Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 11427834
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to use of a lectin receptor-like kinase LecRK-IX.1 as a protein for regulating insect resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana. A. thaliana with high resistance to Bemisia tabaci can be cultivated by reducing the expression of, or knocking out, an encoding gene of the protein. Therefore, Arabidopsis thaliana with the high-level resistance to Bemisia tabaci can be cultivated. The gene and its encoded protein can be applied to plant genetic improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, GUANGDONG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Yifeng Li, Zhenfei Zhang, Chun Chen, Longyu Yuan
  • Patent number: 11430218
    Abstract: A bird's eye view feature map, augmented with semantic information, can be used to detect an object in an environment. A point cloud data set augmented with the semantic information that is associated with identities of classes of objects can be obtained. Features can be extracted from the point cloud data set. Based on the features, an initial bird's eye view feature map can be produced. Because operations performed on the point cloud data set to extract the features or to produce the initial bird's eye view feature map can have an effect of diminishing an ability to distinguish the semantic information in the initial bird's eye view feature map, the initial bird's eye view feature map can be augmented with the semantic information to produce an augmented bird's eye view feature map. Based on the augmented bird's eye view feature map, the object in the environment can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Li, Rares A. Ambrus, Vitor Guizilini, Adrien David Gaidon, Jia-En Pan
  • Patent number: 11431020
    Abstract: Disclosed is a black phosphorus-polymer composite solid electrolyte including a polymer network structure in which nanofibers made of a second polymer material are connected to each other; a first polymer material received in the polymer network structure and having ionic conductivity; black phosphorus dispersed in the first polymer material, wherein the black phosphorus has an oxygen containing functional group; and a lithium salt compound contained in the first polymer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Ho Seok Park, Harpalsinh Hardevsinh Rana, Jeong Hee Park, Duk Joon Kim, Kang-Ho Shin
  • Patent number: 11427773
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalytic cracking process for producing isobutane and/or light aromatics in high yield, comprising the steps of: a) providing a catalytic cracking feedstock oil having a polycyclic naphthene content of greater than about 25 wt %; b) subjecting the catalytic cracking feedstock oil to a first catalytic cracking reaction and a second catalytic cracking reaction sequentially under different reaction conditions to obtain a catalytic cracking product; c) separating the resulting catalytic cracking product to obtain a liquefied gas fraction comprising isobutane and a gasoline fraction comprising light aromatics; and d) optionally, recovering isobutane from the liquefied gas fraction and/or recovering light aromatics from the gasoline fraction. The process can enable the production of isobutane and/or light aromatics in high yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC
    Inventors: Youhao Xu, Xin Wang, Yuying Zhang, Tao Liu, Xuhui Bai, Lishun Dai, Zhigang Zhang, Jialin Liang, Nan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11431040
    Abstract: A battery having a thermal protection arrangement is disclosed which includes a housing, a first electrode, a second electrode, a polymer porous separator positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electrolyte interspersed between the first electrode, the second electrode, and the polymer porous separator, at least one sensor holder having an electrode side and a housing side, with at least one cavity provided on the electrode side, the at least one sensor holder in firm contact with the first electrode or the second electrode, and at least one temperature sensor placed in the at least one cavity of the at least one sensor holder, the at least one cavity sized such that the outer surface of the temperature sensor being flush with remaining surface of the at least one sensor holder, and wherein the at least one temperature sensor has no contact with the polymer porous separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Vikas Tomar, Bing Li, Vilas G. Pol, Ryan Andrew Adams, Mihit Hitendra Parekh
  • Patent number: 11430997
    Abstract: A variety of systems, methods and compositions are disclosed, including, in one method for recycling a spent alkaline battery comprising: dissolving insoluble metal ions in aqueous solution thereby producing pregnant leach solution; extracting zinc sulfate from aqueous solution thereby producing zinc sulfate product and raffinate solution comprising manganese sulfate and potassium sulfate; separating manganese hydroxide from raffinate solution thereby producing manganese sulfate product and aqueous potassium sulfate solution; crystallizing aqueous potassium sulfate solution to produce solid potassium sulfate product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Battery Reclamation Research Associates LLC
    Inventor: Dennis L. Howe
  • Patent number: 11431631
