Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 11549310
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a facility comprising: a fixed frame fixedly installed on an outer wall of a veranda or a balcony of a high-rise building; a foldable evacuation box which can be unfolded in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped having an open top side and has and evacuation door on a side thereof; a fall prevention and evacuation means which can be structurally changed to an emergency stairway for fire evacuation; an evacuation box locking means which allows the foldable evacuation box to be unfolded in a rectangular parallelepiped form; a locking means which holds and fixes the fall prevention and evacuation means to the fixed frame; and an entry prevention door which prevents an evacuee from entering inside a veranda or a balcony from the foldable evacuation box through the fixed frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology
    Inventors: Soon Mo Ryu, Jae Sik Kang
  • Patent number: 11549835
    Abstract: Provided is a method for analyzing the expansive stress and expansive strain of tunnel surrounding rock, including: (1) determining the surrounding rock state of the tunnel surrounding rock before expansion and the surrounding rock state after expansion; (2) according to the determined state of the surrounding rock, determining the expansive stress and expansive strain of the tunnel surrounding rock before expansion, and determining the expansive stress and expansive strain of the tunnel surrounding rock after expansion; (3) according to the surrounding rock state of the tunnel surrounding rock after expansion, determining the expansive deformation radius of the tunnel surrounding rock, so as to determine the expansive deformation displacement of the tunnel surrounding rock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGHWAY MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT
    Inventors: Chongbang Xu, Xiaojing Gao, Lei Li, Youlin Qin, Xuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11551416
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for using full waveform inversion for imaging surveyed mediums are provided. The full waveform inversion uses a Sifrian functional to fully leverage Hessian information and update a model by augmenting and assembling data derived from the Sifrian functional when equilibrated. The Sifrian inversion produces high resolution images of the surveyed medium typically only seen with full Hessian inversions and can produce such images without requiring supercomputer computation power or extremely long computation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Technology Innovation Institute
    Inventors: Fares B. Mehouachi, Qingjie Yang, Chaouki Kasmi
  • Patent number: 11551356
    Abstract: An object detection method for a 3D mammogram is disclosed. The object detection method comprises steps of: controlling N filters to execute a filtering computation in the 3D mammogram respectively to generate N 3D filtering images; computing a difference variation among the plurality of voxels to obtain a blurriness value of the plurality of voxels; using the blurriness value of the plurality of voxels in a decision module to execute a plurality of first decision operators to generate a plurality of first decision results, and using one of the plurality of first decision results to execute the plurality of second decision operators to generate a plurality of second decision results; and executing a final decision operator by using the plurality of first decision results and the plurality of second decision results to generate a detection object of the 3D mammogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventor: Yi-Chong Zeng
  • Patent number: 11549805
    Abstract: A projecting apparatus includes a projecting device, an image-capturing device and a processing device. The projecting device projects a reversible structured light code onto a surface. The image-capturing device captures the reversible structured light code projected onto the surface and obtains image data. The processing device is coupled to the projecting device and the image-capturing device. The processing device receives the image data, generates three-dimensional point cloud information by performing decoding on the image data, and obtains scanning shift information corresponding to the projecting device according to the three-dimensional point cloud information and three-dimensional information corresponding to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kai-Shiang Gan, Po-Lung Chen, Chun-Yuan Chen, Chien-Chun Kuo
  • Patent number: 11548921
    Abstract: The present invention relates to macromolecular complexes comprising micron-scale networks which include binding motifs thereon which allow the covalent bonding of the micron-scale networks to particles which provide nanoscale display surfaces. In particular the present invention relates to micron-scale networks of TMV coat proteins comprising a peptide tag (e.g. SpyTag) and particles providing a nanoscale display surface comprising GFP and a corresponding binding protein (e.g. SpyCatcher) wherein the peptide tag and binding protein pair are capable of spontaneously forming a covalent bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The James Hutton Institute
    Inventors: Andrew John Love, Mikhail Emmanuilovich Talianski, Kara McGeachy
  • Patent number: 11553516
