Patents Assigned to University of Hull
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Patent number: 11950520Abstract: A method of manufacturing a storage device for storing information, apparatus for storing information, an optical memristor device and a memory cell are disclosed. A method comprises providing at least one first electrode and at least one further electrode and providing each of at least one region of a first material between, and in electrical connection with, a respective first electrode and a further electrode whereby said step of providing at least one region comprises providing in the first material, a plurality of changeable particles that have charge storage capacity and at least one electrical property that is reversibly changeable responsive to absorption of incident electromagnetic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventor: Neil Kemp
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Patent number: 11744577Abstract: There is provided a product comprising a suture thread which, prior to being used to form a surgical suture, is in a stressed state which gives the suture thread a tendency to undergo lengthwise viscoelastic contraction. The suture thread undergoes viscoelastic contraction when in use as a surgical suture and this may promote wound healing to a greater extent than a conventional suture thread which does not undergo viscoelastic contraction.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventors: Kevin S Fancey, Louise A France
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Patent number: 11559785Abstract: The present invention relates to monolithic bodies, uses thereof and processes for the preparation thereof. Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to the use of a monolithic body in the preparation of a radioactive substance, for example a radiopharmaceutical, as part of a microfluidic flow system and a process for the preparation of such a monolithic body.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: The University of HullInventors: Stephen James Archibald, Ping He, Stephen John Haswell, Nicole Pamme, Nathan Joel Brown, Mark Duncan Tarn, Richard Alexander, Mohammad Mehdi Nasr Esfahani
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Patent number: 11448464Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger apparatus comprising at least one metal sheet (10) (e.g. aluminium), and preferably a plurality in a stack. Each metal sheet (10) has a corrugated surface, with fabric covering at least a portion of one surface of the metal sheet to promote evaporation. A wetting agent (e.g. LiCl/Polyvinyl-Alcohol (PVA) solution) is provided in the fabric to promote wetting of the fabric, and also acts as an anti-microbial agent. The fabric preferably covers all of the corrugated surface, and two planar portions are provided above and below the corrugated surface respectively. In use, the heat exchanger apparatus is disposed with a long side vertical and the corrugated surface is disposed on a middle portion, the upper planar portion is contiguous with an air outlet, and/or the lower planar portion is contiguous with an air inlet. In a preferred embodiment, the corrugated surface has in cross-section a profile of a periodic waveform, wherein the peak-to-peak distance is 11.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventors: Xudong Zhao, Peng Xu, Xiaoli Ma, Kevin Fancey, Junming Li
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Publication number: 20220272951Abstract: The present invention provides a delivery matrix comprising a carbohydrate derivative and at least one semiochemical for trapping and/or attracting and/or deterring at least one aquatic organism. The present invention provides a method for trapping and/or attracting a crustacean, said method comprising delivering an effective amount of specific semiochemicals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: The University of HullInventors: Jorg Hardege, Nichola Fletcher, John Terschak, Jonathan William Burnett
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Patent number: 11369955Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to microfluidic devices and systems comprising such devices for use in the determination of sample characteristics. Certain embodiments relate to methods for determining one or more characteristics of a sample comprising a compound for in vivo use. Aptly, certain embodiments of the present invention relate to devices and methods for assessing radiopharmaceuticals and their suitability for administration to a patient in need thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: The University of HullInventors: Stephen James Archibald, Ping He, Stephen John Haswell, Nicole Pamme, Nathan Joel Brown, Mark Duncan Tarn, Richard Alexander, Mohammad Mehdi Nasr Esfahani
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Patent number: 11075019Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and a method for producing a radiopharmaceutical, wherein the system is formed from and/or provides a microfluidic flow system. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a radioisotope isolation module, a radiopharmaceutical production module, a purification module and a quality control module.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: The University of HullInventors: Stephen James Archibald, Ping He, Nathan Joel Brown, Mark Duncan Tarn, Stephen John Haswell, Mohammad Mehdi Nasr Esfahani, Nicole Pamme, Richard Alexander
