Patents Assigned to The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
  • METHOD FOR EFFECTING A PHOTOCATALYTIC OR PHOTOELECTROCATALYTIC REACTION
    Publication number: 20140231241
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for effecting a photocatalytic or photoelectrocatalytic reaction of a reactant comprising contacting a metallic material having an electrical conductivity of 105 to 106 S/m with the reactant and exposing the metallic material and the reactant to visible light so as to catalyse the reaction of the reactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: John Thomas Sirr Irvine, Xiaoxiang Xu, Chamnan Randorn
  • METHOD OF LABELLING A BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MOLECULE WITH 5-FLUORO-5-DEOXYPENTOSE OR A 3-FLUORO-3-DEOXYPENTOSE
    Publication number: 20140227181
    Abstract: The invention provides a conjugate of a biologically active molecule and a 5-fluoro-5-deoxypentose or a 3-fluoro-3-deoxypentose, wherein the biologically active molecule is selected from the group consisting of proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: TURUN YLIOPISTO, UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: David O'Hagan, Xiang-Guo Li
  • RUTHENIUM POLYMERISATION CATALYSTS
    Publication number: 20140228563
    Abstract: Cis and trans ruthenium complexes that can be used as catalysts for ring opening metathesis polymerisation (ROMP) are described. The complexes are generally square pyramidal in nature, having two anionic ligands X. Corresponding cationic complexes where one or both of the anionic ligands X are replaced by a non-co-ordinating anionic ligand are also described. Polymers such as polydicyclopentadiene (PDCPD) can be prepared using the catalysts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventor: Catherine Cazin
  • Method Of Modifying Surfaces
    Publication number: 20140203414
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for chemically modifying a surface of a substrate, preferably a silicon substrate, including the steps of providing a substrate having at least a portion of a surface thereof coated with an organic coating composition including unsaturated moieties forming a surface coating, and introducing a vapour phase reactive intermediate species based on a Group 14 or Group 15 element from the Periodic Table of Elements to the substrate whereupon the reactive intermediate species is able to react with a number of the unsaturated moieties in the coating composition thereby chemically modifying the surface coating. Also disclosed is a surface-modified substrate obtained or obtainable by the method, and uses thereof in the fabrication of MEMS and IC devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Georg Haehner, Malgorzata Adamkiewicz, David O'Hagan
  • WAVE VECTOR MATCHED RESONATOR AND BUS WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140185982
    Abstract: An optical device including: a waveguide of refractive index na for carrying at least one mode of at least one wavelength, and at least one resonator with a resonant wavelength. The resonator has a mode volume of less than ten cubic resonant wavelengths. In use light in the waveguide is vertically coupled into the at least one resonator, and the waveguide and resonator(s) are arranged to provide wave-vector matching between at least one mode of the resonator and at least one mode of the waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Thomas Fraser Krauss, William Whelan-Curtin, Kapil Debnath, Karl Peter Welna
  • System, method and computer program product for video fingerprinting
    Patent number: 8761452
    Abstract: A method for fingerprinting a video involving identifying motion within the video and using a measure of the identified motion as a fingerprint. Once videos are fingerprinted, these fingerprints can be used in a method for identifying video. This involves creating a motion fingerprint for unidentified videos; comparing the fingerprints of the known and unknown videos, and identifying whether the unknown video is a copy of the known video based on the step of comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventor: Martin Bateman
  • Reversible fuel cell
    Patent number: 8748052
    Abstract: An electricity storage system comprising a reversible fuel cell having a first electrode and a second electrode separated by an ionically conducting electrolyte, and at least two chambers adapted to hold fuel and/or a reaction product, wherein the system is substantially closed and at least one reactant for discharge is hydrogen or oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventors: John Thomas Sirr Irvine, Julie Margaret Nairn, Paul Alexander Conner, James Rennie, Alan Feighery, Frances Gwyneth Elaine Jones, Kelcey Lynn Eccleston, Pierrot Sassou Attidekou
  • Investment performance measurement
    Patent number: 8751357
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for evaluating risk adjusted performance of an investment portfolio. This invention may be applied to any asset which has a value. The invention evaluates risk adjusted performance of an investment portfolio by first determining at least one positive utility concept and at least one negative utility concept describing an asset. Then, the invention normalizes the at least one negative utility concept to an equivalent negative utility concept describing or deriving from a group of assets. Finally, the invention may relate at least one positive utility concept and at least one normalized negative utility concept to determine a performance measure. In this way, the invention normalized negative asset returns such that better investor utility ratings are not falsely provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventor: Andreas G. F. Hoepner
  • Zeolites for delivery of nitric oxide
    Patent number: 8722103
    Abstract: There is described zeolites containing releasably adsorbed nitric oxide, methods of preparing the zeolites, methods of releasing the nitric oxide into a solution or into air and uses of the zeolites in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventors: Russell Edward Morris, Paul Stewart Wheatley, Anthony Robert Butler
  • Laser
    Patent number: 8724672
    Abstract: An ultrashort-pulse laser that has a resonator that includes a laser gain medium, dispersion compensation optics, and a deformable optical element adapted to change its shape and consequently one or more characteristics of pulses output from the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Wilson Sibbett, Christian Brown, Nikolaus Klaus Metzger
  • Parametric generator
    Patent number: 8699124
