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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Department of Defense (DOD)

08181292 — Seat cushion

US 08181292	Pellettiere
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)	Joseph A. Pellettiere (Centerville, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A semi-active seat cushion is disclosed that comprises a plurality of chambers for containing a pressurized fluid, wherein each chamber is connected to at least one other chamber by an orifice that provides a fluid connection; a supply conduit for supplying a pressurized fluid to each of the plurality of chambers; and at least one relief valve that permits rapid and controlled deflation of the plurality of chambers.
FILED	Tuesday, September 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/559602
ART UNIT	3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Beds 05/654
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08181540 — Measurement of sliding friction-induced vibrations for biomimetic tactile sensing

US 08181540	Loeb et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald E. Loeb (South Pasadena, California); Jeremy Fishel (Long Beach, California); Nicholas Wettels (Los Angeles, California); Veronica J. Santos (Tempe, Arizona); Raymond Peck (Long Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	Tactile sensors are disclosed that mimic the human fingertip and its touch receptors. The mechanical components are similar to a fingertip, with a rigid core surrounded by a weakly conductive fluid contained within an elastomeric skin. The deformable properties of the finger pad can be used as part of a transduction process. Multiple electrodes can be mounted on the surface of the rigid core and connected to impedance measuring circuitry within the core. External forces deform the fluid path around the electrodes, resulting in a distributed pattern of impedance changes containing information about those forces and the objects that applied them. Strategies are described for extracting features related to the mechanical inputs and using this information for reflexive grip control. Controlling grip force in a prosthetic having sensory feedback information is described. Pressure transducers can provide sensory feedback by measuring micro-vibrations due to sliding friction.
FILED	Thursday, April 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/417532
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/862.590
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08181564 — Fuel pump

US 08181564	Rosu 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)	Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Cristian A. Rosu (Gillingham, United Kingdom); Alexandre C. T. Baudot (Gillingham, United Kingdom); Jonathan Gardner (Gillingham, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	A fuel pump for use in an internal combustion engine, the fuel pump comprising a pumping plunger for pressurising fuel within a pump chamber during a plunger pumping stroke, a rider member co-operable with a drive, and an interface member, for example a foot of the plunger or an intermediate tappet, for imparting drive from the rider member to the pumping plunger to perform the plunger pumping stroke. The interface member comprises an arcuate contact surface co-operable with the rider member. The inventive concept also extends to a pumping plunger for pressurising fuel within a pump chamber of a fuel pump, the pumping plunger comprising a foot having an arcuate contact surface for engaging a rider member of a fuel pump in use.
FILED	Friday, October 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/287689
ART UNIT	3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Expansible chamber devices 092/129
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08181576 — Projectile for standoff destruction of explosive devices

US 08181576	Amato 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)	Brian T. Amato (Alexandria, Virginia); Steven Kim (Crofton, Maryland); Gerald Laib (Olney, Maryland); Carl Gotzmer (Accokeek, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A projectile for safe standoff destruction of explosive devices. The projectile's casing encloses a chamber containing combustible material located opposite a roughened surface on the chamber. The combustible material is mounted so upon the projectile impacting the explosive device, the combustible material flies onto the roughened surface, heating the material by shear forces and igniting the material. This creates pressure bursting the chamber, injecting combustion gases into the explosive fill within the device, thereby igniting the fill locally at the impact, and along cracks in the fill. This arrangement prevents a coherent detonation wavefront from forming within the fill, and a slower burn of the fill, whereby a rifleman has little chance of receiving a concussive shock, or shrapnel, from the device.
FILED	Friday, May 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/802456
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 12/499
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08181906 — Method and apparatus for ram deceleration in a launch system

US 08181906	Koessler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Interior (DOI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey H. Koessler (Tucson, Arizona); Brian L. Cochran (Tucson, Arizona); Mark A. DeBake (Casa Grande, Arizona); Steven J. Elder (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	One embodiment includes a launch vessel defining an elongate, linear interior extending from a bottom portion to an exit opening. The embodiment includes a ram slidably disposed in the launch vessel, the ram sealed to the vessel. The embodiment also includes one or more wedges coupled to the launch vessel along the interior proximal the exit opening, with each wedge shape sized to increasingly narrow a cross section of the interior along an exit vector extending from the bottom portion toward the exit opening. In the embodiment, the vessel is to house a charge proximal the bottom portion, the charge to propel the ram along the exit vector, with the one or more wedges sized to stop be ram inside the interior.
FILED	Thursday, April 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/417418
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 244/63
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08182183 — Systems and methods for securing components

US 08182183	Cook et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P. (Greenville, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Jay W. Cook (China Spring, Texas); Herbert A. Courtney, III (Hubbard, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for securing seats and other components to a seat track that may be implemented to provide flush symmetric and asymmetric seat track fitting assemblies that accommodate variances in the height of seat track extrusions. A component may be secured to mate directly with a seat track fitting surface and uppermost surface (flange) of a seat track, and with a fitting securing component (retainer or capture component) that provides additional load path in the lateral shear plane (X axis) while optimizing length of thread engagement of the component fastener.
FILED	Tuesday, November 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/313269
ART UNIT	3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/105
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08182208 — Gas turbine systems involving feather seals

US 08182208	Bridges, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph W. Bridges, Jr. (Durham, Connecticut); Tracy A Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Systems involving feather seals are provided. A representative vane assembly for a gas turbine engine includes: a first mounting platform having a first slot; a first airfoil extending from the first mounting platform; and a feather seal having opposing faces, a first side extending between the faces, and a first tab, the first tab extending outwardly beyond the first side; the first slot being sized and shaped to receive the feather seal including the first tab.
FILED	Tuesday, July 10, 2007
APPL NO	11/775330
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/139
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08182584 — Method for recovering potable water from the exhaust of an internal combustion engine

US 08182584	Kirts
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)	Richard Eugene Kirts (Oxnard, California)
ABSTRACT	A water recovery method which uses a desiccant, such as lithium chloride, to recover water vapor from the engine exhaust of a vehicle.
FILED	Tuesday, August 31, 2010
APPL NO	12/873193
ART UNIT	1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Gas separation: Processes 095/187
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08182617 — Nitrogen alloyed stainless steel and process

US 08182617	Moyer
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth A. Moyer (Cinnaminson, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The present invention comprises the nitrogen alloying of stainless steel with a gaseous nitrogen compound such as nitrogen gas (N₂), or ammonia (NH₃) at high temperature wherein the reaction pressure is lowered. A base powder with properties similar to those of a martensitic stainless steel is prepared from a molten metal with the subsequent incorporation of selective additives such as cobalt, chromium, boron, copper, vanadium, niobium and mixtures thereof to improve high temperature resistance to scuffing and adhesive wear. The molten mixture is then atomized by water- or air-atomization to yield a base powder which is mixed with nitrogen or ammonia gas at various pressures in a static or fluidized bed to provide a nitrogen alloyed particulate, i.e., a nitrided particulate alloy. The powder is heated in a hot isostatic press under vacuum with argon gas at reduced pressure and later cooled to ambient temperature.
FILED	Monday, November 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/951355
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Metal treatment 148/230
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08182643 — Large composite structures and a process for fabricating large composite structures

US 08182643	Fanucci et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) 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)
ABSTRACT	In a process for fabricating large structures, a composite material panel is continuously pultruded in a pultrusion die assembly and cut transversely to the process direction to provide panel sections. The panel sections can be sufficiently long to extend from one end to an opposite end of the structure. The panel sections are assembled with a joint along adjacent edges using steel-to-composite and composite-to-composite joining technology. The joints can be integrated into the panel longitudinal edges, or separate joint assemblies can be fabricated. In this manner, fewer joints are required. A variety of in-plane and out-of-plane joint assemblies are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, December 17, 2003
APPL NO	10/738503
ART UNIT	1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/304.500
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08182715 — Chemical combination for the generation of disinfectant and heat

US 08182715	Doona et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher Doona (Oxford, Massachusetts); Maria Curtin (Easton, Massachusetts); Irwin A. Taub (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barbara G. Taub, legal representative (Framingham, Massachusetts); Kenneth Kustin (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention comprises a lightweight, portable chemical combination of reagents for sterilizing or disinfecting objects in the absence of electrical power or fire. The chemical combination includes a chemical oxidant with the capacity to liberate a biocidal intermediate, a chemical reductant of the oxidant with the capacity to react with the oxidant, and an effector to induce a reaction between the oxidant and reductant. In one embodiment, the oxidant comprises chlorite, the reductant comprises sulfite, and the effector comprises ascorbate. In another embodiment, the chemical combination comprises the oxidant, reductant, effector and iron-activated magnesium. When water or water solutions are added to either embodiment, the chemical combination generates heat, steam and a biocidal intermediate that can destroy contaminating microorganisms. In one embodiment, the biocidal intermediate is a halogen-based biocidal intermediate, such as chlorine dioxide. In another embodiment, the biocidal intermediate is a halogen-free biocidal intermediate.
FILED	Tuesday, May 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/471953
ART UNIT	1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/187.230
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08182787 — System and process for producing high-pressure hydrogen

US 08182787	Collings et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Collings (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Ronald C. Timpe (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus are provided for use in producing high-pressure hydrogen from natural gas, methanol, ethanol, or other fossil fuel-derived and renewable hydrocarbon resources. The process can produce hydrogen at pressures ranging from 2000 to 12,000 pounds per square inch (psi) using a hydrogen carrier, with or without high-pressure water, and an appropriate catalyst. The catalyst reacts with the hydrogen carrier and, optionally, high-pressure water, in a catalytic reformer (20) maintained under desired temperature and pressure conditions.
FILED	Thursday, June 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/492071
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100
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08182881 — Methods for reducing stress when applying coatings, processes for applying the same and their coated articles

US 08182881	Strock et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher W. Strock (Kennebunk, Maine); Richard M. Kabara (Cromwell, Connecticut); John F. Corini (Barkhamsted, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A process for applying a coating to an axially split component includes the steps of installing at least one expansion or contraction device to at least one half of an axially split component; expanding at least one half to change a radius and maintain a constant curvature of at least one masked piece; applying a coating to the half; and, removing at least one expansion or contraction device from at least one half.
FILED	Wednesday, December 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/343537
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/448
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08182917 — Reduced graphene oxide film

US 08182917	Robinson 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)	Jeremy T. Robinson (Washington, District of Columbia); Eric S Snow (Springfield, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Spin coating a mixture of graphene oxide platelets, water, and an organic solvent by placing a drop of the mixture on a spinning substrate while blowing a drying gas onto the substrate and allowing the water and the organic solvent on the substrate to evaporate; and repeating the spin coating one or more times to form a graphene oxide film in contact with the substrate. An about 1-100 nm thick film of overlapping platelets of reduced graphene oxide.
FILED	Friday, February 06, 2009
APPL NO	12/366833
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/408
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08183012 — Methods and composition for the production of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyltRNA synthetase pairs

US 08183012	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 (LaJolla, 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 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); Steven William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); 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, December 10, 2004
APPL NO	11/009635
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08183082 — Fabrication of organic solar array for applications in microelectromechanical systems and others

US 08183082	Lewis 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)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason Lewis (Lutz, Florida); Jian Zhang (Tampa, Florida); Xiaomei Jiang (Tampa, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A method of fabricating organic solar arrays for application in DC power supplies for electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. A solar array with 20 miniature cells (as small as 1 mm²) interconnected in series is fabricated and characterized. Photolithography is used to isolate individual cells and output contacts of the array, whereas the thermal-vacuum deposition is employed to make the series connections of the array. With 1 mm²for single cell and a total device area of 2.2 cm², the organic solar array based on bulk heterojunction structure of π-conjugated polymers and C60 derivative (6,6)-phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester produces an open-circuit voltage of 7.8 V and a short-circuit current of 55 μA under simulated air mass (AM) 1.5 illumination with an intensity of 132 mW/cm². The present method can be used in the fabrication of microarrays as small as 0.01 mm². This technology can be used to fabricate a power source that is light-weight and environmentally friendly for small electronic devices, with flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
FILED	Thursday, December 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/630398
ART UNIT	2822 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/73
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08183164 — Method for preferential growth of semiconducting vertically aligned single walled carbon nanotubes

