Patents Assigned to University
  • Item defect detection apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6610953
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided which addresses the drawbacks of the prior art and which incorporates two separate imaging devices, one near-infrared and one mid-infrared imaging device which simultaneously capture images of the passing objects. The background information is removed and images of the objects remain. A spherical optical transform and a defect preservation transform preserve any defect levels on objects and compensate for the non-lambertian gradient reflectants on spherical objects at their curvatures and dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: University of Arkansas
    Inventors: Yang Tao, Zhiqing Wen
  • Linear piezoelectric motor with self locking means
    Patent number: 6611080
    Abstract: A linear piezoelectric motor which includes a piezoelectric actuator; an actuator container which contains the piezoelectric actuator; an actuator slope which is supported by and slidably connected to an actuator slope support, the actuator slope is able to correspond with a surface portion of the actuator container; an output bar which shares a common axis with the actuator and the actuator container and comes in contact with at least one of the actuator and the actuator container on one end of the output bar and an axial load is applied on an opposite end of the output bar; and at least one output slope which is slidably connected to at least one output support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: Bryan Kok Ann Ngol, Lennie Enk Ng Lim, Wu Lin
  • Zinc oxide films containing p-type dopant and process for preparing same
    Patent number: 6610141
    Abstract: A p-type oxide film and a process for preparing the film and p-n or n-p junctions is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a p-type zinc oxide film contains arsenic and is grown on a gallium arsenide substrate. The p-type oxide film has a net acceptor concentration of at least about 1015 acceptors/cm3, a resistivity of no greater than about 1 ohm-cm, and a Hall mobility of between about 0.1 and about 50 cm2/Vs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Henry W. White, Shen Zhu, Yungryel Ryu
  • Bundles of fibers useful for moving liquids at high fluxes and acquisition/distribution structures that use the bundles
    Patent number: 6610402
    Abstract: The ability to transport body liquids in consumer products such as diapers, incontinents and feminine napkins is a key factor in their performance. This invention is designed to provide specific high fluxes (volume of liquid/(time*mass of polymer) of aqueous liquids in designated directions using bundles of new specially designed fibers. The key factors for the bundles are a high specific adhesion for the liquid of interest, a high specific volume of the bundle itself, and alignment of the fibers within the bundle. The invention includes novel liquid acquisition/distribution systems and absorbent products that include a liquid acquisition/distribution system which may incorporate the novel bundles of fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Clemson University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Bobby Mal Phillips, Jackson Lee Nelson, Shriram Bagrodia
  • Polymer, producing method thereof, and photorefractive composition
    Patent number: 6610809
    Abstract: A photorefractive composition comprising a polymer prepared by living radical polymerization, wherein: the living radical polymerization is carried out using a monomer, a polymerization initiator, transition metal catalyst and a ligand capable of reversibly forming a complex with the transition metal catalyst, and the polymer comprises at least one of a repeat unit including a moiety having charge transport ability and a repeat unit including a moiety having non-linear-optical ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignees: Nitto Denko Corporation, Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventors: Michiharu Yamamoto, Seth R. Marder, Bernard Kippelen
  • Use of heat shock protein 70 preparations in vaccination against cancer and infectious disease
    Patent number: 6610659
    Abstract: The use of cognate heat shock protein 70-peptide complex to elicit an immune response against cancer and viral, bacterial and other infectious agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
    Inventor: Srivastava K. Pramod
  • Prediction of growth performance and composition in animals, including cattle, from response to growth hormone releasing hormone
    Patent number: 6610496
    Abstract: A method for predicting animal growth performance, which includes administering a suitable amount of growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) to an animal, observing levels of growth hormone (GH) subsequent to GHRH administration and; predicting growth and fat development in an the animal from observed levels of GH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: University of Maryland, College Park
    Inventors: Geoffrey E. Dahl, Scott M. Barao, Erin E. Connor
  • System and method for intranasal administration of lorazepam
    Patent number: 6610271
