Abstract: The present invention includes a hydrogel and a method of making a porous hydrogel by preparing an aqueous mixture of an uncrosslinked polymer and a crystallizable molecule; casting the mixture into a vessel; allowing the cast mixture to dry to form an amorphous hydrogel film; seeding the cast mixture with a seed crystal of the crystallizable molecule; growing the crystallizable molecule into a crystal structure within the uncrosslinked polymer; crosslinking the polymer around the crystal structure under conditions in which the crystal structure within the crosslinked polymer is maintained; and dissolving the crystals within the crosslinked polymer to form the porous hydrogel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 7, 2018
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
Abstract: A wireless power transmission apparatus for high efficiency energy charging, includes a resonator configured to transmit power, and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the resonator. The apparatus further includes a first switching unit configured to connect the resonator to the power supply unit, and disconnect the resonator from the power supply unit, and a controller configured to control the first switching unit based on an amount of current flowing into the resonator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignees:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Dankook University
Inventors:
Ui Kun Kwon, Sang Joon Kim, Seung Keun Yoon, Yeong Seok Ko, Shi Hong Park
Abstract: A lens-based integrated two-dimensional beam steering device comprising a substrate, an input waveguide, a connecting waveguide, a 1×N optical switch, an electrical interface for the switch, N output waveguides of the switch, N transmitting units, a lens and a controller. The device of the present invention realizes two-dimensional beam steering and has the characteristics of large power capacity, low control complexity, and low electric power consumption.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 23, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Inventors:
Kan Wu, Xianyi Cao, Chao Li, Jianping Chen
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of determining the prognosis of a breast cancer patient by evaluating the activity of the glucocorticoid receptor in tumor cells. Other embodiment include methods of treating breast cancer cells, particularly, chemo-resistant cells, with a glucocorticoid receptor antagonist and an anticancer agent or compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
The University of Chicago
Inventors:
Deng Pan, Masha Kocherginsky, Suzanne D. Conzen
Abstract: Embodiments presented herein relate to various polymers. Some of the polymer embodiments are heparin binding polymers. Some embodiments of the heparin binding polymers can be employed to bind to heparin for methods such as separating, purifying, removing, and/or isolating heparin and heparin like molecules.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 2, 2018
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
University of British Columbia
Inventors:
Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu, Rajesh A. Shenoi, Cedric J. Carter, Donald E. Brooks
Abstract: A method of driving a display device including a sensing line, a light-emitting element, a capacitor, and a driving transistor, the driving transistor comprising a control terminal that is connected to the capacitor, an input terminal, and an output terminal, the method including: connecting the control terminal and the output terminal; connecting the control terminal and the output terminal to a ground voltage and then disconnecting the control terminal and the output terminal from the ground voltage; sensing a first voltage of the control terminal through the sensing line; and calculating a threshold voltage of the driving transistor based on the first voltage.
Abstract: The present invention provides autoradiography methods and systems for imaging via the detection of alpha particles, beta particles, or other charged particles. Embodiments of the methods and systems provide high-resolution 3D imaging of the distribution of a radioactive probe, such as a radiopharmaceutical, on a tissue sample. Embodiments of the present methods and systems provide imaging of tissue samples by reconstruction of a 3D distribution of a source of particles, such as a radiopharmaceutical. Embodiments of the methods and systems provide tomographic methods including microtomography, macrotomography, cryomicrotomography and cryomacrotomography.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 11, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignees:
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona, InviCro, LLC
Inventors:
Harrison H. Barrett, Yijun Ding, Luca Caucci, John William Hoppin
Abstract: A separating device and method for a bonded cine film, belonging to the field of image file protection and repair technologies. The separating device comprises a pressurizing device, a separating device and a liquid nitrogen storage device. The pressurizing device is connected to the liquid nitrogen storage device; the liquid nitrogen storage device is connected to the separating device for providing liquid nitrogen thereto; the separating device comprises a film receiving chamber for accommodating a film to be separated; the pressurizing device pressurizes the liquid nitrogen storage device allowing liquid nitrogen to enter the film receiving chamber. Due to a difference between expansion coefficients of a base layer and emulsion layer of the film under low temperature, micro-pores and gaps may be generated in the base layer and the emulsion layer of a bonded film roll; the liquid nitrogen penetrates into the micro-pores and gaps of the bonded film.
Abstract: Starch spherulites are produced by debranching of amylopectin-containing starch into short linear ?-1,4-linked glucans (e.g., short-chain amylose, SCA). The debranched linear glucans are directly converted into spherulites by heating the debranched starch mixture followed by cooling and crystallization to form well-developed spherulites. The spherulites exhibit controlled enzyme digestibility.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 18, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Kansas State University Research Foundation
Abstract: The present invention provides methods of assessing an individual subject's risk of developing prostate cancer, comprising: a) analyzing a nucleic acid sample obtained from the subject and determining a genotype for the subject at a plurality of biallelic polymorphic loci, wherein each of said plurality has an associated allele and an unassociated allele, wherein the genotype is selected from the group consisting of homozygous for the associated allele, heterozygous, and homozygous for the unassociated allele; and b) calculating a cumulative relative risk (CRR) for the subject based on the genotype determined in step (a). A CRR of greater than 1.00 identifies a subject as having an increased risk of developing prostate cancer and also can identify a subject who is a candidate for early PSA screening, prostate biopsy and/or chemoprevention.