US 08183164	Qu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Liangti Qu (Dayton, Ohio); Liming Dai (Beavercreek, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for the preferential growth of semiconducting vertically-aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-SWNTs) is provided. The method combines the use of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition at low pressure with rapid heating. The method provides a high yield of up to approximately 96% semiconducting SWNTs in the VA-SWNT array. The as-synthesized semiconducting SWNTs can be used directly for fabricating field effect transistor (FET) devices without the need for any post-synthesis purification or separation.
FILED	Wednesday, July 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/511517
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/775
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08183178 — Iterated branching reaction pathways via nucleic acid-mediated chemistry

US 08183178	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christopher T. Calderone (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods and compositions for performing multi-step nucleic acid mediated synthesis of a highly diverse collection of molecules, for example, small molecules and polymers. In the method, in at least two steps, multiple reaction intermediates and/or products are produced in the same step by different chemical reactions.
FILED	Friday, June 16, 2006
APPL NO	11/917609
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	Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/16
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08183180 — Graphene compositions and drilling fluids derived therefrom

US 08183180	Tour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); Jay R. Lomeda (Houston, Texas); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Houston, Texas); Condell D. Doyle (Nocona, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Drilling fluids comprising graphenes and nanoplatelet additives and methods for production thereof are disclosed. Graphene includes graphite oxide, graphene oxide, chemically-converted graphene, and functionalized chemically-converted graphene. Derivatized graphenes and methods for production thereof are disclosed. The derivatized graphenes are prepared from a chemically-converted graphene through derivatization with a plurality of functional groups. Derivatization can be accomplished, for example, by reaction of a chemically-converted graphene with a diazonium species. Methods for preparation of graphite oxide are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, July 08, 2010
APPL NO	12/832797
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Earth boring, well treating, and oil field chemistry 57/103
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08183249 — Inhibitors of AKT/PKB with anti-tumor activity

US 08183249	Cheng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida); Mei Sun (Tampa, Florida); Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The subject invention concerns materials and methods for inhibiting the Akt/PKB pathway. In one embodiment, a compound of the invention inhibits kinase activity and/or phosphorylation levels of Akt proteins. The subject invention also concerns methods for inhibiting or killing a cancer cell or other cell in which expression of an Akt protein is elevated or constitutively active, comprising contacting the cell with an effective amount of a compound of formula I. The subject invention also concerns methods for treating cancer or a tumor in a person or animal comprising administering all effective amount of a compound of formula I to the person or animal.
FILED	Monday, July 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/172831
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/266.200
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08183274 — Treatment of hyperproliferative disorders with diarylhydantoin compounds

US 08183274	Sawyers et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Shanghai, China PRC); Samedy Ouk (Costa Mesa, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to diarylhydantoin compounds, including diarylthiohydantoins, and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer.
FILED	Thursday, February 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/708523
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/391
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08183358 — Puumala virus full-length M segment-based DNA vaccines

US 08183358	Hooper
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)	Jay Hooper (New Market, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention contemplates a new synthetic, codon-optimized Puumala virus (PUUV) full-length M gene open reading frame (ORF) that encodes a unique consensus amino acid sequence. The PUUV ORF was cloned into a plasmid to form the first stable PUUV full-length M gene that elicits neutralizing antibodies. The gene can be engineered into a molecular vaccine system, and is useful to protect mammals against infection with Puumala virus.
FILED	Tuesday, February 12, 2008
APPL NO	12/449504
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.720
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08183390 — Bis(thienyl)isopyrazoles and process for preparing and method for using bis(thienyl)isopyrazoles

US 08183390	Irvin 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 J. Irvin (San Marcos, Texas); David L. Witker (Bay City, Michigan); John D. Stenger-Smith (Ridgecrest, California); Jennifer A. Irvin (San Marcos, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The invention demonstrates the synthesis of a new pyrazole-containing monomer by means of an easily implemented two-step process. This monomer can be electropolymerized to yield a stable n-doping polymer that may easily be electrochemically characterized. It is demonstrated that the electrochemical behavior of the polymer films produced is dependent upon the conditions applied during electrodeposition. Films deposited by cycling only at relatively positive potentials (0 to 2000 mV) show less intense n-doping responses than those films obtained by scanning the applied potential throughout a wider range (−2000 mV to 2000 mV).
FILED	Wednesday, August 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/858993
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 549/59
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08183426 — Decontaminating sheet material containing reactive nanocrystalline particles and products constructed therefrom

US 08183426	Cole 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)	NanoScale Corporation (Manhattan, Kansas); Kappler, Inc. (Guntersville, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason R. Cole (Arab, Alabama); Philip Mann (Langston, Alabama); Shyamala Rajagopalan (Manhattan, Kansas); Olga Koper (Manhattan, Kansas)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides a sorptive sheet material in which finely divided nanocrystalline particles that react with a variety of chemical and/or biological agents are dispersed. The sheet material comprises a fibrous web that is formed of a plurality of fibers that are bonded to each other. The fibrous web contains a relatively high concentration of reactive nanocrystalline particles that are entrapped within the matrix of the fibrous web. Fluids containing toxic agents, such as chemical and/or biological agents, odors and/or odor causing compounds, and toxic industrial compounds, pass into the web and contact the reactive nanocrystalline particles contained therein. The reactive nanocrystalline particles react with, and chemically alter or inactivate the toxic agents. The sorptive sheet material may be used to construct containers, such as remains pouches, for the storing and transporting of contaminated items, particularly human remains.
FILED	Friday, October 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/249137
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/313
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08183451 — System and methods for communicating data by translating a monitored condition to music

US 08183451	Panaiotis
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Panaiotis (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A system and methods for continuously communicating data regarding the status of a monitored condition using music, which trained persons can recognize and interpret. One or more data collector devices monitor conditions and provide data regarding the status of the conditions to an analyzing device. The analyzing device receives the data and creates data music that is played on an audio device with reference music establishing the Hierarchal Music Structure (HMS) to the listener. The data music is a musical representation of the data against the reference music, which are played on an audio device.
FILED	Thursday, November 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/617312
ART UNIT	2832 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Music 084/601
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08183508 — Pyrotechnic fin deployment and retention mechanism

US 08183508	Sankovic
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Simmonds Precision Products, Inc. (Vergennes, Vermont)
INVENTOR(S)	John R. Sankovic (Chesterland, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A fin retention and deployment mechanism includes a detent in each of a plurality of fins, a mechanism that engages the detent, and at least one spring clip that maintains each of the fins in a non-deployed position. The mechanism also includes a gas generator, a manifold, coupled to the gas generator and having a plurality of cylinders in fluid communication with gas from the gas generator, and a plurality of pistons disposed in the cylinders. A bottom of each of the pistons is coupled to each of the fins to provide deployment thereof when a corresponding top of each of the pistons is acted upon by gas from the gas generator. In response to the gas generator expelling gas, the pistons may move the fins to a deployed position.
FILED	Wednesday, November 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/927310
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 244/3.270
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08183512 — Optically-triggered power system and devices

US 08183512	Mazumder et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Sudip K. Mazumder (Chicago, Illinois); Tirthajyoti Sarkar (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A power device is provided in an optically-triggered power system having a controller for generating electrical control signals and a converter for converting the electrical control signals to optical control signals. The power device includes a pair of terminals and a P-body region provided adjacent an N⁺ source region. An optical window is provided at least partially over the P-body region, and an N⁻ drift region is provided between the two terminals. The P-body region causes current to conduct between the first and second terminal through the N⁻ drift region when an optical control signal is incident on the optical window.
FILED	Friday, June 23, 2006
APPL NO	11/922185
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/214.SW0
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08184009 — Humidity-sensitive cutoff fuse

US 08184009	Kim
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)	Yoonkee Kim (Freehold, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A humidity-sensitive cutoff fuse RFID tag is provided with a bimorph element and thin conductive bridges positioned on an RFID tag substrate that can react to all changes in storage humidity conditions. The bimorph element is configured and positioned so that when it bends in response to one or more predetermined humidity levels, the bimorph element will break one of the conductive bridges and cause an open circuit that can be detected when the RFID tag is interrogated by a sensor. The humidity-sensitive cutoff fuse RFID tag can provide humidity information about numerous stored objects such as food, medicine, chemicals, batteries, explosives and munitions. Multiple humidity conductive bridge cutoff fuse RFID tag arrangements and methods for notifying the user when a predetermined storage humidity limit has been reached with a passive humidity-sensitive cutoff fuse RFID tag are provided. Since it does not require power to operate, the cutoff fuse is suitable for monitoring a long-term storage condition.
FILED	Tuesday, May 10, 2011
APPL NO	13/068464
ART UNIT	2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Electrical 340/602
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08184033 — High fidelity, radiation tolerant analog-to-digital converters

US 08184033	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles Chang-I Wang (Milpitas, California); Ivan Richard Linscott (Mountain View, California); Umran S. Inan (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	Techniques for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using pipeline architecture includes a linearization technique for a spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) over 80 deciBels. In some embodiments, sampling rates exceed a megahertz. According to a second approach, a switched-capacitor circuit is configured for correct operation in a high radiation environment. In one embodiment, the combination yields high fidelity ADC (>88 deciBel SFDR) while sampling at 5 megahertz sampling rates and consuming <60 milliWatts. Furthermore, even though it is manufactured in a commercial 0.25-μm CMOS technology (1 μm=12⁻⁶meters), it maintains this performance in harsh radiation environments. Specifically, the stated performance is sustained through a highest tested 2 megarad(Si) total dose, and the ADC displays no latchup up to a highest tested linear energy transfer of 63 million electron Volts square centimeters per milligram at elevated temperature (131 degrees C.) and supply (2.7 Volts, versus 2.5 Volts nominal).
FILED	Wednesday, May 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/778875
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coded data generation or conversion 341/161
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08184371 — Thin film interference filter and bootstrap method for interference filter thin film deposition process control

US 08184371	Myrick
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael L. Myrick (Irmo, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A thin film interference filter system includes a plurality of stacked films having a determined reflectance; a modeled monitor curve; and a topmost layer configured to exhibit a wavelength corresponding to one of the determined reflectance or the modeled monitor curve. The topmost layer is placed on the plurality of stacked films and can be a low-index film such as silica or a high index film such as niobia.
FILED	Monday, June 21, 2010
APPL NO	12/819560
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/586
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08184555 — SpaceWire network management

US 08184555	Mouton et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher Andre Mouton (Los Angeles, California); Ketao Liu (Cerritos, California); Brian C. Thompson (Hermosa Beach, California); Christopher J. Epple (Redondo Beach, California); Richard Louis Singleton (Redondo Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for SpaceWire network management are disclosed involving a network and a network manager (NM). The network includes a plurality of switches and a plurality of nodes. The switches and nodes do not have any preprogrammed knowledge of the network topology and/or of their unit identification (UID) code. In one or more embodiments, the network is a spacecraft communications network. In at least one embodiment, the method for managing the SpaceWire network comprises the network manager (NM) determining link connectivity of the network; verifying the switches are properly configured to allow for logical address routing; and verifying the nodes are configured to process, receive, and transmit data through the network. In some embodiments, the method further comprises determining newly added units, removed units, and/or unresponsive units in the network, and propagating this information through an active unit table.
FILED	Wednesday, June 24, 2009
APPL NO	12/491135
ART UNIT	2476 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/254
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08184572 — Real time control and management of a TDMA radio

