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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 09, 2013

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Department of Defense (DOD)

08479314 — Ballistic and blunt impact protective knee and elbow pads

US 08479314	Colanto et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	David Colanto (Ashland, Massachusetts); Nicholas Tsantinis (Auburn, Massachusetts); Philip M. Cunniff (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Jason Christopher Parker (Graftou, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David Colanto (Ashland, Massachusetts); Nicholas Tsantinis (Auburn, Massachusetts); Philip M. Cunniff (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Jason Christopher Parker (Graftou, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A light-weight protective pad for an elbow or a knee providing both ballistic and blunt impact protection is disclosed. The pad has a rigid light weight composite cup removably attached to the outer surface of an abrasion resistant cover fabric. The cover fabric contains a thermally formed armor cup providing ballistic protection and a foam layer to aid in absorption of blunt impacts. The inner surface of the pad is lined with felt.
FILED	Friday, November 04, 2011
APPL NO	13/288991
ART UNIT	3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter;
CURRENT CPC	Apparel 02/24
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08479375 — Method of making an embedded electromagnetic device

US 08479375	Helvajian
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)	Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A photostructurable ceramic is processed using photostructuring process steps for embedding devices within a photostructurable ceramic volume, the devices may include one or more of chemical, mechanical, electronic, electromagnetic, optical, and acoustic devices, all made in part by creating device material within the ceramic or by disposing a device material through surface ports of the ceramic volume, with the devices being interconnected using internal connections and surface interfaces.
FILED	Wednesday, January 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/686984
ART UNIT	3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Metal working 029/594
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08479388 — Method of producing a land grid array interposer

US 08479388	Hougham et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane.
FILED	Wednesday, September 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/207713
ART UNIT	3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Metal working 029/852
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08479434 — Accessory interface system

US 08479434	Davis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Jason M. Davis (Loogootee, Indiana); Brian P. Dean (Bloomington, Indiana); Brandon R. Clarke (Bloomington, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jason M. Davis (Loogootee, Indiana); Brian P. Dean (Bloomington, Indiana); Brandon R. Clarke (Bloomington, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus for mounting accessories on a weapon mount. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an accessory interface system having a forward module coupled to a mounting module. The mounting module of the accessory interface system mounts on a weapon mount. The forward module of the accessory interface system provides a plurality of surfaces for mounting weapon accessories.
FILED	Friday, June 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/168459
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Firearms 042/124
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08479508 — Catalytic burner apparatus for stirling engine

US 08479508	Roychoudhury et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut); Benjamin D. Baird (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Richard T. Mastanduno (Milford, Connecticut); Bruce Crowder (North Haven, Connecticut); Paul Fazzino (Rocky Hill, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Precision Combustion, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut); Benjamin D. Baird (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Richard T. Mastanduno (Milford, Connecticut); Bruce Crowder (North Haven, Connecticut); Paul Fazzino (Rocky Hill, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides an apparatus for generating heat and transferring the heat to a heater head of an external combustion engine, preferably, a Stirling engine. Fuel and air are introduced into a combustion chamber and mixed to form an air/fuel mixture. The air/fuel mixture is combusted over a combustion catalyst positioned in physical contact with a heat spreader, which itself is positioned in physical contact with a heat acceptor surface. The heat acceptor surface is secured in thermal communication with the heater head. Depending upon the design of the heater head, heat flux from the heat acceptor surface into the heater head may occur radially or non-radially.
FILED	Wednesday, January 06, 2010
APPL NO	12/655702
ART UNIT	3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/524
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08479583 — Quasi-static bend sensor using electro-active materials

US 08479583	LaComb et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Julie LaComb (West Greenwich, Rhode Island); Ronald LaComb (West Greenwich, Rhode Island)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Julie LaComb (West Greenwich, Rhode Island); Ronald LaComb (West Greenwich, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A quasi-static bend sensor is taught that comprises a layering of a plurality of ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) sections with intervening dielectric sections in a vertical stack configuration. The IPMC sections are electrically connected in parallel. The surface of the stack is coated with high-purity synthetic isoparaffins for polymer hydration to increase step response consistency. Finally, the vertical stack configuration is electrically connected to an electric field measurement device and a linear quadratic regulator based controller for reducing settling time.
FILED	Thursday, June 09, 2011
APPL NO	13/135326
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/763
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08479593 — Foam free testing systems and methods

US 08479593	Kudo
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Rance Tetsuo Kudo (Newbury Park, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Rance Tetsuo Kudo (Newbury Park, California)
ABSTRACT	A system(s) and method(s) of testing the foam delivery system(s) of fire suppression systems. Systems are adapted to test the foam delivery system of a fire suppression system under test while minimizing the release of foam to the environment.
FILED	Tuesday, February 14, 2012
APPL NO	13/372755
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/861
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08479655 — Projectile system and method for impeding vessel movement

US 08479655	Gamache et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Raymond M. Gamache (Indian Head, Maryland); Jeffrey Michael Emenheiser (Felton, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Raymond M. Gamache (Indian Head, Maryland); Jeffrey Michael Emenheiser (Felton, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A projectile system for impeding vessel movement is provided. The system includes a projectile device that contains a superoxide material for generating an exothermic reaction when exposed to water. At termination of flight, the projectile releases the superoxide material into the surrounding water. A delay can be set to enable the projectile to release its payload underneath the water surface, creating both a disturbance in the water and large gas bubbles to affect the trajectory of the target surface vessel.
FILED	Tuesday, November 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/373244
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 12/501
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08479724 — Passive cooling system for lightweight solar collector assembly and array

US 08479724	Olsen
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a solar collector assembly includes a sealed and inflated cylindrical-tube shaped housing, the tube housing including a bottom cylindrically-trough shaped reflector portion having a reflection surface extending along a longitudinal length. The reflection surface is made of a relatively thin and flexible metalized polymer film. A top cylindrically-shaped transparent polymer film sheet portion is made of a relatively thin and flexible polymer film, the top and bottom sheet portions forming a pressure sealed cylindrical tube housing when the respective ends of the top and bottom films are sealed together and the tube housing is inflated with a gas so that the top transparent film portion passes solar energy to the reflection surface. A receiver tube is disposed longitudinally above the reflection surface in a focal line or focal plane of the cylindrical-trough shaped reflector portion, the absorber tube extending along the longitudinal length of the reflection surface, the absorber tube containing a first heat transfer fluid for absorbing solar energy reflected from the reflection surface to the focal line or focal plane. A passive cooling component including a partially hollowed wall structure extends below and longitudinally along the bottom cylindrical shaped housing wherein the hollowed wall structure includes multiple cooling loop convection cells formed within the hallowed wall structure.
FILED	Wednesday, March 16, 2011
APPL NO	13/049108
ART UNIT	3743 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Stoves and furnaces 126/625
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08479727 — Enhanced chemical/biological respiratory protection system

US 08479727	Grove et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Corey M. Grove (Red Lion, Pennsylvania); David M. Caretti (Bel Air, Maryland); Stephen E. Chase (Jarrettville, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Corey M. Grove (Red Lion, Pennsylvania); David M. Caretti (Bel Air, Maryland); Stephen E. Chase (Jarrettville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention utilizes a chemical/biological hood with a filter-blower system that is attached to the chemical/biological hood. The filter-blower system provides overpressure to the hood only. The hood is fitted to or attached to a chemical/biological mask. Overpressure created by the filter-blower around the mask is created and is independent of the wearer's respiration so that over-breathing of the positive pressure is not possible. Typically this system would be available as a hood capable of providing enhanced protection. However, the filter-blower and hood system could be integrated with the mask. Cinching or sealing the hood at the neck can improve overpressure performance.
FILED	Tuesday, May 04, 2004
APPL NO	10/843636
ART UNIT	3778 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 128/201.250
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08479743 — Method and device for registration and immobilization

US 08479743	Moyers
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California)
ABSTRACT	Support devices and pods for the head and neck region of patients undergoing radiation therapy are provided herein. The pod generally includes a support shell shaped to generally conform to the shape of the head and neck region of the patient, a foam insert that conforms to the head and neck region of the patient, and an immobilization facemask attached directly to the shell, thereby facilitating close placement of the radiation beam delivery device to the patient and reducing any attenuation and perturbation of radiation doses directed at the patient. The components of the pod are made from materials having properties that reduce any attenuation and perturbation of prescribed radiation doses.
FILED	Friday, July 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/188641
ART UNIT	3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 128/857
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08480033 — Integral thermally insulated fuel bladder

US 08480033	Shannon
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert Shannon (Palmdale, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert Shannon (Palmdale, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus for thermally decoupling fuel from an airframe structure is provided. In some aspects, an apparatus may include a bladder wall having stratified refractory fabric and refractory metal, and a sealant coating an internal surface of the bladder wall. The bladder wall may be configured to maintain an internal surface temperature of 300° F. or less when exposed to an external surface temperature of at least 500° F.
FILED	Thursday, June 02, 2011
APPL NO	13/152221
ART UNIT	3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Aeronautics and astronautics 244/135.B00
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08480361 — Enhanced system and method to increase the total-to-static pressure ratio across a RAM air turbine using surface contoured flow agitators

US 08480361	Tews et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Brian E. Tews (Melbourne, Florida); Daniel K. Van Ness, II (Rockledge, Florida); Christian O. Rodriguez (Melbourne, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mainstream Engineering Corporation (Rockledge, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian E. Tews (Melbourne, Florida); Daniel K. Van Ness, II (Rockledge, Florida); Christian O. Rodriguez (Melbourne, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The total-to-static pressure ratio is increased across a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) by developing a localized accelerated flow of free-stream air near the discharge of the turbine rotor exhaust. This localized accelerated flow decreases the static pressure at the exit of the turbine and allows for additional power generation for a given free-stream flight condition. Lobe mixers in various locations improves mixing between the accelerated flow and the turbine exhaust flow, and the combined exhaust flow and the free-stream air surrounding the aerodynamic body.
FILED	Tuesday, January 26, 2010
APPL NO	12/693547
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/211.200
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08480409 — Method for RF connector grounding

US 08480409	Paine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)	Waid A. Paine (McKinney, Texas); Lucian A. Brasier (Plano, Texas); James E. Lewis (Allen, Texas); Thomas H. Taylor (Wylie, Texas); Lauren M. Garcia (Dallas, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Waid A. Paine (McKinney, Texas); Lucian A. Brasier (Plano, Texas); James E. Lewis (Allen, Texas); Thomas H. Taylor (Wylie, Texas); Lauren M. Garcia (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to radio frequency and microwave connectors, and more particularly to grounding methods for printed wiring board edge-launch connectors. The grounding method comprises conducting tabs secured to a PWB and to an attached connector frame holding coaxial connectors. The conducting tabs thus provide a ground connection between the connector frame and one or more ground conductors on the PWB.
FILED	Monday, December 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/966971
ART UNIT	2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical connectors 439/63
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08480527 — Gearing arrangement

US 08480527	Snyder et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Tony Snyder (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory Blake (Noblesville, Indiana); Andrew D. Copeland (Greenwood, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Tony Snyder (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory Blake (Noblesville, Indiana); Andrew D. Copeland (Greenwood, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A gearing arrangement is disclosed herein. The gearing arrangement includes a shaft operable to rotate about an axis of rotation. The gearing arrangement also includes a first gear fixed for rotation with the shaft and encircling the axis of rotation. The gearing arrangement also includes a plate member positioned radially adjacent to the shaft. The gearing arrangement also includes a second gear operable to mesh with the first gear. The gearing arrangement also includes a layshaft supporting the second gear. The layshaft extends along a central axis between first and second ends. The layshaft is engageable with the plate member in a plurality of different positions to adjustably position the second gear relative to the first gear.
FILED	Wednesday, August 27, 2008
APPL NO	12/199053
ART UNIT	3655 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Planetary gear transmission systems or components 475/162
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08480825 — Remediation of fluorine and chlorine by-products in energetic formulations

US 08480825	Anderson
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Paul E. Anderson (Ogdensburg, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul E. Anderson (Ogdensburg, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A method of in-situ remediation of chlorinated and fluorinated reaction by-products resulting from energetic detonations and/or burning of energetic mixtures comprising adding a quantity of Calcium disilicide (CaSi₂), Calcium silicide (CaSi), Magnesium disilicide (MgSi₂), Magnesium silicide, or Aluminum Calcium (Al₂Ca) compounds to the energetic mixture prior to its detonation and/or burning. Advantageously, the in-situ production of more inert by-products results from this addition thereby preventing the formation of any less-desirable by-products.
FILED	Thursday, September 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/227807
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600
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08480927 — Light emitting material

US 08480927	Halpert et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan R. Tischler (Sharon, Massachusetts); Moungi Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan R. Tischler (Sharon, Massachusetts); Moungi Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A composition can include a first moiety capable of being excited to an excited state, and a second moiety capable of accepting excited state energy from the first moiety. The second moiety is capable of emitting light with a FWHM of 15 nm or less when excited. The second moiety can be a J-aggregate and the first moiety can be a semiconductor nanocrystal.
FILED	Thursday, August 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/673728
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/301.160
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08480929 — Corrosion protection coatings and methods of making the same

US 08480929	Hihara et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM)
APPLICANT(S)	Lloyd H. Hihara (Mililani, Hawaii); Atul Tiwari (Honolulu, Hawaii)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Lloyd H. Hihara (Mililani, Hawaii); Atul Tiwari (Honolulu, Hawaii)
ABSTRACT	A corrosion protection composition includes a mixture of three different silanes selected to interact and form a coating on metal substrates that has improved adhesion and durability as well as UV protection properties. Methods of manufacturing the corrosion protection composition include mixing the silanes together and further combining the silane mixture with other mixtures to arrive at the corrosion protection composition. Sonication may be a preferred manner of mixing together the various components of the mixtures.
FILED	Thursday, July 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/542341
ART UNIT	1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/389.310
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08481024 — Vaccines against tularemia

US 08481024	Horwitz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Marcus A. Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Qingmei Jia (Los Angeles, California); Bai-Yu L. Clemens (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Marcus A. Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Qingmei Jia (Los Angeles, California); Bai-Yu L. Clemens (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure relates generally to an antigenic composition useful for immunization against tularemia. The disclosure is a method for producing a vaccine for preventing tularemia in humans and animals, a new vaccine against tularemia in humans and animals, and a new approach to producing vaccines against tularemia.
FILED	Monday, May 03, 2010
APPL NO	13/319024
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200
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08481153 — Apparatus and method for imparting wide angle low reflection on conductive surfaces

US 08481153	Feng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Simin Feng (Ridgecrest, California); Mark B. Moran (Ridgecrest, California); M. Joseph Roberts (Ridgecrest, California); Linda F. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Simin Feng (Ridgecrest, California); Mark B. Moran (Ridgecrest, California); M. Joseph Roberts (Ridgecrest, California); Linda F. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for imparting wide angle low reflection on any high reflective surfaces through resonant excitation of plasmonic leaky mode of a nanocavity.
FILED	Wednesday, February 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/032789
ART UNIT	1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/318.400
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08481162 — Stabilized semiconductor nanocrystals comprising a coating of polydentate ligand

US 08481162	Bawendi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Sungjee Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nathan E. Stott (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Sungjee Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nathan E. Stott (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A semiconductor nanocrystal associated with a polydentate ligand. The polydentate ligand stabilizes the nanocrystal.
FILED	Thursday, September 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/585303
ART UNIT	1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403
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08481376 — Group III nitride semiconductor devices with silicon nitride layers and methods of manufacturing such devices

US 08481376	Saxler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	Adam William Saxler (Durham, North Carolina); Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Adam William Saxler (Durham, North Carolina); Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Methods of fabricating transistor in which a first Group III nitride layer is formed on a substrate in a reactor, and a second Group III nitride layer is formed on the first Group III nitride layer. An insulating layer such as, for example, a silicon nitride layer is formed on the second Group III nitride layer in-situ in the reactor. The substrate including the first Group III nitride layer, the second group III nitride layer and the silicon nitride layer is removed from the reactor, and the silicon nitride layer is patterned to form a first contact hole that exposes a first contact region of the second Group III nitride layer. A metal contact is formed on the first contact region of the second Group III nitride layer.
FILED	Thursday, January 20, 2011
APPL NO	13/010053
ART UNIT	2812 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/172
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08481386 — Nanocrystal memories and methods of forming the same

