Patents Issued in April 16, 2024
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Patent number: 11959899Abstract: Disclosed is a 4-method for preparing original data of an odor image includes a measurement result acquiring step of acquiring each measurement result measured with respect to the odor substance included in the sample in each of a plurality of sensor elements of an odor sensor, and a data processing step of generating the original data for representing the odor of the sample in the image by processing each of the acquired measurement results. Each of the sensor elements has different detection properties with respect to the odor substance. In a case where each of the original data items is represented in a small image, the odor of the sample is represented in an odor image in a predetermined display mode in which small images are assembled, and each of the small images is varied in accordance with the magnitude of the value of each original data item.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: AROMA BIT, INC.Inventors: Shunichiro Kuroki, Kenichi Hashizume, Megumi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11959900Abstract: A health early warning system for passengers on a train in an outdoor air polluted environment and a method thereof are provided. The system comprises an air quality monitoring station data acquisition module, a train data acquisition module, a train air pollution prediction module, and a train air environment early warning module; the air quality monitoring station data acquisition module acquires data of air quality monitoring stations and uploads the data to the train air pollution prediction module; the train data acquisition module acquires data of the train and uploads the data to the train air pollution prediction module; the train air pollution prediction module performs short-term prediction on air pollution of the train and uploads a result of the short-term prediction to the train air environment early warning module; and the train air environment early warning module performs early warning on the health of the passengers on the train.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Central South UniversityInventors: Hui Liu, Haiping Wu, Yanfei Li, Chao Chen
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Patent number: 11959901Abstract: Provided are method and system for rapidly predicting foaming tendency of edible frying oil, including: heating the oil; immersing a polar component content detection probe into the oil to measure an initial polar component content of the oil; at a frying state, removing the detection probe from the oil, placing frying food into the oil and frying the same taking out the frying food from the oil after frying, and measuring the largest frying oil foam height and recording the same as an initial foam height; at an air introduction state, immersing the detection probe and introducing air into the oil, and continuing to introduce air and heat thereinto until the polar component content in the oil is 10%; repeating the frying state; and fitting measurements and parameters into a formula.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Jiangnan UniversityInventors: Gangcheng Wu, Hui Zhang, Xu Li, Xingguo Wang, Qingzhe Jin, Linglu Meng, Linya Shao, Zhengmei Zhao, Yanting Lu
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Patent number: 11959902Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for determining a hydrocarbon-water contact position in a hydrocarbon reservoir, said method comprising the steps of:—Providing (110) at least two reservoir fluid samples collected, from connected hydrocarbon reservoir(s), at different known sampling depth values, —Measuring (120) abundance of at least one isotope of noble gas from each of the at least two reservoir fluid samples, and—Calculating (130) the hydrocarbon-water contact position in the hydrocarbon reservoir from the measured abundances and the known sampling depth values of the at least two reservoir fluid samples.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOTALENERGIES ONETECHInventors: Magali Pujol, James-Alexander Scott
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Patent number: 11959903Abstract: Techniques and systems are disclosed for a bioassay that is an in vitro mimic of peripheral nerve generation using the sensory neurons that innervate the peripheral nervous system. In some embodiments, the techniques may assist in detecting the bioactivity or potency of nerve grafts (e.g., processed, acellular human allografts) for fostering or supporting peripheral nerve regeneration. In various embodiments, techniques comprise affixing a harvested sensory neuron (e.g., a DRG) to a nerve graft segment to form a test construct; culturing the test construct in a medium; analyzing the test construct to indicate the amount of outgrowing peripheral nerve structure; and determining the potency of the nerve graft from a metric derived from the analysis. In some embodiments, techniques and materials may be used to test the effect of a varied test condition on peripheral nerve growth.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Axogen CorporationInventor: Curt Deister
