Patents Assigned to State University
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Patent number: 8604161Abstract: Ligands that bind to prion proteins and methods for using the ligands for detecting or removing a prion protein from a sample, such as a biological fluid or an environmental sample. The ligands are capable of binding to one or more forms of prion protein including cellular prion protein (PrPc), infectious prion protein (PrPsc), and recombinant prion protein (PrPr). Prions from various species, including humans and hamsters, are bound by the ligands. Also provided is a method of treating or retarding the development of a prion-associated pathology in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignees: Pathogen Removal and Diagnostic Technologies Inc., North Carolina State UniversityInventors: David J. Hammond, Julia T. Lathrop, Larisa Cervenakova, Ruben G. Carbonell
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Patent number: 8604239Abstract: The present invention provides manufacturing of and the use of novel diethylene tricarbamide and its condensation reaction products formed by reacting with formaldehyde as wood composite binder resins and in other applications. These resins have thermosetting capabilities and therefore usefulness as binders for wood and other materials with superior resin properties of low cost, colorlessness, exceptionally good binding, and fast curing characteristics, as well as very low formaldehyde emissions. The synthesized novel starting material for the thermosetting resins of the present invention is diethylene tricarbamide.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Mississippi State University Research and Technology CorporationInventor: Moon Kim
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Patent number: 8602026Abstract: A device, system, and method for isolating a ventilator from one or more patients in which the delivery conditions of gas delivered to an isolation device from a ventilator may drive the delivery of breathing-gas delivered to one or more patients, the breathing-gas having the same or different delivery conditions. In one embodiment, an isolation device may have a housing and a movable partition. The movable partition may be joined to the housing, The movable partition may have a patient side on a first side of the partition and an actuating side on a second side of the partition. The isolation device may include an inlet pressure regulator on the actuating side and/or an exhaust pressure regulator on the patient side. These regulators may alter the delivery conditions (including, but not limited to, pressure and volume) of breathing-gas delivered to a patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New YorkInventors: Bradley P. Fuhrman, Mark S. Dowhy
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Publication number: 20130324589Abstract: Described herein are methods for diagnosing pancreatic cancer using microRNAs. Also described are methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of solid cancers. Methods of identifying inhibitors of tumorigenesis are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: The Ohio State UniversityInventors: Carlo M. Croce, George A. Calin, Stefano Volinia
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Publication number: 20130326258Abstract: For predicting timing violations, a prediction module predicts a timing violation for a first instruction in a semiconductor device in response to use by the first instruction of a specified sensitized path. The prediction module further mitigates the predicted timing violation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Utah State UniversityInventors: Sanghamitra Roy, Koushik Chakraborty
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Publication number: 20130324891Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for current monitoring in ultrasound powered neurostimulation. The apparatus may include an ultrasound transmitter configured to emit an ultrasound output directed at a piezoelectric device implanted in biological tissue. The apparatus may also include a detector configured to detect an induced current in response to the ultrasound output in the biological tissue. The piezoelectric device may include a piezoelectric material and a diode. The apparatus may include a feedback mechanism to control the amount of induced current in the biological tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents for and on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventor: Bruce C. Towe
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Publication number: 20130323803Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for stable transformation of green microalgae and for production of transgenic green microalgae and/or cyanobacteria that produce extremophile enzymes as co-products during the growth of the green microalgae and/or cyanobacteria for lipid biofuel production. Thus, the present invention provides nucleic acid constructs and methods of transformation useful in the production of stably transformed green microalgae and/or cyanobacteria expressing extremophile enzymes in combination with lipid production for biofuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Amy Michele Grunden, Heike Inge Ada Sederoff
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Publication number: 20130326736Abstract: Methods of inhibiting plant parasitic nematodes, methods of obtaining transgenic plants useful for inhibiting such nematodes, and transgenic plants that are resistant to plant parasitic nematodes through inhibition of plant nematode CLE peptide receptor genes are provided. Methods for expressing genes at plant parasitic nematode feeding sites with plant nematode CLE peptide receptor gene promoters are also provided, along with nematode CLE peptide receptor gene promoters that are useful for expressing genes in nematode feeding sites as well as transgenic plants and nematode resistant transgenic plants comprising the promoters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, CORNELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Melissa G. Mitchum, Amy Replogle, Jianying Wang, Xiaohong Wang, Shiyan Chen, Ping Lang, Eric L. Davis, Thomas J. Baum, Richard S. Hussey
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Publication number: 20130324493Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising ningnanmycin or a derivative thereof, as well as their use for controlling or combating a fungal infection in a plant or plant part (e.g., a turfgrass).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Bangya Ma, Lane P. Tredway
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Publication number: 20130323262Abstract: Methods and kits for treating inflammatory conditions are described that include modulating kallikrein 6 protease activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc., Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and ResearchInventors: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
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Patent number: 8601082Abstract: A method of detecting a compromised machine on a network. The method receives an email message from a machine on the network and classifies it as either spam or non-spam. A probability ratio is then updated, according to whether the message was spam or non-spam, by applying a sequential probability ratio test. If the probability ratio is greater than or equal to a first threshold, then the machine is compromised. If the probability ratio is less than or equal to a second threshold, then the machine is normal. The operations of receiving a message, classifying the message, updating the probability ratio, and indicating the machine is normal or compromised until the probability ratio is greater than or equal to the first threshold are repeated for a plurality of messages. Such repeated operations are performed on each of the messages one at a time, as each of the messages is received.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Zhenhai Duan, Peng Chen
