Patents Assigned to University
  • Hard optical film, method for preparing same and use thereof
    Patent number: 12287456
    Abstract: A hard optical film, a method for producing the same and use thereof. The film is an optical film with a nano-dual-phase structure, and features a regulable thickness, high visible light transmittance and hardness, a flat and uniform surface, and a great application prospect. The hard optical film is prepared on a surface of a substrate by magnetron sputtering, having high binding force between the obtained film and the substrate, such that the substrate has a very high hardness, a very strong abrasion resistance and certain corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SHENZHEN FUTIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jian Lu, Yu Bu
  • Portable transcutaneous magnetic stimulator and systems and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 12285624
    Abstract: A transcutaneous magnetic stimulation (tMS) device is provided for modulating nerve function and chronic pain management, and includes a tMS stimulator, a control module in wired and powered communication with the tMS stimulator, and a portable electronic device in wireless communication with the control module to receive, generate and transmit feedback and control settings relating to a treatment session. The tMS stimulator may be a flexible figure-of-eight coil configured in different sizes and shapes to provide varying pulse and magnetic field strengths for mobile, home, or clinical uses, and also include guidance tools and measurement sensors to aid in positioning and directing the tMS stimulator to a target area for treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Albert Leung, Shiv Shukla
  • Resistance device, integrated circuit device, implantable device, and correction factor determining method
    Patent number: 12285600
    Abstract: A resistance device (100) includes a field-effect transistor (TN) and a voltage applying circuit (1). The voltage applying circuit (1) applies a control voltage (Vgs) between the gate and source of the field-effect transistor (TN) according to a temperature (T) to control a resistance value (R) between the drain and source of the field-effect transistor (TN). The control voltage (Vgs) is a voltage obtained by adding a correction voltage (Vc) to a reference voltage (Vgs0). The correction voltage (Vc) depends on the temperature (T) and is set to be zero at a first temperature (T1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Seiji Kameda, Masayuki Hirata
  • Device for reducing noise using sound meta-material
    Patent number: 12286065
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a noise reduction device includes a housing; and a slit located inside the housing and having a unit cell located therein, the unit cell comprising a sound absorbing layer configured to absorb noise generated from a sound source inside the housing, and a meta-material panel layer located on one surface of the sound absorbing layer, the meta-material panel layer comprising a sound meta-material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Jin Ho Hwang, Ji Ah Kim, Min Ho Cho, Byoung Chul Park, Young Hwan Yoon, Kang Ho Cheon, Eun Gook Kim, Young Don Choi, Jin Woo Lee
  • System and methods for processing spatial data
    Patent number: 12288341
    Abstract: A system for processing spatial data may be designed to receive neural network outputs corresponding to a first spatial data set, and translate the neural network outputs corresponding to the first spatial data set based on the motion between a second spatial data set and the first spatial data set. The system may perform zero-gap run length encoding on the neural network outputs to store the neural network outputs in memory. The system may also perform on-the-fly skip zero decoding and bilinear interpolation to translate the neural network outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Mark Buckler, Adrian Sampson
  • Conductive graphene/carbon nanofiber composite scaffold, its use for neural tissue engineering and a method of preparation thereof
    Patent number: 12285544
    Abstract: Porous electrically conductive graphene/carbon nanofiber bio-scaffolds can be fabricated having a Youngs modulus and electrical conductivity that both match typical values for brain tissue. Such scaffolds have been tested and found to provide improved differentiation of stem cells into functional neural cells relative to conventional scaffolds. In preferred embodiments, neural cell differentiation in conductive graphene/carbon nanofiber scaffolds is promoted by an applied electrical stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Byeongtaek Oh, Vivek Nath Lam, Paul George
  • Reverberant shear wave gradients for ultrasound elastography
    Patent number: 12285293
    Abstract: The wave number and phase velocity (shear wave speed) of ultrasound energy within an organ of interest are calculated using a herein-disclosed phase gradient calculation method. This calculation method is less sensitive to imperfections in the reverberant field distribution and requires a smaller support window, relative to earlier calculation methods based on autocorrelation. Applications are shown in simulations, phantoms, and in vivo liver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Juvenal Ormachea, Kevin J. Parker
  • Dynamic random access memory-based content-addressable memory (DRAM-CAM) architecture for exact pattern matching