US 08184572	Kraus et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Wayne A. Kraus (Marion, Iowa); Daniel M. Zange (Robins, Iowa); Karl F. Hoech (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Robert J. Frank (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	A method is provided to control scheduling of transmission and reception by a TDMA radio. This method allows individual transmissions and receptions to be independently configured for different frequencies, coding rates, modulation schemes, in fact anything which the radio modem allows to be configured. In addition, this scheduling and configuration may be configured and reconfigured in real time without disrupting radio operations.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2007
APPL NO	12/002902
ART UNIT	2478 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/322
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08184653 — Systems and methods for a cognitive radio having adaptable characteristics

US 08184653	Dain et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Dmitry Dain (Herndon, Virginia); Igor Bazarov (Herndon, Virginia); Jevgenijs Livsics (Vienna, Virginia); Mark A. McHenry (McLean, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for configuring a network of radios for dynamic spectrum access are described. A network radio can include hardware and/or software modules for detecting a radio environment and negotiating common communications channels with a plurality of other radios in the network. Network radio behavior can be defined by a plurality of predefined policies which are used in combination with the information about the radio environment to select common operating parameters.
FILED	Wednesday, August 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/839496
ART UNIT	2462 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/431
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08184678 — Method and system for transmitting signals with reduced spurious emissions

US 08184678	McHenry
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An RF power amplifier architecture minimizes spurious emissions by breaking the transmitted signal into narrow spectrum sub-bands, amplifying each separately, and then combining the signals for transmission purposes.
FILED	Friday, July 11, 2008
APPL NO	12/171450
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/219
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08184773 — Path planning and collision avoidance for movement of instruments in a radiation therapy environment

US 08184773	Cheng 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)	Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Chieh C Cheng (Redlands, California); David A Lesyna (Redlands, California); Michael F Moyers (Colton, California)
ABSTRACT	Apparatus and methods for therapy delivery are disclosed. In one embodiment, a therapy delivery system includes a plurality of movable components including a radiation therapy nozzle and a patient pod for holding a patient, a patient registration module for determining a desired position of at least one of the plurality of movable components, and a motion control module for coordinating the movement of the least one of the plurality of movable components from a current position to the desired position. The motion control module includes a path planning module for simulating at least one projected trajectory of movement of the least one of the plurality of moveable components from the current position to the desired position.
FILED	Thursday, April 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/082239
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/117
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08184963 — Nozzle-based, vapor-phase, plume delivery structure for use in production of thin-film deposition layer

US 08184963	Wendt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Global Solar Energy, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert G. Wendt (Tucson, Arizona); Scott Wiedeman (Tucson, Arizona); Jeffrey S. Britt (Tucson, Arizona); Douglas G. Mason (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible.
FILED	Thursday, May 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/154550
ART UNIT	3742 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Electric resistance heating devices 392/389
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08185221 — Multifunction receiver-on-chip for electronic warfare applications

US 08185221	Stroili et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Frank D. Stroili (Hollis, New Hampshire); James M. Huggett (Brookline, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	What is provided is a receiver-on-a-chip comprising a monolithic integrated circuit that reduces the receiver to a cigarette-pack-sized assembly mountable directly at an antenna element, with a much-increased operational bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth, increased dynamic range and with a two-order-of-magnitude decrease in size and weight. Moreover, because of the elimination of all of the I/O drivers and attendant circuitry, power consumption is reduced by two-thirds, whereas the mean time before failure is increased to 10,000 hours due to the robustness of the monolithic integrated circuit and use of fiber optics.
FILED	Wednesday, April 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/386681
ART UNIT	2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/90
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08185241 — Tracked robotic crawler having a moveable arm

US 08185241	Jacobsen
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen C. Jacobsen (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	A tracked robotic crawler capable of multiple movement moves is disclosed. In one embodiment, the tracked robotic crawler includes at least one frame unit, the frame unit having a continuous track rotatably coupled thereto. Disposed on the at least one frame unit is at least one articulated arm, the arm being movable relative to the frame unit in at least one dimension. The articulated arm helps to improve mobility of the tracked robotic crawler in various environments.
FILED	Tuesday, November 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/985336
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/250
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08185255 — Robust control effector allocation

US 08185255	Lavretsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Eugene Lavretsky (Los Angeles, California); Ryan D. Diecker (Freeburg, Illinois); Joseph S. Brinker (Highland, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Method and apparatus is disclosed which allocates the execution of a commanded vehicle maneuver among the vehicle's control effectors capable of affecting such maneuver, with consideration given to the possible nonlinear and/or non-monotonic effects each control effector's displacement may have on the vehicle and on each other's performance.
FILED	Friday, November 30, 2007
APPL NO	11/948611
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3
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08185260 — Prognostic and health management accuracy maintenance system and method

US 08185260	Delaloye 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)	James Delaloye (Mesa, Arizona); David A. Payne (Phoenix, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A prognostic and health accuracy maintenance system and method for a system following on-site replacement of a component in the system is provided. A system characterization model of at least portions of the system is generated and embedded within a controller in the system. The system characterization model is adapted to receive a plurality of signals that are each representative of an operational parameter within the system and is responsive to each of the signals to generate simulation response data and determine system health based, at least in part, on the simulation response data. When a component within the system is replaced, a determination is made as to whether the replacement component exhibits one or more operational performance characteristics that differ from the component it replaced. If so, the embedded system characterization model is updated in-situ.
FILED	Thursday, February 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/370371
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 71/4
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08185261 — Systems and methods for attitude propagation for a slewing angular rate vector

US 08185261	Patera
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) at El Segundo, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell P. Patera (Torrance, California)
ABSTRACT	Computer-based systems and methods for determining attitude of a moveable object. Attitude is determined by a transformation matrix {right arrow over (U)} from a body coordinate frame of the moveable object to an inertial reference frame. The transformation matrix is determined by: (i) determining a slew rate vector, {right arrow over (α)}, for time t_Nfor the moveable object that represents a change in direction of an angular rate vector, {right arrow over (ω)}, for the moveable object over the time interval from t_N−1to t_Nin the body coordinate frame; (ii) determining an update to the transformation matrix for time t_Nthat is based on a product of two matrices, the first matrix being related to a sum of {right arrow over (ω)} and {right arrow over (α)}, and the second matrix being related to −{right arrow over (α)}; and (iii) multiplying a transformation matrix for time t_N−1and the update to the transformation matrix for time t_Nto obtain the transformation matrix for time t_N.
FILED	Tuesday, July 07, 2009
APPL NO	12/498750
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/4
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08185292 — Method for estimation of at least one engine parameter

US 08185292	Litt
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)	Jonathan S. Litt (Pepper Pike, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A system comprising determination of tuning parameters enabling optimal estimation of unmeasured engine outputs, e.g., thrust. The level of degradation of engine performance is generally described by unmeasurable health parameters related to each major engine component. Accurate thrust reconstruction depends upon knowledge of these health parameters, but there are usually too few sensors to estimate their values. A set of tuning parameters is determined which accounts for degradation by representing the overall effect of the larger set of health parameters as closely as possible in a least squares sense. The method utilizes the singular value decomposition of a matrix to generate a tuning parameter vector of low enough dimension that it can be estimated by a Kalman filter. Generation of a tuning vector specifically takes into account the variables of interest. The tuning parameters facilitate matching of both measured and unmeasured engine outputs, as well as state variables.
FILED	Monday, December 20, 2010
APPL NO	12/973385
ART UNIT	3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/100
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08185352 — Benchmarking correlated stream processing systems

US 08185352	Anderson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph P. Bigus (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric Bouillet (Jersey City, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A system, method, and computer program product for benchmarking a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises generating a plurality of correlated test streams. A semantically related data set is embedded within each of the test streams in the plurality of correlated test streams. The plurality of correlated test streams is provided to at least one stream processing system. A summary is generated for each of the semantically related embedded data sets. A common identifier, which is transparent to the system being tested, is embedded within each stream in the plurality of correlated test streams. The common identifier is extracted from the output data set generated by the stream processing system. At least one of the stored copies of the summaries and the common identifier are compared to an output data set including a set of zero or more correlation results generated by the stream processing system.
FILED	Tuesday, June 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/140418
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/186
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08185357 — Nonlinear blind demixing of single pixel underlying radiation sources and digital spectrum local thermometer

US 08185357	Szu 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)	Harold H. Szu (Bethesda, Maryland); James R. Buss (Arlington, Virginia); Ivica Kopriva (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	Changes, increase or decrease, in the body fluid are passively detected by using a single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure, which can be extended to general biomedical measurement and diagnosis instruments. More specifically, the single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure in applied on the hot spots of rheumatic arthritis or breast cancer detection problem using passive two-color infrared imaging, as well as to passively detect blockages in the body fluid circulatory system that might be of importance for coronary artery bypass surgery, diabetes and deep vein thrombosis. Other applications of the mentioned algorithm include a pair of cameras for video, a pair of antennas for cell phones, and in situ data gathering or imaging using multiple mode fiber-optical sensing, as well as selective amplification hearing aids through two-ear binaural processing for de-noise echo cancellation and signal classification.
FILED	Tuesday, July 17, 2007
APPL NO	11/890100
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189
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08185371 — Modeling full and half cycle clock variability

US 08185371	Bhanji 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)	Adil Bhanji (Wappingers Falls, New York); Sean Michael Carey (Hyde Park, New York); Jack Dilullo (Austin, Texas); Prashant D Joshi (Austin, Texas); Don Richard Rozales (Hyde Park, New York); Vern Anthony Victoria (Wappingers Falls, New York); Albert Thomas Williams (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A modeling system includes a processor with software that performs static timing analysis (STA) on a design model. STA software executes a static timing analysis (STA) run with shortened clock cycles to model full cycle clock variability. Designers or other entities interpret the results of the shortened STA run data by performing modeling on the output data to generate slack data for design model data paths. STA software executes an STA run with an extended clock cycle to automatically separate half cycle data path (HCDP) slack data from full cycle data path (FCDP) slack data. The full and half cycle clock variability method may automatically adjust slack data for all half cycle data paths (HCDP)s to account for the additional half cycle variation (AHCV) and half cycle clock edge variability that may penalize the design model results in a real hardware implementation.
FILED	Wednesday, April 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/424400
ART UNIT	2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/19
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08185481 — Spectral clustering for multi-type relational data

US 08185481	Long et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Bo Long (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Zhongfei Zhang (Vestal, New York)
ABSTRACT	A general model is provided which provides collective factorization on related matrices, for multi-type relational data clustering. The model is applicable to relational data with various structures. Under this model, a spectral relational clustering algorithm is provided to cluster multiple types of interrelated data objects simultaneously. The algorithm iteratively embeds each type of data objects into low dimensional spaces and benefits from the interactions among the hidden structures of different types of data objects.
FILED	Thursday, May 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/125804
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12
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08185490 — Class-specific iterated subspace classifier

US 08185490	Baggenstoss
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)	Paul M. Baggenstoss (Newport, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A method is provided for calculating a class-specific iterated subspace for a classification system utilized in a computing system. Training data in the specific class for the class-specific iterated subspace is collected. A linear orthogonal transform is applied transforming the data into at least one bin. Magnitude squared bins are calculated and used as columns of a matrix. Orthonormal vectors of this matrix are selected and a J function is calculated. The J function and orthonormal starting vectors are used to obtain the class-specific iterated subspace for each class. The method further applies these class-specific iterated subspaces in a classification system for determining the most likely class of a data signal of interest.
FILED	Wednesday, August 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/536157
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/48
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08185800 — System for error control coding for memories of different types and associated methods

US 08185800	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 Heights, New York); Luis A. Lastras-Montano (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Warren Edward Maule (Cedar Park, Texas); Barry M. Trager (Yorktown Heights, New York); Shmuel Winograd (Scarsdale, New York)
ABSTRACT	A system to improve error control coding. An example system includes memory chips of at least two different kinds. The system also includes error control encoder circuitry to substantially encode data for storage in any memory rank. The system further includes error control decoder circuitry to substantially decode encoded data received from any memory rank. The error decoder circuitry is comprised of a slow decoder and a fast decoder.
FILED	Thursday, January 31, 2008
APPL NO	12/023408
ART UNIT	2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/763
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08185801 — System to improve error code decoding using historical information and associated methods

