao Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Komiya
  • Patent number: 9191941
    Abstract: A method of managing a resource is provided by a base station. The base station allocates a resource to a terminal, and generates a downlink control channel including information of the allocated resource and a transmission time of a next downlink control channel. Further, the base station transmits the downlink control channel to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Kyung Kim, Sung Cheol Chang, Chul Sik Yoon, Mi Young Yun, Won-Ik Kim, Hyun Lee, Seokki Kim
  • Patent number: 9189165
    Abstract: A method for memory management, include allocating an empty page of a physical memory for reference data according to execution of an application program, and mapping the empty page to a virtual memory; checking a physical address of the physical memory to which the reference data has been loaded; mapping the checked physical address to the virtual memory to which the empty page has been mapped, and mapping the reference data; and releasing allocation of the allocated physical memory when the reference data is mapped to the virtual memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwang-Won Koh, Kang Ho Kim, Seung Hyub Jeon, Seungjo Bae
  • Patent number: 9191964
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for improving the efficiency of sharing a frequency between a plurality of adjacent systems using an idle band. A method for allocating an operating channel priority between frequency sharing systems according to the present invention includes: a coarse channel priority allocating operation of collecting information about a target white space object (WSO) for priority allocation of an operating channel and information about the operating channel, and classifying the operating channel based on a predetermined criterion; and a fine channel priority allocating operation of removing the operating channel by checking an interference level of the classified operating channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Dong Hun Lee, Hyun Duk Kang, Byung Jang Jeong
  • Patent number: 9187764
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for controlling fish reproduction, the method comprises the following steps of: A, constructing a recombinant gene CMV-eGFP-SV40-CMV-Ga14-SV40 and establishing a GAL4 transgenic zebrafish line; B, constructing a recombinant gene CMV-RFP-SV40-UAS-antisense dnd and establishing a uas-antisensednd transgenic zebrafish line; and C, hybridizing by taking homozygous transgenic fish of the two lines as parents, and the hybrid generation fish was sterility. The method of the present invention takes a strategy that two fertilizable lines hybridized but hybrid generation is sterility, establishing a novel method with a universal meaning for controlling fish fertility; The method solves the contradiction of the reproductively sterility of fish and the hereditability of characters in a reproduction operation research and can be effectively applied to cultivation of new fish specie and population control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Wei Hu, Yunsheng Zhang, Jun Dai, Zuoyan Zhu
  • Patent number: 9191785
    Abstract: A group communication method of a terminal is provided. The terminal establishes a group call connection with a first base station belonging to a group call zone, and receives group call data from the first base station. When moving to the coverage area of a second base station belonging to the group call zone, the terminal receives group call data from the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung Kyung Kim, Sung Cheol Chang, Eunkyung Kim, Hyun Lee, Chul Sik Yoon
  • Patent number: 9191319
    Abstract: A packet transmission system is provided that includes packet switching modules each having a memory unit to store packet flow tables and a control module coupled to the packet switching modules. The control module includes a memory to store computer executable commands and a processor. The process executes the commands to perform the operations outlined below. A flow entry corresponding to a target packet switching module is generated. A residual memory amount of the memory unit of the target packet switching module is determined to be lower than a threshold value. A redirection packet switching module is selected from the other packet switching modules. A redirection flow entry is added to the packet flow tables in the target packet switching module and a processing flow entry is added to the packet flow tables in the redirection packet switching module according to the flow entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventors: Po-Wen Chi, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Jing-Wei Guo
  • Patent number: 9187318
    Abstract: A laser micro/nano processing system (100, 200, 300, 400) comprises: a laser light source used to provide a first laser beam having a first wavelength and a second laser beam having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, with the pulse width of the first laser beam being in the range from a nanosecond to a femtosecond; an optical focusing assembly used to focus the first laser beam and the second laser beam to the same focal point; and a micro mobile platform (21) controlled by a computer. Also disclosed are a method for micro/nano-processing photosensitive materials with a laser and a method for fabricating a device with a micro/nano structure using laser two-photon direct writing technology. In the system and methods, spatial and temporal overlapping of two laser beams is utilized, so as to obtain a micro/nano structure with a processing resolution higher than that of a single laser beam, using an average power lower than that of a single laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xuanming Duan, Shu Chen, Hongzhong Cao, Xianzi Dong, Zhensheng Zhao
  • Patent number: 9189476
    Abstract: Translation apparatus and method thereof for helping a user to more easily input a sentence to be translated. The translation apparatus has a speech input unit that receives a speech of a first language from a user, a control unit that generates sentences to be translated of the first language from the speech of the first language input from the speech input unit, a communication unit that transmits the sentences to be translated of the first language to a translation server and receives the sentences to be translated of a second language from the translation server, a display unit that displays the translated sentences of the second language along with previously translated sentences, a memory that stores a translation history including the sentences to be translated of the first language and the translated sentences of the second language, and a user input unit that receives an operation input of the previously translated sentences from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Ki Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9188612
    Abstract: A frequency measurement device includes a filter, a detecting module and a calculating module. The filter is configured to receive an input signal, and filter the input signal to generate a signal under measurement. The detecting module is configured to detect a plurality of wave peaks or a plurality of wave troughs of the signal under measurement through a second order differentiator, so as to generate a plurality of detecting signals. The detecting signals correspond to the wave peaks or the wave troughs respectively. The calculating module is configured to receive the detecting signals, and calculate a frequency of the signal under measurement according to the detecting signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventor: Tzong-Hsien Ho
  • Patent number: 9191577
    Abstract: A method for controlling reflectivity in imaging system has steps of establishing a model describing the input image is a linear combination of a body reflection and an interface reflection; eliminating the minimum component of RGB for each pixel of the input image, and adding a mean of a sum of the minimum RGB chromaticity of the pixels to the input image to be modified; using a threshold strategy to identify at least one highlight region and at least one non-highlight region in input image; reconstructing color information of the at least one highlight region and obtaining a reconstructed image considering as the body reflection; evaluating the weights of the body reflection and the interface reflection; eliminating the interface reflection term of input image and considering the body reflection term as a reference image; and controlling the LCOS reflector to modify the input image according to the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shih-Shinh Huang, Min-Fang Lo
  • Patent number: 9187801
    Abstract: An apparatus for recycling metal scraps includes a mold having an inner conversion cavity for converting the metal scraps, an inlet disposed in one longitudinal end thereof, and an outlet disposed in the other longitudinal ends thereof, the inlet and the outlet communicating with the cavity; a gate movably mounted near the outlet of the mold so as to open and close the outlet of the mold as the gate moves; a gate actuator moving the gate to an opening or closing position; a scrap feeder supplying the metal scraps into the cavity of the mold, a conversion plunger intruded into the cavity via the inlet of the mold and compacting the metal scraps to form a solid compact having a shape corresponding to the cavity; and a press actuator reciprocating the conversion plunger between inside and outside of the mold so as to provide a conversion pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute Of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Eok Soo Kim, Jin Young Park
  • Patent number: 9188738
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a translucent polycrystalline material with optical properties continuously varying in the material. A slurry including single crystal grains that are acted upon by a force when placed in a magnetic field is immobilized in a gradient magnetic field with a spatially varying magnetic flux density and then sintered. For example, where a slurry including single crystal grains of YAG doped with Er and single crystal grains of YAG undoped with a rare earth material is immobilized in the gradient magnetic field, the region with a strong magnetic field becomes a laser oscillation region that is rich in Er-doped YAG, whereas the region with a weak magnetic field becomes a translucent region rich in YAG undoped with a rare earth material. A polycrystalline material having a core with laser oscillations and a guide surrounding the core are obtained at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Inter-University Research Institute, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Genesis Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takunori Taira, Jun Akiyama, Shigeo Asai
  • Patent number: 9191052
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a universal subscriber identification module card and a communication method using the same. The universal subscriber identification module card includes a Universal Subscriber Identification Module (USIM) chip, a pad, and a security chip. The USIM chip performs the user authentication of a mobile terminal. The pad electrically connects the USIM chip to the mobile terminal when the USIM chip is inserted into the mobile terminal. The security chip performs a security function for the mobile terminal independently of the USIM chip and shares the two power terminals of the pad with the USIM chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yong-Sung Jeon, Jeong-Nyeo Kim, Young-Sae Kim, Hong-Il Ju, Seung-Yong Yoon, Hyun-Sook Cho
  • Patent number: 9190042
    Abstract: The current disclosure is directed to systems and methods for automatically converting multi-dimensional, complex data sets to musical symbols while representing the converted data in an animated graph. The system groups the data into a number of subsets of data according to a set of user-configured rules and maps the grouped data points to musical notes according to configurable mapping parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Charles R. Plott, Max J. Hirschhorn, Hsingyang Lee
  • Patent number: 9186344
    Abstract: A method for treating glycogen storage disease by administering an effective amount of a composition that includes ketogenic odd carbon fatty acids that ameliorate the symptoms of these diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: BAYLOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Charles R. Roe
  • Patent number: 9188595
    Abstract: A method of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in a patient comprises determining whether the phosphorylation level of an indicator protein in cells of the patient after stimulus with an activator compound is abnormally elevated as compared to a basal phosphorylation level, the indicator protein being e.g. Erk1/2 and the activator compound being e.g. bradykinin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Blanchett Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute
    Inventors: Wei-Qin Zhao, Daniel L. Alkon
  • Patent number: PP26085
    Abstract: A new and distinct apricot variety is described. The variety results from selection among a population of seedlings derived from controlled crossing of the apricot varieties known as ‘Late Moorpark’ (not patented) and ‘Bhart’ (not patented), marketed as Orangered™. The new variety is distinguished from others by the deep red over color of the mature fruit accompanied by mid-orange colored firm flesh with high soluble solids content. Fruit of ‘StB14/22’ matures in mid-February in Otago, New Zealand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
    Inventors: Arlene E. Nixon, Michael T. Malone