Patents Assigned to State Univ.
  • Patent number: 11738332
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a series of ammonia decomposition catalysts, the method of making such catalysts and the use of such catalysts. The said catalysts are made of composite metal or metal alloys supported on composite oxides or nitrides as the catalyst supports. The catalysts are useful in ammonia decomposition at various temperatures and pressures, including temperatures below 500° C. and pressures up to 30 atm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: Bettergy Corporation, The Research Foundation For The State Univ. Of NY
    Inventors: Gang Wu, Shreya Mukherjee, Zhong Tang, Bo Lu
  • Patent number: 11686719
    Abstract: Methods of evaluating viscous compositions are disclosed. The methods may be used to evaluate degradation levels of lubricants including grease. The methods may include preparing a surface for testing by leveling and flattening a viscous composition, placing a drop of a liquid on the flattened leveled surface, evaluating the observed contact angle between the drop and the surface, and then comparing the observed contact angle to a reference contact angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. A.M.
    Inventors: Michael M. Khonsari, Lijesh Koottaparambil
  • Patent number: 11305998
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the gas-phase production of carbon nanotube (CNT)-nanoparticle (NP) hybrid materials in a flow-through pyrolytic reactor specially adapted to integrate nanoparticles (NP) into CNT material at the nanoscale level, and the second generation CNT-NP hybrid materials produced thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: University of Cincinnati, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State Univ
    Inventors: Mark Schulz, Guangfeng Hou, Vianessa Ng
  • Patent number: 11242059
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to implement a vehicle overtaking monitoring system. The method comprises receiving, from a first plurality of sensors coupled to an ego vehicle, lead vehicle data about a lead vehicle, inferring an estimated intention of the lead vehicle based on the lead vehicle data, selecting an intention model from a plurality of intention models based on the estimated intention, calculating a set of permissible driving inputs of the ego vehicle based on the intention model, calculating at least one driver input range based on the set of permissible driving inputs, and causing the at least one driver input range to be displayed to a driver of the ego vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF MICHIGAN, AZ BRD REGENTS ON BEHALF OF AZ STATE UNIV.
    Inventors: Necmiye Ozay, Yunus E. Sahin, Zexiang Liu, Kwesi Rutledge, Sze Zheng Yong, Dimitra Panagou
  • Patent number: 10165773
    Abstract: The invention is based on the recognition that known antimicrobial compounds, such as nisin or other lantibiotics, can be made to form a long lasting antimicrobial surface coating by linking the peptide with a block polymer, such as PLURONIC® F108 or an end group activated polymer (EGAP) in a manner to form a flexible tether and/or entrap the peptide. The entrapped peptide provides antimicrobial action by early release from entrapment while the tethered peptide provides longer lasting antimicrobial protection. Antimicrobial gels and foams may be prepared using the antimicrobial peptide containing block copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Allvivio Vascular, Inc., State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Ed. on Behalf of Oregon State Univ.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Neff, Joseph McGuire, Pranav Joshi
  • Publication number: 20140233688
    Abstract: A power module assembly includes a reactor core immersed in a coolant and a reactor vessel housing the coolant and the reactor core. An internal dry containment vessel submerged in liquid substantially surrounds the reactor vessel in a gaseous environment. During an over-pressurization event the reactor vessel is configured to release the coolant into the containment vessel and remove a decay heat of the reactor core through condensation of the coolant on an inner surface of the containment vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: The State of OR acting by through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of OR State Univ.
