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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 09, 2012

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Department of Defense (DOD)

08281641 — Testing system for self-contained breathing apparatus regulator

US 08281641	Wooten 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)	Jack Wooten (Lynn Haven, Florida); Mark Black (Lynn Haven, Florida); Tommy Hosea (Lynn Haven, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) regulator is tested using a breath simulator having (i) a cup-shaped housing defining an interior volume and an open end, and (ii) an empty syringe with a plunger disposed therein and terminating in a dispensing tip coupled to the housing for sealed fluid communication with the interior volume thereof.
FILED	Monday, August 03, 2009
APPL NO	12/462937
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/1.680
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08281659 — Methods and apparatus for vibration testing using multiple sine sweep excitation

US 08281659	Napolitano
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ATA Engineering, Inc. (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin Napolitano (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A multi-sine vibration testing method includes coupling a vibratory excitation source and a sensor to a test structure, then providing a reference signal to the excitation source, wherein the reference signal comprises a first sinusoidal waveform having a first frequency and a second sinusoidal waveform having a second frequency different from the first frequency. The first frequency and the second frequency each sweep between a corresponding start value and a corresponding end value, and the frequency response is measured from each of the sensors while providing the reference signal.
FILED	Monday, July 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/834732
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/579
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08281702 — Protection system

US 08281702	Hoadley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Hoadley (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert Knochenhauer (Billerica, Massachusetts); Thieu Truong (North Easton, Massachusetts); Gary Anderson (Leominster, Massachusetts); Micheal Farinella (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A net deployment system which, in one example, includes a manifold assembly including multiple weight ducts and a bladder port. A weight is disposed in each weight duct and each weight is tied to the net. A bladder is behind the net and is over the bladder port. At least one inflator charge is associated with the manifold for inflating the bladder and firing the weights out of the weight ducts to deploy the net in the path of an incoming threat.
FILED	Wednesday, September 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/200736
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/36.170
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08281718 — Explosive foil initiator and method of making

US 08281718	Rice
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)	Brett Rice (Bloomington, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	An exploding foil initiator is disclosed and is comprised of a substrate having a conductive bridge, a flyer, a barrel adjacent the flyer and an explosive packed sleeve adjacent the barrel. The flyer is comprised of a material which does not become more ductile upon a rise in temperature, for example a silicon dioxide material. The sleeve is comprised of a thermally compliant material, such as a silicone. The bridge is provided with a necked down section having a defined thickness which is less than the remainder of the bridge deposition.
FILED	Thursday, December 31, 2009
APPL NO	12/651208
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 12/202.700
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08281719 — Integrated power source and safety mechanisms for submunitions self-destruct fuze and the like

US 08281719	Rastegar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Omnitek Partners LLC. (Ronkonkoma, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Richard T. Murray (Brentwood, New York); Chris Janow (Picatinny, New Jersey); Richard Dratler (Barkmill Terrace, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A method for providing electrical energy to a self-destruct fuze for submunitions contained in a projectile is provided. The method including: using a firing acceleration of the projectile to deform at least one elastic element to store mechanical energy in the elastic element; converting the stored mechanical energy to electrical energy; and providing the electrical energy at least indirectly to the self destruct fuze for detonation of the self destruct fuze. Alternatively, the firing acceleration can lock the elastic element in the deformed position and an expulsion acceleration of the submunitions from the projectile can be used to unlock the elastic element and convert the stored mechanical energy to electrical energy.
FILED	Tuesday, June 09, 2009
APPL NO	12/481550
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 12/210
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08281731 — Delivery systems for pressure protecting and delivering a submerged payload and methods for using the same

US 08281731	Vosburgh
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A payload delivery system for protecting and delivering a payload submerged in a submersion medium includes a containment system. The containment system includes a container and a dehiscing system. The container includes a pressure-resistant shell defining a sealed containment chamber. The dehiscing system is operative to dehisce the shell to open the containment chamber to the submersion medium responsive to a prescribed event and/or a prescribed environmental condition.
FILED	Thursday, April 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/082063
ART UNIT	3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ships 114/319
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08281809 — Aerosol inlet flow modulator

US 08281809	Wise 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)	Daniel G. Wise (Ellicott City, Maryland); Lawrence J. Hyttinen (Abingdon, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A flow modulator to control the flow of an aerosol to an aerosol detection and/or monitoring system and other aerosol flow systems includes a chamber having an inlet and an outlet, a diverging section of the chamber beneath the inlet that has a flow divider at the center to divide the aerosol into fractions, a recirculation section in which the divided aerosol fractions are recombined, and a converging section that channels the recombined aerosol fractions to the outlet of the chamber.
FILED	Friday, August 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/208880
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Fluid handling 137/601.180
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08282020 — Three-way valves and fuel injectors using the same

US 08282020	Kiss et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sturman Industries, Inc. (Woodland Park, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Tibor Kiss (Manitou Springs, Colorado); Randall James Strauss (Colorado Springs, Colorado); James A. Pena (Encinitas, California); John Mathew Quinlan (Woodland Park, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Three-way valves having reduced leakage and fuel injectors using the same. Three-way spool poppet valves are disclosed having a spool with a poppet valve thereon cooperating with a seat on the valve housing to provide a substantially leak free valve closing in one direction characteristic of a poppet valve while preserving the advantages of a spool valve. Three-way ball valves are also disclosed having substantially leak free valves closing in both directions, but further including reduced short circuit losses due to direct flow from a high pressure source to a low pressure vent during transition of the ball from one position to the opposite position. Fuel injectors with direct needle control using the three-way valves of the present invention are also disclosed.
FILED	Monday, November 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/290817
ART UNIT	3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/88
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08282746 — Superelastic alloy structural geometry for ultrahigh mechanical damping

US 08282746	Schuh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher A. Schuh (Ashland, Massachusetts); Jose M. San Juan (Bilbao, Spain); Ying Chen (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A mechanical structure is provided with a crystalline superelastic alloy that is characterized by an average grain size and that is characterized by a martensitic phase transformation resulting from a mechanical stress input greater than a characteristic first critical stress. A configuration of the superelastic alloy is provided with a geometric structural feature of the alloy that has an extent that is no greater than about 200 micrometers and that is no larger than the average grain size of the alloy. This geometric feature is configured to accept a mechanical stress input.
FILED	Wednesday, July 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/499122
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Metal treatment 148/402
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08282749 — Green light emitting pyrotechnic compositions

US 08282749	Sabatini 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)	Jesse J. Sabatini (Denville, New Jersey); Jay C. Poret (Sparta, New Jersey); Russell N. Broad (Passaic, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Boron-containing, green light emitting pyrotechnic compositions that advantageously do not include barium, perchlorate or chlorinated organic compounds.
FILED	Wednesday, June 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/155480
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/22
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08282799 — Method for continuous particle separation using obstacle arrays asymmetrically aligned to fields

US 08282799	Huang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Lotien Richard Huang (Brookline, Massachusetts); James Christopher Sturm (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert Hamilton Austin (Princeton, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods and devices for separating particles according to size. More specifically, the present invention relates to a microfluidic method and device for the separation of particles according to size using an array comprising a network of gaps, wherein the field flux from each gap divides unequally into subsequent gaps. In one embodiment, the array comprises an ordered array of obstacles in a microfluidic channel, in which the obstacle array is asymmetric with respect to the direction of an applied field.
FILED	Tuesday, July 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/180823
ART UNIT	1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451
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08283027 — Composite for controlled release of small molecules in aquatic environments

US 08283027	Melde et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian Melde (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael A. Markowitz (Springfield, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A composite material formulated for slow release of a small molecule in seawater includes a porous inorganic oxide framework and micelles embedded within the pores of the framework. The micelles include a surfactant and a small molecule, the surfactant being present in the composite material at no more than 80 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight inorganic oxide, the composite material being stable in seawater for releasing the small molecule over at least 20 days.
FILED	Friday, June 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/813916
ART UNIT	1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/307.300
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08283171 — Method and apparatus for avalanche-mediated transfer of agents into cells

US 08283171	Vankov 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) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexander Vankov (Menlo Park, California); Thomas W. Chalberg (Redwood City, California); Philip Huie, Jr. (Cupertino, California); Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transferring an agent into a cell. The method includes the steps of providing an agent outside of a cell and generating a vapor bubble and a plasma discharge between an avalanche electrode and a conductive fluid surrounding the cell. The vapor bubble and plasma discharge generate a mechanical stress wave and an electric field, respectively. The combination of this mechanical stress wave and electric field results in permeabilization of the cell, which in turn results in transfer of the agent into the cell.
FILED	Tuesday, March 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/042934
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 435/461
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08283179 — Functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions and methods for their preparation

US 08283179	Naasani
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Imad Naasani (Eugene, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides for functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions and methods for making these compositions. The compositions are fluorescent nanocrystals coated with at least one material. The coating material has chemical compounds or ligands with functional groups or moieties with conjugated electrons and moieties for imparting solubility to coated fluorescent nanocrystals in aqueous solutions. The coating material provides for functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions which are water soluble, chemically stable, and emit light with a high quantum yield and/or luminescence efficiency when excited with light. The coating material may also have chemical compounds or ligands with moieties for bonding to target molecules and cells as well as moieties for cross-linking the coating. In the presence of reagents suitable for reacting to form capping layers, the compounds in the coating may form a capping layer on the fluorescent nanocrystal with the coating compounds operably bonded to the capping layer.
FILED	Tuesday, March 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/685343
ART UNIT	1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172
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08283370 — Imidazolidinedione derivatives as antimalarial agents, preparation thereof, and methods of use

US 08283370	Lin 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)	Ai Jeng Lin (North Potomac, Maryland); Michael P. Kozar (Monrovia, Maryland); Michael T. O'Neil (Jefferson, Maryland); Alan J. Magill (Kensington, Maryland); David L. Saunders (APO, None)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments disclosed herein relate to new imidazolidinedione derivatives, methods of making these compounds, and methods of using the same to prevent, treat, or inhibit malaria in a subject.
FILED	Friday, October 02, 2009
APPL NO	13/122140
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/390
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08283423 — Polymer synthetic technique

US 08283423	Swager et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); John P. Amara (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention generally relates to methods for the synthesis of species including monomers and polymers. Methods of the invention comprise the use of chemical techniques including metathesis chemistry to synthesize, for example, monomers and/or polymers with desired functional groups.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2007
APPL NO	12/311378
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/75
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08283432 — Siloxane polymer containing tethered fluoroquinolone

US 08283432	Stafslien et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota)
INVENTOR(S)	Shane Jeremy Stafslien (West Fargo, North Dakota); Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); Alex J. Kugel (Fargo, North Dakota)
ABSTRACT	A polymer that is a polysiloxane polymer has fluoroquinolone antibiotic groups, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, attached via linkers. The linkers may be hydrolytically labile thereby providing a manner of releasing the fluoroquinolone antibiotic from the polymer.
FILED	Friday, October 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/284527
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/26
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08283455 — Reagent compounds and methods of making same

US 08283455	Gao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaolian Gao (Houston, Texas); Peilin Yu (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes novel compounds and methods for capping reactive groups on support and during multistep synthesis. These new capping reagents are also useful for high quality synthesis on solid supports and surfaces used as microarrays, biosensors, or in general as biochips. The compounds are also useful for controlling surface density of reactive groups on a support. The compounds may also be used to modify the hydrophilic/hydrophobic characteristics of a surface or a molecule. The compounds have functional utility in various applications in the fields of genomics, proteomics, diagnostics and medicine.
FILED	Tuesday, March 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/065467
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/1.110
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08283554 — Method and apparatus for concentrating light

