Patents Assigned to South Dakota Board of Regents
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Patent number: 10519580Abstract: A method of synthesizing mechanically resilient titanium carbide (TiC) nanofibrous felts comprising continuous nanofibers or nano-ribbons with TiC crystallites embedded in carbon matrix, comprising: (a) electrospinning a spin dope for making precursor nanofibers with diameters less than 0.5 J.Lm; (b) overlaying the nanofibers to produce a nano-fibrous mat (felt); and then (c) heating the nano-felts first at a low temperature, and then at a high temperature for making electrospun continuous nanofibers or nano-ribbons with TiC crystallites embedded in carbon matrix; and (d) chlorinating the above electrospun nano-felts at an elevated temperature to remove titanium for producing carbide derived carbon (CDC) nano-fibrous felt with high specific surface areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Hao Fong, Lifeng Zhang, Yong Zhao, Zhengtao Zhu
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Publication number: 20190381525Abstract: Cold spray devices and systems are disclosed. They include a flowpath having an inlet adapted for receiving communication with two or more inputs and an outlet adapted to discharge the two or more inputs. A discharge nozzle may be included in the flowpath of the outlet and a confluence may be included in the flowpath at the inlet for combining the two or more inputs. A nozzle body houses the discharge nozzle separate and downstream from the confluence of the two inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: South Dakota Board of Regents, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Christian Widener, Victor Champagne, Matthew Trexler, Dennis Helfritch, Rob Hrabe
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Patent number: 10488828Abstract: Multi-resonant control of a 3 degree-of-freedom (heave-pitch-surge) wave energy converter enables energy capture that can be in the order of three times the energy capture of a heave-only wave energy converter. The invention uses a time domain feedback control strategy that is optimal based on the criteria of complex conjugate control. The multi-resonant control can also be used to shift the harvested energy from one of the coupled modes to another, enabling the elimination of one of the actuators otherwise required in a 3 degree-of-freedom wave energy converter. This feedback control strategy does not require wave prediction; it only requires the measurement of the buoy position and velocity.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignees: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Michigan Technological University, South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Ossama Abdelkhalik, Shangyan Zou, Rush D. Robinett, III, David G. Wilson, Giorgio Bacelli, Ryan Geoffrey Coe, Umesh Korde
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Publication number: 20190356018Abstract: Solid-state lithium-ion batteries with a solid-state antiperovskite electrolyte are disclosed. In one aspect, a solid-state Li3ClO electrolyte is deposited on a Cu-supported thin carbon working electrode using a delamination approach for half-cells with lithium metal as a reference electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Alevtina Smirnova, Matthew Dondelinger, Joel Swanson
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Publication number: 20190339232Abstract: A system for determining gas characteristics at high altitudes in embodiments of the present invention may have one or more of the following features: (a) a high-altitude balloon having one or more of the following features: (a) a balloon, (b) a balloonsat operably coupled to the balloon, (c) an air path chamber wherein gas at a high altitude can occupy the air path chamber, (d) a first speaker located on a substrate within the air path chamber, wherein the first speaker takes an electrical signal input and creates a first sound wave, and (e) a second speaker located on the substrate facing opposite of the first speaker located outside of the air path chamber, wherein the second speaker takes the electrical signal and creates a second sound wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Lowell Kolb, Charles Tolle, Nathan Williams, Jason Ash
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Publication number: 20190338153Abstract: The present invention relates generally to using upconverting inks for producing highly-resolved patterns for inter alia, security applications. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of sols (inks) and printing processes that produce well-defined printed features consisting of polymers impregnated with luminescent upconversion nanocrystals. The patterns printed using such inks and processes may exhibit defined shapes, characters of text, and various other types of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Jon Kellar, P. Stanley May, William Cross, Jeevan Meruga, Tyler Blumenthal
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Patent number: 10468674Abstract: This application relates to anode compositions and methods of making and using the same. In particular, the anode compositions are preferably layered. Preferably, the methods of making the anode compositions comprise a surfactant mediated assembly of layers. The anode compositions have improved structural integrity and capacity while reducing capacity fade due to cycling.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: David R. Salem, Chunhui Chen, Abdulmenan Hussein