    Patent number: 12287770
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a Dynamic Random Access Memory-Based Content-Addressable Memory (DRAM-CAM) architecture and methods relating thereto. The DRAM-CAM architecture can include a memory array, with the data organized into blocks including rows and columns. Input data can be converted into a format with first and second groups of columns. Each first group can correspond to one or more rows of the input data, and each second group can include one or more null columns. A query can be received and loaded into an available column of the second group, and pattern matching can be performed on the data to identify occurrences of elements defined by the query. The pattern matching can be performed concurrently on the first groups of columns and the available columns bit by bit. Results can include a count or location of each identified element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Lingxi Wu, Kevin Skadron
  • Therapeutic targets involved in the progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
    Patent number: 12285464
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for specifically modulating the Hippo pathway transcription factor TAZ (WWTR1), as a therapeutic target for inhibiting or preventing liver conditions including the progression of steatosis-to-NASH in a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Ira Tabas, Xiaobo Wang, Omid Farokhzad, Xiaoding Xu
  • Method for manufacturing a humidity alarm device based on laser-induced graphene
    Patent number: 12286354
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a humidity alarm device based on laser-induced graphene is performed as follows. Carbon-based films are coated with a hydroxide ion-containing solution and processed by a laser device to generate hydrophilic graphene layers. The hydrophilic graphene layers are peeled off from the carbon-based films, wetted, and respectively wrapped around shaping rods varying in diameter. The wrapped rods are heated and shaped by a drying oven to obtain curled graphene switches. Each curled graphene switch is connected in series with an alarm lamp to form an alarm component. The alarm components are connected in parallel, and then connected to a positive terminal and a negative terminal of a power supply to form the humidity alarm device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Guangdong University of Technology
    Inventors: Yun Chen, Bin Xie, Yuanhui Guo, Hao Zhang, Maoxiang Hou, Li Ma, Xin Chen
  • Method for making smart sand
    Patent number: 12285741
    Abstract: A smart sand includes raw sand particles, synthetic SiO2 particles attached to the raw sand particles, a first material attached to a first set of the synthetic SiO2 particles, a second material attached to a second set of the synthetic SiO2 particles, and a third material attached to the first material. Each of the first to third materials is different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Peng Wang, Jian Chang, Zeyad Ahmed, Yifeng Shi, Chisiang Ong
  • Methods and materials for increasing transcription factor eb polypeptide levels
    Patent number: 12286442
    Abstract: This document provides methods and materials for increasing TFEB polypeptide levels. For example, compounds (e.g., organic compounds) having the ability to increase TFEB polypeptide levels within cells and/or within a nucleus of cells, formulations containing compounds having the ability to increase TFEB polypeptide levels within cells and/or within a nucleus of cells, methods for making compounds having the ability to increase TFEB polypeptide levels within cells and/or within a nucleus of cells, methods for making formulations containing compounds having the ability to increase TFEB polypeptide levels within cells and/or within a nucleus of cells, methods for increasing TFEB polypeptide levels within cells and/or within a nucleus of cells, and methods for treating mammals (e.g., humans) having a condition responsive to an increase in TFEB polypeptide levels are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    Inventors: Beibei Chen, Toren Finkel, Yuan Liu
  • Methods and systems for geo-referencing mapping systems
    Patent number: 12287406
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a trajectory dataset including a plurality of geospatial points forming a point cloud and acquired along a trajectory wherein for each of the plurality of geospatial points there is a defined an x-coordinate, a y-coordinate and a z-coordinate and at least one mapping device orientation attribute, segmenting the trajectory dataset into a plurality of segments, determining at least one relative constraint for each of the plurality of segments and utilizing, for each of the plurality of segments, at least one of the determined relative constraints to determine a relative position of at least two of the plurality of segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Ji Zhang, Calvin Wade Sheen, Kevin Joseph Dowling
  • Non-planar holographic beam shaping lenses for acoustics
    Patent number: 12285636
