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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 08, 2012

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Department of Defense (DOD)

08171625 — Method of providing low footprint optical interconnect

US 08171625	Veitch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Randall C. Veitch (Nazareth, Pennsylvania); Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Compact ASIC, chip-on-board, flip-chip, interposer, and related packaging techniques are incorporated to minimize the footprint of optoelectronic interconnect devices, including the Optical Data Pipe. In addition, ruggedized packaging techniques are incorporated to increase the durability and application space for optoelectronic interconnect devices, including an Optical Data Pipe.
FILED	Tuesday, June 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/477046
ART UNIT	3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Metal working 029/840
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08171630 — Method of producing a land grid array interposer

US 08171630	Hougham 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)	Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure includes mounting at least one interposer on a first surface of an electrically insulating carrier plane. The interposer selectively having a hemi-toroidal, conical, dome-shaped conic section, generally cylindrical or hemi-spherical configuration in transverse cross-section and being constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. The method includes positioning a plurality of electrically-conductive elements about the surface of the hemi-toroidal interposer that extend radially inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof. The method further includes mounting said at least one component comprising at least one hemi-toroidal interposer mounted on said opposite side of said carrier plane. Additionally the method includes forming at least one through-extending via in said electrically-insulating carrier plane, and forming electrical connections between said first-mentioned at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and said further at least one inverted hemi-toroidal interposer.
FILED	Thursday, March 13, 2008
APPL NO	12/047603
ART UNIT	3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Metal working 029/874
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08171770 — Calibration tool for air data measurement devices

US 08171770	Nugent et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark R. Nugent (Torrance, California); David I. Bass (Long Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	A calibration tool for an air data sensor of a vehicle comprises a target surface which is disposable on the vehicle. The calibration tool may further comprise a light pointer which is mountable on the air data sensor and which is operative to project a beam of light toward the target surface. The air data sensor may be configured as a flow direction sensor which may include at least one of an alpha vane for measuring angle of attack or a beta vane for measuring sideslip. The flow direction sensor may be mountable in spaced relation to the vehicle via a standoff. The flow direction sensor may include a hollow pivot arm having a laser pointer mounted therewithin for projecting a beam of laser light onto the target surface.
FILED	Wednesday, September 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/212430
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/1.780
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08171851 — Kinetic energy penetrator

US 08171851	Siddle 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)	Kennametal Inc. (Latrobe, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	David R. Siddle (Greensburg, Pennsylvania); Christopher D. Dunn (Greensburg, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A kinetic energy penetrator is provided comprising a consolidated body of a metal nanoparticles phase comprising metal nanoparticles and a metal carbide nanoparticles phase comprising metal carbide nanoparticles. Methods for making a kinetic energy penetrator as well as material compositions comprising a consolidated body of a metal nanoparticles phase comprising metal nanoparticles and a metal carbide nanoparticles phase comprising metal carbide nanoparticles are also provided.
FILED	Wednesday, April 01, 2009
APPL NO	12/416564
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 12/506
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08171856 — Rail transport system having a modular reconfigurable rail assembly

US 08171856	Arnal et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	David B. Arnal (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); Timothy T. Broderick (Voorhees, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A rail transport system includes a rail assembly having at least two rail modules; at least one angled tongue element disposed at an end of the at least two rail modules; at least one angled groove element disposed at an end of the other one of the at least two rail modules, the at least one angled groove element for receiving the at least one angled tongue element when the at least two rail modules are assembled together; and at least one transport device for running along the rail assembly and transporting articles from one location to another. The rail transport system may further include first and second chain-wrench assemblies for securing the at least two rail modules to one another.
FILED	Tuesday, December 16, 2008
APPL NO	12/335829
ART UNIT	3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Railways 14/89
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08172195 — Foundation adapter system

US 08172195	Fanucci 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)	KaZaK Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael McAleenan (Georgetown, Maine); Andrew F. Paddock (Billerica, Massachusetts); Kirk E. Survilas (Peabody, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A tiedown system foundation adapter system provides greater flexibility in spotting equipment on a support surface. An adapter module includes a plate assembly that drops into a slotted track system and is slid along the track system until it fits into an attachment point that restrains the plate assembly from vertical pullout and motion transverse to the track. The plate assembly is then locked into position to restrain it from further translation along the track. An equipment fitting is translatably mounted with respect to the upper surface and attaches to a complementary attachment fitting on the bottom of a piece of equipment. By locating a number of modules in desired locations along the tracks and locating the equipment fitting in each module, a piece of equipment can be oriented in virtually any position and location in the space to be furnished. A deck system for a flush floor is also provided.
FILED	Thursday, September 23, 2004
APPL NO	10/948599
ART UNIT	3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Supports 248/647
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08172517 — Passive guide vane control

US 08172517	Lighty
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Kerry Jon Lighty (Avon, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A system for passively controlling a variable position guide vane in a turbo-machine. The system includes a shaft rotatable about an axis with an airfoil connected thereto. The shaft is biased toward a closed position, but will open in response to fluid flowing through a flowpath. The guide vane can then be locked in an open position at a desired operating condition of the turbo-machine.
FILED	Friday, December 14, 2007
APPL NO	12/002235
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/156
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08172909 — Modular prosthetic foot

US 08172909	Miller
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)	Joseph A. Miller (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A modular prosthetic foot characterized by an ankle component; a forefoot component having a circular part with a rounded top surface and at least one flat side surface, said circular part being connected to a rear part of the forefoot component; a forefoot cushion bumper positioned around the circular part; and a heel component.
FILED	Thursday, December 21, 2006
APPL NO	12/096283
ART UNIT	3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Prosthesis 623/55
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08172966 — Non-lethal payloads

US 08172966	Blau et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Arlington, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Reed J. Blau (Richmond, Utah); Lisa S. Liu (Layton, Utah); Ronald L. Hansen (Tremonton, Utah); Richard G. Ames (King George, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Non-lethal payloads may be customized for particular uses and desired visual and audible incapacitation based upon the selection of igniter/activators and illuminants used with the non-lethal payloads. Non-lethal payloads employing high flame temperature igniter/activators and illuminants of powder metals, powdered metals combined with oxidizers, and powdered metals combined with heat-activated chromophores may produce improved “flashes” and “bangs” for non-lethal payloads used with diversionary or other devices. Such devices and methods of producing illuminance and noise are also disclosed.
FILED	Tuesday, March 07, 2006
APPL NO	11/369908
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/108.200
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08173010 — Method of dry reforming a reactant gas with intermetallic catalyst

US 08173010	Ying 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)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jackie Y. Ying (Singapore, Singapore); Steven E. Weiss (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to materials used as electrodes and/or catalysts, as well as methods associated with the same. The materials may comprise an alloy or intermetallic compound of a transition metal (e.g., Ni) and a metal additive (e.g., Sn). The transition metal and additive are selected to provide improved electrode and/or catalytic performance. For example, the materials of the invention may have a high catalytic activity, while being less susceptible to coking than certain conventional electrode/catalytic materials. These performance advantages can simplify the equipment used in certain applications, as well as reducing energy and capital requirements. Furthermore, the materials may be manufactured using traditional ceramic processing methods, without the need for complex, unconventional fabrication techniques. The materials are particularly suitable for use in fuel cells (e.g., SOFCs electrodes) and in reactions that use or produce synthesis gas.
FILED	Friday, May 19, 2006
APPL NO	11/438079
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/51
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08173045 — Diels-Alder crosslinkable dendritic nonlinear optic chromophores and polymer composites

US 08173045	Jen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Zhengwei Shi (Seattle, Washington); Jingdong Luo (Seattle, Washington); Su Huang (Seattle, Washington); Xinghua Zhou (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Diels-Alder crosslinkable dendritic nonlinear optical chromophore compounds, films and crosslinked polymer composites formed from the chromophore compounds, methods for making and using the chromophore compounds, films, and crosslinked polymer composites, and electro-optic devices that include films and crosslinked polymer composites formed from the chromophore compounds.
FILED	Thursday, May 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/474174
ART UNIT	1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/500
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08173082 — JP-8 fuel processor system

US 08173082	Wangerow et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	James Wangerow (Medinah, Illinois); Andy Hill (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Chakravarthy Sishtla (Woodridge, Illinois); Michael Onischak (St. Charles, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A fuel processing system for heavier sulfur-laden hydrocarbon fuels, such as JP-8 and diesel fuels, having a fuel processor in which the sulfur-laden hydrocarbon fuels are reformed using steam reforming, an integrated desulfurization/methanation unit, and a solid oxide fuel cell. The heart of the system is the desulfurization/methanation unit which has a first reactor vessel and a second reactor vessel disposed within the first reactor vessel, forming an enclosed reaction space between the first reactor vessel and the second reactor vessel. A methanation catalyst is provided in the enclosed reaction space or the second reactor vessel. A desulfurization material is provided in the other of the enclosed reaction space and the second reactor vessel. During the normal course of operation, the desulfurization material will reach a saturation point at which it is no longer able to adsorb the sulfur-containing compounds. Contrary to conventional systems in which a fuel containing sulfur is desulfurized prior to methanation in two separate desulfurizer and methanation vessels and the spent desulfurization material is regenerated, the first and second reactor vessels of this invention are separable such that the reactor vessel containing the spent desulfurization material simply can be removed and replaced with a reactor vessel containing fresh desulfurization material.
FILED	Monday, May 14, 2007
APPL NO	11/803370
ART UNIT	1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/600
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08173084 — Yb:Y₂O₃ceramic powders

US 08173084	Kim 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)	Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Guillermo R Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Shyam S Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A high purity nano-sized Yb³⁺ doped Y₂O₃(Yb:Y₂O₃) ceramic powder with a narrow size distribution and without hard agglomerates is provided. Also provided is a process for manufacturing the same wherein water in the reaction bath is replaced by a non-water washing agent having little or no hydrogen bonding capability to inhibit the formation of hard agglomerates in the ceramic powder.
FILED	Wednesday, November 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/620621
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/21.100
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08173103 — Inhibition of cancer metastasis

US 08173103	Karbassi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansa (Little Rock, Arkansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Behjatolah M. Karbassi (Little Rock, Arkansas); Thomas Kieber-Emmons (Little Rock, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	P-Selectin on platelets and endothelium binds cell surface chondroitin sulfate (CS) proteoglycans, which are abundantly and stably expressed on the surface many cancer cells. Binding of the cancer cells through the CS moieties may be blocked to inhibit the interaction of cancer cells with platelets and endothelium. The present inventors disclose compositions and methods for the inhibition of cancer metastasis.
FILED	Saturday, October 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/286950
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200
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08173115 — Particle compositions with a pre-selected cell internalization mode

US 08173115	Decuzzi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Paolo Decuzzi (Bari, Italy); Mauro Ferrari (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method of formulating a particle composition having a pre-selected cell internalization mode involves selecting a target cell having surface receptors and obtaining particles that have i) surface moieties, that have an affinity for or are capable of binding to the surface receptors of the cell and ii) a preselected shape, where a surface distribution of the surface moieties on the particles and the shape of the particles are effective for the pre-selected cell internalization mode.
FILED	Tuesday, July 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/181759
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.170
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08173154 — Boron trioxide glass-based fibers and particles in dressings, sutures, surgical glue, and other wound care compositions

US 08173154	Jung 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 Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven B. Jung (Rolla, Missouri); Delbert E. Day (Rolla, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A method and compositions for wound care management comprising a dressing comprising a three-dimensional body of glass-based fibers comprising 40 to 80 weight % B₂O₃, wherein at least 25 wt. % of the fibers have a diameter between 200 nm and 4000 nm, and a length:width aspect ratio of at least 10. The glasses may also be used for wound care as fibers formed into sutures, as particles in surgical glue to close a wound, or as particles in an ointment or cream to apply to a wound. The compositions may comprise glass formers P₂O₅and/or SiO₂; alkali oxides selected from Li₂O, Na₂O, K₂O, and Rb₂O; and/or alkaline earth oxides selected from MgO, SrO, BaO and CaO. The compositions may further comprise 0.05 to 10 wt. % of one or more trace elements selected from Ag, Cu, F, Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni, Sr, and Zn.
FILED	Wednesday, January 06, 2010
APPL NO	12/683244
ART UNIT	1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/445
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08173335 — Beam ablation lithography

US 08173335	Drndic et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) American Chemical Society (ACS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Graduate Education (DGE) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D Fischbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Provided are beam ablation lithography methods capable of removing and manipulating material at the nanoscale. Also provided are nanoscale devices, nanogap field effect transistors, nano-wires, nano-crystals and artificial atoms made using the disclosed methods.
FILED	Friday, July 13, 2007
APPL NO	12/373607
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/30
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08173361 — Method of determining metabolism of a test agent

US 08173361	Vacanti 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 General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph P. Vacanti (Winchester, Massachusetts); Robert Rubin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Wing Cheung (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A method for detecting one or more metabolites of a test agent in a tissue including: A) incubating a test agent and an enzyme within a three-dimensional structure comprising a first mold or polymer scaffold, a semi-permeable membrane, and a second mold or polymer scaffold, wherein the semi-permeable membrane is disposed between the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds, and wherein the first mold or polymer scaffold has microchannels that form a fluidic branching network that mimics the forces and transport of natural vasculatures and wherein the second mold or polymer scaffold comprises cells; B) forming an enzyme-substrate complex between the enzyme and the test agent; and C) detecting one or more metabolites of the test agent.
FILED	Wednesday, February 17, 2010
APPL NO	12/707469
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4
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08173364 — Methods and composition for the production of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyl tRNA synthetase pairs

US 08173364	Schultz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (San Diego, California); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978221
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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08173383 — Methods and materials for the detection of Leishmania infection

