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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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08141249 — Heat treating apparatus and method of using same

US 08141249	DeMichael et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas DeMichael (Stafford Springs, Connecticut); Michael J. Labbe (Hebron, Connecticut); Steven R. Bissell (Andover, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for heat treating the welded area of a repaired gas turbine engine component uses first and second heating elements. The heating elements each include an insulating tube supported by a support rod and wrapped with a conducing wire. One of the heating elements is sized to fit inside a recess in the gas turbine engine component, adjacent to the welded area, while the second heating element is placed outside the recess, but also adjacent to the welded area, thereby heating the welded area from two sides.
FILED	Thursday, October 11, 2007
APPL NO	11/974120
ART UNIT	3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Metal working 029/889.100
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08141286 — Cheek rest for firearm

US 08141286	Saur
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas W. Saur (Dearborn, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	There is shown in this invention a face cheek rest for a firearm that cushions a shooter (to generally aim then shoot) against uncomfortable interaction with harsh surfaces on a firearm buttstock or body. The cheek rest provides a secure, easy to clamp on and use interface, which is very comfortable and cushioning. The device is made to be light weight as well as low cost and aesthetically pleasing. This cheek rest can be used equally well on a weapon employing a folding metal butt stock assembly, other type collapsible firearm butt stock, or most any other standard type firearm.
FILED	Tuesday, May 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/464346
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Firearms 042/74
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08141469 — Quick-release spindle for gun tube

US 08141469	Holmes et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward W. Holmes (Valley Falls, New York); Wayland P. Barber (Mechanicville, New York); Leslie C. Blahut (Westfield, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The breech end of a gun may include a quick-release spindle assembly. A carrier may have a locking collar rotatably disposed therein. The locking collar may have a through-bore and one or more projections extending into the through-bore. The locking collar may be rotatable between spindle lock and spindle release positions. A spindle may be translatably disposed in the through-bore of the locking collar. The spindle may include one or more projections extending radially outward from a rear outer surface of the spindle. In the spindle lock position of the locking collar, the projections of the spindle may be aligned with the projections of the locking collar to thereby prevent translation of the spindle in a forward direction. In the spindle release position of the locking collar, the projections of the spindle may not be aligned with the projections of the locking collar to thereby allow translation of the spindle in a forward direction.
FILED	Thursday, September 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/894675
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/17
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08141470 — Vehicle protection method

US 08141470	Farinella et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael D. Farinella (Belmont, Massachusetts); Thomas F. Hafer (Arlington, Virginia); Christopher Moeller (Nashua, New Hampshire); Loren Howard (Waban, Massachusetts); Scott La Valley (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A structure or vehicle protection method including a removable frame on the structure or vehicle, and a net within the frame and spaced from the structure or vehicle and having a mesh size designed to disarm an incoming threat.
FILED	Thursday, April 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/066961
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/36.10
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08141491 — Expanding tube separation device

US 08141491	Travis
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert D. Travis (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A separation device for separating parts along a seam includes a frangible structure and a pressure tube assembly within the frangible structure. The pressure tube assembly includes a pressure tube which contains an explosive detonation assembly/cord that can be initiated to expand the pressure tube, and break the frangible structure with a shock force. The pressure tube assembly also includes a explosive manifold that is recessed in the frangible structure, not protruding from an outer surface of the frangible structure. The explosive manifold receives the ends of the pressure tube, and includes a detonator for detonating the explosive detonation assembly/cord. The explosive manifold has circular-cross-section fittings for accepting a circular ends of the pressure tube. By not having any part of the pressure tube assembly protrude from the frangible structure, improved performance may be achieved. Having circular fittings also improves the seal between the pressure tube and the explosive manifold.
FILED	Tuesday, August 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/542783
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ammunition and explosives 12/378
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08141574 — Thermally activated pressure relief

US 08141574	Weatherly et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Pacific Consolidated Industries, LLC (Riverside, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Haldon L. Weatherly (Lincoln, California); Jason M. Burns (Riverside, California)
ABSTRACT	The housing is attachable to a high pressure fluid containing structure. A piston is provided within the housing, with the piston having a closed position and an open position. The closed position blocks an outlet vent of the relief device, with the open position allowing high pressure fluid to escape through the vent. The piston is biased toward the open position by the high pressure fluid, but is held in the closed position by a slide. The slide has a first position and a second position, with the first position holding the piston in the closed position. A spring biases the slide toward a second position, with a eutectic mass resisting movement of the slide to the second position. The eutectic mass is selected to have a melting point matching a maximum design temperature for the high pressure fluid containing structure. Should the eutectic mass melt, the high pressure fluid escapes.
FILED	Thursday, May 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/156272
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Fluid handling 137/72
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08141615 — Aluminum engine cylinder liner and method

US 08141615	Ferrando et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	William A. Ferrando (Arlington, Virginia); Catherine R. Wong (Germantown, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method has been found for centrifugal casting engine cylinders. A mold is charged with molten aluminum alloy and particulate silicon monoxide having an average size of 0.01 mm to 0.04 mm. The mold is rotated at a velocity and period of time to distribute the particulate silicon monoxide on an inner cylinder surface. The mold is allowed to cool until the aluminum alloy solidifies. A casting is demolded characterized in a uniform inner cylinder surface of the particulate silicon monoxide in an amount of 25 volume % and thickness 1 to 5 millimeters. The engine cylinders are distinguished in resistance to wear. Cylinder liners show no appreciable wear for over 100,000 miles of use.
FILED	Friday, August 21, 2009
APPL NO	12/545095
ART UNIT	1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Metal founding 164/97
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08141823 — Method for vertical takeoff from and landing on inclined surfaces

US 08141823	Hursig et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	David C. Hursig (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven D. Martinez (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	Takeoff and landing modes are added to a flight control system of a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). The takeoff and landing modes use data available to the flight control system and the VTOL UAV's existing control surfaces and throttle control. As a result, the VTOL UAV can takeoff from and land on inclined surfaces without the use of landing gear mechanisms designed to level the UAV on the inclined surfaces.
FILED	Thursday, November 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/949410
ART UNIT	3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Aeronautics and astronautics 244/183
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08141912 — Flexible ducting system including an articulable sealed joint

US 08141912	Nyhus
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel A. Nyhus (Payson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Aircraft including a powerplant mounted on an airframe and a rotor/wing rotatably mounted on the airframe. The rotor/wing has multiple blades extending outward from roots adjacent the airframe to tips opposite the roots and having internal conduits extending between inlets adjacent the roots and downstream outlets. The aircraft also includes multiple intermediate ducts having upstream ends including flanges and downstream ends slidably and pivotally connected to corresponding blade inlets. Moreover, the aircraft includes a manifold having an upstream end in fluid communication with the powerplant and multiple downstream ends including flanges connected to upstream ends of corresponding intermediate ducts. The aircraft further includes multiple covers connected to corresponding manifold flanges and covering corresponding intermediate duct flanges. The aircraft also includes multiple absorbers positioned between corresponding intermediate duct flanges and manifold flanges and between the intermediate duct flanges and corresponding cover to control movement of the intermediate duct flanges.
FILED	Tuesday, August 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/546781
ART UNIT	3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Pipe joints or couplings 285/223
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08142127 — Torque nut assembly

US 08142127	Doyle et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Chris Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida); Robert Woodall (Panama City, Florida); Felipe Garcia (Panama City, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A torque nut assembly includes a multiple-piece nut body and a ring-shaped compression assembly. The compression assembly circumferentially engages the nut body to capture its multiple pieces therein. The compression assembly can position the nut body to define a threaded axial passage or to allow radial expansion of the multiple pieces such that the threaded axial passage is segmented in correspondence with the nut body's multiple pieces. At least one structure is provided to lock the compression assembly when the threaded axial passage is defined.
FILED	Tuesday, October 28, 2008
APPL NO	12/290348
ART UNIT	3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener 411/433
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08142787 — Recombinant chimeric antigens for diagnosis and prevention of scrub typhus

US 08142787	Ching et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Wei-Mei Ching (Bethesda, Maryland); Chien-Chung Chao (N. Potomac, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Recombinant chimeric antigens comprising unmodified and modified reactive polypeptide fragments of expressed product of the recombinant 56 kDa proteins of multiple strain of scrub typhus, such as Karp, Kato (Ktr56), Gilliam (Gmr56), and TA763 (TAr56). The invention is useful for detecting prior exposure to a number of strains of scrub typhus, based on the strength of reaction toward the chimeric protein and as a component in vaccine formulations and production of immune globulins for passive prophylaxis and immunity in subjects against heterologous infections.
FILED	Tuesday, May 10, 2011
APPL NO	13/104059
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100
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08142874 — Bi-material composite structure with reduced thermal expansion

US 08142874	Jefferson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	George Jefferson (Bellbrook, Ohio); Ronald J. Kerans (Yellow Springs, Ohio); Triplicane A. Parthasarathy (Beavercreek, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A planar two material structure comprising a first material having a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than zero and a second material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion greater than zero. The two materials structurally combined in a plurality of repetitive for or six sided unit cells having a combined coefficient of thermal expansion less than the coefficient of thermal expansion of either material alone.
FILED	Thursday, February 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/393405
ART UNIT	1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/116
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08142881 — Mesh-type stabilizer for filamentary coated superconductors

US 08142881	Thieme
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Cornelis Leo Hans Thieme (Westborough, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A superconductor for mitigating the effects of local current disruptions in a superconducting filament. The superconductor comprises superconducting filaments covered by a medium in electrical communication with the filaments. The covering medium has anisotropic conductivity, the conductivity in a direction substantially aligned with the filaments being selected to stabilize the superconductor near the critical temperature, and the conductivity of the covering in a direction substantially perpendicular to the filaments being selected to permit controlled current sharing between the filaments, especially when a filament is compromised, while simultaneously limiting alternating current (ac) losses. In various embodiments, the covering comprises a wire mesh having longitudinal wires made of a first material having a first conductivity, and transverse wires made of a second material having a second conductivity, different from the first conductivity.
FILED	Tuesday, July 27, 2010
APPL NO	12/844233
ART UNIT	1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/195.100
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08143232 — Gene fusion targeted therapy

US 08143232	Chinnaiyan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Jindan Yu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ram Shankar Mani (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer therapy, including but not limited to, targeted inhibition of cancer markers. In particular, the present invention relates to recurrent gene fusions as clinical targets for prostate cancer.
FILED	Wednesday, March 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/716653
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44
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08143308 — Synthesis of oligo/poly(catechins) and methods of use

US 08143308	Bruno et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Soldier Center (CCDC SC) Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Subhalakshmi Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Susan J. Braunhut (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Donna McIntosh (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Klaudia Foley (Littleton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A method for synthesizing a biocompatible, water-soluble oligo/polyflavanoid, includes polymerizing an optionally substituted flavanoid with a polymerization agent in the presence of a biocompatible polymerization solubilizer, thereby producing the biocompatible, soluble oligo/polyflavanoid. Also included is a biocompatible, soluble, oligo/polyflavanoid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or complex thereof. Also included are methods of treating a subject for cancer, cardiac damage, viral infection, and obesity.
FILED	Monday, October 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/978540
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456
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08143398 — Activity of new N-acylated ciprofloxacin derivatives against faculative intracellular bacteria

US 08143398	Turos et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Burt E. Anderson (Valrico, Florida); Ryan Scott Cormier (Tampa, Florida); John C. Thomas (Lake City, Florida); Rebecca J. Kapolka (Pinellas Park, Florida); Glenn Roma (Tampa, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Bartonella species are facultative intracellular pathogens responsible for a range of diseases in animals and in humans. A selection of N-acyl ciprofloxacin analogues, chemically synthesized from ciprofloxacin, have been tested in vitro for activity against Bartonella species as models for therapeutic development. Nine Bartonella strains, including five of B. henselae, two of B. quintana, and one each of B. elizabethae and B. vinsonii, have been tested for susceptibility to different N-acyl ciprofloxacin derivatives. Several techniques have been used to test the in vitro antibacterial activity of the derivatives. Seven of them, labeled RC4-125, RC4-143, RC4-147, RC5-28, RC5-29, RC5-32 and RC5-69 showed significant intracellular anti-Bartonella activity. These synthetically derived N-acyl ciprofloxacin derivatives may be useful in the therapeutic treatment of infections caused by Bartonella.
FILED	Tuesday, February 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/031991
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 544/357
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08143578 — Ferroelectric radiation detector employing frequency modulated readout

