Patents Assigned to University
  • Compositions and methods for treating fibrosis
    Patent number: 10245298
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating fibrosis and/or cancer in a subject in need thereof. The methods include providing a composition comprising an inhibitor of IL-4/IL-13 receptor function and administering an effective amount of the composition to the subject to treat fibrosis and/or cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Ramachandran Murali, Aida Habtezion, Stephen J. Pandol
  • Systems and methodologies for real time eye tracking for electronic device interaction
    Patent number: 10248197
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling an electronic device. The method includes acquiring, by a processor of the electronic device, a facial image. The facial image includes a face of a user having one or more eyes. The processor detects a center position of the eye and a pupil position corresponding to a center of a pupil of the eye, determines an eye gaze position based on the center position and the pupil position, analyzes the eye gaze position in consecutively captured facial images, and performs a function associated with a touch event at the eye gaze position in response to determining that the gaze position corresponds to a location of the touch event in the consecutively captured facial images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventors: Dania Ali Abed Aljawad, Ebtesam Jubran Alqahtani, Ghaidaa Mohammad Al-Kuhaili, Nada Mohammed Qamhan, Noof Abdullah Alghamdi
  • Method for making fuel cell module having curved membrane electrode assembly
    Patent number: 10249899
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for making fuel cell system. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell module curved to form a chamber. The fuel cell module includes a container having a number of through holes and a membrane electrode assembly located on the container and cover the number of through holes. The membrane electrode assembly includes a proton exchange membrane having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a cathode electrode located on the first surface and an anode electrode located on the second surface. A fuel cell module is at least partially immerged in the fuel and the oxidizing gas is supplied in to the chamber of the fuel cell module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li-Na Zhang, Xin-Yu Gao, Qi-Yao Yang, Kai-Li Jiang, Chang-Hong Liu, Shou-Shan Fan
  • System and method for early detection of mild traumatic brain injury
    Patent number: 10244977
    Abstract: A wireless system and methods for non-invasive detection of brain injury that includes a detection device for reliable monitoring and analyzing of sleep movement in comparison with normal sleep movement architecture to identify dampened sleep movement patterns indicative of brain injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: University of Maine System Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Marie J. Hayes, Ali Abedi
  • Signal inhomogeneity correction and performance evaluation apparatus
    Patent number: 10247802
    Abstract: Methods for correcting inhomogeneities of magnetic resonance (MR) images and for evaluating the performance of the inhomogeneity correction. The contribution of both transmit field and receiver sensitivity to signal inhomogeneity have been separately considered and quantified. As a result, their negative contributions can be fully corrected. The correction method can greatly enhance the accuracy and precision of MRI techniques and improve the detection sensitivity of pathophysiological changes. The performance of signal inhomogeneity correction methods has been evaluated and confirmed using phantom and in vivo human brain experiments. The present methodologies are readily applicable to correct signal intensity inhomogeneity artifacts produced in different imaging modalities, such as computer tomography, X-ray, ultrasound, and transmission electron microscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Ohio State Innovation Foundation, Yale University
    Inventors: Jinghua Wang, Zhong-lin Lu, Robert Todd Constable
  • Carbene metal complexes as OLED materials
    Patent number: 10249834
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device having an anode, a cathode and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: The University of Southern California, Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Djurovich, Jui-Yi Tsai, Chun Lin, Jason Brooks, Bert Alleyne, Mark E. Thompson, Peter B. MacKenzie, Bin Ma
  • Detection of acetone via nanostructure sensors
    Patent number: 10244964
    Abstract: A method of detecting at least one of analyte in an environment (such as in breath) includes providing a structure including nanostructures in contact with titanium dioxide, applying electromagnetic radiation to the structure for a period of time, measuring at least one response and using the measured response to determine the presence of the analyte in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Alexander Star, Mengning Ding
  • Electrostatic sensing device
    Patent number: 10248267
