Abstract: Glaucoma drainage devices including vario-stable valves and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A glaucoma drainage device includes a drainage lumen and a valve system coupled to the drainage lumen to control the flow of fluid through the drainage lumen. The valve system includes an adjustable valve with a diaphragm that is in communication with the drainage lumen and is movable to occupy varying amounts of the drainage lumen. In some embodiments, the valve system is maintained in a desired position without the use of power such that power is only needed when changing a position of the adjustable valve.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Alcon Research, Ltd.
Inventors:
Sebastian Böhm, Leslie A. Field, Matthew J. A. Rickard
Abstract: A security method in a wireless communication system is provided, which is used for providing a plurality of security associations between a user equipment, a relay node, and a base station node in a wireless communication system. The user equipment authenticates with a serving gateway in the wireless communication system through the relay node, such that a security association between the user equipment and the relay node is established correspondingly. The relay node establishes a second security association between the relay node and the base station node through the base station node.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 13, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Industrial Technology Research Institute
Abstract: A method of monitoring heat damage to a tissue during a heat ablation procedure is disclosed. The method comprising: providing images of the tissue, extracting at least one parameter being indicative of a biological response to heat, and using the parameter(s) for determining the heat damage to the tissue.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 6, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Tel Hashomer Medical Research Infrastructure and Services Ltd.
Abstract: A linear actuating device includes a track unit having an insulating sleeve made of non-metallic material and surrounding an axis, a plurality of coils mounted spacedly and sleevingly on the insulating sleeve along the axis, and a shell containing the insulating sleeve and the coils. The linear actuating device also includes a forcer unit having an elongate member extending through the insulating sleeve, having a segment configured for connecting to a vehicle shaft, and being movable along the axis relative to the insulating sleeve. The forcer unit also includes a plurality of magnets mounted spacedly relative to the axis and sleevingly on the elongate member.
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors which inhibit replication of HIV in HIV infected cells, and novel intermediate compounds used therein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 26, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
Inventors:
Stacey Heumann, Christopher M. Levins, Steven Pfeiffer, Donald Tang
Abstract: A safe driving providing system for supporting a safe driving of a vehicle includes: a radar for transmitting a signal of a predetermined frequency bandwidth to a plurality of vehicles, analyzing signals provided by the vehicles, calculating location information and distance information of the vehicles, and finding inter-vehicle distance information of the vehicles based on the location information and the distance information; and a controller for receiving operation speed information from a vehicle information terminal device installed in each vehicle, determining driving safety of the plurality of vehicles based on the received operation speed information and inter-vehicle distance information provided by the radar, and transmitting a warning message for safe driving to the vehicle information terminal device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Hyun Seo Oh, Hyun Kyun Choi, Hyun Suk Kim, Jong-Hyun Park, Sung Won Sohn, Sangwoo Lee, Woong Cho
Abstract: A secure message that includes an attachment is received at a server. The secure message may have a secure layer that indicates that the secure message is at least digitally signed. The secure message may be provided without the attachment to the mobile device over a wireless network. A request may be received from the mobile device to access the attachment. The request may include an attachment identifier (ID) that identifies the attachment in accordance with a message-attachment indexing system. In response to the request to access the attachment, the server may perform an index lookup to find the attachment based upon the attachment ID, may look through the secure layer of the secure message in order to locate the attachment within the secure message, and may render at least an initial portion of the attachment by the server in a format for viewing by the mobile device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 31, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Research In Motion Limited
Inventors:
Michael K. Brown, Neil P. Adams, Michael S. Brown
Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the membrane transporter NaPi2b (SLC34A2) as a target for therapy, including immunotherapy, and particularly cancer therapy. The SLC34A2 epitope peptide encompassing amino acids 312-340 of SLC34A2 has been identified as an ovarian cancer epitope using the monoclonal antibody MX35. The invention also relates to the use of SLC34A2 and particularly SLC34A2 peptides in generating antibodies which have anti-tumor or anti-cancer activity or in stimulating an immunological response. The invention further relates to antibodies specifically directed against NaPi2b (SLC34A2) and the SLC34A2 peptide(s), including veneered, chimeric, single chain and humanized antibodies. Methods for generating an immune response and for treatment of tumors and cancer are also provided. Assays for screening and identifying compounds directed against SLC34A2, including the SLC34A2 epitope peptide, and additional antibodies are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2009
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignees:
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Ltd., Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Inventors:
Gerd Ritter, Beatrice Yin, Anne Murray, George Mark, Lloyd Old, Kenneth Lloyd, Serhiy Souchelnytskiy, Ivan Gout, Valeriy Filonenko, Ramziya Kiyamova
Abstract: An electrical transformer is disclosed which includes an enclosure; a magnetic core assembly arranged within the enclosure, the magnetic core assembly having a first core limb, a second core limb and a third core limb; and three coil assemblies having a first coil assembly, a second coil assembly, and a third coil assembly. At least two diaphragms are arranged within the enclosure, the diaphragms being essentially sealed to a first outermost coil of the first coil assembly, and arranged for guiding a cooling fluid in series through a first inner fluid duct, a second inner fluid duct, a third inner fluid duct and an extra-coil volume along outsides of third, second and first outermost coil coils of the third, second and first coil assemblies.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 17, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Abb Research Ltd.
Inventors:
Bernardo Galletti, Arthouros Iordanidis, Jasmin Smajic, Martin Carlen
Abstract: A novel one-piece fluid reservoir assembly for use in conjunction with an insulin infusion pump. The single piece fluid reservoir assembly includes a barrel body, a male luer fitting integral with the barrel body, a sealing surface integral with the barrel body, the sealing surface for sealing against the pump housing when the fluid reservoir assembly is inserted into the pump housing. Further, the barrel includes, as part of the one-piece fluid reservoir assembly, threads for engagement with threads on an opening in the fluid pump so that the fluid assembly can be inserted into the fluid pump, engage the threads and rotation therewith will locate the fluid reservoir assembly within the pump. Thereafter, a piston in the pump may be incrementally advanced to act upon a plunger in the barrel assembly to force a fluid within the barrel assembly through the male luer fitting and through a conduit engaged therewith to a remote infusion set.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2005
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Applied Diabetes Research, Inc.
Inventors:
George R. Lynch, Allen E. Brandenburg, Bret Price
Abstract: Systems and methods for power and bidirectional data transmission using a plurality of wires. A multiphase digital signal is downlinked from a main unit to a remote unit over the plurality of wires and is converted to a DC power signal used to power the remote unit. Uplink data is sent from the remote to the main over one selected wire during a predetermined time period for an uplink transmission by amplitude modulating the received digital signal at the remote. During an uplink, the output impedance of the line driver in the main unit connected to the wire selected for the uplink is increased to allow for the uplink amplitude modulation. The modulated signal is maintained within the noise margins of the digital circuits in the main and remote units.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 16, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research
Abstract: Provided are coated oil and gas well production devices and methods of making and using such coated devices. In one form, the coated device includes one or more cylindrical bodies, hardbanding on at least a portion of the exposed outer surface, exposed inner surface, or a combination of both exposed outer or inner surface of the one or more cylindrical bodies, and a coating on at least a portion of the inner surface, the outer surface, or a combination thereof of the one or more cylindrical bodies. The coating includes one or more ultra-low friction layers, and one or more buttering layers interposed between the hardbanding and the ultra-low friction coating. The coated oil and gas well production devices may provide for reduced friction, wear, erosion, corrosion, and deposits for well construction, completion and production of oil and gas.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 30, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Inventors:
