Patents Assigned to University
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Patent number: 10994121Abstract: A Carbon NanoTube (CNT) composite electrode includes a lower electrode having a through-hole formed therein, and configured to be attached to the skin of a subject body to detect a biosignal, an upper electrode provided on one surface of the lower electrode to form an enclosed space between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, and configured to receive the biosignal detected by the lower electrode, and an air discharge portion formed in at least one of the lower electrode and the upper electrode, and discharging air present in the enclosed space and the through-hole externally so as to be configured to allow the upper electrode and the lower electrode to be attached to the skin of the subject body via vacuum suction.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun UniversityInventors: Youn Tae Kim, Jae Hyo Jung, Ji Hoon Lee, Si Ho Shin
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Patent number: 10993654Abstract: A system and a method predict risk of diabetic foot ulcer by automatically recognizing and tracking physiological activities of a person using a smart textile that has a plurality of pressure sensors and a plurality of temperature sensors. Pressure data indicative of plantar pressure applied to each of the pressure sensors by the person is received from the smart textile. Temperature data indicative of plantar temperature at each of the temperature sensors is received from the smart textile. Plantar parameters are determined from the pressure and temperature data and plantar responses to activity of the person are determined from the plantar parameters. A risk of the person developing a foot ulcer is determined based upon the plantar parameters and the plantar responses.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE University of ArizonaInventors: Bijan Najafi, David Armstrong, Manish Bharara
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Patent number: 10995408Abstract: A method of electroless nickel plating on surface of silicon carbide powder with a uniform and stable coating. In this method, ultrasonic assist is introduced in the pre-treatment and during plating process, and the powder particles in the liquid are dispersed and deagglomerated by the mechanical action and cavitation of the ultrasonic waves, thereby achieving a uniform dispersion of the powder in the dispersant. Furthermore, a reducing agent is slowly added during plating so as to give a more uniform and stable deposition of the coating onto the surface of the powder particles, and thus a silicon carbide core-nickel shell structure with an excellent powder dispersibility and a uniform and stable coating is produced.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Tangshan Normal UniversityInventor: Huijing Yang
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Patent number: 10994534Abstract: A printing system and method for forming an ink droplet through the use of a multi-pulse driving signal to increase the printing frequency without reducing the droplet size by applying a multi-pulse driving signal to a small nozzle and to increase the inkjet printing speed by using a smaller nozzle to produce the same-size droplet using a multi-pulse driving signal, which allow for higher printing frequency due to the smaller nozzle size as dictated by the fundamental droplet formation dynamics.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Board Of Trustees Of The University Of ArkansasInventors: Wenchao Zhou, Chao Sui
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Patent number: 10996060Abstract: A device, system, and methods are described to perform machine-learning camera-based indoor mobile positioning. The indoor mobile positioning may utilize inexact computing, wherein a small decrease in accuracy is used to obtain significant computational efficiency. Hence, the positioning may be performed using a smaller memory overhead at a faster rate and with lower energy cost than previous implementations. The positioning may not involve any communication (or data transfer) with any other device or the cloud, providing privacy and security to the device. A hashing-based image matching algorithm may be used which is cheaper, both in energy and computation cost, over existing state-of-the-art matching techniques. This significant reduction allows end-to-end computation to be performed locally on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: William Marsh Rice University, Seoul National University R&DB FoundationInventors: Anshumali Shrivastava, Chen Luo, Krishna Palem, Yongshik Moon, Soonhyun Noh, Daedong Park, Seongsoo Hong
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Patent number: 10996101Abstract: A distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system based on space-division multiplexing with multi-core fiber (MCF) is proposed. It relates to a technical field of distributed optical fiber sensing. The present invention maintains the advantage of single-ended measurement in the standard DAS system, and realizes the intensity accumulation of the Rayleigh backscattering light within each core of the MCF, which can greatly improve the strain resolution of DAS systems. Moreover, the introduction of optical switch can make different code sequences transmit in the different core of the MCF simultaneously, which can make the single-pulse response with coding gain demodulated without sacrificing the frequency responding bandwidth. Furthermore, the utilization of space-division multiplexing can make multiple pulses with precious time delay transmit in the MCF simultaneously, which can greatly improve the frequency responding bandwidth of DAS system.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaInventors: Yunjiang Rao, Yun Fu
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Patent number: 10994007Abstract: Disclosed is an immunity inducer. The immunity inducer comprises virus like particles; the virus like particles comprise a virus-derived outer coat protein and an antigen-bound protein comprising an exogenous antigen; the outer coat protein constitutes an outer coat of the virus like particles, and the antigen-bound protein is comprised in the outer coat; and the virus like particles induce an immune effect of a living body on the antigen.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: Saitama Medical University, SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Handa, Masaaki Kawano, Masahiko Kato
