Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 8605803
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating a precoder for uplink transmission from a mobile station. The method includes receiving information corresponding to a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix, and generating the precoder by linearly combining the first precoding matrix and the second precoding matrix. In the method, the first precoding matrix maximizes a transmission power between the mobile station and a serving base station, and the second precoding matrix minimizes an average interference value between the mobile station and at least two neighboring base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Pang-An Ting
  • Patent number: 8606831
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing efficient reputation management schemes resilient to malicious attacks. Methods for providing a reputation management scheme can comprise representing sets of service providers, raters, and ratings of service providers as a factor graph, wherein a factor node is associated with a function representing the probability distributions of the arguments of the function given the trustworthiness value and the ratings associated with a rater; and calculating the probability distributions of each variable in the reputation values of the set of providers using a belief propagation algorithm. In some embodiments, the computational complexity of the method is linear in the number of service providers and raters. In some embodiments, the method can identify malicious behavior and accordingly adjust the trustworthiness value for raters associated with malicious behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Faramarz Fekri, Erman Ayday
  • Patent number: 8607334
    Abstract: Systems and methods for secure e-mail message processing. A device is configured to receive a secure electronic message. The message may then be processed to determine whether the sender's address provided in the message is indicative of the sender's address provided in a sender's security-related certificate. A message's recipient can be notified based upon the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Michael K. Brown, Michael S. Brown, Michael G. Kirkup, Neil P. Adams, Herbert A. Little
  • Patent number: 8603480
    Abstract: The invention relates to neutralizing antibodies, and antibody fragments thereof, having high potency in neutralizing hCMV, wherein said antibodies and antibody fragments are specific for one, or a combination of two or more, hCMV gene UL products. The invention also relates to immortalized B cells that produce, and to epitopes that bind to, such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and epitopes in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Institute for Research in Biomedicine
    Inventors: Antonio Lanzavecchia, Annalisa Macagno
  • Patent number: 8603786
    Abstract: A system for the production of ethanol and co-products is provided. The system facilitates an overall reduction in the use of energy, for example, by reducing the mass of wet solids supplied to a distillation system. The system also reduces the amount of energy used to dry the wet solids component of a fermentation product, for example, by increasing the ethanol concentration of the wet solids. The system also facilitates the recovery of co-products including bioproducts and other biochemicals extracted from components of the fermentation product. The solids component of the fermentation product may be dried and constituted into a meal that may be used for animal feed, among other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Poet Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven G. Redford
  • Patent number: 8604423
    Abstract: Novel methods and instrumentation for mass spectrometry are described. Zoom-time of flight mass spectrometry (Zoom-TOF) allows increased mass resolution over a pre-determined specific range of masses. Methods for retrofitting traditional time-of-flight (TOF) and distance of flight (DOF) mass spectrometers are described, as well as novel instruments capable of performing Zoom-TOF analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation, Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Christie G. Enke, Steven J. Ray, Alexander W. Graham, Gary M. Hieftje, Elise Dennis, Charles J. Barinaga, David W. Koppenaal
  • Patent number: 8604613
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a substrate and a number of bump units over the substrate, wherein each of the bump units includes an electrically insulating bump-forming body extending in a first direction, and at least two conductive layers separated from each other on the electrically insulating bump-forming body, the at least two conductive layers extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Su-Tsai Lu, Tai-Hong Chen
  • Patent number: 8606416
    Abstract: A system and method of controlling an electricity generating system that includes at least one intermittent energy source generating plant are disclosed. An exemplary method includes calculating actual operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; calculating forecast operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; generating intermittent energy source contingency definitions from such actual operating parameters and forecast operating parameters; analysing the intermittent energy source contingency definitions to provide contingency analyses; and controlling the electricity generating system in dependence upon such contingency analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Mats Larsson, Adrian Timbus, Carsten Franke, Jorge Naccarino
  • Patent number: 8603325
    Abstract: A biomass pyrolysis oil is used as a co-feed for a heavy petroleum oil coking process to improve the operation of the coking process and to utilize biomaterial for the production of transportation fuels. The coking process may be a delayed coking process or a fluidized bed coking process and in each case, the presence of the biomass pyrolysis oil will decrease the coke drying time while reducing coke handling problems in the unit besides forming a superior coke product. In the case of a fluidized bed coking process using a gasifier for the coke, the addition of an alkali metal salt improves the operation of the gasifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Michael Siskin, Glen E. Phillips, Simon R. Kelemen, Walter Weissman
  • Patent number: 8604102
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a thermosetting composition, including: (a) about 1-35 wt % of an oligomer, wherein the oligomer is obtained by reacting a liquid epoxy resin with an aromatic primary amine having four active hydrogen atoms, and the liquid epoxy resin and the primary amine have an equivalent mole ratio of 1:0.15-1:2.50; (b) about 5-10 wt % of a long chain resin; (c) about 50-80 wt % of an epoxy resin having at least two functional groups; and (d) about 5-15 wt % of a plasticizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tien-Shou Shieh, Pei-Ching Liu
  • Patent number: 8604245