    Abstract: A multi-access edge computing device configured to be connected to first and second networks with different radio access technologies comprises a routing module, a comparison module and a control module. The control module performs steps when determining a user device connected to the first network intends to switch to the second network, wherein the steps comprise: according to identity information of the user device, looking up a target address in a comparison table in the comparison module, notifying the routing module to temporarily store a data packet corresponding to the user device and the first network, notifying the user device to release an original used address on the first network interface and then assigning the target address identical to the original used address to the second network interface of the user device, and transmitting the temporarily stored data packet to the second network interface of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: An-Dee Lin
  • Patent number: 11428792
    Abstract: A ToF sensor includes an array of pixels having first and second subsets of pixels, first and second pluralities of TDCs, a routing bus having first and second pluralities of bus drivers, and a controller configured to: when the first subset of pixels is active and the second subset of pixels is not active, control the first plurality of bus drivers to route events from half of the pixels of the first subset to the first plurality of TDCs and control the first and second pluralities of bus drivers to route events from the other half of the pixels of the first subset to the second plurality of TDCs, and when the first subset of pixels is not active and the second subset of pixels is active, control the first plurality of bus drivers to route events from the second subset of pixels to the first plurality of TDCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
    Inventors: Neale Dutton, John Kevin Moore
  • Patent number: 11427934
    Abstract: A method includes applying pressure to a liquid feed of nanofiber material at a first nozzle of an array of nozzles having a first electrode voltage applied to a first electrode within an array of nozzles to form a first enlarged meniscus having a nanofiber attached, applying pressure to the liquid feed at a second nozzle having a second electrode voltage applied to a second electrode and adjacent the first nozzle within the array to form a second enlarged meniscus, increasing the second electrode voltage applied to the second electrode to a voltage level equal to voltage applied to the first electrode when the first and second enlarged menisci meet and form a combined meniscus with the nanofiber attached, decreasing the first electrode voltage to zero, and decreasing pressure on the liquid feed at the first nozzle to separate the first enlarged meniscus at the first nozzle from the second enlarged meniscus at the second nozzle having the nanofiber attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventor: David Mathew Johnson
  • Patent number: 11427802
    Abstract: The invention relates to medicine and biology, particularly to the means for artificial manufacturing of biological tissues and organs, and can be used in biotechnology, bioengineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and in the 3D-printing of biological tissues and organs. Technical character of the invention consists in the development of a method of printing living tissues and organs as well as of the apparatus for its implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PRIVATE INSTITUTION LABORATORY FOR BIOTECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH “3D BIOPRINTING SOLUTIONS”
    Inventors: Vladimir Alexandrovich Mironov, Yusef Dzhordzhevich Khesuani, Alexandr Nikolaevich Mitryashkin, Irina Sergeevna Gladkaya, Alexandr Yurievich Ostrovsky, Sergei Vladimirovich Novoselov
  • Patent number: 11426362
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an oral formulation containing one or more cannabinoids. Preferably one or more cannabinoids dissolved in a solvent system consisting essentially of: a non-ionic surfactant and water together with other components which ensure the cannabinoids stability and the formulations palatability. Furthermore, the cannabinoid may be selected from one or more of cannabichromene (CBC), cannabichromenic acid (CBCV), cannabidiol (CBD), cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), cannabidivarin (CBDV), cannabigerol (CBG), cannabigerol propyl variant (CBGV), cannabicyclol (CBL), cannabinol (CBN), cannabinol propyl variant (CBNV), cannabitriol (CBO), tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA), tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) and tetrahydrocannabivarinic acid (THCVA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GW Research Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Wright, Jitinder Wilkhu
  • Patent number: 11429409
    Abstract: A software emulation system for a gas delivery system of a substrate processing system includes an input/output bus and an emulator bus. An input/output bus adapter includes a switch configured to route data packets from a system controller for the substrate processing system to one of the input/output bus and the emulator bus. A gas delivery system emulator in communication with the emulator bus is configured to receive the data packets from the input/output bus adapter via the emulator bus and perform software-based emulation of a plurality of hardware components of the gas delivery system that are interconnected. The plurality of hardware components are modelled using one or more software models and include a gas source and at least one of a valve and a mass flow controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Bostjan Pust, Tom Trinh, Chung-Ho Huang
  • Patent number: 11431894
    Abstract: One embodiment can include a system for providing an image-capturing recommendation. During operation the system receives, from a mobile computing device, one or more images. The one or more images are captured by one or more cameras associated with the mobile computing device. The system analyzes the received images to obtain image-capturing conditions for capturing images of a target within a physical space; determines, based on the obtained image-capturing conditions and a predetermined image-quality requirement, one or more image-capturing settings; and recommends the determined one or more image-capturing settings to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew A. Shreve, Raja Bala, Jeyasri Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11428883