    Abstract: An electrostatic sensing device comprises an electrostatic sensing module and a control unit electrically connected to the electrostatic sensing module. The electrostatic sensing module comprises a first electrostatic sensing element comprising opposite ends, and two first electrodes. The two first electrodes are separately located on and electrically connected to the two opposite ends of the first electrostatic sensing element. The first electrostatic sensing element is a single walled carbon nanotube or a few-walled carbon nanotube. The control unit electrically is configured to apply a direct voltage to the first electrostatic sensing element and measure a current/resistance of the first electrostatic sensing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin-He Wang, Dong-Qi Li, Jiang-Tao Wang, Wen-Yun Wu, Yu-Jun He, Peng Liu, Qing-Yu Zhao, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Method for duplicating a denture
    Patent number: 10245125
    Abstract: The fabrication of an implant-supported fixed complete denture involves multiple clinical and laboratory steps. One of the main steps is to provide the patient with an interim fixed prosthesis to evaluate the patient's esthetic and function al needs as well as to enhance the patient's psychology before proceeding to the definitive prosthesis. Different techniques for fabricating interim prostheses have been described in the literature. This disclosure describes a method of fabricating an implant-supported fixed interim prosthesis using self-curing acrylic resin. The interim prosthesis may be used as a blueprint for the definitive implant-supported hybrid prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Ahmad Maniallah H. Althobity
  • Sulfur removal system
    Patent number: 10245547
    Abstract: A sulfur removal system including a first reactor and a second reactor that are located in series to one another each having an adsorbent that includes cobalt and copper on an activated carbon support, a method of desulfurizing a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon stream via the sulfur removal system, and a method of making the adsorbent. Various embodiments of the sulfur removal system, the desulfurizing method, and the method of making the adsorbent is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Tawfik Abdo Saleh Awadh, Saddam Ahmed Al-Hammadi
  • Data access method based on cloud computing platform, and user terminal
    Patent number: 10250613
    Abstract: A data access method based on a cloud computing platform, and a user terminal, are provided. The method is performed by a user terminal, and the method includes obtaining an access request for a data ciphertext of the cloud computing platform, the access request including a decryption key, and the decryption key including a user precise identity identifier and a user attribute identifier. The method further includes decrypting the data ciphertext into a data plaintext, in response to the user precise identity identifier belonging to an identity identifier set included in an access structure of the data ciphertext and/or in response to the user attribute identifier belonging to a user attribute identifier set included in the access structure of the data ciphertext.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED, Hunan University
    Inventor: Qin Liu
  • Friction reduction for engine components
    Patent number: 10245806
    Abstract: The present invention relates to techniques for lowering friction between moving surfaces of, for example, an internal combustion engine. Friction reduction is achieved by adding texture modifications to surfaces that come in contact with each other. Texture modifications that reduce friction in accordance with the present invention include dimples of varying geometries and depths ion the surfaces of components. The present invention also relates to the fabrication technique for applying the textures to the surfaces. In another embodiment, the patterned soft mask is applied onto a large surface (flat or curved including cylindrical rollers surfaces) to be followed by electrochemical etching to imprint the textures onto the component. And, in another embodiment, a diamond-like-carbon (DLC) film may be applied to the turbine component to also reduce friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: The George Washington University
    Inventors: Stephen M. Hsu, Yang Jing, Yufei Mo, Dongyun Hua, Ming Chen
  • Wearable devices, wearable robotic devices, gloves, and systems, methods, and computer program products interacting with the same
    Patent number: 10248200
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a wearable device including: at least one compliant region adapted and configured to be placed over a joint of a subject and at least two flexible but less compliant regions coupled to opposite ends of the compliant region. Another aspect of the invention provides a wearable robotic device including a wearable device as described herein and at least one actuator adapted and configured to move the flexible but less compliant regions relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Drexel University
    Inventors: Andrew Cohen, Genevieve Dion, Mark Winter, Eric Wait, Michael Koerner
  • Gear stabilization techniques
    Patent number: 10250101
