Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 11546297
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a secure communication method, a client and a non-public server. The secure communication method includes: generating a set of destination addresses of a non-public server based on an IPv6 prefix of the non-public server, and a signature string and a user ID of a client, wherein the signature string is obtained by signing an IPv6 address and the user ID of the client based on a private key of the client; initiating a set of connection request to the non-public server based on a set of communication connections containing the set of destination addresses, for the non-public server to determine a public key corresponding to a user ID based on the user ID in the set of destination addresses, verifying the set of communication connections based on the public key, and establishing communication when the verification of the set of communication connections passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Xing Li, Congxiao Bao, Renjie Liu, Zhe Weng, Deliang Chang
  • Patent number: 11541101
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating transforming growth factor-beta (TGF?) biological activity in a vertebrate subject in need thereof. The methods involve administering to the vertebrate subject an effective amount of a substance capable of modulating activity of LEMD3 in the vertebrate subject to thereby modulate TGF? biological activity in the vertebrate subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Emory University
    Inventors: Thomas H. Barker, Leandro Moretti, Dwight M. Chambers
  • Patent number: 11545293
    Abstract: An edge mount magnetic component includes a bobbin and two E-core halves. The bobbin is configured to receive the two E-core halves when body portions of the two E-core halves are positioned vertically. The bobbin includes a first outer flange, a second outer flange, and a passageway spanning therebetween. The bobbin further includes first, second, third, and fourth pin supports. The first and second pin supports are connected to an outer surface of the first end flange and are spaced apart by at least a width of the passageway. The third and fourth pin supports are connected to an outer surface of the second end flange and are spaced apart by at least the width of the passageway. The bobbin further includes slots for routing a winding to a pin and includes walls to ensure the winding is electrically separated from the E-core halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike LeBlanc, Donald Folker, Dane Sutherland, Wei Xiong
  • Patent number: 11542751
    Abstract: A drilling tool is disclosed. The two ends of the drilling tool are respectively connected with an upper drilling tool and a drill bit. The drilling tool includes an axial striking part, a torsional striking part, and an auxiliary part. Under the combined action of a spring and a high-pressure drilling fluid, the hammer of the axial striking part generates an axial striking force to strike the upper housing; and the pendulum of the torsional striking part generates a torsional striking force to strike the lower housing. The reversing switch and the center tube are plugged together to simultaneously reverse torsion and axial striking forces, respectively. The high-pressure drilling fluid pushes the hammer and the pendulum to generate axial and torsional striking forces, respectively, to effectively increase the ROP and reduce the stick-slip phenomenon. The drilling tool is stable and reliable in a complex and changeable downhole environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: Southwest Petroleum University, Sichuan Jutingzao Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jialin Tian, Lei Tang, Zhichao Hu, Tongxu Ge, Lin Yang, Chunyu Xing
  • Patent number: 11540858
    Abstract: A multi-lumen arthroscopy cannula (MLAC) is described which may be used to contain and manage joint irrigation fluid as a means of improving the state of arthroscopic surgery. The MLAC includes an arrangement of components within a cannula housing. An internal passage (central lumen) through which surgical instruments may be inserted into the body includes a series of components which greatly reduce the leakage path of fluid through the central lumen while enabling manipulation of surgical instruments during arthroscopic procedures. A dual-tapered diaphragm seal grips the instruments as it is manipulated to prevent leakage. This works in concert with the consecutively placed multi-leaflet valves, which act to prevent internal leakage and maintain pressure within the surgical cavity. Unique features of this cannula, aside from the multiple valves and dual-tapered diaphragm seal, include bilateral lumens which provide infusion and withdrawal of irrigation inside the joint capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: George Pantalos, Justin Heidel, David Caborn
  • Patent number: 11545915
    Abstract: A power generator or sensor apparatus is provided. In another aspect, a power generator is used for water wave energy harvesting. A further aspect provides a power generator including a buoyant, waterproof and/or enclosed outer shell, at least one enclosed inner shell located within the outer shell, a first plurality of balls located between the outer and inner shells, a second plurality of balls located within the inner shell, and spaced apart electrodes affixed to an interior surface of the outer shell. Moreover, an aspect of the present power generator uses fluid, such as water wave movement and wind blowing, to cause nested shells to move which moves multiple balls therein between spaced apart electrodes to generate triboelectric charges or energy for a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Changyong Cao, Yaokun Pang