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method in which a user equipment receives downlink control information in a wireless communication system. The user equipment may receive configuration information for reception of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a base station, and may receive a PDCCH including downlink control information (DCI) on the basis of the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kyungjun Choi, Minseok Noh, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11548155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interaction training system of a robot with a Mixed Reality (MR) environment, and to a training system in which a robot including a camera and a sensor is driven in a training space and a virtual environment like an actual environment is provided to a trainee to train the trainee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ROBOT & CONVERGENCE
    Inventors: Seung Sub Oh, Kyon Mo Yang, Kap Ho Seo, Dong Gi Gwak
  • Patent number: 11548716
    Abstract: A microwave heating sheet includes a substrate and a heating layer disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The heating layer includes a polar solvent that has a boiling point of not less than 100° C. and a polyelectrolyte that is dissolved in the polar solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Food Industry Research and Development Institute
    Inventors: Yu-Chi Cheng, Chun-Fong Lin, Yi-Jhen Wu, Binghuei-Barry Yang
  • Patent number: 11549033
    Abstract: A coating agent is capable of forming a coating film that has enhanced adhesion and adherence to a substrate, and enhanced water resistance as well and composed mainly of an aqueous material. A process of forming a coating agent uses the coating agent, a primer treatment process uses the coating agent, a process of doing repairs to concretes uses the coating agent, and a process of laying down roads uses the coating agent. The coating agent is composed mainly of a polyphenol derivative and containing a polymerizing agent, and has a pH of 9 or less. The polymerizing agent contains a compound having two or more functional groups selected from the group of an amino group and a mercapto group per molecule. In the process of forming a coating film, the coating agent is applied onto a substrate in an alkaline environment having a pH of greater than 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventor: Masanobu Naito
  • Patent number: 11553131
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes the steps of: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; adding the generated prediction image to a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Therefore, the performance of image data compression can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Ki Baek Kim
  • Patent number: 11547039
    Abstract: A fully-automatic transplanting combined machine includes a traction apparatus, operation apparatus and a control system. The operation apparatus is mounted on the traction apparatus with a main body frame and is towed behind the traction apparatus. The operation apparatus includes a rotary tillage furrowing system, a system for slightly preparing soil and opening narrow furrows, a planting system, and a soil covering compacting system which are arranged successively from front to back. The planting system includes more than one planting unit. The fully-automatic transplanting combined machine is capable of orderly performing rotary tillage, cleaning stubble, leveling a border check, opening a furrow, cutting narrow slits, transplanting, covering soil, compacting soil in untilled soil at one process, so as to create the soil requirements for high-speed transplanting of blanket seedlings such as rape and other crops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
    Inventors: Chongyou Wu, Qing Tang, Jun Wu, Min Zhang, Gang Wang, Lan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11548227
    Abstract: Provided is a method for monitoring 3D printing equipped with a 3D printing slicer and a recursive loop structure. A 3D printing method according to an embodiment of the present invention sets up a slicing environment for 3D printing of a 3D model, generates a mechanical code by performing slicing according to the setup environment, monitors the status of the 3D printing according to the generated mechanical code, and, depending on the monitoring result, determines whether or not to re-perform the setup and subsequent steps. Accordingly, by semi- or fully automating the 3D printing engineering process, the time and effort for engineering performance involving human participation are reduced, and the human resource is concentrated on a more important area, such that the effects of enhancing the 3D printing output quality and assuring the quality can be expected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Hwa Seon Shin, Sung Hwan Chun, Hye In Lee
  • Patent number: 11549947
    Abstract: Some aspects of this invention provide reagents and methods for the sensitive, quantitative and simultaneous detection of target analytes in complex biological samples by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC MS/MS). Some aspects of this invention provide affinity reagents encoded with mass reporters for the sensitive and quantitative translation of an analyte of interest into a mass tag. The reagents and methods provided herein have general utility in analyte detection and encoding, for example, in biomolecular profiling, molecular diagnostics, and biochemical encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Gabriel A. Kwong, Sangeeta N. Bhatia