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Patent number: 11959904Abstract: In a method for sensing translocation of a molecule through a nanopore, a molecule in a first fluidic solution in a first fluidic reservoir that is in direct fluidic connection with the nanopore is directed to a nanopore inlet and translocated through the nanopore to a nanopore outlet and through a fluidic passage that is in direct fluidic connection with the nanopore outlet, to a second fluidic solution in a second fluidic reservoir disposed in direct fluidic connection with the fluidic passage. The fluidic passage has at least one fluidic section in which a length of the fluidic section is greater than a width of the fluidic section. Translocation of the molecule through the nanopore is sensed by measuring the electrical potential local to the fluidic passage during the translocation of the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventor: Ping Xie
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Patent number: 11959905Abstract: A single molecule sensing or detecting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode separated from the first electrode by a gap. The first electrode and the second electrode have an opening formed therethrough. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is functionalized with a recognition molecule. The recognition molecule has an effective length LI and is configured to selectively bind to a target molecule having an effective length L2. The size of the gap is configured to be greater than L2, but less than or equal to the sum of LI and L2.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Stuart Lindsay, Peiming Zhang, Yanan Zhao
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Patent number: 11959906Abstract: A time-ordered series of measurements of a polymer made during translocation of the polymer through a Nanopore are analysed. The measurements are dependent on the identity of k-mers in the Nanopore, a k-mer bring k polymer units of the polymer, where k is a positive integer. The method involves deriving, from the series of measurements, a feature vector of time-ordered features representing characteristics of the measurements; and determining similarity between the derived feature vector and at least one other feature vector.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLCInventors: Stuart William Reid, James Anthony Clarke, James White, Gavin Harper
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Patent number: 11959907Abstract: A device and method for analyte detection and analytes in a particulate bearing fluid such as whole blood having an instrument for partitioning the particles from the fluid that is integrated with a detector for analyzes of one or more particulate bearing fluid analytes while the particles in the particulate bearing fluid are partitioned.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: INSTRUMENTATION LABORATORY COMPANYInventors: Hansong Zeng, Gert Blankenstein
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Patent number: 11959908Abstract: A measurement device includes an acquisition unit and a calculation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a first image obtained by image-capturing liquid containing tangible components flowing through a flow path and a second image image-captured simultaneously with the first image and having an image-capturing magnification higher than the first image. The calculation unit sorts, by using clipped images obtained by clipping the tangible components included in the first image and the second image, the tangible components into different types, and that calculates, by using a total number of the tangible components clipped out of the first image and included in a specified category as well as a ratio of a number of each of the tangible components of the different types clipped out of the second image and included in the specified category relative to a total number thereof, the number of the tangible components included in the specified category.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventor: Yukio Watanabe
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Patent number: 11959909Abstract: The present disclosure provides a basal ganglia-on-a-chip for screening therapeutic agents for brain and nervous system diseases and a method for fabricating the same. The present invention provides a method for screening therapeutic agents for dopamine-dependent brain and nervous system diseases by using a basal ganglia-on-a-chip. When the basal ganglia-on-a-chip of the present invention is used in the effect evaluation of therapeutic agents for brain and nervous system diseases, the effect evaluation of therapeutic candidate substances can be economically and promptly carried out compared with an existing technique.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Jeong-Woo Choi, Won Jun Lee, Jae Wook Shin
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Patent number: 11959910Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention are directed to evaluating and identifying cells by recording and interpreting a time-dependent signal produced by unique cell respiration and permeability attributes of isolated viable cells.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Pattern Bioscience, Inc.Inventors: Nicolas Arab, Ross Johnson
