Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 7548246
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring a controlling device to allow the controlling device to generate commands for commanding operations of a new appliance which new appliance was previously unable to be supported by the controlling device. The system and method uses a definition input into the controlling device to create a new device data set for use in generating commands to command operations of the new appliance. The new device data set is a new combination of elements selected from device data sets already stored within a memory of the controlling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve LanPing Huang, James N. Conway, Jr., Patrick H. Hayes, Jeremy K. Black
  • Patent number: 7548067
    Abstract: Methods for determining capacitance values of a metal on semiconductor (MOS) structure are provided. A time domain reflectometry circuit may be loaded with a MOS structure. The MOS structure may be biased with various voltages, and reflectometry waveforms from the applied voltage may be collected. The capacitance of the MOS structure may be determined from the reflectometry waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignees: Sematech, Inc., Rutgers University
    Inventors: Kin P. Cheung, Dawei Heh, Byoung Hun Lee, Rino Choi
  • Patent number: 7547728
    Abstract: This invention provides: 1) a method of treating a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; 2) a method of preventing a muscle wasting disorder in a subject; 3) a method of treating, preventing, suppressing, inhibiting or reducing muscle loss in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; 4) a method of treating, preventing, inhibiting, reducing or suppressing muscle wasting in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; and/or 5) a method of treating, preventing, inhibiting, reducing or suppressing muscle protein catabolism in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder, by administering to the subject a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) and/or its analog, derivative, isomer, metabolite, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, pharmaceutical product, hydrate, N-oxide or any combination thereof, as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mitchell S. Steiner, Karen A. Veverka, James T. Dalton, Duane D. Miller
  • Patent number: 7547381
    Abstract: A sensor array integrated electrochemical chip is provided wherein the chip has an array of electrodes. The array may be formed on a base plate bonded to a cover plate having an opening. The opening can be a window or a depression. The plates are bounded such that they define a cavity, with the array being within the cavity. Conducting lines for connecting the electrodes to electrochemical instruments may be formed on the same surface of the base plate on which the electrodes are formed. At least one of the electrodes may be covered by a coating doped with a ferrocene compound. The coating may be a supported bilayer lipid membrane doped with benzoylferrocene. The doped ferrocene compound may be oxidized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research and National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Yu Chen, Jianshan Ye, Fwu-Shan Sheu, Hui Fang Cui, Ser Choong Chong
  • Patent number: 7548217
    Abstract: A partially reflect surface antenna includes a substrate, a reflective sheet and a plurality of supporting units. The substrate has an upper surface formed thereon a signal I/O for receiving and outputting high frequency signal. The reflective sheet partially reflects the high frequency signal and includes an array antenna block located at the surface of the reflective sheet. The plurality of supporting units support the reflective sheet to locate at the upper surface of the substrate and to maintain a predetermined distance between the reflective sheet and the substrate. The area of the array antenna block ranges from 0.31 to 0.8 times of the surface area of the reflective sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Tatung University & Tatung Company
    Inventor: The-Nan Chang
  • Patent number: 7547538
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for rapid, continuous flow histological processing of tissues is disclosed. The steps of fixation, dehydration, clearing and impregnation are performed in less than one hour; this allows a pathologist to evaluate samples shortly after receipt, perhaps while the patient is still in the operating room. Rapid and continuous processing is accomplished by decreasing the thickness of tissue sections, use of nonaqueous solutions composed of admixtures of solutions, solution exchange at elevated temperature and with agitation, and impregnation under vacuum pressure. The patient in surgery is thus provided with point-of-care surgical pathology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: The University of Miami
    Inventors: Azorides Morales, Harold Essenfeld, Ervin Essenfeld
  • Patent number: 7547549
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a viable hybrid cell having a single functional mitochondrial population. The method comprises the step of introducing genomic DNA from a mitochondrially depleted donor cell into a recipient cell from which genomic DNA has been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: The University of Birmingham