  • Patent number: 11550078
    Abstract: A GPU-based human body microwave echo simulation method includes: transmitting emulation input parameters from the memory of a CPU host into the display memory of a GPU device; configuring, at the CPU host, parallel computing network parameters to be run at the GPU device; initiating a kernel function for human body microwave echo simulation preset in the CPU host; computing the kernel function in parallel, in a plurality of processing kernels of the GPU device, in a multi-threaded manner, according to the parallel computing network parameters, to obtain simulation echoes of human body microwaves; transmitting the obtained simulation echoes of human body microwaves from the GPU device back to the CPU host. The method makes full use of the characteristic that a GPU can perform parallel computing to accelerate the echo simulation process, greatly improving the real-time performance of echo simulation of a human body microwave scanning and imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: CHINA COMMUNICATTON TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Aixian Wang, Hanjiang Chen, Xiongwei Huang, Yanli Liu, Chengyan Jia, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11549169
    Abstract: A method for preparing a thermal barrier coating (TBC) material includes: spraying a metal mixture onto a surface of an alloy using supersonic flame spraying or explosive spraying to form a bottom layer; spraying an yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) precursor sol onto the bottom layer using liquid plasma spraying to form an intermediate layer; and spraying a ceramic composite including SiO2 and La—Ce—Zr—O using plasma spraying or explosive spraying to form a surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: AECC BEIJING INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL MATERIALS
    Inventors: Mengqiu Guo, Haoliang Tian, Changliang Wang, Zhihui Tang, Yang Yu, Yongjing Cui, Junguo Gao, Zimin Zhou, Tianying Wang, Ang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11549993
    Abstract: A method for abnormality detection in an energy unit includes passively detecting an abnormality in an energy unit by detecting electromagnetic radiation generated by the abnormality, the energy unit comprising at least one of an electrical energy unit and an electrochemical energy unit. A method for detecting an abnormality in an energy unit includes (a) applying a signal to the energy unit, (b) performing a plurality of measurements, at a respective plurality of different locations within the energy unit, of a response of the energy unit to the signal, and (c) processing the plurality of measurements to identify the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Farshid Roumi, Jamshid Roumi
  • Patent number: 11548545
    Abstract: A vehicle system including one or more sensors, a steering wheel including a rim and an adjusting mechanism for adjusting a coefficient of friction between a surface of the rim and a driver's hand, and a controller configured to determine whether a deviation factor between a target path and an actual path based on the one or more sensors exceeds a threshold deviation, send a first signal to the adjusting mechanism for operating to a first state in response to determining that the deviation factor exceeds the threshold deviation, the coefficient of friction being decreased when the adjusting mechanism is in the first state, and send a second signal to the adjusting mechanism for operating to a second state in response to determining that the deviation factor does not exceed the threshold deviation, the coefficient of friction being increased when the adjusting mechanism is in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Jaime Camhi
  • Patent number: 11549934
    Abstract: A portable biosensor for detecting and quantifying a target molecule in a biological sample and method of use include a biosensor fabricated with a recognition layer with an imprinted polymer, an electrode electrically coupled to the recognition layer, and a logic circuit that may include a processor and non-transitory memory with computer executable instructions embedded thereon, wherein the imprinted polymer is shaped to have a profile that substantially matches a profile of the target molecule, such that the target molecule can form-fit and bind to the imprinted polymer, thus changing an electrical property of the polymer layer that may be detected to identify the presence of the target molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Wei Gao, Minqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11551068
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system for a binary weight convolutional neural network. The system comprises: at least one storage unit for storing data and instructions; at least one control unit for acquiring the instructions stored in the storage unit and sending out a control signal; and, at least one calculation unit for acquiring, from the storage unit, node values of a layer in a convolutional neural network and corresponding binary weight value data and obtaining node values of a next layer by performing addition and subtraction operations. With the system of the present invention, the data bit width during the calculation process of a convolutional neural network is reduced, the convolutional operation speed is improved, and the storage capacity and operational energy consumption are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Yinhe Han, Haobo Xu, Ying Wang