    Abstract: A balanced planetary gearbox including an assembly having an input stage and an output stage. The assembly includes two grounds, each with ground rollers and ground rings. The two grounds are fixedly attached to one another. The assembly includes a sun gear and planet sub-assemblies between the two grounds. The planet sub-assemblies include at least one input planet gear and one output planet gear. The sun gear and the input planet gears include rollers. An abutment of rollers in the gearbox keeps the sun gear and the planet gears in alignment. The output gear meshes with an output ring disposed in between the two ground rings, such that a combination of the at least one input planet gears from each of the plurality of planet sub-assemblies provides a structural symmetry to the planetary gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Elias Brassitos, Brian Weinberg, Qingchao Kong, Constantinos Mavroidis
  • Nanostructured carriers for guided and targeted on-demand substance delivery
    Patent number: 10245322
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for fabricating and implementing nanoscale and microscale structured carriers to provide guided, targeted, and on-demand delivery of molecules and biochemical substances for a variety of applications including diagnosis and/or treatment (theranostics) of diseases in humans and animals. In some aspects, a nanostructure carrier can be synthesized in the form of a nanobowl, which may include an actuatable capping particle that can be opened (and in some implementations, closed) on demand. In some aspects, a nanostructure carrier can be synthesized in the form of a hollow porous nanoparticle with a functionalized interior and/or exterior to attach payload substances and substances for magnetically guided delivery and controlled release of substance payloads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Ratneshwar Lal, Preston B. Landon, Alexander Mo
  • Compositions and methods for imaging
    Patent number: 10245330
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions for in vivo imaging of hydrogen peroxide; and methods for detecting hydrogen peroxide in vivo. The compositions and methods find use in various diagnostic applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Christopher J. Chang, Alexander R. Lippert
  • Systems and methods for designing magnetic resonance imaging radio frequency pulses that are robust against physiological motion errors
    Patent number: 10247803
    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and/or using radio frequency (“RF”) pulses for in-vivo MRI applications, where the RF pulses are robust against errors due to physiological motion of organs during the respiratory cycle. For example, RF pulses are designed based on multi-channel B1+ maps correlated to different positions of the respiratory cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Sebastian Schmitter, Pierre-Francois van de Moortele, Xiaoping Wu, Kamil Ugurbil
  • Composite HAMR media structure for high areal density
    Patent number: 10249335
    Abstract: A heat-assisted magnetic recording media structure with exchange-coupled composite layer structure may be utilized in a data storage device. The heat-assisted magnetic recording disk structure can have a FePt-based layer as a storage layer and a FePt-based or a CoPt-based magnetic layer with higher Curie temperature as a write layer. The interface between the write layer and the storage layer may be separated by an exchange control layer. The composite structure can be optimized to reduce jitter for high density data storage by tuning the exchange coupling between the write layer and storage layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Seagate Technology LLC, Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Randall Victora, Zengyuan Liu, Pin-wei Huang, Ganping Ju, Jan-Ulrich Thiele
  • Magnetic polymer nanocomposite for removal of divalent heavy metal ions from water
    Patent number: 10245576
    Abstract: The magnetic polymer nanocomposite for removal of divalent heavy metal ions from water is magnetic nanocomposite having a core of magnetite (Fe3O4) in a shell of branched polyhydroxystyrene (BHPS), designated as Fe3O4@BHPS. The nanocomposite is synthesized by co-precipitation in alkali solution. Testing showed the nanocomposite reached 93% and 80% Pb(II) and Cd(II) adsorption, respectively, in 30 minutes, attaining equilibrium in 120 minutes. The maximum adsorption capacities of Pb(II) and Cd(II) at 298K were 186.2 and 125 mg/g, respectively. After adsorption, the nanocomposite with the heavy metal(s) adsorbed thereto was easily removed from aqueous solution by application of a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: King Saud University
    Inventors: Ayoub Abdullah Alqadami, Moonis Ali Khan, Zeid Abdullah Alothman, Ibrahim Hotan Alsohaimi, Masoom Raza Siddiqui, Ayman A. Ghfar
  • plant named ‘NCBT1’
    Patent number: PP30330
    Abstract: A new and distinct Berberis cultivar named ‘NCBT1’ is disclosed, characterized by purple foliage and a distinctively compact and round plant habit. Plants have very low female fertility. The new variety is a Berberis, normally produced as an outdoor garden plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventor: Thomas Green Ranney