    Abstract: Non-planar holographic beam shaping lenses for acoustics are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic therapy system that is configured to apply ultrasound to a target in a body includes: an ultrasonic transducer configured to generate the ultrasound; and a customizable holographic lens configured to focus the ultrasound onto a focal area of a target that is an object or a portion of the object in the body. The customizable holographic lens is designed and produced based on the target. Furthermore, the customizable holographic lens is curved to mate with a front surface of the ultrasonic transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: The University of Washington
    Inventors: Michael R. Bailey, Mohamed Abdalla Ghanem, Adam D. Maxwell
  • Gene therapy for haploinsufficiency
    Patent number: 12285496
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for activating transcription in a mammalian cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Nadav Ahituv, Navneet Matharu
  • Multi-area artificial fog pipe network intelligent control method and system based on YOLOv5 algorithm
    Patent number: 12287104
    Abstract: A multi-area artificial fog pipe network control method and system based on a you only look once version 5 (YOLOv5) algorithm are provided. The method includes: obtaining thermal sensation data of each target person based on facial skin temperature; calculating group thermal sensation data of each subarea and total group thermal sensation data of an artificial fog pipe network area; determining a total flow of fog-making water introduced into the artificial fog pipe network according to target number of people and total group thermal sensation data; controlling opening gears of atomization nozzles on the artificial fog pipe networks in subareas according to a number of the target person in each subarea, the group thermal sensation data and a micro-action type of each target person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: Tianjin Chengjian University, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
    Inventors: Bin Yang, Ruiqi Guo, Xingrui Du, Yuyao Guo, Dacheng Jin, Bingan Pan
  • Low solar absorptance coatings
    Patent number: 12286556
    Abstract: Coating compositions include a binder that has a first polymeric material that does not undergo ultraviolet (UV) degradation and/or does not absorb UV radiation/light. The coating compositions may further include at least a first UV-reflective pigment dispersed throughout the binder. The coating compositions may be provided in a cured form as a solid coating layer that may overly at least a portion of a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Jason J. Benkoski, Rengaswamy Srinivasan, Christopher M. Hoffman, Jr., Keith S. Caruso
  • Smart vent/duct cover for controlling and cooling temperatures individual rooms
    Patent number: 12287115
    Abstract: A smart air duct/vent cover plate for air conditioning and ventilation can be implemented either as a nested three-cylinder device which or as a cover frame with a flexible layer perforated with through holes. Either device provides selectivity in terms of the amount of airflow provided to an interior ambient air space. The functionality of both devices can be controlled by a wireless handheld remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Abdelrahim Fathy Ismail, Alhosein Hamada Abdelazeem, Ali Khalifa Atwa Abdullatif, Hussain Matuq Al-Hadlaq, Fadel Mohammad Alamer, Abdrabalameer Salman Alboali, Ibrahim Jawad Alabdullah, Salah Almohameed
  • Profit-aware offloading framework towards prediction-assisted mec network slicing
    Patent number: 12289207
    Abstract: A profit-aware Offloading Framework towards Prediction-assisted MEC Network Slicing is provided. Towards MEC network slicing, formulate the optimization problem of maximizing long-term ESP profits and decouple it into the sub-problems of Edge network Slicing (EnS) and Computation offloading Access (CoA). For the slicing sub-problem, use a gated recurrent neural network (GRNN) to accurately predict user requests in different regions, and then use the optimal partitioning of network slices with the predicted requests and expected demands; For the offloading sub-problem, incorporating results from slice partitioning, use an improved deep reinforcement learning with twin ritic-networks and delay mechanism, solving the Q-value overestimation and high variance for approximating the optimal offloading and resource allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: FUZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zheyi Chen, Junjie Zhang, Jie Liang, Pengfei Wang
  • Method for performing simultaneous localization and mapping and device using same
    Patent number: 12288349
    Abstract: Provided is an accelerator provided in an electronic device and configured to perform simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), the accelerator including a factor graph database, a memory, and a back-end processor, wherein the back-end processor is configured to receive a first piece of data corresponding to map points and camera positions from the factor graph database, convert the received first piece of data into a matrix for the map points and a matrix for the camera positions, store, in the memory, results obtained by performing an optimization calculation on the matrix for the map points and a matrix for at least one camera position, among the camera positions, corresponding to the map points, and obtain a second piece of data optimized with respect to the first piece of data based on the results stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Myungjae Jeon, Kichul Kim, Yongkyu Kim, Hongseok Lee, San Kim, Hyekwan Yun, Donggeun Lee