US 08481386	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Jianlin Liu (Riverside, California); Dengtao Zhao (Santa Clara, California); Yan Zhu (Santa Clara, California); Ruigang Li (Fremont, California); Bei Li (Fremont, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jianlin Liu (Riverside, California); Dengtao Zhao (Santa Clara, California); Yan Zhu (Santa Clara, California); Ruigang Li (Fremont, California); Bei Li (Fremont, California)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a memory device includes a substrate, a tunneling oxide, a silicide nanocrystal floating gate, and a control oxide. The tunneling oxide is positioned upon a first surface of the substrate, the silicide nanocrystal floating gate is positioned upon the tunneling oxide, and the control oxide positioned upon the nanocrystal floating gate.
FILED	Friday, April 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/757812
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/257
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08481446 — Chemically-resistant coating composition

US 08481446	Lombardi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona); Chuchawin Changtong (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona); Chuchawin Changtong (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A coating composition comprising a Photocatalyst Composition comprising a photocatalyst and a pendent silyl ester group, wherein the photocatalyst produces singlet oxygen in the presence of light and ambient air. In certain embodiments, the coating composition further comprises a singlet oxygen scavenger.
FILED	Tuesday, January 05, 2010
APPL NO	12/652670
ART UNIT	1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/158
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08481575 — Synthesis of epothilones, intermediates thereto, analogues and uses thereof

US 08481575	Danishefsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Peter Bertinato (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Dai-shi Su (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Dongfang Meng (Westfield, New Jersey); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ted Kamenecka (San Diego, California); Erik J. Sorensen (Princeton, New Jersey); Aaron Balog (Lambertville, New Jersey); Kenneth A. Savin (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Peter Bertinato (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Dai-shi Su (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Dongfang Meng (Westfield, New Jersey); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ted Kamenecka (San Diego, California); Erik J. Sorensen (Princeton, New Jersey); Aaron Balog (Lambertville, New Jersey); Kenneth A. Savin (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides convergent processes for preparing epothilone A and B, desoxyepothilones A and B, and analogues thereof. Also provided are analogues related to epothilone A and B and intermediates useful for preparing same. The present invention further provides novel compositions based on analogues of the epothilones and methods for the treatment of cancer and cancer which has developed a multidrug-resistant phenotype.
FILED	Thursday, March 03, 2011
APPL NO	13/040211
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365
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08481693 — Virus like particle purification

US 08481693	Vedvick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas S. Vedvick (Federal Way, Washington); Bryan Steadman (Bozeman, Montana); Charles Richardson (Bozeman, Montana); Thomas R. Foubert (Bozeman, Montana); Charles R. Petrie (Bozeman, Montana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Takeda Vaccines (Montana), Inc. (Bozeman, Montana)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas S. Vedvick (Federal Way, Washington); Bryan Steadman (Bozeman, Montana); Charles Richardson (Bozeman, Montana); Thomas R. Foubert (Bozeman, Montana); Charles R. Petrie (Bozeman, Montana)
ABSTRACT	Methods for purifying human Calciviruses are disclosed, including Noroviruses and Sapoviruses.
FILED	Friday, March 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/531248
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/412
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08481843 — Silver-containing p-type semiconductor

US 08481843	Kanatzidis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Okemos, Michigan); Kuei-Fang Hsu (Yuanlin Township, Changhua County, Taiwan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Okemos, Michigan); Kuei-Fang Hsu (Yuanlin Township, Changhua County, Taiwan)
ABSTRACT	A thermoelectric composition comprises a material represented by the general formula (Ag_aX_1−a)_1±x(Sn_bPb_1−b)_mM′_1−yQ_2+m wherein X is Na, K, or a combination of Na and K in any proportion; M′ is a trivalent element selected from the group consisting of Sb, Bi, lanthanide elements, and combinations thereof; Q is a chalcogenide element selected from the group consisting of S, Te, Se, and combinations thereof; a and b are independently >0 and ≦1; x and y are independently >0 and <1; and 2≦m≦30. The compositions exhibit a figure of merit ZT of up to about 1.4 or higher, and are useful as p-type semiconductors in thermoelectric devices.
FILED	Tuesday, August 31, 2004
APPL NO	10/931295
ART UNIT	1754 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/241
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08481851 — Variable length lightning strike down-conductor

US 08481851	Higby
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	John P. Higby (Beverly, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	John P. Higby (Beverly, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A variable-length lightning strike down-conductor is provided that allows for optimized ground path length, where excess down-conductor (grounding) cable is tightly coiled (e.g., as a mono-spiral coil) on a cable reel. Specifically, a primary down-conductor cable from an adjustable-length air terminal is clamped between the air terminal and the cable reel at any intermediate length, and the clamp is shunted to the ground plane (e.g., earth ground) through a second low-impedance down-conductor cable, as opposed to the high-impedance coiled down-conductor cable, thus increasing down-conductor effectiveness by reducing the impedance seen by a lightning strike to reach the ground plane.
FILED	Thursday, February 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/033963
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/2
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08481859 — Method of preparing a flexible substrate assembly and flexible substrate assembly therefrom

US 08481859	Haq 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) U.S. State Government State of Arizona
APPLICANT(S)	Jesmin Haq (Tempe, Arizona); Scott Ageno (Phoenix, Arizona); Douglas E. Loy (Chandler, Arizona); Shawn O'Rourke (Tempe, Arizona); Robert Naujokaitis (Chandler, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Jesmin Haq (Tempe, Arizona); Scott Ageno (Phoenix, Arizona); Douglas E. Loy (Chandler, Arizona); Shawn O'Rourke (Tempe, Arizona); Robert Naujokaitis (Chandler, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Some embodiments teach a method of preparing a flexible substrate assembly. The method can include: (a) providing a carrier substrate; (b) providing a cross-linking adhesive; (c) providing a plastic substrate; and (d) coupling the carrier substrate to the plastic substrate using the cross-linking adhesive. Other embodiments are disclosed in this application.
FILED	Friday, May 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/118225
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/254
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08481953 — Methods and systems of isolating segmented radiation detectors using alumina

US 08481953	Christophersen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Marc Christophersen (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Bernard F. Phlips (Great Falls, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Marc Christophersen (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Bernard F. Phlips (Great Falls, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Radiation detectors can be made of n-type or p-type silicon. All segmented detectors on p-type silicon and double-sided detectors on n-type silicon require an “inter-segment isolation” to separate the n-type strips from each other; an alumina layer for isolating the strip detectors is applied, and forms negative charges at the silicon interface with appropriate densities. When alumina dielectric is deposited on silicon, the negative interface charge acts like an effective p-stop or p-spray barrier because electrons are “pushed” away from the interface due to the negative interface charge.
FILED	Wednesday, February 29, 2012
APPL NO	13/408852
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/370.10
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08482284 — Method for determining and ordering K-space views and diffusion weighting directions

US 08482284	Koay et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Cheng Guan Koay (Madison, Wisconsin); Samuel Anthony Hurley (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Cheng Guan Koay (Madison, Wisconsin); Samuel Anthony Hurley (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for determining and ordering magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition parameters, such as k-space views or diffusion-weighting gradient directions, are provided. The MRI acquisition parameters are defined by generated points that are uniformly distributed on the surface of a sphere. These points may also be antipodally symmetric. The points are ordered by minimizing the electrostatic potential energy of different configurations of the points.
FILED	Friday, July 01, 2011
APPL NO	13/175059
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309
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08482352 — Differential amplifier stage with integrated offset cancellation circuit

US 08482352	Doany et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Fuad E. Doany (Katonah, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Clint L. Schow (Ossining, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Fuad E. Doany (Katonah, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Clint L. Schow (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	A differential amplifier stage and method for offset cancellation include an amplifier having an input and an output. An internal offset cancellation circuit has an input for receiving a control signal to control offset cancellation in the amplifier. The offset cancellation circuit is integrated with the amplifier but isolated from the input and the output of the amplifier, and, in accordance with its isolation, an impedance of the stage is unaffected by the offset cancellation circuit.
FILED	Wednesday, June 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/826831
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Amplifiers 330/259
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08482405 — Health monitoring system for personnel on a high speed boat

US 08482405	Pierce et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Eric C. Pierce (Panama City Beach, Florida); Jeffery Blankenship (Panama City, Florida); Brian L. Price (Panama City Beach, Florida); Eric Tuovila (Panama City, Florida); Ronald S. Peterson (Panama City Beach, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric C. Pierce (Panama City Beach, Florida); Jeffery Blankenship (Panama City, Florida); Brian L. Price (Panama City Beach, Florida); Eric Tuovila (Panama City, Florida); Ronald S. Peterson (Panama City Beach, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The invention is a health monitoring system that determines the spine stress dose value for an individual on a high speed boat. The boat can produce impact injury from whole-body vibration embedded with multiple shocks. The system includes an RFID tag; a GPS; a display; a RFID reader; a multi-axis sensor unit that is an accelerometer which enables the determination of impact, vibration and shock, impact and vibration; and a central data acquisition apparatus. The apparatus includes processors in communication with the GPS, the sensor unit, and the RFID reader. The apparatus samples the RFID reader frequently, confirming the status of all individuals having RFID tags as being onboard or overboard. An application records a GPS location and time if an individual is overboard, and generates a course to the GPS location. The display illustrates a ride roughness graphically, in terms of injury potential at a particular speed and heading.
FILED	Monday, March 15, 2010
APPL NO	12/798167
ART UNIT	2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Electrical 340/539.120
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08482408 — Explosives and contraband detection system

US 08482408	Cottrell
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Dana Cottrell (El Cajon, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Dana Cottrell (El Cajon, California)
ABSTRACT	A non-invasive system for detection of explosives and contraband in a vehicle includes at least one laser vibrometer for measuring vehicle vibrations at one or more points on the vehicle while the vehicle is operating. One laser vibrometer can be sequentially directed to various points on the vehicle according to a predetermined single point or pattern. Or, a plurality of laser vibrometers could be used to simultaneously illuminate the vehicle. After measurement, the vehicle vibrations are compared to a database of reference vibrations, which that were taken of similar vehicles that were known to be contraband-free. The measured vibrations are compared to the vibrations pattern for the same type of vehicle. If the vibration patterns exhibit differences in frequency peaks that exceed predetermined parameters, the system alerts the operator. A more detailed inspection of the vehicle can then be accomplished.
FILED	Monday, December 08, 2008
APPL NO	12/329726
ART UNIT	2683 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Electrical 340/540
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08482841 — Magnetic spin based photonic/plasmonic devices

US 08482841	Johnson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark B Johnson (Potomac, Maryland); Abdulhakem Elezzabi (Edmonton, Canada); Kenneth J. Chau (Edmonton, Canada)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Alberta (Edmundton, Alberta, Canada)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark B Johnson (Potomac, Maryland); Abdulhakem Elezzabi (Edmonton, Canada); Kenneth J. Chau (Edmonton, Canada)
ABSTRACT	A photonic/plasmonic device is disclosed that uses a ferroelectric material and its magnetization state in order to affect the physical properties of electromagnetic waves. The magnetization state of the ferromagnetic material may either be zero or nonzero. When the magnetization state of the ferromagnetic material is non-zero physical properties of the electromagnetic waves are altered. This effect can be used to make switches and the like.
FILED	Friday, June 03, 2011
APPL NO	13/153261
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/282
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08482921 — Heat spreader with high heat flux and high thermal conductivity

US 08482921	Cai et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Qingjun Cai (Newbury Park, California); Chung-Lung Chen (Thousand Oaks, California); Chialun Tsai (Thousand Oaks, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC. (Thousand Oaks, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Qingjun Cai (Newbury Park, California); Chung-Lung Chen (Thousand Oaks, California); Chialun Tsai (Thousand Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	A system and method is disclosed for fabricating a heat spreader system, including providing a plurality of bottom microporous wicks recessed in a bottom substrate, bonding a center substrate to the bottom substrate, and bonding a top substrate having a top chamber portion to the center substrate to establish a first vapor chamber with said plurality of bottom microporous wicks.
FILED	Monday, November 15, 2010
APPL NO	12/946788
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/700
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08483248 — Laser crystal components joined with thermal management devices

US 08483248	Ushinsky
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael Ushinsky (Irvine, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Ushinsky (Irvine, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for preparing a surface of a YAG crystal for thermal bonding includes performing an ion implantation process to introduce nitrogen into a surface layer of the YAG crystal to replace depleted oxygen therein, to change surface energy of the surface layer of the YAG crystal and to provide desired bonding characteristics for the surface layer; and joining the ion implanted surface layer with a thermal management device configured to dissipate heat from the YAG crystal. Also, a micro-chip device having a YAG crystal whose surface is prepared with the above disclosed method is provided and a device for forming a metallization pattern on a surface of the YAG crystal is provided.
FILED	Tuesday, September 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/881952
ART UNIT	2812 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/34
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08483319 — Combined sensing methods for cognitive radio

US 08483319	Tang
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)	Haiyun Tang (Saratoga, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Adaptrum, Inc. (Milpitas, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Haiyun Tang (Saratoga, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize under-utilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Digital pre-distortion techniques can enhance performance. Embodiments of a high dynamic range transceiver architecture can be employed.
FILED	Thursday, May 03, 2012
APPL NO	13/463754
ART UNIT	2634 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/316
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08483486 — Automatic landolt C gap detection software architecture for image quality analysis

US 08483486	Pinkus et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	Alan R. Pinkus (Bellbrook, Ohio); David W. Dommett (Beavercreek, Ohio); Harry Lee Task (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Alan R. Pinkus (Bellbrook, Ohio); David W. Dommett (Beavercreek, Ohio); Harry Lee Task (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A method, apparatus and program product are presented for determining an orientation of a Landold C in an image containing a plurality of pixels. A center of the Landolt C is determined. A plurality of rays is extended from the center of the Landolt C radially outward. A plurality of distances is determined, where each distance of the plurality of distances represents a distance from the center of the Landolt C to a darkest pixel along each ray of the plurality of rays. A peak in the plurality of distances is identified. And the orientation of the Landolt C is determined based on the peak in the plurality of distances.
FILED	Friday, February 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/025624
ART UNIT	2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/194
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08483492 — Method and apparatus for signal detection, classification and estimation from compressive measurements

US 08483492	Baraniuk et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Marco F. Duarte (Houston, Texas); Mark A. Davenport (Houston, Texas); Michael B. Wakin (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Marco F. Duarte (Houston, Texas); Mark A. Davenport (Houston, Texas); Michael B. Wakin (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The recently introduced theory of Compressive Sensing (CS) enables a new method for signal recovery from incomplete information (a reduced set of “compressive” linear measurements), based on the assumption that the signal is sparse in some dictionary. Such compressive measurement schemes are desirable in practice for reducing the costs of signal acquisition, storage, and processing. However, the current CS framework considers only a certain task (signal recovery) and only in a certain model setting (sparsity). We show that compressive measurements are in fact information scalable, allowing one to answer a broad spectrum of questions about a signal when provided only with a reduced set of compressive measurements. These questions range from complete signal recovery at one extreme down to a simple binary detection decision at the other. (Questions in between include, for example, estimation and classification.) We provide techniques such as a “compressive matched filter” for answering several of these questions given the available measurements, often without needing to first reconstruct the signal. In many cases, these techniques can succeed with far fewer measurements than would be required for full signal recovery, and such techniques can also be computationally more efficient. Based on additional mathematical insight, we discuss information scalable algorithms in several model settings, including sparsity (as in CS), but also in parametric or manifold-based settings and in model-free settings for generic statements of detection, classification, and estimation problems.
FILED	Wednesday, October 25, 2006
APPL NO	12/091069
ART UNIT	2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/232
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08483521 — Cavity dynamics compensation in resonant optical modulators

US 08483521	Popovic
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)	Milos Popovic (Boulder, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Milos Popovic (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are resonant optical modulators, and methods of use thereof, that achieve constant photon populations in the resonator by simultaneously modulating at least two variable modulation parameters.
FILED	Friday, May 28, 2010
APPL NO	12/790408
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/4
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08483529 — Waveguide-based dispersion device

