Patents Assigned to University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization
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Patent number: 9706292Abstract: A method comprises providing at least one processing unit comprising a decomposing section and a playback section; receiving, at the decomposing section, audio data generated via an array of microphones, the audio data representing an acoustic scene; decomposing the audio data into a plurality of signals representing components of the acoustic scene arriving from a plurality of directions, using the decomposing section; and rendering the audio components for a listener based on the plurality of directions of the audio components, using the playback section.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: University of Maryland, Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Ramani Duraiswami, Adam O'Donovan, Nail A. Gumerov
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Publication number: 20140314706Abstract: A hemostatic putty for treatment of a variety of wounds topographies, including but not limited to highly three dimensional wounds, for example gunshot wounds and impalements, is disclosed. The putty is comprised of a matrix polymer weakly crosslinked or not crosslinked such that a viscoelastic matrix is formed. The viscoelastic nature of the putty is tunable by the composition and enables the putty to conform to a variety of wound topographies. Likewise, a hemostatic polymer, for example chitosan or hydrophobically modified chitosan, is included in this matrix to impart hemostatic properties and tissue adhesive on the putty. The hemostatic polymers disclosed prevent microbial infection and are suitable for oxygen transfer required during normal wound metabolism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: University of Maryland, Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Kevin Diehn, Matthew Dowling, Srinivasa R. Raghavan, David R. King
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Publication number: 20140147097Abstract: Various systems and methods may benefit from determination of environmental signatures in recordings. For example, such signatures may aid forensic analysis and alignment of media recordings, such as alignment of audio or video recordings. A method can include reading data representative of sensed light in a visual track of a video recording. The method can also include extracting an electric network frequency signal from the data representative of sensed light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: University of Maryland, Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Ravi GARG, Avinash L. VARNA, Adi HAJJ-AHMAD, Min WU
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Patent number: 8718907Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for monitoring traffic, such as vehicle traffic on a roadway, using identification information acquired using a Bluetooth protocol. A sensor is configured to scan for discoverable Bluetooth devices within a flow of vehicle traffic and to create a log of identified Bluetooth devices. A system includes multiple sensors at known locations along a route and is operable to identify a Bluetooth device identified at multiple sensors.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: University of Maryland Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Stanley E. Young, Philip Tarnoff, Nicholas J. Ganig
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Publication number: 20110165067Abstract: Carbohydrate functionalized catanionic vesicles that include a glycoconjugate and/or peptidoconjugate for vaccination or drug delivery, methods for forming these, and methods of using these.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2008Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: University of Maryland Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Douglas S. English, Philip R. DeShong, Daniel C. Stein, Sara Lioi, Ju-Hee Park, Emily J. Danoff, Glen B. Thomas
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Publication number: 20090075396Abstract: Methods for detecting a biological interaction comprising administering a substrate comprising a ligand attached to the substrate wherein the ligand binds to a receptor and wherein a signal is produced. Also disclosed is a biosensor comprising a substrate and a ligand wherein the ligand is attached to the surface of the substrate and wherein the ligand preferentially binds to a receptor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: University of Maryland Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Philip R. Deshong, Douglas S. English, Daniel C. Stein, Mridula Kadalbajoo, Fehmi Damkaci
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Publication number: 20090004702Abstract: Materials and Methods are provided for replacing one or more amino acids in a polypeptide with an amino acid of choice to form mutant proteins. Both naturally and non-naturally occurring amino acids can be inserted. A population of mutant proteins can be created in which an amino acid residue has replaced an existing residue at random locations along the primary sequence of the protein. The provided techniques allow for the study of proteins and development of proteins with improved functionalities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: University of Maryland-Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Thomas Ashton CROPP, Kelly Anne DAGGETT
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Publication number: 20080305157Abstract: Catanionic vesicles including solute ion, methods for forming these, and methods of using these.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: University of Maryland Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Douglas S. English, Srinivasa Raghavan, Philip R. DeShong, Xiang Wang, Emily J. Danoff, Jaeho Lee
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Publication number: 20080220296Abstract: PtRu nanoparticles, which contain Pt shell and a ruthenium-based nanoparticle core, and which nanoparticles may be used advantageously in oxidation of hydrogen containing relatively large amounts of CO.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: University of Maryland Office of Technology CommercializationInventors: Bryan W. Eichhorn, Selim Alayoglu
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Patent number: 7033766Abstract: A sublancin peptide variant (lantibody) having a spacer region and a subtilin leader peptide fused to the C-terminal end of the mature sublancin peptide provide an anchoring means for inserting and retaining the lantibody in a host cell wall without affecting the intracellular processing of the lantibody, host cell expression of the molecule on the cell surface or the biological activity of the mature sublancin peptide in extracellular, cell-wall-bound form. Target molecules that bind to the antibody and methods of engineering a peptide variant gene, plasmid and a host cell transformant are described as are methods for generating a lantibody display library and identifying new target molecules.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: University of Maryland Office of Technology CommercializationInventor: J. Norman Hansen