Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 8740958
    Abstract: A platform Smart Scalpel system using rapid real-time feedback for effecting laser treatment. The platform system includes an imaging system for rapid real-time detection of tissue characteristics, a processing system for processing the detected characteristics, and a treatment system for effecting treatment in accordance with results of the processing. The platform system provides for preprogramming and real-time inputting conditions and parameters for diagnosis using the imaging system and/or treatment using the treatment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Rox Anderson, Ian W. Hunter, Colin J. H. Brenan, Keng Hui Lim, Elizabeth Sebem
  • Patent number: 8744644
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting the location of a vehicle using results sensed by sensing devices installed outside the vehicle and the internal information of the vehicle without obtaining the current location information of the vehicle using signals transmitted from a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, the apparatus for detecting the location of a vehicle includes a location information reception unit for receiving location information that is generated by sensing a vehicle passing by a sensing point and that corresponds to the sensing point. A location detection unit estimates a current location of the vehicle based on information sensed by internal sensors of the vehicle and control information for a vehicle manipulation part while the location information is not received, and corrects the estimated current location of the vehicle using received location information when the location information is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kyung-Bok Sung, Kyoung-Hwan An, Kyoung-Wook Min, Jeong-Dan Choi, Dong-Yong Kwak
  • Patent number: 8742600
    Abstract: Provided are a dual-phase intermetallic interconnection structure and a fabricating method thereof. The dual-phase intermetallic interconnection structure includes a first intermetallic compound, a second intermetallic compound, a first solder layer, and a second solder layer. The second intermetallic compound covers and surrounds the first intermetallic compound. The first intermetallic compound and the second intermetallic compound contain different high-melting point metal. The first solder layer and the second solder layer are disposed at the opposite sides of the second intermetallic compound, respectively. The first intermetallic compound is adapted to fill the micropore defects generated during the formation of the second intermetallic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jing-Yao Chang, Tao-Chih Chang, Tung-Han Chuang, Chun-Yen Lee
  • Patent number: 8742398
    Abstract: A photodetector includes one or more photodiodes and a signal processing circuit. Each photodiode includes a transparent first electrode, a second electrode, and a heterojunction interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. Each heterojunction includes a quantum dot layer and a fullerene layer disposed directly on the quantum dot layer. The signal processing circuit is in signal communication each the second electrode. The photodetector may be responsive to wavelengths in the infrared, visible, and/or ultraviolet ranges. The quantum dot layer may be treated with a chemistry that increases the charge carrier mobility of the quantum dot layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Research Triangle Institute, Int'l.
    Inventors: Ethan Klem, John Lewis
  • Patent number: 8742104
    Abstract: Provided are a saturated N-heterocyclic carbene-ligand metal complex derivative, a method for preparing the same, and a method for preparing a silane compound by hydrosilylation using the same as a catalyst. To describe in more detail, the metal complex derivative has a saturated N-heterocyclic carbene derivative and an olefin ligand at the same time. A silane compound is prepared by hydrosilylation in the presence of the metal complex derivative as a catalyst. The provided metal complex derivative of the present invention has superior stability during hydrosilylation reaction and is capable of effectively performing the hydrosilylation reaction at low temperature even with small quantity. Further, a product with superior regioselectivity may be obtained. In addition, after the hydrosilylation reaction is completed, the metal complex derivative may be recovered and recycled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Bok Ryul Yoo, Joon Soo Han, Jang Hyun Yoo
  • Patent number: 8742763
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery module state detection method. The battery module includes a battery unit and is connected to a load. The method for detecting the battery module status includes the following steps. First, measure an on-load voltage value of the battery unit and a load current value of a load. Next, calculate an instant resistance value of the battery unit according to a no-load voltage value of the battery unit, the on-load voltage value and the load current value. Finally, obtain an operating state of the battery unit according to the instant resistance and a relationship between the internal resistance and discharging time. By the method of the present invention, the user can monitor the remaining energy of the battery module accurately in real time and therefore prevent the electrical hazard caused by over-discharging the battery module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Armaments Bureau, Ministry of National Defense
    Inventor: Chin-Chuan Liu
  • Patent number: 8742813
