Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 8668346
    Abstract: A simulated sunlight generating device for generating a simulated sunlight required for evaluating performance of solar cells includes a plurality of driving units, a plurality of light-emitting units, and a plurality of adjusting units. The driving units drive the light-emitting units to emit light. The adjusting units enable the light of the light-emitting units to not only propagate along the same light route but also be added up and combined to form the simulated sunlight of an intended wavelength with ease of installation, ease of maintenance, low costs, high flexibility, and high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Wu, Min-De Yang, Chan-Wei Yeh
  • Patent number: 8670108
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high resolution time-of-flight distance measurement device based on a femtosecond laser, including a femtosecond laser light source, a polarization beam splitter, a balanced optical cross-correlator in which second harmonic pulses are generated using reference light and measurement light, wherein the second harmonic pulse that was primarily generated is incident on a first photodetector and the second harmonic pulse that was secondarily generated is incident on a second photodetector, so that a difference in intensity of the second harmonic pulses is output, thus resolving the time interval of the pulse laser, a controller for controlling the repetition rate of the femtosecond laser, and a converter for measuring the repetition rate of the femtosecond laser controlled so that the pulses uniformly overlap by means of the controller, using a frequency counter traceable to a time/frequency standard, so that a measured value is converted into distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Seung Woo Kim, Joo Hyung Lee, Young Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8670440
    Abstract: A data transceiving apparatus and method in a centralized MAC-based wireless communication system are provided. The data transceiving method of a centralized MAC-based device may include: setting a direct path to a device and a relay path to a piconet coordinator (PNC); selecting any one of the direct path and the relay path; and transceiving data via the selected path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyoung Jin Kwon, Jin Kyeong Kim, Yong Sun Kim, Seung Eun Hong, Kyeongpyo Kim, Woo Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 8669075
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for immobilization of a biologically active polypeptide using maltose binding protein (MBP) and a biologically active solid substrate on which a biologically active polypeptide is immobilized by the above method. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for immobilization of a biologically active polypeptide comprising the following steps; 1) preparing a fusion protein by linking a biologically active polypeptide to carboxyl terminal of maltose binding protein (MBP); and 2) immobilizing the fusion protein on the hydrophobic surface by physical adsorption of amino terminal containing hydrophobic domain exposed on the surface of maltose binding protein on the hydrophobic surface of a solid substrate, and a biologically active solid substrate on which a biologically active polypeptide is immobilized by the said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Sang-Heon Kim, Soo Hyun Kim, Min Han
  • Patent number: 8669243
    Abstract: The present invention relates to steroid-derived cyclopamine analogs and methods for using the same for inhibiting sonic hedgehog signaling and preventing or treating cancer. A method for synthesizing the analogs of the present invention from a steroid is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: The Wistar Institute, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Nadia Dahmane, Jeffrey D. Winkler
  • Patent number: 8670522
    Abstract: A stereo x-ray inspection apparatus and a method for forming a three-dimensional image through volume reconstruction of an image acquired from the same are disclosed. The apparatus includes one x-ray generator and two detectors to acquire two images. The x-ray generator and detectors are arranged in the form of a right-angled triangle, to easily achieve mathematical development and analysis. One of the detectors, which does not just oppose the x-ray generator, is movable and rotatable, to acquire images under the condition that only one detector is moved in accordance with the size of an object, and thus to simplify control operation for the apparatus, so that a more accurate image from an object moving at high speed is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Nam Ho Lee, Yong Chil Seo, Seung Chan Oh, Seung Wook Lee, Young Gwan Hwang, Myung Kook Moon, Soon Yong Park
  • Patent number: 8669160
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method comprises providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a dummy gate structure and a spacer surrounding the dummy gate structure on the semiconductor substrate; forming source/drain regions on both sides of the gate structure within the semiconductor substrate using the dummy gate structure and the spacer as a mask; forming an interlayer dielectric layer on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, the upper surface of the interlayer dielectric layer being flush with the upper surface of the dummy gate structure; removing at least a part of the dummy gate structure so as to form a trench surrounded by the spacer; performing tilt angle ion implantation into the semiconductor substrate using the interlayer dielectric layer and spacer as a mask so as to form an asymmetric Halo implantation region; sequentially forming a gate dielectric layer and a metal gate in the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Science
