Patents Assigned to University
  • Publication number: 20100198777
    Abstract: A sequence online analytical processing (S-OLAP) system 50 for analysing an event database (41) storing events (12), the system (50) comprising: an S-OLAP engine (53) to compute an S-cuboid (49) for a query on the event database (41); a sequence query engine (54) to form part of the S-cuboid (49) by performing the steps of: selection, clustering, sequence formation and sequence grouping; a cuboid repository (52) to store computed S-cuboids (49) and to be searched by the S-OLAP engine (53) for an S-cuboid query to determine whether an S-cuboid has previously been computed; and a sequence cache (56) to cache constructed sequence groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Eric Chi Lik LO, Benjamin Chi Ming Kao, Wai-Shing Ho, Chun-Kit Chui, Sau-Dan Lee
  • Publication number: 20100194456
    Abstract: A delay locked loop controls a plurality of delay blocks included in a delay line and thus generate a plurality of clock signals which have a frequency obtained by multiplying a frequency of a reference clock signal, an accurate phase delay, and a constant duty cycle. The delay locked loop calculates an initial delay value and applies it to the delay blocks, thereby preventing harmonic locking and reducing locking time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Chai Kang, Kyeong Ho Ryu, Seong Ook Jung, Won Lee, Dong Hwan Lee, Alex Joo, Jong Ryun Choi
  • Publication number: 20100198104
    Abstract: A system to measure a subject's gaze stability, comprising: a display device; a data processor in communication with the display device; a data input device in communication with the data processor; and a motion detector in communication with the data processor, the motion detector being adapted to be worn by the subject under observation, wherein the data processor is configured to cause the display device to display a predetermined visual target based on a motion signal detected by the motion detector, the data processor is adapted to receive information from the data input device concerning a response of the subject in identifying the predetermined visual target, and the data processor is further adapted to generate an output characterizing the subject's gaze stability based on the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Michael C. Schubert, Americo A. Migliaccio, Vallabh Easwara Das, Charles Coleman Della Santina
  • Publication number: 20100198039
    Abstract: The invention relates to wireless biotelemetry of low level bioelectric and biosensor signals by means of directly modulating the backscatter of a resonant circuit. Low level electrical analog or digital signals are directly applied to a resonant circuit containing a voltage-variable capacitor such as a varactor diode, that proportionally shifts the resonant frequency and so amplitude of radiofrequency backscatter in a way that represents analog bioelectric or biosensor waveform data. By strongly driving the resonant circuit with a radiofrequency source, a voltage variable capacitance can be caused to amplify the bio-signal level by a parametric process and so provide sufficient sensitivity to telemeter for low millivolt and microvolt level signals without additional amplification. A feature of the device is its simplicity and that it accomplishes both modulation and preamplification of low level sensor signals by the same variable capacitance circuit which reduces the device size and power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents For and On Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventor: Bruce C. Towe
  • Publication number: 20100196971
    Abstract: The invention provides novel mesoporous particles and methods for the selective sequestration of organic compounds from microorganisms, such as from various genera and species of algae that produce important organic compounds. The organic compounds can be selectively sequestered, for example, in favor of biodiesel impurities such as sterols and chlorophyll, to provide substantially pure free fatty acids. The free fatty acids can then be esterified to provide pure biodiesel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Shang-Yi Lin, Brian G. Trewyn, Po-Wen Chung, Igor Ivan Slowing
  • Publication number: 20100195517
    Abstract: A propagation delay time measuring system 100 includes a propagation delay time measuring apparatus 110 and a reply apparatus 120. The propagation delay time measuring apparatus 110 continuously transmits plural measuring packets a. A clock time of transmission is stored in the measuring packet a. The reply apparatus 120 sends back the measuring packets a, transmitted from the propagation delay time measuring apparatus 110, to the propagation delay time measuring apparatus 110. In the propagation delay time measuring system 100, the propagation delay time measuring apparatus 110 receives the measuring packets a sent back from the reply apparatus 120, and the propagation delay time measuring apparatus 110 measures a propagation delay time between the propagation delay time measuring apparatus 110 and the reply apparatus 120 using at least one of the received measuring packets a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2007
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Nihon University
    Inventor: Masami Kihara
  • Publication number: 20100196881
