Patents Assigned to State University
  • SYNTHETIC REPRESSION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20180105825
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides synthetic repressor constructs and the proteins encoded therein, as well as synthetic repressible promoter constructs for use in combination with the synthetic repressor constructs/synthetic repressors disclosed herein. Various combinations of synthetic repressor constructs and synthetic repressible promoter constructs are also provided in synthetic genetic circuits for modifying expression of a protein of interest in a plant cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: June I. Medford, Mauricio S. Antunes, Tessema K. Kassaw
  • Multi-functional electrolyte for thermal management of lithium-ion batteries
    Patent number: 9947961
    Abstract: The high thermal conduction resistances of a lithium-ion battery (LIB) severely limit the effectiveness of a conventional external thermal management system (TMS). A method for a new thermal management system for lithium-ion batteries that utilizes a multi-functional electrolyte (MFE) to remove heat locally inside the cell by evaporating a volatile component of the MFE is disclosed. These new electrolyte mixtures comprise a high vapor pressure co-solvent. The characteristics of a previously unstudied high vapor pressure co-solvent HFE-7000 (65 kPa at 25° C.) in an MFE (1 M LiTFSI in 1:1 HFE-7000/EMC), and other possible MFE compositions that can be utilized in a custom electrolyte boiling facility, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventor: Todd Bandhauer
  • Simultaneous ion sensing and gas sampling in combustion engine cylinders and other combustion systems
    Patent number: 9945812
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for simultaneous ion current sensing and gas analysis. The system acquires an ion current signal and analyzes the composition of a corresponding gas sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Wayne State University
    Inventors: Tamer H. Badawy, Fadi Estefanous, Naeim A. Henein
  • Self-demolding ice mold and methods of use and automation
    Patent number: 9945598
    Abstract: Systems and methods for making ice utilize self-demolding ice molds. Responsive to freezing of water in the mold into ice, an ejection apparatus is compressed. Via a force arising from the compression, the ejection apparatus ejects the ice from the mold. Ice machines may utilize multiple molds, and water filling a first mold may be utilized to at least partially melt ice in a second mold to facilitate ejection of the ice from the second mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Jonathan Sherbeck, Nicholas Fette
  • CslA9 gluco-mannan synthase gene
    Patent number: 9944939
    Abstract: The invention relates to plants that contain higher proportions of mannans. Such plants express transcription factors that increase the expression of CSLA9, a mannan synthase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Kyung-Hwan Han, Won-Chan Kim, Ida-Barbara Reca, Kenneth Keegstra
  • Methods for obtaining information from single cells within populations using DNA origami nanostructures without the need for single cell sorting
    Patent number: 9944923
    Abstract: Methods for construction of DNA origami nanostructures, as well as for binding, isolation, linking, and deep sequencing information, such as both of TCR alpha and beta CDR3 mRNA, from individual cells within a mixed population of cells without the need for single cell sorting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Joseph Blattman, Hao Yan, Louis Schoettle, Xixi Wei
  • Production of high quality durum wheat having increased amylose content
    Patent number: 9943095
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods of altering/improving Durum wheat phenotypes. Furthermore, methods of breeding Durum wheat and/or other closely related species to produce plants having altered or improved phenotypes are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Montana State University
    Inventor: Michael J. Giroux
  • Cholera toxin chimera and its use as a staph vaccine
    Patent number: 9943582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chimeric protein vaccines and methods of use thereof in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of generating an immune response in a mammal, that includes administering to the mammal, a composition having a chimeric protein having at least one of: a portion of a cholera toxin, a portion of a heat-labile toxin, and a portion of a shiga toxin; and an antigen having at least one of: an antigenic material from S. aureus and an antigenic material from a S. aureus-specific polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Boise State University
    Inventor: Juliette Tinker
  • High performance microwave dielectric systems and methods
    Patent number: 9947861
    Abstract: Loss tangents in microwave dielectric materials may be modified (increased and/or reduced), particularly at cryogenic temperatures, via application of external magnetic fields. Exemplary electrical devices, such as resonators, filters, amplifiers, mixers, and photonic detectors, configured with dielectric components having applied magnetic fields may achieve improvements in quality factor and/or modifications in loss tangent exceeding two orders of magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Nathan Newman, Lingtao Liu
  • Coiled coil helix cristae morphology 1 (CHCM1) tumor marker and cancer therapeutic target
    Patent number: 9945863
    Abstract: Methods for diagnosing and treating a cancer or a tumor in a patient are provided. The methods can comprise the steps of obtaining a biological sample from the patient and analyzing the sample for the presence or absence of Coiled Coil Helix Cristae Morphology 1 protein (CHCM1). A patient is diagnosed with cancer or a tumor provided that CHCM1 is overexpressed. The diagnosed patient is treated by administering a cancer or tumor treatment. The methods can also comprise the steps of obtaining a sample of cancer or tumor cells from the patient, determining a level of CHCM1 expression in the sample of cancer or tumor cells, and administering to the patient a compound for reducing the expression of CHCM1 or for blocking or inhibiting function of CHCM1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: M. Saeed Sheikh, Ying Huang, Jie An
  • Methods of producing a paper product
    Patent number: 9945073
    Abstract: An omnibus process of pulping and bleaching lignocellulosic materials in which a charge of a lignocellulosic material is biopulped and/or water extracted prior to pulping and bleaching. The lignocellulosic material may be mechanically pulped and bleached in the presence of an enzyme that breaks lignin-carbohydrate complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Thomas E. Amidon, Raymond Francis, Gary M. Scott, Jeremy Bartholomew, Bandaru V. Ramarao, Christopher D. Wood
