Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 11327260
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable having at least one optical fiber, a cable jacket and a foam layer. The cable jacket includes an inner surface and an outer surface in which the outer surface is an outermost surface of the optical fiber cable. The inner surface is disposed around the at least one optical fiber. The foam layer is disposed between the at least one optical fiber and the cable jacket. The foam layer is made of an extruded product of at least one thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), a chemical foaming agent, and a crosslinking agent. The foam layer has a closed-cell morphology having pores with an average effective circle diameter of less than 100 ?m. Further, the foam layer has a compression modulus of less than 1 MPa when measured at 50% strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anne Germaine Bringuier, Xiaole Cheng
  • Patent number: 11325058
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods to rejuvenate spent filtration media are described. The apparatuses include a filtration unit to filter a liquid having solids that need to be removed and a rejuvenation unit to heat the spent filtration media that has reduced filtering capacity. The methods include using the apparatus to rejuvenate spent filtration media by removing solids deposited on the filtration media to allow its repeated reuse rather than being discarded and replaced with new filtration media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Clinton D. Church, Ray B. Bryant, Peter J. Kleinman, Alexander Nikolov Hristov
  • Patent number: 11325904
    Abstract: In various embodiments, compositions and methods are provided for treatment and/or prevention of amyloidogenic diseases. In certain embodiments, the methods entail administering an effective amount of a tropinol ester to a subject in need thereof for prophylactic or therapeutic effect. The methods are particularly useful for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In certain embodiments, methods of reducing the risk, lessening the severity, or delaying the progression or onset of a disease characterized by beta-amyloid deposits in the brain of a mammal are also provided. In certain embodiments, methods of directly or indirectly inhibiting the C-terminal cleavage of APP resulting in the formation of APP-C31 peptide and APPneo (AP-P664) in a mammal are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING
    Inventors: Varghese John, Dale E. Bredesen
  • Patent number: 11325264
    Abstract: A robotic hand includes a baseplate, a finger having multiple phalanges that are rotatably coupled to one another, a first of the phalanges having a first end rotatably coupled to the baseplate and a second end and a second of the phalanges rotatably coupled to the second end about an axis of rotation, an actuating mechanism mounted on the baseplate, the actuating mechanism configured to actuate rotation of the plurality of phalanges, and a tendon having opposite ends that are respectively attached to the second of the phalanges and the baseplate. The second of the phalanges has an engagement portion arranged around the axis of rotation, and the tendon is wrapped around a portion of the engagement portion to generate a force acting on the second end of the first of the phalanges, causing the first of the phalanges to rotate from a flexed state to an extended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: UBTECH NORTH AMERICA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER CORP, UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Won Suk You, Chengkun Zhang, Huan Tan, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 11326138
    Abstract: Provided herein is a tissue culture device and a method of forming a tissue culture device. The tissue culture device includes a microfluidic layer including at least one hydrophobic microchannel and a reservoir portion over the at least one hydrophobic microchannel, the reservoir portion including an opening aligned with the at least one hydrophobic microchannel. The method of forming a tissue culture device includes providing a microfluidic layer mold, a reservoir layer mold, and a removable lid mold, filling each of the molds with a device material, curing the device material within the molds, removing the cured device material from the molds to provide a microfluidic layer, a reservoir layer, and a removable lid, and bonding the microfluidic layer to the reservoir layer. A method of culturing tissue with the tissue culture device is also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Christine Trinkle, Ren Xu, Soroosh Torabi
  • Patent number: 11328419
    Abstract: A portable biological microscopic image analysis system is suitable for analyzing a sample on a slide in real time, and the sample comes from an animal. The portable biological microscopic image analysis system includes a handheld electronic device and a microscope kit; the handheld electronic device includes an image capture unit, an image analysis module electrically connected to the image capture unit, and a real-time state analysis module electrically connected to the image analysis module; the microscope kit is detachably mounted on the handheld electronic device; wherein the image capture unit is used to obtain an image related to the sample through the microscope kit, the image analysis module is used to obtain cell information corresponding to the animal according to the image, and the real-time state analysis module is used to obtain state information corresponding to the animal according to the cell information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Chih-Hsien Chiu, Chia-Yung Jui, Shu-Hui Hung, Peggy Joy Lu
  • Patent number: 11329169
