Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN BIOMARKERS FOR TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS
    Publication number: 20140274792
    Abstract: A method for identifying persons with increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes mellitus, or having type I diabetes mellitus, utilizing selected biomarkers described herein either alone or in combination. The present disclosure allows for broad based, reliable, screening of large population bases. Also provided are arrays and kits that can be used to perform such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Qibin Zhang, Thomas O. Metz
  • COMPACT REPRESENTATION OF MULTIVARIATE POSTERIOR PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FROM SIMULATED SAMPLES
    Publication number: 20140279819
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques for selecting a subset of a set of simulated samples. A computer-program product including instructions to cause a computing device to order a plurality of UPDFs by UPDF value, wherein the plurality of UPDFs is associated with a chain of draws of a set of simulated samples, wherein each draw comprises multiple parameters and the UPDF values map to parameter values of the parameters; select a subset of the plurality of UPDFs based on the subset of the plurality of UPDFs having UPDF values within a range corresponding to a range of parameter values to include in a subset of the set of simulated samples; and transmit an indication of a draw comprising parameters having parameter values to include in the subset of the set of simulated samples, wherein the indication identifies the draw by associated UPDF. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Christian Macaro, Jan Chvosta, Mark Roland Little
  • Methods and Compositions for Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
    Publication number: 20140274794
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for diagnosing ovarian cancer in a mammalian subject, preferably in a serum or plasma sample of a human subject. The methods and compositions enable the detection or measurement in the sample or from a protein level profile generated from the sample, the protein level of one or more specified biomarkers. Comparing the protein level(s) of the biomarker(s) in the subject's sample or from protein abundance profile of multiple biomarkers, with the level of the same biomarker(s) or profile in a reference standard, permits the determination of a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, or the identification of a risk of developing ovarian cancer, or enables the monitoring of the status of progression or remission of ovarian cancer in the subject followed during a therapeutic protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY
    Inventors: David W. Speicher, Hsin-Yao Tang, Lynn A. Beer
  • SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING AN IMAGE OF MULTIPLE VIEWS OF AN OBJECT
    Publication number: 20140260809
    Abstract: A device for capturing at least three views of an object with a camera includes a housing having a cavity. A slot in the housing communicates with the cavity and is adapted to accept an object. A plurality of mirrors in the cavity reflects at least three views of the object towards the camera, allowing the camera to capture an image of the views. A system for capturing multiple views of an object includes a housing having a cavity. A slot in the housing communicates with the cavity and is adapted to receive an object. A camera, a light source, and a plurality of mirrors in the cavity reflect at least three views of the object towards the camera, allowing the camera to capture an image three views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: LOCKMASTERS SECURITY INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: J. Clayton Miller, Benjamin Gallup, Grant Jordan, Justin D. Seacat, Brian Weinberg, Michael S. Yacobi
  • BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER WITH CONTROLLED BIODEGRADABILITY
    Publication number: 20140275439
    Abstract: Disclosed is a biodegradable polymer comprising an optionally substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 5 or more carbon atoms at at least one terminal of the polymer chain, wherein the biodegradable polymer has a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 35,000 when the biodegradable polymer has a 2-pyrrolidone polymer or copolymer as its main chain and stearic acid at the terminal of the polymer chain; a molded article comprising the biodegradable polymer; and a method for controlling biodegradability of a biodegradable polymer, comprising introducing an optionally substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group into the terminal of the polymer chain of the biodegradable polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Naoko Yamano, Norioki Kawasaki, Atsuyoshi Nakayama
  • METHOD OF SEPARATING CARBOHYDRATE
    Publication number: 20140261397
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of separating carbohydrate, including: mixing formic acid with heteropoly acid, chloride or bromide of lithium, magnesium, calcium, zinc, or iron, or combinations thereof to form a mixing liquid. The method also includes dissolving a cellulose biomass by the mixing liquid to form a solution, mixing water and the solution to hydrolyze the cellulose biomass for forming a carbohydrate solution, and mixing an extractant and the carbohydrate solution to extract the formic acid out of the carbohydrate solution. The heteropoly acid, the chloride or bromide of lithium, magnesium, calcium, zinc, or iron, or combinations thereof in the carbohydrate solution is separated out of the carbohydrate solution by ion exclusion chromatography separation to obtain a carbohydrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tzu-Yueh YANG, Ruey-Fu SHIH, Chih-Hao CHEN, Hou-Peng WAN, Hom-Ti LEE
