Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 8683672
    Abstract: A gas sensing device (nanosensor) includes a substrate with at least a pair of conductive electrodes spaced apart by a gap, and an electrochemically functionalized semiconductive nanomaterial bridging the gap between the electrodes to form a nanostructure network. The nanomaterial may be single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) functionalized by the deposition of nanoparticles selected from the group consisting of an elemental metal (e.g., gold or palladium), a doped polymer (e.g., camphor-sulfonic acid doped polyaniline), and a metal oxide (e.g. tin oxide). Depending on the nanoparticles employed in the functionalization, the nanosensor may be used to detect a selected gas, such as hydrogen, mercury vapor, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen dioxide, methane, water vapor, and/or ammonia, in a gaseous environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Marc A. Deshusses, Nosang V. Myung, Wayne Bosze
  • Patent number: 8685360
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a method for the production of diamond at a high rate and in a high efficiency using in-liquid plasma. The present invention is a method for the production of diamond using electromagnetic waves irradiated to a liquid containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in which the ratio of hydrogen atoms to the sum of carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms is from 0.75 to 0.82 and the ratio of carbon atoms to the sum of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms is from 0.47 to 0.58 so as to generate plasma in the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisya Toyota Jidosyokki, Ehime University
    Inventors: Shinfuku Nomura, Hiromichi Toyota, Shinobu Mukasa
  • Patent number: 8689282
    Abstract: Cloud infrastructure of a cloud service provider comprises a processing platform implementing a security policy enforcement framework. The security policy enforcement framework comprises a policy analyzer that is configured to identify at least one security policy associated with at least one tenant of the cloud service provider, to analyze the security policy against configuration information characterizing the cloud infrastructure of the cloud service provider, and to control execution of one or more applications of said at least one tenant within the cloud infrastructure in accordance with the security policy, based at least in part on one or more results of the analysis of the security policy. The security policy enforcement framework may be implemented in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layer of the cloud infrastructure, and may comprise a runtime controller, an operating system controller, a hypervisor controller and a PaaS controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: EMC Corporation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Alina M. Oprea, Yinqian Zhang, Vijay Ganti, John P. Field, Ari Juels, Michael Kendrick Reiter
  • Patent number: 8684040
    Abstract: Roughness is added to the surface of a bluff body in a relative motion with respect to a fluid. The amount, size, and distribution of roughness on the body surface is controlled passively or actively to modify the flow around the body and subsequently the Vortex Induced Forces and Motion (VIFM). The added roughness, when designed and implemented appropriately, affects in a predetermined way the boundary layer, the separation of the boundary layer, the level of turbulence, the wake, the drag and lift forces, and consequently the Vortex Induced Motion (VIM), and the fluid-structure interaction. The goal of surface roughness control is to decrease/suppress Vortex Induced Forces and Motion. Suppression is required when fluid-structure interaction becomes destructive as in VIM of flexible cylinders or rigid cylinders on elastic support, such as underwater pipelines, marine risers, tubes in heat exchangers, nuclear fuel rods, cooling towers, SPAR offshore platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of The University of Michigan
    Inventors: Michael M. Bernitsas, Kamaldev Raghavan
  • Patent number: 8685721
    Abstract: A surface expression vector for preparing HPV immunogenic compositions, in which the surface expression vector contains a gene encoding a repE mutant protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, a promoter, a poly-gamma-glutamate synthetase complex gene, and a gene which is linked with the poly-gamma-glutamate synthetase complex gene and encodes a tumor induction-associated antigen protein of human papillomavirus. An expression vector constitutively expressing a high level of the human papillomavirus (HPV) antigen protein is provided. Also, a recombinant lactic acid bacteria, transformed with the expression vector and expressing the HPV antigen protein on the surface thereof, and a composition comprising the recombinant lactic acid bacteria are provided. The recombinant lactic acid bacteria and the composition are very effective as a immunogenic composition for the treatment of cervical cancer, because they can be applied orally or directly to the vagina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Bioleaders Corporation, Kookmin University Industry-Academy Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Moon-Hee Sung, Haryoung Poo, Il Han Lee
  • Patent number: 8688639
