Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 9320766
    Abstract: The Lactobacillus plantarum CCFM8661 is tolerant to acid and lead ions in vitro which can tolerate lead ions solution with the initial concentration of 150 mg/L, and has a strong capability of binding lead ions, which can reduce the lead level in mice blood, liver, kidney and stomach, significantly improve antioxidant indicators and alleviate pathological symptoms of lead exposed mice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Fengwei Tian, Wei Chen, Qixiao Zhai, Hao Zhang, Jianxin Zhao, Gang Wang, Yuanda Song, Qiuxiang Zhang, Xiaoming Liu, Min Guo, Daming Fan
  • Patent number: 9320594
    Abstract: A diffractive multifocal lens is disclosed, comprising an optical element having at least one diffractive surface, the surface profile comprising a plurality of annular concentric zones. The optical thickness of the surface profile changes monotonically with radius within each zone, while a distinct step in optical thickness at the junction between adjacent zones defines a step height. The step heights for respective zones may differ from one zone to another periodically so as to tailor diffraction order efficiencies of the optical element. In one example of a trifocal lens, step heights alternate between two values, the even-numbered step heights being lower than the odd-numbered step heights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventor: James T. Schwiegerling
  • Patent number: 9325558
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for an adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service using metadata of content are provided. The metadata may include a minBufferTime attribute indicating a minimum amount of initially buffered media content. A terminal may receive content from a server before playback of the content, and may buffer the content by at least the minimum amount. The metadata may include a range attribute that designates a range of a target indicated by a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The terminal may receive bytes designated by the range attribute from the URL, and may play back the content using the received bytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Industry-Univeristy Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Truong Cong Thang, Jin Young Lee, Seong Jun Bae, Jung Won Kang, Soon Heung Jung, Sang Taick Park, Won Ryu, Jae Gon Kim
  • Patent number: 9322108
    Abstract: A process for the electrochemical deposition of a semiconductor material, which process comprises: (i) providing a non-aqueous solvent; (ii) providing at least one precursor salt which forms a source of the constituent elements within the semiconductor material to be deposited; and (iii) electrodepositing the semiconductor material onto an electrode substrate using the precursor salt in the non-aqueous solvent, characterized in that: (iv) the semiconductor material is a p-block or a post-transition metal semiconductor material containing at least one p-block element or post-transition metal; and (v) the non-aqueous solvent is a halocarbon non-aqueous solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: University of Southampton
    Inventors: Gillian Reid, Philip Nigel Bartlett, Andrew Lee Hector
  • Patent number: 9323629
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of managing the path of an OSEK network. The method of managing the path of an OSEK network includes step S1 at which a message is transferred along nodes of the OSEK network; step S2 at which a failed node at which a network failure has occurred is detected while the message is being transferred at step S1; step S3 at which the failed node of step S2 is eliminated from the overall network; and step S4 at which the message is transferred from a source node that has transferred the message to the failed node of step S2 to a target node to which the failed node will transfer the message by connecting the source node with the target node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Jae Wook Jeon, Sung Suk Jung, Ho Young Jeong, Jin Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 9322148
    Abstract: A mapping system includes a pose sensor, a mapping sensor, a database defining a work surface, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive pose signals and determine the position and the orientation of the machine and receive mapping signals and determine a plurality of raw data points. The controller further determines a plurality of machine points defining a position of a portion of the machine and filters the plurality of raw data points based upon the plurality of machine points to define a plurality of filtered data points. The database may be updated with the plurality of filtered data points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., Carnegie-Mellon University
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Stratton, Louis Bojarski, Peter Rander, Randon Warner, Jason Ziglar
  • Patent number: 9321993
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides cell culture medium comprising trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). Progenitor cells cultured with such medium can form connective tissue with enhanced mechanical properties. Also provided are methods of forming connective tissue and methods of treatment for connective tissue defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Clark T. Hung, Grace D. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 9320487