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Patent number: 11959911Abstract: The present disclosure provided a blood cell analyzer, a control device and a blood analysis method thereof. In the method, a first reagent is mixed with a sample to obtain a first testing sample, and then a second reagent is mixed with the first testing sample for a further reaction to get a second testing sample for basophil classification and/or HGB measurement. A blood sample may be tested in one reaction cell through time-division multiplexing technology to obtain four groups leukocytes classification result and HGB result by single detection channel. Thus, the structure of the analyzer may be greatly simplified on the premise of guaranteeing the performance of the analyzer, the size and cost of the analyzer may reduce and a performance-price ratio of the analyzer may increase.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: CHENGDU SHEN MINDRAY MEDICAL ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenjun Tong, Yijie Yang, Huaming Xu, Xing Shi
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Patent number: 11959912Abstract: A fluorescence immunochromatographic detection card and a preparation method therefor and usage thereof is disclosed. The fluorescence immunochromatographic detection card comprises a treatment liquid A, a treatment liquid B, and a detection card. The treatment liquid A contains an antibody 15C4 that is coupled with a fluorescent microsphere. The treatment liquid B contains an antibody 13G12 that is coupled with biotin. The detection card comprises a detection line area and a quality control line area, and a streptavidin detection T line is fixed in the detection area, and an antibody quality control C line is immobilized in the quality control line area. The preparation method comprises: (1) formulating the treatment liquid A; (2) formulating the treatment liquid B; and (3) drawing the line on the detection card.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Wuhan Newcando Biotechnology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Honghao Sun, Hui Zhu, Changrong Zhou
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Patent number: 11959913Abstract: The present invention relates to a quantitative cellular method for the in vitro determination of the effect of an anti-CD26 ligand, preferably of an anti-CD26 monoclonal antibody, such as begelomab.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ADIENNE S.A.Inventor: Antonio Francesco Di Naro
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Patent number: 11959914Abstract: The automatic analyzer includes: a sample dispensing unit that dispenses a sample into a reaction vessel; a reagent dispensing unit that dispenses a reagent into the reaction vessel; a control unit that controls the sample dispensing unit and the reagent dispensing unit; and a measurement unit that measures a mixed solution of the sample and the reagent mixed in the reaction vessel. The reagent includes three types of reagents of: a first reagent that specifically binds to an antigen in the sample; a second reagent that specifically binds to a site different from that to which the first reagent binds with respect to the antigen and has a label to be detected by the measurement unit; and a third reagent that specifically binds to a site different from the binding site of the first reagent and the antigen and contains insoluble carriers.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION, ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Tatsuki Takakura, Kenta Imai, Takaaki Hagiwara, Yoshihiro Yamashita, Taku Sakazume, Beatus Ofenloch-Haehnle, Michaela Windfuhr, Ursula Pauselius-Fuchs, Rita Haerteis
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Patent number: 11959915Abstract: A method of fabricating a device includes fabricating conductive surfaces including one or more capture surfaces and one or more reference surfaces, attaching a first molecular wire to each capture surface, and attaching a second molecular wire to each reference surface. The first and second molecular wires include chiral oligonucleotide multiplexes having identical nucleobase sequences and opposite absolute configuration. The first molecular wire includes a first oligonucleotide strand conjugated to a first functional handle including a sulfur-containing compound, and a second oligonucleotide strand conjugated to a capture agent that interacts with a target entity. The second molecular wire includes a first oligonucleotide strand conjugated to a second functional handle including a sulfur-containing compound, and a second oligonucleotide strand conjugated to a reference compound. The first and second oligonucleotide strands of each molecular wire are complementary and have the same absolute configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: VELANIDI TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Jane Ni, David Shykind, Devin Wiley
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Patent number: 11959916Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method, a system, and a program for supplying immunodynamics-related information that is used in order to readily understand the immunodynamics of the cell-mediated immunity of a subject and to determine a method for treating or a method for preventing a disease and/or a symptom in a subject, This method, system and program supply immunodynamics-related information that is used in order to determine a method for treating or a method for preventing a disease and/or a symptom in a subject by analyzing the number of immunocompetent cells in blood.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Tamio Yamauchi
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Patent number: 11959917Abstract: Disclosed herein are immunoassay methods and reagents for detecting anti-Zika IgM antibody in a biological sample from a subject and/or diagnosing Zika virus infection in a subject. Also disclosed are algorithms for implementing the disclosed methods. The disclosed immunoassay methods, reagents, and algorithms enable efficient and reliable qualitative detection of anti-Zika virus antibodies and rapid determination of presumptive positive results for Zika virus infection in human subjects.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.Inventors: Sai Patibandla, Krishna Singh