US 08173383	Houghton 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)	InBios International, Inc. (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Raymond L. Houghton (Seattle, Washington); Steven G. Reed (Seattle, Washington); Syamal Raychaudhuri (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides rapid diagnostic assays for the detection of Leishmania which can readily be used in the field, leading to more rapid treatment. In certain embodiments, the inventive assays, including ELISA and lateral flow assays, employ antibodies that may be effectively employed to detect the Leishmania major antigen TSA, which is present in both promastigotes grown in culture and in amastigotes. Such assays may be employed to detect the presence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a subject using scrapings, biopsies, and/or aspirates taken from cutaneous lesions.
FILED	Monday, January 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/012398
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.940
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08173392 — In vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids

US 08173392	Schultz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978156
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08173424 — Internalizing ErbB2 antibodies

US 08173424	Marks et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Marie Alix Poul (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides novel erbB2-binding internalizing antibodies. The antibodies, designated F5 and C1, specifically bind to c-erbB2 antigen and, upon binding, are readily internalized into the cell bearing the c-erbB2 marker. Chimeric molecules comprising the F5 and/or C1 antibodies attached to one or more effector molecules are also provided.
FILED	Thursday, December 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/928792
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/326
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08173630 — Multipodal tethers for high-density attachment of redox-active moieties to substrates

US 08173630	Lindsey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zettacore, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Robert Loewe (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Ignacio Sanchez (Glendale, Colorado); Werner G. Kuhr (Denver, Colorado); Kisari Padmaja (Raleigh, North Carolina); Lingyun Wei (Englewood, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides redox-active molecules attached to polypodal (e.g., bipodal, tripodal, quadrapodal, pentapodal, etc.) tethers that can be used for attachment of the redox-active molecules to a substrate (e.g., an electrode). The tethered redox-active molecules are useful for the fabrication of memory devices.
FILED	Thursday, June 01, 2006
APPL NO	11/446586
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185
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08173713 — Filled nanoporous polymer membrane composites for protective clothing and methods for making them

US 08173713	Elabd 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)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Yossef A. Elabd (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Giuseppe R. Palmese (Hainsport, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A new class of membranes for use in protective clothing. More specifically, the present invention relates to a polymer-polymer membrane with an ionic polymer located within the nanopores of a porous polymer host membrane. A method for making the polymer-polymer membranes involves filling porous polymers with ionic polymers. The porous polymers may be fabricated by a template synthesis which involves sorption. The ionic polymers may be filled in the nanopores of the porous polymer by plasma-induced graft copolymerization of the ionic polymer with the porous polymeric host membrane.
FILED	Thursday, May 24, 2007
APPL NO	12/301176
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27
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08173763 — Carbon nanofibers and nanotubes grafted with a hyperbranched poly (ether-ketone) and its derivatives

US 08173763	Tan 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)	Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); David H. Wang (Beavercreek, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Provided are hyperbranched poly(ether-ketone)-based nanocomposites with the following generic formula: wherein n is the degree of polymerization and R is carboxylic acid (COOH) and various functional groups that could be derived from COOH, such as benzothiazole, benzoxazole, benzimidazole, esters, and amines. Also provided are a process for preparing the above composite and a chain-end conversion methodology to tailor thermal and solubility properties.
FILED	Monday, March 03, 2008
APPL NO	12/079083
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/223
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08174083 — Dual-suspension system for MEMS-based devices

US 08174083	Waters
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard Waters (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A dual-suspension system for MEMS-based devices includes a proof mass, an upper spring system, and a lower spring system. The proof mass is formed from a handle wafer, a first layer of silicon coupled to one side of the handle wafer, and a second layer of silicon coupled to the other side of the handle wafer. The upper spring system is formed from the first layer of silicon and the lower spring system is formed from the second layer of silicon. The upper and lower spring systems comprise one or more springs extending from the proof mass. The springs may be spaced at even intervals along the perimeter of the proof mass, may be symmetric or out of phase with each other, may comprise different geometries, and may be curved in shape. The upper and lower spring systems are coupled to a support structure that surrounds the proof mass.
FILED	Wednesday, May 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/778898
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/415
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08174106 — Through board stacking of multiple LGA-connected components

US 08174106	Coteus 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)	Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Shawn A. Hall (Pleasantville, New York); Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Alphonso P. Lanzetta (Marlboro, New York); Rick A. Rand (Somers, New York)
ABSTRACT	A package design is provided where a chip module is connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) via a land grid array (LGA) on the top surface of the PCB, and where a power supply is connected to the PCB via a second LGA on the bottom surface of the PCB. The stack of the chip module, power supply, and LGA is held in place and compressed with actuation hardware forming an adjustable frame. The package allows field replacibility of either the module, or the PS, and provides the shortest possible wiring distance from the PS to the module leading to higher performance.
FILED	Tuesday, August 29, 2006
APPL NO	11/511815
ART UNIT	2811 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/686
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08174166 — Uniformly distributed lead zirconate titanate strain sensor

US 08174166	Hughes 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)	Derke R. Hughes (Warwick, Rhode Island); Dennis F. Desharnais (Tiverton, Rhode Island); Jeffrey T. Feaster (Wakefield, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	The invention as disclosed is a strain sensor that locates and quantifies the strain energy from a structure. The strain sensor has a lead zirconate titanate wafer with a circular shape such that the shape does not directionally restrict the signal of the sensor.
FILED	Monday, March 01, 2010
APPL NO	12/714629
ART UNIT	2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical generator or motor structure 310/338
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08174325 — Adaptive injection-locked oscillator array for broad spectrum RF analysis

US 08174325	Leung et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel Leung (San Diego, California); Joseph Neff (San Diego, California); Norman Liu (San Mateo, California); Visarath In (Chula Vista, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides an array of tunable, injection-locking oscillators which are scalable to higher frequencies and measure the entire relevant frequency space simultaneously. The scalable, highly-parallelized, adaptive receiver architecture uses arrays of tunable, injection-locking nonlinear oscillator rings for broad spectrum RF analysis. Three separate and different microelectronic circuit configurations, each having a different type of readout, are described. The embodiments are designed to be incorporated as a subsystem in any type of powered system in which a fast image of the broader spectrum is valuable, when no information about the location of signals in the frequency space is predictable or forthcoming.
FILED	Wednesday, October 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/903287
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Oscillators 331/2
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08174352 — Method for making a transducer, transducer made therefrom, and applications thereof

US 08174352	Parpia et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeevak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Joshua D. Cross (Ithaca, New York); Bojan Robert Ilic (Ithaca, New York); Maxim K. Zalalutdinov (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jeffrey W. Baldwin (Alexandria, Virginia); Brian H. Houston (Fairfax, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method for manufacturing or preparing thin-film stacks that exhibit moderate, finite, stress-dependent resistance and which can be incorporated into a transduction mechanism that enables simple, effective signal to be read out from a micro- or nano-mechanical structure. As the structure is driven, the resistance of the intermediate layers is modulated in tandem with the motion, and with suitable dc-bias, the motion is directly converted into detectable voltage. In general, detecting signal from MEMS or NEMS devices is difficult, especially using a method that is able to be integrated with standard electronics. The thin-film manufacturing or preparation technique described herein is therefore a technical advance in the field of MEMS/NEMS that could enable new applications as well as the ability to easily develop CMOS-MEMS integrated fabrication techniques. Also disclosed are: (i) transducers where current flows across a piezo layer from one major surface to the opposite major surface; and (ii) methods of making a transducer the resistivity of a piezoresistive layer is decreased and/or the gauge factor of a piezoresistive layer is increased.
FILED	Friday, June 26, 2009
APPL NO	13/000644
ART UNIT	2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical resistors 338/2
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08174418 — Inexpensively improving resolution and reducing noise of low-noise signals

US 08174418	Graetz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Ernest Frank John Graetz (Largo, Florida); Kirby Kueber (Clearwater, Florida); William Joseph Trinkle (Tampa, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for improving resolution of low-noise signals in an analog-to-digital conversion circuit. A simple, low cost pseudo-noise generating circuit is disclosed that, when connected to the signal conditioning circuitry of A/D conversion circuit, adds pseudo-noise to an analog input voltage signal. Additional pseudo-noise is beneficial for improving the resolution of analog-to-digital conversion when oversampling and summing or averaging are used in post-conversion processing operations. The circuit is composed of a plurality of resistors configured in at least two parallel branches. An individually switchable voltage source output is connected to each branch. A resulting analog voltage can be measured at a common termination point for the branches, depending on the combination of switchable voltage source output turned on, and the branch to which the voltage output is applied. By varying the combination of switchable voltage source outputs turned on over time, a known analog pseudo-noise signal is developed.
FILED	Tuesday, July 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/502807
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coded data generation or conversion 341/131
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08174430 — Detection of concealed object by standing waves

US 08174430	DeChiaro, Jr.
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)	Louis F. DeChiaro, Jr. (Middletown, Delaware)
ABSTRACT	A process is provided to detect an object within a defined region using standing longitudinal cavity mode waves. The process includes disposing first and second conductive lines substantially parallel to the axis, transmitting an electromagnetic signal through the first line at a set frequency, returning the transmitted signal through the second line, measuring power from a reflected signal through the first line, adjusting the set frequency based on the measured power; extracting an appropriate parameter from the reflected signal to obtain a reflected characteristic, comparing the reflected characteristic to an established characteristic that lacks the object to obtain a characteristic differential, and analyzing the characteristic differential to obtain a position of the object along the length. The first and second conductive lines have specified length and width that bound a defined region. The analyzing can be performed by Fourier transform across wave modes.
FILED	Friday, August 27, 2010
APPL NO	13/068560
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 342/22
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08174433 — Bias estimation and orbit determination

US 08174433	Hough
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael E. Hough (Andover, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	According to one embodiment, bias estimation and orbit determination include receiving measurements in real time. The measurements include radar measurements and radar array orientation measurements. The radar measurements are generated by a radar system and indicate the location of a target. The radar array orientation measurements are generated by a navigation system and indicate the orientation of a radar array of the radar system. A state variable set is used. The state variable set includes measurement variables and dynamic bias variables. For example, a state variable set may include orbit position, orbit velocity, radar orientation, and radar measurement variables, which in turn may include dynamic bias variables such as orientation bias variables and measurement bias variables. A measurement variable is associated with a measurement, and a dynamic bias variable is associated with bias of a measurement. The following are performed for a number of iterations to yield state value sets for the state variable set: updating a state value set according to the measurements to yield an updated state value set; and predicting a next state value set in accordance with the updated state value set. An orbit path is of the target determined from the state value sets in real time.
FILED	Thursday, February 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/393133
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 342/108
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08174435 — Methods and apparatus for non-isotropic sea clutter modeling

US 08174435	Habboosh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Amir W. Habboosh (Somerset, Massachusetts); Nicholas F. Willis (E. Greenwich, Rhode Island); Thomas E. Wood (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus to provide computing, using a processor, sea clutter threshold bias values as a function of range and azimuth, receiving a first shape corresponding to a first region of sea clutter about a radar, combining the sea clutter threshold bias values with the first shape to provide non-isotropic sensitivity time control (STC) for the radar, and outputting radar return for display with sea clutter suppressed in the first shape.
FILED	Tuesday, June 01, 2010
APPL NO	12/791038
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 342/159
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08174557 — Deployable sensor device, sensor system, and method of collecting environmental information

US 08174557	Kieffer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Adaptive Methods, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin Kieffer (Washington, District of Columbia); James Wiggins (Thurmont, Maryland); Barclay Roman (Clifton, Virginia); Peter Owen (Monrovia, Maryland); Conrad Zeglin (Rockville, Maryland); Todd Stawarz (Fairfax, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A system for obtaining and displaying such images and environmental information from environments is disclosed, as well as a sensor device and a host configured for use in the system, the sensor device having camera assemblies, environmental sensors, and being connected to the host via a wireless communications link. Methods for obtaining and presenting the images and environmental information using system 100 are also disclosed.
FILED	Tuesday, December 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/326225
ART UNIT	2448 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Television 348/14.50
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08174568 — Unified framework for precise vision-aided navigation

US 08174568	Samarasekera et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) United States Marine Corps (USMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Supun Samarasekera (Princeton, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (West Windsor, New Jersey); Taragay Oskiper (East Windsor, New Jersey); Zhiwei Zhu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Oleg Naroditsky (Princeton, New Jersey); Harpreet Sawhney (Princeton Junction, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for efficiently locating in 3D an object of interest in a target scene using video information captured by a plurality of cameras. The system and method provide for multi-camera visual odometry wherein pose estimates are generated for each camera by all of the cameras in the multi-camera configuration. Furthermore, the system and method can locate and identify salient landmarks in the target scene using any of the cameras in the multi-camera configuration and compare the identified landmark against a database of previously identified landmarks. In addition, the system and method provide for the integration of video-based pose estimations with position measurement data captured by one or more secondary measurement sensors, such as, for example, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and Global Positioning System (GPS) units.
FILED	Monday, December 03, 2007
APPL NO	11/949433
ART UNIT	2451 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Television 348/113
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08174691 — Detection of a component of interest with an ultraviolet laser and method of using the same

US 08174691	Horton et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Arkansas State University Jonesboro (State University, Arkansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew Horton (Jonesboro, Arkansas); Robyn Hannigan (Jonesboro, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	A device is provided for detection and analysis of a component of interest in a sample comprising a small sample cell used with an ultra violet laser. The energy of the laser is spread over an area such that energy density is above desorption threshold, but the sample not ablated. The device provides for rapid and reliable detection of a component of interest, and a method of using the same. The sample cell provides decreased dispersion of the sample.
FILED	Friday, March 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/048310
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246
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08174694 — Hyperspectral imaging systems

US 08174694	Bodkin
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Bodkin Design and Engineering LLC (Newton, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Bodkin (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Hyperspectral imaging system and methods that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions are disclosed. A cylindrical lens array and/or a slit array may be used to re-image and divide a field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispersed into multiple spectral signatures and observed on a two-dimensional focal plane array in real time. The entire hyperspectral data cube is collected simultaneously.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/933253
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328
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08174700 — Portable and cartridge-based surface plasmon resonance sensing systems