Hyun Woo Jin, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Adnan Ozekcin, Tabassumul Haque, Mehmet Deniz Ertas, Bo Zhao, Jeffrey Roberts Bailey, Terris Field Walker
Abstract: Provided are compounds of the formula: wherein m=0-3 and n=0-3, and R1 represents CxH2x wherein x=0 to 4 or cyclohexane; R2 represents H, a C1-C6 alkyl group at any of the ortho-, meta- or para-positions, a residue including heteroatoms chosen from O, N, and S, or mixtures thereof; and R3 and R4 represent hydrocarbon residues of OXO-C5-C9 alcohols which are different isomers of equal carbon number or different in carbon number. Also provided are processes for making the compounds and plasticized polymer compositions containing said compounds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 5, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Inventors:
Jihad Mohammed Dakka, Stephen Zushma, Christine A. Costello, Edmund John Mozeleski, Diana S. Smirnova, Allen David Godwin, Pierre J. Osterrieth, Jörg Friedrich Wilhelm Weber, Paul Hamden Daniels, Thomas M. Larson, Catherine A. Faler
Abstract: Provided is a process for making non-phthalate plasticizers, by acylating an aromatic compound with a succinic anhydride to form a keto-acid, and then esterifying the keto-acid with C4-C13 OXO-alcohols to form a plasticizer compound. The aromatic rings of the aromatic compound may also be optionally hydrogenated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 21, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Inventors:
Jihad Mohammed Dakka, Edmund John Mozeleski, Lisa Saunders Baugh, Karla Schall Colle, Allen David Godwin, Diana S. Smirnova, Jörg Friedrich Wilhelm Weber, Stephen Zushma
Abstract: A polymeric material, prepared by reacting a mixture comprising a polyorganosiloxane having one or more isocyanate-reactive functional groups, polyisocyanate, and polyol, is provided. The isocyanate-reactive functional groups, typically one or two, are attached to only a single end of the polyorganosiloxane chains. The polymeric material may be used to form coatings on a substrate and to inhibit fouling on surfaces exposed to aqueous conditions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 13, 2012
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
NDSU Research Foundation
Inventors:
Dean C. Webster, Abdullah Ekin, Stacy Sommer
Abstract: A communication relay method of a communication relay apparatus in a multi-mode wireless environment includes: sensing a wireless access environment of a terminal based on an object sensing function; deciding whether or not to provide a predetermined communication relay service to the terminal; and deciding an operation network which is to provide the predetermined communication relay service.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Abstract: An antenna array provided with two frames which form waveguides. Each frame includes a plate portion and frame portion. The plate portion includes grooves laid out next to one another. Each groove has an open end and a closed end. The frame portion is arranged adjacent to the plate portion. The frame portion has an opening that opens in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the grooves extend and a direction in which the grooves are laid out. A dielectric substrate is held between the two frames. The dielectric substrate includes an array of feeders and electronic circuits, each circuit having a discrete active element. The circuits are exposed from the opening of either one of the frames. The frames are superimposed with the dielectric substrate so that the grooves form the waveguides. Each circuit is electromagnetically connected to a corresponding one of the waveguides.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2009
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Inter-University Research Institute National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Abstract: A method of configuring a frame for fast wireless communication and an apparatus for fast wireless communication are provided. The apparatus for fast wireless communication includes: a frame configuration unit configuring a frame including transmission data; a demultiplexing unit demultiplexing the transmission data included in the frame into N number of parallel streams (N: positive number greater than 2); N number of coding and modulation units connected in parallel to perform error correction coding and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with respect to each of the N number of parallel streams; and a multiplexing unit multiplexing outputs of the N number of coding and modulation units into serial streams.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 3, 2008
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2013
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Inventors:
Woo Yong Lee, Kyeongpyo Kim, Jin Kyeong Kim, Yong Sun Kim, Hyoung Jin Kwon
Abstract: A photon collector has a reflecting metal layer to increase photon collection efficiency in a solid state imaging sensor. The reflecting metal layer reflects incident light internally to a photosensor. A plurality of photon collectors is formed in a wafer substrate over an array of photosensors. The photon collector is formed in an opening in an insulating layer provided over each photosensor.