Patents Assigned to Research
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Publication number: 20150048857Abstract: A universal meter socket for portable test equipment has low insertion and extraction forces. The universal meter socket is durable and light in weight, providing a long service life. The universal meter socket contains field-cleanable terminals with replaceable wear components. The universal meter socket also optimizes short current paths for the high current section of the meter, further reducing equipment weight by reducing wire weight and volt-ampere (hereinafter sometimes VA) drive requirements for test equipment. The universal meter socket complies with ANSI C12.7-2005 REQUIREMENTS FOR WATTHOUR METER SOCKETS. The universal meter socket is generally intended for use with electricity meters that comply with ANSI C12 requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Radian Research, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Joyce, Robert L. Kindschi
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Publication number: 20150050566Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating electricity from a long chain hydrocarbon, said method comprising contacting the liquid non-polar substrate with a plurality of enzymes, wherein at least one enzyme is non-electric current/potential enzyme that functions as a catalyst for chemical reaction transforming a first substrate or byproduct to a second substance that can be used with an additional electric current/potential generating enzyme.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: CFD Research CorporationInventors: Yevgenia Ulyanova, Shelley Minteer, Sameer Singhal, Vojtech Svoboda, Jianjun Wei
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Publication number: 20150047136Abstract: A motor vehicle washing system washing brush construction, having a plurality of washing brushes associated with a support tube, each said washing brush having a plate body die-cut so as to form thereon a plurality of cuts providing a corresponding plurality of contoured strips joined by a central band element, with the central band element being wound on the support tube to arrange the contoured strips on both sides of the central band element, with a pair of ring elements being threaded on the support tube, on both sides of washing brush, to clamp the central band element in order to move the support tube contoured strips away from one another and cause opposite strips to move toward another, by pairs, thereby arranging the opposite strips with a substantially 90° relationship to the support tube axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: R&D-RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT S.R.L.Inventor: Fernandino BERNARDI PIRINI
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Publication number: 20150047417Abstract: The present invention relates to a core-shell nanoparticle, a method of fabricating the same and a gas sensor using the same, more particularly to a core-shell nanoparticle which includes a core including a first metal oxide and a shell including a second metal oxide, the first metal oxide and the second metal oxide being oxides of the same metal having different oxidation states, a method of fabricating the same and a gas sensor using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation FoundationInventors: Hyung Ju PARK, Nak Jin CHOI, Moon Youn JUNG, Dae Sik LEE, Hyuntae KANG, Kang Hyun PARK
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Publication number: 20150047555Abstract: Methods of making electrically conductive, doped zinc oxide nanowires and nanowire films are provided. The methods comprises the steps of forming an aqueous solution comprising a dopant-containing precursor salt, a zinc-containing precursor salt and a pH buffering agent and heating the aqueous solution to a temperature below its boiling point in the presence of seed crystals, whereby doped zinc oxide nanowires are grown in situ from the seed crystals in the aqueous solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Xudong WANG, Fei WANG, Alexander V. KVIT
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Publication number: 20150050698Abstract: Provided are a nucleic acid gel matrix for the cell-free protein synthesis of a cell nucleus replicate that contains an X-type nucleic acid nanostructure, an expression plasmid containing a DNA fragment, transcription and translation constituents, and a lipid membrane component, and a method for producing same. The nucleic acid gel matrix for the cell-free synthesis of a cell nucleus replicate is a polymorphic gel matrix that contains the X-type nucleic acid nanostructure, the expression plasmid containing the DNA fragment, the transcription and translation constituents, and the lipid membrane component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2012Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Soong Ho Um, Sun Ju Bae
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Publication number: 20150047651Abstract: The present technology relates to a compact high fidelity earplug. The earplug has a central column having a hollow sound channel. Inner and outer platforms extend radially from the central column to define a first and second chamber. Openings in the first and second platforms allow sound to enter into the first chamber, and pass into the second chamber. Sound is then directed through an opening in the central column, into the sound chamber, and towards the ear of a wearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Etymotic Research, Inc.Inventors: Andy Haapapuro, Viorel Drambarean, Mead C. Killion, Gail Gudmundsen, Jonathan Stewart