    Abstract: A multi-negative differential transconductance device includes a substrate conductive portion; a gate insulating layer formed by being laminated on the substrate conductive portion; a first semiconductor, a second semiconductor, and a third semiconductor which have different threshold voltages and are formed to be horizontally connected in series on the gate insulating layer; and an electrode formed at both ends of the first semiconductor and the third semiconductor. The multi-negative differential transconductance device forms a junction of three or more semiconductor materials in one device to have a plurality of peaks and valleys so that the multi-negative differential transconductance device is utilized to implement a multi-valued logic circuit which is capable of representing four or more logical states without significantly increasing an area of the negative differential transconductance device which occupies the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Jin-Hong Park, Jae-Woong Choi, Kwan-Ho Kim, Maksim Andreev
  • Patent number: 11325112
    Abstract: Nanocages are formed by etching nanocubes. The nanocubes are added to an aqueous system having an amphiphilic lipid dissolved in an organic solvent (e.g. a hydrophobic alcohol) to form reverse micelles. As the water evaporates the micelles shrink as etching of the flat surface of the nanocubes occurs. In this fashion hollow nanocages are produced. In one embodiment, the nanocage is covalently attached to a polymer shell (e.g. a dextran shell).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsui, Zengyan Wei, Justin Fang
  • Patent number: 11328521
    Abstract: A map construction method, an electronic device and a readable storage medium are disclosed. The map construction method includes: obtaining three-dimensional point cloud data corresponding to observed objects in current target frame data, the observed objects including a feature object and a non-feature object; obtaining a feature parameter corresponding to the feature object based on three-dimensional point cloud data corresponding to the feature object, the feature parameter being used to indicate a position and a size of the feature object; and adjusting a point cloud density of three-dimensional point cloud data corresponding to the non-feature object to a preset value, to construct a map according to the feature parameter and the three-dimensional point cloud data of which the point cloud density is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Horizon Robotics Technology Research and Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Siyu Zeng, Degang Yang
  • Patent number: 11325494
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for determining a target charging level of a battery pack for a drive route are disclosed. A method includes receiving data pertaining to cells within a battery pack installed in each vehicle of a fleet of vehicles, the data received from at least one of each vehicle in the fleet of vehicles, providing the data to a machine learning server, directing the machine learning server to generate a predictive model, the predictive model based on machine learning of the data, receiving a vehicle route request from the vehicle, the vehicle route request corresponding to the drive route, estimating travel conditions of the vehicle based on the route request, determining a temperature of the battery pack in the vehicle, determining a target battery charging level based on the predictive model, the travel conditions, and the temperature, and providing the target battery charging level to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Muratahan Aykol, Patrick K. Herring, Abraham Anapolsky
  • Patent number: 11326840
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of flexibly cooling thermal loads by providing a thermal energy storage cooling system for burst mode cooling and a vapor compression system for additional and ancillary cooling to efficiently maintain and cool a thermal load such as from a directed energy weapon system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Rocky Research
    Inventors: Kaveh Khalili, Uwe Rockenfeller
  • Patent number: 11327449
    Abstract: A predictive controller controls a system under uncertainty subject to constraints on state and control variables of the system. At each control step, the predictive controller solves an inequality constrained nonlinear dynamic optimization problem including probabilistic chance constraints representing the uncertainty to produce a control command, and controls an operation of the system using the control command. The predictive controller solves the dynamic optimization problem based on a two-level optimization that alternates, until a termination condition is met, propagation of covariance matrices of the probabilistic chance constraints within the prediction horizon for fixed values of the state and control variables with optimization of the state and control variables within the prediction horizon for fixed values of the covariance matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Rien Quirynen, Xuhui Feng, Stefano Di Cairano
  • Patent number: 11327114
    Abstract: The fully-automatic closed-loop detection method includes: comparing a SCD file of a to-be-tested substation with a device-type data template file, so as to determine whether configuration information about the to-be-tested substation is correct; when the configuration information about the to-be-tested substation is correct, parsing the SCD file of the to-be-tested substation and generating a SSD topological diagram of the to-be-tested substation; and acquiring a testing item from a predetermined testing item library in accordance with the SSD topological diagram of the to-be-tested substation, generating a testing scheme for the to-be-tested substation, performing a testing operation and outputting a testing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: STATE GRID HEBEI ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA, WUHAN KEMOV ELECTRIC CO., LTD, STATE GRID HEBEI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CO., LT D
    Inventors: Peng Luo, Hui Fan, Jingchao Yang, Xiaoguang Hao, Yuhao Zhao, Lei He, Qun Rao
