Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 8684855
    Abstract: Present embodiments are directed to systems and methods for providing an articulated waterslide. An articulate waterslide is capable of being maneuvered during operation to change flow paths of the waterslide. Specifically, an embodiment includes a waterslide with a chute configured to facilitate water flow along the chute and configured to transport a patron, an adjustable joint positioned along the chute, and an actuator configured to manipulate the adjustable joint such that a flow path of the chute is changeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Ross Alan Osterman, Justin Michael Schwartz
  • Patent number: 8685700
    Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing the production of polyhydroxyalkanoic acid (PHA) from microorganism strains by disrupting a gene associated with the production of an exobiopolymer (EBP) in the Pseudomonas strain to redirect the carbon flux toward the production of the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid, thereby enhancing the production of the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Gyeongsang National University
    Inventors: Sung Chul Yoon, Ju Xu, Mun Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 8687802
    Abstract: Conventional block ciphers that traffic in 128-bit block sizes are ill-suited for operating in small domains like credit card numbers. Some embodiments relate to techniques for constructing and speeding up practical and provably secure schemes for deterministically enciphering data from a small domain like credit card numbers using a conventional block cipher or other pseudorandom function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Morris, Phillip Rogaway, Till Stegers
  • Patent number: 8686627
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) uses a ?-conjugated polymer emissive layer (MEH-PPV) sandwiched between two semitransparent electrodes. The preferred embodiment utilizes an optically thin gold film anode, whereas the cathode was in the form of an optically thick aluminum (Al) film with patterned periodic subwavelength 2D hole array that showed anomalous transmission in the spectral range of the polymer photoluminescence band. At similar current densities we obtained a seven-fold electroluminescence efficiency enhancement with the patterned Al device compared with a control device based on unperforated Al electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Zeev Valentine Vardeny, Chuanzhen Liu, Vladimir Kamaev
  • Patent number: 8685755
    Abstract: A new fractionation device shows desirable features for exploratory screening and biomarker discovery. The constituent MSCs may be tailored for desired pore sizes and surface properties and for the sequestration and enrichment of extremely low abundant protein and peptides in desired ranges of the mass/charge spectrum. The MSCs are effective in yielding reproducible extracts from complex biological samples as small as 10 ?l in a time as short as 30 minutes. They are inexpensive to manufacture, and allow for scaled up production to attain the simultaneous processing of a large number of samples. The MSCs are multiplexed, label-free diagnostic tools with the potential of biological recognition moiety modification for enhanced specificity. The MSCs may store, protect and stabilize biological fluids, enabling the simplified and cost-effective collection and transportation of clinical samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mauro Ferrari, Xuewu Liu, Ennio Tasciotti, Ali Bouamrani, Ye Hu
  • Patent number: 8685264
    Abstract: A slide member includes a substrate that is made of a metal material and has a sliding surface with a plurality of microdimples formed therein. Each of the microdimple has a circular opening, the microdimples are arranged in regular intervals in a hexagonal close-packed configuration, and the area ratio of the openings of all the microdimples to the entire sliding surface is in the range of 50 to 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Masataka Kaido, Atsushi Suzuki, Masatsugu Shimomura, Hiroshi Yabu, Yuji Hirai
  • Patent number: 8687980
    Abstract: A feedback light tuning device and the optical communication system and method using the same are provided. By tuning the feedback light, the mechanism can completely correct the mean-wavelength drift up to 30 nm or 19400 ppm. The mechanism can be applied to various harsh environments which cause the mean-wavelength drift, so as to achieve a required stable mean-wavelength for the light source and to increase the acceptable range of radiation dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Tz Shiuan Peng, Lon Wang
  • Patent number: 8687862
    Abstract: A platform is proposed for automated analysis of retinal images, for obtaining from them information characterizing retinal blood vessels which may be useful in forming a diagnosis of a medical condition. A first aspect of the invention proposes that a plurality of characteristics of the retina are extracted, in order to provide data which is useful for enabling an evaluation of cardiovascular risk prediction, or even diagnosis of a cardiovascular condition. A second aspect uses fractal analysis of retinal images to provide vascular disease risk prediction, such as, but not limited to, diabetes and hypertension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee, Tien Yin Wong
  • Patent number: 8687891
    Abstract: Various methods for tracking and recognition with rotation invariant feature descriptors are provided. One example method includes generating an image pyramid of an image frame, detecting a plurality of interest points within the image pyramid, and extracting feature descriptors for each respective interest point. According to some example embodiments, the feature descriptors are rotation invariant. Further, the example method may also include tracking movement by matching the feature descriptors to feature descriptors of a previous frame and performing recognition of an object within the image frame based on the feature descriptors. Related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Stanford University, Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Takacs, Radek Grzeszczuk, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Bernd Girod
  • Patent number: 8686183
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for the hydroxycarbonylation, alkoxycarbonylation, aryloxycarbonylation or thiocarbonylation of an unsaturated molecule. The method includes a hydroxycarbonylation, alkoxycarbonylation, aryloxycarbonylationor thiocarbonylation reaction on the unsaturated molecule in which a complex including a ligand comprising a [n,n?] cyclophane comprising two non-fused monocyclic aromatic rings bridged by two linear and aliphatic linkages, in which each of the non-fused monocyclic aromatic rings is substituted with a phosphorus atom-containing substituent, is used to catalyse the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: University Court Of The University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Matthew Lee Clarke, Tina Marie Konrad
