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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 18, 2012

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Department of Defense (DOD)

08266924 — Process of making low loss visible-IR transmitting glass-ceramic spinel composites

US 08266924	Bayya 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)	Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Geoff Chin (Arlington, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	This invention pertains to a process of bonding a magnesium aluminate spinel article or articles and a germanate glass article or articles including the step of heating them together above the softening temperature of the glass.
FILED	Thursday, January 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/687194
ART UNIT	1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Glass manufacturing 065/37
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08266999 — Mobile vertical missile launcher

US 08266999	Sisemore 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)	Carl L. Sisemore (King George, Virginia); Myron Lyn Thomas, II (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A mobile terrestrial vertical missile launch system is provided for relocatable ballistic missile deployment. The system is connectable to a transport truck and includes a trailer, a pivotable canister, a plurality of stabilizing legs, and an equipment module. The trailer has a hitch for connecting to the truck, a base for supporting wheels for road travel, and a flatbed platform having a transverse hinge. The canister contains launcher for at least one missile and is configurable by rotation at the hinge for disposal in either a longitudinal position for stowage or an erected position for deployment. The stabilizing legs are disposed along a periphery of the trailer. The legs can be disposed in one of an elevated position for stowage and a retarded position for ground engagement. The equipment container supplies electrical power, environmental conditioning, tracking, communication and control for the missile.
FILED	Tuesday, February 01, 2011
APPL NO	12/931635
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/1.815
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08267000 — Munitions endgame geometry for optimal lethality system

US 08267000	Larson et al.
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)	Survice Engineering Company (Belcamp, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles Allen Larson (Fort Walton Beach, Florida); Kevin Thomas McArdle (Shalimar, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A system that guides an airborne weapon toward a target, in order for the weapon to fuze at the target, so as to increase the probability of kill of the target. The system uses a lethality database that lists the various vulnerabilities for each target so that the weapon may fuze at a point that achieves maximum exploitation of the vulnerabilities. The system continually updates during weapon fly out in order to continually update the best achievable aim point for the weapon based on the changing encounter geometry between weapon and target.
FILED	Tuesday, May 27, 2008
APPL NO	12/154763
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/6.500
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08267003 — Blast resistant armor mounting hardware

US 08267003	Lou et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Armorworks Enterprises LLC (Chandler, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Ken-An Lou (Phoenix, Arizona); Matthew Luster (Mesa, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus are provided for attaching a rigid armor plate to the exterior of a vehicle hull. The exemplary system includes an armor attachment point on the vehicle hull, a hole through the armor plate in alignment with the armor attachment point, and a fastener extending through the hole connecting the armor plate to the vehicle hull. The hole through the armor plate may be larger than the fastener, defining a circumferential gap between the fastener and armor plate. The fastener may comprise a material with an energy absorption capability in excess of 2,000 ksi, and more preferably in excess of 5,000 ksi.
FILED	Tuesday, August 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/854054
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/36.80
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08267014 — Multiple-bay ejection device

US 08267014	Neff
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)	Daniel R. Neff (Jasper, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	An ejectable device is provided having multiple ejection bays. The ejectable device includes an impulse cartridge having multiple charges that are independently activatable. The ejectable device further includes an orientation adapter that allows reliable connectivity between the impulse cartridge and a signal source.
FILED	Thursday, March 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/726850
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 12/472
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08267355 — Method of controlling aircraft, missiles, munitions and ground vehicles with plasma actuators

US 08267355	Patel et al.
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)	Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio); University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Mehul Patel (Chandler, Arizona); Thomas C. Corke (Granger, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A method of controlling an aircraft, missile, munition or ground vehicle with plasma actuators, and more particularly of controlling fluid flow across their surfaces or other surfaces which would benefit from such a method, includes the design of an aerodynamic plasma actuator for the purpose of controlling airflow separation over a control surface of a aircraft, missile, or a ground vehicle, and a method of determining a modulation frequency for the plasma actuator for the purpose of fluid flow control over these vehicles. Various embodiments provide steps to increase the efficiency of aircraft, missiles, munitions and ground vehicles. The method of flow control reduces the power requirements of the aircraft, missile, munition and or ground vehicle. These methods also provide alternative aerodynamic control using low-power hingeless plasma actuator devices.
FILED	Wednesday, April 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/094872
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 244/205
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08267583 — Three-dimensional macro-chip including optical interconnects

US 08267583	Yao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jin Yao (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A multi-chip module (MCM), which includes a three-dimensional (3D) stack of chips that are coupled using optical interconnects, is described. In this MCM, disposed on a first surface of a middle chip in the 3D stack, there are: a first optical coupler, an optical waveguide, which is coupled to the first optical coupler, and a second optical coupler, which is coupled to the optical waveguide. The first optical coupler redirects an optical signal from the optical waveguide to a first direction (which is not in the plane of the first surface), or from the first direction to the optical waveguide. Moreover, the second optical coupler redirects the optical signal from the optical waveguide to a second direction (which is not in the plane of the first surface), or from the second direction to the optical waveguide. Note that an optical path associated with the second direction passes through an opening in a substrate in the middle chip.
FILED	Monday, October 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/581709
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Bearings 384/31
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08267630 — Threaded flanged bushing for fastening applications

US 08267630	Moon 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)	Francis R. Moon (Granby, Connecticut); John F. Corini (Barkhamsted, Connecticut); Gianfranco D. Conti (Ellington, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A fastening system includes a first material having a first hole, a second material having a second hole, a bushing, and a threaded bolt. The bushing is located in the second hole and has a first end abutting the first material and a flanged second for securing the bushing to the second material. A threaded bolt extends through the first hole and into the bushing to secure the first material flush against the second material.
FILED	Monday, July 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/501608
ART UNIT	3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener 411/338
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08268035 — Process for producing refractory metal alloy powders

US 08268035	Myers et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	James F. Myers (Palm City, Florida); Scott Ohm (Coldwater, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A process for producing refractory metal alloy powders includes the steps of blending at least one powder with at least one solvent and at least one binder to form a slurry; forming a plurality of agglomerates from the slurry; screening the plurality of agglomerates; sintering the plurality of agglomerates; and melting said plurality of agglomerates to form a plurality of homogenous, densified powder particles.
FILED	Tuesday, December 23, 2008
APPL NO	12/342254
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/255
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08268286 — High strength, fine grained spinel for window applications, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same

US 08268286	Brun et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Milivoj Konstantin Brun (Ballston Lake, New York); Anteneh Kebbede (Schenectady, New York); Sean Michael Sweeney (Schenectady, New York); Timothy James Yosenick (Glenville, New York)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a spinel article. The article comprises a spinel material, wherein the spinel material has a monomodal grain size distribution with average grain sizes of less than or equal to about 15 micrometers, and a biaxial flexural strength of greater than or equal to about 300 megapascals when measured by a ring-on-ring flexural test as per ASTM Standard C1499-08. Disclosed herein too is a spinel article manufactured by a method comprising calcining a spinel powder; milling the powder in a milling medium; granulating the powder; screening the powder to a mesh size of about 40 to about 200 mesh; pressing the powder to form an article; burning out organics from the article; sintering the article; and hot isostatically pressing the article.
FILED	Thursday, November 06, 2008
APPL NO	12/265868
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/594.100
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08268301 — Cationic betaine precursors to zwitterionic betaines having controlled biological properties

US 08268301	Jiang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gang Cheng (Seattle, Washington); Hong Xue (Seattle, Washington); Louisa R. Carr (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Cationic polymers hydrolyzable to zwitterionic polymers, monomers for making the cationic polymers, surfaces that include the polymers, therapeutic agent delivery systems that include the cationic polymers, methods for administering a therapeutic agent using the delivery systems, and methods for making and using the cationic polymers, monomers, surfaces, and therapeutic agent delivery systems.
FILED	Wednesday, November 19, 2008
APPL NO	12/274218
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.170
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08268338 — Bactericidal silver surfactant delivery into coating and polymer compositions

US 08268338	Texter
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	John Texter (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are surfactant compounds and compositions that are antimicrobial. Also provided are polymeric compositions incorporating the surfactant compounds. The polymeric compositions may be used to form antibacterial coatings on surfaces.
FILED	Wednesday, July 09, 2008
APPL NO	12/170397
ART UNIT	1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405
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08268385 — Optical monitor with computed compensation

US 08268385	Southwell
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	William H. Southwell (Thousand Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	A method is provided for the determination a thickness error in a previously deposited layer using the reflection monitor signal of the currently-depositing layer. This thickness error is then used to compute corrections to the thickness of the currently-depositing layer and the next layer which corrects for the thickness error in the previous layer. The method is stable with respect to noise in the optical monitor signal. The technique is applicable for optical coating designs which are not necessarily quarter wave. The approach avoids the buildup of thickness errors from layer to layer and thus is applicable for very thick designs with many layers. Near the end of a currently depositing layer the monitor signal is used to fit the admittance of the base stack under the current layer. This establishes the parameters in an exact reflectance model used for the thickness monitoring of the current layer.
FILED	Wednesday, May 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/152334
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/10
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08268388 — Method to incorporate a fluorescent internal standard on substrates

US 08268388	Boss
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Pamela A. Boss (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A Method to Incorporate a Fluorescent Internal Standard on Substrates (NC#098329). The method includes providing a substrate, operatively coupling internal standard particles to the substrate, forming an insulating buffer layer over the internal standard particles and the substrate, and forming a sensing polymer layer over the insulating buffer layer.
FILED	Wednesday, August 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/847212
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/167
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08268446 — Photocurable perfluoropolyethers for use as novel materials in microfluidic devices

US 08268446	DeSimone et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Derek A. Schorzman (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason Yarbrough (Spartanburg, South Carolina); Michael Van Dam (Glendale, California)
ABSTRACT	The use of a photocurable perfluoropolyether (PFPE) material for fabricating a solvent-resistant PFPE-based microfluidic device, methods of flowing a material and performing a chemical reaction in a solvent-resistant PFPE-based microfluidic device, and the solvent-resistant PFPE-based microfluidic devices themselves are described. In an embodiment, a method is described for preparing a patterned layer of a photocured perfluoropolyether, the method comprising: (a) providing a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a patterned surface; (b) contacting a perfluoropolvether precursor with the patterned surface of the substrate; and (c) photocuring the perfluoropolyether precursor to form a patterned layer of a photocured perfluoropolyether.
FILED	Thursday, September 23, 2004
APPL NO	10/572764
ART UNIT	1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/421
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08268584 — Hydrogen production from microbial strains

US 08268584	Harwood et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Caroline S. Harwood (Seattle, Washington); Federico E. Rey (Brentwood, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a method of screening microbe strains capable of generating hydrogen. This method involves inoculating one or more microbes in a sample containing cell culture medium to form an inoculated culture medium. The inoculated culture medium is then incubated under hydrogen producing conditions. Once incubating causes the inoculated culture medium to produce hydrogen, microbes in the culture medium are identified as candidate microbe strains capable of generating hydrogen. Methods of producing hydrogen using one or more of the microbial strains identified as well as the hydrogen producing strains themselves are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, November 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/947535
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08268615 — Expression, purification and uses of a plasmodium falciparum liver stage antigen 1 polypeptide

US 08268615	Lanar 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)	David E. Lanar (Takoma Park, Maryland); Collette J. Hillier (Concord, Australia); Jeffrey A. Lyon (Accident, Maryland); Evelina Angov (Bethesda, Maryland); Sanjai Kumar (Gaithersburg, Maryland); William Rogers (FPO, None); Arnoldo Barbosa (Tolima, Colombia)
ABSTRACT	In this application is described the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum (3D7) LSA-NRC polypeptide. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified polypeptide which is useful as a vaccine and as a diagnostic reagent.
FILED	Thursday, May 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/454240
ART UNIT	1636 — 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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08268627 — Formation of bilayers of amphipathic molecules

US 08268627	Bayley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ISIS Innovation Limited (Oxford, United Kingdom)
INVENTOR(S)	John Hagen Pryce Bayley (Oxford, United Kingdom); Matthew Holden (Oxford, United Kingdom); Andrew John Heron (Oxford, United Kingdom); David Needham (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A method of forming bilayers of amphipathic molecules uses droplets of aqueous solution in a hydrophobic medium such as oil. A layer of amphipathic molecules such as a lipid is formed around the surfaces of the droplets. This may be achieved by providing the lipid in the oil and leaving the droplets for a time sufficient to form the layer. The droplets are brought into contact with one another so that a bilayer of the amphipathic molecules is formed as an interface between the contacting droplets. The bilayers may be used for a wide range of studies. The technique has numerous advantages including providing a long lifetime for the bilayers, allowing study of small volumes and allowing the construction of chains and networks of droplets with bilayers in between to study complex systems.
FILED	Thursday, July 26, 2007
APPL NO	12/375103
ART UNIT	1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/71
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08268630 — Differential preconcentrator-based chemical sensor stabilization

US 08268630	Fedder et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary Keith Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Nathan Scott Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Sensor devices and sensing methods are provided. A sensor device is provided two flow channels, each comprising a sensor, and analyte flow is alternated between the two channels such that the sensors alternately serve as a sensor and a reference, thereby increasing accuracy of the sensors. The device is useful, for example, in chemical sensing using a variety of sensor types including without limitation: chemiresistors, gravimetric sensors, optical sensors, among others. Related sensing methods also are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, July 07, 2010
APPL NO	12/831590
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/149
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08268646 — Group III-nitrides on SI substrates using a nanostructured interlayer

US 08268646	Kryliouk et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Olga Kryliouk (Gainesville, Florida); Hyun Jong Park (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy J. Anderson (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A layered group III-nitride article includes a single crystal silicon substrate, and a highly textured group III-nitride layer, such as GaN, disposed on the silicon substrate. The highly textured group III-nitride layer is crack free and has a thickness of at least 10 μm. A method for forming highly textured group III-nitride layers includes the steps of providing a single crystal silicon comprising substrate, depositing a nanostructured In_xGa_1-xN (1≧x≧0) interlayer on the silicon substrate, and depositing a highly textured group III-nitride layer on the interlayer. The interlayer has a nano indentation hardness that is less than both the silicon substrate and the highly textured group III-nitride layer.
FILED	Friday, October 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/257567
ART UNIT	2811 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/20
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08268991 — Processes for preparing certain hexaazaisowurtzitanes and their use in preparing hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane

US 08268991	Chapman 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)	Robert D. Chapman (Ridgecrest, California); Richard A. Hollins (Ridgecrest, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes a novel heavy-metal-free sequence leading to a superior, more economical, and scalable process for the high efficiency conversion of hexaallylhexaazaisowurtzitane (HAllylIW) to hexa(1-propenyl)hexaazaisowurtzitane (HPIW) and hence via reaction with singlet oxygen and subsequent nitrolysis to hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20).
FILED	Wednesday, January 30, 2008
APPL NO	12/022930
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 540/475
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08268993 — Processes for preparing certain hexaazaisowurtzitanes and their use in preparing hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane

US 08268993	Chapman
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)	Robert D. Chapman (Ridgecrest, California)
ABSTRACT	A heavy-metal-free sequence leading to a superior, more economical, and scalable process for the high efficiency conversion of hexaallylhexaazaisowurtzitane (HAllylIW) to hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20).
FILED	Wednesday, December 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/976605
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 540/554
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08269029 — Water repellent metal-organic frameworks, process for making and uses regarding same

US 08269029	Masel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard I Masel (Campaign, Illinois); Zheng Ni (Champaign, Illinois); Qingmei Chen (Savory, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Microwave assisted synthesis may be used to produce water-repellent metallic organic frameworks (MOFs) molecules. The water-repellent MOFs contain non-polar functional groups, such as a trifluoromethoxy group, which has a strong water repellent effect. The water-repellent MOF, when exposed to water vapor for one week does not result in a significant X-ray power pattern change. The water-repellent MOFs may be suitable as an adsorbent in many industrial applications, such as gas chromatography.
FILED	Wednesday, April 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/420588
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 556/132
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08269030 — Polyarylacetylenes containing siloxane, silane, and carborane moieties

US 08269030	Kolel-Veetil 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)	Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are the compounds shown below. Each R is an organic group, Cb is a carborane group, and —C₆H₄— is phenylene. The value of each m is a nonnegative integer, q is 0 or 1, with the proviso that if q is 0 then m is 0 or 1, p is a positive integer, r is a positive integer, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 10. Also disclosed are methods of making and crosslinking the compounds —{SiR₂—([O]_q—SiR₂)_m-[Cb-SiR₂—([O]_q—SiR₂)_m]_p—C≡C—C₆H₄—C≡C}— —{SiR₂—(O—SiR₂)_m—C≡C—C₆H₄—C≡C}_n—; —{SiR₂—([O]_q—SiR₂)_m—[C≡C—C₆H₄—SiR₂—([O]_q—SiR₂)_m]_p-Cb-[SiR₂—([O]_q—SiR₂)_m-Cb]_r}-.
FILED	Thursday, March 29, 2012
APPL NO	13/433677
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 556/403
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08269191 — System and method for measuring depolarization

US 08269191	Rosen 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)	David Lawrence Rosen (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald Everett Meyers (Columbia, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus for determining the depolarization efficiency of a environment includes a transmitter, a receiver, and signal processing circuitry. A reference object is located within the environment at a reference distance. The transmitter includes a radiation source providing incident radiation that has an initial polarization as it enters the environment. The receiver receives returned radiation from the reference, which may be diffuse reflection or photoluminescence. The signal processing circuitry calculates the depolarization efficiency of the environment from the initial polarization, luminescence or final polarization, and the reference distance. A method of determining depolarization efficiency includes directing incident radiation having initial polarization through an environment onto a reference, detecting returned radiation from the reference, and calculating the depolarization efficiency using the initial polarization and the luminescence or final polarization.
FILED	Friday, November 05, 2010
APPL NO	12/940228
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/458.100
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08269195 — Patient alignment system with external measurement and object coordination for radiation therapy system

US 08269195	Rigney 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)	Nickolas S. Rigney (Redlands, California); Daniel C. Anderson (Loma Linda, California); David A. Lesyna (Redlands, California); Daniel W. Miller (Oriental, North Carolina); Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California); Chieh C. Cheng (Redlands, California); Michael A. Baumann (Riverside, California)
ABSTRACT	A patient alignment system for a radiation therapy system. The alignment system includes multiple external measurement devices which obtain position measurements of components of the radiation therapy system which are movable and/or are subject to flex or other positional variations. The alignment system employs the external measurements to provide corrective positioning feedback to more precisely register the patient and align them with a radiation beam. The alignment system can be provided as an integral part of a radiation therapy system or can be added as an upgrade to existing radiation therapy systems.
FILED	Tuesday, November 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/264854
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/492.300
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08269200 — Terahertz radiation device and method of generating terahertz radiation

US 08269200	Wraback 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)	Michael Wraback (Germantown, Maryland); Paul H Shen (Potomac, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method and device for generating terahertz radiation comprising a substrate; a plurality of segments of polar crystal material formed on the substrate, the segments having an internal electric polarization; each segment comprising at least two edges oriented substantially perpendicular to the polar axis such that the electric polarization terminates at the edges and the segment comprises a majority of positive charges on one edge and a majority of negative charges on the opposite edge thereby leading to creation of an internal electric field; whereby when irradiated by a pulsed source of duration less than one picosecond, electron-hole pairs are generated within the segments and the internal electric field separates and accelerates the electron-hole pairs to thereby produce terahertz radiation.
FILED	Tuesday, March 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/042775
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/504.R00
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08269215 — Pyromellitic diimide organic semiconductors and devices

US 08269215	Katz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mill, Maryland); Qingdong Zheng (Baltimore, Maryland); Byung Jun Jung (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	n-type organic semiconductors have a pyromellitic diimide structure and electronic or electro-optic devices include pyromellitic diimide compounds as organic semiconductors. Specific semiconductors include pyromellitic diimide compounds have sidechains comprising fluorine substituted aliphatic or aromatic moieties linked to the pyromellitic diimide structure by an alkylene or heteroalkylene linking group. An electronic or electro-optic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode space apart from the first electrode, and an organic semiconductor layer arranged between the first and second electrodes. The organic semiconductor layer comprises a pyromellitic diimide compound.
FILED	Tuesday, July 21, 2009
APPL NO	12/999733
ART UNIT	2826 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/40
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08269222 — Semiconductor photodetector with transparent interface charge control layer and method thereof

US 08269222	Shen 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)	Paul Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Michael Wraback (Germantown, Maryland); Anand V Sampath (Montgomery Village, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A detection device comprising a photodetector comprising a first semiconductor layer through which light first enters the photodetector; the first semiconductor layer formed of a first semiconductor material crystal lattice which terminates at an interface creating a first interface charge; the first semiconductor layer being an absorption layer in which photons in a predetermined wavelength range are absorbed and create photogenerated carriers; and a second polar semiconductor layer deposited on the crystal lattice of the first semiconductor layer substantially transparent to light in the predetermined wavelength range and having a total polarization different from the first semiconductor layer so that a second interface charge is induced at the interface between the first and second semiconductor layers; the induced second interface charge reduces or substantially cancels the first interface charge so as to increase the collection of photogenerated carriers by the photodetector. ; and a methodproviding the above.
FILED	Tuesday, May 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/114254
ART UNIT	2897 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/77
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08269223 — Polarization enhanced avalanche photodetector and method thereof

US 08269223	Wraback 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)	Michael Wraback (Germantown, Maryland); Paul Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Anand V Sampath (Montgomery Village, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	An avalanche photodetector comprising a multiplication layer formed of a first material having a first polarization; the multiplication layer having a first electric field upon application of a bias voltage; an absorption layer formed of a second material having a second polarization forming an interface with the multiplication layer; the absorption layer having a second electric field upon application of the bias voltage, the second electric field being less than the first electric field or substantially zero, carriers created by light absorbed in the absorption layer being multiplied in the multiplication layer due to the first electric field; the absorption layer having a second polarization which is greater or less than the first polarization to thereby create an interface charge; the interface charge being positive when the first material predominately multiplies holes, the interface charge being negative when the first material predominately multiplies electrons, the change in electric field at the interface occurring abruptly at the atomic level; the interface charge creating electric field discontinuity causing first electric field to attain the breakdown field in the multiplication region and the second electric field to be low or zero in the absorption layer to thereby eliminate the need for a doped charge layer and the associated thickness of the doped charge layer required to transition from the low field to the high field. Also claimed is a method of making.
FILED	Thursday, May 26, 2011
APPL NO	13/116667
ART UNIT	2897 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/77
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08269262 — Vertical junction field effect transistor with mesa termination and method of making the same

US 08269262	Sankin et al.
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)	SS SC IP LLC (Jackson, Mississippi)
INVENTOR(S)	Igor Sankin (Starkville, Mississippi); Joseph Neil Merrett (Starkville, Mississippi)
ABSTRACT	A vertical junction field effect transistor (VJFET) having a mesa termination and a method of making the device are described. The device includes: an n-type mesa on an n-type substrate; a plurality of raised n-type regions on the mesa comprising an upper n-type layer on a lower n-type layer; p-type regions between and adjacent the raised n-type regions and along a lower sidewall portion of the raised regions; dielectric material on the sidewalls of the raised regions, on the p-type regions and on the sidewalls of the mesa; and electrical contacts to the substrate (drain), p-type regions (gate) and the upper n-type layer (source). The device can be made in a wide-bandgap semiconductor material such as SiC. The method includes selectively etching through an n-type layer using a mask to form the raised regions and implanting p-type dopants into exposed surfaces of an underlying n-type layer using the mask.
FILED	Friday, August 10, 2007
APPL NO	11/836994
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/262
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08269396 — Stable electro-mechanical actuators

US 08269396	Aksyuk et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France)
INVENTOR(S)	Vladimir Anatolyevich Aksyuk (Westfield, New Jersey); Carl Jeremy Nuzman (Union, New Jersey); Maria Elina Simon (New Providence, New Jersey); Alan Weiss (Millburn, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	An electro-mechanical actuator includes a comb drive and a deformable connector. The comb drive has a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate. The capacitor plates have teeth capable of inter-digitating. The deformable connector is configured to apply a mechanical restoring force to the first capacitor plate. The deformable connector is configured to restore the first capacitor plate to be at an equilibrium rest position in response to no control voltage being applied across the capacitor. The comb drive is more engaged at the equilibrium rest position than at a mechanical stability threshold of the comb drive. The capacitor plates are disengaged at the equilibrium rest position.
FILED	Monday, February 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/036724
ART UNIT	2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309
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08269658 — Photonic analog-to-digital conversion using the robust symmetrical number system

US 08269658	Pace 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)	Phillip E. Pace (San Juan Bautista, California); Mylene R. Avizo (Oxnard, California); James Calusdian (Salinas, California); Brian Luke (Chesapeake, Virginia); Kenneth B. Hollinger (Oceanside, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments in accordance with the invention allow for direct digitization of wideband RF signals without the need for down conversion or the use of mixers. In one embodiment, a preprocessed input analog signal is applied to three wideband Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI), e.g., modulators, to amplitude modulate a continuous wave laser signal. A photodetector is used at the output of each interferometer to convert the amplitude modulated optical signal into an electrical signal. This is followed by an amplifier and a low-pass filter (LPF) to increase the signal level and to reduce the noise. A small m_icomparator bank at the output of each LPF is clocked at the sampling frequency and encodes the electrical signal from each detector into a thermometer code that represents an integer value within the modulus. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) then combines the thermometer-code from each comparator bank in order to generate a more convenient 6-bit binary representation, i.e., a digital output.
FILED	Friday, January 21, 2011
APPL NO	13/011777
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coded data generation or conversion 341/137
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08269665 — Monopulse angle determination

US 08269665	Urkowitz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Harry Urkowitz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Robert A. Postell (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Lefferts (Turnersville, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Modern tactical radars frequently use phase shifters to electronically specify or steer the spatial position of the antenna beam without requiring mechanical motion of the antenna. These phase shifters can only be set correctly for a specific frequency. If a waveform is transmitted through the antenna which consists of multiple segments which differ in frequency or modulation from that frequency used to steer the position of the beam, errors are introduced into the monopulse measurement. These monopulse errors are reduced or eliminated by correction factors. The monopulse errors are corrected by pre-computed factors or terms which result from the differences in frequency and modulation used in the waveform from the frequency used to steer or position the beam. Correction is also provided for radar altitude. These correction factors are easily pre-computed and applied only when needed to minimize the computational requirements.
FILED	Friday, January 29, 2010
APPL NO	12/696248
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/80
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08269685 — Tapered slot antenna

US 08269685	McQuaid et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew M. McQuaid (Hudson, New Hampshire); Michael J. O'Brien (Nashau, New Hampshire); Nicolas S. Peterson (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Basil W. Thompson (Hooksett, New Hampshire); Duane A. Beaulieu (Brookline, New Hampshire); Kari M. Karwedsky (Merrimack, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	Methods, antennas and other embodiments associated with impedance matching an antenna feed slot. A slot antenna includes a planar metal sheet. A feed slot opening is formed in the metal sheet. The feed slot has a first end and a second end. A tapered opening is formed in the metal sheet. Adjacent sides of the tapered opening touch the first end of the feed slot. An impedance matching star shaped opening is formed in the metal. The impedance matching star shaped opening touches the second end of the feed slot.
FILED	Friday, May 07, 2010
APPL NO	12/776005
ART UNIT	2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/767
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08269893 — Optical payload electrical system

US 08269893	McKaughan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Flir Systems, Inc. (Wilsonville, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen V. McKaughan (Arlington, Massachusetts); Philip A. Rombult (Boxford, Massachusetts); Robert J. Campbell, Jr. (Manchester, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	A compact optical payload for an unmanned aircraft includes two infrared cameras for wide and narrow field viewing, a daylight color camera, a laser pointer and a laser range finder.
FILED	Monday, May 11, 2009
APPL NO	12/463922
ART UNIT	2448 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Television 348/588
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08269931 — Systems and methods for preparing films using sequential ion implantation, and films formed using same

US 08269931	Abraham et al.
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)	Margaret H. Abraham (Portola Valley, California); David P. Taylor (Hawthorne, California)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for preparing films using sequential ion implantation, and films formed using same, are provided herein. A structure prepared using ion implantation may include a substrate; an embedded structure having pre-selected characteristics; and a film within or adjacent to the embedded structure and including ions having a perturbed arrangement arising from the presence of the embedded structure. The perturbed arrangement may include the ions being covalently bonded to each other, to the embedded structure, or to the substrate, whereas the ions instead may be free to diffuse through the substrate in the absence of the embedded structure. The embedded structure may inhibit or impede the ions from diffusing through the substrate, such that the ions instead covalently bond to each other, to the embedded structure, or to the substrate. The film may include, for example, diamond-like carbon, graphene, or SiC having a pre-selected phase.
FILED	Monday, September 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/584939
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/122
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08269963 — Tunable apparatus for performing SERS