US 08174700	Chinowsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy M. Chinowsky (Seattle, Washington); Scott D. Soelberg (Seattle, Washington); Peter C. Kauffman (Bainbridge Island, Washington); Clement E. Furlong (Bainbridge Island, Washington); Jared Tritz (Seattle, Washington); Michael S. Grow (Seattle, Washington); Alexei N. Naimushin (Bellevue, Washington); Sinclair S. Yee (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	This specification discloses various improvements in the field of SPR sensing systems. One improvement relates to a portable SPR sensing system, e.g., a system contained within a suitcase that can be hand-carried to a monitoring site. Another improvement relates to a portable, cartridge-based SPR sensing system. In this system, selected portions of the system's electrical and fluidics systems are allocated between a base unit and a removable/disposable cartridge. Other improvements relate to methods or protocols for operating an SPR sensing system. Such methods provide for the elimination of false positives and increased sensitivity, e.g., by using secondary antibodies with specificity for different target epitopes and by sensor element redundancy. In addition, protocols are provided for the detection of small molecules. Such protocols may employ a competition type assay where the presence of the analyte inhibits the binding of antibodies to surface immobilized analyte, or a displacement assay, where antibodies bound to the analyte on the sensor surface are displaced by free analyte.
FILED	Friday, January 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/016788
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445
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08175016 — Systems, methods and computer readable media for energy conservation in sensor networks

US 08175016	Basu 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)	Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Prithwish Basu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Systems, methods and computer readable media consistent with the present invention address this and other needs by providing mechanisms for minimizing an energy cost within a wireless network having a plurality of nodes, including a plurality of transmitting nodes and a plurality of receiving nodes. An energy cost, including at least an overhearing cost, is determined. A transmission power assignment of a transmitting node is then adjusted to reduce the energy cost. These determining and adjusting stages are repeated to reduce the energy cost.
FILED	Friday, March 19, 2004
APPL NO	10/804190
ART UNIT	2471 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/311
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08175191 — Combined sensing methods for cognitive radio

US 08175191	Tang
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Adaptrum, Inc. (Milpitas, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Haiyun Tang (Saratoga, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize under-utilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Digital pre-distortion techniques can enhance performance. Embodiments of a high dynamic range transceiver architecture can be employed.
FILED	Wednesday, February 20, 2008
APPL NO	12/070831
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/316
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08175346 — Whole-hand multispectral biometric imaging

US 08175346	Rowe 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)	Lumidigm, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert K. Rowe (Corrales, New Mexico); Matthew Ennis (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Stephen P. Corcoran (Corrales, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A number of biometric systems and methods are disclosed. A system according to one embodiment includes an illumination subsystem, an imaging subsystem, and an analyzer. The illumination subsystem is disposed to illuminate a target space. The imaging subsystem is configured to image the target space under distinct optical conditions. The analyzer is provided in communication with the illumination subsystem, the imaging subsystem, and the three-dimensional subsystem. The analyzer also has instructions to operate the subsystems to collect substantially simultaneously a plurality of images of the object disposed at the predetermined spatial location under multispectral conditions.
FILED	Tuesday, June 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/136475
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/124
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08175547 — Disposable chemical sensor and wireless communication device

US 08175547	Amidon
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)	Charles Philip Amidon (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A disposable sensor device for remote sensing of conditions such as temperature and dangerous gasses includes a body defining an enclosed chamber, a power source mounted in the chamber, an on-off switch mounted on and accessible from outside the body, a processor mounted in the chamber and powered by the power source, sensors mounted on the exterior of the body in communication with the processor and capable of detecting gasses and temperature. A transceiver, a speaker, and a microphone are mounted in the chamber and in communication with the processor. The transceiver is adapted to receive sound signals from a remote unit and input the signals to the speaker for broadcast, and the microphone is adapted to receive sound signals from outside the body and input the received sound signals to the processor for transmittal to the remote unit.
FILED	Friday, July 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/460178
ART UNIT	2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/90.100
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08175796 — Method for vehicle collision avoidance

US 08175796	Blackburn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael R. Blackburn (San Diego, California); Nghia Tran (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A method involves transmitting a first signal to a device, the first signal comprising vehicle identification data and vehicle operational data, receiving a second signal from the device, the second signal comprising road and lane information and vehicle information vectors of other vehicles transiting the road in range of the device, and determining a collision risk based upon the received second signal. The method involves the range-limited communication of vehicle information vectors among a network of devices. The method may include transmitting an operational signal to a vehicle controller, wherein the operation of a vehicle, such as speed, braking, and steering, is altered by the vehicle controller based upon the received operational signal. The method may involve, if the determined collision risk exceeds a predetermined threshold, the transmission of a warning signal by a vehicle computer to a vehicle operator via a warning device controlled by a vehicle controller.
FILED	Thursday, September 25, 2008
APPL NO	12/237460
ART UNIT	3667 — 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 71/301
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08175827 — RF probe technique for determining plasma potential

US 08175827	Walker 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)	David N. Walker (Arlington, Virginia); Richard F. Fernsler (Annandale, Virginia); David D. Blackwell (Alexandria, Virginia); William E. Amatucci (Fairfax, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An rf probe is placed within a plasma and an rf signal from a network analyzer for a given dc bias voltage V_pis applied The frequency applied by the network analyzer, ω, is less than the plasma frequency, ω_pe, and therefore is not in the resonant absorption range (ω=ω_pe) used to determine electron density in typical rf impedance probe operation. Bias voltages at the applied frequency are applied to the probe in a series of voltage steps in a range which includes the plasma potential. At each bias step, a value of Re(Z_ac), the real part of the plasma's complex impedance, is returned by the analyzer. A local minimum in the real part of the impedance Re(Z_ac) occurs where the applied bias voltage V_pequals the plasma potential φ_p. The plasma potential φ_pcan be found by taking the first derivative of Re(Z_ac) with respect to Vp, $\frac{ⅆ (Re (Z_{a c})}{ⅆ V_{p}},$ and finding the value of Vp at which $\frac{ⅆ (Re (Z_{a c})}{ⅆ V_{p}} = 0$ within error tolerances.
FILED	Wednesday, July 13, 2011
APPL NO	13/181556
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/65
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08175848 — Data processing systems and methods

US 08175848	Winnebeck et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason Winnebeck (Rochester, New York); Michael G. Thurston (Penfield, New York); Christopher E. Piggot (Pittsford, New York)
ABSTRACT	An Asset Health Management system monitors and analyzes the health of a component of an asset. A sensor network, with one or more sensors operably coupled to an asset component, collects sensor data associated with operating characteristics of the asset component. A processing node (a System Health Node) includes one or more modules, i.e., software functions, and one or more configuration files. The processing node processes the sensor data with the one or more modules according to the one or more configuration files and determines health information corresponding to the asset component. The one or more modules receive and transmit input and output data, respectively, via data streams that organize the input and output data, e.g., according to time stamps and that may be cached. The health information may be displayed on user interfaces and/or may be transmitted over an information network to external systems.
FILED	Friday, March 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/053207
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/184
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08176026 — Consolidating file system backend operations with access of data

US 08176026	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); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York)
ABSTRACT	Mechanisms for performing a backend operation in a file system are provided. A backend operation on a portion of the file system is initiated. At least one indirect transition table data structure is created for performing the backend operation. Metadata corresponding to the portion of the file system is linked to the at least one indirect transition table data structure. The backend operation is performed on data in a sub-portion of the portion of the file system and the at least one indirect transition table data structure is updated with pointers to new locations of the data in the sub-portion as transitions of the data are completed. At least one data access operation is performed to the portion of the file system at substantially a same time as performing the backend operation on the data in the sub-portion of the portion of the file system.
FILED	Tuesday, April 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/423656
ART UNIT	2163 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/705
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08176031 — System and method for manipulating database search results

US 08176031	Rubin
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stuart H. Rubin (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for extracting information from large databases include the initial step of searching a database using a query. The search results are then normalized by formatting the search results in a standard text format. The normalized search results are then crawled according to a predetermined algorithm to yield candidate information, which includes establishing sequences of keywords and generating hash tables that correspond to the keyword sequences. For each paragraph of candidate information, a defined possibility for each hash table entry is calculated. If the possibility is above a predetermined value, the candidate information paragraph is extracted from candidate information and presented to the user. Only the paragraphs that have a possibility that is above the predetermined threshold are displayed and presented to the user. Displayed search results rated as useful by the user are added to the query and to the keyword sequences to accomplish iterative, context-directed searches.
FILED	Wednesday, September 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/552506
ART UNIT	2155 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/706
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08176254 — Specifying an access hint for prefetching limited use data in a cache hierarchy

US 08176254	Frey 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)	Bradly G. Frey (Austin, Texas); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Cathy May (Ossining, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Peter K. Szwed (Rhinebeck, New York)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for specifying an access hint for prefetching limited use data. A processing unit receives a data cache block touch (DCBT) instruction having an access hint indicating to the processing unit that a program executing on the data processing system may soon access a cache block addressed within the DCBT instruction. The access hint is contained in a code point stored in a subfield of the DCBT instruction. In response to detecting that the code point is set to a specific value, the data addressed in the DCBT instruction is prefetched into an entry in the lower level cache. The entry may then be updated as a least recently used entry of a plurality of entries in the lower level cache. In response to a new cache block being fetched to the cache, the prefetched cache block is cast out of the cache.
FILED	Thursday, April 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/424681
ART UNIT	2824 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/122
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08176391 — System to improve miscorrection rates in error control code through buffering and associated methods

US 08176391	Baysah 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)	Irving G. Baysah (Hutto, Texas); Timothy J. Dell (Colchester, Vermont); Luis A. Lastras-Montano (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas); Eric E. Retter (Austin, Texas); Barry M. Trager (Yorktown Heights, New York); Michael R. Trombley (Cary, North Carolina); Shmuel Winograd (Scarsdale, New York); Kenneth L. Wright (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A system to improve miscorrection rates in error control code may include an error control decoder with a safe decoding mode that processes at least two data packets. The system may also include a buffer to receive the processed at least two data packets from the error control decoder. The error control decoder may apply a logic OR operation to the uncorrectable error signal related to the processing of the at least two data packets to produce a global uncorrectable error signal. The system may further include a recipient to receive the at least two data packets and the global uncorrectable error signal.
FILED	Thursday, January 31, 2008
APPL NO	12/023516
ART UNIT	2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/774
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08176418 — System and method for document collection, grouping and summarization

US 08176418	McKeown 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 Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Kathleen R. McKeown (Wayne, New Jersey); Regina Barzilay (New York, New York); Dave Evans (New York, New York); Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (New York, New York); Judith Klavans (New York, New York); Ani Nenkova (New York, New York); Barry Schiffman (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A system for generating a summary of a plurality of documents and presenting the summary information to a user is provided which includes a computer readable document collection containing a plurality of related documents stored in electronic form. Documents can be pre-processed to group documents into document clusters. The document clusters can also be assigned to predetermined document categories for presentation to a user. A number of multiple document summarization engines are provided which generate summaries for specific classes of multiple documents clusters. A summarizer router is employed to determining a relationship of the documents in a cluster and select one of the document summarization engines for use in generating a summary of the cluster. A single event engine is provided to generate summaries of documents which are closely related temporally and to a specific event. A dissimilarity engine for multiple document summary generation is provided which generates summaries of document clusters having documents with varying degrees of relatedness. A user interface is provided to display categories, cluster titles, summaries, related images.
FILED	Friday, March 04, 2005
APPL NO	11/071968
ART UNIT	2177 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/254
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08176448 — Method for N-variant integrated circuit (IC) design, and IC having N-variant circuits implemented therein

US 08176448	Koushanfar
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Empire Technology Development LLC (Wilmington, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Techniques are generally described for designing an integrated circuit (IC). In various embodiments, the techniques include designing, at a functional specification level, N-variants of a particular circuit. The various embodiments may then implement the designed N-variants as hardware in the IC. Additional variants and embodiments may also be disclosed.
FILED	Friday, June 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/479665
ART UNIT	2825 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/102
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D0659220 — Rail sight mount

US D659220	Foltz
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)	Adam L. Foltz (Somerset, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT
FILED	Friday, February 04, 2011
APPL NO	29/384837
ART UNIT	2914 — Design
CURRENT CPC	Arms, pyrotechnics, hunting and fishing equipment D22/108
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08172412 — Adjustable optical mount

US 08172412	Solyar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lenox Laser Corporation (Glen Arm, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory Solyar (Baltimore, Maryland); Walter Blumenfeld (Airville, Pennsylvania); Joseph D'Etremont (Phoenix, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	An adjustable optical mount adapted for use with an optical table defining a reference plane includes a hollow housing with openings in the side walls to allow passage of an optical beam therethrough, a gimbal base fixed on the top of the housing, a gimbal plate adjustably mounted under the gimbal base, and a carrier bracket fixed to the gimbal plate for holding preselected optical elements within the housing along the path of the beam. Adjustment mechanisms are provided to tilt and rotate the gimbal plate so as to align the optical element on a selected axis relative to the reference plane.
FILED	Saturday, October 31, 2009
APPL NO	12/589889
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/872
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08172766 — Integrated sleep diagnosis and treatment device and method

US 08172766	Kayyali 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)	Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Hani Kayyali (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Robert Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio); Mohammad Modarres-Zadeh (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Brian Kolkowski (Leroy, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to an integrated sleep diagnosis and treatment device, and more particularly to an integrated apnea diagnosis and treatment device. The present invention additionally relates to method of sleep diagnosis and treatment.
FILED	Friday, November 04, 2005
APPL NO	11/266899
ART UNIT	3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/534
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08172784 — Compositions, methods, and devices for treating liver disease