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Patent number: 10877164Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for detecting radioactivity. In particular, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to the detection of radioactivity in a target fluid in a fluid communication passageway using a region of scintillator material (130) to provide light responsive to the presence of radioactive material and at least one silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) (150) for providing an output signal responsive to the light provided by the scintillator material.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The University of HullInventors: Stephen James Archibald, David Jenkins, Nuray Yavuzkanat, Mohammad Mehdi Nasr Esfahani, Mark Tarn, Nicole Pamme
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Patent number: 10283120Abstract: A method of producing output indicative of the content of speech or mouthed speech from movement of speech articulators is described. The method may including fixing a plurality of magnets respectively to a plurality of speech articulators of a human individual. Providing a support. Providing a plurality of signal magnetic field sensors. Providing at least three reference magnetic field sensors orientated differently from one another with respect to the Earth's magnetic field. The signal and reference magnetic field sensors being fixed to the support which holds the sensors in fixed spatial relationships to one another. Producing, over a period of time, a respective signal from each signal magnetic field sensor and a respective signal from each reference magnetic field sensor. Obtaining, over the period of time, for each said signal magnetic field sensor signal, a respective correction value.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: The University of HullInventors: James Michael Gilbert, Lam Aun Cheah, Jie Bai
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Publication number: 20180094192Abstract: The invention provides photopolymerisable or photocrosslinkable reactive mesogen for forming a hole-transporting or light emitting polymer network, said mesogen having the structure (III) wherein M is a chromophoric aromatic or heterocyclic moiety; A1 and A2 are carbazole groups substituted in the 3-position of the carbazole ring, and may be the same or different; S1 and S2 are spacers, and may be the same or different; B1 and B2 are polymerisable groups, and may be the same or different; and m and n are independently integers from 1 to 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventors: STEPHEN MALCOLM KELLY, MARY O'NEILL, STUART PAUL KITNEY
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Patent number: 9716229Abstract: The invention provides a photopolymerisable or photocrosslinkable reactive mesogen for forming a charge transporting or light emitting polymer network, the mesogen having an asymmetric structure (II): B1-S1-A1-M-(A-S-B)n (II) wherein: A and A1 are chromophores; S and S1 are spacers; B and B1 are endgroups which are susceptible to photopolymerisation or photocrosslinking; M is a non-chromophoric aliphatic, alicyclic or aromatic moiety; and n is an integer from 1 to 3; wherein, when the value of n is greater than 1, each of the groups A, S and B may be the same or different. Preferably, M is of the formula Y?Zm, wherein Y is an aliphatic, alicyclic, aromatic or heterocyclic moiety, Z is an aliphatic linking group and m is an integer from 2 to 4, and wherein each of the Z groups may be the same or different.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventors: Mary O'Neill, Stephen Malcolm Kelly, Stuart Paul Kitney
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Patent number: 9675448Abstract: A tool for facilitating insertion of a speech valve with a flexible retention flange into a fistula between the trachea and the esophagus of a human patient. The tool has a wall curved to define a passage having opposed open first and second passage ends and an axis extending therebetween. The wall has an external surface insertable into a fistula between the trachea and esophagus and defining a slot which extends from the passage to the external surface of the wall. The slot has an opening at the first passage end extending from the first passage end to at least a part of the way to the second passage end and at least a portion of the slot progresses angularly around the axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventors: Michael Fagan, Jean Marie Steeve Lamvohee, Catherine Dobson
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Patent number: 9101933Abstract: An integrated gel based microfluidic sample processing device, suitable for forensic investigations at the scene of a crime, including a substrate having a plurality of micro-channels to form at least a DNA extraction chamber in fluidic cooperation with an amplification chamber which in turn is in fluidic cooperation with a separation and detection channel. The micro-channels containing a DNA extraction material and gel based reaction reagents necessary for processing the sample. The device further having electrical contacts for coupling to an external power source and capable of inducing electro-kinetic manipulation of the gel based reagents and DNA extracted from the sample throughout the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2009Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: University of HullInventor: Stephen John Haswell
