Patents Assigned to University
  • Metal complex, light-emitting device and display
    Patent number: 7893611
    Abstract: There is provided a novel luminescent metal complex. A metal complex having a composition of [(PtII)2(MI)2(X)2(L)4(LH)2], where MI denotes AgI, AuI or CuI, X denotes Cl, Br or I, L denotes a structure represented by the formula (1), and LH denotes a structure represented by the formula (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Nagasaki University
    Inventors: Keisuke Umakoshi, Seiji Akatsu, Masayoshi Onishi, Shoji Ishizaka, Noboru Kitamura
  • Introduction of structural affinity handles as a tool in selective nucleic acid separations
    Patent number: 7893222
    Abstract: The method is used for separating nucleic acids and other similar constructs. It involves selective introduction, enhancement, or stabilization of affinity handles such as single-strandedness in the undesired (or desired) nucleic acids as compared to the usual structure (e.g., double-strandedness) of the desired (or undesired) nucleic acids. The undesired (or desired) nucleic acids are separated from the desired (or undesired) nucleic acids due to capture by methods including but not limited to immobilized metal affinity chromatography, immobilized single-stranded DNA binding (SSB) protein, and immobilized oligonucleotides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: University of Houston, Technology Licensing Co. LLC
    Inventors: Richard Coale Willson, III, Luis Antonio Cano
  • Multicistronic constructs with siRNA to inhibit tumors
    Patent number: 7893035
    Abstract: Multicistronic short interfering RNA constructs targeting in various combinations a human urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR), human urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), human matrix metalloprotease 9 (MMP-9) and cathepsin B (CB) inhibit tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Jasti S. Rao, Christopher S. Gondi, Sajani S. Lakka
  • Three-dimensional finite element modeling of human ear for sound transmission
    Patent number: 7893934
    Abstract: A finite element model of an ear stored on a computer readable medium having logic representing a three-dimensional geometric model of the ear; logic for meshing individual anatomical structures of the ear accounting for whether the anatomical structures include at least one of air, liquid material and solid material; logic for assigning material properties for each anatomical structure based on at least one physical property of each anatomical structure; logic for assigning boundary conditions for some of the anatomical structures indicative of interaction between such anatomical structures; and logic for employing acoustic-structural coupled analysis to the anatomical structures of the ear to generate data indicative of the acoustic effect on mechanical vibration transmission in the ear. Various embodiments of “one-chamber” and “two-chamber” analyses and models are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
    Inventor: Rong Z. Gan
  • Methods for detecting humans
    Patent number: 7894305
    Abstract: A method of detecting a human, that includes (a) measuring the ultrasonic signal emitted from human footsteps; (b) measuring the human body motion Doppler signature; reviewing the measurements of steps (a) and (b); and (d) determining the presence of a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: University of Mississippi
    Inventors: James M. Sabatier, Alexander E. Ekimov, Carl K. Frederickson
  • Optical method and system for the characterization of laterally-patterned samples in integrated circuits
    Patent number: 7894070
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for characterizing a sample having a structure disposed on or within the sample, comprising the steps of applying a first pulse of light to a surface of the sample for creating a propagating strain pulse in the sample, applying a second pulse of light to the surface so that the second pulse of light interacts with the propagating strain pulse in the sample, sensing from a reflection of the second pulse a change in optical response of the sample, and relating a time of occurrence of the change in optical response to at least one dimension of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Brown University
    Inventor: Humphrey J. Maris
  • Video annotation method by integrating visual features and frequent patterns
    Patent number: 7894665
    Abstract: A video annotation method by integrating visual features and frequent patterns is disclosed. This method is featured in integrating a statistical model based on visual features with a sequential model and an association model constructed by data mining skills for automatically annotating unknown videos. This method takes both of visual features and semantic patterns into consideration simultaneously through the combination of three different models so as to enhance the accuracy of annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: National Cheng Kung University
    Inventors: Shin-Mu Tseng, Jhih-Hong Huang, Ja-Hwung Su
  • Alternative methods for fabrication of substrates and heterostructures made of silicon compounds and alloys
    Patent number: 7892970
    Abstract: The present invention relates to alternative methods for the production of crystalline silicon compounds and/or alloys such as silicon carbide layers and substrates. In one embodiment, a method of the present invention comprises heating a porous silicon deposition surface of a porous silicon substrate to a temperature operable for epitaxial deposition of at least one atom or molecule, contacting the porous silicon deposition surface with a reactive gas mixture comprising at least one chemical species comprising a group IV element and at least one silicon chemical species, and depositing a silicon-group IV element layer on the porous silicon deposition surface. In another embodiment, the chemical species comprising a group IV element can be replaced with a transition metal species to form a silicon silicide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Inventor: Mohamed-Ali Hasan
