Patents Assigned to Santa Clara
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Publication number: 20240012901Abstract: A system and method for authenticating a face mask with a user for providing secure access to a user device whereby received on the user device is a request from the user to pair a user face mask having a pre-printed unique identifier with the user device for user authentication purposes. The user device captures an image of the pre-printed unique identifier on the user face mask so as to associate the captured image of the unique identifier with the user device. Afterwards, when the user requests access to the user device in a locked state, the user device is caused to capture of an image of the unique identifier affixed to the user face mask. The user device may further be caused to capture an image of at least a portion of the user's face to authenticate the captured unique identifier affixed to the user face mask with the captured portion of the user's face to verify the captured unique identifier and the captured portion of the user's face are associated with the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Santa Clara Holdings LLCInventor: Ralph de la Torre
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Patent number: 11822639Abstract: A system and method for authenticating a face mask with a user for providing secure access to a user device whereby received on the user device is a request from the user to pair a user face mask having a pre-printed unique identifier with the user device for user authentication purposes. The user device captures an image of the pre-printed unique identifier on the user face mask so as to associate the captured image of the unique identifier with the user device. Afterwards, when the user requests access to the user device in a locked state, the user device is caused to capture of an image of the unique identifier affixed to the user face mask. The user device may further be caused to capture an image of at least a portion of the user's face to authenticate the captured unique identifier affixed to the user face mask with the captured portion of the user's face to verify the captured unique identifier and the captured portion of the user's face are associated with the user device.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Santa Clara Holdings LLCInventor: Ralph de la Torre
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Patent number: 11707739Abstract: Continuous microfluidic dilatometry devices and methods are provided for activity monitoring with ultra-high sensitivity. Corner flow in capillary channels is used to detect the resistance change in microfluidic circuits filled with ionic liquids. The conversion of mechanical input (e.g. strain) to an intermediary domain, namely liquid displacement, allows a large enhancement in sensor performance. Embodiments are suitable for tracking skin deformations that occur as a result of human movements.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Ismail Emre Araci, Laura Rivas Yepes
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Patent number: 11630658Abstract: Methods and systems for provable, auditable and secure software updates for resource-constrained IoT devices are provided via a security framework and a protocol for owner-controlled software updates for IoT devices through blockchain.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Gabriel Jerome Solomon, Peng Zhang, Yuhong Liu, Rachael Brooks
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Publication number: 20230105436Abstract: A method and an apparatus for video processing are provided. The method includes that a decoding terminal receives a plurality of coded video frames coded using one or more generative adversarial networks (GANs), receives network parameters related to the one or more GANs, and decodes the plurality of coded video frames using GANs based on the network parameters. Further, the one or more GANs respectively implement one or more video coding functions including reference-frame coding, motion-compensated frame prediction, and residue-frame coding.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicants: KWAI INC., SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITYInventors: Pengli DU, Ying LIU, Nam LING, Lingzhi LIU, Yongxiong REN, Ming Kai HSU
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Patent number: 11481207Abstract: Methods and systems for provable, auditable and secure software updates for resource-constrained IoT devices are provided via a security framework and a protocol for owner-controlled software updates for IoT devices through blockchain.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Gabriel Jerome Solomon, Peng Zhang, Yuhong Liu, Rachael Brooks
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Publication number: 20220292727Abstract: A class-specific neural network for video compressed sensing and methods for training and testing the class-specific neural network are provided. The class-specific neural network includes a Gaussian-mixture model (GMM) and a plurality of encoders, where the GMM classifies video frame blocks with a plurality of clusters and assigns the video frame blocks to the plurality of clusters. Further, the plurality of encoders receive the video frame blocks and generate a plurality of compressed-sensed frame block vectors, where the plurality of encoders correspond to the plurality of clusters.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicants: KWAI INC., SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITYInventors: Yifei PEI, Ying LIU, Nam LING, Lingzhi LIU, Yongxiong REN, Ming Kai HSU