    Abstract: A therapeutic composition of lorazepam and its pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives are provided for intranasal administration of at least one predetermined volumetric unit dose in the form of a spray by means that delivers one or more therapeutically prescribed unit doses that are highly accurate as to the volume discharged and which leave no significant quantity of the composition in the delivery means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventor: Daniel P. Wermeling
  • Porcine hepatocytes for use in treatment of disorders characterized by insufficient liver function
    Patent number: 6610288
    Abstract: Isolated porcine hepatocytes, isolated populations of such hepatocytes and methods for using the hepatocytes to treat subjects with disorders characterized by insufficient liver function are described. The porcine hepatocytes can be either hepatocytes isolated from adult, immature, or embryonic swine. The porcine hepatocytes can be modified to be suitable for transplantation into a xenogeneic subject, for example, by altering an antigen (e.g., an MHC class I antigen) on the cell surface which is capable of stimulating an immune response against the cell in the subject (e.g., by contact with an anti-MHC class I antibody, or a fragment or derivative thereof). The isolated porcine hepatocytes of the invention can be used to treat disorders characterized by insufficient liver function by administering the hepatocytes to a subject having such a disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignees: Diacrin, Inc., Trustees of Boston University
    Inventors: Albert Edge, J. Ryan Gunsalus, Nezam H. Afdhal
  • Design of hormone-like antibodies with agonistic and antagonistic functions
    Patent number: 6610500
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an agonistic anti-human TrkA mAb 5C3 which recognizes the NGF docking site. Such antibodies may be used for the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of neurological diseases, neuromas and neoplastic tumors which express TrkA receptors. Also these antibodies may be used to develop and screen for pharmaceutical agents which are agonistic or antagonistic to NGF binding to the TrkA receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: McGill University
    Inventors: H. Uri Saragovi, Lynne LeSauteur
  • Cationically polymerizable adhesive composition containing an acidic component and methods and materials employing same
    Patent number: 6610759
    Abstract: An adhesive composition that includes a mixture of a cationically polymerizable component, an acidic component, and an initiator is provided. Preferably, the initiator comprises an iodonium salt, a visible light sensitizer, and an electron donor compound, wherein the initiator has a photoinduced potential greater than or equal to that of N,N-dimethylaniline in a standard solution of 2.9×10−5 moles/g diphenyl iodonium hexafluoroantimonate and 1.5×10−5 moles/g camphorquinone in 2-butanone. This adhesive composition is cationically polymerizable and is able to bond to hard tissue and cationic restorative materials upon curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignees: Curators of the University of Missouri, 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Cecil C. Chappelow, Charles S. Pinzino, J. David Eick, James Code, Joel D. Oxman, Sharon M. Rozzi
  • Method of efficient controllable and repeatable wet oxidation in a phosphorous-rich III-V material system
    Patent number: 6610612
    Abstract: A method of selectively oxidizing III-V semiconductor material is provided. There is provided a III-V semiconductor system comprising a short-period super lattice (SSL) of N periods of alternating layers of an aluminum-bearing III-V compound semiconductor material and a second III-V semiconductor material where N≧2, at least one phosphorous-rich III-V semiconductor layer, and at least one substantially phosphorous-free III-V semiconductor layer between each of the at least one phosphorous-rich layers and the SSL. The III-V semiconductor system is exposed to oxidizing atmosphere to selectively oxidize at least a portion of the SSL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignees: The University of Maryland, The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency
    Inventors: Mario Dagenais, Bikash Koley, Frederick G. Johnson
  • Apparatus for generating a temperature gradient and methods for using the gradient to characterize molecular interactions
    Patent number: 6610470
    Abstract: A novel apparatus for generating temperature gradients is described. The apparatus includes a semiconductive wafer and electrical connectors attached to, preferably, one of the edges of the wafer. Methods for transferring the temperature gradients to strata are described. The temperature gradients on the strata can be used for analyses of molecules, particularly biological macromolecules. The present invention also includes improved methods for determining the thermal stability of binding complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Martin Blumenfeld, Mark Fisher, Fred Williamson, Gregory T. Cibuzar, Brian G. Van Ness
  • Method of treating inflammatory conditions with progesterone analogs
    Patent number: 6610674
