Patents Assigned to State University
  • Cognitive map-based decision simulation for training (CMDST)
    Patent number: 9489631
    Abstract: Disclosed is a Cognitive Map-Based Tactical Decision Simulation for Training (CMDST) uses fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM's) to: 1) model high-stress tactical problems or engagements and their causal relationships; 2) simulate situational activities immediately prior to, during, and following the occurrence of a tactical problem or engagement; 3) calculate the relative values of different courses of action; 4) perform individual performance and comparative analysis of selected courses of action; 5) conduct after action reviews to solidify lessons learned from the simulation; and 6) develop individual decision making action plans to outline specific actions to be undertaken to improve future decision making performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Columbus State University Research Service Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed Shamimur Rahman Khan, Osama George Khouri, Wayne Charles Summers, Rodrigo Obando, Vladimir Zanev, Sebastian Wankun Khor, Robert Smith
  • Detection of conductive polymer-labeled analytes
    Patent number: 9488650
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the detection of analytes (e.g., biological pathogens such as bacteria or viruses) using a conductive polymer label. The disclosed detection system utilizing the conductive polymer label generally involves the formation of an analyte conjugate between the target analyte and a conductive polymer moiety conjugated to the target analyte. The conductive polymer portion of the analyte conjugate is electrically activated to form an electrically activated analyte conjugate having an increased electrical conductivity relative to the analyte conjugate as originally formed. The electrically activated analyte conjugate can then be detected by any suitable means, such as by conductimetric or electrochemical detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Evangelyn C. Alocilja, Emma Setterington
  • Process and apparatus for diamond synthesis
    Patent number: 9487858
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a microwave plasma deposition process and apparatus for producing diamond, preferably as single crystal diamond (SCD). The process and apparatus enables the production of multiple layers of the diamond by the use of an extending device to increase the length and the volume of a recess in a holder containing a SCD substrate as layers of diamond are deposited. The diamond is used for abrasives, cutting tools, gems, electronic substrates, heat sinks, electrochemical electrodes, windows for high power radiation and electron beams, and detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Fraunhofer USA
    Inventors: Jes Asmussen, Timothy Grotjohn, Donnie Reinhard, Rahul Ramamurti, M. Kagan Yaran, Thomas Schuelke, Michael Becker, David King
  • Small molecule inhibitors of Mcl-1 and the uses of thereof
    Patent number: 9486422
    Abstract: This invention is in the field of medicinal chemistry. In particular, the invention relates to a new class of small-molecules having sulfonamido-1-hydroxynaphthalene structure which function as inhibitors of Mcl-1 protein, and their use as therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, Hollis D. Showalter, Chenzhong Liao, Ramzi Mohammad, Fardokht Abulwerdi
  • Essential oil extraction apparatus
    Patent number: 9486716
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an essential oil extraction apparatus. In some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a container configured to hold an essential oil-containing material, an essential oil extract receiver contained in the container, a condenser having an outlet fluidly coupled to the receiver and located relative to the container so as to receive essential oil-containing vapor emitted by the essential oil-containing material; and at least one microwave reflection structure associated with at least one of the container, the receiver or the condenser. The apparatus can have an overall dimension that is sufficiently small so that the apparatus fits inside a standard-sized kitchen microwave oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University
    Inventors: David Hackleman, Bill Dean, Carlos Antar Gutierrez Arriaga, Frederick Atadana, Tanawat Atichat
  • Prosthetic socket apparatus and systems
    Patent number: 9486333
    Abstract: A prosthetic sock for a patient to wear over a residual limb is provided. The prosthetic sock includes an inner layer configured to fit over at least a portion of the residual limb of the patient. A foam layer is disposed on an outer surface of the inner layer. The foam layer compensates for changes in shape or volume of the residual limb within the prosthetic sock by changing shape in a manner effective to maintain a secure fit between the residual limb and a prosthetic socket of a prosthetic limb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Wang, Chun Zhang, Changchun Zeng, Leslie David Kramer, Arlene Gillis
  • Multi-stage programmable rectifier with efficiency tracking
    Patent number: 9490725
    Abstract: Examples of multi-stage programmable rectifiers are provided herein. Each rectifier stage can include a first transistor and a switch connected to the first transistor. A threshold voltage of the first transistor can be programmed through selection of one of a plurality of voltages available at the switch. Each rectifier stage can also include a second transistor that can be connected in series with the first transistor. An output capacitor can be connected to the second transistor at an output of the rectifier stage. The plurality of voltages provided at the switch allows the threshold voltage of the first transistor to be adjusted in either a positive or negative position to increase efficiency of the rectifier. A calibration process can be used to identify the position of each switch in the rectifier stages that results in the highest efficiency or rectifier output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Oregon State University
    Inventors: Lingli Xia, Patrick Y. Chiang, Jiao Cheng
  • Method for removing strongly adsorbed surfactants and capping agents from metal to facilitate their catalytic applications
    Patent number: 9490486
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing activated electrocatalyst, preferably having a morphology of a nanostructure, is disclosed. The method includes safely and efficiently removing surfactants and capping agents from the surface of the metal structures. With regard to metal nanoparticles, the method includes synthesis of nanoparticle(s) in polar or non-polar solution with surfactants or capping agents and subsequent activation by CO-adsorption-induced surfactant/capping agent desorption and electrochemical oxidation. The method produces activated macroparticle or nanoparticle electrocatalysts without damaging the surface of the electrocatalyst that includes breaking, increasing particle thickness or increasing the number of low coordination sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Radoslav R. Adzic, Kuanping Gong, Yun Cai, Stanislaus Wong, Christopher Koenigsmann
  • Magnetic data storage using induced strain of a magnetostrictive material
    Patent number: 9489973