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Publication number: 20190319188Abstract: A non-volatile memory circuit in embodiments of the present invention may have one or more of the following features: (a) a logic source, and (b) a semi-conductive device being electrically coupled to the logic source, having a first terminal, a second terminal and a nano-grease with significantly reduced amount of carbon nanotube loading located between the first and second terminal, wherein the nano-grease exhibits non-volatile memory characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Charles Tolle, Haiping Hong, Christian Widener, Greg Christensen, Jack Yang
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Patent number: 10441962Abstract: Cold spray devices and systems are disclosed. They include a flowpath having an inlet adapted for receiving communication with two or more inputs and an outlet adapted to discharge the two or more inputs. A discharge nozzle may be included in the flowpath of the outlet and a confluence may be included in the flowpath at the inlet for combining the two or more inputs. A nozzle body houses the discharge nozzle separate and downstream from the confluence of the two inputs.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF REGENTS, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Christian Widener, Victor Champagne, Matthew Trexler, Dennis Helfritch, Rob Hrabe
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Publication number: 20190300723Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition for application on metal substrates intended for contact with biofuel, which composition includes graphene and/or graphene oxide, and a polymer. The present invention further relates to the manufacture of the composition, a method of providing the application onto substrates and the use of the composition within biofuel areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Venkata K.K. Upadhyayula, Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, Govindarajan Chilkoor, Mats Tysklind
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Patent number: 10429400Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of testing medications to evaluate authenticity and identify counterfeits. The testing methods employ a reactive system comprising a solvent and an acid. Optionally, the reactive system can also comprise an organometallic agent. The testing methods can provide rapid results verifying the authenticity of an antimalarial medication. Further the test method can provide clear results that can be implemented and interpreted without special training, anywhere in the world. The test methods can offer quantitative and qualitative results. The test methods are based on reactions that yield different colors where the color can indicate the presence of an active ingredient, and the intensity of the color can indicate the concentration of the active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignees: South Dakota Board of Regents, Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventors: Daniel Heglund, Andrew Olson, Scott Williams, Neal Hodges, Joseph A. Marshall
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Patent number: 10415537Abstract: A parametric excitation dynamic model is used for a three degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) wave energy converter. Since the heave motion is uncoupled from the pitch and surge modes, the pitch-surge equations of motion can be treated as a linear time varying system, or a linear system with parametric excitation. In such case the parametric exciting frequency can be tuned to twice the natural frequency of the system for higher energy harvesting. A parametric excited 3-DOF wave energy converter can harvest more power, for both regular and irregular waves, compared to the linear 3-DOF. For example, in a Bretschneider wave, the harvested energy in the three modes is about 3.8 times the energy harvested in the heave mode alone; while the same device produces about 3.1 times the heave mode energy when using a linear 3-DOF model.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignees: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Michigan Technological University, South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Ossama Abdelkhalik, Rush D. Robinett, III, Shangyan Zou, David G. Wilson, Giorgio Bacelli, Umesh Korde, Ryan G. Coe
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Patent number: 10388977Abstract: The United States faces significant environmental burden to treat and transport ˜0.61 billion kg of defective tomatoes (culled tomatoes) every year. The present disclosure provides for the treatment and processing of culled tomatoes in microbial-electrochemical systems, using the microbial fuel cell as a model reactor. The fundamental differences between the long-term oxidative behavior of unprocessed culled tomatoes compared to the three readily soluble substrates (dextrose, acetate, and wastewater) are disclosed. AC electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) analyses indicate the influential impedance contributions of the peel & seed to the cull oxidation. Cyclic voltammetry tests indicate that the indigenous redox-active pigments in the cull influence the faradaic processes involved in the cull oxidation.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignees: SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF REGENTS, FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY BOARD OS TRUSTEESInventors: Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, Namita Shrestha, Alex Fogg
