Patents Assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11766823
    Abstract: A method or apparatus for creating a three-dimensional tissue construct of a desired shape for repair or replacement of a portion of an organism. The method may comprise injecting at least one biomaterial in a three-dimensional pattern into a first material such that the at least one biomaterial is held in the desired shape of the tissue construct by the first material. The apparatus may comprise an injector configured to inject at least one biomaterial in a three-dimensional pattern into a first material such that the at least one biomaterial is held in the desired shape of the tissue construct by the first material. The first material may comprise a yield stress material, which may be a material exhibiting Herschel-Bulkley behavior. The tissue construct may have a smallest feature size of ten micrometers or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Ettor Angelini, Wallace Gregory Sawyer, Kyle Gene Rowe, Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Ya-Wen Chang, Samantha M. Marquez
  • Patent number: 11770399
    Abstract: Various examples are provided related to software and hardware architectures that enable lightweight and trust-aware routing. In one example, among others, a method for trust-aware routing includes calculating trust values to represent how much a node can be trusted to route packets through its router. Each node can store the trust values of routers that are one hop and two hops away from it, which represent direct trust and delegated trust, respectively. When a router receives a packet, the router can update trust values and forward the packet to the next hop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Thelijjagoda S N Charles, Prabhat Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 11752236
    Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure relates to protective, anti-bacterial coatings for medical implants and methods of making the same. Also disclosed herein are methods for improving the anti-bacterial properties of a medical device coated with silicon carbide (SiC) or titanium nitride (TiN). Further disclosed herein are medical devices including an anti-microbial layer prepared by the disclosed methods. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, Arthur E. Clark, Fan Ren, Samira Afonso Camargo
  • Patent number: 11757198
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure integrate magnetoelectric nanowire arrays within antenna assemblies to form ultra-compact antennas. An exemplary nanowire antenna array device comprises a first electrode positioned across a second electrode, wherein an electrode gap separates the first electrode and the second electrode; and a magnetoelectric nanowire connected to the first electrode and the second electrode across the electrode gap without substrate clamping, wherein the nanowire antenna array device receives or transmits electromagnetic waves through the magnetoelectric effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer S. Andrew, Matthew Bauer, David P. Arnold
  • Patent number: 11753538
    Abstract: An organic microgel system as support material for 3D printing of soft materials such as silicone and methods for manufacturing and using the organic microgel system are disclosed. In some embodiments, the organic microgel system comprises a plurality of microgel particles formed by blending a di-block copolymer and a tri-block copolymer in an organic solvent. The organic microgel system may allow high precision 3D printing of silicone objects with complex shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Ettor Angelini, Brent S. Sumerlin, Christopher S. O'Bryan, Wallace Gregory Sawyer, Tapomoy Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: 11742570
    Abstract: Various examples are provided for meander line (ML) slots, which can be used for mutual coupling reduction. In one example, an antenna array includes first and second patch antenna elements disposed on a first side of a substrate, the first and second patch antenna elements separated by a gap. The antenna array can include a meander line (ML) slot formed in a ground plane disposed on a second side of the substrate. A plurality of ML slots can be aligned with the gap between the first and second patch antenna elements. In another example, a method includes forming first and second antenna elements on a first side of a substrate and forming a ML slot in a ground plane disposed on a second side of the substrate aligned with a gap between the first and second antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Yong-Kyu Yoon, Seahee Hwangbo
  • Patent number: 11730971
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for magnetic particle conjugates, methods of making the magnetic particle conjugates, methods of using magnetic particle conjugates, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Jon P. Dobson, Josephine Allen
  • Patent number: 11731934
    Abstract: The instant invention describes hydrazide-containing compounds having therapeutic activity, and methods of treating disorders such as cancer, tumors and cell proliferation related disorders, or affect cell differentiation, dedifferentiation or transdifferentiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Daiqing Liao, William R. Roush, Ryan L. Stowe
  • Patent number: 11731197
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure pertains to methods of making various noble metal nanoprisms, e.g., gold nanoprisms. In various aspects, the methods can comprise incubating, under dark conditions, a growth solution comprising: (a) a plurality of gold seed structures; (b) a gold precursor, and (c) a photocatalytic intermediary, such that during the incubating step multiply-twinned gold seed structures in the growth solution are preferentially enlarged. The disclosed methods can comprise separating the multiply-twinned gold seed structures from the growth solution based upon the size of the gold seed structures to produce an enriched growth solution. In some aspects, the methods comprise irradiating the enriched growth solution to produce the gold nanoprisms. In some aspects, the disclosed nanoprisms comprise silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei David Wei, Yueming Zhai
  • Patent number: 11725068
    Abstract: Disclosed are saturated cyclic monopolymers derived from hexyne, octyne, nonyne, pentadecyne and saturated cyclic copolymers derived from acetylene and a second alkyne monomer that is hexyne, octyne, nonyne, or pentadecyne.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam S. Veige
  • Patent number: 11720654
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for timed unlocking and locking of hardware intellectual properties obfuscation. One such method includes determining whether received key inputs match a functional key sequence of an integrated circuit or a test key sequence of the integrated circuit; permanently enabling operation of the integrated circuit responsive to the received key inputs being determined to be a functional key sequence for permanently enabling operation of the integrated circuit; temporarily enabling operation of the integrated circuit responsive to the received key inputs being determined to be the test key sequence for temporarily enabling operation of the integrated circuit to perform testing of the functionality and disable thereafter; and locking sequential logic and combinational logic of the integrated circuit if the received key inputs are determined to not be either the functional key sequence or the test key sequence. Other systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Swarup Bhunia, Abdulrahman Alaql, Aritra Dasgupta, Md Moshiur Rahman
