Patents Assigned to Research
  • Relay station for cell information exchange between adjacent BSs over air links in cellular systems
    Patent number: 8600418
    Abstract: The present invention relates to relay customer premises equipment (RCPE) for exchanging operational information and coexistence information of each cell between adjacent cells in a cellular system. The present invention enables effective control between multiple cells by directly transmitting operational information and coexistence information between cells over air links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gwangzeen Ko, Chang Joo Kim, Myung Sun Song, Sung Hyun Hwang, Sung Jin You, Jung Sun Um
  • Nut driver for electrical terminal and method of using the same
    Patent number: 8596171
    Abstract: A driver for a brass cylindrical type nut for an electrical terminal includes a handle, a sleeve, and a rotation axle. The handle has an exterior wall and an interior wall, in which the interior wall has a first accommodating space, and the exterior wall has a plurality of notches formed thereon in communication with the first accommodating space. The sleeve disposed in the first accommodating space and coupled to the interior wall further has a second accommodating space and a coupling opening arranged at a front end of the sleeve. The rotation axle is disposed in the second accommodating space and has a thread mated with the brass cylindrical type nut at an end corresponding to the coupling opening, while a rotation nut arranged within the first accommodating space and corresponding to the pair of notches is connected to the rotation axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Institute of Nuclear Energy Research Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan
    Inventor: Ya-Sung Chen
  • User equipment and base station in carrier aggregation system, and call admission control method for use with the user equipment and base station
    Patent number: 8599686
    Abstract: User equipment and a base station in a carrier aggregation system, and a call admission method thereof are discussed. The user equipment includes multiple physical layers, and the base station provides multiple component carriers. When messages for connection setup are transmitted and received between the user equipment and base station, the messages may include information about what component carriers are selected for the physical layers, information about what component carriers are selectable for the physical layers, information about calculations for uplink timing alignment. Call admission control and load balancing may be performed based on the information included in the messages. Accordingly, a carrier aggregation system providing call admission and load balancing is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang-Ryul Jung, Soon-Yong Lim, Ae-Soon Park
  • Apparatus and method for receiving/transmitting data in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 8599753
    Abstract: A data receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a beacon packet from at least one base station, a searching unit configured to search an index of a subchannel including an optimal channel state among subchannels allocated to a sector divided through spatial multiplexing based on the base station using the beacon packet, a calculating unit configured to calculate a final back off time by adding a slot time of the subchannel index and a random time, and a transmitting unit configured to include the searched subchannel index in a beacon response packet and transmit the beacon response packet after the calculated final back off time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung-Bo Son, Sok-Kyu Lee, Hyun-Kyu Chung
  • Methods and systems for producing ethanol using raw starch and selecting plant material
    Patent number: 8597919
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for producing high levels of alcohol during fermentation of plant material, and to the high alcohol beer produced. The method can include selecting plant material. Selecting can include excluding plant material that has been exposed to high temperatures or that has had high moisture content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Poet Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen M. Lewis
  • Method of manufacturing a gas electron multiplier
    Patent number: 8597490
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a gas electron multiplier. One method comprises a step of preparing a blank sheet comprised of an insulating sheet with first and second metal layers on its surface, a first metal layer hole forming step in which the first metal layer is patterned by means of photolithography, such as to form holes through the first metal layer, an insulating sheet hole forming step, in which the holes formed in the first metal layer are extended through the insulating layer by etching from the first surface side only, and a second metal layer hole forming step, in which the holes are extended through the second metal layer. Alternatively, the second metal layer hole forming step is performed by electrochemical etching, such that the first metal layer remains unaffected during etching of the second metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: CERN—European Organization for Nuclear Research
    Inventors: Rui De Oliveira, Serge Duarte Pinto
  • Method of producing an antibody using a cancer cell
    Patent number: 8598408