US 08483529	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Lin Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Yang Yue (Los Angeles, California); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Lin Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Yang Yue (Los Angeles, California); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed relating to dispersion devices that include a slot waveguide coupled with another waveguide such as a strip waveguide. For example, one or more structural parameters can be obtained for a dispersion device, including a slot waveguide coupled to a strip waveguide, to cause the dispersion device to produce dispersion, having a dispersion profile, for an electromagnetic wave propagated through the dispersion device, the one or more structural parameters including one or more of a slot thickness for a slot of the slot waveguide or a spacing thickness between the slot waveguide and the other waveguide; and making the dispersion device, including the slot waveguide and the other waveguide, according to the structural parameters.
FILED	Friday, February 04, 2011
APPL NO	13/021667
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/50
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08483656 — Use of powerlines for transmission of high frequency signals

US 08483656	Black
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	William C. Black (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northern Microdesign, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	William C. Black (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Communication is provided which includes receiving a transmitted radio signal at a powerline wherein the powerline functions as a receiving antenna for the wirelessly transmitted radio signal. The powerline is coupled to an input of a radio receiver using a coupler to communicate the radio signal to the radio receiver. For calibration purposes a second antenna not coupled to powerline may be used. A method for powerline communication across transformers, open circuit breakers, and other devices is also provided. In addition, a method of monitoring a device connected to a powerline is provided.
FILED	Thursday, August 30, 2012
APPL NO	13/599299
ART UNIT	2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/404.200
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08483806 — Systems and methods for non-contact biometric sensing

US 08483806	Saint Clair et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Jonathan Martin Saint Clair (Seattle, Washington); David C. Soreide (Seattle, Washington); Robert P. Higgins (Seattle, Washington); Gary A. Ray (Issaquah, Washington); Tyler M. Anderson (Kent, Washington); Donald Allen Spurgeon (Port Orchard, Washington); Mitchell D. Voth (Lake Tapps, Washington); Paul F. Sjoholm (Renton, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan Martin Saint Clair (Seattle, Washington); David C. Soreide (Seattle, Washington); Robert P. Higgins (Seattle, Washington); Gary A. Ray (Issaquah, Washington); Tyler M. Anderson (Kent, Washington); Donald Allen Spurgeon (Port Orchard, Washington); Mitchell D. Voth (Lake Tapps, Washington); Paul F. Sjoholm (Renton, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A non-contact biometric sensing device is described. The device includes a processing device, a user interface communicatively coupled to the processing device, a display communicatively coupled to the processing device, a laser doppler vibrometer sensor communicatively coupled to the processing device, and an infrared camera communicatively coupled to the processing device. The processing device is programmed to utilize mechanical motion data received from the laser doppler vibrometer sensor and thermal distributions data from the infrared camera to calculate biometric data, when signals originating from the laser doppler vibrometer sensor and the infrared camera are reflected back towards the device from a target.
FILED	Thursday, February 04, 2010
APPL NO	12/700282
ART UNIT	3777 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/509
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08483891 — Automatically guided parafoil directed to land on a moving target

US 08483891	Yakimenko et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Oleg Yakimenko (Seaside, California); Charles Hewgley (Pacific Grove, California); Eugene Bourakov (Carmel, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Oleg Yakimenko (Seaside, California); Charles Hewgley (Pacific Grove, California); Eugene Bourakov (Carmel, California)
ABSTRACT	A method is described performing the following with a parafoil's control unit composed of electronic circuitry while the control unit is being transported with a parafoil: calculating a desired landing location for a parafoil, the desired landing location corresponding to a moving target, the calculating including using a term representative of the moving target's velocity; determining a flight path to the desired landing location; and, controlling the parafoil's flight path so as to follow the flight path.
FILED	Friday, April 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/083489
ART UNIT	3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/18
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08483977 — Method of laser vibration defect analysis

US 08483977	Johnnie et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Nathan Johnnie (Middletown, Rhode Island); Lynn T. Antonelli (Cranston, Rhode Island); Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Nathan Johnnie (Middletown, Rhode Island); Lynn T. Antonelli (Cranston, Rhode Island); Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A method for locating defects in a target includes subjecting the target to an ultrasonic vibration. A first laser beam is then transmitted to the target and a reflection is received. A vibration signal is produced from the reflection that gives the target's response to the ultrasonic vibration. A digital image is produced of the target that includes the region of the first laser beam reflection. The digital images are overlaid with the vibration signal to provide overlaid data. The overlaid data is tested to determine a probability of the overlaid data being non-random. The probability is compared against a threshold to indicate a potential area of concern that may include defects.
FILED	Friday, June 04, 2010
APPL NO	12/794065
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/36
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08484083 — Method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network

US 08484083	Basu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Interior (DOI) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
APPLICANT(S)	Sugato Basu (Redwood City, California); Jiye Yu (Menlo Park, California); Jeffrey Davitz (Danville, California); Mark Drummond (Los Altos Hills, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Sugato Basu (Redwood City, California); Jiye Yu (Menlo Park, California); Jeffrey Davitz (Danville, California); Mark Drummond (Los Altos Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one of: interactions between users of the social network or profile information for the users, determining a global topic model including at least one topic, based on the collected information, and locally refining the global topic model in accordance with the collected information.
FILED	Monday, December 17, 2007
APPL NO	12/002412
ART UNIT	2165 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/14.660
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08484246 — Discoverable applicability of dynamically deployable software modules

US 08484246	Calo 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)	Seraphin B. Calo (Hawthorne, New York); Xiping Wang (Hawthorne, New York); David A. Wood, III (Hawthorne, New York); Petros Zerfos (Hawthorne, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Seraphin B. Calo (Hawthorne, New York); Xiping Wang (Hawthorne, New York); David A. Wood, III (Hawthorne, New York); Petros Zerfos (Hawthorne, New York)
ABSTRACT	A technique provides policy management within a policy-managed environment. A policy management agent retrieves a policy enforcement point (PEP) description from a PEP registry. The policy management agent utilizes the PEP description of the PEP to search a policy library to locate and determine matching (candidate) policies, and the matching policies match the policy description of the PEP. The managed environment, which incorporates policy evaluation, uses the equivalent policy matching criteria as the policy management agent.
FILED	Wednesday, February 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/703235
ART UNIT	2157 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/781
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08484307 — Host fabric interface (HFI) to perform global shared memory (GSM) operations

US 08484307	Arimilli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York)
ABSTRACT	A data processing system enables global shared memory (GSM) operations across multiple nodes with a distributed EA-to-RA mapping of physical memory. Each node has a host fabric interface (HFI), which includes HFI windows that are assigned to at most one locally-executing task of a parallel job. The tasks perform parallel job execution, but map only a portion of the effective addresses (EAs) of the global address space to the local, real memory of the task's respective node. The HFI window tags all outgoing GSM operations (of the local task) with the job ID, and embeds the target node and HFI window IDs of the node at which the EA is memory mapped. The HFI window also enables processing of received GSM operations with valid EAs that are homed to the local real memory of the receiving node, while preventing processing of other received operations without a valid EA-to-RA local mapping.
FILED	Friday, February 01, 2008
APPL NO	12/024397
ART UNIT	2456 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/216
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08484648 — Hardware multi-threading co-scheduling for parallel processing systems

US 08484648	Divirgilio et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	John Divirgilio (Washingtonville, New York); Liana L. Fong (Irvington, New York); John Lewars (New Paltz, New York); Seetharami R. Seelam (Yorktown Heights, New York); Brian F. Veale (Cedar Park, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	John Divirgilio (Washingtonville, New York); Liana L. Fong (Irvington, New York); John Lewars (New Paltz, New York); Seetharami R. Seelam (Yorktown Heights, New York); Brian F. Veale (Cedar Park, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method, information processing system, and computer program product are provided for managing operating system interference on applications in a parallel processing system. A mapping of hardware multi-threading threads to at least one processing core is determined, and first and second sets of logical processors of the at least one processing core are determined. The first set includes at least one of the logical processors of the at least one processing core, and the second set includes at least one of a remainder of the logical processors of the at least one processing core. A processor schedules application tasks only on the logical processors of the first set of logical processors of the at least one processing core. Operating system interference events are scheduled only on the logical processors of the second set of logical processors of the at least one processing core.
FILED	Monday, October 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/581694
ART UNIT	2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102
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08484649 — Amortizing costs of shared scans

US 08484649	Hildrum et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sujay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sujay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	Techniques for scheduling a plurality of jobs sharing input are provided. The techniques include partitioning one or more input datasets into multiple subcomponents, analyzing a plurality of jobs to determine which of the plurality of jobs require scanning of one or more common subcomponents of the one or more input datasets, and scheduling a plurality of jobs that require scanning of one or more common subcomponents of the one or more input datasets, facilitating a single scanning of the one or more common subcomponents to be used as input by each of the plurality of jobs.
FILED	Wednesday, January 05, 2011
APPL NO	12/984909
ART UNIT	2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102
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08480978 — Microfluidic fluid separator and related methods

US 08480978	Kartalov 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)	Emil P. Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Woodstock, Vermont); Koichi Sayano (Montebello, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); APIC Corporation (Culver City, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Emil P. Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Woodstock, Vermont); Koichi Sayano (Montebello, California)
ABSTRACT	A microfluidic fluid separator for separating target components of a fluid by filtration is described. Methods for separating target components of a fluid by filtration and methods for processing blood on a large scale with the microfluidic fluid separator are provided.
FILED	Tuesday, August 09, 2011
APPL NO	13/206362
ART UNIT	1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/513
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08481005 — Methods to prevent cytotoxicity using N-acetyl-cysteine

US 08481005	Jewett et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Anahid Jewett (Valencia, California); Avina Paranjpe (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Anahid Jewett (Valencia, California); Avina Paranjpe (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods to inhibit adverse physiological effects caused by resin-based and resin-containing materials are disclosed. More specifically, the use of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) to inhibit hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA)-mediated cell death and cytotoxicity.
FILED	Wednesday, December 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/976820
ART UNIT	1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/50
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08481035 — Methods for treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome with antibodies that binds MCP-1 or MIP-1A

US 08481035	Schaeffer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Anthony J. Schaeffer (Hinsdale, Illinois); David Klumpp (Chicago, Illinois); Praveen Thumbikat (Morton Grove, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Anthony J. Schaeffer (Hinsdale, Illinois); David Klumpp (Chicago, Illinois); Praveen Thumbikat (Morton Grove, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome with an agent that targets MCP-1, MIP-1α, or the CCR-2 receptor.
FILED	Tuesday, September 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/881664
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100
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08481045 — Immunogenic protein constructs

US 08481045	Swartz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	James Robert Swartz (Menlo Park, California); Junhao Yang (Palo Alto, California); Alexei M. Voloshin (Newark, California); Ronald Levy (Stanford, California); Gregg Kanter (Boston, Massachusetts); Shoshana Levy (Stanford, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	James Robert Swartz (Menlo Park, California); Junhao Yang (Palo Alto, California); Alexei M. Voloshin (Newark, California); Ronald Levy (Stanford, California); Gregg Kanter (Boston, Massachusetts); Shoshana Levy (Stanford, California)
ABSTRACT	Bacterial immunity proteins are utilized to increase immune response to an antigen of interest.
FILED	Thursday, January 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/687653
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100
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08481048 — Methods for preparing immunogenic conjugates

US 08481048	Schneerson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Rachel Schneerson (Bethesda, Maryland); Joanna Kubler-Kielb (Rockville, Maryland); Fathy Majadly (Frederick, Maryland); Stephen H. Leppla (Bethesda, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Bethesda, Maryland); Darrell T. Liu (Bethesda, Maryland); Joseph Shiloach (Rockville, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (Rockville, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Rachel Schneerson (Bethesda, Maryland); Joanna Kubler-Kielb (Rockville, Maryland); Fathy Majadly (Frederick, Maryland); Stephen H. Leppla (Bethesda, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Bethesda, Maryland); Darrell T. Liu (Bethesda, Maryland); Joseph Shiloach (Rockville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Methods for making an immunogenic conjugate that includes a hapten or an antigen covalently linked to a carrier. The methods include reacting a first agent with a dihydrazide resulting in a hydrazine-modified first agent, wherein the first agent is a hapten, an antigen or a carrier; reacting a second agent with a benzaldehyde compound resulting in a benzaldehyde-modified second agent, wherein the second agent is a hapten, an antigen or a carrier, provided that the first agent or the second agent is a carrier; and reacting the hydrazine-modified first agent with the benzaldehyde-modified second agent resulting in an immunogenic conjugate comprising a hapten or an antigen covalently linked to a carrier via a hydrazone linkage.
FILED	Tuesday, October 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/582420
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/194.100
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08481054 — Pneumococcal serotypes

US 08481054	Nahm et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Moon H. Nahm (Birmingham, Alabama); Jisheng Lin (Vestavia Hills, Alabama); Angela P. Brandao (San Paulo, Brazil); Maria Cristina Brandileone (San Paulo, Brazil)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The UAB Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); Fundacao Oswald Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil); Instituto Adolfo Lutz (Sao Paulo, Spain)
INVENTOR(S)	Moon H. Nahm (Birmingham, Alabama); Jisheng Lin (Vestavia Hills, Alabama); Angela P. Brandao (San Paulo, Brazil); Maria Cristina Brandileone (San Paulo, Brazil)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is a new and emerging serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae designated serotype 6C, and assays and monoclonal antibodies useful in identifying same. Also disclosed is a novel pneumococcal polysaccharide with the repeating unit {→2) glucose 1 (1→3) glucose 2 (1→3) rhamnose (1→3) ribitol (5→phosphate}. This new serotype may be included in pneumococcal vaccines.
FILED	Thursday, December 28, 2006
APPL NO	12/097815
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100
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08481055 — Method of preventing infections from bioterrorism agents with immunostimulatory CpG oligonucleotides

US 08481055	Klinman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Bruce Ivins (Frederick, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland)
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)	Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Bruce Ivins (Frederick, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure relates to a method of preventing or treating an infection caused by a bioterrorism agent, specifically to a method of increasing an immune response to a bioterrorism agent using an oligodeoxynucleotide including a CpG motif, and a method of enhancing the immunogenicity of a vaccine against a bioterrorism agent using an oligodeoxynucleotide including a CpG motif.
FILED	Monday, May 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/786326
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/246.100
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08481056 — Pro-apoptotic bacterial vaccines to enhance cellular immune responses

US 08481056	Kernodle et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Douglas S. Kernodle (Brentwood, Tennessee); Markian R. Bochan (Nashville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Douglas S. Kernodle (Brentwood, Tennessee); Markian R. Bochan (Nashville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Whole-cell vaccines and methods for their use in producing protective immune responses in vertebrate hosts subsequently exposed to pathogenic bacteria. The present invention involves a method of enhancing antigen presentation by intracellular bacteria in a manner that improves vaccine efficacy. After identifying an enzyme that has an anti-apoptotic effect upon host cells infected by an intracellular microbe, the activity of the enzyme is reduced, thereby modifying the microbe so that it increases immunogenicity. Also, the present invention provides a method of incrementally modifying enzyme activity to produce incrementally attenuated mutants of the microbe from which an effective vaccine candidate can be selected.
FILED	Monday, September 19, 2011
APPL NO	13/236325
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100
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08481255 — Scytovirin domain 1 related polypeptides

US 08481255	O'Keefe et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Barry R. O'Keefe (Frederick, Maryland); Chang-yun Xiong (Bloomingdale, New Jersey); James B. McMahon (Frederick, Maryland); Andrew Byrd (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Barry R. O'Keefe (Frederick, Maryland); Chang-yun Xiong (Bloomingdale, New Jersey); James B. McMahon (Frederick, Maryland); Andrew Byrd (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A scytovirin domain 1 (SD1) polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide, and related fusion proteins, conjugates, isolated cells, vectors, and antibodies, as well as a method of inhibiting a viral infection using the same.
FILED	Friday, September 30, 2011
APPL NO	13/250309
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5
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08481260 — Methods for diagnosing episodic movement disorders and related conditions

US 08481260	Fink et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	John K. Fink (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shirley Rainier (Sylvania, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	John K. Fink (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shirley Rainier (Sylvania, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compositions and methods for research, diagnostic, drug screening, and therapeutic applications related to paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis and related conditions. In particular, the present invention provides mutations in the myofibrillogenesis regulator 1 (MR-1) gene associated with such conditions.
FILED	Tuesday, March 23, 2010
APPL NO	12/729773
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100
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08481273 — Perlecan fragments as biomarkers of bone stromal lysis