US 08283554	Bruning et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	John H Bruning (Pittsford, New York); Joshua Monroe Cobb (Victor, New York); Paul Francis Michaloski (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus for obtaining radiant energy has first and second photovoltaic receivers. A primary curved reflective surface is disposed to reflect incident polychromatic radiation toward a first focal plane. A spectral separator is disposed between the first focal plane and the primary curved reflective surface. The spectral separator has a dichroic separating surface, convex with respect to the incident reflected polychromatic radiation and treated to reflect a first spectral band toward the first photovoltaic receiver and to transmit reflected polychromatic radiation outside the first spectral band. The spectral separator also has a curved separator reflective surface, convex with respect to the light transmitted through the dichroic separating surface and treated to reflect at least a portion of the light transmitted through the dichroic separating surface toward the second photovoltaic receiver.
FILED	Wednesday, November 29, 2006
APPL NO	11/605639
ART UNIT	1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/246
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08283562 — Electrical interface assembly

US 08283562	Clifton 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)	Christopher Clifton (Bloomfield, Indiana); Dean L. Jones (Bloomington, Indiana); Philip S. Mitchell (Springville, Indiana); David Myers (Bloomfield, Indiana); James M. Pruett (Montgomery, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	An electrical interface assembly configured to be supported within a wall of a mobile structure. The electrical interface assembly includes a frame having spaced apart inner and outer supports. Panels including electrical connectors are removably supported by the inner and outer supports.
FILED	Friday, January 29, 2010
APPL NO	12/696787
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/59
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08283699 — GaN based HEMTs with buried field plates

US 08283699	Wu
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California)
ABSTRACT	A transistor comprising an active region, with source and drain electrodes formed in contact with the active region and a gate formed between the source and drain electrodes and in contact with the active region. A first spacer layer is on at least part of the surface of the active region between the gate and the drain electrode and between the gate and the source electrode. The gate comprises a generally t-shaped top portion that extends toward the source and drain electrodes. A field plate is on the spacer layer and under the overhand of at least one section of the gate top portion. The field plate is at least partially covered by a second spacer layer, with the second spacer layer on at least part of the surface of the first active layer and between the gate and the drain and between the gate and the source. At least one conductive path electrically connects the field plate to the source electrode or the gate.
FILED	Thursday, September 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/901103
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/192
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08283891 — Power source health assessment methods and systems thereof

US 08283891	Anbari
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Omar Anbari (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for assessing health of a power source includes measuring voltage and current of a power source in a system using a device in the system as the load. An internal resistance of the power source is determined based on the measured voltage and current. A health assessment of the power source is determined and provided based at least on the determined internal resistance and a stored baseline internal resistance for the power source.
FILED	Friday, March 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/077896
ART UNIT	2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/132
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08284012 — Ultra-stable refractory high-power thin film resistors for space applications

US 08284012	Cole 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)	Robert C. Cole (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Gouri Radhakrishnan (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of fabricating a thin film resistor including providing a substrate, using a low-temperature pulsed-laser deposition process to deposit a titanium carbide (TiC) layer on the substrate, removing portions of the TiC layer with an etching process to leave a TiC pattern on the substrate, and depositing conductive material on opposite ends of the TiC pattern to provide a thin film resistor.
FILED	Thursday, June 04, 2009
APPL NO	12/478376
ART UNIT	2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical resistors 338/22.R00
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08284072 — Tsunami detection system

US 08284072	Ruffa 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)	Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island); Richard A. Erwin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Fletcher A. Blackmon (Forestdale, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention as disclosed is a system for real time detection of tsunami waves. A tsunami is considered a “shallow water wave”, having a large wavelength compared to the ocean depth. A tsunami can have wavelengths ranging from 100 to 500 km, and amplitudes up to 60 cm (i.e., a pressure signal of up to 1 psi). At least one telecommunications grade optical fiber cable fitted with repeaters spanning the length of an ocean, a laser and a signal processor are used to measure pressure signals over spatial cells as small as 0.5 meters in width based on Rayleigh scattering effects and employing optical time delay reflectometry. The tsunami pressure signals are extracted from the pressure signals generated by wind-generated water waves (having much shorter wavelengths) through signal processing to distinguish between the substantial differences in wavelength, period and propagation speed.
FILED	Monday, March 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/728451
ART UNIT	2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Electrical 340/690
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08284110 — Compact ultra-wide bandwidth antenna with polarization diversity

US 08284110	Elliot et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul G. Elliot (Acton, Massachusetts); Eddie N. Rosario (Methuen, Massachusetts); Robert J. Davis (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described are methods and apparatus, including a method of manufacture, for a compact antenna. Two biconical dipole antennas and a monocone monopole antenna are displaced in an adjacent and orthogonal configuration. The two biconical dipole antennas are each shunted to the monocone monopole antenna.
FILED	Thursday, June 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/793534
ART UNIT	2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/727
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08284405 — Remote passive sensing of a vibration signature using modulated light

US 08284405	Clark
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by The Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Frank O. Clark (Dunstable, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	An optical detector senses the intensity of scattered light reflected by a surface coupled to a vibration source. If the vibration source is operating, the coupled surface vibrates at the same frequency. Incident light reflected by the surface is modulated by the vibration at a hypertemporal frequency. The detector produces a direct electrical current as a temporal function of the detected modulated light intensity. A transimpedance amplifier converts the current into a voltage. A voltage amplifier amplifies the voltage. An analog-to-digital converter converts the amplified voltage into digital signal. A digital signal processor converts the digital signal into a function of power spectral density and frequency using Fourier transform and principle component analyses. The vibration signature of the vibration source, if present, is discerned from a graphical display of the foregoing function.
FILED	Friday, December 11, 2009
APPL NO	12/636456
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/447
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08284506 — Apparatus and method for making and assembling a multi-lens optical device

US 08284506	Ashcraft et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Gentex Corporation (Carbondale, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Todd W. Ashcraft (Aurora, Illinois); Robert B. Atac (Batavia, Illinois); James Risboskin (Jermyn, Pennsylvania); Timothy G. Allard (Dalton, Pennsylvania); Joseph J. Fontanella (Jessup, Pennsylvania); Mark J. Tremback (Mayfield, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A system for aligning a plurality of high-precision lenses in a lens train. Each of the lenses has at least two alignment tabs disposed around the perimeter of the lens. The lenses are aligned by placing the lenses in a jig having a plurality of high-precision alignment blocks. The lenses are attached to a lower-precision shroud, having slots that receive the alignment tabs. A gap-filling adhesive is used to provide a high-precision fit for the lenses in the shroud.
FILED	Tuesday, October 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/255262
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/819
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08284711 — Apparatus and methods for addressable communication using voice-grade radios

US 08284711	Michalson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	William R. Michalson (Charlton, Massachusetts); James W. Matthews (Worcester, Massachusetts); Abhijit Navalekar (Worcester, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to methods and apparatus for conducting directed communication using voice-grade radios. The methods and apparatus can be used to form a packet-switched wireless network using legacy analog transceivers, providing, e.g., both data and voice-over-Internet Protocol communication.
FILED	Tuesday, June 27, 2006
APPL NO	11/476281
ART UNIT	2468 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/319
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08285091 — Efficient terahertz sources based on difference-frequency generation in triply-resonant photonic resonators

US 08285091	Bravo-Abad et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jorge Bravo-Abad (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ian B. Burgess (Medford, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marko Loncar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Murray W. McCutcheon (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Alejandro W. Rodriguez (Miami, Florida); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts); Yinan Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A system for efficient generation of THz radiation is provided that includes a triply-resonant nonlinear photonic resonator coupled to at least one near-infrared (NIR) or optical waveguide and to at least one THz waveguide. The energy traveling through the at least one near-infrared (NIR) or optical waveguide is converted to THz radiation inside the triply-resonant photonic resonator via a nonlinear difference frequency generation (DFG) process.
FILED	Monday, July 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/834524
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/27
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08285140 — Shared-source-row optical data channel organization for a switched arbitrated on-chip optical network

US 08285140	McCracken et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Oliver McCracken (Austin, Texas); Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); Herbert Dewitt Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A system including first and second sending nodes, a horizontal optical data link (ODL) having optical signals propagating in opposite directions in first and second waveguide segments, a vertical ODL having optical signals propagating in the same direction throughout third and fourth waveguide segments, a first optical output switch operatively connecting the first sending node and the first waveguide segment and configured to switch first data item onto the first waveguide segment during a first timeslot, a second optical output switch operatively connecting the second sending node and the second waveguide segment and configured to switch second data item onto the second waveguide segment during a second timeslot, and an optical coupler pair operatively connecting the first and second waveguide segments to the third and fourth waveguide segments, respectively, and redirecting the first and the second data items from the horizontal to the vertical ODL.
FILED	Friday, March 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/723591
ART UNIT	2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Optical communications 398/45
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08285217 — Circulator-enabled signal suppressor (CENSOR) for reducing co-site transmission interference

US 08285217	Rockway et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	John W. Rockway (San Diego, California); Karl Moeller (San Diego, California); Jeffrey L. Young (Moscow, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	A circulator-enabled signals suppressor (CENSOR) for reducing co-site interference comprising: a first circulator comprising first, second, and third ports, wherein the first port is disposed to receive an incoming signal from an antenna, wherein the incoming signal comprises a desired signal and an interference signal; a first reflective, tunable bandpass filter-bank operatively coupled to the second port, disposed to reflect a reflected signal back into the second port and also to produce a filtered signal, wherein the reflected signal comprises the desired signal and a reflected portion of the interference signal, and the filtered signal comprises a majority portion of the interference signal; and a receiver operatively coupled to the third port and disposed to receive the reflected signal.
FILED	Tuesday, February 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/706100
ART UNIT	2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/63.100
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08285372 — Alertness/drowsiness and cognitive capacity index

US 08285372	Sing
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)	Helen C. Sing (Takoma Park, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention includes a method and system for providing an Index representing the alertness state of an individual based at least in part on EEG signals obtained from the individual. In at least one embodiment, the EEG signals are divided into frequency bands and a total amplitude of the power is determined. Based on the proportion of the high frequency band compared to the proportion of the low frequency band, an Index is determined that is indicative of an individual's ability to perform a cognitive task.
FILED	Friday, December 19, 2008
APPL NO	12/339864
ART UNIT	3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/544
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08285514 — Sensor fault detection systems and methods thereof

US 08285514	Anbari et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Omar Anbari (Rochester, New York); Michael G. Thurston (Penfield, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method, computer readable medium and system for detecting a sensor fault includes identifying one or more of a plurality of tools to use with at least one of a plurality of data acquisition systems based on data obtained from and at least one characteristic of the at least one of the data acquisition systems. The identified one or more tools are utilized on the obtained data to determine at least one confidence rating. An operational status for the at least one of the data acquisition systems is determined and provided based on at least the one determined confidence rating.
FILED	Friday, March 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/077779
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179
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08285522 — Materials-based failure analysis in design of electronic devices