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Publication number: 20220164630Abstract: A method for detecting moving objects in video frames, an apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium thereof are provided. The method includes that: an encoder in a 3-dimenional (3D) separable convolutional neural network with multi-input multi-output (3DS_MM) receives a first input including multiple video frames, where the encoder includes a plurality of encoder layers including 3D separable convolutional neural network (CNN) layers; the encoder generates a first encoder output; and a decoder in the 3DS_MM receives the first encoder output and generates a first output including multiple first binary masks related to the first input, where the decoder includes a plurality of decoder layers comprising 3D separable transposed CNN layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicants: KWAI INC., SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITYInventors: Bingxin HOU, Ying LIU, Nam LING, Lingzhi LIU, Yongxiong REN, Ming Kai HSU
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Publication number: 20220075862Abstract: A system and method for authenticating a face mask with a user for providing secure access to a user device whereby received on the user device is a request from the user to pair a user face mask having a pre-printed unique identifier with the user device for user authentication purposes. The user device captures an image of the pre-printed unique identifier on the user face mask so as to associate the captured image of the unique identifier with the user device. Afterwards, when the user requests access to the user device in a locked state, the user device is caused to capture of an image of the unique identifier affixed to the user face mask. The user device may further be caused to capture an image of at least a portion of the user's face to authenticate the captured unique identifier affixed to the user face mask with the captured portion of the user's face to verify the captured unique identifier and the captured portion of the user's face are associated with the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: Santa Clara Holdings LLCInventor: Ralph de la Torre
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Patent number: 11213667Abstract: A 3D printed biocompatible drug delivery device is provided having a fluid delivery channel distinguishing three segments and a receiving chamber with an array of microneedles. The three segments of the delivery channel are stagnation zones before a drug is extruded and whereby an inverted funnel provides an increasing extrusion surface servicing the drug to the array of microneedles. The design of the device with its flow-related components circumvents the challenge of colloidal stability associated with multi-phase formulations leading to nozzle blockage. Qualitative screening cytotoxicity tests pre and post-extrusion through the drug delivery device using mammalian cells rule out cytotoxicity and outline equivalent viability to control treatments. The biocompatibility results suggest that the fluid delivery design, the photoresin selected as well as the fabrication and sterilization may be extended over a range of regenerative medicine and drug delivery applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Maryam Mobed-Miremadi, Chantell Farias, Cecilia Hemingway, Roman Lyman
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Patent number: 10794915Abstract: Isolated truncated and mutated sensor proteins derived from flavoproteins that are 12-20 KDa or less, genetically encoded for detection and imaging of protein complexes having long fluorescent lifetimes that can be 4.0 ns or greater.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SANTA CLARA COLLEGEInventors: Gerard Marriott, Alexander Chris Hoepker, Yuling Yan
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Patent number: 10764577Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing intra coding predictions. An intra-coding process applied to pixels in a frame of media is determined. The intra-coding process is determined whether to corresponding to at least one of most probable modes. In response to determining the intra-coding process does not correspond to the at least one of the most probable modes, four angular prediction modes are extracted from a list of prediction modes. A set of candidates based on the four angular prediction modes are determined. A pre-defined order of the set of candidates is determined, wherein each candidate mode of the set of candidate modes is included in a ranked order and signaled with a particular fixed length coding, and wherein a length of the particular fixed length coding increases based on the pre-defined order of the set of candidate modes.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Minqiang Jiang, Taru Kanchan, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, Chen-Xiong Zhang
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Patent number: 10758486Abstract: Vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (VSVG) can both load protein cargo onto exosomes and increase their delivery ability via a pseudotyping mechanism. By fusing a set of fluorescent and luminescent reporters with VSVG, we show the successful targeting and incorporation of VSVG fusions into exosomes by gene transfection and fluorescence tracking. VSVG pseudotyping of exosomes does not affect the size or distributions of the exosomes, and both the full-length VSVG and the VSVG without the ectodomain integrate into the exosomal membrane, suggesting that the ectodomain is not required for protein loading. Finally, exosomes pseudotyped with full-length VSVG are internalized by multiple-recipient cell types to a greater degree compared to exosomes loaded with VSVG without the ectodomain, confirming a role of the ectodomain in cell tropism.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Biao Lu, Conary Meyer, Joseph Losacco, Zachary Stickney
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Patent number: 10752958Abstract: A diagnostic analysis method and system is provided for identifying a microorganism from a genome sequence. Partially or fully assembled microbial genomes or short reads from whole-genome sequencing of microbial genomes are processed into a 4 MB Boolean array while preserving 1% of the genomic information in a way that allows for rapid comparison of a query genome to a large reference database. This represents a critical savings in storage space and speed by which large reference libraries can be queried.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: David Hess, Farid Tadros, Michael Jared Lumpe, Eileen Wagner, Mark W. Pandori
