Patents Assigned to University
  • Publication number: 20140170134
    Abstract: Embodiments concern methods and compositions for treating or preventing a bacterial infection, particularly infection by a Staphylococcus bacterium. Aspects include methods and compositions for providing a passive immune response against the bacteria. In certain embodiments, the methods and compositions involve an antibody that binds Staphylococcal protein A (SpA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: The University of Chicago
    Inventors: Olaf Schneewind, Dominique M. Missiakas, Hwan Keun Kim, Carta Emolo, Andrea Dedent
  • Publication number: 20140171774
    Abstract: Provided is a biological membrane including at least one ring-like polypeptide, where the at least one of the ring-like polypeptide is not a membrane protein, a surface being associated with at least one ring-like polypeptide capable of integration into a cell membrane, an electrode including said surface and electronically and biomedical devices including the electrodes for recording and stimulating cell activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.
    Inventors: Micha Spira, Oded Shoseyov
  • Publication number: 20140166368
    Abstract: A system for improving a drilling speed by using drill string vibration comprises a downhole drill string vibration-reduction and supercharging device, and an ultra-high pressure bit device used for a downhole supercharger. The downhole drill string vibration-reduction and supercharging device comprises a high-pressure runner (16). The ultra-high pressure bit device used for the downhole supercharger comprises an ultra-high pressure drilling fluid transmission runner. The ultra-high pressure drilling fluid transmission runner comprises an ultra-high pressure drilling fluid runner (25), a high-pressure resisting hose (28) and a high-pressure resisting rigid tube (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: China University of Petroleum (East China)
    Inventors: Zhichuan Guan, Yongwang Liu, Wenzhong Wei, Ben Guan, Yucai Shi, Hongning Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140166664
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conformal tank for adsorbent storage of gas. The tank includes a body having a substantially flat top wall, a substantially flat bottom wall and a pair of opposing sidewalls that join the top wall and bottom wall to form an open-ended cuboid having a first open end and an opposing second open end. The tank additionally includes a first end cap connected to the top wall, bottom wall and sidewalls at the first open end, and a second end cap connected to the top wall, bottom wall and sidewalls at the second open end, thereby defining an internal cavity in which gas can be removably stored. The tank further includes a plurality of wall supports connected the top and bottom walls to prevent deformation of the tank. The wall supports are structured to allow gas to move throughout the entire internal cavity of the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Yuyi Lin, Hao Xu
  • Publication number: 20140167326
    Abstract: An additive building method for building a plurality of layers to form a build stack is provided. The method includes creating a variable potential difference between a conducting element at a first voltage potential and an ion source at a second voltage potential, and creating an electric field between the conducting element and the ion source. The electric field passes through the build stack to a nearest surface of the build stack which is nearest a transfer medium. The method further includes accumulating electric charge from the ion source on the nearest surface of the build stack, and transferring deposition material from a transfer medium onto the nearest surface. The strength of the field at the nearest surface of the build stack is controlled in order to cause a homogenous transfer of the deposition material on to the nearest surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: University of Warwick
    Inventors: Jason Blair Jones, Gregory John Gibbons
  • Publication number: 20140170759
    Abstract: This invention discloses systems and methods for determining the sequence of amino acids in a short peptide chain that constructs a protein. The protein is firstly hydrolyzed to various short peptides and amino acid enantiomers. Then, the systems and method are used to separate the short peptides and the amino acid enantiomers, identify qualitatively each of the amino acid enantiomers, and obtain the molecular mass signal for each of the peptides. After that, the identified amino acid enantiomers are used to construct any possible short peptides in an order from the smallest molecular weight dipeptide to higher molecular weight short peptides, and the correct short peptides is confirmed by matching the molecular weight obtained from the mass spectrometry measurement, then, the short peptides are combined to give a large peptide. The process is continued until the whole amino acid sequence of the peptide chain of protein can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Chung Yuan Christian University
    Inventors: CHEAN-YEH CHENG, LI-TE YU
  • Publication number: 20140170773