US 08185801	Dell 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)	Timothy J. Dell (Colchester, Vermont); Luis A. Lastras-Montano (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Barry M. Trager (Yorktown Heights, New York); Shmuel Winograd (Scarsdale, New York)
ABSTRACT	A system to improve error code decoding using historical information. An example system includes storage partitioned into memory ranks, and a table to record symbols having failures for each memory rank. The system generates a memory rank score for each memory rank. The system also includes an error control decoder that uses the memory rank score when each memory rank is accessed in order to determine whether an error should be corrected or not.
FILED	Thursday, January 31, 2008
APPL NO	12/023445
ART UNIT	2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/763
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08185896 — Method for data processing using a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture

US 08185896	Arimilli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Edward J. Seminaro (Milton, New York); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method is provided for implementing a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture. In order to implement a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture, a plurality of processors are coupled to one another to create a plurality of processor books. The plurality of processor books are coupled together to create a plurality of supernodes. Then, the plurality of supernodes are coupled together to create the multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture. Data is then transmitted from one processor to another within the multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture based on an addressing scheme that specifies at least a supernode and a processor book associated with a target processor to which the data is to be transmitted.
FILED	Monday, August 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/845207
ART UNIT	2493 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/100
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

08181544 — Liquid sample evaporator for vapor analysis

US 08181544	Crosson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Picarro, Inc. (Santa Clara, California); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric Crosson (Mountain View, California); Bruce A. Richman (Sunnyvale, California); Bruce H. Vaughn (Boulder, Colorado); James W. C. White (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Preparation methods for introducing liquid samples to gas analysis instruments include 1) complete evaporation of a liquid sample in a sample chamber, and 2) allowing the sample vapor in the sample chamber to equilibrate for a predetermined time. An inert carrier gas (e.g., dry nitrogen or zero air) is also admitted to the sample chamber. After equilibration, the sample vapor is admitted as a conditioned sample to an analysis instrument. Preferably, the predetermined equilibration time is sufficiently long that the sample vapor in the sample chamber becomes substantially homogeneous with respect to both concentration and isotopic ratio. Vapor derived from a liquid calibration standard in this manner can be employed as an accurate gas-phase calibration reference.
FILED	Tuesday, November 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/313375
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/864.850
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08182520 — Apparatus for altering the body temperature of a patient

US 08182520	Schock et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Life Recovery Systems HD, LLC (Waldwick, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert B. Schock (Sparta, New Jersey); Marc Cote (Cornwall, New York); William J. Ohley (Wakefield, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	Apparatus for altering the body temperature of a patient includes an enclosure defining an interior space for receiving at least a portion of a patient's body therein. The enclosure is constructed to conduct a heat transfer liquid into direct contact with the portion of the patient's body received in the interior space to promote heat transfer between the patient's body and the heat transfer liquid. A reservoir for holding a supply of heat transfer liquid is disposed on the enclosure.
FILED	Friday, December 07, 2007
APPL NO	11/952599
ART UNIT	3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/108
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08182809 — Methods for treating cancer by inhibiting MIC shedding

US 08182809	Wu
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Jennifer D. Wu (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are compositions and methods for treating cancer, comprising administering to an individual having cancer an agent to prevent MIC shedding (initiated at the alpha-3 ectodomain of MIC) by a tumor cell. Also provided herein are screening assays for identifying, or testing the efficacy of, an agent for increasing sensitivity of a tumor to immune cell-mediated killing.
FILED	Tuesday, September 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/555194
ART UNIT	1642 — 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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08182819 — Composition and method for facilitating the internalization of a therapeutic agent into a cell

US 08182819	Nowak 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)	Romana A. Nowak (Urbana, Illinois); Robert J. Belton, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is a composition and method for facilitating the internalization of a therapeutic agent into a cell. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of the extracellular domain of basigin-2, cyclophilin, or anti-basigin-2 antibody or antibody fragment as a delivery moiety for internalization of a therapeutic agent.
FILED	Thursday, May 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/106154
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100
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08182820 — Method for inducing cross-reactive immune responses to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a host by administering feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) capsid (CA) or reverse transcriptase (RT) immunogens

US 08182820	Yamamoto 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)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Janet K. Yamamoto (Gainesville, Florida); Jennifer White Janelle (Gainesville, Florida); Barbara Aurea Torres (Gainesville, Florida); Maki Arai (Gainesville, Florida); Taishi Tanabe (Gainesville, Florida); Ruiyu Pu (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The subject invention pertains to materials and methods for detecting, preventing and treating retroviral infections in humans and other animals susceptible to infection by retrovirus. It has been discovered that FIV can be transmitted from cats to humans and that the FIV can infect human cells in vivo and that antibodies generated by the infected person cross-react with HIV antigens. Thus, the methods and compositions of the subject invention can be used to detect, prevent and treat FIV infection in humans and other non-feline animals that are susceptible to FIV infection. The methods and compositions of the invention can also be used to prevent and treat infection by HIV in humans.
FILED	Thursday, March 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/407730
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/207.100
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08182840 — Amniotic membrane preparations and purified compositions and therapy for scar reversal and inhibition

US 08182840	Tseng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Tissue Tech, Inc. (Miami, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Songgang Town, China PRC)
ABSTRACT	Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases.
FILED	Wednesday, September 27, 2006
APPL NO	11/528902
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/583
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08182841 — Amniotic membrane preparations and purified compositions and anti-inflammation methods

US 08182841	Tseng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Tissue Tech, Inc. (Miami, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Songgang Town, China PRC)
ABSTRACT	Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases.
FILED	Wednesday, September 27, 2006
APPL NO	11/529658
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/583
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08182878 — Metal-enhanced fluorescence from plastic substrates

US 08182878	Geddes 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 Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Chris D. Geddes (Bel-Air, Maryland); Kadir Aslan (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods for functionally modifying a polymeric surface for subsequent deposition of metallic particles and/or films, wherein the polymeric surface is modified by increasing hydroxyl and/or amine functional groups thereby providing an activated polymeric surface for deposition of metallic particles to form a fluorescence sensing device. The device can be used for metal-enhanced fluorescence of fluorophores positioned above the metallic particles that can be readily applied to diagnostic or sensing applications of metal-enhanced fluorescence.
FILED	Tuesday, November 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/301900
ART UNIT	1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/402
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08182992 — Compositions for use in identification of adventitious viruses

US 08182992	Sampath
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compositions, kits and methods for rapid identification and quantification of adventitious contaminant viruses by molecular mass and base composition analysis.
FILED	Friday, March 03, 2006
APPL NO	11/885656
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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08183000 — Diagnosis of liver pathology through assesment of protein glycosylation

US 08183000	Block et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelpha, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy M. Block (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Mary Ann Comunale (Bangor, Pennsylvania); Anand Mehta (Lansdale, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Methods for diagnosing pathology of the liver in a subject suspected of having such pathology are disclosed. The methods comprise quantifiably detecting lectin binding on proteins in biological fluids, and comparing the detected lectin binding with reference values for the binding of lectin of such proteins in healthy or disease states.
FILED	Tuesday, August 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/853486
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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08183001 — Methods and compositions related to GABA receptor subunits

US 08183001	Bamber et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce A. Bamber (Toledo, Ohio); Bryan B. Wardell (Farmington, Utah)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are compositions and methods related to GABA_Areceptors.
FILED	Monday, May 21, 2007
APPL NO	12/301565
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210
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08183012 — Methods and composition for the production of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyltRNA synthetase pairs

US 08183012	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 (LaJolla, 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 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); Steven William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); 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, December 10, 2004
APPL NO	11/009635
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08183038 — Composition comprising recombinant nucleic acid encoding Sox2, Oct-4, Nanog and Lin28

US 08183038	Thomson 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)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Junying Yu (Middleton, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods for reprogramming a somatic cell to pluripotency by administering into the somatic cell at least one or a plurality of potency-determining factors. The invention also relates to pluripotent cell populations obtained using a reprogramming method.
FILED	Thursday, March 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/727061
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	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100
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08183040 — Methods for in vitro differentiation of Th-17+cells

US 08183040	Manel 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)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Nicolas Manel (New York, New York); Dan R. Littman (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to an in vitro method for promoting differentiation and proliferation of human T helper lymphocytes that express IL17 (Th-IL17+ cells). The instant method may be used to generate a population of human T helper lymphocytes that express IL17 (Th-IL17+ cells) in vitro. Methods for screening to identify agents capable of modulating Th-IL17+ cell differentiation are also encompassed by the present invention. Isolated, pure populations of homogeneous Th-IL17+ cells that do not express cellular markers characteristic of Th1, Th2, or Treg cells are also encompassed herein.
FILED	Wednesday, April 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/386355
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372
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08183046 — Temperature resistant pH buffers for use at low temperatures

US 08183046	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Hee-Jung Hwang (Baltimore, Maryland); Nathan Sieracki (Champaign, Illinois); Dewain Garner (Savoy, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method for preparing a composition that includes selecting a pH of the composition; selecting a first buffer with a negative temperature coefficient; selecting a second buffer with a positive temperature coefficient; and forming the composition comprising the first buffer and the second buffer. The composition has an average temperature coefficient, ΔpH/ΔT(T_a,T_b)≦1×10⁻³pH-unit/K and a ΔpH(T_a,T_b)≦0.31 pH-unit for T_a=4 K and T_b=313 K.
FILED	Thursday, January 11, 2007
APPL NO	11/622098
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/18
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08183178 — Iterated branching reaction pathways via nucleic acid-mediated chemistry

US 08183178	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christopher T. Calderone (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods and compositions for performing multi-step nucleic acid mediated synthesis of a highly diverse collection of molecules, for example, small molecules and polymers. In the method, in at least two steps, multiple reaction intermediates and/or products are produced in the same step by different chemical reactions.
FILED	Friday, June 16, 2006
APPL NO	11/917609
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	Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/16
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08183211 — Pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting intestinal permeability

US 08183211	Fasano
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Alessio Fasano (West Friendship, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method for preventing or delaying the onset of autoimmune diseases is disclosed.
FILED	Wednesday, August 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/536158
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.700
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08183249 — Inhibitors of AKT/PKB with anti-tumor activity

US 08183249	Cheng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida); Mei Sun (Tampa, Florida); Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The subject invention concerns materials and methods for inhibiting the Akt/PKB pathway. In one embodiment, a compound of the invention inhibits kinase activity and/or phosphorylation levels of Akt proteins. The subject invention also concerns methods for inhibiting or killing a cancer cell or other cell in which expression of an Akt protein is elevated or constitutively active, comprising contacting the cell with an effective amount of a compound of formula I. The subject invention also concerns methods for treating cancer or a tumor in a person or animal comprising administering all effective amount of a compound of formula I to the person or animal.
FILED	Monday, July 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/172831
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/266.200
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08183274 — Treatment of hyperproliferative disorders with diarylhydantoin compounds

US 08183274	Sawyers et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Shanghai, China PRC); Samedy Ouk (Costa Mesa, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to diarylhydantoin compounds, including diarylthiohydantoins, and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer.
FILED	Thursday, February 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/708523
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/391
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08183282 — Therapeutic uses of urolithins

US 08183282	Seeram et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Navindra P. Seeram (Los Angeles, California); David Heber (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	The subject invention is drawn to ellagitannin metabolites (e.g., urolithin) that find use in treating or preventing a neoplastic disease in a subject.
FILED	Thursday, April 26, 2007
APPL NO	12/298122
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/455
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08183344 — Inactivation resistant factor VIII

