公开(公告)号：US20210003533A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US16914914

申请日：2020-06-29

Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

Inventor： Haifeng Zhang

IPC: G01N29/06 ,  G01N29/04

Abstract: Aspects of ultrasonic through-wall data communication are described. In some aspects, a sensor device is located in an isolated environment behind a wall. A modulator generates a modulated sensor signal based on the binary sensor signal and a carrier signal. A coaxially aligned pair of electroacoustic transducers that transmits the modulated sensor signal through the wall of the isolated environment. A demodulator demodulates the modulated sensor signal to generate a demodulated binary sensor signal. A sensor data recovery component converts the demodulated binary sensor signal into an image or another sensor parameter.

公开(公告)号：US10813585B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-27

申请号：US16715576

申请日：2019-12-16

Applicant: University of North Texas ,  Inspectir Systems, LLC

Inventor： Guido Fridolin Verbeck, IV ,  John Redmond ,  Tim Wing

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/08 ,  A61B5/097 ,  A61B10/00 ,  G01N33/94

Abstract: An exemplary breath analysis system may include a sampling chamber having a molecule collector disposed therein. The molecule detector may be configured such that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in a breath sample introduced to the sampling chamber adhere to the molecule collector. A heating element may introduce heat within the sampling chamber, causing release of at least a portion of the VOCs adhered to the molecule collector. An analysis device (e.g., a mass spectrometer or tetrahertz (THz) spectrometer) may identify one or more target VOCs from among at least the portion of the VOCs released from the molecule collector and generate an output representative of the identified one or more target VOCs. The output may include information that quantitates a concentration of the one or more target VOCs with respect to a source of the breath sample.

公开(公告)号：US10773244B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-15

申请号：US16444707

申请日：2019-06-18

Applicant: University of North Texas

Inventor： Santanu Das ,  Sundeep Mukherjee

IPC: B01J21/02 ,  B01J23/755 ,  B01J23/83 ,  B01J35/00 ,  B01J35/02 ,  B01J35/08 ,  B01J37/00 ,  B01J37/02 ,  B22F1/00 ,  B22F1/02 ,  B22F9/08 ,  C02F1/72 ,  C22C1/00 ,  C22C1/04 ,  C22C45/08 ,  C02F101/30 ,  B01J37/34

Abstract: The present invention provides amorphous bi-functional catalytic aluminum metallic glass particles having an aluminum metallic glass core and 2 or more transition metals disposed on the surface of the aluminum metallic glass core to form amorphous bi-functional aluminum metallic glass particles with catalytic activity.

公开(公告)号：US20200062963A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-27

申请号：US16550962

申请日：2019-08-26

Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

Inventor： MAURIZIO MANZO

IPC: C09B23/16 ,  C08K3/08 ,  C08K5/00 ,  C08K5/3417 ,  C08L75/04 ,  C08L83/04 ,  C08L33/08 ,  C08L33/26 ,  B01L3/00

Abstract: Microlaser based dye doped polymeric resonators are provided as well as pharmaceutical formulations containing the microlaser based dye doped polymeric resonators, methods of making thereof, and methods of use thereof for monitoring and/or stimulating electrical activity in a brain of a subject in need thereof. The microlaser based dye doped polymeric resonators can include a particle having a spherical core containing one or more fluorescent dyes dispersed within a polymer matrix, wherein the polymer matrix has an index of refraction of about 1.2 or greater; an outer surface surrounding the spherical core; and a gold nanoparticle, wherein the gold nanoparticle is on the outer surface, is dispersed within the spherical core, or both. The fluorescent dyes can include a voltage sensitive fluorescent dye.

公开(公告)号：US20200030598A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-30

申请号：US16523826

申请日：2019-07-26

Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS ,  MAG AND BIO DYNAMICS INC.

Inventor： Diana BERMAN ,  Jihyung LEE ,  Vladimir SAFONOV ,  Donghui ZHU ,  Marina SAFONOV

IPC: A61N1/04 ,  A61K33/00 ,  A61K33/40 ,  A61K47/36 ,  A61P17/02 ,  A61K9/00 ,  A61M37/00 ,  A61L26/00

Abstract: In alternative embodiments, provided are products of manufacture and kits, and methods, for hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide generation, and for the treatment of diseases, conditions and infections responsive to exposure to a therapeutic amount of hydrogen, metastable hydrogen peroxide and/or oxygen treatment; including providing a hydrogen, metastable hydrogen peroxide and/or oxygen treatment or delivery system for cosmetic purposes.

