Patents Assigned to University Court of the University of St. Andrews
  • Patent number: 10429245
    Abstract: An optical system comprising a randomizer that has a plurality of randomly positioned scatterers for scattering and thereby randomizing light to generate a speckle pattern and a detector for detecting the speckle pattern to determine at least one property of the light and/or change in at least one property of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Kishan Dholakia, Michael Mazilu, Klaus Metzger
  • Patent number: 10407355
    Abstract: A method of depolymerizing a lignin includes oxidizing the lignin to provide an oxidized lignin wherein benzylic —OH of ?-O-4 linkages have been converted to carbonyl. The oxidized lignin is depolymerized with a metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, magnesium, aluminum and titanium or mixtures thereof, in the presence of an ammonium salt or carbon dioxide. Also described are methods for manufacturing phenolic products from lignin and a method for the cleavage of a ?-O-4 linkage in a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Nicholas James Westwood, Christopher Stuart Lancefield, Fanny Tran
  • Patent number: 10388888
    Abstract: Charged organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) species are described. A light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEEC) includes the charged organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) species and sufficient counter ions to balance the charge on the charged organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence species, as emitter material. Also disclosed are OLEDSs containing the TADF species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Eli Zysman-Colman, Michael Yin Wong
  • Publication number: 20190242752
    Abstract: A Raman system for use in performing Raman spectroscopy on a sample, comprises an optical source, a spectrometer, and an optical system for coupling light from the optical source to a sample and for coupling light from the sample to the spectrometer and a further spectrometer. A Raman system for use in performing Raman spectroscopy on a sample, comprises an optical source, a spectrometer and an optical system for coupling light from the optical source and a further optical source to a sample and for coupling light from the sample to the spectrometer. The optical system may be configured for coupling light from the optical source and the further optical source to the sample and for coupling light from the sample to the spectrometer and the further spectrometer. The Raman system may be portable and/or may be configured to be transported and/or carried and/or may be handheld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Kishan DHOLAKIA, Mingzhou CHEN
  • Patent number: 10363298
    Abstract: The present invention is based on the finding that in addition to interfering with or blocking, preventing and/or inhibiting the interaction between a pathogen and, for example, a sialic acid containing cell surface receptor, certain sialic acid binding molecules have immunomodulatory properties. The invention provides methods and uses which exploit sialic acid binding molecules in the treatment and/or prevention of disease by modulation and/or priming of the host immune response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventors: Garry Taylor, Helen Connaris
  • Patent number: 10357037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the synthesis of a variety of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) using low temperature and solvents which are considered to be not particularly harmful to the environment. There is also provided novel MOFs which may be made by the desired processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Russell Edward Morris, Paul Stewart Wheatley, Stewart Warrender, Morven Duncan
  • Patent number: 10353188
    Abstract: An optical system for generating an Airy beam light sheet comprising an optical arrangement for generating a Gaussian beam, and an optical element for converting the Gaussian beam into an Airy beam light sheet, wherein a single optical element is provided for converting the Gaussian beam into an Airy beam light sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Michael Mazilu, Tom Vettenburg, Kishan Dholakia, Miguel Preciado, Zhengyi Yang
  • Patent number: 10322942
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Pierrot Sassou Attidekou, John Thomas Sirr Irvine
  • Patent number: 10236454
    Abstract: Cationic iridium III complexes including a ligand according to formula I are provided. The linking group Z is a hydrocarbylene linking group comprising at least two carbon atoms in a chain. Ligands according to formula I have increased rigidity about the central bond linking the two five membered rings by virtue of the linking group Z, when compared to previous biimidazole related ligands. Increased photoluminescence quantum yield may been obtained in cationic iridium III complexes provided with these ligands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Eli Zysman-Colman, Adam Henwood
  • Patent number: 10222362
    Abstract: A Raman spectroscopic detection device comprising at least one microfluidic sample channel; at least one excitation waveguide for exciting a Raman signal and at least one collection waveguide for collecting a Raman signal. The output of the excitation waveguide and the input of the collection waveguide are positioned directly in the microfluidic sample channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Praveen Cheriyan Ashok, Gajendra Pratap Singh, Kishan Dholakia
  • Patent number: 10203513