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Patent number: 8600528Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing real-time packet-level quality assurance of digital data that controls an electromechanical device transmitted through a network between a transmitting computer and at least one terminal computer. Specifically, all data packets transmitted between the transmitting computer and the at least one terminal computer are passively monitored, and those data packets containing digitized data that controls an electromechanical device of a pre-determined format are selectively recorded to a database. The selectively recorded data packets are then analyzed for determining whether a current set of digitized data that controls an electromechanical device transmitted between the transmitting computer and the at least one terminal computer during a current session would lead to a harmful or undesirable outcome by the electromechanical device being controlled.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2007Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New YorkInventor: Daniel Young-joon Kim
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Patent number: 8595923Abstract: There are provided methods for creating energy conversion devices based on the giant flexoelectric effect in non-calamitic liquid crystals. By preparing a substance comprising at least one type of non-calamitic liquid crystal molecules and stabilizing the substance to form a mechanically flexible material, flexible conductive electrodes may be applied to the material to create an electro-mechanical energy conversion device which relies on the giant flexoelectric effect to produce electrical and/or mechanical energy that is usable in such applications as, for example, power sources, energy dissipation, sensors/transducers, and actuators.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Kent State UniversityInventors: Antal I. Jakli, John Ernest Harden, Jr., Samuel Sprunt, James T. Gleeson, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
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Patent number: 8601417Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a Boolean function as either a threshold function or a non-threshold function are disclosed. In one embodiment, in order to identify a Boolean function as either a threshold function or a non-threshold function, a determination is first made as to whether the Boolean function satisfies one or more predefined conditions for being a threshold function, where the one or more predefined conditions include a condition that both a positive cofactor and a negative cofactor of the Boolean function are threshold functions. If the one or more predefined conditions are satisfied, a determination is made as to whether weights for the positive and negative cofactors are equal. If the weights for the cofactors are equal, then the Boolean function is determined to be a threshold function. Further, in one embodiment, this threshold function identification process is utilized in a threshold circuit synthesis process.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Tejaswi Gowda, Sarma Vrudhula
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Patent number: 8598118Abstract: Small molecule, peptidic hepatocyte growth factors mimics, which act as both mimetics and antagonists, have been generated. These molecules have been shown or predicted to have therapeutic potential for numerous pathologies including dementia, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, cancer, and defective wound healing.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Washington State UniversityInventors: Joseph W. Harding, John W. Wright, Caroline C. Benoist, Leen H. Kawas, Gary A. Wayman
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Patent number: 8600125Abstract: In the present methods, the automatic detection of polyps is converted into a 2D pattern recognition problem using conformal mapping and direct volume rendering. The colon surface is first segmented and extracted from the CT data set of the abdomen, which is then mapped to a 2D plane using conformal mapping. Ray casting is used to determine sub-surface density values and the flattened image is rendered using a volume rendering technique with a translucent electronic biopsy transfer function. Polyp candidates are detected by a clustering method which identifies regions of elevated sub-surface density. The potential for false positives is reduced by analyzing the volumetric shape and texture features of the polyp candidate regions.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New YorkInventors: Arie E. Kaufman, Wei Hong, Xianfeng Gu, Feng Qiu
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Patent number: 8601081Abstract: A method of detecting a compromised machine on a network. The method receives an email message from a machine on the network and classifies it as either spam or non-spam. A probability ratio is then updated, according to whether the message was spam or non-spam, by applying a sequential probability ratio test. If the probability ratio is greater than or equal to a first threshold, then the machine is compromised. If the probability ratio is less than or equal to a second threshold, then the machine is normal. The operations of receiving a message, classifying the message, updating the probability ratio, and indicating the machine is normal or compromised until the probability ratio is greater than or equal to the first threshold are repeated for a plurality of messages. Such repeated operations are performed on each of the messages one at a time, as each of the messages is received.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Zhenhai Duan, Peng Chen
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Patent number: 8598080Abstract: A novel rice cultivar, designated ‘CL131,’ is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar ‘CL131,’ to the plants of rice ‘CL131,’ and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar ‘CL131’ with itself or another rice variety, and to single gene conversions of such plants. The invention further relates to hybrid rice seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar ‘CL131’ with another rice cultivar. The invention further relates to other derivatives of the cultivar ‘CL131.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeInventor: Steven D. Linscombe
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Patent number: PP24052Abstract: A new and distinctly salt and boron tolerant cultivar of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica), named ‘Seleno-Red,’ is particularly distinguishable by its ability to tolerate and grow in high concentration of salt, boron and selenium-laden soil. The cultigen was originally discovered by stringent selection of randomly harvested cladodes (modified stems) and potentially from isolation of a single unique cladode or sport that exhibited high levels of salt and boron tolerance necessary for survival, and then propagated into the ‘Seleno-Red’ cultivar. The cladodes were originally randomly harvested from different individual plants and screened from within a naturally segregating wild population or accession. The ‘Seleno-Red’ cultivar has orange-red flowers, mature green cladodes without glochids, and red-purple fruit.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignees: California State University, Fresno, Red Rock Ranch, LLC, USDAInventors: Gary Banuelos, John Leonard Freeman, John Diener
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Patent number: PP24054Abstract: A new and distinctive variety of a Malus domestica apple tree, named ‘WA 5’, that is distinguished by its attractive color of bright orange-red with distinct stripe over yellow background and exceptional eating quality, both fresh and after several months in common storage. WA 5 is homozygous for the ethylene production genes ASC1-2/2 and ACO1-1/1 which confer low ethylene production.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Washington State University Research FoundationInventor: Bruce H. Barritt