Patents Assigned to Research
  • FTIR-based diffractive optical structure, and waveguide device and augmented reality display each including same
    Patent number: 11874467
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an FTIR-based diffractive optical structure, and a waveguide device and an augmented reality display each including same. The augmented reality display may comprise: a projector configured to provide light related to an image; and a waveguide device for outputting at least a part of the light, wherein: the waveguide device comprises a waveguide and a diffractive optical structure disposed on one surface of the waveguide; and the diffractive optical structure comprises an expansion grating disposed at the one surface of the waveguide and an output grating disposed along the axis perpendicular to the one surface of the waveguide and overlapping at least a partial area of the expansion grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Korea University Research And Business Foundation, Sejong Campus
    Inventor: Hwi Kim
  • Servo-controlled metering valve and fluid injection system
    Patent number: 11873921
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a metering valve for controlling the amount of a fluid passed through the valve and a servo-valve for controlling the metering valve, wherein the servo-valve is decoupled from the metering valve to thermally distance or thermally isolate the servo-valve from any heat from the fluid passing through the metering valve. The metering valve and servo-valve may be used to attemperate a steam stream in a power plant attemperation system, such as a system for attemperating a superheated steam gas stream from a power plant being used for a heat-recovery steam generator. An integrated metering valve and discharge valve for discharging fluid during periods of non-use is also provide. Changeable throttle plates are also provided that control the flow of the fluid through the control chamber of the metering valve and the discharge valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Hermann Josef Laumen, Mohamed Douch, Stanley Timothy Rosinski, Bill Gene Carson
  • Segmentation of medical images
    Patent number: 11875892
    Abstract: Methods for segmenting medical images from different modalities include integrating a plurality of types of quantitative image descriptors with a deep 3D convolutional neural network. The descriptors include: (i) a Gibbs energy for a prelearned 7th-order Markov-Gibbs random field (MGRF) model of visual appearance, (ii) an adaptive shape prior model, and (iii) a first-order appearance model of the original volume to be segmented. The neural network fuses the computed descriptors to obtain the final voxel-wise probabilities of the goal regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayman S. El-Baz, Ahmed Soliman, Moumen El-Melegy, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar
  • Method of and apparatus for generating space for sharing augmented reality content among multiple participants
    Patent number: 11876865
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of and an apparatus for generating a space for sharing augmented reality content among multiple participants. With the method and the apparatus, an object for configuring a virtual space, which is proposed in an actual space, can also be proposed, in a spatial matching manner on a per-user basis, inside a common sharing space in augmented reality content by utilizing the technology of generating a space for sharing augmented reality content among multiple participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Beom Ryeol Lee, Jeung Chul Park, Wook Ho Son, Yong Ho Lee
  • Carbon dioxide absorbent and method for separating out carbon dioxide by using same
    Patent number: 11872519
    Abstract: Disclosed is a carbon dioxide absorbent and a carbon dioxide separation method using the same that greatly reduces energy consumption due to a small amount of latent heat required in regeneration of absorbents, enhances CO2 absorption rate, undergoes almost no thermal denaturation even at high temperatures while absorbing carbon dioxide, and results in a considerable reduction of the cost associated with absorption of carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY, KOREA CARBON CAPTURE & SEQUESTRATION R&D CENTER, KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Kwang Soon Lee, Hoon Sic Kim, Hui Yong Kim, Jung Hwan Kim, Sung June Hwang, Ja Yeop Kim, Shin Young Bae, Su Jin Na, Sang Do Park, Tae Sung Park, Yun Je Lee, Jong Kyun You
  • Mechanoluminescent devices, articles, and methods
    Patent number: 11874186
    Abstract: Mechanoluminescent devices and articles, such as wearable articles, that include mechanoluminescent devices. The mechanoluminescent devices may have a lateral type architecture or a vertical type architecture. The mechanoluminescent devices may be sensors, including pressure sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Okenwa I. Okoli, Md Abu S. Shohag, Nirmal Adhikari
  • Compositions and methods for regulating body weight and metabolic syndromes
    Patent number: 11872198
