Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 10667009
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes starting a first viewing session; receiving one or more programming streams including one or more video programs; storing (e.g., at regular time intervals) program data including identification data describing the one or more video programs and a corresponding time interval; monitoring and/or storing a plurality of interactions with video controls of the particular viewer during the first viewing session; ending the first viewing session; aggregating at least a portion of the plurality of the interactions and the program data in a new session profile that represents the particular viewer's short-term viewing habits; accessing one or more existing signature profiles having signature categories that may represent the long-term viewing habits of a respective viewer; and matching the new session profile with one of the one or more existing signature profiles to deliver a particular viewer a targeted advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: PRIME RESEARCH ALLIANCE E, LLC
    Inventors: John A. Schlack, Andrew Sutton, Andrew J. Rampulla, Charles A. Eldering
  • Patent number: 10665435
    Abstract: A plasma chamber is provided to increase conductance within the plasma chamber and to increase uniformity of the conductance. A radio frequency (RF) path for supplying power to the plasma chamber is symmetric with respect to a center axis of the plasma chamber. Moreover, pumps used to remove materials from the plasma chamber are located symmetric with respect to the center axis. The symmetric arrangements of the RF paths and the pumps facilitate an increase in conductance uniformity within the plasma chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Arthur Brown, John Patrick Holland, Michael C. Kellogg, James E. Tappan, Jerrel K. Antolik, Ian Kenworthy, Theo Panagopoulos, Zhigang Chen
  • Patent number: 10665699
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes providing a substrate including a functional region and a blank region; and forming one or more active fins on the functional region of the substrate, and one or more sacrificial fins on the blank region of the substrate. The method also includes forming a dummy gate structure, across length portions of each active fin and each sacrificial fin; and forming an interlayer dielectric layer to fill a gap between adjacent dummy gate structures. In addition, the method includes forming a gate opening in the interlayer dielectric layer by removing the dummy gate structure. Further, the method includes removing at least a portion of the sacrificial fin in the gate opening; and forming a gate structure in the gate opening after removing the portion of the sacrificial fin in the gate opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, SMIC New Technology Research and Development (Shanghai) Corporation
    Inventor: Fei Zhou
  • Patent number: 10663384
    Abstract: A drop testing apparatus is provided. The drop testing apparatus includes a plate connected to an external crane, a magnet holder provided at one end of the plate and fixed to the plate by an electromagnetic force, a counterweight provided at another end of the plate and facing the magnet holder, a dummy structure connected to the magnet holder through a connecting member and having a test specimen installed at one side thereof, a load cell unit provided between the dummy structure and the test specimen to measure impulse of the test specimen, and a controller configured to control the electromagnetic force to be created in the magnet holder and to receive the impulse measured by the load cell unit. When the electromagnetic force is cancelled, the connecting member disengages from the magnet holder, and the dummy structure and the test specimen fall onto the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jung Jin Lee, Joong Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 10666477
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling, type information of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) and time interleaver information shared by the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Young Lee, Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim
  • Patent number: 10662148
    Abstract: This invention provides substituted acylanilide compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject including, inter alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy or Becker muscular dystrophy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ramesh Narayanan, Thamarai Ponnusamy, James T. Dalton, Duane D. Miller
  • Patent number: 10663974
    Abstract: Provided are an object recognition device, an autonomous driving system including the same, and an object recognition method using the object recognition device. The object recognition device includes an object frame information generation unit, a frame analysis unit, an object priority calculator, a frame complexity calculator, and a mode control unit. The object frame information generation unit generates object frame information based on a mode control signal. The frame analysis unit generates object tracking information based on object frame information. The object priority calculator generates based on object tracking information. The frame complexity calculator generates a frame complexity based on object tracking information. The mode control unit generates a mode control signal for adjusting an object recognition range and a calculation amount of the object frame information generation unit based on the priority information, the frame complexity, and the resource occupation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jung Hee Suk, Yi-Gyeong Kim, Chun-Gi Lyuh, Young-Deuk Jeon, Min-Hyung Cho