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method for antibody preparation. The present invention is directed to a method for preparing an antibody-producing cell, which comprises the following steps: (1) transplanting metastatic cancer cells capable of expressing a target antigen into a non-human animal to ensure engraftment of the cancer cells in the animal; (2) immunizing the animal with the target antigen; and (3) collecting the antibody-producing cell from the immunized animal; as well as a method for preparing an antibody, which comprises collecting the antibody from the antibody-producing cell prepared by the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ordermade Medical Research Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Satofuka, Masahiro Uchino, Shingo Hanaoka
  • Chloride scintillator for radiation detection
    Patent number: 8598530
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses, in one arrangement, a single crystalline chloride scintillator material having a composition of the formula A3MCl6, wherein A consists essentially of Cs and M consists essentially of Ce and Gd. In another arrangement, a chloride scintillator material is single-crystalline and has a composition of the formula AM2Cl7, wherein A consists essentially of Li, Na K, Rb, Cs or any combination thereof, and M consists essentially of Ce, Sc, Y, La, Lu, Gd, Pr, Tb, Yb, Nd or any combination thereof. Specific examples of these scintillator materials include single-crystalline Ce-doped KGd2Cl7 (KGd2(1-x)Ce2xCl7) and Ce-doped CsGd2Cl7(CsGd2(1-x)Ce2xCl7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mariya Zhuravleva, Kan Yang, Charles L. Melcher, Piotr Szupryczynski
  • Apparatus and method for medical imaging
    Patent number: 8598536
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus for use in medical imaging including a readout circuit having an input for receiving a detection signal corresponding to a photon hitting a radiation detector, wherein the readout circuit is adapted to output, in response to receiving said detection signal, a pulse signal having a leading edge encoding a time-stamp of said photon and a width encoding the energy of said photon. A method of reading out detection signals from a radiation detector of a medical imaging apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: CERN—European Organization For Nuclear Research
    Inventors: Pierre Jarron, Francis Anghinolfi, Jorgen Christiansen
  • Pharmaceutical composition with immunomodulating function
    Patent number: 8597693
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition with an immunomodulating function is provided, including an extract of Bupleurum obtained by grinding the Bupleurum, adding the ground Bupleurum to a solvent and isolating the extract from the solvent, wherein the Bupleurum comprises Bupleurum krlovianum, Bupleurum longiradiatum, Bupleurum smithii, Bupleurum pusillum, Bupleurum longicaule, Bupleurum salicifolium, Bupleurum scorzonerifolium and Bupleurums with at least one of the nucleotide sequences selected from a group consisting of SEQ ID NOs. 1˜6 and a nucleotide sequence with no more than 1% of the nucleotide sequence divergences of SEQ ID NOs. 1˜6, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ying-Chu Shih, Lain-Tze Lee, Bie-Shung Tsai, Jir-Mehng Lo, Tien-Soung Tong, Jenn-Line Sheu, Kuo-Kuei Huang, Ying-Fei Tsai, Yi-Ching Lee, Hui-Ju Liang, Jui-Hung Yen, Cheng-Yu Lee
  • Hydrogenases isolated from SPP., genes encoding the same, and methods for producing hydrogen using microorganisms having the genes
    Patent number: 8597926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hydrogenases isolated from novel hyperthermophilic strains belonging to Thermococcus spp., genes encoding the hydrogenases, and methods of producing hydrogen using strains having the genes. According to the hydrogen production methods of the invention, a large amount of hydrogen can be produced merely by culturing the strains in specific culture conditions. Thus, the methods of the invention have advantages in that they are more economic and efficient than existing hydrogen production methods and can produce hydrogen even at high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute
    Inventors: Jung Hyun Lee, Sung Gyun Kang, Hyun Sook Lee, Sang Jin Kim, Kae Kyoung Kwon, Sun Shin Cha, Jung Ho Jeon, Yona Cho, Yun Jae Kim, Seung Seop Bae, Jae Kyu Lim, In Soon Jeong
  • Technical documents capturing and patents analysis system and method
    Patent number: 8599449
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for capturing technical documents and reading and commentating captured documents thereof. The system may comprise a capturing system and a reading with commentating system. The capturing system selects related drawings from a group of technical documents. It then provides important information and the related drawings onto an image for the readers' review. The reading with commentating system allows the readers to process technical classification, management and export/import for the group of technical documents. Readers may make comments on an information sharing platform after reviewing the technical documents. Besides, other materials collected or generated from the technical analysis on the technical documents may be attached to the information sharing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chao-Chin Chang
    Inventors: Chen-Kun Chen, Yu-Chen Yu, Mu-Tao Chu, Kuan-Chieh Tu, Chao-Chin Chang, Hsiao-Wen Chang, Chen-Peng Hsu
  • Apparatus and method for transmitting data using repeat accumulate coding scheme in communication system
    Patent number: 8601353