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Patent number: 11959918Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of diagnosing bladder cancer in an individual. Further, the present invention relates to a method of determining the course of bladder cancer in an individual. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a kit for diagnosing bladder cancer in an individual or determining the course of bladder cancer in an individual.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: OTTO-VON-GUERICKE-UNIVERSITÄT MAGDEBURGInventors: Johannes Haybäck, Jeton Luzha
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Patent number: 11959919Abstract: Method of selecting treatment for a subject diagnosed with cancer comprises contacting antibody that binds specifically to thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) protein with a first body fluid sample before completing cancer treatment; determining a first amount of antibody binding to TK1 protein in the first sample; correlating the first amount to a first concentration of TK1 protein using a standard curve correlating an amount of antibody binding to recombinant human TK1 (rhTK1) and a concentration of rhTK1; contacting the antibody with a second body fluid sample within one to six months after the cancer treatment; determining a second amount of antibody binding to TK1 protein in the second sample; correlating the second amount to a second concentration using the curve; identifying the patient as having a high risk of future cancer relapse if the second concentration is ? the first concentration; and selecting an adjuvant treatment based on the identification.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: AROCELL ABInventors: Sven Skog, Staffan Eriksson, Bernard Tribukait, Qimin He
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Patent number: 11959920Abstract: Aspects of the application provide methods of identifying and sequencing proteins, polypeptides, and amino acids, and compositions useful for the same. In some aspects, the application provides methods of obtaining data during a degradation process of a polypeptide, and outputting a sequence representative of the polypeptide. In some aspects, the application provides amino acid recognition molecules comprising a shielding element that enhances photostability in polypeptide sequencing reactions.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Brian Reed, Jeremy Lackey, Haidong Huang
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Patent number: 11959921Abstract: A method for forming dendritic mesoporous nanoparticles comprising preparing a mixture containing one or more polymer precursors, a silica precursor, and a compound that reacts with silica and reacts with the polymer or oligomer formed from the one or more polymer precursors, and stirring the mixture whereby nanoparticles are formed, and subsequently treating the nanoparticles to form dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles or dendritic mesoporous carbon nanoparticles. The silica precursor may comprise tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), the one or more polymer precursors may comprise 3-aminophenol and formaldehyde and the compound may be ethylene diamine (EDA). There is a window of amount of EDA present that will result in asymmetric particles being formed. If a greater amount of EDA is present, symmetrical particles will be formed.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANDInventors: Chengzhong (Michael) Yu, Jianye Fu, Jinqing Jiao, Yang Liu
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Patent number: 11959922Abstract: A method for analyzing macromolecules, including peptides, polypeptides, and proteins, employing nucleic acid encoding is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Encodia, Inc.Inventors: Mark S. Chee, Kevin L. Gunderson, Michael Phillip Weiner
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Patent number: 11959923Abstract: Flow apparatuses comprising a separation channel, a downstream flow separator, a detection zone, an observation zone, and a waste channel. The separation channel has first and second flows in contact and allows lateral movement of components between contacting first and second flows. The downstream flow separator is in communication with the separation channel and diverts a part of the first fluid flow, the second fluid flow, or both, from the separation channel. The detection zone comprises a detection channel downstream of and in communication with the flow separator and configured to receive a plurality of diverted flows from the flow separator and a label channel configured to label the diverted flows from the flow separator. The observation zone is configured to record an analytical signal indicative of the quantity and the electrical properties of the component. The waste channel is at the downstream end of the observation zone.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Cambridge Enterprise LimitedInventors: Emma Yates, Christopher Dobson, Therese Herling, Tuomas Pertti Jonathan Knowles
