Patents Assigned to Research
  • Flexible, non-preferential bend jackets for optical fiber cables
    Patent number: 11874516
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes a cable jacket having an inner surface and an outer surface in which the inner surface defines a central bore along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable and the outer surface defines the outermost extent of the cable. The optical fiber cable also includes at least one access feature disposed in the cable jacket between the inner surface and the outer surface. Further included are a first plurality of optical fiber bundles. Each optical fiber bundle includes a second plurality of optical fiber ribbons that has a third plurality of optical fibers arranged in a planar configuration. The optical fiber cable bends uniformly in all directions transverse to the longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jessica Ruth Abercrombie, Kevin Nicholas Ball, Xiaole Cheng, Jason Clay Lail, Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare, Ellen Anderson Stupka
  • Self-occlusion masks to improve self-supervised monocular depth estimation in multi-camera settings
    Patent number: 11875521
    Abstract: A method for self-supervised depth and ego-motion estimation is described. The method includes determining a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego vehicle. The method also includes generating a self-occlusion mask by manually segmenting self-occluded areas of images captured by the multi-camera rig of the ego vehicle. The method further includes multiplying the multi-camera photometric loss with the self-occlusion mask to form a self-occlusion masked photometric loss. The method also includes training a depth estimation model and an ego-motion estimation model according to the self-occlusion masked photometric loss. The method further includes predicting a 360° point cloud of a scene surrounding the ego vehicle according to the depth estimation model and the ego-motion estimation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Vitor Guizilini, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Adrien David Gaidon, Igor Vasiljevic, Gregory Shakhnarovich
  • Cartilage slicing apparatus and methods therefor
    Patent number: 11871940
    Abstract: An apparatus for slicing a cartilage sample includes a rear cartilage support cup, a cartilage clamp, a front cartilage support, a cartilage receiving region, and a cartilage cutting element. The cartilage clamp has first and second clamp members spaced apart from and aligned in a clamping direction transverse to a longitudinal axis. The cartilage receiving region is bounded by the first and second clamp members, the front cartilage support, and the rear cartilage support cup. The cartilage cutting element is spaced rearwardly from the front cartilage support by a cartilage slice thickness, the cartilage cutting element being movable across the cartilage receiving region in a cutting direction transverse to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sunnybrook Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allan Fialkov, Harry Easton, Tara Lynn Teshima
  • Method for assisting unregistered user device to access end-to-end call service of private network and communication system
    Patent number: 11876866
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for assisting an unregistered user device to access an end-to-end call service of a private network and a communication system. The method includes: determining whether the user device that is not registered on the private network wants to initiate a request of an emergency call; in response to determining that the user device that is not registered on the private network wants to initiate the request of the emergency call, assisting the user device to access the end-to-end call service without being registered on the private network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jian Cheng Chen, Tsun-Chieh Chiang, Kuo-Wei Wen
  • Information transmission method and apparatus, related device, and storage device
    Patent number: 11876578
    Abstract: An information transmission method includes that: the network device transmits first information to a terminal, the first information indicating a first Reference Signal (RS) and a second RS, the first RS being associated with a Doppler shift, Doppler spread, average delay and delay spread, and the second RS being associated with one of the following: average delay; delay spread; and average delay and delay spread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD RESEARCH INST, CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Dapeng Wang, Yan Li, Nan Li, Guangyi Liu
  • Random access method, user equipment and network side device
    Patent number: 11877323
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a random access method, a UE and a network side device. The random access method includes: initiating random access on one or more SS blocks; and sending random access information on each SS block to the network side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Liu, Yang Liu, Nan Hu, Nan Li
  • Anti-CD25 for tumour specific cell depletion
    Patent number: 11873341