公开(公告)号：US20200028119A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-23

申请号：US16508377

申请日：2019-07-11

Applicant: University of North Texas

Inventor： Yuankun Lin ,  David Lowell ,  Safaa Hassan

IPC: H01L51/52 ,  H01L51/56 ,  G02B1/00

Abstract: Direct pixel-by-pixel phase engineering in a SLM is an effective method for the holographic fabrication of graded photonic super-quasi-crystals with desired disorder and graded photonic super-crystals with rectangular unit-cells. Multiple levels of filling fractions of dielectric in the crystal have been created in the graded regions. Fabrication of these graded photonic super-crystals and super-quasi-crystals with small feature size is possible, using a laser projection system consisting of integrated spatial light modulator and reflective optical element.

公开(公告)号：US20190330757A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-31

申请号：US16391552

申请日：2019-04-23

Applicant: University of North Texas

Inventor： Teresa GOLDEN ,  Ryan DAUGHERTY

IPC: C25D15/00 ,  C09K15/02 ,  B32B43/00 ,  C25D3/12

Abstract: Electrochemical synthesis and electrodeposition of corrosion resistant metal-ionic clay nanocomposite coatings. The coatings comprise a zinc-aluminum based layered double hydroxide nanoplatelets incorporated into a nickel matrix. The coatings can be deposited onto such as a metal surface by way of electrodeposition. Electrodeposition of the corrosive resistant coatings described here have an average platelet size of about 631±43 nm and crystallite size from about 25 nm to about 45 nm.

公开(公告)号：US20190049755A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-14

申请号：US16058759

申请日：2018-08-08

Applicant: University of North Texas

Inventor： Athanasios J. Syllaios

IPC: G02F1/015

Abstract: The present application discloses embodiments of a switchable optical filter that is based on carrier injection induced semiconductor to metal phase transition (SMT) of vanadium oxide-based (e.g., VO2) thin films which can reversibly change from optically transparent to opaque while undergoing such phase transition. Electrical carrier injection may be established by an electric field or by photoexcitation. The SMT may also be induced by a combination of applying an electric field and optical flux. Such a switchable optical filter, when inserted in the optical path of an optical radiation sensor, may be used to control and/or limit high power optical beams, such as a laser beam impinging on one or more sensor elements. Since the SMT may be configured to occur at ultrafast time scales (e.g., approximately 100 femtoseconds), it may also act as a beam shutter and/or as a fast optical beam modulator.

公开(公告)号：US20170362602A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-21

申请号：US15624495

申请日：2017-06-15

Applicant: University of North Texas ,  The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Inventor： Kent Chapman ,  Robert Mullen ,  Michal Pyc ,  John M. Dyer

IPC: C12N15/82 ,  A01H5/10 ,  C12N15/03 ,  C12Q1/68

CPC classification number: C12N15/8247 ,  A01H5/10 ,  C07K14/415 ,  C12N15/03 ,  C12N15/8201 ,  C12Q1/6895

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to increasing oil content in plants through manipulating expression of proteins, namely At5g16550 proteins. At5g16550 proteins are lipid droplet proteins. Plants having reduced expression of At5g16550 proteins demonstrate cytoplasmic lipid droplets (LDs) that are increased in size, resulting in greater overall oil content in the plant cells.

公开(公告)号：US09808543B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-07

申请号：US14600738

申请日：2015-01-20

Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH ,  THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM

Inventor： Anthony J. Di Pasqua ,  Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr. ,  Imalka S. Munaweera ,  Yi Shi

IPC: A61K51/12 ,  A61K33/24 ,  A61K31/555 ,  A61K45/06 ,  A61K33/00 ,  A61K33/22 ,  A61K33/26 ,  A61K33/38 ,  A61K38/18 ,  A61K38/19 ,  A61K38/27 ,  A61K38/30 ,  A61N5/10

CPC classification number: A61K51/1244 ,  A61K31/555 ,  A61K33/00 ,  A61K33/22 ,  A61K33/24 ,  A61K33/26 ,  A61K33/38 ,  A61K38/18 ,  A61K38/193 ,  A61K38/27 ,  A61K38/30 ,  A61K45/06 ,  A61K51/1275 ,  A61K2300/00 ,  A61N5/1007 ,  A61N5/1029 ,  A61N2005/1021

Abstract: Iron garnet nanoparticles and or iron garnet particles containing various activatable nuclides, such as holmium-165 (165Ho) and dysprosium-164 (164Dy), are disclosed in this application. The iron garnet (e.g., HoIG and DyIG) nanoparticles and iron garnet particles can prepared using hydroxide co-precipitation methods. In some embodiments, radiosensitizers can be loaded on radioactive magnetic nanoparticles or radioactive iron garnet particles and, optionally, coated with suitable lipid bilayers. Methods of using the disclosed nanoparticles and particles for mediating therapeutic benefit in diseases responsive to radiation therapy are also provided. Another aspect of the invention provides films, electrospun fabrics or bandage coverings for the delivery of radiation to the site of a skin lesion amenable to treatment with radiation (e.g., skin cancers or psoriasis).