Patents Assigned to University
  • Patent number: 12294218
    Abstract: A fully-distributed reactive voltage control method, includes: establishing a power grid reactive voltage optimization model of a power grid; parting the power grid reactive voltage optimization model into a plurality of area reactive voltage optimization models of a plurality of areas of the power grid; converting a power flow equation constraint in each of the plurality of area reactive voltage optimization models to a linear regression model; solving the linear regression model by using a robust recursive regression algorithm to obtain a solution result of the linear regression model; solving each of the plurality of area reactive voltage optimization models by using the solution result of the linear regression model, a gradient projection algorithm, and an alternating direction multiplier algorithm, so as to realize a reactive voltage optimization control of each of the plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenchuan Wu, Siyun Li, Bin Wang, Hongbin Sun, Qinglai Guo
  • Patent number: 12292419
    Abstract: Provided is a dynamic true triaxial electromagnetic Hopkinson bar leveling and centering system and method. The system comprises a supporting base, a micrometer adjusting knob, a sliding platform, an auxiliary supporting plate, a fixing groove, at least two auxiliary centering targets and a lamp source. According to the auxiliary centering system, a principle that light rays are straight lines and two points form one line is adopted, and adjacent perpendicularity and coaxial centering leveling of a bar piece are determined by respectively adjusting a center of a loading end surface of the bar piece and an upper surface of the bar piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen University
    Inventors: Jianbo Zhu, Shiwei Zhang, Heping Xie, Tao Zhou, Chengcheng Xie, Weiyue Bao, Zhuo Cen, Junyan Li, Linsheng Liang
  • Patent number: 12292426
    Abstract: A method for identification of characteristic components in a Kai-Xin-San by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is provided, belonging to the technical field of pharmaceutical raw material detection and traditional Chinese medicine quality control. The method only needs to prepare two test solutions to simultaneously identify six characteristic components in the Kai-Xin-San, namely ginsenoside Rb1, ginsenoside Re, tenuifolin, ?-asarone, dehydrotumulosic acid, and pachymic acid. An automatic TLC spotting instrument can ensure even sampling and flat chromatographic bands and the silica gel G thin-layer plates after spotting are placed in the steam of the optimized developing solvent to allow pre-saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Anhui University of Chinese Medicine
    Inventors: Caiyun Zhang, Wenwen Tao, Xiaoxiao Shan, Dawei Li, Lele Zhou, Wenkang Tao, Hongyan Cheng
  • Patent number: 12291763
    Abstract: A high-strength and tough multi-component soft magnetic alloy and preparation method thereof are provided. The high-strength and tough multi-component soft magnetic alloy is composed of the following components in atomic percentage: Fe 32-45%, Co 24-29%, Ni 24-29%, Al 2.5-8%, Ti 1.5-3.5%, Ta 1.0-5%, Nb 0-2%, and Mo 0-2%. The multi-component alloys prepared by the present invention exhibit a face-centered cubic structure of the matrix, featured with high strength, high ductility, low coercivity and relatively high saturation magnetization. These properties make it suitable for manufacturing critical components for applications in industries such as electrical engineering, automatic control, mobile communications, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Central South University
    Inventors: Zhiming Li, Penghua Ge, Dingshun Yan, Kefu Gan, Yong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12291427
    Abstract: A rope replacement apparatus includes: a rope conveying mechanism, used for driving a first rope to move along a moving path of a second rope, so as to replace the second rope; a first detection part, used for detecting a first moving speed V1 of the first rope output by the rope conveying mechanism; the first detection part being installed on the rope conveying mechanism; a second detection part, used for detecting a second moving speed V2 of the second rope outside the rope conveying mechanism; the second detection part being installed on the moving path of the second rope; a control part, used for adjusting V1 according to the difference between V1 and V2; the first detection part and the second detection part being both in communication connection with the control part. The rope replacement apparatus improves rope replacement efficiency and slipping can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, TAIYUAN BOSHITONG MACHINERY, ELECTRICITY AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ziming Kou, Juan Wu, Yandong Wang, Aiming Cheng, Jiabao Xue, Zhigang Li, Jun Yang, Xinyu Shen
  • Patent number: 12294258
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-excitation-source axial-flux permanent-magnet motor with partitioned, hierarchical, and variable poles, and a variable-condition driving control system. The motor mainly includes a main magnetic pole and an auxiliary magnetic pole. The main magnetic pole is responsible for providing a main air gap flux and is connected in series with a dual-stator magnetic circuit. The auxiliary magnetic pole is responsible for adjusting an air gap field and is connected in parallel with the dual-stator magnetic circuit. Magnetic fluxes of the main magnetic pole and the auxiliary magnetic pole together constitute the air gap field. The present disclosure can control a flux path of the auxiliary magnetic pole by controlling the magnitude of a current applied to a field winding, thereby adjusting an air gap flux, expanding a speed range of the motor, and achieving variable-condition operation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Lei Xu, Danchen Xu, Chao Zhang, Xiaohua Zang, Xiaoyong Zhu, Li Quan