    Inventors: Justin St.John, Keith Henry Stockman Campbell
  • Patent number: 7547673
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating a cancerous tumor using selective inhibitors of ATP production. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical preparations comprising such inhibitors and methods for administering them intraarterially directly to a tumor, as well as methods for identifying compositions that selectively inhibitor ATP production for use in the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Young He Ko, Jean-Francois H. Geschwind, Peter L. Pedersen
  • Patent number: 7547520
    Abstract: This invention provides materials and methods to manipulate the plant genome at the level of single plant cells in culture resulting in the ability to assign metabolic functionality to plant genes involved in the production of biologically active molecules and to create a means of product discovery based on the biosynthetic capacity of plants. The materials to create an activation mutagenesis include incorporation of enhancer sequences from a plant viral promoter at random places in the plant genome via Agrobacterium mediated DNA transfer (T-DNA). The usefulness is that genes in the immediate vicinity of the incorporation were activated which allows for immediate screening of the mutagenized plant cells. Additionally, the usefulness includes relevant areas of the genome were flanked by the inserted T-DNA which allows recovery of this area by standard molecular biology techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Deane Louis Falcone, John M. Littleton
  • Patent number: 7548071
    Abstract: A technique for reflectometry testing of a signal path is disclosed. The technique includes injecting a test signal based on a probe pseudo-noise sequence into the signal path and obtaining a response signal. A sliding reference pseudo-noise sequence is correlated against the response signal. Both the probe sequence and the reference sequence are generated at a chip rate. The correlation is obtained for integer chip time delays, and sub-chip resolution of a peak correlation delay is estimated from at least two samples of the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Reid Harrison, Cynthia Furse, Chirag Sharma
  • Patent number: 7547676
    Abstract: It has been demonstrated that one of Vitamin D Binding Protein (DBP) biological functions is to enhance the chemotactic activity of C5a and C5a des Arg. The present invention has found that peptides having sequences that substantially correspond to a specific region in the N-terminal domain I of DBP can block the DBP enhancement of C5a or C5a des Arg chemotactic activity. Based in this discovery the present invention provides DBP antagonist peptides and the use thereof for the treatment C5a or C5a des Arg-mediated disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Richard R. Kew, Jianhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 7547764
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel pathogenic OrfF and OrfF? polypeptides derived from Xanthomonas campestris pv. campstris, the nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptides and the uses of the same for detecting or preventing a black-rot disease of a crucifer plant, making organic fertilizer or composting and being a biofilter for degradation of organic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: National Chung Hsing University
    Inventors: Jiann-Hwa Chen, Pei-Tseng Lee, Yin Liu
  • Patent number: 7548011
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for sensing and adjusting lateral motion in a comb drive actuated MEMS device are provided. If lateral motion is sensed by a lateral motion sensor coupled to the comb drive actuated MEMS device, and the lateral motion is greater than a reference value, a feedback controller adjusts the lateral motion by providing a drive signal to a comb drive electrode of a comb drive actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Bruno Borovic, Frank L. Lewis, Ai Qun Liu, Dan O. Popa
  • Publication number: 20090148068
    Abstract: An electronic image classification and search system and method are provided. Images are processed to determine a plurality of simple feature descriptors based upon characteristics of the image itself. The simple feature descriptors are grouped into complex features based upon the orientation of the simple feature descriptors. End-stopped complex feature descriptors and complex feature descriptors at multiple orientations are grouped into hypercomplex feature descriptors. Hypercomplex resonant feature descriptor clusters are generated by linking pairs of hypercomplex feature descriptors. Feature hierarchy classification can then be performed by adaptive resonance on feature descriptors and classifier metadata associated with the image can then be generated to facilitate indexing and searching of the image within a hierarchical image database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: University of Ottawa
    Inventor: Kris Woodbeck
  • Publication number: 20090147187