US 08172784	Yarmush 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); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Martin L. Yarmush (Newton, Massachusetts); Biju Parekkadan (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described are compositions and methods for treating liver disease, e.g., acute liver disease, using bone marrow-derived stem cells and bone marrow-derived stem cell conditioned media.
FILED	Thursday, October 11, 2007
APPL NO	11/871071
ART UNIT	3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 64/6.90
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08173068 — Fluid exchange in a chamber on a microscope slide

US 08173068	Loeffler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dako Denmark A/S (, Denmark)
INVENTOR(S)	Herbert H. Loeffler (Arlington, Massachusetts); Steven A. Bogen (Sharon, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A sample chamber is formed by a housing sealed against a microscope slide. The housing has fluid ports, including a well formed over at least one port. In a rinse station, rinse solution is drawn from a reservoir through the chamber to a waste reservoir. At a fill station, an aliquot of reagent already placed in the well is driven into the chamber. The reagent may be driven into the chamber by first drawing a vacuum on the chamber through the aliquot of reagent and then releasing the reagent to be drawn into the chamber by the vacuum.
FILED	Tuesday, August 28, 2007
APPL NO	11/895872
ART UNIT	1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100
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08173103 — Inhibition of cancer metastasis

US 08173103	Karbassi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansa (Little Rock, Arkansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Behjatolah M. Karbassi (Little Rock, Arkansas); Thomas Kieber-Emmons (Little Rock, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	P-Selectin on platelets and endothelium binds cell surface chondroitin sulfate (CS) proteoglycans, which are abundantly and stably expressed on the surface many cancer cells. Binding of the cancer cells through the CS moieties may be blocked to inhibit the interaction of cancer cells with platelets and endothelium. The present inventors disclose compositions and methods for the inhibition of cancer metastasis.
FILED	Saturday, October 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/286950
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200
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08173123 — Methods of treating colitis involving IL-13 and NK-T cells

US 08173123	Strober 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, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Warren Strober (Bethesda, Maryland); Ivan J. Fuss (Bethesda, Maryland); Frank Heller (Berlin, Germany); Richard Blumberg (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Method of treating or preventing the inflammatory response of colitis in a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a substance that modulates IL-13 activity (FIG. 3). The invention also provides a method of treating or preventing the inflammatory response of colitis in a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a substance that modulates NK-T cell activity. The invention also provides for the screening of substances that treat or prevent the inflammatory response of colitis.
FILED	Friday, February 19, 2010
APPL NO	12/709029
ART UNIT	1644 — 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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08173131 — Compositions and methods for modulating RSV infection and immunity

US 08173131	Tripp et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ralph A. Tripp (Decatur, Georgia); Les Jones (Peachtree City, Georgia); Larry J. Anderson (Atlanta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods are provided for the treatment or prevention of RSV disease by modulating RSV infection and immunity. In particular, amino acid sequences in the RSV G glycoprotein, containing the chemokine motif defined as C-X-X-X-C (or CX3C), are identified that are essential in causing RSV infection and disease. The chemokine motif is biologically active and participates in virus binding to and infection of susceptible cells. The prevention or treatment of RSV infection is achieved by interfering with the motif, such as by administering a vaccine in which the motif is altered or by administration or induction of blocking molecules that inhibit the biological activity of the motif.
FILED	Thursday, May 26, 2005
APPL NO	11/139372
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/159.100
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08173135 — Methods for preparing complex multivalent immunogenic conjugates

US 08173135	Lee
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)	Che-Hung Robert Lee (Silver Spring, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Methods for preparing complex multivalent immunogenic conjugates that include simultaneously reacting a plurality or immunogenic-distinct polysaccharides with at least one protein to make the complex multivalent immunogenic conjugates. The simultaneous reaction involves reaction of a hydrazide group on one reactant with an aldehyde or cyanate ester group on the other reactant.
FILED	Monday, September 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/283894
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/197.110
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08173137 — Polycistronic HIV vector constructs

US 08173137	Megede et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (Emeryville, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jan Zur Megede (San Francisco, California); Susan W. Barnett (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure relates to vectors comprising polynucleotide sequences that encode HIV polypeptides. In particular, the disclosure relates polycistronic vector constructs comprising sequences that encode HIV polypeptides as a single polyprotein. Compositions comprising these vectors and sequences along with methods of using these vectors and sequences are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, October 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/604335
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100
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08173167 — Micelle composition of polymer and passenger drug

US 08173167	Kwon et al.
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)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Glen S. Kwon (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Marcus L. Forrest (Middleton, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Hydrophobic drugs become more practical for treatments by being encapsulated in micelle compositions for increasing solubility. Micelle compositions may include an excipient tocopherol and/or prodrug formulations of the drug. Micelles extend the time period the drug remains in the micelles to improve drug circulation time and thereby drug delivery. Hydrophobic drugs for micelle encapsulation may include rapamycin, geldanamycin, and paclitaxel. Administration of these micelle compositions does not require Cremophor EL or Tween 80, avoiding serious side effects associated with these products which would previously accompany such drug administration.
FILED	Wednesday, April 12, 2006
APPL NO	11/402639
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489
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08173362 — Cytomegalovirus surface protein complex for use in vaccines and as a drug target

US 08173362	Shenk et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas Shenk (Princeton, New Jersey); Dai Wang (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Immunogenic compositions and prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines for use in protecting and treating against human cytomegalovirus (CMV) are disclosed. Subunit vaccines comprising a human CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130, and nucleic acid vaccines comprising at least one nucleic acid encoding a CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130 are described. Also disclosed are therapeutic antibodies reactive against a CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130, as well as methods for screening compounds that inhibit CMV infection of epithelial and endothelial cells, methods for immunizing a subject against CMV infection, methods for determining the capability of neutralizing antibodies to inhibit CMV infection of cell types other than fibroblasts, and methods of diminishing an CMV infection.
FILED	Friday, April 23, 2010
APPL NO	12/766611
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5
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08173364 — Methods and composition for the production of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyl tRNA synthetase pairs

US 08173364	Schultz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (San Diego, California); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978221
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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08173366 — Genetic changes in ATM and ATR/CHEK1 as prognostic indicators in cancer

US 08173366	Gollin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Susanne M. Gollin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Rahul Atul Parikh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xin Huang (Wexford, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the discovery that, in human cancer, an 11q deletion of ATM together with an increase in ATR and CHEK1 expression correlates with resistance to ionizing radiation which could be overcome by inhibition of the ATR/CHEK1 pathway. It provides for methods of identifying patients unlikely to exhibit an adequate response to radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy who may benefit from ATR/CHEK1 pathway inhibition, as well as methods of treating said patients.
FILED	Tuesday, September 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/586052
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	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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08173369 — Peripheral gene expression biomarkers for autism

US 08173369	Geschwind 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)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel H. Geschwind (Santa Monica, California); Yuhei Nishimura (Torrance, California)
ABSTRACT	The disclosed invention comprises methods and materials for screening cells for genetic profiles associated with autism spectrum disorders. The methods typically involve isolating a cell from an individual and then observing the expression profile of one or more genes in the cell, wherein certain expression patterns of the genes observed are associated with autism spectrum disorders.
FILED	Friday, May 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/467115
ART UNIT	1634 — 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 435/6.110
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08173384 — Methods for analyzing or processing a heparin sample

US 08173384	Sasisekharan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts); Zachary Shriver (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dongfang Liu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mallikarjun Sundaram (Randolph, New Jersey); Yiwei Qi (Andover, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to methods and products for analyzing or processing a heparin sample. In one embodiment, the methods comprise contacting the sample with heparinase I, heparinase II and heparinase III, determining the amount of a signature component in the sample using a separation method, and making a determination about the sample based upon a comparison of the amount of the signature component in the sample to a reference database for a heparin.
FILED	Monday, July 27, 2009
APPL NO	12/509774
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/13
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08173386 — Method of assaying enzyme-mediated oxidative demethylation

US 08173386	Hart 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)	Arbor Assays, LLC (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell Hart (Chelsea, Michigan); Barbara Scheuer (Chelsea, Michigan); Raymond Trievel (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Methods of assaying enzyme-mediated oxidative demethylation are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which includes combining, under reaction conditions, an oxidative demethylation enzyme, a substrate for the oxidative demethylation enzyme and a formaldehyde detection reagent. Detection of fluorescence is indicative of formaldehyde generated by oxidative demethylation of the substrate by the enzyme, the fluorescence resulting from reaction of formaldehyde and the formaldehyde detection reagent.
FILED	Wednesday, January 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/353723
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25
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08173392 — In vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids

US 08173392	Schultz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978156
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08173393 — Expanding the eukaryotic genetic code

US 08173393	Chin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978223
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08173413 — Separation and concentration of biological cells and biological particles using a one-dimensional channel

US 08173413	Chiu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Jason S. Kuo (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	This document discloses, among other things, a method and system for a substrate having a bypass region for fluid flow. The substrate includes a plurality of fluid flow channels with each channel configured to concurrently allow fluid flow while precluding passage of a target particle or object.
FILED	Thursday, August 11, 2005
APPL NO	11/202416
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/283.100
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08173445 — DNA intercalating agents

US 08173445	Williams 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)	Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	John G. K. Williams (Lincoln, Nebraska); Daniel R. Draney (Lincoln, Nebraska)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting incorporation of a labeled nucleotide triphosphate onto the growing end of a primer nucleic acid molecule. The method is used, for example, to genotype and sequence a nucleic acid. In a preferred embodiment, the method described herein detects individual NTP molecules.
FILED	Friday, October 31, 2008
APPL NO	12/263386
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	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/800
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08173595 — Methods and compositions for the inhibition of thrombus formation

US 08173595	Dai 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 University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Kesheng Dai (Chicago, Illinois); Xiaoping Du (Westmont, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to anti-platelet peptides that may be used in various methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of thrombosis. More specifically, the specification describes methods and compositions for making and using compositions GPIbα fragments as anti-platelet agents. The present invention is also directed to peptides that inhibit intracellular function of 14-3-3.
FILED	Wednesday, April 27, 2005
APPL NO	11/579291
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12.200
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08173596 — Prouroguanylin, and synthetic analogs or proteolytic cleavage products derived from it, as therapeutic and diagnostic agents for diseases involving salt and/or fluid homeostasis

US 08173596	Goy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience (IBN)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael F. Goy (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Nicholas G. Moss (Carrboro, North Carolina); Xun Qian (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A method for treating a disorder characterized by salt retention, fluid retention, and combinations thereof. A method for determining the presence of or the progression of a disorder characterized by salt retention, fluid retention, salt loss, fluid loss, and combinations thereof. An immunoassay kit for detecting a level of prouroguanylin in a sample.
FILED	Monday, May 16, 2005
APPL NO	11/596493
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12.400
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08173598 — Myeloid protein activation of anti-inflammatory and anti-hypoxic pathway

US 08173598	Sroussi
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)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Herve Y. Sroussi (Glencoe, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Provided are methods to enhance healing of wounds and tissue, especially during or pursuant to psychological and/or physical stress and to protect tissue from deleterious effects associated with oxidative, psychological and/or physical stress, including but not limited to extreme exertion, ischemia, infarct, and damage associated with reperfusion of ischemic or transplanted tissues.
FILED	Wednesday, April 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/095622
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15.100
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08173602 — Detecting CYP24 expression level as a marker for predisposition to cancer

US 08173602	Albertson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Daniel Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Colin Collins (San Rafael, California); Joe W. Gray (San Francisco, California); Bauke Ylstra (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention pertains to the discovery that an amplification of the CYP24 gene or an increase in CYP24 activity is a marker for the presence of, progression of, or predisposition to, a cancer (e.g., breast cancer). Using this information, this invention provides methods of detecting a predisposition to cancer in an animal. The methods involve (i) providing a biological sample from an animal (e.g. a human patient); (ii) detecting the level of CYP24 within the biological sample; and (iii) comparing the level of CYP24 with a level of CYP24 in a control sample taken from a normal, cancer-free tissue where an increased level of CYP24 in the biological sample compared to the level of CYP24 in the control sample indicates the presence of said cancer in said animal.
FILED	Tuesday, December 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/633643
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.400
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08173604 — Inhibition of Skp2-cyclin a interaction

US 08173604	Zhu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Liang Zhu (Ardsley, New York); Peng Ji (Watertown, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods of killing a cancer cell are provided. Also provided are methods of treating a subject having a cancer. Additionally, compounds are provided that comprise a peptide from about 18 to about 100 amino acids or peptidomimetics comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1. Additionally provided are methods of screening an agent for the ability to kill a cancer cell.
FILED	Wednesday, May 23, 2007
APPL NO	12/226935
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.400
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08173613 — Modulation of mesenchymal and metastatic cell growth

US 08173613	Spicer
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)	Maine Medical Center (Scarborough, Maine)
INVENTOR(S)	Douglas B. Spicer (Cape Elizabeth, Maine)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the modulation of metastatic and mesenchymal cell growth and mobility via the regulation of the formation of Twist/Twist homodimers and Twist/E heterodimers. The present invention also relates to methods for screening agents and compound libraries for molecules that function to modulate the formation of Twist/Twist homodimers, Twist/E protein heterodimers or their upstream or downstream effector molecules.
FILED	Friday, September 22, 2006
APPL NO	11/525715
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	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00
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08173616 — RNA-induced translational silencing and cellular apoptosis

US 08173616	Anderson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul Anderson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Satoshi Yamasaki (Brookline, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention is directed to RNA molecules that can be used to inhibit protein synthesis and to induce cells to undergo apoptosis. It also includes pharmaceutical compositions containing the RNAs that can be used in treating or preventing tumors; abnormal dermatological growths and viral infections.
FILED	Friday, May 01, 2009
APPL NO	12/990493
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.A00
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08173628 — Steroidal antiestrogens and antiandrogens and uses thereof

