Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 11400168
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods, systems, and related vectors and compositions allowing for noninvasive control of neural circuits. In particular, the methods and systems herein described utilize acoustically targeted chemogenetics to achieve a noninvasive neuromodulation in specifically selected cell-types among spatially selected brain regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mikhail G. Shapiro, Jerzy O Szablowski
  • Patent number: 11401369
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel rotaxane and a production method of the same. The present invention provides a rotaxane polyurea having a cyclic molecule and a polyurea chain piercing through the cyclic molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tarao, Mami Tanaka, Toshikazu Takata, Yosuke Akae
  • Patent number: 11403548
    Abstract: A method for performing quantum annealing computation for solving a discrete optimization problem includes the steps of: (a) identifying an operation for transferring an energy state of one of two physical systems (u, d) having the same quantum state to a low energy state and transferring an energy state of the other of the two physical systems to a high energy state; (b) constructing a network structure among a plurality of physical systems that indicates an order of application of the operation of the step (a) on two physical systems among the plurality of physical systems; and (c) obtaining a physical system having a minimum energy state in the plurality of physical systems by applying the operation of the step (a) to the plurality of physical systems according to the order indicated in the network structure of step (b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Kentaro Imafuku
  • Patent number: 11402538
    Abstract: Provided is a gravity gradient measurement apparatus and measuring method, wherein a turntable rotates horizontally around an earth-vertical axis, a vacuum layer is arranged on the turntable defining a first chamber, a first three-axis accelerometer and a second three-axis accelerometer are located in the first chamber, the first three-axis accelerometer and the second three-axis accelerometer are arranged symmetrically on an x axis with respect to an origin of coordinates. Both the first three-axis accelerometer and the second three-axis accelerometer have a distance of R from the origin of coordinates. The first three-axis accelerometer and the second three-axis accelerometer are arranged symmetrically on an z axis with respect to the origin of coordinates, and the first three-axis accelerometer and the second three-axis accelerometer are spaced at a distance of h on the z axis. The measurement module uses measurements of the accelerometers to determine gravity gradients on the coordinate axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xinning Hu, Qiuliang Wang, Jinyan Lu, Hui Wang, Chunyan Cui
  • Patent number: 11404645
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel pure organic emitter molecules and optoelectronic devices containing these organic emitter molecules. According to the invention, in the optoelectronic device, after the excitation of an organic molecule, relaxation and intersystem crossing processes also result from the almost isoenergetic charge transfer triplet state (3CT) for the direct rapid occupation and emission of the charge transfer singlet state (1CT), so that a 1CT?S0 fluorescence occurs without a thermal activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SICHUAN KNOWLEDGE EXPRESS INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hartmut Yersin, Larisa Mataranga-Popa, Rafal Czerwieniec
  • Patent number: 11402493
    Abstract: A method for determining surface characteristics is disclosed. The method may include transmitting a surface penetrating radar (SPR) signal towards a surface from a SPR system. The method may also include receiving a response signal at the SPR system. The response signal may include, at least in part, a reflection of the SPR signal from a surface region associated with the surface. The method may further include measuring at least one of an intensity and a phase of the response signal. The method my additionally include determining, based at least in part on the at least one of the intensity and the phase of the response signal, a surface characteristic of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Byron McCall Stanley, Matthew Tyler Cornick
  • Patent number: 11402321
    Abstract: The present chip relates to a high-sensitive biosensor chip using a high extinction coefficient marker and a dielectric substrate, a measurement system, and a measurement method and, more specifically, to an ellipsometry-based high-sensitive biosensor technology or a measurement method using same, the technology amplifying an elliptically polarized signal by a marker having a high extinction coefficient and a dielectric substrate. The marker and the substrate used in the present chip measure a Brewster's angle shift or an elliptical polarization measurement angle with respect to an ultra-low concentration biological material (e.g. antibody or DNA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARD AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Hyun-mo Cho, Dong-hyung Kim, Yong-jai Cho, Won Chegal
  • Patent number: 11403284