  • Platinum complexes and devices
    Patent number: 9947881
    Abstract: Platinum compounds of Formulas I and II useful in a variety of devices, such as, for example organic-light emitting diodes (OLEDs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Li, Guijie Li, Jason Brooks
  • Color-encoding and in-situ interrogation of matrix-coupled chemical compounds
    Patent number: 9945051
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the physico-chemical encoding of a collection of beaded resin (“beads”) to determine the chemical identity of bead-anchored compounds by in-situ interrogation of individual beads. The present invention provides method and apparatus to implement color-coding strategies in applications and including the ultrahigh-throughput screening of bead-based combinatorial compounds libraries as well as multiplexed diagnostic and environmental testing and other biochemical assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventor: Richard Ebright
  • Photosynthetic production of 3-hydroxybutyrate from carbon dioxide
    Patent number: 9944955
    Abstract: Construction and expression of synthetic pathways to produce (5) or (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) as enantiomerically-pure products by genetically engineering cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Under optimized growth conditions, the pathway employing phaA and phaB from R. eutropha was the most effective, producing up to 533.4±5.5 mg/l (R)-3HB after 21 days photosynthetic cultivation. For the first time, the feasibility and high efficiency of producing 3HB using solar energy and CO2 as sole energy and carbon sources by engineered cyanobacteria is demonstrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Bo Wang, Weiwen Zhang, Deirdre Meldrum, David Nielsen
  • METHOD OF PROVIDING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20180102272
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a method. The method can include: providing a carrier substrate; providing a bond promoting layer over the carrier substrate; and depositing a first device substrate over the carrier substrate and the bond promoting layer. The first device substrate can be configured to bond to the carrier substrate with a first device substrate-carrier substrate adhesion strength. Meanwhile, depositing the first device substrate can include: bonding the first device substrate to the bond promoting layer, the first device substrate bonding to the bond promoting layer with a first device substrate-bond promoting layer adhesion strength greater than the first device substrate-carrier substrate adhesion strength; and coupling the first device substrate to the carrier substrate. Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Emmett Howard, Nick Munizza, Paul Yee, Zachary Hartke
  • GENERATING A SENSOR TASK BASED ON A TARGET DETECTION AND PLATFORM DATA FROM A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE RELATIONSHIP
    Publication number: 20180100736
    Abstract: For measuring an area of interest based on a sensor task, a method generates a sensor task comprising a sensor type and an area of interest. The method further routes the sensor task to a sensor of the sensor type and with a sensor motion track that includes the area of interest. The method measures the area of interest with the sensor based on the sensor task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicants: Utah State University, The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Scott Allen Anderson, Troy R. Johnson, Jonathan Haws, Brad D. Petersen, Thomas J. Walls
  • HOLD VIOLATION FREE SCAN CHAIN AND SCANNING MECHANISM FOR TESTING OF SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS
    Publication number: 20180102766
    Abstract: A sequential state element (SSE) is disclosed. In one embodiment, an SSE includes a differential sense flip flop (DSFF) and a completion detection circuit (CDC) operably associated with the DSFF. The DSFF is configured to generate a differential logical output. During a normal operational mode, the DSFF is synchronized by a clock signal to provide a differential logical output in a differential output state in accordance with a data input or in a precharge state based on the clock signal. The differential logical output is provided in a differential output state in accordance with a test input during a scan mode. The CDC is configured to generate a test enable input during the scan mode that indicates the scan mode once the differential logical output is in the differential output state. Accordingly, another SSE can be asynchronously triggered to operate in the scan mode without a separate scan clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Sarma Vrudhula, Niranjan Kulkarni
  • HIV-1 antigens with discrete conformational forms in the V1/V2 domain and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 9938325
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel composition of HIV-1 Env proteins that contain structurally and immunologically distinct VI/V2 domains. Methods of isolating such proteins, and methods of using such proteins as immunogens, therapeutic agents, vaccines, and test compounds for use in identifying a HIV antiviral are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New York
    Inventor: Abraham Pinter
  • Nano-electrode multi-well high-gain avalanche rushing photoconductor
    Patent number: 9941428
    Abstract: Provided is a detector that includes a scintillator, a common electrode, a pixel electrode, and a plurality of insulating layers, with a plurality of nano-pillars formed in the plurality of insulating layers, a nano-scale well structure between adjacent nano-pillars, with a-Se separating the adjacent nano-pillars, and a method for operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Amirhossein Goldan, Wei Zhao, John A. Rowlands
  • Process mapping of cooling rates and thermal gradients
    Patent number: 9939394
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices includes conducting a plurality of tests of a manufacturing process. Each test is conducted at a different combination of at least a first process variable and a second process variable, and each test comprises locally heating a region of a structure, where the local heating results in formation of a thermal field in the structure, and assessing a temperature derivative of the thermal field. Based on results of the plurality of tests, a process map of the temperature derivative of the thermal field is generated, with the temperature derivative based on a function of the first process variable and the second process variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: Carnegie Mellon University, Wright State University
    Inventors: Jack Lee Beuth, Jr., Nathan W. Klingbeil, Joy Davis Gockel