Abstract: A geographical information system (GIS) is described that enables querying, analysis and visualization of real-time streaming data pertaining to at least one moving object or entity (e.g., vehicles, people, sensors, weather phenomena, etc.) in conjunction with relatively static multi-temporal geospatial data. An application programming interface is provided to present the GIS functionality for handling dynamically moving objects or entities to clients.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 17, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
The Florida International University Board of Trustees
Abstract: A method of forming chloro-substituted silanes from the reaction of an alkoxysilane with a chlorinating agent in the optional presence of a catalyst is provided. More specifically, chloro-substituted silanes, including but not limited to silicon tetrachloride, are formed by reacting a chlorinating agent, such as thionyl chloride, with an alkylalkoxysilane having the formula (R?O)4-xSiRx, where R and R? are independently selected alkyl groups comprising one or more carbon atoms and x is 0, 1, 2, or 3. The catalyst may be dimethylformamide, (chloromethylene)dimethyliminium chloride, or triethylamine, among others. The chloro-substituted silane formed in the reaction along with several by-products has the formula (R?O)4-x-ySiRxCly; where x is 0, 1, 2, or 3 and y is 1, 2, 3, or 4. One of the by-products of the reaction is an alkyl chloride.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
Case Western Reserve University
Inventors:
Dimitris E Katsoulis, Malcolm E Kenney, Plousia E Vassilaras
Abstract: An array of carbon nanotube micro-tip structure includes an insulating substrate and a plurality of patterned carbon nanotube film structures. The insulating substrate includes a surface. The surface includes an edge. A plurality of patterned carbon nanotube film structures spaced from each other. Each of the plurality of patterned carbon nanotube film structures is partially arranged on the surface of the insulating substrate. Each of the plurality of patterned carbon nanotube film structures comprises two strip-shaped arms joined together forming a tip portion protruding and suspending from the edge of the surface of the insulating substrate. Each of the two strip-shaped arms comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes parallel to the surface of the insulating substrate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 20, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignees:
Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Abstract: The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 11, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignees:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Kwangwoon University Research Institute For Industry Cooperation, Industry-Academia Cooperation Group of Sejong University
Inventors:
Se-Yoon Jeong, Hae-Chul Choi, Jeong-Il Seo, Seung-Kwon Beack, In-Seon Jang, Jae-Gon Kim, Kyung-Ae Moon, Dae-Young Jang, Jin-Woo Hong, Jin-Woong Kim, Yung-Lyul Lee, Dong-Gyu Sim, Seoung-Jun Oh, Chang-Beom Ahn, Dae-Yeon Kim, Dong-Kyun Kim
Abstract: There is disclosed a receiver panel. In an embodiment, the panel is configured to receive a curtain of particles in a solar central receiver system. A porous structure of the panel has a top end and a bottom end. The porous structure is disposed between the top end and the bottom end. The porous structure has a size to impede movement of the particles during downward travel from the top end to the bottom end. There is disclosed a solar central receiver system. In an embodiment, the receiver system includes a plurality of receiver panels, a tower supporting the plurality of receiver panels in a configuration to receive solar irradiation, and a hopper forming a slot configured to dispose the particles at a given location on to the porous structure. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
King Saud University
Inventors:
Hany Al-Ansary, Abdelrahman El-Leathy, Zeyad Al-Suhaibani, Saeed Al-Zahrani, Sheldon Jeter, Said Abdel-Khalik, Dennis Sadowski, Matthew Golob
Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a graphene-doped, carbohydrate-derived hard carbon (G-HC) composite material for alkali metal-ion batteries. The method provides graphene oxide (GO) dispersed in an aqueous solution. A carbohydrate is dissolved into the aqueous solution and subsequently the water is removed to create a precipitate. In one aspect, the carbohydrate is sucrose. The precipitate is dehydrated and exposed to a thermal treatment of less than 1200 degrees C. to carbonize the carbohydrate. The result is the formation of a graphene-doped, carbohydrate-derived hard carbon (G-HC) composite. Typically, the G-HC composite is made up of graphene in the range of 0.1 and 20% by weight (wt %), and HC in the range of 80 to 99.9 wt %. The G-HC composite has a specific surface area of less than 10 square meters per gram (m2/g). A G-HC composite suitable for use in alkali metal-ion batteries electrodes is also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 5, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignees:
Oregon State University, Sharp Laboratories of America
Inventors:
Xiulei Ji, Wei Luo, Clement Bommier, Yuhao Lu, Sean Vail, Jong-Jan Lee
Abstract: Nucleic acid vectors encoding light-gated cation-selective membrane channels, in particular channelrhodopsin-2 (Chop2), converted inner retinal neurons to photosensitive cells in photoreceptor-degenerated retina in an animal model. Such treatment restored visual perception and various aspects of vision. A method of restoring light sensitivity to a retina of a subject suffering from vision loss due to photoreceptor degeneration, as in retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration, is provided. The method comprises delivering to the subject by intravitreal or subretinal injection, the above nucleic acid vector which comprises an open reading frame encoding a rhodopsin, to which is operatively linked a promoter and transcriptional regulatory sequences, so that the nucleic acid is expressed in inner retinal neurons.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 21, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignees:
Salus University, Wayne State University
Abstract: Methods and systems for coded rolling shutter are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, methods and system are provided that control the readout timing and exposure length for each row of a pixel array in an image sensor, thereby flexibly sampling the three-dimensional space-time value of a scene and capturing sub-images that effectively encode motion and dynamic range information within a single captured image.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 3, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Inventors:
Jinwei Gu, Yasunobu Hitomi, Tomoo Mitsunaga, Shree K. Nayar
Abstract: The invention provides methods for enhancing the delivery of therapeutic compounds to the eye of a subject by administering plasmin or derivatives thereof and the therapeutic compounds to the eye.
