Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 10890520
    Abstract: A flow cytometer including a flow cell in which an imaging object flows; a laser beam irradiator configured to radiate laser beam; a camera including an image sensor of N×M pixels; and an optical system configured to introduce the laser beam from the laser beam irradiator to imaging range of flow cell and to introduce signal light, such as transmitted, reflected or scattered light, from imaging range of flow cell, to camera. Optical system includes a mirror device that is placed on a Fourier plane of imaging optical system, that has at least one mirror specularly reflecting the signal light, and that is driven and rotated in conjunction with a flow in flow cell, such that each part of an image formed by the signal light is introduced into an identical pixel of the image sensor for at least a predetermined time period from a predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Keisuke Goda, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Hideharu Mikami
  • Patent number: 10890667
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a cubature Kalman filtering method suitable for high-dimensional GNSS/INS deep coupling, including: S1, constructing a high-dimensional GNSS/INS deep coupling filter model; S2, generating an initialization cubature point for the constructed filter model by using standard cubature rules; S3, performing CKF filtering by using novel cubature point update rules. The present invention is suitable for high-dimensional GNSS/INS deep coupling filtering with high precision and high stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiyuan Chen, Bingbo Cui, Wei Wang, Zhengyang Zhao, Lin Fang
  • Patent number: 10890160
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a control system for enhancing a frequency support capability of a wind turbine generator system. The control system includes a wind turbine, a gearbox, an electric generator and a converter. The control system is characterized by further including a supercapacitor energy storage apparatus, which includes a DC-DC converter and a supercapacitor. The converter includes DC buses, and the supercapacitor is electrically connected to the DC buses via the DC-DC converter. The supercapacitor may be orderly charged or discharged according to an operating state of the wind turbine generator system to maintain its operating condition, and has a superior reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: Wind Power Technology Center of Gansu Electric Power Company, State Grid Corporation of China, Gansu Electric Power Company of State Grid, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Inventors: Ningbo Wang, Liang Lu, Kun Ding, Shiyuan Zhou, Chen Zhang, Jin Li, Zheng Li, Nianzong Bai, Jing Zhi, Xu Cai, Zifen Han, Youming Cai
  • Patent number: 10888348
    Abstract: A scar subcision devices comprising a first elongated element comprising a pivotal connection to a second elongated element, the first elongated element having a blunt distal end, the second elongated element having a proximal-facing cutting edge at a distal end thereof, the device having a first state wherein the cutting edge is retracted to a location within an outer perimeter of the first elongated element, and a second state wherein the cutting edge is exposed outside of the outer perimeter of the first elongated element and the device transitioning between the first state and the second state by the first elongated element and the second elongated element rotating relative to each other about the pivotal connection are disclosed. Methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Luke G. Gutwein, Rajiv Sood, Barry Davignon
  • Patent number: 10889835
    Abstract: This invention provides compositions and methods for providing high product yield of transgenes expressed in cyanobacteria and microalgae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Anastasios Melis, Cinzia Formighieri
  • Patent number: 10889543
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel small molecule modulators of Nav1.6 channels of the general formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV), and the uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Fernanda Laezza, Jia Zhou, Zhiqing Liu, Syed Ali
  • Patent number: 10891417
    Abstract: A system and method for rip-up and re-routing a global routing solution includes determining, via processing circuitry, one or more rip-up and re-route (R&R) strategies for a net; decomposing, via the processing circuitry, multiple pins of the net into a plurality of subnets; decomposing a spanning tree of the net into paths for the plurality of subnets; determining, via the processing circuitry, a probability of success of each of the R&R strategies for one of minimizing a total overflow of a global routing solution or minimizing a wire length of the global routing solution; and applying one of the R&R strategies to the net based on the determined probability of success of said each of the R&R strategies towards improving the global routing solution, wherein the global routing solution includes a plurality of spanning trees for a respective plurality of nets of a global routing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Umair F. Siddiqi, Sadiq M. Sait
  • Patent number: 10888389
    Abstract: Systems and methods for arbitrary viewpoint robotic manipulation and robotic surgical assistance are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes one or more controllers configured to receive an image dataset of an actual environment within which the robotic tool is positioned. The controller(s) are also configured to generate a virtual environment of the actual environment based on the image dataset. Further, the controller(s) can control display of the virtual environment including a virtual tool controllable by a user for use to control the robotic tool within the actual environment. The controller(s) can receive user input for altering a perspective view of display of the virtual environment from a first perspective view to a second perspective view. Further, the controller(s) can maintain orientation of display of the virtual tool with respect to the user during display of the first perspective view and the second perspective view of the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Mark Draelos, Kris Hauser, Anthony Kuo, Brenton Keller, Joseph Izatt
  • Patent number: 10889596
    Abstract: Pateamine A derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions that include the derivatives, and methods for treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia using the derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Daniel Romo, Kenneth G. Hull, Mingzhao Zhu, Omar Robles
  • Patent number: 10888603
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating cancer with a combination of IL-2 (e.g., extended-PK IL-2), an integrin-binding-Fc fusion protein, and a cancer vaccine. The methods of the invention can be used to treat a broad range of cancer types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Karl Dane Wittrup, Darrell J. Irvine, Cary Francis Opel, Kelly Dare Moynihan, Jennifer R. Cochran, Byron Hua Kwan
  • Patent number: 10892399
