Patents Assigned to Research Organisation
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Publication number: 20220373509Abstract: The invention provides a multi-layered electrode for sensing pH, the electrode comprising: a sensing layer on a substrate, the sensing layer comprising at least one proton-sensitive metal oxide, wherein a pH-dependent potential of the multi-layered electrode is measurable via an electrically conductive connection to the sensing layer; a proton-permeable layer covering at least a portion of the sensing layer, the proton-permeable layer comprising at least one electrically insulating proton-conductive metal oxide; and a carbonaceous layer on the proton-permeable layer, the carbonaceous layer comprising amorphous carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Mikko Kalevi VEPSÄLÄINEN, Abraham Eliahu BENDAVID
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Patent number: 11506053Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for controlling a mining machine within an underground mine. A rotatable laser source sends laser light and return light sensor receives reflected laser light and provides an indication of distance and return light intensity at multiple different rotation angles. A co-ordinate reference point comprises a pattern of varying reflectivity and provides at least a 2D co-ordinate position. A processor determines an absolute co-ordinate position in space of the mining machine as the mining machine moves through the underground mine. The processor collects intensity values of reflected laser light for multiple respective rotation angles and detects the pattern of the reference point in the multiple intensity values of reflected laser light, and determines the absolute co-ordinate position in space of the mining machine based on spatial information of the detected pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Mark Dunn, Peter Reid, Jeremy Thompson, Camrin Peacock, Kevin Saric
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Publication number: 20220364014Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing industrial products from plant lipids, particularly from vegetative parts of plants. In particular, the present invention provides oil products such as biodiesel and synthetic diesel and processes for producing these, as well as plants having an increased level of one or more non-polar lipids such as triacylglycerols and an increased total non-polar lipid content. In one particular embodiment, the present invention relates to combinations of modifications in two or more of lipid handling enzymes, oil body proteins, decreased lipid catabolic enzymes and/or transcription factors regulating lipid biosynthesis to increase the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content and/or mono-unsaturated fatty acid content in plants or any part thereof. In an embodiment, the present invention relates to a process for extracting lipids.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Thomas VANHERCKE, James Robertson PETRIE, Anna EL TAHCHY, Surinder Pal SINGH, Kyle REYNOLDS, Qing LIU, Benjamin Aldo LEITA
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Publication number: 20220356414Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty LtdInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20220356482Abstract: The present disclosure relates to plants and plant parts having an altered level of Flower Sex (FSL) polypeptide activity and methods of controlling plant flower sex phenotype based on altered FSL polypeptide activity and/or FSL locus genotype. Also provided are novel plants which produced stenospermocarpic and/or parthenocarpic seedless fruit, and methods of producing same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Mark THOMAS, Patricia CORENA, Lekha SREEKANTAN, Donald MACKENZIE, Matthew SMITH
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Patent number: 11486956Abstract: An object monitoring system including a plurality of location beacons, each location beacon being configured to generate a location broadcast message indicative of a beacon location and a tag associated with a respective object in use. The includes a tag memory configured to store object rules, a tag transceiver configured to transmit or receive messages and a tag processing device configured to determine context data at least partially indicative of a tag context by at least one of determining a tag location in accordance with at least one location broadcast message received via the tag transceiver from at least one of a plurality of location beacons and using stored context data, use the object rules and the context data to identify a trigger event, determine an action associated with the trigger event and cause the action to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Philip Juan Valencia, Nicholas Alexander Heaney
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Patent number: 11479691Abstract: A process for preparing a polymeric membrane for materials used in crop production comprising: a) providing an aqueous dispersion of a polyurethane or polyurethane-urea elastomer comprising segments formed from the copolymer segment of Formula I A1-[Y1]n-L-[Y2]q-A2??Formula I wherein A1 is an end capping group; A2 is hydrogen or an end capping group; each [Y1]n and [Y2]q is independently selected from a polyether macrodiol, polycarbonate macrodiol, polyester macrodiol, and wherein at least one of [Y1]n and [Y2]q is a polyester macrodiol; L is a divalent linking compound independently selected from urethane, urea, carbonate, ester, and phosphonate; n is an integer of 2 to 50; q is an integer of 2 to 50; and b) spraying the aqueous dispersion onto materials to be used in crop production to form a polymeric membrane on the materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventor: Raju Adhikari
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Publication number: 20220332503Abstract: A system for moving an object within an environment, wherein the system includes at least one modular wheel configured to move the object. The modular wheel includes a body configured to be attached to the object, a wheel, a drive configured to rotate the wheel and a controller configured to control the drive. One or more processing devices configured are provided to receive an image stream including a plurality of captured images from each of a plurality of imaging devices, the plurality of imaging devices being configured to capture images of the object within the environment, analyse the images to determine an object location within the environment, generate control instructions at least in part using the determined object location and provide the control instructions to the controller, the controller being responsive to the control instructions to control the drive and thereby move the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Paul FLICK, Nic PANITZ, Peter DEAN, Marc ELMOUTTIE, Sisi LIANG, Ryan STEINDL, Troy CORDIE, Tirtha BANDYOPADHYAY
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Patent number: 11476795Abstract: A method for determining a level of solar radiation at a point of interest (POI). Multiple sky images are captured by a distributed network of digital cameras. Sun location parameters are determined. A three-dimensional (3D) sky model is generated based on the sky images. Generating the 3D sky model includes generating 3D object data based on the sky images to model one or more objects in a region of sky, and generating position data to model a position of the one or more objects in the region of sky. A level of solar radiation at the POI is determined based on the position data and 3D object data of the 3D sky model and the sun location parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Sam West, Ryan Lagerstrom, Changming Sun, Rongxin Li, Joel Wong
