Patents Assigned to University
  • Publication number: 20220012936
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, a first processor coupled to the non-volatile memory and configured to receive a data set associated with an object and user information associated with a spatial position of a user in a multi-user virtual (IMVR) environment, and a second processor coupled to the volatile memory, the second processor configured to render an instance of the portion of the object in the IMVR environment from a perspective of the user based on the spatial position of the user. The first processor is configured to generate a look-up table (LUT) based on a set of inputs received from a user. The second processor is configured to render, based on the LUT and information related to a manipulation by a user, an updated instance of the portion of the object that manifests an effect of the manipulation in the IMVR environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Tod Robert CLAPP, Brendan GARBE, Chad EITEL
  • Publication number: 20220011315
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to improved light-based assays, especially ligand binding assays, in which light is emitted from moieties stimulated by stimulating moieties. There is provided a method of generating and detecting a light signal comprising (a) providing a fluid sample comprising an analyte of interest; (b) contacting said sample with a first reagent comprising a molecular recognition element that binds to said analyte; (c) contacting said sample with a second reagent that (i) binds to said analyte in the presence of said first reagent; or (ii) binds to said first reagent; wherein said second reagent contains a light-generating reporter or chemiexcitation emitter; (d) removing unbound first and second reagents; (e) introducing into said sample a source of singlet oxygen or a chemiexcitation stimulator; and (f) measuring the production of light from said reporter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: University of Houston System
    Inventors: Binh V. VU, Richard C. WILLSON
  • Publication number: 20220009942
    Abstract: Disclosed is a compound of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, preparation methods thereof, pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and use thereof in the treatment of diseases such as pancreatic cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences
    Inventors: Zhigang XU, Zhongzhu CHEN, Dianyong TANG
  • Publication number: 20220009809
    Abstract: A method for removing recalcitrant organic compounds from water includes exposing water to an oxidizing agent, thereby reducing an amount of at least some classes of dissolved organic matter in the water and adsorbing at least some of the remaining dissolved organic matter in the water onto a porous adsorbent, resulting in adsorbed organic matter on the porous adsorbent. The method includes thermally treating the adsorbed organic matter on the porous adsorbent to remove and degrade the adsorbed organic matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: The University of North Dakota
    Inventor: Feng Xiao
  • Publication number: 20220011214
    Abstract: Disclosed is a passive wireless device for microfluidic detection of multi-level droplets. A primary inductor channel and a secondary inductor channel each comprise two layers of inductance coils, and the inductance coils of the primary inductor channel and the secondary inductor channel are alternately arranged in each layer. A double-resonance circuit is formed after a liquid conductive material is injected. A first part of a detection channel is disposed between a primary capacitor channel, and a second part of a detection channel is disposed between a secondary capacitor channel. A reading device is used to read a resonant frequency of the double-resonance circuit, and perform detection according to the resonant frequency to obtain information of a corresponding first droplet group and/or second droplet group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Southeast University
    Inventors: Zhen ZHU, Mi WANG, Zhao ZHANG, Qingan HUANG
  • Publication number: 20220007992
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for pelvic floor feedback. The method includes capturing a strength of action potentials via wireless sensors, the wireless sensors positioned proximate to a pelvic floor of a user. The method also includes transmitting the strength of the action potentials to a mobile device. The method also includes recording the strength of the action potentials on the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Jeremy B. WIYGUL, Saie Milind GANOO, Rohit CURUCUNDHI
  • Publication number: 20220012890
    Abstract: An automated method for segmentation includes steps of receiving at a computing device an input image representing at least one surface and performing by the computing device image segmentation on the input image based on a graph surface segmentation model with deep learning. The deep learning may be used to parameterize the graph surface segmentation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: University of Iowa Research Foundation