US 08285522	Tryon, III et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vextec Corporation (Brentwood, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert G. Tryon, III (Brentwood, Tennessee); Animesh Dey (Brentwood, Tennessee); Loren A. Nasser (Brentwood, Tennessee); Ganapathi Krishnan (Brentwood, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The technology includes methods, a system, and a computer readable medium for predicting the failure of an electronic device during design of the device, by receiving data associated with the device, the data including data indicative of a device response to a specific load on the system while the device is in operation, and predicting potential failure of the device using a probabilistic model and the data, wherein the probabilistic model utilizes at least one of fast probability methods and simulation techniques.
FILED	Wednesday, January 24, 2007
APPL NO	11/698262
ART UNIT	2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2
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08285528 — Method and article of manufacture for determining warhead fragmentation performance

US 08285528	Szymanski 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)	Edwin W. Szymanski (Ridgecrest, California); Robert M. Cox (Ridgecrest, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and a computer program product for estimating and predicting the performance of fragmentation devices such as, for example, warheads that are often incorporated as part of a weapon system.
FILED	Wednesday, June 24, 2009
APPL NO	12/491019
ART UNIT	2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/6
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08285653 — Systems and methods for generating random feasible solutions for an evolutionary process

US 08285653	Ferringer 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)	Matthew Phillip Ferringer (Round Hill, Virginia); Timothy Guy Thompson (Purcellville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods may include identifying an input population of parent chromosome data structures, where each parent chromosome data structure provides a plurality of genes representative of variables in which associated values are permitted to evolve; selecting pairs of parent chromosome data structures from the input population of parent chromosome data structures; combining genes of each selected pair of parent chromosome data structures according to at least one evolutionary operator to generate a plurality of child chromosome data structures; evaluating the plurality of child chromosome data structures according to a plurality of constraint functions to generate a respective plurality of constraint function values for each child chromosome data structure, where the constraint functions define constraints on a feasible solution set; determining whether any of the plurality of child chromosome data structures are within the feasible solution set based upon the respective plurality of constraint violation function values.
FILED	Monday, August 31, 2009
APPL NO	12/550843
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13
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08285657 — Mobile brain-based device having a simulated nervous system based on the hippocampus

US 08285657	Edelman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Neuroscience Research Foundation, Inc. (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald M. Edelman (La Jolla, California); Jeffrey L. Krichmar (Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California); Douglas A. Nitz (Del Mar, California)
ABSTRACT	A brain-based device (BBD) having a physical mobile device NOMAD controlling and under control by a simulated nervous system. The simulated nervous system is based on an intricate anatomy and physiology of the hippocampus and its surrounding neuronal regions including the cortex. The BBD integrates spatial signals from numerous objects in time and provides flexible navigation solutions to aid in the exploration of unknown environments. As NOMAD navigates in its real world environment, the hippocampus of the simulated nervous system organizes multi-modal input information received from sensors on NOMAD over timescales and uses this organization for the development of spatial and episodic memories necessary for navigation.
FILED	Wednesday, November 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/953880
ART UNIT	2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/15
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08285710 — Automated query path reporting in distributed databases

US 08285710	Bent et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Graham A. Bent (Southampton, United Kingdom); Patrick Dantressangle (Ford, United Kingdom); David R. Vyvyan (Southampton, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	A database query comprising a logical table definition and at least one route tracing indicator is forwarded to at least one distributed database node within a distributed network of databases. At least one query response is received including distributed route tracing information associated with each distributed database node that processed the database query along a path associated with the at least one query response. The received distributed route tracing information is processed to characterize query route propagation within the distributed network of databases. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
FILED	Thursday, October 09, 2008
APPL NO	12/248170
ART UNIT	2168 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/716
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08285719 — System and method for probabilistic relational clustering

US 08285719	Long et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Bo Long (Mountain View, California); Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang (Vernon, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions. The algorithms are applicable to relational data of various structures and at the same time unify a number of state-of-the-art clustering algorithms: co-clustering algorithms, the k-partite graph clustering, and semi-supervised clustering based on hidden Markov random fields.
FILED	Monday, August 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/538835
ART UNIT	2167 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737
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08285728 — Knowledge discovery and dissemination of text by mining with words

US 08285728	Rubin
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stuart Rubin (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention enables the construction and deployment of semantic search engines, which learn. Here, the learning necessarily occurs in unsupervised mode given the huge amount of text being searched and the resultant impracticality of providing human feedback. That is, it acquires a lexicon of synonyms and the context for their proper application by searching a moving window of text and compiling the results. No human operator is involved. This allows for the practical search, using machine learning techniques, of very large textual bases.
FILED	Tuesday, August 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/861990
ART UNIT	2155 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/749
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08285766 — Microprocessor shifter circuits utilizing butterfly and inverse butterfly routing circuits, and control circuits therefor

US 08285766	Lee et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Ruby B. Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Yedidya Hilewitz (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	Microprocessor shifter circuits utilizing butterfly and inverse butterfly circuits, and control circuits therefor, are provided. The same shifter circuits can also perform complex bit manipulations at high speeds, including butterfly and inverse butterfly operations, parallel extract and deposit operations, group operations, mix operations, permutation operations, as well as instructions executed by existing microprocessors, including shift right, shift left, rotate, extract, deposit and multimedia mix operations. The shifter circuits can be provided in various combinations to provide microprocessor functional units which perform a plurality of bit manipulation operations.
FILED	Friday, May 23, 2008
APPL NO	12/126616
ART UNIT	2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/209
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08285900 — Method and apparatus for congestion-aware routing in a computer interconnection network

US 08285900	Gratz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul Gratz (Austin, Texas); Boris Grot (Austin, Texas); Stephen W. Keckler (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure relates to an example of a method for a first router to adaptively determine status within a network. The network may include the first router, a second router and a third router. The method for the first router may comprise determining status information regarding the second router located in the network, and transmitting the status information to the third router located in the network. The second router and the third router may be indirectly coupled to one another.
FILED	Tuesday, February 17, 2009
APPL NO	12/372556
ART UNIT	2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/100
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08285939 — Lateral castout target selection

US 08285939	Guthrie 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)	Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Harmony L. Helterhoff (Cedar Park, Texas); Kevin F. Reick (Round Rock, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas)
ABSTRACT	In response to a data request of a first processing unit among a plurality of processing units, the first processing unit selects a victim cache line to be castout from the lower level cache of the first processing unit and selects the lower level cache of a second of the plurality of processing units as an intended destination of a lateral castout (LCO) command by randomized round-robin selection. The first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric an LCO command identifying the victim cache line and the intended destination. In response to a coherence response to the LCO command indicating success of the LCO command, the first processing unit removes the victim cache line from its lower level cache, and the victim cache line is held in the lower level cache of one of the plurality of processing units other than the first processing unit.
FILED	Wednesday, April 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/420379
ART UNIT	2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/133
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08285987 — Emulation-based software protection

US 08285987	Kimball et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	William B. Kimball (Dayton, Ohio); Rusty O. Baldwin (Huber Heights, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method of emulation-based page granularity code signing comprising the steps of: copying guest operating system instructions and associated hash message authentication codes and/or digital signatures of each guest operating instruction from an untrusted guest operating system memory into a trusted host operating system memory; recomputing the hash message authentication codes using a secret key in the trusted host operating system memory; maintaining the secret key in the trusted host operating system memory and inaccessible by the untrusted guest operating system instructions; translating each guest operating system instruction that has a valid hash message authentication code to a set of host operating system instructions; executing the decrypted guest operating system instructions in the trusted host operating system; and modifying the guest operating system memory and registers when the set of translated host operating instructions executes in the trusted host operating system, such that it appears as if the original guest operating system instructions had been executed in the untrusted guest operating system.
FILED	Friday, December 04, 2009
APPL NO	12/631099
ART UNIT	2432 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/164
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08286191 — Dynamically composing data stream processing applications

US 08286191	Amini 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)	Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Yonkers, New York)
ABSTRACT	Techniques for dynamically modifying inter-connections between components in an application are provided. The techniques include receiving a data producer profile for each output port within a software application to be executed on one or more processors, receiving a data subscription profile for each input port of each component of the application, establishing connections between the output ports and the input ports of the components in the application based on a comparison of each data producer profile and each data subscription profile, executing the application on one or more processors to process streams of data, receiving either or both of a new data producer profile or a new data subscription profile during the execution of the application, and establishing at least one new connection between an output port and an input port based upon a revised comparison of the received data profiles that include the new data profile.
FILED	Thursday, May 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/465910
ART UNIT	2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/318
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08286231 — System and method for information sharing between non-secure devices

US 08286231	Arnold
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven L. Arnold (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method for communicating information packets from a first host system operating in a first security domain and in accordance with a non-secure communications protocol, using a dataguard, to a second host system operating in a second security domain different than the first security domain, and where the second host system is also operating in accordance with the non-secure communications protocol. The method may involve: using a first driver operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard with the first host system; using a first proxy task group operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the first driver and to communicate with the first driver in accordance with a protocol of the first security domain; using a second driver operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the second host system; and using a second proxy task group operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the second proxy task group and to communicate with the second driver in accordance with a protocol of the second security domain.
FILED	Wednesday, January 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/322008
ART UNIT	2438 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Information security 726/13
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RE043722 — Three-dimensional ladar module with alignment reference insert circuitry

US RE43722	Kennedy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Aprolase Development Co., LLC (Wilmington, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	John Kennedy (Irvine, California); David Ludwig (Irvine, California); Christian Krutzik (Costa Mesa, California)
ABSTRACT	A 3-D LADAR imaging system incorporating stacked microelectronic layers is provided. A light source such as a laser is imaged upon a target through beam shaping optics. Photons reflected from the target are collected and imaged upon a detector array though collection optics. The detector array signals are fed into a multilayer processing module wherein each layer includes detector signal processing circuitry. The detector array signals are amplified, compared to a user-defined threshold, digitized and fed into a high speed FIFO shift register range bin. Dependant on the value of the digit contained in the bins in the register, and the digit's bin location, the time of a photon reflection from a target surface can be determined. A T₀trigger signal defines the reflection time represented at each bin location by resetting appropriate circuitry to begin processing. A reference insert circuit inserts data into the FIFO registers at a preselected location to provide a reference point at which all FIFO shift register data may be aligned to accommodate for timing differences between layers and channels. The bin data representing the photon reflections from the various target surfaces are read out of the FIFO and processed using appropriate circuitry such as a field programmable gate array to create a synchronized 3-D point cloud for creating a 3-D target image.
FILED	Wednesday, October 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/607253
ART UNIT	3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

08281663 — Active acoustic driver for magnetic resonance elastography

US 08281663	Ehman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard L. Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Phillip J. Rossman (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	A driver for applying an oscillating stress to a subject undergoing a medical imaging procedure, such as with magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), includes a passive driver located in the bore of the magnet and in direct contact with the skin of the subject. A remotely located active driver includes a linear motor and a sealed diaphragm that produces acoustic pressure waves in response to an applied current. The pressure waves are directed through a tube and into a chamber formed within the passive driver. Vibrations produced in response to the pressure waves create shear waves that are directed into the subject to aid in the imaging procedure.
FILED	Monday, July 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/502076
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/662
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08282396 — Calcium-containing restoration materials

US 08282396	Chow et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ADA Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Laurence C. Chow (Germantown, Maryland); Shozo Takagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A bone or dental implant material in the form of a paste includes a mixture of calcium phosphate and/or calcium-containing powders, liquid glycerol, organic acid and gelling agent. The paste is stable, resistant to washout and will harden upon exposure to water. Physical characteristics of the paste, including consistency, porosity, and hardening time, are controlled by the choice and ratio of constituents.
FILED	Monday, May 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/772843
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Dentistry 433/215
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08282553 — Method and apparatus for acoustoelastic extraction of strain and material properties