    Abstract: In order to provide a method for more efficiently, easily, and accurately detecting asbestos without changing the asbestos detection criterion of the phase-contrast microscope/electron microscope method as compared with the phase-contrast microscope/electron microscope method, a phase-contrast microscope and a fluorescence microscope are used in combination to detect asbestos contained in a test sample after the test sample is made contact with an asbestos-binding protein having a fluorescent label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Hiroshima University
    Inventors: Akio Kuroda, Takenori Ishida, Tomoki Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140167418
    Abstract: The dynamo of the present invention is provided in the flow field of a fluid, and has: a columnar oscillating body, one end of the oscillating body being supported in the flow field of the fluid by a shaft that is parallel to the flow direction of the fluid, and the oscillating body being moved reciprocally by self-excited oscillation about the shaft; and an electricity generation unit for generating electrical energy in response to the reciprocal oscillation of the oscillating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: National University Corporation Okayama University
    Inventors: Shinji Hiejima, Kenichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20140168422
    Abstract: Techniques for vision-based sensing of structural displacement of an object, are disclosed. An example system includes digital video cameras adapted to generate digital image information corresponding to features of the object, an input to receive the digital image information corresponding to the one or more features, a converter configured to convert the digital image information into templates, and a comparator to compare the templates in sequence and to subtract displacement of stationary reference features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Maria Q. FENG, Yoshio Fukuda, Masato Mizuta
  • Publication number: 20140168603
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems, and/or devices that may be used to create aberration-corrected gradient index lenses. In some embodiments, data related to aberration measurements is received. This data is processed and an inverse map is generated to compensate for the aberration measurements. An intensity pattern corresponding to the inverse map is then projected onto a blank lens (e.g., to locally polymerize a mobile monomer) to create an exposed lens with a gradient index to correct for the aberration measurement. For example, in some embodiments, the lens may be an intraocular lens and the data can be generated by using a wavefront sensor to measure aberrations (e.g., an optical phase profile to correct defocus or astigmatism) in a patient's eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Robert R. McLeod, Michael Cole
  • Publication number: 20140172774
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a device for generating a recognizing model for recognizing named entities, and a method and a device for recognizing named entities. The method for recognizing named entities comprising: obtaining a first characteristic information set of a text to be trained; recognizing the first characteristic information set based on the first recognizing model to obtain a second characteristic information set which comprises M named entities obtained by recognizing the first characteristic information set through the first recognizing model, wherein M is an integer larger than or equal to 0; and performing error-correction on the M named entities in the second characteristic information set based on the error driving model to obtain K named entities, wherein K is an integer lager than or equal to 0 but less than or equal to M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicants: Peking University Founder Group Co., Ltd, Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd, Peking University
    Inventors: Zhichao Liu, Xiaoming Yu, Jianwu Yang
  • Publication number: 20140171396
    Abstract: A combination hormone and melatonin therapy is provided to reduce the risk of developing, or to reduce the severity of, breast cancer by administering at least one estrogen hormone and optionally at least one progesterone-receptor-binding compound or composition and melatonin together, preferably at normal bed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
    Inventors: Paula A. Witt-Enderby, Vicki L. Davis
  • Publication number: 20140171674
    Abstract: A dietary regimen for mitigating cardiovascular disease risk in a subject, the regimen comprising consumption of at least one of a functional food composition comprising high oleic canola oil, a dietary supplement comprising high oleic canola oil, and a nutraceutical composition comprising high oleic canola oil, whereby the subject consumes at least 14 mg/100 g of body weight every 24-hour diurnal period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: University of Manitoba
    Inventors: Thomas NETTICADAN, Carla TAYLOR, Sijo Joseph THANDAPILLY
  • Publication number: 20140170131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antimicrobial deoxyribonuclease-based compositions that inhibit growth and proliferation of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. The present invention also relates to methods of administering the compositions in the treatment and prevention of S. aureus infections. The present invention also relates to methods of administering the compositions in the eradication of S. aureus nasal carriage, in order to prevent the transmission of S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
