Patents Assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College
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Publication number: 20230125498Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of changing the glass transition temperature of a polymer. In some embodiments, the polymer includes at least one hydrazone-containing compound. In general, the methods of the present disclosure include one or more of the following steps of: (1) applying light to the polymer; and (2) thereby changing the glass transition temperature of the polymer. In another embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a polymer having a light-adjustable glass transition temperature. In some embodiments, the polymer includes at least one hydrazone-containing compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Ivan Abrahamian, Sirun Yang, Laura L. Jeliazkov, Jared D. Harris
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Patent number: 11634446Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of sensing an analyte in a sample by: (1) exposing the sample to an electrode that includes a covalent-organic framework with a plurality of metal-coordinated aromatic units that are linked to one another by aromatic linkers; (2) detecting a change in a property of the electrode; and (3) correlating the change in the property to the presence or absence of the analyte. In an additional embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to said covalent-organic frameworks. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of making the covalent-organic frameworks.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Katherine A. Mirica, Zheng Meng, Robert M. Stolz
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Patent number: 11633379Abstract: Provided herein are methods for inhibiting PCSK9, reducing PCSK9 levels, and for treating or preventing related conditions and disorders, in a subject, which includes administering to a subject an effective amount of a compound which includes derivatized cycloalkyl[b]indoles, e.g., cyclopenta-, cyclohexa- and cyclohepta[b]indoles.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Oregon Health & Science UniversityInventors: Jimmy Wu, Sergio Fazio, Hagai Tavori
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Patent number: 11633627Abstract: A Cherenkov-based or thin-sheet scintillator-based imaging system uses a radio-optical triggering unit (RTU) that detects scattered radiation in a fast-response scintillator to detect pulses of radiation to permit capture of Cherenkov-light or scintillator-light images during pulses of radiation and background images at times when pulses of radiation are not present without need for electrical interface to the accelerator that provides the pulses of radiation. The Cherenkov images are corrected by background subtraction and used for purposes including optimization of treatment, commissioning, routine quality auditing, R&D, and manufacture. The radio-optical triggering unit employs high-speed, highly sensitive radio-optical sensing to generate a digital timing signal which is synchronous with the treatment beam for use in triggering Cherenkov light or scintillator light imaging.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, DOSEOPTICS, LLCInventors: Venkataramanan Krishnaswamy, Petr Bruza, Jr., Michael Jermyn, Brian W. Pogue, David Gladstone, Lesley A. Jarvis, Irwin Tendler
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Patent number: 11633145Abstract: A surgical specimen imaging system includes a micro-X-ray computed tomography (CT) unit for CT imaging of the specimen and a structured light imaging (SLI) unit for optical imaging at multiple wavelengths, multiple phase offsets, and multiple structured-light pattern periods including unstructured light. The system's image processing unit receives CT and optical images and is configured by firmware in memory to co-register the images and process the optical images to determine texture at multiple subimages of the optical images, determined textures forming a texture map. The texture map is processed by a machine-learning-based classifier to determine a tissue type map of the specimen, and the tissue type map is processed with the CT images to give a 3D tissue-type map. In embodiments, the firmware extracts optical properties including scattering and absorption at multiple wavelengths and the classifier also uses these properties in generating the tissue type map.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Brian Pogue, Samuel Streeter, Benjamin Maloney, Keith Paulsen
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Publication number: 20230113170Abstract: SARS-CoV-2 S ectodomain trimers stabilized in a prefusion conformation, nucleic acid molecules and vectors encoding these proteins, and methods of their use and production are disclosed. In several embodiments, the SARS-CoV-2 S ectodomain trimers and/or nucleic acid molecules can be used to generate an immune response to SARS-CoV-2 S in a subject, for example, an immune response that inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection in the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicants: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Barney Graham, Kizzmekia Corbett, Olubukola Abiona, Geoffrey Hutchinson, Jason McLellan, Daniel Wrapp, Nianshuang Wang