US 08282553	Vanderby et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Ray Vanderby (Madison, Wisconsin); Hirohito Kobayashi (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines.
FILED	Tuesday, May 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/782068
ART UNIT	3737 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/437
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08282564 — Systems and methods for model-based estimation of cardiac output and total peripheral resistance

US 08282564	Parlikar 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 Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Tushar A. Parlikar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gireeja V. Ranade (Berkeley, California); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The methods and systems for estimating cardiac output and total peripheral resistance include observing arterial blood pressure waveforms to determine intra-beat and inter-beat variability in arterial blood pressure and estimating from the variability a time constant for a lumped parameter beat-to-beat averaged Windkessel model of the arterial tree. Uncalibrated cardiac output and uncalibrated total peripheral resistance may then be calculated from the time constant. Calibrated cardiac output and calibrated total peripheral resistance may be computed using calibration data, assuming an arterial compliance that is either constant or dependent on mean arterial blood pressure. The parameters of the arterial compliance may be estimated in a least-squares manner.
FILED	Thursday, May 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/121042
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	Surgery 6/485
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08282916 — Tumor therapy with replication competent sindbis viral vectors

US 08282916	Meruelo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York); Jen-Chieh Tseng (Flushing, New York)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are methods for treating a mammal harboring a solid tumor which expresses higher levels of High Affinity Laminin Receptors (LAMR) than normal cells of the same lineage comprising systematically administering to a mammal in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a Replication Competent (RC) Sindbis virus vector, wherein said vector encodes a suicide gene.
FILED	Friday, February 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/390096
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 424/93.200
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08282918 — Polynucleotides encoding RPA4/RPA32 hybrid polypeptides

US 08282918	Wold 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 Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Marc S. Wold (Iowa City, Iowa); Stuart J. Haring (West Fargo, North Dakota)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are polynucleotides and polypeptides that are useful for assessing and modulating cell proliferation. The polynucleotides may comprise coding regions for RPA4 and RPA4/RPA32 hybrid polypeptides. The polynucleotides may be used in gene vectors for modulating cell proliferation in a patient in need thereof. Diagnostic methods related to assaying RPA4 expression in test samples in order to detect proliferating or cancerous cells also are disclosed.
FILED	Tuesday, July 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/671356
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 424/93.210
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08282926 — CCR5-specific antibodies with HIV neutralizing activity that recognize a linear dodecapeptide that mimics a conformational epitope in the second extracellular loop of CCR5

US 08282926	Golding et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Hana Golding (Rockville, Maryland); Surender Khurana (Rockville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates, e.g., to an isolated peptide comprising a sequence of contiguous amino acids that is at least about 60% identical (e.g., at least about 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 98% or 100% identical) to the sequence E-W-Q-K-E-G-L-V-T-L-W-L (SEQ ID NO:1), or an active variant of an isolated peptide comprising SEQ ID NO:1. Neutralizing antibodies generated by, or specific for, such peptides are also described, in particular antibodies which are specific for the HIV co-receptor, CCR5, and which inhibit infection of a host cell by HIV. Neutralizing single strand and complete human monoclonal antibodies against CCR5 are described. Methods of using such peptides or antibodies, for inhibiting infection by HIV, are also described.
FILED	Monday, December 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/647789
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/154.100
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08282937 — Cold-adapted (CA) reassortant influenza virus

US 08282937	Maassab et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Hunein Maassab (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Martha Louise Herlocher (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The cold-adapted master strain A/Ann Arbor/6/60 7PI (H2N2) and progenitor wild type E2(3) viral strains have been deposited and their genomic sequences identified. Seven nucleotide differences were found between the sequences identified herein and the previously published sequences for cold-adapted A/Ann Arbor/6/60 genes. The cold-adapted live influenza virus of the present invention can be reasserted with a variety of epidemic wild type influenza viruses and used to produce vaccines to prophylactically and therapeutically treat influenza.
FILED	Friday, March 23, 2007
APPL NO	11/690498
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/206.100
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08282939 — Attenuated live triple G protein recombinant rabies virus vaccine for pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis of rabies

US 08282939	Faber 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)	Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Milosz Faber (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania); Bernhard Dietzschold (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Douglas Craig Hooper (Medford, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides a recombinant rabies viruses comprising three copies of a mutated G gene wherein each G gene encodes a rabies virus glycoprotein having the amino acid 194 mutated to a serine and the amino acid 333 is mutated to a glutamic acid. The recombinant rabies virus is nonpathogenic in immunodeficient mammals and can be used in a vaccine to induce an immune response protect mammals from infection by rabies virus as well as clear a pre-existing rabies virus infection from neural tissues.
FILED	Friday, September 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/879335
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/224.100
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08282942 — Toxoplasma gondii vaccines and uses thereof

US 08282942	Bzik 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)	Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Bzik (Grantham, New Hampshire); Barbara A. Fox (Grantham, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides attenuated Toxoplasma gondii knockout mutants of the de novo pyrimidine synthesis pathway and use of the same in vaccines and methods of providing an immune response and protecting a subject against infection by T. gondii and a non-T. gondii disease.
FILED	Tuesday, April 06, 2010
APPL NO	12/754970
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/273.100
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08282963 — Methods for extracting platelets and compositions obtained therefrom

US 08282963	Roedersheimer
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)	The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark T. Roedersheimer (Aurora, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides methods for extracting platelets, compositions obtained therefore, and methods for using the same.
FILED	Wednesday, October 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/682782
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/532
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08282967 — Nitric oxide-releasing particles for nitric oxide therapeutics and biomedical applications

US 08282967	Schoenfisch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark H. Schoenfisch (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jae Ho Shin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Nathan Stasko (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The presently disclosed subject matter relates to nitric oxide-releasing particles for delivering nitric oxide, and their use in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.
FILED	Friday, June 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/168597
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 424/718
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08283113 — Compositions and methods for preventing and treating cancer via modulating UBE1L, ISG15 and/or UBP43

US 08283113	Dmitrovsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Ethan Dmitrovsky (Hanover, New Hampshire); Bret A. Hassel (Woodbine, Maryland); Sutisak Kitareewan (Subhanburi, Thailand); Ian Pitha-Rowe (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods of using compositions that induce UBE1L or a ubiquitin-like protein ISG15, or inhibit a deconjugase UBP43 to degrade oncogenic proteins and enhance apoptosis of cancer (neoplastic) or pre-cancerous (pre-neoplastic) cells are provided. Methods for the prevention or treatment of cancer via administration of these compositions are also provided.
FILED	Friday, October 31, 2008
APPL NO	12/262337
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4
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08283114 — Genes of an otitis media isolate of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

US 08283114	Bakaletz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio); The Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma)
INVENTOR(S)	Lauren O. Bakaletz (Hilliard, Ohio); Robert S. Munson, Jr. (Hilliard, Ohio); David W. Dyer (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to the polynucleotide sequence of a nontypeable stain of Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides and uses thereof. The invention also relates to NTHi genes which are upregulated during or in response to NTHi infection of the middle ear and/or the nasopharynx.
FILED	Thursday, June 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/917368
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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08283119 — Methods for determining prognoses and therapeutic interventions for ovarian carcinomas

US 08283119	Ford 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 Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Heide Ford (Denver, Colorado); Kian Behbakht (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Andrew Thorburn (Denver, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Methods for determining the prognosis and therapeutic interventions for cancer and for utilizing the expression of the homeoprotein Six1 to determine the prognosis and therapeutic interventions for cancer, in particular for ovarian carcinomas.
FILED	Tuesday, December 11, 2007
APPL NO	12/518315
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110
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08283121 — Detection of nucleic acid sequence differences using coupled ligase detection and polymerase chain reactions

US 08283121	Barany et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Francis Barany (New York, New York); Matthew Lubin (Rye Brook, New York); George Barany (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a method for identifying a target nucleotide sequence. This method involves forming a ligation product on a target nucleotide sequence in a ligase detection reaction mixture, amplifying the ligation product to form an amplified ligation product in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) mixture, detecting the amplified ligation product, and identifying the target nucleotide sequence. Such coupling of the ligase detection reaction and the polymerase chain reaction permits multiplex detection of nucleic acid sequence differences.
FILED	Wednesday, July 01, 2009
APPL NO	12/496447
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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08283122 — Prediction of clinical outcome using gene expression profiling and artificial neural networks for patients with neuroblastoma

US 08283122	Khan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Javed Khan (Derwood, Maryland); Jun S. Wei (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Braden T. Greer (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method of predicting the outcome of a patient with neuroblastoma that includes obtaining experimental data on gene selections. The gene selection functions to predict the outcome of a patient with neuroblastoma when the expression of that gene selection is compared to the identical selection from a non-neuroblastoma cell or a different type of neuroblastoma cell. The invention also includes a method of targeting at least one product of a gene that includes administration of a therapeutic agent. The invention also includes the use of a gene selection for predicting the outcome of patient with neuroblastoma.
FILED	Wednesday, August 03, 2005
APPL NO	11/572667
ART UNIT	1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.140
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08283126 — Voltage sensor domains of voltage-dependent ion channel proteins and uses thereof

US 08283126	MacKinnon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Rockefeller University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Roderick MacKinnon (New York, New York); Alice Lee MacKinnon (New York, New York); Youxing Jiang (New York, New York); Vanessa Ruta (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A composition of matter suitable for use in identifying chemical compounds that bind to voltage-dependent ion channel proteins, the composition comprising a screening protein that comprises an ion channel voltage sensor domain of the ion channel protein immobilized on a solid support.
FILED	Thursday, December 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/970192
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200
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08283151 — Isolation, cloning and characterization of new adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes

US 08283151	Schmidt 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)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Schmidt (Kensington, Maryland); John A. Chiorini (Kensington, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides new adeno-associated virus (AAV) viruses and vectors, and particles derived therefrom. In addition, the present invention provides methods of delivering a nucleic acid to a cell using the AAV vectors and particles.
FILED	Monday, May 01, 2006
APPL NO	11/912803
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100
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08283158 — Method and apparatus for performing multiple simultaneous manipulations of biomolecules in a two dimensional array

US 08283158	Emmert-Buck 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, Department of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael R. Emmert-Buck (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Rodrigo F. Chuaqui (North Potomac, Maryland); Michael A. Tangrea (Odenton, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to methods and apparati for performing multiple simultaneous manipulations of biomolecules in a two-dimensional array, such as a gel, membrane, tissue biopsy, etc. Such manipulations particularly include assays and nucleic acid amplification protocols.
FILED	Wednesday, October 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/587976
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 435/288.400
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08283168 — Mesoderm and definitive endoderm cell populations

US 08283168	Keller et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Gordon M. Keller (Toronto, Canada); Paul Gadue (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides cell populations that are enriched for mesendoderm and mesoderm, and cell populations that are enriched for endoderm. The cell populations of the invention are useful for generating cells for cell replacement therapy. The present invention further provides a method of generating hepatocytes, cell populations enriched for hepatocytes, and a method of hepatocyte replacement therapy.
FILED	Friday, June 23, 2006
APPL NO	11/993432
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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08283171 — Method and apparatus for avalanche-mediated transfer of agents into cells

