Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 10656193
    Abstract: An electrostatic detecting system and an electrostatic detecting method for detecting the static electricity generated at an active surface of a substrate are provided. The electrostatic detecting system includes a sensing apparatus and a signal processing apparatus. The sensing apparatus is disposed at least adjacent to a back surface opposite to the active surface of the substrate, for measuring the static electricity generated at the active surface and generating an initial electric signal. The signal processing apparatus is electrically connected to the sensing apparatus, for receiving the initial electric signal and correcting the initial electric signal based on a voltage compensation value to obtain a final electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Mean-Jue Tung, Shi-Yuan Tong, Yu-Ting Huang, Ming-Da Yang
  • Patent number: 10654790
    Abstract: Provided is a process for recovery of a functionalized compound reaction product comprising contacting (i) an oxidizing electrophile comprising a main group element, and (ii) a compound comprising at least one C—H bond, in an acidic medium to form a reaction milieu comprising a functionalized compound reaction product, contacting the reaction milieu with a water-immiscible organic solvent, separating the water-immiscible organic solvent from the reaction milieu, wherein the functionalized compound reaction product is dissolved in the water-immiscible organic solvent, and separating the functionalized compound reaction product and the water-immiscible organic solvent. The water-immiscible extraction solvent can be the same compound as the compound comprising as least one C—H bond, for example, propane or n-butane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Jay Kouba, Stephen Pietsch
  • Patent number: 10653800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rapid detection of microbial-associated nuclease activity with chemically modified nuclease (e.g., ribonuclease) substrates, and probes and compositions useful in detection assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: University of Iowa Research Foundation, Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James O. McNamara, II, Katie R. Flenker, Lingyan Huang, Alexander R. Horswill, Mark A. Behlke, Frank J. Hernandez
  • Patent number: 10657651
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for electronically assessing a visual significance of pixels or regions in an electronic image are disclosed. A method includes receiving the electronic image, performing a composition analysis on the electronic image, the composition analysis includes partitioning the electronic image into a plurality of segments or a plurality of parts, constructing an attributed composition graph having a plurality of nodes, where each node corresponds to a segment or a part and where each node includes one or more attributes, modeling the visual significance of the electronic image based on the attributed composition graph using a statistical modeling process or a computational modeling process to obtain a plurality of values, and constructing a composition significance map having a significance score for each segment or each part according to the values obtained from the statistical modeling process or the computational modeling process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jia Li, James Z. Wang
  • Patent number: 10659811
    Abstract: According to the present invention, an image encoding apparatus comprises: a motion prediction unit which derives motion information on a current block in the form of the motion information including L0 motion information and L1 motion information; a motion compensation unit which performs a motion compensation for the current block on the basis of at least one of the L0 motion information and L1 motion information so as to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block; and a restoration block generating unit which generates a restoration block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
    Inventors: Hui Yong Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Kyung Yong Kim, Sang Min Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 10658530
    Abstract: Provided is a field shaping multi-well detector and method of fabrication thereof. The detector is configured by depositing a pixel electrode on a substrate, depositing a first dielectric layer, depositing a first conductive grid electrode layer on the first dielectric layer, depositing a second dielectric layer on the first conductive grid electrode layer, depositing a second conductive grid electrode layer on the second dielectric layer, depositing a third dielectric layer on the second conductive grid electrode layer, depositing an etch mask on the third dielectric layer. Two pillars are formed by etching the third dielectric layer, the second conductive grid electrode layer, the second dielectric layer, the first conductive grid electrode layer, and the first dielectric layer. A well between the two pillars is formed by etching to the pixel electrode, without etching the pixel electrode, and the well is filled with a-Se.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Amirhossein Goldan, Wei Zhao
  • Patent number: 10655233
    Abstract: Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical cells for the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid and/or 2,5-diformylfuran are provided. Also provided are methods of using the cells to carry out the electrochemical and photoelectrochemical oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid and/or 2,5-diformylfuran.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kyoung-Shin Choi, Hyun Gil Cha
  • Patent number: 10659810
    Abstract: According to the present invention, an image encoding apparatus comprises: a motion prediction unit which derives motion information on a current block in the form of the motion information including L0 motion information and L1 motion information; a motion compensation unit which performs a motion compensation for the current block on the basis of at least one of the L0 motion information and L1 motion information so as to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block; and a restoration block generating unit which generates a restoration block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
    Inventors: Hui Yong Kim, Gwang Hoon Park, Kyung Yong Kim, Sang Min Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 10658501
    Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a channel semiconductor structure including a stack of layers arranged on top of each other in an order of magnitudes of the polarization of materials of the layers to form multiple carrier channels at heterojunctions formed by each pair of layers in the stack. The stack of layers includes a first layer and a second layer. The magnitude of polarization of the first layer is greater than the magnitude of polarization of the second layer arranged in the stack below the first layer, and the width of the first layer is less than the width of the second layer to form a staircase profile of the semiconductor structure. The HEMT includes a source semiconductor structure including a heavily doped semiconductor material, a drain semiconductor structure including the heavily doped semiconductor material. The HEMT includes a source, a drain, and a gate electrodes to modulate the conductivity of the carrier channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Koon Hoo Teo, Nadim Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 10655870