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Patent number: 8828464Abstract: A whitened exine shell having a degree of whiteness (L*) of greater than 65 measured under D 65 illumination. The shell can be used as a delivery vehicle for an active substance, or as an antioxidant. It can be used in a method of surgery, therapy or diagnosis. The invention provides a formulation containing the whitened exine shell together with an active substance; and a method for preparing the shell by isolating an exine shell from a naturally occurring spore under treatment conditions which do not include aceto lysis, and treating the isolated shell or a precursor thereof with a bleaching composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: University of HullInventors: Stephen Atkin, Stephen Beckett, Grahame Mackenzie
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Patent number: 8784851Abstract: Topical formulation containing an active substance which is chemically or physically bound to, or encapsulated within, an exine shell of a naturally occurring spore. The active substance can be released from the exine shell on application to a living or non-living surface. The invention may be used to provide gradual release of an active substance over a period of time subsequent to application of the formulation to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: University of HullInventors: Stephen Lawrence Atkin, Stephen Thomas Beckett, Grahame Mackenzie
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Patent number: 8600471Abstract: The present disclosure relates to catheters, for example a catheter which is adapted such that the user is able to determine whether it has been correctly positioned within 5 the subject. Also included in the present disclosure are means for detecting the position of the catheter and combinations of a catheter and processors for determining the positioning of the catheter. The present disclosure also relates to methods of determining the position of a catheter in, for example, a human or animal body.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2007Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The University of HullInventors: Jay Wadhawan, John Greenman, Magdi El-Habbal, Linda Shields, Cameron Imrie, Barbara Elliott
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Publication number: 20130299805Abstract: The invention provides a photopolymerisable or photocrosslinkable reactive mesogen for forming a charge transporting or light emitting polymer network, the mesogen having an asymmetric structure (II): B1—S1-A1-M-(A-S—B)n (II) wherein: A and A1 are chromophores; S and S1 are spacers; B and B1 are endgroups which are susceptible to photopolymerisation or photocrosslinking; M is a non-chromophoric aliphatic, alicyclic or aromatic moiety; and n is an integer from 1 to 3; wherein, when the value of n is greater than 1, each of the groups A, S and B may be the same or different. Preferably, M is of the formula Y—Zm, wherein Y is an aliphatic, alicyclic, aromatic or heterocyclic moiety, Z is an aliphatic linking group and m is an integer from 2 to 4, and wherein each of the Z groups may be the same or different.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: University of HullInventors: Mary O'Neill, Stuart Paul Kitney
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Publication number: 20130248366Abstract: A method of amplifying nucleic acid includes providing a microfluidic device having a space therein. The space is filled with a gel medium. Reagents for carrying out a PCR reaction are supported within the matrix of the gel medium within the space. A nucleic acid containing sample is brought into contact with the gel medium. The sample having whole cells or cell lysate without any prior separation of the nucleic acid from other components of the cells. PCR amplification of nucleic acid from the sample is performed in the space using the PCR reagents.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventors: Stephen John Haswell, Kirsty Jane Shaw, Peter Docker
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Patent number: 8398711Abstract: A speech valve comprises a generally cylindrical body and a closure member which is slidably movable within the body between a closed position and an open position. The valve body and the closure member are formed of a rigid, smooth material which is resistant to the growth of biofilm such as a ceramic. A particular suitable ceramic is partially stabilised zirconia. The valve body is provided with an outer sleeve which is provided with radially outward extending annular flanges, which are used to retain the speech valve in a fistula between the oesophagus and the trachea.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: University of HullInventors: Michael J. Fagan, Stephen R. Ell, Timothy A. Paget, Catherine A. Dobson, Zahra N. Mahmoud
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Publication number: 20120215306Abstract: A tool for facilitating insertion of a speech valve with a flexible retention flange into a fistula between the trachea and the oesophagus of a human patient. The tool has a wall curved to define a passage having opposed open first and second passage ends and an axis extending therebetween. The wall has an external surface insertable into a fistula between the trachea and oesophagus and defining a slot which extends from the passage to the external surface of the wall. The slot has an opening at the first passage end extending from the first passage end to at least a part of the way to the second passage end and at least a portion of the slot progresses angularly around the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF HULLInventors: Michael Fagan, Jean Marie Steeve Lamvohee, Catherine Dobson