US 08283171	Vankov 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) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexander Vankov (Menlo Park, California); Thomas W. Chalberg (Redwood City, California); Philip Huie, Jr. (Cupertino, California); Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transferring an agent into a cell. The method includes the steps of providing an agent outside of a cell and generating a vapor bubble and a plasma discharge between an avalanche electrode and a conductive fluid surrounding the cell. The vapor bubble and plasma discharge generate a mechanical stress wave and an electric field, respectively. The combination of this mechanical stress wave and electric field results in permeabilization of the cell, which in turn results in transfer of the agent into the cell.
FILED	Tuesday, March 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/042934
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 435/461
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08283329 — Genetic inhibition of double-stranded RNA

US 08283329	Fire et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Z. Fire (Washington, District of Columbia); Stephen A. Kostas (Washington, District of Columbia); Mary K. Montgomery (Washington, District of Columbia); Lisa Timmons (Washington, District of Columbia); SiQun Xu (Washington, District of Columbia); Hiroaki Tabara (Boston, Massachusetts); Samuel E. Driver (Boston, Massachusetts); Craig C. Mello (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A process is provided of introducing an RNA into a living cell to inhibit gene expression of a target gene in that cell. The process may be practiced ex vivo or in vivo. The RNA has a region with double-stranded structure. Inhibition is sequence-specific in that the nucleotide sequences of the duplex region of the RNA and of a portion of the target gene are identical. The present invention is distinguished from prior art interference in gene expression by antisense or triple-strand methods.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2007
APPL NO	11/905368
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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08283331 — Methods to regulate miRNA processing by targeting Lin-28

US 08283331	Gregory et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard I Gregory (Brookline, Massachusetts); George Q Daley (Weston, Massachusetts); Srinivas R Viswanathan (Brookline, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates generally to methods to regulate microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis, in particular the regulation of the processing of pri-miRNA to mature miRNA by Lin-28 and/or variants such as Lin28B. In particular, the present invention relates to methods and compositions comprising at least one agent which inhibits Lin-28 function or activity and/or expression to increase the processing of pri-mRNA to mature miRNA. More specifically, one aspect of the invention is directed to treating and/or preventing cancer in a subject by administering an agent that inhibits Lin-28 activity or expression to a subject, preferably a human subject.
FILED	Wednesday, October 08, 2008
APPL NO	12/682149
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00
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08283339 — Vinyl phosphonate lysophosphatidic acid receptor antagonists

US 08283339	Carter et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Karen M. Carter (Louisa, Virginia); Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides LPA analogs that are antagonists at the LPA receptors.
FILED	Thursday, January 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/357728
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/89
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08283344 — Method of treating inherited severe neutropenia

US 08283344	Dale et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Merck and Co., Inc. (Rahway, New Jersey); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	David C. Dale (Seattle, Washington); Paul E. Finke (Milltown, New Jersey); Richard A. Mumford (Red Bank, New Jersey); Andranik Andrew Aprikyan (Kenmore, Washington)
ABSTRACT	The invention is directed to a method of treating severe neutropenia, and in particular, cyclic neutropenia (CN) or severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), in a patient in need of such treatment comprising: administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
FILED	Friday, September 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/673588
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/210.180
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08283345 — Azetidine analogues of nucleosidase and phosphorylase inhibitors

US 08283345	Evans et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Industrial Research Limited (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary Brian Evans (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Richard Hubert Furneaux (Wellington, New Zealand); Ben William Greatrex (Armidale, Australia); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Peter Charles Tyler (Wellington, New Zealand)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are azetidine analogues of nucleosidase and nucleoside phosphorylase inhibitors, the use of these compounds as pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, methods of treating certain diseases using the compounds, processes for preparing the compounds, and intermediates useful in the preparation of the compounds.
FILED	Friday, December 21, 2007
APPL NO	12/448397
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/210.210
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08283368 — Selective ligands for the dopamine 3 (D₃) receptor and methods of using the same

US 08283368	Wang et al.
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 Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Shaomeng Wang (Saline, Michigan); Jianyong Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory Collins (Medford, Massachusetts); James H. Woods (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Beth Levant (Kansas City, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Potent and selective ligands for the dopamine 3 (D₃) receptor are disclosed. The D3 receptor ligands have a structural formula (I) wherein X is C═O or SO₂, R¹is C_1-6alkyl, R²is aryl, heteroaryl, aryl, —(CH₂)_1-3aryl, or —(CH₂)_1-3heteroaryl, and n is 0 or 1. Methods of using the D³receptor ligands in the treatment of diseases and conditions wherein modulation of the D₃receptor provides a benefit also are disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, August 27, 2009
APPL NO	13/060306
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/367
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08283382 — Vitamin K for prevention and treatment of skin rash secondary to anti-EGFR therapy

US 08283382	Perez-Soler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Roman Perez-Soler (New York, New York); Yi-He Ling (Briarwood, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and compositions for treating and preventing a skin rash secondary to anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy, where the method comprises applying a vitamin K analog or a phosphatase inhibitor to the skin.
FILED	Wednesday, May 26, 2010
APPL NO	12/788015
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/682
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08283384 — Adhesive complex coacervates and methods of making and using thereof

US 08283384	Stewart et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell J Stewart (Salt Lake City, Utah); Hui Shao (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is the synthesis of adhesive complex coacervates and their use thereof. The adhesive complex coacervates are composed of a mixture of one or more polycations and one or more polyanions. The polycations and polyanions in the adhesive complex coacervate are crosslinked with one another by covalent bonds upon curing. The adhesive complex coacervates have several desirable features when compared to conventional bioadhesives, which are effective in water-based applications. The adhesive complex coacervates described herein exhibit good interfacial tension in water when applied to a substrate (i.e., they spread over the interface rather than being beaded up). Additionally, the ability of the complex coacervate to crosslink intermolecularly increases the cohesive strength of the adhesive complex coacervate. The adhesive complex coacervates have numerous biological applications as bioadhesives and drug delivery devices. In particular, the adhesive complex coacervates described herein are particularly useful in underwater applications and situations where water is present such as, for example, physiological conditions.
FILED	Thursday, July 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/508280
ART UNIT	1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.100
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08283414 — Compositions comprising modified collagen and uses therefor

US 08283414	Yu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Yu (Timonium, Maryland); Jennifer H. Elisseeff (Baltimore, Maryland); Hyeseung Janice Lee (Washington, District of Columbia); Xiao Mo (Lutherville, Maryland); Allen Yi-Lan Wang (Vienna, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides modified collagen and related therapeutic and diagnostic methods.
FILED	Wednesday, November 23, 2005
APPL NO	11/791425
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.100
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08283441 — Na+K+-ATPase-specific peptide inhibitors/activators of SRC and SRC family kinases

US 08283441	Xie et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Zijian Xie (Saline, Michigan); Joseph I. Shapiro (Toledo, Ohio); Jiang Tian (Perrysburg, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method for regulating Src and its downstream signaling pathway which includes binding between Src and Na+/K+-ATPase is disclosed. The Na+/K+-ATPase/Src complex is a functional receptor for cardiotonic steroids such as ouabain. Also disclosed are Src inhibitors or activators which include either Na+/K+-ATPase or Src that interfere with the interaction between the Na/K-ATPase and Src, act via a different mechanism from ATP analogues, and is pathway (Na+/K+-ATPase) specific.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
APPL NO	12/446856
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326
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08283444 — Non-viral delivery of compounds to mitochondria

US 08283444	Payne
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	R. Mark Payne (Clemons, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A conjugate comprises: (a) a mitochondrial membrane-permeant peptide; (b) an active agent or compound of interest such as a detectable group or mitochondrial protein or peptide; and (c) a mitochondrial targeting sequence linking said mitochondrial membrane-permeant peptide and said active mitochondrial protein or peptide. The targeting sequence is one which is cleaved within the mitochondrial matrix, and not cleaved within the cellular cytoplasm, of a target cell into which said compound is delivered. Methods of use of such compounds are also described.
FILED	Friday, October 22, 2004
APPL NO	10/972222
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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350
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08283456 — Triterpene saponins, methods of synthesis, and uses thereof

US 08283456	Gin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	David Gin (New York, New York); Michelle Adams (New York, New York); Kai Deng (Guilderland, New York); Nicholas Perl (New York, New York); Annie Won (Groton, Connecticut); Philip Livingston (New York, New York); Govind Ragupathi (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to triterpene glycoside saponin-derived adjuvants, syntheses thereof, intermediates thereto, and uses thereof. QS-7 is a potent immuno-adjuvant that is significantly less toxic than QS-21, a related saponin that is currently the favored adjuvant in anticancer and antiviral vaccines. Tedious isolation and purification protocols have hindered the clinical development of QS-7. A novel semi-synthetic method is provided wherein a hydrolyzed prosapogenin mixture is used to synthesize QS-7, QS-21, and related analogs, greatly facilitating access to QS-7 and QS-21 analogs for preclinical and clinical evaluation.
FILED	Wednesday, April 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/420803
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/18.100
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08283458 — VMP-like sequences of pathogenic Borrelia species and strains

US 08283458	Norris
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven J. Norris (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to DNA sequences encoding Vmp-like polypeptides of pathogenic Borrelia, the use of the DNA sequences in recombinant vectors to express polypeptides, the encoded amino acid sequences, application of the DNA and amino acid sequences to the production of polypeptides as antigens for immunoprophylaxis, immunotherapy, and immunodiagnosis. Also disclosed are the use of the nucleic acid sequences as probes or primers for the detection of organisms causing Lyme disease, relapsing fever, or related disorders, and kits designed to facilitate methods of using the described polypeptides, DNA segments and antibodies.
FILED	Tuesday, December 13, 2011
APPL NO	13/324357
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.700
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08283459 — Kinase suppressor of Ras inactivation for therapy of Ras mediated tumorigenesis

US 08283459	Kolesnick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard N. Kolesnick (New York, New York); Hongmei R. Xing (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the specific inhibition of kinase suppressor of Ras (KSR). In particular, the invention provides genetic approaches and nucleic acids for the specific inhibition of KSR, particularly of KSR expression. The invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides and the expression of nucleic acid which is substantially complementary to KSR RNA. Oligonucleotide and nucleic acid compositions are provided. The invention provides methods to inhibit KSR, including inhibition of KSR expression. Methods for blocking gf Ras mediated tumorigenesis, metastasis, and for cancer therapy are provided. Methods for conferring radiosensitivity to cells are also provided.
FILED	Friday, October 12, 2007
APPL NO	11/974481
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	Organic compounds 536/24.500
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08283460 — Short hairpin RNAs for inhibition of gene expression

US 08283460	Ge 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)	Somagenics, Inc. (Santa Cruz, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Qing Ge (Santa Cruz, California); Brian H. Johnston (Scotts Valley, California); Sergei A. Kazakov (Los Gatos, California); Heini Ilves (Santa Cruz, California); Anne Dallas (Santa Cruz, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods, compositions, and kits that include small hairpin RNA (shRNA) useful for inhibition of gene expression, such as viral-mediated gene expression, are described.
FILED	Wednesday, October 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/579323
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	Organic compounds 536/24.500
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08283924 — Eddy-current artifact reduction in balanced steady-state free precession magnetic resonance imaging