US 08481273	Farach-Carson
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Mary C. Farach-Carson (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Mary C. Farach-Carson (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method for the detection in a body fluid of perlecan polypeptide fragments that are biomarkers of tumor metastasis, and antibodies for detecting these fragments are described. An immunoassay kit for detecting the presence of these biomarkers in a body fluid, such as serum or urine, is also described.
FILED	Tuesday, June 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/485640
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 436/811 (20130101)
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08481283 — Pressure-assisted molecular recovery (PAMR) of biomolecules, pressure-assisted antigen retrieval (PAAR), and pressure-assisted tissue histology (PATH)

US 08481283	O'Leary et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy J. O'Leary (Washington, District of Columbia); Jeffrey T. Mason (Rockville, Maryland); Carol B. Fowler (Rockville, Maryland); Robert E. Cunningham (Rockville, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Defense on behalf of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Washington, District of Columbia); American Registry of Pathology (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy J. O'Leary (Washington, District of Columbia); Jeffrey T. Mason (Rockville, Maryland); Carol B. Fowler (Rockville, Maryland); Robert E. Cunningham (Rockville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method is disclosed for reversing fixation-induced cross-linking in tissue specimens that have been preserved for histological examination. The method involves placing the fixed tissue in a liquid under elevated temperature and pressure conditions that are sufficient to reverse the fixation-induced cross-linking, restore antigenicity to proteins, and permit improved molecular and proteomic analysis of the preserved tissue specimen. Methods are also disclosed for processing tissues for histological examination under elevated pressure conditions that enhance the perfusion of liquid reagents into the tissue and reduce overall processing times.
FILED	Thursday, September 13, 2012
APPL NO	13/613618
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/40.520
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08481287 — Method, vector and system for expressing polypeptides

US 08481287	Perille Collins
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Mary Lynne Perille Collins (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Mary Lynne Perille Collins (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are methods and systems for expressing a polypeptide in a Rhodospirillum species. The methods include introducing an expression vector having a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide operably linked to a puc promoter into the Rhodospirillum bacterium and growing the Rhodospirillum bacterium under conditions that allow expression of the polypeptide. Vectors for expressing a membrane polypeptide in a Rhodospirillum species are disclosed. The vectors include a puc promoter and a nucleic acid encoding a membrane polypeptide.
FILED	Friday, January 09, 2009
APPL NO	12/812300
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 435/69.100
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08481296 — Angiogenic tyrosyl t-RNA synthetase compositions and methods

US 08481296	Yang
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Xiang-Lei Yang (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiang-Lei Yang (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides an isolated tyrosyl tRNA synthetase (TyrRS) polypeptide variant which comprises (a) a Rossmann fold region or a portion thereof, preferably including an α5 coil; and (b) an anticodon recognition domain or portion thereof, preferably including an α14 coil. Preferably, the α5 coil and the α14 coil have a greater spatial separation in the tertiary structure of the variant compared to the corresponding spatial separation in native human TyrRS. The variant preferably comprises an amino acid residue sequence identity of at least about 50% compared to the amino acid residue sequence of human TyrRS (SEQ ID NO: 3), includes at least one non-conservative amino acid residue substitution relative to the amino acid residue sequence of human TyrRS, and preferably presents an exposed ELR motif in the α5 coil on an external portion of the tertiary structure of the polypeptide. A preferred TyrRS protein variant comprises the amino acid residue sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 or a portion thereof. The proteins and protein fragments of the invention are angiogenic and are useful for stimulating angiogenesis in mammalian tissues.
FILED	Thursday, September 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/239796
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183
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08481297 — Compositions and methods of use of an oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus

US 08481297	van den Pol et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Anthony N. van den Pol (Branford, Connecticut); Guido Wollmann (New Haven, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Anthony N. van den Pol (Branford, Connecticut); Guido Wollmann (New Haven, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Oncolytic VSV viruses have been developed as a strategy for combating cancer. The present invention includes mutant VSV that have one or more mutations in the nucleic acid sequence encoding the viral genome that increase the oncolytic potential of the virus. Pharmaceutical compositions including oncolytic virus disclosed herein are also provided. Pharmaceutical compositions containing virus and one or more excipients may be for systemic or local administration. Methods of administering an effective amount of the compositions for treating cancer are disclosed. Preferred routes of administration include intratumeral and intravenous injection, and intranasal delivery. Administration of the disclosed compositions containing oncolytic viruses may be coupled with surgical, radiologic, other therapeutic approaches to treatment of cancer. Methods of manufacturing mutant VSV viruses exhibiting desired properties include applying selective pressure, and through directed or random mutagenesis.
FILED	Thursday, January 07, 2010
APPL NO	12/683973
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100
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08481309 — Nucleotide-specific recognition sequences for designer TAL effectors

US 08481309	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Le Cong (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to methods of altering expression of a genomic locus of interest or specifically targeting a genomic locus of interest in an animal cell, which may involve contacting the genomic locus with a non-naturally occurring or engineered composition that includes a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding polypeptide having a N-terminal capping region, a DNA binding domain comprising at least five or more Transcription activator-like effector (TALE) monomers and at least one or more half-monomers specifically ordered to target the genomic locus of interest, and a C-terminal capping region, wherein the polypeptide includes at least one or more effector domains, and wherein the polypeptide is encoded by and translated from a codon optimized nucleic acid molecule so that the polypeptide preferentially binds to the DNA of the genomic locus.
FILED	Friday, February 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/768020
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 435/325
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08481314 — Activation of human antigen-presenting cells through dendritic cell lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor-1 (LOX-1)

US 08481314	Banchereau 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)	Jacques F. Banchereau (Dallas, Texas); SangKon Oh (Baltimore, Maryland); Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Dapeng Li (Dallas, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Jacques F. Banchereau (Dallas, Texas); SangKon Oh (Baltimore, Maryland); Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Dapeng Li (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention includes compositions and methods for targeting the LOX-1 receptor on immune cells and uses for the anti-LOX-1 antibodies.
FILED	Friday, February 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/036138
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372
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08481335 — Specificity and sensitivity enhancement in cantilever sensing

US 08481335	Shih 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)	Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention is directed to a sensor system including at least one sensor and target specific receptors bound substrates for purposes of enhancing detection sensitivity. Optionally, the sensor system may include quantum dots for independently verifying the presence of a target molecule or compound. The sensor system may be particularly beneficial in the field of medical diagnostics, bio-defense, food safety, water safety and general chemical detection.
FILED	Friday, October 03, 2008
APPL NO	12/677613
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524
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08481336 — Magnetic separation device for cell sorting and analysis

US 08481336	Earhart et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Christopher M. Earhart (Palo Alto, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California); Robert J. Wilson (Campbell, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher M. Earhart (Palo Alto, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California); Robert J. Wilson (Campbell, California)
ABSTRACT	A magnetic sifter is adapted for manipulation of biological cells by providing a greater pore density at the edge of the sifter than at the center. Application of an external magnetic field to the sifter causes high magnetic fields and field gradients at the sifter pores. These conditions are suitable for capturing magnetically tagged or labeled cells at the sifter pores. Altering the external magnetic field can provide controlled capture and/or release of magnetically labeled cells from the sifter pores. The purpose of having a greater pore density at the periphery of the sifter than at the center is to provide improved flow rate uniformity through the sifter. Such flow rate uniformity is advantageous for cell quantification.
FILED	Thursday, September 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/807625
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526
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08481477 — Methods, agents and peptides for inducing an immune response to matrix metalloproteinase-2 expressing tumors

US 08481477	Godefroy 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)	Emmanuelle Godefroy (New York, New York); Francine Jotereau (Carquefou, France); Nina Bhardwaj (West Orange, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Emmanuelle Godefroy (New York, New York); Francine Jotereau (Carquefou, France); Nina Bhardwaj (West Orange, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to enhancing, modulating or stimulating the immune response to MMP-2 expressing tumors, including melanoma, and to the modulation and application of immune modulators and MMP-2 peptides for melanoma or other MMP-2 expressing tumor vaccines. The invention provides methods and means to activate an effective response to MMP-2 expressing tumors and modulate the ability of MMP-2 to skew CD4+ T cell responses toward that of T_H2 cells, which are less effective mediators of tumor cell clearance than T_H1 cells. Methods and assays are provided for screening for compounds, agents, or peptides capable of enhancing or activating immune responses, particularly to melanoma.
FILED	Tuesday, January 11, 2011
APPL NO	12/930592
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100
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08481499 — Blockade of gamma-secretase activity to promote myelination by oligodendrocytes

US 08481499	Watkins et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Trent Alan Watkins (Palo Alto, California); Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Trent Alan Watkins (Palo Alto, California); Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for enhancing myelination. Myelination is enhanced by administration of agents that are inhibitors of γ-secretase. Methods of screening for pharmaceutically active compounds that enhance myelination, and for genes involved in myelination are also provided.
FILED	Wednesday, April 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/066930
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/20.100
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08481502 — Antibacterial aminoglycoside analogs

US 08481502	Aggen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	James Bradley Aggen (Burlingame, California); Paola Dozzo (San Francisco, California); Adam Aaron Goldblum (Berkeley, California); Darin James Hildebrandt (Cupertino, California); Timothy Robert Kane (Moss Beach, California); Micah James Gliedt (Sunnyvale, California); Martin Sheringham Linsell (San Mateo, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Achaogen, Inc. (South San Francisco, California)
INVENTOR(S)	James Bradley Aggen (Burlingame, California); Paola Dozzo (San Francisco, California); Adam Aaron Goldblum (Berkeley, California); Darin James Hildebrandt (Cupertino, California); Timothy Robert Kane (Moss Beach, California); Micah James Gliedt (Sunnyvale, California); Martin Sheringham Linsell (San Mateo, California)
ABSTRACT	Compounds having antibacterial activity are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I): including stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, wherein Q₁, Q₂, Q₅, R₁, R₂, R₃, Z₁and Z₂are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, April 06, 2012
APPL NO	13/441696
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/38
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08481505 — Compositions and methods for the diagnosis and therapy of BCL2-associated cancers

US 08481505	Croce et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Columbus, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Columbus, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of cancers associated with overexpression of a BCL2 gene and/or gene product in a subject, and methods and compositions for the improvement of anti-cancer therapy, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The invention also encompasses methods for determining the efficacy of a cancer therapy in a subject and methods for inducing apoptosis of a cell.
FILED	Monday, September 11, 2006
APPL NO	11/991773
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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08481507 — Micro-RNAs that control myosin expression and myofiber identity

US 08481507	Olson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Eric Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eva van Rooij (Boulder, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eva van Rooij (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the identification of two microRNAs, miR-499 and miR-208b, that repress fast skeletal muscle contractile protein genes. Expression of miR-499 and/or miR-208b can be used to repress fast fiber genes and activate slow fiber genes in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. Inhibition of miR-499 and/or miR-208b is proposed as a treatment for cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, and/or heart failure. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising antagonists and agonists of miR-499 and miR-208b function are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, July 31, 2008
APPL NO	12/671436
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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08481529 — Combination cancer chemotherapy

US 08481529	Hurley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Laurence H. Hurley (Tucson, Arizona); Mary Guzman (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Laurence H. Hurley (Tucson, Arizona); Mary Guzman (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Provided is a method for improving treatment of a neoplastic condition by combining a therapeutically effective amount of a polyADP-ribose polymerase inhibitor with a therapeutically effective amount of a compound which triggers the release of nucleolin from the G-quadruplexes in rDNA. As specifically exemplified, the compound which increases nucleolin binding is a substituted quinobenzoxazine analog, for example CX-3543.
FILED	Wednesday, May 09, 2007
APPL NO	12/301217
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/229.500
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08481530 — 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibitors

US 08481530	Sampson
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Nicole Sampson (Setauket, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Nicole Sampson (Setauket, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods of treating a patient infected by Actinomycetes sp. by administering 6-aza-17-substituted-androst-4-en-3-one compounds to that patient. Another aspect of the invention relates to the screening for drug candidates to treat patients infected by Actinomycetes sp.
FILED	Monday, December 03, 2007
APPL NO	12/517084
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/232.800
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08481559 — Morphine and morphine precursors

US 08481559	Stefano et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
APPLICANT(S)	George B. Stefano (Melville, New York); Patrick Cadet (Elmont, New York); Kirk J. Mantione (Patchogue, New York); Wei Zhu (West Babylon, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	George B. Stefano (Melville, New York); Patrick Cadet (Elmont, New York); Kirk J. Mantione (Patchogue, New York); Wei Zhu (West Babylon, New York)
ABSTRACT	Methods and materials related to the use of morphine, morphine precursors (e.g., reticuline), and inhibitors of morphine synthesis or activity to treat diseases, to reduce inflammation, or to restore normal function are provided.
FILED	Thursday, October 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/904373
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/282
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08481573 — Modulators of sphingosine phosphate receptors

US 08481573	Roberts et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Edward Roberts (La Jolla, California); Hugh Rosen (La Jolla, California); Steven Brown (San Diego, California); Miguel A. Guerrero (La Jolla, California); Xuemei Peng (La Jolla, California); Ramulu Poddutoori (La Jolla, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward Roberts (La Jolla, California); Hugh Rosen (La Jolla, California); Steven Brown (San Diego, California); Miguel A. Guerrero (La Jolla, California); Xuemei Peng (La Jolla, California); Ramulu Poddutoori (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	Compounds of the following generic structure are provided: Such compounds activate a sphingosine-I-phosphate receptor of the subtype 1 (S1P1), and have utility in the treatment of malconditions mediated by S1P1 activation. More specifically, such compounds are beneficial in the treatment of, for example, multiple sclerosis, transplant rejection and/or adult respiratory syndrome.
FILED	Thursday, September 06, 2012
APPL NO	13/605561
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/364
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08481575 — Synthesis of epothilones, intermediates thereto, analogues and uses thereof

US 08481575	Danishefsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Peter Bertinato (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Dai-shi Su (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Dongfang Meng (Westfield, New Jersey); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ted Kamenecka (San Diego, California); Erik J. Sorensen (Princeton, New Jersey); Aaron Balog (Lambertville, New Jersey); Kenneth A. Savin (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Peter Bertinato (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Dai-shi Su (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Dongfang Meng (Westfield, New Jersey); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ted Kamenecka (San Diego, California); Erik J. Sorensen (Princeton, New Jersey); Aaron Balog (Lambertville, New Jersey); Kenneth A. Savin (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides convergent processes for preparing epothilone A and B, desoxyepothilones A and B, and analogues thereof. Also provided are analogues related to epothilone A and B and intermediates useful for preparing same. The present invention further provides novel compositions based on analogues of the epothilones and methods for the treatment of cancer and cancer which has developed a multidrug-resistant phenotype.
FILED	Thursday, March 03, 2011
APPL NO	13/040211
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365
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08481579 — Triazolyl phenyl benzenesulfonamides

US 08481579	Charvat 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)	Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Cheng Hu (Menlo Park, California); Anita Melikian (San Francisco, California); Aaron Novack (San Jose, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvalle, California); Edward J. Sullivan (San Jose, California); Xuefei Tan (Union City, California); William D. Thomas (San Jose, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Chemocentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Cheng Hu (Menlo Park, California); Anita Melikian (San Francisco, California); Aaron Novack (San Jose, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvalle, California); Edward J. Sullivan (San Jose, California); Xuefei Tan (Union City, California); William D. Thomas (San Jose, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California)
ABSTRACT	Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 or CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2 and CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, CCR9-mediated diseases, as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists.
FILED	Friday, March 02, 2012
APPL NO	13/411171
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/383
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08481580 — Lisofylline analogs and methods for use

US 08481580	Macdonald et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerry L. Nadler (Charlottesville, Virginia); Peng Cui (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerry L. Nadler (Charlottesville, Virginia); Peng Cui (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides analogs of a Lysofylline (LSF), and synthetic methods for the preparation of such analogs. The have the active side chain moiety (5-R-hydroxyhexyl) of LSF and can have greater potency and oral bioavailability than LSF.
FILED	Monday, February 25, 2008
APPL NO	12/036646
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/384
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08481698 — Parallel proximity ligation event analysis

