Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 8797901
    Abstract: Online TCP traffic identification using features in the head of the data flow wherein parameters of a number of packets in the head of the data flow such as packet length are extended with modified packet interval time and so on to establish the protocol features library according to the joint probability distribution. The protocol type of the data flow is obtained through comparing the packets features in the head of the data flow with the protocol features library. Data flow separation module, features extraction module, classification arbitration module and protocol features library module are included. The present invention weakens the impact that the round-trip delay has significantly on the protocol features, can accurately identify various TCP-based application-layer services and support online traffic identification. The identification process is suitable for hardware devices implementation and can be used in devices and systems that need online traffic identification in high-speed backbone network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunicaions
    Inventors: Yuefeng Ji, Rentao Gu, Hongxiang Wang
  • Patent number: 8798705
    Abstract: An instrument 10 for delivering a high voltage pulse to tissue is disclosed. The instrument 10 can include an outer support member 12 with a liquid reservoir 14 that has a liquid-contacting interior surface 16, an opening 18 at a distal end 20 of the outer support member 12, and a ground electrode 22 extending in a longitudinal direction and having a lower surface 23 proximate the opening 18. The instrument 10 can also include a working electrode 26 extending longitudinally from the liquid-contacting interior surface 16 with a needle-shaped distal portion 28 proximate the distal end 20; and an inlet port 31 and an outlet port 34 in liquid communication with the liquid reservoir 14. The working electrode 26 can be electrically isolated from the ground electrode 22 by an insulating portion 30 of the outer support member 12, and a direct path can exist through the liquid reservoir 14 between the ground electrode 22 and the working electrode 26.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Juergen F. Kolb, Karl H. Schoenbach, Stephen P. Beebe
  • Patent number: 8795850
    Abstract: Novel heteroleptic iridium complexes are provided. These iridium complexes are useful compounds in OLED devices. The ligands for these novel complexes may be obtained using a new synthetic methodology that utilizes manganese dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Gregg Kottas, Chuanjun Xia, Zeinab Eishenawy, Nasrin Ansari
  • Patent number: 8795504
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to electrochemical approaches for synthesis of platinum-iridium alloys with selected platinum-iridium ratio content and subsequently predetermined mechanical properties and electrochemical impedance properties. Such can provide a simple and cost-effective process for preparing these electrodes, as compared to conventional thin film processing techniques. A three-electrode electrochemical electrodeposition system is described including an electrochemical cell with a working electrode on which the electrodeposited film is deposited, a counter electrode to complete the electrochemical circuit and a reference electrode to measure and control surface potential. Mixed layers of platinum atoms and iridium atoms can be deposited from electrolyte solution onto the working electrode surface to create an electrically conductive surface with material properties related to the composition of the as-deposited film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Artin Petrossians, Artak Arakelian, James D. Weiland, Florian B. Mansfeld, John J. Whalen, III
  • Patent number: 8798727
    Abstract: A method, system, and device for detection of an arrhythmia, and discrimination between different types of arrhythmia, for example to determine whether to administer an electric shock to the heart, the device comprising a wearable monitor with electrodes that detect the electrical activity of a beating heart, attached to an embedded monitoring system having an amplifier, a microprocessor, a data storage device, and a power supply, all disposed on a substrate having large distal end portions that attach to the electrodes and a narrow intermediate portion that attaches to the monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventor: David Thor Linker
  • Patent number: 8798755
    Abstract: Systems and methods for stimulation of neurological tissue and generation stimulation trains with temporal patterns of stimulation, in which the interval between electrical pulses (the inter-pulse intervals) changes or varies over time. The features of the stimulation trains may be selected and arranged algorithmically to by clinical trial. These stimulation trains are generated to target a specific neurological disorder, by arranging sets of features which reduce symptoms of that neurological disorder into a pattern which is effective at reducing those symptoms while maintaining or reducing power consumption versus regular stimulation signals. Compared to conventional continuous, high rate pulse trains having regular (i.e., constant) inter-pulse intervals, the non-regular (i.e., not constant) pulse patterns or trains that embody features of the invention provide increased efficacy and/or a lower than average frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Warren M Grill, David T Brocker, Merrill J Birdno
  • Patent number: 8795707
    Abstract: A compliant composite for delivering a bioactive agent including a scaffolding material and a polymer coating that together can be attached to compliant tissue surfaces is disclosed, along with methods for constructing and applying these composites. In some embodiments, the composite further comprises a barrier layer for localized delivery of the bioactive agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Trustees of Boston University, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Wolinsky, Mark W. Grinstaff, Yolonda L. Colson
  • Patent number: 8796438
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods related to human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTRT), the catalytic protein subunit of human telomerase. Catalytically inactive variants comprising deletions or other mutations are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Geron Corporation, The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventor: Gregg B. Morin
  • Patent number: 8796233
