Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 10659023
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for multiplying a frequency of an input signal are provided. The apparatus may include a main differential device for converting the input signal into a first differential signal and a second differential signal, a first multiplying device for outputting a first signal obtained by multiplying a frequency of the first differential signal, a second multiplying device for outputting a second signal obtained by multiplying a frequency of the second differential signal, and a compositing device for outputting a third signal obtained by combining the first signal and the second signal to remove a fundamental frequency component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Dongwoo Kang, Bon Tae Koo
  • Patent number: 10655542
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a drive train starter system. The drive train starter system includes a generator mechanically coupled to a drive train of a gas turbine system and an exciter system electrically coupled to the generator and configured to provide a magnetic field. The drive train starter system additionally includes a load commutated inverter (LCI) electrically coupled to the generator and configured to provide electrical power to the generator and a controller communicatively coupled to the generator, the exciter system, and the LCI. The controller is configured to start up the drive train via the LCI and the generator up to less than a drive train operating speed, wherein the generator is converting electricity into mechanical motion; drive the drive train via a gas turbine up to the drive train operating speed; and to drive the drive train via the generator at the drive train operating speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: General Electric Company, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Brian Allen Rittenhouse, Karl Dean Minto
  • Patent number: 10656184
    Abstract: A signal process circuit includes a signal modulation unit, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first discharge unit, a second discharge unit and a discharge detection unit. The signal modulation unit is used to modulate an input signal for generating a modulated signal. The first resistor is coupled between the signal modulation unit and an operation node. The second resistor is coupled between the operation node and the signal modulation unit. The first discharge unit is coupled to the signal modulation unit. The discharge unit is coupled to the signal modulation unit. The discharge detection unit is coupled to the first discharge unit, the operation node and the second discharge unit for detecting an output common voltage and control a discharge path accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES
    Inventors: Ying-Zong Juang, Hann-Huei Tsai, Po-Chang Wu, Yu-Chen Liu, Chih-Yuan Yeh
  • Patent number: 10655124
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for identifying binding partners (e.g., peptide ligands) that binds to a target protein (e.g., a cellular receptor). The methods entail co-localized expression of the target protein and candidate binding partners, and selection of binding partners based on their proximity in the plasma membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Richard A. Lerner, Hongkai Zhang, Jia Xie
  • Patent number: 10659680
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of processing an object in an image and a system for the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of processing an object in an image, the method including: detecting a first object from a first image obtained by a first network camera; detecting a second object from a second image obtained by a second network camera; checking similarity between the first and second objects in consideration of feature information of the first and second objects, installation location information of the first and second network cameras, and location information of a terminal device; and determining whether the first object is equal to the second object on the basis of the similarity between the first and second objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Won Byon, Eun Jung Kwon, Hyun Ho Park, Yong Tae Lee, Dong Man Jang, Eui Suk Jung
  • Patent number: 10655144
    Abstract: This disclosure provides non-human animal models for age-related disorders and age-sensitive traits, particularly those caused by senescence-inducing stimuli, wherein the models comprise transgenes selectively expressed by senescent cells. The disclosure further provides methods for identifying therapeutic agents effective for treating or preventing age-related disorders and age-sensitive traits using the animal models, therapeutic agents identified using such methods, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the identified therapeutic agents, and methods of treating or preventing age-related disorders and age-sensitive traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Buck Institute for Research on Aging
    Inventors: Marco Demaria, Francis Rodier, Remi-Martin Laberge, Judith Campisi
  • Patent number: 10653405
    Abstract: The device can include a first member connected to a second member via junctions. The members can be statically or pivotally connected at the junctions via arms extending from cross-beams of the members. The junctions can be configured to provide a biasing force. Methods of using the device may include collapsing the device and inserting it through an incision, allowing the biasing force to cause continuous traction and counter-traction adjacent to a leading dissection edge so that retraction of the skin from the tissue can be facilitated during a surgical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Rena Kass, Kristine Widders, Barry M. Fell, Randy Haluck, Peter Dillon
  • Patent number: 10653737
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a synergistic nutritional composition(s) for pain management. Particularly, the invention relates to synergistic nutritional composition comprising specific combination of palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) and standardized red spinach extract enriched with nitrate content, present in the ratio of 1:0.1 to 1:5 along with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers/excipients. More particularly the invention discloses synergistic nutritional composition comprising combination of PEA and nitrate of the red spinach extract, which are present in the ratio of 1:0.01 to 1:0.5. Further the instant synergistic composition is useful for treating neuropathic pain, particularly in the treatment of subject suffering with diabetic peripheral neuropathy and/or small fiber neuropathy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Celagenex Research (India) PVT. LTD.