US 08173628	Hanson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert N. Hanson (Newton, Massachusetts); Carolyn Friel (Holden, Massachusetts); Choon Young Lee (Mount Pleasant, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The present invention comprises the design, synthesis and development of a new class of chemotherapeutic agents for prophylactic and therapeutic treatments in a mammal, particularly a human, believed to be at risk of suffering from a hormone-responsive disorder. In an aspect of the invention, such treatments include therapeutic compositions comprising novel steroidal antiestrogen and antiandrogen compounds. In a preferred aspect, such a novel compound of the present invention has an address and a message component, which are made into a single composite entity for more aggressive intervention and effective treatment of hormone-responsive disorders, thereby prolonging the disease-free interval for the patient and reducing a number of side effects.
FILED	Friday, October 19, 2007
APPL NO	11/975727
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/182
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08173661 — Alpha-IIB-beta-3 inhibitors and uses thereof

US 08173661	Blue et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Rockefeller University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert Blue (Panama City, Florida); Barry S. Coller (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compounds and compositions useful for inhibiting and/or reducing platelet deposition, adhesion and/or aggregation. The present invention also relates to methods for screening compounds and compositions useful for inhibiting or reducing platelet deposition, adhesion and/or aggregation. The present invention further relates to methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of thrombotic disorders, including stroke, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, peripheral vascular disease, abrupt closure following angioplasty or stent placement and thrombosis as a result of vascular surgery.
FILED	Thursday, November 08, 2007
APPL NO	12/514286
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/259.300
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08173662 — Fused pyrimidines as inhibitors of nucleoside phosphorylases and nucleosidases

US 08173662	Evans et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Industrial Research Limited (Auckland, New Zealand); Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary Brian Evans (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Richard Hubert Furneaux (Wilton, New Zealand); Dirk Henning Lenz (Wellington, New Zealand); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Peter Charles Tyler (Northland, New Zealand); Olga Vladimirovna Zubkova (Wellington, New Zealand)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I) which are inhibitors of purine muclioside phosphorylases (PNP), purine phosphoribosyltransferases (PPRT), 5′-methylthioadenosine phosphorylases (MTAP), 5′-methylthioadenosine mucliosidases (MTAN) and/or nucleoside hydrolases (NH). The invention also relates to the use of these compounds in the treatment of diseases and infections including cancer, bacterial infections, protozoal infections, and T-cell mediated disease and to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds.
FILED	Wednesday, June 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/455537
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/262.100
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08173670 — Methods of using substituted isoxazolo pyridinones as dissociated glucocorticoids

US 08173670	Xu 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)	Van Andel Research Institute (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Huaqiang Eric Xu (Grand Rapids, Michigan); Yong Xu (Grand Rapids, Michigan); Yuanzheng He (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method for treating a subject having an inflammatory or auto-immune disease with a substituted isoxazolo pyridinone. Also, a method for administering a substituted isoxazolo pyridinone to a cell to retain or increase glucocorticoid receptor transrepression activity with only minimal glucocorticoid receptor transactivation activity.
FILED	Wednesday, January 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/686805
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/302
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08173691 — De novo synthesis of bacteriochlorins

US 08173691	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Han-Je Kim (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A method of making a bacteriochlorin is carried out by condensing a pair of compounds of Formula II to produce the bacteriochlorin, wherein R is an acetal or aldehyde group. The condensing may be carried out in an organic solvent, preferably in the presence of an acid. The bacteriochlorins are useful for a variety of purposes such as active agents in photodynamic therapy, luminescent compounds in flow cytometry, solar cells, light harvesting arrays, and molecular memory devices.
FILED	Friday, March 27, 2009
APPL NO	12/412770
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410
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08173692 — De novo synthesis of bacteriochlorins

US 08173692	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Han-Je Kim (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A method of making a bacteriochlorin is carried out by condensing a pair of compounds of Formula II to produce the bacteriochlorin, wherein R is an acetal or aldehyde group. The condensing may be carried out in an organic solvent, preferably in the presence of an acid. The bacteriochlorins are useful for a variety of purposes such as active agents in photodynamic therapy, luminescent compounds in flow cytometry, solar cells, light harvesting arrays, and molecular memory devices.
FILED	Monday, March 30, 2009
APPL NO	12/413903
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410
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08173710 — Bicyclic sphingosine 1-phosphate analogs

US 08173710	Lynch 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)	University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. MacDonald (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Compounds that have agonist activity at one or more of the S1P receptors are provided. The compounds are sphingosine analogs that, after phosphorylation, can behave as agonists at S1P receptors.
FILED	Thursday, December 23, 2010
APPL NO	12/978087
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/657
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08173791 — Luciferases and methods for making and using the same

US 08173791	Gambhir et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Regents of teh University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Sanjiv S. Gambhir (Portollo Valley, California); Andreas M. Loening (Stanford, California); Anna M. Wu (Sherman Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include polynucleotides that encode mutant Cnidarian luciferases that exhibit modulated properties as compared to the corresponding wild-type luciferases, and the modulated properties include at least one of: modulated stability; enhanced light output; and modulated emission maximum. Embodiments of the present disclosure also include polypeptides or fragments thereof encoded by the polynucleotides, constructs including the polynucleotide, expression cassettes, cells, methods of producing the polynucleotides and polypeptides, antibodies, transgenic cells and/or animals, kits, and the like.
FILED	Thursday, March 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/070665
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.200
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08173792 — Method for regulating protein function in cells using synthetic small molecules

US 08173792	Wandless 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)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas J. Wandless (Menlo Park, California); Laura Anne Banaszynski (New York, New York); Mari Iwamoto (Stanford, California); Lystranne Alysia Maynard (Silver Spring, Maryland); Ling-chun Chen (Fremont, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions for the rapid and reversible destabilizing of specific proteins using cell-permeable, synthetic molecules are described. Stability-affecting proteins, e.g., derived from FKBP and DHFR proteins are fused to a protein of interest and the presence or absence of the ligand is used to modulate the stability of the fusion protein.
FILED	Friday, February 08, 2008
APPL NO	12/069235
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	Organic compounds 536/23.400
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08173793 — Nucleic acids encoding modulators of body weight

US 08173793	Friedman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Rockefeller University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey M. Friedman (New York, New York); Yiying Zhang (New York, New York); Ricardo Proenca (Astoria, New York); Margherita Maffei (New York, New York); Jeffrey L. Halaas (New York, New York); Ketan Gajiwala (New York, New York); Stephen K. Burley (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to the control of body weight of animals including mammals and humans, and more particularly to nucleic acids encoding materials identified herein as modulators of weight. In its broadest aspect, the present invention relates to the elucidation and discovery of nucleotide sequences, and proteins putatively expressed by such nucleotides, that demonstrate the ability to participate in the control of mammalian body weight. The nucleotide sequences in object represent the genes corresponding to the murine and human ob gene, that have been postulated to play a critical role in the regulation of body weight and adiposity. Preliminary data, presented herein, suggests that the polypeptide product of the gene in question functions as a hormone. The present invention further provides nucleic acid molecules for use as molecular probes, or as primers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, i.e., synthetic or natural oligonucleotides.
FILED	Wednesday, May 06, 2009
APPL NO	12/436773
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.500
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08173797 — Therapeutic compounds derived from spider venom and their method of use

US 08173797	Meinwald et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jerrold Meinwald (Ithaca, New York); Andrew Edmund Taggi (Ithaca, New York); Frank Clemens Schroeder (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to new therapeutic compounds isolated from spider venom and methods of using these new compounds. The compounds are sulfated nucleoside derivatives including ribonucleoside mono- and disulfates derived from guanine, adenosine, and cytidine. Some of these compounds are glycosylated or fucosylated bearing one or more sugar residues.
FILED	Thursday, July 21, 2005
APPL NO	11/572357
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/27.810
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08173800 — Luminescent macrocyclic lanthanide complexes

US 08173800	Raymond et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth N. Raymond (Berkeley, California); Todd M. Corneillie (Campbell, California); Jide Xu (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a novel class of macrocyclic compounds as well as complexes formed between a metal (e.g., lanthanide) ion and the compounds of the invention. Preferred complexes exhibit high stability as well as high quantum yields of lanthanide ion luminescence in aqueous media without the need for secondary activating agents. Preferred compounds incorporate hydroxy-isophthalamide moieties within their macrocyclic structure and are characterized by surprisingly low, non-specific binding to a variety of polypeptides such as antibodies and proteins as well as high kinetic stability. These characteristics distinguish them from known, open-structured ligands.
FILED	Wednesday, August 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/839509
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 540/145
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08175348 — Segmenting colon wall via level set techniques

US 08175348	Van Uitert, Jr. 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)	Robert L. Van Uitert, Jr. (Germantown, Maryland); Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland); Ingmar Bitter (Ontario, California)
ABSTRACT	Various level set techniques can be used to automatically segment the colon wall, including identifying the colon wall outer boundary. A speed image can be used during level set processing. For example, the speed image can be generated via inverting the gradient perpendicular to the segmented inner boundary of the colon wall. The techniques can be useful for determining wall thickness, which can be used to classify polyp candidates, diagnose diseases of the colon, and the like.
FILED	Tuesday, June 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/810704
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/128
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08175359 — Iterative highly constrained image reconstruction method

US 08175359	O'Halloran 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)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Rafael L. O'Halloran (Madison, Washington); Sean B. Fain (Madison, Wisconsin); James H. Holmes (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	An image reconstruction method includes reconstructing an initial composite image of a subject using a conventional reconstruction method. The initial composite image employs the best information available regarding the subject of the scan and this information is used to constrain the reconstruction of a highly undersampled or low SNR image frames. This highly constrained image reconstruction is repeated a plurality of iterations with the reconstructed image frame for one iteration being used as the composite image for the next iteration. The reconstructed image frame rapidly converges to a final image frame.
FILED	Friday, February 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/032262
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/131
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08175685 — Process, arrangements and systems for providing frequency domain imaging of a sample

US 08175685	Yun et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Seok-Hyun Yun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Johannes F. de Boer (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Apparatus, arrangement and method are provided for obtaining information associated with an anatomical structure or a sample using optical microscopy. For example, a radiation can be provided which includes at least one first electromagnetic radiation directed to be provided to an anatomical sample and at least one second electro-magnetic radiation directed to a reference. A wavelength of the radiation can vary over time, and the wavelength is shorter than approximately 1150 nm. An interference can be detected between at least one third radiation associated with the first radiation and at least one fourth radiation associated with the second radiation. At least one image corresponding to at least one portion of the sample can be generated using data associated with the interference. In addition, at least one source arrangement can be provided which is configured to provide an electromagnetic radiation which has a wavelength that varies over time. A period of a variation of the wavelength of the first electromagnetic radiation can be shorter than 1 millisecond, and the wavelength is shorter than approximately 1150 nm.
FILED	Friday, May 04, 2007
APPL NO	11/744287
ART UNIT	3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/473
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08175688 — Multispectral/hyperspectral medical instrument

US 08175688	Lewis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Hypermed Imaging, Inc. (Greenwich, Connecticut); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Edgar N. Lewis (Brookeville, Maryland); Jenny E. Freeman (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A medical instrument that comprises: a first-stage optic responsive to a tissue surface of a patient; a spectral separator optically responsive to the first stage optic and having a control input; an imaging sensor optically responsive to the spectral separator and having an image data output; and a diagnostic processor having an image acquisition interface with an input responsive to the imaging sensor and a filter control interface having a control output provided to the control input of the spectral separator.
FILED	Friday, June 24, 2005
APPL NO	11/165587
ART UNIT	3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/476
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08175712 — Homotopic conditioning of the brain stem baroreflex of a subject

US 08175712	Tang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaorui Tang (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Barry R. Dworkin (Hershey, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are methods for regulating blood pressure in a subject which include administering a first induction stimulus effective to sensitize brainstem baroreflex neurons of a subject for a period of time in the range of about 10-15 hours thereby producing an enhanced baroreflex in the subject, wherein the enhanced baroreflex is characterized in that a threshold blood pressure for generating a depressor response is lower than prior to induction stimulus administration, the depressor response in the subject is larger than prior to induction stimulus administration or both the threshold blood pressure for generating a depressor response is lower than prior to induction stimulus administration and the depressor response in the subject is larger than prior to induction stimulus administration. An induction stimulus has diminished effectiveness to sensitize neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius of the subject in the presence of an NMDA receptor antagonist. One or more additional induction stimuli are optionally administered to regulate blood pressure in the subject.
FILED	Wednesday, September 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/850251
ART UNIT	3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/44
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08175714 — Implantable retinal electrode array configuration for minimal retinal damage and method of reducing retinal stress

US 08175714	Greenberg 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)	Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Alfred E. Mann (Beverly Hills, California); James S. Little (Saugus, California); Karl-Heinz Ihrig (Valencia, California); Brian V. Mech (Valencia, California); Neil H. Talbot (Montrose, California); DaoMin Zhou (Saugus, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention is a retinal electrode array assembly and methods of using the same that facilitate surgical implant procedures by providing the operating surgeon with visual references and grasping means and with innovations that reduce actual and potential damage to the retina and the surrounding tissue.
FILED	Thursday, March 10, 2011
APPL NO	13/044825
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54
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08175814 — Synthetic microfluidic microvasculature network

US 08175814	Prabhakarpandian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian (Madison, Alabama); Shivshankar Sundaram (Madison, Alabama); Kapil Pant (Huntsville, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A synthetic microfluidic microvasculature network and associated methods mimic the structure, fluid flow characteristics, and physiological behavior of physiological microvasculature networks. Computational methods for simulating flow and particle adherence in synthetic and physiological microvascular systems and methods for determining parameters influencing particle adhesion and drug delivery are described with applications in the optimization of drug delivery and microvascular treatments and in describing disease mechanisms that affect the microvasculature.
FILED	Wednesday, April 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/428134
ART UNIT	1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19
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Department of Energy (DOE)

08171728 — High-efficiency liquid heat exchange in compressed-gas energy storage systems

