Patents Assigned to University
  • ENDOTOXIN ADSORBENT
    Publication number: 20170021332
    Abstract: A means for selectively removing ET under coexistence of a substance showing a negative charge, such as nucleic acid is described. Endotoxin is selectively removed by bringing a polymer obtained by crosslinking cyclodextrin with an isocyanate-based crosslinking agent in contact with a solution containing endotoxin and the substance showing the negative charge such as nucleic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY, JNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: MASAYO SAKATA, MASAMI TODOKORO
  • STABILIZATION OF ALCOHOL INTOXICATION-INDUCED CARDIOVASCULAR INSTABILITY
    Publication number: 20170020826
    Abstract: The present invention concerns use of an agent that increases sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor activity, such as S1P, or an S1P receptor agonist, for treatment of alcohol-intoxicated subjects will help stabilize blood pressure and improve resuscitation efforts in alcohol-intoxicated subjects, including alcohol-intoxicated trauma patients. Another aspect concerns a kit for stabilization of alcohol-intoxicated subjects, comprising an agent that increases S1P receptor activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    Inventors: JEROME WILLIAM BRESLIN, TRAVIS MATTHEW DOGGETT
  • NOVEL FORMULATIONS OF VOLATILE ANESTHETICS AND METHODS OF USE FOR REDUCING INFLAMMATION
    Publication number: 20170020825
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating inflammation or a wound in a subject in need of such wound treatment or inflammation treatment by delivering a volatile anesthetic to the wound or the inflammation site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Danguole SPAKEVICIUS, Hatice OZSOY
  • REDUCTION OF OFF-TARGET RNA INTERFERENCE TOXICITY
    Publication number: 20170022495
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to RNA interference (RNAi) molecules targeted against a nucleic acid sequence, and methods of using these RNAi molecules to reduce off-target toxicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: University of Iowa Research Foundation
    Inventors: Beverly L. Davidson, Alejandro Mas Monteys, Jodi L. McBride, Ryan Boudreau
  • Method for Awakening Silent Gene Clusters in Bacteria and Discovery of Cryptic Metabolites
    Publication number: 20170022532
    Abstract: The majority of clinically used antibiotics and anticancer agents are derived from bacterial small molecules. These molecules are produced by dedicated biosynthetic gene clusters, sets of genes that are responsible for the step-wise generation of the target small molecule. Recent investigations have indicated, to the surprise of many experts, that the majority of these biosynthetic genes are inactive or ‘silent’ for unknown reasons. Thus under typical bacterial culturing conditions, these genes are not expressed and consequently the bioactive small molecule products are not synthesized. Disclosed is a method for high throughput screening of elicitors of cryptic metabolites, a method for producing cryptic metabolites, and a new family of cryptic metabolites, the acybolins, as well as their complete structural elucidation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventor: Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING UMBILICAL STUMPS
    Publication number: 20170021134
    Abstract: A device for protecting an umbilical stump-catheter interface, includes: a shield having a wall that defines a cavity for accommodating an umbilical stump, wherein the shield further includes a base for attachment to a patient; and an opening at the shield for allowing an umbilical catheter to extend therethrough. A method for protecting an umbilical stump-catheter interface, includes: providing a device having a shield with a wall that defines a cavity for accommodating an umbilical stump, wherein the shield further includes a base for attachment to a patient, and wherein the device further includes an opening at the shield; shielding the umbilical stump from an environment using the shield; and accommodating an umbilical catheter using the opening at the shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Carl Linden Dambkowski, Eric Fayez Chehab, Siddhartha Joshi, Julie Papanek, Jonathan Andrew Fritz, James Wall, Ross Daniel Venook, Shivani Alexandra Torres, Joseph De-Chung Shih, Lauren So Young Wood
  • 3-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170021563
    Abstract: A 3-dimensional printing apparatus may include a storage unit, a dispensing unit, and a pressure control unit. The storage unit stores a printing material satisfying Bingham plastic model in which a viscosity is decreased as a pressure is increased. The dispensing unit receives the printing material from the storage unit to ejaculate the printing material. The pressure control unit controls a pressure applied to the printing material supplied in the dispensing unit to control a viscosity of the printing material. Thus, a product having soft characteristics may be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventor: Woo Young Yoon
  • FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND VEHICLE ENERGY FEEDBACK BRAKE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170025922