US 08183344	Kaufman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Randal J. Kaufman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Steven W. Pipe (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides novel purified and isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding procoagulant-active FVIII proteins. The nucleic acid sequences of the present invention encode amino acid sequences corresponding to known human FVIII sequences, wherein residue Phe309 is mutated. The nucleic acid sequences of the present invention also encode amino acid sequences corresponding to known human FVIII sequences, wherein the APC cleavage sites, Arg336 and Ile562, are mutated. The nucleic acid sequences of the present invention further encode amino acid sequences corresponding to known human FVIII sequences, wherein the B-domain is deleted, the von Willebrand factor binding site is deleted, a thrombin cleavage site is mutated, an amino acid sequence spacer is inserted between the A2- and A3-domains. Methods of producing the FVIII proteins of the invention, nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins, pharmaceutical compositions containing the nucleotide sequences or proteins, as well as methods of treating patients suffering from hemophilia, are also provided.
FILED	Friday, June 16, 2006
APPL NO	11/455116
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/383
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08183345 — Recombinant factor VIII having reduced inactivation by activated protein C

US 08183345	Fay et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Rochester (Rochester, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Philip J. Fay (Pittsford, New York); Hironao Wakabayashi (Rochester, New York); Fatbardha Varfaj (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a recombinant factor VIII that is characterized by one or more mutations within a region surrounding an activated protein C cleavage site, which one or more mutations result in a reduced rate of inactivation by activated protein C. Isolated nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors, and host cells suitable for expression of the recombinant factor VIII are also disclosed. The recombinant factor VIII can be used for the treatment of clotting disorders, such as hemophilia A.
FILED	Friday, July 25, 2008
APPL NO	12/179951
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/383
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08183352 — Attenuated vif DNA immunization cassettes for genetic vaccines

US 08183352	Ayyavoo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Velpandi Ayyavoo (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Thanadavarayan Nagashunmugam (Havertown, Pennsylvania); David B. Weiner (Merion Station, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to nucleic acid molecules encoding attenuated, non-functional virion infectivity factor (vif) proteins. The nucleic acid molecules of the invention are inserted into recombinant expression vectors and administered to mammals in order to induce a cellular and humoral immune response to the encoded protein product.
FILED	Friday, December 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/639542
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.100
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08183354 — Virus coat protein/receptor chimeras and methods of use

US 08183354	DeVico et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Anthony L. DeVico (Alexandria, Virginia); Timothy R. Fouts (Columbia, Maryland); Robert G. Tuskan (Woodsboro, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to chimeric molecules comprising a virus coat sequence and a receptor sequence that can inter-act with each other to form a complex that is capable of binding a co-receptor. Such chimeric molecules therefore exhibit functional properties characteristic of a receptor-coat protein complex and are useful as agents that inhibit virus infection of cells due to occn-panty of co-receptor present on the cell, for example. In particular aspects, the chimeric polypeptide includes an immunodeficiency virus envelope polypeptide, such as that of HIV, SIV, FIV, FeLV, FPV and herpes virus. Receptor sequences suitable for use in a chimeric polypeptide include, for example, CCR5 and CXCR4 sequences.
FILED	Thursday, November 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/940445
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.100
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08183379 — Antitumor agents

US 08183379	Horwitz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Jerome P. Horwitz (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Lisa Polin (Oak Park, Michigan); Stuart T. Hazeldine (Taylor, Michigan); Thomas H. Corbett (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein Y is F or Br; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds are effective antitumor agents. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula I or a salt thereof, intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I, therapeutic methods comprising administering a compound of formula I or a salt thereof to a mammal in need thereof, and methods of inhibiting cancer cells.
FILED	Friday, November 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/271009
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 546/157
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08183395 — Compositions and methods for treating cancer

US 08183395	Falkowski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul Falkowski (Princeton, New Jersey); Eric H. Andrianasolo (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada); Liti Haramaty (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Eileen White (Princeton, New Jersey); Richard Lutz (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Compounds of formulas I-IV: (I), (II), (III) (IV), wherein: R₁and R₄-R₂₃are independently selected from H and 1-3 carbon lower alkyl; and R₂and R₃are independently selected from H, 1-3 carbon lower O II alkyl, and —C—R_a, wherein R_ais 1-3 carbon lower alkyl. Pharmaceutical compositions, which include any of Compounds I-IV and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, methods of inducing tumor cell apoptosis by administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of any of Compounds I-IV, and methods for obtaining any of Compounds I-IV by extracting the compound from coral are also provided.
FILED	Wednesday, March 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/530415
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 549/396
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08183451 — System and methods for communicating data by translating a monitored condition to music

US 08183451	Panaiotis
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Panaiotis (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A system and methods for continuously communicating data regarding the status of a monitored condition using music, which trained persons can recognize and interpret. One or more data collector devices monitor conditions and provide data regarding the status of the conditions to an analyzing device. The analyzing device receives the data and creates data music that is played on an audio device with reference music establishing the Hierarchal Music Structure (HMS) to the listener. The data music is a musical representation of the data against the reference music, which are played on an audio device.
FILED	Thursday, November 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/617312
ART UNIT	2832 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Music 084/601
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08183531 — System and method for tomography combining single and paired photons

US 08183531	Chinn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Garry Chinn (San Mateo, California); Craig S. Levin (Palo Alto, California); Angela M. Foudray (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems for producing an image. Measurement data is obtained for a coincidence photon event, and a line projector function is generated based on the obtained measurement data. Additional measurement data is obtained for a single photon event, and a cone-surface projector function is generated based on the additional measurement data. An image is reconstructed using the generated line projector function and the generated cone-surface projector function. In another example method for producing an image, a measurement is obtained, and a projector function is generated using the obtained measurement. The generated projector function is modified based on an a priori image. An image is reconstructed using the modified projector function.
FILED	Wednesday, May 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/154206
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/363.40
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08183648 — Nanoscopic electrode molecular probes

US 08183648	Krstic 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 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Predrag S. Krstic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vincent Meunier (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhancing the electron transport property measurements of a molecule when the molecule is placed between chemically functionalized carbon-based nanoscopic electrodes to which a suitable voltage bias is applied. The invention includes selecting a dopant atom for the nanoscopic electrodes, the dopant atoms being chemically similar to atoms present in the molecule, and functionalizing the outer surface and terminations of the electrodes with the dopant atoms.
FILED	Monday, January 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/321823
ART UNIT	2891 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/414
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08184298 — Spatial light interference microscopy and fourier transform light scattering for cell and tissue characterization

US 08184298	Popescu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Zhuo Wang (Urbana, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for rendering quantitative phase maps across and through transparent samples. A broadband source is employed in conjunction with an objective, Fourier optics, and a programmable two-dimensional phase modulator to obtain amplitude and phase information in an image plane. Methods, referred to as Fourier transform light scattering (FTLS), measure the angular scattering spectrum of the sample. FTLS combines optical microscopy and light scattering for studying inhomogeneous and dynamic media. FTLS relies on quantifying the optical phase and amplitude associated with a coherent image field and propagating it numerically to the scattering plane. Full angular information, limited only by the microscope objective, is obtained from extremely weak scatterers, such as a single micron-sized particle. A flow cytometer may employ FTLS sorting.
FILED	Thursday, May 21, 2009
APPL NO	12/454660
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450
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08184885 — System and method for visualizing a structure of interest

US 08184885	Ishikawa et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Hiroshi Ishikawa (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Joel S. Schuman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gadi Wollstein (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A system. The system includes a computing device configured for communication with an imaging system and with a display device. The computing device includes a contour modeling module. The contour modeling module is configured for superimposing reference anchors on a cross-sectional image generated from 3D image data, for generating a line which connects the reference anchors, for sampling the 3D image data in a variable thickness plane defined by the connecting line, and for generating a contour-modeled C-mode image from the sampled 3D image data.
FILED	Thursday, July 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/179481
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/131
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08185186 — Systems and methods for tissue imaging

US 08185186	Ross 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 Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian D. Ross (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Alnawaz Rehemtulla (Plymouth, Michigan); Thomas L. Chenevert (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles R. Meyer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kuei C. Lee (San Antonio, Texas); Kenneth Pienta (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Maha Hussein (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anne Schott (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides systems and methods for monitoring tissue regions. In particular, the present invention provides systems and methods for detecting changes in tissue regions over a period of time. In some embodiments, the systems and methods of the present invention are used to evaluate the effectiveness of a particular treatment of a tissue region. In some embodiments, the systems and methods employ functional diffusion map algorithms for imaging changes in tissue regions over time and/or in response to therapeutic interventions.
FILED	Friday, April 11, 2008
APPL NO	12/101753
ART UNIT	3768 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/410
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08185320 — Systems and methods for automated analysis of cells and tissues

US 08185320	Rimm et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	David L. Rimm (Branford, Connecticut); Robert L. Camp (Stamford, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed.
FILED	Monday, August 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/894297
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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08185383 — Methods and apparatus for adapting speech coders to improve cochlear implant performance

US 08185383	Zeng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Fan-Gang Zeng (Irvine, California); Hongbin Chen (Irvine, California)
ABSTRACT	Cochlear implant performance is improved by extracting pitch information and encoding such pitch information into the processor of a cochlear implant. One embodiment of the invention is to explicitly extract the pitch and deliver it to the cochlear implant by co-varying the stimulated site and rate. Another embodiment of the invention is to implicitly encode the pitch information via a code book that serves as the carrier of stimulation in the cochlear implant.
FILED	Friday, July 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/880240
ART UNIT	2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/207
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08185551 — Disk-resident streaming dictionary

US 08185551	Kuszmaul et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Research Foundation of State University of NY (Stony Brook, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Bradley C. Kuszmaul (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael A. Bender (East Northport, New York); Martin Farach-Colton (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method, apparatus and computer program product for storing data in a disk storage system is presented. A dictionary data structure is defined and stored on the disk storage system. Key-value pairs can be inserted and deleted into the dictionary data structure, with full transactional semantics, at a rate that is faster than one insertion per disk-head movement. Keys can be looked up with only a logarithmic number of transfers, even for keys that have been recently inserted or deleted. Queries can be performed on ranges of key-value pairs, including recently inserted or deleted pairs, at a constant fraction of the bandwidth of the disk. The dictionary employs indirect logging for physical block logging.
FILED	Friday, June 08, 2007
APPL NO	11/760379
ART UNIT	2156 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/790
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Department of Energy (DOE)

08181891 — Monolithic fuel injector and related manufacturing method

US 08181891	Ziminsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Willy Steve Ziminsky (Greenville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greenville, South Carolina); Benjamin Lacy (Greenville, South Carolina); William David York (Greenville, South Carolina); Christian Xavier Stevenson (Greenville, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A monolithic fuel injection head for a fuel nozzle includes a substantially hollow vesicle body formed with an upstream end face, a downstream end face and a peripheral wall extending therebetween, an internal baffle plate extending radially outwardly from a downstream end of the bore, terminating short of the peripheral wall, thereby defining upstream and downstream fuel plenums in the vesicle body, in fluid communication by way of a radial gap between the baffle plate and the peripheral wall. A plurality of integral pre-mix tubes extend axially through the upstream and downstream fuel plenums in the vesicle body and through the baffle plate, with at least one fuel injection hole extending between each of the pre-mix tubes and the upstream fuel plenum, thereby enabling fuel in the upstream plenum to be injected into the plurality of pre-mix tubes. The fuel injection head is formed by direct metal laser sintering.
FILED	Tuesday, September 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/555129
ART UNIT	3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/430
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08182786 — Nano-sized particles, processes of making, compositions and uses thereof

