Patents Assigned to University
  • Aloe preparation for skin enhancement
    Patent number: 10543247
    Abstract: Methods for providing skin enhancement and pain relief to an individual in need of treatment by administering to such an individual an effective amount of an immunostimulatory Aloe vera derived composition. Oral and topical methods and compositions are provided. Aloe vera derived immunostimulatory compositions and methods of producing such compositions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: Woodcliff Skincare Solutions, Inc., University of Mississippi
    Inventors: Denise DeBaun, David Stanley Pasco, Nirmal Derek Ceri Pugh, Alex Pashkowsky, Alvin Needleman
  • Photonics based tunable multiband microwave filter
    Patent number: 10547280
    Abstract: Various examples are provided for tunable radio frequency (RF) filtering. In one example, a RF multiband filter includes a Lyot filter including a tunable birefringence loop including a circulator and a polarization controller (PC) and a phase modulator (PM). The Lyot filter can generate an optical comb based at least in part upon a received optical signal and a polarization rotation angle of the polarization controller. The phase modulator (PM) can generate a modulated tap signal by modulating the optical comb by a RF input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Mable P. Fok, Jia Ge
  • Kojic acid polymers
    Patent number: 10543162
    Abstract: A controlled release system for kojic acid having improved stability has been identified. To minimize degradation, kojic acid was incorporated into a hydrolytically degradable polymer (e.g., a polycarbonate-ester)). By synthesizing polymer precursors containing kojic acid-linker-kojic acid chemical structures, versatile monomers were developed that can be used to modulate polymer properties. Additionally the synthetic method lends itself to the development of other polymer systems. Polymers having one or more groups that will yield kojic acid upon degradation of the polymer backbone, as well as methods of use thereof are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Kathryn Uhrich, Kervin Smith, Jonathan Faig
  • 3D printer having dual stage structure
    Patent number: 10543641
    Abstract: A 3D printer has a dual stage structure and includes: a frame; an extrusion unit having a nozzle configured to extrude a raw material; a stacking base unit positioned under the extrusion unit and configured to receive the raw material on a surface thereof so that an object is formed in a layer-by-layer manner on the surface; and a cutting unit positioned between the stacking base unit and the extrusion unit and configured to grind or cut the object formed on the surface of the stacking base unit, wherein the frame is configured to be connected to outer sides of the stacking base unit, the extrusion unit, and the cutting unit, the stacking base unit and the cutting unit are configured to be vertically movable along the frame, and the nozzle is configured to be movable on a plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventor: Dong Hun Lee
  • Printed halide perovskite light-emitting diodes and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 10547011
    Abstract: Printed poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) organometallic halide Perovskite (Pero) optoelectronic devices, including light emitting diodes (LEDs) fabricated on both rigid indium tin oxide (ITO)/glass and flexible carbon nanotube (CNTs)/polymer substrates using a composite thin film of PEO and Br-Pero as the light-emitting layer. Method of manufacturing Printed poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) organometallic halide Perovskite (Pero) optoelectronic devices performed in an environment at a temperature of about 25° C. and a relative humidity between about 70% and 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Sri Ganesh Rohit Bade, Xin Shan, Junqiang Li
  • Normalized defect characterization of pulse thermographic nondestructive evaluation
    Patent number: 10546207
    Abstract: A method of thermographic nondestructive evaluation may include heating a portion of a surface of an object from a first surface temperature to a second surface temperature that is greater than the first surface temperature, collecting a plurality of thermal images of the portion of the surface of the object, detecting the sound zone of the portion of the surface of the object, determining a characteristic time corresponding to a time after the heating of the portion of the surface of the object wherein the sound zone of the surface of the object approaches a steady state temperature, normalizing temperature data of the plurality of thermal images with respect to the characteristic time and the steady state temperature, and detecting the defect zone based on differences between normalized temperature data of pixels of the defect zone and normalized temperature data of pixels of the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
    Inventors: Mannur J. Sundaresan, Letchuman Sripragash
  • Nitric oxide delivery devices
    Patent number: 10543337
