Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 11207989
    Abstract: Various examples are provided related to wireless charging of electric vehicles. In one example, a wireless charging system includes a transmitter pad including a primary coil supplied by a power source, and alignment control circuitry configured to determine an alignment condition of the transmitter pad with respect to a receiver pad of an electric vehicle. In another example, a wireless charging system includes a receiver pad including a secondary coil; and alignment processing circuitry configured to determine an alignment condition of the receiver pad with respect to a transmitter pad comprising a primary coil supplied by a power source. In another example, a method includes measuring output voltages of a plurality of auxiliary coils mounted on a secondary coil located over a primary coil of the wireless charging system and determining a lateral misalignment between the primary and secondary coils using the output voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Yabiao Gao, Aleff A. Oliveira, Tsz-Ho Tse
  • Patent number: 11210967
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a central executive training (CET) platform that targets central executive processes, rather than short term memory. Central executive deficits have been linked experimentally and developmentally with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and impairments. Unfortunately, substantial evidence indicates that conventional working memory training programs fail to improve these symptoms and impairments. This discrepancy may reflect insufficient targeting, as extant protocols focus on short term memory and do not adequately engage the specific central executive components linked with the disorder's behavioral and functional impairments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Florida State University Research Foundation, INC.
    Inventor: Michael J. Kofler
  • Patent number: 11207627
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a first screen, defining a first flow passageway, a second screen, defining a second flow passageway, and a third screen defining a third flow passageway. The second screen is positioned between the first screen and the third screen. The first flow passageway is aligned with the third flow passageway and the second flow passageway is offset from the first flow passageway and the third flow passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ashish Ranjan Kumar, Steven Schafrik, William Chad Wedding, Oscar Velasquez
  • Patent number: 11207651
    Abstract: A moving bed reactor is provided that can allow facilitate performing a reaction involving a three-phase flow under co-axial flow conditions for the solid and liquid portions of the three phase flow, while the gas portion of the three-phase flow is exposed to the solids under radial flow conditions. Methods for using such a moving bed reactor to perform a reaction, such as upgrading of a feed to distillate products, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Anjaneya S. Kovvali, Michael F. Raterman, Arsam Behkish
  • Patent number: 11207640
    Abstract: An electrochemical device suited to modifying a carbon dioxide concentration in an interior space includes a cathode chamber with an inlet which receives a feed gas containing carbon dioxide. A reduction catalyst layer in the cathode chamber reduces carbon dioxide in the gas to form an ionic carrier species. An anode chamber with an outlet outputs a gas comprising carbon dioxide. A solid electrolyte membrane spaces the anode chamber from the cathode chamber and transports the ionic carrier species between the cathode chamber and the anode chamber. The membrane includes an ionic liquid. An oxidation catalyst layer in the anode chamber oxidizes the ionic carrier species to form carbon dioxide. A voltage source provides a voltage difference across the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Divyaraj Desai, Jessica Louis Baker Rivest, Gabriel Iftime, Vedhasri Vedharathinam, Mahati Chintapalli, Junhua Wei, Sean Emerson Doris
  • Patent number: 11210551
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide iterative multi-directional image searching are described. Embodiments utilize a multi-directional searching pattern for defining one or more searching areas within a source image. A searching area of embodiments provides a searching area within a source image for searching for a template image in the multiple directions of the multi-directional searching pattern. A location of the searching area within the source image may be updated iteratively, such as based upon motion vectors derived from the searching, until a template image match position is identified within the source image. Embodiments transform the template image and the searching area within a source image to 1D representations corresponding to each direction of the multi-directional image search. Embodiments accommodate rotation and scale variance of the subject (e.g., object of interest) of the template image within the source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tian Qiu
  • Patent number: 11209574
    Abstract: A method for forecasting an agricultural irrigation water requirement includes: selecting a baseline period and crops each with a sown area larger than a set proportion as typical crops; calculating an irrigation water quota of the typical crop during a growth stage according to meteorological information; obtaining ten-day rainfall in a water-saving area from weather stations; and calculating effective rainfall in a sown region of the typical crop based on the ten-day rainfall; calculating an irrigation water requirement per unit area of the typical crop; and determining whether the irrigation water requirement per unit area of at least one typical crop is greater than an average of actual irrigation water usage per unit area measured in consecutive years, if yes, correcting the irrigation water requirement per unit area of all typical crops according to actual irrigation water usage; otherwise calculating a total water requirement for a next year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH
    Inventors: Guiyu Yang, Hao Wang, Juncang Tian, Wanli Shi, Lin Wang, Zhaohui Yang
  • Patent number: 11211621
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating molten carbonate fuel cells to allow for periodic regeneration of the fuel cells while performing elevated CO2 capture. In some aspects, periodic regeneration can be achieved by shifting the location within the fuel cells where the highest density of alternative ion transport is occurring. Such a shift can result in a new location having a highest density of alternative ion transport, while the previous location can primarily transport carbonate ions. Additionally or alternately, periodic regeneration can be performed by modifying the input flows to the fuel cell and/or relaxing the operating conditions of the fuel cell to reduce or minimize the amount of alternative ion transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, FUELCELL ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy A. Barckholtz, Jonathan Rosen, Carla S. Pereira, Rodrigo F. Blanco Gutierrez, Frank Hershkowitz, Carl A. Willman, Timothy C. Geary
  • Patent number: 11207154
    Abstract: Provided herein are surgical guides with internal channels for irrigation cooling. In one embodiment, an apparatus for guiding a surgical instrument includes a proximal side and a distal side. A first channel is configured to guide a material removal device, where the first channel extends from the proximal side of the apparatus to the distal side of the apparatus. A second channel configured to direct irrigation fluid, where the second channel extends from the proximal side of the of the apparatus to the distal side of the apparatus. The first channel is separate from the second channel. A method of performing a surgical procedure and a method of manufacturing a surgical guide are also disclosed. In certain embodiments, the surgical guides may be manufactured via additive manufacturing processes, including for example, three-dimensional printing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MUSC Foundation for Research Development
    Inventors: Walter Renne, Zachary Evans
  • Patent number: 11211205
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for pre-lithiation of negative electrodes during lithium loaded electrode manufacturing for use in lithium-ion capacitors. There is provided a system and method of manufacture of LIC electrodes using thin lithium film having holes therein, and in particular, to the process of manufacturing lithium loaded negative electrodes for lithium-ion capacitors by pre-lithiating electrodes with thin lithium metal films, wherein the thin lithium metal films include holes therein, and the lithium loaded negative electrodes are manufactured using a roll-to-roll lamination manufacturing, process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Wanjun Cao, Jian-ping Zheng
  • Patent number: 11207171
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods and/or apparatuses involving the deployment and coupling of catheters. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, each of first and second catheters extend from a proximal end to a distal end and has a magnet. The catheters may be deployed, and the distal ends of the respective catheters can be aligned and connected via magnetic coupling of the magnets to one another. A shaft structure is configured and arranged to extend within the first catheter and into the second catheter, through the connected distal ends of the respective catheters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Paul Laeseke, Michael Woods, Emily Rae Foran, Will Robert Flanigan, Alexandra Nicol Doersch, Brett Conor Struthers, Joseph Alexander Ashley
  • Patent number: 11208875
    Abstract: A method of lifting liquids from a formation using a plunger lift assembly. The method includes dropping a multi-component plunger lift assembly from a wellhead and into a wellbore. This is done in response to a release signal or in response to a wellhead being shut in. The wellbore has a deviated section which may extend to horizontal. The multi-component plunger lift assembly includes a cylindrical plunger and a sphere. These components are released into the wellbore simultaneously. In response to reservoir formation gases passing into the wellbore, the method also includes allowing the plunger lift assembly to move up the wellbore and to the wellhead, thereby pushing liquids upwardly towards the wellhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Jason T. Sodowsky, Harold Douglas Selby, Kirk B. Ross
  • Patent number: 11209418
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vapor-permeable flexible sensing platform unit comprising: a first porous membrane, wherein said membrane is substantially flexible and hydrophobic; and a volatile organic compounds (VOCs) sensor disposed on said membrane, the VOCs sensor comprising an electrode array and a conducting polymer porous film being in electric contact with said electrode array, wherein the VOCs sensor is insensitive to lateral strain. Further provided are a method of preparation of said platform unit and a lift-off, float-on (LOFO) method for the preparation of protonically doped polyaniline (PANI) thin films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Hossam Haick, Weiwei Wu
  • Patent number: 11207321
    Abstract: The invention described herein provides a method for the treatment of an oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to said subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound capable of inhibiting MPS1, wherein: (i) said subject has previously been treated with a CDK4/6 inhibitor; and/or (ii) said breast cancer is resistant to treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, Breast Cancer Now
