Patents Assigned to University
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Publication number: 20140206666Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise sulfamoylbenzamide derivative useful as pregenomic RNA encapsidation inhibitors, useful for the treatment of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: Philadelphia Helath & Education Corporation d/b/a Drexel University College of Medicine, Institute for Hepatitis and Virus ResearchInventors: Ju-Tao Guo, Xiaodong Xu, Timothy M. Block
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Publication number: 20140207975Abstract: A system and method for managing a communication link between a consumer electronic device adapted for two-way, wireless communications with at least one peripheral. The communication link is managed using a controller that is associated with the consumer electronic device that functions to assign communication slots to the peripheral to facilitate communications between the peripheral and the consumer electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Universal Electronics Inc.Inventor: Christopher Alan Chambers
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Publication number: 20140202693Abstract: The instant application relates to nanogels or compositions that hold multivalent metal ions until some level of nanogel degradation has occurred, then slowly release the multivalent metal ions for gelation with carboxylate containing polymers. Compositions comprising such nanogels, together with polymers that can be crosslinked with multivalent metal ions, allow the deployment of such mixtures in various applications, and greatly increased gelation times.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: The University of Kansas, CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANYInventors: Huili GUAN, Cory BERKLAND, Ahmad MORADI-ARAGHI, Jenn-Tai LIANG, Terry M. CHRISTIAN, Riley B. Needham, Min CHENG, Faye Lynn SCULLY, James H. HEDGES
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Publication number: 20140202964Abstract: A composition comprised of sand and a hydrophobic polycationic polymer covalently bonded to the sand is provided. Exemplary polycationic polymer are N,N-hexyl, methyl-PEI or N,N-dodecyl, methyl-PEI. This antimicrobial polycationic sand filter uses the antimicrobial properties of hydrophobic polycations (N-hexylated polyethylenimine). The sand filter inactivates microorganisms, as water is run through the sand. Preliminary sand washing methods can be used regenerate the inactivation efficacy. Unlike traditional water disinfectants, the polycationic sand filter does not create harmful disinfection byproducts and does not require large chemical and energy consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Northeastern UniversityInventors: April Z. GU, Alexander M. KLIBANOV, Annalisa ONNIS-HAYDEN, Bryan B. HSU, Kim LEWIS
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Publication number: 20140202970Abstract: A fast crane and an operation method for the same are provided. The operation method includes calculating a pendulum period and moving the object. The pendulum period of the cable is calculated. The object is moved with an acceleration during an active time based on the pendulum period.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: National Taiwan UniversityInventors: Shih-Chung Kang, Thomas Kuo
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Publication number: 20140204974Abstract: Provided is a temperature sensing circuit and a temperature sensing method including a delay unit delaying an input clock signal to generate a feedback clock signal, and including logic gates of which delay times are variable according to temperature, a delay control unit comparing the feedback clock signal with a reference clock signal and controlling each of the logic gates of the delay unit according to the comparison result, and an input signal control unit selecting, as the input clock signal, any one of the feedback clock signal and the reference clock signal to input the input clock signal to the delay unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei UniversityInventors: Seong-Ook JUNG, Kyungho RYU, Dong-Hun JUNG, Young-Jae An
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Publication number: 20140206676Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to substituted 4-(1H-pyrazol-4-yl)benzyl analogs compounds, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 (mAChR M1); synthesis methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with muscarinic acetylcholine receptor dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Vanderbilt UniversityInventors: Craig W. Lindsley, P. Jeffrey Conn, Michael R. Wood, Bruce J. Melancon, Michael S. Poslusney, James C. Tarr
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Publication number: 20140205862Abstract: Provided are a magneto resistive effect element with a stable magnetization direction perpendicular to a film plane and with a controlled magnetoresistance ratio, and a magnetic memory using the magneto resistive effect element. Ferromagnetic layers 106 and 107 of the magneto resistive effect element are formed from a ferromagnetic material containing at least one type of 3d transition metal such that the magnetoresistance ratio is controlled, and the film thickness of the ferromagnetic layers is controlled on an atomic layer level such that the magnetization direction is changed from a direction in the film plane to a direction perpendicular to the film plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Tohoku UniversityInventors: Hideo Ohno, Shoji Ikeda, Fumihiro Matsukura, Masaki Endoh, Shun Kanai, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Katsuya Miura
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Publication number: 20140206031Abstract: In one aspect, methods of imaging are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of imaging described herein comprises disposing a population of ultrasound-switchable fluorophores in a biological environment, the fluorophores having a switching threshold between an off state and an on state; exposing the biological environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region within the biological environment; switching at least one of the fluorophores within the activation region from the off state to the on state; exciting the at least one fluorophore with a beam of electromagnetic radiation; and detecting light emitted by the fluorophore. In some embodiments, the activation region has a maximum negative pressure and/or maximum temperature and the switching threshold of the at least one fluorophore is at least about 50 percent of the maximum negative pressure or at least about 50 percent of the maximum temperature of the activation region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Board of Regents, The University Of Texas SystemInventor: Baohong Yuan
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Publication number: 20140202353Abstract: A suspension system for a train vehicle includes at least one inerter to minimize track wear. Track wear may be measured by direct measures such as wear work, or indirect measures such as yaw stiffness. “Minimizing” track wear means that such measures are reduced below values which are achievable with conventional technology while maintaining acceptable values of other performance metrics, such as ride comfort or least damping ratio. The suspension system may comprise at least one damper connected in series with the at least one inerter. The suspension system may be the primary or the secondary suspension system of a train vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: Loughborough University, Cambridge Enterprise LimitedInventors: Malcolm C. Smith, Zheng Jiang, Roger Morgan Goodall
