Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 9709349
    Abstract: Various aspects as described herein are directed to a radiative cooling device and method for cooling an object. As consistent with one or more embodiments, a radiative cooling device includes a solar spectrum reflecting structure configured and arranged to suppress light modes, and a thermally-emissive structure configured and arranged to facilitate thermally-generated electromagnetic emissions from the object and in mid-infrared (IR) wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Aaswath Pattabhi Raman, Shanhui Fan, Eden Rephaeli
  • Patent number: 9707049
    Abstract: Stereotactic systems and implantation methods that can be designed for use with a specific species and further customized for use with an individual within the species are provided. The stereotactic system can include an implant jig that can model a tissue or organ in which a target tissue area is located. A neurocap can be coupled to the implant jig for pre-planning and pre-placement of implants. A stencil can be used to determine the location for placement of the neurocap on the individual, so that the implants can be precisely targeted at the desired location. Pre-surgical information and data can be obtained from an individual and used to customize components of a stereotactic system, which can improve accuracy of implant placement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: The Florida International University Board of Trustees, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Timothy Allen, Bruce McNaughton, Meifung Su, Leila Mangan Allen
  • Patent number: 9711607
    Abstract: A method and structure for providing a GAA device. In some embodiments, a substrate including an insulating layer disposed thereon is provided. By way of example, a first metal portion is formed within the insulating layer. In various embodiments, a first lateral surface of the first metal portion is exposed. After exposure of the first lateral surface of the first metal portion, a first graphene layer is formed on the exposed first lateral surface. In some embodiments, the first graphene layer defines a first vertical plane parallel to the exposed first lateral surface. Thereafter, in some embodiments, a first nanobar is formed on the first graphene layer, where the first nanobar extends in a first direction normal to the first vertical plane defined by the first graphene layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Che-Wei Yang, Chi-Wen Liu, Hao-Hsiung Lin, Ling-Yen Yeh
  • Patent number: 9711730
    Abstract: This invention discloses novel light-emitting materials. These materials comprise a side chain which contains at least two Si or Ge atoms, such as bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl, or a side chain that includes Si—F bond, or a side chain that includes a fluorine-containing alkyl chain. This new side chain could fine tune emission color, reduce the stacking of the light-emitting materials, maintain good lifetime, and result in high PLQY.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Chuanjun Xia, Chun Lin
  • Patent number: 9711741
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are metal compounds, compositions, and devices related thereto, such as full color displays or OLEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Jian Li, Eric Turner, Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 9710586
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for extracting a state machine representation of a digital logic superconductive circuit from an alphanumeric representation of the circuit. The alphanumeric representation typically specifies circuit components including inductive elements, their interconnectivity and input and output nodes. The method according to the invention comprising the steps of simulating the circuit in a suitable software environment utilizing the alphanumeric representation; identifying inductive loops in the circuit; identifying inductive loops in the circuit capable of storing one or more magnetic fluxons and discarding all others; and extracting the state machine representation, using only the inductive loops in the circuit capable of storing magnetic fluxons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Stellenbosch University
    Inventors: Louis Crouse Muller, Coenrad Johann Fourie
  • Patent number: 9708355
    Abstract: Transition metal compounds, and specifically transition metal compounds having a tetradentate and/or pentadentate supporting ligand are described, together with methods for the preparation thereof and the use of such compounds as hydrogenation and/or hydrosilylation catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Ryan J. Trovitch, Tufan K. Mukhopadhyay, Raja Pal, Hagit Ben-Daat Levin, Tyler M. Porter, Chandrani Ghosh
  • Patent number: 9711720