US 08143578	Tidrow et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven C. Tidrow (Edinburg, Texas); Frank Crowne (Laurel, Maryland); Daniel Potrepka (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bernard J. Rod (Potomac, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A detector for electromagnetic radiation such as millimeter wave and infrared employs a ring-shaped ferroelectric element having a temperature affected by an absorber for the radiation. The dielectric constant of the ferroelectric material is a strong function of the temperature near its Curie temperature. The resonant frequency of the ferroelectric element is detected by applying a swept-frequency signal to the circuit and detecting the frequency which enhances the energy of the pulse. A two-dimensional camera for the radiation employs a two-dimensional array of these ferroelectric resonant circuits and a system for rapidly interrogating their resonant frequencies on a sequential basis.
FILED	Tuesday, April 21, 2009
APPL NO	12/427295
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/338.200
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08143597 — Remote sensing phase fluorimetry using mercury vapor lamp

US 08143597	Bohn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew J. Bohn (Beavercreek, Ohio); Michael A. Lundin (Burke, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An efficient and portable method for remote detection of a target mineral material through frequency domain fluorimetry, a detection technique that measures the time lag between absorption and emission of photons, thereby determining the lifetime of said target mineral material. As claimed and disclosed in the present invention, mercury vapor lamps, a common source of industrial facility lighting, emit radiation that overlaps the UV/blue absorption spectrum of many fluorophores and may be used as an efficient and portable excitation source for remote frequency domain fluorimetry.
FILED	Tuesday, January 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/353015
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/458.100
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08143686 — Laser-induced structuring of substrate surfaces

US 08143686	Mazur et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mengyan Shen (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	In one aspect, the present invention provides a method of processing a substrate, e.g., a semiconductor substrate, by irradiating a surface of the substrate (or at least a portion of the surface) with a first set of polarized short laser pulses while exposing the surface to a fluid to generate a plurality of structures on the surface, e.g., within a top layer of the surface. Subsequently, the structured surface can be irradiated with another set of polarized short laser pulses having a different polarization than that of the initial set while exposing the structured surface to a fluid, e.g., the same fluid initially utilized to form the structured surface or a different fluid. In many embodiments, the second set of polarized laser pulses cause the surface structures formed by the first set to break up into smaller-sized structures, e.g., nano-sized features such as nano-sized rods.
FILED	Monday, October 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/906508
ART UNIT	2891 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/442
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08143767 — Compact thermoacoustic array energy converter

US 08143767	Symko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Orest G. Symko (Salt Lake City, Utah); Young S. Kwon (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	A thermoacoustic array energy converter consists of heat driven thermoacoustic prime movers in parallel coupled by means of an acoustic cavity to a piezoelectric electrical generator whose output is rectified and fed to an energy storage element. The prime movers convert heat to sound in a resonator. The sound form a phase-locked array is converted to electricity by means of the piezoelectric element. The generated electric energy is converted to DC by means of a rectifier set and it is then stored in a battery or supercapacitor. The generated electric energy can also be converted to power line frequency.
FILED	Friday, July 15, 2011
APPL NO	13/183927
ART UNIT	2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339
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08143892 — System and methods for active suppression of superior tagging in flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery

US 08143892	Briggs et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard W. Briggs (Dallas, Texas); Xiufeng Li (Dallas, Texas); Kaundinya S. Gopinath (Dallas, Texas); Subhendra N. Sarkar (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for suppression of venous artifacts from superior tagging in flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery. The systems may include an image capture device and a controller. The controller may be configured to cause the image capture device to perform a labeling experiment, capture a first image of a slice of body tissue, perform a control experiment, and capture a second image of the slice of body tissue. The systems may be configured to perform a ninety (90) degree RF saturation pulse directed to a portion of body tissue that is superior to the first slice of body tissue imaged during at least one of the labeling experiment and/or the control experiment, and to apply a spoiler gradient subsequent to the saturation pulse during at least one of the labeling experiment and/or the control experiment.
FILED	Monday, November 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/610876
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309
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08143996 — Decentralized radio frequency identification system

US 08143996	Sarangapani et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Curators of the University of Missouri (Rolla, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Jagannathan Sarangapani (Rolla, Missouri); Anil Ramachandran (Rolla, Missouri); Can Saygin (San Antonio, Texas); Kainan Cha (Rolla, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A decentralized RFID system and method provides a decentralized power control scheme for adaptively adjusting the power of a RFID reader in a network of readers communicating with an RFID tag. The transmission power of each reader in a dense network environment is controlled as a function of interference sensed from other readers in the network and a current SNR (SNR) of a backscatter signal received from the tag. If the current SNR is above a required SNR, transmission power of the reader is reduced, which results in lower interference for other RFID readers. Similarly, if the expected SNR is below the required threshold, power is increased sufficiently to ensure that the target or required SNR is achieved.
FILED	Tuesday, January 08, 2008
APPL NO	11/970912
ART UNIT	2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Electrical 340/10.200
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08144051 — Adaptive sidelobe blanking for motion compensation

US 08144051	Lok et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Yuchoi F. Lok (Framingham, Massachusetts); Kaichiang Chang (Northborough, Massachusetts); Jerome H. Pozgay (Marblehead, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A motion compensation method and system is included in a radar antenna system mounted on a moving platform which is subject to pitch, yaw and roll. The radar antenna system includes a main array antenna, and an auxiliary antenna. The auxiliary channel associated with the auxiliary antenna utilizes roll, pitch and yaw angle motion compensations as its auxiliary antenna always steers a horizontal fan shape beam at the horizon to blank any surface (land or sea) based EM interferences. Such motion compensations are provided by a ship motion compensator component and process included within the antenna system. The ship motion compensator component in response to platform motion signals indicative of changes in platform motion angles generates new sets of values using an initial set of weighting coefficient values as a function of such angle motion changes. This produces changes in both amplitude and phase weighting coefficient values which results in both the quadrant phase rotation and the element weighting rotation. The process steers and spreads out the received auxiliary antenna pattern making sidelobe coverage broad enough to compensate for such changes in platform motion.
FILED	Friday, September 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/231802
ART UNIT	3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/161
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08144073 — Portal structure providing electromagnetic interference shielding features

US 08144073	Welsh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert L. Welsh (Narragansett, Rhode Island); Stacy E. Davis (Medway, Massachusetts); Timothy R. Hebert (Clinton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	In one aspect, an antenna pedestal includes a body having an inner cavity. The antenna pedestal includes a portal structure to access the inner cavity of the antenna pedestal. The portal structure also includes a threaded structure disposed around a portal accessing the inner cavity and comprising threads and a cover comprising threads configured to engage the threads of the threaded structure to close the portal. In another aspect, a portal structure to access an inner cavity of a body includes a threaded structure disposed around a portal accessing the inner cavity of the body and a cover that includes threads configured to engage the threads of the threaded structure and configured to be placed over the port to provide electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding when the cover and the threaded structure are screwed together. One or more of the aspects above may be used for EMI shielding in antenna pedestals.
FILED	Wednesday, June 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/481882
ART UNIT	2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/882
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08144208 — Task-based imaging systems

US 08144208	Silveira et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Paulo E. X. Silveira (Boulder, Colorado); Ramkumar Narayanswamy (Boulder, Colorado); Robert H. Cormack (Boulder, Colorado); Gregory E. Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Edward R. Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A method for generating an output image of a scene is disclosed. A detector of a task-based imaging system includes a plurality of pixels, and the scene includes at least one object located at a given object distance within a range of object distances between the object and the imaging system. The method includes capturing a high resolution image of the scene, converting the high resolution image into an image spectrum of the scene, determining a defocused optical transfer function (OTF) of the imaging system over the range of object distances and determining a pixel modulation transfer function (MTF) over the plurality of pixels. The method also includes multiplying the image spectrum with the OTF and the MTF to generate a modified image spectrum of the scene, converting the modified image spectrum into a modified image of the scene, and generating the output image from the modified image.
FILED	Friday, July 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/830176
ART UNIT	2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Television 348/222.100
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08144315 — Method and apparatus for characterizing a multilayered structure

US 08144315	Cranch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Geoffrey A. Cranch (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Gordon M. H. Flockhart (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for characterizing the complex coupling coefficient of a multilayered periodic structure either during or after inscription is described. This apparatus is capable of continuously measuring the complex reflectivity at single or multiple wavelengths to a resolution limited by Rayleigh scattering in the waveguide section where the structure is inscribed. The apparatus is also capable of rejecting undesired signals associated with stray reflections in the system and unwanted environmentally induced change in optical path lengths during the inscription procedure. The complex coupling coefficient of the multilayered periodic structure can be derived from the measured complex reflectivity and can reveal errors present in the structure. The complex coupling coefficient can also be used to derive an error signal to enable implementation of a closed loop inscription system capable of inscribing error free multilayer structures.
FILED	Friday, April 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/757075
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73.100
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08144317 — Method to locate and eliminate manufacturing defects in a quartz resonator gyro

US 08144317	Joyce
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard J. Joyce (Thousand Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for locating and eliminating defects on a substrate wafer includes illuminating a top surface of the substrate wafer with a first illumination source, illuminating a bottom surface of the substrate wafer with a second illumination source, forming an image of a portion of the top surface of the substrate wafer while the substrate wafer is illuminated by the first and second illumination sources, adjusting a contrast of the image to accentuate defects on the top surface of the substrate wafer, locating defects in the image, and ablating the defects on the top surface with a laser.
FILED	Wednesday, March 30, 2011
APPL NO	13/075784
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.400
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08144334 — Fiber-optic, digital system for laser Doppler vibrometers (LDVs)

US 08144334	Chinn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen R. Chinn (Alexandria, Virginia); James D. Haberstat (Alexandria, Virginia); Bradley W. Libbey (Alexandria, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for non-determination of the surface velocity of a target using optical interference and Doppler shifting of the light reflected from the target are disclosed. It may be used to measure small-amplitude, acoustic frequency surface vibrations as well as non-periodic surface vibration.
FILED	Tuesday, September 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/568752
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/482
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08144392 — Waveguide amplifier in a sputtered film of erbium-doped gallium lanthanum sulfide glass

US 08144392	Sanghera et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jasbinder S Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Jesse A. Frantz (Cheverly, Maryland); Leslie Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A waveguide amplifier, disposed on a substrate, composed of sputtered film of chalcogenide glass doped with Erbium is disclosed. The amplifier includes a substrate, a thick film of chalcogenide glass disposed on the substrate, a pumping device, and an optical combining device, wherein the waveguide is operable to amplify the optically combined signal. This type of amplifier has been shown to be compact and cost-effective, in addition to being transparent in the mid-IR range as a result of the low phonon energy of chalcogenide glass.
FILED	Monday, February 12, 2007
APPL NO	11/673624
ART UNIT	3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/343
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08144595 — Variable translucency no-sight routing for AD-HOC networks

US 08144595	Troxel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory Donald Troxel (Stow, Massachusetts); Subramanian Ramanathan (Westford, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A system comprising a plurality of nodes forming a network and a link-state packet capable of being transmitted by a source node in the network to a destination node in the network over a communication link; wherein the source node subtracts a transmission cost associated with the communication link from a time-to-live value associated with the link-state packet prior to transmitting the link-state packet to the destination node. Each node in the network may be configured to use a routing protocol, such as a no-sight routing protocol, to assign the transmission cost to the communication link.
FILED	Wednesday, March 23, 2005
APPL NO	11/087406
ART UNIT	2462 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/238
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08144708 — Collaborative multicast routing (CMR) for multicasting in unidirectional, hybrid, multi-tiered mobile wireless network

US 08144708	Ahmed et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohiuddin Ahmed (Moorpark, California); Son Dao (Northridge, California); Noparut Vanitchanant (Irving, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a scalable and reliable collaborative multicast routing for multicasting in hybrid, multi-tiered, mobile heterogeneous wireless networks. It establishes a multicast tree, maintains the established route, detects and prevents most link breakage within the multicast tree by a neighboring node or the cooperation of the neighboring node, and enables merging of partitioned multicast trees of the same multicast group by nodes that participate in one of the partitioned multicast trees. The use of local nodes to collaboratively establish, maintain, recover, and merge the hybrid, multi-tiered mobile wireless networks that use heterogeneous set of mobile wireless nodes is the fundamental basis for the collaborative multicast routing scheme of the present invention.
FILED	Monday, November 30, 2009
APPL NO	12/592687
ART UNIT	2467 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/390
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08144757 — System and method for estimating probabilities of events