US 08481698	Lieberman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)	Erez Lieberman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andreas Gnirke (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Daniel Aird (Medford, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Erez Lieberman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andreas Gnirke (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Daniel Aird (Medford, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes compositions and methods showing that the spatial proximity of intracellular components may be related to their ability to cooperate in intracellular biochemical reactions. In some embodiments, the present invention contemplates a variety of nucleic acid barcoded binding partners capable of determining the spatial proximity of intracellular components as determined by ligation of their respective nucleotide barcodes. As such, an intracellular component contact map may be constructed to fingerprint specific physiological and/or pharmacological intracellular conditions.
FILED	Thursday, March 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/407547
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	Organic compounds 536/23.100
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08481707 — Methods and compositions for detecting colon cancers

US 08481707	Markowitz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Wei-Dong Chen (South Euclid, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Wei-Dong Chen (South Euclid, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	This application describes methods and compositions for detecting and treating vimentin-associated neoplasia. Differential methylation of the vimentin nucleotide sequences has been observed in vimentin-associated neoplasia such as colon neoplasia.
FILED	Friday, June 27, 2008
APPL NO	12/215608
ART UNIT	1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/24.330
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08481710 — RNA interference suppression of neurodegenerative diseases and methods of use thereof

US 08481710	Davidson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Beverly L. Davidson (Iowa City, Iowa); Haibin Xia (Iowa City, Iowa); Qinwen Mao (Iowa City, Iowa); Henry Paulson (Iowa City, Iowa); Ryan Boudreau (Iowa City, Iowa); Scott Harper (Iowa City, Iowa)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Beverly L. Davidson (Iowa City, Iowa); Haibin Xia (Iowa City, Iowa); Qinwen Mao (Iowa City, Iowa); Henry Paulson (Iowa City, Iowa); Ryan Boudreau (Iowa City, Iowa); Scott Harper (Iowa City, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to small interfering RNA molecules (siRNA) targeted against nucleic acid sequence that encodes huntingtin or ataxin-1, and methods of using these siRNA molecules.
FILED	Thursday, December 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/963793
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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08481757 — Compounds and compositions useful in the treatment of malaria

US 08481757	Kubanek et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center (FIC)
APPLICANT(S)	Julia M. Kubanek (Decatur, Georgia); Mark E. Hay (Atlanta, Georgia); Karine G. Le Roch (Riverside, California); E. Paige Stout (San Diego, California); Amy L. Lane (Jacksonville, Florida); An-Shen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgua Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Julia M. Kubanek (Decatur, Georgia); Mark E. Hay (Atlanta, Georgia); Karine G. Le Roch (Riverside, California); E. Paige Stout (San Diego, California); Amy L. Lane (Jacksonville, Florida); An-Shen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein compounds, compositions and methods useful for the treatment of malaria for a subject in need thereof, including compounds of Formula (I), Formula (II), Formula (III), Formula (IV), and Formula (V).
FILED	Friday, February 04, 2011
APPL NO	13/021171
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 549/268
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08481760 — Inhibition and treatment of prostate cancer metastasis

US 08481760	Bergan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Raymond C. Bergan (Chicago, Illinois); Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Raymond C. Bergan (Chicago, Illinois); Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compounds and methods of inhibiting and treating metastatic prostate cancer. The compounds include MEK4 inhibitors. In another aspect the invention provides methods of identifying inhibitors of metastatic prostate cancer by screening for inhibitors of MEK4.
FILED	Tuesday, October 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/578137
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 549/403
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08481772 — Trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoid derivatives

US 08481772	Petasis
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention features methods for the preparation of naturally occurring trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoids and their structural analogs. The invention further provides new derivatives and analogs of trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoids that can be prepared according to these methods. The invention also provides compositions and methods using trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoid derivatives for the prevention, amelioration and treatment of a variety of diseases or conditions associated with inflammation or inflammatory response, autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, or abnormal cell proliferation or cancer.
FILED	Tuesday, February 28, 2012
APPL NO	13/407346
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 554/224
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08482285 — Multibaseline PRF-shift magnetic resonance thermometry

US 08482285	Grissom et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	William A. Grissom (Munich, Germany); Kim Butts Pauly (Stanford, California); Michael Lustig (Berkeley, California); Yoav Medan (Haifa, Israel); Yoav Levy (Hinanit, Israel); Viola Rieke (Los Altos, Germany)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Insightec Ltd. (Tirat Carmel, Israel); The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	William A. Grissom (Munich, Germany); Kim Butts Pauly (Stanford, California); Michael Lustig (Berkeley, California); Yoav Medan (Haifa, Israel); Yoav Levy (Hinanit, Israel); Viola Rieke (Los Altos, Germany)
ABSTRACT	The phase background of a proton resonance frequency shift treatment image may be estimated by fitting a combination of baseline images to the treatment image.
FILED	Wednesday, January 19, 2011
APPL NO	13/009318
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/312
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08483351 — Cardiac computed tomography methods and systems using fast exact/quasi-exact filtered back projection algorithms

US 08483351	Wang 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)	Ge Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jun Zhao (Shanghai, China PRC); Yang Lu (Shanghai, China PRC); Hengyong Yu (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Alexander Katsevich (Oviedo, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ge Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jun Zhao (Shanghai, China PRC); Yang Lu (Shanghai, China PRC); Hengyong Yu (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Alexander Katsevich (Oviedo, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides systems, methods, and devices for improved computed tomography (CT). More specifically, the present invention includes methods for improved cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) resolution using improved filtered back projection (FBP) algorithms, which can be used for cardiac tomography and across other tomographic modalities. Embodiments provide methods, systems, and devices for reconstructing an image from projection data provided by a computed tomography scanner using the algorithms disclosed herein to generate an image with improved temporal resolution.
FILED	Thursday, October 28, 2010
APPL NO	12/914790
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4
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08483463 — Method for radiation dose reduction using prior image constrained image reconstruction

US 08483463	Chen 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)	Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin); Jie Tang (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian Nett (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin); Jie Tang (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian Nett (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A method for reconstructing an image of a subject with a medical imaging system is provided. Image data is acquired with the medical imaging system, typically in an undersampled manner. A prior image constrained compressed sensing (PICCS) image reconstruction method is then implemented to reconstruct images of the subject being imaged. The prior image used in such a method is produced from so-called averaged image data. The averaged image data is produced by effectively averaging signal information associated with a plurality of different slice locations along a direction orthogonal to the plane parallel to the slice locations. Weightings are calculated from images reconstructed in a conventional manner from the acquired image data, and these weightings are employed to produce the averaged image data. By producing a prior image in this manner, a higher signal-to-noise ratio is achievable, allowing trade-offs with factors such as radiation dose in x-ray imaging.
FILED	Wednesday, May 19, 2010
APPL NO	12/783058
ART UNIT	3626 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/131
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08483794 — Method for implanting an electrode that unfurls in response to a predetermined stimulus

US 08483794	Williams et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Justin C. Williams (Cambridge, Wisconsin); Karl A. Sillay (Madison, Wisconsin); Jiwan Kim (Madison, Wisconsin); David Niemann (Madison, Wisconsin); Azam Ahmed (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A thin-film microelectrode array tailored for long-term, minimally invasive cortical recording or stimulation and method are provided. The microelectrode array includes a flexible element that is movable between a first contracted configuration and a second expanded configuration. An array of contacts is provided on the flexible element. The contacts are engagable with a cortical surface with the flexible element in the expanded configuration. A link operatively connects the array of contacts to a control module. The link is capable of transmitting at least one of cortical recordings and cortical stimulation signals thereon.
FILED	Monday, December 17, 2012
APPL NO	13/716612
ART UNIT	3739 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/378
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08483837 — Selectable filters for a visual prosthesis

US 08483837	Greenberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Sanjay R. Gaikwad (Valencia, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Sanjay R. Gaikwad (Valencia, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is a visual prosthesis including a visor with an embedded camera and changeable optical filters to limit light entering the lens of the camera. This invention will allow use of custom filters to limit light intensity or certain light frequencies sent to the camera of the visual prosthesis in a variety of brightness conditions which will remove glare. It will allow modification of the color of the light sent to camera of the visual prosthesis to respond to different environments. Users may choose the best filter to suit their needs in real time.
FILED	Friday, April 29, 2011
APPL NO	13/097449
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53
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08483970 — Method for identifying aQTL regions whose genotype modulates transcription factor activity

US 08483970	Bussemaker et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)	Harmen J. Bussemaker (New York, New York); Eunjee Lee (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Harmen J. Bussemaker (New York, New York); Eunjee Lee (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The disclosed subject matter is directed to genetic linkage methods for identifying genetic determinants of transcription factor activity. An inferred transcription factor activity profile is generated based on a nucleotide sequence-specific mathematical model of gene expression regulation. Genetic linkage analysis is performed to identify at least one genetic determinant linked to a specific transcription factor segregant based on the inferred transcription factor profile.
FILED	Tuesday, September 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/569794
ART UNIT	1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/20
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08484083 — Method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network

US 08484083	Basu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Interior (DOI) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
APPLICANT(S)	Sugato Basu (Redwood City, California); Jiye Yu (Menlo Park, California); Jeffrey Davitz (Danville, California); Mark Drummond (Los Altos Hills, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Sugato Basu (Redwood City, California); Jiye Yu (Menlo Park, California); Jeffrey Davitz (Danville, California); Mark Drummond (Los Altos Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one of: interactions between users of the social network or profile information for the users, determining a global topic model including at least one topic, based on the collected information, and locally refining the global topic model in accordance with the collected information.
FILED	Monday, December 17, 2007
APPL NO	12/002412
ART UNIT	2165 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/14.660
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08484269 — Computing time-decayed aggregates under smooth decay functions

US 08484269	Cormode et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)	Graham Cormode (Summit, New Jersey); Philip Korn (New York, New York); Srikanta Tirthapura (Ames, Iowa)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AT and T Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Graham Cormode (Summit, New Jersey); Philip Korn (New York, New York); Srikanta Tirthapura (Ames, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	Aggregates are calculated from a data stream in which data is sent in a sequence of tuples, in which each tuple comprises an item identifier and a timestamp indicating when the tuple was transmitted. The tuples may arrive at a data receiver out-of-order, that is, the sequence in which the tuples arrive are not necessarily in the same sequence as their corresponding timestamps. In calculating aggregates, more recent data may be given more weight by a decay function which is a function of the timestamp associated with the tuple and the current time. The statistical characteristics of the tuples are summarized by a set of linear data summaries. The set of linear data summaries are generated such that only a single linear data summary falls between a set of boundaries calculated from the decay function and a set of timestamps. Aggregates are calculated from the set of linear data summaries.
FILED	Wednesday, January 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/006333
ART UNIT	2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/270
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Department of Energy (DOE)

08479435 — System and method for disrupting suspect objects

US 08479435	Gladwell 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)	T. Scott Gladwell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Justin R. Garretson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clinton G. Hobart (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark J. Monda (St. Louis, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	T. Scott Gladwell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Justin R. Garretson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clinton G. Hobart (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark J. Monda (St. Louis, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for disrupting at least one component of a suspect object is provided. The system includes a source for passing radiation through the suspect object, a screen for receiving the radiation passing through the suspect object and generating at least one image therefrom, a weapon having a discharge deployable therefrom, and a targeting unit. The targeting unit displays the image(s) of the suspect object and aims the weapon at a disruption point on the displayed image such that the weapon may be positioned to deploy the discharge at the disruption point whereby the suspect object is disabled.
FILED	Tuesday, October 26, 2010
APPL NO	12/912151
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Firearms 042/135
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08479502 — Increased power in compressed-gas energy storage and recovery

US 08479502	McBride et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont)
ABSTRACT	In various embodiments, energy is stored or recovered via super-atmospheric compression and/or expansion of gas in conjunction with substantially adiabatic compression and/or expansion from or to atmospheric pressure.
FILED	Tuesday, January 10, 2012
APPL NO	13/347116
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/410
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08479563 — System and method for measuring permeability of materials

US 08479563	Hallman, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Russell Louis Hallman, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael John Renner (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell Louis Hallman, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael John Renner (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods are provided for measuring the permeance of a material. The permeability of the material may also be derived. Systems typically provide a liquid or high concentration fluid bath on one side of a material test sample, and a gas flow across the opposing side of the material test sample. The mass flow rate of permeated fluid as a fraction of the combined mass flow rate of gas and permeated fluid is used to calculate the permeance of the material. The material test sample may be a sheet, a tube, or a solid shape. Operational test conditions may be varied, including concentration of the fluid, temperature of the fluid, strain profile of the material test sample, and differential pressure across the material test sample.
FILED	Tuesday, April 03, 2012
APPL NO	13/438192
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/37
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08480419 — Low inductance connector assembly

US 08480419	Holbrook et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Meghan Ann Holbrook (Manhattan Beach, California); Douglas S. Carlson (Hawthorne, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Meghan Ann Holbrook (Manhattan Beach, California); Douglas S. Carlson (Hawthorne, California)
ABSTRACT	A busbar connector assembly for coupling first and second terminals on a two-terminal device to first and second contacts on a power module is provided. The first terminal resides proximate the first contact and the second terminal resides proximate the second contact. The assembly comprises a first bridge having a first end configured to be electrically coupled to the first terminal, and a second end configured to be electrically coupled to the second contact, and a second bridge substantially overlapping the first bridge and having a first end electrically coupled to the first contact, and a second end electrically coupled to the second terminal.
FILED	Tuesday, January 06, 2009
APPL NO	12/348928
ART UNIT	2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical connectors 439/213
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08480792 — Preparation of functionalized zeolitic frameworks

US 08480792	Yaghi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Hiroyasu Furukawa (Los Angeles, California); Bo Wang (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Hiroyasu Furukawa (Los Angeles, California); Bo Wang (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provides zeolitic frameworks for gas separation, gas storage, catalysis and sensors. More particularly the disclosure provides zeolitic frameworks (ZIFs). The ZIF of the disclosure comprises any number of transition metals or a homogenous transition metal composition.
FILED	Wednesday, July 16, 2008
APPL NO	12/669616
ART UNIT	1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Gas separation: Processes 095/116
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08480864 — Compositions of corrosion-resistant Fe-based amorphous metals suitable for producing thermal spray coatings

US 08480864	Farmer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); Frank M. G. Wong (Livermore, California); Jeffery J. Haslam (Livermore, California); Xiaoyan (Jane) Ji (Pleasanton, California); Sumner D. Day (Danville, California); Craig A. Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); John D. K. Rivard (Arlington, Virginia); Louis F. Aprigliano (Berlin, Maryland); Leslie K. Kohler (Warren, New Jersey); Robert Bayles (Annandale, Virginia); Edward J. Lemieux (Summerland Key, Florida); Nancy Yang (Lafayette, California); John H. Perepezko (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry Kaufman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Arthur Heuer (Cleveland, Ohio); Enrique J. Lavernia (Davis, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); Frank M. G. Wong (Livermore, California); Jeffery J. Haslam (Livermore, California); Xiaoyan (Jane) Ji (Pleasanton, California); Sumner D. Day (Danville, California); Craig A. Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); John D. K. Rivard (Arlington, Virginia); Louis F. Aprigliano (Berlin, Maryland); Leslie K. Kohler (Warren, New Jersey); Robert Bayles (Annandale, Virginia); Edward J. Lemieux (Summerland Key, Florida); Nancy Yang (Lafayette, California); John H. Perepezko (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry Kaufman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Arthur Heuer (Cleveland, Ohio); Enrique J. Lavernia (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of coating a surface comprising providing a source of amorphous metal that contains manganese (1 to 3 atomic %), yttrium (0.1 to 10 atomic %), and silicon (0.3 to 3.1 atomic %) in the range of composition given in parentheses; and that contains the following elements in the specified range of composition given in parentheses: chromium (15 to 20 atomic %), molybdenum (2 to 15 atomic %), tungsten (1 to 3 atomic %), boron (5 to 16 atomic %), carbon (3 to 16 atomic %), and the balance iron; and applying said amorphous metal to the surface by a spray.
FILED	Thursday, November 09, 2006
APPL NO	11/595166
ART UNIT	1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/298.130
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08480922 — Solid solution lithium alloy cermet anodes

