Patents Assigned to University
  • Heterogeneous network topology management and control
    Patent number: 10892838
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure may provide devices or systems configured to receive indications of geographic areas, each corresponding to distribution networks, and determine whether the distribution networks overlap. The processor(s) may also be configured to receive parameter value(s) obtained by a device within one distribution network at a location within an overlapping area, and cause device(s) within another distribution network to modify operation based on the parameter value(s). In another aspect, the present disclosure may provide devices that include a voltage sensor to measure a voltage of a power distribution network at a power consumption location that corresponds to the device. The device may be configured to provide at least one cable service to the power consumption location via a cable television (CATV) distribution network and output an indication the measured voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Robert Fraser Cruickshank, III, Bri-Mathias Scott Hodge, Anthony Reed Florita
  • Optogenetic inhibition of overactive neuronal activity
    Patent number: 10889628
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to recombinant proteins, vectors, and methods of treating neurological conditions by exposing neurons to an opsin and luciferase in the presence of a luciferin. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to treating or preventing epilepsy or seizures comprising administering an effective amount of a vector that encodes an opsin and luciferase in combination with a luciferin to a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Emory University
    Inventors: Robert E. Gross, Nealen G. Laxpati, Jack Tung, Ken Berglund
  • Derivatives and composition of quinoline and naphthyridine
    Patent number: 10889566
    Abstract: Derivatives of quinoline and naphthyridine, methods of making such compounds, and methods of using such compounds for the treatment or prophylaxis of HIV infection and certain cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: Chulabhorn Foundation, Kasetsart University, Srinakharinwirot university
    Inventors: Supanna Techasakul, Arthit Makarasen, Nanthawan Reuk-Ngam, Panita Khlaychan, Mayuso Kuno, Supa Hannongbua
  • Metabolic biomarkers for memory loss
    Patent number: 10890589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of determining if a subject has an increased risk of suffering from memory impairment. The methods comprise analyzing at least one plasma sample from the subject to determine a value of the subject's metabolite profile and comparing the value of the subject's metabolite profile with the value of a normal metabolite profile. A change in the value of the subject's metabolite profile, over normal values is indicative that the subject has an increased risk of suffering from memory impairment compared to a normal individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: Georgetown University, University of Rochester
    Inventors: Massimo S. Fiandaca, Mark E. Mapstone, Howard J. Federoff, Xiaogang Zhong, Amrita K. Cheema
  • Perfusion bioreactor with tissue flow control and live imaging compatibility
    Patent number: 10889789
    Abstract: A perfusion bioreactor chamber for engineering a broad spectrum of tissues. The bioreactor allows controlled distribution of fluid through or around scaffolding materials of various shapes, structures and topologies during prolonged periods of cultivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Sarindr Bhumiratana, Keith Yeager
  • Time-based signal acquisition apparatus and method using sawtooth-shaped threshold voltage
    Patent number: 10890671
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a time-based signal acquisition apparatus and method using sawtooth-shaped threshold voltage. The signal acquisition apparatus for acquiring the information of a scintillation signal includes a sawtooth-shaped voltage generation unit and a signal comparison unit. The sawtooth-shaped voltage generation unit generates a sawtooth-shaped threshold voltage which increases when the threshold voltage is smaller than a voltage value of the scintillation signal and which decreases to an initial value when the threshold voltage is larger than the voltage value of the scintillation signal. The signal comparison unit receives the scintillation signal, compares the voltage value of the scintillation signal with the threshold voltage, and generates a digital pulse train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jae Sung Lee, Guen Bae Ko
  • Suction device
    Patent number: 10888977
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a suction device including a shell with a chamber, the chamber including an opening. A fan is disposed in the chamber, and a power component for driving the fan to rotate is disposed on the shell. An external fluid source holding an additional fluid is connected to the chamber. The additional fluid of the external fluid source flows into the chamber to occupy a volume in the chamber and at least partially forces a first fluid originally present in the chamber out of the chamber. The fan drives fluids in the chamber to rotate so that a stepped negative pressure is generated in the chamber, with a magnitude of the negative pressure decreasing as a distance to a periphery of the chamber decreases. Thereby, a pressure difference between an inside and an outside of the shell is decreased, decreasing vacuum leakage of the suction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xin Li, Kaige Shi
  • System for setting a global routing solution for a printed circuit board
    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
  • Organic small molecule semiconducting chromophores for use in organic electronic devices
    Patent number: 10892421