US 08144757	Morris et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Joel M. Morris (Columbia, Maryland); Ronald Hozloehner (Munich, Germany); Amitkumar Mahadevan (Baltimore, Maryland); Curtis R. Menyuk (Silver Spring, Maryland); John W. Zweck (Columbia, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A dual adaptive importance-sampling system and method is provided that can estimate the probability of events by combining dual complementary importance-sampling simulations. The present invention exploits the ability to determine an optimal biased pdf using an iterative procedure that requires relatively little a priori knowledge of how to bias. Hence, the present invention is particularly suited for evaluating the BERs and/or WERs of coded communication and storage systems, and is generally applicable to arbitrarily chosen codes. When applied to coded communication and storage systems, the present invention provides a versatile technique for the fast and accurate estimation of BERs and WERs of FEC codes down to values of 10⁻²⁰or lower.
FILED	Wednesday, July 23, 2008
APPL NO	12/178355
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/227
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08145019 — Self adapting sensor

US 08145019	Cook et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary Cook (Beavercreek, Ohio); Dean R. Evans (Beavercreek, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method for adjusting a diffraction grating to changes in ambient conditions. The method includes writing a diffraction grating in the photorefractive waveguide with a laser, measuring spectral characteristics of the diffraction grating, and allowing the diffraction grating to self-write from interference between a forward beam and a Fresnel reflection, such that the diffraction grating is adjusted for changes in ambient conditions.
FILED	Friday, June 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/483880
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/37
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08145201 — Methods and apparatus for reduced energy communication in an ad hoc network

US 08145201	Redi
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Interior (DOI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to communications devices for reduced energy communications in an ad hoc network. The communication device includes a first low-powered transceiver for initiating communications with other communications devices and a second transceiver for transmitting data messages to the other communications devices once communication is initiated. The communication device also includes a communications control processor for determining times at which the other communications devices will be available to receive communications based on scheduling data received from those communication devices. The communications control processor can also take into account requests for reserved bandwidth.
FILED	Monday, May 22, 2006
APPL NO	11/439320
ART UNIT	2617 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/420
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08145369 — Docking apparatuses and methods

US 08145369	Tureaud et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vehicle Control Technologles, Inc. (Reston, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas F. Tureaud (Fairfax, Virginia); Daniel N. Dietz (Alexandria, Virginia); Stacy J. Hills (Ashburn, Virginia); Douglas E. Humphreys (Great Falls, Virginia); Alexander V. Roup (Sterling, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An intercepting vehicle, which is being towed by a towing vehicle, may home in on and attach to a retrievable vehicle that catches up to the intercepting vehicle from behind. Then, the intercepting vehicle, with the retrievable vehicle docked thereto, may be brought to the towing vehicle by reeling in the intercepting vehicle with the retrievable vehicle docked thereto.
FILED	Thursday, November 01, 2007
APPL NO	11/982041
ART UNIT	3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/21
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08145444 — Asset surveillance system and method comprising self-calibrating fault detection

US 08145444	Bickford et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada)
INVENTOR(S)	Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Rahul M. Palnitkar (Lincoln, California)
ABSTRACT	A computer-implemented asset surveillance system and method for self calibrating at least one fault detector providing asset surveillance by calibrating at least the one fault detector with statistics associated with expected asset behavior, acquiring observed data values from an asset, screening the observed data values based upon at least one defined criterion for obtaining screened data values, updating the statistics associated with expected asset behavior as a function of the screened data values for defining updated statistics, and recalibrating the at least one fault detector with the updated statistics.
FILED	Friday, November 28, 2008
APPL NO	12/315118
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/85
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08145591 — Detection of hostile intent from movement patterns

US 08145591	Nickerson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey V. Nickerson (Weehawken, New Jersey); Toshihiko Matsuka (Chiba, Japan)
ABSTRACT	An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method comprising identifying a suspect; determining that the suspect has moved a first distance in a target zone around a target during a first time period; determining a suspect-target distance between the suspect and the target; determining a suspect-potential destination distance between the suspect and a potential destination in the target zone for the suspect; determining that the suspect has moved a second distance in the target zone during a second time period; determining a suspect zone around the suspect; determining a movement characteristic index associated with the suspect zone when the suspect has moved the second distance, and determining, by a computer, a probability of hostility of the suspect, wherein the probability of hostility is obtained from the movement characteristic index and a ratio of the suspect-target distance and the suspect-potential destination distance.
FILED	Friday, July 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/175855
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/62
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08145652 — Automated propagation of non-conflicting queries in distributed databases

US 08145652	Bent et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Graham A. Bent (Southampton, United Kingdom); Patrick Dantressangle (Ford, United Kingdom); David R. Vyvyan (Southampton, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	A logical table definition is received in association with a database query within a distributed database system. A determination is made as to whether the received logical table definition matches a local logical table definition. The query is processed in response to determining that the received logical table definition matches the local logical table definition. The query is forwarded to at least one other distributed database node. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
FILED	Thursday, October 09, 2008
APPL NO	12/248082
ART UNIT	2162 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/755
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08145723 — Complex remote update programming idiom accelerator

US 08145723	Arimilli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Satya P. Sharma (Austin, Texas); Randal C. Swanberg (Round Rock, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A remote update programming idiom accelerator is configured to detect a complex remote update programming idiom in an instruction sequence of a thread. The complex remote update programming idiom includes a read operation for reading data from a storage location at a remote node, a sequence of instructions for performing an update operation on the data to form result data, and a write operation for writing the result data to the storage location at the remote node. The remote update programming idiom accelerator is configured to determine whether the sequence of instructions is longer than an instruction size threshold and responsive to a determination that the sequence of instructions is not longer than the instruction size threshold, transmit the complex remote update programming idiom to the remote node to perform the update operation on the data at the remote node.
FILED	Thursday, April 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/424983
ART UNIT	2445 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/212
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08145849 — Wake-and-go mechanism with system bus response

US 08145849	Arimilli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Satya P. Sharma (Austin, Texas); Randal C. Swanberg (Round Rock, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A wake-and-go mechanism is provided for a data processing system. The wake-and-go mechanism is configured to issue a look-ahead load command on a system bus to read a data value from a target address and perform a comparison operation to determine whether the data value at the target address indicates that an event for which a thread is waiting has occurred. In response to the comparison resulting in a determination that the event has not occurred, the wake-and-go engine populates a wake-and-go storage array with the target address and snooping the target address on the system bus without data exclusivity. In response to the comparison resulting in a determination that the event has occurred, the wake-and-go engine issues a load command on the system bus to read the data value from the target address with data exclusivity.
FILED	Friday, February 01, 2008
APPL NO	12/024204
ART UNIT	2189 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/146
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08146090 — Time-value curves to provide dynamic QoS for time sensitive file transfer

US 08146090	Travostino et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rockstar Bidco, LP (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Franco Travostino (Arlington, Massachusetts); Tal Lavian (Sunnyvale, California); Bruce Schofield (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Inder Monga (Acton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus has been shown and described which allows Quality of Service to be controlled at a temporal granularity. Time-value curves, generated for each task, ensure that mission resources are utilized in a manner which optimizes mission performance. It should be noted, however, that although the present invention has shown and described the use of time-value curves as applied to mission workflow tasks, the present invention is not limited to this application; rather, it can be readily appreciated by one of skill in the art that time-value curves may be used to optimize the delivery of any resource to any consumer by taking into account the dynamic environment of the consumer and resource.
FILED	Thursday, August 31, 2006
APPL NO	11/469404
ART UNIT	2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104
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08146094 — Guaranteeing delivery of multi-packet GSM messages

US 08146094	Arimilli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York)
ABSTRACT	A target task ensures complete delivery of a global shared memory (GSM) message from an originating task to the target task. The target task's HFI receives a first of multiple GSM packets generated from a single GSM message sent from the originating task. The HFI logic assigns a sequence number and corresponding tuple to track receipt of the complete GSM message. The sequence number is unique relative to other sequence numbers assigned to GSM messages that have not been completely received from the initiating task. The HFI updates a count value within the tuple, which comprises the sequence number and the count value for the first GSM packet and for each subsequent GSM packet received for the GSM message. The HFI determines when receipt of the GSM message is complete by comparing the count value with a count total retrieved from the packet header.
FILED	Friday, February 01, 2008
APPL NO	12/024678
ART UNIT	2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/312
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

08142168 — Vibration-driven droplet transport devices having textured surfaces

US 08142168	Bohringer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Karl F. Bohringer (Seattle, Washington); Ashutosh Shastry (Cupertino, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and devices for moving a droplet on an elongated track on a textured surface using vibration. The elongated track on the textured surface includes a plurality of transverse arcuate projections such that a droplet on the surface is in the Fakir state and when the surface is vibrated the droplet is urged along the track as a result of an imbalance in the adhesion of a front portion of the droplet and a back portion of the droplet to the textured surface.
FILED	Thursday, July 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/179397
ART UNIT	3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Pumps 417/53
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08142369 — Measurement and use of in-socket residual limb volume change data for prosthetic fitting

US 08142369	Sanders et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Joan E. Sanders (Sammamish, Washington); Timothy R. Myers (Seattle, Washington); Daniel S. Harrison (Kirkland, Washington); Katheryn J. Allyn (Seattle, Washington); Ellen L. Lee (Corvallis, Oregon); Daniel C. Abrahamson (Seattle, Washington); Kirk Beach (Seattle, Washington); Santosh Zachariah (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Changes in the volume of residual limbs on which prosthetic sockets are worn can be measured based on bioimpedance measurements along one or more segments of the limb. A current at an appropriate frequency (e.g., in the range from 1 kHz to 1 MHz) is injected at two current electrodes that contact the skin of the residual limb. The voltage at the voltage electrodes disposed between the current electrodes is measured and using an appropriate model, the change in the segmented volume of the limb can be determined during periods of different activity and at different times during the day. This information can be used for assessing the fit of the socket and can also provide a feedback signal for automatically controlling volume management devices, to ensure a more comfortable fit when the volume of the limb is changing.
FILED	Monday, July 27, 2009
APPL NO	12/509934
ART UNIT	3766 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/587
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08142708 — Micro fluidic system for single molecule imaging

US 08142708	Schwartz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	David C. Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin); Eileen T. Dimalanta (Madison, Wisconsin); Juan J. de Pablo (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Laminar flow of a carrier liquid and polymeric molecules through micro-channels is used to straighten the polymeric molecules and attach the straightened molecules to a wall of the micro-channel for subsequent treatment and analysis. Micro-channels can be manufactured using an elastic molding material. One micro-channel embodiment provides fluid flow using a standard laboratory centrifuge.
FILED	Friday, October 18, 2002
APPL NO	10/713898
ART UNIT	1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/435
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08142764 — Synthetic biofilm-inhibiting peptides

US 08142764	Demuth et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Louisville Research Foundation (Louisville, Kentucky)
INVENTOR(S)	Donald R. Demuth (Louisville, Kentucky); Carlo Amorin Daep (Louisville, Kentucky)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides streptococcal SspB Adherence Region (BAR) peptides consisting of Formula I: R₁₈-R₁- R₂-Val-R₃-R₄-Leu-Leu-R₅-R₆-R₇-Ile-R₈-R₉-Lys-R₁₀-R₁₉, wherein R₂, is 1-3 Lys residues; R₃is any amino acid residue except a Pro residue; R₄is any amino acid residue except a Pro residue; R₅is 1-3 Lys residues; R₆is 1-10 amino acid residues; R₇is any amino acid residue except Asp, Glu, Gly or Pro; R₈is any amino acid residue except Ala, Asp, Gly, His, Ile, Pro, Trp or Tyr; R₉is a Val, Ile, Phe, or Trp residue; R₁₀is 0-1 Cys residue; R₁₈is 0 amino acids or R₁₂-R₁₁-Pro-, wherein R₁₁is 0-3 amino acids, wherein the amino acid residues are not Gly or Pro; and R₁₂is 0-1 Cys residues; and R₁₉is R₁₃-R₁₄-R₁₅-R₁₆-R₁₇, wherein R₁₃is 0-1 is Gly residue; R₁₄is 0-1 Ala residue; R₁₅is 0-1 Phe residue; R₁₆is 0-1 Gln residue; R₁₇is 0-1 Cys residue; and wherein R₁is an ornithine residue; or wherein both R₁and R₁₀are both Cys and R₁and R₁₀are covalently linked to form a circular peptide; or wherein R₁is 0-1 Cys or an ornithine residue and R₁₂and R₁₇, are both Cys and R₁₂and R₁₇are covalently linked to form a circular peptide. Embodiments of the present invention further provide devices coated with the BAR peptides.
FILED	Wednesday, February 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/392966
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/49
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08142779 — Treatment of follicular lymphomas using inhibitors of the LT pathway