    Inventors: Haizhou Yin, Zhijiong Luo, Huilong Zhu, Da Yang
  • Patent number: 8669842
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for controlling a contents player based on a grasping power information of a hand by measuring a change of the bundle shape of a tendons in an inside muscle of wrist, in which the device and method for controlling the contents player comprises a sensing unit that generates a grasping power information; a control state managing unit that manages a control state of the contents player; and a control order generating unit that generates a control order controlling the contents player based on the control state and the grasping power information, and transmits the control order, in which the control state can be changed or can be generates in response to the grasping power information, and the sensing unit can be existed in both hands, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeong-Mook Lim, Dong-Woo Lee, Yong-Ki Son, Bae-Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 8668871
    Abstract: Provided are a sensing device and a biosensor that are capable of achieving stable performance in sensing saccharides or hydroxyl group-containing polymers, and that can be stored for a long time. The biosensor 8 of the present invention uses, as a component for sensing glucose, a sensing device 16 in which a completely synthetic phenylboronic acid compound 21 is bound without using enzymes that have been conventionally used. Consequently, the biosensor 8 can eliminate the problem of protein denaturation to achieve stable performance in sensing glucose, and it is possible to achieve the biosensor 8 can be stored for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Akira Matsumoto, Yuji Miyahara
  • Patent number: 8669073
    Abstract: Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal lysyl-tRNAs, orthogonal lysyl-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of lysyl-tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate homoglutamines into proteins are provided in response to a four base codon. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with homoglutamines using these orthogonal pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: J. Christopher Anderson, Ning Wu, Stephen Santoro, Peter G. Schultz
  • Patent number: 8669461
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell is provided. The photovoltaic cell includes a concentrator optic structure separating the solar spectrum of light into a plurality of spectral bands. The concentrator optic structure focuses these spectral bands into a plurality of concentric tightly focused ring-shaped spots and a central round spot. A multitude of circular sub-cells are each approximately positioned at a ring-shaped spot associated with a respective spectral band produced by the concentrator optic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Rajesh Menon
  • Patent number: 8670036
    Abstract: An image-based vehicle maneuvering assistant method and system are provided in the present invention, in which images captured by a single image sensing device is processed to determine the changes with respect time by a controller having capability of image processing and identification and distance estimation in image space for providing a complete assisting image-information while the carrier is maneuvering. By means of the presented method of the presented invention, the system is capable of generating track of the carrier, view point transformation, and identifying the characteristic object in the image so as to performing the distance estimation. The present invention may be utilized and applied in different kinds of carrier type to solve the problem of guiding of carrier maneuvering, and assist the carrier lane changing, parking assistance and blind spot detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsiang Cheng, Yen-Shu Chang, Wei-Min Lee, Shan-Chuan Jeng, Long-Tai Chen
  • Patent number: 8670764
    Abstract: Methods for processing messages in a wireless communication system including a femto network (FN) including at least one Home NodeB, a core network (CN), a macro network (MN) including a serving base station and a gateway located between the FN and the CN is provided. First, a handover request is received from the Home NodeB or a server of the CN when two mobile devices are communicating. When the handover request is received from the Home NodeB, the gateway transmits a call setup request to the CN to setup a first call path between the gateway and the CN according to the handover request, transmits the handover request to the CN through the first call path to obtain a second call path from the CN to the FN and directs the server to perform the handover request according to the first call path and the second call path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Syuan Su, Min-Hsiung Hsu, Yu-Ching Hsu
  • Patent number: 8669392
    Abstract: A process for preparing 2,3-di(non-linear-alkyl)-2-cyanosuccinate compounds, especially 2,3-diisopropyl-2-cyanosuccinate compounds, and processes for preparing 2,3-di(non-linear-alkyl)succinic acids and esters thereof by using the 2,3-di-non-linear propyl-2-cyanosuccinate compounds as intermediates are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Lunjia Xie, Yu Tian, Zaixing Feng, Siyuan Zhao, Yu Kang, Zhufang Sun