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Patent number: 11959924Abstract: The invention relates to a method for obtaining APRIL-binding peptides. With this method APRIL-binding peptides may be obtained and/or selected. Further aspects of the invention relate to a cell comprising a nucleotide sequence coding for an APRIL-binding peptide according to the invention, a process for producing an APRIL-binding peptide and the APRIL-binding peptide obtainable in the production process and/or the selection method. In view of the possible utility of the APRIL-binding peptides according to the invention, further aspects of the invention relate to diagnostic uses of an APRIL binding peptide of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ADURO BIOTECH HOLDINGS, EUROPE B.V.Inventors: Hans Van Eenennaam, Andrea Van Elsas, Lilian Driessen, Jan Paul Medema
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Patent number: 11959925Abstract: Humanized mouse models and methods are provided for determining whether administration of an immunomodulatory drug likely elicits a severe cytokine release syndrome in a human. Humanized mouse models and methods are also provided for determining the immunotoxicity in a human of a drug candidate or of drug combinations.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Jackson LaboratoryInventors: James Keck, Chunting Ye
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Patent number: 11959926Abstract: Humanized mouse models and methods are provided for determining whether administration of an immunomodulatory drug likely elicits a severe cytokine release syndrome in a human. Humanized mouse models and methods are also provided for determining the immunotoxicity in a human of a drug candidate or of drug combinations.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Jackson LaboratoryInventors: James Keck, Chunting Ye
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Patent number: 11959927Abstract: A method is provided for determining the presence of soluble, misfolded ?-synuclein protein in a biological sample. The method comprises contacting the biological sample with a pre-incubation mixture, the pre-incubation mixture comprising: a monomeric ?-synuclein protein; a buffer composition; a salt; and an indicator, to form an incubation mixture. An incubation cycle is conducted on the incubation mixture in the presence of either a silicon nitride bead or a borosilicate glass bead having a diameter of from about 1 mm to about 5 mm. The method further comprises determining if a detectable amount of misfolded ?-synuclein aggregate is present in the biological sample.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Amprion, Inc.Inventors: Luis Concha, Carly Farris, Bret Holguin, Russell Lebovitz, Benedikt Vollrath, Frank Espin
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Patent number: 11959928Abstract: A method for measuring glucose and cortisol levels in earwax, wherein the measured levels of cortisol and glucose are interpreted as the average cortisol and glucose levels and a medical device that provides an effective, safe and hygienic self-extraction of earwax.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TREARS LTD.Inventors: Andrés Herane-Vives, Jan Benöhr-Riveros
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Patent number: 11959929Abstract: A method of measuring and identifying LSD and its major metabolite O-H-LSD, by obtaining a sample from an individual, and measuring, identifying, and quantifying LSD and O-H-LSD in the sample by performing a LC-MS/MS analysis. A method of treating and monitoring individuals taking LSD, by administering a microdose of LSD, a prodrug of LSD, or an analog of LSD to the individual, monitoring the individual by obtaining a sample from an individual and measuring and identifying the analytes in the sample by performing a LC-MS/MS analysis, and adjusting the microdose based on the amount of LSD quantified in the LC-MS/MS analysis. A method of adjusting dosing of LSD, by administering a microdose of LSD, a prodrug of LSD, or an analog of LSD to the individual, and adjusting the microdose based on blood concentration analytics.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Universitätsspital BaselInventors: Matthias E. Liechti, Urs Philipp Duthaler
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Patent number: 11959930Abstract: A measurement portion includes a containment unit including a plurality of containers containing a liquid, a dispensing unit including a dispensing probe for dispensing the liquid, and a gauging portion for gauging the liquid dispensed by the dispensing unit. An excessive immersion determination portion determines whether an immersion of the dispensing probe is excessive immersion that exceeds a predetermined range. An input portion can select and set an operation of the measurement portion to be performed after the excessive immersion determination portion determines that the immersion is excessive immersion from a plurality of modes. A measurement control portion controls the measurement portion depending on a mode set by the input portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JEOL Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Asakura, Mine Yamashita, Chikashi Nakai, Kazushiro Nunokawa