US 08142779	Browning et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Biogen Idec MA Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey Browning (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jeanette Thorbecke (Douglaston, New York); Vincent Tsiagbe (New Rochelle, New York)
ABSTRACT	Therapeutic uses of inhibitors of the lymphotoxin pathway to treat tumors, specifically to treat follicular lymphomas.
FILED	Tuesday, October 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/578016
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100
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08142781 — Fusion proteins for blood-brain barrier delivery

US 08142781	Pardridge et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ArmaGen Technologies, Inc. (Santa Monica, California)
INVENTOR(S)	William M. Pardridge (Pacific Palisades, California); Ruben J. Boado (Agoura Hilla, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions, methods, and kits for increasing transport of agents across the blood brain barrier while allowing their activity once across the barrier to remain substantially intact. The agents are transported across the blood brain barrier via one or more endogenous receptor-mediated transport systems. In some embodiments the agents are therapeutic, diagnostic, or research agents.
FILED	Friday, October 07, 2005
APPL NO	11/245546
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100
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08142782 — EGFR inhibitors promote axon regeneration

US 08142782	He et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhigang He (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Vuk Koprivica (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods for promoting neural regeneration in a patient determined to have a lesion in a mature CNS neuron are disclosed. The method comprises the step of contacting the neuron with an EGFR inhibitor sufficient to promote regeneration of the neuron.
FILED	Wednesday, February 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/372988
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/141.100
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08142805 — Implantable devices including fixed tissues

US 08142805	Vyavahare et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Narendra R. Vyavahare (Easley, South Carolina); Devanathan Raghavan (Clemson, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are implantable tissues including one or more enzyme inhibitors bound in the tissues, bioprostheses including the tissue, and methods for incorporating enzyme inhibitors in implantable tissues. Disclosed tissue can exhibit increased resistance to degradation, and specifically, degradation due to enzyme activity following implantation. Moreover, the disclosed methods can lead to increased levels of beneficial components bound in implantable tissues following a fixation/stabilization protocol. Increased levels of beneficial agents in an implantable tissue can further improve the implantable tissues and bioprostheses incorporating the tissues through improved mechanical characteristics and longer lifespan.
FILED	Monday, November 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/934844
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422
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08142806 — Methods and compositions for controlled delivery of phytochemical agents

US 08142806	Gupta et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky)
INVENTOR(S)	Ramesh C. Gupta (Louisville, Kentucky); Manicka V. Vadhanam (Louisville, Kentucky)
ABSTRACT	The presently-disclosed subject matter provides compositions and methods for treating a cancer by providing a composition comprising a biocompatible polymeric matrix incorporating an effective amount of a phytochemical agent, a combination of phytochemical agents, or a phytochemical agent and a chemotherapeutic agent. Further, provided is a device for uterine cervical insertion for local delivery.
FILED	Tuesday, March 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/401175
ART UNIT	1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422
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08143002 — Methods for isolating and characterizing endogenous mRNA-protein (mRNP) complexes

US 08143002	Keene et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Ribonomics, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jack D. Keene (Durham, North Carolina); Scott A. Tenenbaum (Durham, North Carolina); Craig C. Carson (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Cellular mRNA-protein (mRNP) complexes are partitioned in vivo by contacting a biological sample with at least one ligand that specifically binds at least one component of a mRNP complex. Suitable biological samples comprise at least one mRNA-protein (mRNP) complex and include cell cultures, cell extracts, and whole tissue, including tumor tissue. Ligands include antibodies that specifically bind RNA-binding or RNA-associated proteins present in the mRNP complex. The mRNP complex is separated by binding the ligand with a binding molecule specific for the ligand, where the binding molecule is attached to a solid support. The mRNP complex is collected by removing the mRNP complex from the solid support. After collecting the mRNP complex, the mRNA bound within the complex may be characterized and identified. Subsets of the total mRNA population of a cell may accordingly be characterized, and a gene expression profile of the cell obtained.
FILED	Monday, March 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/049862
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100
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08143015 — Methods of cleaving DNA with rationally-designed meganucleases

US 08143015	Smith et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	James Jefferson Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Derek Jantz (Durham, North Carolina); Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research.
FILED	Monday, September 26, 2011
APPL NO	13/245650
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18
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08143016 — Methods of cleaving DNA with rationally-designed meganucleases

US 08143016	Smith et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	James Jefferson Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Derek Jantz (Durham, North Carolina); Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research.
FILED	Tuesday, September 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/246263
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18
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08143042 — Biodegradable elastomers

US 08143042	Bettinger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher J. Bettinger (Boston, Massachusetts); Joost P. Bruggeman (Boston, Massachusetts); Lino Da Silva Ferreira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey M. Karp (Brookline, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Christiaan Nijst (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Andreas Zumbuehl (Bern, Switzerland); Jason Burdick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sonia J. Kim (West Nyack, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic biodegradable polymers. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-linked to form the elastic biodegradable polymer. In preferred embodiments, the cross-linking is performed by functionalization of one or more OR groups on the pre-polymer backbone with vinyl, followed by photopolymerization to form the elastic biodegradable polymer composition or material. Preferably, acrylate is used to add one or more vinyls to the backbone of the pre-polymer to form an acrylated pre-polymer. In various embodiments, acrylated pre-polymers are co-polymerized with one or more acrylated co-polymers.
FILED	Friday, January 12, 2007
APPL NO	11/623041
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/180
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08143059 — Method for identification of cell growth or differentiation factors

US 08143059	Keller et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Gordon M. Keller (Denver, Colorado); Robert G. Hawley (Toronto, Canada); Kyunghee Choi (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to novel immortalized precursor cell populations derived from embryonic stem cell populations and methods to produce such cell populations. Also disclosed is an assay to identify regulatory compounds capable of controlling cell growth for therapeutic and experimental use.
FILED	Monday, April 28, 2003
APPL NO	10/425492
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377
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08143210 — Enzyme treatment of foodstuffs for celiac sprue

US 08143210	Shan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Alvine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Carlos, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Lu Shan (Houston, Texas); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	Administering an effective dose of glutenase to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces levels of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten.
FILED	Tuesday, July 10, 2007
APPL NO	11/775824
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100
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08143213 — Effect of TULA on HIV

US 08143213	Tsygankov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Temple University of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexander Tsygankov (Wyncote, Pennsylvania); Evgeniya Smirnova (Wyncote, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A method of inhibiting a retrovirus production, the method includes administering a retrovirus inhibitor selected from at least one of a TULA protein, a fragment of TULA containing a UBA domain, a UBA domain of TULA, a peptide mimicking TULA, a peptide mimicking a fragment of TULA containing a UBA domain, a peptide mimicking a UBA domain of TULA, a polynucleotide encoding TULA, a polynucleotide encoding a fragment of TULA containing a UBA domain, a polynucleotide encoding a UBA domain of TULA, a polynucleotide encoding a peptide mimicking TULA, a polynucleotide encoding a peptide mimicking a fragment of TULA containing a UBA domain, a polynucleotide encoding a peptide mimicking the UBA domain of TULA, fragments thereof, muteins thereof, variants and splice variants thereof, and combinations thereof to a cell or a tissue infected by a retrovirus.
FILED	Monday, September 17, 2007
APPL NO	12/439939
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.700
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08143218 — Treatment of skin, and wound repair, with thymosin beta 4

US 08143218	Kleinman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Regenerx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Hynda K. Kleinman (Kensington, Maryland); Katherine M. Malinda (Millersville, Maryland); Allan L. Goldstein (Washington, District of Columbia); Gabriel Sosne (Oak Park, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods for treatment of skin utilizing thymosin β4.
FILED	Tuesday, November 22, 2005
APPL NO	11/284430
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9.400
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08143219 — Methods for prevention and treatment of acute renal injury

US 08143219	Szeto et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York); Diane Felsen (Brooklyn, New York)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure relates to a method for protecting a kidney from renal injury. For example, acute renal injury may be associated with decreased or blocked blood flow in the subject's kidney or exposure to a nephrotoxic agent, such as a radiocontrast dye. The methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide to a subject in need thereof.
FILED	Wednesday, February 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/392565
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15.400
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08143222 — Modular platform for targeted therapeutic delivery

US 08143222	McDunn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan E. McDunn (University City, Missouri); William G. Hawkins (Olivette, Missouri); Robert H. Mach (Eureka, Missouri); Richard A. Hotchkiss (Chesterfield, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Pharmaceutical compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are disclosed, wherein a compound comprises a targeting moiety which, in free form, binds a cell receptor with a dissociation constant K_dof less than about 10⁻⁷M, and a pharmaceutically active moiety, wherein the targeting moiety is other than an oligopeptide, a polypeptide, a peptidomimetic, a protein or a protein domain, and wherein the targeting moiety and the pharmaceutically active moiety are covalently attached. In some aspects, the targeting moiety binds a sigma-2 receptor with high affinity and high specificity, and the pharmaceutically active moiety is a pro-apoptotic peptide moiety. Methods of cancer treatment are disclosed comprising administering a disclosed pharmaceutical compound to a subject in need of thereof. The treatments selectively induce apoptosis in cancer cells. These methods can further comprise co-administration of radiation therapy and/or an additional chemotherapeutic agent.
FILED	Wednesday, October 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/255947
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.900
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08143231 — Method of reducing HIV-replication in human body tissue

US 08143231	Melendez et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program (RCMI) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
INVENTOR(S)	Loyda M Melendez (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Claribel Luciano-Montalvo (Guayanilla, Puerto Rico)
ABSTRACT	Mononuclear phagocytes are reservoirs, vehicles of dissemination, and targets for persistent HIV infection. However, not all MP population equally support viral growth. Such differential replication is typified by the greater ability of placental macrophages (PM), as compared to blood borne monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM), to restrict viral replication. A SELDI-TOF protein peak with an m/z of 11,100 identified as cystatin B (CSTB), was significantly lower in uninfected and HIV-infected PM than in MDM. HIV replication can be reduced by down regulating the expression of Cystatin B.
FILED	Monday, July 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/460576
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44
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08143232 — Gene fusion targeted therapy

US 08143232	Chinnaiyan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Jindan Yu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ram Shankar Mani (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer therapy, including but not limited to, targeted inhibition of cancer markers. In particular, the present invention relates to recurrent gene fusions as clinical targets for prostate cancer.
FILED	Wednesday, March 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/716653
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44
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08143233 — RNA aptamers and methods for identifying the same

US 08143233	Sullenger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce A. Sullenger (Durham, North Carolina); Christopher P. Rusconi (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	RNA aptamers and methods for identifying the same are disclosed. The RNA aptamers selectively bind coagulation factors, E2F family members, Ang1 or Ang2, and therapeutic and other uses for the RNA aptamers are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, December 17, 2010
APPL NO	12/971695
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00
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08143234 — Uridine administration improves phosphatide synthesis, synaptic transmission and cognitive function

US 08143234	Wurtman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard J. Wurtman (Boston, Massachusetts); Carol Watkins (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods of improving a cognitive function or a neurological function, treating or ameliorating a decline in a cognitive function or a neurological function, increasing cytidine levels, or treating a neurological disorder in a subject, comprising administering a uridine, a uridine precursor, or a derivative or metabolite thereof to the subject. The invention also provides methods of improving neural function, comprising contacting the neuron with a uridine, a uridine precursor, or a derivative or metabolite thereof.
FILED	Monday, September 20, 2004
APPL NO	10/944269
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/49
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08143252 — Tetrahalogenated compounds useful as inhibitors of angiogenesis

US 08143252	Figg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	William D. Figg (Fairfax, Virginia); Erin Gardner (Fairfax, Virginia); Michael Gutschow (Bonn, Germany); Agnieszka Ambrozak (Buchs, Switzerland)
ABSTRACT	Methods for inhibiting a neoplasm in a subject and methods of inhibiting undesired angiogenesis that include administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of at least one novel tetrahalogenated compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
FILED	Friday, October 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/287597
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/247
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08143295 — Compounds having activity in correcting mutant-CFTR processing and uses thereof