US 08269963	Ou et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Fung Suong Ou (Palo Alto, California); Min Hu (Sunnyvale, California); Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California); Zhiyong Li (Redwood City, California); R Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California)
ABSTRACT	A tunable apparatus for performing Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) includes a deformable layer and a plurality of SERS-active nanoparticles disposed at one or more locations on the deformable layer, wherein the one or more locations are configured to be illuminated with light of a pump wavelength to cause Raman excitation light to interact with the nanoparticles and produce enhanced Raman scattered light from molecules located in close proximity to the nanoparticles. In addition, a morphology of the deformable layer is configured to be controllably varied to modify an intensity of the Raman scattered light produced from the molecules.
FILED	Friday, April 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/771779
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301
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08269979 — Device for laser-ultrasonic detection of flip chip attachment defects

US 08269979	Klein et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Marvin Klein (Pacific Palisades, California); Todd Murray (Roslindale, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A device detects underfill voids and solder ball defects via laser generation and laser detection of an ultrasonic wave at the top surface of flip chips. High resolution is provided by using small laser spot sizes and closely-spaced laser beams of wavelengths that are absorbed near the surface of the semiconductor. Improved spatial resolution and rejection of unwanted scattered waves can be attained by limiting the time frame of the ultrasonic waveform to the time required for the first longitudinal wave reflection from the bottom of the flip chip. The laser beam spacing can be reduced by using probe and detection beams of different wavelengths. Resolution of less than 100 μm features was demonstrated for silicon flip chips.
FILED	Thursday, December 06, 2007
APPL NO	11/999900
ART UNIT	2822 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502
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08270255 — System for measuring acoustic signature of an object in water

US 08270255	Cuschieri et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph M. Cuschieri (Boca Raton, Florida); Jason J. Orlando (West Palm Beach, Florida); Michael D. Wilt (Boca Raton, Florida); Brian S. Tilton (Jupiter, Florida); Scott K. Wrieden (Jupiter, Florida); Alex D. Fiebel (Tequesta, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A system for measuring acoustic signature of a target object in water includes a plurality of rigid segments connected to each other to form a longitudinal member and a plurality of floats connected to the longitudinal member. Two buoys are connected at two ends of the longitudinal member and two weights are suspended from the buoys, thus making the longitudinal member neutrally buoyant when suspended in water. A plurality of hydrophones and an acoustic projector of a known source level are connected to the longitudinal member. The system further includes a data acquisition system for receiving signals from hydrophones and a signal processing means for processing signals received by data acquisition and determining acoustic signature of the target object. A depth/pressure sensor may be included. A pinger is located on the target object to measure range of target object to hydrophones. Range to target object is displayed in real time.
FILED	Friday, May 30, 2008
APPL NO	12/130479
ART UNIT	3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/154
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08270299 — Communicator-based token/buffer management for eager protocol support in collective communication operations

US 08270299	Jia
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)	Bin Jia (West New York, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A method, system, method and computer program product for facilitating collective communication in parallel computing. A system for parallel computing includes one or more communicators. Each of the one or more communicators comprises a plurality of processes. A memory pool including one or more early arrival buffers is provided. One or more tokens are assigned to a specified communicator included in the communicators. Each of the processes comprised by the specified communicator may consume any token assigned to the specified communicator. Requesting an early arrival buffer included in the memory pool requires consuming at least one token. A collective communication operation is performed using the specified communicator. The collective communication operation is performed eagerly using early arrival buffers obtained by consuming the tokens assigned to the communicator.
FILED	Monday, November 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/267730
ART UNIT	2473 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/235
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08270316 — On-chip radio frequency (RF) interconnects for network-on-chip designs

US 08270316	Chang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mau-Chung F. Chang (Los Angeles, California); Jason Cong (Pacific Palisades, California); Adam Kaplan (Van Nuys, California); Mishali Naik (Long Beach, California); Glenn Reinman (Los Angeles, California); Eran Socher (Los Angeles, California); Sai-Wang Tam (Rosemead, California); Chunyue Liu (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	An on-chip Radio Frequency (RF) Interconnect (RF-I) for communication between internal circuit nodes of an integrated circuit is provided. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is provided that includes an on-chip transmission line, a first circuit node associated with an RF transmitter connected to the transmission line, and a second circuit node associated with an RF receiver connected to the transmission line. In order to transmit data from the first circuit node to the second circuit node, the RF transmitter associated with the first circuit node modulates the data onto an RF carrier frequency to provide a modulated RF signal and transmits the modulated RF signal over the transmission line. The RF receiver associated with the second circuit node receives the modulated RF signal from the transmission line and demodulates the modulated RF signal to recover the data for the second circuit node.
FILED	Friday, January 30, 2009
APPL NO	12/363182
ART UNIT	2476 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/254
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08270778 — Enhanced silicon all-optical modulator

US 08270778	Hochberg 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)	University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael J. Hochberg (Seattle, Washington); Thomas W. Baehr-Jones (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A single-photon absorption all-optical signal-processing device, systems employing the same, and methods of making and using the same. Illustrative examples are provided based on silicon semiconductor technology that employs rectangular waveguides fabricated on SOI wafers. In some embodiments, it is observed that the waveguides have surface state density, σ, of not less than 1.5×10¹⁸cm⁻¹s⁻¹mW⁻¹to provide a single-photon absorption operation mode. In some embodiments, some portion of the ridge waveguide structure has a surface to volume ratio of at least 18 μm⁻¹, computed using a unit length of 1 μm of the waveguide, with the width and depth dimensions of the waveguide being measured in units of microns.
FILED	Friday, August 06, 2010
APPL NO	12/866666
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/2
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08270781 — Apparatus and method for improved optical detection of particles in fluid

US 08270781	Lo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Victor Jie Lien (La Jolla, California); Chun Hao Randy Chen (Arcadia, California)
ABSTRACT	A number of fluidic-photonic devices for allowing optical detection, systems employing such devices, and related methods of operation and fabrication of such devices are disclosed herein. In at least some embodiments, the devices can serve as flow cytometry devices and/or employ microfluidic channels. Also, in at least some embodiments, the devices are fluidic-photonic integrated circuit (FPIC) devices that employ both fluidic channels and one or more waveguides capable of receiving and/or delivering light, and that can be fabricated using polymeric materials. The fluidic-photonic devices in at least some embodiments are capable of functionality such as on-chip excitation, time-of-flight measurement, and can experience enhanced fluorescence detection sensitivity. In at least some embodiments, the devices employ detection waveguides that are joined by way of a waveguide demultiplexer. In additional embodiments, a variety of techniques can be used to process information received via the waveguides, including an iterative cross-correlation process.
FILED	Friday, October 27, 2006
APPL NO	12/091414
ART UNIT	1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/12
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08270783 — Silicon integrated photonic optical parametric amplifier oscillator and wavelength converter

US 08270783	Foster et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark Foster (Sparks Glenoe, Maryland); Alexander Gaeta (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Jay Sharping (Turlock, California); Amy Foster (Sparks Glenoe, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for adjusting intensity, wavelength and higher and lower frequency components of an optical signal. Photonic apparatus receives a first and a second optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion the first optical signal or the second optical signal and adjusts intensity or wavelength of the first optical signal or the second optical signal, in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion. In some embodiments photonic apparatus receives an optical signal comprising a lower frequency component received an amount of time prior to a higher frequency component of the optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion for the optical signal and adjusts the amount of time between the higher frequency component and the lower frequency component in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion.
FILED	Thursday, June 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/167563
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/14
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08271074 — Dynamic calibration of physiologically driven image triage systems

US 08271074	Mathan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Santosh Mathan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Patricia M. Ververs (Ellicott City, Maryland); Misha Pavel (Portland, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A system and method of dynamically calibrating an image triage system. An image that may include one or more target entities is divided into a plurality of individual non-calibration image chips. Each non-calibration image chip is successively displayed to a user for a presentation time period. A calibration image chip that includes a synthetic target entity is selectively displayed, for the presentation time period, between the successive display of two non-calibration image chips. Calibration data are collected from the user at least while each calibration image chip is being displayed, and the image triage system is dynamically calibrated using the calibration data.
FILED	Thursday, November 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/947325
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	Surgery 6/544
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08271224 — Fusing structures from multi-sensor data

US 08271224	Otts
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel W. Otts (Allen, Texas)
ABSTRACT	In particular embodiments, fusing structures includes receiving sensor data sets generated by sensors in response to sensing a structure system. Each sensor data set describes structures of the structure system. Structure pairs are generated, where a structure pair comprises a first structure from a first sensor data set and a second structure from a second sensor data set. A relational vector set is defined for each structure pair, and a relational vector score is calculated for each structure pair according to the relational vector set of the structure pair. An association score is calculated for each structure pair according to the relational vector score of the structure pair. The association score of the structure pair indicates a likelihood that the structure pair is fusable.
FILED	Wednesday, January 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/686428
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/116
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08271234 — System for situational awareness and method implementing the same

US 08271234	Cunningham et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	John Cunningham (West Hartford, Connecticut); Brett R. Hackleman (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	John Cunningham (West Hartford, Connecticut); Brett R. Hackleman (Scottsdale, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A system for implementing a situational awareness includes a plurality of data gathering devices for observing the physical environment and transforming observations of physical phenomena into digital information; a plurality of field monitoring units with each of the plurality of units communicating with a corresponding plurality of data gathering devices to obtain data therefrom; and an aggregate monitoring unit communicating with each of the plurality of field monitoring units to monitor and control each of the plurality of field monitoring units and collect and store data from the plurality of data gathering devices.
FILED	Monday, January 28, 2008
APPL NO	12/011749
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/188
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08271278 — Quantizing feature vectors in decision-making applications

US 08271278	Chaudhari 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)	Upendra V. Chaudhari (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Hsin I. Tseng (Los Angeles, California); Deepak S. Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Frameries, Belgium)
ABSTRACT	A system, method and computer program product for classification of an analog electrical signal using statistical models of training data. A technique is described to quantize the analog electrical signal in a manner which maximizes the compression of the signal while simultaneously minimizing the diminution in the ability to classify the compressed signal. These goals are achieved by utilizing a quantizer designed to minimize the loss in a power of the log-likelihood ratio. A further technique is described to enhance the quantization process by optimally allocating a number of bits for each dimension of the quantized feature vector subject to a maximum number of bits available across all dimensions.
FILED	Saturday, April 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/753859
ART UNIT	2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/230
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08271409 — System and method for indexing a data stream

US 08271409	Luo 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)	Gang Luo (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York)
ABSTRACT	There are provided methods, computer program products, and systems for indexing a data stream. A method for indexing a data stream having attribute values includes the steps of parsing the data stream, and forming an index of tuples for a subset of attribute values of the data stream. The index is configured for retrieving the top-K tuples that optimize linearly weighted sums of at least some of the attribute values in the subset.
FILED	Wednesday, April 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/061218
ART UNIT	2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/21
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08271412 — Methods and systems for determining entropy metrics for networks

US 08271412	Johnson
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)	University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph E. Johnson (Winnsboro, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems for network monitoring using network metrics which are generalized entropy functions of the Markov monoid matrix M generated by an altered connection matrix C.
FILED	Wednesday, December 20, 2006
APPL NO	12/158424
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46
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08271765 — Managing instructions for more efficient load/store unit usage

US 08271765	Bose 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)	Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Michael Stephen Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Dung Quoc Nguyen (Austin, Texas); Bruce Joseph Ronchetti (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and a system for managing instructions. A load/store unit receives a first instruction at a port. The load/store unit rejects the first instruction in response to determining that the first instruction has a first reject condition. Then, the instruction sequencing unit activates a first bit in response to the load/store unit rejection the first instruction. The instruction sequencing unit blocks the first instruction from reissue while the first bit is activated. The processor unit determines a class of rejection of the first instruction. The instruction sequencing unit starts a timer. The length of the timer is based on the class of rejection of the first instruction. The instruction sequencing unit resets the first bit in response to the timer expiring. The instruction sequencing unit allows the first instruction to become eligible for reissue in response to resetting the first bit.
FILED	Wednesday, April 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/420143
ART UNIT	2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/214
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08271809 — On-chip power proxy based architecture

US 08271809	Bose 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)	Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Michael Stephen Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Illustrative embodiments estimate power consumption within a multi-core microprocessor chip. An authorized user selects a set of activities to be monitored. A value for each activity of the set of activities is stored in a separate counter of a set of counters, forming a set of stored values. The value comprises the count multiplied by a weight factor specific to the activity. The set of activities are grouped into subsets. The stored values corresponding to each activity in each subset are summed, forming a total value for each subset. The total value of each subset is multiplied by a factor corresponding to the subset, forming a scaled value for each subset. The scaled value of each subset is summed, forming a power usage value. A power manager adjusts the operational parameters of the unit based on a comparison of the power usage value to a threshold value.
FILED	Wednesday, April 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/424161
ART UNIT	2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

08267865 — Sonoelastographic shear velocity imaging using crawling wave excitation

US 08267865	Hoyt 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)	Kenneth Hoyt (Rochester, New York); Kevin J. Parker (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	Vibration sources are applied to a body or other object to image a region of interest. The mechanical vibrations introduced by the sources interfere in the region of interest to produce a crawling wave, which is detected by an ultrasound probe A relationship between crawling wave phase derivatives and local shear wave velocity is derived with phase derivatives estimated using either one-dimensional (1D) or two-dimensional (2D) autocorrelation-based techniques to image the region of interest.
FILED	Friday, February 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/032364
ART UNIT	3737 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/438
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08268009 — Mechanical extension implants for short bowel syndrome

US 08268009	Teitelbaum et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel H. Teitelbaum (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jonathan E. Luntz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ariel U. Spencer (Jonesborough, Tennessee); Diann E. Brei (Milford, Michigan); Brent A. Utter (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Joseph T. Belter (Novi, Michigan); Jennifer L. Vermeesch (Okemos, Michigan); Alexander D. Farr (Encino, California); Makram P. Debbas (Clovis, California)
ABSTRACT	A bowel extension device implantable into a body for treatment of short bowel syndrome. The bowel extension device comprises a housing and a displaceable member coupled to the housing. The bowel extension device is configured to apply a tensile force sufficient to promote bowel growth without causing damage to the bowel. In some embodiments, the bowel extension device can be completely contained with the body.
FILED	Thursday, April 09, 2009
APPL NO	12/420995
ART UNIT	3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Prosthesis 623/23.640
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08268302 — Cultures, products and methods using umbilical cord matrix cells

