Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 11179685
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a main valve, a first auxiliary valve, a second auxiliary valve, a main valve body, and an auxiliary valve body. The main and auxiliary valve bodies are axially parallel and detachably connected. The main valve is mounted on the main valve body, the first and second auxiliary valves are mounted on the auxiliary valve body, which is provided with an air inlet, a cylinder port and an air discharging port. The air inlet communicates with the main valve through a first air passage. The cylinder port is sequentially in communication with the first and second auxiliary valves and the main valve through a second air passage. The air discharging port sequentially communicates with the first and second auxiliary valves and the main valve through a third air passage. The main and second auxiliary valves are solenoid valves. The first auxiliary valve is a hand-operated valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Central South University of Forestry and Technology
    Inventors: Xingong Li, Yixu Yang, Yiqiang Wu, Xia Zheng, Yan Qing, Yingfeng Zuo, Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 11179493
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to injectable compositions capable of forming a scaffold in situ at an intervertebral disc site, the composition comprising: (a) a biocompatible polymer; and (b) a biocompatible solvent system in sufficient amount to solubilize the biocompatible polymer in sufficient degree to allow injectable delivery to a disc site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Rowan University
    Inventors: Andrea Jennifer Vernengo, Thomas Richard Christiani, Cristina Iftode, Jennifer Kadlowec
  • Patent number: 11181668
    Abstract: A film comprising a first plurality of voids is provided, wherein respective ones of the first plurality of voids have a regular n-gon geometry, and the first plurality of voids are arranged on a regular n-gon lattice having a first size. The film may comprise a second plurality of voids arranged on a regular n-gon lattice having a second size different from the first size. An optical element and manufacturing method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: University of Notre Dame du Lac
    Inventors: Jonathan Chisum, Nicolas Garcia
  • Patent number: 11181599
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable storage devices, and systems are described for reducing movement of a patient undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan by aligning MRI data, the method implemented on a Framewise Integrated Real-time MRI Monitoring (“FIRMM”) computing device including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. Aspects of the method comprise receiving a data frame from the MRI system, aligning the received data frame to a preceding data frame, calculating motion of a body part between the received data frame and the preceding data frame, calculating total frame displacement, and excluding data frames with a cutoff above a pre-identified threshold of the total frame displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Washington University, Oregon Health and Science University
    Inventors: Nico Dosenbach, Jonathan Koller, Andrew Van, Abraham Snyder, Amy Mirro, Damien Fair, Eric Earl, Rachel Klein, Oscar Miranda Dominguez, Anders Perrone
  • Patent number: 11182602
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a system for person re-identification, the method including: inputting a training set to a model-to-be-trained, and determining a single-class label and memory features of each image data in the training set; determining multi-class labels through positive label prediction according to the single-class labels and a memory feature set; determining classification scores according to image features of each image data in the training set and the memory feature set; determining a multi-label classification loss according to the multi-class labels and the classification scores; and updating and training the model-to-be-trained to obtain a re-identification model according to the multi-label classification loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Peking University
    Inventors: Shiliang Zhang, Dongkai Wang
  • Patent number: 11181520
    Abstract: Methods of imaging described herein comprises disposing a first and second ultrasound-switchable fluorophore in an environment; exposing the environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region; disposing the first and/or second fluorophore within the activation region to switch the first and/or second fluorophore from an off state to an on state; exposing the environment to a beam of electromagnetic radiation; detecting a first photoluminescence signal at a first location within the environment, the photoluminescence signal comprising at least one of a first ultrasound fluorescence signal emitted by the first fluorophore, a first fluorescence signal emitted by the second fluorophore, and a background signal; correlating the first photoluminescence signal with a first reference signal to generate a correlation coefficient for the first location; and multiplying the first photoluminescence signal by the first correlation coefficient for the first location to generate a first modified photoluminesce
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Board of Regents, the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Baohong Yuan, Bingbing Cheng, Mingyuan Wei
  • Patent number: 11180788
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing lower graft degree GSGs, and belongs to the technical field of biosynthesis of sweeteners. The method uses amylase to catalyze hydrolysis of GSGs with a high graft degree, thereby obtaining GSGs with low graft degree mainly containing GSGs with a low grafting number. The content of mono- and di-glucosyl substituents in the SGs in the product was 60% or more of the total glycosides, and the mass percent of the GSGs with a glucosyl grafting number of 3 or less was higher than 70% of the total glycosides. The mono- and di-substituted GSGs obtained by enzyme catalysis by the present invention were structurally similar to those, belong to a mixture of the isomers thereof, and have good sweetness and a flavoring function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Jiangnan University, Dongtai Haorui Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongmei Xia, Liping Zhu, Tongtong Zhang, Guoying Du, Xiang Liu, Yun Fang
  • Patent number: 11181595
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for acquiring imaging data from one or more resonance species that simultaneously produce individual magnetic resonance signals in a plurality of different slices. The data is acquired by simultaneously exciting, using a pTX RF coil array, a plurality of different slices such that at least some of the plurality of different slices are excited by transmitting RF energy from a subset of transmit channels in the pTX RF coil array. The method also includes comparing the data to a dictionary of signal evolutions to determine quantitative values for two or more parameters of the resonant species based, at least in part, on matching the data to a set of known signal evolutions stored in the dictionary. The method includes producing an image for each of the plurality of different slice locations, at least in part, on the quantitative values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Case Western Reserve University
    Inventors: Bhairav Bipin Mehta, Simone Coppo, Michael Twieg, Mark A. Griswold
  • Patent number: 11182629
    Abstract: A method for machine learning based driver assistance is provided. The method may include detecting, in one or more images of a driver operating an automobile, one or more facial landmarks. The detection of the one or more facial landmarks may include applying, to the one or more images, a first machine learning model. A gaze dynamics of the driver may be determined based at least on the one or more facial landmarks. The gaze dynamics of the driver may include a change in a gaze zone of the driver from a first gaze zone to a second gaze zone. A state of the driver may be determined based at least on the gaze dynamics of the driver. An operation of the automobile may be controlled based at least on the state of the driver. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Sujitha Martin, Kevan Yuen, Mohan M. Trivedi
  • Patent number: 11179334
    Abstract: A formulation and method for treating or reducing ocular surface inflammation and associated diseases and disorders. The formulation includes targeted micelles that encapsulate tacrolimus within a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the formulation is coated in arginine-glycine-aspartic acid peptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Florida A&M University
    Inventors: Mandip Sachdeva, Imran Vhora, Shallu Kutlehria
  • Patent number: 11179052
    Abstract: Example embodiments associated with characterizing a sample using NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals and a characterization logic that characterizes a tissue in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. Example embodiments facilitate distinguishing diseased tissue from healthy tissue based on tissue component fractions identified using the NMR fingerprinting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Case Western Reserve University
    Inventors: Mark A. Griswold, Anagha Deshmane, Jeffrey Sunshine
  • Patent number: 11183568
    Abstract: Disclosures of the present invention mainly describe a two-dimensional semiconductor device (TDSD), comprising: a two-dimensional semiconductor material (TDSM) layer, a superacid action layer and a superacid solution. The TDSM layer is made of a transition-metal dichalcogenide, and the superacid action layer is formed on the TDSM layer. Particularly, an oxide material is adopted for making the superacid action layer, such that the superacid solution is subsequently applied to the superacid action layer so as to make the superacid solution gets into the superacid action layer by diffusion effect. Experimental data have proved that, letting the superacid solution diffuse into the superacid action layer can not only apply a chemical treatment to the TDSM layer, but also make the TDSD have a luminosity enhancement. Particularly, the luminosity enhancement would not be reduced even if the TDSD contacts with water and/or organic solution during other subsequent manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: I-Tung Chen, Ying-Yu Lai, Chun-An Chen, Xin-Quan Zhang, Yi-Hsien Lee
  • Patent number: 11181884