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel class of tri-aryl compounds, compositions comprising the same and processes for the preparation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Authority
    Inventors: Esther Priel, Aviv Gazit, Shimon Slavin, Sara Yitzchak
  • Patent number: 8604276
    Abstract: The subject application provides polynucleotides, compositions thereof and methods for regulating gene expression in a plant. Polynucleotides disclosed herein comprise novel sequences for a promoter isolated from Panicum virgatum (switchgrass) that initiates transcription of an operably linked nucleotide sequence. Thus, various embodiments of the invention comprise the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or fragments thereof comprising nucleotides 1 to 692 of SEQ ID NO: 2 that are capable of driving the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: C. Neal Stewart, David George James Mann
  • Patent number: 8606034
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for improving the sharpness of an image, which may prevent occurrence of distortion of an image in an edge enhancement process of the image by applying an active weight in accordance with a two-dimensional (2D) high pass filtering value of the image. The apparatus may include: a 2D high pass filter outputting a high frequency element value for the luminance values of pixels of an input image; a weight generating unit generating a weight changed depending on a magnitude of the high frequency element value; a weight applying unit applying the weight to the high frequency element value; and an edge enhancement image generating unit adding, to the luminance values of the pixels of the input image, the high frequency element value to which the weight is applied to thereby output an image of which an edge is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Dong-A University Research Foundation for Industry-Academy Cooperation
    Inventors: Joo Young Ha, Won Tae Choi, Bong Soon Kang, Byung Hyun Kim, Joo Hyun Kim, Sun Mi Sin, Won Woo Jang, Hak Yong Han, Gi Dong Lee
  • Patent number: 8606165
    Abstract: A system for heated gas fusing of toner on non-porous substrates is provided. The system uses (1) an extended fusing zone held at lower temperatures than needed for a roll nip or radiant fuser, and (2) a very low melt toner which can be fused at greatly reduced temperatures compared to conventional toners. In one form, the system is realized through (a) the use of heated gas as the low temperature extended zone fusing technology, and (b) the use of ultra-low melt (ULM) toner—which requires significantly reduced temperature compared to conventional toner. On non-porous packaging substrates the use of heated gas can limit the substrate temperature to 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory J. Kovacs, Ashish Pattekar, David Biegelsen, Lars E. Swartz, Guerino G. Sacripante, T. Brian McAneney, Edward G. Zwartz
  • Patent number: 8606337
    Abstract: During a listening window after a sleep window, a terminal receives a control signal that indicates existence of data corresponding to the terminal, and enters a sleep window if no data corresponding to the terminal exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Eunkyung Kim, Namsuk Lee, Kyung Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 8606389
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method to construct and physically join near-net shaped structural building blocks into a composite part using an interfacial reaction-activation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventors: James M. Burkes, Paul T. Evans, Cliff J. Scribner
  • Patent number: 8603705
    Abstract: Described herein are improved methods of forming polymer films, the polymer films formed thereby, and electronic devices formed form the polymer films. The methods generally include contacting a polymer with a solvent to at least partially solvate the polymer in the solvent, exposing the at least partially solvated polymer and solvent to ultrasonic energy for a duration effective to form a plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer in the solvent, and forming a solid film of the polymer, wherein the solid film comprises the plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Avishek Aiyar, Rakesh Nambiar, David Collard, Elsa Reichmanis
  • Patent number: 8604381
    Abstract: An integrated laser material processing cell allowing laser-assisted machining to be used in conjunction with directed material deposition in a single setup, achieving greater geometric accuracy and better surface finish than currently possible in existing laser freeform fabrication techniques. The integration of these two processes takes advantage of their common use of laser beam heat to process materials. The cell involves a multi-axis laser-assisted milling machine having a work spindle, a laser emitter, and means for positioning the emitter with respect to the spindle so as to direct a laser beam onto a localized area of a workpiece in proximity to a cutting tool mounted in the spindle. A powder delivery nozzle mounted on the machine and positioned adjacent to the emitter delivers powder to a deposition zone in the path of the beam, such that material deposition and laser-assisted milling may be performed substantially simultaneously in a single workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventor: Yung C. Shin
  • Patent number: 8604954
    Abstract: A timing calibration circuit for a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided. The timing calibration circuit includes a correlation unit, an adaptive filter and a delay cell. The correlation unit generates a first correlation coefficient according to a first zero-crossing possibility distribution between a first digital data and a second digital data, and generates a second correlation coefficient according to a second zero-crossing possibility distribution between the second digital data and a third digital data. The adaptive filter generates a predicted time skew according to a difference between the first correlation coefficient and the second correlation coefficient. The delay cell calibrates a clock signal of the ADC according to the predicted time skew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chun-Jen Chen, Tsung-Heng Tsai, Tzu-Yi Tang
  • Patent number: 8606759
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for recovering meta data using fragmentary information. The system for recovering meta data includes: a data server storing recovery information for recovering at least one data file and meta data related to each of the data file; and a meta data server storing the meta data related to the data files and receiving the recovery information from the data server when the meta data are lost to recover the lost meta data. By this configuration, the exemplary embodiment of the present invention stably can the lost meta data of the meta data server by using the recovery the meta data and prevent the phenomenon that the meta data collides with each other on the same directory hierarchical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Myung Hoon Cha, Hong Yeon Kim, Young Kyun Kim, Han Namgoong