  • Patent number: 8686497
    Abstract: A double-gate vertical channel transistor (DGVC) structure is described which is particularly well suited for Dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory (e.g., capacitorless DRAM) wherein the memory cell occupies a small cell area of 4F2, and provides beneficial retention properties including immunity to disturbances. The vertical transistors are arranged in an alternating gate-facing orientation, with a common source formed on a first end and separate drains on their second ends. Word lines comprise alternating front gates and back gates shared by columns of gate-facing transistors on each side of it. The DGVC cell provides enhanced scalability allowing the continued scaling of DRAM technology and can be fabricated using low-cost semiconductor materials and existing fabrication techniques. Fabrication techniques and array biasing are also described for the DGVC cell arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: WookHyun Kwon, Tsu-Jae King Liu
  • Patent number: 8685976
    Abstract: The subject invention discloses an agent for promoting cell adhesion to a support, comprising a dispirotripiperazine derivative represented by Formula I below or a salt thereof; a method for promoting cell adhesion to a support comprising adding the dispirotripiperazine derivative represented by Formula I below or a salt thereof to a culture medium, or applying the same to a support; and an agonist of a heparin sulfate that comprises the dispirotripiperazine derivative represented by Formula I below or a salt thereof, and that promotes cell adhesion and/or cell growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Motonari Uesugi, Sayumi Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 8685660
    Abstract: We found mutations of the R132 residue of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in the majority of grade II and III astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas as well as in glioblastomas that develop from these lower grade lesions. Those tumors without mutations in IDH1 often had mutations at the analogous R172 residue of the closely related IDH2 gene. These findings have important implications for the pathogenesis and diagnosis of malignant gliomas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: The Johns Hopkins University, Duke University
    Inventors: Bert Vogelstein, Kenneth W. Kinzler, D. Williams Parsons, Xiaosong Zhang, Jimmy Cheng-Ho Lin, Rebecca J. Leary, Philipp Angenendt, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Victor Velculescu, Giovanni Parmigiani, Rachel Karchin, Sian Jones, Hai Yan, Darell Bigner, Chien-Tsun Kuan, Gregory J. Riggins
  • Patent number: 8686012
    Abstract: The present invention relates to screens for compounds that can induce stem cell differentiation. In addition, isoxazoles and sulfonyl hydrazones are identified as general classes of compounds that can induce differentiation of stem cells into cells of neuronal and cardiac fate, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Eric N. Olson, Douglas Frantz, Jenny Hsieh, Steven L. McKnight, Jay Schneider
  • Patent number: 8685384
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for purifying immunogenic, prophylactically and therapeutically effective complexes of modified heat shock proteins noncovalently associated with antigenic peptides of cancer or infected cells. The claimed methods comprise the constructing of a nucleotide sequence encoding a secretable modified heat shock protein, expressing the sequence in an appropriate host cell, recovering the immunogenic complexes from the cell culture and the cells, and purifying the immunogenic complexes by affinity chromatography. Large amounts of such immunogenic complexes can be obtained by large-scale culturing of host cells containing the genetic sequence. The complexes can be used as a vaccine to elicit specific immune responses against cancer or infected cells, and to treat or prevent cancer or infectious diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: University of Miami
    Inventors: Eckhard R. Podack, Julie Spielman, Koichi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8688618
    Abstract: A system and method for determining at least one new treatment plan for at least one new patient, comprising: providing at least one representation of the at least one new patient's at least one organ at risk relative to at least one target; searching for at least one prior treatment plan for at least one prior patient with at least one similar representation; and reviewing the at least one prior treatment plan for the at least one prior patient in order to determine whether the at least one new treatment plan can be improved based on information in the at least one prior treatment plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Todd R. McNutt, Russell H. Taylor, Michael Kazhdan, Binbin Wu, Patricio Simari
  • Patent number: 8685387
    Abstract: A recombinant vector comprises simian adenovirus SAdV-39, -25.2, -26, -30, -37, and -38 sequences and a heterologous gene under the control of regulatory sequences. A cell line which expresses simian adenovirus SAdV-39, -25.2, -26, -30, -37, and -383 gene(s) is also disclosed. Methods of using the vectors and cell lines are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Soumitra Roy, James M Wilson, Luc H Vandenberghe
  • Patent number: 8685638
    Abstract: Provided is a microarray platform for the culture of cells atop combinatorial matrix mixtures; enabling the study of differentiation in response to a multitude of microenvironments in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Christopher Flaim
  • Patent number: 8685699
    Abstract: An oil generation system is provided. The oil generation system includes a saccharide; and a working microorganism reacting with the saccharide to produce an oil, wherein the working microorganism has a genus being a Cystofilobasidium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fu-Jen Catholic University
    Inventors: Jyh-Yih Leu, Yu-Di Hsu, Yu-Sheng Wu
  • Patent number: 8686914
    Abstract: An antenna module is provided for transmitting a wireless signal. The antenna module includes a reflective superstrate, an antenna substrate, a feed conductor, a ground layer and a reflective pattern. The reflective superstrate includes a third surface and a fourth surface, wherein the third surface is opposite to the fourth surface. The antenna substrate includes a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is opposite to the second surface. A feed conductor is disposed on the first surface. The ground layer is disposed on the second surface. The reflective pattern is formed on the third surface and faces the feed conductor, wherein a reflection gap d is formed between the reflective pattern and the ground layer, and the wireless signal has a wavelength ?, and the reflection gap d is between ?/20 and ?/80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Lin, Yi-Chia Chen, Yi-Fong Lu