    Abstract: A method of minimizing cross-talk between optical modes propagating in a multi-mode optical fiber, comprises superimposing a plurality of optical wavefunctions; determining a relationship between superpositions of at least some of the optical wavefunctions and at least one measure of orthogonality of the optical modes at an output of the multi-mode optical fiber; and identifying a superposition of at least some of the optical wavefunctions that provides a desired or optimized value of the at least one measure of orthogonality using the determined relationship. The method further comprises generating, using light from a laser and at least one optical component, the identified superposition of at least some of the optical wavefunctions that provides the desired or optimized value of the at least one measure of orthogonality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS
    Inventors: Kishan Dholakia, Michael Mazilu, Anna Chiara De Luca
  • Patent number: 10205299
    Abstract: A laser comprising: at least one wavelength selective reflector that comprises a waveguide vertically coupled to at least one photonic crystal resonator, the waveguide and photonic crystal resonator being arranged to provide wave-vector matching between at least one mode of the photonic crystal resonator and at least one mode of the waveguide; an optical gain medium for generating light for coupling into the waveguide, and a reflector at an end of the optical gain medium, the reflector and the photonic crystal resonator defining a laser cavity. Light generated by the optical gain medium is coupled into the waveguide and coupled into the photonic crystal resonator, and partially reflected back to the optical gain medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Kapil Debnath, William Whelan-Curtin
  • Patent number: 10203926
    Abstract: A computer processor based method for controlling a plurality of computer displays in response to user behavior, the method comprising identifying at least one display that is unattended by the user by determining the user's visual focus, and applying an overlay window to the unattended display to control visualization of the identified unattended display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Jakub Dostal, Per Ola Kristensson, Aaron Quigley
  • Patent number: 10203248
    Abstract: An electro-optic detector for detecting terahertz radiation comprising an electro-optic material through which the terahertz radiation passes; a probe for transmitting probe radiation into the electro-optic material; an optical arrangement for causing the probe radiation to make multiple passes through the electro-optic material and a radiation detector for detecting the probe radiation after the multiple passes are made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventor: Malcolm Harry Dunn
  • Patent number: 10147827
    Abstract: A solar cell that has a thin film of active material in which is defined a series or array of diffraction cells, wherein each diffraction unit-cell has a non-periodic series of diffraction features and is adapted to suppress at least one low order diffraction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Emiliano Rezende Martins, Thomas Fraser Krauss
  • Patent number: 10128447
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes an organometallic complex of the form Z-M-Z1, as light emitting material. M is Pd(0) or Pt(0) and Z is a nitrogen containing heterocyclic carbene ligand. Z1 is a phosphorus ligand or a nitrogen containing heterocyclic carbene ligand that may be the same as or different from Z. The light emitting device may be an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a sensor, or a light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEEC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Catherine Cazin, Ifor David William Samuel, Eli Zysman-Colman
  • Publication number: 20180264033
    Abstract: Disclosed are metal organic framework materials (MOFs), comprising an extra-framework NO releasing compound within the internal pores and/or channels of the MOF, the NO-releasing compounds and their preparation and uses. The MOFs and NO-releasing compounds are capable of releasing NO on application of an external stimulus and may provide materials with multiple modes of antibacterial and/or drug action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: University Court of the University of St. Andrews
    Inventors: Morven Duncan, Stewart Warrender, Russell Edward Morris, Damiano Cattaneo
  • Patent number: 10019217
    Abstract: A computer processor based method for controlling a plurality of computer displays in response to user behavior, the method comprising identifying at least one display that is unattended by the user by determining the user's visual focus, and applying an overlay window to the unattended display to control visualization of the identified unattended display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Jakub Dostal, Per Ola Kristensson, Aaron Quigley
  • Patent number: 10006811
    Abstract: An optical system comprising a randomizer that has a plurality of randomly positioned scatterers for scattering and thereby randomizing light to generate a speckle pattern and a detector for detecting the speckle pattern to determine at least one property of the light and/or change in at least one property of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Kishan Dholakia, Michael Mazilu, Klaus Metzger
  • Patent number: 9957476
    Abstract: A method for porating one or more cells comprising positioning a particle near each cell; and causing laser-induced breakdown of the particle to create one or more cavitations, wherein the cavitation(s) causes poration of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Frank Gunn-Moore, Kishan Dholakia, Yoshihiko Arita