  • Patent number: 11329185
    Abstract: An embodiment method of manufacturing an avalanche diode includes forming a first trench in a substrate material, filling the first trench with a first material that comprises a dopant, and causing the dopant to diffuse from the first trench to form part of a PN junction. An avalanche diode array can be formed to include a number of the avalanche diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) LIMITED
    Inventor: Laurence Stark
  • Patent number: 11328946
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of the ESD protection device includes the following steps. A surface treatment is performed on the substrate. A link layer is formed on the substrate after the surface treatment, wherein a material of the link layer includes a metal material. A progressive layer is formed on the link layer, wherein a material of the progressive layer includes a non-stoichiometric metal oxide material, and an oxygen concentration in the non-stoichiometric metal oxide material is increased gradually away from the substrate in a thickness direction of the progressive layer. A composite layer is formed on the progressive layer, wherein the composite layer includes a stoichiometric metal oxide material and a non-stoichiometric metal oxide material, and a ratio of the non-stoichiometric metal oxide material and the stoichiometric metal oxide material in the composite layer may make a sheet resistance value of the composite layer 1×107 to 1×108 ?/sq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ding-Shiang Wang, Jia-Jen Chang, Ming-Sheng Leu, Tai-Sheng Chen, Chin-Te Shih
  • Patent number: 11329010
    Abstract: An anti-tamper layer is applied to a blank wafer. The layered wafer is then diced into shield dies. A shield die is oxide-to-oxide bonded to the top of an active die such that removing the shield die will damage the active die. The shield die may be sized and positioned such that wirebond pads along one or more edges of the active die remain exposed. The exposed wirebond pads may be used to electrically connect, via wirebonds, the active die to a substrate. A second shield die may be attached to the bottom of the active die to help protect against the use of bottom-to-top delayering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Cryptography Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott C. Best, Ming Li, Gary B. Bronner, Mark Evan Marson
  • Patent number: 11326440
    Abstract: An instrumented coupling for pipe joints is described herein. The instrumented coupling includes a first threaded end configured to thread to a first pipe joint and a second threaded end configured to thread to a second pipe joint. The instrumented coupling also includes a sensor configured to obtain a measurement of a parameter of a well and a communications device configured to communicate to a receiving device outside of the well. The instrumented coupling further includes a processor configured to execute instructions in a data store. The instructions direct the processor to read the measurement from the sensor, compare the measurement from the sensor to a preset limit, and generate a signal within the communications device based, at least in part, on the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Spivey, Kevin H. Searles, Eric R. Grueschow
  • Patent number: 11326318
    Abstract: Provided is a lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris, which is provided at a river bank. The lateral water intake structure includes: a diversion canal, a guiding wall structure, a shaft-shaped water intaking space, and a trash rack. The lateral water intake structure functions to prevent the floating debris from gathering at the surface of the trash rack and reduce a risk that the trash rack is damaged by water pressure and hitting of the floating debris. Meanwhile, by using a water flow in the watercourse to continuously wash the floating debris near the trash rack, maintenance costs of removing the floating debris at the trash rack manually or mechanically can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dangwei Wang, Anjun Deng, Ye Yin, Qingchao Guo, Xinlei Guo, Tianjie Lei, Hantao Wang, Cuihua Chen, Hongling Shi, Qin Lu
  • Patent number: 11330387
    Abstract: An audio signal controlling method includes identifying whether an audio zooming effect is used for at least one audio object present in a virtual reality (VR) through an audio zooming effect field included in metadata, and controlling an audio signal corresponding to the audio object based on a preset method when the audio zooming effect is identified as being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Dae Young Jang, Jae-hyoun Yoo, Yong Ju Lee, Tae Jin Lee, Sang Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11329835
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for authenticating an IoT device. The method, performed by the IoT device authentication apparatus, includes transmitting, by the IoT device authentication apparatus, a random number to the IoT device and encrypting, by the IoT device authentication apparatus, the random number using a previously registered first white-box cryptography value through a white-box cryptography method; generating, by the IoT device, a first device response value from a previously registered first device challenge value using a Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) and encrypting, by the IoT device, the random number, received from the IoT device authentication apparatus, using the first device response value; and performing, by the IoT device authentication apparatus, authentication of the IoT device by checking whether the random number encrypted using the white-box cryptography method matches the random number encrypted using the PUF, which is received from the IoT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byoung-Koo Kim, Seung-Yong Yoon, You-Sung Kang, Doo-Ho Choi, Ik-Kyun Kim, Tae-Sung Kim, Mi-Kyung Oh, Sang-Jae Lee