2021
December 14, 2021
Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation is pleased to report the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,197,931 entitled, “Liquid injectable copolymer,” on December 14, 2021to Sara Mohajeri, Brian G. Amsden, and Fei Chen. The invention in this patent relates to injectable copolymers of TMC and HTMC that are degradable in vivo.
November 9, 2021
Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation is pleased to report the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,168,064 entitled, “Synthesis of thapsigargin, nortrilobolide, and analogs thereof,” on November, 9, 2021 to P. Andrew Evans and Dezhi Chen. The invention relates to the preparation of compounds of Formula I, including thapsigargin, nortrilobolide and 8-O-debutanoyl-thapsigargin from commercially available (R)-(-)-carvone via synthetic intermediate compound of formula 12 by pinacol coupling and in situ lactonization.
September 28, 2021
Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation is pleased to report the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,131,650 entitled, “Ultrasonic Analysis of a subject,” on September 28, 2021 to Purang Abolmaesumi and Parvin Mousavi. The patent relates to a specific method of facilitating ultrasonic analysis of a subject.
September 21, 2021
Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation is pleased to report the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,125,638 "Apparatus and Method for Measuring Force and Power During Unsteady Fluid Motions", on September 21, 2021, to David Rival, Scott Fitzpatrick and Louis Burelle. According to the patent (attached) this invention relates to an apparatus and methods for measuring force exerted by an object moving in a fluid or force of a moving fluid on a stationary object.
August 31, 2021
Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation is pleased to report the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11,108,330 "Circuits and Methods Using Power Supply Output Voltage to Power a Primary Side Auxiliary Circuit", on August 31, 2021, to Yang Chen and Yan-Fei Liu. According to the patent (attached) this invention relates to a simplified design and reduced overall cost of an AC-DC converter.
March 9, 2021
Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation is pleased to report the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 10,944,329 "Power Converter Topologies and Control Methods for Wide Input and Output Voltage Ranges", on March 9, 2021, to Hongliang Wang, Yang Chen and Yan-Fei Liu. According to the patent (attached) this invention relates to resonant converters that may be operated according to selected working modes to achieve voltage doubler or non-voltage doubler functions.
February 16, 2021
Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation is pleased to report the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 10,922,173 "Fault-Tolerant Distributed Digital Storage", on February 16, 2021, to Toritseju Okpotse and Shahram Yousefi. According to the patent (attached), this invention describes foundation code constructs that solve multiple problems in distributed storage systems by providing systematic encoding, reduced repair locality, reduced encoding/decoding complexity, and enhanced reliability.