Yeda Research & Development Co. Ltd. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140138959 | SOLAR COMBINED CYCLE POWER SYSTEMS - Provided is a combined cycle power system including at least one solar power plant including a concentrating dish configured to concentrate solar radiation; a solar receiver disposed and configured to utilize concentrated solar radiation for heating a first working fluid, and a first turbine configured for generating electricity by expansion therein of the heated first working fluid, and at least one recovery power plant including a heat recovery unit configured for utilizing exhaust heat of the first turbine to heat a second working fluid, and a second turbine configured for generating electricity by expansion therein of the heated second working fluid. | 05-22-2014 |
20130185344 | MODIFIED GABOR TRANSFORM WITH GAUSSIAN COMPRESSION AND BI-ORTHOGONAL DIRICHLET GAUSSIAN DECOMPRESSION - A signal processor for compressing signal data, including a function shapes generator for receiving as input time and frequency scale parameters, and for generating as output a plurality of shape parameters for a corresponding plurality of localized functions, wherein the shape parameters govern the centers and spreads of the localized functions, a matrix generator for receiving as input the plurality of shape parameters and a sequence of sampling times, and for generating as output a matrix whose elements are the values of the localized functions at the sampling times, a signal transformer for receiving as input an original signal and the matrix generated by the matrix generator, and for generating as output a transformed signal by applying the matrix to the original signal, and a signal compressor for receiving as input the transformed signal, and for generating as output a compressed representation of the transformed signal. | 07-18-2013 |
20130003973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NOVEL ONE-WAY HASH FUNCTION ON HIGHLY CONSTRAINED DEVICES SUCH AS RFID TAGS - A method and apparatus for implementing a novel one-way hash function with provable security properties for authentication and non-authentication applications on highly constrained devices, with particular application to RFID tags. | 01-03-2013 |
20120135536 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting and Quantifying a Chemical Substance Employing an Optical Transmission Property of Metallic Islands on a Transparent Substrate - A sensor for use in detecting and analyzing predetermined chemical substances is presented. The sensor comprises: a first structure configured for binding to a certain substance and comprising a substantially transparent substrate with respect to electromagnetic radiation of a predetermined wavelength range and a plurality of metallic islands deposited onto the transparent substrate and having a first spectral transmission profile with respect to the electromagnetic radiation of the predetermined wavelength range; the metallic islands comprising metallic films having a thickness selected such that binding of said certain substance to the first structure provides a change in a localized surface plasmon extinction in the metallic films being in a predetermined correlation with a change in a spectral transmission profile of the electromagnetic radiation of the predetermined wavelength range transmitted through the first structure and the substance as compared to said first spectral transmission profile, thereby enabling detection of said substance. | 05-31-2012 |
20120122720 | MEANS AND METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN AN INDIVIDUAL - A method of recognizing the development of an Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) process in an individual, wherein the method comprises steps of: profiling specific antibody reactivities or biomarkers associated with AMI susceptibility, the profiling comprises steps of: attaching a set of defined antigens to a substrate; obtaining a biological fluid derived specimen from an individual, the specimen containing a specific antibody repertoire; and binding said antibodies of the biological fluid specimen to the attached antigens thereby forming bound antibody antigen complexes; and analyzing results obtained, wherein the presence of the complexes is indicative of AMI. | 05-17-2012 |
20110271105 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NOVEL ONE-WAY HASH FUNCTION ON HIGHLY CONSTRAINED DEVICES SUCH AS RFID TAGS - A method and apparatus for implementing a novel one-way hash function with provable security properties for authentication and non-authentication applications on highly constrained devices, with particular application to RFID tags. | 11-03-2011 |
