Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 12080569
    Abstract: An energy-saving heat treatment device for a metal substrate in a corrosive gas includes a process frame located in a radiation field. A substrate is configured to be inserted in the process frame, and the process frame covers an outer edge of an upper surface of the substrate to form a process space having a small volume. The process frame is made on the basis of the modification to the structure of the original process frame. By covering the outer edge of the substrate, the edge is protected from contact with selenium, and chalcogen elements in contact with the edge are reduced, and even residual chalcogen elements or hydrocarbons in a chamber do not corrode the edge of the substrate. Since the process space is minimized, the chalcogenide elements in the process chamber are greatly reduced, and a barrier layer on a bottom side of the substrate is significantly thinned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: CNBM RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED GLASS MATERIALS GROUP CO., LTD., TRIUMPH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joerg Palm
  • Patent number: 12077607
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a synthetic peptide mimetic and compositions comprising the synthetic peptide mimetic that induce activation of and signaling through PAR4. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating a bleeding disorder comprising administering the synthetic peptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Paul F. Bray, Robert A. Campbell, Michelle Stoller
  • Patent number: 12080138
    Abstract: A sanitizable audio device for use in neonatal care and method of use are provided herein. The audio device comprises a smooth shell defining an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface forms a curved continuous smooth surface. The inner surface supports electronic elements. The shell defines one or more switch apertures, housing one or more actuatable electrical switches, in communication with the electronic elements. The method of use comprises generating on audio output including selecting content that is age appropriate for a particular infant, altering a sound emission of a recording of a care-giver of the particular infant, and programming a music player to emit the audio output below an age dependent volume, for an age dependent number of intervals per day and per week, for an age dependent duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Inventors: Nathalie Maitre, Will Ray, Olena Chorna, Ellyn Evans
  • Patent number: 12080528
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cleaning a showerhead are described. One of the systems includes a support section and a press plate located above the support section to be supported by the support section. The system further includes a cleaning layer located above the press plate. The cleaning layer moves to clean a showerhead. The support section contacts an arm of a spindle assembly for movement with movement of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Bramwell Britcher, Gerald Vartanian
  • Patent number: 12076749
    Abstract: The invention relates to a phaco driver system for controlling operation of an ophthalmic surgical phacoemulsification device. The phaco driver system comprises a resonant output circuit for generating a transducer voltage for driving an ultrasonic transducer of the ophthalmic surgical phacoemulsification device. Further, the phaco driver system includes a bridge unit for generating a bridge output signal for feeding the resonant output circuit, the bridge output signal being based on a composition of the first and second phase signals having a fixed mutual phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: D.O.R.C. Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center (International) B.V.
    Inventors: Kees Bijkerk, Pieter Van 'T Hof, John Peter Kuntz, Alejandro Enrique Viteri Vogel
  • Patent number: 12076554
    Abstract: Electrical stimulation of specific facial and lingual nerves creates a more sustained pulsatility activity compared to stimulation of other cranial nerves. Pulsatility of arteries has intrinsic time constraints related to the time for vasodilation/constriction and time to return to baseline (TBL) after electrical stimulation which may affect the pulsatility response. Control of temporal patterning and the stimulation waveform maximizes the physiological response to cerebral pulsatility and its resulting effects on cerebral spinal fluid penetration into the brain parenchyma for a multitude of therapeutic uses including clearing misfolded proteins and/or administered pharmacological agents, diluting endogenous neurochemical concentrations within the brain, and reducing non-synaptic coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kip Ludwig, Justin Williams, Angela Williams, Samuel Poore
  • Patent number: 12079947
    Abstract: A computing system and method to generate an avatar wearing a piece of clothing. Given a generic clothing model acquired for the avatar, the system generates a customized clothing model based on uniformly scaling the generic clothing model according to a size of the avatar, identifies one or more edges or boundaries of the clothing, deforms a clothing mesh of the scaled clothing model at the one or more edges by stretching and/or shrinking the edges, and performs a physical simulation of fitting the deformed clothing model on the avatar to generate a fitted clothing model for the avatar. User interfaces can be optionally provided to interactively adjust the scaling, deforming, and/or physical simulation of the clothing models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Linden Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah Arthur Grant, Avery Lauren Orman, David Parks, Richard Benjamin Trent Nelson
  • Patent number: 12080150
    Abstract: A fire protection system, which is configured to communicate with a central device of the fire protection system and with at least one user terminal in order to grant the user terminal access to at least part of the system information of the fire protection system, wherein the service device processes the system information for transmission to the at least one user terminal, transmits it to the user terminal and adjusts it in response to user input. A fire protection system configured to communicate with such a service device, a system for operating a fire protection system with such a service device, and a corresponding method for operating the fire protection system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH
    Inventors: Henning Liese, Detlef Mandelkau, Oliver Wissmann, Bernd Hallwass-Fedder, André Lickefett
  • Patent number: 12081365
    Abstract: A distributed system includes a plurality of compute nodes configured to process messages. The compute nodes each process messages corresponding an assigned value of a common parameter of the messages. The values are assigned to the compute nodes such that two or more compute nodes are available to process each message. The values can be assigned to the compute nodes in a grouping configuration or a striping configuration. The compute nodes also circulate one or more tokens among nodes, and perform a self-maintenance operation during a given state of possession of the token. During a self-maintenance operation, the values assigned to the compute node can be reassigned to other compute nodes to ensure processing of corresponding messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Hyannis Port Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony D. Amicangioli, Allen Bast, Christophe Juhasz
  • Patent number: 12081968