US 08283924	Nielsen 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)	Jon-Fredrik Nielsen (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Krishna S. Nayak (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Magnetic resonance imaging techniques are described that utilize bSSFP sequences in which two or more gradient waveforms are interleaved in a “groupwise” fashion, i.e., each waveform is executed consecutively two or more times before switching to the other waveform, where “N” counts the number of times each waveform is executed consecutively. As a result, embodiments of the present disclosure can mitigate steady-state signal distortions or artifacts in interleaved balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) caused by slightly unbalanced eddy-current fields. Related MRI systems are also described.
FILED	Tuesday, October 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/582409
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309
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08285380 — Electronics package suitable for implantation

US 08285380	Greenberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, such as for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue.
FILED	Friday, March 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/429215
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/36
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Department of Energy (DOE)

08281594 — Fuel injector for use in a gas turbine engine

US 08281594	Wiebe
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Wiebe (Orlando, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A fuel injector in a combustor apparatus of a gas turbine engine. An outer wall of the injector defines an interior volume in which an intermediate wall is disposed. A first gap is formed between the outer wall and the intermediate wall. The intermediate wall defines an internal volume in which an inner wall is disposed. A second gap is formed between the intermediate wall and the inner wall. The second gap receives cooling fluid that cools the injector. The cooling fluid provides convective cooling to the intermediate wall as it flows within the second gap. The cooling fluid also flows through apertures in the intermediate wall into the first gap where it provides impingement cooling to the outer wall and provides convective cooling to the outer wall. The inner wall defines a passageway that delivers fuel into a liner downstream from a main combustion zone.
FILED	Tuesday, September 08, 2009
APPL NO	12/555134
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/733
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08282284 — Methods and systems for micro bearings

US 08282284	Stalford
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)	MicroZeus, LLC (Dallas, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Harold L. Stalford (Norman, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	A micro drive assembly may comprise a substrate, a micro shall oriented in-plane with the substrate and at least one micro bearing to support rotation of the micro shaft. The micro shaft and micro bearing may be in or less than the micrometer domain.
FILED	Friday, June 01, 2007
APPL NO	11/757344
ART UNIT	3656 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Bearings 384/91
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08282905 — Fullerenic structures and such structures tethered to carbon materials

US 08282905	Goel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Anish Goel (Washington, District of Columbia); Jack B. Howard (Winchester, Massachusetts); John B. Vander Sande (Newbury, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The fullerenic structures include fullerenes having molecular weights less than that of C₆₀with the exception of C₃₆and fullerenes having molecular weights greater than C₆₀. Examples include fullerenes C₅₀, C₅₈, C₁₃₀, and C₁₇₆. Fullerenic structure chemically bonded to a carbon surface is also disclosed along with a method for tethering fullerenes to a carbon material. The method includes adding functionalized fullerene to a liquid suspension containing carbon material, drying the suspension to produce a powder, and heat treating the powder.
FILED	Monday, October 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/581337
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.B00
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08283074 — Electrolyte salts for nonaqueous electrolytes

US 08283074	Amine 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)	Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois); Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Zonghai Chen (Bolingbrook, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Metal complex salts may be used in lithium ion batteries. Such metal complex salts not only perform as an electrolyte salt in a lithium ion batteries with high solubility and conductivity, but also can act as redox shuttles that provide overcharge protection of individual cells in a battery pack and/or as electrolyte additives to provide other mechanisms to provide overcharge protection to lithium ion batteries. The metal complex salts have at least one aromatic ring. The aromatic moiety may be reversibly oxidized/reduced at a potential slightly higher than the working potential of the positive electrode in the lithium ion battery. The metal complex salts may also be known as overcharge protection salts.
FILED	Friday, August 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/192452
ART UNIT	1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/326
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08283077 — Structures and fabrication techniques for solid state electrochemical devices

US 08283077	Visco 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)	Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Craig P. Jacobson (Moraga, California); Lutgard C. DeJonghe (Lafayette, California)
ABSTRACT	Porous substrates and associated structures for solid-state electrochemical devices, such as solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), are low-cost, mechanically strong and highly electronically conductive. Some preferred structures have a thin layer of an electrocatalytically active material (e.g., Ni—YSZ) coating a porous high-strength alloy support (e.g., SS-430) to form a porous SOFC fuel electrode. Electrode/electrolyte structures can be formed by co-firing or constrained sintering processes.
FILED	Wednesday, February 06, 2008
APPL NO	12/027183
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/408
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08283078 — Carbon fuel particles used in direct carbon conversion fuel cells

US 08283078	Cooper 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)	John F. Cooper (Oakland, California); Nerine Cherepy (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for preparing particulate carbon fuel and using the particulate carbon fuel in a fuel cell. Carbon particles are finely divided. The finely dividing carbon particles are introduced into the fuel cell. A gas containing oxygen is introduced into the fuel cell. The finely divided carbon particles are exposed to carbonate salts, or to molten NaOH or KOH or LiOH or mixtures of NaOH or KOH or LiOH, or to mixed hydroxides, or to alkali and alkaline earth nitrates.
FILED	Friday, December 16, 2011
APPL NO	13/328366
ART UNIT	1728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/408
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08283150 — Superactive cellulase formulation using cellobiohydrolase-1 from Penicillium funiculosum

US 08283150	Adney et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	William S. Adney (Golden, Colorado); John O. Baker (Golden, Colorado); Stephen R. Decker (Berthoud, Colorado); Yat-Chen Chou (Lakewood, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado); Shi-You Ding (Golden, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Purified cellobiohydrolase I (glycosyl hydrolase family 7 (Cel7A)) enzymes from Penicillium funiculosum demonstrate a high level of specific performance in comparison to other Cel7 family member enzymes when formulated with purified EIcd endoglucanase from A. cellulolyticus and tested on pretreated corn stover. This result is true of the purified native enzyme, as well as recombinantly expressed enzyme, for example, that enzyme expressed in a non-native Aspergillus host. In a specific example, the specific performance of the formulation using purified recombinant Cel7A from Penicillium funiculosum expressed in A. awamori is increased by more than 200% when compared to a formulation using purified Cel7A from Trichoderma reesei.
FILED	Wednesday, October 08, 2008
APPL NO	12/247594
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209
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08283619 — Energy harvesting devices for harvesting energy from terahertz electromagnetic radiation

US 08283619	Novack 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)	Steven D. Novack (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dale K. Kotter (Shelley, Idaho); Patrick J. Pinhero (Columbia, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Methods, devices and systems for harvesting energy from electromagnetic radiation are provided including harvesting energy from electromagnetic radiation. In one embodiment, a device includes a substrate and one or more resonance elements disposed in or on the substrate. The resonance elements are configured to have a resonant frequency, for example, in at least one of the infrared, near-infrared and visible light spectra. A layer of conductive material may be disposed over a portion of the substrate to form a ground plane. An optical resonance gap or stand-off layer may be formed between the resonance elements and the ground plane. The optical resonance gap extends a distance between the resonance elements and the layer of conductive material approximately one-quarter wavelength of a wavelength of the at least one resonance element's resonant frequency. At least one energy transfer element may be associated with the at least one resonance element.
FILED	Friday, July 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/179329
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/208.200
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08283637 — Semiconductive materials and associated uses thereof

US 08283637	Lynn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Kelvin Lynn (Pullman, Washington); Kelly Jones (Colfax, Washington); Guido Ciampi (Waltham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	High rate radiation detectors are disclosed herein. The detectors include a detector material disposed inside the container, the detector material containing cadmium, tellurium, and zinc, a first dopant containing at least one of aluminum, chlorine, and indium, and a second dopant containing a rare earth metal. The first dopant has a concentration of about 500 to about 20,000 atomic parts per billion, and the second dopant has a concentration of about 200 to about 20,000 atomic parts per billion.
FILED	Thursday, January 13, 2011
APPL NO	13/006050
ART UNIT	2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/361.R00
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08283881 — Methods, systems and apparatus for synchronous current regulation of a five-phase machine

US 08283881	Gallegos-Lopez et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabriel Gallegos-Lopez (Torrance, California); Milun Perisic (Torrance, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for controlling operation of and regulating current provided to a five-phase machine when one or more phases has experienced a fault or has failed. In one implementation, the disclosed embodiments can be used to synchronously regulate current in a vector controlled motor drive system that includes a five-phase AC machine, a five-phase inverter module coupled to the five-phase AC machine, and a synchronous current regulator.
FILED	Tuesday, March 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/720366
ART UNIT	2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Motive power systems 318/400.210
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08284503 — Large optics inspection, tilting, and washing stand

US 08284503	Ayers 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)	Marion Jay Ayers (Brentwood, California); Shannon Lee Ayers (Brentwood, California)
ABSTRACT	A large optics stand provides a risk free means of safely tilting large optics with ease and a method of safely tilting large optics with ease. The optics are supported in the horizontal position by pads. In the vertical plane the optics are supported by saddles that evenly distribute the optics weight over a large area.
FILED	Friday, July 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/837610
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/811
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08284539 — High performance ultracapacitors with carbon nanomaterials and ionic liquids

US 08284539	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Wen Lu (Littleton, Colorado); Kent Douglas Henry (Laramie, Wyoming)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to the use of carbon nanotubes and/or electrolyte structures in various electrochemical devices, such as ultracapacitors having an ionic liquid electrolyte. The carbon nanotubes are preferably aligned carbon nanotubes. Compared to randomly entangled carbon nanotubes, aligned carbon nanotubes can have better defined pore structures and higher specific surface areas.
FILED	Wednesday, August 01, 2007
APPL NO	11/832089
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502
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08284809 — Laser bandwidth interlock capable of single pulse detection and rejection

US 08284809	Armstrong 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)	James P. Armstrong (Livermore, California); Steven James Telford (Livermore, California); Rodney Kay Lanning (Pleasanton, California); Andrew James Bayramian (Manteca, California)
ABSTRACT	A pulse of laser light is switched out of a pulse train and spatially dispersed into its constituent wavelengths. The pulse is collimated to a suitable size and then diffracted by high groove density multilayer dielectric gratings. This imparts a different angle to each individual wavelength so that, when brought to the far field with a lens, the colors have spread out in a linear arrangement. The distance between wavelengths (resolution) can be tailored for the specific laser and application by altering the number of times the beam strikes the diffraction gratings, the groove density of the gratings and the focal length of the lens. End portions of the linear arrangement are each directed to a respective detector, which converts the signal to a 1 if the level meets a set-point, and a 0 if the level does not. If both detectors produces a 1, then the pulse train is allowed to propagate into an optical system.
FILED	Monday, March 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/729138
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/38.90
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08285015 — Simultaneous acquisition of differing image types

US 08285015	Demos
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 Natioonal Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Stavros G. Demos (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	A system in one embodiment includes an image forming device for forming an image from an area of interest containing different image components; an illumination device for illuminating the area of interest with light containing multiple components; at least one light source coupled to the illumination device, the at least one light source providing light to the illumination device containing different components, each component having distinct spectral characteristics and relative intensity; an image analyzer coupled to the image forming device, the image analyzer decomposing the image formed by the image forming device into multiple component parts based on type of imaging; and multiple image capture devices, each image capture device receiving one of the component parts of the image. A method in one embodiment includes receiving an image from an image forming device; decomposing the image formed by the image forming device into multiple component parts based on type of imaging; receiving the component parts of the image; and outputting image information based on the component parts of the image. Additional systems and methods are presented.
FILED	Wednesday, July 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/167104
ART UNIT	3694 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/128
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08285394 — Demultiplexer circuit for neural stimulation

