University of Minnesota Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130177880 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR A READING FLUENCY MEASURE - The present invention measures reading fluency, which is simultaneous decoding and comprehension. Whether or not a person is a fluent reader is determined by the size of the visual unit, or sting of letters, used in word recognition. In order to measure the size of the visual unit used in word recognition, a lexical decision task (“LDT”) is used in which short and long words are presented on a display device. The person determines if the string of letters formulates a word. The person enters their response on an input device and the results are recorded. A score is calculated that measures reading fluency. The ability to correctly identify a string of letters as a word using holistic processing, rather than letter-by-letter, is the hallmark of a fluent person. | 07-11-2013 |
20130059359 | Protein Nanorings - The invention provides protein nanorings. | 03-07-2013 |
20120014917 | METHODS OF TREATING HIV PATIENTS WITH ANTI-FIBROTICS - The invention relates to methods of treating patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with a therapeutic that has anti-fibrotic effects, for example, pirfenidone and analogs thereof. | 01-19-2012 |
20100305275 | POLYLACTIDE COMPOSITES AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Embodiments of polylactide composites comprise a polylactide, and a polymerized natural oil dispersed inside the polylactide. | 12-02-2010 |
20100162087 | METHOD OF DETECTING AND CORRECTING A PRESCRIBED SET OF ERROR EVENTS BASED ON ERROR DETECTING CODE - A method of constructing an effective generator polynomial for error correction by which a unique set of syndromes for each error event is produced is provided. The method includes preparing a set of dominant error events from the intersymbol interference characteristics of media; and generating a codeword from the data using a non-primitive generator polynomial that produces a unique syndrome set which can completely specify each dominant error event. | 06-24-2010 |
20090199623 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL AEROSOL CHARACTERIZATION - A method is proposed for characterizing a totality of particles ( | 08-13-2009 |
20090082486 | AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMER-TOUGHENED EPOXY RESINS - A curable epoxy resin composition including (a) a thermosettable epoxy resin; and (b) an amphiphilic block copolymer containing at least one epoxy resin miscible block segment and at least one epoxy resin immiscible block segment; wherein the immiscible block segment comprises at least one polyether structure provided that the polyether structure of said immiscible block segment contains at least one or more alkylene oxide monomer units having at least four carbon atoms, such that when the epoxy resin composition is cured, the toughness of the resulting cured epoxy resin composition is increased. The amphiphilic block copolymer is preferably an all polyether block copolymer such as a PEO-PBO diblock copolymer or a PEO-PBO-PEO triblock copolymer. | 03-26-2009 |
20080287595 | Amphiphilic Block Copolymer-Toughened Thermoset Resins - A composition comprising (1) a thermosettable resin selected from the group consisting of an epoxy resin, an epoxy vinyl ester resin, an unsaturated polyester resin or a mixture thereof, and (2) an amphiphilic mock copolymer dispersed in the thermosettable resin; fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP), coatings and composites prepared therefrom; and methods of preparing these. | 11-20-2008 |