Patents Assigned to State University
  • Method for making a dipole-based contact structure to reduce the metal-semiconductor contact resistance in MOSFETs
    Patent number: 10153201
    Abstract: A transistor device includes a substrate; a source region and a drain region formed over the substrate; and a source/drain contact formed in contact with at least one of the source region and the drain region, the source/drain contact including a conductive metal and a bilayer disposed between the conductive metal and the at least one of the source and drain region, the bilayer including a metal oxide layer in contact with the conductive metal, and a silicon dioxide layer in contact with the at least one of the source and drain region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC., THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Huiming Bu, Hui-feng Li, Vijay Narayanan, Hiroaki Niimi, Tenko Yamashita
  • Asynchronous wireless sensing
    Patent number: 10153892
    Abstract: Low-complexity asynchronous wireless sensing and communication architecture is disclosed for low power wireless sensors. Schemes are based on asynchronous digital communications and Ultra-Wideband impulse radios. In asynchronous radio, combination of frequency-shift-keying (FSK) and on-off-keying (OOK) to remove clock synchronization is applied. Improved asynchronous non-coherent transmitters and receivers achieve both low power and low complexity while seamlessly combined with asynchronous level-crossing modulation. Both uncoded and coded asynchronous communication may be utilized. Coded asynchronous communication may use error correction. Forward error correction schemes for asynchronous sensor communication are utilized where dominant errors consist of pulse deletions and insertions, and where instantaneous encoding takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Arrowhead Center—New Mexico State University
    Inventors: Joerg Kliewer, Wei Tang
  • Retrofit wireless blind spot detection system
    Patent number: 10152893
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting an object in the “blind-spot” of a moving vehicle. The system can be user-installed to retrofit a vehicle, e.g., one that lacks a more complex, factory-installed blind-spot detection system. The invention thus provides an inexpensive and simplified vehicle safety enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Kazemian, Frederick Mba Amuna, Ilyas Kure, Deshawn Edwards, Eli Franklin
  • Patterned liquid crystal alignment using ink-jet printed nanoparticles and use thereof to produce patterned, electro-optically addressable devices; ink-jet printable compositions
    Patent number: 10150918
    Abstract: Ink-jet printable compositions including nanoparticles capped with a protective layer of hydrocarbon chains and a single solvent exhibiting a single evaporation rate and having a specifically defined viscosity and surface tension that result in uniform and printable alignment layers for liquid crystal materials. Patterned liquid crystal-containing cells are also disclosed including one or more layers including the same or different nanoparticles capped with a protective layer of hydrocarbon chains printed on a surface of a substrate or even another nanoparticle-containing layer. Methods for producing the cells are also disclosed, including the step of printing a pattern on one or more portions of a cell surface utilizing a composition comprising the capped nanoparticles. Devices including the cells are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Kent State University
    Inventors: Torsten Hegmann, Anshul Sharma, Dmytro Reznikov
  • Compositions for the treatment of cancer, and methods for testing and using the same
    Patent number: 10149889
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising leukotoxin, including methods to treat lymphoma, and methods to diagnose lymphoma. The lymphoma includes lymphoma cells expressing activated LFA-1, and the leukotoxin binds to the activated LFA-1 on the lymphoma cells and destroys the lymphoma cells by apoptosis or necrosis, thereby treating said lymphoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
    Inventor: Scott Kachlany
  • Low-voltage charge-coupled devices with a heterostructure charge-storage well
    Patent number: 10153324
    Abstract: A CCD with an internal heterostructure well to store the photogenerated carriers is realized by using barrier and absorber semiconductors with a type-II band alignment in nBn or pBp photodetectors to form a specific barrier configured to confine the depletion region and a well to trap and store the photogenerated minority carriers. Depending on the spectral regime, (InAs/InAsSb)/(InAs/AlGaSb) superlattices can be used in the infrared, Si/Ge or AlP/GaP in the visible portion of optical spectrum, and GaN/ZnO in the UV portion. The resulting device not only leverages the advantages of the conventional CCD (such as in-pixel signal integration to suppress the noise), but also boasts an advantageously low operational voltage, thereby ensuring the low power consumption and low band-to-band tunneling current/noise (in particular, for use as an infrared photodetector).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhaoyu He, Yong-Hang Zhang
