Patents Assigned to Research
  • Surgical apparatus, in particular a navigation probe for localizing and treating lesions in a brain
    Patent number: 10828062
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical apparatus, in particular a navigation probe for localizing and treating lesions in a brain, comprising: a body member (10) having an anterior end (20), a posterior end (30) and at least one groove (60, 62) extending for a particular length in a longitudinal direction of the body member (10) between said anterior end (20) and said posterior end (30); a saddle (70) adapted to securely hold a medical device, the saddle (70) being placed on said body member (10) and having at least one grip (74, 75, 76) that extends into said at least one groove (60, 62) so as to mount the saddle (70) on the body member (10) moveable in said longitudinal direction; and a means for maneuvering said body member (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE
    Inventor: Essam Abdulaziz Alshail
  • Chimeric receptor with NKG2D specificity for use in cell therapy against cancer and infectious disease
    Patent number: 10829737
    Abstract: The invention provides a chimeric receptor comprising NKG2D, DAP10 and CD3 zeta. Also disclosed is a composition comprising this chimeric receptor and methods for making and using it to enhance the cytotoxicity and antitumor capacity of NK cells. The invention also encompasses methods for use of NKG2D-DAP10-CD3 zeta polypeptides, vectors and cells in methods for treating cancer and other proliferative disorders, as well as infectious diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
    Inventors: Dario Campana, Yu-Hsiang Chang
  • Guidance seeking device for a satellite and method for enhancing the performance of the same
    Patent number: 10832054
    Abstract: A guidance seeking device for a satellite and a method of enhancing the performance of the same. The device includes a seeking device, at least one image-capturing device and a processing device. The seeking device and the at least one image-capturing device are for capturing an image to produce an image data. The processing device is configured to analyze the image data to determine a target and/or an obstacle therein, to produce an image-capturing path according to the target and/or the obstacle in the image data, and to produce a control signal to control the at least one image-capturing device to capture an image corresponding to one part of the image-capturing path. The method includes a seeking step, an analyzing step, a determination step and a controlling step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES
    Inventors: Pei Hsuan Wu, Jer Ling, Po-Yen Huang
  • Low power 2D memory transistor for flexible electronics and the fabrication methods thereof
    Patent number: 10833102
    Abstract: Devices and methods of a transistor device that include a flexible memory cell. The flexible memory cell having a gate stack with sidewalls provided over a substrate. The gate stack including a metal gate layer provided over the substrate. A buffer layer provided over the metal gate layer. A ferroelectric layer provided over the buffer layer. A dielectric layer provided over the ferroelectric layer. Further, a two-dimensional (2D) material layer provided over a portion of a top surface of the dielectric layer. Source and drain regions provided on separate portions of the top surface of the dielectric layer so as to create a cavity that the 2D material layer are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Koon Hoo Teo, Pin-Chun Shen, Chungwei Lin
  • Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data using multi-path in wireless communication system of distributed MAC
    Patent number: 10834732
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data using multiple paths in a wireless communication system using a distributed Media Access Control (MAC). More particularly, provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data that may select a path with a better channel status from multiple paths that include a direct path using a Line of Sight (LOS) and a relay path passing through a relay apparatus, in a wireless communication system that may transmit data via the LOS using a distributed MAC and a directional antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyoung Jin Kwon, Jin Kyeong Kim, Yong Sun Kim, Kyeongpyo Kim, Seung Eun Hong, Woo Yong Lee
  • Automated credential porting for mobile devices
    Patent number: 10834583
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for updating wireless device credentials, the wireless device comprising: a user interface, memory configured to store one or more credentials for enabling the wireless device to obtain one or more services over a wireless access network, and one or more processors configured to execute one or more machine-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain an indication of a user request to replace a particular credential with a target credential, detect a network-provisioning state change, determine that the particular credential does not match the target credential, initiate a programming session with a network element over a wireless access network, obtain an updated credential from the network element, and assist in storing the updated credential in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Headwater Research LLC
    Inventors: Gregory G. Raleigh, James Lavine
  • Anti-GITR antibodies and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 10829559