    Abstract: A resistive random access memory including a first electrode, a separating medium, a resistance changing layer and a second electrode is disclosed. The first electrode has a mounting face. The separating medium is arranged on the first electrode and forms a through hole. A part of the first electrode is not covered by the separating medium. The separating medium has a first dielectric. The resistance changing layer extends along the part of the first electrode as well as along an inner face and the second face of the separating medium. The resistance changing layer has a second dielectric having a dielectric constant larger than a dielectric constant of the first dielectric by 2 or less. The second electrode is arranged on the resistance changing layer. In this arrangement, the problem of unstable forming voltage of the conventional resistive random access memory can be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: National Sun Yat-Sen University
    Inventors: Ting-Chang Chang, Kuan-Chang Chang, Tsung-Ming Tsai, Tian-Jian Chu, Chih-Hung Pan
  • Patent number: 9707257
    Abstract: Described is a unique class of antiviral molecule that can be applied to control and eliminate HIV infection in patients using myeloablation therapies and replenishment with transformed bone marrow stem cells programmed to express the antiviral molecule. These anti-viral molecules target the HIV genome in a highly conserved domain, and when expressed in cells prior to infection will cause the cell to die upon infection with HIV. Cell death insures no proliferation of new virus. Reconstituting the immune system with cells expressing these antivirals prevents re-establishment of HIV infection from reservoirs in the re-established lymphocyte and macrophage populations. Over time, reservoirs will be depleted entirely, effectively eliminating the virus. In effect, this new type of antiviral can be used to cure HIV infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: The University of Notre Dame
    Inventor: Malcolm James Fraser, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9709745
    Abstract: A delay line interferometer comprising an optical waveguide having a distributed Bragg reflector, e.g. Bragg grating, fabricated therein. The distributed Bragg reflector has a refractive index modulation with a period variation ?(z) along its length z that is arranged to output in transmission an output optical signal fout(t) in response to a input optical signal fin(t), wherein the output optical signal fout(t) is the result of temporal interference between one or more time-delayed replicas of the input optical signal fin(t). In other words, the distributed Bragg reflector is operable to generate and permit temporal interference between two or more time-delayed replicas of the input optical signal fin(t). The invention may thus mimic the behaviour of one or more MZIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Xuewen Shu, Miguel Angel Preciado
  • Patent number: 9707138
    Abstract: Apparatus for a manually-powered wheelchair comprising a frame and first and second wheel rotatably coupled to the frame. Each wheel includes a hand rim and a drive wheel. For each of the first and second wheels, a multiple speed transmission coupled to the wheel comprises a transmission output coupled to the drive wheel, a transmission input coupled to the hand rim, and at least two gears selectively coupling the transmission output to the transmission input. The transmission allows the drive wheel and the hand rim to rotate concentrically with one another but at different speeds. A selector is provided for selecting one of the at least two gears. A controller controls the selector to operate the transmission for the first and/or second wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler, Scott Daigle
  • Patent number: 9707235
    Abstract: Therapeutic uses P2X7 inhibition and inhibition of IRAK1 and/or IRAK4, methods protecting a cell, and screening methods for identifying inhibitors are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventor: Jayakrishna Ambati
  • Patent number: 9707535
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for the chemical synthesis of micro-quantities of oligonucleotides or other chemical molecules. The system includes a reusable glass micro-reactor containing a paramagnetic solid support, a magnet, an electronic drive controller and an optical spectroscopy system capable of driving a plurality individual reactors. The system utilizes the electroosmotic movement of reactants through microfluidic channels. Spectrophotometric monitoring of the reaction products allows for the real-time determination of synthesis yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Inventors: Lance Amate Larka, John D. Williams, Randy Gaillard
  • Patent number: 9708276
    Abstract: A method for treating prostate cancer in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent to the subject, wherein the agent is selected from: (a) a phenyl-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof; or (b) a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a formula I of: wherein R20 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing group, a boryl-containing group, a phosphine-containing group, amino, a thio-containing group, a seleno-containing group, halide, or a nitro-containing group; R21 is an alkanediyl or a substituted alkanediyl; a is 0 or 1; c is 0 or 1; X is C or S; R22 is a moiety that includes at least one divalent amino radical; and R23 is an aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, a silyl-containing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Zhou Wang, Joel Byron Nelson, Minh Mindy Bao Nguyen, John S. Lazo, Paul A. Johnston, Peter Wipf
