Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 8865881
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions, systems and methods for delivery of proteins of interest using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Alejandro Benjamin Balazs, David Baltimore
  • Patent number: 8868295
    Abstract: There is provided a movement input apparatus applied to a steering apparatus and a mobile control system using the same. In detail, the steering apparatus performing steering or adjusting functions includes: a movement input apparatus including a signal detector that is attached or embedded in a surface of a steering apparatus and uses a resistive conductive yarn to detect finger contact signals; an estimator that receives the finger contact signals detected in the signal detector to estimate a status of an operator; and a display unit that converts and displays the estimated movement of the operator into signals of a type able to be sensed by a user; an extractor that analyzes the status information transmitted from the transmitter to extract the operational signals of the user; a controller that generates and transmits control signals for external devices according to the extracted operational signals of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Ji Wook Jeong
  • Patent number: 8868646
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating virtual game clients. The apparatus includes a description grammar module, a description generation module, and a client generation and control module. The description grammar module includes a game packet description grammar. The description generation module generates a game protocol description corresponding to the structure of a packet protocol of a game and a game protocol sequence description corresponding to the relationship of transmission and reception between packets, based on the game packet description grammar. The client generation and control module generates a virtual game client using the game protocol description and the game protocol sequence description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Su-Young Bae, Hang-Kee Kim, Chang-Joon Park
  • Patent number: 8865876
    Abstract: Engineered lectins and methods of using such reagents for both preventing and treating a broad array of viral infections are provided. The lectins of the invention are engineered in two ways, first through the enhancement of the natural mode of action of lectins against viruses through linked multimerization, and second through the creation of a new class of reagents, hereinafter referred to as a “lectibody” or “lectibodies”, that engage host immune function in addition to simply binding glycosylated viral proteins via the combination of a lectin and the Fc region of an antibody in order to drive Fc-mediated effector functions including ADCC (antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity), increased half-life, complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), and antibody-dependent cell-mediated phagocytosis (ADCP) in response to a lectin-mediated carbohydrate-binding event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Stephen L. Mayo, Jennifer Keeffe, Alex L. Perryman
  • Patent number: 8867462
    Abstract: An apparatus of transmitting a long training field includes: a station number determination unit configured to determine at least one station to be transmitted using transmission data or channel status information; a transmission stream allocation unit configured to determine the number of transmission streams for each of the least one station determined by the station number determination unit; a long training field number calculation unit configured to calculate the number of long training fields required for each of the at least one station determined by the transmission stream allocation unit and determines the least common multiple of the number of calculated long training fields of each station; and a long training field allocation unit configured to allocate the long training fields for each station to subcarriers allocated to each station to correspond to the least common multiple of the determined long training fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yu-Ro Lee, Sok-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8865513
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor quantum dot-sensitized solar cell. More particularly, the manufacturing method according to the present invention includes: a quantum dot forming step of forming a semiconductor layer containing a group 4 element and InP on a substrate and then performing heat-treatment on the substrate including the semiconductor layer formed thereon to remove indium (In) therefrom, thereby forming an n-type semiconductor quantum dot, which is a group 4 element quantum dot doped with phosphorus (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Kyung Joong Kim, Seung Hui Hong, Jae Hee Park, Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 8867042
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a characteristic of, especially, each of Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) of an optical modulator. The method includes a step of measuring the intensity of the output of the optical modulator containing MZIs and a step of evaluating a characteristic of each MZI by using the sideband. The output intensity measuring step is the one of measuring the intensity Sn,k of the sideband signal contained in the output light from the optical modulator. The characteristic evaluating step is the one of evaluating a characteristic of the MZIk by using the Sn,k.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawanishi, Akito Chiba, Junichiro Ichikawa, Masaaki Sudo
  • Patent number: 8865515
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a graphene thin film by reducing graphene oxide and a method for fabricating an optoelectronic device using the same are provided. The method for fabricating a graphene thin film includes preparing graphene oxide; preparing graphene through reducing the graphene oxide by a sulfonyl hydrazide-based reducing agent; preparing a graphene dispersed solution by dispersing the graphene into an organic solvent; and fabricating a graphene thin film by applying the graphene dispersed solution. The sulfonyl hydrazide-based reducing agent may be a compound having a sulfonyl hydrazide substituent of Chemical Formula 1 in the present disclosure in which A may be any one in Chemical Formula 2 in the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Seok In Na, Dong Yu Kim, Hye Young Koo, Jin Mun Yun, Jun Seok Yeo, Jun Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 8867607
    Abstract: The present invention includes determining a motion vector candidate set of a current block including a plurality of motion vector candidates, obtaining motion vector indication information of the current block from a video signal, extracting a motion vector candidate corresponding to the motion vector indication information from the motion vector candidate set, determining a predicted motion vector of the current block based on the extracted motion vector candidate, and performing motion compensation on the current block based on the predicted motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Byeong Moon Jeon, Seung Wook Park, Joon Young Park, Jae Won Sung, Hyun Wook Park, Jee Hong Lee, Jin Young Lee, Dong San Jun, Yinji Piao
  • Patent number: 8865216
    Abstract: Surface-modified polymeric nanoparticles (NPs), compositions for making them, and their use in drug delivery are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
    Inventors: Vinod Labhasetwar, Jaspreet Vasir
  • Patent number: 8867528
    Abstract: Provided is a packet/TDM switch that may classify a type of a received signal based on slot recognition information received from an Ethernet mapping unit or a TDM mapping unit, and may process the received signal using a dedicated switch corresponding to each of the Ethernet mapping unit and the TDM mapping unit according to the type of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hong Ju Kim, Ji Wook Youn, Bup Joong Kim, Hyun Jae Lee, Jae Hoon Yu
  • Patent number: 8864597
    Abstract: A weight shift feedback apparatus senses a weight shift in a golf swing motion of the user, collects, synchronizes and stores the sensed weight shift information, analyzes a weight value applied to each foot of the user with respect to time based on the stored data, and extracts important points of a swing. The weight shift of the user may be evaluated based on an address point, a backswing top point, an impact point, and a point where the weight value applied to each foot has a maximum value, and the feedback information for the evaluation may be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jin Wook Kim, An Jin Park, Hyeong Rae Choi, Sung Kuk Chun, Dong Hoon Kang
  • Patent number: 8867046
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of measuring a position of a particle in a flow are disclosed. An embodiment of the method comprises temporally modulating and spatially pattering an illumination beam propagating along a first dimension, passing a particle across the modulated illumination beam, detecting a temporal profile of scattered light produced by the particle's passing through the modulated illumination beam, and determining the position of the particle based, in part, on the temporal profile of the detected scattered light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Thomas H. Jeys, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio, Ronald H. Hoffeld, Jonathan Z. Lin, Nicholas M. F. Judson, George S. Haldeman, Vincenzo Daneu
  • Patent number: 8865667
    Abstract: The invention provides various signal processing devices for integrating two or more biological signals (e.g., the presence, absence or concentration of specific ligands, etc.) to generate a status output, or a response that modulates one or more biological activities based on the status of the biological signals. The various described signal processing/integration mechanisms may be combined with one another to provide the device with more flexibility in integrating high-order cellular information. The signal processing devices of the invention have many uses in various biological systems, including gene expression control or ligand-concentration sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Christina D. Smolke, Maung Nyan Win, Chase Beisel
  • Patent number: 8865762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of bone diseases comprising colforsin daropate, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of bone diseases such as bone fracture and osteoporosis, which inhibits osteoclast differentiation and bone resorption caused by osteoclasts and promotes osteoblast differentiation and the activity of osteoblasts, and a health functional food composition comprising colforsin daropate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
    Inventors: Byoung Mog Kwon, Dong Cho Han, Myung Ae Bae, Seong Hwan Kim, Yong Ki Min
  • Patent number: 8865782
    Abstract: A fire-resistant polyurethane foam is provided. A hydroxyl-containing inorganic fire retardant is premixed with a polyisocyanate and a polyol, respectively, to form two premixtures. Then, the two premixtures are mixed for reaction to form a fire-resistant polyurethane foam. Preferably, a combination of different particle sizes of the fire retardant is employed to maximize the amount of the fire retardant and increase the fire resistance of the foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Po-Ju Chen, Sung-Jeng Jong, Ren-Kuen Chang, Chin-Shang Hsu, Jer-Young Chen, Yih-Her Chang, Chei Kao
  • Patent number: 8866007
    Abstract: A surface plasmon polariton photovoltaic absorber. A plasmonic photovoltaic device is provided that has a periodic subwavelength aperture array, for example a thin metal film coated with an array of semiconductor quantum dots. The plasmonic photovoltaic device generates an electrical potential when illuminated by electromagnetic radiation. In some embodiments, the absorber can contain both quantum dots of semiconductors and metal nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Harry A. Atwater
  • Patent number: 8865023
    Abstract: Disclosed are a (halo)silicate-based phosphor and a manufacturing method of the same. More particularly, the disclosed phosphor is a novel (halo)silicate-based phosphor manufactured by using a (halo)silicate-based host material containing an alkaline earth metal, and europium as an activator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
    Inventors: Chang Hae Kim, Hwa Sung You, Kang Sik Choi
  • Patent number: 8868410
    Abstract: The invention provides a dialogue-based learning apparatus through dialogue with users comprising: a speech input unit (10) for inputting speeches; a speech recognition unit (20) for recognizing the input speech; and a behavior and dialogue controller (30) for controlling behaviors and dialogues according to speech recognition results, wherein the behavior and dialogue controller (30) has a topic recognition expert (34) to memorise contents of utterances and to retrieve the topic that best matches the speech recognition results, and a mode switching expert (35) to control mode switching in accordance with a user utterance, wherein the mode switching expert switches modes in accordance with a user utterance, wherein the topic recognition expert registers a plurality words in the utterance as topics in first mode, performs searches from among the registered topics, and selects the maximum likelihood topic in second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Iwahashi, Noriyuki Kimura, Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi
  • Patent number: 8866644
    Abstract: Generating and using a high-speed, scalable, and easily updateable data structure are described. The proposed data structure provides minimal perfect hashing functionality while intrinsically supporting low-cost set-membership queries. In other words, in some embodiments, it provides at most one match candidate in a set of known arbitrary-length bit strings that is used to match the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    Inventors: Nabi Sertac Artan, H. Jonathan Chao