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating inflammatory conditions, including but not limited to, inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and proctitis), other noninfectious, inflammatory conditions of the GI tract (microscopic colitis, allergic eosinophilic gastroenteritis, food allergies, pill induced esophagitis, celiac disease, recurrent polyps, and hemorrhoids), and psoriasis, using progesterone or progesterone analogs such as medroxyprogesterone acetate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: University of Pennsylvania
    Inventor: Alan D. Schreiber
  • Sensor probe for measuring temperature and liquid volumetric fraction of a liquid droplet laden hot gas and method of using same
    Patent number: 6609412
    Abstract: A sensor probe and method of use for determining the temperature, velocity, and/or liquid volumetric fraction of gas laden with droplets. In one variation, the probe includes a single heating element used in a well-characterized flow. The heating element is maintained above the Leidenfrost transition for the droplets, which prevents cooling effects from the droplets from impacting the temperature measurement. In another variation, the probe includes two or more heating elements arranged in similar flow environments. The property of interest is derived by relying on thermodynamic and heat transfer principles, which are not usable in conjunction with conventional devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: University of Maryland
    Inventors: Marino Dimarzo, Paolo Ruffino
  • Post-Amadori inhibitors of advanced glycation reactions
    Patent number: 6610852
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and kits for inhibiting the conversion of Amadori compounds to post Amadori advanced glycation endproducts, and for treating and preventing chronic tissue damage and diabetic complication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Kansas University Medical Center
    Inventors: Raja Khalifah, Aaron Ashley Booth
  • Method for detecting fire with light section image to sense smoke
    Patent number: 6611207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting fire with light section image to sense smoke. Infrared radiation arrays (1) and infrared cameras (2) are provided in a monitored area. The images of the infrared light spots transmitted by the infrared radiation arrays (1) are converted into video signals by the infrared cameras (2), and transferred to a video switcher (3). The video switcher sends the video signals received from the infrared cameras to a computer (4) one by one. The computer processes the signals. If fire is sensed, the computer controls the alarm unit (5) to alarm by a linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: University of Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Hongyong Yuan, Weicheng Fan, Guofeng Su, Binghai Liu, Shenyou Liu, Qingan Wang
  • Method and apparatus for ultra wide-band communication system using multiple detectors
    Patent number: 6611223
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting ultra wide-band (UWB) signals using multiple detectors having dynamic transfer characteristics. A receiver circuit is implemented using devices such as op-amps to provide the required dynamic characteristics. Detectors used in the UWB communication systems of the present invention utilize direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology for multiple access reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Kay Soon Low, Kin Mun Lye, Paul Kar Ming Ho
  • Fluidic self-assembly of active antenna
    Patent number: 6611237
    Abstract: Fluidic self-assembly of active antenna. An embodiment that is described in the specification and drawings include a strip of substrate material having an antenna on one side, signal and power busses on the other side, and one or more channel laid out across the strip of substrate material from the antenna to the signal and power busses. The strip of substrate material may have a number of recessed regions and shaped blocks disposed in the recessed regions via a fluidic self-assembly process. The shaped blocks may include micro-switches, CMOS control circuitry, and III-V semiconductor amplifiers. The strip may then be stacked together vertically with spacers to form a two dimensional phased-array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: John Stephen Smith
  • Method to reduce the dislocation density in group III-nitride films
    Patent number: 6610144
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a semiconductor film having a reduced dislocation density. The film comprises at least one interlayer structure, including a group III-nitride layer, a passivation interlayer disposed on the group III-nitride layer, interrupting the group III-nitride layer, and an island growth interlayer disposed on the passivation interlayer, and interrupting the group III-nitride layer. A method of making a semiconductor film of the present invention comprises producing a semiconductor film including at least one interlayer structure, each interlayer structure produced by the substeps of growing a group III-nitride layer, depositing a passivation interlayer on the group III-nitride layer, depositing an island growth interlayer on the passivation interlayer and continuing growing the group III-nitride layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Umesh Kumar Mishra, Stacia Keller