US 08143295	Verkman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Alan Verkman (San Francisco, California); Nicoletta Pedemonte (San Francisco, California); Luis J. V. Galietta (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and methods for correcting cellular processing (e.g., folding, trafficking, or post-translational modification) of a mutant-cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein (e.g., ΔF508 CFTR) that are useful for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF). The compositions and pharmaceutical preparations of the invention may comprise one or more aminobenzothiazole-containing compounds, aminoarylthiazole-containing compounds, quinazolinylaminopyrimidinone-containing compounds, bisaminomethylbithiazole-containing compounds, or phenylaminoquino-line-containing compounds of the invention, or an analog or derivative thereof.
FILED	Wednesday, March 08, 2006
APPL NO	11/908591
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/366
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08143300 — Inhibitors of cellular necrosis

US 08143300	Cuny et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory D. Cuny (Somerville, Massachusetts); Prakash Jagtap (North Andover, Massachusetts); Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts); Alexei Degterev (Brookline, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutical preparations and their use in therapy for preventing or treating trauma, ischemia, stroke and degenerative diseases associated with cell death. Methods and compositions of the invention are particularly useful for treating neurological disorders associated with cellular necrosis.
FILED	Tuesday, March 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/077320
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/397
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08143302 — Methods and compositions for diagnostic and therapeutic targeting of COX-2

US 08143302	Marnett et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Lawrence J. Marnett (Nashville, Tennessee); Md. Jashim Uddin (Nashville, Tennessee); Brenda C. Crews (Franklin, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The presently disclosed subject matter provides compositions that selectively bind cyclooxygenase-2 and comprise a therapeutic and/or diagnostic moiety. Also provided are methods for using the disclosed compositions for diagnosing (i.e., by imaging) a target cell and/or treating a disorder associated with a cyclooxygenase-2 biological activity.
FILED	Friday, June 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/814143
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406
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08143372 — Synthetic regulators of ferritin protein nanocage pores and methods of use thereof

US 08143372	Theil
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Elizabeth Theil (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides synthetic regulators of ferritin pores, and compositions comprising the regulators. The regulators function to reduce ferritin demineralization rates. The regulators are useful for treating inflammatory conditions. The present invention also provides methods of treating inflammatory conditions. The present invention further provides synthetic regulators of bacterial mini-ferritins; such regulators are useful as antibacterial agents.
FILED	Friday, May 16, 2008
APPL NO	12/122469
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300
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08143374 — Polypeptide derivatives of parathyroid hormone (PTH)

US 08143374	Kronenberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Henry M. Kronenberg (Belmont, Massachusetts); John T. Potts, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Gardella (Needham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is related to novel parathyroid hormone polypeptide derivatives, and to pharmaceutical composition containing the polypeptides, as well as synthetic and recombinant methods for producing the polypeptides. Also disclosed are methods for treating mammalian conditions characterized by decreases in bone mass using therapeutically effective pharmaceutical compositions containing the polypeptides of the present invention. The present invention further provides diagnostic and therapeutic methods using the polypeptide derivatives.
FILED	Friday, August 03, 2007
APPL NO	12/376389
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324
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08143418 — Dimeric small molecule potentiators of apoptosis

US 08143418	Harran et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Patrick G. Harran (Dallas, Texas); Xiaodong Wang (Dallas, Texas); Jef K. De Brabander (Dallas, Texas); Lin Li (Dallas, Texas); Ranny Mathew Thomas (Waltham, Massachusetts); Hidetaka Suzuki (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Caspase activity and apoptosis are promoted using active, dimeric Smac peptide mimetics of the general formula M1-L-M2, wherein moieties M1 and M2 are monomeric Smac mimetics and L is a covalent linker. Target cancerous or inflammatory cells are contacted with an effective amount of an active, dimeric Smac mimetic, and a resultant increase in apoptosis of the target cells is detected. The contacting step may be effected by administering to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of The compoundic mimetic, wherein the individual may be subject to concurrent or antecedent radiation or chemotherapy for treatment of a neoproliferative pathology.
FILED	Monday, February 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/022033
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 548/237
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08143420 — Bifunctional and trifunctional nitrone spin trapping compounds and uses thereof

US 08143420	Hardy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Medical Collage of Wisconsin, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Université de Provence (Marsielle, France)
INVENTOR(S)	Micael Joel Hardy (La Seyne sur mer, France); Marcos Lopez (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Balaraman Kalyanaraman (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Neil Hogg (New Berlin, Wisconsin); Olivier Ouari (Seynod, France); Paul Tordo (Marsielle, France)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions for detecting free radicals, the compositions being spin trapping compounds comprising a nitrone having a detecting moiety and optionally having a targeting moiety for targeting the nitrone to an organ, a cell, an organelle or a molecule of interest for directly detecting free radicals, especially free radicals in biological samples.
FILED	Wednesday, December 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/343975
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 548/302.700
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08143480 — Compositions and methods for efficient gene silencing in plants

US 08143480	Axtell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Axtell (State College, Pennsylvania); David P. Bartel (Brookline, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to methods for knock-down of a target gene in plants, particularly efficient and specific methods for knock-down of a target gene in plants. This invention also relates to methods for silencing endogenous plant genes or plant pathogen genes. It further relates to nucleic acid constructs (DNA, RNA) which comprise a nucleic acid sequence that corresponds to a target gene or fragment thereof flanked by two complementary sites to an smRNA, e.g., a miRNA (one complementary site is on either side of the nucleic acid sequence), resulting in, for example the configuration: complementary site—nucleic acid sequence that corresponds to a target gene—complementary site.
FILED	Friday, October 19, 2007
APPL NO	11/975725
ART UNIT	1638 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/285
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08143571 — Method for fractioning peptides and other compounds

US 08143571	Dyer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel J. Dyer (Murphysboro, Illinois); Gary R. Kinsel (Carbondale, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method for fractionating a target fraction from a sample is disclosed herein. The method includes providing a polymer brush having a substrate and a polymer chain attached to and extending outwardly from the substrate. The method further comprising contacting the polymer brush with the sample to allow for sorption of the target fraction by the polymer chain. The polymer chain is then stimulated with a stimulus to contract and release the target fraction.
FILED	Wednesday, June 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/477753
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/281
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08144744 — Co-extruded multilayer polymers films for all-polymer lasers

US 08144744	Singer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth Singer (Pepperpike, Ohio); Eric Baer (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Anne Hiltner (Cleveland, Ohio); Christoph Weder (Duedingen, Switzerland)
ABSTRACT	A polymer film laser is provided that comprises a plurality of extruded polymer layers. The plurality of extruded polymer layers comprises a plurality of alternating dielectric layers of a first polymer material having a first refractive index and a second polymer material having second refractive index different than the first refractive index.
FILED	Thursday, March 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/070787
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/50.124
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08144966 — Use of endogenous fluorescence to identify invading metastatic breast tumor cells

US 08144966	Provenzano et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Paolo P. Provenzano (Madison, Wisconsin); Patricia Jo Keely (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin W. Eliceiri (Madison, Wisconsin); John G. White (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention broadly provides methods and systems for detecting, identifying, and characterizing conditions, including diseases and other disorders in human or other animal subjects, by analyzing fluorescence from endogenous flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) fluorophors present in biological materials and samples. In particular embodiments, the invention relates to conditions of the human breast including cancers such as carcinoma. Methods and systems are provided for detecting, locating, and characterizing tumors and precancerous tissue via nonlinear optical imaging techniques capable of accurately characterizing fluorescence intensities and fluorescent lifetime parameters from endogenous FAD fluorophors present in a test tissue sample.
FILED	Friday, February 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/040013
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/133
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08145322 — Flexible circuit electrode array device and a method for backside processing of a flexible circuit electrode device

US 08145322	Yao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Qingfang Yao (Valencia, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention involves a flexible circuit electrode array device comprising: a polymer layer; wherein the polymer layer includes one or more metal traces, an electrode array; one or more bond pads; and the electrode array is located on the opposite side of the polymer layer. The invention further involves a method for backside processing of a flexible circuit electrode device, comprising: applying polymer film on a substrate; processing the front side; releasing the polymer film from substrate; flipping over the polymer film and fixing it onto the substrate; processing the backside; and final releasing of the polymer film from the substrate. The invention further involves a method for backside processing of a flexible circuit electrode device, comprising: processing the front side without releasing the polymer; processing the backside by sacrificial substrate method, or by laser drilling method; and releasing the polymer film from the substrate.
FILED	Monday, July 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/177038
ART UNIT	3766 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/115
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RE043274 — Fluorinated photosensitizers related to chlorins and bacteriochlorins for photodynamic therapy

US RE43274	Pandey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ravindra K. Pandey (Williamsville, New York); William R. Potter (East Amherst, New York); Thomas J. Dougherty (Grand Island, New York)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are compounds for detection, diagnosis and treatment of target tissues or target compositions, including hyperproliferative tissues such as tumors, using photodynamic methods. In particular, photosensitizer compounds that collect in hyperproliferative tissue are provided. In another embodiment, compounds that absorb light at a wavelength of from about 700 to about 850 nm are provided. In a further embodiment, compounds that are detectable by magnetic resonance imaging are provided.
FILED	Friday, January 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/321729
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.362
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RE043282 — Assessing the condition of a joint and devising treatment

US RE43282	Alexander et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Eugene J. Alexander (San Clemente, California); Thomas P. Andriacchi (Los Altos Hills, California); Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint, particularly in a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. Information on thickness of cartilage and curvature of cartilage or subchondral bone can be used to plan therapy. Information on movement pattern can be used to plan therapy.
FILED	Tuesday, August 19, 2008
APPL NO	12/193907
ART UNIT	3737 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/427
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

08141427 — Piezoelectric and piezoresistive cantilever sensors

US 08141427	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhong L Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Changshi Lao (Atlanta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus for sensing a target substance includes a substrate, an elongated electroactive cantilever, a functional layer and an electrical sensor. The elongated electroactive cantilever includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. The elongated electroactive cantilever includes an electroactive member extending outwardly from the substrate. The functional layer is applied to the first surface and includes a material that reacts with the target substance so that when the functional layer is in the presence of the target substance, the functional layer will cause a change in an electrical property of the electroactive cantilever. The electrical sensor is coupled to the electroactive cantilever and is configured to sense the electrical property of the electroactive cantilever.
FILED	Wednesday, June 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/132720
ART UNIT	2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/579
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08141573 — Microfluidic valve having free-floating member and method of fabrication

US 08141573	Tai et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Po-Jui Chen (Pasadena, California); Damien C. Rodger (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California)
ABSTRACT	Micro check valves having a free-floating member for controlling flow of fluid in microfluidic and biomedical applications and methods of fabrication. A micro check valve includes a valve seat, a valve cap that contacts the valve seat and an untethered floating member that can move between the valve seat and the valve cap. Certain micro check valves have zero cracking pressure and no reverse leakage. Certain other valves may be configured to permit flow of fluid within a pressure range. The floating member can be solid or define an orifice, and the valve seat can have one or two levels. Valves can be configured to allow fluid to flow when the floating member is pushed by fluid against the valve cap or against the valve seat. The valve seat may be silicon or another material that is compatible with micromachining processes, and the valve cap and the floating member may be a polymer such as Parylene.
FILED	Wednesday, September 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/565636
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Fluid handling 137/15.190
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08142700 — Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives

US 08142700	Sitti et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Metin Sitti (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael Murphy (Waltham, Maine); Burak Aksak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Dry adhesives and methods for forming dry adhesives. A method of forming a dry adhesive structure on a substrate, comprises: forming a template backing layer of energy sensitive material on the substrate; forming a template layer of energy sensitive material on the template backing layer; exposing the template layer to a predetermined pattern of energy; removing a portion of the template layer related to the predetermined pattern of energy, and leaving a template structure formed from energy sensitive material and connected to the substrate via the template backing layer.
FILED	Friday, December 14, 2007
APPL NO	12/448242
ART UNIT	1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/139
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08143042 — Biodegradable elastomers

US 08143042	Bettinger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher J. Bettinger (Boston, Massachusetts); Joost P. Bruggeman (Boston, Massachusetts); Lino Da Silva Ferreira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey M. Karp (Brookline, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Christiaan Nijst (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Andreas Zumbuehl (Bern, Switzerland); Jason Burdick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sonia J. Kim (West Nyack, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present inventions in various aspects provide elastic biodegradable polymers. In various embodiments, the polymers are formed by the reaction of a multifunctional alcohol or ether and a difunctional or higher order acid to form a pre-polymer, which is cross-linked to form the elastic biodegradable polymer. In preferred embodiments, the cross-linking is performed by functionalization of one or more OR groups on the pre-polymer backbone with vinyl, followed by photopolymerization to form the elastic biodegradable polymer composition or material. Preferably, acrylate is used to add one or more vinyls to the backbone of the pre-polymer to form an acrylated pre-polymer. In various embodiments, acrylated pre-polymers are co-polymerized with one or more acrylated co-polymers.
FILED	Friday, January 12, 2007
APPL NO	11/623041
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/180
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08143055 — Self-assembling multicellular bodies and methods of producing a three-dimensional biological structure using the same

