Patents Assigned to UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
  • Patent number: 10680124
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving applications involving the generation and detection of electromagnetic radiation at terahertz (THz) frequencies. Embodiments of the systems and methods include the fabrication and use of plasmonic devices that enhance light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale by extreme focusing with nanostructured metals. This plasmonic enhancement is used to produce high efficiency THz photoconductive switches that combine the benefits of low-temperature grown GaAs while using mature 1.55 ?m femtosecond lasers operating with photon energy below the GaAs band-gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Darcie, Reuven Gordon, Afshin Jooshesh
  • Publication number: 20200129435
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a composition comprising a matrix, a plurality of microparticles and a therapeutic agent. The therapeutic agent may be encapsulated in the microparticles, and/or the microparticles may be dispersed in the matrix. The composition may be a mesh or a sheet, and may further comprise a second therapeutic agent, and optionally a second microparticle and/or a second matrix. In particular embodiments, the matrix is a hydrogel. Methods for making and using the composition are also disclosed, and in certain embodiments, the composition is useful for treating cancer, such as brain cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc., The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Mohsen Akbari, Brian Toyota
  • Publication number: 20200071687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to subtilisin variants and uses thereof. More specifically, the present invention relates to variant subtilisin Carlsberg sequences and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventor: Francis Edward Nano
  • Patent number: 10552761
    Abstract: Technologies for performing non-intrusive fine-grained power monitoring of a datacenter are provided. Hardware component state information for servers in the datacenter is collected, along with aggregate power consumption measurements for the datacenter. The servers are grouped into multiple virtual homogenous server clusters (VHCs) based on characteristics of the servers. A power model is constructed comprising multiple power mapping functions associated with the multiple VHCs. Component state information of a particular server can then be analyzed, along with a corresponding aggregate power consumption measurement, using the constructed power model to determine an approximate power consumption of the particular server. The approximate power consumption of the server can then be displayed and/or provided to one or more power management applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Guoming Tang, Kui Wu, Fangming Liu
  • Publication number: 20190272670
    Abstract: Technologies are provided herein for modeling and tracking physical objects, such as human hands, within a field of view of a depth sensor. A sphere-mesh model of the physical object can be created and used to track the physical object in real-time. The sphere-mesh model comprises an explicit skeletal mesh and an implicit convolution surface generated based on the skeletal mesh. The skeletal mesh parameterizes the convolution surface and distances between points in data frames received from the depth sensor and the sphere-mesh model can be efficiently determined using the skeletal mesh. The sphere-mesh model can be automatically calibrated by dynamically adjusting positions and associated radii of vertices in the skeletal mesh to fit the convolution surface to a particular physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea TAGLIASACCHI, Anastasia TKACH, Mark PAULY
  • Patent number: 10369877
    Abstract: A hybrid drive system includes a transmission having first and second parallel input shafts. The first and second parallel input shafts are selectively coupled together via a plurality of gearwheels operable to vary the rotational speed of the second parallel shaft relative to the first parallel shaft. The hybrid drive system includes at least one irreversible drive machine coupled to the transmission and operable to provide torque to at least one of the first or second parallel input shafts, and at least one reversible drive machine coupled to the transmission and operable to provide torque to at least one of the first or second parallel input shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Guang Wu, Zuomin Dong
  • Patent number: 10344110
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of methods for making and using functionalized forms of polydicyclopentadiene polymers. The disclosed polymers and methods enable a greater range of uses than the unmodified polydicyclopentadiene, which is currently used industrially. In addition, the presence of the functional groups contemplated by the disclosed compounds and formulae allow for the control of the polymer surface energy, and also enables the use of reversible chemical crosslinks, which permits recycling of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy E. Wulff, Jun Chen, Matthew G. Moffitt, Fraser P. Burns, Tyler J. Cuthbert, Chang Liu, Tong Li
  • Patent number: 10338037
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of compounds, conjugates, and devices, such as columns comprising such compounds and/or conjugates, that can be used to identify, separate, and quantify post-translationally modified analytes. The disclosed compounds and conjugates can be used to discriminate between analytes, such as peptides, having different post-translation modifications, such as methylations, phosphorylations, acetylations, citrullinations, hydroxylations, nitrosylations, ADP-ribosylations, glycosylations, propionylations, butyrylations, crotonylations, 2-hydroxyisobutyrylations, malonylations, succinylations, formylations, ubiquitinations, neddylations, proline cis-trans isomerizations. In particular disclosed embodiments, the compounds and conjugates can be used to separate peptides having different degrees of methylation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Fraser Hof, Graham A. E. Garnett
  • Publication number: 20190187151
    Abstract: A methodology for the precise calibration of molecule quantifying assays is disclosed. The method uses stable isotope labeled molecules with distinguishable masses to act as internal and calibration standards that are free from endogenous interference. Furthermore, stable isotope labeled molecules allows for calibration within a test matrix. In some examples, stable isotope labeled peptides are used as internal and calibration standards for mass spectrometry assays for quantification of peptide biomarkers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Andre Marc Joseph LEBLANC, Derek Scott SMITH
  • Publication number: 20190109863