    Abstract: Small organic molecule semi-conducting chromophores containing a pyridalthiadiazole, pyridaloxadiazole, or pyridaltriazole core structure are disclosed. Such compounds can be used in organic heterojunction devices, such as organic small molecule solar cells and transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Gregory C. Welch, Corey V. Hoven, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Guillermo C. Bazan
  • Gene therapy for treating hemophilia A
    Patent number: 10888628
    Abstract: Compositions and regimens useful in treating hemophilia A are provided. The compositions include recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) with a transthyretin enhancer and promoter driving expression of a human Factor VIII.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Lili Wang, James M. Wilson, Jenny Agnes Sidrane
  • Switching device, method of fabricating the same, and non-volatile memory device having the same
    Patent number: 10892409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switching device, a method of fabricating the same, and a nonvolatile memory device including the same. A switching device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a switching film which is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and includes an electrically insulating matrix and a conductive path formed in the electrically insulating matrix. In this embodiment, the conductive path includes crystalline metal clusters dispersed in the electrically insulating matrix and a metal bridge connecting adjacent crystalline metal clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: SK hynix Inc., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Hyeong Joon Kim, Ji Woon Park, Young Seok Kim
  • Automated dispensing machine adopting local coverage type sucker array and control method thereof
    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
  • Rechargeable batteries including high-voltage cathode and redox shuttle conferring overcharge protection
    Patent number: 10892525
    Abstract: Compounds for use as photoredox catalysts and as redox shuttles in a rechargeable battery having a high-voltage cathode providing overcharge protection capabilities are provided, including a compound according to the formula: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, alkoxyaryl, alkylcarboxyl, aryl carbonyl, haloalkyl, perfluoroalkyl, glycols, haloaryl, a negative electrolyte, and a polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Susan A. Odom, Aman Preet Kaur, Corrine F. Elliott
  • Methods for separation of magnetic nanoparticles
    Patent number: 10888874
    Abstract: A method of separating magnetic nanoparticles is described. The method comprises placing the magnetic nanoparticles in a periodic magnetic field. The periodic magnetic field varies between a first magnetic field strength and a second magnetic field strength that is higher than the first magnetic field strength. The nanoparticles may be superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Allan E. David, Barry Jay Yeh
  • MiRNA biomarkers for cartilage degeneration
    Patent number: 10888577
    Abstract: There is disclosed herein methods, uses and systems for the detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment or prevention of a disease or condition comprising cartilage degeneration in a subject that is in need thereof. The methods comprise the use, inhibition or measurement of at least one of miR-181 a-5p and miR-4454, in the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    Inventors: Mohit Kapoor, Akihiro Nakamura, Raja Rampersaud
  • Compositions and methods for treating conditions related to ephrin signaling with Cupredoxins
    Patent number: 10889621
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods of use of cupredoxins, and variants, derivatives and structural equivalents of cupredoxins that interfere with the ephrin signaling system in mammalian cells. Specifically, the invention relates to compositions and methods that use cupredoxins, such as azurin, rusticyanin and plastocyanin, and variants, derivatives and structural equivalents thereof, to treat cancer in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Ananda Chakrabarty, Tapas Das Gupta, Tohru Yamada, Anita Chaudhari, Arsenio Fialho, Yonghua Zhu
  • Compositions and methods for inhibiting influenza RNA polymerase PA endonuclease
    Patent number: 10889556
    Abstract: There are provided inter alia metalloenzyme inhibitors, such as inhibitors of influenza A RNA dependent RNA polymerase PA subunit endonuclease, and methods of synthesis and use of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Seth M. Cohen, Cy V. Credille, David T. Puerta
  • Highly stable electronic device employing hydrophobic composite coating layer
    Patent number: 10892106
    Abstract: An electronic device, such as, without limitation, a perovskite solar cell or a light emitting diode, includes an assembly including at least one electronic portion or component, and a composite coating layer covering at least part of the assembly including the at least one electronic portion or component. The composite coating layer includes a polymer material, such as, without limitation, PMMA or PMMA-PU, having nanoparticles, such as, without limitation, reduced graphene oxide or SiO2, embedded therein. The electronic device may further include a second coating layer including a second polymer material (such as, without limitation, PMMA or PMMA-PU without nanoparticles) positioned between the coating layer and the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Global Frontier Center for Multiscale Energy Systems
    Inventors: Jung-Kun Lee, Gillsang Han
  • Intranasal occlusion device and methods of using the same
    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
  • Production of monoterpene blends by unicellular photosynthetic microorganisms
    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