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting data in a communication system includes: a first repeater configured to repeat information bits of data to be transmitted a first repetition number of times; an interleaver configured to interleave the information bits repeated the first repetition number of times; an accumulator configured to accumulate-code the interleaved information bits; a second repeater configured to repeat the accumulate-coded information bits a second repetition number of times; a puncturer configured to puncture the information bits repeated the second repetition number of times; and a P/S converter configured to convert the punctured information bits and the information bits of the data and output RA-coded information bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Hyoungsoo Lim, Jae-Hyun Seo, Ho-Min Eum, Heung-Mook Kim, Donghoon Kang, Wangrok Oh
  • Barrier layer removal method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8598039
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus by integrating semiconductor manufacturing processes of stress free electrochemical copper polishing (SFP), removal of the Tantalum oxide or Titanium oxide formed during SFP process and XeF2 gas phase etching barrier layer Ta/TaN or Ti/TiN process. Firstly, at least portion of plated copper film is polished by SFP. Secondly the barrier metal oxide film formed during SFP process is etched away by etchant. Finally, the barrier layer Ta/TaN or Ta/TiN is removed with XeF2 gas phase etching. The apparatus accordingly consists of three sub systems: stress free copper electropolishing system, barrier layer oxide film removal system and barrier layer Ta/TaN or Ti/TiN gas phase etching system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: ACM Research (Shanghai) Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Zhaowei Jia, Junping Wu, Liangzhi Xie, Hui Wang
  • Interstitial metal hydride catalyst systems and associated processes
    Patent number: 8598067
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride containing catalyst comprising a surface, and a Group VI/Group VIII metal sulfide coated onto the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Chuansheng Bai, Adrienne J. Thornburg, Heather A. Elsen, Jean W. Beeckman, William G. Borghard
  • Anti CEACAM1 antibodies and methods of using same
    Patent number: 8598322
    Abstract: A hybridoma cell which has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-9974 is disclosed. Also provided are Antibodies and methods of using same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Tel Hashomer Medical Research Infrastucture and Services Ltd., Ramot At Tel Aviv University Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Markel, Rona Ortenberg
  • Apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless energy using meta-material structures having negative refractive index
    Patent number: 8598744
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is there is provided an apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless energy using meta-material structures having a negative refractive index. The apparatus includes a wireless energy transmission unit and a wireless energy reception unit. The wireless energy transmission unit generates wireless energy to be wirelessly transmitted, and then wirelessly transmits wireless energy, which is normally propagated radially, using a magnetic resonance method while concentrating the wireless energy at a single point. The wireless energy reception unit wirelessly receives the wireless energy using the magnetic resonance method while concentrating the wireless energy at a single point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Soongsil University Research Consortium Techno-Park
    Inventors: Jae Won Choi, Chul Hun Seo, Eung Ju Kim, Jeong Hoon Kim, Kwang Du Lee, Sang Hoon Hwang, Jung Ho Yoon, Chul Gyun Park
  • Zero bias power detector
    Patent number: 8598866
    Abstract: A zero bias power detector comprising a zero bias diode and an output boost circuit is provided. The output boost circuit comprises a zero bias transistor. The zero bias diode is not biased but outputs a rectifying signal according to a wireless signal. The zero bias transistor, not biased but coupled to the zero bias diode, is used for enhancing the rectifying signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chun-Yen Huang, Chin-Chung Nien, Jenn-Hwan Tarng, Chen-Ming Li, Li-Yuan Chang, Ya-Chung Yu
  • Method of transmitting downlink channel rank information through physical uplink shared channel
    Patent number: 8599781
    Abstract: Provided is a method of transmitting channel rank information (RI) when the number of bits for transmitting the channel RI to be transmitted through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is three or more. The method includes mapping channel RI to be transmitted to a channel RI bit string of 3 bits or more, Reed-Muller coding and rate-matching the channel RI bit string using a basis sequence having a 32-bit code length, and generating modulation symbols by applying the bit sequence that has been Reed-Muller coded and rate-matched to a modulation mapper. Accordingly, the method of transmitting downlink channel RI can be employed when five or more antennas are used for downlink transmission or several carrier bands are used by carrier aggregation as specified in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE)-advanced following 3GPP LTE release 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Bangwon Seo, Young Jo Ko
  • Laser diode driver
    Patent number: 8599891
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a laser light source comprising: a plurality of lasers connected in series; and a laser driver controllable to simultaneously drive a substantially same current through a combination of the lasers selectable from different combinations of lasers in the plurality of lasers and not through lasers in the plurality of lasers that are not in the combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Soreq Nuclear Research Center
    Inventors: Vladimir Maron, Leonid Finkelstein, Itzhak Ziv, Eyal Lebiush, Alexander Ioffe