  • Gaming machine with a light guiding plate subjected to a light scattering process and having a light deflection pattern
    Patent number: 7892094
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a liquid crystal display 27 having a liquid crystal panel 173 and a light guiding plate 174 placed at the rear of the liquid crystal panel 173 for guiding light emitted from illumination light means 176a, 176b for the liquid crystal panel 173 into the liquid crystal panel 173, and a variable display device placed at the rear of the liquid crystal display 27 and having a plurality of reels 3L, 3C, and 3R provided in a row each on which a plurality of symbols are arranged. Parts of the light guiding plate 174 to which the reels 3L, 3C, and 3R are opposed are cut out or are formed with recesses on the reel side and light scattering process is applied on end faces 174a, 174b, and 174c of the cutouts or the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Tanimura, Hirofumi Sekiguchi
  • User interface for a remote control application
    Patent number: 7895532
    Abstract: A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Scott, Wayne Scott, Steve LanPing Huang
  • Apparatus and method for estimating available throughput in a wireless local area network
    Patent number: 7894409
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating available throughput of a fixed node in a mobile node of a communication network. The communication network includes fixed nodes connected to a router connected to at least one foreign network and mobile nodes connected to the fixed nodes. A second mobile node is selected from among mobile nodes connected to a fixed node whose available throughput is estimated in a first mobile node. An idle slot interval of the second mobile node connected to the fixed node is set. A transmission probability is measured in one slot interval of the second mobile node through an average of set idle slot intervals. Transmission information of the second mobile node is acquired using the measured transmission probability. The available throughput of the fixed node is estimated using the acquired transmission information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Hyo-Sun Hwang, Yong-Xing Zhou, Dong-Jun Lee, Jung-Hoon Suh, Kyung-Hun Jang, Young-Soo Kim, Junfeng Jiang, Pingyi Fan, Zhigang Cao
  • Making mesoporous carbon with tunable pore size
    Patent number: 7892515
    Abstract: Carbon with mesopores (about two to fifteen nanometers in average pore size) is made using sucrose as a source of carbon, and silica and phosphoric acid as templates for the mesopore structure in the carbon. A silica sol is prepared in a water/ethanol medium and sucrose is dispersed in the sol. Phosphoric acid may be added to the sol to control pore size in the mesopore size range. The sol is dried, carbonized, and the silica and phosphate materials removed by leaching. The residue is a mesoporous carbon mass having utility as a catalyst support, gas absorbent, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: GM Global Technolgy Operations LLC, Tulane University; Administrators of the Tulane Education Fund
    Inventors: Qingyuan Hu, Yunfeng Lu, Jing Tang, Mei Cai
  • Chimeric vectors
    Patent number: 7892809
    Abstract: The present invention is based, in part, on the discovery that parvovirus (including AAV) capsids can be engineered to incorporate small, selective regions from other parvoviruses that confer desirable properties. The inventors have discovered that in some cases as little as a single amino acid insertion or substitution from a first parvovirus (e.g., an AAV) into the capsid structure of another parvovirus (e.g., an AAV) to create a chimeric parvovirus is sufficient to confer one or more of the desirable properties of the first parvovirus to the resulting chimeric parvovirus and/or to confer a property that is not exhibited by the first parvovirus or is present to a lesser extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The University of Florida Research Foundation
    Inventors: Dawn E. Bowles, Chengwen Li, Joseph E. Rabinowitz, Josh Grieger, Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Richard Jude Samulski
  • Method of manufacturing semiconductor device with quantum dots formed by self-assembled growth
    Patent number: 7892871
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing the semiconductor device comprises the step of forming quantum dots 16 on a base layer 10 by self-assembled growth; the step of irradiating Sb or GaSb to the surface of the base layer 10 before or in the step of forming quantum dots 16; the step of etching the surfaces of the quantum dots 16 with an As raw material gas to thereby remove an InSb layer 18 containing Sb deposited on the surfaces of the quantum dots 16; and growing a capping layer 22 on the quantum dots 16 with the InSb layer 18 removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Arakawa, Denis Guimard, Shiro Tsukamoto, Hiroji Ebe, Mitsuru Sugawara
  • Media content distribution system and method
    Patent number: 7894370
    Abstract: A system and method for transfer of digital content, including providing a listing of sources and content destinations, receiving a user selection of a content source and a destination from the source and destination listing, providing a listing of available paths for the exchange of digital content, receiving a user selection of a routing path from the routing path listing, and permitting transmission of the content from the selected source to the destination via the selected routing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: NBC Universal, Inc.
