Patents Assigned to Research
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Publication number: 20130322269Abstract: This invention describes method and apparatus for automatic gain control (AGC) for a TD-LTE system, taking into consideration the TD-LTE frame structure. In one embodiment, an AGC method comprises: adjusting RF gain for subframe j (where 0<=j<=9) in a radio frame according to an average peak signal power of subframe j in previous radio frames when a terminal is lack of information in downlink timing and in uplink/downlink configuration; computing a first average signal power in one or more downlink subframes as received from at least one base station when the terminal has information in downlink timing but is lack of information in uplink/downlink configuration; and computing a second average signal power in one or more downlink subframes as received from at least one base station when the terminal has information in downlink timing and in uplink/downlink configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company LimitedInventors: Kai ZHANG, Henry YE
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Publication number: 20130320765Abstract: Systems and methods to operate a power supply. A power supply has an inductor and a capacitor coupled in a substantially series connection. The power supply has a first selectably conductive path that selectably couples a first power pack to the series reactive circuit and a second selectably conductive path that selectably couples the series reactive circuit to a substantially series combination of the first power pack and a second power pack. When the first power pack output voltage is above the threshold, the first selectably conductive path couples electrical current between the first power pack to the series reactive circuit. Otherwise, the second selectably conductive path couples electrical current between the series combination and the series reactive circuit. The controller further transfers charge from the second power pack to the first power pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Ralf Liebermann
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Publication number: 20130323243Abstract: This invention provides fusion proteins comprising a Filovirus glycoprotein segment and an immunoglobulin polypeptide segment. The fusion proteins are useful in immunogenic compositions to protect against infections by Filoviruses, such as Ebola virus, in both humans and non-human animals. The fusion proteins are also useful in diagnostic assays to detect Filovirus infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND, The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of The Dept of HHSInventors: Gerardo Kaplan, Krishnamurthy Konduru, Jerome Jacques, Sina Bavari, Steven Bradfute
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Publication number: 20130319775Abstract: A weight scale for a patient lift system includes a frame assembly. A plurality of force sensors are coupled to the frame assembly. Each of the plurality of force sensors is configured to generate a signal indicative of a measured weight force. A foot rest panel is coupled to the frame assembly. The foot rest panel is configured to support a patient. An angle sensor is operatively coupled to the frame assembly. The angle sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of an angle of the frame assembly with respect to a horizontal reference plane. A controller is coupled in signal communication with each force sensor and the angle sensor. The controller includes one or more processors configured to receive signals from each force sensor and the angle sensor to determine an actual weight force of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: LIKO RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Liew Chooi Ngoh, Wen Yuanqiang
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Publication number: 20130326566Abstract: A system for providing virtual AV service includes a local device middleware (LDM) media server which stores AV contents and a resource cooperation server (RCS) which separates the AV contents from the LDM media server into video contents and audio contents. The video contents and the audio contents are reproduced by an LDM video renderer and an LDM audio renderer, respectively. An LDM control point (LDMCP) controls the LDM media server and the LDM media renderers using the LDM protocol and a virtual device ensembler (VDE) controls the RCS and the LDMCP.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Chunglae CHO, Sung-Soo KIM, Yun Kyung PARK, Jin Tae KIM, Kyeong Deok MOON, Jun Hee PARK, Ji Yeon SON
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Publication number: 20130325893Abstract: The processing of data and inventory, particularly with regards to packages having an issue affecting their delivery, is disclosed. Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure help enable the quick, efficient, and accurate resolution to such issues. In various embodiments, a method performed by a computer program operating on a computer system is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, by the computer system, an identifier for a package; in response to receiving the identifier, automatically retrieving, by the computer system, a database entry associated with the package from a database in communication with the computer system; determining, by the computer system, based on the database entry, that the package was refused by an intended recipient; and automatically modifying, by the computer system, a status field of the database entry to indicate the package was refused.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Northwest Research, Inc.Inventors: Jon Asay, John Bickerstaff, Thomas Brenna, Trisha Erickson, Greg Fowler, Glen Lewis