    Inventors: Jose N. REYES, JR., John T. Groome
  • Publication number: 20140037468
    Abstract: The micropump includes continuous cylindrical separating pipes having at least two alternating stages of pipes of small radius and large radius connected in succession. One end of the pipes constitutes a hot zone, and the opposite end constitutes a cold zone. The pipes alternate straight pipes with a large radius and U-shaped curved pipes with a small radius. The-relationship of the large radius of a straight pipe to the small radius (r) of a U-shaped pipe is in a range of R/r=2-10000, while the relationship of the temperature (T2) of a hot zone to the temperature (T1) of a cold zone is T2/T1=1.1-3.0. The length and radius measurements of a straight pipe and a U-shaped pipe are selected to ensure a given change in temperature of the gas from the temperature of the hot zone to the temperature of the cold zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicants: Moscow Institute of Physics and Tech. State Univ. (Moscow Institute of Physics and Tech., MIPT), Fed. State Budgetary Institution, Fed. Agency for Legal Protection of Military, Special and Dual Use
    Inventors: Yury Yrevich Kloss, Feliks Gregorevich Cheremisin, Denis Vladimirovich Martynov
  • Patent number: 8598269
    Abstract: The invention is based on the recognition that known antimicrobial compounds, such as nisin or other lantibiotics, can be made to form a long lasting antimicrobial surface coating by linking the peptide with a block polymer, such as PLURONIC® F108 or an end group activated polymer (EGAP) in a manner to form a flexible tether and/or entrap the peptide. The entrapped peptide provides antimicrobial action by early release from entrapment while the tethered peptide provides longer lasting antimicrobial protection. Antimicrobial gels and foams may be prepared using the antimicrobial peptide containing block copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Allvivo Vascular, Inc., The State of Oregon Acting by & through the State Board of Higher Ed. on Behalf of Oregon State Univ.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Neff, Joseph McGuire, Pranav R. Joshi
  • Patent number: 8501382
    Abstract: There are disclosed sulfonic acid precursor compositions, as are methods of using these compositions in, for example, photolithography. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of State Univ. of New York
    Inventor: Robert L. Brainard
  • Publication number: 20120297493
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are presented for the administration of transposon-based vectors to an animal or human to provide gene therapy to the animal or human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicants: TransGenRx, Inc., The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State Univ. and Agricultural and Mechanical College
    Inventors: Richard Cooper, Frederick M. Enright, William C. Fioretti
  • Publication number: 20120251592
    Abstract: The invention is based on the recognition that known antimicrobial compounds, such as nisin or other lantibiotics, can be made to form a long lasting antimicrobial surface coating by linking the peptide with a block polymer, such as PLURONIC® F108 or an end group activated polymer (EGAP) in a manner to form a flexible tether and/or entrap the peptide. The entrapped peptide provides antimicrobial action by early release from entrapment while the tethered peptide provides longer lasting antimicrobial protection. Antimicrobial gels and foams may be prepared using the antimicrobial peptide containing block copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicants: The State of Oregon Acting by & through the State Board of Higher Ed. on Behalf of Oregon State Univ, ALLVIVO VASCULAR, INC.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Neff, Joseph McGuire, Pranav R. Joshi
  • Patent number: 8178617
    Abstract: The invention is based on the recognition that known antimicrobial compounds, such as nisin or other lantibiotics, can be made to form a long lasting antimicrobial surface coating by linking the peptide with a block polymer, such as PLURONIC® F108 or an end group activated polymer (EGAP) in a manner to form a flexible tether and/or entrap the peptide. The entrapped peptide provides antimicrobial action by early release from entrapment while the tethered peptide provides longer lasting antimicrobial protection. Antimicrobial gels and foams may be prepared using the antimicrobial peptide containing block copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignees: Allvivo Vascular, Inc., The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Ed. on Behalf of Oregon State Univ.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Neff, Joseph McGuire, Pranav R. Joshi
  • Publication number: 20120101085
    Abstract: The present teachings provide compounds of Formulae I and II: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, complexes, esters, and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1, R1?, R2, R2?, R3, R3?, and X are as defined herein. The present teachings also provide methods of making the compounds of formulae I and II, and methods of treating RyR-associated conditions, disorders, and diseases that include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I or II to a subject in need thereof. In addition, the present teachings relate to methods of reducing the open probability of a ryanodine receptor, and methods of reducing Ca2+ release across a ryanodine receptor (e.g., into the cytoplasm of a cell), by contacting a compound of formula I or II with a ryanodine receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: State of Oregon By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Portland State Univ.
    Inventors: Jonathan J. Abramson, Robert Michael Stongin
  • Publication number: 20100179108
    Abstract: The present invention involves use of the compounds narciclasine (2a) and 7-deoxy-narciclasine (2c), which are obtained via isolation from the medicinal plant species Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae), as precursors in a novel synthesis method in which each of these compounds are selectively hydrogenated to produce trans-dihydronarciclasine (1a) and 7-deoxy-trans-dihydronarciclasine (1c). Also described herein is a novel synthesis method for producing sodium narcistatin (11) from narciclasine (2a). Further described herein are certain novel 3,4-cyclic phosphate prodrugs, including sodium-7-deoxynarcistatin (8), sodium-7-deoxy-transdihydronarcistatin (9), and sodium transdihydronarcistatin (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: AZ Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of AZ, Acting for & on Behalf of AZ State Univ.