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Publication number: 20200212193Abstract: Describe is a resonator that uses anti-ferroelectric (AFE) materials in the gate of a transistor as a dielectric. The use of AFE increases the strain/stress generated in the gate of the FinFET. Along with the usual capacitive drive, which is boosted with the increased polarization, additional current drive is also achieved from the piezoelectric response generated to due to AFE material. In some embodiments, the acoustic mode of the resonator is isolated using phononic gratings all around the resonator using the metal line above and vias' to body and dummy fins on the side. As such, a Bragg reflector is formed above or below the AFE based transistor. Increased drive signal from the AFE results in larger output signal and larger bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Intel Corporation Santa ClaraInventors: Tanay Gosavi, Chia-ching Lin, Raseong Kim, Ashish Verma Penumatcha, Uygar Avci, Ian Young
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Publication number: 20200203518Abstract: A Group III-Nitride (III-N) device structure is provided comprising: a heterostructure having three or more layers comprising III-N material, an anode n+ region and a cathode comprising donor dopants, wherein the anode n+ region and the cathode are on the first layer of the heterostructure and wherein the anode n+ region and the cathode extend beyond the heterostructure, and an anode metal region within a recess that extends through two or more of the layers, wherein the anode metal region is in electrical contact with the first layer, wherein the anode metal region comprises a first width within the recess and a second width beyond the recess, and wherein the anode metal region is coupled with the anode n+ region. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Santa ClaraInventors: Harald Gossner, Peter Baumgartner, Uwe Hodel, Domagoj Siprak, Stephan Leuschner, Richard Geiger
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Patent number: 10617768Abstract: Engineered exosomes for the delivery of bioactive cargo are provided. The exosomes incorporate a tetraspanin transmembrane anchoring scaffold onto the membrane of the exosome. The tetraspanin transmembrane anchoring scaffold has a C-terminal attachment site in the inner-vesicle space of the exosome, a N-terminal attachment site in the inner-vesicle space or the outer-vesicle space, and/or a loop attachment site in the outer-vesicle space. Peptides can be attached to the different attachments sites in any form or combination. Tetrapanins naturally anchor on the exosome membrane, are biocompatible, and allow for robust loading and delivery of bioactive cargos in mammalian system.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Biao Lu, Conary Meyer, Joseph Losacco, Zachary Stickney
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Patent number: 10587900Abstract: System and method embodiments for image coding are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method in a data processing system for image encoding includes determining a sparsity constraint according to a dimension of an input image signal. The method also includes iteratively determining a plurality of approximations to the input image signal. Each iteration provides an approximation of the input image signal. Each approximation includes a set of dictionary element indices and coefficients. The dictionary is an over-complete dictionary. Iterations of the determining step are terminated when a number of iterations is equal to the sparsity constraint. The method also includes selecting one of the plurality of approximations according to a minimum rate-distortion cost. The method also includes determining an encoded image signal according to non-zero coefficients and corresponding indices for each non-zero coefficient in the selected approximation.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignees: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Minqiang Jiang, Jianhua Zheng, Madhusudan Kalluri, Nam Ling, Chen-Xiong Zhang
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Patent number: 10568521Abstract: An optical probe having a controlled viewing angle lens tip is provided that includes an elastomer lumen, where the elastomer lumen includes internal dividers disposed to separate the elastomer lumen into a plurality of channels, a lens that is sealably attached to a distal end of the elastomer lumen, where each channel is disposed to operate as an independent hydraulic channel, where an angle of the lens relative to a central axis of the elastomer lumen is positioned according to a state of pressure in each independent hydraulic channel, and a hydraulic generator, where the hydraulic generator is disposed to pressurize each hydraulic channel to a defined state as set by a computer input from a to computer.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Steven Kiyohiko Shiba, Christian Mariano, Eric Sabelman, Ismail Emre Araci
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Patent number: 10451294Abstract: Smart hot water heater control can be improved by departing from the conventional approach of monitoring hot water demand at a single point (i.e., the water heater output). Instead, hot water demand is monitored at each location in the building where hot water is used. With this approach, the controller can provide hot water at a temperature suitable for the intended use, e.g., warm water for a bath or shower, and much hotter water for a dishwasher. This advantageously avoids inefficiency due to mixing hot and cold water at a tap to provide temperature control.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Santa Clara UniversityInventors: Hohyun Lee, Russell Williams, Rachel Donohoe, Rebecca Barney, Kerbasi Ugarte, Xavier Moya, Alex Zatopa