    Abstract: A method of optimizing parametric gain in a nonlinear optical crystal that in response to application of a pump beam generates through a parametric generation process signal and idler beams, wherein the signal beam is non-collinear with the pump beam and the signal beam is subject to absorption due to the nonlinear material, the method involving shaping the pump beam to have an elliptical cross section, wherein the method further involves determining the width w of the pump beam depending on the absorption co-efficient of the optical crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: University Court of The University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Malcolm Harry Dunn, Cameron Francis Rae, David James Mark Stothard, David Alan Walsh
  • IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20140097332
    Abstract: The resolution of conventional imaging devices is restricted by the diffraction limit ‘Perfect’ imaging devices which can achieve a resolution beyond the diffraction limit have been considered impossible to implement. However, the present disclosure provides an imaging device which can achieve improved resolution beyond the diffraction limit and which can be implemented in practice. Said imaging device comprises: a. a lens having a refractive index that varies according to a predetermined refractive index profile; b. a source; c. an outlet for decoupling waves from the device; and d. a reflector provided around the lens, the source and the outlet, wherein the reflector and the refractive index profile of the lens are together arranged to direct waves transmitted in any of a plurality of directions from the source to the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicants: The University Court of the University of St Andrews, Masaryk University, Cornell University
    Inventors: Ulf Leonhardt, Tomas Tyc, Lucas Heitzmann Gabrielli, Michal Lipson
  • Metal-catalysed carbonylation of unsaturated compounds
    Patent number: 8686183
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for the hydroxycarbonylation, alkoxycarbonylation, aryloxycarbonylation or thiocarbonylation of an unsaturated molecule. The method includes a hydroxycarbonylation, alkoxycarbonylation, aryloxycarbonylationor thiocarbonylation reaction on the unsaturated molecule in which a complex including a ligand comprising a [n,n?] cyclophane comprising two non-fused monocyclic aromatic rings bridged by two linear and aliphatic linkages, in which each of the non-fused monocyclic aromatic rings is substituted with a phosphorus atom-containing substituent, is used to catalyse the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: University Court Of The University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Matthew Lee Clarke, Tina Marie Konrad
  • Multipad encryption
    Patent number: 8688996
    Abstract: A method for protecting a message or document. The method comprises encrypting the message using a first key associated with a first party; sending the encrypted message to a second party; encrypting the message using a second key associated with the second party, so that it is encrypted with two keys simultaneously; sending the encrypted message to the first party; decrypting the message using the first key; sending the message to the second party, the message being encrypted with the second key, and using the second key to decrypt the encrypted message, thereby exposing the original message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventor: Michael Livesey
  • MICROFLUIDIC PHOTOPORATION
    Publication number: 20140073027
    Abstract: A cell permeabilizing micro fluidic system for permeabilizing one or more cells in a fluid flow. The system has a micro fluidic channel for channeling at least one cell in a fluid flow and an optical source for generating a beam of light for permeabilizing the at least one cell, wherein the channel and the source are arranged so that the light beam and fluid flow are collinear in a permeabilization part of the channel and cells are permeabilized within the permeabilization part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Kishan Dholakia, Robert Marchington, Yoshihiko Arita, Frank Gunn-Moore
  • Acoustic deterrence
    Patent number: 8665670
    Abstract: A method of deterring mammals comprising configuring an acoustic deterrent system to emit an acoustic signal having characteristics which repel the mammals by eliciting an acoustic startle response reflex in said mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventors: Thomas Götz, Vincent M. Janik
  • SYSTEM, METHOD & COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VIDEO FINGERPRINTING
    Publication number: 20140037133
    Abstract: A method for fingerprinting a video involving identifying motion within the video and using a measure of the identified motion as a fingerprint. Once videos are fingerprinted, these fingerprints can be used in a method for identifying video. This involves creating a motion fingerprint for unidentified videos; comparing the fingerprints of the known and unknown videos, and identifying whether the unknown video is a copy of the known video based on the step of comparing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventor: MARTIN BATEMAN
  • Fiber probe based microfludic raman spectroscopy
    Patent number: 8638431
    Abstract: A microfluidic device comprising at least one microfluidic channel with an input and an output for allowing fluid flow; and at least one Raman fiber based probe having an excitation fiber probe and/or a collection fiber probe positioned so that one end of the probe is in the microfluidic channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Praveen Cheriyan Ashok, Gajendra Pratap Singh, Kishan Dholakia, Khay Tan
  • Optical trap
    Patent number: 8618469
    Abstract: A system for forming an optical trap comprising two or more photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) and at least one source of radiation for inputting radiation to the photonic crystal fibers, the fibers being operable to provide counter-propagating outputs for forming the optical trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Dholakia Kishan, Robert Marchington, Ashok Praveen
  • System, method and computer program product for video fingerprinting
    Patent number: 8600113
    Abstract: A method for fingerprinting a video involving identifying motion within the video and using a measure of the identified motion as a fingerprint. Once videos are fingerprinted, these fingerprints can be used in a method for identifying video. This involves creating a motion fingerprint for unidentified videos; comparing the fingerprints of the known and unknown videos, and identifying whether the unknown video is a copy of the known video based on the step of comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventor: Martin Bateman