Patents Assigned to Rochester Institute of Technology
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Patent number: 11254156Abstract: An approach to printing a nickel precursor ink on a wide range of substrates for electronics and magnetic applications is disclosed. The nickel ink reduces to elemental nickel following heating. The ink was printed using an ultrasonic aerosol printing technique. By sintering the nickel precursor ink in the presence of a homogeneous magnetic field, the reduced nickel complex formed continuously aligned nickel nanofibers axially aligned with the direction of the magnetic field. The fabrication of aligned interlayered nanofiber films provides opportunities to produce structures with enhanced isotropic electrical and magnetic properties. The resistivity of the film was found to be as low as 0.56 m?·cm, and the saturation magnetization was measured to be 30 emu/g, which is comparable to bulk Ni. Magnetic anisotropy was induced with an easy axis along the direction of the applied magnetic field with soft magnetic properties.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Chaitanya G. Mahajan, Denis Cormier, Mark Irving, Scott Williams, David Borkholder, Ahmed Alfadhel
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Patent number: 11234651Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for medical analysis of a seated individual, includes determining the aortic valve opening; the PTT; and calculating the PWV. Determining the aortic valve opening includes collecting BCG data while sitting on a seat and determining the timing of the aortic valve opening, taking into account posture. Measuring the aortic pulse wave transit time includes collecting BCG data while sitting on a seat capable of measuring changes in apparent weight; determining the timing of the aortic valve opening; detecting the arrival of the pulse wave at the end point; and measuring the relative timings of the two events. Calculating the PWV includes determining a length of the arterial segment through which a pulse wave is to be measured between a start point and an end point; and dividing the determined length of the arterial segment by the PTT.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: David A. Borkholder, Nicholas J. Conn, Masoumeh Haghpanahi
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Publication number: 20220009049Abstract: A real-time calibration-based tool condition monitoring system, device and method for repetitive machining operations to monitor tool conditions by a combination of a calibration procedure using a reference tool and similarity analysis comparing the reference tool with a working tool is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventor: Rui Liu
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Publication number: 20210405048Abstract: A method, device and kit for detecting sepsis or bacteremia in a patient includes detecting peptidoglycan associated lipoprotein (Pal) from Gram-negative bacteria in the urine of the patient is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Lea Michel, Judith Hellman
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Publication number: 20210394080Abstract: The current disclosure provides a method to improve the performance of evaporators and condensers by maintaining the vapor velocities on the heat exchange surfaces within a desired range. This is accomplished by providing a constant or tapered narrow gap for vapor flow in the heat exchangers. The shear induced by the vapor over the heat exchanger improves the evaporator performance by disturbing the liquid film flowing over the heat transfer surface. In the condenser, the vapor shear helps to remove the condensate in the form of film and droplets, and also removes the non-condensable gases from the heat transfer surfaces as the vapor condenses out and increases the concentration of the non-condensable gases over the heat transfer surfaces. Parameters identified include minimum gap and the taper angle between the cover plate and heat transfer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventor: SATISH G. KANDLIKAR
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Publication number: 20210365311Abstract: An example of an apparatus including a communication interface to receive an image file is provided. The image file represents a scanned image of a output generated by a printing device. The apparatus further includes an identification engine to process the image file with a convolutional neural network model to identify a feature. The feature may be indicative of a potential failure. The apparatus also includes an image analysis engine to indicate a life expectancy of a part associated with the potential failure based on the feature. The image analysis engine uses the convolutional neural network model to determine life expectancy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicants: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Darrel D. Cherry, Renee J. Jessome, Richard E. Maggard, Daniel Siddall, Yeshwanth Raja, Eli Saber
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Publication number: 20210358651Abstract: An optical tweezer phonon laser system and method for modulating mechanical vibrations of an optically levitated mechanical oscillator to produce coherence is disclosed. A feedback loop is configured to simultaneously supply an electro-optic modulator with an amplification signal and a cooling signal representing an amplification force linear in the mechanical oscillator momentum and a cooling force nonlinear in the mechanical oscillator variable position and linear in the momentum, respectively controlling the intensity of a trap beam levitating the mechanical oscillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicants: Rochester Institute of Technology, University of RochesterInventors: Mishkatul Bhattacharya, Anthony Nickolas Vamivakas