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes a cable jacket having an inner surface and an outer surface in which the inner surface defines a central bore along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable and the outer surface defines the outermost extent of the cable. One or more embodiments of the cables described herein have improved bending characteristics and performances, respond positively to thermal cycling tests, provide improved anti-buckling characteristics, and have a reduced production cost compared to other known cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dorota Lagwa, Tomasz Stolarczyk
  • Patent number: 11428079
    Abstract: A method and systems for sand control in wells are described in examples. An example uses a prepack screen assembly comprising an inner screen comprising openings having an inner size and an outer screen comprising openings having an outer size. Packing material is disposed between the inner screen and the outer screen comprising pores with a pore size that is selected based, at least in part, on the outer size, the inner size, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Charles S. Yeh, Timothy K. Ellison, Tracy J. Moffett, Michael D. Barry, Andy J. Veselka, Elizabeth L. Templeton-Barrett
  • Patent number: 11430084
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, with a computing device, an image, identifying one or more salient features in the image, and generating a saliency map of the image including the one or more salient features. The method further includes sampling the image based on the saliency map such that the one or more salient features are sampled at a first density of sampling and at least one portion of the image other than the one or more salient features are sampled at a second density of sampling, where the first density of sampling is greater than the second density of sampling, and storing the sampled image in a non-transitory computer readable memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Simon A. I. Stent, Adrià Recasens, Antonio Torralba, Petr Kellnhofer, Wojciech Matusik
  • Patent number: 11431820
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and system for implementing inter-process communications. The method includes sending, by a first application, a first message to a forwarding application according to a first preset inter-process communication mode. The first message includes transmission data and identification information of a second application; obtaining, by the forwarding application, the second application in response to the first message; and sending, by the forwarding application, the transmission data to the second application according to a second preset inter-process communication mode of the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ping-Hsien Chi, Chuan-Sheng Lin, Yu-Hsuan Chi, Yi-Wen Li, Yun-Chen Tsai
  • Patent number: 11426233
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to treating diseased tissue with ablation therapy. In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises a catheter having an elongate body extending between a proximal end and a distal end. The apparatus further includes a balloon structure arranged proximal to the distal end of the catheter, wherein the balloon structure has a first portion with a first permeability and a second portion with a second permeability such that the first permeability is different than the second permeability. In addition, the apparatus includes a first electrode arranged on or within the balloon structure and configured to: transmit current through the first portion, receive current transmitted through the first portion or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Sarah M. Gruba, James P. Rohl, Samuel J. Asirvatham, Suraj Kapa, Chance M. Witt, Deepak Padmanabhan, Christopher V. DeSimone
  • Patent number: 11431971
    Abstract: A method and an image processing apparatus for video coding are provided. The method is adapted to the image processing apparatus and includes following steps. A current coding unit is received, and filter selection is performed according to a size of the current coding unit. At least one selected filter is used to perform a filtering operation on a plurality of reference boundaries of the current coding unit to generate a plurality of filtering reference values. An interpolation operation is performed on the current coding unit according to the filtering reference values to generate a plurality of interpolated prediction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang-Hao Yau, Bing-Jung Fuh, Ching-Chieh Lin
  • Patent number: 11425863
    Abstract: Yield monitoring systems for round baling machines and methods that can provide weight estimations for round bales at the time of formation are described. Balers can include those that incorporate hydraulically actuated bale kicking or pushing assemblies as well as those that incorporate spring-loaded off ramps. Farm implements including baling machines and cotton module builders are encompassed. The system includes a sensor that can ascertain a physical parameter associated with ejection of a round bale from the farm implement. Physical parameters as may be ascertained can include pressures, velocities, accelerations, etc. associated with bale ejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Clemson University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kendall R. Kirk, H. Guy Ramsey, IV, Perry J. Loftis