    Inventor: Jeffrey B. Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20140165566
    Abstract: A method of converting thermal energy into mechanical work that uses a semi-permeable membrane to convert osmotic pressure into electrical power. A closed cycle pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) process known as an osmotic heat engine (OHE) uses a concentrated ammonia-carbon dioxide draw solution to create high osmotic pressures which generate water flux through a semi-permeable membrane against a hydraulic pressure gradient. The depressurization of the increased draw solution volume in a turbine produces electrical power. The process is maintained in steady state operation through the separation of the diluted draw solution into a re-concentrated draw solution and deionized water working fluid, both for reuse in the osmotic heat engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Yale University
    Inventors: Robert L. McGinnis, Menachem Elimelech, Jeffrey McCutcheon
  • Publication number: 20140165880
    Abstract: The present invention contemplates a cementitious additive that contains electric-arc furnace dust (EAFD) and a precursor as a replacement for up to about 30% of the cement in concrete. The additive includes about 50% by weight EAFD and about 50 wgt. % of precursor. The precursor includes about 55 wgt. % silica, about 10 to 20 wgt. % lime, about 2 to 5 wgt. % soda, about 5 to 15 wgt. % potash, about 2 to 6 wgt. % alumina and about 1 to 3 wgt. % magnesia. The method also contemplates the step of homogenizing the electric-arc furnace dust (EAFD) and precursor to produce engineered dust (ED) and then replacing up to 30% of the cement with a mixture referred to as ED i.e. homogenized EAFD and precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: King Saud University
    Inventors: Galal Fares, Rajeh Z. Al-Zaid, Abdulrahman M. Alhozaimy, Abdulaziz I. Al-Negheimish, Mohammad I. Khan
  • Publication number: 20140172377
    Abstract: A method for the problem of reconstructing a watertight surface defined by an implicit equation from a finite set of oriented points. As in other surface reconstruction approaches disctretizations of this continuous formulation reduce to the solution of sparse least-squares problems. Rather than forcing the implicit function to approximate the indicator function of the volume bounded by the surface, in the present formulation the implicit function is a smooth approximation of the signed distance function to the surface. Then solution thus introduced is a very simple hybrid FE/FD discretization, which together with an octree partitioning of space, and the Dual Marching Cubes algorithm produces accurate and adaptive meshes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Brown University
    Inventors: Gabriel Taubin, Fatih Calakli
  • Publication number: 20140170241
    Abstract: Methods for diagnosing and treating a cancer or a tumor in a patient are provided. The methods can comprise the steps of obtaining a biological sample from the patient and analyzing the sample for the presence or absence of Coiled Coil Helix Cristae Morphology 1 protein (CHCM1). A patient is diagnosed with cancer or a tumor provided that CHCM1 is overexpressed. The diagnosed patient is treated by administering a cancer or tumor treatment. The methods can also comprise the steps of obtaining a sample of cancer or tumor cells from the patient, determining a level of CHCM1 expression in the sample of cancer or tumor cells, and administering to the patient a compound for reducing the expression of CHCM1 or for blocking or inhibiting function of CHCM1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: M. Saeed Sheikh, Ying Huang, Jie An
  • Publication number: 20140171455
    Abstract: Methods for deterring microglia-mediated neurotoxicity in a human or non-human animal subjects comprising the step of inhibiting or blocking the intermediate-conductance calcium-activated potassium channel Kv1.3 in microglia, such as in subjects how suffer from neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's Disease) or ischemic/anoxic/hypoxic conditions. The inhibition or blocking of the KCa1.3 channels may be accomplished by administering a substance that inhibits Kv1.3 in microglia. Examples of Kv1.3 inhibiting substances include certain 5-phenoxyalkoxypsoralens, such as (4-Phenoxybutoxy)psoralen (PAP-1) as well as certain 4-phenoxybutoxy-substituted heterocyclic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Heike Wulff, Lee-Way Jin, Izumi Meezawa
  • Publication number: 20140173779
    Abstract: The invention provides nucleotide sequences that can be used in operable association with a promoter to express a polynucleotide sequence of interest in a plant, plant part or plant cell at particular stages of development and/or in specific tissues. and methods for directing developmental stage specific and/or tissue specific expression of a polynucleotide of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicants: The University of Guelph, Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Christophe Liseron-Monfils, Manish N. Raizada, Joseph Colasanti, Gregory Downs, Yong-Mei Bi, Lewis N. Lukens, Steven J. Rothstein, Tong Zhu, Xi Chen