  • Deformable origami batteries
    Patent number: 10153519
    Abstract: The invention is drawn to a lithium-ion battery containing a packaging material, an anode current collector, an anode electrode, a separator, a cathode electrode, and a cathode current collector, wherein those components are layered to form a planar battery. The planar battery is folded using rigid origami, such as Miura folding, to yield a folded, deformable lithium-ion battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Hanqing Jiang, Hongyu Yu, Zeming Song
  • Device for degassing liquids
    Patent number: 10150060
    Abstract: A degassing chamber is disclosed, adapted for the efficient removal of entrained gases from liquids. In a preferred embodiment the degassing chamber is combined with and works in conjunction with a sedimentation tank to provide an efficient clarification station. The combined clarification station can have a “footprint” the same size as, or only slightly larger than, the footprint of the sedimentation tank alone. The degassing chamber is well-suited for retrofitting, and can easily be combined with most types of solid-liquid sedimentation tanks that are currently used in the industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
    Inventors: Vadim Kochergin, Santiago Grimaldo
  • Compact wind power generation system
    Patent number: 10151302
    Abstract: Exemplary compact wind power generation systems are configured to be suitable for residential and other locations where concealed moving parts are desirable. The wind power generation systems utilize a propeller disposed behind a contracting inlet. The propeller blades may be oriented “into the wind” to develop consistent torque across a variety of wind speeds. The propeller may rim-drive power generation components, further reducing vibration, or may share a common rotational axis with the power generation components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Timothy T. Takahashi, Calahan B. Campton, Donald L. Wood
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIZING A CAPACITY OF AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180351362
    Abstract: A method and system for sizing energy storage device capacity. The method includes generating a load profile of at least an entity based on at least information acquired by a user interface, generating an ensemble of net load profiles based on at least the load profile and based on at least one energy source profile, determining values of cumulative distribution functions associated with a plurality of energy storage device capacities as a function of at least the ensemble of net load profiles, generating a graphical representation of a combination of the composite cumulative distribution functions and a cluster of equal probability line, rendering the graphical representation, and sizing a capacity of the energy storage device based on the rendered graphical representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: TOTAL S.A., NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiangqi ZHU, Wente ZENG, Jiahong YAN, Ning LU
  • SELECTIVE PROTON COUPLED FOLATE TRANSPORTER AND FOLATE RECEPTOR, AND GARFTASE INHIBITOR COMPOUNDS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20180346474
    Abstract: Fused cyclic pyrimidine compounds, including tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates and hydrates thereof, are disclosed having the general Formula I: These compounds are useful in methods for treating cancer, selectively targeting cancerous cells via the proton coupled folate transporter, folate receptor alpha, and/or folate receptor beta pathways, inhibiting GARFTase in cancerous cells, and selectively targeting activated macrophages in a patient having an autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aleem Gangjee, LARRY H. MATHERLY
  • Hydrangea plant named 'NCHA5'
    Publication number: 20180352699
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hydrangea cultivar named ‘NCHA5’ is disclosed, characterized by large, mop-head inflorescences with white sepals. Plant habit is dwarf and rounded with strong stems. Plants are triploid. The new variety is a Hydrangea normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: North Carolina State University
    Inventor: Thomas Green Ranney
  • Hydrangea plant named 'NCHA8'
    Publication number: 20180352698
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hydrangea cultivar named ‘NCHA8’ is disclosed, characterized by large, mop-head inflorescences with florets that open green and progress to white. Plants have a compact, rounded and upright habit with strong stems. Plants are triploid. The new variety is a Hydrangea normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: North Carolina State University
    Inventor: Thomas Green Ranney
  • DATA ACCESS INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20180348998