US 08182786	O'Brien et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Basic Energy Sciences (BES) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSF-NSEC) Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen O'Brien (New York, New York); Ming Yin (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes methods for preparing high quality nanoparticles, i.e., metal oxide based nanoparticles of uniform size and monodispersity. The nanoparticles advantageously comprise organic alkyl chain capping groups and are stable in air and in nonpolar solvents. The methods of the invention provide a simple and reproducible procedure for forming transition metal oxide nanocrystals, with yields over 80%. The highly crystalline and monodisperse nanocrystals are obtained directly without further size selection; particle size can be easily and fractionally increased by the methods. The resulting nanoparticles can exhibit magnetic and/or optical properties. These properties result from the methods used to prepare them. Also advantageously, the nanoparticles of this invention are well suited for use in a variety of industrial applications, including cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulations and compositions.
FILED	Monday, June 12, 2006
APPL NO	11/451251
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/632
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08182804 — Engineered enzymatically active bacteriophages and methods of uses thereof

US 08182804	Collins 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Experimental and Integrative Activities (EIA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	James J Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Hideki Kobayashi (Yokohama, Japan); Mads Kearn (Ottawa, Canada); Michihiro Araki (Minatoku, Japan); Ari Friedland (Boston, Massachusetts); Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides engineered bacteriophages that express at least one biofilm degrading enzyme on their surface and uses thereof for degrading bacterial biofilms. The invention also provides genetically engineered bacteriophages expressing the biofilm degrading enzymes and proteins necessary for the phage to replicate in different naturally occurring biofilm producing bacteria. The phages of the invention allow a method of biofilm degradation by the use of one or only a few administration of the phage because the system using these phages is self perpetuating, and capable of degrading biofilm even when the concentration of bacteria within the biofilm is low.
FILED	Monday, September 12, 2005
APPL NO	11/662551
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 424/93.200
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08182870 — Method for generating small and ultra small apertures, slits, nozzles and orifices

US 08182870	Khounsary
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ali M. Khounsary (Hinsdale, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method and device for one or more small apertures, slits, nozzles and orifices, preferably having a high aspect ratio. In one embodiment, one or more alternating layers of sacrificial layers and blocking layers are deposited onto a substrate. Each sacrificial layer is made of a material which preferably allows a radiation to substantially pass through. Each blocking layer is made of a material which substantially blocks the radiation.
FILED	Thursday, May 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/128696
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/255.700
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08182965 — Optimized cell configurations for stable LSCF-based solid oxide fuel cells

US 08182965	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington); Nathan L. Canfield (Richland, Washington); Kerry D. Meinhardt (Kennewick, Washington); Lawrence A. Chick (West Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Lanthanum strontium cobalt iron oxides (La(1-x)SrxCoyFe1-yO3-f; (LSCF) have excellent power density (>500 mW/cm2 at 750° C.). When covered with a metallization layer, LSCF cathodes have demonstrated increased durability and stability. Other modifications, such as the thickening of the cathode, the preparation of the device by utilizing a firing temperature in a designated range, and the use of a pore former paste having designated characteristics and combinations of these features provide a device with enhanced capabilities.
FILED	Tuesday, September 30, 2008
APPL NO	12/241277
ART UNIT	1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/529
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08183012 — Methods and composition for the production of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyltRNA synthetase pairs

US 08183012	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 (LaJolla, 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 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); Steven William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); 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, December 10, 2004
APPL NO	11/009635
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08183111 — Method of fabricating conductive electrodes on the front and backside of a thin film structure

US 08183111	Tabada 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)	Phillipe J. Tabada (Roseville, California); Melody Tabada, legal representative (Roseville, California); Satinderpall S. Pannu (Pleasanton, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of fabricating a thin film device having conductive front and backside electrodes or contacts. Top-side cavities are first formed on a first dielectric layer, followed by the deposition of a metal layer on the first dielectric layer to fill the cavities. Defined metal structures are etched from the metal layer to include the cavity-filled metal, followed by depositing a second dielectric layer over the metal structures. Additional levels of defined metal structures may be formed in a similar manner with vias connecting metal structures between levels. After a final dielectric layer is deposited, a top surface of a metal structure of an uppermost metal layer is exposed through the final dielectric layer to form a front-side electrode, and a bottom surface of a cavity-filled portion of a metal structure of a lowermost metal layer is also exposed through the first dielectric layer to form a back-side electrode.
FILED	Thursday, December 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/959232
ART UNIT	2818 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/261
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08183329 — Encapsulant materials and associated devices

US 08183329	Kempe 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)	BRP Manufacturing Company (Lima, Ohio); Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael D Kempe (Littleton, Colorado); Prem Thapa (Lima, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Compositions suitable for use as encapsulants are described. The inventive compositions include a high molecular weight polymeric material, a curing agent, an inorganic compound, and a coupling agent. Optional elements include adhesion promoting agents, colorants, antioxidants, and UV absorbers. The compositions have desirable diffusivity properties, making them suitable for use in devices in which a substantial blocking of moisture ingress is desired, such as photovoltaic (PV) modules.
FILED	Monday, March 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/041491
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/342
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08183507 — Heat treating of manufactured components

US 08183507	Ripley
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus for heat treating manufactured components using microwave energy and microwave susceptor material is disclosed. The system typically includes an insulating vessel placed within a microwave applicator chamber. A moderating material is positioned inside the insulating vessel so that a substantial portion of the exterior surface of each component for heat treating is in contact with the moderating material.
FILED	Tuesday, March 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/053991
ART UNIT	3737 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Electric heating 219/775
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08183530 — Positron emission tomography and optical tissue imaging

US 08183530	Falen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) at Newport News, VA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven W. Falen (Carmichael, California); Richard A. Hoefer (Newport News, Virginia); Stanislaw Majewski (Yorktown, Virginia); John McKisson (Hampton, Virginia); Brian Kross (Yorktown, Virginia); James Proffitt (Newport News, Virginia); Alexander Stolin (Newport News, Virginia); Andrew G. Weisenberger (Yorktown, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A mobile compact imaging system that combines both PET imaging and optical imaging into a single system which can be located in the operating room (OR) and provides faster feedback to determine if a tumor has been fully resected and if there are adequate surgical margins. While final confirmation is obtained from the pathology lab, such a device can reduce the total time necessary for the procedure and the number of iterations required to achieve satisfactory resection of a tumor with good margins.
FILED	Friday, January 09, 2009
APPL NO	12/319649
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/363.30
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08183648 — Nanoscopic electrode molecular probes

US 08183648	Krstic 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 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Predrag S. Krstic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vincent Meunier (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhancing the electron transport property measurements of a molecule when the molecule is placed between chemically functionalized carbon-based nanoscopic electrodes to which a suitable voltage bias is applied. The invention includes selecting a dopant atom for the nanoscopic electrodes, the dopant atoms being chemically similar to atoms present in the molecule, and functionalizing the outer surface and terminations of the electrodes with the dopant atoms.
FILED	Monday, January 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/321823
ART UNIT	2891 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/414
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08183826 — Battery charging control methods, electric vehicle charging methods, battery charging apparatuses and rechargeable battery systems

US 08183826	Tuffner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Francis K. Tuffner (Richland, Washington); Michael C. W. Kintner-Meyer (Richland, Washington); Donald J. Hammerstrom (West Richland, Washington); Richard M. Pratt (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Battery charging control methods, electric vehicle charging methods, battery charging apparatuses and rechargeable battery systems. According to one aspect, a battery charging control method includes accessing information regarding a presence of at least one of a surplus and a deficiency of electrical energy upon an electrical power distribution system at a plurality of different moments in time, and using the information, controlling an adjustment of an amount of the electrical energy provided from the electrical power distribution system to a rechargeable battery to charge the rechargeable battery.
FILED	Friday, May 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/467192
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/107
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08183994 — Flexible, scalable, service-oriented surveillance system architecture

US 08183994	Staab
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Torsten Albert Staab (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A surveillance architecture having applications in a wide variety of surveillance-related applications is disclosed. This architecture can be used in various surveillance scenarios, including, but not limited to, chemical, biological, radiological surveillance and physical security, is highly scalable and allows for rapid, plug-and-play field data/sample acquisition and local and remote sharing of system resources. By design, the architecture also fosters fault tolerance and allows users to quickly deploy and establish ad hoc, semi-permanent, and permanent surveillance systems. Furthermore, the architecture's service-oriented approach allows for rapid, on-the-fly, plug-and-play integration and dynamic harvesting of heterogeneous surveillance technologies (e.g., sensors, handheld data acquisition devices, analytical instrumentation, and so forth).
FILED	Tuesday, September 18, 2007
APPL NO	11/857333
ART UNIT	2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Electrical 340/531
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08185101 — Handheld portable real-time tracking and communications device

US 08185101	Wiseman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	James M. Wiseman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Loren E. Riblett, Jr. (Edgewood, New Mexico); Karl L. Green (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John A. Hunter (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert N. Cook, III (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); James R. Stevens (Arlington, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Portable handheld real-time tracking and communications devices include; a controller module, communications module including global positioning and mesh network radio module, data transfer and storage module, and a user interface module enclosed in a water-resistant enclosure. Real-time tracking and communications devices can be used by protective force, security and first responder personnel to provide situational awareness allowing for enhance coordination and effectiveness in rapid response situations. Such devices communicate to other authorized devices via mobile ad-hoc wireless networks, and do not require fixed infrastructure for their operation.
FILED	Thursday, February 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/388592
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/422.100
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08185293 — Fuel composition recognition and adaptation system

US 08185293	Jiang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Robert Bosch LLC (Broadview, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Li Jiang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Nestor H. Oliverio (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anna G. Stefanopoulou (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hakan Yilmaz (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method of operating an internal combustion engine. The method including monitoring a pressure in a combustion chamber of the engine during a compression stroke, determining whether a fuel composition has changed from a first composition to a second composition based at least in part on the monitored pressure, and triggering a fuel composition adaptation in response to a determination that the fuel composition has changed.
FILED	Thursday, April 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/417240
ART UNIT	3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/102
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

08181540 — Measurement of sliding friction-induced vibrations for biomimetic tactile sensing

US 08181540	Loeb et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald E. Loeb (South Pasadena, California); Jeremy Fishel (Long Beach, California); Nicholas Wettels (Los Angeles, California); Veronica J. Santos (Tempe, Arizona); Raymond Peck (Long Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	Tactile sensors are disclosed that mimic the human fingertip and its touch receptors. The mechanical components are similar to a fingertip, with a rigid core surrounded by a weakly conductive fluid contained within an elastomeric skin. The deformable properties of the finger pad can be used as part of a transduction process. Multiple electrodes can be mounted on the surface of the rigid core and connected to impedance measuring circuitry within the core. External forces deform the fluid path around the electrodes, resulting in a distributed pattern of impedance changes containing information about those forces and the objects that applied them. Strategies are described for extracting features related to the mechanical inputs and using this information for reflexive grip control. Controlling grip force in a prosthetic having sensory feedback information is described. Pressure transducers can provide sensory feedback by measuring micro-vibrations due to sliding friction.
FILED	Thursday, April 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/417532
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/862.590
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08182613 — Radiometer including a cleaning system

US 08182613	Semmer et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Geosciences (GEO) Division of Atmospheric Sciences (ATM) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) at Boulder, CO
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven Semmer (Westminster, Colorado); David Richter (Stanford, California); Steve Oncley (Boulder, Colorado); Anthony Delany (Eldorado Springs, Colorado); Karl T. Schwenz (Berthoud, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A radiometer is provided. The radiometer includes a sensor and a radiation transparent dome. The radiation transparent dome surrounds the sensor. The radiometer also includes one or more fluid nozzles. The one or more fluid nozzles are adapted to apply a fluid on the radiation transparent dome in order to clean the surface of the radiation transparent dome.
FILED	Tuesday, August 04, 2009
APPL NO	12/534967
ART UNIT	1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Cleaning and liquid contact with solids 134/34
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08182785 — Methods and compositions for generating singlet oxygen

US 08182785	Dussault et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Nutech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska)
INVENTOR(S)	Patrick H. Dussault (Lincoln, Nebraska); Prasanta Ghorai (Paschim Mednipur, India)
ABSTRACT	Methods for producing singlet oxygen from 1,1-dihydroperoxides are provided herein. In some embodiments, the methods involve base-mediated decomposition of monoactivated derivatives of 1,1-dihydroperoxides. In some embodiments, the methods involve additive-mediated decomposition of 1,1-dihydroperoxides.
FILED	Wednesday, June 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/482199
ART UNIT	1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/581
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08182786 — Nano-sized particles, processes of making, compositions and uses thereof