    Abstract: Provided herein are bitter taste receptor ligands, related agents, combinations, compositions, methods and systems for modulating release of a metabolic hormone in vitro or in vivo from cells of the GI tract of an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of California, The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: William A. Goddard, III, Mark Menna, Stephen Pandol, Ravinder Abrol
  • Patent number: 8795988
    Abstract: Functional shRNA is produced from an expression vector prepared by selecting a two primer design in which the primers are less than about 50 nucleotides in length, annealing and extending the primers using primer extension, digesting the primer extension product and inserting the digestion product into a suitable vector. When the shRNA vectors are inserted into a cell, shRNA transcribed from the vectors modulates gene activity within the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University
    Inventors: Lin Liu, Deming Gou
  • Patent number: 8796625
    Abstract: An ultrasensitive dual optical method for measuring antioxidant concentration and total antioxidant capacity is provided. Using the process, the detection limit for vitamin C is as low as 7 nM. The method is based on a hybrid of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) with hydrogen-peroxide. The method provides is a robust, cheap, fast, and reusable optical sensing method for antioxidant and total antioxidant capacity measurement in foods and plasma. The method can also be developed as a miniature assay for both in vitro and in vivo detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas
    Inventors: Wei Zhao, Boshan Zhao
  • Patent number: 8796631
    Abstract: Polymer composite neutron detector materials are described. The composite materials include an aromatic polymer matrix, such as an aromatic polyester. Distributed within the polymer matrix are neutron capture agents, such as 6LiF nanoparticles, and organic or inorganic luminescent fluors. The composite materials can be formed into stretched or unstretched thin films, fibers or fiber mats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Dayakar Penumadu, Indraneel Sen, Rohit Uppal
  • Patent number: 8797184
    Abstract: Pedestrian call systems with bidirectional communication between pedestrian call stations and traffic controllers are arranged so as to detect system errors. Communications can be provided over power conductors, and systems can be configured and monitored using a web browser. In one example, traffic systems are provided with Ethernet interfaces that can be used for bidirectional communication over power lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: University of Idaho, Campbell Company
    Inventors: Philip Tate, Richard Wall, Craig Cravioto, Cody Browne, Zane Sapp, Gabriel Deruwe
  • Patent number: 8795989
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods and systems of producing neoagarobiose, useful in whitening melanoma cells and in cosmetics, using polypeptides having neoagarobiosebiohydralase activity, including Aga86E from Saccharophagus degradans. The reaction can be enhanced by including other agarases, including Aga16B, also from S. degradans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: University of Maryland
    Inventors: Steven W. Hutcheson, Ronald M. Weiner, Nathan A. Ekborg
  • Patent number: 8796664
    Abstract: A graphene-based composite structure is disclosed. The graphene-based composite structure includes a graphene layer, a transition metal layer, and a substrate. The graphene layer, transition metal layer, and substrate are stacked together in series to form a sandwich structure. The graphene layer and the transition metal layer are coupled by d-p orbitals hybridization. The transition metal layer and the substrate are also coupled by d-p orbitals hybridization. A method for making graphene-based composite structure is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Hui Duan, Yuan-Chang Li, Peng-Cheng Chen, Jian Wu, Bing-Lin Gu
  • Patent number: 8798187
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying a specific number of communicating points having relatively smallest accumulated path values from a plurality of transmitting points for a receiving point in a communication system. The method includes steps of: (a) defining a first coordination of each of the plurality of transmitting points and the receiving point on a complex plane; (b) transferring the first coordination of the receiving point to a second coordination thereof, in which the second coordination of the receiving point is near an origin of the complex plane; and (c) identifying the specific number of transmitting points having relatively smallest accumulated path values based on the second coordination of the receiving point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Chung-Jung Huang, Chih-Sheng Sung, Ta-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 8798340
    Abstract: A method includes receiving k-space data corresponding to magnetic resonance data for a subject and selecting a template for analysis. In addition, the method includes generating an image using the k-space data and using the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Curtis A. Corum, Michael G. Garwood, Steen Moeller, Djaudat S. Idiyatullin, Ryan Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 8796474
    Abstract: The present invention provides intermediate compounds and synthetic methods that can be used to prepare complex cyclic compounds including macrolides. The invention also provides cyclic compounds that have useful biological properties such as antiinfective, antiinflammatory, or antitumor properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Williams, Hiyun Kim, Kai Liu, Rojita Sharma
  • Patent number: 8796022
    Abstract: The present invention provides method, compositions, and systems for generating basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs) using FGF8, SHH, LXH8, GBX1, or vectors encoding these ligands, as well as using such BFCNs to treat neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Christopher Bissonnette, John Kessler
  • Patent number: 8798965
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to generating models from images. In an aspect, multi-view semantic segmentation is provided to recognize and segment images at the pixel level into semantically meaningful areas, and which can provide labels with a specific object class. In further aspects, a partition scheme is provided that can separate objects into independent blocks using major line structures of a scene. In addition, an inverse patch-based orthographic composition and structure analysis on a block is provided that can regularize noisy and missing reconstructed 3D data to facilitate image-based modeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Long Quan, Jianxiong Xiao, Tian Fang, Peng Zhao