    Abstract: An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a method for non-invasively determining the functional severity of coronary artery stenosis. The method includes gathering patient-specific data related to concentration of a contrast agent within a coronary artery of a patient using a coronary computed tomography angiography scan (CCTA). The patient-specific data is used to calculate a patient-specific transluminal attenuation gradient for the coronary artery of the patient. The patient specific transluminal attenuation gradient is used to determine an estimate of a coronary flow velocity, pressure gradient, loss coefficient, coronary flow reserve, and/or fractional flow reserve for the patient. Coronary flow velocity, pressure gradient, loss coefficient, coronary flow reserve, and fractional flow reserve can then be used to estimate the functional severity of coronary artery stenosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Rajat Mittal, Albert C. Lardo, Jung Hee Seo
  • Patent number: 9322104
    Abstract: In an example of a method for recovering lead from a mixed oxidized lead material, methane sulfonic acid is selected as a leaching acid for the mixed oxidized lead material. The mixed oxidized lead material is exposed to a solution including the methane sulfonic acid, which leaches lead from any of a lead oxide or a lead carbonate in the mixed oxidized lead material, and generates a liquid leachate including a lead-methane sulfonate salt. The liquid leachate is purified, and lead is recovered from the purified liquid leachate using electrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: The University of British Columbia, BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Fassbender, David Dreisinger, Zhenghui Wu
  • Patent number: 9324484
    Abstract: A ferrite layer having a columnar structure is formed, and ferrite flakes are separated from the ferrite layer. The ferrite flakes include a metal oxide having a spinel cubic crystal structure with a stoichiometry represented by AB2O4, where A and B represent different lattice sites occupied by cationic species, and O represents oxygen in its own sublattice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Nicole M. Ray, William T. Petuskey
  • Patent number: 9320809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanoparticle including a hydrophobic drug conjugated to a cationic polymer and a hydrophilic drug conjugated to an anionic polymer, a method of preparing the same and a pharmaceutical use thereof. The nanoparticle according to an embodiment of the present invention may deliver the hydrophilic drug and the hydrophobic drug at the same time, and may control an initial drug burst. Further, the nanoparticle according to an embodiment of the present invention is specific to a cancer cell environment, and thus selective diagnosis or treatment of cancer cells is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: University-Industry Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Seungjoo Haam, Yong-min Huh, Ilkoo Noh, Jihye Choi, Hyun-Ouk Kim, Dayeon Yun
  • Patent number: 9320875
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a conduit system including an outer lumen (810), an inner lumen (805), and an attaching device (820). In other embodiments, a multiple access port device adapted for communication with at least one of an outer lumen, an inner lumen, or an attaching device of a conduit system is provided. In yet other embodiments, a system including an inner lumen that is collapsible is provided. Means for closing a conduit system are also provided, including a plug for insertion through an attaching device and a variable radius coiled member associated with an attaching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Emory University, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge Jimenez, Ajit P. Yoganathan, Seth West, Vinod Thourani
  • Patent number: 9325047
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a dynamically reconfigurable bandpass filter includes a resonator loop and a microfluidic channel proximate to the resonator loop, the channel containing a conductor, wherein the position of the conductor within the channel can be adjusted to change capacitive loading of the resonator loop and therefore change the frequencies that the filter passes. In another embodiment, a filter includes a second resonator loop having comprising switches located at discrete positions along a length of the second resonator loop, wherein opening and closing of the switches changes the effective length of the second resonator loop to change capacitive loading of the first resonator loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Gokhan Mumcu, Timothy Joseph Palomo, Rasim Guldiken
  • Patent number: 9320722
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer, and in particular cancers characterized by a high level of ALD3H1 activity, which is associated with chemoresistance to cancer chemotherapeutic agents that are degraded by ALD3H1. The compositions described herein act as competitive inhibitors of ALD3H1 and thereby reduce breakdown of chemotherapeutics by this enzyme, and increase their efficacy for cancer treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas D. Hurley