    Inventors: Dhiraj Dhamane, Rajendra Prasad Tongra
  • Patent number: 10655100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of inducing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived embryoid bodies into ectoderm by CXCR2 stimulation, and more particularly, to a method of promoting the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived embryoid bodies into ectoderm by stimulating and activating the surface receptor CXCR2 of the embryoid bodies with the CXCR2-specific ligand GRO-?. The method of inducing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived embryoid bodies into ectoderm by CXCR2 stimulation according to the present invention can increase the efficiency and utility of stem cells as a cell therapeutic agent, because it promotes the differentiation of stem cells into a specific germ layer serving as the origin of target cells, which is the first important step for inducing the differentiation of stem cells into specific cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Byung Soo Kim, Ji-Hye Jung, Yong Park
  • Patent number: 10654150
    Abstract: A grinding disk and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The grinding disk includes a graphite base and a silicon carbide film, the silicon carbide film covering the graphite base, and the silicon carbide film has a surface grain size of 5 ?m to 80 ?m. By a hot-wall chemical vapor deposition system, a highly dense silicon carbide film is formed on a surface of the graphite base. The grinding disk may replace a conventional metallographic grinding and polishing disk, and is improved in characteristics such as hydrophobicity and abrasion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Wei-Chien Tsai, Hao-Wen Cheng, Jin-Bao Wu, Ming-Sheng Leu
  • Patent number: 10654985
    Abstract: A microporous polymeric composition including a matrix polymer having a fractional free volume of at least 0.1 and dispersed particles having a hypercrosslinked polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Colin David Wood, Xavier Mulet, Cher Hon Lau, Matthew Roland Hill
  • Patent number: 10657634
    Abstract: Methods for processing an image comprising assigning values to a plurality of pixels of an image, placing the values of the plurality of pixels in an array, determining a method to reference the array values with indices, determining a method to rank or sort the values, sorting the array of values and storing the indices that would sort the array, sorting the array of indices and storing the indices that would sort the array in an array of values, recursively applying these methods, changing methods configurations and/or reusing them during processing, and altering an array based on a sorted array's values and/or indices are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Jason Green
  • Patent number: 10655077
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using a three-product deasphalter to produce advantageous combinations of deasphalted oil, resin, and rock. The desaphalted oil, resin, and rock can then be further combined, optionally with other vacuum gas oil fractions produced during the distillation that generated the feed to the three-product deasphalter, to produce a product slate of improved quality while also maintaining the quality of the resulting asphalt product and reducing or minimizing the amount of lower value products generated. The additional “resin” product from the three product deasphalter can be generated by sequential deasphalting, by using a resin settler to separate resin from the deasphalted oil, or by any other convenient method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Keith K. Aldous, Kamal Boussad, Kendall S. Fruchey, Sara K. Green
  • Patent number: 10654355
    Abstract: A filling nozzle of a fuel tank including a receiving pipe and a liquid-vapor separator, includes a hollow body communicating with an intake pipe for a stream of vapors from the fuel tank, an emptying pipe flowing into the receiving pipe, and a vapor outlet pipe. The hollow body includes a separation mechanism extracting droplets and including at least one wall movable between first and second configurations. In the first configuration the movable wall forms, together with walls of the hollow body, a maze in which stream of vapors passing from the intake pipe towards the outlet pipe is forced to circulate. In the second configuration the movable wall allows the stream of vapors to pass from the intake pipe to the outlet pipe following a path that avoids all or part of the path travelled by the vapors when the movable walls are in the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: PLASTIC OMNIUM ADVANCED INNOVATION AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Yvan Le Mat, Pierre Oszwald
  • Patent number: 10658172
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for depositing material into high aspect ratio features, features in a multi-laminate stack, features having positively sloped sidewalls, features having negatively sloped sidewalls, features having a re-entrant profile, and/or features having sidewall topography are described herein. Methods involve depositing a first amount of material, such as a dielectric (e.g., silicon oxide), into a feature and forming a sacrificial helmet on the field surface of the substrate, etching some of the first amount of the material to open the feature opening and/or smoothen sidewalls of the feature, and depositing a second amount of material to fill the feature. The sacrificial helmet may be the same as or different material from the first amount of material deposited into the feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph R. Abel, Pulkit Agarwal, Richard Phillips, Purushottam Kumar, Adrien LaVoie
  • Patent number: 10654923
    Abstract: This document provided methods and materials involved in treating medical conditions. For example, methods and materials for using anti-Interleukin 4, anti-Interleukin 5, and/or anti-Interleukin 13 antibodies to treat asthma in a mammal identified as having a Th2 immune response using a whole blood cell-based cytokine whole blood cell-based cytokine assay are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Young J. Juhn, Hirohito Kita, Melissa R. Snyder, Jenna Corrinne Podjasek, Chung Ii Wi, Euijung Ryu
  • Patent number: 10656515
    Abstract: The present invention disclose photochromic metal organic frameworks (MOFs) containing photochromic 1,4,5,8-naphthalenediimide (NDI) core and metal ions selected from Mg, Ca or Sr. The developed MOFs find application in inkless and erasable printing wherein they retain the photogenerated colour for a prolonged period of time so that the printed content remains legible/readable for reasonable time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Rahul Banerjee, Bikash Garai, Arijit Mallick
  • Patent number: 10655169
    Abstract: Methods are provided for nucleic acid analysis wherein a target nucleic acid is mixed with a dsDNA binding dye to form a mixture. Optionally, an unlabeled probe is included in the mixture. A melting curve is generated for the target nucleic acid by measuring fluorescence from the dsDNA binding dye as the mixture is heated. Dyes for use in nucleic acid analysis and methods for making dyes are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: University of Utah Research Foundation, Biofire Defense, LLC
    Inventors: Luming Zhou, Carl T. Wittwer, Philip Seth Bernard, Virginie Dujols
  • Patent number: 10653880
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for delivering an agent into a cell through the application of nanosecond pulse electric fields (“nsPEF's”). The method includes circuitry for delivery of an agent into a cell via known methods followed by the application of nanosecond pulse electric fields to said cell in order to facilitate entry of the agent into the nucleus of the cell. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method of enhancing gene expression in a cell comprising the application of nanosecond pulse electric fields to said cell. An apparatus for generating long and short pulses according to the present invention is also provided. The apparatus includes a pulse generator capable of producing a first pulse having a long duration and low voltage amplitude and a second pulse having a short duration and high voltage amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Old Dominion University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Beebe, Karl H. Schoenbach
  • Patent number: D884564
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co.
    Inventor: Armand Bentzen