  • Patent number: 11544270
    Abstract: A hardware accelerator includes a block processing circuit configured to read a block from a list stored in an inverted index structure; and a search core configured to extract a document number out of a read block read by the block processing circuit and to calculate a score corresponding to the document number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: SK hynix Inc., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Jun Heo, Jaeyeon Won, Yejin Lee, Jaeyoung Jang, Tae Jun Ham, Jae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 11541877
    Abstract: An apparatus with torque vectoring control of a vehicle with an independent driving motor includes: one or more processors configured to: measure driving information including a steering angle, a yaw rate, a longitudinal velocity, lateral acceleration and longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle; calculate a driving aggressiveness (DA) index representing driving aggressiveness of a driver through an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) operation using the driving information; calculate a target yaw rate based on the driving information and the DA index; and generate a control moment based on the driving information, the DA index and the target yaw rate, wherein, for the calculating of the DA index, the one or more processor are configured to calculate the DA index to have a higher value than a case of generating only longitudinal acceleration or a case of generating only lateral acceleration, in response to the longitudinal acceleration and the lateral acceleration being generated at a same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Sung-Ho Hwang, Hoyong Na
  • Patent number: 11542533
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing 1,3-propanediol by means of fermentation of a recombinant microorganism. First, a recombinant microorganism is provided; the recombinant microorganism can overexpress acetyl-CoA carboxylase genes: accBC and accDA, a malonyl-CoA synthetase gene: mcr, a 3-hydroxypropionyl-CoA synthetase gene: pcs, a 3-hydroxypropionyl-CoA reductase gene: pduP, and a 1,3-propanediol reductase gene: yqhD. The recombinant microorganism is subjected to fermentation culture in a flask or fermentor using glucose ad as raw material to obtain the 1,3-propanediol. The recombinant microorganism can utilize low-cost glucose, sucrose, molasses, xylose and the like as raw material in the fermentation process, without additional expensive vitamin B12. Thus, cost of the production is significantly reduced, and there is a promising prospect in market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Zhen Chen, Dehua Liu
  • Patent number: 11544928
    Abstract: A system and method leverages understanding of complex dribbling video clips by representing a video sequence with a single Dribble Energy Image (DEI) that is informative for dribbling styles recognition. To overcome the shortage of labelled data, a dataset of soccer video clips employs Mask-RCNN to segment out dribbling players and OpenPose to obtain joints information of dribbling players. To solve issues caused by camera motions in highlight soccer videos, the system registers a video sequence to generate a single image representation DEI and dribbling styles classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Bir Bhanu, Hengyue Liu, Runze Li
  • Patent number: 11544322
    Abstract: A method includes detecting control of an active content creation tool of an interactive computing system in response to a user input received at a user interface of the interactive computing system. The method also includes automatically updating a video search query based on the detected control of the active content creation tool to include context information about the active content creation tool. Further, the method includes performing a video search of video captions from a video database using the video search query and providing search results of the video search to the user interface of the interactive computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: Adobe Inc., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Lubomira Dontcheva, Kent Andrew Edmonds, Cristin Fraser, Scott Klemmer
  • Patent number: 11540934
    Abstract: An adjustable back brace configured to aid in the correction of spinal curvature during a treatment period of a patient is provided. In some aspects, the adjustable back brace comprises a rod, an inferior segment, and a superior segment. The inferior segment is configured to stabilize a pelvic region of the patient. The superior segment is configured to apply pressure to one of a first lateral side and a second lateral side of the patient, proximate a thoracic region of the patient to provide a corrective force on the spinal curvature of the patient. The superior segment is also selectively adjustable to be selectively moved and fixedly positioned in a plurality of positions along at least one of the lateral direction or the vertical direction, wherein the plurality of positions are designed for periodic adjustment of the corrective force on the spinal curvature during the treatment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Brandeis University
    Inventor: Ingrid Marko