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides antibody sequences found in antibodies that bind to human CD25, in particular an anti CD25-a-674 antibody which do not block the binding of CD25 to IL-2 or IL-2 signalling. The claimed antibody binds to the epitopes: YQCVQGYRALHRGP (150 to 163) or SVCKMTHGKTRWTQP (166 to 180) on CD25 Antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof including such sequences can be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment, in particular for treating cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Tusk Therapeutics Ltd., Cancer Research Technology Limited
    Inventors: Anne Goubier, Beatriz Goyenechea Corzo, Josephine Salimu, Kevin Moulder, Pascal Merchiers, Sergio Quezada
  • Shape morphing fins for frost removal
    Patent number: 11874074
    Abstract: A shape-morphing fin includes a fixed portion, a multistable portion, a coupling portion, and a vibration source. The multistable portion functions as a negative stiffness element. The multistable portion is selectively movable between a first position and a second position. The movement between first position and the second position is configured to remove the ice formation from the structure. The coupling portion couples the fixed portion to the multistable portion. The vibration source is configured to produce a resonant vibration to engage the movement of the multistable portion from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: William Travis Horton, Andres Arrieta Diaz, James Edward Braun
  • Facial action unit detection
    Patent number: 11875603
    Abstract: An example system includes a landmark engine to detect a facial landmark in an image of a face. The system includes a comparison engine to determine a difference between the facial landmark in the image and a facial landmark of a neutral face. The system also includes an action engine to determine whether a facial action unit occurred based on whether the difference satisfies a condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Shaoyuan Xu, Qian Lin, Jan Allebach
  • Odometry noise model fitting from fleet-scale datasets
    Patent number: 11875615
    Abstract: A method for fitting an odometry noise model of a vehicle is described. The method includes collecting multiple passes of sensor measurements from motion sensors of the vehicle to measure a motion sensor noise during a testing operation of the vehicle. The method also includes determining an estimated standard deviation of the motion sensor noise measured during the testing operation of the vehicle. The method further includes determining the odometry noise model of the vehicle according to the estimated standard deviation of the motion sensor noise measured during the testing operation of the vehicle. The method also includes compensating, using the odometry noise model, the motion sensor noise during normal operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Paul Ozog, Xipeng Wang
  • Method for correcting abnormal point cloud
    Patent number: 11875477
    Abstract: A method for correcting abnormal point cloud is disclosed. Firstly, receiving a Primitive Point Cloud Data set by an operation unit for dividing a point cloud array into a plurality of sub-point cloud sets and obtaining a plurality of corresponding distribution feature data according to an original vector data of the Primitive Point Cloud Data set. Furthermore, recognizing the sub-point cloud sets according to the corresponding distribution feature data for correcting recognized abnormal point cloud. Thus, when the point cloud array is rendered to a corresponding image, the color defect of the point cloud array will be improved or decreased for obtaining lossless of the corresponding image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Wang, Chuan-Lin Lai, Chia-Chen Kuo, I-Chen Wu
  • Mechanically robust and self-healable perovskite solar cells
    Patent number: 11877504
    Abstract: A perovskite-polymer composite comprising a perovskite and a polymer, wherein the polymer has a structural unit comprising a thiourea (—HN(C?S)NH—) fragment and a (—R1—O—R2—) fragment, wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a C1-C6 alkyl or a cycloalkyl linker; a mechanically robust and self-healable solar cell comprising same; and a method of making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Letian Dou, Blake Peter Finkenauer
  • Compositions and methods related to ebolavirus vaccines
    Patent number: 11872277
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel engineered Ebolavirus GP proteins and polypeptides, scaffolded vaccine compositions that display the engineered proteins, and polynucleotides encoding the engineered proteins and scaffolded vaccine compositions. The invention also provides methods of using such engineered Ebolavirus GP proteins and vaccine compositions in various therapeutic applications, e.g., for preventing or treating Ebolavirus infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Linling He, Jiang Zhu, Anshul Chaudhary, Ian Wilson
  • Method and system for guaranteeing game quality by using artificial intelligence agent
    Patent number: 11874764
