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公开(公告)号:US10850395B2
公开(公告)日:2020-12-01
申请号:US15985213
申请日:2018-05-21
Applicant: STC.UNM
Inventor: Melanie E. Moses , Joshua P. Hecker , Qi Lu
Abstract: Teams of robots can be organized to collectively complete complex real-world tasks, for example collective foraging in which robots search for, pick up, and drop off targets in a collection zone. A dynamic multiple-place foraging algorithm (MPFAdynamic) is a scalable, flexible, and efficient algorithm for robot swarms to collect objects in unmapped environments. It achieves scalability through a decentralized architecture in which robots search without central control, and then return to mobile depots which provide collection and communication points. Mobile depots move closer to clusters of targets as robots discover them, which reduces robot transport time as well as collisions among robots. Flexibility is achieved by incorporating individual robot behaviors in which robots move and communicate in ways that mimic the foraging behaviors of ants. The MPFAdynamic algorithm demonstrates that dispersed agents that dynamically adapt to local information in their environment provide more flexible and scalable swarms.
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公开(公告)号:US10821167B2
公开(公告)日:2020-11-03
申请号:US16074886
申请日:2017-02-01
Applicant: STC.UNM
Inventor: Pamela Hall , Bryce Chackerian , David S. Peabody , Seth Michael Daly , Bradley Owen Elmore , Kathleen Triplett
IPC: C12Q1/68 , A61K39/085 , A61P37/04 , A61P31/04 , A61K39/00
Abstract: The present invention is directed to virus-like particles (VLPs) which are engineered to present epitopes from Staphylococcus aureus (SA), preferably autoinducing peptides (AIPs) which regulate quorum-sensing dependent virulence in this pathogen, or epitopes from SA toxins and leukocidins. These VLPs may be used to provide immunogenic compositions and efficacious vaccines. In a mouse model of SA dermonecrosis, vaccination with AIP-containing VLPs or SA toxin-containing VLPs induces protective immunity to limit the pathogenesis of SA infection and promote bacterial clearance.
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公开(公告)号:US10777698B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-15
申请号:US16160272
申请日:2018-10-15
Applicant: STC.UNM
Inventor: Majeed M. Hayat , Payman Zarkesh-Ha
Abstract: Systems and methods implementing a resonance circuit, including an avalanche photodiode, in which a resonance frequency of the resonance circuit is matched with the frequency of a dynamic biasing signal of the avalanche photodiode, can be used in a variety of applications. In various embodiments, a method for blocking and/or compensating current injection associated with the parasitic capacitance of APDs operated under dynamic biasing may be substantially realized by the matching of the resonance frequency of a resonance circuit including the avalanche photodiode with the frequency of an applied dynamic biasing signal. Additional systems and methods are described that can be used in a variety of applications.
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公开(公告)号:US10750746B2
公开(公告)日:2020-08-25
申请号:US16192248
申请日:2018-11-15
Applicant: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. , STC.UNM
Inventor: David G. Whitten , Kirk S. Schanze , Anand Parthasarathy , Eunkyung Ji , Motokatsu Ogawa , Thomas S. Corbitt , Dimitri Dascier , Ying Wang , Linnea K. Ista , Eric H. Hill
IPC: A01N43/90 , C07C217/14 , C07C309/11 , A01N25/10 , C07D409/14 , C07C217/20 , C07C309/24 , C07D333/16 , C07D487/08 , C08G61/02 , C08G75/00 , C08G61/12 , A01N25/08 , A01N33/10 , A01N33/12 , A01N41/04 , A01N43/10
Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel poly(phenylene ethynylene) (PPE) compounds, methods for synthesizing these compounds, and materials and substances incorporating these compounds. The various PPEs show antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activity.
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公开(公告)号:US20200257004A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-13
申请号:US16785932
申请日:2020-02-10
Inventor: Timothy J. Boyle , Fernando Henry Garzon
Abstract: A low cost, rapid, flexible radiation detector uses inorganic metal halide precursors and dyes that respond to self-quenching hybrid scintillation. Remote, high-contrast, laser sensing can be used to determine when exposure of the detector to radiation occurs (even temporally).
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公开(公告)号:US20200176841A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-04
申请号:US16700745
申请日:2019-12-02
Applicant: STC.UNM
Inventor: Firas Nazem Ayoub , Christos G. Christodoulou , Emil Ardelean
Abstract: A polarizer including an antenna connected to a waveguide. The waveguide including a broad wall having a cross-slot in communication with at least one port.
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公开(公告)号:US20200163752A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-28
申请号:US16632313
申请日:2018-07-17
Applicant: STC.UNM
Inventor: Christina Salas , Sherif Hassan Abdelkader Aboubakr , Steven Nery , Christopher Buksa , Alexander Hamilton
Abstract: A device for regenerating musculoskeletal tissue having a scaffold comprised of fiber layers adapted to provide mechanical integrity to the scaffold in the form of increased tensile and compressive resistance and one or more other layers adapted to provide mechanical integrity and to provide a suitable biochemical environment.
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公开(公告)号:US20200047132A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-13
申请号:US16605466
申请日:2018-04-27
Inventor: Susan Lynne REMPE , Ying-Bing JIANG , Juan VANEGAS , Jeffrey C. BRINKER , Joseph L. CECCHI
Abstract: A membrane structure for moving a gaseous object species from a first region having an object species first concentration, through the membrane structure, to a second region having an object species second concentration different from the first concentration is described. The membrane includes a supporting substrate having a plurality of pores therethrough, each of the plurality of pores defined by a first end, a second end and a surface of the supporting substrate extending between the first end and the second end as well as a nanoporous layer within the plurality of pores, wherein the nanoporous layer comprises a hydrophilic layer and a hydrophobic layer. The membrane also includes a liquid transport medium within the hydrophilic layer. The liquid transport medium includes a liquideous permeation medium and at least one enzyme within the liquideous permeation medium. The at least one enzyme is reinforced by at least one stabilizing component.
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公开(公告)号:US20200033261A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-30
申请号:US16522449
申请日:2019-07-25
Applicant: STC.UNM
Inventor: Mostafa PEYSOKHAN , Arash MAFI
IPC: G01N21/47
Abstract: A system for measuring an absorption coefficient of a doped optical fiber may include: a laser source configured to transmit laser light at a selectable wavelength; a single-mode optical fiber including an end configured to splice to the doped optical fiber; two or more multimode fibers at a side of the doped optical fiber, spaced apart along the side of the doped optical fiber, configured to collect spontaneous emissions from the side of the doped optical fiber; and/or a photodiode or power meter connected to the two or more multimode fibers. A method for measuring an absorption coefficient of a doped optical fiber may include: collecting, from a side of the doped optical fiber, an emission spectrum using two or more multimode fibers; and/or calculating the absorption coefficient form using the emission spectrum and McCumber theory.
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公开(公告)号:US10471047B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-12
申请号:US16033008
申请日:2018-07-11
Applicant: STC.UNM
Inventor: Eric R. Prossnitz , Geetanjali Sharma
IPC: A61K31/436 , A61K31/435 , A61K31/4355 , A61K31/437 , A61K31/16 , A61K31/7088 , A61K38/28
Abstract: The current invention is in the field of molecular biology/pharmacology and provides methods of using compounds that modulate the effects of GPR30/GPER for treating obesity and diabetes (preferably agonists) as well as disease states and/or conditions that result from excessive formation of reactive oxygen species (preferably antagonists). These compounds may function as agonists and/or antagonists of the disclosed estrogen receptor and/or modulate the expression/upregulation of nox and nox-associated reactive oxygen species (ROS).
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