  • APPARTUS AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED OPENING OF A LOCKED ENCLOSURE
    Publication number: 20140265361
    Abstract: An apparatus for preventing unwanted opening of a locked enclosure. The enclosure includes a lock, a door and a door bolt. The door is openable when the door bolt is retracted from a structure surrounding the enclosure. The apparatus includes a frangible guard plate, and an arm coupled to the guard plate by a spring. The arm is maintained in a first position under a bias of the spring. When the guard plate is fractured, the arm is free to move from the first position into a second position. The arm is positioned to engage the door bolt in the second position, thereby preventing retraction of the door bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: LOCKMASTERS SECURITY INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: J. Clayton Miller, James S. Cornette, Eric C. Elkins, Thomas E. Jasper, Michael S. Yacobi
  • DEVICE TO MONITOR AND PROMOTE SUCCESSFUL ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION AND VENTILATION
    Publication number: 20140275836
    Abstract: An apparatus including an accelerometer and a microphone contained in a housing that can be placed on a chest of an individual, the accelerometer configured to detect chest motion and microphone to detect respiratory sounds during at least one of inspiration and expiration. A method including placing such an apparatus on a chest of a subject. A method of monitoring an intubation including simultaneously assessing chest movement and air movement sounds in the airway and lungs; and indicating the status of the intubation based on the assessing. A machine-readable medium containing non-transitory program instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to perform a method including assessing chest movement and air movement sounds in a patient; and indicating the status of the intubation based on the assessing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
    Inventor: Ruey-Kang Chang
  • TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED BAYESIAN POSTERIOR SAMPLING USING MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO AND RELATED SCHEMES
    Publication number: 20140278236
    Abstract: Techniques for automated Bayesian posterior sampling using Markov Chain Monte Carlo and related schemes are described. In an embodiment, one or more values in an accuracy phase for a system configured for Bayesian sampling may be initialized. Sampling may be performed in the accuracy phase based upon the one or more values to generate a plurality of samples. The plurality of samples may be evaluated based upon one or more accuracy criteria. The accuracy phase may be exited when the plurality of samples meets the one or more accuracy criteria. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Macaro, Jan Chvosta, Mark Roland Little
  • Rapid Production of Hydrothermally Carbonized Biomass via Reactive Twin-Screw Extrusion
    Publication number: 20140262727
    Abstract: A system for the production of carbonized biomass that includes an infeed for accepting biomass feed material and an associated twin screw extruder. A water heater is connected with respect to at least one inlet along a length of the twin screw extruder and a pressure sustaining valve is connected at an outlet of the twin screw extruder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Gas Technology Institute
    Inventors: Larry G. Felix, William E. Farthing, James H. Irvin, Todd R. Snyder, Wei Yan
  • CHIRAL 2-ARYLPROPYL-2-SULFINAMIDE AND CHIRAL N-2-ARYLPROPYL-2-SULFINYLIMINES AND SYNTHESIS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140275582
    Abstract: Provided herein are novel chiral sulfinamide and imine compounds. Also provided herein are methods of synthesizing novel chiral sulfinamide and imine compounds comprising simplified purification methods when compared to prior methods. The novel chiral sulfinamide and imine compounds are useful, for example, in the synthesis of complex natural products and pharmaceutical important compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: Texas Tech University, Nanjing University, Institute of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences
    Inventor: Guigen LI
  • SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL DRIVING BEHAVIOR
    Publication number: 20140277832
    Abstract: In an abnormal driving behavior detection system for a vehicle, an obtainer repeatedly obtains an observed value indicative of at least one of a running condition of the vehicle and a driver's driving operation of the vehicle. A mode-probability calculator calculates, each time an observed value is obtained at a given obtaining timing as a target obtained value, a mode probability for each of driving modes as a function of one or more previous observed values. A deviation calculator obtains a predicted observed value for each driving mode using a driver's normal behavior model defined therefor, and calculates a deviation of the target observed value from the predicted observed value for each driving mode. An abnormality determiner determines whether there is at least one driver's abnormal behavior based on the mode probability for each driving mode and the deviation calculated for each driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: National University Corporation Nara Institute, c/o DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Bando, Masumi Egawa, Takatomi Kubo, Ryunosuke Hamada, Kazushi Ikeda
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING LDPC CODE
