Patents Assigned to Research
  • Patent number: 11425863
    Abstract: Yield monitoring systems for round baling machines and methods that can provide weight estimations for round bales at the time of formation are described. Balers can include those that incorporate hydraulically actuated bale kicking or pushing assemblies as well as those that incorporate spring-loaded off ramps. Farm implements including baling machines and cotton module builders are encompassed. The system includes a sensor that can ascertain a physical parameter associated with ejection of a round bale from the farm implement. Physical parameters as may be ascertained can include pressures, velocities, accelerations, etc. associated with bale ejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Clemson University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kendall R. Kirk, H. Guy Ramsey, IV, Perry J. Loftis
  • Patent number: 11430090
    Abstract: A method for removing compressed Poisson noises in an image, based on deep neural networks, may comprise generating a plurality of block-aggregation images by performing block transform on low-frequency components of an input image; obtaining a plurality of restored block-aggregation images by inputting the plurality of block-aggregation images into a first deep neural network; generating a low-band output image from which noises for the low-frequency components are removed by performing inverse block transform on the plurality of restored block-aggregation images; and generating an output image from which compressed Poisson noises are removed by adding the low-band output image to a high-band output image from which noises for high-frequency components of the input image are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seok Bong Yoo, Mi Kyong Han
  • Patent number: 11426233
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to treating diseased tissue with ablation therapy. In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises a catheter having an elongate body extending between a proximal end and a distal end. The apparatus further includes a balloon structure arranged proximal to the distal end of the catheter, wherein the balloon structure has a first portion with a first permeability and a second portion with a second permeability such that the first permeability is different than the second permeability. In addition, the apparatus includes a first electrode arranged on or within the balloon structure and configured to: transmit current through the first portion, receive current transmitted through the first portion or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Sarah M. Gruba, James P. Rohl, Samuel J. Asirvatham, Suraj Kapa, Chance M. Witt, Deepak Padmanabhan, Christopher V. DeSimone
  • Patent number: 11430330
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method for a travel time predicting apparatus to predict a travel time by using a travel time prediction model, including generating a first prediction model for prediction of a travel time of a vehicle that will pass through a specific area by using first traffic data that are related to a travel speed at the specific area; generating a second prediction model by modifying the first prediction model that relates to the travel speed at the specific area and is different from the first traffic data; and predicting a travel time of the vehicle that will pass through the specific area by using the second prediction model can be provided so that a travel time at which a specific vehicle passes a specific area can be more precisely predicted compared to a conventional art and predicted travel time information can be promptly and precisely provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Yong-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 11430997
    Abstract: A variety of systems, methods and compositions are disclosed, including, in one method for recycling a spent alkaline battery comprising: dissolving insoluble metal ions in aqueous solution thereby producing pregnant leach solution; extracting zinc sulfate from aqueous solution thereby producing zinc sulfate product and raffinate solution comprising manganese sulfate and potassium sulfate; separating manganese hydroxide from raffinate solution thereby producing manganese sulfate product and aqueous potassium sulfate solution; crystallizing aqueous potassium sulfate solution to produce solid potassium sulfate product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Battery Reclamation Research Associates LLC
    Inventor: Dennis L. Howe
  • Patent number: 11430688
    Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatuses to raise and lower substrates, as used in the semiconductor and allied industries, toward or away from a substrate-holding mechanism (e.g., such as an electrostatic chuck (ESC). In a specific embodiment, a substrate lift-mechanism includes a number of pins to position the substrate above a substrate-holding device. Mid-position sensors are respectively coupled to a corresponding pin. The mid-position sensors monitor an intermediate position of the corresponding pin between a maximum position and a minimum position. Other apparatuses and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Siyuan Tian, Eric A. Pape
  • Patent number: 11427681
    Abstract: Disclosed are a novel polymer compound containing multiple hydroxyl groups, a method for producing the same, and a complex having a crosslinked structure of the polymer compound. The polymer compound includes a repeating unit represented by a following Chemical Formula 1: where in the Chemical Formula 1, n denotes an integer of 10 to 10,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventor: Ji Heung Kim