US 08268302	Weiss et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark L. Weiss (Manhattan, Kansas); Daryl L. Troyer (Manhattan, Kansas); Duane Davis (Westmoreland, Kansas); Kathy E. Mitchell (Columbia, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Stem cells from human sources can have a variety of useful applications in disease treatment and biotechnology. More particularly the umbilical cord matrix cell cultures of the invention have a variety of totipotent, pluripotent, or multipotent cells for a variety of end uses from a non-controversial, universally available, species-specific source. The technology can have application to any amniotic animal, including agricultural and laboratory animals and humans. The invention relates to isolating the stem cells, culturing the stem cells, maintaining the stem cells, transforming the stem cells into useful cell types using genetic or other transformation technologies, stem cell and tissue banking and using untransformed or transformed cells in disease treatment.
FILED	Tuesday, May 04, 2010
APPL NO	12/773427
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	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100
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08268323 — Conformationally stabilized HIV envelope immunogens

US 08268323	Kwong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter Kwong (Washington, District of Columbia); John Mascola (Rockville, Maryland); Gary Nabel (Washington, District of Columbia); Richard Wyatt (Rockville, Maryland); Barna Dey (Germantown, Maryland); Ling Xu (Potomac, Maryland); Tongqing Zhou (Boyds, Maryland); Joseph Sodroski (Boston, Massachusetts); Wen Yuan (Brighton, Massachusetts); Shi-Hua Xiang (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Stabilized forms of gp120 polypeptide, nucleic acids encoding these stabilized forms, vectors comprising these nucleic acids, and methods of using these polypeptides, nucleic acids, vectors and host cells are disclosed. Crystal structures and computer systems including atomic coordinates for stabilized forms of gp120, and gp120 with an extended V3 loop, and methods of using these structures and computer systems are also disclosed.
FILED	Wednesday, September 14, 2011
APPL NO	13/232775
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100
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08268326 — Compositions comprising HMW-MAA and fragments thereof, and methods of use thereof

US 08268326	Paterson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Paulo Maciag (Princeton, New Jersey); Matthew Seavey (Prospect Park, Pennsylvania); Soldano Ferrone (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides recombinant polypeptides comprising a fragment of a High Molecular Weight Melanoma-Associated Antigen (HMW-MAA), recombinant Listeria strains comprising same, and methods of inducing an anti-HMW-MAA and anti HER-2/neu immune response thus treating and impeding the growth of tumors, comprising administering same.
FILED	Friday, October 03, 2008
APPL NO	12/244828
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100
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08268330 — Hypoxia inducible factor inducer and methods for using the same

US 08268330	Basaraba 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)	Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Randall Joseph Basaraba (Fort Collins, Colorado); Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann (Brisbane, Australia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides vaccine compositions and methods for using the same. Generally, the vaccine is used to prevent infection of a microorganism that produces an HIF inducing compound. Accordingly, vaccines of the invention comprise at least a portion of an HIF inducing compound that is produced by the microorganism.
FILED	Wednesday, March 19, 2008
APPL NO	12/532138
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100
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08268344 — Particle-containing complex porous materials

US 08268344	Ma et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter X. Ma (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Guobao Wei (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Porous materials and methods for forming them are disclosed. One method for immobilizing micro-particles and/or nano-particles onto internal pore surfaces and/or external pore surfaces of porous materials includes suspending the micro-particles and/or nano-particles in a liquid adapted to swell, soften, and/or deform either the porous materials and/or the particles, thereby forming a liquid-particle suspension. The method further includes adding the suspension to the porous materials; and removing the liquid, thereby forming the porous materials having the micro-particles and/or nano-particles immobilized on the internal pore surfaces and/or the external pore surfaces.
FILED	Tuesday, April 25, 2006
APPL NO	11/410480
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/443
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08268357 — Processes for the preparation of lipophilic drug delivery vehicles

US 08268357	Ryan 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)	Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert O. Ryan (El Cerrito, California); Michael N. Oda (Fairfield, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions and methods for delivery of a bioactive agent to an individual. Delivery vehicles are provided that include a bioactive agent in disc shaped particles that include one or more lipid binding polypeptides circumscribing the perimeter of a lipid bilayer in which the bioactive agent is localized. Chimeric lipid binding polypeptides are also provided and may be used to add additional functional properties to the delivery particles.
FILED	Monday, June 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/815058
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489
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08268550 — Compositions and methods for identification of PARP function, inhibitors, and activators

US 08268550	Chang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul Chang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sejal Vyas (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides nucleic acids encoding PARP fusion proteins, PARP fusion proteins, antibodies that bind to one or more of these PARP fusion proteins, and transgenic cells expressing one or more PARP fusion proteins. The invention also provides methods for identifying an agent as a specific PARP inhibitor or activator requiring contacting one or more PARP fusion proteins with a labeled nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide substrate and the agent and measuring the amount of labeled of ADP-ribose covalently attached to the one or more PARP fusion proteins. The invention also provides methods for identifying an agent that specifically binds to one or more PARP fusion proteins and methods for quantitating the level of one or more PARP proteins in a sample.
FILED	Friday, June 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/459212
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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08268564 — Methods and applications for stitched DNA barcodes

US 08268564	Roth et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Frederick P. Roth (Newton, Massachusetts); Yo Suzuki (Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts); Joseph Mellor (Brookline, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods of identifying the genotypes of a plurality of single cells, wherein each cell includes a plurality of DNA barcodes, each associated with a genetic mutation or marker, are provided. In particular, methods including linking a plurality of DNA barcodes together to create a stitched barcode, amplifying the stitched barcode and sequencing the stitched barcode are provided. Also provided are methods of determining the presence of at least one genetic mutation in a population of cells.
FILED	Wednesday, September 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/236912
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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08268568 — Methods and compositions for categorizing patients

US 08268568	Markowitz
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provides, among other things, molecular markers for categorizing the neoplastic state of a patient, methods for using the molecular markers in diagnostic tests, nucleic acid and amino acid sequences related to the molecular markers, reagents for detection of molecular markers, and methods for identifying candidate molecular markers in highly parallel gene expression data.
FILED	Monday, April 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/386176
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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08268570 — Restricted access media and methods for making restricted access media

US 08268570	Hage et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
INVENTOR(S)	David S. Hage (Hickman, Nebraska); Chunling Wa (Elmhurst, New York); Abby Jackson (Lincoln, Nebraska); Hai Xuan (Rolla, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to restricted access media (RAM), methods for preparing restricted access media, and kits for preparing restricted access media that contain protected ligand binding agents or protected enzymes. Certain RAM provided contain a plurality of protected regions of the support that contain ligand binding agents that are protected by blocking agents. Certain RAM provided contain a plurality of protected regions of the support that contain unbound ligand binding agents or enzymes that are retained in the protected regions by a capping agent. Methods of making the RAM of the invention and associated kits are also provided.
FILED	Tuesday, August 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/547131
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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08268571 — Flow cytometry for high throughput screening

US 08268571	Sklar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Larry A Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frederick Kuckuck (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The present invention, provides a flow cytometry apparatus for the detection of particles from a plurality of samples comprising: means for moving a plurality of samples comprising particles from a plurality of respective source wells into a fluid flow stream; means for introducing a separation gas between each of the plurality of samples in the fluid flow stream; and means for selectively analyzing each of the plurality of samples for the particles. The present invention also provides a flow cytometry method employing such an apparatus.
FILED	Thursday, August 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/136807
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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08268581 — Carboxy terminal residues as predictors and regulators of protein stability

US 08268581	Fox 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)	Brian G. Fox (Madison, Wisconsin); Yong Chang (Madison, Wisconsin); Gary A. Wesenberg (Madison, Wisconsin); Craig A. Bingman (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods are provided that are useful for predicting and controlling the stability of expressed polypeptides. The compositions and methods may be used to predict and as desired, increase or decrease the stability of proteins recombinantly expressed in mycobacteria, for example DesA3 expressed in Mycobacterium smegmatis. At the C terminus and the penultimate position, substitution to residues with charged side chains, large non-polar side chains, or no side chains can be used to reduce or inhibit the protein degradation. At the antepenultimate position from the C terminus, residues with no side chain or acidic side chains can increase the stability, i.e. reduce or inhibit the protein degradation. The combinational substitution of only the last three residues of polypeptides can make the polypeptides more stable during heterologous expression in mycobacterial hosts.
FILED	Tuesday, April 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/431315
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100
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08268596 — Glycosyltransferases for biosynthesis of oligosaccharides, and genes encoding them

US 08268596	Gotschlich
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Rockefeller University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Emil C. Gotschlich (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to nucleic acids encoding glycosyltransferases, the proteins encoded thereby, and to methods for synthesizing oligosaccharides using the glycosyltransferases of the invention. In particular, the present application is directed to identification a glycosyltransferase locus of Neisseria gonorrhoeae containing five open reading frames for five different glycosyltransferases. The functionally active glycosyltransferases of the invention are characterized by catalyzing reactions such as adding Gal β1→4 to GlcNAc or Glc; adding GalNAc or GlcNAc β1→3 to Gal; and adding Gal αl→4 to Gal. The glycosyltransferases of the invention are particularly suited to the synthesis of the oligosaccharides Galβ1→4GlcNAcβ1→3Galβ1→4Glc (a mimic of lacto-N-neotetraose), GalNAcβ1→3Galβ1→4GlcNAcβ1→3Galβ1→4Glcβ1→4 (a mimic ganglioside), and Galα1→4Galβ1→4Glcβ1→4Hep→R (a mimic of the saccharide portion of globo-glycolipids).
FILED	Monday, June 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/815272
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/97
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08268602 — Cellular and viral inactivation

US 08268602	Raviv et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Yossef Raviv (Rockville, Maryland); Mathias Viard (Frederick, Maryland); Robert Blumenthal (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions of inactivated viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites and tumor cells that can be used as vaccines. Methods for making such inactivated viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites and tumor cells are also provided.
FILED	Thursday, September 21, 2006
APPL NO	11/525250
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/173.300
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08268614 — Method for assaying cell movement

US 08268614	Murphy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Platypus Technologies, LLC (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Barbara Israel (Mt Horeb, Wisconsin); Nicholas Abbot (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the field of assays of cell movement. In particular, the present invention provides methods for assaying cell movement where inserts are used to confine cells to a defined area in a well of a multiwell plate and movement from the defined area is assayed.
FILED	Wednesday, November 10, 2004
APPL NO	10/579118
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/297.500
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08268618 — Repressing endogenous CCR5 gene expression in cells using engineered zinc finger proteins

US 08268618	Cox, III et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Richmond, California)
INVENTOR(S)	George Norbert Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado); Casey Christopher Case (San Mateo, California); Stephen P. Eisenberg (Boulder, Colorado); Eric Edward Jarvis (Boulder, Colorado); Sharon Kaye Spratt (Vacaville, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods for modulating expression of endogenous cellular genes using recombinant zinc finger proteins.
FILED	Wednesday, August 16, 2006
APPL NO	11/505044
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375
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08268620 — OCT4 and SOX2 with SV40 T antigen produce pluripotent stem cells from primate somatic cells

US 08268620	Thomson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	James Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Junying Yu (Middleton, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Methods for reprogramming primate somatic cells to pluripotency using an episomal vector that does not encode an infectious virus are disclosed. Pluripotent cells produced in the methods are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, October 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/605220
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 435/377
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08268628 — Method for determination of protein, peptide or peptoid aggregation, stability, and viability and system using the same

US 08268628	Pastrana-Rios et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
INVENTOR(S)	Belinda Pastrana-Rios (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Ibon LLoro-Manzano (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico)
ABSTRACT	The invention describes a method for determining aggregation in protein, peptide or peptoid formulation, without the use of probes or additives. The method uses FTIR spectroscopy combined with the two-dimensional correlation analysis (2DCOS) which allows for the determination of the presence of aggregates, the determination of the mechanism of aggregation, allowing for correction in the pipeline manufacturing process of the protein to once again generate viable protein. In addition, the thermal transition of the protein can also be determined and a 2DCOS plot generated to compare with the established viable protein, allowing for quality control, stability and viability of the desired protein product. The ease of sample preparation and data analysis allows for the automation of this method.
FILED	Monday, April 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/102862
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86
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08268630 — Differential preconcentrator-based chemical sensor stabilization

US 08268630	Fedder et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary Keith Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Nathan Scott Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Sensor devices and sensing methods are provided. A sensor device is provided two flow channels, each comprising a sensor, and analyte flow is alternated between the two channels such that the sensors alternately serve as a sensor and a reference, thereby increasing accuracy of the sensors. The device is useful, for example, in chemical sensing using a variety of sensor types including without limitation: chemiresistors, gravimetric sensors, optical sensors, among others. Related sensing methods also are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, July 07, 2010
APPL NO	12/831590
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/149
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08268778 — Flavivirus NS5A proteins for the treatment of HIV

US 08268778	McLinden et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	James McLinden (Coralville, Iowa); Jinhua Xiang (Iowa City, Iowa); Jack T. Stapleton (Iowa City, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	GB virus C (GBV-C or hepatitis G virus) is a flavivirus that frequently leads to chronic viremia in humans. The invention provides compositions and methods involving a -GBV-C NS5A peptide or polypeptide for inhibiting and treating HIV infections.
FILED	Thursday, March 20, 2008
APPL NO	12/532064
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.800
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08268795 — Emergence of a R-type CA2+ channel (CAV 2.3) contributes to cerebral artery constriction following subarachnoid hemorrhage

US 08268795	Wellman 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 Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont)
INVENTOR(S)	George C. Wellman (Jeffersonville, Vermont); Masanori Ishiguro (Burlington, Vermont)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to methods and products for treatment of a neurological defect such as a subarachnoid hemorrhage or cerebral vasospasm. Specifically, R-type voltage-gated calcium channel inhibitors and related compositions and kits are described.
FILED	Friday, September 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/890175
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44
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08268796 — Lipophilic nucleic acid delivery vehicle and methods of use thereof

US 08268796	Ryan
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert O. Ryan (El Cerrito, California)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are compositions and methods for delivery of nucleic acids to individuals and to cells, including nucleic acid delivery particles that comprising a lipid-binding polypeptide, a lipid bilayer comprising one or more cationic lipids, and a nucleic acid.
FILED	Friday, June 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/997976
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00
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08268809 — Kinase inhibitors for preventing or treating pathogen infection and method of use thereof