    Abstract: A method of guaranteeing game quality by using an artificial intelligence (AI) agent is provided. The method includes extracting an item list (hereinafter referred to as an inspection item list) for inspecting quality of a target game, extracting and storing log data corresponding to a test performance result for each item of the inspection item list, performing imitation learning of an AI agent model on the basis of the stored log data, performing an automatic test for inspecting quality of the target game by using the AI agent model on which the imitation learning is completed, and automatically recording a bug and an error detected by the AI agent model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Si Hwan Jang, Chan Sub Kim, Seong Il Yang
  • Process for the photocatalytic allylic oxidation of olefins using carbon dioxide
    Patent number: 11872547
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for photocatalytic oxidation of allylic C—H bonds present in alkenes containing at least three carbon atoms. In this newly disclosed method, such alkenes, when reacted with carbon dioxide (CO2) in an organic solvent containing a catalyst comprising of a supported molecular complex of transition metal ions under conditions of ambient temperature and pressure using a readily available household LED lamp, yield oxygenated products. The developed method represents a unique way to use CO2 as an oxygen transfer agent to unsaturated organic compounds along with the formation of CO as a co-product using light as an energy source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
    Inventors: Suman Lata Jain, Sandhya Saini, Shafuir Rehman Khan, Praveen Kumar Khatri, Anjan Ray
  • Method of treating a methionine-dependent cancer
    Patent number: 11872230
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a therapeutic protocol for treating a subject having cancer. Taught herein is a method of treating cancer or reducing the risk of recurrence of cancer in a subject following an anti-cancer therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Zhenxun Wang, Wai Leong Tam, Lian Yee Yip, Ying Swan Ho, Zhengwei Wu, Bing Lim
  • Lift system with lowering mechanism
    Patent number: 11872172
    Abstract: A movement system for use with an overhead patient lift system includes a motor. A drum is operatively coupled to the motor. The drum is configured to be selectively driven by the motor to rotate in one of a clockwise direction and a counter-clockwise direction. A lifting strap is coupled to the drum. The lifting strap is extendable and retractable with respect to a carriage of the overhead patient lifting system as the drum rotates. A manual release operatively coupled to the drum is actuatable to selectively disengage the drum from the motor to allow the lifting strap to be manually extended. Also disclosed is an overhead patient lift system including the movement system and a method for manually extending a lifting strap of an overhead patient lift system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LIKO RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AB
    Inventors: Mattias Andersson, Roger Karlsson, Andreas Gelfgren
  • Materials and methods for tissue regeneration
    Patent number: 11872324
    Abstract: The invention provides materials presenting a biologically active matrix comprising a physiological fibrillar fibronectin network, such as implantable constructs, and their use for modulating cell behaviour and fate, including cell growth, proliferation and/or differentiation, such as for promoting tissue regeneration, for example, bone regeneration or vascularization. Also provided are constructs presenting a biologically active matrix comprising a physiological fibrillar fibronectin network for sustaining growth of stem cells or maintaining stem cells (maintaining stemness).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: The University Court of the University of Glasgow, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Matthew J. Dalby, Andres J. Garcia
  • Load driver
    Patent number: 11876510
    Abstract: A method for driving a load includes driving a load to an initial voltage within a voltage window, the voltage window based on an input voltage and an offset voltage, and driving the load to approximately the input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Monterey Research, LLC
    Inventors: David G. Wright, Jason Faris Muriby, Erhan Hancioglu
  • Privacy preserving face-based authentication
    Patent number: 11874911
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for biometric authentication that can bridge fuzzy extractors with deep learning and achieve the goals of preserving privacy and providing recoverability from zero are disclosed. Embeddings comprising a face or speaker embedding in a non-Hamming distance space can be processed to create a personal reliable bit map and a reliable locality-sensitive hash (LSH) for mapping the non-Hamming distance space to a Hamming distance space. A fuzzy extractor can be applied to create metadata that can be stored on a computing device. A secret can be recovered from the metadata and can be used for identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Pak Ho Chung, Wenke Lee, Erkam Uzun, Carter Yagemann