US 08171728	Bollinger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (DOE-OE) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Benjamin Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont)
ABSTRACT	In various embodiments, efficiency of energy storage and recovery systems employing compressed air and liquid heat exchange is improved via control of the system operation and/or the properties of the heat-exchange liquid.
FILED	Friday, April 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/082808
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/408
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08171775 — Material permeance measurement system and method

US 08171775	Hallman, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell Louis Hallman, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael John Renner (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A system for measuring the permeance of a material. The permeability of the material may also be derived. The system provides a liquid or high concentration fluid bath on one side of a material test sample, and a gas flow across the opposing side of the material test sample. The mass flow rate of permeated fluid as a fraction of the combined mass flow rate of gas and permeated fluid is used to calculate the permeance of the material. The material test sample may be a sheet, a tube, or a solid shape. Operational test conditions may be varied, including concentration of the fluid, temperature of the fluid, strain profile of the material test sample, and differential pressure across the material test sample.
FILED	Friday, July 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/829602
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/37
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08171900 — Engine including hydraulically actuated valvetrain and method of valve overlap control

US 08171900	Cowgill
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None)
INVENTOR(S)	Joel Cowgill (White Lake, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	An exhaust valve control method may include displacing an exhaust valve in communication with the combustion chamber of an engine to an open position using a hydraulic exhaust valve actuation system and returning the exhaust valve to a closed position using the hydraulic exhaust valve actuation assembly. During closing, the exhaust valve may be displaced for a first duration from the open position to an intermediate closing position at a first velocity by operating the hydraulic exhaust valve actuation assembly in a first mode. The exhaust valve may be displaced for a second duration greater than the first duration from the intermediate closing position to a fully closed position at a second velocity at least eighty percent less than the first velocity by operating the hydraulic exhaust valve actuation assembly in a second mode.
FILED	Monday, January 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/685061
ART UNIT	3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Internal-combustion engines 123/90.120
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08172913 — Array of planar membrane modules for producing hydrogen

US 08172913	Vencill et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas R. Vencill (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anand S. Chellappa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Shailendra B. Rathod (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A shared or common environment membrane reactor containing a plurality of planar membrane modules with top and bottom thin foil membranes supported by both an intermediary porous support plate and a central base which has both solid extended members and hollow regions or a hollow region whereby the two sides of the base are in fluid communication. The membrane reactor operates at elevate temperatures for generating hydrogen from hydrogen rich feed fuels.
FILED	Thursday, March 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/407705
ART UNIT	1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61
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08172940 — Treatment of fly ash for use in concrete

US 08172940	Boxley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Chett Boxley (Park City, Utah); Akash Akash (Salt lake City, Utah); Qiang Zhao (Natick, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A process for treating fly ash to render it highly usable as a concrete additive. A quantity of fly ash is obtained that contains carbon and which is considered unusable fly ash for concrete based upon foam index testing. The fly ash is mixed with an activator solution sufficient to initiate a geopolymerization reaction and for a geopolymerized fly ash. The geopolymerized fly ash is granulated. The geopolymerized fly ash is considered usable fly ash for concrete according to foam index testing. The geopolymerized fly ash may have a foam index less than 35% of the foam index of the untreated fly ash, and in some cases less than 10% of the foam index of the untreated fly ash. The activator solution may contain an alkali metal hydroxide, carbonate, silicate, aluminate, or mixtures thereof.
FILED	Thursday, July 12, 2007
APPL NO	11/776892
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/705
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08172964 — Pyrophoric metal-carbon foam composites and methods of making the same

US 08172964	Gash 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)	Alexander E. Gash (Brentwood, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Randall L. Simpson (Livermore, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Discovery Bay, California); Marcus A. Worsley (Belmont, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for creating a pyrophoric material according to one embodiment includes thermally activating a carbon foam for creating micropores therein; contacting the activated carbon foam with a liquid solution comprising a metal salt for depositing metal ions in the carbon foam; and reducing the metal ions in the foam to metal particles. A pyrophoric material in yet another embodiment includes a pyrophoric metal-carbon foam composite comprising a carbon foam having micropores and mesopores and a surface area of greater than or equal to about 2000 m²/g, and metal particles in the pores of the carbon foam. Additional methods and materials are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, December 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/329437
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/17
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08173007 — High temperature electrochemical characterization of molten metal corrosion

US 08173007	Xu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jing Xu (Niederschsen, Germany); Xingbo Liu (Morgantown, West Virginia); Yinglu Jiang (Morgantown, West Virginia); Frank Goodwin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for the high temperature in-situ determination of corrosion characteristics of a molten metal on an alloy under study is provided which takes place within an insulated furnace. A graphite crucible provided in the furnace contains an electrolyte formed from a molten salt of a metal halide. A reference electrode formed from the same metal as the electrolyte is immersed in the electrolyte solution in the graphite crucible. A beta-alumina crucible containing a molten metal is also provided within the furnace and preferably within the graphite crucible. A measuring electrode formed from the alloy under study is immersed in the molten metal. Standard electrochemical techniques are used to measure and analyze the electrochemical effects of corrosion of the molten metal on the alloy.
FILED	Thursday, May 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/128954
ART UNIT	1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/777
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08173075 — Device for generation of pulsed corona discharge

US 08173075	Gutsol et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexander F. Gutsol (San Ramon, California); Alexander Fridman (Marlton, New Jersey); Kenneth Blank (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sergey Korobtsev (Moscow, Russian Federation); Valery Shiryaevsky (Moscow, Russian Federation); Dmitry Medvedev (Moscow, Russian Federation)
ABSTRACT	The invention is a method and system for the generation of high voltage, pulsed, periodic corona discharges capable of being used in the presence of conductive liquid droplets. The method and system can be used, for example, in different devices for cleaning of gaseous or liquid media using pulsed corona discharge. Specially designed electrodes and an inductor increase the efficiency of the system, permit the plasma chemical oxidation of detrimental impurities, and increase the range of stable discharge operations in the presence of droplets of water or other conductive liquids in the discharge chamber.
FILED	Friday, July 13, 2007
APPL NO	12/373618
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186.40
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08173208 — Method for producing dustless graphite spheres from waste graphite fines

US 08173208	Pappano 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)	Peter J Pappano (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael R Rogers (Clinton, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A method for producing graphite spheres from graphite fines by charging a quantity of spherical media into a rotatable cylindrical overcoater, charging a quantity of graphite fines into the overcoater thereby forming a first mixture of spherical media and graphite fines, rotating the overcoater at a speed such that the first mixture climbs the wall of the overcoater before rolling back down to the bottom thereby forming a second mixture of spherical media, graphite fines, and graphite spheres, removing the second mixture from the overcoater, sieving the second mixture to separate graphite spheres, charging the first mixture back into the overcoater, charging an additional quantity of graphite fines into the overcoater, adjusting processing parameters like overcoater dimensions, graphite fines charge, overcoater rotation speed, overcoater angle of rotation, and overcoater time of rotation, before repeating the steps until graphite fines are converted to graphite spheres.
FILED	Wednesday, July 11, 2007
APPL NO	11/776085
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/212
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08173285 — Lithium battery management system

US 08173285	Dougherty
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Johnson Controls Technology Company (Holland, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas J. Dougherty (Waukesha, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Provided is a system for managing a lithium battery system having a plurality of cells. The battery system comprises a variable-resistance element electrically connected to a cell and located proximate a portion of the cell; and a device for determining, utilizing the variable-resistance element, whether the temperature of the cell has exceeded a predetermined threshold. A method of managing the temperature of a lithium battery system is also included.
FILED	Wednesday, February 01, 2006
APPL NO	11/921442
ART UNIT	1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/62
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08173322 — Tubular solid oxide fuel cells with porous metal supports and ceramic interconnections

US 08173322	Huang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin Huang (Export, Pennsylvania); Roswell J. Ruka (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	An intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell structure capable of operating at from 600° C. to 800° C. having a very thin porous hollow elongated metallic support tube having a thickness from 0.10 mm to 1.0 mm, preferably 0.10 mm to 0.35 mm, a porosity of from 25 vol. % to 50 vol. % and a tensile strength from 700 GPa to 900 GPa, which metallic tube supports a reduced thickness air electrode having a thickness from 0.010 mm to 0.2 mm, a solid oxide electrolyte, a cermet fuel electrode, a ceramic interconnection and an electrically conductive cell to cell contact layer.
FILED	Wednesday, June 24, 2009
APPL NO	12/490512
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/466
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08173364 — Methods and composition for the production of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyl tRNA synthetase pairs

US 08173364	Schultz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (San Diego, California); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978221
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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08173392 — In vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids

US 08173392	Schultz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978156
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08173393 — Expanding the eukaryotic genetic code

US 08173393	Chin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/978223
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08173574 — Catalysts to reduce NO_xin an exhaust gas stream and methods of preparation

US 08173574	Koermer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BASF Corporation (Florham Park, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald S. Koermer (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Ahmad Moini (Princeton, New Jersey); Howard Furbeck (Hamilton, New Jersey); Christopher R. Castellano (Ringoes, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Catalysts, systems and methods are described to reduce NO_xemissions of an internal combustion engine. In one embodiment, an emissions treatment system for an exhaust stream is provided having a catalyst comprising silver on a particulate alumina support, the silver having a diameter of less than about 20 nm. Methods of manufacturing catalysts are described in which ionic silver is impregnated on particulate hydroxylated alumina particles.
FILED	Wednesday, September 19, 2007
APPL NO	11/857896
ART UNIT	1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/348
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08173800 — Luminescent macrocyclic lanthanide complexes

US 08173800	Raymond et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth N. Raymond (Berkeley, California); Todd M. Corneillie (Campbell, California); Jide Xu (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a novel class of macrocyclic compounds as well as complexes formed between a metal (e.g., lanthanide) ion and the compounds of the invention. Preferred complexes exhibit high stability as well as high quantum yields of lanthanide ion luminescence in aqueous media without the need for secondary activating agents. Preferred compounds incorporate hydroxy-isophthalamide moieties within their macrocyclic structure and are characterized by surprisingly low, non-specific binding to a variety of polypeptides such as antibodies and proteins as well as high kinetic stability. These characteristics distinguish them from known, open-structured ligands.
FILED	Wednesday, August 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/839509
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 540/145
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08173863 — Sucrose biosensors and methods of using the same

US 08173863	Frommer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Wolf B. Frommer (Stanford, California); Ida Lager (Lund, Sweden)
ABSTRACT	Sucrose biosensors are disclosed, which comprise a sucrose binding domain conjugated to donor and fluorescent moieties that permit detection and measurement of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer upon sucrose binding. Such biosensors are useful for real time monitoring of sucrose metabolism in living cells.
FILED	Friday, October 14, 2005
APPL NO	12/083196
ART UNIT	1638 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278
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08173891 — Monolithic, multi-bandgap, tandem, ultra-thin, strain-counterbalanced, photovoltaic energy converters with optimal subcell bandgaps

US 08173891	Wanlass et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark W. Wanlass (Golden, Colorado); Angelo Mascarenhas (Lakewood, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Modeling a monolithic, multi-bandgap, tandem, solar photovoltaic converter or thermophotovoltaic converter by constraining the bandgap value for the bottom subcell to no less than a particular value produces an optimum combination of subcell bandgaps that provide theoretical energy conversion efficiencies nearly as good as unconstrained maximum theoretical conversion efficiency models, but which are more conducive to actual fabrication to achieve such conversion efficiencies than unconstrained model optimum bandgap combinations. Achieving such constrained or unconstrained optimum bandgap combinations includes growth of a graded layer transition from larger lattice constant on the parent substrate to a smaller lattice constant to accommodate higher bandgap upper subcells and at least one graded layer that transitions back to a larger lattice constant to accommodate lower bandgap lower subcells and to counter-strain the epistructure to mitigate epistructure bowing.
FILED	Thursday, May 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/121463
ART UNIT	1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/249
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08173960 — Low pressure electrospray ionization system and process for effective transmission of ions

US 08173960	Tang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Jason S Page (Kennewick, Washington); Ryan T Kelly (West Richland, Washington); Richard D Smith (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods that provide up to complete transmission of ions between coupled stages with low effective ion losses. An “interfaceless” electrospray ionization system is further described that operates an electrospray at a reduced pressure such that standard electrospray sample solutions can be directly sprayed into an electrodynamic ion funnel which provides ion focusing and transmission of ions into a mass analyzer. Furthermore, chambers maintained at different pressures can allow for more optimal operating conditions for an electrospray emitter and an ion guide.
FILED	Tuesday, May 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/468645
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/288
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08173981 — Gantry for medical particle therapy facility

US 08173981	Trbojevic
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)	Dejan Trbojevic (Wading River, New York)
ABSTRACT	A particle therapy gantry for delivering a particle beam to a patient includes a beam tube having a curvature defining a particle beam path and a plurality of fixed field magnets sequentially arranged along the beam tube for guiding the particle beam along the particle path. In a method for delivering a particle beam to a patient through a gantry, a particle beam is guided by a plurality of fixed field magnets sequentially arranged along a beam tube of the gantry and the beam is alternately focused and defocused with alternately arranged focusing and defocusing fixed field magnets.
FILED	Wednesday, July 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/511621
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/493.100
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08174136 — Adaptive pitch control for variable speed wind turbines

US 08174136	Johnson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Kathryn E. Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Lee Jay Fingersh (Westminster, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	An adaptive method for adjusting blade pitch angle, and controllers implementing such a method, for achieving higher power coefficients. Average power coefficients are determined for first and second periods of operation for the wind turbine. When the average power coefficient for the second time period is larger than for the first, a pitch increment, which may be generated based on the power coefficients, is added (or the sign is retained) to the nominal pitch angle value for the wind turbine. When the average power coefficient for the second time period is less than for the first, the pitch increment is subtracted (or the sign is changed). A control signal is generated based on the adapted pitch angle value and sent to blade pitch actuators that act to change the pitch angle of the wind turbine to the new or modified pitch angle setting, and this process is iteratively performed.
FILED	Wednesday, April 26, 2006
APPL NO	11/816455
ART UNIT	2839 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/44
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08175578 — Wireless device monitoring methods, wireless device monitoring systems, and articles of manufacture