    Abstract: An inverter and an antenna circuit. The inverter that receives control signals including a first control signal, a second control signal, and a third control signal, inverts the first control signal, and outputs the inverted first control signal, includes: a first MOS transistor having a gate to which the first control signal is applied and a source that is grounded; a second MOS transistor having a gate to which the third control signal is applied and a source to which the second control signal is applied; and a third MOS transistor having a gate to which the second control signal is applied and a source to which the third control signal is applied, wherein drains of the first MOS transistor, the second MOS transistor, and the third MOS transistor are connected to an output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yu Sin Kim, Sang Hee Kim, Dong Hyun Baek, Sun Woo Yun, Sung Hwan Park
  • Patent number: 8739709
    Abstract: A combined treatment process of domestic garbage and sewage, comprising the following steps: {circle around (1)} sorting iron out of the domestic garbage; {circle around (2)} crushing the domestic garbage in which the iron has been removed; {circle around (3)} feeding the crushed domestic garbage into a sewage treatment tank, adding water and blowing air into the sewage treatment tank, where the domestic garbage is divided into floating substances, suspended substances, and settled substances; {circle around (4)} salvaging, dehydrating and drying the floating substances and then combusting them as fuel; {circle around (5)} collecting, filtering and drying the settled substances, wherein the settled substances having a calorific value of more than 4180 kJ/kg are burnt as fuel, the burnt substances and the settled substances having a calorific value of less than 4180 kJ/kg are used to replace clay material in a cement plant or used for making bricks; {circle around (6)} adding a flocculant into the sewage in wh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Hebei Building Materials Industry Design and Research Institute
    Inventor: Ying Chen
  • Patent number: 8742770
    Abstract: A system for providing electromagnetic imaging through magnetoquasistatic sensing contains an electromagnetic sensor for imaging a sample. The electromagnetic sensor contains drive/sense electronics and a pixelated sensor array having an array of inductive loops that source magnetic fields that interact with the sample, wherein the inductive loops are individually drivable by the drive/sense electronics in a coordinated manner to establish a desired temporal and spatial pattern in which electrical properties of the inductive loops are used to generate an image. Other components of the system include a precision motion controller, sensor head and associated electronics, and a computer for performing data acquisition and signal inversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: David L. Trumper, Benjamin Louis Cannon, Jeffrey H. Lang, Markus Zahn
  • Patent number: 8741254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a porous silicon nanorod structure composed of columnar bundles having a diameter of 50-100 nm and a length of 2-5 ?m, and a lithium secondary cell using the porous silicon nanorod structure as an anode active material. The present invention provides a high-capacity and high-efficiency anode active material for lithium secondary cells, which can overcome the low conductivity of silicon and improve the electrode deterioration attributable to volume expansion because it is prepared by electrodepositing the surface of silicon powder with metal and simultaneously etching the silicon powder partially using hydrofluoric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Joong Kee Lee, Byung Won Cho, Joo Man Woo, Hyung Sun Kim, Kyung Yoon Chung, Won Young Chang, Sang Ok Kim, Sang Eun Park
  • Patent number: 8743898
    Abstract: An MBS transmitting apparatus allocates a plurality of time intervals of an MBS transmission carrier to an MBS region and a non-MBS region and generates region allocation information of the MBS region and the non-MBS region. The MBS transmitting apparatus allocates the time intervals, allocated to the MBS region, to one or more MBS zones and generates MBS zone allocation information of the one or more MBS zones. The MBS transmitting apparatus transmits the region allocation information and the MBS zone allocation information and transmits the MBS data through the time intervals allocated to the MBS region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Eunkyung Kim, Soojung Jung, Jae Sun Cha, Sung Cheol Chang, Hyun Lee, Chul Sik Yoon
  • Patent number: 8742393
    Abstract: The SrTiO3 buffer layer is formed by lamination of the Sr2+O2? layer and the Ti4+O24? layer. The surface of the buffer layer is terminated with the Ti4+O24? layer. On the buffer layer, a LaAlO3 thin film layer is formed. The thin film layer includes a La3+O2? layer and an Al3+O24? layer alternately laminated in order on the SrTiO3 buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Tomofumi Susaki, Hideo Hosono
  • Patent number: 8745234
    Abstract: A method and a manager physical machine (PM) for virtual machine (VM) consolidation are provided. The method is performed by the manager PM. A network connects the manager PM and a plurality of server PMs. A plurality of VMs is running on the server PMs. The method includes the following steps. The manager PM classifies the server PMs into redundant PMs and surviving PMs. The manager PM determines migration paths of the VMs running on the redundant PMs to the surviving PMs. The manager PM determines a parallel migration sequence of the VMs running on the redundant PMs based on the migration paths. The manager PM migrates the VMs running on the redundant PMs to the surviving PMs in parallel according to the parallel migration sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hsiao-Fei Liu, Tzi-Cker Chiueh, Jui-Hao Chiang, Che-Lun Hung
  • Patent number: 8741745