    Abstract: A method of providing a search index based on a Bloom filter in a distributed data sharing environment based a block chain includes generating, by a data generating device, Bloom filters used as the search index on the basis of a hash value calculated by applying a hash function to a keyword set for searching for data which is to be shared, generating, by a block providing server, a new block on the basis of the Bloom filters and the data received from the data generating device and performing proof of work (PoW) on the new block, for adding the new block to the block chain, and distributing, by a block distributing server, block chain data including the new block added to the block chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Nam Su Jho, Ju Young Kim, Taek Young Youn, Ku Young Chang
  • Patent number: 11404396
    Abstract: This semiconductor device includes a memory semiconductor chip in which a plurality of memory cells are laminated on a semiconductor substrate, a planar buffer chip which is a semiconductor chip that comprises a plurality of buffer circuits which hold data read from the memory cell and data written to the memory cell and which output the held data in accordance with the number of bit lines of the plurality of memory cells, and an electrical connection structure which electrically connects the bit lines of the memory cells of the memory semiconductor chips and the buffer circuits of the planar buffer chips to each other in a thickness direction of the memory semiconductor chip and the planar buffer chip. The electrical connection structure electrically connects the bit lines of the plurality of memory cells in the thickness direction through a penetration electrode penetrating at least the plurality of memory cells in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Takayuki Ohba
  • Patent number: 11405787
    Abstract: A physical signal overshadowing attack method for an LTE broadcast message and a system thereof are provided. The method includes identifying physical configuration information of user equipment (UE) which is an attack target and manipulating a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) for subframes of the LTE broadcast message transmitted to the UE to form a subframe for attack, synchronizing a time domain and a frequency domain of the subframe for attack depending on the LTE broadcast message, and injecting the synchronized subframe for attack into legitimate subframes of the LTE broadcast message transmitted to the UE and transmitting the injected subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongdae Kim, Hojoon Yang, Sangwook Bae, Mincheol Son, Hongil Kim, Song Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11401920
    Abstract: A lightning strike fault monitoring system for a wind turbine generator system and a lightning protection system (110) thereof, wherein the lightning strike fault monitoring system for the wind turbine generator system includes the lightning protection system. The lightning protection system (110) comprises a main body (101) provided with a blind hole (1011), a core (102), a connecting member (103) made of gasifiable material, a first elastic member (104), a second elastic member (105), a sealing cover (106), a bottom plate (107), and a switch used for connecting between an external signal source and a detecting terminal. The core (102) and the first elastic member (104) are respectively accommodated in the blind hole (1011), and the core (102) is connected to the main body through the connecting member (103). One end of the first elastic member (104) abuts against the core (102), and the other end is connected to the bottom wall of the blind hole (1011).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU SPECIAL PRESSURE EQUIPMENT INSPECTION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Zhigang Chen, Shiping Li, Bo Yang, Maodong Li, Jinmei Lin, Zhigang Wang, Wei Zhai, Guojia Huang, Shuanghong Zhang, Mingliang Xin, Zhenling Wu
  • Patent number: 11401343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-MSLN antibody and a pharmaceutical composition for cancer treatment comprising same. The anti-MSLN antibody according to the present invention has high affinity and specificity for MSLN and thus can be effectively used in cancer prevention or treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: GREEN CROSS CORPORATION, MOGAM INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Ki Su Kim, Jung Hong Jeong, Dong Sik Kim, Yang Mi Lim, Yong Yea Park, Hyung Kwon Lim, Jong Wha Won
  • Patent number: 11401356
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system for olefin polymerization, comprising at least one compound represented by formula (I) as (i) an internal electron donor, (ii) an external electron donor, or (iii) the both, wherein M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M1?, M2?, M3?, M4?, M5? and M6? are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, amino, aldehyde group, carboxy, acyl, halogen atoms, —R1 and —OR2, wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a C1-C10 hydrocarbyl, which is unsubstituted or substituted by a substituent selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, amino, aldehyde group, carboxy, acyl, halogen atoms, C1-C10 alkoxy and heteroatoms; and wherein, when among M1-M6 and M1?-M6?, any two adjacent groups on the same phenyl ring are each independently selected from the group consisting of R1 and —OR2, the two adjacent groups may optionally be linked to form a ring, with a proviso that M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M1?, M2?, M3?, M4?, M5? and M6? are not simultaneous
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ting Huang, Zifang Guo, Zhufang Sun, Junling Zhou, Lunjia Xie, Hongxu Yang, Bingyi Li, Qingqiang Gou, Tingjie Huang, Peng Kou, Xiaofan Zhang, Meiyan Fu, Jie Lin, Yonghua Ma
