Patents Assigned to The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
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Patent number: 8433108Abstract: A method for fingerprinting video comprising identifying motion in a video as a function of time; using the identified motion to create a motion fingerprint; identifying peaks and/or troughs in the motion fingerprint, and using these to create a reduced size points of interest motion fingerprint. Reduced size fingerprints for a plurality of known videos can be prepared and stored for later comparison with reduced size fingerprints for unknown videos, thereby providing a mechanism for identifying the unknown videos.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: The University Court of The University of St AndrewsInventor: Martin Bateman
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Publication number: 20130085353Abstract: A system for non-invasive measurement of parameters relating to a biological tissue comprising: a plurality of light sources, each operable to emit a light signal with one or more predetermined wavelengths; a light detector for detecting light from the tissue as a result of illumination by the sources, and means for applying modulation functions to the light emitted to implement code division multiplexing, each source being associated with a different function, wherein the functions are selected so that there is substantially no cross correlation between them, and wherein the sources have overlapping spectra.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWSInventors: Mario Ettore Giardini, Thomas Fraser Krauss, Andrea Di Falco
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Publication number: 20130071429Abstract: The present invention provides attenuated viruses for use as vaccines and for the treatment and/or prevention of viral diseases and/or infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWSInventors: Benjamin Brennan, Richard Michael Elliott
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Publication number: 20130064556Abstract: An optical device comprising a sealed/closed housing; a light source and/or a detector within the housing; a window through the housing that is transparent to light transmitted from the light source or to the detector and a fixing for fixing an optical fiber or bundle of such fibers into a coupling position adjacent to the window to allow light to pass between the housing and the fiber or fiber bundle, wherein the fixing is adapted to allow connection and/or disconnection of the fiber or fiber bundle without opening or breaking a seal of the sealed housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWSInventors: Malcolm Harry Dunn, Graham M. Miller, Donald Walker
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Patent number: 8377714Abstract: Novel conjugates of nanoparticles are provided and have particular utility in the detection of latent fingerprints by their ability to bind to a fingerprint residue. The conjugate comprises a nanoparticle attached to a linker group having a terminal reactive moiety, wherein said nanoparticle comprises a core of a first semiconductor material having a first luminescence and a shell of a second material which at least partially surrounds the core. The conjugated nanoparticle can bind to the fingerprint residue and can be detected using fluorescence.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: The University Court of the University of St AndrewsInventors: David John Cole-Hamilton, Ifor David William Sámuel, Jennifer Rachel Amey, John William Bond
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Patent number: 8371184Abstract: Measurement apparatus having a cantilever and a fluid flow channel, the cantilever being positioned in the channel so that it projects in a direction parallel to the direction of fluid flow. In an associated method, the cantilever is positioned in a fluid flow channel such that the cantilever extends parallel with the direction of fluid flow in the channel. Fluid is caused to flow in the channel at a known velocity. The resonant frequency of the cantilever is measured at one or more velocities of fluid flow and calculating the spring constant of the cantilever using the measured resonant frequency or frequencies. If the spring constant of the cantilever is known, the measurement of resonant frequency of the cantilever is used to determine the velocity of the fluid flow.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Georg Haehner, Gennady Lubarsky
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Publication number: 20130035322Abstract: Gold (I) hydroxide complexes of the form Z-Au-OH and digold complexes of the form Z—Au-(?OH)—Au—Z where groups Z are two electron donors are provided. The groups Z may be carbenes, for example nitrogen containing heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), phosphines or phosphites. The complexes can be used as catalysts, for example in reactions such as hydration of nitriles, skeletal arrangement of enynes, alkoxycyclisation of enynes, alkyne hydration, the Meyer-Shuster reaction, 3,3? rearrangement of allylic acetates, cyclisation of propargylic acetates, Beckman rearrangements and hydroamination. The complexes can be used in medicine, for example in the treatment of cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: University Court of The University of St. AndrewsInventor: Steven P. Nolan
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Publication number: 20130021877Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Thomas Götz, Vincent M. Janik
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Patent number: 8356923Abstract: A lighting system comprising a light source, a fiber rope into which light emitted from the light source is coupled, and a control unit for controlling the optical power of light emitted by the light source to maintain the fiber rope at or below a predetermined upper temperature even if the fiber is partially or fully severed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: The University Court of the University of St AndrewsInventors: Donald Walker, Malcolm Harry Dunn, Cameron Francis Rae
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Patent number: 8319213Abstract: Light emitting devices are described which incorporate, as the light emitting element, a dendrimer of which the constituent dendrons include a conjugated dendritic structure comprising aryl and/or heteroaryl groups connected to each other via bonds between sp2 hybridised ring atoms of said aryl or heteroaryl groups.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignees: Isis Innovation Limited, The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Paul Leslie Burn, Ifor David William Samuel, Shih-Chun Lo
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Patent number: 8314549Abstract: This invention relates to a hat emitting device which comprises at least one layer that contains an organometallic dendrimer having a core comprising a metal cation. The invention also relates to organometallic dendrimers and methods for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignees: Isis Innovation Limited, The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Paul Leslie Burn, Shih-Chun Lo, John Lupton, Victor Christou, Jonathan N. G. Pillow, Ifor David William Samuel