    Inventors: Rab Mukraj, Jonathan Hodges, Nader Kazemi, Sumit Mathur, Darren Tome
  • Aptamer based colorimetric sensor systems
    Patent number: 7892734
    Abstract: The present invention provides an aptamer-based calorimetric sensor system for determining the presence and optionally the concentration of an analyte in a sample. Methods of utilizing the sensor system and kits that include the sensor also are provided. The sensor utilizes a linker and oligonucleotide functionalized particles to form an aggregate, which disaggregates in response to the analyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Yi Lu, Juewen Liu
  • Electrochemical detection of substrates
    Patent number: 7892816
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for detecting probe-target substrate binding. In particular, the present invention provides a method for detecting a surface bound target complex by detecting the redox reaction of a redox transition metal complex that is catalyzed by a redox-catalyst complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: C. Michael Elliott, Carlo Alberto Bignozzi, Di Xue, David W. Grainger, Stefano Caramori, Valeria Dissette
  • Peptide mimotopes of mycobacterial mannosylated lipoglycans and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7892557
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of antigenic and immunogenic peptide-based mimicry of mannose-containing cell-wall compounds characterizing mycobacterial infectious agents, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Amino acid molecules which are mimotopes of mannosylated lipoglycans, such as lipoarabinomannan (ManLAM), including at least one of the following characteristics: (a) being capable of binding to ManLAM binding antibodies; (b) being capable of eliciting production of ManLAM binding antibodies, are provided. Also diagnostic methods for diagnosing mycobacterial infections and methods of vaccinating subjects against such infections. The diagnostic and vaccination methods employ the provided amino acid molecules. Accordingly, a diagnostic kit and a vaccine for executing the aforementioned methods are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventors: Herve Bercovier, Ayelet Barenholz, Jonathan Gershoni
  • Nanoparticle/nanotube-based nanoelectronic devices and chemically-directed assembly thereof
    Patent number: 7893513
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, the present invention provides a nanoelectronic device based on a nanostructure that may include a nanotube with first and second ends, a metallic nanoparticle attached to the first end, and an insulating nanoparticle attached to the second end. The nanoelectronic device may include additional nanostructures so a to form a plurality of nanostructures comprising the first nanostructure and the additional nanostructures. The plurality of nanostructures may arranged in a network comprising a plurality of edges and a plurality of vertices, wherein each edge comprises a nanotube and each vertex comprises at least one insulating nanoparticle and at least one metallic nanoparticle adjacent the insulating nanoparticle. The combination of at least one edge and at least one vertex comprises a diode. The device may be an optical rectenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventor: Howard K. Schmidt
  • High activity mutants of butyrylcholinesterase for cocaine hydrolysis
    Patent number: 7892537
    Abstract: Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) polypeptide variants of the presently-disclosed subject matter have enhanced catalytic efficiency for (?)-cocaine, as compared to wild-type BChE. Pharmaceutical compositions of the presently-disclosed subject matter include a BChE polypeptide variant having an enhanced catalytic efficiency for (?)-cocaine. A method of the presently-disclosed subject matter for treating a cocaine-induced condition includes administering to an individual an effective amount of a BChE polypeptide variant, as disclosed herein, to lower blood cocaine concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Chang-Guo Zhan, Fang Zheng, Wenchao Yang