    Abstract: Provided are a method of controlling an amount of adsorbed carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and a method of fabricating a CNT device. The method of controlling an amount of adsorbed CNTs includes adsorbing CNT particles onto a semiconductor structure, and removing some of the adsorbed CNTs by performing an oxygen plasma treatment on the adsorbed CNT particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Young Min Jhon, Young Tae Byun, Chi Woong Jang, Kyeong Heon Kim, Seok Lee, Deok Ha Woo, Sun Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 8742336
    Abstract: There are provided a bio-chip for secondary ion mass spectrometry and a method of fabricating the same, the bio-chip, which is a bio-chip for analyzing a biochemical material using the secondary ion mass spectrometry, including: a substrate; and core-shell particles positioned above substrate, wherein the core-shell particles each include a metal nanoparticle as a core and a metal shell surrounding the metal nanoparticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Young-Pil Kim, Tae Geol Lee
  • Patent number: 8741434
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transparent conductive polycarbonate film coated with carbon nanotubes, including a transparent conductive layer formed by applying a mixed solution of carbon nanotubes and a binder on one side or both sides of a transparent polycarbonate film, and a touch panel using the transparent conductive polycarbonate film as a lower transparent electrode. The present invention provides a transparent conductive polycarbonate film coated with a mixed solution of carbon nanotubes and a binder, by which a touch panel having high transmissivity can be manufactured by directly forming a transparent conductive layer on a polycarbonate film used as a protective film of a liquid crystal display using carbon nanotubes, without using a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate used for a transparent electrode of a conventional touch panel, by which the production cost of the touch panel can be decreased, and by which a thin touch panel can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
    Inventors: Joong Tark Han, Geon Woong Lee, Hee Jin Jeong, Jong Seok Woo
  • Patent number: 8742794
    Abstract: A distributed, reconfigurable statistical signal processing apparatus comprises an array of discrete-time analog signal processing circuitry for statistical signal processing based on a local message-passing algorithm and digital configuration circuitry for controlling the functional behavior of the array of analog circuitry. The input signal to the apparatus may be expressed as a probabilistic representation. The analog circuitry may comprise computational elements arranged in a network, with a receiving module that assigns probability values when an input signal arrives and communicates the probability values to one of the computational elements, the computational elements producing outputs based on the assigned probability values. The signal processing apparatus may be an analog logic automata cell or an array of cells, wherein each cell is able to communicate with all neighboring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Neil Gershenfeld, Kailiang Chen, Jonathan Leu
  • Patent number: 8740545
    Abstract: Disclosed is an assembled helical turbine system, which can strengthen weakenings of a housing assembly, and simultaneously can be easily assembled/disassembled. The assembled helical turbine system comprises the housing assembly including a plurality of bearing spiders for rotatably supporting a rotating shaft of a helical turbine, and a plurality of side posts for connecting and fixing the respective bearing spiders to each other, the side posts being fixed in such a manner as to radially protrude by a predetermined length from peripheral surfaces of the bearing spiders; filling members for filling and reinforcing spaces between the peripheral surfaces of the bearing spiders and outlines of protruding portions of the side posts; and a housing supporter for supporting the housing assembly in such a manner that the housing assembly can be inserted into and withdrawn from the housing supporter, the housing supporter having catch grooves that are recessed in a shape corresponding to stoppers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI)
    Inventors: Jin Soon Park, Kwang Soo Lee, Ki Dai Yum, Seong Eun Kim, Myoung Hak Oh, Choong Beom Lee, Hyung Jin An
  • Patent number: 8744128
    Abstract: An image processing method is provided. The image processing method includes the following steps. A plurality of raw signal is received by a signal transceiving module of the ultrasound imaging system. It is determined whether each of the raw signals satisfies any condition in a condition group, and the raw signal satisfying any condition in the condition group is mapped to one of a plurality of preset constants to generate a plurality of first data. The raw signals not satisfying any condition in the condition group are processed according to a calculation formula to generate a plurality of second data. A beamforming procedure is simultaneously performed on the first and second data to obtain a beamformed image. The beamformed image is transformed to obtain an image of a region to be detected. Furthermore, an imaging system using the foregoing image processing method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Arvin Huang-Te Li, Yio-Wha Shau, Yu-Ching Chang, Bai-Kuang Hwang
  • Patent number: 8743897
    Abstract: The processing of a multicast service flow for a headend cable modem by classifying an inputted multicast packet by a session composing an internal header including multicast service flow information allocated to the classified session and then outputting an internal multicast packet including the internal header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ho-Sook Lee, O Hyung Kwon, Soo In Lee