US 08268809	Kalman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel Kalman (Atlanta, Georgia); William Bornmann (Missouri City, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compositions and methods of use thereof to prevent and/or treat pathogenic infection. In particular, the present invention provides the use of kinase inhibitors to inhibit kinases that involve in pathogen-host cell interactions that are associated with or cause pathogenic infections, therefore, to effectively prevent and/or treat pathogenic infections with far less likely to engender resistance as compared to conventional antibiotics and anti-viral drugs. The present invention further provides the use of kinase inhibitors for the treatment of acute pathogenic infections for a short period of time to avoid toxicities that may caused by long term use of these kinase inhibitors.
FILED	Wednesday, September 05, 2007
APPL NO	12/439961
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183
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08268816 — Compounds for modulating integrin CD11b/CD18

US 08268816	Gupta et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Vineet Gupta (Pinecrest, Florida); M. Amin Arnaout (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The application describes an assay for the identification of small molecule modulators of integrin CD11b/CD18 and small molecules capable of modulating activity of this receptor. For example, one such compound useful as an agonist of integrin CD11b/CD18 is the compound of Formula (I): Such compounds may be used in certain embodiments for treating a disease or condition selected from inflammation, immune-related disorders, cancer, ischemia-reperfusion injury, stroke, neointimal thickening associated with vascular injury, bullous pemphigoid, neonatal obstructive nephropathy, and cardiovascular disease, or in other embodiments for the treatment of a disease or condition selected from immune deficiency, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), myeloperoxidase deficiency, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, chronic granulomatous disease, hyper-IgM syndromes, leukocyte adhesion deficiency, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, and severe combined immunodeficiency.
FILED	Friday, June 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/456692
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/225.200
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08268817 — Substituted oxazole ketone modulators of fatty acid amide hydrolase

US 08268817	Boger
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	Certain oxazole ketone compounds are described, which are useful as FAAH inhibitors. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) activity. Thus, the compounds may be administered to treat, e.g., anxiety, pain, inflammation, sleep disorders, eating disorders, or movement disorders (such as multiple sclerosis).
FILED	Friday, September 07, 2007
APPL NO	12/310747
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/227.800
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08268825 — Method for the treatment of anthrax infections

US 08268825	Dreier 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)	The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
INVENTOR(S)	Jurg Dreier (Basel, Switzerland); William Barrow (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Esther Barrow (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	A method of treating an anthrax infection wherein a compound of formula I wherein R¹and R²represent, independently of one another unsubstituted or specifically substituted C_1-4alkoxy; and R³represents hydrogen; cyano; unsubstituted or specifically substituted C_1-6alkyl; C_3-6cycloalkyl; C_2-6alkenyl; C_7-18bicyclyl; aryl, aryl-C_1-4alkyl, aryl-Q-C_1-4alkyl heteroaryl, heterocyclyl or heterocyclyl-C_1-6alkyl, wherein aryl denotes a mono- or poly-nucleous group with 6 to 14 ring carbon atoms; heterocyclyl denotes a 4- to 6-membered non-aromatic heterocyclic group comprising 1 to 3, nitrogen, oxygen and/or sulfur atoms; heteroaryl denotes a mono- or polynuclear heteroaromatic group consisting 5- and/or 6-membered rings and comprising 5 to 13 carbon atoms and 1 to 4, nitrogen, oxygen and/or sulfur atoms; and Q means —SO— or —SO₂—; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or hydrate or a prodrug thereof; is administered to said subject in a quantity effective to inhibit, suppress, or expel an anthrax infection in said subject.
FILED	Monday, September 25, 2006
APPL NO	11/526853
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/248
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08268849 — Multifunctional Antioxidants and methods of use thereof

US 08268849	Kador et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter F. Kador (Omaha, Nebraska); Hongxia Jin (Shanghai, Nebraska)
ABSTRACT	Compositions comprising multifunctional agents and methods of use thereof are provided. Particularly, a series of analogs of 1-N, N′-dimethylsulfamoyl-4-(2-pyrimidyl)piperazine are provided which are useful for treating and/or preventing cataract, macular degeneration, neurodegenerative disorders, and/or injury or symptoms associated with radiation exposure.
FILED	Thursday, September 25, 2008
APPL NO	12/237936
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/273
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08268854 — Aza-beta-carbolines and methods of using same

US 08268854	Cook et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	James M. Cook (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin); Michael L. Van Linn (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Wenyuan Yin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Provided are compounds having the general structure according to Formula (I): Further provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The invention still further provides methods of treating alcoholism, methods of reducing alcohol intake, methods of treating anhedonia, and methods of treating anxiety using theses compounds or the compositions containing them.
FILED	Friday, May 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/471019
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/290
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08268856 — Method to use compositions having antidepressant anxiolytic and other neurological activity and compositions of matter

US 08268856	Hamann 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)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark T. Hamann (Oxford, Mississippi); Anna J. Kochanowska (Oxford, Mississippi); Abir El-Alfy (Oxford, Mississippi); Rae R. Matsumoto (Morgantown, West Virginia); Angelo Boujos (Pickering, Canada)
ABSTRACT	The sponges were collected from a variety of locations in the Florida Keys and separated based on morphology and color. The samples were identified as three species, two of which are well known: V. rigida (Esper, 1794) (order Verongida, family Aplysinidae) and S. aurea (Hyatt, 1875) (order Dictyoceratida, family Thorectidae), and a third S. cerebriformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864), is less common and separated based on subtle differences of morphology and coloration, from the other two species. Several compounds were isolated and were evaluated in established animal models predictive of neurological related drug function, namely, the rodent FST and the chick anxiety-depression model.
FILED	Wednesday, October 05, 2011
APPL NO	13/253958
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/292
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08268874 — Anti-cancer compounds, synthesis thereof, and methods of using same

US 08268874	Miller 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 Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Marvin J. Miller (Mishiwaka, Indiana); Garrett C. Moraski (South Bend, Indiana); Jonathan Stefely (South Bend, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments relate to the field of chemistry and biochemistry, and, more specifically, to anti-cancer compounds, synthesis thereof, and methods of using same. Disclosed herein are various heterocyclic compounds and methods of using the novel anti-cancer compounds to inhibit the growth of a cancer cell, for instance a leukemia, non-small cell lung, central nervous system (CNS), skin, ovarian, renal, prostate, breast, or colon cancer cell. Other embodiments include methods of treating cancer in a subject, such as using the disclosed heterocyclic anti-cancer agents.
FILED	Tuesday, March 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/920808
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/374
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08268879 — 3-3-di-substituted-oxindoles as inhibitors of translation initiation

US 08268879	Halperin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	José A. Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Amarnath Natarajan (Texas City, Texas); Huseyin Aktas (Newton, Massachusetts); Yun-Hua Fan (San Antonio, Texas); Han Chen (College Station, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods for inhibiting translation using 3-(5-tert-Butyl-2-Hydroxy-phenyl)-3-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one and/or its derivatives are provided. Compositions, methods and kits for treating (1) cellular proliferative disorders, (2) non-proliferative, degenerative disorders, (3) viral infections, and/or (4) disorders associated with viral infections, using 3-(5-tert-butyl-2-hydroxy-phenyl)-3-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one and/or its derivatives are described.
FILED	Wednesday, June 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/796831
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/418
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08268894 — Compositions and methods for the treatment of infectious diseases

US 08268894	Protopopova et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Sequella, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Marina Nikolaevna Protopopova (Silver Spring, Maryland); Elena Bogatcheva (Bethesda, Maryland); Leo Einck (McLean, Virginia); Richard Edward Lee (Cordova, Tennessee); Richard Allan Slayden (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Clifton E. Barry, III (Germantown, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions for treating disease caused by infectious agents, particularly tuberculosis. In particular, methods and compositions comprising substituted ethylene diamines for the treatment of infectious diseases are provided. In one embodiment, these methods and compositions are used for the treatment of mycobacterial infections, including, but not limited to, tuberculosis.
FILED	Thursday, November 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/944231
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/648
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08268965 — Template-directed assembly of receptor signaling complexes

US 08268965	Weis 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 Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert M. Weis (Amherst, Massachusetts); Anthony L. Shrout (Northampton, Massachusetts); David J. Montefusco (Northampton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Transmembrane receptors in the signaling pathways of bacterial chemotaxis systems influence cell motility by forming noncovalent complexes with the cytoplasmic signaling proteins to regulate their activity. The requirements for receptor-mediated activation of CheA, the principal kinase of the Escherichia coli chemotaxis signaling pathway, can be demonstrated using self-assembled clusters of a receptor fragment (CF) derived from the cytoplasmic domain of the aspartate receptor, Tar. Histidine-tagged Tar CF can be assembled on the surface of unilamellar vesicles via a lipid containing the Nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid moiety as a headgroup. The stability of such a complex can be controlled by the properties of the template including the size and composition, which can be used, for example, to vary the 2-dimensional concentration of receptor fragments. Surface-assembled CF is also found to serve as a substrate for receptor methylation, which is catalyzed by the receptor transferase. Since neither CheA activation nor CF methylation is observed in comparable samples in the absence of vesicles, it is concluded that surface-templating generates the organization among CF subunits required for biochemical activity.
FILED	Monday, December 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/653507
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350
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08268977 — Strongly quenching oligomeric excimer/quencher pairs for detection schemes

US 08268977	Kool et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric Todd Kool (Stanford, California); James N. Wilson (Coral Gables, Florida); Nan Dai (Middle Island, New York)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and systems are provided for the high efficiency quenching small water-soluble oligomers, or oligofluors, of from about 1-10 kd in size, where the oligofluors comprise multiple excimeric or exciplex forming fluorophores arranged on a scaffold, which are efficiently quenched by a quencher entity linked to the oligomer through a cleavable moiety. Fluorophores of interest include, without limitation, aromatic fluorophores such as pyrenes, e.g. benzopyrene, perylene, pyrene, etc. In some embodiments the oligofluor/quencher combination provides for a Stern-Vollmer constant (K_SV) of greater than about 10⁶M⁻¹, and may be greater than about 10⁷M⁻¹, greater than about 10⁸M⁻¹, or more. In some embodiments of the invention, the scaffold is a phosphodiester/glycoside backbone, e.g. an analog of a polynucleotide. The system of oligofluors and quenchers can be used in qualitative and quantitative screening and detection methods to detect any enzymatic, chemical or catalytic activity that can cleave the moiety between the quencher and scaffold.
FILED	Monday, November 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/619559
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	Organic compounds 536/23.100
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08269034 — C-nitroso-derived nitroxyl donors

US 08269034	King
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	S. Bruce King (Walnut Cove, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Active compounds of Formula I are described: wherein: R₁and R₂are each independently C1-C4 alkyl; or R₁and R₂together form a C2-C7 alkylene chain; and Z is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID); along with pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrug thereof, and methods of using the same.
FILED	Wednesday, July 06, 2011
APPL NO	13/177036
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 560/105
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08269039 — Amino acids and catalytic preparatory methods

US 08269039	Gellman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel Helmer Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Yonggui Chi (Berkeley, California); Li Guo (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides novel compounds and methods to carry out organocatalytic Michael additions of aldehydes to nitroethylene catalyzed by a proline derivative to provide α-substituted-γ-nitroaldehydes. The reaction can be rendered enantioselective when a chiral pyrrolidine catalyst is used, allowing for Michael adducts in nearly optically pure form (e.g., 96-99% e.e.). The Michael adducts can bear a single substituent or dual substituents adjacent to the carbonyl. The Michael adducts can be efficiently converted to protected γ²-amino acids, which are essential for systematic conformational studies of γ-peptide foldamers.
FILED	Monday, March 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/383370
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 562/571
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08269196 — Heavy ion radiation therapy system with stair-step modulation

US 08269196	Hill et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Patrick M. Hill (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin); Jihad H. Al-Sadah (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A system for modulating a fan beam for radiation treatment employs shutters that may move rapidly into and out of different beamlets of a fan beam, the shutters having a systematic weighting so that a limited number of shutters may obtain a far greater number of regularly spaced energy reductions.
FILED	Wednesday, February 27, 2008
APPL NO	12/439440
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/492.300
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08269494 — Preparing the magnetization state of a sample for alternating repetition time steady state free precession magnetic resonance imaging

US 08269494	Lee 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 Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Hsu-Lei Lee (Los Angeles, California); Krishna S. Nayak (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Techniques and systems for magnetic resonance imaging. In one aspect, preparatory pulse sequences precede alternating repetition time steady state free precession (ATR SSFP) pulse sequences to enable image acquisition before reaching a steady-state equilibrium. The design of the preparatory sequences is based on a two step process: First an oscillatory residue is expressed in terms of a window (e.g., a Kaiser-Bessel window) and scale parameters. Second the oscillatory residue is minimized to determine the scale parameters according to a desired application (e.g. ATR SSFP, optimized for fat, water, etc.) The preparation scheme described in this specification can be applied to arbitrary repetition times and RF phase cycling combinations.
FILED	Monday, March 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/396463
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309
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08269496 — Fast electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI) using CW EPR spectrometer with sinusoidal rapid-scan and digital signal processing

US 08269496	Subramanian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Sankaran Subramanian (Rockville, Maryland); Nallathamby Devasahayam (Germantown, Maryland); Janusz Koscielniak (Frederick, Maryland); James B. Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali Krishna Cherukuri (North Potomac, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	An electron paramagnetic resonance imaging system that includes means for continuously irradiating a sample with RF irradiation; means for imposing on the sample a sinusoidally varying magnetic field along with rotating gradients for spatial encoding; means for directly detecting signal data from the sample, without using field modulation, while irradiating the sample with RF radiation continuously, the means for directly detecting having means for sweeping the sinusoidally varying magnetic field; and means for processing the signal data, using means including a digital signal processor.
FILED	Thursday, June 28, 2007
APPL NO	12/306514
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/310
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08269498 — Method and apparatus for MRI signal excitation and reception using non-resonance RF method (NORM)

US 08269498	Zhang
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaoliang Zhang (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for MR signal excitation and reception and method which uses a non-resonant device or transmission line to perform MR imaging and spectroscopy. The system with non-resonant device is advantageous to parallel imaging due to the improved decoupling performance. Because the non-resonant RF coil is not generally sensitive to frequency, a MR system with the non-resonant RF coil is capable of multinuclear MR operation at varied magnetic field strength. The system comprises a non-resonant RF coil for connecting to an MR system, the conductor being configured to have a characteristic impedance matched to the MR system. The RF coil is configured to produce electromagnetic fields of differing strengths based on the constant characteristic impedance maintained in the system for exciting and receiving MR signals.
FILED	Friday, July 31, 2009
APPL NO	12/533724
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318
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08271090 — Apparatus and methods for providing electrical stimulation