Abstract: The present invention provides, inter alia, methods for identifying a candidate agent that may be effective to treat or ameliorate an effect of a neurodegenerative disease in a subject. These methods include: (a) contacting a wildtype neuron and a mutant neuron with a stressor which is effective to accelerate the degeneration of the mutant neuron; (b) further contacting the wildtype neuron and the mutant neuron from step (a) with a candidate agent; and (c) determining whether the candidate agent lowers a wildtype to mutant survival ratio or increases both wildtype and mutant neuron survival.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 31, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Inventors:
Hynek Wichterle, Christopher E Henderson, Sebastian Thams
Abstract: The instant invention provides polyvalent RNA nanoparticles comprising RNA motifs as building blocks that can form RNA nanotubes. The polyvalent RNA nanoparticles are suitable for therapeutic or diagnostic use in a number of diseases or disorders.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 16, 2010
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignees:
The United Stated of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services, The Regents of the University of California
Inventors:
Bruce A. Shapiro, Yaroslava G. Yingling, Eckart Bindewald, Wojciech Kasprzak, Luc Jaeger, Isil Severcan, Cody Geary, Kirill Afonin
Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of diagnosing and treating infectious disease characterized by a pathology that involves hemorrhaging or pathological vascular leakage.
Abstract: Novel polyamine transport inhibitors have been synthesized and demonstrated to block the uptake of native polyamines into human cancer cells. A combination therapy of the transport inhibitor and DFMO (a drug which blocks polyamine biosynthesis) provided synergistic activity against a metastatic human colon cancer cell line. The strategy uses polyamine depletion and polyamine metabolism to generate reactive oxygen species within cells as a novel way to treat cancers. This approach may be implemented for widespread use in the treatment of diseases which rely upon polyamine transport activity for proliferation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 8, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: The present invention provides a novel process for subjecting a diene-based-polymer to a metathesis reaction in a first step and a selective hydrogenation of the carbon-carbon double bonds present in such diene-based polymers in a second step using a ruthenium or osmium based complex catalyst, wherein the diene-based polymer is present in latex form, this means as a suspension of diene-based polymer particles in an aqueous medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 21, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
University of Waterloo
Inventors:
Garry L. Rempel, Qinmin Pan, Yin Liu, Jialong Wu
Abstract: A user terminal includes a communication circuit, a certification circuit, an execution circuit, and a control circuit. The communication circuit receives a normal code of an application from an application providing server to install the application. The certification circuit receives a registration request message, which includes distinct information of a peripheral device, from the peripheral device storing a core code of the application, to certify the peripheral device, transmits a registration response message, which includes distinct information of the user terminal, to the peripheral device, and receives the core code of the application from the peripheral device. The execution circuit executes the application using the normal code and the core code. The control circuit restricts at least one of functions of the user terminal while the application is executed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 6, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
Soongsil University Research Consortium Techno-Park
Abstract: Light-reflective materials and methods for their preparation and use are described. The materials can have multiple particles or voids arranged in a crystal structure. The materials can reflect various types of light such as visible light, ultraviolet light, or infrared light.
Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-compartment hydrogel, and a sulfated polysaccharide and at least two bioactive polypeptides capable of binding said sulfated polysaccharide, for use in repair or regeneration of a damaged tissue in a mammal. Also provided is a method for constructing the multi-compartment hydrogel. The present invention also provides a method for the repair or regeneration of a damaged tissue in a mammal, and a kit for constructing a multi-compartment hydrogel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 21, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
Ben Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Authority
Abstract: The present invention relates to vaccine compositions comprising attenuated strain of Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) for protecting tilapia fish against infection by (TiLV). The invention also relates to methods for using the vaccines to protect tilapines from TiLV-induced disease.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignees:
The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd.