Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Organic light emitting diode with brightness enhancer
    Publication number: 20060145600
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) with a brightness enhancer. The OLED comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface oppositely. An anode electrode is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. An organic light emitting layer is disposed on the anode electrode. A cathode electrode is disposed on the organic light emitting layer. A brightness enhancer is disposed on the second surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Liang-Bin Yu, Tien-Shou Shieh, Hui-Lung Kuo, Mei-Rurng Tseng, Pin-Sien Yu
  • Apparatus and method for detecting a signal in a multiple-input multiple-output mobile communication system
    Publication number: 20060146965
    Abstract: A signal detection method and apparatus in a receiver in a MIMO mobile communication system. The receiver orders symbol combinations transmittable from a transmitter in an ascending order of the difference between the symbol combinations and transmit symbols produced by eliminating inter-symbol interference from a received signal, initializes a symbol combination with the minimum difference to an ML solution, calculates the distance between a first symbol combination and the transmit symbols and the cost of a second symbol combination, detects a symbol combination having a distance to the transmit symbols equal to the distance between the first symbol combination and the transmit symbols, and having a minimum distance, and decides the first symbol combination as the ML solution if the minimum distance exceeds the distance between the first symbol combination and the transmit symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology
    Inventors: Jong-Hyung Kwun, Chan-Soo Hwang, Kyung-Chun Lee, Joo-Hwan Chun
  • Voltage compensating circuit for a sensorless type DC brushless motor
    Publication number: 20060145641
    Abstract: A compensating circuit for compensating the terminal voltage on the armature in a sensorless type DC brushless motor apparatus is described. The driving circuit of the motor apparatus outputs a three-phase power, and each phase is connected with a compensating circuit. The compensating circuit has a reference voltage, a resistance device, a diode device, a differential amplifier and a processor. The two terminals of the resistance device are respectively connected to the reference voltage and the anode of the diode device. The cathode of the diode device is connected to an output of the three-phase power supply. The two input terminals of the differential amplifier are respectively connected to the two terminals of the resistance device. The processor accepts the signal output from the differential amplifier and then calculates and outputs a compensating voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ming-Che Yang, Tai-Ming Huang, Chih-Hsin Chen, Mu-Ping Chen, Chih-Hsing Fang, Kuo-Ing Hwu
  • Micro droplet control apparatus
    Publication number: 20060146099
    Abstract: A micro droplet controlling apparatus. A dielectric layer is disposed overlying a substrate. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed in the dielectric layer, wherein the first electrode is isolated from the second electrode, and the first and second electrodes are disposed at different positions. A micro droplet is disposed overlying the dielectric layer, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are applied with voltage to generate a driving force to move the micro droplet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chun-Han Wang, Han-Sheng Chuang, Cheng-Tsair Yang, Guang-Chyan Fang, Da-Jeng Yao
  • Novel phosphoprotein
    Publication number: 20060148032
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cancer therapy and cancer diagnostics and to agents useful therefor. More particularly, the present invention provides a novel tumorigenesis-related phosphoprotein and a nucleic acid molecule encoding same. The present invention also provides diagnostic agents to detect the presence or absence of the tumorigenesis-related phosphoprotein or the presence or absence of an expressible tumorigenesis-related gene encoding the phosphoprotein. Such diagnostic agents are useful in determining the likelihood of development of a tumor in a vertebrate animal such as mammal and, in particular, a human. The diagnostic agents provided by the present invention may be used inter alia in screening and/or predicting the likelihood of development of neoplastic diseases such as but not limited to mammary cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Res
    Inventors: Monilola Olayioye, Jane Visvader, Geoffrey Lindeman, Peter Hoffmann, Thomas Pomorski
  • Plasmin inhibitors from the australian brown snake
    Patent number: 7070969
    Abstract: The invention provides novel single stage competitive inhibitors of plasmin from the Australian brown snake Pseudonaja textilis textilis. The invention also features polynucleotides and polynucleotide homologues encoding these inhibitors. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the plasmin inhibitors of the invention are also disclosed as well as methods useful for treatment of blood loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignees: The University of Queensland, National Institute of Biological Standards and Control
    Inventors: Pantaleone Paul Masci, Martin Francis Lavin, Patrick Joseph Gaffney
  • Prostate-specific membrane antigen
    Patent number: 7070782
    Abstract: The invention provides a purified prostate-specific membrane antigen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
    Inventors: Ron S. Israeli, Warren D. W. Heston, William R. Fair
  • Physical implementation of switching fabrics constructed from recursive 2-stage interconnection
    Patent number: 7072334
    Abstract: Physical implementation of the switching fabric of a massive broadband switching network constructed from recursive 2-stage interconnection. The recursive 2-stage construction is realized through a hierarchical levels of implementation, including inside-chip implementation, PCB implementation, orthogonal packaging, interface-board packaging and fiber-array packaging. Smaller switches resulted from lower levels can be employed as the switching elements in the construction of a larger switch at a higher level of implementation. Such a hierarchical levels of implementation provides great flexibility and scalability in the physical realization of switching fabric and hence yields indefinitely large-scaled switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Shuo-Yen Robert Li
  • Camptothecin analogs having an E-ring ketone
    Patent number: 7071204
    Abstract: Camptothecin analogs having an E-ring ketone are effective anti tumor compounds. These compounds inhibit the enzyme topoisomerase I and may alkylate DNA of the associated topoisomerase I DNA cleavable complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Research Triangle Institute
    Inventors: Michael A. Wall, Mansukh C. Wani, Govindarajan Manikumar, Monroe E. Wall
  • Androgen regulated prostate specific nucleic acids
    Patent number: 7071303
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel androgen regulated nucleic acid molecules. Related polypeptides and diagnostic methods also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Institute For Systems Biology
    Inventor: Biaoyang Lin
  • Method of determining quasi-phase matching efficiency in periodically poled structure of optical waveguide, periodically poled structure of optical waveguide, and optical waveguide using the same
    Patent number: 7072550
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of determining a quasi-phase matching efficiency in a periodically poled structure of an optical waveguide, a periodically poled structure of an optical waveguide, and an optical waveguide using the same. It is possible to effectively perform a quasi-phase matching when a width of periodic electrodes is shorter than a coherence length generally used as ½ of a quasi-phase matching period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jong Bae Kim, Jung Jin Ju, Min Su Kim
  • Sugar-modified liposome and products comprising the liposome
    Patent number: 7070801
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sugar-modified liposome having a sugar chain bonded to its membrane surface, preferably through a linker protein, and having excellent absorption qualities, particularly in the intestine. The molecular structure and quantity of the sugar chain is selectively varied to allow the liposome to be delivered in a targeted manner to selected cells and tissues. The liposome is applicable to medicinal drugs, cosmetics and other various products in the medical/pharmaceutical fields, and it is especially useful in a therapeutic drug delivery system that recognizes target cells and tissues, such as cancer cells, and in the delivery of drugs or genes locally to a selected region, or in a diagnostic cell/tissue sensing probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Noboru Yamazaki, Shuji Kojima
  • Method and apparatus for automatically tracing line-structure images
    Patent number: 7072515
    Abstract: A method for rapid, fully automatic, two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) tracing of line-structure images, such as images of neurons produced by fluorescence confocal microscopy. A method of recursively following the line-structure topology, guided by the correlation response of a set of 4×N2 directional kernels in the 3-D case, and a set of 2×N directional kernels in the 2-D case, is presented. These kernels are derived based on a generalized cylinder model of the line-structures. The automatic tracing method includes a protocol for determining the ends of line-structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Khalid Al-Kofahi, Badrinath Roysam, James N. Turner