US 08182786	O'Brien et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Basic Energy Sciences (BES) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSF-NSEC) Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen O'Brien (New York, New York); Ming Yin (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes methods for preparing high quality nanoparticles, i.e., metal oxide based nanoparticles of uniform size and monodispersity. The nanoparticles advantageously comprise organic alkyl chain capping groups and are stable in air and in nonpolar solvents. The methods of the invention provide a simple and reproducible procedure for forming transition metal oxide nanocrystals, with yields over 80%. The highly crystalline and monodisperse nanocrystals are obtained directly without further size selection; particle size can be easily and fractionally increased by the methods. The resulting nanoparticles can exhibit magnetic and/or optical properties. These properties result from the methods used to prepare them. Also advantageously, the nanoparticles of this invention are well suited for use in a variety of industrial applications, including cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulations and compositions.
FILED	Monday, June 12, 2006
APPL NO	11/451251
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/632
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08182804 — Engineered enzymatically active bacteriophages and methods of uses thereof

US 08182804	Collins 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Experimental and Integrative Activities (EIA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	James J Collins (Newton, Massachusetts); Hideki Kobayashi (Yokohama, Japan); Mads Kearn (Ottawa, Canada); Michihiro Araki (Minatoku, Japan); Ari Friedland (Boston, Massachusetts); Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides engineered bacteriophages that express at least one biofilm degrading enzyme on their surface and uses thereof for degrading bacterial biofilms. The invention also provides genetically engineered bacteriophages expressing the biofilm degrading enzymes and proteins necessary for the phage to replicate in different naturally occurring biofilm producing bacteria. The phages of the invention allow a method of biofilm degradation by the use of one or only a few administration of the phage because the system using these phages is self perpetuating, and capable of degrading biofilm even when the concentration of bacteria within the biofilm is low.
FILED	Monday, September 12, 2005
APPL NO	11/662551
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 424/93.200
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08183046 — Temperature resistant pH buffers for use at low temperatures

US 08183046	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Hee-Jung Hwang (Baltimore, Maryland); Nathan Sieracki (Champaign, Illinois); Dewain Garner (Savoy, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method for preparing a composition that includes selecting a pH of the composition; selecting a first buffer with a negative temperature coefficient; selecting a second buffer with a positive temperature coefficient; and forming the composition comprising the first buffer and the second buffer. The composition has an average temperature coefficient, ΔpH/ΔT(T_a,T_b)≦1×10⁻³pH-unit/K and a ΔpH(T_a,T_b)≦0.31 pH-unit for T_a=4 K and T_b=313 K.
FILED	Thursday, January 11, 2007
APPL NO	11/622098
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/18
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08183164 — Method for preferential growth of semiconducting vertically aligned single walled carbon nanotubes

US 08183164	Qu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Liangti Qu (Dayton, Ohio); Liming Dai (Beavercreek, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for the preferential growth of semiconducting vertically-aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-SWNTs) is provided. The method combines the use of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition at low pressure with rapid heating. The method provides a high yield of up to approximately 96% semiconducting SWNTs in the VA-SWNT array. The as-synthesized semiconducting SWNTs can be used directly for fabricating field effect transistor (FET) devices without the need for any post-synthesis purification or separation.
FILED	Wednesday, July 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/511517
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/775
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08183300 — Method for producing nanoparticles of a selected size

US 08183300	Zhao 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 North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
INVENTOR(S)	Julia Xiaojun Zhao (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Yuhui Jin (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
ABSTRACT	A method for producing nanoparticles of a selected size includes selecting an organic solvent based upon a molar volume of the organic solvent, the selected nanoparticle size, and a known relationship between the molar volume and the selected nanoparticle size, and producing nanoparticles having the selected size in a water-in-oil microemulsion comprising the selected organic solvent.
FILED	Wednesday, February 11, 2009
APPL NO	12/378116
ART UNIT	1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/111
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08184298 — Spatial light interference microscopy and fourier transform light scattering for cell and tissue characterization

US 08184298	Popescu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Zhuo Wang (Urbana, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for rendering quantitative phase maps across and through transparent samples. A broadband source is employed in conjunction with an objective, Fourier optics, and a programmable two-dimensional phase modulator to obtain amplitude and phase information in an image plane. Methods, referred to as Fourier transform light scattering (FTLS), measure the angular scattering spectrum of the sample. FTLS combines optical microscopy and light scattering for studying inhomogeneous and dynamic media. FTLS relies on quantifying the optical phase and amplitude associated with a coherent image field and propagating it numerically to the scattering plane. Full angular information, limited only by the microscope objective, is obtained from extremely weak scatterers, such as a single micron-sized particle. A flow cytometer may employ FTLS sorting.
FILED	Thursday, May 21, 2009
APPL NO	12/454660
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450
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08184932 — Method of fabricating an optical switch

US 08184932	Digonnet et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Michel J. F. Digonnet (Palo Alto, California); Anuranjita Tewary (Palo Alto, California); Mark Brongersma (Redwood City, California)
ABSTRACT	A method fabricates an optical switch comprising a microsphere coated with silicon nanocrystals. The method includes providing a silica optical fiber. The method further includes melting at least a portion of the fiber to form at least one silica microsphere. The method further includes coating the microsphere with a silica layer. The method further includes precipitating silicon nanocrystals within the silica layer by annealing the microsphere. The method further includes passivating the nanocrystals by annealing the microsphere in a hydrogen-containing atmosphere.
FILED	Wednesday, February 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/699578
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/16
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08185481 — Spectral clustering for multi-type relational data

US 08185481	Long et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Bo Long (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Zhongfei Zhang (Vestal, New York)
ABSTRACT	A general model is provided which provides collective factorization on related matrices, for multi-type relational data clustering. The model is applicable to relational data with various structures. Under this model, a spectral relational clustering algorithm is provided to cluster multiple types of interrelated data objects simultaneously. The algorithm iteratively embeds each type of data objects into low dimensional spaces and benefits from the interactions among the hidden structures of different types of data objects.
FILED	Thursday, May 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/125804
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12
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08185551 — Disk-resident streaming dictionary

US 08185551	Kuszmaul et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Research Foundation of State University of NY (Stony Brook, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Bradley C. Kuszmaul (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael A. Bender (East Northport, New York); Martin Farach-Colton (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method, apparatus and computer program product for storing data in a disk storage system is presented. A dictionary data structure is defined and stored on the disk storage system. Key-value pairs can be inserted and deleted into the dictionary data structure, with full transactional semantics, at a rate that is faster than one insertion per disk-head movement. Keys can be looked up with only a logarithmic number of transfers, even for keys that have been recently inserted or deleted. Queries can be performed on ranges of key-value pairs, including recently inserted or deleted pairs, at a constant fraction of the bandwidth of the disk. The dictionary employs indirect logging for physical block logging.
FILED	Friday, June 08, 2007
APPL NO	11/760379
ART UNIT	2156 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/790
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

08181755 — Dual spring rate damper

US 08181755	Stamps et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island)
INVENTOR(S)	Frank B. Stamps (Colleyville, Texas); David A. Popelka (Colleyville, Texas); Michael R. Smith (Colleyville, Texas); Christopher M. Bothwell (Grapevine, Texas); Lawrence M. Corso (Keller, Texas); James L. Braswell, Jr. (Colleyville, Texas); Ernst C. Schellhase (Benbrook, Texas); Charles L. Hollimon (North Richland Hills, Texas); Thomas J. Newman (Maypearl, Texas); Bryan Baskin (Arlington, Texas); Thomas C. Campbell (Keller, Texas); Daniel B. Robertson (Southlake, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A damper has a piston having an axis, an outer surface, and opposing ends. Elastomeric seals are in sealing contact with the outer surface of the piston, the seals being coaxial with the piston and limiting movement of the piston to a path along the axis of the piston. The seals also define fluid chambers adjacent the ends of the piston. A primary passage communicates the fluid chambers, and a selectively switchable valve for controls a flow of fluid from one of the chambers to another of the chambers through the primary passage. When the flow of fluid through the primary passage is permitted, movement of the piston is resisted by a first spring rate due to a shear force required to cause shear deflection of the seals. When the flow of fluid through the primary passage is restricted, movement of the piston is resisted by a second spring rate due to a fluid force required to cause bulging deflection of the seals.
FILED	Friday, August 27, 2004
APPL NO	10/568170
ART UNIT	3657 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Brakes 188/290
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08182741 — Ball bearings comprising nickel-titanium and methods of manufacture thereof

US 08182741	DellaCorte et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia); Abbott Ball Company (West Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher DellaCorte (Medina, Ohio); Glenn N. Glennon (Berlin, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a friction reducing nickel-titanium composition. The nickel-titanium composition includes a first phase that comprises nickel and titanium in an atomic ratio of about 0.45:0.55 to about 0.55:0.45; a second phase that comprises nickel and titanium in an atomic ratio of about 0.70:0.30 to about 0.80:0.20; and a third phase that comprises nickel and titanium in an atomic ratio of about 0.52:0.48 to about 0.62:0.38. A bearing for reducing friction comprising a nickel-titanium composition comprising a first phase that comprises nickel and titanium in an atomic ratio of about 0.45:0.55 to about 0.55:0.45; a second phase that comprises nickel and titanium in an atomic ratio of about 0.70:0.30 to about 0.80:0.20; and a third phase that comprises nickel and titanium in an atomic ratio of about 0.52:0.48 to about 0.62:0.38; where the bearing is free from voids and pinholes.
FILED	Thursday, August 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/544742
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Alloys or metallic compositions 420/441
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08182842 — Physico-chemical-managed killing of penicillin-resistant static and growing gram-positive and gram-negative vegetative bacteria

US 08182842	Richmond 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)	Robert Chaffee Richmond (Huntsville, Alabama); Harry F. Schramm, Jr. (Winchester, Tennessee); Francis G. Defalco (Houston, Texas); Alex F. Farris, III (Birmingham, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for the use of compounds from the Hofmeister series coupled with specific pH and temperature to provide rapid physico-chemical-managed killing of penicillin-resistant static and growing Gram-positive and Gram-negative vegetative bacteria. The systems and methods represent the more general physico-chemical enhancement of susceptibility for a wide range of pathological macromolecular targets to clinical management by establishing the reactivity of those targets to topically applied drugs or anti-toxins.
FILED	Wednesday, November 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/943744
ART UNIT	1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/601
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08183010 — Cell-free synthesis of membrane bound polypeptides

US 08183010	Swartz et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	James Robert Swartz (Menlo Park, California); Jessica Wuu (Menlo Park, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for the utilization of bacterial cell-free extracts in the synthesis of high yields of membrane-associated polypeptides.
FILED	Tuesday, October 31, 2006
APPL NO	12/089596
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100
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08183174 — IR-doped ruthenium oxide catalyst for oxygen evolution

US 08183174	Valdez et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas I. Valdez (Covina, California); Sekharipuram R. Narayanan (Arcadia, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for preparing a metal-doped ruthenium oxide material by heating a mixture of a doping metal and a source of ruthenium under an inert atmosphere. In some embodiments, the doping metal is in the form of iridium black or lead powder, and the source of ruthenium is a powdered ruthenium oxide. An iridium-doped or lead-doped ruthenium oxide material can perform as an oxygen evolution catalyst and can be fabricated into electrodes for electrolysis cells.
FILED	Thursday, October 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/580107
ART UNIT	1759 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/325
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08183180 — Graphene compositions and drilling fluids derived therefrom