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Publication number: 20140205033Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for uplink multi-user cooperation communication, which is applied in a system at least including a first source node, a second source node and a target node, wherein there is a direct transmission link between either the first or the second source node and the target node.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsInventors: Kan Zheng, Hang Long, Fangxiang Wang
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Publication number: 20140206829Abstract: The present invention provides novel bimetallic complexes and methods of using the same in the isoselective polymerization of epoxides. The invention also provides methods of kinetic resolution of epoxides. The invention further provides polyethers with high enantiomeric excess that are useful in applications ranging from consumer goods to materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Cornell UniversityInventors: Geoffrey W. Coates, Wataru Hirahata
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Publication number: 20140206118Abstract: Implementations and techniques for coupled asymmetric quantum confinement structures are generally disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: University of Seoul Industry Cooperation FoundationInventor: Doyeol Ahn
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Publication number: 20140206533Abstract: Methods and materials for producing organic syringomycin, the methods include culturing a culture of Pseudomonas syringae and a growth medium including glucose, mannitol, histidine, a magnesium source, an iron source, and a buffer with a pH of from about 6.5 to 7; extracting syringomycin from the culture to yield an extract; and purifying the extract to yield syringomycin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Utah State UniversityInventors: Jon Yutaka Takemoto, Michelle Marie Grilley, Claudia Nischwitz, Yukie Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20140205544Abstract: Disclosed is the surprising discovery that aminophospholipids, such as phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, are specific, accessible and stable markers of the luminal surface of tumor blood vessels. The present invention thus provides aminophospholipid-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic constructs for use in tumor intervention. Antibody-therapeutic agent conjugates and constructs that bind to aminophospholipids are particularly provided, as are methods of specifically delivering therapeutic agents, including toxins and coagulants, to the stably-expressed aminophospholipids of tumor blood vessels, thereby inducing thrombosis, necrosis and tumor regression.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Philip E. Thorpe, Sophia Ran, Rolf A. Brekken
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Publication number: 20140203259Abstract: A first device comprising a first organic light emitting device (OLED) is described. The first OLED includes an anode, a cathode, and an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The emissive layer includes a phosphorescent emissive dopant and a host material. The host material includes inorganic nanocrystals where (i) at least 50% of ligands bonded to said nanocrystals are compact ligands, (ii) an average interparticle distance between adjacent nanoparticles is ?1 nm, or (iii) both. Also described are a method of making the emissive layer and a composition that includes the phosphorescent emissive dopant with the host materials that include the electronically-coupled inorganic nanocrystal host material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Universal Display CorporationInventors: Aaron T. Fafarman, Xingchen Ye, Angang Dong, Christopher B. Murray, Cherie R. Kagan, Chun Lin
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Publication number: 20140204898Abstract: A fast device discovery protocol with a high success rate for device-to-device (D2D) communication in LTE-A networks is proposed. With the proposed protocol, device discovery is done by monitoring a randomly transmitted beacon from other devices within a pre-defined period. In one embodiment, an eNB receives scheduling requests from D2D UEs and in response allocates a distributed uplink resource for random access of beacon transmission by the D2D UEs. The distributed resource is dynamically allocated based on the number of requesting D2D UEs, a discovery period, and a target discovery probability to minimize the required resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: National Taiwan University, MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Zhu-Jun Yang, Jie-Cheng Edward Huang, JR., Chun-Ting Chou, Hung-Yun Hsieh, Ping-Cheng Yeh, Chia-Chun Hsu
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Publication number: 20140205623Abstract: Vaccine compositions and methods for protecting a mammalian subject against infection with S. pneumoniae are disclosed. These vaccine compositions include as the active ingredient a purified preparation of the cell wall protein NADH oxidase (NOX) having the Accession No. NP_345923 and the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 8, optionally together with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development AuthorityInventor: Yaffa MIZRACHI NEBENZAHL
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Publication number: 20140205891Abstract: An all-solid-state cell has a fired solid electrolyte body, a first electrode layer integrally formed on one surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte, and a second electrode layer integrally formed on the other surface of the fired solid electrolyte body by mixing and firing an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte. The first and the second electrode layers are formed by mixing and firing the electrode active material and the amorphous solid electrolyte, which satisfy the relation Ty>Tz (wherein Ty is a temperature at which the capacity of the electrode active material is lowered by reaction between the electrode active material and the solid electrolyte material, and Tz is a temperature at which the solid electrolyte material is shrunk by firing).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: NGK Insulators, Ltd., Kyushu UniversityInventors: Shigeto OKADA, Eiji KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro YOSHIDA, Yosuke SATO
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Publication number: 20140206836Abstract: There is provided a novel series of synthetic analogs of hGH-RH(1-29)NH2 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and hGH-RH(1-30)NH2. Of particular interest are those carrying PhAc, N-Me-Aib, Dca, Ac-Ada, Fer, Ac-Amc, Me-NH-Sub, PhAc-Ada, Ac-Ada-D-Phe, Ac-Ada-Phe, Dca-Ada, Dca-Amc, Nac-Ada, Ada-Ada, or CH3—(CH2)10—CO-Ada, at the N-Terminus and ?-Ala, Amc, Apa, Ada, AE2A, AE4P, ?-Lys(?-NH2), Agm, Lys(Oct) or Ahx, at the C-terminus. These analogs inhibit the release of growth hormone from the pituitary in mammals as well as inhibit the proliferation of human cancers, and inhibit the hyperplastic and benign proliferative disorders of various organs, through a direct effect on the cancerous and non-malignant cells. The stronger inhibitory potencies of the new analogs, as compared to previously described ones, result from replacement of various amino acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicants: U.S.A., represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, University of MiamiInventors: Andrew V. SCHALLY, Marta ZARANDI, Jozsef L. VARGA, Ren Zhi CAI