    Abstract: The system, method, and computer readable medium described herein provide improvements in the ways that user interfaces present multi-dimensional relationships between data samples to a user. The disclosed user interface framework provides users with a visualization of the complex relationships between data samples having multi-dimensional attributes which allows the users to quickly and intuitively grasp the relationships between data samples for a large number of attributes at a glance and in a single data map visualization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Klaus Mueller, Shenghui Cheng
  • Subsurface Environment Sampler
    Publication number: 20180348093
    Abstract: A Sampler and process for collecting, growing, inoculating and evaluating microbes in-situ. The Sampler may be loaded with an active or inert media to assist with the collection of microbes. It is closed and lowered to a desired depth. Sampler is opened to initiate sampling. Materials are added to the sampler to stimulate growth or change the environment. To collect and grow in situ microbes, the sampler is left open for a period of time, a trigger closes and seals the sampler capturing contents specific to that location. The sampler is lifted preserving the in-situ conditions from the collection location. The contents of the sampler can be interrogated through sealed ports at the field site or at a remote location. The sampler can also be utilized as a biologic reactor allowing researchers to connect laboratory equipment to analyze, modify, or cultivate the collected sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: United States Department of the Interiori, Montana State University, Montana Emergent Technologies
    Inventors: Elliott Barnhart, Robert Hyatt, Mathew Fields, Alfred B. Cunningham
  • MEASURING AN AREA OF INTEREST BASED ON A SENSOR TASK
    Publication number: 20180348358
    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: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 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 R. Haws, Brad D. Petersen, Thomas J. Walls
  • APPARATUS, CIRCUIT MODEL, AND METHOD FOR BATTERY MODELLING
    Publication number: 20180348307
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for battery modelling. The method includes acquiring battery information from a sensor attached to a battery, the battery information including at least a terminal voltage and a load current; classifying, the battery information as effective data or ineffective data based on a phase of a battery cycle during which the battery information is acquired; identifying one or more parameters of the circuit model associated with the battery based on the effective data; and generating an estimation of a state of the battery using the circuit model having the one or more parameters identified using the effective data. Further, a circuit model is identified using effective data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: TOTAL S.A., NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mo-Yuen CHOW, Cong Sheng HUANG, Carlos CARREJO
  • Hydrangea plant named 'NCHA7'
    Publication number: 20180352697
    Abstract: A new and distinct Hydrangea cultivar named ‘NCHA7’ is disclosed, characterized by large, mop-head inflorescences with reddish-purple sepals. Plants are compact and upright with strong stems. Plants are triploid. The new variety is a Hydrangea normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: North Carolina State University
    Inventor: Thomas Green Ranney
  • Method to increase the yield of products in plant material
    Patent number: 10144913
    Abstract: A method or process to increase the production of products of interest in plant material including plant cultures, such as, for example, cell suspension cultures, root cultures, and hairy root cultures is provided. In one embodiment, the method is to contacting the plant material with a precursor or xenobiotic when producing a product of interest from a plant. In another embodiment the plant material is also contacted with a trapping agent. The process may also provide for contacting an elicitor of the product of interest with the plant material. An embodiment provides for contacting an elicitor, precursor and trapping agent with the plant material. The ability to produce novel compounds such as glucosides and glucuronides is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Arkansas State University-Jonesboro
    Inventors: Luis Fabricio Medina-Bolivar, Tianhong Yang
  • Peach tree named ‘NJ359’
    Patent number: PP29961
    Abstract: A new and distinct peach variety of Prunus persica named ‘NJ359’ is provided. This variety is distinguished from other peach varieties by its unique combination of non-showy flowers, large, nearly round, freestone fruit that have very good eating quality due to their aromatic, sweet, and moderately acidic flavor, and are generally well colored for a peach that ripens in late season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Joseph C. Goffreda, Anna M. Voordeckers