US 08175578	McCown et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven H. McCown (Rigby, Idaho); Kurt W. Derr (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kenneth W. Rohde (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	Wireless device monitoring methods, wireless device monitoring systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, a wireless device monitoring method includes accessing device configuration information of a wireless device present at a secure area, wherein the device configuration information comprises information regarding a configuration of the wireless device, accessing stored information corresponding to the wireless device, wherein the stored information comprises information regarding the configuration of the wireless device, comparing the device configuration information with the stored information, and indicating the wireless device as one of authorized and unauthorized for presence at the secure area using the comparing.
FILED	Monday, May 07, 2007
APPL NO	11/745319
ART UNIT	2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/411
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RE043365 — Apparatus for chemical amplification based on fluid partitioning in an immiscible liquid

US RE43365	Anderson 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)	Brian L. Anderson (Lodi, California); Bill W. Colston (San Ramon, California); Christopher J. Elkin (San Ramon, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for nucleic acid amplification of a sample comprises partitioning the sample into partitioned sections and performing PCR on the partitioned sections of the sample. Another embodiment of the invention provides a system for nucleic acid amplification and detection of a sample comprising partitioning the sample into partitioned sections, performing PCR on the partitioned sections of the sample, and detecting and analyzing the partitioned sections of the sample.
FILED	Monday, September 27, 2010
APPL NO	12/891733
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	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

08171728 — High-efficiency liquid heat exchange in compressed-gas energy storage systems

US 08171728	Bollinger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (DOE-OE) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Benjamin Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont)
ABSTRACT	In various embodiments, efficiency of energy storage and recovery systems employing compressed air and liquid heat exchange is improved via control of the system operation and/or the properties of the heat-exchange liquid.
FILED	Friday, April 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/082808
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/408
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08172873 — Shape memory polymers

US 08172873	Anthamatten et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Rochester (Rochester, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mitchell L. Anthamatten (Rochester, New York); Jiahui Li (Rochester, New York); Christopher L. Lewis (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure relates to Shape Memory Polymers (SMP's) comprising function groups that allow the polymers to be elastically deformed, utilized in the elastically deformed state, and subsequently returned to the original polymorphic shape.
FILED	Monday, March 14, 2011
APPL NO	13/047354
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 66/231
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08172883 — Method of treating a degenerate spinal segment

US 08172883	Bowden et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Anton E. Bowden (Lindon, Utah); Larry L. Howell (Orem, Utah); Peter A. Halveson (Alpine, Utah); Eric M. Stratton (Provo, Utah)
ABSTRACT	A method of treating a degenerate spinal segment comprises obtaining a first spinal implant configured to apply a first torque to a degenerate spinal segment having an abnormal curvature and a second spinal implant configured to apply a second torque to the degenerate spinal segment. Each of the spinal implants includes; a plurality of contiguous segments in which the contiguous segments form an angle at a location in which two adjacent contiguous segments of the plurality of contiguous segments intersect; and at least one mounting connection configured to connect the spinal implant to a mounting mechanism, the mounting mechanism being configured to attach the spinal implant to the degenerate spinal segment. The first and second spinal implants are implanted so that the first torque and the second torque act to reduce the abnormal curvature.
FILED	Friday, February 19, 2010
APPL NO	12/709248
ART UNIT	3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 66/279
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08172998 — Ionic solvents used in ionic polymer transducers, sensors and actuators

US 08172998	Bennett et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems (CMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); University of Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew Bennett (Blacksburg, Virginia); Donald Leo (Blacksburg, Virginia); Gordon Wallace (Wollongong, Australia); Geoff Spinks (Balgownie, Australia)
ABSTRACT	Ionic liquids are incorporated into transducers, actuators or sensors which employ the ionic polymer membranes. The ionic liquids have superior electrochemical stability, low viscosity and low vapor pressure. The transducers, actuators and sensors which utilize ionic polymer membranes solvated with ionic liquids have long term air stability. Superior results are achieved when a conductive powder and ionomer mixture is applied to the ionic polymer membrane to form the electrodes during or after the ionic liquid is imbibed into the ionic polymer membrane.
FILED	Thursday, August 19, 2004
APPL NO	10/921347
ART UNIT	1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/415
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08173045 — Diels-Alder crosslinkable dendritic nonlinear optic chromophores and polymer composites

US 08173045	Jen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Zhengwei Shi (Seattle, Washington); Jingdong Luo (Seattle, Washington); Su Huang (Seattle, Washington); Xinghua Zhou (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Diels-Alder crosslinkable dendritic nonlinear optical chromophore compounds, films and crosslinked polymer composites formed from the chromophore compounds, methods for making and using the chromophore compounds, films, and crosslinked polymer composites, and electro-optic devices that include films and crosslinked polymer composites formed from the chromophore compounds.
FILED	Thursday, May 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/474174
ART UNIT	1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/500
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08173095 — Method and apparatus for producing graphene oxide layers on an insulating substrate

US 08173095	de Heer et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Walt A. de Heer (Atlanta, Georgia); Xiaosong Wu (Atlanta, Georgia); Michael Sprinkle (Mableton, Georgia); Claire Berger (Atlanta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	In a method of making a functionalized graphitic structure, a portion of a multi-layered graphene surface extending from a silicon carbide substrate is exposed to an acidic environment so as to separate graphene layers in a portion of the multi-layered graphene surface. The portion of the multi-layered graphene surface is exposed to a functionalizing material that binds to carbon atoms in the graphene sheets so that the functionalizing material remains between the graphene sheets, thereby generating a functionalized graphitic structure. The functionalized graphitic structure is dried in an inert environment.
FILED	Tuesday, September 30, 2008
APPL NO	12/241555
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/448
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08173335 — Beam ablation lithography

US 08173335	Drndic et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) American Chemical Society (ACS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Graduate Education (DGE) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D Fischbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Provided are beam ablation lithography methods capable of removing and manipulating material at the nanoscale. Also provided are nanoscale devices, nanogap field effect transistors, nano-wires, nano-crystals and artificial atoms made using the disclosed methods.
FILED	Friday, July 13, 2007
APPL NO	12/373607
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/30
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08173407 — Nanoengineered biophotonic hybrid device

US 08173407	LaBelle et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey T. LaBelle (Tempe, Arizona); Vincent B. Pizziconi (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	An improved method for the design and development of high performance hybrid devices having biological and nonbiological components. The biological component is used in hybrid constructs that may be nanostructures, given the small size of the biological parts. In one specific embodiment, chlorosomes of Chloroflexus aurantiacus (C. aurantiacus) enhance performance of a silicon photovoltaic cell. C. aurantiacus, strain J-10-f1, has the A.T.C.C. designation number 29366, having been deposited in July, 1976. Its chlorosomes are harvested and positioned in light communicating relation to a photoactive semiconductor. The chlorosomes react to light of a first wavelength by emitting light at a second wavelength to which the semiconductor electrically responds.
FILED	Thursday, June 26, 2008
APPL NO	12/215502
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/173.400
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08173596 — Prouroguanylin, and synthetic analogs or proteolytic cleavage products derived from it, as therapeutic and diagnostic agents for diseases involving salt and/or fluid homeostasis

US 08173596	Goy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience (IBN)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael F. Goy (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Nicholas G. Moss (Carrboro, North Carolina); Xun Qian (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A method for treating a disorder characterized by salt retention, fluid retention, and combinations thereof. A method for determining the presence of or the progression of a disorder characterized by salt retention, fluid retention, salt loss, fluid loss, and combinations thereof. An immunoassay kit for detecting a level of prouroguanylin in a sample.
FILED	Monday, May 16, 2005
APPL NO	11/596493
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12.400
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08173620 — BHQ-caged nucleotide probes photolysable by two-photon excitation

US 08173620	Dore et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy M. Dore (Athens, Georgia); Yue Zhu (Changchun, China PRC); Khalilah G. Reddie (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James D. Lauderdale (Statham, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure encompasses caged compounds such as caged nucleoside phosphoesters (caged nucleotides). In an embodiment, the caged nucleotides include compounds corresponding to those described by formula (I) that may be activated by two-photon excitation, and methods of synthesis of such compounds. 8-Bromo-7-hydroxyquinoline-caged ATP was synthesized and examined for its photochemistry as a biologically useful, temporally and spatially controlled ATP-releasing reagent. The combination of two-photon excitation hydrolysis and activation of caged ATP enables methods for finely focusing ATP activation at the sub-cellular level or to a greater depth of activation, thereby providing improved resolution of ATP-dependent processes at the cellular level.
FILED	Thursday, August 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/544523
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/47
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08174017 — Integrating three-dimensional high capacitance density structures

US 08174017	Pulugurtha et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Markondeya Raj Pulugurtha (Atlanta, Georgia); Devarajan Balaraman (Atlanta, Georgia); Isaac R. Abothu (Atlanta, Georgia); Rao Tummala (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are three-dimensional dielectric structures on high surface area electrodes and fabrication methods. Exemplary structures comprise a copper foil substrate, trench electrodes or high surface area porous electrode structures formed on the substrate, a insulating thin film formed on the surface and laminating the foil on a organic substrate. A variety of materials may be used to make the films including perovksite ceramics such as barium titanate, strontium titanate, barium strontium titanate (BST), lead zirconate titanate (PZT); other intermediate dielectric constant films such as zinc oxide, aluminum nitride, silicon nitride; typical paraelectrics such as tantalum oxide, alumina, and titania. The films may be fabricated using sol-gel, hydrothermal synthesis, anodization or vapor deposition techniques.
FILED	Wednesday, August 16, 2006
APPL NO	11/505201
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/68
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08174181 — Quantum dot white and colored light-emitting devices

US 08174181	Bawendi et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philips Lumileds Lighting Company LLC (San Jose, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason Heine (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jeffrey N. Miller (Los Altos Hills, California); Ronald L. Moon (Atherton, California)
ABSTRACT	A light-emitting device comprising a population of quantum dots (QDs) embedded in a host matrix and a primary light source which causes the QDs to emit secondary light and a method of making such a device. The size distribution of the QDs is chosen to allow light of a particular color to be emitted therefrom. The light emitted from the device may be of either a pure (monochromatic) color, or a mixed (polychromatic) color, and may consist solely of light emitted from the QDs themselves, or of a mixture of light emitted from the QDs and light emitted from the primary source. The QDs desirably are composed of an undoped semiconductor such as CdSe, and may optionally be overcoated to increase photoluminescence.
FILED	Thursday, August 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/208169
ART UNIT	2879 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503
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08174742 — System for applying optical forces from phase gradients

US 08174742	Roichman et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Yohai Roichman (New York, New York); Bo Sun (Elmhurst, New York); Yael Roichman (New York, New York); Jesse Amato-Grill (Sunnyside, New York); David G. Grier (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for creating extended optical traps for applying optical forces to a material to be manipulated for a commercial application. The system and method include applying a hologram of appropriate characteristics to a beam of light wherein the hologram characteristics include a transverse optical component to apply optical forces transverse to an optical axis of the system. A shape phase component achieves this transverse optical component and also intensity gradient components can be applied via the hologram to provide programmable extended optical traps for a selectable commercial application.
FILED	Friday, March 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/049107
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/1
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08176173 — Live botmaster traceback

US 08176173	Wang 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)	George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Xinyuan Wang (Clifton, Virginia); Daniel Ramsbrock (Glen Allen, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments locate a botmaster on a network. A honeynet host is configured to join a botnet and generate a watermarked packet flow by applying a watermark to an outgoing packet flow in response to commands from the botmaster. The watermark is applied to the outgoing packet flow by: choosing distinct packets from the outgoing packet flow; forming packet pair(s) from the distinct packets, that include a reference packet and an encoding packet; and encoding bits in the watermark to the packet pair(s) by increasing the length of the encoding packet when watermark bits have a predetermined value. The cooperating node(s) are configured to: inspect passing packet flows for the watermarked packet flow and generate tracking information related to detection of the watermarked packet flow. The path determination processor is configured to analyze the tracking information to locate a path taken by the watermarked packet flow.
FILED	Friday, September 11, 2009
APPL NO	12/557993
ART UNIT	2441 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224
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08176448 — Method for N-variant integrated circuit (IC) design, and IC having N-variant circuits implemented therein

US 08176448	Koushanfar
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Empire Technology Development LLC (Wilmington, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Farinaz Koushanfar (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Techniques are generally described for designing an integrated circuit (IC). In various embodiments, the techniques include designing, at a functional specification level, N-variants of a particular circuit. The various embodiments may then implement the designed N-variants as hardware in the IC. Additional variants and embodiments may also be disclosed.
FILED	Friday, June 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/479665
ART UNIT	2825 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/102
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

08173139 — High energy electron beam irradiation for the production of immunomodulators in poultry

US 08173139	McReynolds et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jackson L. McReynolds (Bryan, Texas); Suresh Pillai (College Station, Texas); Palmy Rose Rajan Jesudhasan (College Station, Texas); Martha Lucia Cepeda Hernandez (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Populations of Salmonella in animals may be substantially reduced by treatment with a vaccine composition which has been produced by exposing whole, intact cells of a Salmonella species to irradiation with an electron beam under conditions effective to kill the cells. The electron beam irradiated cells of Salmonella are effective for stimulating protective immune responses in the animals against the Salmonella. Induction of these immune responses significantly reduces or eliminates the colonization of the animal by the Salmonella, and consequently reduces or eliminates the shedding of Salmonella in the feces of the animals.
FILED	Thursday, September 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/556907
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/258.100
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08173179 — Granular bioplastic biocontrol composition