    Abstract: According to a machining principle of the CNC gear hobbing machine, a functional relation between a geometric error of a gear and a tracking error of each motion axis of the machine tool is constructed; a machining error mathematical model of tooth profile deviation, tooth pitch deviation and tooth direction deviation at each position control time point is established by tracking errors of each motion axis; a compensation quantity required for a workpiece rotation axis at the next position control time point is calculated by establishing a decoupling compensation model; average absolute values of machining errors and a total compensation quantity of the machining errors under the conditions of not adopting the synchronous control method and adopting the synchronous control method in the total position control time are obtained by calculating machining error values of each position controls time point, and the synchronized multi-axis motion control is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hefei University of Technology
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Tian, Dan Li, Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 11179653
    Abstract: A desalination system includes a distillation unit to which a fluid to be desalinated is provided and through which a heat transfer fluid flows, and a solar concentration unit configured to heat the heat transfer fluid. The solar concentration unit includes an array of linear Fresnel reflectors, each linear Fresnel reflector of the array of linear Fresnel reflectors rotating about a respective axis, a receiver configured for absorption of light redirected by the array of linear Fresnel reflectors, the receiver comprising tubing through which the heat transfer fluid flows, and a frame supporting and positioning the receiver relative to the array of linear Fresnel reflectors. The frame defines a track along which the receiver is movable to adjust a relative position of the receiver along the respective axis of each linear Fresnel reflector of the array of linear Fresnel reflectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Pablo Taddei Arriola, Jose Alfaro, Rafael Enrique Cabanillas López, Iuliana Mogosanu
  • Patent number: 11180751
    Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered DNA or RNA-targeting systems comprising a novel DNA or RNA-targeting CRISPR effector protein and at least one targeting nucleic acid component like a guide RNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Eugene Koonin, Feng Zhang, Yuri I. Wolf, Sergey Shmakov, Konstantin Severinov, Ekaterina Semenova, Leonid Minakhin, Kira S. Makarova, Silvana Konermann, Julia Joung, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh
  • Patent number: 11181425
    Abstract: A method for making blackbody radiation source is provided. A blackbody radiation cavity and a carbon nanotube array located on a substrate are provided. A black lacquer layer is coated on an inner surface of the blackbody radiation cavity. A pressure is applied to the carbon nanotube array to form a carbon nanotube paper. The carbon nanotube paper is placed on the black lacquer layer. The substrate is peeled off to make the carbon nanotube paper bond to the black lacquer layer. An adhesive tape is placed on the carbon nanotube paper. And then the adhesive tape peeling off to separate carbon nanotubes in the carbon nanotube paper from the adhesive tape and bond to the black lacquer layer, the carbon nanotubes vertically aligned and forms the carbon nanotube array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guang Wang, Yang Wei, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 11179451
    Abstract: Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3 receptor (IGFBP-3R) agonists and methods of their use to treat diseases involving IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-3R are provided. The agonists may be antibodies or other molecules specific for binding to and activating IGFBP-3R. The agonists are used to treat e.g. cancer, metabolic syndrome and obstructive respiratory disorders. In addition, methods of diagnosing cancer and predicting the chance of recurrence, metastasis and/or survival by measuring the level of IGFBP-3R in tumor tissue are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Virginia Commonwealth University
    Inventors: Youngman Oh, Qing Cai
  • Patent number: 11179095
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for remote patient monitoring or tracking sepsis-related indicators or markers in ambulatory patients or outpatients. The method, system, and apparatus is devised or configured to provide remote patient monitoring of patient vitals signs for determining the risk for sepsis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventor: Stephen D. Patek
  • Patent number: 11180458
    Abstract: Cytotoxic compounds containing a phenyl core, amide link(s), an imidazolinone or a propenamide moiety. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions incorporating the cytotoxic compounds and methods for treating cancer. These compounds are cytotoxic against breast, prostate, and leukemia cancer cell lines via dual inhibition of Src kinases and tubulin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Moustafa E. El-Araby, Abdelsattar M. Omar, Ahmed Esmat, Farid Ahmed, Azizah M. Malebari, Ashraf B. Abdel-Naim, Thikryat Neamatallah
  • Patent number: 11184147
    Abstract: A hybrid method and system for data encryption significantly reduces the computational cost of encryption and reduces the cost of the processors needed to perform encryption and decryption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: University of Hawaii
    Inventor: Reza Ghorbani