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Publication number: 20150050634Abstract: A system for use in a lecture environment in which a lecturer delivers a lecture to students. The lecturer can broadcast questions to the students to test their understanding of the subject matter of the lecture, and the students' answers to those question are made available to the lecturer in real time. This makes it possible for the lecturer to adapt the lecture to the students' level of understanding of the subject matter of the lecture.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: University of Florida Research Foundation, IncorporatedInventors: Walter E. Drane, Susan J. Cardinal
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Publication number: 20150048714Abstract: An electroactive polymer structure includes a first flexible electrode, a second flexible electrode, and a polymer dielectric layer with ionic liquid on top of the first electrode including at least two regions. Each region of the polymer dielectric layer includes a different ionic liquid concentration. The polymer dielectric layer is in between the first flexible electrode and the second flexible electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Tse Nga Ng, Kye-Si Kwon
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Publication number: 20150051956Abstract: A method and system for determining an optimized price schedule that controls the simplicity of a price schedule while maintaining efficiency in terms of welfare. A welfare function and a simplicity metric representing a simplicity of price schedules are determined. A full objective, corresponding to a comparison of the welfare with respect to the simplicity of each price schedule is determined and an optimized price schedule, representing the schedule having the highest computed full objective, is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicants: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Xerox CorporationInventors: Christopher R. Dance, Onno R. Zoeter, Daniel H. Greene
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Publication number: 20150051847Abstract: A system and method for anomaly detection is provided. The system (100) and method (200) include utilizing one or more processors, such as in a server, for receiving (108) operational and dynamics data (104) from sensors associated with devices (102), filtering the data, establishing a set of baseline dynamics data and eliminating data dependencies (110). The system and method further include generating an expected level of data variation (112), identifying an anomaly based on a deviation of the device data from the baseline data normalized by the expected level of data variation (114), optionally correlating an anomaly with potential causes, and providing an output indicating an anomaly (116).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Leonard Angello, Tim Lieuwen, David Robert Noble, Brian Poole
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Publication number: 20150047785Abstract: A plasma processing device may include a plasma processing chamber, a plasma electrode assembly, a wafer stage, a plasma producing gas inlet, a plurality of vacuum ports, at least one vacuum pump, and a multi-port valve assembly. The multi-port valve assembly may comprise a movable seal plate positioned in the plasma processing chamber. The movable seal plate may comprise a transverse port sealing surface that is shaped and sized to completely overlap the plurality of vacuum ports in a closed state, to partially overlap the plurality of vacuum ports in a partially open state, and to avoid substantial overlap of the plurality of vacuum ports in an open state. The multi-port valve assembly may comprise a transverse actuator coupled to the movable seal plate and a sealing actuator coupled to the movable seal plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Michael C. Kellogg, Daniel A. Brown, Leonard J. Sharpless, Allan K. Ronne
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Publication number: 20150050646Abstract: Disclosed are screening methods for determining a human subject's propensity to develop a vascular disorder and/or age-related macular degeneration (AMD), therapeutic or prophylactic compounds for treating disease or inhibiting its development, and methods of treating patients to alleviate symptoms of the disease, prevent or delay its onset, or inhibit its progression. The inventions are based on the discovery that persons with a genome having a deletion of the CFHR-1 and/or CFHR-3 gene, which normally lie on human chromosome 1 between DNA encoding CFH and CFHR-4, are at reduced risk of developing AMD, and elevated risk of developing vascular disease such as aneurysm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: University of Iowa Research FoundationInventor: Gregory S. Hageman