  • Patent number: 11426433
    Abstract: A therapeutic composition can include an amount of amniotic fluid having a therapeutically effective amount of at least one protein, hyaluronic acid, or both. The therapeutic composition can be substantially free of lanugo, vernix, and cells harvested with the amniotic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jo-Anna Reems, Jan Pierce
  • Patent number: 11429622
    Abstract: Disclosed are a provenance information-based bigdata analysis supporting method, and an apparatus performing the bigdata analysis supporting method. The bigdata analysis supporting method includes receiving a request to provide a bigdata analysis method from a bigdata analysis apparatus, reconfiguring a workflow selected from a plurality of workflows corresponding to the bigdata analysis method to be supported by the bigdata analysis apparatus based on analysis resource information of the bigdata analysis apparatus, and transmitting the reconfigured workflow to the bigdata analysis apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Suwook Ha, Kangchan Lee, Min Kyo In
  • Patent number: 11430836
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept provides includes a substrate, a green light emitting element group and a blue light emitting element group, which are repeatedly arranged in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, and a red conversion pattern on the green light emitting element group and the blue light emitting element group. Here, the red conversion pattern overlaps a portion of the green light emitting element group and a portion of the blue light emitting element group in a second direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyunsu Cho, Chan-mo Kang, Byoung-Hwa Kwon, Chunwon Byun, Jin Wook Shin, Hyunkoo Lee, Sukyung Choi
  • Patent number: 11427637
    Abstract: Described herein are methods, formulations and kits for treating a patient with cancer with nanoparticle complexes comprising a carrier protein, a binding agent and paclitaxel and optionally co-treated with an anti-PD-L1 antibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Svetomir N. Markovic, Wendy K. Nevala
  • Patent number: 11427773
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalytic cracking process for producing isobutane and/or light aromatics in high yield, comprising the steps of: a) providing a catalytic cracking feedstock oil having a polycyclic naphthene content of greater than about 25 wt %; b) subjecting the catalytic cracking feedstock oil to a first catalytic cracking reaction and a second catalytic cracking reaction sequentially under different reaction conditions to obtain a catalytic cracking product; c) separating the resulting catalytic cracking product to obtain a liquefied gas fraction comprising isobutane and a gasoline fraction comprising light aromatics; and d) optionally, recovering isobutane from the liquefied gas fraction and/or recovering light aromatics from the gasoline fraction. The process can enable the production of isobutane and/or light aromatics in high yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC
    Inventors: Youhao Xu, Xin Wang, Yuying Zhang, Tao Liu, Xuhui Bai, Lishun Dai, Zhigang Zhang, Jialin Liang, Nan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11427802
    Abstract: The invention relates to medicine and biology, particularly to the means for artificial manufacturing of biological tissues and organs, and can be used in biotechnology, bioengineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and in the 3D-printing of biological tissues and organs. Technical character of the invention consists in the development of a method of printing living tissues and organs as well as of the apparatus for its implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PRIVATE INSTITUTION LABORATORY FOR BIOTECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH “3D BIOPRINTING SOLUTIONS”
    Inventors: Vladimir Alexandrovich Mironov, Yusef Dzhordzhevich Khesuani, Alexandr Nikolaevich Mitryashkin, Irina Sergeevna Gladkaya, Alexandr Yurievich Ostrovsky, Sergei Vladimirovich Novoselov
  • Patent number: 11429409
    Abstract: A software emulation system for a gas delivery system of a substrate processing system includes an input/output bus and an emulator bus. An input/output bus adapter includes a switch configured to route data packets from a system controller for the substrate processing system to one of the input/output bus and the emulator bus. A gas delivery system emulator in communication with the emulator bus is configured to receive the data packets from the input/output bus adapter via the emulator bus and perform software-based emulation of a plurality of hardware components of the gas delivery system that are interconnected. The plurality of hardware components are modelled using one or more software models and include a gas source and at least one of a valve and a mass flow controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Bostjan Pust, Tom Trinh, Chung-Ho Huang
  • Patent number: 11426573