    Abstract: The present invention presents a Reverse Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RRFLP) method for the detection of the presence of an informative restriction enzyme site in a nucleotide sequence. The method includes digesting a sample with the informative restriction enzyme; performing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the digested sample with an oligonucleotide primer pair that flanks the informative restriction enzyme site; determining the Ct value of the sample; comparing the Ct value of the sample to the Ct value from a control sample; and calculating a ?Ct value, wherein a ?Ct value is the Ct value of the sample minus the Ct value of a control; and wherein a ?Ct value ?+1 indicates that the informative restriction enzyme sites is present in the nucleotide sequence. The present invention includes the application of the RRFLP method for detection of the infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Callison, Maricarmen Garcia, Sylva Riblet
  • Publication number: 20100195051
    Abstract: A system for testing visual fields comprising a display for presenting a visual stimulus and an eye tracker for tracking movement of at least one of a patient's eyes to determine its position in three dimensions without requiring the patient to wear any tracking equipment. A computer controls the position of the stimulus on the display and causes it to move by an amount that is a function of the tracked three-dimensional position of the patient's eye and a visual field position that is to be tested. Changes to the position of the stimulus and any corresponding tracked eye movement are used to assess the patient's visual field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: University Court of the University of Edinburgh
    Inventors: Ian Murray, Robert Minns, Brian Fleck, Harry Brash
  • Publication number: 20100197584
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods of using curcumin or curcumin derivatives or analogs to activate the pro-apoptotic enzymes caspase-3/7 in cancer cells. The present invention also provides formulations of curcumin or derivatives or analogs with increased solubility or improved bioavailability. The formulations may be administered to a subject such that high concentrations of therapeutically effective curcumin compounds resuit in the subject's bloodstream. The invention thus involves the use of curcumin or curcumin derivatives or analogs to diminish cancer cell growth, decrease tumor size, prevent tumor formation, and Curcumin Carrier to reduce or prevent cancer or tumor cell invasion or metastasis into a tissue, e.g., into the nervous System and especially the brain, of a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Research Foundations of the City University of- New York
    Inventors: Probal Banerjee, Krishnaswami Sambasivan Raja
  • Publication number: 20100197580
    Abstract: The invention provides parstatin peptides, particularly a mammalian parstatin peptide including amino acids 1-26 of full length mammalian parstatin, preferably a human parstatin. The invention provides parstatin peptides in appropriate pharmaceutical carriers and formulated for administration. The invention provides for the use of the peptide for example as a medicament or for the preparation of a medicament. The invention provides methods of use for parstatin peptides including for inhibition of angiogenesis, for example for inhibition of ocular angiogenesis, for methods of cardioprotection, and for methods of prevention and treatment of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: Johns Hopkins University, Medical College of Wisconsin
    Inventors: Nikos E. Tsopanoglou, Michael E. Maragoudakis, Stan Vinores, Sotirios Gartaganis, Jennifer L. Strande
  • Publication number: 20100194239
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for increasing the harvested energy from a piezoelectric element exposed to environmental vibrations via a two-prong system. In a first prong, a cantilever beam is tapered and shaped so as to increase and provide an approximately uniform strain on and along the beam, thus resulting in increased voltage. In a second prong of the system and method, a voltage compensating circuit, when used with a voltage inversion circuit of the prior art, increases the harvested power by injecting current to the piezoelectric element after each voltage inversion so as to increase the voltage level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Shahab Mehraeen, Jagannathan Sarangapani
  • Publication number: 20100192959
    Abstract: Transcervical contraceptive devices (TCDs) are disclosed. The TCDs are constructed of shape memory polymer (SMP) materials capable of assuming a memory shape at physiological temperatures. These SMPTCDs (410) have a post-implantation memory shape that is substantially identical to or slightly larger than the insertion site (420) to adapt to changes that may occur in a fallopian tube. The SMPTCDs (410) may be formed as occlusion devices (i.e., plugs) having a number of different structural features. The SMPTCDs (410) may provide for a temporary or permanent means of contraception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Robin Shandas, Christopher M. Yakacki, Devatha P. Nair, Kenneth Gall, Michael Lyons
  • Publication number: 20100196448