US 08271090	Hartman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Customkynetics, Inc. (Versailles, Kentucky)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric C. Hartman (Lexington, Kentucky); John D. Alton (Lexington, Kentucky); Tarik S. Aweimrin (Lexington, Kentucky)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus is disclosed for providing electrical stimulation to a subject from a stimulation unit using a transmission line and a plurality of electrodes. The apparatus may include a plurality of discrete nodes, each adapted to connect to the transmission line for receiving the electrical stimulation and to connect with at least one pair of the plurality of electrodes. Related methods are also described.
FILED	Tuesday, June 29, 2010
APPL NO	12/826073
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/48
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08271091 — Visual prosthesis fitting

US 08271091	McMahon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Scott Greenwald (Seattle, Washington); Ione Fine (Seattle, Washington); Alan Matthew Horsager (Los Angeles, California); Avraham I. Caspi (La Jolla, Arizona); Kelly Hobart McClure (Simi Valley, California); Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and devices for fitting a visual prosthesis are described. In one of the methods, threshold levels and maximum levels for the electrodes of the prosthesis are determined and a map of brightness to electrode stimulation levels is later formed. A fitting system for a visual prosthesis is also discussed, together with a computer-operated system having a graphical user interface showing visual prosthesis diagnostic screens and visual prosthesis configuration screens.
FILED	Friday, April 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/796425
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53
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Department of Energy (DOE)

08266848 — Photovoltaic module mounting system

US 08266848	Miros et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SunLink Corporation (San Rafael, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert H. J. Miros (Fairfax, California); Margaret Birmingham Mittan (Oakland, California); Martin N. Seery (San Rafael, California); Rodney H. Holland (Novato, California)
ABSTRACT	A solar array mounting system having unique installation, load distribution, and grounding features, and which is adaptable for mounting solar panels having no external frame. The solar array mounting system includes flexible, pedestal-style feet and structural links connected in a grid formation on the mounting surface. The photovoltaic modules are secured in place via the use of attachment clamps that grip the edge of the typically glass substrate. The panel mounting clamps are then held in place by tilt brackets and/or mid-link brackets that provide fixation for the clamps and align the solar panels at a tilt to the horizontal mounting surface. The tilt brackets are held in place atop the flexible feet and connected link members thus creating a complete mounting structure.
FILED	Thursday, February 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/403620
ART UNIT	3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Static structures 052/173.300
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08266951 — Particle analysis in an acoustic cytometer

US 08266951	Kaduchak et al.
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)	Gregory Kaduchak (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael D. Ward (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is a method and apparatus for acoustically manipulating one or more particles. Acoustically manipulated particles may be separated by size. The particles may be flowed in a flow stream and acoustic radiation pressure, which may be radial, may be applied to the flow stream. This application of acoustic radiation pressure may separate the particles. In one embodiment, the particles may be separated by size, and as a further example, the larger particles may be transported to a central axis.
FILED	Thursday, September 11, 2008
APPL NO	12/283491
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/61.750
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08268159 — Electrolytic process to produce sodium hypochlorite using sodium ion conductive ceramic membranes

US 08268159	Balagopal et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Shekar Balagopal (Sandy, Utah); Vinod Malhotra (Cedar City, Utah); Justin Pendleton (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kathy Jo Reid (Cedar City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	An electrochemical process for the production of sodium hypochlorite is disclosed. The process may potentially be used to produce sodium hypochlorite from seawater or low purity un-softened or NaCl-based salt solutions. The process utilizes a sodium ion conductive ceramic membrane, such as membranes based on NASICON-type materials, in an electrolytic cell. In the process, water is reduced at a cathode to form hydroxyl ions and hydrogen gas. Chloride ions from a sodium chloride solution are oxidized in the anolyte compartment to produce chlorine gas which reacts with water to produce hypochlorous and hydrochloric acid. Sodium ions are transported from the anolyte compartment to the catholyte compartment across the sodium ion conductive ceramic membrane. Sodium hydroxide is transported from the catholyte compartment to the anolyte compartment to produce sodium hypochlorite within the anolyte compartment.
FILED	Wednesday, December 20, 2006
APPL NO	11/613857
ART UNIT	1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/500
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08268197 — Solid electrolyte material manufacturable by polymer processing methods

US 08268197	Singh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Seeo, Inc. (Hayward, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohit Singh (Berkeley, California); Ilan Gur (San Francisco, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Berkeley, California); Nitash Pervez Balsara (El Cerrito, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to electrolyte materials. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides for a solid polymer electrolyte material that is ionically conductive, mechanically robust, and can be formed into desirable shapes using conventional polymer processing methods. An exemplary polymer electrolyte material has an elastic modulus in excess of 1×10⁶Pa at 90 degrees C. and is characterized by an ionic conductivity of at least 1×10⁻⁵Scm-1 at 90 degrees C. An exemplary material can be characterized by a two domain or three domain material system. An exemplary material can include material components made of diblock polymers or triblock polymers. Many uses are contemplated for the solid polymer electrolyte materials. For example, the present invention can be applied to improve Li-based batteries by means of enabling higher energy density, better thermal and environmental stability, lower rates of self-discharge, enhanced safety, lower manufacturing costs, and novel form factors.
FILED	Friday, November 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/271829
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/520.200
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08268230 — Fabrication of transparent ceramics using nanoparticles

US 08268230	Cherepy 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)	Nerine J. Cherepy (Oakland, California); Thomas M. Tillotson (Tracy, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of fabrication of a transparent ceramic using nanoparticles synthesized via organic acid complexation-combustion includes providing metal salts, dissolving said metal salts to produce an aqueous salt solution, adding an organic chelating agent to produce a complexed-metal sol, heating said complexed-metal sol to produce a gel, drying said gel to produce a powder, combusting said powder to produce nano-particles, calcining said nano-particles to produce oxide nano-particles, forming said oxide nano-particles into a green body, and sintering said green body to produce the transparent ceramic.
FILED	Monday, May 21, 2007
APPL NO	11/805275
ART UNIT	1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/621
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08268234 — Cermets from molten metal infiltration processing

US 08268234	Landingham
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)	Richard Lee Landingham (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	New cermets with improved properties and applications are provided. These new cermets have lower density and/or higher hardness than B4C cermet. By incorporating other new ceramics into B4C powders or as a substitute for B4C, lower densities and/or higher hardness cermets result. The ceramic powders have much finer particle size than those previously used which significantly reduces grain size of the cermet microstructure and improves the cermet properties.
FILED	Friday, January 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/016459
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Powder metallurgy processes 419/10
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08268288 — Regeneration of aluminum hydride

US 08268288	Graetz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) at Upton, NY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason Allan Graetz (Calverton, New York); James J. Reilly (Bellport, New York); James E. Wegrzyn (Brookhaven, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods and materials for the formation of hydrogen storage alanes, AlH_x, where x is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 6 at reduced H₂pressures and temperatures. The methods rely upon reduction of the change in free energy of the reaction between aluminum and molecular H₂. The change in free energy is reduced by lowering the entropy change during the reaction by providing aluminum in a state of high entropy, and by increasing the magnitude of the change in enthalpy of the reaction or combinations thereof.
FILED	Monday, April 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/426367
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/645
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08268481 — Nano-sized silicon

US 08268481	Treger
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Tiax LLC (Lexington, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jack Treger (Quincy, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A method includes combining fumed silicon oxide with a metal to form silicon having an average particle size of less than approximately 100 nm. The silicon can be incorporated into an anode of a lithium ion cell.
FILED	Wednesday, September 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/207821
ART UNIT	1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/209
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08268584 — Hydrogen production from microbial strains

US 08268584	Harwood et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Caroline S. Harwood (Seattle, Washington); Federico E. Rey (Brentwood, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a method of screening microbe strains capable of generating hydrogen. This method involves inoculating one or more microbes in a sample containing cell culture medium to form an inoculated culture medium. The inoculated culture medium is then incubated under hydrogen producing conditions. Once incubating causes the inoculated culture medium to produce hydrogen, microbes in the culture medium are identified as candidate microbe strains capable of generating hydrogen. Methods of producing hydrogen using one or more of the microbial strains identified as well as the hydrogen producing strains themselves are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, November 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/947535
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100
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08268606 — Polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same

US 08268606	Lopez de Leon 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)	Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark)
INVENTOR(S)	Alfredo Lopez de Leon (Davis, California); Michael Rey (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
FILED	Tuesday, April 20, 2010
APPL NO	12/763578
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209
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08268633 — Microfluidic devices for the controlled manipulation of small volumes

US 08268633	Ramsey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	J. Michael Ramsey (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stephen C. Jacobson (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A method for conducting a broad range of biochemical analyses or manipulations on a series of nano- to subnanoliter reaction volumes and an apparatus for carrying out the same are disclosed. The invention is implemented on a fluidic microchip to provide high serial throughput. In particular, the disclosed device is a microfabricated channel device that can manipulate nanoliter or subnanoliter reaction volumes in a controlled manner to produce results at rates of 1 to 10 Hz per channel. The reaction volumes are manipulated in serial fashion analogous to a digital shift register. The invention has application to such problems as screening molecular or cellular targets using single beads from split-synthesis combinatorial libraries, screening single cells for RNA or protein expression, genetic diagnostic screening at the single cell level, or performing single cell signal transduction studies.
FILED	Thursday, April 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/696785
ART UNIT	1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180
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08268897 — Incorporation of catalytic dehydrogenation into Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to lower carbon dioxide emissions

US 08268897	Huffman
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald P. Huffman (Lexington, Kentucky)
ABSTRACT	A method for producing liquid fuels includes the steps of gasifying a starting material selected from a group consisting of coal, biomass, carbon nanotubes and mixtures thereof to produce a syngas, subjecting that syngas to Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) to produce a hyrdrocarbon product stream, separating that hydrocarbon product stream into C1-C4 hydrocarbons and C5+ hydrocarbons to be used as liquid fuels and subjecting the C1-C4 hydrocarbons to catalytic dehydrogenation (CDH) to produce hydrogen and carbon nanotubes. The hydrogen produced by CDH is recycled to be mixed with the syngas incident to the FTS reactor in order to raise the hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio of the syngas to values of 2 or higher, which is required to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels. This is accomplished with little or no production of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The carbon is captured in the form of a potentially valuable by-product, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNT), while huge emissions of carbon dioxide are avoided and very large quantities of water employed for the water-gas shift in traditional FTS systems are saved.
FILED	Friday, May 28, 2010
APPL NO	12/790353
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/700
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08269100 — Hybrid solar cells via UV-polymerization of polymer precursor

US 08269100	Darling et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Seth B. Darling (Chicago, Illinois); Sanja Tepavcevic (Chicago, Illinois); Tijana Rajh (Downers Grove, Illinois); Nada Dimitrijevic (Downers Grove, Illinois); Steven J. Sibener (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A hybrid photovoltaic cell comprising a composite substrate of a nanotube or nanorod array of metal oxide infiltrated with a monomer precursor and subsequently polymerized in situ via UV irradiation. In an embodiment, the photovoltaic cell comprises an electron accepting TiO₂nanotube array infiltrated with a photo-sensitive electron donating conjugated polymer. The conjugated polymer may be formed in situ through UV irradiation polymerizing a monomer precursor such as 2,5-diiodothiophene (DIT).
FILED	Monday, June 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/489001
ART UNIT	1728 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263
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08269170 — Methods and systems for remote detection of gases

US 08269170	Johnson
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy J. Johnson (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Novel systems and methods for remotely detecting at least one constituent of a gas via infrared detection are provided. A system includes at least one extended source of broadband infrared radiation and a spectrally sensitive receiver positioned remotely from the source. The source and the receiver are oriented such that a surface of the source is in the field of view of the receiver. The source includes a heating component thermally coupled to the surface, and the heating component is configured to heat the surface to a temperature above ambient temperature. The receiver is operable to collect spectral infrared absorption data representative of a gas present between the source and the receiver. The invention advantageously overcomes significant difficulties associated with active infrared detection techniques known in the art, and provides an infrared detection technique with a much greater sensitivity than passive infrared detection techniques known in the art.
FILED	Monday, October 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/974856
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/338.500
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08269180 — Method and apparatus for the measurement of signals from radiation sensors

US 08269180	De Geronimo
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) at Upton, NY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Gianluigi De Geronimo (Syosset, New York)
ABSTRACT	The preferred embodiments of the present invention include a device for measuring an ionizing event in a radiation sensor. The device can include a charge amplifier and a timing shaper. The charge amplifier receives a cathode signal and is configured to output an amplified cathode signal. The timing shaper is operatively connected to the charge amplifier to receive the amplified cathode signal. The timing shaper is configured to generate a first pulse in response to a beginning of the ionizing event and a second pulse in response to an end of the ionizing event. The first and second pulses are associated with a depth of interaction of the ionizing event and are generated in response to a slope of the amplified cathode signal changing.
FILED	Wednesday, August 27, 2008
APPL NO	12/199524
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/370.10
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08269434 — Electrical system using phase-shifted carrier signals and related operating methods

US 08269434	Welchko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian A. Welchko (Torrance, California); Jeremy B. Campbell (Torrance, California)
ABSTRACT	An automotive drive system and methods for making the same are provided. The system includes a three-phase motor and an inverter module. The three-phase motor includes a first set of windings each having a first magnetic polarity; and a second set of windings each having a second magnetic polarity that is opposite the first magnetic polarity. The first set of windings being electrically isolated from the second set of windings. The inverter module includes a first set of phase legs and a second set of phase legs. Each one of the first set of phase legs is coupled to a corresponding phase of the first set of windings, and each one of the second set of phase legs is coupled to a corresponding phase of the second set of windings.
FILED	Thursday, May 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/473933
ART UNIT	2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Motive power systems 318/139
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08270554 — Methods of producing cesium-131

US 08270554	Meikrantz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David H. Meikrantz (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John R. Snyder (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	Methods of producing cesium-131. The method comprises dissolving at least one non-irradiated barium source in water or a nitric acid solution to produce a barium target solution. The barium target solution is irradiated with neutron radiation to produce cesium-131, which is removed from the barium target solution. The cesium-131 is complexed with a calixarene compound to separate the cesium-131 from the barium target solution. A liquid:liquid extraction device or extraction column is used to separate the cesium-131 from the barium target solution.
FILED	Tuesday, May 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/468679
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/189
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08270602 — Communication systems, transceivers, and methods for generating data based on channel characteristics

