Patents Assigned to Research Development Foundation
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Patent number: 11013682Abstract: The invention provides compositions, kits and methods for depositing a composition comprising a plurality of magnetic particles, to a target site of a subject by delivering the composition via controlled inhalation to a region of the subject's respiratory tract and applying a magnetic field to a target site within the region of the subject's respiratory tract to capture the particles in said target site.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITEDInventors: Yan Ostrovski, Josue Sznitman
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Patent number: 11016977Abstract: A method for detecting a pattern of events, comprising: receiving a template defining the pattern of events to detect; producing a join query for a relational database from the template; selecting a cost function for the join query, wherein a computation cost of the join query is equivalent to a computation cost of matching between a plurality of events from a plurality of streams of events and the template; identifying a preferred plan for executing the join query according to a minimal value of the cost function; producing an ordered set of a plurality of patterns, according to the preferred plan, by converting a plurality of database operations of the preferred plan into the ordered set of the plurality of patterns; and using the ordered set as an input for detecting a plurality of matches between the plurality of patterns and the plurality of events.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Ilya Kolchinsky, Assaf Schuster
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Patent number: 11009465Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatus and methods to identify endometrial tissue.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Research Development FoundationInventors: Marc D. Feldman, Thomas E. Milner, Andrew G. Cabe, Arnold D. Estrada
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Patent number: 11006994Abstract: A system for generating cold plasma is presented, suitable for use in in-vivo treatment of biological tissue. The system comprising: a control unit connectable to an elongated member at a first proximal end of the elongated member. The elongated member comprises a plasma generating unit at a second distal end thereof and gas and electricity transmission channels extending from said first proximal end towards said plasma generating unit. The control unit comprises a gas supply unit configured to provide predetermined flow rate of selected gas composition through said gas transmission channel and a power supply unit configured to generate selected sequence of high-frequency electrical pulses, typically in mega Hertz range, directed through said electricity transmission channel, thereby providing power and gas of said selected composition to the plasma generating unit for generating cold plasma.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited, Rambam Med-Tech Ltd.Inventors: Yakov Krasik, Joshua Felsteiner, Yakov Slutsker, Ziv Gil, Jacob Cohen, Yoav Binenbaum
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Publication number: 20210143834Abstract: A digital to analog converter is constructed using a neural network layer. The converter has inputs for receiving parallel bits of a digital input signal and an output for outputting an analog signal which is based on the digital input. Connecting the input and the output is a neural network layer which is configured to convert the parallel bits into an output analog signal that is representative of the digital input signal. The neural network may be hardwired and the synapses may rely on memristors as programmable elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Shahar KVATINSKY, Loai DANIAL
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Patent number: 10994992Abstract: A method of manipulating a living cell is disclosed. The method comprises, directing a pulsed optical field to at least one conductive nanoparticle present in the vicinity of the cell, so as to generate cavitations at or near the conductive nanoparticle at sufficient amount to effect at least one cell modification selected from the group consisting of cell-damage and cell-fusion.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Dvir Yelin, Limor Minai, Daniella Yeheskely-Hayon
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Patent number: 10994260Abstract: Provided herein is a superabsorbent polyHIPE composition-of-matter comprising a majority of ionizable pendant groups, capable of absorbing up to 300-fold by mass water while exhibiting a notable mechanical strength in both the dry and wet form, as well as various uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Sebastijan Kovacic, Michael S. Silverstein
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Patent number: 10996959Abstract: A hybrid computer that comprises a sequential processor, a single instruction massively parallel (SIMD) processor, and shared memory module that is shared between the sequential processor and the SIMD processor.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.Inventors: Amir Morad, Leonid Yavits, Shahar Kvatinsky, Ran Ginosar
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Patent number: 10997125Abstract: A method of applying proof of lottery to select block forgers in a blockchain, comprising performing the following at a certain one of a plurality of computing nodes connected to a blockchain network: (1) transmitting one or more of a plurality of participation transactions submitted by at least some of the plurality of computing nodes for participating in selection process conducted to select forgers from the plurality of computing nodes to forge blocks to be added to the blockchain; (2) determining a respective forger, during each selection process, by applying a selection function to an outcome of a hash function and a plurality of participation transactions extracted from a first subset of blocks preceding the respective block, the hash function is applied to a second subset of blocks preceding the respective block; and (3) forging the respective block in case the certain computing node is selected as the respective forger.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventor: Oded Shmueli
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Patent number: 10989800Abstract: A tracking system, comprising: multiple beacons, each associated with a different cyclic equivalence class of code-word length n, and each configured to broadcast a bit-stream comprising a repeating code-word, where the code-word belongs to the associated cyclic equivalence class; and a mobile tracking unit, comprising: a sensor, and a processor, wherein the sensor is configured to simultaneously detects at least some of the bit streams, and provide each sensed bit stream in real-time to the processor, wherein for each bit-stream received by the processor from the sensor, the processor is configured to identify the beacon that broadcasted the bit-stream using the first n received bits.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITEDInventors: Aaron Wetzler, Ron Kimmel
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Patent number: 10980220Abstract: Provided are physico-chemical processes for continuous and simultaneous water disinfection, oxidation of off flavor agents, minimization of trihalomethane (THM) production, reduction of nitrate and nitrite production and oxidation of ammonia so as to remove nitrogen species, in saline (for example, seawater) based aquaculture systems. The aquaculture system may be any handling/storage/transport system, for example, recirculated aquaculture systems (RAS), for fish or other aquaculture species.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITEDInventors: Ori Lahav, Raz Ben-Asher, Youri Gendel, Liat Birnhack
