Patents Assigned to Syracuse University
  • MOTION SENSOR ASSISTED ROOM SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND SELF-LOCALIZATION USING FIRST-ORDER ACOUSTIC ECHOES
    Publication number: 20170370710
    Abstract: Simultaneous 2-D room shape reconstruction and self-localization is accomplished using no pre-established infrastructure. A mobile device with co-located microphone and loudspeaker is used to collect echoes reflected by the walls. The system uniquely recovers arbitrary 2-D convex room shape as well as the position of mobile device 10 by collecting and processing distances between three consecutive measurement points as well as acoustic echoes from the device. A practical algorithm for room shape reconstruction and self-localization in the presence of noise and higher order echoes is proposed. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Biao Chen, Tiexing Wang, Fangrong Peng
  • Optical coating permitting cavity self-locking
    Patent number: 9851528
    Abstract: A stable single-carrier optical spring, comprising a pair of dielectric mirrors, each having a dielectric coating, and positioned to form a standing wave from an incident optic field. The dielectric coating has a plurality of layers, where at least the first layer is sized to be an odd multiple of half a wavelength of the laser beam, to feature an opposite-sign photo-thermal effect due to the detailed interaction of the optical field with the coating. This results in an opposite-sign photo-thermal effect at the optical spring frequency. The dampening effect is large enough to stabilize the radiation pressure based optical spring, resulting in a statically and dynamically stable optical spring. As a result this coating allows stable locking of a cavity with a single laser frequency using radiation pressure feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Stefan Ballmer
  • Enhanced electronic external fetal monitoring system
    Patent number: 9820718
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fetal monitoring and, more particularly, to an electronic external fetal monitoring system that includes a self adhering single use dermal patch including embedded sensors that can be attached to the skin of an expectant maternal patient and is configured to record fetal heart rate, uterine activity, and uterine integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Kimberly Flomerfelt, Patrick Mather
  • SHAPE-MEMORY-ACTUATED MATERIALS FOR ACCELERATED HEALING OF ORTHOPEDIC INJURIES
    Publication number: 20170312082
    Abstract: A three component system for repairing critically sized bone defects having a first shape memory polymer (SMP) component formed as a scaffold that fills the defects, a second SMP component formed as a restricting sleeve that stabilizes and supports osseointegration and osteoconduction, and a third SMP component formed as a two-dimensional cell culture substrate for engineering periosteal grafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Syracuse University
    Inventors: James Henderson, Patrick T. Mather
  • Functionally Graded Shape Memory Polymer
    Publication number: 20170297258
    Abstract: A functionally graded shape memory polymer (SMP) that has a range of transition temperatures that are spatially distributed in a gradient fashion within one single article. The SMP is formed by post-curing a pre-cured glassy SMP in a linear temperature gradient that imposes different vitrification temperature limits at different positions along the gradient. Utilizing indentation-based surface shape memory coupled with optical measurements of photoelastic response, the capability of this material to respond over a wide range of thermal triggers is correlated with the graded glass transition behavior. This new class of SMP offers great potential for such applications as passive temperature sensing and precise control of shape evolution during a thermally triggered shape recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Patrick Mather, Pine Yang, Xiaofan Luo, Andrew M. DiOrio
  • MICRO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170276408
    Abstract: A micro environmental control system that can remove or add 30W from or to the near range personal microenvironment of a user. For cooling, the ?X uses a micro vapor compression system during the un-occupied period to freeze a phase-change-material in a thermal storage module. A fan then moves air over the phase-change-material to deliver cooled air. Heating is delivered by a small electric heater integrated into a condensing unit. The resulting system is inexpensive to build and uses a limited amount of energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Hussein Ezzat Khalifa
  • Role-based access control to computing resources in an inter-organizational community
    Patent number: 9769177
    Abstract: A method for controlling access to a plurality of computing resources in a distributed computing environment can comprise the steps of: an application role server, responsive to receiving a certificate request, authenticating the requester and issuing a digital certificate to the requester; an access control node, responsive to receiving a resource access request, granting access to the computing resource to the requester upon ascertaining the requestor's access privileges, or forwarding the resource access request to another access control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventor: Joon S. Park
  • Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer between bioluminescent proteins and semiconductive nanomaterials
    Patent number: 9758808
    Abstract: A bioluminescence energy transfer (BRET) nanosystem having semiconductive quantum rods (QRs) bound by firefly luciferase Photinus pyralis (Ppy) for improved conversion of chemical energy to light, such as in solid-state lighting, near-infrared imaging systems, and in vivo infrared imaging. The nanosystems are formed by synthesizing CdSe/CdS or CdSe/CdS/ZnS quantum rods, rendering the dots hydrophilic and colloidially stable with a facile His-capping, incubating with a Ppy variant (PpyGRTS) at increasing loading ratios, and adding an excess of the luciferin (LH2) substrate to the PpyGRTS-QRs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mathew Maye, Rabeka Alam
  • Shape-memory-actuated materials for accelerated healing of orthopedic injuries
    Patent number: 9744041
    Abstract: A three component system for repairing critically sized bone defects having a first shape memory polymer (SMP) component formed as a scaffold that fills the defects, a second SMP component formed as a restricting sleeve that stabilizes and supports osseointegration and osteoconduction, and a third SMP component formed as a two-dimensional cell culture substrate for engineering periosteal grafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventors: James Henderson, Patrick T. Mather
  • TRIPLE SHAPE MEMORY COMPOSITE FOAMS
    Publication number: 20170233542
    Abstract: A triple shape memory polymeric foam that is open cell in nature and features a two phase, crosslinked SMP with a glass transition temperature of one phase at a temperature lower than a melting transition of the second phase. The resulting soft material features high fidelity, repeatable triple shape behavior, and is useful for complex deployment using a combination of foam compression and bending.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Patrick T. Mather
  • Integrated multistage supercritical technology to produce high quality vegetable oils and biofuels
    Patent number: 9725664
    Abstract: A power generation system, which includes a source of a seed oil, a source of alcohol, and a reactor in communication with the source of seed oil and the source of alcohol. The reactor produces a biofuel product. The system has a power source that operates on a biofuel energy source to produce heated exhaust and is in communication with the reactor to utilize a portion of the biofuel product as its biofuel energy source. The system has a heat transfer mechanism that transfers heat from the exhaust manifold to the reactor. The power source also converts mechanical power into electrical power. Also disclosed is a system that involves extraction of oil from an oilseed product. A method of extracting oil from an oilseed product, a method of making a transesterified seed oil, and a method of making a biofuel are also disclosed, as are products obtained thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Gheorghe Anitescu, Lawrence L. Tavlarides
  • Microfluidics polymerase chain reaction and high resolution melt detection
    Patent number: 9718056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for Polymerase Chain Reaction (“PCR”), High Resolution Melt (“HRM”) analysis and microfluidics, and, more specifically, to a method and system for implementing the processes of PCR and HRM on a microscale in a microfluidics chamber for certain purposes including for purposes of DNA detection and/or extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventor: Molly M. Cadle-Davidson
  • Diversity Combining of Non-Coherently Modulated LDPC Codes in Wireless Communications
    Publication number: 20170201347
    Abstract: A method of decoding a plurality of diverse signals for low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders that takes advantage of signal diversity. The method allows for the combining of soft-decision LDPC encoded non-coherently modulated signals, which is in contrast to existing approaches where hard decision combining is used for non-coherently modulated signals. The method includes the steps of inputting each diversity signal into a unique demodulator, and calculating the LLR of each demodulated signal. When the diverse demodulated signals are combined into a single combined signal, each bit of the combined signal is selected according to the value of either the highest LLR value of each bit across the demodulated signals or according to the sum of the LLR of each bit across the demodulated signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Kapil Borle, Biao Chen, Fangfang Zhu, Yu Zhao
  • AN ELECTRICITY AND SYNGAS CO-GENERATION SYSTEM USING POROUS SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS
    Publication number: 20170170503
    Abstract: A porous solid oxide fuel cell (PSOFC) system for electricity and syngas co-generation. The system has a porous layer, a porous electrolyte layer with catalyst, a porous anode layer, and a porous catalyst layer. A fuel air/O2 mixture is introduced from through the porous cathode layer so that it next passes through the porous electrolyte layer with catalyst, then the porous anode layer, and finally the porous catalyst layer. Syngas exits the porous catalyst layer with electricity being produced across the anode and cathode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeongmin Ahn, Ryan Milcarek, Kang Wang, Pingying Zeng