US 08270602	Forman 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)	Michael A. Forman (Mountain House, California); Derek Young (Fremont, California)
ABSTRACT	Examples of methods for generating data based on a communications channel are described. In one such example, a processing unit may generate a first vector representation based in part on at least two characteristics of a communications channel. A constellation having at least two dimensions may be addressed with the first vector representation to identify a first symbol associated with the first vector representation. The constellation represents a plurality of regions, each region associated with a respective symbol. The symbol may be used to generate data, which may stored in an electronic storage medium and used as a cryptographic key or a spreading code or hopping sequence in a modulation technique.
FILED	Friday, December 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/642415
ART UNIT	2439 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Cryptography 380/44
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08270760 — Iterative methods for dose reduction and image enhancement in tomography

US 08270760	Miao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jianwei Miao (Los Angeles, California); Benjamin Pooya Fahimian (Beverly Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for creating a three dimensional cross sectional image of an object by the reconstruction of its projections that have been iteratively refined through modification in object space and Fourier space is disclosed. The invention provides systems and methods for use with any tomographic imaging system that reconstructs an object from its projections. In one embodiment, the invention presents a method to eliminate interpolations present in conventional tomography. The method has been experimentally shown to provide higher resolution and improved image quality parameters over existing approaches. A primary benefit of the method is radiation dose reduction since the invention can produce an image of a desired quality with a fewer number projections than seen with conventional methods.
FILED	Friday, January 30, 2009
APPL NO	12/363079
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/280
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08270844 — Low jitter RF distribution system

US 08270844	Wilcox et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell Wilcox (El Cerrito, California); Lawrence Doolittle (Walnut Creek, California); Gang Huang (Albany, California)
ABSTRACT	A timing signal distribution system includes an optical frequency stabilized laser signal amplitude modulated at an rf frequency. A transmitter box transmits a first portion of the laser signal and receive a modified optical signal, and outputs a second portion of the laser signal and a portion of the modified optical signal. A first optical fiber carries the first laser signal portion and the modified optical signal, and a second optical fiber carries the second portion of the laser signal and the returned modified optical signal. A receiver box receives the first laser signal portion, shifts the frequency of the first laser signal portion outputs the modified optical signal, and outputs an electrical signal on the basis of the laser signal. A detector at the end of the second optical fiber outputs a signal based on the modified optical signal. An optical delay sensing circuit outputs a data signal based on the detected modified optical signal. An rf phase detect and correct signal circuit outputs a signal corresponding to a phase stabilized rf signal based on the data signal and the frequency received from the receiver box.
FILED	Tuesday, November 24, 2009
APPL NO	12/625135
ART UNIT	2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Optical communications 398/161
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08271120 — Method and system for processing optical elements using magnetorheological finishing

US 08271120	Menapace et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph Arthur Menapace (Livermore, California); Kathleen Irene Schaffers (Livermore, California); Andrew James Bayramian (Manteca, California); William A. Molander (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of finishing an optical element includes mounting the optical element in an optical mount having a plurality of fiducials overlapping with the optical element and obtaining a first metrology map for the optical element and the plurality of fiducials. The method also includes obtaining a second metrology map for the optical element without the plurality of fiducials, forming a difference map between the first metrology map and the second metrology map, and aligning the first metrology map and the second metrology map. The method further includes placing mathematical fiducials onto the second metrology map using the difference map to form a third metrology map and associating the third metrology map to the optical element. Moreover, the method includes mounting the optical element in the fixture in an MRF tool, positioning the optical element in the fixture; removing the plurality of fiducials, and finishing the optical element.
FILED	Wednesday, April 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/760418
ART UNIT	2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/117
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08271132 — System and method for seamless task-directed autonomy for robots

US 08271132	Nielsen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
INVENTOR(S)	Curtis Nielsen (Rexburg, Idaho); David Bruemmer (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Douglas Few (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Miles Walton (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	Systems, methods, and user interfaces are used for controlling a robot. An environment map and a robot designator are presented to a user. The user may place, move, and modify task designators on the environment map. The task designators indicate a position in the environment map and indicate a task for the robot to achieve. A control intermediary links task designators with robot instructions issued to the robot. The control intermediary analyzes a relative position between the task designators and the robot. The control intermediary uses the analysis to determine a task-oriented autonomy level for the robot and communicates target achievement information to the robot. The target achievement information may include instructions for directly guiding the robot if the task-oriented autonomy level indicates low robot initiative and may include instructions for directing the robot to determine a robot plan for achieving the task if the task-oriented autonomy level indicates high robot initiative.
FILED	Thursday, March 13, 2008
APPL NO	12/048110
ART UNIT	3661 — 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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08271251 — Automated imaging system for single molecules

US 08271251	Schwartz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	David Charles Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin); Rodney Runnheim (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel Forrest (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	There is provided a high throughput automated single molecule image collection and processing system that requires minimal initial user input. The unique features embodied in the present disclosure allow automated collection and initial processing of optical images of single molecules and their assemblies. Correct focus may be automatically maintained while images are collected. Uneven illumination in fluorescence microscopy is accounted for, and an overall robust imaging operation is provided yielding individual images prepared for further processing in external systems. Embodiments described herein are useful in studies of any macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, peptides and proteins. The automated image collection and processing system and method of same may be implemented and deployed over a computer network, and may be ergonomically optimized to facilitate user interaction.
FILED	Wednesday, February 09, 2005
APPL NO	11/052836
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: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/12
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08271427 — Computer database system for single molecule data management and analysis

US 08271427	Schwartz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	David Charles Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher P. Churas (Madison, Wisconsin); Galex S. Yen (Sammamish, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A computer database system for storing, processing, displaying, and analyzing single molecule data is capable of managing and processing variously formatted, different kinds of single molecule data and displaying subsets thereof upon instructions by a user. A component-based architecture is implemented where the processing and the displaying are separately performed. The data is dynamically loaded for processing as needed. Embodiments of computer database systems can be utilized in managing single molecule data, particularly image data derived from single molecule images. Such single molecule images may be generated by a variety of technologies, e.g., optical mapping, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and flow cytometry. Systems may be deployed over a computer network. One or more additional databases may be included which are interconnected through a network.
FILED	Wednesday, January 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/686478
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: Database and file management or data structures 77/600
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08271461 — Storing and managing information artifacts collected by information analysts using a computing device

US 08271461	Pike et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) at Richland, WA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	William A. Pike (Richland, Washington); Roderick M. Riensche (West Richland, Washington); Daniel M. Best (Pasco, Washington); Ian E. Roberts (Kennewick, Washington); Marie V. Whyatt (West Richland, Washington); Michelle L. Hart (Richland, Washington); Norman J. Carr (Pasco, Washington); James J. Thomas (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Systems and computer-implemented processes for storage and management of information artifacts collected by information analysts using a computing device. The processes and systems can capture a sequence of interactive operation elements that are performed by the information analyst, who is collecting an information artifact from at least one of the plurality of software applications. The information artifact can then be stored together with the interactive operation elements as a snippet on a memory device, which is operably connected to the processor. The snippet comprises a view from an analysis application, data contained in the view, and the sequence of interactive operation elements stored as a provenance representation comprising operation element class, timestamp, and data object attributes for each interactive operation element in the sequence.
FILED	Monday, January 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/688983
ART UNIT	2165 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/695
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08271891 — Computing environment logbook

US 08271891	Osbourn 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)	Gordon C. Osbourn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ann M. Bouchard (Alburquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A computing environment logbook logs events occurring within a computing environment. The events are displayed as a history of past events within the logbook of the computing environment. The logbook provides search functionality to search through the history of past events to find one or more selected past events, and further, enables an undo of the one or more selected past events.
FILED	Friday, February 02, 2007
APPL NO	11/670709
ART UNIT	2142 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/764
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

08266969 — Method and system for measuring properties of microstructures and nanostructures

US 08266969	Abramson et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems (CMS) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexis Abramson (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Vikas Prakash (Richfield, Ohio); Utkarsha Singh (Cleveland, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method is presented for characterizing properties of a specimen, such as a microstructure and a nanostructure. The method includes attaching a first end of the specimen to a first probe (204) and attaching a second end of the specimen, which is spaced apart from the first end by an intermediate portion, to a second probe that extends from a transducer (208). The method also includes causing a corresponding displacement of the specimen attached between the first probe and the second probe (224, 230). At least one parameter associated with the specimen is acquired (226, 232) during the corresponding displacement based on at least one output signal from the transducer. The properties of the specimen can be determined based on the at least one parameter (236, 238).
FILED	Thursday, June 07, 2007
APPL NO	12/303506
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/856
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08268048 — Oxygen binding of nanoparticulate metal complexes

US 08268048	Subramaniam et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Bala Subramaniam (Lawrence, Kansas); Andrew S. Borovik (Irvine, California); Chad A. Johnson (Longview, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Solid nanoparticulate transition metal complexes of Co(II) salen exhibit reversible oxygen absorption in a near stoichiometric manner. In contrast, no measurable oxygen binding was observed with unprocessed Co(II) salen.
FILED	Wednesday, October 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/578907
ART UNIT	1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Gas separation: Processes 095/138
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08268070 — Hybrid pigment composition comprising dyes or pigments and fibrous clay

US 08268070	Niewold et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayan Pigments, Inc. (El Paso, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Lori Ann Niewold (Anthony, New Mexico); Robyn Torres (El Paso, Texas); Gary E. Williams (El Paso, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A hybrid pigment composition and method of forming the hybrid pigment composition is provided. The hybrid pigment composition is formed from a fibrous clay and a dye or pigment. The dye or pigment includes perinones, diphenylmethanes, acridines, xanthenes, triarylmethanes, thiazines, indophenols, indulines, nigrosines, aminoazobenzenes, anilines, monoazos, benzimidazoles, diazos, phthalocyanines, quinacridones, metal complexes, azo/metal complexes, and mixtures thereof.
FILED	Tuesday, March 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/922013
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/487
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08268180 — Methods of fabricating large-area, semiconducting nanoperforated graphene materials

US 08268180	Arnold et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael S. Arnold (Middleton, Wisconsin); Padma Gopalan (Madison, Wisconsin); Nathaniel S. Safron (Madison, Wisconsin); Myungwoong Kim (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Methods for forming a nanoperforated graphene material are provided. The methods comprise forming an etch mask defining a periodic array of holes over a graphene material and patterning the periodic array of holes into the graphene material. The etch mask comprises a pattern-defining block copolymer layer, and can optionally also comprise a wetting layer and a neutral layer. The nanoperforated graphene material can consist of a single sheet of graphene or a plurality of graphene sheets.
FILED	Tuesday, January 25, 2011
APPL NO	13/013531
ART UNIT	1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Etching a substrate: Processes 216/56
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08269039 — Amino acids and catalytic preparatory methods

US 08269039	Gellman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel Helmer Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Yonggui Chi (Berkeley, California); Li Guo (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides novel compounds and methods to carry out organocatalytic Michael additions of aldehydes to nitroethylene catalyzed by a proline derivative to provide α-substituted-γ-nitroaldehydes. The reaction can be rendered enantioselective when a chiral pyrrolidine catalyst is used, allowing for Michael adducts in nearly optically pure form (e.g., 96-99% e.e.). The Michael adducts can bear a single substituent or dual substituents adjacent to the carbonyl. The Michael adducts can be efficiently converted to protected γ²-amino acids, which are essential for systematic conformational studies of γ-peptide foldamers.
FILED	Monday, March 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/383370
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 562/571
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08269047 — Synthesis of alpha-halo enones and enals

US 08269047	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada)
INVENTOR(S)	Liming Zhang (Goleta, California); Longwu Ye (Goleta, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for preparing an α-halo enal or enone from an unprotected propargyl alcohol and an electrophilic halogen source catalyzed by the combination of a gold catalyst complex and a metal co-catalyst complex is disclosed. The method can be further enhanced by addition of an additive that facilitates suppression of a des-halo derivative.
FILED	Tuesday, July 06, 2010
APPL NO	12/830957
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 568/322
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08269974 — Interferometric chemical sensor array

US 08269974	Ash, III
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	William M. Ash, III (Largo, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The device is a gas/vapor/aerosol/particulate sensor with a receiver/transmitter option. This optical MEMS device is designed to be a self-contained optical bench, integrating of an entire interferometer into a MOEMS ‘optical bench’ system-on-a-chip, and includes multiplexed optical path sensors. The sensing structures consist of laser sources, semiconductor photo detectors, refractive/reflective optical elements, and specialized optical transmission paths. Each individual laser source and photodiode is an optical path sensor with a particular ‘functionalization.’ These sensing arm functionalizations are sensitive to unique chemical signatures and as a result can recognize and report various chemical agents present in the ambient environment.
FILED	Monday, June 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/488982
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451
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08270054 — High-speed multi-dimensional beam scanning system with angle amplification

US 08270054	Kim
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Jungsang Kim (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A beam-steering system having high positional resolution and fast switching speed is disclosed. Embodiments of the beam-steering system comprise a diffraction limited optical system that includes a reflective imager and two controllably rotatable MEMS elements. The optical system is characterized by a folded optical path, wherein light propagating on the path is incident on each MEMS element more than once. Each MEMS element imparts an optical effect, such as angular change, on the output beam. By virtue of the fact that the optical system is multi-bounce optical system, the optical effect at each MEMS element is multiplied by the number of times the light hits that MEMS element.
FILED	Thursday, June 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/166925
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/208.100
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08270783 — Silicon integrated photonic optical parametric amplifier oscillator and wavelength converter

US 08270783	Foster et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark Foster (Sparks Glenoe, Maryland); Alexander Gaeta (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Jay Sharping (Turlock, California); Amy Foster (Sparks Glenoe, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for adjusting intensity, wavelength and higher and lower frequency components of an optical signal. Photonic apparatus receives a first and a second optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion the first optical signal or the second optical signal and adjusts intensity or wavelength of the first optical signal or the second optical signal, in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion. In some embodiments photonic apparatus receives an optical signal comprising a lower frequency component received an amount of time prior to a higher frequency component of the optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion for the optical signal and adjusts the amount of time between the higher frequency component and the lower frequency component in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion.
FILED	Thursday, June 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/167563
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/14
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08271147 — Methods and apparatus for energy demand management

US 08271147	Beal et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jacob S. Beal (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jonathan R. Bachrach (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods, apparatuses and systems for managing energy demand of one or more appliances. In one example, an appliance controller apparatus is provided, comprising a user interface configured to receive a user input indicative of a demand flexibility associated with an appliance, a communication interface configured to receive a control input indicative of a request to modify a power demand of the appliance, and a processor programmed to determine whether the power demand of the appliance is to be modified based on the user input and the control input. In a further aspect, a meter controller apparatus is provided, comprising a communication interface configured to receive a message from an appliance controller apparatus coupled to an appliance, the message comprising information regarding a power demand of the appliance and a demand category associated with the appliance. The meter controller apparatus may further comprise a processor programmed to compute an updated meter controller model based on the message received from the appliance controller apparatus and a present meter controller model.
FILED	Thursday, February 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/394011
ART UNIT	2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/295
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08272056 — Efficient intrusion detection

