Patents Assigned to University
  • Dural repair device and method of use
    Patent number: 11672672
    Abstract: Dural repair devices that are configured to effectively and reliably repair the damage of a dural tear due to incidental durotomies are provided, along with methods of use. The devices and methods enhance the ability of a surgeon to repair a patients dura mater, or dura, during surgery of the central nervous system. The dural repair device has a multi-layer structure configured to exert a pressure or tamponade effect to compress a patient's dura to its state prior to the spinal surgery. Thus, the dural repair devices and methods of use may reduce the patients risk morbidity, further surgery, spinal headaches, or other injuries and discomforts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Charles Sansur, Steven C. Ludwig
  • Method for designing imaging optical system
    Patent number: 11675187
    Abstract: A method for designing an imaging optical system is a point-by-point calculation method based on characteristic light rays (FLR) and characteristic data points (FDP). The basic function of the point-by-point calculation method includes the following steps: according to the given object-image relationship, based on Fermat's principle and the law of retraction and reflection, calculating the propagation path of the FLR passing through a system and the FDP on each optical surface, to obtain a surface shape equation of each optical surface by fitting; and repeating the above process, to solve the surface shape equation of each optical surface one by one, and finally complete the design and solution of the entire imaging optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ben-Qi Zhang, Jun Zhu, Guo-Fan Jin, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Protein-templated self-assembly of a covalent polymer network for intracellular trafficking and traceless release
    Patent number: 11672867
    Abstract: The invention provides polymers and polymer-based nano-structures, in particular, polymers and polymer network to which biomolecules (e.g., proteins, antibodies, peptide aptamers) can be covalently conjugated and stably encapsulated therein and be controllably delivered and released upon degradation of the nano-structures in response to specific microenvironment, and compositions and methods of preparation and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Sankaran Thayumanavan, Jiaming Zhuang
  • System and method for modeling brain dynamics in normal and diseased states
    Patent number: 11672466
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for modeling brain dynamics in normal and diseased states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventor: Jin Hyung Lee
  • Hyperelastic binder for printed, stretchable electronics
    Patent number: 11678436
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions, devices, systems and fabrication methods for stretchable composite materials and stretchable electronics devices. In some aspects, an elastic composite material for a stretchable electronics device includes a first material having a particular electrical, mechanical or optical property; and a multi-block copolymer configured to form a hyperelastic binder that creates contact between the first material and the multi-block copolymer, in which the elastic composite material is structured to stretch at least 500% in at least one direction of the material and to exhibit the particular electrical, mechanical or optical property imparted from the first material. In some aspects, the stretchable electronics device includes a stretchable battery, biofuel cell, sensor, supercapacitor or other device able to be mounted to skin, clothing or other surface of a user or object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Joseph Wang, Rajan Kumar, Ying Shirley Meng, Jae Wook Shin, Lu Yin
  • Device for neuroprosthetics with autonomous tunable actuators
    Patent number: 11672486
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical device and method for neuroprosthetics comprises microactuators and microelectrodes. The microelectrodes are to be positioned in a nerve bundle and bonded with the microactuators through an interconnect. The position of each of the microactuators can be individually tuned through control signals so that the microelectrodes are implanted at desired positions in the nerve bundle. The control signals are transmitted to the microactuators and generated with a open-loop or closed-loop control scheme that uses signals acquired by the microelectrodes from the nerve bundle as feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jitendran Muthuswamy, Sivakumar Palaniswamy
  • Method and apparatus for distributed communication based on reception signal quantization in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11677590
    Abstract: An operation method of a first receiving node in a distributed communication system may comprise: receiving a signal from a transmitting node; extracting a combined signal vector from a reception signal vector corresponding to a vector of the received signal; obtaining a compressed combined signal vector by extracting a preset number T of combined signal elements from among a plurality of combined signal elements constituting the combined signal vector; quantizing the compressed combined signal vector to obtain a quantized combined signal vector; and transmitting the quantized combined signal vector to a second receiving node included in the distributed communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, University of Ulsan Foundation for Industry Cooperation
    Inventor: Jiho Song
  • Network and method for servicing a computation request
