Patents Assigned to University
  • Methods for in vitro differentiation of Th-17+cells
    Patent number: 8183040
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an in vitro method for promoting differentiation and proliferation of human T helper lymphocytes that express IL17 (Th-IL17+ cells). The instant method may be used to generate a population of human T helper lymphocytes that express IL17 (Th-IL17+ cells) in vitro. Methods for screening to identify agents capable of modulating Th-IL17+ cell differentiation are also encompassed by the present invention. Isolated, pure populations of homogeneous Th-IL17+ cells that do not express cellular markers characteristic of Th1, Th2, or Treg cells are also encompassed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Nicolas Manel, Dan R. Littman
  • Multi-layered implant prepared by a method of tissue repair using a multi-layered matrix
    Patent number: 8183042
    Abstract: A multi-layered matrix, a method of tissue repair using the same, and multi-layered implant prepared thereof are provided. The multi-layered matrix comprises a first element and a second element connected thereto, and the second element comprises a hollow cavity. The first and the second elements are composed of a composite material comprising a bioabsorbable porous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Taiwan University Hospital
    Inventors: Chun-Jan Liao, Ching-Chuan Jiang, Hong-Sen Chiang, Yu-Ru Lin
  • Display method for LCD device with reduced color break-up
    Patent number: 8184087
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display method for an LCD device with reduced color break-up, comprising the following steps: generating a control signal for each sub-frame, and displaying the sub-frames successively. The present invention generates, according to brightness of a screen to be displayed, second backlight control signals and second LC control signals for each display region in the each sub-frame and then, according to the second backlight control signals and the second LC control signals, displays a chromatic sub-frame and a plurality of monochromatic sub-frames successively so that the screen to be displayed can be viewed through human vision. The present invention can not only facilitate reducing color break-up (CBU) of the LCD device, but also can contributes to the LCD device advantaged by high contrast, high color saturation, low power consumption and low manufacturing costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Fang-Cheng Lin, Yi-Pai Huang, Ching-Ming Wei, Han-Ping D. Shieh
  • Solar absorptive material for a solar selective surface coating
    Patent number: 8182929
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solar absorptive material for a solar selective surface of an absorber of solar radiation. The solar absorptive material comprises a dispersed metallic material and a receiving boundary through which the solar radiation is received. Further, the solar absorptive material comprises a first region and a second region. The first region being located at a position closer to the receiving boundary than the second region and the first region has an average volume fraction of the dispersed metallic material that is larger than that of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Sydney
    Inventors: Yongbai Yin, Lingxia Hang, David Mills
  • System, apparatus, and method for mobile community service
    Patent number: 8185588
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a mobile community service are provided. In a method of operating a creator terminal for a mobile community service, the method includes creating a community for a community service by selecting at least one of a plurality of community types provided by a community server, downloading a task for the created at least one community service from the community server, and installing the downloaded task for the community service. Accordingly, a mobile community service can be provided to support various community activities occurring in everyday life on a real-time basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Jae-Hwan Kim, Su-Hyung Ha, An-Na Kim, Young-Ho Rhee, Jung-Tae Lee
  • Error recovery within processing stages of an integrated circuit
    Patent number: 8185786
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a plurality of processing stages each including processing logic, a non-delayed signal-capture element, a delayed signal-capture element and a comparator. The non-delayed signal-capture element captures an output from the processing logic at a non-delayed capture time. At a later delayed capture time, the delayed signal-capture element also captures a value from the processing logic. An error detection circuit and error correction circuit detect and correct random errors in the delayed value and supplies an error-checked delayed value to the comparator. The comparator compares the error-checked delayed value and the non-delayed value and if they are not equal this indicates that the non-delayed value was captured too soon and should be replaced by the error-checked delayed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: ARM Limited, The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Krisztian Flautner, Todd Michael Austin, David Theodore Blaauw, Trevor Nigel Mudge
  • Method for preferential growth of semiconducting vertically aligned single walled carbon nanotubes
    Patent number: 8183164
