Patents Assigned to Universite Catholique de Louvain
  • Patent number: 11258323
    Abstract: Winding for an electrical machine having an inductor with pole pitch ?p, having a plurality of groups of turns intercepting a fraction of a magnetic field, each group comprising a first subgroup of turns and a second subgroup of turns of same phase at a distance equal to ?p, the turns of the first subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, the turns of the second subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, a turn of the first subgroup being connected to a turn of the second subgroup in such a way that the direction of said current in the first group is opposite to the direction of the current in the second subgroup. The winding is a wave winding comprising vertical shortcut connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Universite Catholique De Louvain
    Inventors: Bruno Dehez, François Baudart
  • Patent number: 11239720
    Abstract: Winding for an electrical machine having an inductor with pole pitch ?p, having a plurality of groups of turns intercepting a fraction of a magnetic field, each group comprising a first subgroup of turns and a second subgroup of turns of same phase at a distance equal to ?p, the turns of the first subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, the turns of the second subgroup being connected in such a way that a current may flow in same direction in all turns of said subgroup, a turn of the first subgroup being connected to a turn of the second subgroup in such a way that the direction of said current in the first group is opposite to the direction of the current in the second subgroup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Bruno Dehez, François Baudart
  • Patent number: 11230603
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a protein binding to GARP in the presence of TGF-? and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH LTD, UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, argenx BVBA
    Inventors: Sophie Lucas, Pierre Coulie, Julia Cuende Villasur, Laure Dumoutier, Jean-Christophe Renauld, Sebastian van der Woning, Michael Saunders, Hans De Haard, Gitte De Boeck
  • Patent number: 11222944
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate having a resistivity of at least 100 ?·cm. An electrically insulating layer contacts the semiconductor substrate. The electrically insulating layer is susceptible of inducing in the semiconductor substrate a parasitic surface conduction layer that interfaces with the electrically insulating layer. An electrical circuit is located on the electrically insulating layer. The electrical circuit includes a section capable of inducing an electrical field in the semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit device includes a depletion-inducing junction of which at least a portion is comprised in the semiconductor substrate. The depletion-inducing junction can autonomously induce in the semiconductor substrate a depleted zone that interfaces with a section of the electrically insulating layer that lies in-between two sections of the electrical circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Raskin, Martin Rack
  • Patent number: 11203785
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for assessing, evaluating and/monitoring the purity of a mesenchymal stem cells preparation, in particular of an adipose stem cells preparation, comprising measuring the expression level of at least one growth factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT-LUC, NOVADIP BIOSCIENCES SA
    Inventor: Denis Dufrane
  • Publication number: 20210353749
    Abstract: Guanabenz for use with an immunotherapy in the treatment of a cancer or of an infectious disease. In particular, guanabenz is used as an adjuvant for an immunotherapy, such as a cancer immunotherapy or a vaccination. More specifically, guanabenz for use with an adoptive cell therapy, with a therapeutic vaccine, with a checkpoint inhibitor therapy or with a T-cell agonist therapy in the treatment of a cancer. Also, guanabenz for use with a vaccination in the prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of an infectious disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Benoît VAN DEN EYNDE, Jingjing ZHU
  • Publication number: 20210338745
    Abstract: A bacterium belonging to a novel bacterial genus, Dysosmobacter. Also, the therapeutic, nutraceutical and cosmetic use thereof. The uses include methods for treating a disorder, promoting weight loss, decreasing food intake, increasing muscle mass, decreasing fat mass, increasing satiety, and/or decreasing weight gain associated with food intake in a subject, including administering to the subject at least one isolated bacterium belonging to the genus Dysosmobacter and/or a variant thereof and/or fragments thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Patrice CANI, Tiphaine LE ROY
  • Patent number: 11160836
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated transgenic pig beta cell wherein the PKC and the PKA pathway are constitutively activated; to a transgenic pig islet comprising said transgenic pig beta cell; and to a transgenic pig comprising said transgenic pig beta cell or said transgenic pig islet. Another object of the invention is a device comprising a transgenic pig beta cell or a transgenic pig islet of the invention. The present invention also relates to the use of said transgenic pig beta cell, said transgenic pig islet, or said device for treating a disease, disorder or condition related to the impaired function of endocrine pancreas or of beta cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Pierre Gianello, Nizar Mourad