US 08480922	Richardson
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)	Thomas J. Richardson (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas J. Richardson (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	A metal-ceramic composite (“cermet”) has been produced by a chemical reaction between a lithium compound and another metal. The cermet has advantageous physical properties, high surface area relative to lithium metal or its alloys, and is easily formed into a desired shape. An example is the formation of a lithium-magnesium nitride cermet by reaction of lithium nitride with magnesium. The reaction results in magnesium nitride grains coated with a layer of lithium. The nitride is inert when used in a battery. It supports the metal in a high surface area form, while stabilizing the electrode with respect to dendrite formation. By using an excess of magnesium metal in the reaction process, a cermet of magnesium nitride is produced, coated with a lithium-magnesium alloy of any desired composition. This alloy inhibits dendrite formation by causing lithium deposited on its surface to diffuse under a chemical potential into the bulk of the alloy.
FILED	Thursday, June 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/665004
ART UNIT	1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/182.100
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08480955 — Gas sensor incorporating a porous framework

US 08480955	Yaghi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Alexander U. Czaja (Dirmstein, Germany); Bo Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Hiroyasu Furukawa (Los Angeles, California); Kosmas Galatsis (Torrance, California); Kang L. Wang (Santa Monica, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany)
INVENTOR(S)	Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Alexander U. Czaja (Dirmstein, Germany); Bo Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Hiroyasu Furukawa (Los Angeles, California); Kosmas Galatsis (Torrance, California); Kang L. Wang (Santa Monica, California)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provides sensor for gas sensing including CO₂gas sensors comprising a porous framework sensing area for binding an analyte gas.
FILED	Tuesday, December 29, 2009
APPL NO	13/142564
ART UNIT	1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100
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08481002 — Method of preparation of uranium nitride

US 08481002	Kiplinger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Jaqueline Loetsch Kiplinger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert Kenneth James Thomson (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Jaqueline Loetsch Kiplinger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert Kenneth James Thomson (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	Method for producing terminal uranium nitride complexes comprising providing a suitable starting material comprising uranium; oxidizing the starting material with a suitable oxidant to produce one or more uranium(IV)-azide complexes; and, sufficiently irradiating the uranium(IV)-azide complexes to produce the terminal uranium nitride complexes.
FILED	Thursday, January 20, 2011
APPL NO	13/010588
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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08481160 — Bimodal and multimodal plant biomass particle mixtures

US 08481160	Dooley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington)
ABSTRACT	An industrial feedstock of plant biomass particles having fibers aligned in a grain, wherein the particles are individually characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L, wherein the L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers, the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers, and the L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces, and wherein the particles in the feedstock are collectively characterized by having a bimodal or multimodal size distribution.
FILED	Friday, August 24, 2012
APPL NO	13/594312
ART UNIT	1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402
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08481187 — High-energy metal air batteries

US 08481187	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) at Richland, WA
APPLICANT(S)	Ji-Guang Zhang (Richland, Washington); Jie Xiao (Richland, Washington); Wu Xu (Richland, Washington); Deyu Wang (Richland, Washington); Ralph E. Williford (Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Ji-Guang Zhang (Richland, Washington); Jie Xiao (Richland, Washington); Wu Xu (Richland, Washington); Deyu Wang (Richland, Washington); Ralph E. Williford (Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are embodiments of lithium/air batteries and methods of making and using the same. Certain embodiments are pouch-cell batteries encased within an oxygen-permeable membrane packaging material that is less than 2% of the total battery weight. Some embodiments include a hybrid air electrode comprising carbon and an ion insertion material, wherein the mass ratio of ion insertion material to carbon is 0.2 to 0.8. The air electrode may include hydrophobic, porous fibers. In particular embodiments, the air electrode is soaked with an electrolyte comprising one or more solvents including dimethyl ether, and the dimethyl ether subsequently is evacuated from the soaked electrode. In other embodiments, the electrolyte comprises 10-20% crown ether by weight.
FILED	Thursday, September 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/557452
ART UNIT	1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/86
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08481227 — Proton conducting materials

US 08481227	Hamrock et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Steven J. Hamrock (Stillwater, Minnesota); Mark S. Schaberg (Lake Elmo, Minnesota); Neeraj Sharma (Woodbury, Minnesota); John E. Abulu (Woodbury, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven J. Hamrock (Stillwater, Minnesota); Mark S. Schaberg (Lake Elmo, Minnesota); Neeraj Sharma (Woodbury, Minnesota); John E. Abulu (Woodbury, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Materials are provided that may be useful as ionomers or polymer ionomers, including compounds including bis sulfonyl imide groups which may be highly fluorinated and may be polymers.
FILED	Thursday, June 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/529706
ART UNIT	1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/494
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08481258 — Methods and compounds for chemical ligation

US 08481258	Church et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Science Consolidated Service Center (CSC)
APPLICANT(S)	George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); A. Michael Sismour (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); A. Michael Sismour (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods for chemical ligation are provided. Methods for nucleic acid sequencing, nucleic acid assembly and nucleic acid synthesis are also provided.
FILED	Tuesday, December 01, 2009
APPL NO	12/628518
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 435/6.100
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08481321 — Compositions and methods for improved protein production

US 08481321	Bodie 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)	Elizabeth A. Bodie (San Carlos, California); Steve Sungjin Kim (Fremont, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Elizabeth A. Bodie (San Carlos, California); Steve Sungjin Kim (Fremont, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the identification of novel nucleic acid sequences, designated herein as 7p, 8k, 7E, 9G, 8Q and 203, in a host cell which effect protein production. The present invention also provides host cells having a mutation or deletion of part or all of the gene encoding 7p, 8k, 7E, 9G, 8Q and 203, which are presented in FIG. 1, and are SEQ ID NOS.: 1-6, respectively. The present invention also provides host cells further comprising a nucleic acid encoding a desired heterologous protein such as an enzyme.
FILED	Tuesday, June 12, 2012
APPL NO	13/494889
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/484
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08481345 — Method to determine the position-dependant metal correction factor for dose-rate equivalent laser testing of semiconductor devices

US 08481345	Horn
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)	Kevin M. Horn (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin M. Horn (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A method reconstructs the charge collection from regions beneath opaque metallization of a semiconductor device, as determined from focused laser charge collection response images, and thereby derives a dose-rate dependent correction factor for subsequent broad-area, dose-rate equivalent, laser measurements. The position- and dose-rate dependencies of the charge-collection magnitude of the device are determined empirically and can be combined with a digital reconstruction methodology to derive an accurate metal-correction factor that permits subsequent absolute dose-rate response measurements to be derived from laser measurements alone. Broad-area laser dose-rate testing can thereby be used to accurately determine the peak transient current, dose-rate response of semiconductor devices to penetrating electron, gamma- and x-ray irradiation.
FILED	Monday, September 27, 2010
APPL NO	12/891569
ART UNIT	2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/16
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08481455 — SO₃resistant sorbents for removing mercury from flue gas

US 08481455	Jain et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Mohit Jain (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Ganesh Skandan (Easton, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NEI Corporation (Somerset, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohit Jain (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Ganesh Skandan (Easton, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Surface functionalized sorbent particles for vapor-phase mercury removal, especially in the presence of SO₃in, for example, flue gas. The sorbent surface is modified to increase the SO₃resistance of vapor-phase mercury sorbents. The mercury removal efficiency is immune to the presence of SO₃, which is not the case with conventional activated carbon as well as brominated activated carbons. The sorbent is based on carbon particles with a metal oxide coating on the surface. The thin metal oxide layer acts as an amenable surface to introduce functional groups. The metal oxide coated carbon was further modified with amine molecules, to increase its resistance towards SO₃poisoning.
FILED	Wednesday, February 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/033482
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/417
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08481460 — Faceted ceramic fibers, tapes or ribbons and epitaxial devices therefrom

US 08481460	Goyal
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)	Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A crystalline article includes a single-crystal ceramic fiber, tape or ribbon. The fiber, tape or ribbon has at least one crystallographic facet along its length, which is generally at least one meter long. In the case of sapphire, the facets are R-plane, M-plane, C-plane or A-plane facets. Epitaxial articles, including superconducting articles, can be formed on the fiber, tape or ribbon.
FILED	Thursday, June 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/529410
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/237
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08481747 — Synthesis of terminal alkenes from internal alkenes and ethylene via olefin metathesis

US 08481747	Schrodi
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Yann Schrodi (Agoura Hills, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Bolingbrook, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Yann Schrodi (Agoura Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates generally to olefin metathesis, and more particularly relates to the synthesis of terminal alkenes from internal alkenes using a cross-metathesis reaction catalyzed by a selected olefin metathesis catalyst. In one embodiment of the invention, for example, a method is provided for synthesizing a terminal olefin, the method comprising contacting an olefinic substrate comprised of at least one internal olefin with ethylene, in the presence of a metathesis catalyst, wherein the catalyst is present in an amount that is less than about 1000 ppm relative to the olefinic substrate, and wherein the metathesis catalyst has the structure of formula (II) wherein the various substituents are as defined herein. The invention has utility, for example, in the fields of catalysis, organic synthesis, and industrial chemistry.
FILED	Friday, September 16, 2011
APPL NO	13/234542
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 548/103
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08481756 — Succinic anhydrides from epoxides

US 08481756	Coates et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); John M. Rowley (Houghton, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); John M. Rowley (Houghton, New York)
ABSTRACT	Catalysts and methods for the double carbonylation of epoxides are disclosed. Each epoxide molecule reacts with two molecules of carbon monoxide to produce a succinic anhydride. The reaction is facilitated by catalysts combining a Lewis acidic species with a transition metal carbonyl complex. The double carbonylation is achieved in single process by using reaction conditions under which both carbonylation reactions occur without the necessity of isolating or purifying the product of the first carbonylation.
FILED	Thursday, September 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/204411
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 549/233
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08481766 — Methods of producing epoxides from alkenes using a two-component catalyst system

US 08481766	Kung et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Mayfair C. Kung (Wilmette, Illinois); Harold H. Kung (Wilmette, Illinois); Jian Jiang (Shanghai, China PRC)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Mayfair C. Kung (Wilmette, Illinois); Harold H. Kung (Wilmette, Illinois); Jian Jiang (Shanghai, China PRC)
ABSTRACT	Methods for the epoxidation of alkenes are provided. The methods include the steps of exposing the alkene to a two-component catalyst system in an aqueous solution in the presence of carbon monoxide and molecular oxygen under conditions in which the alkene is epoxidized. The two-component catalyst system comprises a first catalyst that generates peroxides or peroxy intermediates during oxidation of CO with molecular oxygen and a second catalyst that catalyzes the epoxidation of the alkene using the peroxides or peroxy intermediates. A catalyst system composed of particles of suspended gold and titanium silicalite is one example of a suitable two-component catalyst system.
FILED	Wednesday, November 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/943138
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 549/533
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08481961 — Shielded capacitive electrode

US 08481961	Kireeff Covo
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)	Michel Kireeff Covo (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Michel Kireeff Covo (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	A device is described, which is sensitive to electric fields, but is insensitive to stray electrons/ions and unlike a bare, exposed conductor, it measures capacitively coupled current while rejecting currents due to charged particle collected or emitted. A charged particle beam establishes an electric field inside the beam pipe. A grounded metallic box with an aperture is placed in a drift region near the beam tube radius. The produced electric field that crosses the aperture generates a fringe field that terminates in the back surface of the front of the box and induces an image charge. An electrode is placed inside the grounded box and near the aperture, where the fringe fields terminate, in order to couple with the beam. The electrode is negatively biased to suppress collection of electrons and is protected behind the front of the box, so the beam halo cannot directly hit the electrode and produce electrons. The measured signal shows the net potential (positive ion beam plus negative electrons) variation with time, as it shall be observed from the beam pipe wall.
FILED	Tuesday, February 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/368541
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/397
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08481974 — Apparatus and method for measuring single cell and sub-cellular photosynthetic efficiency

US 08481974	Davis 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)	Ryan Wesley Davis (Pleasanton, California); Seema Singh (Fremont, California); Huawen Wu (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Ryan Wesley Davis (Pleasanton, California); Seema Singh (Fremont, California); Huawen Wu (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	Devices for measuring single cell changes in photosynthetic efficiency in algal aquaculture are disclosed that include a combination of modulated LED trans-illumination of different intensities with synchronized through objective laser illumination and confocal detection. Synchronization and intensity modulation of a dual illumination scheme were provided using a custom microcontroller for a laser beam block and constant current LED driver. Therefore, single whole cell photosynthetic efficiency, and subcellular (diffraction limited) photosynthetic efficiency measurement modes are permitted. Wide field rapid light scanning actinic illumination is provided for both by an intensity modulated 470 nm LED. For the whole cell photosynthetic efficiency measurement, the same LED provides saturating pulses for generating photosynthetic induction curves. For the subcellular photosynthetic efficiency measurement, a switched through objective 488 nm laser provides saturating pulses for generating photosynthetic induction curves. A second near IR LED is employed to generate dark adapted states in the system under study.
FILED	Thursday, September 15, 2011
APPL NO	13/233343
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/58 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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08482452 — Synthetic aperture integration (SAI) algorithm for SAR imaging

US 08482452	Chambers 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)	David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Jeffrey E. Mast (Loveland, Colorado); David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Jeffrey E. Mast (Loveland, Colorado); David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for detecting the presence of subsurface objects within a medium is provided. In some embodiments, the imaging and detection system operates in a multistatic mode to collect radar return signals generated by an array of transceiver antenna pairs that is positioned across the surface and that travels down the surface. The imaging and detection system pre-processes the return signal to suppress certain undesirable effects. The imaging and detection system then generates synthetic aperture radar images from real aperture radar images generated from the pre-processed return signal. The imaging and detection system then post-processes the synthetic aperture radar images to improve detection of subsurface objects. The imaging and detection system identifies peaks in the energy levels of the post-processed image frame, which indicates the presence of a subsurface object.
FILED	Friday, August 26, 2011
APPL NO	13/219475
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/22
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08482739 — Heterodyne photomixer spectrometer with receiver photomixer driven at different frequency than source photomixer

US 08482739	Wanke 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)	Michael C. Wanke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kevin Fortier (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric A. Shaner (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Todd A. Barrick (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael C. Wanke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kevin Fortier (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric A. Shaner (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Todd A. Barrick (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A heterodyne photomixer spectrometer comprises a receiver photomixer that is driven at a different frequency than the source photomixer, thereby maintaining the coherent nature of the detection, eliminating etalon effects, and providing not only the amplitude but also the phase of the received signal. The heterodyne technique can be applied where the source and receiver elements are components of a waveguide thereby forming an on-chip heterodyne spectrometer.
FILED	Tuesday, September 28, 2010
APPL NO	12/892625
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484
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08483255 — Transverse pumped laser amplifier architecture

US 08483255	Bayramian 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)	Andrew James Bayramian (Manteca, California); Kenneth Manes (Brentwood, California); Robert Deri (Pleasanton, California); Al Erlandson (Livermore, California); John Caird (San Francisco, California); Mary Spaeth (Brentwood, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew James Bayramian (Manteca, California); Kenneth Manes (Brentwood, California); Robert Deri (Pleasanton, California); Al Erlandson (Livermore, California); John Caird (San Francisco, California); Mary Spaeth (Brentwood, California)
ABSTRACT	An optical gain architecture includes a pump source and a pump aperture. The architecture also includes a gain region including a gain element operable to amplify light at a laser wavelength. The gain region is characterized by a first side intersecting an optical path, a second side opposing the first side, a third side adjacent the first and second sides, and a fourth side opposing the third side. The architecture further includes a dichroic section disposed between the pump aperture and the first side of the gain region. The dichroic section is characterized by low reflectance at a pump wavelength and high reflectance at the laser wavelength. The architecture additionally includes a first cladding section proximate to the third side of the gain region and a second cladding section proximate to the fourth side of the gain region.
FILED	Friday, November 05, 2010
APPL NO	12/940869
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/99
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08483347 — Upper internals arrangement for a pressurized water reactor