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Patent number: 11143466Abstract: A heat transfer system including a fluid inlet; a fluid outlet; and a substrate in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and fluid outlet, the substrate including a heat exchange region having a heat transfer surface and a flow field adjacent the heat transfer surface, the flow field including a fluid flow area including an open region at the inlet, a heat transfer region in thermal communication with the heat exchange region, and a taper of the flow field cross-sectional area in the flow direction, wherein the flow field heat transfer region includes a plurality of spaced apart open enhancement features from 1 micron to 3 mm in size, and method for enhancing the heat transfer performance of an apparatus is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventor: Satish G. Kandlikar
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Patent number: 11142776Abstract: Disclosed herein are carbon nanotube arrays as well as transfer systems comprising said carbon nanotube arrays and an administration platform. The disclosed carbon nanotube arrays can also be provided in kits further comprising a culture platform. Also disclosed herein is the use of said carbon nanotube arrays and transfer systems in administering agents to a cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ian Dickerson, Michael Schrlau, Masoud Golshadi
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Patent number: 11138741Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the motion of one or both eyes, includes capturing a sequence of overlapping images of a subject's face including an eye and the corresponding non-eye region; identifying a plurality of keypoints in each image; mapping corresponding keypoints in two or more images of the sequence; assigning the keypoints to the eye and to the corresponding non-eye region; calculating individual velocities of the corresponding keypoints in the eye and the corresponding non-eye region to obtain a distribution of velocities; extracting at least one velocity measured for the eye and at least one velocity measured for the corresponding non-eye region; calculating the eye-in-head velocity for the eye based upon the measured velocity for the eye and the measured velocity for the corresponding non-eye region; and calculating the eye-in-head position based upon the eye-in-head velocity.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Jeff B. Pelz, Dan Witzner Hansen
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Patent number: 11100397Abstract: Disclosed is a method for training memristive learning systems (MLSs) using stochastic learning algorithms and the training system apparatus designed to implement the stochastic learning algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Cory Merkel, Dhireesha Kudithipudi
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Publication number: 20210257743Abstract: An electromagnetic reflector composed of a non-knitted, non-metallic carbon-based material mesh, antenna system incorporating the reflector and method for fabrication are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Ivan Puchades, Brian Landi, Ian D. Peterson, Rodney S. Sorrell, Stephen R. Landers, Andrew Bucossi
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Patent number: 11092391Abstract: A heat transfer system includes a substrate having a heat exchange region including a surface having an enhancement region including alternating regions of selectively placed plurality of nucleation sites and regions lacking selectively placed nucleation sites, such that bubble formation and departure during boiling of a liquid in contact with the enhancement region induces liquid motion over the surface of the regions lacking selectively placed nucleation sites sufficient to enhance both critical heat flux and heat transfer coefficient at the critical heat flux in the enhancement region of the system.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Satish G. Kandlikar, Chinmay Patil
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Publication number: 20210243298Abstract: A system and method for enhancing communication between multiple parties includes a first user accessing a communication device; initiating a communication connection to a receiving communication device of a second user; and wherein at least one of the communication devices includes a list of enabled universal communication attributes of the user, utilizing one or more of the enabled communication attributes to complete the communication connection between the initiating and receiving communication devices. A user can select a desired communication attribute or multiple attributes which can be stored in the user's profile. The enabled attributes can be utilized by a network accessing the user's profile to complete the communication connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Gary Behm, Brian Trager, Shareef Ali, Mark Jeremy, Byron Behm