  • Patent number: 10660558
    Abstract: Systems and methods facilitating objective evaluations of subjects to facilitate detecting clinically relevant changes in balance are provided. The system includes a portable balance board with a sensor in each of four feet for detecting downward force. Each sensor is communicatively coupled to a circuit board with a wired or wireless communication capability. A subject stands on the balance board and each sensor sends a signal to the circuit board, which communicates the four signals to a companion device that uses the signals to calculate the center of pressure (“COP”) of the subject over time. The subject can perform the BESS test and the resulting COP data is used to calculate a field path length for the subject. The field path length is compared to a previously determined baseline path length for the subject to detect any clinically relevant change in balance of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Daniel J. Goble
  • Patent number: 10662176
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treatment for chronic pain, opioid dependence, alcohol use disorder or autism using a class of pyrimidinone compounds, an adenylyl cyclase 1 (AC1) inhibitor. The invention described herein also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating diseases in mammals using those compounds disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Val J. Watts, Richard M. van Rijn, Daniel P. Flaherty, Jatinder Kaur
  • Patent number: 10665501
    Abstract: Aluminum oxide films characterized by a dielectric constant (k) of less than about 7 (such as between about 4-6) and having a density of at least about 2.5 g/cm3 (such as about 3.0-3.2 g/cm3) are deposited on partially fabricated semiconductor devices over both metal and dielectric to serve as etch stop layers. The films are deposited using a deposition method that does not lead to oxidative damage of the metal. The deposition involves reacting an aluminum-containing precursor (e.g., a trialkylaluminum) with an alcohol and/or aluminum alkoxide. In one implementation the method involves flowing trimethylaluminum to the process chamber housing a substrate having an exposed metal and dielectric layers; purging and/or evacuating the process chamber; flowing t-butanol to the process chamber and allowing it to react with trimethylaluminum to form an aluminum oxide film and repeating the process steps until the film of desired thickness is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Meliha Gozde Rainville, Nagraj Shankar, Kapu Sirish Reddy, Dennis M. Hausmann
  • Patent number: 10660931
    Abstract: Herbo-mineral formulation for the treatment of cancer and method of preparation are disclosed herein. The disclosed formulation includes a combination of herb and mineral components that facilitate in controlling abnormal cell proliferation. The formulation can thus be used in treatment of cancer and related mobidities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MUNIYAL AYURVEDIC RESEARCH CENTRE
    Inventor: M Vijayabhanu Shetty
  • Patent number: 10661262
    Abstract: Hydrogenation catalysts for aromatic hydrogenation including an organosilica material support, which is a polymer comprising independent units of a monomer of Formula [Z1OZ2OSiCH2]3 (I), wherein each Z1 and Z2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-C4 alkyl group or a bond to a silicon atom of another monomer; and at least one catalyst metal are provided herein. Methods of making the hydrogenation catalysts and processes of using, e.g., aromatic hydrogenation, the hydrogenation catalyst are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company
    Inventors: Paul Podsiadlo, Quanchang Li, David Charles Calabro, Jean Willem Lodewijk Beeckman, Lei Zhang, Kiara M. Benitez, Matthew Scott Ide, Stephen John McCarthy, Mobae Afeworki, Simon Christopher Weston, Preeti Kamakoti, Matu J. Shah, Wenyih Frank Lai, Meghan Kochersperger, David A. Griffin, Ivy D. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10665355
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nuclear power plant which drives a Stirling engine by means of heat generated in nuclear power plant safety systems during an accident, uses the resulting power directly or generates electric power so as to supply the power to the safety systems, and thus can improve economic efficiency as well as the reliability of safety systems, such as a passive safety system, by operating the safety systems without an emergency diesel generator or external electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Young In Kim, Suhn Choi, Keung Koo Kim, Young Min Bae, Hun Sik Han
  • Patent number: 10666131
