Patents Assigned to University of Brighton
  • Patent number: 11772066
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods for scrubbing low levels of urea from aqueous solutions such as a dialysate from dialysis, and including blood and blood products, and devices capable of employing these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: Drexel University, University of Brighton
    Inventors: Yury Gogotsi, Sergey Mikhalovsky, Susan R Sandeman, Babak Anasori, Fayan Meng
  • Patent number: 11278862
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods for scrubbing low levels of urea from aqueous solutions such as a dialysate from dialysis, and including blood and blood products, and devices capable of employing these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: Drexel University, University of Brighton
    Inventors: Yury Gogotsi, Sergey Mikhalovsky, Susan R. Sandeman, Babak Anasori, Fayan Meng
  • Patent number: 9844568
    Abstract: The invention provides porous carbon particles for use in the treatment or prevention of liver disease, wherein at least 20% of the total pore volume is made up of pores having a mean diameter of from 2 to 200 nm and/or wherein the particles comprise micropores of diameter 2 nm or less and small macropores of diameter 50 nm to 500 nm, but substantially no mesopores of diameter greater than 2 nm and less than 50 nm, and substantially no large macropores of diameter greater than 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: UCL Business PLC, University of Brighton
    Inventors: Carol Angela Howell, Sergey Victorovich Mikhalovsky, Susan Rachel Sandeman, Rajiv Jalan, Jane MacNaughtan
  • Publication number: 20140163394
    Abstract: A device for testing for the presence of neuropathy by applying a thermal stimulus to a test area of skin includes a temperature sensing arrangement for determining a reference temperature being a reference skin temperature or room temperature, a thermal stimulus application arrangement and a temperature controlling arrangement for controlling temperature of the thermal stimulus. The reference temperature is used in controlling the temperature of the applied thermal stimulus. The device may include a blood flow sensing arrangement which provides a measurement of blood flow in an area of the skin which may be considered to be indicative of a blood flow in response to an applied stimulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: University of Brighton
    Inventor: Timothy Katz
  • Publication number: 20130072845
    Abstract: Whole blood is treated extracorporeally to remove substances contrary to health using mesoporous/microporous or macroporopus/microporous carbon in the form of beads or a channel monolith. The carbon may be the result of carbonising a mesoporous or macroporous phenolic resin. Substances contrary to health include externally introduced toxins such as bacterially derived staphylococcus enterotoxins A, B, TSST-1 or autologous, biologically active molecules with harmful, systemic effects when their activity is excessive or unregulated. Examples include the removal of inappropriate amounts of pro- or anti-inflammatory molecules and toxic mediators of systemic inflammatory response syndrome related to sepsis, cardio-pulmonary by-pass surgery, ischaemic reperfusioninjury; the removal of larger molecular weight and protein bound uremic toxins related to kidney and hepatic toxins related to liver failure and the removal of toxins relevant to biological and chemical warfare.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicants: University of Brighton, MAST Carbon International Ltd
    Inventors: Stephen Robert Tennison, Oleksandr Prokopovyeh Kozynchenko, Anthony Paul Rawlinson, Gary James Phillips, Carol Angela Howell, Susan Rachel Sandeman, Sergey Victorovich Mikhalovsky
  • Publication number: 20060163068
    Abstract: An electrokinetic method for groundwater protection, soil remediation and engineering which comprises applying an electric field across an area of soil, sediment or slurry so as to generate a pH and Eh gradient and thereby promote the in situ precipitation of a stable iron-rich band. The method may be performed for the purpose of stabilisation and/or strategic dewatering/rewatering of soils, sediment and/or slurries, the improvement of the physical properties of soils and sediments for engineering purposes, the forced and directed migration of contaminated leachates, and/or electro-osmotic purging of non-polar contaminants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicants: University of Sussex, University of Brighton
    Inventors: Andrew Cundy, Laurence Hopkinson
  • Patent number: 6863693
    Abstract: A prosthesis or implant has a surface carrying a coating comprising at least one phospholipid at a concentration to improve osteointegration. A method of making such a prosthesis or implant and a kit comprising a prosthesis or implant is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignees: Destiny Pharma Limited, University of Brighton
    Inventors: Andrew W. Lloyd, Matteo Santin, Stephen P. Denyer, William Rhys-Williams, William G. Love
  • Patent number: 5917722
    Abstract: A commutator circuit includes a bridge (1), which may have a half-bridge or a full-bridge topology, and a switch resonant arm (3, L, C). The resonant arm is coupled to the midpoint of the bridge, directly, or via a current buffer, or via a transformer. The arm provide controlled resonant commutation of a load coupled to the midpoint of the bridge. The circuit may be used, for example to drive an electric servo motor, or in a digital audio power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignees: B&W Loudspeakers Ltd., University of Brighton
    Inventor: Steve Sevak Singh