US 08285394	Wessendorf 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)	Kurt O. Wessendorf (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Sean Pearson (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A demultiplexer circuit is disclosed which can be used with a conventional neural stimulator to extend the number of electrodes which can be activated. The demultiplexer circuit, which is formed on a semiconductor substrate containing a power supply that provides all the dc electrical power for operation of the circuit, includes digital latches that receive and store addressing information from the neural stimulator one bit at a time. This addressing information is used to program one or more 1:2^Ndemultiplexers in the demultiplexer circuit which then route neural stimulation signals from the neural stimulator to an electrode array which is connected to the outputs of the 1:2^Ndemultiplexer. The demultiplexer circuit allows the number of individual electrodes in the electrode array to be increased by a factor of 2^Nwith N generally being in a range of 2-4.
FILED	Tuesday, July 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/502698
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/116
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

08282728 — Materials with trigonal bipyramidal coordination and methods of making the same

US 08282728	Subramanian et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR) U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Munirpallam A. Subramanian (Philomath, Oregon); Arthur W. Sleight (Philomath, Oregon); Andrew E. Smith (Rice Lake, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of compositions comprising materials satisfying the general formula AM_1−xM′_xM″_yO_3+yare disclosed, along with methods of making the materials and compositions. In some embodiments, M and M′ are +3 cations, at least a portion of the M cations and the M′ cations are bound to oxygen in trigonal bipyramidal coordination, and the material is chromophoric. In some embodiments, the material forms a crystal structure having a hexagonal unit cell wherein edge a has a length of 3.50-3.70 Å and edge c has a length of 10-13 Å. In other embodiments, edge a has a length of 5.5-7.0 Å. In particular embodiments, M′ is Mn, and Mn is bonded to oxygen with an apical Mn—O bond length of 1.80 Å to 1.95 Å. In some embodiments, the material is YIn_1−xMn_xO₃, x is greater than 0.0 and less than 0.75, and the material exhibits a surprisingly intense blue color.
FILED	Thursday, June 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/802700
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/401
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08282993 — Ultrathin magnesium nanoblades

US 08282993	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Toh-Ming Lu (Loudonville, New York); Gwo-Ching Wang (Loudonville, New York); Fu Tang (Troy, New York); Thomas Parker (Albany, New York)
ABSTRACT	A nanostructure includes a plurality of metal nanoblades positioned with one edge on a substrate. Each of the plurality of metal nanoblades has a large surface area to mass ratio and a width smaller than a length. A method of storing hydrogen includes coating a plurality of magnesium nanoblades with a hydrogen storage catalyst and storing hydrogen by chemically forming magnesium hydride with the plurality of magnesium nanoblades.
FILED	Wednesday, March 26, 2008
APPL NO	12/594047
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/250
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08283030 — Polymer mechanical damping composites and methods of production

US 08283030	Schlenoff
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A method of reshaping an article comprising a polyelectrolyte complex, the polyelectrolyte complex comprising an intermolecular blend of a predominantly positively-charged polyelectrolyte and a predominantly negatively charged polyelectrolyte by controlling the salt doping level.
FILED	Tuesday, May 29, 2012
APPL NO	13/482064
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/323
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08283308 — Copolymer-stabilized emulsions

US 08283308	Mason et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas G. Mason (Los Angeles, California); Timothy J. Deming (Los Angeles, California); Jarrod A. Hanson (Los Angeles, California); Connie B. Chang (Los Angeles, California); Sara M. Graves (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	An emulsion includes a substantially continuous liquid medium, and a plurality of droplet structures dispersed within the substantially continuous liquid medium. Each droplet structure of the plurality of droplet structures includes an outer droplet of a first liquid having an outer surface; an inner droplet of a second liquid having an inner surface contained within the outer surface of the outer droplet of the first liquid, the second liquid being immiscible in the first liquid, wherein the inner and outer droplets have a boundary surface region therebetween; an outer layer of block copolymers disposed on the outer surface of the outer droplet; and an inner layer of block copolymers disposed on the inner surface of the inner droplet. The block copolymers include a hydrophilic polymer block and a hydrophobic polymer block that act in combination to stabilize the droplet structure, and the first liquid is immiscible in the substantially continuous liquid medium.
FILED	Tuesday, February 24, 2009
APPL NO	12/391914
ART UNIT	1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100
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08283414 — Compositions comprising modified collagen and uses therefor

US 08283414	Yu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Yu (Timonium, Maryland); Jennifer H. Elisseeff (Baltimore, Maryland); Hyeseung Janice Lee (Washington, District of Columbia); Xiao Mo (Lutherville, Maryland); Allen Yi-Lan Wang (Vienna, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides modified collagen and related therapeutic and diagnostic methods.
FILED	Wednesday, November 23, 2005
APPL NO	11/791425
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.100
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08283440 — Snapin and methods for regulation of microtubule assembly and dendrite growth and branching

US 08283440	Firestein-Miller
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience (IBN)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Bonnie L. Firestein-Miller (Hillsborough, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Fragments of snapin important for interaction with cypin and thus regulating microtubule assembly are provided. Also provided are methods of use of said fragments and kits to facilitate said methods.
FILED	Thursday, December 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/981896
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300
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08283466 — Catalytic deamination for caprolactam production

US 08283466	Frost
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	John W. Frost (Okemos, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Catalytic processes for preparing caprolactam, pipecolinic acid, and their derivatives, from lysine or alpha-amino-epsilon-caprolactam starting materials, and products produced thereby. A process for preparing caprolactam or a derivative thereof, the process comprising contacting a reactant comprising lysine or alpha aminocaprolactam with a catalyst and a gas comprising hydrogen gas, in the presence of a solvent. The catalyst may be provided on a support material, such as a transition metal.
FILED	Wednesday, February 20, 2008
APPL NO	12/527848
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 540/538
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08283569 — Electrode array and method of fabrication

US 08283569	Johnson et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Angelique Johnson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kensall Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	An electrode array, having application as a cochlear implant, includes a tube formed of Parylene defining a hollow channel. A substrate formed primarily of Parylene is supported by the tube. In turn, a plurality of metallic electrodes and feed lines are supported by the substrate. Numerous voids are defined by the tube which opens into the hollow channel. The size and spacing of the voids regulate stiffness and curl of the tube to provide excellent fit within the cochlea.
FILED	Friday, January 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/691924
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/255
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08283936 — Nano-scale biosensors

US 08283936	Iqbal et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Samir M. Iqbal (Irving, Texas); Swati Goyal (Arlington, Texas); Shawn M. Christensen (Arlington, Texas); Mohammud R. Noor (Arlington, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Devices, systems, and methods for detecting nucleic acid hybridization, including single nucleic base mutations at low concentrations, are disclosed, using surface-tethered hairpin loop oligonucleotide probes and metal-nanoparticles conjugated to a hybridization detection sequence that is capable of binding the stem region of the opened hairpin loop oligonucleotide probe, without the use of labeling or target modification and capable of recycling.
FILED	Monday, February 08, 2010
APPL NO	12/701888
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/663
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08284202 — Methods and apparatus for capturing and rendering dynamic surface deformations in human motion

US 08284202	Hodgins et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Two Pic MC LLC (Burbank, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jessica K. Hodgins (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sang Il Park (Tokyo, Japan)
ABSTRACT	A method for a computer system includes receiving global positional data associated with a set of markers from a plurality of markers associated with a surface of an object at one or more time instances, wherein global positional data associated with a first marker from the plurality of markers is absent from a first time instance, using local statistical methods to determine global positional data associated with the first marker at the first time instance in response to the global positional data associated with the set of markers at the one or more time instances, and determining a model of the object in response to the global positional data associated with the set of markers and the global positional data associated with the first marker.
FILED	Monday, July 02, 2007
APPL NO	11/772731
ART UNIT	2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/473
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08284539 — High performance ultracapacitors with carbon nanomaterials and ionic liquids

US 08284539	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ADA Technologies, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Wen Lu (Littleton, Colorado); Kent Douglas Henry (Laramie, Wyoming)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to the use of carbon nanotubes and/or electrolyte structures in various electrochemical devices, such as ultracapacitors having an ionic liquid electrolyte. The carbon nanotubes are preferably aligned carbon nanotubes. Compared to randomly entangled carbon nanotubes, aligned carbon nanotubes can have better defined pore structures and higher specific surface areas.
FILED	Wednesday, August 01, 2007
APPL NO	11/832089
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502
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08284787 — Dynamic tree bitmap for IP lookup and update

US 08284787	Sahni et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainseville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Sartaj Kumar Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Haibin Lu (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The subject invention provides a data structure and method for IP lookups, insertions, and deletions using a dynamic tree bitmap structure (DTBM) that utilizes an array of child pointers for each node instead of the typical TBM approach using one pointer to an array of children.
FILED	Friday, July 20, 2007
APPL NO	12/307064
ART UNIT	2476 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/408
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08284833 — Serial concatenation of interleaved convolutional codes forming turbo-like codes

US 08284833	Jin et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Hui Jin (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Aamod Khandekar (Pasadena, California); Robert J. McEliece (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a rate substantially close to one.
FILED	Monday, March 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/073947
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/240
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08285091 — Efficient terahertz sources based on difference-frequency generation in triply-resonant photonic resonators

US 08285091	Bravo-Abad et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jorge Bravo-Abad (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ian B. Burgess (Medford, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marko Loncar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Murray W. McCutcheon (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Alejandro W. Rodriguez (Miami, Florida); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts); Yinan Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A system for efficient generation of THz radiation is provided that includes a triply-resonant nonlinear photonic resonator coupled to at least one near-infrared (NIR) or optical waveguide and to at least one THz waveguide. The energy traveling through the at least one near-infrared (NIR) or optical waveguide is converted to THz radiation inside the triply-resonant photonic resonator via a nonlinear difference frequency generation (DFG) process.
FILED	Monday, July 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/834524
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/27
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08285719 — System and method for probabilistic relational clustering

US 08285719	Long et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Bo Long (Mountain View, California); Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang (Vernon, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions. The algorithms are applicable to relational data of various structures and at the same time unify a number of state-of-the-art clustering algorithms: co-clustering algorithms, the k-partite graph clustering, and semi-supervised clustering based on hidden Markov random fields.
FILED	Monday, August 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/538835
ART UNIT	2167 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

08281566 — Thermally-integrated fluid storage and pressurization system

US 08281566	Grayson et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary D. Grayson (Huntington Beach, California); Mark W. Henley (Topanga Canyon, California)
ABSTRACT	A propulsion system may be operated by determining pressure in a cryogenic liquid tank storing a fluid and cooling the cryogenic liquid tank in response to determining that the pressure is greater than a predetermined value. The cryogenic liquid tank may be pressurized by admitting a gaseous form of the fluid into the cryogenic liquid tank in response to determining that the pressure in the cryogenic liquid tank is less than a predetermined value.
FILED	Saturday, December 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/965873
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/204
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08281603 — Fastener assembly for connecting rocket engine nozzles

US 08281603	Johnson
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Bradley C. Johnson (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A sliding connection between components of dissimilar materials includes a first mating surface formed on a first component and a second mating surface formed on a second component and configured to mate with the first mating surface. The first component is connected to the second component at the first and the second mating surfaces by a fastener including a shank, a sleeve received by the shank, and a resilient member received by the shank and contained by the sleeve. The resilient member is configured to press the first mating surface and the second mating surface against one another and to permit the first mating surface to slide against the second mating surface.
FILED	Monday, August 11, 2008
APPL NO	12/189587
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/799
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08282564 — Systems and methods for model-based estimation of cardiac output and total peripheral resistance