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Patent number: 11959931Abstract: A system and method for dispense characterization is disclosed. According to particular embodiments of the dispense characterization system and method, volumes of dispensed liquids can be determined. In more particular embodiments, additional characteristics and combinations of characteristics of a liquid dispensing event can be determined. Examples of additional characteristics that can be determined include the shape of the dispensing event, the velocity of the dispensing event, and the trajectory of the dispensing event. The dispense characterization system and method can be employed in automated biological sample analysis systems, and are particularly suited for monitoring liquid reagent dispensing events that deliver liquid reagents to a surface of a microscope slide holding a biological sample.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Ewoniuk, Dylan Miller, Kevin Talucci
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Patent number: 11959932Abstract: According to one embodiment, an automatic analyzing apparatus includes a probe and a liquid level detector. The liquid level detector is electrically connected to the probe and detects contact between the probe and a liquid surface, wherein the liquid level detector comprises an adjuster configured to adjust electrostatic capacitance of one or more capacitors for circuitry for use in liquid level detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Okamoto, Naoto Sato, Reiko Maruyama, Masaaki Saitou, Atsushi Hosooka, Tamaki Honda
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Patent number: 11959933Abstract: An experimental device and method for supercritical CO2/H2O mixed fluid huff and puff for shale oil development includes a CO2 storage tank, a water vapor generator, a mixing vessel, and a core holder; the CO2 storage tank and the water vapor generator are in communication with the mixing vessel; a first pressure gauge and a hygronom are connected to an upper end of the mixing vessel, and a displacement pump is connected to a lower end of the mixing vessel; the mixing vessel is connected to an inlet end of the core holder; the core holder is connected to an inlet end of a drying pipe, and the measuring cylinder is disposed upside down in a liquid containing dish, where the liquid containing dish and the measuring cylinder are filled with a saturated sodium carbonate solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM (EAST CHINA)Inventors: Lei Li, Yuliang Su, Yongmao Hao, Wendong Wang, Xiaomei Zhou, Xue Zhang, Zheng Chen
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Patent number: 11959934Abstract: A high precision weighing system and weighing method has a weighing plate and weighing unit separation mechanism and a weight loading mechanism. The weighing plate and weighing unit separation mechanism controls separation of a weighing plate and a weighing unit, so that the weighing plate or the weighing plate and its carried material do not apply force to the weighing unit. The weight loading mechanism loads a weight onto the weighing unit or removes a weight from the weighing unit; the weighing system records a weighing value of the weighing unit during the action of the weighing plate and weighing unit separation mechanism and a sensitivity value during the action of the weight loading mechanism. The weighing system modifies the weighing value at the time of the most recent combination of the weighing plate and the weighing unit based on the recorded weighing and sensitivity values, achieving a high precision.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: Mettler Toledo Precision Instrument Company Limited, Mettler Toledo Measurement Technology Company Limited, Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lei Xu, Jean-Christophe Emery
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Patent number: 11959935Abstract: An inventive accelerometer includes a proof mass, vibrating sensors, and an excitation-and-detection circuit. The vibrating sensors are substantially identical, and each exhibits corresponding fundamental and higher-order vibrational modes characterized by corresponding fundamental and higher-order resonant mode frequencies. The excitation-and-detection circuit drives each corresponding vibrating sensor at one of its resonant mode frequencies f1 or f2; the vibrational modes driven at the frequencies f1 and f2 are the same for each sensor. Compressive or tensile loads oppositely applied by the proof mass to the vibrating sensors cause a difference frequency ?f=f1?f2 to vary monotonically with acceleration of the apparatus along the sensing axis. The excitation-and-detection circuit includes at least one low-pass filter with a low-pass cut-off frequency fLP that is less than ?f.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: EMCORE CORPORATIONInventors: Sergey Alexandrovich Zotov, Arvind K. Srivastava
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Patent number: 11959936Abstract: A method of scanning a sample with a scanning probe system, the scanning probe system comprising a probe comprising a cantilever extending from a base to a free end, and a probe tip carried by the free end of the cantilever, the method comprising using the probe to measure an electrostatic interaction between the sample and the probe; and after measuring the electrostatic interaction between the sample and the probe, scanning the sample with the probe while simultaneously applying a bias voltage to the scanning probe system, the applied bias voltage based on the measured electrostatic interaction between the sample and the probe.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: INFINITESIMA LIMITEDInventor: Andrew Humphris