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to human glucocorticoid-induced TNFR family related receptor (GITR) and compositions comprising such antibodies. In a specific aspect, the antibodies specifically bind to human GITR and modulate GITR activity, e.g., enhance, activate or induce GITR activity, utilizing such antibodies. The present disclosure also provides methods for treating disorders, such as cancer and infectious diseases, by administering an antibody that specifically binds to human GITR and modulates GITR activity e.g., enhances, activates or induces GITR activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: Agenus Inc., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Volker Seibert, Olivier Léger, Marc Van Dijk, Taha Merghoub, David Schaer, Gerd Ritter, Takemasa Tsuji
  • Surface-modified polyolefin fibers
    Patent number: 10829415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to surface-modified polyolefin fibers, the use of these fibers in hydraulic binder compositions, hydraulic binder compositions containing these fibers and a method for reinforcing hydraulic binder compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Construction Research & Technology, GmbH
    Inventors: Roberta Magarotto, Francesca Moratti, Sandro Moro, Marino Colasuonno, Alessandro Patelli, Bryan Erick Barragan
  • Biological processing of scrap metal, household waste and/or industrial waste for the isolation of heavy metals
    Patent number: 10829833
    Abstract: The invention provides a process of isolating or enriching a heavy metal present in a liquid medium. The process comprising the following steps: (a) incubating a suspension containing (i) particulate scrap metal, household waste and/or industrial waste containing a heavy metal in elemental form and (ii) biomass comprising a bacterium, or a combination of two or more bacteria, capable of binding the heavy metal; (b) separating the biomass having bound heavy metal from the suspension of step (a); and (c) isolating the heavy metal from the biomass separated in step (b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: B.R.A.I.N. Biotechnology Research and Information Network AG
    Inventors: Stephen Gos, Andrea Christiansen, Xin Lu, Guido Meurer, Yvonne Tiffert, Esther Gabor, Benedikt Hoffmann, Martin Langer
  • Feedback control system for iterative etch process
    Patent number: 10832979
    Abstract: An iterative etch process includes a plurality of cycles performed in a successive manner on a substrate. Each cycle of the plurality of cycles includes a deposition phase and an activation phase. The deposition phase is performed before the activation phase in each cycle. The deposition phase is defined as a plasma-based process to enable removal of a particular material from a surface of the substrate. The activation phase is defined as a plasma-based process to remove the particular material from the surface of the substrate. One or more feedback control signals are acquired during the iterative etch process, correlated to a condition of the substrate, and analyzed to determine the condition of the substrate. One or more process parameters of the iterative etch process is/are adjusted based on the condition of the substrate as determined by analyzing the one or more feedback control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur M. Howald, John Valcore, Jr., Henry Stephen Povolny
  • IoT device plug-in method and device in data analysis-based automation systems
    Patent number: 10833888
    Abstract: An automatic configuration device, for an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device, which operates a data analysis-based automation system includes when various types of IoT devices are registered in a system, a data analysis-based automation system for supporting both use of functions of the IoT devices and an effective analysis of collected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Mal Hee Kim, Nae Soo Kim, Seong Ik Cho, Cheol Sig Pyo
  • Method of repairing aortic valve
    Patent number: 10828159
    Abstract: A method of repairing an aortic valve includes, in a following order: an aortic wall incision step; an aortic valve forming step; and an aortic wall suturing step. In the aortic wall incision step, an aortic wall is cut so as to expose an aortic valve side in the inside of an aortic duct to an open atmosphere. In the aortic valve forming step, the aortic valve is formed by restricting a distance between commissures disposed adjacently to each other by placing a thread between the plurality of commissures disposed adjacently to each other. In the aortic wall suturing step, the aortic wall cut in the aortic wall incision step is sutured so as to close the aortic wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SUN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Yamazaki
  • Detect impact of network maintenance in software defined infrastructure
    Patent number: 10833937
    Abstract: A system may assist with checking policy impact in a software-defined infrastructure environment. The system's data analysis may enable it to discover and quantify the impact of policies on software-defined infrastructure objects in the same or different layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Aisha Syed, Jacobus Erasmus Van der Merwe
  • Hybrid beamforming method for beam-based cooperative transmission, and apparatus for the same
    Patent number: 10833736
