PRODUCTS OF MANUFACTURE AND METHODS FOR METHANE CAPTURING USING BIOFILTRATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220258100A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-18

    申请号:US17627280

    申请日:2020-07-16

    摘要: Provided are products of manufacture and methods for the removal of gaseous methane and carbon dioxide, for example, for the removal of environmental or atmospheric or anthropogenically produced gaseous methane and carbon dioxide. Products of manufacture as provided herein comprise living emission abolish filters (LEAFs) for the removal of methane and carbon dioxide, where the “living” component of the “emission abolish filter”, or biofilter, comprises a methane-capturing bioagent, optionally comprising halophilic methanotroph bacterium. Products of manufacture as provided herein are manufactured as arrays, sheets, microfibers and/or microbeads comprising immobilized living, active methane-capturing bioagents, optionally comprising halophilic methanotroph bacterium. In alternative embodiments, the methane-capturing bioagents are enclosed or immobilized in or onto a crystal gel matrix or a nanoshell. Products of manufacture as provided herein can replace gas flares, flare stacks or a gas combustion devices, or are used with a methane scrubbing system.

    COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USING METHANOTROPHIC S-LAYER PROTEINS FOR EXPRESSION OF HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS

    公开(公告)号:US20210070810A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-11

    申请号:US16643390

    申请日:2018-08-29

    摘要: In alternative embodiments, provided are compositions and methods for making a chimeric polypeptide comprising an S-layer polypeptide and a heterologous polypeptide or peptide. In alternative embodiments, the compositions and methods comprise recombinantly engineering a methylotrophic or methanotrophic bacteria to recombinantly express a chimeric polypeptide comprising an S-layer polypeptide and a heterologous polypeptide or peptide. Also provided are compositions and methods for displaying or immobilizing proteins on a methanotrophic S-layer. In alternative embodiments, provided are compositions and methods comprising recombinant methylotrophic or methanotrophic bacteria comprising assembled or self-assembled recombinant or isolated chimeric S-layer polypeptides. In alternative embodiments, provided are compositions and methods using recombinant methylotrophic or methanotrophic bacteria, optionally a Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum, optionally a M. alcaliphilum sp. 20Z, for ectoine ((4S)-2-methyl-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid), for the production or synthesis of a protein, e.g., an ectoine, or an enzyme, e.g., a lipase.

    Apparatus and method for detecting clinically relevant changes in balance

    公开(公告)号:US10660558B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-26

    申请号:US14779398

    申请日:2014-02-28

    发明人: Daniel J. Goble

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00 A61B5/103 A61B5/11

    摘要: Systems and methods facilitating objective evaluations of subjects to facilitate detecting clinically relevant changes in balance are provided. The system includes a portable balance board with a sensor in each of four feet for detecting downward force. Each sensor is communicatively coupled to a circuit board with a wired or wireless communication capability. A subject stands on the balance board and each sensor sends a signal to the circuit board, which communicates the four signals to a companion device that uses the signals to calculate the center of pressure (“COP”) of the subject over time. The subject can perform the BESS test and the resulting COP data is used to calculate a field path length for the subject. The field path length is compared to a previously determined baseline path length for the subject to detect any clinically relevant change in balance of the subject.

    Methods of applying polymers to surfaces and surfaces coated by polymers

    公开(公告)号:US10109796B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-23

    申请号:US13978089

    申请日:2011-12-28

    申请人: Kee Moon

    发明人: Kee Moon

    摘要: Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, is a method of depositing a polymer onto a surface. In some embodiments, the method comprises using a high electric field and a high frequency vibratory motion to deposit a polymer solution onto the surface.Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, is a method of manufacturing an electrode or diode. In some embodiments, the method comprises using a high electric field and a high frequency vibratory motion to deposit a polymer onto a surface.Further disclosed herein, in certain instances, is an electrode manufactured by any method disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein, in certain instances, is a diode manufactured by any method disclosed herein.