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Patent number: 11959937Abstract: A test and measurement device, including a first input structured to receive a first voltage from a first conductor of a first triaxial cable, a second input structured to receive a second voltage from a second conductor of the first triaxial cable or a second triaxial cable, circuitry configured to change modes based on the first voltage and the second voltage; and an output structured to output a signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventors: Matthew Alan Holtz, Martin J. Rice, Wayne C. Goeke
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Patent number: 11959938Abstract: A package substrate, an apparatus for testing power supply noise, and a method for testing power supply noise are provided. The package substrate includes multiple pad arrays, and each of the multiple pad arrays at least includes power supply pads. Power supply pads belonging to a same power supply type in the multiple pad arrays are divided into a test pad and a power supply pad set. The power supply pad set includes power supply pads, other than the test pad, among the power supply pads belonging to the same power supply type, all the power supply pads in the power supply pad set are electrically connected together, and the test pad is configured to perform noise testing of at least one internal power supply corresponding to the same power supply type in a chip to be tested.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Honglong Shi, Maosong Ma, Jianbin Liu
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Patent number: 11959939Abstract: The present application discloses a chip socket, a testing fixture and a chip testing method thereof. The chip socket includes a pedestal, a plurality of conductive traces, a plurality of clamp structures, and a plurality of electrical contacts. The plurality of conductive traces are formed in the pedestal. The plurality of clamp structures are conductive and disposed on the first surface of the pedestal, and at least one of the plurality of clamp structures is coupled to a corresponding conductive trace and configured to clamp a solder ball of a chip to be tested. The plurality of electrical contacts are disposed on the second surface of the pedestal, and at least one of the plurality of electrical contacts is coupled to a corresponding clamp structure through a corresponding conductive trace.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Shih-Ting Lin
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Patent number: 11959940Abstract: A contact probe capable of being used for an inspection of a semiconductor package in which a recess is formed in a terminal portion includes a plunger including a distal end portion that comes into contact with the terminal portion. The distal end portion includes a protruding portion protruding toward the terminal portion and a shoulder portion having a protruding height toward the terminal portion lower than that of the protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Sato
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Patent number: 11959941Abstract: A probe card includes a flexible inorganic material layer, a metal micro structure, and a circuit board. The flexible inorganic material layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The metal micro structure is disposed on the first surface. The circuit board is disposed on the second surface, and the circuit board is electrically connected to the metal micro structure. The test signal is adapted to be conducted to the circuit board through the flexible inorganic material layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Min-Chieh Chou, Meng-Chi Huang, Tune-Hune Kao, Yue-Zhen Huang
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Patent number: 11959942Abstract: A rate of change of current sensor includes two measurement coils, arranged such that the turns of the first and second measurement coils are interleaved. The rate of change of current sensor further comprises two return coils, arranged to progress in an opposite direction to the measurement coils. The coils form loops and progress substantially around a target measurement conductor. This ensures that the two measurement coils both receive the same electrostatic coupling from external conductors which are not the target of the measurement operation. Further, the two measurement coils are arranged such that the first coil and the second coil are, on average, the same distance to the current-carrying conductor of interest.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited CompanyInventors: Brent William Hoffman, Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz
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Patent number: 11959943Abstract: A magnetic field detection apparatus includes a magnetoresistive effect element and a conductor. The magnetoresistive effect element includes a magnetoresistive effect film extending in a first axis direction and including a first end part, a second end part, and an intermediate part between the first and second end parts. The conductor includes a first part and a second part that each extend in a second axis direction inclined with respect to the first axis direction. The conductor is configured to be supplied with a current and thereby configured to generate an induction magnetic field to be applied to the magnetoresistive effect film in a third axis direction orthogonal to the second axis direction. The first part and the second part respectively overlap the first end part and the second end part in a fourth axis direction orthogonal to