  • Patent number: 12291598
    Abstract: An ultraviolet radiation-curable composition comprising a polyester having at least one pendant ultraviolet radiation-curable moiety covalently bonded to the polyester, wherein the polyester does not contain any free-radically polymerizable activated C?C groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Oregon State University
    Inventors: Kaichang Li, Anlong Li
  • Patent number: 12290925
    Abstract: Provided is a parallel mechanism consisting of: a first module including a first plate having a first hollow formed therein; a second module disposed to be spaced apart from the first module, and including a second plate having a second hollow formed therein; and a power transmission unit provided in a space between the first and second modules, and including a third plate connecting the first and second modules in parallel, wherein the first and second modules form a symmetrical structure on the basis of the power transmission unit, a first range of motion in the first module is amplified, by means of the symmetrical structure, to a second range of motion that is wider than the first range of motion in the second module, a working space is formed in a space communicating with the first and second hollows, and the third plate is provided outside the working space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY ERICA CAMPUS, KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDTION, SEJONG CAMPUS
    Inventors: Byung Ju Yi, Hyun Hwan Jeong
  • Patent number: 12290799
    Abstract: A composition of matter is provided comprising hierarchically ordered crystalline microporous material having well-defined long-range mesoporous ordering of hexagonal symmetry. The composition possesses mesopores having walls of crystalline microporous material and a mass of mesostructure between mesopores of crystalline microporous material. Long-range ordering is defined by presence of secondary peaks in an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and/or hexagonal symmetry observable by microscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Parsapur, Robert P. Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu, Kuo-Wei Huang, Anissa Bendjeriou Sedjerari
  • Patent number: 12295125
    Abstract: An efficient thermal control system for microcircuits based on liquid metal coolant is provided, including a cooling water system, a liquid metal supply system and a cooling system. The liquid metal supply system is used for supplying liquid metal to the cooling system to achieve heat exchange with a chip through the liquid metal, and the cooling water system is used for cooling the liquid metal. The cooling system includes a cooling capacity distribution unit used for distributing the liquid metal; cabinets provided with chip cooling platforms, which are connected to the cooling capacity distribution unit through a pipe, and are provided with the chip; a temperature measuring component used for measuring temperature of the chips; and a control unit, and cooling capacity distribution unit and the temperature measuring component are electrically connected to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Guangdong Ocean University
    Inventors: Haowei Li, Qing Xu, Weijun Feng, Jianyao Chen, Yuanxing Mao, Caisheng Li, Jiakun Liu
  • Patent number: 12293278
    Abstract: A semantic segmentation network model uncertainty quantification method based on evidence inference. The method comprises the steps of constructing an FCN network model, and training the FCN network model by using a training data set to obtain a trained FCN network model for semantic segmentation of image data; transplanting a D-S theory of evidence to the trained FCN network model to obtain a reconstructed FCN network model; and inputting to-be-segmented image data into the reconstructed FCN network model, outputting a classification result of a to-be-segmented image by the FCN network model, and calculating a classification result uncertainty value of each pixel point by using the D-S theory of evidence index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Beijing Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Ci Liang, Wei Zheng, Yumei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12292211
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided to create an indoor thermal environment based on impinging jet ventilation (IJV) and ductless personalized ventilation (DPV), the system includes an IJV duct installed on a wall of a room and a DPV device installed on a table. An air inlet of the IJV duct is connected to an air conditioning system and an air outlet of the IJV duct is close to ground. An upper duct and a lower duct of the DPV device are disposed on two opposite sides of a tabletop, the upper duct is provided with an air supply panel, the lower duct is provided with a duct fan with an air supply volume being adjustable, and the duct fan is configured to send air absorbed from a ground air lake to a user's face area through the air supply panel of the upper duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: TIANJIAN CHENGJIAN UNIVERSITY, XI'AN UNIVERISTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bin Yang, Pengju Liu, Yihang Liu, Bingan Pan, Pengfei Yang, Dacheng Jin
  • Patent number: 12294228
    Abstract: Examples of charging systems are described which may utilize a network of resonator circuits. Control methods are described which may locate a charging location at which an electronic device is placed proximate the charging system and identify a path of resonator circuits to activate to charge the electronic device. Individual resonator circuits in the path may be activated by selecting a resonant frequency of the resonator circuit such that power may be transferred by the resonator circuit at an operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Joshua R. Smith, Xingyi Shi
  • Patent number: 12294294