US 08143055	Forgacs et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabor Forgacs (Potsdam, New York); Francoise Suzanne Marga (Columbia, Missouri); Cyrille Norotte (Paris, France)
ABSTRACT	Structures and methods for tissue engineering include a multicellular body including a plurality of living cells. A plurality of multicellular bodies can be arranged in a pattern and allowed to fuse to form an engineered tissue. The arrangement can include filler bodies including a biocompatible material that resists migration and ingrowth of cells from the multicellular bodies and that is resistant to adherence of cells to it. Three-dimensional constructs can be assembled by printing or otherwise stacking the multicellular bodies and filler bodies such that there is direct contact between adjoining multicellular bodies, suitably along a contact area that has a substantial length. The direct contact between the multicellular bodies promotes efficient and reliable fusion. The increased contact area between adjoining multicellular bodies also promotes efficient and reliable fusion. Methods of producing multicellular bodies having characteristics that facilitate assembly of the three-dimensional constructs are also provided.
FILED	Wednesday, June 24, 2009
APPL NO	12/491228
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325
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08143181 — Nonlinear optic glassy fiber, methods of making and applications of the same

US 08143181	Kanatzidis et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Wilmette, Illinois); In Chung (Evanston, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A process for producing an optical glass fiber from crystal-glass phase material. In one embodiment, the process includes the step of providing a molten crystal-glass phase material in a container, wherein the temperature of the molten crystal-glass phase material is at or above the melting temperature of the molten crystal-glass phase material, T_m, to allow the molten crystal-glass phase material is in liquid phase. The process further includes the step of cooling the molten crystal-glass phase material such that the temperature of the molten crystal-glass phase material, T₁, is reduced to below T_mto cause the molten crystal-glass phase material to be changed from the liquid phase to a viscous melt. Moreover, the process has the step of pulling a glass fiber of the crystal-glass phase material from the viscous melt, wherein T₁satisfies the following relationship: T_v<T₁<T_m, and T_vbeing the temperature at which the vitrification of the viscous melt of the crystal-glass phase material occurs, and wherein the crystal-glass phase material is characterized by having a reversible thermal behavior.
FILED	Wednesday, May 06, 2009
APPL NO	12/436409
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions: Ceramic 51/40
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08143481 — Brassica indehiscent1 sequences

US 08143481	Yanofsky et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience (IBN)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Martin F. Yanofsky (San Diego, California); Sherry Kempin (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The present application provides Brassica INDEHISCENTI (BIND) sequences.
FILED	Thursday, March 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/407193
ART UNIT	1638 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/285
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08143571 — Method for fractioning peptides and other compounds

US 08143571	Dyer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel J. Dyer (Murphysboro, Illinois); Gary R. Kinsel (Carbondale, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method for fractionating a target fraction from a sample is disclosed herein. The method includes providing a polymer brush having a substrate and a polymer chain attached to and extending outwardly from the substrate. The method further comprising contacting the polymer brush with the sample to allow for sorption of the target fraction by the polymer chain. The polymer chain is then stimulated with a stimulus to contract and release the target fraction.
FILED	Wednesday, June 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/477753
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/281
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08143681 — Saw devices, processes for making them, and methods of use

US 08143681	Zaghloul et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mona Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland); Onur Tigli (Vancouver, Washington); Anis Nurashikin Nordin (Selangor, Malaysia)
ABSTRACT	The design, fabrication, post-processing and characterization of a novel SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) based bio/chemical sensor in CMOS technology is introduced. The sensors are designed in AMI 1.5 μm 2 metal, 2 poly process. A unique maskless post processing sequence is designed and completed. The three post-processing steps are fully compatible with any CMOS technology. This allows any signal control/processing circuitry to be easily integrated on the same chip. ZnO is used as the piezoelectric material for the SAW generation. A thorough characterization and patterning optimization of the sputtered ZnO was carried out. The major novelties that are introduced in the SAW delay line features are: The embedded heater elements for temperature control, compensation and acoustic absorbers that are designed to eliminate edge reflections and minimize triple transit interference. Both of these attributes are designed by using the CMOS layers without disturbing the SAW performance.
FILED	Friday, April 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/738460
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/416
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08143686 — Laser-induced structuring of substrate surfaces

US 08143686	Mazur et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mengyan Shen (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	In one aspect, the present invention provides a method of processing a substrate, e.g., a semiconductor substrate, by irradiating a surface of the substrate (or at least a portion of the surface) with a first set of polarized short laser pulses while exposing the surface to a fluid to generate a plurality of structures on the surface, e.g., within a top layer of the surface. Subsequently, the structured surface can be irradiated with another set of polarized short laser pulses having a different polarization than that of the initial set while exposing the structured surface to a fluid, e.g., the same fluid initially utilized to form the structured surface or a different fluid. In many embodiments, the second set of polarized laser pulses cause the surface structures formed by the first set to break up into smaller-sized structures, e.g., nano-sized features such as nano-sized rods.
FILED	Monday, October 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/906508
ART UNIT	2891 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/442
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08144376 — Lensless imaging with controllable apertures

US 08144376	Zomet et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Information Technology Research for National Priorities (ITR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Asaf Zomet (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the present invention provide a lensless optical device for acquiring an image. The device can include a light attenuating layer having a plurality of elements, where transmittance of each of the plurality of elements is controllable, and an image detector disposed at a distance from the light attenuating layer, the image detector configured to acquire an image with light that passes through the light attenuating layer. The device also can include a light attenuating layer controller configured to simultaneously control transmittance of each of the plurality of elements independent of each other. Methods of detecting and tracking an object in a scene are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, October 01, 2010
APPL NO	12/895853
ART UNIT	2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Facsimile and static presentation processing 358/475
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08144686 — Method and systems for bandwidth scheduling and path computation for connection-oriented networks

US 08144686	Sahni et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Sartaj Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Nageswara Sirikonda Venkata Rao (Powell, Tennessee); Sanjay Ranka (Gainesville, Florida); Yan Li (Gainesville, Florida); Eun-Sung Jung (Gainesville, Florida); Narayana Kamath (Herndon, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A connection-oriented network includes a control server. The control server receives requests to establish and utilize dedicated channels in the network. The control server utilizes various scheduling methods and algorithms to determine channels based on the request's requirements and resources of the network. For example, the control server may determine a channel based on: (i) a specified bandwidth in a specified time slot, (ii) highest available bandwidth in a specified time slot, (iii) earliest available time with a specified bandwidth and duration, and (iv) all available time slots with a specified bandwidth and duration.
FILED	Friday, April 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/738464
ART UNIT	2464 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/351
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08144744 — Co-extruded multilayer polymers films for all-polymer lasers

US 08144744	Singer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth Singer (Pepperpike, Ohio); Eric Baer (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Anne Hiltner (Cleveland, Ohio); Christoph Weder (Duedingen, Switzerland)
ABSTRACT	A polymer film laser is provided that comprises a plurality of extruded polymer layers. The plurality of extruded polymer layers comprises a plurality of alternating dielectric layers of a first polymer material having a first refractive index and a second polymer material having second refractive index different than the first refractive index.
FILED	Thursday, March 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/070787
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/50.124
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08144831 — Method and apparatus for sorting materials according to relative composition

US 08144831	Sommer, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Spectramet, LLC (Bedford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward J. Sommer, Jr. (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); R. Lynn Conley (Antioch, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a metal sorting device including an X-ray tube, a dual energy detector array, a microprocessor, and an air ejector array. The device senses the presence of samples in the x-ray sensing region and initiates identifying and sorting the samples. After identifying and classifying the category of a sample, at a specific time, the device activates an array of air ejectors located at specific positions in order to place the sample in the proper collection bin.
FILED	Friday, December 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/960199
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/53
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08145018 — Apparatus for obtaining information for a structure using spectrally-encoded endoscopy techniques and methods for producing one or more optical arrangements

US 08145018	Shishkov et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Milen Shishkov (Watertown, Massachusetts); Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Dvir Yelin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Nicusor Iftimia (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Exemplary apparatus for obtaining information for a structure can be provided. For example, first optical fiber arrangement(s) can be provided which transceives at least one first electro-magnetic radiation, and can include at least one fiber. Second focusing arrangement(s) can be provided in optical communication with the optical fiber arrangement. The second arrangement can be configured to focus and provide there through the first electro-magnetic radiation. Third dispersive arrangement(s) can receive a particular radiation which is the first electro-magnetic radiation and/or the focused electro-magnetic radiation, and forward a dispersed radiation thereof to at least one section of the structure. At least one end of the fiber can be directly connected to the second focusing arrangement and/or the third dispersive arrangement.
FILED	Wednesday, January 17, 2007
APPL NO	11/623852
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/33
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08145760 — Methods and systems for automatic inference and adaptation of virtualized computing environments

US 08145760	Dinda et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Experimental and Integrative Activities (EIA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter Dinda (Evanston, Illinois); Ananth Sundararaj (Redmond, Washington); John Lange (Evanston, Illinois); Ashish Gupta (Evanston, Illinois); Bin Lin (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and method for automatic inference and adaptation of a virtualized computer environment. Certain embodiments of a system include a virtual topology and traffic inference framework tool adapted to monitor traffic for an application on a virtual network to produce a view of network demands for the application. The system also includes a monitoring tool adapted to monitor performance of an underlying physical network associated with the virtual network using traffic for the application. Further, the system includes an adaptation component adapted to automatically adapt the application to the virtual network based on the measured application traffic, the monitored network performance, and one or more adaptation control algorithms.
FILED	Tuesday, July 24, 2007
APPL NO	11/782486
ART UNIT	2469 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226
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08145879 — Computer memory architecture for hybrid serial and parallel computing systems

US 08145879	Vishkin
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	XMTT Inc. (Potomac, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Uzi Y. Vishkin (Potomac, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a serial processor is configured to execute software instructions in a software program in serial. A serial memory is configured to store data for use by the serial processor in executing the software instructions in serial. A plurality of parallel processors are configured to execute software instructions in the software program in parallel. A plurality of partitioned memory modules are provided and configured to store data for use by the plurality of parallel processors in executing software instructions in parallel. Accordingly, a processor/memory structure is provided that allows serial programs to use quick local serial memories and parallel programs to use partitioned parallel memories. The system may switch between a serial mode and a parallel mode. The system may incorporate pre-fetching commands of several varieties. For example, towards switching between the serial mode and the parallel mode, the serial processor is configured to send a signal to start pre-fetching of data from the shared memory.
FILED	Wednesday, March 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/721252
ART UNIT	2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/10
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Department of Energy (DOE)

08141334 — Apparatus and filtering systems relating to combustors in combustion turbine engines

US 08141334	Johnson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schnectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Christian Xavier Stevenson (Inman, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A combustor for a combustion turbine engine that includes: a chamber defined by an outer wall and forming a channel between windows defined through the outer wall toward a forward end of the chamber and at least one fuel injector positioned toward an aft end of the chamber; and a multilayer screen filter comprising at least two layers of screen over at least a portion of the windows and at least one layer of screen over the remaining portion of the windows. The windows include a forward end and a forward portion, and an aft end and an aft portion. The multilayer screen filter is positioned over the windows such that, in operation, a supply of compressed air entering the chamber through the windows passes through at least one layer of screen. The multilayer screen filter is configured such that the aft portion of the windows include at least two layers of screen, and the forward portion of the windows includes one less layer of screen than the aft portion of the windows.
FILED	Monday, August 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/848563
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/39.92
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08141370 — Methods and apparatus for radially compliant component mounting

US 08141370	Bulman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	David Edward Bulman (Cincinnati, Ohio); Toby George Darkins, Jr. (Loveland, Ohio); James Anthony Stumpf (Columbus, Indiana); Mark S. Schroder (Greenville, South Carolina); John Joseph Lipinski (Simpsonville, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for a mounting assembly for a liner of a gas turbine engine combustor are provided. The combustor includes a combustor liner and a radially outer annular flow sleeve. The mounting assembly includes an inner ring surrounding a radially outer surface of the liner and including a plurality of axially extending fingers. The mounting assembly also includes a radially outer ring coupled to the inner ring through a plurality of spacers that extend radially from a radially outer surface of the inner ring to the outer ring.
FILED	Tuesday, August 08, 2006
APPL NO	11/463142
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/796
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08142516 — Self-cleaning skin-like prosthetic polymer surfaces