    Abstract: A distributed media access system and method. The method includes making each of a plurality nodes in a P2P network designate at least one nearest neighbors as a first node candidate and perform at least one random walk to obtain a second node candidate according to the peer list; calculating user preferences of the request node and user preferences of the first and second node candidates according to the first and second node candidates and the preference parameters corresponding to the first and second node candidates so as to obtain a plurality of similarity values; selecting the more similar candidate as buddies of user of the node according to the calculated similarity values; and establishing a buddy list according to the buddies of user and storing the buddy list such that the P2P network can quickly find buddies of the node through the buddy list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Cheng-Fu Chou, Yi-Ting Chang, Ching-Ju Lin, Chih-Cheng Hsu
  • Patent number: 8686712
    Abstract: A time-stretched enhanced recording scope (TiSER) is described using time stretch analog-to-digital conversion in a real-time burst mode. A chirped optical signal is modulated in response to receiving segments of an input signal. The optical signal with its modulated input signal, is stretched through an optical medium and digitized to represent the waveform segment. TiSER provides ultra-fast real-time sampling within short segment bursts of the original input signal while providing an ability to detect non-repetitive events. Methods and apparatus are also described for providing real-time information about inter-symbol information (ISI), rapidly determining bit-error rates (BER), performing time-domain reflectometry (TDR), generating eye diagrams for serial data, facilitating digital correction of data, clock recovery, optical carrier phase recovery, and otherwise increasing the speed and/or accuracy of a diverse range of high-speed signal measurement and processing activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Shalabh Gupta, Bahram Jalali, Ali Motafakker-Fard
  • Patent number: 8683889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an oblique-driven platform structure, comprising: a base, a first rail, a screw, a first sliding block, a second sliding block, an oblique slide rod, at least one second rail, at least one third sliding block, a work platform, and a motor. There is a trigonometric relation between the oblique slide rod, the screw and the second rail, and an oblique drive angle is formed between the oblique slide rod and the screw; Therefore, with the change of the stroke position of the screw, the displacement resolution of the work platform can still kept the same value when the work platform is driven. Moreover, the displacement of the screw stroke can be proportionally transformed to the feed rate of the work platform through the trigonometric relation, such that the driven work platform can get an extremely high displacement resolution without using any high-level servo motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Chung Yuan Christian University
    Inventors: Shih-Ming Wang, Yan-Hong Chen
  • Patent number: 8683612
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a cervical spine protection apparatus one or more composite bands attached to provide restraint of one or more motions of the cervical spine of a wearer. The apparatus is designed to protect a wearer from incurring cervical spinal injuries, and/or to reduce the severity of cervical spine injuries without substantially compromising the normal functional range of motion of the wearer's cervical spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Drexel University
    Inventors: Sorin Siegler, Mary Milone, Yoganand Ghati
  • Patent number: 8685714
    Abstract: This invention describes a quantitative, inexpensive, disposable immunosensor that requires no wash steps and thus generates no liquid waste. Moreover, in preferred embodiments of the sensor no timing steps are required of the user, and the sensor can be readily adapted to antigen-antibody interactions over a wide kinetic range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Universal Biosensors Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alastair Hodges, Ron Chatelier
  • Patent number: 8686404
    Abstract: Electrodes in an organic thin film transistor based on single component organic semiconductors may be chemically modified to realize ambipolar transport. Electronic circuits may be assembled which include at least two such organic thin film transistors wherein at least one transistor is configured as a pmos transistor and at least on other transistor is configured as a nmos transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Cherie Kagan, Sangameshwar Rao Saudari
  • Patent number: 8684815
    Abstract: A gaming environment is described. In a base game, one or more paylines to be activated and a bet number for the activated paylines are set. If a combination of displayed symbols on the activated payline is a winning combination, an outcome amount is calculated by multiplying a payout number corresponding to the realized winning combination by the bet number, and the calculated outcome amount will be provided to the player. Also, a payout number corresponding to the number of the activated paylines will be additionally provided to the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Yukinori Inamura
  • Patent number: 8686358
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided herein for time-resolved analysis of the effect of a perturbation (e.g., a light or voltage pulse) on a sample. By operating in the time domain, the provided method enables sub-microsecond time-resolved measurement of transient, or time-varying, forces acting on a cantilever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization
    Inventors: David Ginger, Rajiv Giridharagopal, David Moore, Glennis Rayermann, Obadiah Reid
  • Patent number: 8685540
