Patents Assigned to Purdue Research
  • Patent number: 10797522
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system is disclosed. The system includes a first resonator having a first resonant frequency ?o1, a half power bandwidth ??1, and an unloaded quality factor Qo1=?o1/??1 coupled through a first coupling circuit to a power source, a second resonator having a second resonant frequency ?o2, a half power bandwidth ??2, and an unloaded quality factor Qo2=?o2/??2 coupled through a second coupling circuit to a load, the first resonator disposed a distance away from the second resonator, wherein the distance is smaller than the first and second resonant wavelengths, the first and second coupling circuits are configured so that up to a maximum achievable power transfer efficiency between the first and second resonators can be achieved, wherein Qo1 and Qo2 can be less than 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: William J. Chappell, Dohyuk Ha, Henry Mei, Pedro P. Irazoqui
  • Patent number: 10794796
    Abstract: A novel, advanced polymeric swab is disclosed herein. The swabs have a surface texture that allows for independent motion between microscale regions, are reusable with no loss of accuracy or efficiency, and are fabricated from optoelectronically-active elements to minimize static charging during repeated use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Stephen P Beaudoin, Bryan William Boudouris, Michelle Chaffee-Cipich, Aaron James Harrison, Stefan Lukow, Lizbeth Rostro, Caitlin Joy Schram, Kathryn Maureen Smith, Myles Calvin Thomas
  • Patent number: 10794808
    Abstract: Methods and systems suitable for tracking Brownian motion of particles suspended in a fluid and determining the diffusion coefficient of the particles therefrom in order to characterize the particles, their synthesis, and/or their surface modifications. The methods include providing a sample having particles suspended in a fluid, obtaining and recording at least first and second images of the sample wherein the first image obtained at a first time and the second image subsequently obtained at a second time, determining the average displacement of the particles in an area of the first and second images during a time period between the first time and the second time based on the first and second images, and then determining a diffusion coefficient of the particles in the area of the first and second images based on the average displacement of the particles during the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Katherine Noel Clayton, Tamara Lea Kinzer-Ursem, Steven Truitt Wereley, Janelle Weslyn Salameh
  • Publication number: 20200312465
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a computer-readable program, which, when executed by a processor, will cause a computer to execute a method of intelligent matching, wherein the method includes receiving a first data from a plurality of service vendors, wherein the first data includes performance metrics of service providers and characteristics of service consumers. The method additionally includes classifying, using cluster algorithms, the service consumers from the first data into a plurality of groups. Further, the method includes calculating a compatibility success score between each service provider and each group of the plurality of groups. Moreover, the method includes calculating a historical arrival rate for the each group of the plurality of groups. The method also includes assigning a chosen service provider to a prospective service consumer based on a determined compatibility success score of the chosen service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mohammad S. Rahman, Jitesh H. Panchal, Adam Dachowicz, Siva Chaitanya Chaduvula, Mikhail J. Atallah
  • Publication number: 20200307811
    Abstract: A hydraulic propulsion system is disclosed which includes an input interface configured to receive mechanical power from a power source, a pressure source comprising one or more fixed or variable displacement pumps coupled to the input interface and adaptable to convert mechanical power to hydraulic power and controlling outlet pressure of the pressure source (system pressure), one or more variable displacement motors coupled to the pressure source via a corresponding high-pressure line configured to be mechanically coupled to one or more aerodynamic rotors of an aircraft and comprising a closed loop speed control arrangement in response to a commanded rotor speed, and a controller configured to control the speed of one or more variable displacement motors by providing a control signal for controlling the system pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Lizhi SHANG, Monika IVANTYSYNOVA
  • Publication number: 20200311930
    Abstract: An optical tissue imaging system includes a probe for insertion into a transparent cylindrical capillary. The capillary includes an internal cylindrical channel that extends along a central axis. The capillary is inserted into tissue of a subject, and the probe may rotate and translate within the capillary. The probe may include a mirror configured to reflect light to the tissue outside of the cylindrical capillary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventor: Meng Cui
  • Publication number: 20200313154