    Abstract: Pixels of an LCD are divided into two sub-pixels, one for a reflective mode and one for a transmittive mode. The cell gaps of both sub-pixels are the same, improving fabrication ease. A novel photoalignment technique is used together with a shadow mask in an embodiment of the invention. Double exposure of the alignment layer with different orientations produces different alignment directions, thereby achieving the different LCD modes for the sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hoi Sing KWOK, Vladimir Grigorievich Chigrinov
  • Publication number: 20090148546
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention comprises the use of plant-derived substances to reduce body fat and/or to increase insulin sensitivity in mammals. In certain embodiments, the invention comprises a composition for reducing the amount of fat in the body of a mammal, the composition comprising at least one plant-derived substance which inhibits adipogenesis in the body of the mammal and at least one plant-derived substance which promotes lipolysis in the body of the mammal. In certain embodiments, the invention comprises a composition for reducing the amount of fat in the body of a mammal, the composition comprising at least one plant-derived substance which inhibits adipogenesis in the body of the mammal, at least one plant-derived substance which promotes lipolysis in the body of the mammal, and at least one plant-derived substance which inhibits lipogenesis in the body of the mammal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
    Inventors: Chandan Prasad, Julio E. Figueroa, II, Parakat Vijayagopal
  • Publication number: 20090147200
    Abstract: A highly reliable vertical alignment film for aligning display-use liquid crystal molecules in a direction slightly tilted from the substrate normal line direction and a method of manufacturing the vertical alignment film are provided. A layer composed of a liquid crystalline monomer that has a crystalline framework, and that has characteristics to align the crystalline framework vertically to an interface with a dissimilar material and polymerizable characteristics is formed on a transparent substrate. A magnetic field is applied thereto while the liquid crystal state is maintained, and thereby the liquid crystalline framework of the liquid crystalline monomer is aligned in a direction slightly tilted from the normal line direction of the substrate. In this state, the liquid crystalline monomer is polymerized, and a hardened layer formed from a complex composed of the unreacted liquid crystalline monomer and a liquid crystalline monomer polymer is formed as a vertical alignment film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Tatsuo Uchida, Tetsuya Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20090148539
    Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for the treatment of inflammatory disease (e.g. asthma, COPD, inflammatory bowel disease, atopic dermatitis, atopy, allergy, allergic rhinitis, scleroderma, and the like), relating to inhibiting a chitinase-like molecule. The invention further includes methods to identify new compounds for the treatment of inflammatory disease, including, but not limited to, asthma, COPD and the like. This is because the present invention demonstrates, for the first time, that expression of IL-13, and of a chitinase-like molecule, mediates and/or is associated with inflammatory disease and that inhibiting the chitinase-like molecule treats and even prevents, the disease. Thus, the invention relates to the novel discovery that inhibiting a chitinase-like molecule treats and prevents an inflammatory disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: Yale University
    Inventors: Jack A. Elias, Zhou Zhu
  • Publication number: 20090149966
    Abstract: A transcutaneous prosthesis includes a first component configured for attachment to a bone, the first component including flutes or grooves on a surface thereof for deterring rotation of the prosthesis within a bone; a second component adapted for location between the bone and the skin, the second component having a surface treatment for stimulation of fibroblastic cell proliferation and attachment of epithelial cells; and a third component adapted for location to extend from the skin surface and is adapted to extend directly from the skin surface in use, the third component having a coating of a non-stick material on an outer surface thereof, the coating having a surface energy that is lower than a surface energy of the first and second components and which is low enough to deter bacterial adhesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: University College London
    Inventors: Gordon BLUNN, Justin Cobb, Allen Goodship, Paul Unwin
  • Publication number: 20090147699
    Abstract: Provided is a method of supporting node portability in a sensor network, wherein data transmission to a portable node can be guaranteed since even when the portable node is assigned with a different address by being associated with another network, the newly assigned address is transmitted to a parent node or a sink node that was previously associated with the portable node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York
    Inventors: Jae Hong RUY, Jong Suk CHAE, Cheol Sig PYO, Bong Soo KIM, Eun Ju LEE, Myung Jong LEE, Tae Rim PARK, Rui Zhang