  • Patent number: 8669815
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an amplifier in a communication system includes a first shifter, a generating unit, a second shifter, and a switching bias unit. The first shifter is configured to level-shift a switching voltage of an amplifier to a first voltage. The generating unit is configured to invert the first voltage and output a second voltage. The second shifter is configured to level-shift the second voltage to a third voltage. The switching bias unit is configured to receive the third voltage and output a bias voltage for a gate switching operation of the amplifier to the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Youn-Sub Noh
  • Patent number: 8669121
    Abstract: A method for forming a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal in a desired region of a ferroelectric substrate includes the steps of forming, for the desired region of the surface of the ferroelectric substrate, an electrode pattern or a mask pattern composed of aggregates of micropatterns, and then applying a given voltage into the desired region. The configuration of the micropatterns can be a stripe-shaped pattern, an ellipse-shaped pattern, a hexagon-shaped pattern, a network pattern, or a double cross shaped pattern. The method can further include the steps of generating many nucleuses by using the electrode pattern or the mask pattern composed of the aggregates of micropatterns, forming another electrode pattern or another mask pattern corresponding to the desired region, and then applying a given voltage into the desired region to generate a ferroelectric spontaneous polarization reversal around the nucleuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd., National Institute for Materials Science
    Inventors: Futoshi Yamamoto, Junichiro Ichikawa, Satoshi Oikawa, Sunao Kurimura, Kenji Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8670417
    Abstract: Provided is a method for retransmission in a terminal and a base station, the method including: receiving a data burst transmitted by occupying at least one subframe from the other one of the terminal and the base station; determining a transmission timing for transmitting a feedback signal based on a value, determined by transmission information of the data burst including the number of subframes occupied by the data burst, and a frame offset; transmitting the feedback signal to the other one of the terminal and the base station at the transmission timing; and if an NACK message is included in the feedback signal, receiving the data burst retransmitted from the other one of the terminal and the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jisoo Park, Namsuk Lee, Sook Jin Lee, Yong Seouk Choi
  • Patent number: 8671364
    Abstract: Techniques to present hierarchical information as orthographic projections are described. An apparatus may comprise an orthographic projection application arranged to manage a three dimensional orthographic projection of hierarchical information. The orthographic projection application may comprise a hierarchical information component operative to receive hierarchical information representing multiple nodes at different hierarchical levels, and parse the hierarchical information into a tree data structure, an orthographic generator component operative to generate a graphical tile for each node, arrange graphical tiles for each hierarchical level into graphical layers, and arrange the graphical layers in a vertical stack, and an orthographic presentation component operative to present a three dimensional orthographic projection of the hierarchical information with the stack of graphical layers each having multiple graphical tiles. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: SAS Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Deovrat Vijay Kakde, Arindam Chakrabarti
  • Patent number: 8669059
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and compositions for high throughput screening of genetically modified photosynthetic organisms for plasmic state. The present invention provides methods of producing one or more proteins, including biomass degrading enzymes in a plant. Also provided are the methods of producing biomass degradation pathways in alga cells, particularly in the chloroplast. Single enzymes or multiple enzymes may be produced by the methods disclosed. The methods disclosed herein allow for the production of biofuel, including ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: The Scripps Research Institute, Sapphire Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Mayfield, Bryan O'Neill, Michael Mendez, Kari Mikkelson, Yan Poon
  • Patent number: 8668894
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for processing a sulfur-containing gas and a hydrogenation catalyst used therefor. The method comprises introducing the sulfur-containing gas into the tail gas hydrogenation unit of a sulfur recovery device, processing it with the hydrogenation catalyst of the present invention, and absorbing the hydrogenated tail gas with a solvent. The hydrogenation catalyst comprises from 0.5 to 3 wt. % of an active component nickel oxide, from 1 to 4 wt. % of an active component cobalt oxide, from 8 to 20 wt. % of an active component molybdenum oxide or tungsten oxide, from 1 to 5 wt. % of a deoxidation auxiliary agent, from 10 to 40 wt. % of TiO2, the balance being ?-Al2O3, based on the weight of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, Sinopec
    Inventors: Aihua Liu, Yiling Zhang, Xingzhong Xu, Jianli Liu, Weidong Tao, Jinshan Xu