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Patent number: 11623114Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for remote clinical monitoring performance of exercises using a smart resistance exercise device including a resistance band, a first handle connected to a first end of the resistance band and a second handle connected to a second end of the resistance band, a force sensing assembly operably coupled to the resistance band, and a local receiving device communicatively coupled to the force sensing assembly. The force sensing assembly of the device includes a housing, and a force sensor disposed in the housing and operatively connected to the resistance band to measure a force exerted on the resistance band. The force sensing assembly also includes a processing and communication module communicatively coupled to the force sensor to receive measurements of the force sensor and communicatively coupled to the local receiving device to transmit the measurements to the local receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, for itself and on behalf of Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic LebanonInventors: Suehayla Mohieldin, Ryan J. Halter, John A. Batsis, Colin Minor, Curtis Lee Petersen
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Patent number: 11623006Abstract: Disclosed is a method for increasing susceptibility of cancer cells to ionizing radiation by delivering to the cells a radiosensitizing agent that has one of the following properties: it perturbs the process of chromosome segregation thereby increasing chromosome missegregation; or (b) it is an inhibitor of an agent that promotes faithful chromosome segregation induces numeric chromosome instability in said cells and this instability is induced substantially simultaneously with or closely prior to or closely after irradiating the cells. Examples of such radiosensitizing agent include inhibitors of one or more of the following: Kif2b, MCAK, MPS1, Eg5/Kinesin-5 5, Polo-like kinase 4, MCAK, Bub1 and Hec1. Such agents specifically target proteins involved in maintaining or promoting faithful chromosome segregation.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Samuel F. Bakhoum, Bassem I. Zaki, Duane A. Compton
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Patent number: 11617536Abstract: This invention provides a non-invasive system for measuring pain level in a body at a site containing a predetermined concentration of magnetic nanoparticles. A drive coil and a pickup coil transmit and measure a field passing through the site based upon response of the magnetic nanoparticles, and a processor computes a pain level based upon variations in the field. The pain level can be indexed to an absolute scale that affords more predictability and objectivity in determining true pain level. Illustratively, the processor derives values for levels of cytokine IL-6, SP and temperature at the site, which are translated into the pain level. In an embodiment, the system and method can be implemented in a handheld device in which the drive coil and pickup coil reside in a housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignees: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, The Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Sohail K. Mirza, John B. Weaver
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Patent number: 11613583Abstract: Improved anti-CD154 antibodies are provided herein which have ablated FcR binding and/or complement binding/activation. The use of these antibodies for inducing tolerance and treating immune diseases including autoimmunity, inflammation and allergic disorders is disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventor: Randolph J. Noelle
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Patent number: 11596877Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to a method for capturing alkenes that includes: associating the alkenes with metal-organic frameworks, where the metal-organic frameworks includes one or more metals and one or more ligands coordinated with the one or more metals, and where the metal-organic frameworks are conductive; and oxidizing the metal-organic frameworks, where the oxidizing results in a capturing of the alkenes by the metal-organic frameworks. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to a system for capturing alkenes that includes: metal-organic frameworks, where the metal-organic frameworks include one or more metals and one or more ligands coordinated with the one or more metals, and where the metal-organic frameworks are conductive; and an alkene feed source associated with the metal-organic frameworks, where the alkene feed source is configured to deliver an alkene feed to the system.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Katherine A. Mirica, Xiaoping Zhang, Lukasz K. Mendecki, Zheng Meng, Michael Ko
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Publication number: 20230055041Abstract: A magnetic device, including a hybrid core including a first magnetic material as a first flux path that carries a low-frequency flux component and a second magnetic material as a second flux path that carries a high-frequency flux component that is a higher frequency flux component than the low-frequency flux component, in which the hybrid core controls distribution of the low-frequency flux component and substantially separates the low-frequency flux component and the high-frequency component; and at least one set of winding turns. The hybrid core includes at least one air gap to provide control over inductance of the magnetic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicants: TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Charles R. SULLIVAN, David J. PERREAULT
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Patent number: 11576881Abstract: The present specification provides RXR agonist compounds, compositions comprising such RXR agonists, and methods using such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection as well as use of such RXR agonists to manufacture a medicament and use of such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: Io Therapeutics, Inc., Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Roshantha A. Chandraratna, Ethan Dmitrovsky, Elizabeth Nowak, Randolph Noelle