    Abstract: A percutaneous catheter system for use within the human body and an ablation catheter for ablating a selected tissue region within the body of a subject. The percutaneous catheter system can include two catheters that are operatively coupled to one another by magnetic coupling through a tissue structure. The ablation catheter can include electrodes positioned within a central portion. The ablation catheter is positioned such that the central portion of a flexible shaft at least partially surrounds the selected tissue region. Each electrode of the ablation catheter can be activated independently to apply ablative energy to the selected tissue region. The ablation catheter can employ high impedance structures to change the current density at specific points. Methods of puncturing through a tissue structure using the percutaneous catheter system are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for ablating a selected tissue region using the ablation catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: University of Iowa Research Foundation
    Inventor: Steven Richard Mickelsen
  • Patent number: 11430955
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an oxide semiconductor, includes impregnating a substrate in a solution containing a metal precursor and hydroxyl ions, and forming a metal oxide on the substrate by applying a voltage to the solution. The solution includes a surfactant, and the direction of crystal growth of the metal oxide is controllable based on the surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Hyungkoun Cho, Dongsu Kim, Youngdae Yun, Joosung Kim
  • Patent number: 11427884
    Abstract: A method for treating fluorine-containing rare earth mineral particles may include mixing a first batch of the fluorine-containing rare earth mineral particles with a first sulfuric acid solution in a weight ratio in the range of 2-10:1 of the sulfuric acid in the first sulfuric acid solution to the first batch of fluorine-containing rare earth mineral particles, and heating the mixture to cause a liquid-solid reaction. The solid phase and liquid phase may be separated after the reaction to obtain an acid filtrate and an acid residue. The acid residue may be leached with water to obtain an aqueous leaching liquor that comprises a rare earth sulfate and an aqueous leaching residue. A second sulfuric acid solution may be added to the acid filtrate in an amount such that the sulfuric acid concentration of the acid filtrate is 40-85 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE OF RUIKE RARE EARTH METALLURGY AND FUNCTION MATERIALS CO., LTD., BAOTOU RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RARE EARTHS
    Inventors: Jianguo Cui, Zhe Wang, Ruien Hou, Dong Li, Meng Xu, Ting Gao, Xiaoli Hao, Bo Li, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11429420
    Abstract: An information processing device for performing performance control in a virtualized environment is disclosed. The information processing device can include an I/O thread configured to transfer signals between a virtual machine and at least one physical resource, and a performance manager unit configured to compare a target performance for the virtual machine with an actual performance of the virtual machine and manage a resource allocated to the I/O thread based on the comparison result, where the performance manager unit may obtain information regarding the actual performance of the virtual machine, determine a performance adjustment value by using the difference between the actual performance of the virtual machine and the target performance for the virtual machine, and manage the resource allocated to the I/O thread based on the performance adjustment value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Hyuck Yoo, Kyoung Woon Lee, Soo-Wan Kim
  • Patent number: 11428792
    Abstract: A ToF sensor includes an array of pixels having first and second subsets of pixels, first and second pluralities of TDCs, a routing bus having first and second pluralities of bus drivers, and a controller configured to: when the first subset of pixels is active and the second subset of pixels is not active, control the first plurality of bus drivers to route events from half of the pixels of the first subset to the first plurality of TDCs and control the first and second pluralities of bus drivers to route events from the other half of the pixels of the first subset to the second plurality of TDCs, and when the first subset of pixels is not active and the second subset of pixels is active, control the first plurality of bus drivers to route events from the second subset of pixels to the first plurality of TDCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
    Inventors: Neale Dutton, John Kevin Moore
  • Patent number: 11431888
    Abstract: Auto-focus method and a remote sensing satellite are disclosed. The satellite comprises at least a focal plane assembly (FPA) and a focus adjusting apparatus, the auto-focus method comprises: processing a point spread function (PSF) estimation to a multiple regions of a first image to generate multiple first estimated point spread functions; generating a first average point spread function according to the first estimated point spread functions; processing a Gaussian curve fitting to the first average PSF function and defining a first focus number; processing a PSF estimation to multiple regions of a second image to generate multiple second estimated PSF functions; generating a second average point spread function according to the second estimated point spread functions; processing a Gaussian curve fitting to the second average point spread function and defining a second focus number; and comparing the first focus number and the second focus number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Shiau-Jing Liu, Yu-Lin Tsai, Li-Fen Huang