  • Patent number: 11154831
    Abstract: Device for treating particles having a vortex chamber defined by end walls at both ends and a circular wall, a rotation imparting device with a fluid feeder arranged in a mainly tangential direction, a particle outlet and a central fluid outlet, an auxiliary chamber coaxially arranged with the vortex chamber defining a treating zone, which auxiliary chamber has a circular outer wall and an end wall and opens into the vortex chamber through an opening in the end wall of the vortex chamber opposite the central fluid outlet, a device for injecting particles coaxially into the treating zone, and a device for feeding a treating fluid into the treating zone in mainly axial direction, wherein the ratio of the area of the opening to the cross-sectional area of the vortex chamber is less than 0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Axel De Broqueville, Juray De Wilde, Thomas Tourneur
  • Publication number: 20210298925
    Abstract: A prosthesis or orthosis for a joint, such as an ankle, which includes a first body, a second body, and an articulated joint between the first and second bodies, the articulated joint allowing the rotation of the first and second bodies with respect to one another around a joint rotation axis. It further includes a locking mechanism configured to selectively lock the rotation between the first and second bodies in one direction, when it is in a locked configuration, and a transmission mechanism such that a rotation of the joint rotation axis generates a movement of a lockable part of the locking mechanism. The axis of the movement of the lockable part is shifted relative to the joint rotation axis and the transmission mechanism includes a reducer configured to reduce effort to lock the rotation of the first body with respect to the second body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Bruno DEHEZ, François HEREMANS, Renaud RONSSE
  • Publication number: 20210244814
    Abstract: A combination including metformin and cyclophosphamide for use with an immunotherapy in the treatment of a solid cancer. In particular, the combination including metformin and cyclophosphamide is used as an adjuvant for an immunotherapy. More specifically, a combination including metformin and cyclophosphamide for use with an adoptive cell therapy, with a therapeutic vaccine, with a checkpoint inhibitor therapy or with a T-cell agonist therapy, preferably with an adoptive cell therapy or a checkpoint inhibitor therapy, in the treatment of a solid cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Benoît VAN DEN EYNDE, Veronica FINISGUERRA
  • Publication number: 20210163974
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and relates to plants having a modified lipid metabolism and to methods for making such modified plants. In particular, the invention provides modified plants and parts thereof, including seeds, having an increased level of triacylglycerol (TAG), by means of a seed-specific expression in seed tissues during seed filling of a nucleic acid encoding a translocator protein (TSPO) in said modified plants or parts thereof. The invention further relates to methods for modulating lipid metabolism in plants and for producing plants with a modified lipid metabolism. The invention also provides constructs, vectors and host cells useful in the methods of the invention, and further relates to products obtained from the modified plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicants: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Henri BATOKO, Patrick MOREAU
  • Publication number: 20210118977
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate having a resistivity of at least 100 ?·cm. An electrically insulating layer contacts the semiconductor substrate. The electrically insulating layer is susceptible of inducing in the semiconductor substrate a parasitic surface conduction layer that interfaces with the electrically insulating layer. An electrical circuit is located on the electrically insulating layer. The electrical circuit includes a section capable of inducing an electrical field in the semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit device includes a depletion-inducing junction of which at least a portion is comprised in the semiconductor substrate. The depletion-inducing junction can autonomously induce in the semiconductor substrate a depleted zone that interfaces with a section of the electrically insulating layer that lies in-between two sections of the electrical circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre RASKIN, Martin RACK
  • Patent number: 10944267