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Publication number: 20120276468Abstract: The invention provides a composition having the formula (I): xXO2.yY2O5, (wherein: 0.5<x<0.7; 0.3<y<0.5; X comprises one or more of silicon, titanium, germanium and zirconium; and Y comprises one or more of phosphorus, vanadium arsenic and antimony), or a hydrate thereof, in which the composition comprises more than 50 wt % or more of crystalline material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2010Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: University Court of the University of St AndrewsInventors: Pierrot Sassou Attidekou, John Thomas Sirr Irvine
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Publication number: 20120261642Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a semiconductor layer sequence having at least one active layer, and a photonic crystal that couples radiation having a peak wavelength out of or into the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the photonic crystal is at a distance from the active layer and formed by superimposition of at least two lattices having mutually different reciprocal lattice constants normalized to the peak wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbHInventors: Krister Bergenek, Christopher Wiesmann, Thomas F. Krauss
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Patent number: 8289812Abstract: A method and system of deterring mammals is disclosed involving incurring an acoustic startle response comprising the steps of selecting a target order, family, genus or species to be deterred, selecting a received level that is a predetermined level above a representative hearing threshold of the targeted mammals, and, taking transmission loss into account, transmitting an acoustic signal at a source level required to create the selected received level at a predetermined distance from the transmission point. The acoustic signal may comprise frequency components at which the aural sensitivity of the targeted mammals is greater than that of selected other animals, preventing the disturbance of the selected other animals while deterring the targeted mammals. In addition, a secondary conditioning sound may be played prior to the main acoustic signal to condition the mammals to avoid the main stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Thomas Götz, Vincent M. Janik
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Patent number: 8269962Abstract: A Raman spectrometer comprising means for illuminating a sample with a shaped laser beam and a detector that is operable to detect light that is reflected from or transmitted through a sample. Preferably, the shaped laser beam has a dark spot at its center.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Kishan Dholakia, Iain Cormack, Michael Mazilu
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Patent number: 8262896Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing hydrogen comprising: contacting steam 20 with a proton conducting membrane 7 supported on a porous redox stable substrate 8, through said substrate 8. The membrane 7 is non-permeable to molecular gas and to oxide ions. A DC voltage is applied across an anode 15 coupled to the substrate side of the membrane and a cathode 9,11 coupled to its other side so as to dissociate at least part of the steam 20, into protonic hydrogen and oxygen at said anode 15. The protonic hydrogen passes through the membrane and forms molecular hydrogen 23 at the cathode 9, 11.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: John Thomas Sirr Irvine, Angela Kruth, Cristian Daniel Savaniu, Shanwen Tao
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Patent number: 8241841Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a surface-modified layer system comprising a substrate (2) and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) (1) anchored to its surface. The SAM (1) is comprised by aryl or rigid alicyclic moiety species. The process comprises providing a polymorphic SAM (1) anchored to the substrate (2), and thermally treating (4) the SAM to change from a first to a second structural form thereof. The invention also provides a thermolithographic form of process in which the thermal treatment (4) is used to transfer a pattern (3) to the SAM (1), which is then developed.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: The University Court of the University of St. AndrewsInventors: Manfred Buck, Piotr Cyganik
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Publication number: 20120093179Abstract: An optical parametric oscillator comprising: an optical cavity; a semiconductor gain-medium located within the optical cavity, such that together they form a semiconductor laser, and a nonlinear material located within the cavity such that the nonlinear material continuously generates down-converted idler- and signal-waves in response to a pump-wave continuously generated by the semiconductor gain-medium, wherein the pump wave is resonant within the optical cavity and one or other but not both of the down-converted waves is resonant within the pump wave cavity or a further optical cavity. Brewster plates ensure singly resonant optical parametric oscillators and a birefringent filer is used for frequency setting. Coupled cavities allow for setting the photon lifetime in the cavity that relaxation oscillations are prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWSInventors: Malcolm H. Dunn, David Stothard
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Publication number: 20120085647Abstract: An apparatus and method for mineralising demineralised and hypo-mineralised biological material such as tooth or bone. The apparatus has a probe electrode for receiving a mineralisation agent and a counter electrode. It is also provided with a controller to control the electrical signal provided to the probe such that the extent of mineralisation of the biological material is controlled by modulating or changing the electrical signal provided by the probe based upon the measured output of the circuit formed from the probe, counter electrode and biological material. The electrical output provides a measure of the extent of mineralisation of the biological material which is compared with data from a reference technique which gives 3D structural information on an area of interest in the biological material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2009Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicants: The University of Dundee, The University Court of the University of St. Andrews, The University of Abertay DundeeInventors: Christopher Longbottom, Joseph Crayston, Nigel Berry Pitts, Dmitri Grinev, Iain Young
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Publication number: 20120075627Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: University Court of The University of St AndrewsInventors: Praveen Cheriyan Ashok, Gajendra Pratap Singh, Kishan Dholakia, Khay Tan