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Publication number: 20130322461Abstract: Embodiments of various methods, devices and systems are described herein that use a unified bus communication protocol. One such device comprises an interface for sending and receiving signals, and a mux and sync engine coupled to the interface and configured to determine time slots for sent and received signals according to a unified bitstream frame format. The unified bitstream frame format comprises a plurality of frame channels for transmitting data in a bitstream mode of communication such that data from the frame channels are time-multiplexed across the frame channels one bit at a time, wherein one of the frame channels is allocated as a control channel comprising individual control bits from control data, and at least one of the frame channels is allocated as a virtual frame channel comprising individual data bits taken from digital word data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventor: Jens Kristian Poulsen
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Publication number: 20130323777Abstract: A ligand design allows compact nanoparticle materials, such as quantum dots (QDs), with excellent colloidal stability over a wide range of pH and under high salt concentrations. Self-assembled biomolecular conjugates with QDs can be obtained which are stable in biological environments. Energy transfer with these ligands is maximized by minimizing distances between QDs/nanoparticles and donors/acceptors directly attached to the ligands or assembled on their surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Naval Research LaboratoryInventors: Igor L. Medintz, Kimihiro Susumu, Michael H. Stewart
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Publication number: 20130323818Abstract: A novel thermophilic bacterium is provided, which has a 16S rDNA sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO. 1. The thermophilic bacterium excretes extracellular proteins having excellent metal-ion binding ability, being useful in the treatment of boiler equipment, pipelines, geothermal wells or industrial wastewater or hard water.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yin-Lung HAN, Tai-Rong GUO, Jo-Shu CHANG, I-Ju CHOU
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Publication number: 20130325367Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically determining a static tip resistance of a dynamically-loaded component having a tip. One example method comprises receiving gauge data from one or more gauges associated with the component proximate the tip. The gauge data may represent measurements related to one or more impacts on the component. The example method may further comprise determining measured data and estimated data corresponding to the one or more impacts on the component based at least in part on the gauge data. Furthermore, the method may comprise performing an inversion to select the estimated data having the least amount of difference in comparison to the measured data. The method may also comprise determining the static tip resistance based at least in part on the selected estimated data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Michael McVay, Khiem Tat Tran, Rodrigo Herrera, Peter Lai
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Publication number: 20130324392Abstract: Provided is a production method for a porous alumina material, comprising the steps of: mixing an alkoxysilane solution that comprises an alkoxysilane, a mixed solvent comprising water and an alcohol, and an inorganic acid, with an aluminum solution comprising an aluminum compound and water, to prepare a mixed solution in which the aluminum compound and the alkoxysilane are dissolved in the mixed solvent; co-precipitating aluminum hydroxide with a silicon compound in the mixed solution, to form a precipitate; and baking the precipitate to form a porous alumina material comprising aluminum oxide and silicon oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: RENAISSANCE ENERGY RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Hasegawa, Osamu Okada, Chihiro Ito
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Publication number: 20130323780Abstract: The present invention provides novel promoter and terminator sequences for use in heterologous gene expression in eukaryotic cells, such as algal cells. The invention further provides expression cassettes comprising a promoter, as described herein, operably linked to a heterologous gene. The invention further provides expression vectors and host eukaryotic cells, such as algal cells, for expressing a protein encoded by the heterologous gene; and methods for identifying promoters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: JANE C. SCHNEIDER, BO LIU, REKHA SESHADRI
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Publication number: 20130324060Abstract: A mobile communications device may include an RE signal source configured to generate RF signals over an RE frequency band(s), and an RF transmitter coupled to the RE signal source. The RF transmitter may include an RF amplifier configured to operate over a plurality of different power control levels. The RF amplifier may have an input configured to receive the RF signals from the RF signal source and an output having an impedance which changes based upon changes between the different power control levels. The RF transmitter may further include a shunt resistor(s) coupling the output of the amplifier to a voltage reference, and the shunt resistor(s) may be configured to decrease a highest impedance change of the RE amplifier output to below a threshold impedance level. An antenna(s) may be coupled to the output of the RF amplifier to operate over the at least one RF frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Dennis Keith Shaw, Prasad Venkatesh Madabusi Srinivasan