  • Patent number: 11404053
    Abstract: An apparatus includes processor(s) to: generate a set of candidate n-grams based on probability distributions from an acoustic model for candidate graphemes of a next word most likely spoken following at least one preceding word spoken within speech audio; provide the set of candidate n-grams to multiple devices; provide, to each node device, an indication of which candidate n-grams are to be searched for within the n-gram corpus by each node device to enable searches for multiple candidate n-grams to be performed, independently and at least partially in parallel, across the node devices; receive, from each node device, an indication of a probability of occurrence of at least one candidate n-gram within the speech audio; based on the received probabilities of occurrence, identify the next word most likely spoken within the speech audio; and add the next word most likely spoken to a transcript of the speech audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang, Xiaolong Li, Biljana Belamaric Wilsey, Haipeng Liu, Jared Peterson
  • Patent number: 11401160
    Abstract: The invention discloses a MEMS sensor detection device and a MEMS sensor system, wherein the MEMS sensor detection device comprises: a readout circuit used for analog signal processing of the output signal of the MEMS sensor to generate detection voltage; a cancellation voltage generation circuit used for generating a gravity cancellation voltage according to the detection voltage, wherein the gravity cancellation voltage and the gravity acceleration are in a positive proportional relationship; a selection circuit used for selecting the detection voltage output in a feedback phase and selecting the gravity cancellation voltage output in a gravity cancellation phase, wherein in one detection period, the feedback phase is located after the gravity cancellation phase; and a feedback circuit used for generating a feedback voltage according to the output voltage of the selection circuit, wherein the feedback voltage is in a positive proportional relationship with the output voltage of the selection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zongwei Li, Kedu Han, Jing Liu, Fangfang Feng, Changchun Yang
  • Patent number: 11404568
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, including: a substrate; a first source/drain layer, a channel layer, and a second source/drain layer sequentially stacked on the substrate and adjacent to each other, and a gate stack formed around an outer circumference of the channel layer; wherein at least one interface structure is formed in at least one of the first source/drain layer and the second source/drain layer, the conduction band energy levels at both sides of the interface structure are different and/or the valence band energy levels are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Huilong Zhu, Zhenhua Wu
  • Patent number: 11400054
    Abstract: A method for treating an autoimmune neurological disease and/or a neurodegenerative disease is provided. The method includes administering an effective amount of at least one compound having Formula (I), Formula (II) or Formula (III), or its geometric isomer, enantiomer or diastereomer to a subject in need thereof: wherein is a single or double bond, X is NCH3 or CH2, Y is null, O or N, Z is O or N, R1 is H, OH, and R2 is null, H, C1-C8 alkyl, —(C?O)-alkyl, —(C?O)-aryl, —(C?O)-alkyl-aryl, —(C?O)-heteroaryl, cycloalkyl or heterocycloalkyl, which optionally substituted by one or more of —OH, —NO2, —NH2, —NR3R4, carbonyl, alkoxyl, alkyl or —OCF3, wherein R3 and R4 independently are H, alkyl, —SO2CH3, —(C?O)—CH3 or —(C?O)—NH2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kuo-Kuei Huang, I-Hong Pan, Shu-Fang Wen, Meng-Nan Lin, I-Huang Lu, Zong-Keng Kuo, Chu-Hsun Lu, Tze-Chung Lee, Ya-Yan Yang, Jia-Horng Liaw, Pei-Hsin Lin
  • Patent number: 11401244
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to agonists of the apelin receptor (APJ) and uses of such agonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Scott P. Runyon, Rangan Maitra, Sanju Narayanan, James Barnwell Thomas
  • Patent number: 11404944
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an MSO coil, comprising: a pressing step of forming a bent surface on a part of a unit coil layer, which has a ring shape such that both ends thereof face each other, thereby endowing both ends of the unit coil layer with a height difference; a fixing step of connecting and fixing a plurality of unit coil layers to each other, each unit coil layer having the bent surface formed thereon, such that the first end of both ends of a unit coil layer having the bent surface formed thereon contacts the second end of both ends of another unit coil layer having the bent surface formed thereon; and a bonding step of bonding connection parts defined by contact of the first and second ends of each of the plurality of unit coil layers that are connected and fixed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Eui Chun Lee, Soon O Kwon, Ho Young Lee, Su Woong Lee, Kang Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11399848
    Abstract: A three dimensional magnetic sensor attached to a surgical nail is located based on an applied monotonic magnetic field gradient. Another three dimensional magnetic sensor locates a surgical drill. A display generates a real time image of the relative alignment of the surgical drill and of the surgical nail, allowing a surgeon to repair bone fractures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Saransh Sharma, Abhinav Agarwal, Mikhail Shapiro, Azita Emami