    Inventors: Xiaodong Wu, Leixin Zhou, John M Buatti, Hui Xie
  • Publication number: 20220011284
    Abstract: A health early warning system for passengers on a train in an outdoor air polluted environment and a method thereof are provided. The system comprises an air quality monitoring station data acquisition module, a train data acquisition module, a train air pollution prediction module, and a train air environment early warning module; the air quality monitoring station data acquisition module acquires data of air quality monitoring stations and uploads the data to the train air pollution prediction module; the train data acquisition module acquires data of the train and uploads the data to the train air pollution prediction module; the train air pollution prediction module performs short-term prediction on air pollution of the train and uploads a result of the short-term prediction to the train air environment early warning module; and the train air environment early warning module performs early warning on the health of the passengers on the train.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Central South University
    Inventors: Hui LIU, Haiping WU, Yanfei LI, Chao CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220013324
    Abstract: A single beam plasma or ion source apparatus, including multiple and different power sources, is provided. An aspect of the present apparatus and method employs simultaneous excitation of an ion source by DC and AC, or DC and RF power supplies. Another aspect employs an ion source including multiple magnets and magnetic shunts arranged in a generally E cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventor: Qi Hua FAN
  • Publication number: 20220011646
    Abstract: A harmonic light-generating metasurface includes a base substrate and a plurality of structures, that include nonlinear material, that are disposed in a pattern on a surface of the base substrate. Each structure of the plurality of structures individually supports a magnetic dipole mode. An electromagnetic field enhancement of the magnetic dipole mode induces generation of a harmonic signal by the plurality of structures. Alternatively, a harmonic light-generating metasurface, includes a base substrate, a supporting substrate that includes a nonlinear material, and a plurality of paired structures disposed in a pattern on a surface of the supporting substrate. Each paired structure, of the plurality of paired structures, collectively supports a toroidal dipole mode. An electromagnetic field enhancement of the toroidal dipole mode penetrates the supporting substrate to induce generation of a harmonic signal by the supporting substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicants: William Marsh Rice University, Academia Sinica
    Inventors: Michael Semmlinger, Ming Lun Tseng, Jian Yang, Ming Zhang, Din Ping Tsai, Liangliang Dong, Arash Ahmadivand, Peter Nordlander, Nancy Jean Halas
  • Publication number: 20220011268
    Abstract: A method for determining a quality of a friction stir welded seam is described. The method involves applying an impact to a welded plate and comparing its damping capacity with the damping capacity of a geometrically equivalent defect-free plate. Damping capacities that differ by a small percent difference indicate that the welded plate is also defect-free. This method is particularly advantageous when dealing with small defects, which produce miniscule changes in natural frequency which may not be measureable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Waheed Sami ABUSHANAB, Essam B. Moustafa
  • Publication number: 20220011167
    Abstract: An optical pulse measuring method measuring an optical pulse generated from a pulse light source is provided. The method includes: splitting the optical pulse and then focusing them at a measuring point, so as to generate gas plasma by the autocorrelation of the split optical pulses; receiving the sound signal from the gas plasma and generate a plasma sound signal; and using the plasma sound signal to calculate the characteristics of the optical pulse. A measuring device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Chih-Wei LUO, Yi-Chen LIU, Tien-Tien YEH
  • Publication number: 20220009975
    Abstract: An ultramarine fluorescent protein, is a protein selected from (a) and (b) protein: (a) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID:NO. 2; (b) a protein derived from (a) by substitution, deletion or addition with one or more amino acids in the amino acid sequence of (a) and having activity of the ultramarine fluorescent protein. The ultramarine fluorescent protein (UFP) has the characteristics of pH-insensitivity and light stability, and its chromophore can absorb long-wavelength ultraviolet (UVA) and release fluorescence at wavelength longer than 400 nm. And the aromatic amino acids residue (with content of 9.2%) can absorb medium wavelength ultraviolet (UVB) and release UVA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Zhejiang Normal University
    Inventors: Meihao SUN, Huihui WANG, Mengmeng SHI, Hongfei ZHOU, Jie LIU