US 08483347	Singleton et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Norman R. Singleton (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); David A. Altman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ching Yu (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); James A. Rex (Trafford, Pennsylvania); David R. Forsyth (Cheswick, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Norman R. Singleton (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); David A. Altman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ching Yu (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); James A. Rex (Trafford, Pennsylvania); David R. Forsyth (Cheswick, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	In a pressurized water reactor with all of the in-core instrumentation gaining access to the core through the reactor head, each fuel assembly in which the instrumentation is introduced is aligned with an upper internals instrumentation guide-way. In the elevations above the upper internals upper support assembly, the instrumentation is protected and aligned by upper mounted instrumentation columns that are part of the instrumentation guide-way and extend from the upper support assembly towards the reactor head in hue with a corresponding head penetration. The upper mounted instrumentation columns are supported laterally at one end by an upper guide tube and at the other end by the upper support plate.
FILED	Tuesday, April 10, 2007
APPL NO	11/733248
ART UNIT	3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/353
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08483394 — Secure multi-party communication with quantum key distribution managed by trusted authority

US 08483394	Nordholt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Jane Elizabeth Nordholt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Richard John Hughes (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Charles Glen Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Jane Elizabeth Nordholt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Richard John Hughes (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Charles Glen Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	Techniques and tools for implementing protocols for secure multi-party communication after quantum key distribution (“QKD”) are described herein. In example implementations, a trusted authority facilitates secure communication between multiple user devices. The trusted authority distributes different quantum keys by QKD under trust relationships with different users. The trusted authority determines combination keys using the quantum keys and makes the combination keys available for distribution (e.g., for non-secret distribution over a public channel). The combination keys facilitate secure communication between two user devices even in the absence of QKD between the two user devices. With the protocols, benefits of QKD are extended to multi-party communication scenarios. In addition, the protocols can retain benefit of QKD even when a trusted authority is offline or a large group seeks to establish secure communication within the group.
FILED	Thursday, September 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/895367
ART UNIT	2494 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Cryptography 380/279
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08484440 — Performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer

US 08484440	Faraj
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Ahmad Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ahmad Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an allreduce operation on a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer, each node including at least two processing cores, that include: establishing, for each node, a plurality of logical rings, each ring including a different set of at least one core on that node, each ring including the cores on at least two of the nodes; iteratively for each node: assigning each core of that node to one of the rings established for that node to which the core has not previously been assigned, and performing, for each ring for that node, a global allreduce operation using contribution data for the cores assigned to that ring or any global allreduce results from previous global allreduce operations, yielding current global allreduce results for each core; and performing, for each node, a local allreduce operation using the global allreduce results.
FILED	Wednesday, May 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/124745
ART UNIT	2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/30
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08484658 — Data communications in a parallel active messaging interface of a parallel computer

US 08484658	Davis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Kristan D. Davis (Rochester, Minnesota); Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Kristan D. Davis (Rochester, Minnesota); Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Algorithm selection for data communications in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI composed of data communications endpoints, each endpoint including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, endpoints coupled for data communications through the PAMI, including associating in the PAMI data communications algorithms and ranges of message sizes so that each algorithm is associated with a separate range of message sizes; receiving in an origin endpoint of the PAMI a data communications instruction, the instruction specifying transmission of a data communications message from the origin endpoint to a target endpoint, the data communications message characterized by a message size; selecting, from among the associated algorithms and ranges, a data communications algorithm in dependence upon the message size; and transmitting, according to the selected data communications algorithm from the origin endpoint to the target endpoint, the data communications message.
FILED	Friday, December 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/959455
ART UNIT	2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/313
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08484759 — Spatially resolved quantitative mapping of thermomechanical properties and phase transition temperatures using scanning probe microscopy

US 08484759	Jesse et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)	Stephen Jesse (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sergei V. Kalinin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Maxim P. Nikiforov (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen Jesse (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sergei V. Kalinin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Maxim P. Nikiforov (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	An approach for the thermomechanical characterization of phase transitions in polymeric materials (polyethyleneterephthalate) by band excitation acoustic force microscopy is developed. This methodology allows the independent measurement of resonance frequency, Q factor, and oscillation amplitude of a tip-surface contact area as a function of tip temperature, from which the thermal evolution of tip-surface spring constant and mechanical dissipation can be extracted. A heating protocol maintained a constant tip-surface contact area and constant contact force, thereby allowing for reproducible measurements and quantitative extraction of material properties including temperature dependence of indentation-based elastic and loss moduli.
FILED	Tuesday, August 17, 2010
APPL NO	12/857894
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/50
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

08479502 — Increased power in compressed-gas energy storage and recovery

US 08479502	McBride et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont)
ABSTRACT	In various embodiments, energy is stored or recovered via super-atmospheric compression and/or expansion of gas in conjunction with substantially adiabatic compression and/or expansion from or to atmospheric pressure.
FILED	Tuesday, January 10, 2012
APPL NO	13/347116
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/410
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08479505 — Systems and methods for reducing dead volume in compressed-gas energy storage systems

US 08479505	McBride et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Michael Neil Scott (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Robert Cook (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Lee Doyle (Lebanon, New Hampshire)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Michael Neil Scott (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Robert Cook (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Lee Doyle (Lebanon, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	In various embodiments, dead space and associated coupling losses are reduced in energy storage and recovery systems employing compressed air.
FILED	Wednesday, April 06, 2011
APPL NO	13/080910
ART UNIT	3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/508
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08480244 — Methods and devices for directional radiative cooling thermal compensation

US 08480244	Desalvo et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)	Riccardo Desalvo (Pasadena, California); Carl Justin Kamp (Gothenburg, Sweden); Roberto Passaquieti (Cascina, Italy); Yury Minenkov (Montecompatri, Italy)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Riccardo Desalvo (Pasadena, California); Carl Justin Kamp (Gothenburg, Sweden); Roberto Passaquieti (Cascina, Italy); Yury Minenkov (Montecompatri, Italy)
ABSTRACT	A radiative thermal compensation system is described. An imaging arrangement located in an optical path between a surface to be thermally compensated (e.g., cooled) and one or more thermal sinks. The imaging arrangement is oriented with respect to the surface and the sinks so that solid angles are defined, along which the sinks are imaged onto the surface and control heat flow from the surface.
FILED	Tuesday, February 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/699023
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/866
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08480927 — Light emitting material

US 08480927	Halpert et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan R. Tischler (Sharon, Massachusetts); Moungi Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan R. Tischler (Sharon, Massachusetts); Moungi Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A composition can include a first moiety capable of being excited to an excited state, and a second moiety capable of accepting excited state energy from the first moiety. The second moiety is capable of emitting light with a FWHM of 15 nm or less when excited. The second moiety can be a J-aggregate and the first moiety can be a semiconductor nanocrystal.
FILED	Thursday, August 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/673728
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/301.160
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08480942 — Method of forming a patterned layer of a material on a substrate

US 08480942	Shannon et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark A Shannon (Champaign, Illinois); Junghoon Yeom (Savoy, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark A Shannon (Champaign, Illinois); Junghoon Yeom (Savoy, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method of forming a patterned layer of a material on a substrate includes forming a layer of the material on a stamp, and contacting the stamp with a first substrate comprising a pattern of protruding and recessed features to bring a first portion of the layer into conformal contact with the protruding features. The stamp is then removed from the first substrate. The first portion of the layer remains in conformal contact with the protruding features, and a second portion of the layer opposite the recessed features is removed with the stamp. Accordingly, a patterned layer is formed on the stamp inverse to the pattern on the first substrate. The method may further include transferring the patterned layer on the stamp to a second substrate.
FILED	Thursday, January 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/015299
ART UNIT	1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/293
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08481017 — Thin films for controlled protein interaction

US 08481017	Schlenoff et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida); Zhijie Sui (Tucson, Arizona); David S. Salloum (Blue Ash, Ohio); Hassan Rmaile (Hockessin, Delaware)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida); Zhijie Sui (Tucson, Arizona); David S. Salloum (Blue Ash, Ohio); Hassan Rmaile (Hockessin, Delaware)
ABSTRACT	A medium for isolating or releasing an electrostatically charged component from or into an aqueous composition. The medium has a polyelectrolyte film on at least one surface of an article wherein the polyelectrolyte film is characterized by an interpenetrating network of a predominantly positively charged polymer and a predominantly negatively charged polymer. The predominantly positively charged polymer, the predominantly negatively charged polymer or both contain (i) a pH sensitive imidazole repeat unit having a pKa between 3 and 9, or (ii) a redox sensitive repeat unit selected from the group consisting of quaternized bipyridine repeat units, coordinated metal repeat units, pyrrole repeat units, aniline repeat units, thiophene repeat units and combinations thereof having a redox potential between +1.2 volts and −1.2 volts versus a standard hydrogen electrode.
FILED	Wednesday, February 23, 2005
APPL NO	11/063952
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.80
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08481112 — Highly luminescent color-selective nanocrystalline materials

US 08481112	Bawendi et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dharan, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriguez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dharan, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriguez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a nanoparticle having photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%.
FILED	Friday, June 10, 2011
APPL NO	13/157466
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/212
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08481113 — Highly luminescent color-selective nanocrystalline materials

US 08481113	Bawendi et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dharan, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriguez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dharan, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriguez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a nanoparticle having photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%.
FILED	Friday, June 10, 2011
APPL NO	13/157473
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/212
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08481125 — Mitigation of biomolecular adsorption with hydrophilic polymer additives

US 08481125	Yi et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Uichong B. Yi (Cary, North Carolina); Peter-Patrick De Guzman (Orange, California); Wayne Po-Wen Liu (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Advanced Liquid Logic Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Uichong B. Yi (Cary, North Carolina); Peter-Patrick De Guzman (Orange, California); Wayne Po-Wen Liu (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Molecular adsorption to the microfluidic device surfaces can be passively and actively mitigated by mixing certain hydrophilic polymers (organic polymers with repeating hydrophilic groups—the preferred polymers being amphipathic surfactants—with the sample liquid during or prior to relevant microfluidic operations. Nonionic surfactants such as polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate and polyoxyethylene octyl phenyl ether are especially effective. High molecular weight polyethylene polymers are also effective. The hydrophilic polymers appear to prevent binding of the fouling molecules to the microfluidic by occupying the surface sites in place of the fouling molecules or by interacting with the fouling molecules to prevent binding of the fouling molecules the surface. When surface adsorption is thus mitigated, microfluidic devices can readily handle samples containing biomolecules to enable active sample concentration, filtering, washing, transport, mixing and other sample handling operations.
FILED	Thursday, May 18, 2006
APPL NO	11/915308
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/427.400
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08481421 — Functional anchors connecting graphene-like carbon to metal

US 08481421	Goddard et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)	William A. Goddard (Pasadena, California); Weiqiao Deng (Pasadena, California); Yuki Matsuda (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	William A. Goddard (Pasadena, California); Weiqiao Deng (Pasadena, California); Yuki Matsuda (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	Functional linkers or anchors interconnecting graphene-like carbon, such as nanotubes or graphite sheets, with a conducting material such as a metal, are shown, together with related structures, devices, methods and systems.
FILED	Thursday, July 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/179345
ART UNIT	2829 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/618
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08481575 — Synthesis of epothilones, intermediates thereto, analogues and uses thereof

US 08481575	Danishefsky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Peter Bertinato (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Dai-shi Su (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Dongfang Meng (Westfield, New Jersey); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ted Kamenecka (San Diego, California); Erik J. Sorensen (Princeton, New Jersey); Aaron Balog (Lambertville, New Jersey); Kenneth A. Savin (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Peter Bertinato (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Dai-shi Su (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Dongfang Meng (Westfield, New Jersey); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ted Kamenecka (San Diego, California); Erik J. Sorensen (Princeton, New Jersey); Aaron Balog (Lambertville, New Jersey); Kenneth A. Savin (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides convergent processes for preparing epothilone A and B, desoxyepothilones A and B, and analogues thereof. Also provided are analogues related to epothilone A and B and intermediates useful for preparing same. The present invention further provides novel compositions based on analogues of the epothilones and methods for the treatment of cancer and cancer which has developed a multidrug-resistant phenotype.
FILED	Thursday, March 03, 2011
APPL NO	13/040211
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365
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08481756 — Succinic anhydrides from epoxides

US 08481756	Coates et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); John M. Rowley (Houghton, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); John M. Rowley (Houghton, New York)
ABSTRACT	Catalysts and methods for the double carbonylation of epoxides are disclosed. Each epoxide molecule reacts with two molecules of carbon monoxide to produce a succinic anhydride. The reaction is facilitated by catalysts combining a Lewis acidic species with a transition metal carbonyl complex. The double carbonylation is achieved in single process by using reaction conditions under which both carbonylation reactions occur without the necessity of isolating or purifying the product of the first carbonylation.
FILED	Thursday, September 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/204411
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 549/233
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08482463 — On-chip highly-efficient antennas using strong resonant coupling

US 08482463	Babakhani et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Aydin Babakhani (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Aydin Babakhani (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to an antenna structure for coupling electromagnetic energy between a chip and an off-chip element, including a first resonant structure disposed on or in a chip. The first resonant structure is configured to have a first resonant frequency. The antenna structure also includes a second resonant structure disposed on or in an off-chip element. The second resonant structure is configured to have a second resonant frequency substantially the same as the first resonant frequency. The first resonant structure and the second resonant structure are mutually disposed within a near field distance of each other to form a coupled antenna structure that is configured to couple electromagnetic energy between the chip and the off-chip element. The electromagnetic energy has a selected wavelength in a wavelength range from microwave to sub-millimeter wave. The invention also relates to a method of calculating dimensions for a highly coupled antenna structure.
FILED	Friday, May 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/454815
ART UNIT	2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0
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08483492 — Method and apparatus for signal detection, classification and estimation from compressive measurements

US 08483492	Baraniuk et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Marco F. Duarte (Houston, Texas); Mark A. Davenport (Houston, Texas); Michael B. Wakin (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Marco F. Duarte (Houston, Texas); Mark A. Davenport (Houston, Texas); Michael B. Wakin (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The recently introduced theory of Compressive Sensing (CS) enables a new method for signal recovery from incomplete information (a reduced set of “compressive” linear measurements), based on the assumption that the signal is sparse in some dictionary. Such compressive measurement schemes are desirable in practice for reducing the costs of signal acquisition, storage, and processing. However, the current CS framework considers only a certain task (signal recovery) and only in a certain model setting (sparsity). We show that compressive measurements are in fact information scalable, allowing one to answer a broad spectrum of questions about a signal when provided only with a reduced set of compressive measurements. These questions range from complete signal recovery at one extreme down to a simple binary detection decision at the other. (Questions in between include, for example, estimation and classification.) We provide techniques such as a “compressive matched filter” for answering several of these questions given the available measurements, often without needing to first reconstruct the signal. In many cases, these techniques can succeed with far fewer measurements than would be required for full signal recovery, and such techniques can also be computationally more efficient. Based on additional mathematical insight, we discuss information scalable algorithms in several model settings, including sparsity (as in CS), but also in parametric or manifold-based settings and in model-free settings for generic statements of detection, classification, and estimation problems.
FILED	Wednesday, October 25, 2006
APPL NO	12/091069
ART UNIT	2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/232
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08484269 — Computing time-decayed aggregates under smooth decay functions

US 08484269	Cormode et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)	Graham Cormode (Summit, New Jersey); Philip Korn (New York, New York); Srikanta Tirthapura (Ames, Iowa)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AT and T Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Graham Cormode (Summit, New Jersey); Philip Korn (New York, New York); Srikanta Tirthapura (Ames, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	Aggregates are calculated from a data stream in which data is sent in a sequence of tuples, in which each tuple comprises an item identifier and a timestamp indicating when the tuple was transmitted. The tuples may arrive at a data receiver out-of-order, that is, the sequence in which the tuples arrive are not necessarily in the same sequence as their corresponding timestamps. In calculating aggregates, more recent data may be given more weight by a decay function which is a function of the timestamp associated with the tuple and the current time. The statistical characteristics of the tuples are summarized by a set of linear data summaries. The set of linear data summaries are generated such that only a single linear data summary falls between a set of boundaries calculated from the decay function and a set of timestamps. Aggregates are calculated from the set of linear data summaries.
FILED	Wednesday, January 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/006333
ART UNIT	2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/270
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