    Inventors: Lesley-Ann Martin, Joanna Nikitorwicz-Buniak
  • Patent number: 11212173
    Abstract: A system that determines whether a trigger has occurred within a cloud infrastructure. The system, in response to determining that a trigger has occurred, extracts characteristics from one or more virtual network functions (VNFs) of a service chain. The system, in response to extracting characteristics from the one or more VNFs, determines rehoming actions for each of the one or more VNFs. The system, in response to determining rehoming actions, predicts a rehoming delay or a chain downtime for each of the rehoming actions for each of the one or more VNFs. The system determines an optimal rehoming action from the rehoming actions for at least one of the one or more VNFs using the rehoming delay or the chain downtime for each rehoming action of the rehoming actions. The system performs the optimal rehoming action for the at least one of one or more VNFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan, Bharath Balasubramanian, Gueyoung Jung, Muhammad Wajahat, Anshul Gandhi
  • Patent number: 11210802
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to self-supervised training for monocular depth estimation. In one embodiment, a method includes filtering disfavored images from first training data to produce second training data that is a subsampled version of the first training data. The disfavored images correspond with anomaly maps within a set of depth maps. The first depth model is trained according to the first training data and generates the depth maps from the first training data after initially being trained with the first training data. The method includes training a second depth model according to a self-supervised training process using the second training data. The method includes providing the second depth model to infer distances from monocular images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Vitor Guizilini, Rares A. Ambrus, Rui Hou, Jie Li, Adrien David Gaidon
  • Patent number: 11207643
    Abstract: A method of removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere and generating hydrogen includes capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in an alkaline capture solution, sending the alkaline capture solution to a series of electrolyzers in a CO2-rich path, wherein each electrolyzer cell raises the acidity of the input CO2-rich solution to produce an acidified CO2-rich solution, removing carbon dioxide from the acidified CO2-rich solution at a carbon dioxide removal unit operation to produce a CO2-poor solution, sending the CO2-poor solution to the series of electrolyzers in a return path, wherein each electrolyzer raises the alkalinity of the return CO2-poor solution to produce a basified CO2-poor solution, wherein a difference in pH between the CO2-rich solution and the CO2-poor solution within each electrolyzer is less than 3, and returning the basified CO2-poor solution to the carbon dioxide capture unit operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Francisco E. Torres, Eugene Shin Ming Beh, Jessica Louis Baker Rivest
  • Patent number: 11209520
    Abstract: A radar includes a transmitter that generates a first signal that is a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal and radiates the generated first signal to an outside, a receiver that receives a second signal based on the first signal and generates a baseband signal of the second signal, a signal processor that extracts a target frequency signal from the baseband signal, and a signal converter that outputs the target frequency signal that is controlled as a digital signal, and wherein the signal processor includes a high pass filter connected to the receiver, that receives the baseband signal, and attenuates a low frequency signal present in the received baseband signal, based on a first cutoff frequency, an amplifier that amplifies the attenuated baseband signal, and a signal controller that removes a direct current component of the amplified baseband signal, based on a second cutoff frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kisu Kim, Bon Tae Koo
  • Patent number: 11207315
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the use of emetine compounds for the treatment or prevention of Flavivirus infections, such as dengue virus infections. Aspects of the invention include methods for treating or preventing Flavivirus virus infection, such as dengue virus infection, by administering an emetine compound such as emetine or cephaeline, or a combination of two or more emetine compounds, to a subject in need thereof; methods for inhibiting Flavivirus infections such as dengue virus infections in a cell in vitro or in vivo; pharmaceutical compositions; packaged dosage formulations; and kits for treating or preventing Flavivirus infections, such dengue virus infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc., The Johns Hopkins University, The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Hengli Tang, Emily M. Lee, Anil Mathew Tharappel, Hongjun Song, Guo-Li Ming, Wei Zheng, Miao Xu, Shu Yang, Ruili Huang, Wenwei Huang, Khalida Shamim, Hao Li
  • Publication number: 20210394124
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a high-performance thin film composite (TFC) membrane through a solvent activation process. In the present invention, by using a mixed solvent of a good solvent and a poor solvent as an activating solvent, a conventional polysulfone-based support-based TFC membrane having high water permeance as well as excellent salt rejection may be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jung Hyun LEE, Min Gyu SHIN, Sung Joon PARK, Jin Young SEO, Sung Kwon JEON