US 08183180	Tour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); Jay R. Lomeda (Houston, Texas); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Houston, Texas); Condell D. Doyle (Nocona, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Drilling fluids comprising graphenes and nanoplatelet additives and methods for production thereof are disclosed. Graphene includes graphite oxide, graphene oxide, chemically-converted graphene, and functionalized chemically-converted graphene. Derivatized graphenes and methods for production thereof are disclosed. The derivatized graphenes are prepared from a chemically-converted graphene through derivatization with a plurality of functional groups. Derivatization can be accomplished, for example, by reaction of a chemically-converted graphene with a diazonium species. Methods for preparation of graphite oxide are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, July 08, 2010
APPL NO	12/832797
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Earth boring, well treating, and oil field chemistry 57/103
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08183870 — Battery system and method for sensing and balancing the charge state of battery cells

US 08183870	Davies
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)	Francis J. Davies (Friendswood, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A battery system utilizes a plurality of transformers interconnected with the battery cells. The transformers each have at least one transformer core operable for magnetization in at least a first magnetic state with a magnetic flux in a first direction and a second magnetic state with a magnetic flux in a second direction. The transformer cores retain the first magnetic state and the second magnetic state without current flow through said plurality of transformers. Circuitry is utilized for switching a selected transformer core between the first and second magnetic states to sense voltage and/or balance particular cells or particular banks of cells.
FILED	Thursday, February 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/370021
ART UNIT	2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/434
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08184033 — High fidelity, radiation tolerant analog-to-digital converters

US 08184033	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles Chang-I Wang (Milpitas, California); Ivan Richard Linscott (Mountain View, California); Umran S. Inan (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	Techniques for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using pipeline architecture includes a linearization technique for a spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) over 80 deciBels. In some embodiments, sampling rates exceed a megahertz. According to a second approach, a switched-capacitor circuit is configured for correct operation in a high radiation environment. In one embodiment, the combination yields high fidelity ADC (>88 deciBel SFDR) while sampling at 5 megahertz sampling rates and consuming <60 milliWatts. Furthermore, even though it is manufactured in a commercial 0.25-μm CMOS technology (1 μm=12⁻⁶meters), it maintains this performance in harsh radiation environments. Specifically, the stated performance is sustained through a highest tested 2 megarad(Si) total dose, and the ADC displays no latchup up to a highest tested linear energy transfer of 63 million electron Volts square centimeters per milligram at elevated temperature (131 degrees C.) and supply (2.7 Volts, versus 2.5 Volts nominal).
FILED	Wednesday, May 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/778875
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coded data generation or conversion 341/161
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

08182999 — Compositions and methods for early pregnancy diagnosis

US 08182999	Roberts et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert Michael Roberts (Columbia, Missouri); Jonathan Andrew Green (Columbia, Missouri); Sancai Xie (West Chester, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) are structurally related to the pepsins, thought to be restricted to the hoofed (ungulate) mammals and characterized by being expressed specifically in the outer epithelial cell layer (chorion/trophectoderm) of the placenta. By cloning expressed genes from ovine and bovine placental cDNA libraries, the inventors estimate that cattle, sheep, and most probably all ruminant Artiodactyla, possess possibly 100 or more PAG genes, many of which are placentally expressed. The PAGs are highly diverse in sequence, with regions of hypervariability confined largely to surface-exposed loops. Selected PAG that are products of the invasive binucleate cells, expressed highly in early pregnancy at the time of trophoblast invasion and expressed weakly, if at all, in late gestation are useful in the early diagnosis of pregnancy. In a preferred embodiment, the invention relates to immunoassays for detecting these PAGs.
FILED	Monday, June 28, 2010
APPL NO	12/825223
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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08183025 — Solenopsis invicta virus

US 08183025	Valles 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)	Steven M. Valles (Gainesville, Florida); Charles A. Strong (Gainesville, Florida); Yoshifumi Hashimoto (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	A Unique Solenopsis invicta viruse (SINV2) have been identified and its genome sequenced. Oligonucleotide primers have been developed using the isolated nucleic acid sequences of the SINV2. The virus is used as a biocontrol agent for control of fire ants.
FILED	Friday, January 07, 2011
APPL NO	12/986751
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100
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08183026 — Methods of preparation of live attenuated bacterial vaccine by alteration of DNA adenine methylase (Dam) activity in those bacteria

US 08183026	Lawrence et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark L. Lawrence (Starkville, Mississippi); Daniel B. Paulsen (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Daniel W. Scruggs (Starkville, Mississippi)
ABSTRACT	Live attenuated bacteria vaccines are provided. Also provided are methods by which such vaccines can be obtained, including: a method by which a copy of the dam gene from a pathogenic bacteria is cloned into a plasmid capable of replication in the same bacteria species such that it is overexpressed from either a lac promoter, tac promoter, araBAD promoter, trc promoter, trp promoter, T7, SP6, or T5 bacteriophage promoters, a native promoter from that species, or other appropriate promoter. The plasmid containing the dam gene is then transferred into the pathogens to cause increased expression of Dam resulting in the formation of a live attenuated bacterial vaccines. Alternative methods for producing the vaccine are also provided including altering or replacing the chromosomal promoter for the native dam gene so as to alter Dam expression or mutating or replacing the native dam gene so as to alter the expression of Dam in a pathogenic bacteria.
FILED	Wednesday, January 14, 2004
APPL NO	10/541246
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/243
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08183043 — Sol-gel materials for cellular modulation

US 08183043	Rickus et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Jenna Leigh Rickus (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sabrina S. Jedlicka (Lafayette, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A modified sol-gel material and method of making the same is provided herein. More particularly, sol-gels disclosed herein have been modified to have one or more bioactive peptides covalently bound to the surface of the sol-gel. In one embodiment the peptide presenting sol-gels are prepared as thin film coatings and in a further embodiment the sol-gels are combined with living cells. The present disclosure is also directed to a novel one vessel reaction process for preparing the sol-gel-based peptide material.
FILED	Thursday, October 11, 2007
APPL NO	12/445015
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/404
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National Security Agency (NSA)

08184626 — High-radix interprocessor communications system and method

US 08184626	Scott et al.
FUNDED BY	National Security Agency (NSA) Maryland Procurement Office (MPO)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven L. Scott (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Dennis C. Abts (Eleva, Wisconsin); William J. Dally (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	A high-radix interprocessor communications system and method having a plurality of processor nodes, a plurality of first routers and a plurality of second routers. Each first router is connected to a processor node and to two or more second routers. Each first router includes input ports, output ports, row busses, columns channels and a plurality of subswitches arranged in a n x p matrix. Each row bus receives data from one of the plurality of input ports and distributes the data to two or more of the plurality of subswitches. Each column distributes data from one or more subswitches to one or more output ports. Each row bus includes a route selector, wherein the route selector includes a routing table which selects an output port for each packet and which routes the packet through one of the row busses to the selected output port.
FILED	Monday, January 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/352443
ART UNIT	2474 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/362
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08185352 — Benchmarking correlated stream processing systems

US 08185352	Anderson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph P. Bigus (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric Bouillet (Jersey City, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A system, method, and computer program product for benchmarking a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises generating a plurality of correlated test streams. A semantically related data set is embedded within each of the test streams in the plurality of correlated test streams. The plurality of correlated test streams is provided to at least one stream processing system. A summary is generated for each of the semantically related embedded data sets. A common identifier, which is transparent to the system being tested, is embedded within each stream in the plurality of correlated test streams. The common identifier is extracted from the output data set generated by the stream processing system. At least one of the stored copies of the summaries and the common identifier are compared to an output data set including a set of zero or more correlation results generated by the stream processing system.
FILED	Tuesday, June 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/140418
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/186
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08185373 — Method of assessing language translation and interpretation

US 08185373	Messenger
FUNDED BY	National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency, The (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Scribner A. Messenger (Columbia, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method of assessing quality of language translation and interpretation by receiving source material and a translation, identifying the source material's content and format, assigning a first rating to the source material's level of difficulty in translating the source material, determining the translation's type, assigning a second rating to the translation's accuracy, assigning a third rating to the degree to which the translation interprets the source material's intended message, assigning a fourth rating to the formatting of the translation, and evaluating the four ratings to determine an assessment of the translation's language translation and interpretation.
FILED	Tuesday, May 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/454039
ART UNIT	2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)

08183180 — Graphene compositions and drilling fluids derived therefrom

US 08183180	Tour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); Jay R. Lomeda (Houston, Texas); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Houston, Texas); Condell D. Doyle (Nocona, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Drilling fluids comprising graphenes and nanoplatelet additives and methods for production thereof are disclosed. Graphene includes graphite oxide, graphene oxide, chemically-converted graphene, and functionalized chemically-converted graphene. Derivatized graphenes and methods for production thereof are disclosed. The derivatized graphenes are prepared from a chemically-converted graphene through derivatization with a plurality of functional groups. Derivatization can be accomplished, for example, by reaction of a chemically-converted graphene with a diazonium species. Methods for preparation of graphite oxide are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, July 08, 2010
APPL NO	12/832797
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Earth boring, well treating, and oil field chemistry 57/103
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Department of the Interior (DOI)

08181906 — Method and apparatus for ram deceleration in a launch system

US 08181906	Koessler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Interior (DOI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey H. Koessler (Tucson, Arizona); Brian L. Cochran (Tucson, Arizona); Mark A. DeBake (Casa Grande, Arizona); Steven J. Elder (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	One embodiment includes a launch vessel defining an elongate, linear interior extending from a bottom portion to an exit opening. The embodiment includes a ram slidably disposed in the launch vessel, the ram sealed to the vessel. The embodiment also includes one or more wedges coupled to the launch vessel along the interior proximal the exit opening, with each wedge shape sized to increasingly narrow a cross section of the interior along an exit vector extending from the bottom portion toward the exit opening. In the embodiment, the vessel is to house a charge proximal the bottom portion, the charge to propel the ram along the exit vector, with the one or more wedges sized to stop be ram inside the interior.
FILED	Thursday, April 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/417418
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 244/63
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

08182643 — Large composite structures and a process for fabricating large composite structures

US 08182643	Fanucci et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) 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)
ABSTRACT	In a process for fabricating large structures, a composite material panel is continuously pultruded in a pultrusion die assembly and cut transversely to the process direction to provide panel sections. The panel sections can be sufficiently long to extend from one end to an opposite end of the structure. The panel sections are assembled with a joint along adjacent edges using steel-to-composite and composite-to-composite joining technology. The joints can be integrated into the panel longitudinal edges, or separate joint assemblies can be fabricated. In this manner, fewer joints are required. A variety of in-plane and out-of-plane joint assemblies are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, December 17, 2003
APPL NO	10/738503
ART UNIT	1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/304.500
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Government Rights Acknowledged

08181269 — Night vision goggle mount with retractable stops

US 08181269	Aguero et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Exelis, Inc. (McLean, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Raymond Aguero (Roanoke, Virginia); Todd Michael Neff (Salem, Virginia); Mark Edwin Oesterreich (Roanoke, Virginia); Roy Holmes (Salem, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A helmet mount for night vision apparatus including a night vision goggle rotatable between operative and inoperative positions. Retractable stop means are included on the mount for obstructing the rotation of the goggle from its inoperative to operative position without obstructing the rotation of the goggle from its operative to its inoperative position.
FILED	Monday, November 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/944951
ART UNIT	3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter;
CURRENT CPC	Apparel 02/6.200
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08182669 — Dynamic equilibrium separation, concentration, and mixing apparatus and methods

US 08182669	Mezic et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Igor Mezic (Goleta, California); Frederic Bottausci (Santa Barbara, California); Idan Tuval (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	Particles are separated, concentrated, or mixed within a fluid by means of a fluid-containing cell having a longitudinal axis, a cross-sectional area generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and at least one particle motivating force directionally interacting with at least one recurrent circulating fluid flow generally aligned with the longitudinal axis within the fluid containing cell.
FILED	Friday, November 17, 2006
APPL NO	11/561248
ART UNIT	1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

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