    Abstract: Technologies are described for authenticating a sender identity of an online message. For example, an online message having a purported sender identity can be obtained. Various features can then be extracted from the message, including stylometric features, origin location features, attached file features for any files attached to the message, and embedded URL features. The extracted features can then be compared to a sender profile for a known sender identity matching the purported sender identity, or to one or more sender profiles for recognized suspicious senders if the purported sender identity does not match a known sender identity. The sender profile for a given sender identity can include features extracted from one or more messages previously sent by the sender identity. A global risk score for the message indicating a likelihood that the purported sender identity is inauthentic can be determined based at least in part upon the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Issa Traore, Marcelo Luiz Brocardo
  • Publication number: 20180374968
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving applications involving the generation and detection of electromagnetic radiation at terahertz (THz) frequencies. Embodiments of the systems and methods include the fabrication and use of plasmonic devices that enhance light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale by extreme focusing with nanostructured metals. This plasmonic enhancement is used to produce high efficiency THz photoconductive switches that combine the benefits of low-temperature grown GaAs while using mature 1.55 ?m femtosecond lasers operating with photon energy below the GaAs band-gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Darcie, Reuven Gordon, Afshin Jooshesh
  • Publication number: 20180355121
    Abstract: A stimulus-responsive carrier, a method for making and a method of using the same are disclosed. The stimulus-responsive carrier comprises a polymeric component comprising poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), a copolymer comprising units derived from N-isopropylacrylamide and acrylic acid (PNIPAM-AA), poly N-vinylpyrrolidone, a copolymer of N-isopropylacrylamide and hydroxymethylacrylamide (PNIPAM-HMAAm), a copolymer of N-isopropylacrylamide and allylamine (poly(NIPAAM-co-allylamine)), poly 2-(2-methoxyethoxy) ethyl methacrylate, or any combination thereof; and a second component disposed within the polymeric component, the second component comprising a hydrogel, wherein the second component has a different composition than the polymeric component. The stimulus-responsive carrier is responsive to a stimulus comprising a temperature change, a pH change, application of a magnetic field, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Mohsen Akbari, Amir Seyfoori, Seyyed Ali Seyyed Ebrahimi
  • Publication number: 20180326588
    Abstract: Robotic drummers include voice coil actuators that are coupled to linear-to-rotary motion convertors to produce drumstick rotations so as to strike a drum head. Such rotations can be triggered via a microprocessor using stored performance data, by a user with a mouse, trackpad, joystick, or other user input device. Performances are enhanced by driving the VCA with drive signals have random variations associated with strike timing, amplitude, location, and speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Van Rooyen, George Tzanetakis
  • Publication number: 20180267020
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of diagnosing and/or treating ACVS, by determining expression levels of several ACVS-related molecules, such as FABP3, ANPR-1, IGFBP-3, F9, SELL, apoB100, ADPN, vWF, THBS1, PRL, PON3, EGFR, VEGF-D, HPX, MBT, F5, F10, SERPIN A5, HCII, and HABP2, for example in a blood sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicants: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc., Vancouver Island Health Authority, British Columbia Center for Disease Control, The Governors of the University of Calgary
    Inventors: Andrew Penn, Christoph Hermann Borchers, Mary Louise Lesperance, Angela Marie Jackson, Maximilian Barnaby Bibok, Viera Saly, Robert Fred Balshaw, Shelagh Brown Coutts
  • Patent number: 10079391
    Abstract: A microfluidic fuel cell with flow-through architecture is provided. The anode and the cathode are porous electrodes and comprise an interstitial pore network. A virtual insulator is located between the electrodes, in an electrolyte channel. The virtual insulator is comprised of a co-laminar flow of an electrolyte. An inlet directs substantially all the flow of liquid reactant through the porous electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Kjeang, David Sinton, Nedjib Djilali
  • Patent number: 10075026
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a novel WPT system to deliver power from a stationary source (e.g., a primary coil) to a moving telemetric device (e.g., a secondary coil) via magnetic resonance coupling. Novel configurations of the secondary employing ferrite components placed at specific locations and orientations within the coil. Embodiments of these secondary coil configurations are constructed and their performance is tested. Measurements show that ferrite components improved power transfer at most orientations, beyond that of the nominal ferrite-less configuration. The use of angled ferrite components further improved power transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Basem M. Badr, Nikolai Dechev, Kerry R. Delaney, Robert Somogyi-Csizmazia
  • Publication number: 20180201916
    Abstract: Heat labile Subtilisin Carlsberg polypeptide variants having SEQ ID No.s: 10, 14 and 18 are described. After protease digestion of a target polypeptide in a sample, these variants can conveniently be heat inactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventor: Francis Edward Nano
  • Patent number: 10020178
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system and method for preparing matrix-coated samples for analysis using mass spectrometry. In particular disclosed embodiments, the system and methods of using the system utilize an electric field to enhance results obtained from mass spectrometric analysis of the matrix-coated samples. The methods disclosed herein can be used to prepare biological samples that have improved characteristics facilitating the detection, localization, and/or identification of biomarkers for disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Christoph Hermann Borchers, Jun Han, Xiaodong Wang
  • Publication number: 20180111829
    Abstract: A method of depositing nanowire chains includes applying a nanowire mixture to a chain-site. The chain-site includes a patterned conductive film covering at least a portion of a surface of a substrate. The patterned conductive film includes a gap. The method also includes, after applying the nanowire mixture, forming a nanowire chain suspended adjacent to a portion of the patterned conductive film by generating an electric field proximate to the patterned conductive film; and depositing the nanowire chain across the gap by removing a liquid portion of the nanowire mixture. An average length of the nanowires of the nanowire mixture is less than a width of the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Mahshid Sam, Rustom B. Bhiladvala
  • Publication number: 20180100184
    Abstract: This application provides methods, kits, probes and primers, that can be used to analyze environmental samples, such as water samples, soil samples, and air samples. The methods and kits can include positive controls, to provide confidence in test results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Caren Christiane Helbing, Nicholas Veldhoen