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Patent number: 10995022Abstract: Methods for reducing the concentration of one or more contaminants in water using zero-valent iron media. In the method, a mixed aluminum (III) and iron (II) salt solution is added to water containing one or more contaminants that is in contact with a zero-valent iron media that comprises (a) a reactive solid comprising zero-valent iron and one or more iron oxide minerals in contact therewith and (b) magnetite to provide an aqueous reaction medium. The aqueous reaction medium is contacted with the zero-valent iron media for a period of time sufficient to reduce the concentration of one or more of the contaminants.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: The Texas A&M University SystemInventor: Yongheng Huang
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Patent number: 10995572Abstract: A simulation test method for gas extraction from a tectonically-deformed coal seam in-situ by depressurizing a horizontal well cavity. A coal series stratum structure reconstruction and similar material simulation subsystem simulates a tectonically-deformed coal reservoir. A horizontal well drilling and reaming simulation subsystem constructs a U-shaped well in which a horizontal well adjoins a vertical well, and performs a reaming process on a horizontal section thereof. A horizontal well hole-collapse cavity-construction depressurization excitation simulation subsystem performs pressure-pulse excitation and stress release on the horizontal well, and hydraulically displaces a coal-liquid-gas mixture such that the mixture is conveyed towards a vertical well section. A product lifting simulation subsystem further pulverizes the coal and lifts the mixture. A gas-liquid-solid separation simulation subsystem separates the coal, liquid and gas.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: China University of Mining and Technology, XUZHOU OLIVINE GEOSCIENCE & GEOTECH CO., LTD, CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM, EAST CHINA, ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Shuxun Sang, Xiaozhi Zhou, Liweng Cao, Shiqi Liu, Haiwen Wang, Huihu Liu, Zicheng Li, Jinlong Jia, Huazhou Huang, Changjiang Liu, Hongjie Xu, Ran Wang, Shuyun Zhu
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Patent number: 10995156Abstract: Compositions and methods of making a modified polyhydroxylated polymer comprising a polyhydroxylated polymer having reversibly modified hydroxyl groups, whereby the hydroxyl groups are modified by an acid-catalyzed reaction between a polydroxylated polymer and a reagent such as acetals, aldehydes, vinyl ethers and ketones such that the modified polyhydroxylated polymers become insoluble in water but freely soluble in common organic solvents allowing for the facile preparation of acid-sensitive materials. Materials made from these polymers can be made to degrade in a pH-dependent manner. Both hydrophobic and hydrophilic cargoes were successfully loaded into particles made from the present polymers using single and double emulsion techniques, respectively. Due to its ease of preparation, processability, pH-sensitivity, and biocompatibility, of the present modified polyhydroxylated polymers should find use in numerous drug delivery applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Jean M. J. Frechet, Eric M. Bachelder, Tristan T. Beaudette, Kyle E. Broaders
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Patent number: 10996538Abstract: An optical modulator is disclosed that includes an optical resonator structure. The optical resonator structure includes at least one non-linear portion, the at least one non-linear portion comprising at least one radial junction region. The at least one radial junction region is formed between at least first and second materials, respectively, having different electronic conductivity characteristics. A principal axis of the at least one radial junction region is oriented along a radius of curvature of the at least one non-linear portion. The optical modulator includes an optical waveguide that is coupled to the at least one non-linear portion of the optical resonator structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of ColoradoInventors: Milos A. Popovic, Jeffrey Michael Shainline, Jason Scott Orcutt, Vladimir Marko Stojanovic
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Patent number: 10995068Abstract: Small molecules comprised of azacyclic constrained sphingolipid-like compounds and methods of their synthesis are provided. Formulations and medicaments are also provided that are directed to the treatment of disease, such as, for example, neoplasms, cancers, and other diseases. Therapeutics are also provided containing a therapeutically effective dose of one or more small molecule compounds, present either as pharmaceutically effective salt or in pure form, including, but not limited to, formulations for oral, intravenous, or intramuscular administration.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignees: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Aimee Edinger, Stephen Hanessian
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Patent number: 10995374Abstract: The gene responsible for encoding SERT has a functional polymorphism at the 5?-regulatory promoter region, which results in two forms, long (L) and short (S). The LL-genotype is hypothesized to play a key role in the early onset of alcohol use. The present invention discloses the differences in treatment and diagnosis based on the L or short genotypes as well as on a single nucleotide polymorphism of the SERT gene, the 3? UTR SNP rs1042173. The present invention demonstrates the efficacy of using the drug ondansetron and similar drugs for treatment based on variations in the polymorphisms of the SERT gene as well as methods for diagnosing susceptibility to abuse of alcohol and other addiction-related diseases and disorders.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: University of Virginia Patent FoundationInventor: Bankole A. Johnson