    Abstract: A composition comprising an active agent that inhibits acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) is provided. With the composition, food intake can be suppressed, and/or body weight can be reduced, and/or metabolic disorders can be prevented and/or treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kee-Hong Kim, Yuyan Zhu
  • Skin patches for sensing or affecting a body parameter
    Patent number: 11872144
    Abstract: Skin patch sensors for monitoring and/or affecting body parameters, with alignment, positioning and attachment using magnets. The repeated use of releasable adhesive layers to retain skin patch sensors on skin can cause skin irritation, which can be reduced by rotating a skin patch between attachment times around a magnetically coupled pivot point. Skin patch sensors can be configured with internal coils to inductively couple to external power transmitting and communications coils with solenoids in anti-Helmholtz configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
    Inventors: Brian R. Dearden, John G. Petrovich
  • Systems and methods for real-time monitoring of physiological biomarkers through nerve signals and uses thereof
    Patent number: 11872371
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods and devices to monitor, diagnose and/or treat diseases or disorders comprising a calibration phase and a real-time diagnostic, treatment or monitoring phase, the calibration phase correlating a plurality of nerve activity measurements from a chronically implanted electrode in a subject with a plurality of concurrent measurements of levels of cytokines and/or glucose in the blood to obtain a functional relationship between blood cytokine and/or glucose levels and vagus nerve activity, and the diagnostic, treatment or monitoring phase analyzing the subject's real-time vagus nerve activity in accordance with the previously obtained functional relationship to initiate a treatment method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Theodoros Zanos, Todd Levy, Emily Battinelli, Kevin J. Tracey, Chad E. Bouton, Sangeeta Chavan, Harold Silverman
  • Coupling endonucleases with end-processing enzymes drives high efficiency gene disruption
    Patent number: 11873479
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the co-expression of an endonuclease with an end-processing enzyme for the purpose of enhanced processing of the polynucleotide ends generated by endonuclease cleavage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEATTLE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Andrew M. Scharenberg, Michael T. Certo, Kamila Sabina Gwiazda
  • Systems and methods for quantifying an analyte extracted from a sample
    Patent number: 11875983
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for quantifying an analyte extracted from a sample. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods that involve introducing a solvent into a capillary, introducing the capillary into a vessel including a sample such that a portion of the sample is introduced into the capillary, moving the sample and the solvent within the capillary to induce circulation within the sample and the solvent, thereby causing the analyte to be extracted from the sample and into the solvent, analyzing the analyte that has been extracted from the sample, and quantifying the analyte. In certain embodiments, the quantifying step is performed without knowledge of a volume of the sample and/or solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Zheng Ouyang, Yue Ren, Ziqing Lin
  • Traffic sign recognition method based on lightweight neural network
    Patent number: 11875576
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic sign recognition method based on a lightweight neural network, which including: a lightweight neural network model is constructed for training and pruning to obtain a lightweight neural network model; the lightweight neural network model comprises a convolution feature extraction part and a classifier part; the convolution feature extraction part includes one layer of conventional 3×3 convolution and 16 layers of separable asymmetric convolution. The classifier part includes three layers of separable full connection modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUANZHOU EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jielong Guo, Xian Wei, Xuan Tang, Hui Yu, Jianfeng Zhang, Dongheng Shao, Xiaodi Yang, Yufang Xie
  • Disposable speculum for digital otoscope
    Patent number: 11871908
    Abstract: A disposable speculum for an otoscope provides a sheath adapted to cover an elongate otoscope probe and providing inwardly extending tabs that are adapted to flex outward when the speculum is inserted over the otoscope to engage corresponding grooves of the otoscope. The inwardly extending tabs provide precise alignment of the speculum with the elongate otoscope probe along an insertion axis to protect a length of the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: James Berbee, Greg Rebella, Azita Hamedani, Patrick Ayerle, Thomas Hutcheson, IV, Ralph Paul
  • Nano-electro-mechanical tags for identification and authentication