both of the second axis direction and the third axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Norikazu Ota, Kenzo Makino, Hiraku Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 11959944Abstract: A current sensor includes an electrical-conduction member, a magnetoelectric converter and a shield. The shield includes a first shield and a second shield arranged such that surfaces are opposed to and spaced away from each other. A part of the electrical-conduction member and the magnetoelectric converter are located between the surface of the first shield and the surface of the second shield. The part of the electrical-conduction member located between the first shield and the second shield extends in an extension direction along the surface of the second shield. The second shield has two sides aligned in a lateral direction perpendicular to the extension direction, and has a plurality of extending parts extending toward the first shield at the sides and being aligned with and separated from each other in the extension direction. The magnetoelectric converter is located between the plurality of extending parts.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Esaka, Ryosuke Sakai, Hiroaki Miwa
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Patent number: 11959945Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of an open-loop test system for testing vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). A high-speed pulse generator may be used to produce nanoseconds pulses provided to the VCSEL device. A high-speed oscilloscope may be used to measure the resultant nanoseconds pulses across the VCSEL device. The VCSEL device voltage and VCSEL device current may be obtained from the measured nanosecond pulses according to compensation data derived from the system. A pre-test compensation procedure may be used to obtain the compensation data, which may include representative characteristics of each system component.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: National Instruments CorporationInventors: Jun Lu, John George Banaska, Matthew Tate Dougan, Jeffrey Allan Cornell, Wendi Song, Xuechen Han, Kunal Harsad Patel
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Patent number: 11959946Abstract: A system for the verification of the absence of voltage has a first series of resistors and a first voltage limiter connected between a power line and a first voltage sensor and such as to limit a sensed voltage to a set amount above a threshold set by a standard and a first series of LC resonance filters connected between the power line and a RF signal generator. The system also has a second series of resistors and a second voltage limiter connected between the power line and a second voltage sensor and a second series of LC resonance filters connected between the power line and an RF signal detector. The system is configured to detect continuity to the voltage line by sending an RF signal generated by the RF signal generator through the first lead line and detecting it at the RF signal detector via the second lead line.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Masud Bolouri-Saransar, Walid Balid
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Patent number: 11959947Abstract: An overvoltage protection circuit for a control unit for a vehicle includes an input terminal for applying an electrical input voltage, a test terminal for applying an electrical test voltage, and an output terminal for providing an electrical output voltage to supply the control unit. The overvoltage protection circuit also includes a reference device to provide a reference voltage using the input voltage. The overvoltage protection circuit includes a dividing device to provide a divided voltage using the output voltage. The overvoltage protection circuit includes a control device to provide a regulation signal using the reference and divided voltages. The overvoltage protection circuit includes a regulation device connected between the input and output terminals. The regulation device provides the output voltage using the input voltage and the regulation signal. The overvoltage protection circuit includes a modification device to modify a value of the divided voltage using the test voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBHInventors: Thomas Feucht, Guenter Herrmann, Frank Scholl
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Patent number: 11959948Abstract: Disclosed is a high voltage signal and low voltage signal sampling and transmission system based on a high voltage MCU, including a sampling unit, a high voltage processing unit, a communication unit and a low voltage processing unit. The sampling unit includes a bus voltage sampling module, a phase voltage detection module and an IGBT temperature detection module. The high voltage processing unit adopts the high voltage MCU, and the high voltage MCU is configured to perform state monitoring and analog-to-digital conversion on the three-way analog detection signals, and output a digital signal to the communication unit; the communication unit adopts an isolated communication unit to transmit the three-way digital signal converted by the high voltage MCU to the low voltage processing unit; the low voltage processing unit adopts a low voltage MCU to realize sampling and communication of high and low voltage sampling signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JEE AUTOMATION EQUIPMENT (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Liu, Minsheng Jiao, Lin Zhang, Yanqi Guo