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Publication number: 20130322330Abstract: A communication apparatus for a group moving object in a communication system includes a Radio Frequency (RF) transmission/reception unit configured to simultaneously set up links with two or more Base Stations (BSs) placed on right and left sides of a road or a track, a baseband unit configured to perform baseband signal processing on signals transmitted and received through the RF transmission/reception unit, and a network interface unit connected to the baseband unit and configured to establish an Ethernet connection for providing communication service to devices within the group moving object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Electronics And Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Bong-Su KIM, Kwang-Seon KIM, Min-Soo KANG, Woo-Jin BYUN
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Publication number: 20130325438Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touchscreen keyboard with corrective word prediction. A method for correcting text input on an electronic device is described. The method comprises: displaying a virtual keyboard on a touchscreen, the virtual keyboard including a plurality of keys; receiving input from the virtual keyboard; generating one or more predicted sets of characters in accordance with the received input; and displaying a predicted set of characters at a designated location when the received input does not match one of the predicted sets of characters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Jason Tyler GRIFFIN, Alistair Robert HAMILTON, Donald Somerset McCulloch MCKENZIE, Jerome PASQUERO
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Publication number: 20130326736Abstract: Methods of inhibiting plant parasitic nematodes, methods of obtaining transgenic plants useful for inhibiting such nematodes, and transgenic plants that are resistant to plant parasitic nematodes through inhibition of plant nematode CLE peptide receptor genes are provided. Methods for expressing genes at plant parasitic nematode feeding sites with plant nematode CLE peptide receptor gene promoters are also provided, along with nematode CLE peptide receptor gene promoters that are useful for expressing genes in nematode feeding sites as well as transgenic plants and nematode resistant transgenic plants comprising the promoters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, CORNELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Melissa G. Mitchum, Amy Replogle, Jianying Wang, Xiaohong Wang, Shiyan Chen, Ping Lang, Eric L. Davis, Thomas J. Baum, Richard S. Hussey
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Publication number: 20130324520Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating cancer using modulators of retinoid X receptor gamma (RXRG). The ability of RXRG antagonists to disrupt the association of complexes comprising RXRG is demonstrated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCHInventors: Xiaoliang Xu, Suresh Jhanwar
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Publication number: 20130320804Abstract: A thermoacoustic energy converter for converting heat energy to electricity includes an annular resonator with a regenerator disposed therein. An electro-mechanical transducer is coupled to the annular resonator and in fluid communication with the working fluid. When heat is applied to one end of the annular resonator, a traveling acoustic wave is generated in the annular resonator causing vibrations in the working fluid that actuate the electro-mechanical transducer to generate electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: University of Utah Research FoundationInventors: Orest G. Symko, Ivan A. Rodriguez, Ryan Behunin, Marie Urry
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Publication number: 20130324433Abstract: Provided herein is a method of reversing or preventing a target cell's resistance to a death receptor agonist. Also provided are methods of screening for biomarkers resistance of and monitoring resistance to death receptor agonists. Also provided are methods of selectively inducing apoptosis in a target cell, treating a subject with cancer, autoimmune or inflammatory diseases, comprising administering compositions provided herein. Further provided are compositions comprising agents that modulate CARD containing proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Tong Zhou, Robert P. Kimberly
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Publication number: 20130319472Abstract: A device and method for treating the surface of a semiconductor wafer provides a treatment fluid in the form of a dispersion of gas bubbles in a treatment liquid generated at acoustic pressures less than those required to induce cavitation in the treatment liquid. A resonator supplies ultrasonic or megasonic energy to the treatment fluid and is configured to create an interference pattern in the treatment fluid comprising regions of pressure amplitude minima and maxima at an interface of the treatment fluid and the semiconductor wafer. The resonator is mounted in the space between the rotary chuck body and a wafer carried in rotation with the chuck body; however, the resonator itself is stationary in relation to rotation of the wafer and chuck body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: LAM RESEARCH AGInventors: Dieter FRANK, Alexander LIPPERT, Andreas GLEISSNER