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Publication number: 20150047436Abstract: A strain and crack sensor senses an amount of strain induced in an object. A receiving planar antenna has a first resonant frequency and is configured to receive a querying signal at the first resonant frequency. A transmitting planar antenna has a second resonant frequency that is twice the first resonant frequency. At least one of the receiving planar antenna and the transmitting planar antenna is bonded to the object so that at least one of strain induced in the object or a crack formed in the object causes a shift in at least one of the first resonant frequency or the second resonant frequency. A matching element is in electrical communication with the first planar antenna and the second planar antenna. The matching element is configured to cause the transmitting planar antenna to radiate a response signal in response to the querying signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaohua Yi, Chunhee Cho, Benjamin Cook, Yang Wang, Manos Tentzeris, Roberto T. Leon
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Publication number: 20150049731Abstract: A wireless network includes a set of nodes. Each node includes a transmitter and a receiver. A block of data bits is converted to a block of data symbols. The block of data symbols is partitioning timewise into groups of data symbols. A set of subcarriers is assigned to each group of data symbols, and each group of data symbols is spread to a chip sequence using a coding block of spreading sequences, wherein the spreading sequences are based on types of the groups of data symbols. Then, after the spreading, the chips are transmitted as orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) data symbols on the assigned subcarriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Chunjie Duan, Philip Orlik
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Publication number: 20150050319Abstract: The present disclosure encompasses QS-21-based structurally-defined adjuvants to address the need for stronger, safer, and easier-to-access adjuvants. The new compositions can provide tools for addressing long-standing mechanistic questions concerning saponin immune-potentiation through structure-activity-relationship (SAR) studies. Most advantageously, the compounds of the disclosure may be formulated into pharmaceutically acceptable compositions, including vaccines that may be delivered to a subject human or animal subject. The compounds can then act as, for example, an adjuvant to augment an immunological response to a vaccine immunogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventor: Pengfei Wang
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Publication number: 20150051300Abstract: An antiinfective-free formulation for prophylactic treatment of mastitis in dry cows comprises a seal formulation, having approximately 65% by weight of bismuth sub-nitrate in a gel based on aluminum stearate. The seal formulation is prepared by adding the bismuth sub-nitrate to the gel base in at least two separate stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Bimeda Research & Development LimitedInventors: Vincent McNally, James Patrick Morgan
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Publication number: 20150049982Abstract: An optical device includes a first optical cavity, a second optical cavity, a first light guide and a second light guide. Each of the first and second optical cavities is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and is configured to store light. The first light guide has an input, and is optically coupled to the first optical cavity by a first coupling strength. In addition, the first light guide is optically coupled to the second optical cavity by a second coupling strength. The second light guide has an output, and is coupled to the second optical cavity by a third coupling strength. The first coupling strength is greater than the second coupling strength, and the third coupling strength is greater than the second coupling strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2012Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Minghao Qi, Li Fan, Jian Wang, Leo Tom Varghese
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Publication number: 20150048853Abstract: An impedance analysis device adapted to an object under test (OUT) includes a signal generator, a signal analysis unit and a processing unit. The signal generator outputs a pulse signal to the OUT. The signal analysis unit acquires a response signal which the OUT responds to the pulse signal, and analyzes the response signal to obtain an analysis parameter. The processing unit coupled to the signal analysis unit receives the analysis parameter, so as to obtain an impedance variation characteristic of the OUT.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Cihun-Siyong GONG, Yi-Feng LUO, Li-Ren HUANG, Kai-Cheung JUANG
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Publication number: 20150049569Abstract: A memory device including at least one bit-line decoding circuit, at least one word-line decoding circuit, a plurality of memory blocks, and a plurality of switches is provided. The sizes of the plurality of memory blocks include at least one first size and a second size, and the first size is greater than the second size. The plurality of memory blocks with the first size are grouped as at least one first group, and the plurality of memory blocks with the second size are grouped as at least one second group. Compared to the first group, the second group is closer to the bit-line decoding circuit and/or the word-line decoding circuit. The switches are controlled by at least one control signal, so as to enable or disable the first group and/or the second group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yung-Fa Chou, Ding-Ming Kwai