    Abstract: A battery, comprising an anode and a cathode, the cathode comprising particles having an aspect ratio between 0.09 and 0.5. In certain embodiments, the particles are ellipsoidal. The battery may comprise an electro chemical lithium-ion battery structure. Optimal particle microstructure morphologies are identified to deliver high power or energy densities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Lucas Darby Robinson, Ramiro Edwin Garcia
  • Publication number: 20200306295
    Abstract: Confronted with the rapid evolution and dissemination of antibiotic resistance, there is an urgent need to develop alternative treatment strategies for drug-resistant S. aureus, especially for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). We report a photonic approach to eradicate MRSA through blue-light photolysis of staphyloxanthin (STX), an anti-oxidative carotenoid acting as the constituent lipid of the functional membrane microdomains of S. aureus. Our transient absorption imaging study and mass spectrometry unveil the photolysis process of STX. After effective STX photolysis by pulsed laser, cell membranes are found severely disorganized and malfunctioned to defense antibiotics, as unveiled by membrane permeabilization, membrane fluidification, and detachment of membrane protein, PBP2a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ji-xin Cheng, Mohamed Seleem, Pu-Ting Dong, Jie Hui
  • Patent number: 10790441
    Abstract: A switching device, comprising an anti-ferromagnet structure having an upper layer and a lower layer, the upper layer and lower layer anti-ferromagnetically coupled by an exchange coupling layer, the upper and lower layer formed of a similar material but having differing volumes, and wherein the device is configured to inject symmetrically spin-polarized currents through the upper and lower layers to achieve magnetic switching of the anti-ferromagnet structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kerem Y. Camsari, Ahmed Zeeshan Pervaiz, Rafatul Faria, Esteban E Marinero-Caceres, Supriyo Datta
  • Patent number: 10787624
    Abstract: A solid-state lubricant composition is disclosed. The solid-lubricant contains graphene, an oxide of a metal, and one or more polymeric binders. A method of making a solid-state lubricant coating on various substrates is disclosed. The method includes the steps of making a homogeneous slurry comprising powder of an oxide of a metal, graphene, and a polymeric binder with organic volatile solvent; coating a substrate with the homogeneous slurry with desired thicknesses; and drying the slurry on the substrate naturally or applying additional heat, resulting in a solid lubricant coating on the substrate. Substrates with coated solid composite lubricant show wear reduction and lower coefficient of friction compared with uncoated substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Vilas Ganpat Pol, Farshid Sadeghi, Abdullah Alazemi, Arthur D. Dysart
  • Patent number: 10786201
    Abstract: This invention generally relates to methods useful for measuring heart rate, respiration conditions, and oxygen saturation and a wearable device that incorporate those methods with a computerized system supporting data collection, analysis, readout and sharing. Particularly this present invention relates to a wearable device, such as a wrist watch or ring, for real time measuring heart rate, respiration conditions, and oxygen saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jacqueline Callihan Linnes, Orlando Sanguinette Hoilett, Ashlyn Twibell, Hyowon Lee, Rohit Srivastava, Jason D Ummel, Ryan Lindsey
  • Publication number: 20200299542
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for creating a chemically structured surface with structural elements as small as 1 nm, on a material that does not itself display a high degree of ordering, using thin molecular layers that minimize the material added through the coating. In particular, the present invention discloses a method for assembling a chemical pattern on a surface, comprising pattern elements with scales that can be as small as 1 nm, and then transferring that pattern to another substrate, on which the pattern would not form natively. In the described method, the patterned monolayer is comprised of polymerizable amphiphiles such as diyne phospholipids or diynoic acids, which are transferred from the ordering substrate using a transferring material such as poly(dimethylsiloxane).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Shelley A. Claridge, Tyson Clinton Davis
  • Publication number: 20200302156
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a computer-readable program which, when executed by a processor, will cause a computer to execute a method of authenticating a 3-D object with a 2-D camera, the method including building a pre-determined database. The method additionally includes registering the 3-D object to a storage unit of a device comprising the 2-D camera, thereby creating a registered 3-D model of the 3-D object. Additionally, the method includes authenticating a test 3-D object by comparing the test 3-D object to the registered 3-D model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: He Wang, Siyuan Cao, Habiba Farrukh, Reham Mohamed Aburas
  • Publication number: 20200298342
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel continuous laser nanoforming device, and the methods to make and use the continuous laser nanoforming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ramses Valentin Martinez, Debkalpa Goswami
  • Publication number: 20200297255
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a novel omniphobic, paper-based, smart bandage (OPSB) devices, and the methods to make and use the omniphobic, paper-based, smart bandage devices. The OPSB device of the present disclosure provides a simple, low-cost, and non-invasive strategy to monitor open wound status wirelessly. This disclosure also provides the demonstration of in-vivo early detection and monitoring of pressure ulcers using wireless smart bandages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ramses Valentin Martinez, Aniket Pal
  • Patent number: 10779654
    Abstract: Chairs, stool assemblies, and systems for constructing furniture. Such a chair including structural members having hinge joints at ends thereof pivotally coupling each of the members to one or more adjoining members. The chair is configured to be arranged in a collapsed configuration wherein all of the members are in the same plane and define a substantially planar shape, and configured to be arranged in an expanded configuration to define a seat, armrests, support legs, and leg braces of the chair. Such a stool assembly includes at least first and second stools configured to be stackable such that the seats of the stools abut face to face and in combination define a composite base. Such a system for constructing furniture includes multiple joints each having slots configured to receive and retain structural members and configured to be assembled with the structural members to form a piece of furniture with the multiple joints defining corners of the piece of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventor: Tong Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 10781376
    Abstract: A method for producing hydrocarbons from glycerol. The method includes packing a catalyst comprising a noble metal and a support material into a reactor, introducing a reactant mixture containing glycerol into the reactor such that the reactant mixture containing methane is in close contact with the reactant mixture, and heating the reactant mixture containing glycerol to a temperature for a contact time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Arvind Varma, Yang Xiao
  • Publication number: 20200289649
    Abstract: The present application relates generally to a method and a composition matter that provides a rapid and potent antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation (aPDI) of pathogenic bacteria that express high-affinity cell-surface hemin receptors (CSHRs) using Ga(III)-protoporphyrins IX (GaPpIX or Ga-PpIX). The invention provides an effective treatment option for infections of skin or body cavities that are accessible to visible-light irradiation, such as a handheld LED array emitting visible light (405 nm), especially for infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), pathogenic staphylococci, Streptococcus mutans, S. pneumoniae, S. pyogenes, streptococci, corynebacteria, mycobacteria, and Bacillus anthracis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Alexander Wei, Ana Victoria Morales-de-Echegaray
  • Publication number: 20200290959
    Abstract: Using chemical genetic screening, we discovered a small molecule Cellulosin (aka endosidin20 or ES20) that causes cell swollen and inhibits plant growth, but does not disrupt global vesicle trafficking. By doing mutant screening, we obtained multiple alleles of Arabidopsis thaliana that are resistant to Cellulosin inhibition in growth. Those mutated amino acid residues are conserved across plant species. Cellulosin targets a group of cellulose synthases (CesAs) of Arabidopsis thaliana by binding to a conserved domain essential for the catalytic activity of CesA. Cellulosin may target and inhibit all subtypes of CesAs in plants. The present invention relates to Cellulosin, a cellulose synthase inhibitor, its analogs or derivatives as abroad-spectrum herbicide. The mutated genes, their protein products and a cell or a plant having those mutated genes or expressing those protein products are within the scope of this disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventor: Chunhua Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200296059
    Abstract: A remote indirect memory access system and method for networked computer servers. The system comprises a network interface card having a network interface memory and a system memory operatively connected to the network interface card. The system memory has a plurality of electronic memory queues, wherein each of the memory queues corresponds to one of a plurality of receive processes in the computer server, with each of the memory queues having a corresponding head pointer and tail pointer. Each of the memory queues is assigned to receive electronic messages from a plurality of sender computers. The NIC comprises a tail pointer table, with the tail pointer table comprising initial memory location data of the tail pointers for the memory queues. The memory location data referenced by corresponding queue identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mithuna Shamabhat Thottethodi, Terani N Vijaykumar, Jiachen Xue