US 08142516	Simpson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jason Shibata (Manhattan Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	An external covering and method of making an external covering for hiding the internal endoskeleton of a mechanical (e.g., prosthetic) device that exhibits skin-like qualities is provided. The external covering generally comprises an internal bulk layer in contact with the endoskeleton of the prosthetic device and an external skin layer disposed about the internal bulk layer. The external skin layer is comprised of a polymer composite with carbon nanotubes embedded therein. The outer surface of the skin layer has multiple cone-shaped projections that provide the external skin layer with superhydrophobicity. The carbon nanotubes are preferably vertically aligned between the inner surface and outer surface of the external skin layer in order to provide the skin layer with the ability to transmit heat. Superhydrophobic powders may optionally be used as part of the polymer composite or applied as a coating to the surface of the skin layer to enhance superhydrophobicity.
FILED	Tuesday, June 30, 2009
APPL NO	12/495082
ART UNIT	3738 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Prosthesis 623/27
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08142691 — Thermal casting of polymers in centrifuge for producing X-ray optics

US 08142691	Hill et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Randy M. Hill (Livermore, California); Todd A. Decker (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	An optic is produced by the steps of placing a polymer inside a rotateable cylindrical chamber, the rotateable cylindrical chamber having an outside wall, rotating the cylindrical chamber, heating the rotating chamber forcing the polymer to the outside wall of the cylindrical chamber, allowing the rotateable cylindrical chamber to cool while rotating producing an optic substrate with a substrate surface, sizing the optic substrate, and coating the substrate surface of the optic substrate to produce the optic with an optic surface.
FILED	Thursday, September 30, 2004
APPL NO	10/956631
ART UNIT	1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/1.700
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08142708 — Micro fluidic system for single molecule imaging

US 08142708	Schwartz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	David C. Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin); Eileen T. Dimalanta (Madison, Wisconsin); Juan J. de Pablo (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Laminar flow of a carrier liquid and polymeric molecules through micro-channels is used to straighten the polymeric molecules and attach the straightened molecules to a wall of the micro-channel for subsequent treatment and analysis. Micro-channels can be manufactured using an elastic molding material. One micro-channel embodiment provides fluid flow using a standard laboratory centrifuge.
FILED	Friday, October 18, 2002
APPL NO	10/713898
ART UNIT	1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/435
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08142754 — Method for synthesis of high quality graphene

US 08142754	Lanzara et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Alessandra Lanzara (Piedmont, California); Andreas K. Schmid (Berkeley, California); Xiaozhu Yu (Berkeley, California); Choonkyu Hwang (Albany, California); Annemarie Kohl (Beneditkbeuern, Germany); Chris M. Jozwiak (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	A method is described herein for the providing of high quality graphene layers on silicon carbide wafers in a thermal process. With two wafers facing each other in close proximity, in a first vacuum heating stage, while maintained at a vacuum of around 10⁻⁶Torr, the wafer temperature is raised to about 1500° C., whereby silicon evaporates from the wafer leaving a carbon rich surface, the evaporated silicon trapped in the gap between the wafers, such that the higher vapor pressure of silicon above each of the wafers suppresses further silicon evaporation. As the temperature of the wafers is raised to about 1530° C. or more, the carbon atoms self assemble themselves into graphene.
FILED	Tuesday, March 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/043329
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00
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08142756 — Methods of reforming hydrocarbon fuels using hexaaluminate catalysts

US 08142756	Gardner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Todd H. Gardner (Morgantown, West Virginia); David A. Berry (Morgantown, West Virginia); Dushyant Shekhawat (Morgantown, West Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A metal substituted hexaaluminate catalyst for reforming hydrocarbon fuels to synthesis gas of the general formula AB_yAl_12-yO_19-δ, A being selected from alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and lanthanide metals or mixtures thereof. A dopant or surface modifier selected from a transitions metal, a spinel of an oxygen-ion conductor is incorporated. The dopant may be Ca, Cs, K, La, Sr, Ba, Li, Mg, Ce, Co, Fe, Ir, Rh, Ni, Ru, Cu, Pe, Os, Pd, Cr, Mn, W, Re, Sn, Gd, V, Ti, Ag, Au, and mixtures thereof. The oxygen-ion conductor may be a perovskite selected from M′RhO₃, M′PtO₃, M′PdO₃, M′IrO₃, M′RuO₃wherein M′=Mg, Sr, Ba, La, Ca; a spinel selected from MRh₂O₄, MPt₂O₄, MPd₂O₄, MIr₂O₄, MRu₂O₄wherein M=Mg, Sr, Ba, La, Ca and mixtures thereof; a florite is selected from M″O₂.
FILED	Thursday, March 04, 2010
APPL NO	12/717372
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/651
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08142877 — Nano transfer and nanoreplication using deterministically grown sacrificial nanotemplates

US 08142877	Melechko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Anatoli V. Melechko (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Michael A. Guillorn (Ithaca, New York); Bojan Ilic (Ithaca, New York); Vladimir I. Merkulov (Knoxville, Texas); Mitchel J. Doktycz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas H. Lowndes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Methods, manufactures, machines and compositions are described for nanotransfer and nanoreplication using deterministically grown sacrificial nanotemplates. An apparatus, includes a substrate and a nanoconduit material coupled to a surface of the substrate. The substrate defines an aperture and the nanoconduit material defines a nanoconduit that is i) contiguous with the aperture and ii) aligned substantially non-parallel to a plane defined by the surface of the substrate.
FILED	Tuesday, November 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/985551
ART UNIT	1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/131
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08143020 — Enhanced metabolite generation

US 08143020	Chidambaram
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) at Upton, NY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Devicharan Chidambaram (Middle Island, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the enhanced production of metabolites by a process whereby a carbon source is oxidized with a fermentative microbe in a compartment having a portal. An electron acceptor is added to the compartment to assist the microbe in the removal of excess electrons. The electron acceptor accepts electrons from the microbe after oxidation of the carbon source. Other transfers of electrons can take place to enhance the production of the metabolite, such as acids, biofuels or brewed beverages.
FILED	Friday, April 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/417881
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41
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08143021 — Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same

US 08143021	Duan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California); Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark)
INVENTOR(S)	Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Wenping Wu (Beijing, China PRC); Jason Quinlan (Albany, California); Randall Kramer (Lincoln, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
FILED	Wednesday, July 07, 2010
APPL NO	12/831744
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41
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08143040 — Process for whole cell saccharification of lignocelluloses to sugars using a dual bioreactor system

US 08143040	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Metna Co (Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Jue Lu (Okemos, Michigan); Benedict Okeke (Montgomery, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes a process for saccharification of lignocelluloses to sugars using whole microbial cells, which are enriched from cultures inoculated with paper mill waste water, wood processing waste and soil. A three-member bacterial consortium is selected as a potent microbial inocula and immobilized on inedible plant fibers for biomass saccharification. The present invention further relates the design of a dual bioreactor system, with various biocarriers for enzyme immobilization and repeated use. Sugars are continuously removed eliminating end-product inhibition and consumption by cell.
FILED	Wednesday, February 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/379569
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/165
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08143063 — Method for warning of radiological and chemical agents using detection paints on a vehicle surface

US 08143063	Farmer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); James L. Brunk (Martinez, California); S. Daniel Day (Danville, California)
ABSTRACT	A paint that warns of radiological or chemical substances comprising a paint operatively connected to the surface, an indicator material carried by the paint that provides an indication of the radiological or chemical substances, and a thermo-activation material carried by the paint. In one embodiment, a method of warning of radiological or chemical substances comprising the steps of painting a surface with an indicator material, and monitoring the surface for indications of the radiological or chemical substances. In another embodiment, a paint is operatively connected to a vehicle and an indicator material is carried by the paint that provides an indication of the radiological or chemical substances.
FILED	Friday, July 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/837732
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/2
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08143189 — Subnanometer and nanometer catalysts, method for preparing size-selected catalysts

US 08143189	Vajda et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Stefan Vajda (Lisle, Illinois); Michael J. Pellin (Naperville, Illinois); Jeffrey W. Elam (Elmhurst, Illinois); Christopher L. Marshall (Naperville, Illinois); Randall A. Winans (Downers Grove, Illinois); Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer (Roggentin, Greece)
ABSTRACT	Highly uniform cluster based nanocatalysts supported on technologically relevant supports were synthesized for reactions of top industrial relevance. The Pt-cluster based catalysts outperformed the very best reported ODHP catalyst in both activity (by up to two orders of magnitude higher turn-over frequencies) and in selectivity. The results clearly demonstrate that highly dispersed ultra-small Pt clusters precisely localized on high-surface area supports can lead to affordable new catalysts for highly efficient and economic propene production, including considerably simplified separation of the final product. The combined GISAXS-mass spectrometry provides an excellent tool to monitor the evolution of size and shape of nanocatalyst at action under realistic conditions. Also provided are sub-nanometer gold and sub-nanometer to few nm size-selected silver catalysts which possess size dependent tunable catalytic properties in the epoxidation of alkenes. Invented size-selected cluster deposition provides a unique tool to tune material properties by atom-by-atom fashion, which can be stabilized by protective overcoats.
FILED	Thursday, March 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/402948
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/334
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08143593 — Transmission electron microscope sample holder with optical features

US 08143593	Milas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) at Upton, NY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mirko Milas (Port Jefferson, New York); Yimei Zhu (Stony Brook, New York); Jonathan David Rameau (Coram, New York)
ABSTRACT	A sample holder for holding a sample to be observed for research purposes, particularly in a transmission electron microscope (TEM), generally includes an external alignment part for directing a light beam in a predetermined beam direction, a sample holder body in optical communication with the external alignment part and a sample support member disposed at a distal end of the sample holder body opposite the external alignment part for holding a sample to be analyzed. The sample holder body defines an internal conduit for the light beam and the sample support member includes a light beam positioner for directing the light beam between the sample holder body and the sample held by the sample support member.
FILED	Tuesday, October 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/582149
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/440.110
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08143613 — Organic light emitting device having multiple separate emissive layers

US 08143613	Forrest
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	An organic light emitting device having multiple separate emissive layers is provided. Each emissive layer may define an exciton formation region, allowing exciton formation to occur across the entire emissive region. By aligning the energy levels of each emissive layer with the adjacent emissive layers, exciton formation in each layer may be improved. Devices incorporating multiple emissive layers with multiple exciton formation regions may exhibit improved performance, including internal quantum efficiencies of up to 100%.
FILED	Tuesday, November 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/945910
ART UNIT	2826 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/13
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08143834 — Electronically commutated serial-parallel switching for motor windings

US 08143834	Hsu
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A method and a circuit for controlling an ac machine comprises controlling a full bridge network of commutation switches which are connected between a multiphase voltage source and the phase windings to switch the phase windings between a parallel connection and a series connection while providing commutation discharge paths for electrical current resulting from inductance in the phase windings. This provides extra torque for starting a vehicle from lower battery current.
FILED	Tuesday, January 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/009732
ART UNIT	2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Motive power systems 318/497
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

08141606 — Tire

US 08141606	Benzing, II et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	James Alfred Benzing, II (North Canton, Ohio); James Christopher Kish (Akron, Ohio); Vivake Manohar Asnani (North Olmsted, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A tire includes a plurality of helical springs. Each helical spring includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and an arching middle portion. Each helical spring is interlaced with at least one other helical spring thereby forming a laced toroidal structure extending about an entire circumference of the tire.
FILED	Thursday, November 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/616952
ART UNIT	3617 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Resilient tires and wheels 152/250
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08143788 — Compact high current rare-earth emitter hollow cathode for hall effect thrusters

US 08143788	Hofer et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard R. Hofer (Monrovia, California); Dan M. Goebel (Tarzana, California); Ronnie M. Watkins (Oro Valley, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for achieving an efficient central cathode in a Hall effect thruster is disclosed. A hollow insert disposed inside the end of a hollow conductive cathode comprises a rare-earth element and energized to emit electrons from an inner surface. The cathode employs an end opening having an area at least as large as the internal cross sectional area of the rare earth insert to enhance throughput from the cathode end. In addition, the cathode employs a high aspect ratio geometry based on the cathode length to width which mitigates heat transfer from the end. A gas flow through the cathode and insert may be impinged by the emitted electrons to yield a plasma. One or more optional auxiliary gas feeds may also be employed between the cathode and keeper wall and external to the keeper near the outlet.
FILED	Saturday, August 30, 2008
APPL NO	12/202252
ART UNIT	2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/618
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08144052 — Multi-pixel high-resolution three-dimensional imaging radar