    Publication number: 20140281795
    Abstract: There are provided a method and apparatus for decoding an LDPC code. In this specification, a first result is calculated by performing the calculation of a check node having two inputs forward and recursively, a second result is calculated by performing the calculation of the check node having the two inputs backward and recursively, and the check node is calculated using the first result and the second result as the inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Ik PARK, Heung Mook KIM
  • METHOD, USER TERMINAL, AND WEB SERVER FOR PROVIDING SERVICE AMONG HETEROGENEOUS SERVICES
    Publication number: 20140280196
    Abstract: A method of providing a service among heterogeneous services may include verifying whether a second web application associated with an external web service is installed in a user agent, when data of the external web service is requested from a first web application executed in the user agent, requesting key information to be used for accessing the requested data from a first server providing a web service associated with the first web application, when the second web application is installed in the user agent, receiving the key information from the first server, and accessing the requested data existing on the second web application, using the received key information, in the first web application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Il Gu JUNG, Chang Woo YOON, Jun Kyun CHOI, Jin Hong YANG
  • COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR INDUCING CHONDROGENESIS
    Publication number: 20140271955
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds and compositions for the amelioration of arthritis or joint injuries by inducing mesenchymal stem cells into chondrocytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: The Scripps Research Institute, The California Institute for Biomedical Research
    Inventors: Peter G. SCHULTZ, Arnab K. CHATTERJEE, Shoutian ZHU, Joshua PAYETTE, Hongchul YOON, Baiyuan YANG
  • Dual Path (Low Pressure Loop and High Pressure Loop) EGR for Improved Air Boosting Efficiency
    Publication number: 20140260242
    Abstract: A method of providing exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) to an air-boosted internal combustion engine. The engine has both a high pressure EGR loop and a low pressure EGR loop. Each EGR loop has a valve that controls the amount of EGR that is delivered to the engine intake from that loop. During low-speed engine conditions, more EGR is delivered to the engine intake from the low pressure EGR loop than from the high pressure EGR loop. During high-speed engine conditions, more EGR is delivered to the engine intake from the high pressure EGR loop than from the low pressure EGR loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Christopher J. Chadwell, Terrence F. Alger, II, Shinhyuk Joo
  • OFDM TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140269608
    Abstract: Disclosed are an OFDM transmission method and apparatus. In the present invention, channel bonding information includes at least one of information indicating whether or not a channel through which the transport frame is transmitted is a bonded channel, information indicating how many channels form the bonded channel, and information about a transmission frequency of each of the bonded channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joon Young JUNG, Dong Joon CHOI, Nam Ho HUR
  • ENGINEERING OF SYSTEMS, METHODS AND OPTIMIZED GUIDE COMPOSITIONS FOR SEQUENCE MANIPULATION
    Publication number: 20140273232
    Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are vectors and vector systems, some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for selecting specific cells by introducing precise mutations utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Le Cong, Patrick Hsu, Fei Ran
  • OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL OF PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING UPSTREAM BAND USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140270768
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method capable of adjusting an upstream band for a corresponding ONU by detecting a quantity of bands occupied by a packet, not an effective user packet, among upstream transmission bands for each target object of allocation of each band in the OLT to examine whether a queue report is normal, and detecting an ONU, which transmits an abnormal queue report, according to the examination. An OLT of a PON according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a frame monitoring unit configured to monitor upstream frame data received for each T-CONT; an error detection unit configured to determine whether a queue report error is generated for each T-CONT according to a result of the monitoring; and a band allocation controller configured to allocate an upstream band for an ONU, in which the queue report error is generated, separately from a normal ONU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
  • FEED MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20140271059
    Abstract: A feed mechanism to feed objects for insertion into tobacco industry products including a rotary member for receiving objects, the rotary member having a plurality of channels, each channel being adapted so that in use objects assemble in a row in the channel which rotates with the rotary member, each channel having an outlet for dispensing an object from the channel, and a pneumatic mechanism configured to hold an object in a row prior to the object being dispensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Tobacco Research and Development Institute (Proprietary) Limited
    Inventor: Gerhard LE ROUX