    Abstract: Disclosed are a hydrogel dressing for covering or treating a wound and a method for preparing the same. The hydrogel dressing includes a matrix structure of a cross-linked mixture, and an elastic sheet coated with an elementary metal or ionic metal embodied in the matrix structure. The mixture comprises a hydrophilic polymer, about 0.5 to about 5 wt % of a photocatalyst agent and at least 80 wt % of water based on the total weight of the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Andrew Burd, Michael Wing Wai Tsang
  • Publication number: 20100198344
    Abstract: A stent includes a stent body of a cylindrical configuration having outer and inner surfaces, a first coated layer coating at least the outer surface, and a second coated layer coating substantially completely over the first coated layer. The first coated layer is prepared of a first composition comprising a polymer and a vascular intimal hyperplasia inhibitor (preferably argatroban) of a kind, which does not inhibit proliferation of endothelial cells, the weight compositional ratio of the polymer to the inhibitor being within the range of 8:2 to 3:7. On the other hand, the second coated layer is prepared of a polymer alone or a second composition comprising a polymer and a drug, the weight compositional ratio of the drug to 80% by weight of the polymer being less than 20% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: Japan Stent Technology Co., Ltd., Tokai University Educational System, Toyo Advanced Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Omura, Zhen Yu Jin, Shuzo Yamashita, Hiroo Iwata, Akira Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20100197509
    Abstract: A method of sorting mixtures of nucleic acid strands comprising hybridizing the strands to an array of immobilized oligonucleotides, each of which includes a constant segment adjacent to a variable segment. The constant segment of the immobilized oligonucleotides can be made complementary to the ends of strands obtained by digesting a double-stranded nucleic acid with a restriction enzyme and restoring the restriction sites, thereby permitting the sorting of strands according to their variable sequences adjacent to their constant terminal restored restriction sites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
    Inventors: Alexander B. Chetverin, Fred Russell Kramer
  • Publication number: 20100195921
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for universal lossy compression that provide performance at or near the rate-distortion limit and that are based on universal, implementable lossy source coding algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Itschak Weissman, Shirin Jalali
  • Publication number: 20100194267
    Abstract: Organic light emitting devices having a low-index electrode and a substrate with a surface treatment are provided. The combination of a relatively low-index electrode and a surface-treated substrate may eliminate guided modes and increase the light outcoupled by the device. It has been found that the combination surprisingly provides up to 1.5 times more outcoupled light than would be expected based on the performance of similar devices having higher-index electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Stephen R. Forrest, Noel Giebink
  • Publication number: 20100192303
    Abstract: A radiation treatment system (100) for accurately delivering radiation to a targeted site within a cancer patient (108) that includes a modular patient support system and a patient positioner (114). The modular patient support system includes a modularly expandable patient pod (200) and at least one immobilization device, such as, for example, a rigid moldable foam cradle (350). The patient pod (200) includes a generally hemi-cylindrical support shell (212) that extends longitudinally between proximal edge (214) and distal edge (216), and transversely between two lateral edges (222, 224). In one embodiment, the lateral edges (222, 224) are tapered to minimize edge effects that result when radiation beams traverse the lateral edges (222, 224).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    Inventors: Daniel W. Miller, Steve K. McAllaster, Jerry D. Slater, Nickolas S. Rigney, Daniel C. Anderson, Michael F. Moyers
  • Publication number: 20100196879
    Abstract: The present invention encompasses methods, assays and kits for the diagnosis, screening and identification of Turner syndrome and other disorders of sexual differentiation in a human using single nucleotide polymorphisms present on the X and Y chromosomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Yale University
    Inventors: Scott Rivkees, Jeffrey Gruen
  • Publication number: 20100195781
    Abstract: A liquid lithium jet nozzle comprising: an inlet through which liquid lithium flows into the nozzle; an inlet flow channel that receives liquid lithium that flows into the nozzle via the inlet and shapes the flowing liquid lithium to flow in a thin film; and a flow region that receives flowing liquid lithium shaped by the flow channel and in which the liquid lithium flows with at least one large surface of the film exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd., Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Hadasit Medical Research Services & Development Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Paul, Morris Srebnik, Alex Arenshtam, Shlomi Halfon, Dany Kijel, Itzhak Polacheck, Avraham Rubinstein, Doron Steinberg