US 08144052	Cooper et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ken B. Cooper (La Crescenta, California); Robert J. Dengler (Walnut, California); Peter H. Siegel (La Canada, California); Goutam Chattopadhyay (Pasadena, California); John S. Ward (Roanoke, Indiana); Nuria Llombart Juan (Alboraya, Spain); Tomas E. Bryllert (Göteborg, Sweden); Imran Mehdi (South Pasadena, California); Jan A. Tarsala (Arcadia, California)
ABSTRACT	A three-dimensional imaging radar operating at high frequency e.g., 670 GHz radar using low phase-noise synthesizers and a fast chirper to generate a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) waveform, is disclosed that operates with a multiplexed beam to obtain range information simultaneously on multiple pixels of a target. A source transmit beam may be divided by a hybrid coupler into multiple transmit beams multiplexed together and directed to be reflected off a target and return as a single receive beam which is demultiplexed and processed to reveal range information of separate pixels of the target associated with each transmit beam simultaneously. The multiple transmit beams may be developed with appropriate optics to be temporally and spatially differentiated before being directed to the target. Temporal differentiation corresponds to a different intermediate frequencies separating the range information of the multiple pixels. Collinear transmit beams having differentiated polarizations may also be implemented.
FILED	Thursday, October 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/580210
ART UNIT	3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/179
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08144312 — Telescope with a wide field of view internal optical scanner

US 08144312	Degnan, III et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sigma Space Corporation (Lanham, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	John James Degnan, III (Annapolis, Maryland); Yunhui Zheng (Crofton, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A telescope with internal scanner utilizing either a single optical wedge scanner or a dual optical wedge scanner and a controller arranged to control a synchronous rotation of the first and/or second optical wedges, the wedges constructed and arranged to scan light redirected by topological surfaces and/or volumetric scatterers. The telescope with internal scanner further incorporates a first converging optical element that receives the redirected light and transmits the redirected light to the scanner, and a second converging optical element within the light path between the first optical element and the scanner arranged to reduce an area of impact on the scanner of the beam collected by the first optical element.
FILED	Tuesday, August 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/547237
ART UNIT	3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.50
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08144331 — Systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for wide-field interferometry

US 08144331	Lyon et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard G. Lyon (Marriottsville, Maryland); David T. Leisawitz (Ellicott City, Maryland); Stephen A. Rinehart (Washington, District of Columbia); Nargess Memarsadeghi (Silver Spring, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for wide field imaging interferometry. The method includes for each point in a two dimensional detector array over a field of view of an image: gathering a first interferogram from a first detector and a second interferogram from a second detector, modulating a path-length for a signal from an image associated with the first interferogram in the first detector, overlaying first data from the modulated first detector and second data from the second detector, and tracking the modulating at every point in a two dimensional detector array comprising the first detector and the second detector over a field of view for the image. The method then generates a widefield data cube based on the overlaid first data and second data for each point. The method can generate an image from the widefield data cube.
FILED	Thursday, June 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/487454
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08145366 — Real-time, interactive sonic boom display

US 08145366	Haering, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward A. Haering, Jr. (Lancaster, California); Kenneth J. Plotkin (Vienna, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is an improved real-time, interactive sonic boom display for aircraft. By using physical properties obtained via various sensors and databases, the invention determines, in real-time, sonic boom impacts locations and intensities for aircraft traveling at supersonic speeds. The information is provided to a pilot via a display that lists a selectable set of maneuvers available to the pilot to mitigate sonic boom issues. Upon selection of a maneuver, the information as to the result of the maneuver is displayed and the pilot may proceed with making the maneuver, or provide new data to the system in order to calculate a different maneuver.
FILED	Friday, June 13, 2008
APPL NO	12/138747
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/14
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Small Business Administration (SBA)

08143040 — Process for whole cell saccharification of lignocelluloses to sugars using a dual bioreactor system

US 08143040	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Metna Co (Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Jue Lu (Okemos, Michigan); Benedict Okeke (Montgomery, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes a process for saccharification of lignocelluloses to sugars using whole microbial cells, which are enriched from cultures inoculated with paper mill waste water, wood processing waste and soil. A three-member bacterial consortium is selected as a potent microbial inocula and immobilized on inedible plant fibers for biomass saccharification. The present invention further relates the design of a dual bioreactor system, with various biocarriers for enzyme immobilization and repeated use. Sugars are continuously removed eliminating end-product inhibition and consumption by cell.
FILED	Wednesday, February 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/379569
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/165
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08144831 — Method and apparatus for sorting materials according to relative composition

US 08144831	Sommer, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Spectramet, LLC (Bedford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward J. Sommer, Jr. (Nashville, Tennessee); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); R. Lynn Conley (Antioch, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a metal sorting device including an X-ray tube, a dual energy detector array, a microprocessor, and an air ejector array. The device senses the presence of samples in the x-ray sensing region and initiates identifying and sorting the samples. After identifying and classifying the category of a sample, at a specific time, the device activates an array of air ejectors located at specific positions in order to place the sample in the proper collection bin.
FILED	Friday, December 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/960199
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/53
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08145369 — Docking apparatuses and methods

US 08145369	Tureaud et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vehicle Control Technologles, Inc. (Reston, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas F. Tureaud (Fairfax, Virginia); Daniel N. Dietz (Alexandria, Virginia); Stacy J. Hills (Ashburn, Virginia); Douglas E. Humphreys (Great Falls, Virginia); Alexander V. Roup (Sterling, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An intercepting vehicle, which is being towed by a towing vehicle, may home in on and attach to a retrievable vehicle that catches up to the intercepting vehicle from behind. Then, the intercepting vehicle, with the retrievable vehicle docked thereto, may be brought to the towing vehicle by reeling in the intercepting vehicle with the retrievable vehicle docked thereto.
FILED	Thursday, November 01, 2007
APPL NO	11/982041
ART UNIT	3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/21
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08145444 — Asset surveillance system and method comprising self-calibrating fault detection

US 08145444	Bickford et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada)
INVENTOR(S)	Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Rahul M. Palnitkar (Lincoln, California)
ABSTRACT	A computer-implemented asset surveillance system and method for self calibrating at least one fault detector providing asset surveillance by calibrating at least the one fault detector with statistics associated with expected asset behavior, acquiring observed data values from an asset, screening the observed data values based upon at least one defined criterion for obtaining screened data values, updating the statistics associated with expected asset behavior as a function of the screened data values for defining updated statistics, and recalibrating the at least one fault detector with the updated statistics.
FILED	Friday, November 28, 2008
APPL NO	12/315118
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/85
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Commerce (DOC)

08142702 — Solvent-assisted layer formation for imprint lithography

US 08142702	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Weijun Liu (Austin, Texas); Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas); Edward Brian Fletcher (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A solid layer is formed by applying a multiplicity of discrete portions of a fluid composition onto a surface of an imprint lithography substrate, and allowing the discrete portions of the composition to spontaneously spread on the surface of the substrate to form a substantially continuous layer. The composition includes a solvent and a solid or a solvent and a polymerizable material. The composition can be a solution or a dispersion. At least some of the solvent is evaporated from the composition, and a solid layer is formed (e.g., polymerized or dried) on the substrate. The solid layer is substantially free of interstitial voids.
FILED	Monday, June 16, 2008
APPL NO	12/139911
ART UNIT	1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/293
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08142703 — Imprint lithography method

US 08142703	Xu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas); Ian Matthew McMackin (Austin, Texas); Pankaj B. Lad (DeSoto, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A template is treated to provide a surfactant rich region and a surfactant depleted region. A contact angle at the surfactant rich region may be greater than, less than, or substantially similar to a contact angle of the surfactant depleted region.
FILED	Wednesday, December 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/336821
ART UNIT	1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/293
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Agriculture (USDA)

08142832 — Vegetable protein fractionization process and compositions

US 08142832	Deak et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Nicolas Alejo Deak (Ames, Iowa); Lawrence A. Johnson (Ames, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	According to the invention a novel vegetable protein fractionation procedure is disclosed which includes a straightforward process to obtain β-conglycinin-rich and glycinin-rich isolated protein fractions with unique functional and nutritional properties desired by the food industry. The process is much simplified compared to the art and avoids multiple steps in the usual fractionation of soy protein and uses very small amounts of salts avoiding the necessity of excessive washing and desalting steps. The process yields high amounts of protein fractions with high isoflavone contents and improved functional properties.
FILED	Thursday, October 20, 2005
APPL NO	11/577241
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/656
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Department of State (DOS)

08143387 — Engineered antibody-stress protein fusions

US 08143387	Gelfand
FUNDED BY	Department of State (DOS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey A. Gelfand (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Provided are fusion polypeptides comprising an engineered antibody and a stress protein that bind to antigens with high affinity, are highly immunogenic, exhibit MHC class I priming and are able to be produced in non-mammalian cells, such as E. coli.
FILED	Wednesday, May 19, 2010
APPL NO	12/783186
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.700
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

08142809 — Compositions and methods to lower glycohemoglobin levels

US 08142809	Gannon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Regent of the Univ. of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mary C. Gannon (Eagan, Minnesota); Frank Nuttall (Eagan, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides for a diet that significantly reduces the glycohemoglobin levels in individuals with type 2 diabetes. A diet plan can be provided to an individual in the form of cards and/or pages with an appropriate meal plan, food items and/or pre-packaged meals, or in an electronic medium for the individuals to use to develop appropriate meal plans. The diet comprises food items having a nutritional composition that consists essentially of 30% protein, 50% fats, and 20% carbohydrates, or food items having a nutritional composition that consists essentially of 30% protein, 40% fats, and 30% carbohydrates.
FILED	Thursday, August 25, 2005
APPL NO	11/660682
ART UNIT	1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/439
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Department of the Interior (DOI)

08145201 — Methods and apparatus for reduced energy communication in an ad hoc network

US 08145201	Redi
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Interior (DOI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to communications devices for reduced energy communications in an ad hoc network. The communication device includes a first low-powered transceiver for initiating communications with other communications devices and a second transceiver for transmitting data messages to the other communications devices once communication is initiated. The communication device also includes a communications control processor for determining times at which the other communications devices will be available to receive communications based on scheduling data received from those communication devices. The communications control processor can also take into account requests for reserved bandwidth.
FILED	Monday, May 22, 2006
APPL NO	11/439320
ART UNIT	2617 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/420
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National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

08143648 — Unipolar tunneling photodetector

US 08143648	Moon
FUNDED BY	National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeong-Sun Moon (Moorpark, California)
ABSTRACT	A photodetector containing a 2DEG layer is disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, August 09, 2007
APPL NO	11/836638
ART UNIT	2814 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/194
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

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08143890 — Spectral resolution enhancement of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging

US 08143890	Dong et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhengchao Dong (New York, New York); Bradley Scott Peterson (Somers, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus for enhancing the spectral resolution of magnetic resonance spectroscopic (MRS) measurements include receiving time domain echo data from an MRS measurement for an MRS volume in a subject. Also received are high spatial resolution complex signal values within the MRS volume based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements. Frequency-domain content is determined for the echo data based at least in part on the complex signal values. For example, in some embodiments, receiving complex signal values includes receiving high spatial resolution complex signal values within the MRS volume for each of two different echo time settings. The frequency-domain content of the echo data is corrected for a lineshape profile based on high resolution frequency dispersion values for the MRS volume determined from differences in the complex signal values for the two different echo time settings.
FILED	Friday, May 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/471317
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08145420 — Method and apparatus for joining together portions of a geometric assembly

US 08145420	Chappell et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles D. Chappell (Treasure Island, Florida); Edward Burroughs (Chandler, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A housing comprises at least first and second portions. The first and second portions mate with each other at respective joining regions. The first and second portions each comprise a respective tapered flange along the joining region. The first and second portions of the housing are connected to each other by placing a plurality of collars over the tapered flanges of the first and second portions of the housing. Each of the collars has a respective groove formed therein. The grooves of the plurality of collars are placed over the tapered flanges of the first and second portions of the housing. A plurality of fasteners causes the plurality of collars to press the first and second portions of the housing together. In one embodiment, the housing is used in a sensor block assembly that is part of an inertial measurement unit.
FILED	Thursday, December 11, 2008
APPL NO	12/333031
ART UNIT	3616 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/220
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

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