    Patent number: 11873214
    Abstract: A method for fabricating nano-electro-mechanical tags for identification and authentication includes, in part, forming a protective layer above a substrate, forming a first conductive layer above the protective layer serving as a first electrode, forming a piezoelectric layer above the first conductive layer, forming a second conductive layer above the piezoelectric layer, patterning the second conductive layer to form a second electrode, patterning the piezoelectric layer to expose one or more portions of the first conductive layer, and forming one or more trenches that extends into a plurality layers formed above. In addition, a sacrificial layer can be formed above portions of the substrate, and the sacrificial layer can be removed by etching to release the nano-electro-mechanical tags from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventors: Roozbeh Tabrizian, Swarup Bhunia
  • strain having improved tolerance to the cytotoxicity of substrates, and method for producing dicarboxylic acid using same
    Patent number: 11873517
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Candida tropicalis cell line, which comprises a mutant gene, having improved tolerance for cytotoxicity of stromal cells, and a method for producing dicarboxylic acid using the Candida tropicalis cell line. The Candida tropicalis cell line for producing dicarboxylic acid developed according to the present invention has improved tolerance for existing stromal toxicity as well as significantly improved efficiency for producing dicarboxylic acid compared to existing cell lines, thus can be used in biological production of dicarboxylic acid and is expected to have high industrial utility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Kyoung Heon Kim, Thirumalaisamy Babu, Do Hyoung Kim, Jong Hwa Lee, Jung Moo Lee, Ho Chang Lee, Sung Ho Oh, Su Han Kim, Chang Seok Hyun
  • Memory management system and method based on non-uniform memory access
    Patent number: 11875048
    Abstract: Provided is a memory management system based on a non-uniform memory access, which includes: a first persistent memory disposed in a first node; a second persistent memory disposed in a second node physically distinguished from the first node; a first journaling process disposed in the first persistent memory; and a second journaling process disposed in the second persistent memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Eui Seong Seo, Hyun Woo Ahn, Jong Seok Kim
  • Fibroblast activation protein (FAP)-targeted imaging and therapy
    Patent number: 11872291
    Abstract: The present teachings relate generally to conjugates and methods for imaging a tumor microenvironment in a patient, and to conjugates and methods for imaging cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor microenvironment of a patient. The present teachings relate generally to method of making conjugates comprising a fibroblast activation protein (FAP) inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Philip Stewart Low, Jyoti Roy
  • Graphite biosensor and circuit structure and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 11874249
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method for manufacturing sensors and circuit structures. The method can include providing a substrate including a layer of polymer capable of producing graphite in response to the application of energy, a first electrode adjacent to a first via location on the layer of polymer, and an insulating layer over at least a portion of the first electrode and the layer of polymer at the first via location; and applying sufficient energy to the layer of polymer at the first via location through the insulating layer to ablate the insulating layer and to form a first via as mass of graphite that extends into electrical contact with the first electrode and is surrounded by the insulating layer in a plane of the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventor: Raymond Iezzi
  • Thermoresponsive microcarrier system and uses thereof
    Patent number: 11873508
    Abstract: There is provided a polymeric microsphere comprising a thermally responsive monomer crosslinked with a functional group monomer, wherein the functional group monomer comprises at least one of a carboxylic acid functional group or an amine functional group. The thermally responsive monomer is preferably N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM), and the microspheres preferably comprise a coating of polymerized catecholamines (e.g. DOPA). There is also provided a method of preparing the polymeric microsphere and uses of the polymeric microsphere in culturing, harvesting, or expanding stem cells or stromal cells. Preferably, the cells, e.g. hMSCs (human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells), are expanded or harvested in serum-free and xeno-free medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Jackie Y. Ying, Leng Leng Chng, Daniele Zink, Aysha Farwin
  • Deer attracting device
    Patent number: D1011467
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wildlife Research Center, Inc.
    Inventor: Sam Burgeson