  • Publication number: 20230227452
    Abstract: The invention can provide compounds, analogs of blebbistatin, effective and selective inhibitors of nonmuscle myosin II relative to cardiac myosin II.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: The University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Courtney Anne MILLER, Patrick Robert GRIFFIN, Theodore Mark KAMENECKA, Gavin Rumbaugh, Matthew Surman, Steve Young, Steven Duddy, Laszlo Radnai
  • Patent number: 11705255
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising disposing a first particle in a reactor; the first particle being a magnetic particle or a particle that can be influenced by a magnetic field, an electric field or a combination of an electrical field and a magnetic field; fluidizing the first particle in the reactor; applying a uniform magnetic field, a uniform electrical field or a combination of a uniform magnetic field and uniform electrical field to the reactor; elevating the temperature of the reactor; and fusing the first particles to form a monolithic solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: James F. Klausner, Renwei Mei, Ayyoub Mehdizadeh Momen, Kyle Allen
  • Patent number: 11705527
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of making substrates having an (AR) antireflective layer, substrates having an antireflective layer, devices including a substrate having an antireflective layer, and the like. The AR layer can have a total specular reflection of less than 10% at a wavelength of about 400-800 nm, and a height of about 500-1000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Jiang, Zhuxiao Gu, Ruwen Tan
  • Patent number: 11689089
    Abstract: Wireless power transmission (WPT) systems are provided. For example, the WPT system can use one or more power transmitting coils and a receiver for electromagnetically coupled wireless power transfer. The electrodynamic receiver can be in the form of an electrodynamic transducer where a magnet is allowed to oscillate near a receiving coil to induce a voltage in the receiving coil, a piezoelectric transducer where the magnet causes a vibrating structure with a piezoelectric layer to move, an electrostatic transducer where movement of the magnet causes a capacitor plate to move, or a combination thereof. An alternating magnetic field from the transmitting coil(s) excites the magnet in the receiver into mechanical resonance. The vibrating magnet then functions similar to an energy harvester to induce voltage/current on an internal coil, piezoelectric material, or variable capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: David Patrick Arnold, Shuo Cheng, Vinod Reddy Challa
  • Patent number: 11687109
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for identifying defective components in a power integrated circuit. In one such system, a voltage regulator circuit is embedded in an integrated circuit device, wherein the voltage regulator circuit includes a control feedback loop having a compensation capacitor that is configured to maintain a stable output voltage of the voltage regulator voltage at a set value or range. Additionally, a test circuitry is embedded in the integrated circuit device, wherein the test circuitry comprises a voltage source that is configured to generate a cyclical test input signal that passes through the control feedback loop. Accordingly, the test circuitry is configured to provide a test output signal to an output pin of the integrated circuit device that indicates a performance level of the compensation capacitor in the control feedback loop of the voltage regulator circuit. Other systems and methods are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: William R Eisenstadt, Anurag Tulsiram
  • Patent number: 11680241
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bioreactor system that allows active perfusive flow through a porous support medium enabling 3D growth of biological samples. In some embodiments, the system comprises a sample well filled with a three-dimensional (3D) cell growth medium. The system can further comprise a liquid medium reservoir fluidly connected to the sample well by a first filter material. The system can further comprises a medium collection chamber fluidly connected to the sample well by a second filter material. In some embodiments, application of negative gage pressure to the medium collection chamber or positive pressure to the liquid medium reservoir draws fluid from the liquid medium reservoir, through the first filter material, into the sample well where it permeates the three-dimensional cell growth medium, through the second filter material, and finally into the medium collection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Wallace Gregory Sawyer, Samantha Lauren Marshall, Eric O. McGhee, Alexander McGhee, Kylie E. Van Meter, Angela Athena Pitenis, Juan Manuel Urueña, Derek L. Hood, Michael Dougherty, Christian Jobin, Jack E. Famiglietti, Ryan A. Smolchek, Padraic P. Levings
  • Patent number: 11682927
    Abstract: Various examples are provided for wireless power transfer to implants. In one example, a system includes a radio frequency (RF) power source and a transmitter (TX) array comprising an excitation coil and resonant coils distributed about the excitation coil. The TX array can transfer power from the RF power source to a biomedical implant inserted below a skin surface of a subject when the TX array is positioned on the skin surface adjacent to the biomedical implant. A receiver (RX) coil of the biomedical implant can inductively couple with the TX array for the power transfer. The resonant coils can allow power transfer when the RX coil is not aligned with the excitation coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jenshan Lin, Lawrence Fomundam
  • Patent number: 11674029
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for lubricious structures (also referred to simply as “structure”), methods of making lubricious structures, methods of using lubricious structures, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott S. Perry, Alexander Rudy, Wallace Gregory Sawyer, Thomas Ettor Angelini
  • Patent number: 11666578
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds and methods of inhibiting a cyclin-dependent kinase, comprising contacting the cyclin-dependent kinase and an effective amount or concentration of a compound of formula (I) wherein variables are as defined herein. Compounds of formula (I) can be highly selective inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases such as CDK12/13, relative to other kinases such as casein kinases, such as CK1?/?. Compounds can be used in treatment of cancers, such as breast cancer, brain cancer and ovarian cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    Inventors: William R. Roush, Derek R. Duckett, Andrii Monastyrskyi