    Abstract: Provided is a flywheel energy storage device including a radial magnetic gear, the radial magnetic gear includes an inner rotor, an outer rotor and N1 first magnetic pole adjustment sheets embedded in a first magnetic pole adjustment sheet base; a disc-type magnetic gear electric motor includes a first stator disc, a first rotor disc, a second stator disc, a second rotor disc and a third rotor disc, the first stator disc with the first rotor disc form a first disc-type electric motor, the second stator disc with the second rotor disc form a second disc-type electric motor, and a disc-type magnetic gear is formed by the first rotor disc, the second rotor disc and the third rotor disc, and the first disc-type electric motor, the second disc-type electric motor and the disc-type magnetic gear are couple with one another to form the disc-type magnetic gear electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHIN A
    Inventors: Linni JIAN, Jin WEI, Yujun SHI
  • VERTICAL HYDROPONIC PLANT PRODUCTION APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170020082
    Abstract: A growing medium for a plant production apparatus utilized in greenhouse crop production is provided. The growing medium comprises a fibrous, non-woven matrix media material wherein the media material is constructed from a plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: University of Wyoming
    Inventor: Nathaniel R. Storey
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIRTUAL TREATMENT EXPERIENCE
    Publication number: 20170024540
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a virtual treatment experience which can make a user to understand the necessity for treatment and learn how to counteract side effects of the treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Doug Hyun Han, Joung Soon Jang, In Gyu Hwang, Hee Jun Kim, Byung Doo Choi, Jong Deok Kim, Hyung Won Cho
  • Compact Pulmonary Assist Device for Destination Therapy
    Publication number: 20170021082
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a pulmonary assist device comprising a housing having tapered inlets and outlets to distribute blood evenly over a fiber bundle. The fiber bundle has a relatively low packing density to prevent the formation of clots. The invention is adapted to be used with a pump or without a pump, in which the heart supplies the necessary blood flow. Moreover, the device can be used as a single module or as multiple modules arranged in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keith E. Cook, David Skoog
  • System for preparing nanoparticles by supercritical hydrothermal synthesis
    Publication number: 20170021427
    Abstract: A system for preparing nanoparticles by supercritical hydrothermal synthesis is provided. Firstly, a mixture of a first reactant and a second reactant and high-temperature water at an outlet of a heating furnace (10) are mixed and are heated to a reaction temperature, the mixture is connected to a supercritical hydrothermal synthesis reactor (14), and a product at an outlet of the supercritical hydrothermal synthesis reactor enters a heat regenerator (9); hot water at an outlet of a low-temperature section of the heating furnace (10) first enters the heat regenerator, and then enters a high-temperature section of the heating furnace so as to be continuously heated to a set temperature; fluid at the pipe side outlet of the heat regenerator separately passes through a heat exchange coil in a first reactant modulation pool (1) and a steam generator (2) in a waste heat power generation system (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shuzhong Wang, Lu Zhou, Yanmeng Gong, Lili Qian, Mengmeng Ren, Yanhui LI
  • Low-Profile Circularly-Polarized Single-Probe Broadband Antenna
    Publication number: 20170025762
    Abstract: Low-profile broadband patch antennas capable of radiating circularly polarized (CP) signals utilizing a single probe in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In many embodiments, the patch antenna includes a ground plane, a patch plate, at least one dielectric or foam substrate, and a feed probe. In several embodiments, the patch plate includes a first plate and a second plate that can be connected via first and second connecting bars. In various embodiments, the connection of the first and second plates can expose first and second slots as further discussed below. In a variety of embodiments, the feed probe can be a coaxial cable having an inner and outer conductor where the inner conductor connects to the first plate and the outer conductor connects to the ground plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Harish Rajagopalan, Joshua M. Kovitz, Jean Paul Santos
  • MICROEXTRACTION CAPSULES AND METHOD OF MAKING
    Publication number: 20170023452
    Abstract: A microextraction capsule holding a sol-gel coating or monolithic bed with an affinity for one or more target analytes infused in a porous tube that can be placed in a sample matrix containing the target analytes. The microextraction capsule can include a magnetic wire to allow the capsule to be spun in the presence of the matrix to increase the rate of absorption of the target analytes. The microextraction capsule can be formed by infusing a sol solution into the porous tube and forming a metal oxide or hybrid inorganic-organic sorbent comprising gel from the sol within the pores of the porous tube or by forming a gel by sol-gel condensation with water followed by grinding the gel to a particulate gel and infusing the particles into a porous tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    Inventors: ABUZAR KABIR, KENNETH G. FURTON