  • Patent number: 9325333
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention provides a method implemented by an analog hardware circuit for fast frequency estimation. The analog circuit may be implemented a main oscillator circuit block [100], a P matrix circuit block [102], a K matrix circuit block[104], and a sigma integrator circuit block [106]. From input signals [108] having unknown frequency, amplitude and phase, the analog hardware circuit generates estimates of state variables xi, x2, x3 of a model oscillator, and outputs a sinusoidal estimate [110] of the model oscillator signal. The analog hardware circuit generates the estimates by implementing in continuous time an extended Kalman filter that relates a generating frequency 107 of the model oscillator to x3 by an affine transformation ?=?0+£x3, where k is a slope of a frequency error estimate and coo is a best estimate input signal frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Donald M. Wiberg, Kenneth D. Pedrotti, Chengcheng Xu
  • Patent number: 9321868
    Abstract: Products and processes relating to the synthesis of copolymers or terpolymers are described. In particular, poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylate ester), poly(methacrylic acid-co-methacrylate ester), poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylate ester(I)-co-acrylate ester(II)), or poly(methacrylic acid-co-methacrylate ester(I)-co-methacrylate ester(II)), by esterification of polyacrylic or polymethacrylic acid with alcohols assisted by the pervaporation technique for extracting water are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: King Saud University
    Inventors: Abdullah Saad Alarifi, Taieb Aouak
  • Publication number: 20160109776
    Abstract: The subject invention pertains to color changeable, film materials comprising a metal substrate layer; a conducting polymer or conducting polymer composite layer; and an electrolyte layer. The conducting polymer or conducting polymer composite layer of the film material is capable of exhibiting changes in one or more optical properties when the film material is in contact with a metal. The subject invention also pertains to methods of preparing conducting polymer films capable of exhibiting changes in optical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Ram, D. Yogi Goswani, Elias K. Stefanakos
  • Publication number: 20160106608
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transportation apparatus for patients, which is a transportation apparatus that transfers and moves a patient that is on a main body frame in which the legs thereof are mounted with moving wheels. The present invention includes: a sliding plate that is moved to slide to both sides along the widthwise direction, by a sliding and moving means, on the upper surface of the main body frame; a transport conveyor that is coupled to the upper portion of the sliding plate so as to be moved to slide with the sliding plate, and has a conveyor belt which rotate in the forward direction or reverse direction by a rotating and moving means, after the movement; and an operation unit that is disposed on the front surface of the main body frame in the lengthwise direction so as to operate the sliding plate and the transport conveyor by means of the sliding and moving means and the rotating and moving means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Catholic University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: Young Min OH
  • Publication number: 20160111661
    Abstract: A compound having a formula M(LA)x(LB)y(LC)z, where ligand LA is ligand LB is and ligand LC is is disclosed. In the structure of M(LA)x(LB)y(LC)z, M is a metal; x is 1, or 2; y and z are 0, 1, or 2; X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, and X8 are each independently C or N; rings C and D are each independently a 5 or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; two adjacent RB form a six-member aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring E fused to ring B and, when ring E is heterocyclic, the only heteroatom is nitrogen; and ring E can be further substituted by RE. Additionally, any adjacent substituents R11, R12, RB, RC, RD, RE, R1, R2, R3, R4, R? and R? are optionally joined to form a ring. Formulations and devices that include the compound of formula M(LA)x(LB)y(LC)z, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre-Luc T. BOUDREAULT, Zeinab Elshenawy, Chuanjun Xia
  • Patent number: PP26644
    Abstract: A new cultivar of apple tree, ‘MINNB42’, that is characterized by its fruit that is distinct in its ability to develop deeply colored red fruit skin in climates (such as southern Pennsylvania and southern New York) that are not conducive to producing well-colored ‘Honeycrisp’ fruit, its fruit with a diameter of 7 to 8.4 cm, its fruit with a texture that is very crisp when eaten, its fruit with skin that is relatively thin and easy to penetrate when eaten, its fruit with a flavor that is sub-acid, its moderate tree growth rate, and its cold hardness in U.S.D.A. Zone 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: David Bedford, James Luby