    Abstract: A gas delivery device includes a nitric oxide generating system. The system has a medium including i) a source of nitrite ions, or ii) a source of nitrite ions and a Cu(II)-ligand complex. A working electrode is in contact with the medium, wherein i) when the medium includes the source of nitrite ions, the working electrode is a copper containing conductive material or a base material coated with a copper containing conductive material, or ii) when the medium includes the source of nitrite ions and the Cu(II)-ligand complex, the working electrode is platinum, gold, carbon, a carbon coated material, and/or mercury. A reference/counter electrode is in contact with the medium and electrically isolated from the working electrode. An inlet conduit is to deliver oxygen gas to the medium, and an outlet conduit is to transport a stream of oxygen gas and nitric oxide from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Mark E. Meyerhoff, Lajos Hofler, Dipankar Koley, Hang Ren
  • Methods for increasing platelet count by inhibiting biliverdin IX? reductase
    Patent number: 10543286
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of treating a human having a disease or disorder that would benefit from increasing platelet counts. The method involves inhibiting the enzyme activity of biliverdin IX? reductase (BLVRB) activity or inhibiting the expression of BLVRB gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Wadie F. Bahou, Song Wu
  • System, device, and method for high-frequency millimeter-wave wireless communication using interface points
    Patent number: 10547372
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a communication system comprising a portal between radio-frequency propagation environments; one or more of interface points disposed in the plurality of propagation environment and configured to communicate with each other via the portal; and one or more access points disposed in one of the propagation environments, at least a portion being configured to communicate with a particular interface point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Theodore S. Rappaport, Dennis Shasha
  • XSlit camera
    Patent number: 10546395
    Abstract: Light representing a scene is directed through a lens module coupled to an imaging sensor. The lens module includes: first and second cylindrical lenses positioned along an optical axis of the imaging sensor, and first and second slit-shaped apertures disposed on the respective first and second cylindrical lenses. A cylindrical axis of the second cylindrical lens is arranged at an angle away from parallel with respect to a cylindrical axis of the first cylindrical lens. The light directed through the lens module is captured by the imaging sensor to form at least one multi-perspective image. The at least one multi-perspective image is processed to determine a reconstruction characteristic of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: University of Delaware
    Inventors: Jingyi Yu, Jinwei Ye, Yu Ji
  • Compositions for in situ labeling of bacterial cell walls with fluorophores and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 10544444
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions for assessing peptidoglycan biosynthesis in bacteria, for identifying bacteria, and for screening for bacterial cell wall-acting and/or cell wall-disrupting agents via modified D-amino acids and methods of use thereof. Also disclosed are live bacteria having one or more modified D-amino acids as described herein incorporated into peptidoglycan of a bacterial cell wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Edward Hall, Erkin Kuru, Pamela Brown, Srinivas Tekkam, Velocity Hughes, Yves Brun
  • Cancer prevention and therapy by inhibiting soluble tumor necrosis factor
    Patent number: 10543264
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for inhibiting the development of a tumor in a subject. The methods include administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a dominant negative tumor necrosis factor (DN-TNF)-? protein and/or a nucleic acid encoding the DN-TNF-? protein. The DN-TNF-? protein and/or a nucleic acid encoding the DN-TNF-? protein can be administered alone or in combination with other agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Nikola L. Vujanovic, Lazar Vujanovic
  • Age-hardenable magnesium alloys
    Patent number: 10544487
    Abstract: The subject invention provides compositions of a family of magnesium alloys for various applications including but not limited to automotive, aerospace, and biomedical applications. Preferred embodiments provide that this family of alloys comprises elements readily available domestically while offering improved mechanical properties at approximately half the cost of similar commercial alloys that comprise rare earth (RE) elements. Advantageously, utilization of these new magnesium alloys in car engine parts would lead to better fuel economy and in turn, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and environmental damages from vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Florida International University Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Sadegh Behdad, Benjamin Boesl, Arvind Agarwal
  • System and method for infrasonic cardiac monitoring
    Patent number: 10542961