    Abstract: Embodiments of a magnetic field sensor of the present disclosure includes magnetoelectric nanowires suspended above a substrate across electrodes without substrate clamping. This results in enhanced magnetoelectric coupling by reducing substrate clamping when compared to layered thin-film architectures. Accordingly, the magnetoelectric nanowires of the magnetic field sensor generate a voltage response in the presence of a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer S. Andrew, David P. Arnold, Matthew Bauer, Xiao Wen
  • Patent number: 10889812
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising short non-coding protein regulatory RNAs (sprRNA), variants, fragments and inhibitors thereof and compositions and methods of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Li Mao, Yuping Mei
  • Patent number: 10889853
    Abstract: Interaction with a protein is detected by using an RNA probe containing the following sequences; (i) a complementary strand sequence to a DNA barcode sequence, (ii) a sequence of a first stem portion, (iii) a sequence of a second stem portion complementary to the first stem portion for hybridizing with the first stem portion to form a double-stranded stem, and (iv) a sequence of a loop portion contained in RNA for linking the first and second stem portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hirohide Saito, Toshiki Taya, Shunichi Kashida
  • Patent number: 10891229
    Abstract: A multi-level caching method and a multi-level caching system for enhancing a graph processing performance are provided. The multi-level caching method includes searching for graph data associated with a query from a first cache memory in which data output in response to a previous query request is stored, when a query request for the query is received, re-searching for the graph data from a second cache memory in which neighboring data with a history of an access to each of data stored in the first cache memory is stored, when the graph data is not found in the first cache memory, and outputting first neighboring data found by the re-searching as the graph data when a response to the query request is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: CHUNGBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seunghun Yoo, Dojin Choi, Jongtae Lim, Kyoungsoo Bok, Jaesoo Yoo
  • Patent number: 10889903
    Abstract: An anode for oxygen evolution that operates at a small overpotential and in a stable manner, and can be used favorably in an organic chemical hydride electrolytic synthesis apparatus. An anode 10 for oxygen evolution that evolves oxygen in a sulfuric acid aqueous solution containing a substance to be hydrogenated dissolved at a concentration higher than 1 mg/L, wherein an anode substrate 10a is composed of a valve metal, and an anode catalyst layer 10b containing at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of iridium, and at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to groups 4, 5 and 13 of the periodic table is formed on the surface of the anode substrate 10a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, DE NORA PERMELEC LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenori Mitsushima, Yasutomo Takakuwa, Awaludin Zaenal, Akihiro Kato
  • Patent number: 10890462
    Abstract: There is provided a system, method, and a computer program product that, when implemented, provides a user a notification about one or more road conditions. The system may include one or more sensors that may be configured to detect the presence and absence of one or more road markings, and a processing unit in operable communication with the one or more sensors configured to receive and process a plurality of sensor readings provided by the one or more sensors. A display in operable communication with the processing unit may be configured to display audio, visual, and audiovisual notification messages to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: PRINCESS SUMAYA UNIVERSITY FOR TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yazan Ahmad Alqudah, Belal Hussein Mohammad Sababha
  • Patent number: 10888332
    Abstract: An intranasal occlusion device having an inflatable balloon within a sponge that is used to prevent drainage of fluid, such as blood and other fluids into the airway during sinus and nasal minor procedures or surgeries, and methods of using the device to occlude an intranasal cavity of a patient. The device provides for suction to remove the fluid and may facilitate office-based minor procedures or surgeries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: John D. Cramer, Bruce Kuang-Huay Tan
  • Patent number: 10888244
    Abstract: Devices that sense sweat and are capable of providing chronological assurance are described. The device uses at least one sensor to measure sweat or its components and to determine a sweat sampling rate. The chronological assurance is determined, at least in part, using the sweat sampling rate. The sweat sampling rate may be determined, at least in part, using a sweat volume and/or a sweat generation rate, both of which may be measured or predetermined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: University of Cincinnati
    Inventor: Jason Charles Heikenfeld
  • Patent number: 10889008
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an automated dispensing machine adopting local coverage type sucker array and a control method thereof. The automated dispensing machine adopting local coverage type sucker array comprises a rack. A medicine obtaining device and a medicine weighing and discharging device are arranged on the rack. The control method comprises: (1), after receiving medicine grasping and discharging commands, a single-chip microprocessor firstly selects a current medicine obtaining station according to a medicine obtaining station circulation sequence, and then controls the first linear driver to push the slide to move forwards to the selected medicine obtaining station; (2), the single-chip microprocessor transmits the control signal to a fifth relay to control the second linear driver to drive the vacuum medicine sucking mechanical arm to move downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Chongqing University
    Inventors: Yongduan Song, Zhixi Shen, Xiaohu Pan, Li Chen, Xiao Chen, Zhilin Wang
  • Patent number: 10891416
    Abstract: A system and method for rip-up and re-routing a global routing solution includes determining, via processing circuitry, one or more rip-up and re-route (R&R) strategies for a net; decomposing, via the processing circuitry, multiple pins of the net into a plurality of subnets; decomposing a spanning tree of the net into paths for the plurality of subnets; determining, via the processing circuitry, a probability of success of each of the R&R strategies for one of minimizing a total overflow of a global routing solution or minimizing a wire length of the global routing solution; and applying one of the R&R strategies to the net based on the determined probability of success of said each of the R&R strategies towards improving the global routing solution, wherein the global routing solution includes a plurality of spanning trees for a respective plurality of nets of a global routing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Umair F. Siddiqi, Sadiq M. Sait