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Patent number: 11073340Abstract: A method and apparatus for pool boiling includes introducing a fluid into a chamber of a housing which has one or more protruding features. One or more diverters extend at least partially across the one or more protruding features in the chamber. One or more bubbles are formed in the fluid in the chamber as a result of bubble nucleation. At least one of growth and motion of the one or more of the bubbles are diverted with the one or more diverters to generate additional localized motion of the fluid along at least one of the one or more protruding features and other surfaces in the chamber of the housing to at least of transfer additional heat to the liquid and increase the critical heal flux limit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Satish G. Kandlikar, Aranya Chauhan, Travis Emery, Arvind Jaikumar, Pruthvik Raghupathi
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Publication number: 20210226087Abstract: A method and device for electrostatically controlling charges in an electrostatic field effect optoelectronic device by modulating charges in at least one layer of the electrostatic field effect optoelectronic device by providing either a positive bias or a negative bias to a capacitively coupled plate of the electrostatic field effect optoelectronic device thereby adjusting the charge utilization efficiency of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Matthew Hartensveld, Jing Zhang
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Publication number: 20210219924Abstract: An integrated bioinstrumentation system, combining an accurate and robust quasi 1D computational model with experimental peripheral measurements, is designed to extract information on other quantities of interest, for which the direct measurements are not feasible. The system is able to quantify and visualize the distributions of a cardiac output (CO), aortic blood pressure (BP), flow, velocity, and aortic arterial compliance, based on a peripheral analysis of a pulse transit time (PTT) measured at the available peripheral sites. A preliminary calibration stage extracts the arterial properties from simultaneous measurements of a pulse transit time, and an upper arm blood pressure. Obtained transfer functions, linking noninvasive peripheral measurements to the aortic pressure, cardiac output, aortic compliance and others serve to quantify the indicators of cardiac morbidity and mortality.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Alexander S. Liberson, Yashar Seyed Vahedein, David A. Borkholder
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Patent number: 11038181Abstract: A fuel cell apparatus including a fuel cell comprising a membrane electrode assembly between an anode and a cathode, a first set of channels between the anode and the assembly, and a second set of channels between the cathode and the assembly. The first set of channels is spaced from and extends across a width of the second set of channels in a non-parallel configuration and at least one of the first or second set of channels are oriented to provide gravitationally assisted water removal; at least one of the first set or second set of channels has a shorter length than the other one of the first set and second set of channels; or at least one of the first set or second set of channels has intrusion regions that extend portions of the assembly into at least one of the first set or second set of channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventor: Satish G. Kandlikar
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Patent number: 11035498Abstract: A capsule is disclosed which includes a flexible outer shell capable of transforming into an asymmetric shape; an internal medium encapsulated by the outer shell, the medium including a plurality of magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles can move in response to an applied magnetic field. A valve system includes an in-line valve sized to fit within a flow channel including a capsule having a flexible outer shell containing an internal medium encapsulated by the outer shell, the medium including a plurality of magnetic particles; and a magnetic field source disposed about the exterior wall of the channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Ahmed Alfadhel, Meng-Chun Hsu, David A. Borkholder
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Patent number: 11032826Abstract: A wireless communication system and method for allowing two or more wireless networks to operate simultaneously in the same geographical area and through the same radio frequency (RF) spectrum band includes a plurality of wireless networks each network having at least one radio frequency (RF) transmitting node, capable of estimating the effect of its transmission on another, separate, wireless network of the plurality of wireless networks, each transmitting node having a modulation classifier that estimates from a received wireless signal, a modulation scheme used in the transmission of a wireless link that is received in the highest power in a secondary network of the plurality of wireless networks; and a throughput estimator which predicts, without the need to exchange information between a primary and secondary networks of the plurality of wireless networks, the adaptive modulation and coding configuration for the primary link that is received with highest power at the secondary network transmitting node.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Andres Kwasinski, Fatemeh Shah Mohammadi