    Abstract: Cardiac Output (CO) has traditionally been difficult, dangerous, and expensive to obtain. Surrogate measures such as pulse rate and blood pressure have therefore been used to permit an estimate of CO. MEMS technology, evolutionary computation, and time-frequency signal analysis techniques provide a technology to non-invasively estimate CO, based on precordial (chest wall) motions. The technology detects a ventricular contraction time point, and stroke volume, from chest wall motion measurements. As CO is the product of heart rate and stroke volume, these algorithms permit continuous, beat to beat CO assessment. Nontraditional Wavelet analysis can be used to extract features from chest acceleration. A learning tool is preferable to define the packets which best correlate to contraction time and stroke volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Ohad Barsimantov, Kenneth McLeod, J. David Schaffer
  • Compositions and methods for treating bone defects
    Patent number: 10543294
    Abstract: A bone graft composition includes a biologically-resorbable cement and a plurality of processed bone particles, where each of the bone particles have a shape configured to interconnect with adjacent bone particles. A method for treating a bone defect using the bone graft compositions includes providing the bone graft composition and administering an effective amount of the bone graft composition to a site of a bone defect in a subject. Kits including a biologically-resorbable cement powder and a plurality of processed bone particles are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Voor, Robert L. Burden, Jr.
  • Compositions and methods for drug sensitization of parasites
    Patent number: 10543200
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for inhibiting and/or sensitizing or re-sensitizing a parasite to an antiparasitic drug are provided. The compositions can comprise a an arylphenoxypropionate derivative, an aryloxyphenoxyacetate derivative, an aryloxyphenylacetate derivative, one or more substituted quinols, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or prodrug thereof, or a combination thereof in an amount and formulation sufficient to sensitize the parasite to the drug, treating infection of a patient by a parasite with a drug, or to prevent symptomatic infection of a patient by a parasite with a drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Manchi C M Reddy, James C. Sacchettini, Nian E. Zhou, Billy F. McCutchen
  • Stereoscopic display with reduced accommodation fatique
    Patent number: 10545344
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device is provided for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image as viewed by eyes consisting of a left eye and a right eye. In the display device, a single display screen, or separate left and right display screens, present a left image to the left eye but not the right eye, and present a right image to the right eye but not the left eye. A gaze distance tracker is configured to track gaze distance of the eyes. Variable-power lenses include a left variable-power lens arranged to provide eye accommodation for the left eye, and a right variable-power lens arranged to provide eye accommodation for the right eye. An electronic eye accommodation controller is configured to control the power of the variable power lenses to allow the image from the display to be focused on the retina, while the biological eye lens is accommodated to the gaze distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Kent State University
    Inventors: Philip Bos, Afsoon Jamali, Anders Grunnet-Jepson, Achintya K. Bhowmik
  • 5-HTR agonist analogs
    Patent number: 10544152
    Abstract: The invention relates to the novel analogs of selective 5HT2CR agonist WAY163909, the preparation, and the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, University of Houston System
    Inventors: Kathryn A. Cunningham, Scott R. Gilbertson
  • Identification of ebsulfur analogues with broad-spectrum antifungal activity
    Patent number: 10544112
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel ebsulfur analogues and novel pharmaceutical compositions comprising ebsulfur analogues. The invention also relates to novel methods of treating infections caused by fungal species comprising administration of ebselen, ebsulfur, and ebsulfur analogues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Huy X. Ngo, Sanjib K. Shrestha
  • Method of producing graphene
    Patent number: 10544503
    Abstract: Graphene can be produced from the byproducts formed during electrolysis of coal. These byproducts may be electrolyzed coal particles, gelatinous film formed on the electrolyzed coal particles, or the electrolyzed coal particles together with the gelatinous film. The electrolyzed coal byproduct is deposited as a thin layer onto a surface, or carrier substrate 50, which is heated to a temperature effective to form graphite while a reductant gas, such as hydrogen, flows over the heated coal product. The reductant gas flow carries the carbon particles and deposits them onto a surface 66, forming a layer of graphene thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ohio University
    Inventor: Gerardine G. Botte