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Patent number: 10994386Abstract: An ultrasonic peening-type integrated machining method for cutting and extrusion includes: applying transverse ultrasonic vibration or a vibration component, which is vertical to a cutting speed direction to a cutting tool on a machine tool; setting a cutting parameter and an ultrasonic vibration parameter such that a dynamic negative clearance angle is generated in a cutting procedure and a flank face of the cutting tool conducts ultrasonic peening extrusion on the surface of the workpiece; setting an extrusion overlap ratio; setting a wear standard of flank faces extruded by the cutting tool; controlling a vibration cutting trajectory phase difference of the cutting tool during two adjacent rotations; and turning on the machine tool in order to ensure that cutting and surface extrusion strengthening of the workpiece are completed in one procedure without separate strengthening procedures. The method conducts extrusion strengthening on the surface of the workpiece while cutting the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Beihang UniversityInventors: Deyuan Zhang, Zhenghui Lu, Xun Li, Xinggang Jiang, Shenliang Yang, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxi Geng
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Patent number: 10993995Abstract: The present invention is direct to the treatment of Pompe disease by administration of an enzyme or nucleic acid encoding for said enzyme suitable for Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Pompe disease in combination with the administration of an antisense oligomeric compound that modulates the splicing of acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) gene.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Erasmus University Medical Center RotterdamInventors: Erik van der Wal, Atze Jacobus Bergsma, Wilhelmus Wenceslaus Matthias Pijnappel, Antje Tjitske van der Ploeg, Arnoldus Reuser
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Patent number: 10995663Abstract: A regenerative compressed air energy storage system and a using method thereof. The system comprises a compressor unit, a high-temperature heat exchanger, a medium-temperature heat exchanger, an air storage chamber, a regulating valve, a medium-temperature regenerator, a high-temperature regenerator and an expander unit which are connected in sequence. The low-temperature side of the high-temperature heat exchanger, a high-temperature heat reservoir, a first valve, the high-temperature side of the high-temperature regenerator, a high-temperature cold reservoir and a second valve are connected in sequence. The low-temperature side of the medium-temperature heat exchanger, a medium-temperature heat reservoir, a third valve, the high-temperature side of the medium-temperature regenerator, a medium-temperature cold reservoir and a fourth valve are connected in sequence.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Tsinghua UniversityInventors: Shengwei Mei, Xiaodai Xue, Xuelin Zhang, Tong Zhang, Laijun Chen, Qiang Lu, Tianwen Zheng
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Publication number: 20210126553Abstract: A single-stage three-phase high-gain boost-type three-port integrated inverter includes a center-tapped energy storage inductor, a three-phase inverter bridge and a three-phase filter, which are successively connected in cascade. A drain terminal and a source terminal of the energy storage switch are respectively connected to the center tap of the energy storage inductor and the negative electrode of an input DC power source. A battery charge/discharge switch unit is connected between a positive electrode of the input DC power source, a positive electrode of a battery and two ends of the center-tapped energy storage inductor. The inverter has three ports, an input port, an output port, and an energy storage port. The inverter has three modes which are the input power supply supplies power to the output load and the battery, the input power supply and battery supply power to the output load, and the battery supplies power to the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Qingdao UniversityInventor: Daolian CHEN
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Publication number: 20210123001Abstract: A Cardamine hupingshanensis selenium-enriched Chinese yellow rice wine and a production method are provided. The production method is performed as follows. Fresh C. hupingshanensis is selected, followed by preparing the C. hupingshanensis into a juice containing effective components of C. hupingshanensis, or C. hupingshanensis powder. Glutinous rice raw materials are soaked in clear water, followed by taking out and steaming to obtain steamed glutinous rice. The steamed glutinous rice is cooled and mixed with distillers' yeast for pre-fermentation, after a temperature of fermented material rising to a harrowing temperature, a pre-fermented product is obtained by harrowing regularly. A post-fermentation is performed, followed by performing a pressure filtration. A pressure filtrate is put aside for clarification, followed by filtering and sterilizing, then adding the juice. Alternatively, the C.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Shaanxi University of TechnologyInventors: Jingzhang GENG, Dongqin LI, Meng YANG, Hai JIANG
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Publication number: 20210122970Abstract: A method of controlling the fracture location, orientation, and reduce the breakdown pressure in multistage fracturing, particularly of unconventional reservoirs. Acid etching can be used to initiate small channels (wormholes) around the horizontal well, followed by the hydraulic fracturing fluid to create the fractures. The fracture orientation can follow the same direction of the etched part of the well and in the same location of the wormholes. The breakdown pressure can be reduced by 5, 10, 15%, or more, e.g., from 2200 to 1800 psi after acid etching which can minimize the pumping requirements at the surface and break the formation with very high breakdown pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsInventors: Mohamed MAHMOUD, Abdelwahab Ali ZAKI
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Patent number: PP33015Abstract: A new and distinct variety of grapevine plant named ‘Caminante Blanc’, particularly selected for its high resistance to Pierce's disease, as well as quality of fruit and wines produced is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Michael Andrew Walker, Alan C. Tenscher, Summaira Riaz, Ninfa Romero