    Abstract: A method and system for the preferential growth of semiconducting vertically-aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-SWNTs) is provided. The method combines the use of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition at low pressure with rapid heating. The method provides a high yield of up to approximately 96% semiconducting SWNTs in the VA-SWNT array. The as-synthesized semiconducting SWNTs can be used directly for fabricating field effect transistor (FET) devices without the need for any post-synthesis purification or separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: University of Dayton
    Inventors: Liangti Qu, Liming Dai
  • Dynamically focused optical instrument
    Patent number: 8184367
    Abstract: An optical system includes a dynamically focused lens that variably changes focal length to focus light on a material under evaluation at discrete axial depths, and a scanning element that laterally scans the material to focus light on the material at points that are laterally adjacent the axial depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jannick Rolland, Supraja Murali
  • System and method for visualizing a structure of interest
    Patent number: 8184885
    Abstract: A system. The system includes a computing device configured for communication with an imaging system and with a display device. The computing device includes a contour modeling module. The contour modeling module is configured for superimposing reference anchors on a cross-sectional image generated from 3D image data, for generating a line which connects the reference anchors, for sampling the 3D image data in a variable thickness plane defined by the connecting line, and for generating a contour-modeled C-mode image from the sampled 3D image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Joel S. Schuman, Gadi Wollstein
  • Nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 8183068
    Abstract: A nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device having an improved structure in which light extraction efficiency is improved and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device comprises an n-clad layer, an active layer, and a p-clad layer, which are sequentially stacked on a substrate, wherein the n-clad layer comprises a first clad layer, a second clad layer, and a light extraction layer interposed between the first clad layer and the second clad layer and composed of an array of a plurality of nano-posts, the light extraction layer diffracting or/and scattering light generated in the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Jeong-wook Lee, Heon-su Jeon, Suk-ho Yoon, Joo-sung Kim
  • Piezoelectric element and audio device
    Patent number: 8183751
    Abstract: A piezoelectric element including a plurality of stacked piezoelectric sheets, wherein the stretching axis of a first piezoelectric sheet and the stretching axis of a second piezoelectric sheet of the plurality of piezoelectric sheets are oriented in different directions from each other. Preferably, the stretching axis of the first piezoelectric sheet and the stretching axis of the second piezoelectric sheet are intersected at an angle of 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: A School Corporation Kansai University, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Tajitsu, Masamichi Andoh, Satoshi Kuretake
  • Induced voltage control device, its control method, charged particle beam orbit control device, and its control method
    Patent number: 8183800
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide the orbit control device for modulating the orbital deviations of the charged particle beam and its control method, wherein in the synchrotron making use of induction cells, the charged particle beam orbit control device is comprised of the digital signal processor for controlling the generation timing of an induced voltage in response to the beam position signal from the beam position monitor for sensing the deviations of the charged particle beam on the design orbit of the synchrotron from the design orbit and to the passage signal from the bunch monitor for sensing the passage of the bunch and the pattern generator for generating a gate signal pattern for on/off-selecting the switching electric power supply a according to the master gate signal generated by the digital signal processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
    Inventors: Ken Takayama, Kota Torikai, Yoshio Arakida, Yoshito Shimosaki, Junichi Kishiro, Reiko Kishiro, legal representative
  • Recombinant factor VIII having reduced inactivation by activated protein C
    Patent number: 8183345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant factor VIII that is characterized by one or more mutations within a region surrounding an activated protein C cleavage site, which one or more mutations result in a reduced rate of inactivation by activated protein C. Isolated nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors, and host cells suitable for expression of the recombinant factor VIII are also disclosed. The recombinant factor VIII can be used for the treatment of clotting disorders, such as hemophilia A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Philip J. Fay, Hironao Wakabayashi, Fatbardha Varfaj
  • Radiometer including a cleaning system
    Patent number: 8182613
    Abstract: A radiometer is provided. The radiometer includes a sensor and a radiation transparent dome. The radiation transparent dome surrounds the sensor. The radiometer also includes one or more fluid nozzles. The one or more fluid nozzles are adapted to apply a fluid on the radiation transparent dome in order to clean the surface of the radiation transparent dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