    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: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Headwater Research LLC
    Inventors: Gregory G. Raleigh, James Lavine
  • Patent number: 12077558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel phosphorous (V) (P(V)) reagents, methods for preparing thereof, and methods for preparing organophosphorous (V) compounds by using the novel reagents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Schmidt, Bin Zheng, Kyle Knouse, Justine deGruyter, Martin D. Eastgate, Phil Baran, William R. Ewing, Richard E. Olson, Ivar M. McDonald
  • Patent number: 12080783
    Abstract: Voltage-controlled spin field effect transistors (“spin transistors”) and methods for their use in switching applications are provided. In the spin transistors, spin current is transported from a spin injection contact to a spin detection contact through a multiferroic antiferromagnetic channel via magnon propagation. The spin current transport is modulated by the application of a gate voltage that increases the number of domain boundaries the multiferroic antiferromagnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Chang-Beom Eom, Tianxiang Nan, Jonathon Schad
  • Patent number: 12076312
    Abstract: Use of an AR antagonist, e.g., enzalutamide and other known AR antagonists, for reducing inflammatory genes of COVID-19 subjects is provided by the present invention. In other aspects, the present invention is directed to the use of an AR antagonist, e.g., the drug enzalutamide and other known AR antagonists, to treat lung cancer in a subject. In yet other aspects, the present invention is directed to an AR antagonist, e.g., the drug enzalutamide and other known AR antagonists, as an immunotherapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Gopal Iyer, Albert Wang
  • Patent number: 12076386
    Abstract: A composition and method for immunizing a mammal infected with Mycobacterium are disclosed. The genes gcpE, pstA, kdpC, papA2, impA, umaA1, fabG2_2, aceAB, mbtH2, lpqP, map0834c, cspB, lipN, or map1634 of M. paratuberculosis and their products that they encode are vaccine targets for Johne's and Crohn's disease. Eighteen M. paratuberculosis-specific genomic islands (MAPs) were identified. Three inverted large genomic fragments in M. paratuberculosis (INV) were also identified. These genomic identifiers represent novel virulence determinants that can be used as targets for vaccines and for developments of drugs against Johne's disease. The method can be used to deliver an immunizing compounds to a mammal, to provide an immune response against Johne's or Crohn's disease in the mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Adel Mohamed Talaat
  • Patent number: 12079900
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for making a montage based on a dialogue and an apparatus using the same. The method includes extracting a feature for making a montage based on the dialogue between at least one inquirer and at least one respondent, generating a facial feature image based on the feature, and making a montage based on the facial feature image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Won-Joo Park
  • Patent number: 12078510
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for map reconstruction based on wireless tracking are described. In one example, a described system comprises: a sensor configured to collect sensing data in a venue and obtain a plurality of trajectories, and a processor. Each trajectory is a time series of spatial coordinates (TSSC) representing a path traversed by a respective object in the venue. Each TSSC is accompanied by at least one respective time series of sensing data (TSSD) collected while the respective object traverses the path in the venue. The processor is configured for: segmenting each TSSC and its accompanying at least one TSSD into segments, bundling the plurality of trajectories based on similarity measures between pairs of the segments, fusing the bundled trajectories to generate fused trajectories, computing a shape of the fused trajectories, and generating a map of the venue based on the computed shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ORIGIN RESEARCH WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Guozhen Zhu, Chenshu Wu, Beibei Wang, K. J. Ray Liu, Oscar Chi-Lim Au
  • Patent number: 12080626
    Abstract: A system for providing direct silicon microfluidic cooling for electronics includes a cooling block with a first side and a second side. A plurality of micro-pin fins are disposed on the first side of the cooling block. A thermal interface material layer contacts a second side of the cooling block while a manifold is coupled to the cooling block and faces the micro-pin fins. The manifold has an inlet port and an outlet port for supporting cooling fluid flow between the inlet port and outlet port. The cooling fluid from the inlet port and outlet port also flows between the micro-pin fins for removing heat from the micro-pin fins absorbed by the cooling block from the thermal interface layer. The inlet port and outlet port each further comprise a cooling block port having a first geometry that corresponds with edges of a second geometry formed by the micro-pin fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Daniel Lorenzini Gutierrez, Yogendra Joshi
  • Patent number: 12076080
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of treatment of an animal using the apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes a scalpel, a laser included in the scalpel, and a visible light source included in the scalpel. The visible light source provides a visible targeting beam. The method of treatment includes activating a visible targeting beam in a laser scalpel. The visible targeting beam has an illumination intensity. The method further includes illuminating a tumor that includes cancerous cells and non-cancerous cells with the visible targeting beam, activating an invisible mid-infrared laser included in the scalpel to produce a laser spot at the tumor, and ablating the cancerous cells while leaving the non-cancerous cells substantially undamaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: University of Iowa Research Foundation
    Inventor: Fatima Toor
  • Patent number: 12076663
    Abstract: Methods for of processing an oxygen containing feedstock to an amine reacted liquid or solid phase with a different solubility, polarity and/or functionality may, in various embodiments, comprise steps of contacting the amine with an oxygen containing hydrocarbon with temperature to facilitate reactions to reduce the oxygen content and modulate the solubility, polarity and/or functionality of the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Western Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeramie Joseph Adams, Jean-Pascal Planche
  • Patent number: 12080161
    Abstract: A method for vehicle prediction, planning, and control is described. The method includes separately encoding traffic state information at an intersection into corresponding traffic state latent spaces. The method also includes aggregating the corresponding traffic state latent spaces to form a generalized traffic geometry latent space. The method further includes interpreting the generalized traffic geometry latent space to form a traffic flow map including current and future vehicle trajectories. The method also includes decoding the generalized traffic geometry latent space to predict a vehicle behavior according to the traffic flow map based on the current and future vehicle trajectories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuan-Hui Lee, Charles Christopher Ochoa, Arjun Bhargava, Chao Fang, Kun-Hsin Chen