    Patent number: 11677625
    Abstract: A framework for joint computation, caching, and request forwarding in data-centric computing-based networks comprises a virtual control plane, which operates on request counters for computations and data, and an actual plane, which handles computation requests, data requests, data objects and computation results in the physical network. A throughput optimal policy, implemented in the virtual plane, provides a basis for adaptive and distributed computation, caching, and request forwarding in the actual plane. The framework provides superior performance in terms of request satisfaction delay as compared with several baseline policies over multiple network topologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Edmund Meng Yeh, Khashayar Kamran
  • Continuously tunable booster optical amplifier-based fiber ring laser covering L and extended L bands
    Patent number: 11677207
    Abstract: A fiber optic ring laser, and non-transitory computer readable medium for using a fiber optic ring laser are disclosed. The disclosed fiber optic ring laser includes a semiconductor booster optical amplifier (BOA), as a gain medium; a Fiber Fabry Perot Tunable Filter (FFP-TF), as a wavelength selection element; an optical isolator (ISO) to insure unidirectional operation of the fiber optic ring laser; and a polarization controller (PC) for attaining an optimized polarization state in order to achieve a stable-generated output in terms of output power and wavelength, wherein the BOA, the FFP-TF, the ISO and the PC are coupled to form a ring configuration that implements a continuously tunable booster amplifier-based fiber ring laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventor: Khurram Karim Qureshi
  • Shape memory material-based minimally invasive implantation with multi-axis curl self-expanding structure
    Patent number: 11672995
    Abstract: A shape memory material-based minimally invasive implantation with multi-axis curl self-expanding structure, and an implant having said structure: the implant comprises an actuating member, and the implant has a first shape and a second shape, the second shape having a larger area than that of the first shape; the implant is provided with a plurality of curling portions, and the actuating member may cause a curling portion to expand along a curling axis thereof, thereby transforming the implant from the first shape to the second shape. Different self-expanding structures may be designed by using the elasticity and memory effect of shape memory materials. Deploying functional modules, such as a circuit, a battery, a sensor, an energy collector and the like, on the structures may achieve more functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Luming Li, Linze Li
  • Electrically-conductive lubricant
    Patent number: 11674102
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricant composition including a bicyclic liquid crystal of formula (1), and a tricyclic liquid crystal compound of formula (2), and having a mixing mass ratio of the bicyclic liquid crystal compound and tricyclic liquid crystal compound of 95:5 to 15:85. The composition is suitable for use in a clean environment, under a high vacuum, under high temperature and a bearing. R1 and R2 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OCH2CH2CH(R?)CH2CH2OR R11 and R21 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OR. R12, R13, R22 and R23 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or —OR. R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 1?n?20 and R? is methyl or ethyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI, NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD., Ushio Chemix Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Haramoto, Shigemasa Itabashi, Ayana Takemura, Kazuo Okamoto, Hiroyuki Otsuki
  • Method and apparatus for encoding odorants
    Patent number: 11674937
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, method, a system, and apparatus for identifying odorants. For example, the apparatus performs sensing an odorant using an olfactory sensor, encoding the sensed odorant to an electrical signal using an input processor, determining an identity representation of the odorant based on the encoded electrical signal, and determining odorant information using a time-dependent hash code based on the identity representation of the odorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Aurel A. Lazar, Tingkai Liu, Chung-Heng Yeh
  • Aromatization of light hydrocarbons using metal-modified zeolite catalysts
    Patent number: 11673845
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to processes for aromatizing hydrocarbons includes contacting the hydrocarbons with a catalyst including at least two different metal modifiers dispersed on surfaces of a hydrogen-form medium-pore zeolite support. Each of the at least two different metal modifiers comprises a metal selected from the group consisting of IUPAC Groups 3-12, and lanthanide metals, and the catalyst is substantially free of gallium. Contacting the hydrocarbons with the catalyst causes a least a portion of the hydrocarbons to undergo a chemical reaction to form aromatic hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Ziyauddin S. Qureshi, Yaming Jin, Abdullah M. Aitani, Omer Refa Koseoglu, Mohammad Naseem Akhtar, Hassan Saeed Al-Awad Alasiri
  • In vivo immunoimaging of interferon-gamma
    Patent number: 11672877
    Abstract: Methods for in vivo immunoimaging including: (a) administering a labeled-antibody conjugate to a subject, wherein the labeled-antibody conjugate includes: an antibody that specifically recognizes and binds to IFN-?, and a detection label conjugated to the antibody, wherein the detection label is a radionuclide tracer or tluorophore; and (b) detecting the presence of the radiolabeled-antibody conjugate in the subject in vivo by imaging. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to labeled-antibody conjugates and therapeutic radionuclide-antibody conjugates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Wayne State University
    Inventors: Nerissa Viola, Heather Gibson
  • Method for calibrating internal temperature field of amorphous alloy prepared by spark plasma sintering
    Patent number: 11673192
    Abstract: The invention belongs to the field of amorphous alloys, and more specifically, relates to a method for calibrating the internal temperature field of amorphous alloy prepared by spark plasma sintering. First, the part required for temperature field calibration inside the bulk amorphous alloy sample obtained by spark plasma sintering is cut into a series of small amorphous alloy samples, and the isothermal crystallization treatment is performed to obtain the crystallization time of different parts of the sample. An annealing-isothermal crystallization experiment is performed on the adopted amorphous alloy powder at different annealing temperatures, and the functional relationship between the annealing temperature and the crystallization time is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Pan Gong, Huaping Ding, Xinyun Wang, Junsong Jin, Lei Deng, Mao Zhang, Xuefeng Tang
  • Universal mammalian influenza vaccine
    Patent number: 11672852
    Abstract: The present invention provides vaccine or immunogenic compositions comprising novel antigens derived from the equine strain of influenza H3N8. These proteins and specific immunogenic domains are effective as primary universal influenza antigens. The disclosed vaccines or immunogenic compositions are highly effective in inducing HA specific antibodies reactive to different influenza viruses, mucosal and systemic immune responses, and cross-protection regardless of influenza virus subtypes. In some embodiments, the vaccine is cross-protective against two or more (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6) subtypes of influenza with or without the use of an adjuvant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: David Verhoeven, Jessie Dorothy Trujillo, Brett Sponseller
  • Erosion / corrosion resistant barrier coating
    Patent number: 11674221
    Abstract: Disclosed are barrier coatings for fused silica components used in semiconductor processing. In particular, the present disclosure concerns protective substrate-barrier coatings composed of corrosion-resilient metal compounds which provide superior resistance to erosion/corrosion when a coated substrate is subjected to the acidic environments at elevated temperatures typical for semiconductor processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: CONAX TECHNOLOGIES, Alfred University
    Inventors: Matthew M. Hall, Timothy Keenan, Lana Margaret Placek, Scott Michael Kroon, William Sean Halligan, Michael Edward Ferraro
  • Motion assisting apparatus
    Patent number: 11672721
    Abstract: A motion assisting apparatus includes a multijoint structure having links in series rotatably connected in a relative manner, the links being integrally deformed in a bendable manner, a linear member inserted through each of the links, wherein one end is fixed to the link in front and another end is elongated via the link in rear, a sliding/holding part which fixes an elongated portion of the linear member, and slidably guides the rear link in a connecting direction between each of the links, a drive unit which drives the rear link to slide toward the sliding/holding part and causes the multijoint structure, through which the linear member has been inserted, to engage in an extending or flexing motion, and a control unit which drive-controls the drive unit so that a sliding direction, a sliding speed and a sliding position of the rear link will become an intended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: CYBERDYNE, INC., University of Tsukuba
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sankai
  • MicroRNA-294 and Lin28A as a driver of cardiac tissue proliferation in response to pathological injury
    Patent number: 11672830
    Abstract: The invention provides one or more of miR-290 family and Lin28a modified cardiac progenitor cell based therapies for the treatment of myocardial infarction. Exosomes derived from one or more of miR-290 family and Lin28a modified cardiac progenitor cells can also be used in cardiac therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Mohsin Khan, Raj Kishore
  • Self-learning intelligent driving device
    Patent number: 11673263
    Abstract: A self-learning intelligent driving device including: a first neural network module for performing a corresponding action evaluation operation on an input image to generate at least one set of trajectory coordinates: a switching unit controlled by a switching signal, where when the switching signal is active, data received at a first port is sent to a second port, and when the switching signal is inactive, data received at the first port is sent to a third port; a second neural network module for performing a corresponding image evaluation operation on the at least one set of trajectory coordinates when the switching signal is active to generate at least one simulated trajectory image; and a driving unit having a robotic arm for generating at least one corresponding motion trajectory according to the at least one set of trajectory coordinates when the switching signal is inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei-Yen Wang, Chen-Chien Hsu, Yi-Hsing Chien, Min-Jie Hsu