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Patent number: 11471857Abstract: An apparatus for capturing a water content from a water containing gas, the apparatus comprising: a housing having an inlet into which the water containing gas can flow; a water adsorbent enclosed within the housing, the water adsorbent comprising at least one water adsorbent metal organic framework composite capable of adsorbing a water content from the water containing gas, the metal organic framework composite comprising: at least 50 wt % water adsorbent metal organic framework; from 0.2 to 10 wt % magnetic particles having a mean particle diameter of less than 200 nm; and at least 0.1 wt % hydrophilic binder comprising a hydrophilic cellulose derivative; and a water desorption arrangement in contact with and/or surrounding the water adsorbent, the water desorption arrangement comprising an alternating current (AC) magnetic field generator located within and/or around the water adsorbent configured to apply an AC magnetic field to the water adsorbent.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Xavier Mulet, Kristina Konstas, Aaron Thornton, Matthias Hesselmann, Stefan Herrmann
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Patent number: 11468684Abstract: A system for situational awareness monitoring within an environment, wherein the system includes one or more processing devices configured to receive an image stream including a plurality of captured images from each of a plurality of imaging devices, the plurality of imaging devices being configured to capture images of objects within the environment and at least some of the imaging devices being positioned within the environment to have at least partially overlapping fields of view, identify overlapping images in the different image streams, the overlapping images being images captured by imaging devices having overlapping fields of view, analyse the overlapping images to determine object locations within the environment, analyse changes in the object locations over time to determine object movements within the environment, compare the object movements to situational awareness rules and use results of the comparison to identify situational awareness events.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Paul Damien Flick, Nicholas James Panitz, Peter John Dean, Marc Karim Elmouttie, Gregoire Krahenbuhl, Sisi Liang
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Patent number: 11452272Abstract: The present invention relates to rice grain with thickened aleurone. Also provided is a rice plant comprising at least one genetic variation which reduces the activity of at least one ROS1a gene in the plant. Grain of the invention, or aleurone therefrom, has improved nutritional properties, and hence is particularly useful for human and animal feed products.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Ronald Chun Wai Yu, Crispin Alexander Howitt, Philip John Larkin, Chun-Ming Liu, Xiao-Ba Wu, Jinxin Liu
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Publication number: 20220295790Abstract: The present invention relates to a synergistic fungicidal composition comprising a strobilurin based compound, validamycin and a compound A compound selected from the group comprising thifluzamide, hexaconazole, propiconazole, tricyclazole and difenoconazole. The composition of the present invention decreases application rates of each of the active ingredients and is non-phytotoxic.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicants: JDM SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ORGANISATION PRIVATE LIMITED, SUMISHO AGRO INDIA PVT. LTD.Inventors: Parikshit MUNDHRA, Jitendra MOHAN
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Publication number: 20220294005Abstract: The present application provides a process for preparing a composite anode for a lithium ion cell comprising the steps of: (i) forming an anode slurry in a planetary mixing machine by mixing active materials, a binder and a solvent; (ii) coating the slurry over a copper foil substrate in a coating machine at a speed of 0.3-1.0 m/min; and (iii) calendering of the anode in a calendering machine at a temperature of 50-150° C. The lithium ion cell with the anode disclosed in this invention and a cathode exhibited a capacity retention of >80% at 100% depth-of-discharge at C/2-1C charge-discharge rate when tested for 2000 cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Aravamuthan S, TD MERCY, John BIBIN
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Publication number: 20220286291Abstract: A device (102) for generating and storing a cryptographic key pair is disclosed. The device comprises a non-persistent memory unit (116) and a processor (114). The processor (114) is configured to receive a plurality of seeds from a respective plurality of users and combine the seeds to define a composite seed. The processor (114) is further configured to generate the key pair, comprising a public key and a private key (104), using the composite seed and a deterministic key generation method, and to record the private key (104) in the non-persistent memory unit (116).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Adnene GUABTNI, Hugo O'CONNOR, Ingo WEBER
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Publication number: 20220275299Abstract: A fuel formulation comprising a sugar and ammonia solution, wherein the sugar and ammonia are present in a combined amount of greater than 70 percent by weight of the fuel formulation, and wherein the sugar comprises fructose, glucose, sucrose or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventor: Louis James WIBBERLEY
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Publication number: 20220268706Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for detecting analytes in a sample. The methods may also be used to determine the amount of analyte in the sample. The present invention also relates to antibody or antibody-like molecules and labelled antigens for use in these methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Judith SCOBLE, Charlotte WILLIAMS, Stewart NUTTALL, Regina SURJADI, Helen DACRES, Stephen TROWELL
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Patent number: 11421246Abstract: The present invention relates to new transporter polypeptides, and genes encoding therefor, which can be used to confer upon a plant resistance to one or more biotrophic fungal pathogens.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Evans Lagudah, John Wallace Moore
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Patent number: 11420491Abstract: Plant scanning vehicles (10) including, but not limited to, plant scanning vehicles for use in field-based phenotyping. There is a central body (16); three or more legs (15) extending from the central body (16) to support a wheel (13) on each leg (15); wherein the three or more legs (15) are mounted to the central body (16) rotatably about a respective vertical axis (95) to allow adjustment of a track width W of the vehicle by rotating the legs wherein the legs are mechanically coupled to transmit rotation between the legs about their respective vertical axes and the central body (16) or the three or more legs (13) are configured to support a sensor (47) to scan plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Xavier Raymond Richard Sirault, Michael Salim, Peter Carl Kuffner, Jose Antonio Jimenez-Berni, Richard Sulman
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Patent number: D959514Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Yutong Zhu, Dayalan Gunasegaram, Saber Mostafavian