Abstract: The measuring cup includes numerous embodiments configured for a user to precisely determine the cup contents without need to lift the cup to one's eye level or to lower the eye level to the level of the cup contents. The various embodiments include folding cups; cups having transparent passages in the wall; cups having adjustably positionable bottoms; cups having level indicator rods in the cup interior extending upward from the cup bottom; cups having one or more filaments extending across the cup interior; cups having rigid level indicators spanning the cup interior; cups having adjustably positionable level indicator tabs therein; cups having buoyant level indicator tabs adjustably positionable in the cup interior; and cups having removable clip-on scales extending down along the interior of the cup wall, the scales having a plurality of attachment points for the removable attachment of a level indicator tab at a desired attachment point.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 27, 2018
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
King Saud University
Inventors:
Mohd Aftab Alam, Fahad Ibrahim Al-Jenoobi, Abdullah M. Al-Mohizea
Abstract: Methods for label-free characterization of untagged molecules within a biological sample in-situ. The untagged molecules may be constituent of extracellular vesicles, and are excited in the biological sample with at least one wavelength band of light derived from a single stream of optical pulses. Light emitted by the untagged molecules by SHG, THG, 2PAF and 3PAF processes is detected. Separate measures of the biological sample corresponding to light emitted by the untagged molecules in each of the SHG, THG, 2PAF and 3PAF processes are derived. On that basis, normal extracellular vesicles may be differentiated from extracellular vesicles associated with a tumor on the basis of a specified signature of characteristics of images of SHG, THG, 2PAF and 3PAF processes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 22, 2018
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Inventors:
Stephen A. Boppart, Haohua Tu, Sixian You, Yuan Liu
Abstract: A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2016
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Universal Electronics Inc.
Inventors:
Steve LanPing Huang, Cheryl Scott, Wayne Scott
Abstract: The invention includes compositions, devices, and methods for analyzing a polymer and/or polymer unit. The polymer may be a homo or hetero-polymer such as DNA, RNA, a polysaccharide, or a peptide. The device includes electrodes that form a tunnel gap through which the polymer can pass. The electrodes are functionalized with a reagent attached thereto, and the reagent is capable of forming a transient bond to a polymer unit. When the transient bond forms between the reagent and the unit, a detectable signal is generated and used to analyze the polymer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
Inventors:
Stuart Lindsay, Shuai Chang, Jin He, Peiming Zhang, Shuo Huang
Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method of treating or preventing an endoplasmic reticulum stress disorder in subjects, such as a method of treating or preventing Wolfram syndrome.
Abstract: Polysaccharide agents for removing solids from an aqueous suspension and methods for using the polysaccharide agents to remove solids from an aqueous suspension.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 10, 2018
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignees:
Pristana Water LLC, The Texas A&M University System
Inventors:
Rajani Srinivasan, Anuradha Mishra, John McKinney
Abstract: The invention is a computer implemented method, device, system, or article for reconstructing a surface of an object. In particular, the invention comprises estimating a non-convex hull signed distance function parameters from a data set of an object and evaluating the non-convex hull signed distance function on vertices of a volumetric mesh. The invention further comprises approximating the zero level set of the non-convex hull signed distance function by a polygonal mesh using an isosurface algorithm to provide surface reconstruction of an object.
Abstract: Memristor-based dividers using memristors-as-drivers (MAD) gates. As a result of employing MAD gates in memristor-based dividers, such as binary non-restoring dividers and SRT dividers, the number of delay steps may be less than half than the number of delay steps required in traditional CMOS implementations of dividers. Furthermore, by using MAD gates, memristor-based dividers can be implemented with less complexity (e.g., fewer memristors and drivers). As a result, by the memristor-based dividers using MAD gates, the speed and complexity of a wide variety of arithmetic operations is improved.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
Abstract: A method of preparing CsxWO3 particles comprises heating a composition containing (1) cesium, (2) tungsten, (3) a solvent, and (4) a fatty acid, at a temperature of at least 200° C., to produce CsxWO3 particles, with x=0.31-0.33. The solvent comprises benzyl alcohol, and the fatty acid comprises a fatty acid having 10 to 30 carbon atoms.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 24, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University
Abstract: An electrolyte for Li-ion and other secondary electrochemical cells includes an FSI anion and at least one of methyltriethylphosphonium; trimethylisobutylphosphonium; methyltributylphosphonium; and trihexyltetradecylphosphonium. The electrolyte uniquely enables stable cell cycling even when water is present in the electrolyte at levels as high as 5000 ppm. Methyltriethylphosphonium and trimethylisobutylphosphonium-containing electrolytes are particularly effective in this water-stabilizing capacity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 26, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignees:
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Deakin University
Inventors:
Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy S. Arthur, Kensuke Takechi, Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr, Fuminori Mizuno