  • METHOD TO CONTROL VOID FORMATION IN NANOMATERIALS USING CORE/ALLOY NANOPARTICLES WITH STAINLESS INTERFACES
    Publication number: 20170165749
    Abstract: The present invention describes the use of nanoparticle interfaces to chemically process solid nanomaterials into ones with tailorable core-void-shell architectures. The internal void sizes are proportional to the nanoparticle size, the shell thickness and composition, and can be either symmetric or asymmetric depending on the nature of the interface, each of which is controlled by the process of making.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Mathew M. Maye, Wenjie Wu
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTION OF A DNA PROFILE MIXTURE RATIO
    Publication number: 20170161431
    Abstract: A system configured to characterize a ratio of contributors to a DNA mixture within a sample, the system including: a sample preparation module configured to generate initial data about the DNA mixture within the sample; a processor comprising a ratio of contributors determination module configured to: (i) receive the generated initial data; (ii) analyze the generated initial data to determine the ratio of contributors to the DNA mixture within the sample; and an output device configured to receive the determined ratio of contributors from the processor, and further configured to output information about the received determined ratio of contributors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Michael Marciano, Jonathan D. Adelman, Laura C. Haarer
  • DNA-Based Method for Forensic Identification of Controlled Substances Using Plant DNA Markers
    Publication number: 20170159134
    Abstract: A method for determining the presence or absence of an illicit plant-derived compound in a sample. The method includes the steps of: (i) providing a sample potentially containing an illicit plant-derived compound; (ii) extracting DNA in the illicit plant-derived compound from the identified sample; (iii) amplifying, using PCR, the target plant DNA sequence from the extracted DNA; and (iv) detecting an amplified target plant DNA sequence, where detection of the amplified target plant DNA sequence indicates the presence of the illicit plant-derived compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Syracuse University
    Inventors: David Knaebel, Kathleen Corrado, Michael Marciano
  • SELF-REPLENISHING BOUNDARY LUBRICATION IN HYDROGELS USING ZWITTERIONIC POLYMERS
    Publication number: 20170112970
    Abstract: A self-replenishing biocompatible hydrogel having a zwitterionic polymer embedded throughout the matrix system to act as a lubricant and a surface modified with the same zwitterionic polymer. When surface material loss occurs in the hydrogel, such as a surface crack or a scratch, the damage propagates through the matrix rupturing the pockets of lubricant. The zwitterionic polymer is then drawn into the site due to the change in entropy at the surface and the positive and negative charge groups of the side chains fuse across the damage cite due to strong electrostatic attraction causing inter-chain association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michelle M. Blum, Patrick T. Mather, Allen Osaheni
  • Electrochemical eradication of microbes on surfaces of objects
    Patent number: 9616142
    Abstract: The invention describes a method of reducing or preventing the growth of microbes on the surface of an object, wherein the object is of such material that it can act as a working electrode. The method comprises the steps of providing a counter electrode, and a reference electrode. The object is used as the working electrode. Electrical current is passed through the working and counter electrodes. The current through the counter electrode is varied such that the electric potential of the working electrode is constant relative to the electric potential of the reference electrode. Also described is an apparatus for reducing or preventing microbes on an object using a potentiostatic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York, Syracuse University
    Inventors: Mark Ehrensberger, Anthony A. Campagnari, Esther Takeuchi, Nicole Luke-Marshall, Jeremy Gilbert
  • UNIVERSAL DNA PROFILING
    Publication number: 20170088889
    Abstract: A method for characterizing at least a portion of the biodiversity of a sample. The method includes the steps of: (i) obtaining a sample having nucleic acid from a plurality of different organisms; (ii) extracting at least a portion of the nucleic acid from the sample; (iii) optionally performing a whole-genome amplification of the extracted nucleic acid; (iv) optionally performing a second, targeted amplification; (v) sequencing the amplified nucleic acid to obtain sequence data comprising a nucleic acid sequence for at least some of the plurality of different organisms; (vi) querying, using the obtained sequence data, a sequence database, where querying the sequence database identifies one or more of the plurality of different organisms; and (vii) determining, using the identified one or more of the plurality of different organisms, a characteristic of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michael Marciano, Molly Cadle-Davidson