    Abstract: A hybrid beamforming based cooperative transmission system may comprise comprising a centralized processor (CP), access nodes (ANs) connected to the CP, and fronthaul links connecting the CP to the ANs. The CP may provide an outer precoding matrix for a first AN of the ANs, which is derived from global statistical channel state information (CSI) generated from local statistical CSI collected from the ANs, to the first AN via the fronthaul link; and the first AN may configure a radio frequency (RF) precoder of the first AN based on the outer precoding matrix, and configure a digital precoder of the first AN based on local instantaneous effective CSI between the first AN and first terminals to be served by the first AN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Eun Hong, Min Hyun Kim, Tae Gyun Noh, In Kyeong Choi
  • Computer architecture allowing recycling of instruction slack time
    Patent number: 10831232
    Abstract: A computer architecture suitable for out-of-order processors manages the problem of timing slack, in which an instruction completes before its clock cycle, by recycling that slack to allow the next succeeding instruction allowing that instruction to begin execution earlier. This recycling mechanism is enabled through the use of a transparent gating between execution units which allows data transfer before clock cycle boundaries and, in some cases, by aggressively issuing children instructions contemporaneously with their parent instruction after a grandparent instruction is issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Gokul Subramanian Ravi, Mikko H. Lipasti
  • Resident activity recognition system and method thereof
    Patent number: 10832060
    Abstract: A resident activity recognition method is provided. The method comprises: receiving a plurality of first testing data from a plurality of sensors by a processor, wherein the first testing data includes a present weight set of sensors and present trigger statuses of sensors; determining an activity of a non-target resident at a present time by the processor according to a non-target resident model and the first testing data; reducing a part of the present weight set to generate an updated weight set and a second testing data including the updated weight set and the present trigger statuses by the processor according to the activity of the non-target resident at the present time, the first testing data and the non-target resident model; determining an activity of a target resident at the present time by the processor according to a target resident model and the second testing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jin-Shyan Lee, Chun-Hsien Wu, Jui-Wen Chen, Jui-Hsing Huang, Mao-Jen Chung
  • Implant materials for TMJ repair, methods of making the implant materials for TMJ repair, and method of using implant materials for TMJ repair
    Patent number: 10828165
    Abstract: In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, relate to TMJ implantation materials and implants (e.g., temporomandi bular joint (TMJ) methods of making TMJ implantation materials and implants, methods of forming a TMJ implantation material or an implant, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventor: Peter S. McFetridge
  • Memory device interconnects and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 10833009
    Abstract: An integrated circuit memory device, in one embodiment, includes a substrate having a plurality of bit lines. A first and second inter-level dielectric layer are successively disposed on the substrate. Each of a plurality of source lines and staggered bit line contacts extend through the first inter-level dielectric layer. Each of a plurality of source line vias and a plurality of staggered bit line vias extend through the second inter-level dielectric layer to each respective one of the plurality of source lines and the plurality of staggered bit line contacts. The source lines and staggered bit line contacts that extend through the first inter-level dielectric layer are formed together by a first set of fabrication processes. The source line vias and staggered bit line contacts that extend through the second inter-level dielectric layer are also formed together by a second set of fabrication processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Monterey Research, LLC
    Inventors: Shenqing Fang, Connie Pin-Chin Wang, Wen Yu, Fei Wang
  • High light extraction efficiency (LEE) light emitting diode (LED)
    Patent number: 10833222
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode, comprising a substrate that has a first surface and an opposing second surface. A reflection layer is disposed on the first surface of the substrate and a light-emitting diode structure is arranged on the second surface of the substrate. The light-emitting diode structure includes a first semiconducting layer, an active layer and a second semiconducting layer disposed consecutively on the second surface. A plurality of protruding asymmetric micro-structured elements define at least a part of the second surface of the substrate such that at least a portion of a surface of each micro-structured element is disposed at an obtuse angle to the first surface of the substrate when measured from within the respective micro-structured element. The first semiconducting layer and the second semiconducting layer respectively have a first electrode and a second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Shizhuo Yin, Chang-Jiang Chen, Ju-Hung Chao, Wenbin Zhu
  • Tire
    Patent number: D901375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PRINX CHENGSHAN (QINGDAO) INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND DESIGN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Lv, Jiayu Qu