  • Patent number: 9709572
    Abstract: Embodiments of probes for selectively detecting compounds having a thiol group and an amino group, e.g., cysteine and/or homocysteine, are disclosed, along with methods and kits for detecting the compounds in neutral media with the probes. The probes have a structure according to the general formula where R1-R4 independently are hydrogen hydroxyl, halogen, thiol, thioether, lower aliphatic, or lower alkoxy, x is an integer from 0 to 4, and each R5 independently is halogen, hydroxyl, thiol, thioether, lower aliphatic, or lower alkoxy. Embodiments of the disclosed probes are capable of undergoing condensation/cyclization reactions with cysteine and/or homocysteine. Cysteine and/or homocysteine can be selectively detected and identified by determining fluorescence emission of the probes at characteristic wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Portland State University
    Inventors: Robert Strongin, Xiaofeng Yang
  • Patent number: 9707195
    Abstract: The present invention discloses novel agents and methods for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma. Also disclosed are related arrays, kits, and screening methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Rockefeller University
    Inventors: Sohail F. Tavazoie, Nora Pencheva
  • Patent number: 9711126
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes an approach for wave-based sound propagation suitable for large, open spaces spanning hundreds of meters, with a small memory footprint. The scene is decomposed into disjoint rigid objects. The free-field acoustic behavior of each object is captured by a compact per-object transfer-function relating the amplitudes of a set of incoming equivalent sources to outgoing equivalent sources. Pairwise acoustic interactions between objects are cornuted analytically, yielding compact inter-object transfer functions. The global sound field accounting for all orders of interaction is computed using these transfer functions. The runtime system uses fast summation over the outgoing equivalent source amplitudes for all objects to auralize the sound field at a moving listener in real-time. We demonstrate realistic acoustic effects such as diffraction, low-passed sound behind obstructions, focusing, scattering, high-order reflections, and echoes, on a variety of scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Ravish Mehra, Dinesh Manocha
  • Patent number: 9708640
    Abstract: An electrospun nanofibrous membrane is sheet like and is formed by multiple glucose oxidase/potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) modified electrospun nanofibers. The glucose oxidase/potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) modified electrospun nanofibers are PVA electrospun nanofibers containing glucose oxidase and potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) homogeneously dispersed therein. The glucose oxidase/potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) modified electrospun nanofibers are PVA electrospun nanofibers and are cross-linked by glutaraldehyde vapor with ultrasonic energy assistance. Graphene modified PVA/GOx electrospun membranes were prepared to examine the immobilization mechanism between graphene and GOx. The electrochemical measurement results show that the sensitivities increased with increasing graphene concentrations up to 20 ppm. The highest sensitivity recorded 38.7 ?A/mM was for a PVA/GOx membrane with 20 ppm graphene representing a 109% increase over a membrane made without graphene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Chang-Mou Wu, Hsiu-An Yu, Chun-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 9708225
    Abstract: A method of treating a ceramic surface containing zirconia, whereby the ceramic surface is ablated by directing a laser beam with a diameter of 200-400 ?m produced by a CO2 laser with a pulse frequency of 1200-1800 Hz onto the ceramic surface, and a N2 assist gas is concurrently applied with a pressure of 550-650 KPa co-axially with the laser beam to form an ablated ceramic surface comprising microgrooves with ZrN present on a surface of the microgrooves, wherein the ablated ceramic surface has a higher surface hydrophobicity than the ceramic surface prior to the ablating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Bekir Sami Yilbas, Haider Ali
  • Patent number: 9707001
    Abstract: A pin guide for the surgical operation of an avascular necrosis of a femoral head includes a guide body having a central pin guide hole extending along a centerline of the guide body and a plurality of side pin guide holes formed so as to make a specified angle with the central pin guide hole. The side pin guide holes are radially arranged around the central pin guide hole at a front side of the guide body and joined to the central pin guide hole at a rear side of the guide body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Catholic University Industry—Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Seok Jung Kim, Min Hyun Kim