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Patent number: 10983059Abstract: An imaging apparatus (20) includes an interface (50) and a processor (30). The interface is configured to receive a sequence of images of an object (38) acquired at respective acquisition times, the object is labeled with fluorescent emitters. The images depict intensity fluctuations of emitters on an acquisition grid, and the intensity fluctuations being uncorrelated among the emitters and during an overall time over which the images in the sequence are acquired. The a processor is configured to calculate a temporal correlation function of the intensity fluctuations over the sequence of images, and to estimate locations of the emitters on a super-resolution grid having a higher resolution than the acquisition grid, by applying to the temporal correlation function a recovery process in which the locations on the super-resolution grid are assumed to be sparse or compressible in a predefined domain. The recovery process includes a sparse-recovery process or a regularized process.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.Inventors: Yonina Eldar, Mordechai Segev, Oren Solomon, Maor Mutzafi
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Patent number: 10973839Abstract: A new class of pseudo-trisaccharide aminoglycosides having an alkyl group at the 5? position, exhibiting efficient stop codon mutation readthrough activity, low cytotoxicity and high selectivity towards eukaryotic translation systems are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and uses thereof in the treatment of genetic disorders, as well as processes of preparing these aminoglycosides. The disclosed aminoglycosides can be represented by the general formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl and aryl; and all other variables and features are as described in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITEDInventors: Timor Baasov, Dana Atia-Glikin, Jeyakumar Kandasamy, Valery Belakhov
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Patent number: 10975122Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide comprising an epitope within the macrophage scavenger receptor B-I, a method of using the same, a nucleic acid encoding the same and an antibody that binds to the epitope.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITEDInventors: Nathan Karin, Gizi Wildbaum
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Publication number: 20210102138Abstract: This invention is directed to intramolecular crosslinked polymer chains, commonly known also as single-chain polymer nanoparticles (SCPNs), with high resistance to mechanochemical bond scission and to uses thereof in solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2017Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventor: Charles Eliezer DIESENDRUCK
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Patent number: 10970872Abstract: A method for estimating a plurality of camera, comprising using at least one processor executing a code for: extracting a plurality of image features of a plurality of landmarks from a plurality of images captured by at least one camera from at least one pose, the plurality of landmarks calibrated with respect to a certain coordinate system; identifying among the plurality of image features at least one image feature documented in at least some of the images; producing scale values of at least one common image feature by analyzing the at least some of the images; determining a plurality of estimated poses of the at least one camera with respect to the certain coordinate system by using the scale values in calculating a minimal re-projection error between the plurality of image features and a plurality of predicted image features; and outputting the plurality of estimated poses.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Tectmion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventor: Vadim Indelman
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Patent number: 10968427Abstract: A method of expanding and maintaining human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in an undifferentiated state by culturing the ESCs in a suspension culture under culturing conditions devoid of substrate adherence is provided. Also provided are a method of deriving ESC lines in the suspension culture and methods of generating lineage-specific cells from ESCs which were expanded in the suspension culture of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Teehnion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Michal Amit, Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor
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Patent number: 10970655Abstract: A method for planning a current medical procedure to be performed on a body part of a current patient includes obtaining a current first representation of a surface of the body part of the current patient, and either obtaining a representation of a desired result surface for the current medical procedure or selecting parameters for the current medical procedure. The method further includes retrieving at least one best matching record from a database of records of previously performed medical procedures of previous patients, based on a similarity criterion. Each record includes: parameters of a previously performed procedure of the previously performed medical procedures, a first representation of the body part of the previous patient prior to performance of the previously performed procedure, and a second representation of a body part of the previous patient after the performance of the previously performed procedure.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTDInventors: Ron Kimmel, Michael Bronstein, Alexander Bronstein, Eitan Zeiler
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Patent number: 10963041Abstract: A system comprising: a camera configured to capture one or more images of a user's hand; and a computer configured to: receive the one or more captured images, apply a mapping function to the received one or more images, thereby yielding one or more coordinates associated with at least one feature of the user's hand, wherein the mapping function is derived from a set of labeled images that are produced by applying a machine learning algorithm to training data which comprises images of a trainer's hand, wherein the images are labeled with coordinates obtained from multiple magnetic sensors attached to the trainer's hand.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITEDInventors: Aaron Wetzler, Ron Kimmel
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Patent number: 10962436Abstract: A system for converting an input oscillation having an input frequency into an output oscillation having an output frequency is disclosed. The system comprises: a controller configured for receiving the input oscillation and responsively generating a multi-component drive signal. A frequency of at least one component of the drive signal is other than two times the input frequency. In some embodiments, a frequency of another component of the drive signal equals about two times the output frequency. The system also comprises an oscillator for generating pump oscillations responsively to the drive signal and applying parametric excitation to the input oscillation at the pump oscillations.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Izhak Bucher, Amit Dolev