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) architecture in which efficient operation is achieved without requiring a blocking layer by locating the recombination zone close to the hole transport side of the emissive layer. Aryl-based hosts and Ir-based dopants with suitable concentrations result in an efficient phosphorescent OLED structure. Previously, blocking layer utilization in phosphorescent OLED architectures was considered essential to avoid exciton and hole leakage from the emissive layer, and thus keep the recombination zone inside the emissive layer to provide high device efficiency and a pure emission spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Michael Stuart Weaver, Raymond Kwong
  • Patent number: 8685939
    Abstract: The invention provides therapeutics and methods to induce a mammalian host, including a human, to produce antibodies, which agonize death receptors and cause the apoptotic death of target cells within the host's body. The therapeutics are vaccine compositions, including genetic vaccines encoding death receptor antigens of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family. Also provided are means and methods for overcoming host immunological tolerance to death receptors. The vaccines are useful against cancer cells and other death receptor bearing target cells within the host, and can be used in both therapeutic and prophylactic settings. The vaccines are also useful for diagnostic testing of the immunocompetence of a host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Wayne State University
    Inventors: Wei-Zen Wei, Gen Sheng Wu, Marie P. Piechocki, Richard F. Jones
  • Patent number: 8685356
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of synthesizing large-pore periodic mesoporous quartz. Using the methods herein, large-pore periodic mesoporous quartz has been synthesized at a lower pressure and a temperature than in any previous mesoporous crystalline method, yielding a unique mesoporous article having crystalline pore walls. For example, the methods involve modified nanocasting methods using a mesoporous starting material comprising silica, carbon as a an infiltrating pore filler, followed by application of pressure and heat sufficient to crystallize silica in the infiltrated starting material to form a mesoporous crystalline article having crystalline pore walls therein, and useful in many applications, including as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Lehigh University
    Inventor: Kai Landskron
  • Patent number: 8685144
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for dehumidifying air by establishing a humidity gradient across a water selective permeable membrane in a dehumidification unit. Water vapor from relatively humid atmospheric air entering the dehumidification unit is extracted by the dehumidification unit without substantial condensation into a low pressure water vapor chamber operating at a partial pressure of water vapor lower than the partial pressure of water vapor in the relatively humid atmospheric air. For example, water vapor is extracted through a water permeable membrane of the dehumidification unit into the low pressure water vapor chamber. As such, the air exiting the dehumidification unit is less humid than the air entering the dehumidification unit. The low pressure water vapor extracted from the air is subsequently condensed and removed from the system at ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: David E. Claridge, Charles H. Culp, Jeffrey S. Haberl
  • Patent number: 8686172
    Abstract: A method for the treatment of solvent-containing MOF material to increase its internal surface area involves introducing a liquid into the MOF in which liquid the solvent is miscible, subjecting the MOF to supercritical conditions for a time to form supercritical fluid, and releasing the supercritical conditions to remove the supercritcal fluid from the MOF. Prior to introducing the liquid into the MOF, occluded reaction solvent, such as DEF or DMF, in the MOF can be exchanged for the miscible solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Joseph T. Hupp, Omar K. Farha
  • Patent number: 8685709
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a preservation apparatus is described that includes a storage compartment. The storage compartment is configured to hold an organ or tissue and a preservation fluid. A cover assembly is configured to engage the storage compartment. The cover assembly includes a support element, wherein the support element together with the storage compartment define a storage chamber. The cover assembly also includes a lid and a gas permeable membrane disposed between the lid and the support element. The gas permeable membrane and the support element together define a perfusion chamber configured to hold preservation fluid and an organ or tissue during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Leonid Bunegin, Edward F. Gelineau
  • Patent number: 8686395
    Abstract: A bond type flip-chip light-emitting structure and method of manufacturing the same. Firstly, form a positive electrode and a negative electrode on an epitaxy layer. Next, deposit an insulation layer on parts of the positive electrode and negative electrode, to expose respectively a positive electrode via hole and a negative electrode via hole. Then, form a bonded metal layer on the insulation layer, the positive electrode via hole, and the negative electrode via hole, so that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are on a same plane by means of the bonded metal layer. Finally, on a substrate, bond the first metal layer and the second metal layer onto the corresponding first bonded metal unit and the second bonded metal unit of the bonded metal layer, to form into shape, thus realizing a bond type flip-chip light-emitting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Chang Gung University
    Inventors: Liann-Be Chang, Chen Xu, Kun Xu, Yunyun Zhang, How-Wen Chien