    Rectangular power spectral densities of orthogonal functions
    49.
    发明授权
    Rectangular power spectral densities of orthogonal functions 有权
    正交函数的矩形功率谱密度

    公开(公告)号:US09036459B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-05-19

    申请号:US13256512

    申请日:2010-03-15

    申请人: Ashkan Ashrafi

    发明人: Ashkan Ashrafi

    IPC分类号: H04J11/00 H04B1/717

    CPC分类号: H04B1/7172

    摘要: In this application, a set of orthogonal functions is introduced whose power spectral densities are all rectangular shape. To find the orthogonal function set, it was considered that their spectrums (Fourier transforms of the functions) are either real-valued or imaginary-valued, which are corresponding to even and odd real-valued time domain signals, respectively. The time domain functions are all considered real-valued because they are actually physical signals. The shape of the power spectral densities of the signals are rectangular thus, the Haar orthogonal function set can be employed in the frequency domain to decompose them to several orthogonal functions. Based on the inverse Fourier transform of the Haar orthogonal functions, the time domain functions with rectangular power spectral densities can be determined. This is equivalent to finding the time-domain functions by taking the inverse Fourier transform of the frequency domain Walsh functions. The obtained functions are sampled and truncated to generate finite-length discrete signals. Truncation destroys the orthogonality of the signals. The Singular Value Decomposition method is used to restore the orthogonality of the truncated discrete signals.

    摘要翻译: 在此应用中,引入了一组正交函数,其功率谱密度均为矩形。 为了找到正交函数集,认为它们的频谱(函数的傅立叶变换)分别是实值或虚值,它们分别对应于偶数和奇数实数时域信号。 时域功能都被认为是真实的,因为它们实际上是物理信号。 信号的功率谱密度的形状是矩形的,因此可以在频域中采用哈尔正交函数集,将其分解成若干正交函数。 基于Haar正交函数的傅立叶逆变换,可以确定具有矩形功率谱密度的时域函数。 这相当于通过采用频域沃尔什函数的逆傅立叶变换来找到时域函数。 获得的函数被采样和截断以产生有限长度的离散信号。 截断会破坏信号的正交性。 奇异值分解法用于恢复截断离散信号的正交性。

    EDGE-ON SAR SCINTILLATOR DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCED SPECT, PET, AND COMPTON GAMMA CAMERAS
    50.
    发明申请
    EDGE-ON SAR SCINTILLATOR DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCED SPECT, PET, AND COMPTON GAMMA CAMERAS 有权
    EDGE-ON SAR SCINTILATOR设备和系统,用于增强SPECT,PET和COMPTON GAMMA CAMERAS

    公开(公告)号:US20090134334A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-05-28

    申请号:US11910440

    申请日:2006-03-31

    IPC分类号: G01T1/20

    摘要: The invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting radiation including x-ray, gamma ray, and particle radiation for nuclear medicine, radiopaphic imaging, material composition analysis, high energy physics, container inspection, mine detection and astronomy. The invention provides detection systems employing one or more detector modules (102) comprising edge-on scintillator detectors (101) with sub-aperture resolution (SAR) capability employed, e.g., in nuclear medicine, such as radiation therapy portal imaging, nuclear remediation, mine detection, container inspection, and high energy physics and astronomy. The invention also provides edge-on imaging probe detectors for use in nuclear medicine, such as radiation therapy portal imaging, or for use in nuclear remediation, mine detection, container inspection, and high energy physics and astronomy.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了用于检测辐射的方法和装置,包括用于核医学的X射线,γ射线和粒子辐射,射线成像,材料成分分析,高能物理学,容器检查,矿山探测和天文学。 本发明提供了采用一个或多个检测器模块(102)的检测系统,该检测器模块包括采用子孔径分辨率(SAR)能力的边缘闪烁体检测器(101),例如在核医学中,例如放射治疗门静脉成像,核修复, 矿井检测,集装箱检验和高能物理天文学。 本发明还提供用于核医学的边缘成像探针检测器,例如放射治疗门静脉成像,或用于核修复,矿山检测,容器检查和高能物理和天文学。