  • Patent number: 11545282
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for separating and sorting USB wires. The apparatus comprises a separating apparatus for separating USB wires and a sorting apparatus provided downstream the separating apparatus. The separating apparatus comprises a first slider slidable in a horizontal plane in a reciprocating way; a second slider connected to the first slider via a sliding guide; and a teeth assembly comprising a group of first teeth and a group of second teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Xiang Li, Zhi Chen, Yuan Gao, Yunhui Liu
  • Patent number: 11545343
    Abstract: A rotary plasma reactor system is provided. In another aspect, a plasma reactor is rotatable about a generally horizontal axis within a vacuum chamber. A further aspect employs a plasma reactor, a vacuum chamber, and an elongated electrode internally extending within a central area of the reactor. Yet another aspect employs a plasma reactor for use in activating, etching and/or coating tumbling workpiece material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Qi Hua Fan, Martin E. Toomajian
  • Patent number: 11545261
    Abstract: A hybrid ID system for a medical practitioner and patient care includes a hybrid electronic ID/key having a transmitter device having circuitry for storing ID data and transmitting a signal containing the ID data, and a key having a predetermined shape on a surface of the hybrid electronic ID/key. A radio frequency receptor device having circuitry, storing location information, that detects the signal containing ID data, a matching detection section configured to match the predetermined shape of the key, and a movement tracking portion that tracks movement of the predetermined shape as the key is rotated. A computer system including a patient database is configured to receive the ID data in conjunction with the location information from the radio frequency receptor device when the predetermined shape is completely rotated to a final position, and store the ID data, location information, together with patient data associated with the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: National Guard Health Affairs, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
    Inventors: Azah Althumairi, Joud Abduljawad, Susanna Ferreira, Bandar Alknawy
  • Patent number: 11542532
    Abstract: An integrated process and corresponding apparatus that produces a relatively clean, delignified cellulose product from lignocellulosic biomass. The method includes treating a portion of the delignified cellulose itself as a substrate to produce on-site cellulolytic enzymes, including further treating the remaining delignified cellulose with the resulting cellulolytic enzymes for in situ enzymatic hydrolysis. The process and apparatus are useful to produce fermentable sugars for cost-effective manufacturing of fermentable sugars, fuels, bioproducts and chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: Auburn University, PureVision Technology LLC
    Inventors: Edwin R. Lehrburger, Dhrubojyoti D. Laskar, Zhihua Jiang, Jing Li, Harry Cullinan, Yoon Y. Lee
  • Patent number: 11541439
    Abstract: A permeable reactive barrier having two or more layers of a geotextile fabric inoculated with a bioremediation microbe is provided. The permeable reactive barrier further includes two or more layers of coarse-grained geological material separating the two or more layers of geotextile fabric such that any pair of adjacent layers of geotextile fabric is separated by a layer of coarse-grained geological material. The permeable reactive barrier includes a perforated metal casing surrounding and containing the layers of coarse-grained geological materials and geotextile fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventors: Cevat Yaman, Ayse Burcu Yaman
  • Patent number: 11542823
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cooling device for a turbine nozzle guide vane with a low-melting-point metal as a flowing working media. A plurality of cooling channels and a cavity are arranged in a guide vane. The cooling device includes a flow divider, a collector, a radiator and an electromagnetic pump, the cooling device and the guide vane form a closed loop. Liquid low-melting-point metal or alloy thereof as the flowing working medium is driven by the electromagnetic pump to circularly flow in the closed loop and dissipate rapidly through the radiator. Air cooling is not adopted in the present disclosure, cooling air originally led out from a gas compressor is saved so as to increase the propelling power of an aircraft. Air film holes do not need to be formed in the outer surface of the guide vane so as to improve strength of the guide vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xiang Luo, Zhe Zhang, Zeyu Wu
  • Patent number: 11542359
    Abstract: A photoresponsive polyurethane including a hard segment, a soft segment, and a photoresponsive group that is selected from a coumarin group or a coumarin derivative and an alkoxyphencyl group or an alkoxyphencyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Abraham Joy, Kaushik Mishra, Yen-Ming Tseng
  • Patent number: 11546987
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for fabricating graphene workpieces. The present invention also provides for products produced by the methods of the present invention and for apparatuses used to perform the methods of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Alan T Johnson, Jr., Rajatesh R Gudibande, Zhengqing John Qi