  • LABORATORY FUME HOOD SYSTEM HAVING RECESSED HEAT EXCHANGER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170021399
    Abstract: A laboratory fume hood system for cooling at least one laboratory device located in an interior work area comprises a heat exchanger system having a heat exchanger in thermal communication with a primary fluid loop containing chilled fluid and a secondary fluid loop containing a cooling fluid which is in thermal communication the laboratory device. The primary fluid loop is located behind the fume hood wall and not in the interior work area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
    Inventors: GEORGE S. WILSON, WILLIAM SCOTT JEFFRESS, FRANK J. SCHOENEN
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTICAL DATA STORAGE
    Publication number: 20170025143
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for recording and retrieval of optically readable data employ a recording medium (100) which comprises an optically active material (108) able to induce a change in properties of the medium in the presence of optical radiation having a first characteristic, such as a first optical frequency, and wherein the change in properties can be inhibited by optical radiation having a second characteristic, such as a second optical frequency. During recording, a region of the recording medium (100) is irradiated with a first beam (506) of optical radiation having the first characteristic, the beam having a sufficient intensity within a central portion of the irradiated region and being of sufficient duration to cause an optically induced change in properties of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Min GU, Xiangping LI, Yaoyu CAO
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF IRRIGATION RUNOFF
    Publication number: 20170020088
    Abstract: An irrigation mitigation runoff system that includes an irrigation system having at least one water outlet and a sensor that detects flow of water through a boundary. A controller is operatively coupled to the irrigation system and the sensor. Responsive to the sensor detecting flow of water through the boundary above a pre-defined threshold, the controller signals the irrigation system to pause irrigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Benjamin G. WHERLEY, Jorge Luis ALVARADO, Richard H. WHITE, James C. THOMAS, Junfeng MEN, Dean Evan TATE, Fouad H. JABER, William C. REYNOLDS
  • SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES
    Publication number: 20170022413
    Abstract: A method of producing semiconductor nanoparticles is provided. The method includes heating primary semiconductor nanoparticles and a salt of an element M1 in a solvent at a temperature set in a range of 100° C. to 300° C. The primary semiconductor nanoparticles contain the element M1, an element M2, optionally an element M3, and an element Z, and have an average particle size of 50 nm or less. The element M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu, and Au. The element M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, and Tl. The element M3 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zn and Cd. The element Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, and Te.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa TORIMOTO, Tatsuya KAMEYAMA, Akihiro FUKATSU, Daisuke OYAMATSU
  • Systems and Methods for Graphene Mechanical Oscillators with Tunable Frequencies
    Publication number: 20170025998
    Abstract: A nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) oscillator can include an insulating substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a metal local gate electrode, and a micron-sized, atomically thin graphene resonator. The source electrode and drain electrode can be disposed on the insulating substrate. The metal local gate electrode can be disposed on the insulating substrate. The graphene resonator can be suspended over the metal local gate electrode and define a vacuum gap between the graphene resonator and the metal local gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York
    Inventors: Changyao Chen, James Hone, Sunwoo Lee
  • ACTIVELY CONTROLLABLE COLOR USING HIGH CONTRAST METASTRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20170023807
    Abstract: A color changing or beam steering photonic device, which combines a high contrast metastructure (HCM) having a plurality of high index grating structures, into a low index membrane. In response to physical (or electrical) deformation of the membrane the low index gaps between adjacent grating bars changes which results in changing reflectance and transmission angles for steering a single wavelength of light and for causing a color change in said photonic device when subject to multiple light wavelengths. Deformation can result from direct physical stimulus, conversion from electrical or thermal to physical, and so forth. Refractive index change can also be initiated by carrier injection through electrodes. The apparatus is exemplified for use in color displays, beam steering, labeling micro entities, mechanical deformation sensing, camouflage, anti-counterfeiting, and other fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Connie Chang-Hasnain, Li Zhu