  • Cloning sequencing and characterization of two cell death genes and uses therefor
    Patent number: 7071302
    Abstract: Described herein are genes shown to be essential for programmed cell death in C. elegans, their encoded products (RNA and polypeptides), antibodies directed against the encoded polypeptides; probes for identifying structurally related genes and bioassays for identifying functionally related cell death genes from various organisms; methods and agents for altering (increasing or decreasing) the activity of the cell death-genes and, thus, of altering cell death; and uses therefor. Specifically, two genes shown to be essential for almost all of the cell deaths which occur in the development of C. elegans, referred to as ced-3 and ced-4, have been cloned, sequenced and characterized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: H. Robert Horvitz, Junying Yuan, Shai Shaham
  • Microchip drug delivery devices
    Patent number: 7070590
    Abstract: Devices are provided for the controlled release of drug or other molecules. The devices include (1) a substrate, which optionally includes two or more substrate portions bonded together, (2) at least two reservoirs in the substrate, (3) a release system disposed in the reservoirs that includes the molecules for release and optionally a matrix material, and (4) active or passive means for controlling release of the molecules from the reservoirs. In one embodiment, a reservoir cap is positioned on, or within a portion of, the reservoir and over the molecules, so that the molecules are controllably released from the device by diffusion through or upon disintegration of the reservoir cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: John T. Santini, Jr., Michael J. Cima, Robert S. Langer
  • Method of segmenting handwritten touching numeral strings having non-vertical segmentation line
    Patent number: 7072513
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of segmenting handwritten touching numeral strings having a non-vertical segmentation line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kye Kyung Kim, Yun Koo Chung, Su Young Chi, Won Pil Yu, Hyoung Gu Lee, Soo Hyun Cho
  • Method of treating hematologic tumors and cancers
    Patent number: 7070797
    Abstract: Multiple myeloma and other hematologic tumors and/or malignancies can be treated by administration of a G1 and/or S phase drug, which is preferably ?-lapachone, or a derivative or analog thereof, combined with a G2/M phase drug such as a taxane derivative, which is advantageously paclitaxel. This combination of the G1 and/or S phase drug with the G2/M phase drug results in an unexpectedly greater than additive (i.e., synergistic) apoptosis in multiple myeloma cells. The invention includes methods of treating multiple myeloma by administering the combination of the G1 and/or S phase drug and the G2/M phase drug, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the combination of drugs used in these methods, as well as pharmaceutical kits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur B. Pardee, Kenneth Anderson, Deepak Gupta, Chiang Li, Youzhi Li
  • Waveguide coupling into photonic crystal waveguides
    Patent number: 7072547
    Abstract: A coupling element includes a first stage having a dielectric waveguide that is transitioned to a waveguide having a sequence of resonators with a fixed period. A second stage transitions the waveguide to a photonic crystal waveguide by gradually bringing closer at an angle the cladding bulk of the photonic crystal to the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Solomon Assefa, Peter Bienstman, Gale S. Petrich, Alexei A. Erchak, Steven G. Johnson, Leslie A. Kolodziejski, John D. Joannopoulos
  • Aryl phosphate derivatives of AZT having anti-HIV activity
    Patent number: 7071176
    Abstract: Aryl phosphate derivatives of d4T with para-bromo substitution on the aryl group show markedly increased potency as anti-HIV agents without undesirable levels of cytotoxic activity. In particular, these derivatives are potent inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, the phosphorus of the aryl phosphate group is further substituted with an amino acid residue that may be esterified or substituted, such as a methoxy alaninyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Parker Hughes Institute
    Inventors: Faith M. Uckun, Rakesh Vig
  • Mass spectroscopy system
    Patent number: 7071464
    Abstract: The invention features a method including: i) confining ions to stable trajectories within an ion trap; ii) exciting a subset of the ions along at least one transverse coordinate; iii) rotating the transverse excitation into an excitation along an axial coordinate; and iv) transferring at least some of the axially excited ions from the ion trap along the axial coordinate. For example, the ions may be transferred to an ion detector or to a subsequent ion trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce Reinhold