US 08173179	Abbas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Hamed K. Abbas (Greenville, Mississippi); Cesare Accinelli (Bologna, Italy); Robert M. Zablotowicz (Cleveland, Mississippi); Maria L. Sacca (Rome, Italy); Jeff Wilkinson (Beaumont, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Previous research demonstrated that aflatoxin contamination in corn is reduced by field application of wheat grains pre-inoculated with the non-aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus strain NRRL 30797. To facilitate field applications of the biocontrol isolate, a series of laboratory studies were conducted on the reliability and efficiency of replacing wheat grains with the novel bioplastic formulation Mater-Bi® to serve as a carrier matrix to formulate this fungus. Mater-Bi® granules were inoculated with a conidial suspension of NRRL 30797 to achieve a final cell density of ˜log 7 conidia/granule. Incubation of 20-g soil samples receiving a single Mater-Bi® granule for 60-days resulted in log 4.2 to 5.3 propagules of A. flavus/g soil for microbiologically active and sterilized soil, respectively. Increasing the number of granules had no effect on the degree of soil colonization by the biocontrol fungus. In addition to the maintenance of rapid vegetative growth and colonization of soil samples, the bioplastic formulation was highly stable, indicating that Mater-Bi® is a suitable substitute for biocontrol applications of A. flavus NRRL 30797.
FILED	Wednesday, February 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/703257
ART UNIT	1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725
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08173404 — Process for converting whole barley into fermentable sugars

US 08173404	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Tae Hyun Kim (Ames, Iowa); Kevin Hicks (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Frank Taylor (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A process for obtaining fermentable sugars from barley, involving treating hulled barley with H₂SO₄to produce acid treated barley and treating the acid treated barley with enzymes to produce fermentable sugars.
FILED	Tuesday, March 17, 2009
APPL NO	12/381890
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/137
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08173825 — Method of making fatty acid ester derivatives

US 08173825	Erhan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Sevim Z. Erhan (Peoria, Illinois); Kenneth M. Doll (Peoria, Illinois); Brajendra K. Sharma (Peoria, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Fatty acid ester derivatives and a process for their production from unsaturated fatty acids are disclosed. The process comprises: a) reacting an unsaturated fatty acid or an ester thereof having one or more sites of unsaturation, with an epoxidation reagent to form a fatty acid epoxide wherein at least one of the sites of unsaturation of the fatty acid or fatty acid ester is converted to an oxirane ring; and b) reacting the fatty acid epoxide produced in a) with a carboxylic acid to form a hydroxy fatty acid ester derivative wherein the oxirane ring is opened and converted to a hydroxy ester comprising a hydroxyl group at one carbon of the opened oxirane ring and an ester of the carboxylic acid at the other carbon of the opened oxirane ring.
FILED	Tuesday, March 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/717524
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 554/149
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08173869 — Plants expressing environmental stress tolerances having petunia CBF genes therein

US 08173869	Goldman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio); Agrivida, Inc. (Medford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen L. Goldman (Toledo, Ohio); Sairam Venkata Rudrabhatla (Middletown, Pennsylvania); Madasamy Parani (Chennai, India); Mark Styczynski (Somerville, Massachusetts); R. Michael Raab (Medford, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method of controlling a plant's tolerance to environmental stress and to a transgenic plant having the desired characteristics.
FILED	Friday, October 20, 2006
APPL NO	12/090908
ART UNIT	1638 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295
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PP022719 — Sweetpotato plant named ‘Bonita’

US PP22719	LaBonte et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Don R. LaBonte (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Arthur Q. Villordon (Monroe, Louisiana); Tara Smith (Chase, Louisiana); Christopher A. Clark (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
ABSTRACT	A new variety of sweetpotato identified as ‘Bonita’ is disclosed as having disease resistance to both southern root-knot nematode and soil rot, a white flesh, a high dry matter content, and high yield characteristics.
FILED	Monday, October 04, 2010
APPL NO	12/924725
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Plants PLT/258
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

08172233 — Seal with integrated shroud for androgenous docking and berthing in contaminated environments

US 08172233	Daniels
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher C. Daniels (Akron, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a specially configured seal system which provides a barrier to gas leakage flow between a pressurized module and its external environment. The seal includes a shroud covering which protects the sealing interface from its environment when not in use, and retracts to expose the sealing interface when mated. The seal system is constructed and arranged to mate with a seal of identical construction and arrangement or to mate with a flat surface.
FILED	Tuesday, June 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/758337
ART UNIT	3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Seal for a joint or juncture 277/583
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08173115 — Particle compositions with a pre-selected cell internalization mode

US 08173115	Decuzzi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Paolo Decuzzi (Bari, Italy); Mauro Ferrari (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method of formulating a particle composition having a pre-selected cell internalization mode involves selecting a target cell having surface receptors and obtaining particles that have i) surface moieties, that have an affinity for or are capable of binding to the surface receptors of the cell and ii) a preselected shape, where a surface distribution of the surface moieties on the particles and the shape of the particles are effective for the pre-selected cell internalization mode.
FILED	Tuesday, July 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/181759
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.170
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08174014 — Apparatus and method of manufacture for depositing a composite anti-reflection layer on a silicon surface

US 08174014	Pain
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and associated method are provided. A first silicon layer having at least one of an associated passivation layer and barrier is included. Also included is a composite anti-reflection layer including a stack of layers each with a different thickness and refractive index. Such composite anti-reflection layer is disposed adjacent to the first silicon layer.
FILED	Monday, December 07, 2009
APPL NO	12/632583
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/59
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08174695 — Arrayed micro-ring spectrometer system and method of use

US 08174695	Choi 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)	Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Glen C. King (Williamsburg, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Vesuvius, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A spectrometer system includes an array of micro-zone plates (MZP) each having coaxially-aligned ring gratings, a sample plate for supporting and illuminating a sample, and an array of photon detectors for measuring a spectral characteristic of the predetermined wavelength. The sample plate emits an evanescent wave in response to incident light, which excites molecules of the sample to thereby cause an emission of secondary photons. A method of detecting the intensity of a selected wavelength of incident light includes directing the incident light onto an array of MZP, diffracting a selected wavelength of the incident light onto a target focal point using the array of MZP, and detecting the intensity of the selected portion using an array of photon detectors. An electro-optic layer positioned adjacent to the array of MZP may be excited via an applied voltage to select the wavelength of the incident light.
FILED	Thursday, July 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/508018
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Small Business Administration (SBA)

08172177 — Stabilized UAV recovery system

US 08172177	Lovell et al.
FUNDED BY	Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Advanced Technology and Research Corp. (Columbia, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Gibert H. Lovell (Columbia, Maryland); Eric Chi-Kai Hui (Olney, Maryland); Merrill Keith Umbreit (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A stabilized UAV recovery system is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment for UAV recovery over water, the system includes ship-based elements and UAV-based elements. The ship-based elements include a robot arm that holds a capture mechanism over the side of the ship while compensating for wave-induced ship motion. The UAV-based elements include a hook mounted to the top of the UAV fuselage. With the capture mechanism held stable from the perspective of a UAV approaching from behind or in front of the mechanism, the UAV is flown under it, snagging an arresting line with the hook. With continued forward motion of the UAV, the arresting line pulls out of a winch drum that is coupled to a brake, bringing the UAV to rest.
FILED	Monday, June 01, 2009
APPL NO	12/455323
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 244/110.F00
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08172195 — Foundation adapter system

US 08172195	Fanucci 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)	KaZaK Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael McAleenan (Georgetown, Maine); Andrew F. Paddock (Billerica, Massachusetts); Kirk E. Survilas (Peabody, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A tiedown system foundation adapter system provides greater flexibility in spotting equipment on a support surface. An adapter module includes a plate assembly that drops into a slotted track system and is slid along the track system until it fits into an attachment point that restrains the plate assembly from vertical pullout and motion transverse to the track. The plate assembly is then locked into position to restrain it from further translation along the track. An equipment fitting is translatably mounted with respect to the upper surface and attaches to a complementary attachment fitting on the bottom of a piece of equipment. By locating a number of modules in desired locations along the tracks and locating the equipment fitting in each module, a piece of equipment can be oriented in virtually any position and location in the space to be furnished. A deck system for a flush floor is also provided.
FILED	Thursday, September 23, 2004
APPL NO	10/948599
ART UNIT	3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Supports 248/647
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08175814 — Synthetic microfluidic microvasculature network

US 08175814	Prabhakarpandian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian (Madison, Alabama); Shivshankar Sundaram (Madison, Alabama); Kapil Pant (Huntsville, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A synthetic microfluidic microvasculature network and associated methods mimic the structure, fluid flow characteristics, and physiological behavior of physiological microvasculature networks. Computational methods for simulating flow and particle adherence in synthetic and physiological microvascular systems and methods for determining parameters influencing particle adhesion and drug delivery are described with applications in the optimization of drug delivery and microvascular treatments and in describing disease mechanisms that affect the microvasculature.
FILED	Wednesday, April 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/428134
ART UNIT	1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Commerce (DOC)

08172126 — Joining of parts via magnetic heating of metal-aluminum powders

US 08172126	Baker
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Ian Baker (Etna, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	A method of joining at least two parts includes steps of dispersing a joining material comprising a multi-phase nanocrystalline magnetic metal-aluminum powder at an interface between the at least two parts to be joined and applying an alternating magnetic field (AMF). The AMF has a magnetic field strength and frequency suitable for inducing magnetic hysteresis losses in the metal-aluminum powder and is applied for a period that raises temperature of the metal-aluminum powder to an exothermic transformation temperature. At the exothermic transformation temperature, the metal-aluminum powder melts and resolidifies as a metal aluminide solid having a non-magnetic configuration.
FILED	Tuesday, May 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/993779
ART UNIT	1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Metal fusion bonding 228/233.100
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

08174694 — Hyperspectral imaging systems

US 08174694	Bodkin
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Bodkin Design and Engineering LLC (Newton, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Bodkin (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Hyperspectral imaging system and methods that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions are disclosed. A cylindrical lens array and/or a slit array may be used to re-image and divide a field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispersed into multiple spectral signatures and observed on a two-dimensional focal plane array in real time. The entire hyperspectral data cube is collected simultaneously.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/933253
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Non-Profit Organization (NPO)

08173335 — Beam ablation lithography

US 08173335	Drndic et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) American Chemical Society (ACS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Graduate Education (DGE) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D Fischbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Provided are beam ablation lithography methods capable of removing and manipulating material at the nanoscale. Also provided are nanoscale devices, nanogap field effect transistors, nano-wires, nano-crystals and artificial atoms made using the disclosed methods.
FILED	Friday, July 13, 2007
APPL NO	12/373607
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/30
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

U.S. State Government

PP022715 — Corylus plant named ‘Tonda Pacifica’

US PP22715	Mehlenbacher
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The State of Oregon, Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education, Orgeon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Shawn A. Mehlenbacher (Corvallis, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A new and distinct cultivar of Corylus plant named ‘Tonda Pacifica’ is provided.
FILED	Thursday, December 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/928688
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Plants PLT/152
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Government Rights Acknowledged

08173130 — Antibodies against flagellin and uses thereof

US 08173130	Salzman et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Lexington, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew L. Salzman (Herzliya, Israel); Kanneganti Murthy (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a novel class of monoclonal antibodies which have a high affinity, broad spectrum neutralizing reactivity to flagellin from various Gram-negative bacteria including, but not limited to, E. coli, Salmonella, Serratia, Proteus, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Campylobacter and Pseudomonas. The present invention further provides methods of treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and methods of treating enterobacterial infections using anti-flagellin antibodies in humans, other animals and birds.
FILED	Friday, September 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/231777
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/150.100
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08173837 — Process for the production of L-citrulline from watermelon flesh and rind

US 08173837	Fish
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculure (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Wayne W. Fish (Bartlesville, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	L-citrulline may be extracted from watermelons using a process which does not require rigorous extraction with alcoholic and/or acidic solvents, or treatment at high temperatures. In the process, the watermelon juice is contacted with an adsorbent effective for adsorption of L-citrulline thereon, and the juice is separated therefrom. The L-citrulline on the adsorbent may then be eluted and recovered. Lycopene-containing microparticles may also be separated from the watermelon juice prior to contact with the adsorbent.
FILED	Thursday, December 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/630294
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 562/514
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08174449 — Non-woven textile microwave patch antennas and components

US 08174449	Deaett et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Applied Radar, Inc. (North Kingstown, Rhode Island)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael A. Deaett (North Kingstown, Rhode Island); William H. Weedon, III (Warwick, Rhode Island); Behnam Pourdeyhimi (Cary, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A microwave patch antenna comprising: a plurality of conductive antenna patterns; a plurality of groundplanes; a plurality of feed elements; a plurality of feed slots to allow feed elements to pass through the non-woven dielectric spacers; and a plurality of dielectric separator layers comprised of corrugated non-woven fabric as necessary to form a patch antenna construction.
FILED	Thursday, August 07, 2008
APPL NO	12/188137
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 343/700.MS0
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08175846 — Fault splitting algorithm

US 08175846	Khalak et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Asif Khalak (Phoenix, Arizona); C. Arthur Dins (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Bradley John Barton (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Randy Magnuson (Scottsdale, Arizona); Qingqiu Ginger Shao (Oro Valley, Arizona); David Michael Kolbet (Scottsdale, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	The present application relates to a method of splitting a fault condition including receiving evidence observations of a monitored system from monitors connected in a many-to-many relationship to the failure modes, generating a fault condition, computing a relative probability of failure for each failure mode in the fault condition. When there is more than one failure mode in the fault condition, the method includes computing a relative probability of each pair of failure modes in the fault condition, ranking the computed relative probabilities of the individual failure modes and the computed relative probabilities of the pairs of failure modes. If the highest ranked failure mode is a pair of failure modes, the fault condition is split based on the failure modes in the highest ranked pair of failure modes are split. If the highest ranked failure mode is an individual failure mode, a failure is isolated based on the ranking.
FILED	Thursday, February 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/366472
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

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