  • Publication number: 20220007652
    Abstract: Occidiofungin is a cyclic nonribosomally synthesized antifungal peptide with submicromolar activity. This invention is directed to compositions enriched for particular occidiofungin diastereomers/conformers, methods of making compositions enriched for particular diastereomers/conformers and microorganisms suitable for producing enriched compositions of particular diastereomers/conformers. Methods of treating fungal infections or plants infected by fungi are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicants: Mississippi State University, The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: JAMES LEIF SMITH, AKSHAYA RAVICHANDRAN, SHIEN LU, GANYU GU
  • Publication number: 20220008531
    Abstract: An immunogenic CD40-targeted trimeric MERS-CoV S1 fusion polypeptide as well as a corresponding polynucleotide encoding it and its use for safely inducing immune responses directed against MERS-CoV without inducing vaccine associated respiratory pathologies associated with non-targeted vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventor: Anwar M. HASHEM
  • Publication number: 20220014098
    Abstract: A switched-capacitor DC-DC voltage converter and a control method thereof. The switched-capacitor DC-DC voltage converter comprises at least one switch array, comprising a capacitor and at least one switch group, wherein the switch group comprises a plurality of power switches connected to one another in parallel, and one end of the capacitor is electrically connected to the switch group; and a control circuit, converting an input control signal into a control signal set, and outputting the control signal set to the switch group, and the control signal set comprises a plurality of control signals with phase delayed sequentially and the duty cycle reduced sequentially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Fu-Yan Xie, Bing-Chen Wu, Tsung-Te Liu
  • Publication number: 20220008560
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, by administering to a patient at risk of such damage, a pharmaceutically effective amount of a composition which inhibits the anchoring of PP2A to mAKAP?. This composition is preferably in the form of a viral based gene therapy vector that encodes a fragment of mAKAP? to which PP2A binds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicants: University of Miami, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Michael KAPILOFF, Jinliang LI
  • Publication number: 20220012901
    Abstract: A method for motion recognition and embedding is disclosed. The method may include receiving a plurality of frames of an input video for extracting a feature vector of a motion in the plurality of frames, generating a plurality of sets of one or more motion component bits based on the feature vector and a plurality of classifiers, the plurality of sets corresponding to the plurality of classifiers, each set of one or more motion component bits representing a physical or mechanical attribute of the motion; and generating a motion code for a machine to execute the motion by combining the plurality of sets of one or more motion component bits. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Yu Sun, David Andres Paulius, Maxat Alibayev
  • Publication number: 20220010441
    Abstract: A method for electrolysis of water and a method for preparing a catalyst for electrolysis of water are provided. The method for electrolysis of water includes using a high entropy alloy as a catalyst. Further, the method for preparing a catalyst for electrolysis of water includes the steps of placing a substrate in an aqueous electrolyte containing a high entropy alloy precursor and performing an electroplating process on the substrate to form a high entropy alloy catalyst on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicants: National Tsing Hua University, Chang Chun Plastics Co., Ltd., Chang Chun Petrochemical Co., Ltd., DAIREN CHEMICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Lun Huang, Shih-Yuan Lu
  • Publication number: 20220010981
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that provides a polymer heat exchanger with internal microscale flow passages. The system includes a set of plates comprised of a polymer that includes internal microscale flow passages, which are configured to carry a liquid. The set of plates is organized into a stack, wherein consecutive plates in the stack are separated by fins to form intervening air passages. The system includes a liquid flow pathway, which flows from a liquid inlet, through the internal microscale flow passages in the stack of plates, to a liquid outlet. It also includes an airflow pathway, which flows from an airflow inlet, through the intervening air passages between the consecutive plates in the stack of plates, to an airflow outlet. The liquid flow pathway flows in a direction opposite to a direction of the airflow pathway to provide a counterflow design that optimizes heat transfer between the liquid flow pathway and the airflow pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Vinod Narayanan, Erfan Rasouli