20110038521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DUCTAL TUBE TRACKING IMAGING FOR BREAST CANCER DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS, AND PRODUCT - A method apparatus and computer product for imaging a human breast to map the breast ductal tree is disclosed. First, a breast is diffusion tensor imaged with high spatial resolution. Then the breast ductal tree is tracked using a protocol for breast based on echo-planar imaging (EPI) diffusion designed for optimizing diffusion weightings (b values), number of non-collinear directions for tensor calculations, diffusion, echo and repetition times, spatial resolution, signal to noise, scanning time and a sequence for fat suppression. The diffusion tensor is calculated by a non-linear best fit algorithm and then diagonalized with principal component analysis to three eigen vectors and their corresponding eigen values. A vector field map is obtained for tracking of breast ducts of the ductal trees along the direction of the 1 | 02-17-2011 |
20100304483 | T-CELL VACCINATION IN THE TREATMENT OF HIV INFECTION - A method for the preparation of a T cell vaccine for the treatment of immunodeficient HIV-infected patients is described herein, based on the enrichment of autologous CD4-reactive CD8 T cells. Also described is a protocol for the implementation of T cell vaccination in immunodeficient HIV-infected, as well as a method of treatment, based on the T cell vaccine developed herein. Finally, kits for preparing the T cell vaccine as well as for implementing the protocol are also provided. | 12-02-2010 |
20100202701 | MULTISCALE EDGE DETECTION AND FIBER ENHANCEMENT USING DIFFERENCES OF ORIENTED MEANS - Method, apparatus and computer program product that uses a novel algorithm for edge detection suitable for both natural as well as noisy images. A scale adaptive threshold is used along with a recursive decision process to reveal the significant edges of all lengths and orientations and to localize them accurately even in low-contrast and very noisy images. Further the algorithm is use for fiber detection and enhancement by utilizing stochastic completion-like process from both sides of a fiber. The algorithm relies on an efficient multiscale algorithm for computing all “significantly different” oriented means in an image in 0(N log p), where N is the number of pixels in the image, and p is the length of the longest structure of interest. Experimental results on both natural and noisy images present confirmation of the method, apparatus and computer program product. | 08-12-2010 |
20100142786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER AND PRODUCT - Method and apparatus performing dynamic contrast-enhanced-magnetic resonance imaging on tissue to obtain a plurality of datasets of images. Principal component analysis is performed on each dataset to obtain a covariance matrix and its corresponding eigenvalues and eigenvectors and produce a common base of eigenvectors. The dominant eigenvectors that are not associated with instrumental and random noise, commonly the 2 | 06-10-2010 |
20100005533 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING RFID TAGS FROM POWER ANALYSIS - RFID tags were believed to be immune to power analysis since they have no direct connection to an external power supply. However, recent research has shown that they s are vulnerable to such attacks, since it is possible to measure their power consumption remotely via a completely passive attack. The method and apparatus of the invention protects RFID tags against simple and differential power attacks. The invention is particularly useful regarding inventory control systems or secure documents such as epassports. The basic technique is to use two capacitors embedded in the RFID tag in lo such a way that at any given time one of them is storing energy that is being generated by the charge pump of the tag that sucks energy from the electromagnetic or magnetic field of a tag reader, and the other one is discharging and powering the computational element of the tag chip. | 01-07-2010 |
20090225985 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PRODUCT FOR RFID AUTHENTICATION - A method and apparatus for repeated communication sessions between a sender (e.g., RFID tag) and a receiver (RFID reader) that employs a proactive information security scheme is based on the assumption that the information exchanged during at least one of every n successive communication sessions is not exposed to an adversary. The sender and the receiver maintain a vector of n entries that is repeatedly refreshed by pairwise XORING entries, with a new vector of n entries that is randomly chosen by the sender and sent to the receiver as a part of each communication session. Also, a computational secure scheme based on the information secure scheme is employed to ensure that even in the case that the adversary listens to all the information exchanges, the communication between the sender and the receiver is secure. In particular, the scheme can be used in the domain of remote controls (e.g., for cars). | 09-10-2009 |
20090202618 | Dna vaccines encoding hsp60 peptide fragments for treating autoimmune diseases - The present invention is related to recombinant constructs encoding active fragments of HSP60 which are effective in treating T cell-mediated inflammatory autoimmune diseases by DNA vaccines. The HSP60 fragments of the present invention are identified by their ability to react with T cells isolated from an animal vaccinated with DNA constructs encoding HSP70 to induce Th2/3 T-cell responses. | 08-13-2009 |