    Abstract: A power conversion system including a triple active bridge (TAB) is provided. The system includes a power factor correction (PFC) module and a three port converter (TPC) module, with no post-regulation or additional stages required. The TPC module includes an OBC full-bridge and an APM full-bridge, each being inductively coupled to the output of the PFC full-bridge, thereby forming the TAB. The OBC full-bridge is adapted to convert an AC input into a high-voltage DC output for a high-voltage battery, and the APM full-bridge is adapted to convert an AC input into a low-voltage DC output for a low-voltage battery. The power conversion system can accept a single-phase AC input and a three-phase AC input, has a lower current stress as compared to prior art TPCs, and freely transfers power from among any ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: Hella Corporate Center USA, Inc., University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Liyan Zhu, Alan W. Brown, Hua Bai, Lukas Michael Keuck
  • Patent number: 12290659
    Abstract: Systems and methods for Endovascular Perfusion Augmentation for Critical Care (EPACC) are provided. The system may include a catheter having an expandable aortic blood flow regulation device disposed on the distal end of the catheter for placement within an aorta of a patient. The system may also include a catheter controller unit that causes the expandable aortic blood flow regulation device to expand and contract to restrict blood flow through the aorta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
    Inventors: Michael Austin Johnson, Lucas Paul Neff, Timothy Williams
  • Patent number: 12292278
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, a system, a device and a medium for measuring gear tooth profile roughness. The method includes: obtaining design parameters of a target gear pair and test parameters of each tooth profile working point; fitting a measured surface profile and a theoretical tooth profile curve to obtain a surface structure curve; calculating a Hertzian contact width according to the design parameters and the test parameters for each tooth profile working point on the theoretical tooth profile curve, and determining an evaluation length of surface roughness according to the Hertzian contact width; filtering the surface structure curve by means of a filter with a set wavelength to obtain a surface roughness profile; and determining surface roughness parameters of each tooth profile working point in a working area according to the surface roughness profile for each evaluation length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiachun Lin, Xinyu Fan, Peng Wang, Yunfei Li, Baofeng He, Zhaoyao Shi
  • Patent number: 12292380
    Abstract: A detection unit, device, and system for cell capture, spectral analysis, and drug interaction monitoring. The detection unit includes an IR-transparent substrate connected to a plasmonic metasurface with an array of metallic antennas. In a detection device, the detection unit is connected to a microfluidic chamber with a channel such that the channel extends along the metasurface. For the detection system, the detection device is mounted on a microscope. The infrared spectra are collected in reflection, with infrared light impinging on the metasurface from the substrate side and returning back through the substrate in the form of reflected infrared light. The system includes a syringe pump for injecting live cells into the chamber. An AC source is connected to the metasurface for cell capture and its AC voltage creates a dielectrophoretic (DEP) force that causes the live cells to move from the chamber and onto the metasurface for spectral analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Gennady Shvets, Glen Kelp, He Huang
  • Patent number: 12291502
    Abstract: A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or prodrug thereof, having the chemical structure of formula I as defined in the text and methods of using these compounds to inhibit topoisomerase II? and treat or prevent metastasis of cancer in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate
    Inventors: Daniel V. LaBarbera, Qiong Zhou, Adedoyin D. Abraham
  • Patent number: 12290338
    Abstract: The present disclosure may be embodied as methods and/or systems for non-contact measuring of an on-body and/or inside-body motion of an individual. A sensing signal is provided within a near-field coupling range of a motion to be measured. In this way, a measurement signal may be generated as the sensing signal modulated by the motion. The sensing signal may be an ID-modulated signal. In some embodiments, the sensing signal is a backscattered RFID link provided a wireless tag. A downlink signal may be provided to power the wireless tag. The sensing signal may be a harmonic of the downlink signal. The measurement signal is detected. The motion is measured based on the measurement signal. The measurement signal may be detected as far-field radiation after transmission through a source of the motion. The measurement signal may be detected as reflected from a source of the motion as antenna reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Xiaonan Hui, Edwin C. Kan
  • Patent number: 12291794
    Abstract: Electrosynthesis of oxirane can include contacting a halide electrolyte with an anode and cathode respectively located in anodic and cathodic compartments; supplying olefin reactants into the electrolyte in the anodic compartment, such that the anode generates ethylene chlorohydrin; withdrawing a loaded anodic solution comprising ethylene halohydrin from the anodic compartment, and a loaded cathodic solution comprising OH? ions from the cathodic compartment; and mixing the loaded anodic solution with the loaded cathodic solution under conditions to react ethylene halohydrin with OH— to produce oxirane. The electrocatalyst can include iridium oxide on a titanium substrate, with the iridium oxide provided as nanoparticles on a titanium mesh, and the electrolyte can be aqueous KCl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Wan Ru Leow, Yanwei Lum, Edward Sargent