    Inventors: George R. Pettit, Noeleen Melody
  • Patent number: 7670807
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide sequence from the genome of Bacillus stearothermophilus (Geobacillus stearothermophilus) and an amino acid sequence encoded by the polynucleotide sequence, the corresponding amino acid sequence comprising a novel enzyme, Tirt (thermostable intron reverse transcriptase), having reverse transcriptase activity and retaining that activity at temperatures of up to about 75° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: East Tennessee State Univ. Research Foundation
    Inventors: Bert C. Lampson, Jashree Velore
  • Patent number: 7598061
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for detecting, quantifying and/or identifying a fungal species in a sample or for diagnosing jejunal hemorrhage syndrome in a subject. The methods generally include amplifying a fungal nucleic acid sequence present in the sample using a primer selected from the group consisting of: SEQ. ID NO 5, SEQ. ID NO 6, SEQ. ID NO 7, SEQ. ID NO 8, SEQ. ID NO 9, SEQ. ID NO 10, SEQ. ID NO 11, SEQ. ID NO 12, SEQ. ID NO 13, SEQ. ID NO 14 or SEQ. ID NO 16; and observing or measuring the amplified nucleic acid sequence. The fungal species can thereby be detected, quantified, and/or identified. Fungal contamination also can be detected or measured in a biological or feed or food sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: The State of Oregon, Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education; Oregon State Univ
    Inventors: Neil E. Forsberg, Steven B. Puntenney
  • Publication number: 20090117571
    Abstract: A biosensor system includes a functionalized interdigitated electrode, functionalized nanoparticles, a current/voltage signal generator, and a circuit analyzer. The interdigitated electrode can be functionalized by coating an exposed surface with first biomolecular probes. The nanoparticles are functionalized by coating an outer surface with second biomolecular probes. A signal generator provides a signal (e.g., an alternating current or voltage) having a selected range of frequencies. A circuit analyzer analyzes electrical parameters of the circuit as the signal is applied. Sensitivity is increased by the presence of functionalized nanoparticles in the system. An analytic method includes measuring changes in electrical parameters of the circuit over the range of frequencies. Using these measurements, the biosensor system can determine whether a target biomolecule is bound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: State of Oregon by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State Univ.
    Inventors: Rajendra Solanki, Jeffrey S. King, Kanwar Vikas Singh
  • Publication number: 20090022888
    Abstract: The invention is based on the recognition that known antimicrobial compounds, such as nisin or other lantibiotics, can be made to form a long lasting antimicrobial surface coating by linking the peptide with a block polymer, such as PLURONIC® F108 or an end group activated polymer (EGAP) in a manner to form a flexible tether and/or entrap the peptide. The entrapped peptide provides antimicrobial action by early release from entrapment while the tethered peptide provides longer lasting antimicrobial protection. Antimicrobial gels and foams may be prepared using the antimicrobial peptide containing block copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicants: ALLVIVO VASCULAR, INC., State Univ.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Neff, Joseph McGuire, Pranav R. Joshi
  • Patent number: 7118217
    Abstract: An Optical Imaging Device of Retinal Function has been developed to detect changes in reflectance of near infrared light from the retina of human subjects in response to visual activation of the retina by a pattern stimulus. The measured changes in reflectance correspond in time to the onset and offset of the visual stimulus in the portion of the retina being stimulated. Any changes in reflectance can be measured by interrogating the retina with a light source. The light source may be presented to the retina via the cornea and pupil or through other tissues in and around the eye. Different wavelengths of interrogating light may be used to interrogate various layers of the retina. Additionally, various novel patterns and methods of stimulation have been developed for use with the imaging device and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignees: University of Iowa Research Foundation, The Research Foundation of State Univ. of New York, Kestrel Corporation
    Inventors: Randy H. Kardon, Young H. Kwon, Daniel Tso, Peter Soliz
  • Patent number: PP20694
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Corylus plant named ‘Red Dragon,’ characterized by its outwardly spreading plant habit, twisting stems, rich dark burgundy-colored leaves, burgundy color of the catkins and leaf buds, and resistance to eastern filbert blight caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala (Peck) E. Muller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: The State of Oregon, Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education; Oregon State Univ
    Inventors: Shawn A. Mehlenbacher, David C. Smith