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Patent number: 11574039Abstract: A system and method for authenticating users of a digital device includes an authentication device attached to an authorized user. The authentication device includes one or more motion sensors and acts as a user identity token. To authenticate with a digital device, the user performs one or more interactions with the digital device using the hand associated with the authentication device. The digital device correlates the inputs received due to the interactions with the user's hand and/or wrist movement, as measured by the authentication device. Access to the digital device is allowed if the inputs and movements are correlated.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Shrirang Mare, David Kotz, Ronald Peterson
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Patent number: 11564639Abstract: A method of generating corrected fluorescence data of concentrations of a targeted fluorophore in tissue of a subject includes administering first and second fluorescent contrast agents to the subject, the first contrast agent targeted to tissue of interest, the second agent untargeted. The tissue is illuminated with light of a first stimulus wavelength and first data is acquired at an appropriate emissions wavelength; the tissue is illuminated at a second stimulus wavelength and second data is acquired at a second emissions wavelength associated with the second agent, the first and second emissions wavelength differ. Difference data is generated by subtracting the second data from the first data. A system provides for stimulus and capture at multiple wavelengths, with image storage memory and subtraction code, to perform the method. Corrected data may form an fluorescence image, or is used to generate fluorescence tomographic images.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Kenneth Tichauer, Robert W. Holt, Frederic Leblond, Pablo Valdes, Brian W. Pogue, Keith D. Paulsen, David W. Roberts
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Patent number: 11565128Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of determining optimal parameters for application of light from a light source to a tissue. In general, the method includes one or more of the following steps of: (1) utilizing an algorithm to generate results related to estimating light flow from the light source into the tissue; and (2) utilizing the results to determine optimal parameters for applying the light source to the tissue. In some embodiments, the method of the present disclosure further includes the step of: (3) applying the light source to the tissue using the optimal parameters; and (4) treating a condition associated with the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Ethan Phillip M. Larochelle, Brian W. Pogue
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Patent number: 11566089Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of changing the glass transition temperature of a polymer. In some embodiments, the polymer includes at least one hydrazone-containing compound. In general, the methods of the present disclosure include one or more of the following steps of: (1) applying light to the polymer; and (2) thereby changing the glass transition temperature of the polymer. In another embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a polymer having a light-adjustable glass transition temperature. In some embodiments, the polymer includes at least one hydrazone-containing compound.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Ivan Abrahamian, Sirun Yang, Laura L. Jeliazkov, Jared D. Harris
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Publication number: 20230018163Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a non-aqueous electrolyte. In some embodiments, the non-aqueous electrolyte includes a polymeric component and a ceramic component. The polymeric component includes a polyester-based polymer and a polyether-based polymer. The ceramic component includes inorganic materials. In an additional embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to an energy storage device including an anode, a cathode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte of the present disclosure. In a further embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of making a non-aqueous electrolyte by mixing a polymeric component and a ceramic component of the present disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Edward Matios, Huan Wang, Weiyang Li
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Patent number: 11553842Abstract: A surgical vision system for imaging heat capacity and cooling rate of tissue has an infrared source configured to provide infrared light to tissue, the infrared light sufficient to heat tissue, and an infrared camera configured to provide images of tissue at infrared wavelengths. The system also has an image processing system configured to determine, from the infrared images of tissue, a cooling or heating rate at pixels of the images of tissue at infrared wavelengths and to display images derived from the cooling rate at the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEInventors: Shadab Khan, Ryan Halter
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Patent number: 11547684Abstract: The present specification provides RXR agonist compounds, compositions comprising such RXR agonists, and methods using such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection as well as use of such RXR agonists to manufacture a medicament and use of such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: Io Therapeutics, Inc., Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Roshantha A. Chandraratna, Ethan Dmitrovsky, Elizabeth Nowak, Randolph Noelle