    Abstract: A device for cooling and dehumidifying a first stream of air includes a first heat exchanger that cools the first stream of air from a first temperature to a lower second temperature, an absorber, a regenerator and one or more pumps and conduits. The device operates under conditions where liquid desiccant removes moisture from the first stream of air in the absorber and the second temperature of the first stream of air that leaves the first heat exchanger is lower than the temperature of the liquid desiccant supplied to the absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: AIL RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew Lowenstein
  • Patent number: 10653326
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for detecting the likelihood of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in an infant using electrocardiogram and photoplethysmographic pulse signals obtained from the upper body and foot of the infant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Jerusalem College of Technology
    Inventors: Robert Koppel, Meir Nitzan
  • Patent number: 10659768
    Abstract: A system for reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of a scene including a point cloud having points identified by 3D coordinates includes at least one sensor to acquire a set of images of the scene from different poses defining viewpoints of the images and a memory to store the set of images and the 3D model of the scene. The system also includes a processor operatively connected to the memory and coupled with stored instructions to transform the images from the set of images to produce a set of virtual images of the scene viewed from virtual viewpoints; compare at least some features from the images and the virtual images to determine the viewpoint of each image in the set of images; and update 3D coordinates of at least one point in the model of the scene to match coordinates of intersections of ray back-projections from pixels of at least two images corresponding to the point according to the viewpoints of the two images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Chen Feng, Yuichi Taguchi, Esra Cansizoglu, Srikumar Ramalingam, Khalid Yousif, Haruyuki Iwama
  • Patent number: 10653138
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds for attracting bed bugs, compositions thereof, devices comprising said compositions and their use in the detection, monitoring and control of bed bugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Rothamsted Research Limited
    Inventors: Mary McFadden Cameron, James George Logan, Emma Natalie Ivy Weeks, John Anthony Pickett, Michael Alexander Birkett
  • Patent number: 10655240
    Abstract: An electroplating apparatus includes an electrode at the bottom of a chamber, an ionically resistive element with through holes arranged horizontally at the top of the chamber, with a membrane in the middle. One or more panels extend vertically and parallelly from the membrane to the element and extend linearly across the chamber, forming a plurality of regions between the membrane and the element. A substrate with a protuberance extending along a chord of the substrate and contacting a top surface of the element is arranged above a first region. An electrolyte flowed between the substrate and the element descends into the first region via the through holes on a first side of the protuberance and ascends from the first region via the through holes on a second side of the protuberance, forcing air bubbles out from a portion of the element associated with the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen J. Banik, Bryan L. Buckalew, Gabriel Hay Graham, Alfred Bostick, Sean Wilbur, John Floyd Ostrowski
  • Patent number: 10654816
    Abstract: In one aspect, compounds of Formula AA, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are featured: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the variables shown in Formula A can be as defined anywhere herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NOVARTIS INFLAMMASOME RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Luigi Franchi, Shomir Ghosh, Gary Glick, Jason Katz, Anthony William Opipari, Jr., William Roush, Hans Martin Seidel, Dong-Ming Shen, Shankar Venkatraman, David Guenther Winkler
  • Patent number: 10655638
    Abstract: A gas pump and processes for preparing the gas pump are presented. The gas pump includes a bottom Holweck stage with internal heaters for cleaning deposits resulting from exhausting gases from a semiconductor manufacturing chamber. One example gas pump includes a turbomolecular stage on a top section of the gas pump and a Holweck stage below the turbomolecular stage. The Holweck stage comprises a rotor element, a stator element with an opening in the center, and one or more heaters. The opening has a substantially cylindrical shape and an inside surface with a plurality of grooves separated by threads. Each heater is situated on a surface of one of the plurality of grooves. The heaters may be turned on to clean the deposits accumulated on the gas pump during the processing of a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Smith, Peter Reimer
  • Patent number: 10654590
    Abstract: An aircraft cockpit view enhancement system and method. The aircraft cockpit view enhancement system has: front-position, left-position and right-position camera devices. The front-position camera device is arranged between a driver's eye position point and an aircraft windshield pillar, with a photographing angle directly facing the aircraft windshield pillar, and the left-position and right-position camera devices are respectively arranged at a left side and a right side of the aircraft windshield pillar, with photographing angles respectively pointing to the right side and the left side deviated from the aircraft windshield pillar. An image processing device for performing image synthesis and image registration on a front-position image, a left-position image and a right-position image photographed by the front-position camera device, the left-position camera device and the right-position camera device, to obtain an image of a region shielded by the aircraft windshield pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION OF CHINA, LTD., SHANGHAI AIRCRAFT DESIGN AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventor: Ding Jin
  • Patent number: 10657446
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a computer implemented image reconstruction system that includes an input interface to receive measurements of a scene. A memory to store a sparsity enforcing neural network (SENN) formed by layers of nodes propagating messages through the layers. Wherein at least one node of the SENN modifies an incoming message with a non-linear function to produce an outgoing message and propagates the outgoing message to another node of the SENN. Wherein the non-linear function is a dual-projection function that limits the incoming message if the incoming message exceeds a threshold. Such that, the SENN is trained to reconstruct an image of the scene from the measurements of the scene. A processor to process the measurements with the SENN to reconstruct the image of the scene. Finally, an output interface to render the reconstructed image of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulugbek Kamilov, Hassan Mansour, Dehong Liu
  • Patent number: D884827
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Plastic Research and Development Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Dickerson, Chad Warner
  • Patent number: D884894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Hind Sattar Hussein