    Abstract: An example device includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of voltage values representing respective voltage magnitudes at voltage nodes in a first portion of a power system and determine, for each voltage node, a respective value of first and second voltage-constraint coefficients. The processor is also configured to receive a power value corresponding to a connection point of the first portion of the power system with a second portion of the power system and determine for the connection point, a respective value of first and second power-constraint coefficients. The processor is also configured to cause at least one energy resource connected to the first portion of the power system to modify an output power of the at least one energy resource based on the value of the first and second voltage-constraint coefficients for each voltage node and the value of the first and second power-constraint coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Avance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Université catholique de Louvain
    Inventors: Emiliano Dall'Anese, Andrey Bernstein, Andrea Simonetto
  • Publication number: 20210032763
    Abstract: A system for water electrolysis, for production of hydrogen and oxygen, including: at least one unit cell having at least two compartments, each compartment being configured to have an electrolyte solution flowing through the compartment, from at least one inlet port to at least one outlet port of the system, at least two being gas-producing porous electrodes, which are at least one anode and at least one cathode, located each in one compartment; at least one electrode being tridimensional; at least one hydraulic circuit, an element for ensuring a forced electrolytic solution flow in each compartment, and an element for applying a DC bias voltage to the electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Joris PROOST, Quentin DE RADIGUÈS DE CHENNEVIÈRES, Grégoire THUNIS
  • Patent number: 10875914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof, which bind to a complex of GARP and TGF-?1, particularly a complex of human GARP and human TGF-?1. These antibodies and antigen binding fragments exhibit a combination of advantageous properties including high affinity antigen binding and the ability to inhibit the release of active TGF-? from regulatory T cells. The antibodies and antigen binding fragments of the present invention are relatively resistant to deamidation, isomerization and oxidation, such that they display improved stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: argenx BVBA, Université Catholique de Louvain
    Inventors: Sebastian van der Woning, Filip Borgions, Torsten Dreier, Lore Mariën, Gitte De Boeck, Stëphanie Liénart, Sophie Lucas, Pierre Coulie
  • Patent number: 10874699
    Abstract: The invention relates to cell-free compositions obtained by culturing adult-derived human liver stem/progenitor cells (ADHLSC) in cell culture medium and isolating the resulting conditioned medium (ADHLSC-CM) that has advantageous properties, such as anti-fibrotic effects. ADHLSC-CM, compositions based on ADHLSC-CM, and other related and derived products, can be used in cell culture processes or as a medicament, more particularly for the treatment of diseases involving organ injury, organ failure, in organ or cell transplantation or the pathological disruption, inflammation, degeneration, and/or proliferation of cells within a tissue or an organ, in particular within liver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Mustapha Najimi, Etienne Sokal, Silvia Berardis
  • Patent number: 10857264
    Abstract: Biomaterial having a multi-dimensional structure and comprising demineralized bone matrix dispersed within differentiated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) tissue, wherein MSCs are adipose tissue-derived stem cells. Method for producing this biomaterial comprising incubating MSCS in osteoblastic and/or chondrongenic medium in presence of demineralized bone matrix. Use of this biomaterial for alleviating or treating a bone or cartilage defect, supporting or correcting a congenital or acquired abnormality, supporting a bon or articular bone replacement following surgery or trauma, and/or supporting a musculoskeletal implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: Universite Catholique De Louvain, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
    Inventors: Denis Dufrane, Christian Delloye
  • Patent number: 10822424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a protein binding to GARP in the presence of TGF-? and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Université catholique de Louvain
    Inventors: Sophie Lucas, Stéphanie Lienart, Pierre Coulie
  • Patent number: 10806657
    Abstract: A rehabilitation system for rehabilitation of a subject including at least one end-effector for interacting with the subject, the end-effector having at least two degrees of freedom of motion, at least one actuator for actuating the at least one end-effector, at least one sensor for measuring at least the position and the speed of the at least one end-effector; at least one sensor for measuring the interaction force between the subject and the end-effector; a memory including at least two initial coefficients and a session including at least one exercise including at least one reference trajectory to be carried out by the subject through actuation of the end effector; and an actuator controlling unit. The memory delivers the initial coefficients and the session, the sensors deliver measurement signals to the controlling unit, and the controlling unit provides a force-controlled feedback based on the initial coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÈ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
    Inventors: Julien Sapin, Bruno Dehez, Maxime Gilliaux