    Abstract: A dead-time voltage compensation apparatus and a dead-time voltage compensation method are provided. The method includes: converting a DC voltage of an input end of a single-phase DC-AC inverter into a unipolar AC voltage; calculating first to third current values based on a first inductor current value of a inductor, calculating first voltage compensation amounts of a first dead-time and a third dead-time of an AC voltage and a second inductor current value of the AC voltage based on polarities of the first to third current values, calculating fourth to sixth current values based on the second inductor current value, calculating second voltage compensation amounts of a second dead-time and a fourth dead-time of the AC voltage based on polarities of the fourth to sixth current values, and compensating a control reference signal of a processor based on the first and second voltage compensation amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Konishi, Yeh-Hsiang Ho
  • Patent number: 10661660
    Abstract: A vehicle charging system includes a power transmitter including at least one voltage converter configured to allow a vehicle charging mode to be changed by a plurality of switches and a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field corresponding to a voltage converted by the voltage converter; and a power receiver including a current inductor configured to allow an electrical signal to be induced by the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator, a rectifier configured to rectify the induced electrical signal and a battery configured to be charged by the electrical signal rectified by the rectifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motor Corporation, Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Woo Young Lee, Byeong Seob Song, JaeEun Cha, Gyu Yeong Choe, Minjung Kim, Jongeun Byun, Minkook Kim, Dongmyoung Joo, Sangjoon Ann, Byoung Kuk Lee
  • Patent number: 10663618
    Abstract: A method of identifying in situ conditions of a hydrocarbon reservoir is disclosed. The method comprises, obtaining a sample from an area of interest, such as a sediment sample or water column sample near a hydrocarbon seep; analyzing the sample to detect lipid, protein, and/or nucleic acid signatures that are indicative of the Thermotogales order; identifying the relative abundance of the different genera and/or species of the Thermotogales present in the sample to generate a taxonomy signature of the sample; and then using the taxonomy signature to determine conditions, such as temperature, of the hydrocarbon reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Zarath M. Summers, A. Lucie N'Guessan, Aaron B. Regberg
  • Patent number: 10665094
    Abstract: A method, a mobile device, and a system for message transmission of a vulnerable road user (VRU) are provided. The method is adapted to a first mobile device of a first VRU and includes the following steps. Whether there exists a target mobile device within a preset range of the first VRU is determined, where the target mobile device is a mobile device that has already broadcast a personal safety message (PSM). When the target mobile device exists within the preset range, whether to broadcast a first PSM is determined according to a relative distance between the target mobile device and an intersection as well as a relative distance between the target mobile device and the first mobile device. When the target mobile device doesn't exist within the preset range, the first PSM is broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Jing Lee, Po-Chun Kang, Tzu-Hsiang Su, Chia-Tai Tsai
  • Patent number: 10662751
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a drilling operation based on an MSE value calculated for a depth increment are disclosed herein. In an exemplary method, drilling parameters characterizing a drilling operation in a subterranean formation are received in a control system. The drilling parameters are used by the control system to calculate a depth-based mechanical specific energy (MSE) based on some amount of energy expended by at least a portion of a drilling assembly while drilling at least one identified depth sub-interval of a depth interval of a subterranean formation. The control system uses the calculated depth-based MSE to control the drilling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Gregory S. Payette, Dar-Lon Chang, Darren Pais, Jeffrey R. Bailey
  • Patent number: 10661339
    Abstract: A method for gas atomization of a titanium alloy, nickel alloy, or other alumina (Al2O3)-forming alloy wherein the atomized particles are exposed as they solidify and cool in a very short time to multiple gaseous reactive agents for the in-situ formation of a passivation reaction film on the atomized particles wherein the reaction film retains a precursor halogen alloying element that is subsequently introduced into a microstructure formed by subsequent thermally processing of the atomized particles to improve oxidation resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Heidloff, Joel R. Rieken, Iver E. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10663475
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for identifying and/or treating subjects having or likely to have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Antibodies specific for one or more di-amino acid repeat-containing proteins are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventors: Laura Ranum, Tao Zu