    Inventors: Steven Semmer, David Richter, Steve Oncley, Anthony Delany, Karl T. Schwenz
  • Laminar structure on a semiconductor substrate
    Patent number: 8183594
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ferroelectric element having excellent properties, which includes a monocrystalline film of ?-Al2O3 formed as a buffer layer on a silicon substrate. The monocrystalline ?-Al2O film is formed on the silicon substrate which is the lowermost layer of an MFMIS structure. On the monocrystalline ?-Al2O3 film, there is formed an electrically conductive oxide in the form of a LaNiO3 film as a lower electrode. On the LaNiO3 film, there is formed a PZT thin film which is a ferroelectric material. On the PZT thin film, there is formed a Pt film as an upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: National University Corporation Toyohashi University of Technology
    Inventors: Makoto Ishida, Kazuaki Sawada, Daisuke Akai, Yiping Guo
  • Image-based vehicle safety warning system
    Patent number: 8184018
    Abstract: An image-based vehicle safety warning system is disclosed, which uses an image retrieval module for receiving an image signal and camera parameters related to the source of the image signal into a space definition module, which defines an image space and warning areas of different levels in the image space. Then, an object identification module identifies parts of a possible vehicle in the image according to the image signal and variations thereof. A warning indication module then obtains an interrelation by locating the position of the vehicle within the image space and comparing the vehicle position with the warning areas, thereby providing alarms in different levels based on the interrelation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Homer H. Chen, Hao-Wei Chu
  • Single event upset error detection within an integrated circuit
    Patent number: 8185812
    Abstract: An integrated circuit 2 includes logic circuitry 10 and sequential storage elements 8. Both the logic circuit 10 and sequential storage elements 8 can be subject to particle strikes giving rise to single event upset errors. These single event upset errors can be detected by detecting a transition in the stored value stored by the sequential storage elements 8 occurring outside of a valid transition period associated with that sequential storage element 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: ARM Limited, The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Shidhartha Das, David Theodore Blaauw, David Michael Bull
  • System and method for tomography combining single and paired photons
    Patent number: 8183531
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing an image. Measurement data is obtained for a coincidence photon event, and a line projector function is generated based on the obtained measurement data. Additional measurement data is obtained for a single photon event, and a cone-surface projector function is generated based on the additional measurement data. An image is reconstructed using the generated line projector function and the generated cone-surface projector function. In another example method for producing an image, a measurement is obtained, and a projector function is generated using the obtained measurement. The generated projector function is modified based on an a priori image. An image is reconstructed using the modified projector function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Garry Chinn, Craig S. Levin, Angela M. Foudray
  • High-radix interprocessor communications system and method
    Patent number: 8184626
    Abstract: A high-radix interprocessor communications system and method having a plurality of processor nodes, a plurality of first routers and a plurality of second routers. Each first router is connected to a processor node and to two or more second routers. Each first router includes input ports, output ports, row busses, columns channels and a plurality of subswitches arranged in a n x p matrix. Each row bus receives data from one of the plurality of input ports and distributes the data to two or more of the plurality of subswitches. Each column distributes data from one or more subswitches to one or more output ports. Each row bus includes a route selector, wherein the route selector includes a routing table which selects an output port for each packet and which routes the packet through one of the row busses to the selected output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Cray Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Steven L. Scott, Dennis C. Abts, William J. Dally
  • Low-power and high-throughput design of fast motion estimation VLSI architecture for multimedia system-on-chip design
    Patent number: 8184709
    Abstract: A method of fast motion estimation in VLSI architecture with low-power and high-throughput for multimedia System-on-Chip design is disclosed. The method uses the data prediction and data reuse technique to find out the best matching block within the search range of the reference frame for the target block in the current frame in order to obtain the respective motion vector. The external memory bandwidth and the internal memory size in the video coding system are significantly reduced so as to speed up the process of motion estimation and most of the power consumption for the motion estimation process is further saved in the embedded video coding systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Sy-Yen Kuo, Shih-Chia Huang