    Abstract: Acoustically assisted magnetic recording can be used in a hard disk drive or a solid state medium. In the described embodiments, otherwise unwriteable high-coercivity media are made amenable to recording by lowering their coercivity via strain induced by acoustic waves. The use of acoustic waves temporarily and locally reduces the magnetic field required to record information on a magnetic recording medium. The process makes use of the magnetostrictive property of a magnetic material by which the magnetic anisotropy of the material is changed by strain. The result of such a change is a reduction in the coercive field, i.e., the magnetic field required to reverse the magnetization direction. Because acoustic waves cause strain, the passage of an acoustic wave through a magnetic material can be used to reduce its coercive field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Oregon State University
    Inventors: Pallavi Dhagat-Jander, Albrecht Jander
  • Polymer foam-based piezoelectric materials and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 9490420
    Abstract: Thermally stable piezoelectric polymer foams (ferroelectrets) with high piezoelectric activity for sensing and actuation. The invention further includes a method of fabricating such foams in an environmentally friendly manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Changchun Zeng, Yan Li
  • Feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase
    Patent number: 9487794
    Abstract: The invention relates to nucleic acids encoding a feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase and the feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzyme that enables incorporation of monolignol ferulates, for example, including p-coumaryl ferulate, coniferyl ferulate, and sinapyl ferulate, into the lignin of plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, The University of British Columbia, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Curtis Wilkerson, John Ralph, Saunia Withers, Shawn D. Mansfield
  • Fire alarm system
    Patent number: 9489814
    Abstract: A fire alarm control and monitoring system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the fire alarm and control system may include a plurality of fire alarm control panels connected together through a communication network. In some embodiments, the fire alarm control panels may communicate using a token passing protocol yet be arranged in a tree network topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Aaron R. Pettigrew, Brian T. Sedlak, Scott A. Seeley
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK ROUTING IN SMALL-WORLD NETWORK-ON-CHIP DEVICES
    Publication number: 20160323127
    Abstract: In some embodiments, improved routing strategies for small-world network-on-chip (SWNoC) systems are provided. In some embodiments, an ALASH routing strategy or an MROOTS strategy are used in order to improve latency, temperature, and energy use within a network-on-chip system. In some embodiments, millimeter-wave wireless transceivers are used to implement the long-distance links within the small-world network, to create a millimeter-wave small-world network-on-chip (mSWNoC) system. In some embodiments, non-coherent on-off keying (OOK) wireless transceivers are used to implement the wireless links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Washington State University
    Inventors: Partha Pande, Deukhyoun Heo
  • METHOD OF DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN DIFFERENT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
    Publication number: 20160320412
    Abstract: The invention provides diagnostic tests to distinguish between different pre-symptomatic neurodegenerative diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michael SIERKS, Stephanie WILLIAMS
  • Substituted pyrrolo[2,3-D]dipyrimidines for selectively targeting tumor cells with FR-alpha and FR-beta type receptors
    Patent number: 9481678
    Abstract: Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives, and pharmaceutical acceptable salts thereof, useful in therapeutically treating patients with cancer are disclosed. These compounds selectively target folate receptors (FR) of cancerous tumor cells and inhibit purine synthesis and hence, DNA synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost, Wayne State University
    Inventors: Aleem Gangjee, Larry H. Matherly
  • Proteins expressed by mycobacterium tuberculosis and not by BCG and their use as diagnostic reagents and vaccines
    Patent number: 9482671
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to reagents useful for generating immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and for diagnosing infection and disease in a subject that has been exposed to M. tuberculosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventor: Maria L. Gennaro
  • Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for active monitoring, memory protection and integrity verification of target devices
    Patent number: 9483635
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for active monitoring, memory protection, and integrity verification of a target device are disclosed. For example, a normal world virtual processor and a secure world virtual processor are instantiated on a target device. A target operating system is executed on the normal world virtual processor. An integrity verification agent is executed on the secure world virtual processor. One or more predetermined operations attempted on the normal world virtual processor are trapped to the secure world virtual processor. The integrity verification agent is used to determine the effect of the execution of the trapped operations on the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ahmed Azab, Peng Ning
  • Portable particle spectrometer
    Patent number: 9482620
    Abstract: Methods and systems for characterizing particles in an aerosol are disclosed. A system includes a collection container that utilizes the principles of elutriation to collect particles of selected aerodynamic diameter ranges within a measurement region. A particle detector is used to detect and characterize particles that have settled into the measurement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: John Volckens, Kimberly Anderson, David Leith, Mwangi T. Ndonga, Azer Yalin, Christopher M. Limbach
  • Compositions and methods of reducing dry mouth
    Patent number: 9480635
    Abstract: Oral compositions and methods of use thereof are provided herein. The oral compositions comprise a first component comprising at least one Eh-raising compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a second component comprising at least one zinc compound, an anti-microbial agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Marvin Cohen, Susanne Cohen, Robert Flynn
  • Red lettuces with increased anthocyanins, polyphenols, and oxygen radical absorption capacity
    Patent number: 9480235
    Abstract: Provided herein are several improved lettuce varieties, having increased anthocyanin and polyphenol content, and increased oxygen radical absorption capacity, as compared to other known varieties of lettuce. Also provided are parts of such new lettuces, such as leaves, heads, seeds, tissue cultures, and extracts generated from such varieties. The disclosure also provides methods of using the new lettuces and parts thereof, for example to reduce blood glucose levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Ilya Raskin, Diana Cheng, Natalia Pogrebnyak