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Patent number: 10383943Abstract: Compositions and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of cancer in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a composition comprising an anticancer composition comprising a antineoplastic compound and a conjugated targeting moiety with or without a chemical linker. In certain aspects the antineoplastic compound is a platin and the conjugated targeting moiety is an amino acid.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Hemachand Tummala, Pratik Muley
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Patent number: 10387698Abstract: An improved system and method for reading an upconversion response from nanoparticle inks is provided. A is adapted to direct a near-infrared excitation wavelength at a readable indicia, resulting in a near-infrared emission wavelength created by the upconverting nanoparticle inks. A short pass filter may filter the near-infrared excitation wavelength. A camera is in operable communication with the short pass filter and receives the near-infrared emission wavelength of the readable indicia. The system may further include an integrated circuit adapted to receive the near-infrared emission wavelength from the camera and generate a corresponding signal. A readable application may be in operable communication with the integrated circuit. The readable application receives the corresponding signal, manipulates the signal, decodes the signal into an output, and displays and/or stores the output.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF REGENTSInventors: David Langerman, Jon Kellar, William Cross, P. Stanley May, Julian Brackins, Jeevan Meruga, Aravind Baride, John Rapp
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Patent number: 10376574Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods useful for immunizing a subject against disease caused by influenza A. Disclosed methods comprise administering to the subject an immunoprotective dose of an immunogenic composition. In certain aspects, the immunogenic composition is a vaccine comprised of a recombinant chimeric hemagglutinin polypeptide. In certain aspects, the subject is a mammal. In further aspects, the mammal is a pig. In still further aspects, the mammal is a human.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Victor Huber, Ying Fang
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Patent number: 10369252Abstract: The invention relates to electrospun three-dimensional (3D) nanofibrous scaffolds (with controllable porosities as high as about 96%) and methods of preparing the same. The electrospun 3D scaffolds possess interconnected and hierarchically structured pores with sizes ranging from tens of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers. In embodiments, the 3D scaffolds can be biocompatible and/or biodegradable. In some embodiments, the 3D scaffolds can be conductive. In some embodiments, the 3D scaffolds can contain bioactive species.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventors: Hao Fong, Tao Xu, Yong Zhao, Todd J. Menkhaus
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Publication number: 20190235477Abstract: The present disclosure addresses limitations with methods, systems and processes for integrating multiple advanced technologies into a single automated manufacturing and repair cell. The methods, systems and processes of the present disclosure leverage unique software and hardware to configure a manufacturing cell that is capable of conducting process development and planning, dimensional analysis, pre-machining, surface preparation, cold spray (supersonic particle deposition), dust collection, helium recovery, and post machining in a single integrated manufacturing and repair cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicants: South Dakota Board of Regents, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REP RESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Christian Widener, Victor Champagne, Robert Hrabe
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Patent number: 10358569Abstract: The present invention relates generally to using upconverting inks for producing highly-resolved patterns for, inter alia, security applications. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of sols (inks) and printing processes that produce well-defined printed features consisting of polymers impregnated with luminescent upconversion nanocrystals. The patterns printed using such inks and processes may exhibit defined shapes, characters of text, and various other types of images.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF REGENTSInventors: Jon Kellar, P. Stanley May, William Cross, Jeevan Meruga, Tyler Blumenthal
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Publication number: 20190206599Abstract: The present disclosure addresses limitations in ferritic materials. In at least one aspect, the present disclosure provides core-shell nanoparticles exhibiting improved characteristics for implementations and adaptability in numerous applications. Further aspects of the disclosure provide core-shell nanoparticles for use in electronic, magnetic and electro-magnetic applications. Still, other aspects of the present disclosure provide core-shell nanoparticles for a thermochemical water-splitting reaction resulting in increased H2 volume generation during multiple thermochemical cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: South Dakota Board of RegentsInventor: Rajesh V. Shende