US 08282564	Parlikar 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 Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Tushar A. Parlikar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gireeja V. Ranade (Berkeley, California); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The methods and systems for estimating cardiac output and total peripheral resistance include observing arterial blood pressure waveforms to determine intra-beat and inter-beat variability in arterial blood pressure and estimating from the variability a time constant for a lumped parameter beat-to-beat averaged Windkessel model of the arterial tree. Uncalibrated cardiac output and uncalibrated total peripheral resistance may then be calculated from the time constant. Calibrated cardiac output and calibrated total peripheral resistance may be computed using calibration data, assuming an arterial compliance that is either constant or dependent on mean arterial blood pressure. The parameters of the arterial compliance may be estimated in a least-squares manner.
FILED	Thursday, May 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/121042
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	Surgery 6/485
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08283172 — Lunar dust simulant containing nanophase iron and method for making the same

US 08283172	Hung et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Chin-cheh Hung (Westlake, Ohio); Jeremiah McNatt (Parma, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A lunar dust simulant containing nanophase iron and a method for making the same. Process (1) comprises a mixture of ferric chloride, fluorinated carbon powder, and glass beads, treating the mixture to produce nanophase iron, wherein the resulting lunar dust simulant contains α-iron nanoparticles, Fe₂O₃, and Fe₃O₄. Process (2) comprises a mixture of a material of mixed-metal oxides that contain iron and carbon black, treating the mixture to produce nanophase iron, wherein the resulting lunar dust simulant contains α-iron nanoparticles and Fe₃O₄.
FILED	Wednesday, February 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/711465
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/19
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08285401 — Discrete fourier transform (DFT) analysis for applications using iterative transform methods

US 08285401	Dean
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce H. Dean (New Market, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	According to various embodiments, a method is provided for determining aberration data for an optical system. The method comprises collecting a data signal, and generating a pre-transformation algorithm. The data is pre-transformed by multiplying the data with the pre-transformation algorithm. A discrete Fourier transform of the pre-transformed data is performed in an iterative loop. The method further comprises back-transforming the data to generate aberration data.
FILED	Friday, August 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/549898
ART UNIT	2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/59
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08285659 — Aircraft system modeling error and control error

US 08285659	Kulkarni et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Nilesh V. Kulkarni (Saratoga, California); John T. Kaneshige (Fremont, California); Kalmanje S. Krishnakumar (Cupertino, California); John J. Burken (Tehachapi, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for modeling error-driven adaptive control of an aircraft. Normal aircraft plant dynamics is modeled, using an original plant description in which a controller responds to a tracking error e(k) to drive the component to a normal reference value according to an asymptote curve. Where the system senses that (1) at least one aircraft plant component is experiencing an excursion and (2) the return of this component value toward its reference value is not proceeding according to the expected controller characteristics, neural network (NN) modeling of aircraft plant operation may be changed. However, if (1) is satisfied but the error component is returning toward its reference value according to expected controller characteristics, the NN will continue to model operation of the aircraft plant according to an original description.
FILED	Tuesday, August 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/543411
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/23
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

National Security Agency (NSA)

08285766 — Microprocessor shifter circuits utilizing butterfly and inverse butterfly routing circuits, and control circuits therefor

US 08285766	Lee et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Ruby B. Lee (Princeton, New Jersey); Yedidya Hilewitz (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	Microprocessor shifter circuits utilizing butterfly and inverse butterfly circuits, and control circuits therefor, are provided. The same shifter circuits can also perform complex bit manipulations at high speeds, including butterfly and inverse butterfly operations, parallel extract and deposit operations, group operations, mix operations, permutation operations, as well as instructions executed by existing microprocessors, including shift right, shift left, rotate, extract, deposit and multimedia mix operations. The shifter circuits can be provided in various combinations to provide microprocessor functional units which perform a plurality of bit manipulation operations.
FILED	Friday, May 23, 2008
APPL NO	12/126616
ART UNIT	2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/209
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08285780 — State sharing in a distributed data stream processing system

US 08285780	Andrade et al.
FUNDED BY	National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Martin J. Hirzel (White Plains, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Stamford, Connecticut); Giuliano Losa (Lausanne, Switzerland); Robert J. Soule (Brooklyn, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	State sharing is facilitated in stream processing environments, including distributed stream processing environments. A customized shared state implementation representing the state to be shared is automatically created based on at least one of user preferences, hints of usage, and system performance.
FILED	Tuesday, June 01, 2010
APPL NO	12/791484
ART UNIT	2454 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08286113 — Verification of logic core implementation

US 08286113	Bridgford et al.
FUNDED BY	National Security Agency (NSA) Maryland Procurement Office (MPO)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Brendan K. Bridgford (Vienna, Virginia); Jason J. Moore (Albuquerque, New Mexico); W. Story Leavesley, III (Longmont, Colorado); Derrick S. Woods (Loveland, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A system and method are provided for verifying implementation of a logic core in a complete bitstream. A logic core bitstream is extracted from the complete bitstream. The logic core bitstream is compared to a reference bitstream of the logic core for a target device. In response to no discrepancy in the comparison of the logic core bitstream and the reference bitstream, a data value is stored indicating that the logic core implementation contained in the complete bitstream is verified.
FILED	Tuesday, January 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/004183
ART UNIT	2825 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/117
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08286153 — Systems and methods for optimal component composition in a stream processing system

US 08286153	Gu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York)
ABSTRACT	A system and method are provided for optimizing component composition in a distributed stream-processing environment having a plurality of nodes capable of being associated with one or more of a plurality of stream processing components. The system includes an adaptive composition probing (ACP) module and a hierarchical state manager. The ACP module probes a subset of the plurality of stream processing components to determine the optimal component composition in response to a stream processing request. The hierarchical state manager manages local and global information for use by said ACP module in determining the optimal component composition.
FILED	Wednesday, April 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/061284
ART UNIT	2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08286191 — Dynamically composing data stream processing applications

US 08286191	Amini 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)	Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Yonkers, New York)
ABSTRACT	Techniques for dynamically modifying inter-connections between components in an application are provided. The techniques include receiving a data producer profile for each output port within a software application to be executed on one or more processors, receiving a data subscription profile for each input port of each component of the application, establishing connections between the output ports and the input ports of the components in the application based on a comparison of each data producer profile and each data subscription profile, executing the application on one or more processors to process streams of data, receiving either or both of a new data producer profile or a new data subscription profile during the execution of the application, and establishing at least one new connection between an output port and an input port based upon a revised comparison of the received data profiles that include the new data profile.
FILED	Thursday, May 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/465910
ART UNIT	2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/318
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Agriculture (USDA)

08283518 — Administration of transposon-based vectors to reproductive organs

US 08283518	Cooper et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	TransGenRx, Inc. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard K. Cooper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); William C. Fioretti (Grapevine, Texas); Gary G. Cadd (Grapevine, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions for the administration of transposon-based vectors to the reproductive organs of animals and the creation of transgenic animals. Preferred methods involve administration of the transposon-based vectors to the lumen of the oviduct of an avian, expression of a vector derived transgene in the avian, and deposition of the resultant polypeptide in an egg. This invention allows for large amounts of protein to be deposited in the egg.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/981629
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	Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/21
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

08284895 — One dimensional linescan X-ray detector

US 08284895	Haff
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)	Ronald P. Haff (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to an x-ray detector configured to generate one-dimensional x-ray density profiles. In exemplary embodiments the x-ray detector is used for the purpose of detecting inclusions in agricultural commodities.
FILED	Tuesday, August 18, 2009
APPL NO	12/543332
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/54
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

U.S. State Government

08282728 — Materials with trigonal bipyramidal coordination and methods of making the same

US 08282728	Subramanian et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR) U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Munirpallam A. Subramanian (Philomath, Oregon); Arthur W. Sleight (Philomath, Oregon); Andrew E. Smith (Rice Lake, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of compositions comprising materials satisfying the general formula AM_1−xM′_xM″_yO_3+yare disclosed, along with methods of making the materials and compositions. In some embodiments, M and M′ are +3 cations, at least a portion of the M cations and the M′ cations are bound to oxygen in trigonal bipyramidal coordination, and the material is chromophoric. In some embodiments, the material forms a crystal structure having a hexagonal unit cell wherein edge a has a length of 3.50-3.70 Å and edge c has a length of 10-13 Å. In other embodiments, edge a has a length of 5.5-7.0 Å. In particular embodiments, M′ is Mn, and Mn is bonded to oxygen with an apical Mn—O bond length of 1.80 Å to 1.95 Å. In some embodiments, the material is YIn_1−xMn_xO₃, x is greater than 0.0 and less than 0.75, and the material exhibits a surprisingly intense blue color.
FILED	Thursday, June 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/802700
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/401
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

D0668708 — Keyboard

US D668708	Park et al.
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of Florida
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ION Audio, LLC, a limited liability company of the state of Florida (Cumberland, Rhode Island)
INVENTOR(S)	Jae Jun Park (Lincoln, Rhode Island); Jonathan Hayes (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT
FILED	Friday, June 17, 2011
APPL NO	29/394535
ART UNIT	2916 — Design
CURRENT CPC	Musical instruments D17/1
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

08286231 — System and method for information sharing between non-secure devices

US 08286231	Arnold
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven L. Arnold (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method for communicating information packets from a first host system operating in a first security domain and in accordance with a non-secure communications protocol, using a dataguard, to a second host system operating in a second security domain different than the first security domain, and where the second host system is also operating in accordance with the non-secure communications protocol. The method may involve: using a first driver operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard with the first host system; using a first proxy task group operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the first driver and to communicate with the first driver in accordance with a protocol of the first security domain; using a second driver operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the second host system; and using a second proxy task group operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the second proxy task group and to communicate with the second driver in accordance with a protocol of the second security domain.
FILED	Wednesday, January 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/322008
ART UNIT	2438 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Information security 726/13
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Small Business Administration (SBA)

08281731 — Delivery systems for pressure protecting and delivering a submerged payload and methods for using the same

US 08281731	Vosburgh
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A payload delivery system for protecting and delivering a payload submerged in a submersion medium includes a containment system. The containment system includes a container and a dehiscing system. The container includes a pressure-resistant shell defining a sealed containment chamber. The dehiscing system is operative to dehisce the shell to open the containment chamber to the submersion medium responsive to a prescribed event and/or a prescribed environmental condition.
FILED	Thursday, April 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/082063
ART UNIT	3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ships 114/319
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Government Rights Acknowledged

08286249 — Attack correlation using marked information

US 08286249	Adelstein et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Frank N. Adelstein (Ithaca, New York); Haim Bar (Ithaca, New York); Prasanth Alla (McLean, Virginia); Nikita Proskourine (Plainville, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Techniques are described for providing security to a protected network. Techniques are described for thwarting attempted network attacks using marked information. The attack correlation system provides marked information to computing devices that probe for sensitive information, and monitors subsequent communications for use of the marked information. In one example, the attack correlation system reroutes communications containing the marked information to a dedicated vulnerable device that logs the communications to monitor the attackers' methods. The attack correlation system may also include functionality to exchange information regarding attempted attacks with other attack correlation systems to gain broader knowledge of attacks throughout one or more networks.
FILED	Tuesday, May 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/782614
ART UNIT	2433 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Information security 726/25
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

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