US 08272056	Sahni et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Sartaj Kumar Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Xinyan Zha (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A method to compress an unoptimized Aho-Corasick automaton is provided that can be used in network intrusion detection systems. Embodiments of the subject method use bitmaps with multiple levels of summaries as well as aggressive path compaction. By using multiple levels of summaries, a popcount can be determined with as few as 1 addition.
FILED	Monday, October 13, 2008
APPL NO	12/678169
ART UNIT	2435 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Information security 726/23
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Department of Commerce (DOC)

08268220 — Imprint lithography method

US 08268220	Xu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas); Pankaj B. Lad (DeSoto, Texas); Ian Matthew McMackin (Austin, Texas); Van Nguyen Truskett (Austin, Texas); Edward Brian Fletcher (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Improved wetting characteristics together with improved release characteristics with respect to a substrate and an imprint lithography mold having imprinting material disposed therebetween.
FILED	Friday, October 15, 2010
APPL NO	12/905192
ART UNIT	1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/293
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08269219 — Printed TFT and TFT array with self-aligned gate

US 08269219	Street
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	A method is used to form a self-aligning thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes a gate contact formed with a state-switchable material, and a dielectric layer to isolate the gate contact. A source-drain layer, which includes a source contact, and a drain contact are formed with a source-drain material. An area of the gate contact is exposed to a form of energy, wherein the energy transforms a portion of the state switchable material from a non-conductive material to a conductive material, the conductive portion defining the gate contact. A semiconductor material is formed between the source contact and the drain contact.
FILED	Tuesday, October 25, 2011
APPL NO	13/280407
ART UNIT	2811 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/43
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08270465 — Timing and time information extraction from a phase modulated signal in a radio controlled clock receiver

US 08270465	Eliezer
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	XW LLC (Dallas, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Oren E. Eliezer (Plano, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for a radio controlled clock receiver adapted to extract timing and time information from a phase modulated signal. The official time signal is broadcast from a central location using a modulation scheme that adds phase modulation to legacy pulse width modulated/amplitude modulation that allows for greatly improved performance. The information modulated onto the phase contains a known synchronization sequence having good autocorrelation properties, error-correcting coding for the time information and notifications of daylight-saving-time (DST) transitions that are provided months in advance. The modulation scheme is based on a form of phase modulation, such as binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK) or phase reversal keying (PRK). A superframe comprising multiple frames with repeated information allows for the accumulation of received energy over multiple frames to provide for a corresponding gain in the receiver.
FILED	Friday, January 06, 2012
APPL NO	13/345084
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/238
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

08266866 — Method and apparatus for an inflatable shell

US 08266866	Johnson
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as respresented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher J. Johnson (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method of assembling an inflatable shell of a structure comprises folding a plurality of shell sections about a set of fold lines and integrating the plurality of shell sections together with one another to form the shell. In another embodiment, an inflatable shell comprises a plurality of shell sections, each shell section having two pairs of fold lines for folding into stowage comprising a first gore section having a plurality of first gore panels layered and collectively folded about at a first set of fold lines. Each layer of the first gore panels and second gore panels are configured such that, once the first gore panel and second gore panel are attached to one another at the respective side edges of each panel, the lines of attachment forming a second set of fold lines for the shell section. A system and method for fabricating gore panels is also disclosed.
FILED	Monday, January 09, 2012
APPL NO	13/346137
ART UNIT	3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Static structures 052/745.190
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08268392 — Visual hydrogen detector with variable reversibilty

US 08268392	Muradov
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GLENN)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Nazim Z. Muradov (Melbourne, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Methods, processes and compositions are provided for a visual or chemochromic hydrogen-detector with variable or tunable reversible color change. The working temperature range for the hydrogen detector is from minus 100° C. to plus 500° C. A hydrogen-sensitive pigment, including, but not limited to, oxides, hydroxides and polyoxo-compounds of tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium and combinations thereof, is combined with nano-sized metal activator particles and preferably, coated on a porous or woven substrate. In the presence of hydrogen, the composition rapidly changes its color from white or light-gray or light-tan to dark gray, navy-blue or black depending on the exposure time and hydrogen concentration in the medium. After hydrogen exposure ceases, the original color of the hydrogen-sensitive pigment is restored, and the visual hydrogen detector can be used repeatedly. By changing the composition of the hydrogen-sensitive pigment, the time required for its complete regeneration is varied from a few seconds to several days.
FILED	Friday, August 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/209100
ART UNIT	1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/213.300
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08270511 — Methodology and method and appartus for signaling with capacity optimized constellations

US 08270511	Barsoum et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Constellation Designs, Inc. (Pacific Palisades, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Maged F. Barsoum (Saratoga, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California)
ABSTRACT	Communication systems are described that use geometrically shaped constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. In several embodiments, the geometrically shaped is optimized based upon a capacity measure such as parallel decoding capacity or joint capacity. In many embodiments, a capacity optimized geometrically shaped constellation can be used to replace a conventional constellation as part of a firmware upgrade to transmitters and receivers within a communication system. In a number of embodiments, the geometrically shaped constellation is optimized for an Additive White Gaussian Noise channel or a fading channel.
FILED	Tuesday, May 31, 2011
APPL NO	13/118921
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/261
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Agriculture (USDA)

08268102 — Formaldehyde-free lignocellulosic adhesives and composites made from the adhesives

US 08268102	Li
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	State of Oregon acting by and through the Oregon State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Kaichang Li (Corvallis, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Method for making lignocellulosic composites by adhering lignocellulosic substrates together. A first variant of the method involves using an adhesive composition that comprises a reaction product of (i) first ingredient selected from a soy protein or lignin and (ii) at least one substantially formaldehyde-free curing agent that includes at least one amine, amide, imine, imide, or nitrogen-containing heterocyclic functional group that can react with at least one functional group of the soy protein. A second variant of the method involves using an adhesive composition that comprises a reaction product of (i) a protein or lignin, (ii) a first compound that includes at least one amine, amide, imine, imide or nitrogen-containing heterocyclic functional group that can react with at least one functional group of the protein and (iii) a curing agent.
FILED	Monday, May 07, 2007
APPL NO	11/800883
ART UNIT	1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/62.200
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08268905 — Compositions containing poly(lactic acid), bacteriocin(s), plasticizers(s), and optionally pore forming agent(s), and methods or making

US 08268905	Liu 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)	LinShu Liu (Wyncote, Pennsylvania); David R. Coffin (Glenside, Pennsylvania); Kevin B. Hicks (Malvern, Pennsylvania); Zhonglin T. Jin (North Wales, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A composition containing poly(lactic acid), at least one bacteriocin (e.g., nisin, generally in the form of Nisaplin®), and at least one plasticizer (e.g., lactic acid, lactide, triacetin, glycerol triacetate), and optionally at least one pore forming agent. A method of making the composition, involving mixing about 100% of the total of the poly(lactic acid), about 50% to about 90% of the total of the at least one plasticizer, and optionally at least one pore forming agent at a first temperature of about 150° to about 170° C. to form a mixture, cooling the mixture to a second temperature of about 115° to about 125° C., adding at least one bacteriocin and about 10% to about 50% of the total of the at least one plasticizer and the remainder of the total of the poly(lactic acid) to the mixture and mixing to form the composition.
FILED	Friday, August 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/583110
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/95
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Small Business Administration (SBA)

08268614 — Method for assaying cell movement

US 08268614	Murphy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Platypus Technologies, LLC (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Barbara Israel (Mt Horeb, Wisconsin); Nicholas Abbot (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the field of assays of cell movement. In particular, the present invention provides methods for assaying cell movement where inserts are used to confine cells to a defined area in a well of a multiwell plate and movement from the defined area is assayed.
FILED	Wednesday, November 10, 2004
APPL NO	10/579118
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/297.500
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08270465 — Timing and time information extraction from a phase modulated signal in a radio controlled clock receiver

US 08270465	Eliezer
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	XW LLC (Dallas, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Oren E. Eliezer (Plano, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for a radio controlled clock receiver adapted to extract timing and time information from a phase modulated signal. The official time signal is broadcast from a central location using a modulation scheme that adds phase modulation to legacy pulse width modulated/amplitude modulation that allows for greatly improved performance. The information modulated onto the phase contains a known synchronization sequence having good autocorrelation properties, error-correcting coding for the time information and notifications of daylight-saving-time (DST) transitions that are provided months in advance. The modulation scheme is based on a form of phase modulation, such as binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK) or phase reversal keying (PRK). A superframe comprising multiple frames with repeated information allows for the accumulation of received energy over multiple frames to provide for a corresponding gain in the receiver.
FILED	Friday, January 06, 2012
APPL NO	13/345084
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/238
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

08268307 — Enhancing efficacy of vaccines administered via the respiratory tract

US 08268307	Small, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Parker A. Small, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida); Bradley S. Bender (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are vaccine compositions comprising live attenuated virus with anti-antibody to improve efficacy. Specifically exemplified herein is a composition comprising live attenuated cold adapted influenza virus and an enhancing amount of IgG anti-IgA antibody to temporarily inactivate IgA defenses. Also disclosed herein are methods of immunizing a subject to protect against influenza comprising administering compositions taught herein.
FILED	Wednesday, March 19, 2008
APPL NO	12/525735
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

08269192 — Method and apparatus for determining the presence of optical brighteners in water samples

US 08269192	Dixon
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc. (Sarasota, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Laura Kellie Dixon (Bradenton, Florida)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for making quantitative measurements of the amounts of optical brighteners in water samples using fluorescence measurements at multiple wavelengths. First and second emission wavelength raw measurements are corrected for sample absorption to provide absorption-corrected first emission wavelength and second emission wavelength fluorescence emission values. The absorption-corrected first emission wavelength value is compared to the absorption-corrected second emission wavelength value and to similarly-determined and similarly absorption-corrected emission wavelength values or a ratio thereof obtained from a comparison water sample in which optical brighteners are not present or are only minimally present, to provide a quantitative optical brightener measurement. The apparatus and method may be field-based or laboratory-based, and may operate on a flow-through basis or on discrete samples.
FILED	Tuesday, February 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/698424
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/459.100
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

08271074 — Dynamic calibration of physiologically driven image triage systems

US 08271074	Mathan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Santosh Mathan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Patricia M. Ververs (Ellicott City, Maryland); Misha Pavel (Portland, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A system and method of dynamically calibrating an image triage system. An image that may include one or more target entities is divided into a plurality of individual non-calibration image chips. Each non-calibration image chip is successively displayed to a user for a presentation time period. A calibration image chip that includes a synthetic target entity is selectively displayed, for the presentation time period, between the successive display of two non-calibration image chips. Calibration data are collected from the user at least while each calibration image chip is being displayed, and the image triage system is dynamically calibrated using the calibration data.
FILED	Thursday, November 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/947325
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	Surgery 6/544
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

National Security Agency (NSA)

08271409 — System and method for indexing a data stream

US 08271409	Luo 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)	Gang Luo (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York)
ABSTRACT	There are provided methods, computer program products, and systems for indexing a data stream. A method for indexing a data stream having attribute values includes the steps of parsing the data stream, and forming an index of tuples for a subset of attribute values of the data stream. The index is configured for retrieving the top-K tuples that optimize linearly weighted sums of at least some of the attribute values in the subset.
FILED	Wednesday, April 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/061218
ART UNIT	2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/21
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

U.S. State Government

08268102 — Formaldehyde-free lignocellulosic adhesives and composites made from the adhesives

US 08268102	Li
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	State of Oregon acting by and through the Oregon State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Kaichang Li (Corvallis, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Method for making lignocellulosic composites by adhering lignocellulosic substrates together. A first variant of the method involves using an adhesive composition that comprises a reaction product of (i) first ingredient selected from a soy protein or lignin and (ii) at least one substantially formaldehyde-free curing agent that includes at least one amine, amide, imine, imide, or nitrogen-containing heterocyclic functional group that can react with at least one functional group of the soy protein. A second variant of the method involves using an adhesive composition that comprises a reaction product of (i) a protein or lignin, (ii) a first compound that includes at least one amine, amide, imine, imide or nitrogen-containing heterocyclic functional group that can react with at least one functional group of the protein and (iii) a curing agent.
FILED	Monday, May 07, 2007
APPL NO	11/800883
ART UNIT	1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/62.200
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Government Rights Acknowledged

08268890 — Method of treating ischemia/reperfusion injury with nitroxyl donors

US 08268890	Wink et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Washington, Washington); The Regents of the University of California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	David A. Wink (Hagerstown, Maryland); Martin Feelisch (Shreveport, Louisiana); Pasquale Pagliaro (Turin, Italy); David A. Kass (Columbia, Maryland); Nazareno Paolocci (Baltimore, Maryland); Katrina M. Miranda (Tucson, Arizona); Jon M. Fukuto (Agoura, California)
ABSTRACT	Nitroxyl donating compounds are administered prior to the onset of ischemia for the prevention and/or reduction of ischemia/reperfusion injury in subjects at risk for ischemia. Nitroxyl donors also are administered to organs to be transplanted for the prevention and/or reduction of ischemia/reperfusion injury upon reperfusion in a recipient. Nitroxyl donors include any nitroxyl donating compound. In particular cases the nitroxyl donor is a nitroxyl-donating diazeniumdiolate, such as Angeli's salt or IPA/NO.
FILED	Tuesday, December 30, 2008
APPL NO	12/346694
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/579
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08269756 — Controllable voltage device drivers and methods of operation therefor

US 08269756	Atmur
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert J. Atmur (Whittier, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments include controllable voltage device drivers adapted to generate driver output voltages. A device driver includes a direct current (DC) voltage source adapted to receive a voltage level command that indicates a commanded voltage, and to generate a DC transformer input voltage having a voltage level corresponding to the commanded voltage. The device driver also includes a step-up transformer adapted to receive the DC transformer input voltage and to convert the DC transformer input voltage into an alternating current (AC) transformer output voltage. The device driver also includes at least one processing element, adapted to receive one or more control inputs, and to generate an alternating current through a primary transformer winding based on the one or more control inputs. Other embodiments include methods for a controllable voltage device driver to generate a driver output voltage, and optical systems having an electro-optical device and an electro-optical device driver subsystem.
FILED	Friday, June 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/763980
ART UNIT	2629 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/211
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

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