08480637 — Nanochanneled device and related methods

US 08480637	Ferrari et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC)
APPLICANT(S)	Mauro Ferrari (Houston, Texas); Xuewu Liu (Sugar Land, Texas); Alessandro Grattoni (Houston, Texas); Daniel Fine (Austin, Texas); Randy Goodall (Austin, Texas); Sharath Hosali (Austin, Texas); Ryan Medema (Pflugerville, Texas); Lee Hudson (Elgin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Mauro Ferrari (Houston, Texas); Xuewu Liu (Sugar Land, Texas); Alessandro Grattoni (Houston, Texas); Daniel Fine (Austin, Texas); Randy Goodall (Austin, Texas); Sharath Hosali (Austin, Texas); Ryan Medema (Pflugerville, Texas); Lee Hudson (Elgin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A nanochannel delivery device and method of manufacturing and use. The nanochannel delivery device comprises an inlet, an outlet, and a nanochannel. The nanochannel may be oriented parallel to the primary plane of the nanochannel delivery device. The inlet and outlet may be in direct fluid communication with the nanochannel.
FILED	Friday, November 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/618233
ART UNIT	3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 64/264
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08481907 — Mapping electrical crosstalk in pixelated sensor arrays

US 08481907	Seshadri et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Suresh Seshadri (West Covina, California); David Cole (Glendale, California); Roger M Smith (LaCanada Flintridge, California); Bruce R. Hancock (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Suresh Seshadri (West Covina, California); David Cole (Glendale, California); Roger M Smith (LaCanada Flintridge, California); Bruce R. Hancock (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The effects of inter pixel capacitance in a pixilated array may be measured by first resetting all pixels in the array to a first voltage, where a first image is read out, followed by resetting only a subset of pixels in the array to a second voltage, where a second image is read out, where the difference in the first and second images provide information about the inter pixel capacitance. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
FILED	Friday, January 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/009595
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/208.100
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08482602 — Non-destructive rotary imaging

US 08482602	Pommerenke et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
APPLICANT(S)	David Johannes Pommerenke (Rolla, Missouri); Reza Zoughi (Wildwood, Missouri); Mohammad Tayeb Ghasr (Rolla, Missouri); Joseph Tobias Case (Huntsville, Alabama); Andrew Dale McClanahan (Huntsville, Alabama); Kyle Lee Guinn (Olathe, Kansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	David Johannes Pommerenke (Rolla, Missouri); Reza Zoughi (Wildwood, Missouri); Mohammad Tayeb Ghasr (Rolla, Missouri); Joseph Tobias Case (Huntsville, Alabama); Andrew Dale McClanahan (Huntsville, Alabama); Kyle Lee Guinn (Olathe, Kansas)
ABSTRACT	Non-destructive imaging of an object. An imaging head supported on a rotatable arm samples an electric field scattered by the object at a plurality of locations as the arm rotates about a central axis, with the locations corresponding to a defined spatial domain located remotely from the object. One or more processors execute computer-readable instructions for controlling rotation of the arm and generating a multi-dimensional profile representative of the object in the defined spatial domain based on the sampling.
FILED	Friday, November 13, 2009
APPL NO	12/618575
ART UNIT	2444 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Television 348/50
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08483877 — Workspace safe operation of a force- or impedance-controlled robot

US 08483877	Abdallah et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Brian Hargrave (Dickenson, Texas); John D. Yamokoski (Houston, Texas); Philip A. Strawser (Houston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Brian Hargrave (Dickenson, Texas); John D. Yamokoski (Houston, Texas); Philip A. Strawser (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method of controlling a robotic manipulator of a force- or impedance-controlled robot within an unstructured workspace includes imposing a saturation limit on a static force applied by the manipulator to its surrounding environment, and may include determining a contact force between the manipulator and an object in the unstructured workspace, and executing a dynamic reflex when the contact force exceeds a threshold to thereby alleviate an inertial impulse not addressed by the saturation limited static force. The method may include calculating a required reflex torque to be imparted by a joint actuator to a robotic joint. A robotic system includes a robotic manipulator having an unstructured workspace and a controller that is electrically connected to the manipulator, and which controls the manipulator using force- or impedance-based commands. The controller, which is also disclosed herein, automatically imposes the saturation limit and may execute the dynamic reflex noted above.
FILED	Friday, September 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/875254
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/255
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08483882 — Hierarchical robot control system and method for controlling select degrees of freedom of an object using multiple manipulators

US 08483882	Abdallah et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A robotic system includes a robot having manipulators for grasping an object using one of a plurality of grasp types during a primary task, and a controller. The controller controls the manipulators during the primary task using a multiple-task control hierarchy, and automatically parameterizes the internal forces of the system for each grasp type in response to an input signal. The primary task is defined at an object-level of control, e.g., using a closed-chain transformation, such that only select degrees of freedom are commanded for the object. A control system for the robotic system has a host machine and algorithm for controlling the manipulators using the above hierarchy. A method for controlling the system includes receiving and processing the input signal using the host machine, including defining the primary task at the object-level of control, e.g., using a closed-chain definition, and parameterizing the internal forces for each of grasp type.
FILED	Wednesday, January 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/686512
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/260
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

08480760 — Passive ankle-foot prosthesis and orthosis capable of automatic adaptation to sloped walking surfaces and method of use

US 08480760	Hansen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	Andrew H. Hansen (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Jonathon W. Sensinger (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew H. Hansen (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Jonathon W. Sensinger (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to an improved system for use in rehabilitation and/or physical therapy for the treatment of injury or disease to the lower limbs or extremities. The system can enable an amputee to proceed over any inclined or declined surface without overbalancing. The system is mechanically passive in that it does not utilize motors, force generating devices, batteries, or powered sources that may add undesirable weight or mass and that may require recharging. In particular the system is self-adapting to adjust the torque moment depending upon the motion, the extent of inclination, and the surface topography. An additional advantage of the improvement is that the system can be light and may also be simple to manufacture.
FILED	Tuesday, April 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/066361
ART UNIT	3738 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Prosthesis 623/52
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08481056 — Pro-apoptotic bacterial vaccines to enhance cellular immune responses

US 08481056	Kernodle et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Douglas S. Kernodle (Brentwood, Tennessee); Markian R. Bochan (Nashville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Douglas S. Kernodle (Brentwood, Tennessee); Markian R. Bochan (Nashville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Whole-cell vaccines and methods for their use in producing protective immune responses in vertebrate hosts subsequently exposed to pathogenic bacteria. The present invention involves a method of enhancing antigen presentation by intracellular bacteria in a manner that improves vaccine efficacy. After identifying an enzyme that has an anti-apoptotic effect upon host cells infected by an intracellular microbe, the activity of the enzyme is reduced, thereby modifying the microbe so that it increases immunogenicity. Also, the present invention provides a method of incrementally modifying enzyme activity to produce incrementally attenuated mutants of the microbe from which an effective vaccine candidate can be selected.
FILED	Monday, September 19, 2011
APPL NO	13/236325
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100
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08481283 — Pressure-assisted molecular recovery (PAMR) of biomolecules, pressure-assisted antigen retrieval (PAAR), and pressure-assisted tissue histology (PATH)

US 08481283	O'Leary et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy J. O'Leary (Washington, District of Columbia); Jeffrey T. Mason (Rockville, Maryland); Carol B. Fowler (Rockville, Maryland); Robert E. Cunningham (Rockville, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Defense on behalf of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Washington, District of Columbia); American Registry of Pathology (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy J. O'Leary (Washington, District of Columbia); Jeffrey T. Mason (Rockville, Maryland); Carol B. Fowler (Rockville, Maryland); Robert E. Cunningham (Rockville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A method is disclosed for reversing fixation-induced cross-linking in tissue specimens that have been preserved for histological examination. The method involves placing the fixed tissue in a liquid under elevated temperature and pressure conditions that are sufficient to reverse the fixation-induced cross-linking, restore antigenicity to proteins, and permit improved molecular and proteomic analysis of the preserved tissue specimen. Methods are also disclosed for processing tissues for histological examination under elevated pressure conditions that enhance the perfusion of liquid reagents into the tissue and reduce overall processing times.
FILED	Thursday, September 13, 2012
APPL NO	13/613618
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/40.520
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08481543 — Compounds for treating parasitic disease

US 08481543	Riscoe et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael K. Riscoe (Tualatin, Oregon); Rolf W. Winter (Portland, Oregon); David J. Hinrichs (Lake Oswego, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael K. Riscoe (Tualatin, Oregon); Rolf W. Winter (Portland, Oregon); David J. Hinrichs (Lake Oswego, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A compound, particularly an antimalarial compound, according to formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: X is an electron-withdrawing group; A is an optionally substituted alkanediyl or an optionally substituted cycloalkanediyl that includes 2 to 5 carbon atoms; and R₁and R₂are each individually H, tert-butyl, isopropyl, or optionally substituted cycloalkyl.
FILED	Tuesday, November 17, 2009
APPL NO	13/129791
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.110
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

08481284 — Process of preparing conjugates of allium organosulfur compounds with amino acids, peptides, and proteins

US 08481284	Parkin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Kirk L. Parkin (Middleton, Wisconsin); Guodong Zhang (Davis, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Kirk L. Parkin (Middleton, Wisconsin); Guodong Zhang (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	Processes using Allium tissue homogenates and extracts in a simple and cost-effective manner to maximize the yields and recovery of thiosulfinates from Allium tissues and related organisms possessing alliinase, LF synthase and/or S-alk(en)yl-L-cysteine sulfoxides are disclosed.
FILED	Tuesday, October 05, 2010
APPL NO	12/898006
ART UNIT	1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41
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08481289 — Triple acting antimicrobials that are refractory to resistance development

US 08481289	Donovan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	David M. Donovan (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen C. Becker (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David M. Donovan (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen C. Becker (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Multi-drug resistant superbugs are a persistent problem in modern health care. This invention provides an antimicrobial endolysin-Lysostaphin triple fusion protein, comprising (1) an endolysin CHAP endopeptidase domain, (2) an endolysin amidase domain, and (3) a Lysostaphin glycyl-glycine endopeptidase domain. The domains are derived from two proteins that show antimicrobial synergy when used in combination. The protein has specificity and exolytic activity for the peptidoglycan cell wall of untreated, live Staphylococcus aureus from many growth phases i.e. stationary, logarithmic and biofilm growth. The recombinant triple fusion protein comprising the three functional antimicrobial domains is designed to be refractory to resistance development.
FILED	Friday, July 24, 2009
APPL NO	12/460812
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700
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PP023724 — Mandarin tree named ‘US Early Pride’

US PP23724	McCollum et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas G. McCollum (Vero Beach, Florida); Jack Hearn (Valdosta, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas G. McCollum (Vero Beach, Florida); Jack Hearn (Valdosta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	A new and distinct mandarin cultivar which originated from seed produced by a hand pollinated cross of OSC 1466 (non-patented)×ORUS 1117-11 (non-patented) is provided. It is distinguished by production of fruit that combines early season maturity, large fruit size, smooth rind texture with deep orange color, and a rich sweet flavor. It further distinguishes itself by being very low seeded and relatively easy to peel.
FILED	Thursday, February 10, 2011
APPL NO	12/931765
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Plants PLT/201
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Department of Commerce (DOC)

08481901 — Enhanced sample processing devices, systems and methods

US 08481901	Bedingham et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)	William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); Raj Rajagopal (Woodbury, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); Raj Rajagopal (Woodbury, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Methods for processing sample materials. Methods of the present disclosure can include providing a device including a process chamber array, the process chamber array including a loading chamber and a process chamber; providing sample material in the process chamber array; moving the sample material within the process chamber array by rotating the device; providing paramagnetic particles within the sample material located in the process chamber array; providing a magnet proximate the device; and rotating the device such that the paramagnetic particles within the sample material are subjected to the magnetic field of the magnet during rotation of the device.
FILED	Monday, August 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/214808
ART UNIT	3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric heating 219/749
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08484756 — Tip-mounted nanowire light source instrumentation

US 08484756	Bertness et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)	Kristine A. Bertness (Boulder, Colorado); Norman A. Sanford (Boulder, Colorado); Pavel Kabos (Fort Collins, Colorado); Thomas M. Wallis (Lafayette, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Kristine A. Bertness (Boulder, Colorado); Norman A. Sanford (Boulder, Colorado); Pavel Kabos (Fort Collins, Colorado); Thomas M. Wallis (Lafayette, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A scanning probe microscopy instrument includes a cantilevered tip that has a nanowire light emitting diode (LED).
FILED	Wednesday, January 19, 2011
APPL NO	13/009300
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/32
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Department of the Interior (DOI)

08483446 — Method and system for estimating antler, horn, and pronghorn size of an animal

US 08483446	Demarais et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of the Interior (DOI)
APPLICANT(S)	Stephen Demarais (Starkville, Mississippi); Bronson K. Strickland (Starkville, Mississippi); Jeremy Flinn (LaGrange, Kentucky); Stephen L. Webb (Laramie, Wyoming)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen Demarais (Starkville, Mississippi); Bronson K. Strickland (Starkville, Mississippi); Jeremy Flinn (LaGrange, Kentucky); Stephen L. Webb (Laramie, Wyoming)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a method and system utilizing novel computer software for determining the antler, horn, and pronghorn size of an animal by calculating, measuring, analyzing, comparing, scoring, presenting, and comparing the antler and horn sizes of animals such as deer, bovids, and pronghorns from digital data and/or photographs.
FILED	Friday, June 17, 2011
APPL NO	13/134850
ART UNIT	2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/110
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08484083 — Method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network

US 08484083	Basu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Interior (DOI) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
APPLICANT(S)	Sugato Basu (Redwood City, California); Jiye Yu (Menlo Park, California); Jeffrey Davitz (Danville, California); Mark Drummond (Los Altos Hills, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Sugato Basu (Redwood City, California); Jiye Yu (Menlo Park, California); Jeffrey Davitz (Danville, California); Mark Drummond (Los Altos Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one of: interactions between users of the social network or profile information for the users, determining a global topic model including at least one topic, based on the collected information, and locally refining the global topic model in accordance with the collected information.
FILED	Monday, December 17, 2007
APPL NO	12/002412
ART UNIT	2165 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/14.660
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National Security Agency (NSA)

08484611 — Method and system for simplified assembly of information processing applications

US 08484611	Bouillet et al.
FUNDED BY	National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method for automatic composition of an information processing flow based on a user-specified processing goal, includes: selecting tags from a first plurality of tags, wherein the selected tags specify a processing goal; composing a processing graph in accordance with the processing goal; and displaying a second plurality of tags, wherein the second plurality of tags includes tags that are only relevant to the selected tags.
FILED	Monday, October 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/872385
ART UNIT	2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/105
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08484649 — Amortizing costs of shared scans

US 08484649	Hildrum et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sujay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Rohit M. Khandekar (Elmsford, New York); Sujay S. Parekh (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	Techniques for scheduling a plurality of jobs sharing input are provided. The techniques include partitioning one or more input datasets into multiple subcomponents, analyzing a plurality of jobs to determine which of the plurality of jobs require scanning of one or more common subcomponents of the one or more input datasets, and scheduling a plurality of jobs that require scanning of one or more common subcomponents of the one or more input datasets, facilitating a single scanning of the one or more common subcomponents to be used as input by each of the plurality of jobs.
FILED	Wednesday, January 05, 2011
APPL NO	12/984909
ART UNIT	2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

08481160 — Bimodal and multimodal plant biomass particle mixtures

US 08481160	Dooley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington)
ABSTRACT	An industrial feedstock of plant biomass particles having fibers aligned in a grain, wherein the particles are individually characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L, wherein the L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers, the W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers, and the L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces, and wherein the particles in the feedstock are collectively characterized by having a bimodal or multimodal size distribution.
FILED	Friday, August 24, 2012
APPL NO	13/594312
ART UNIT	1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402
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08481446 — Chemically-resistant coating composition

US 08481446	Lombardi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona); Chuchawin Changtong (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona); Chuchawin Changtong (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	A coating composition comprising a Photocatalyst Composition comprising a photocatalyst and a pendent silyl ester group, wherein the photocatalyst produces singlet oxygen in the presence of light and ambient air. In certain embodiments, the coating composition further comprises a singlet oxygen scavenger.
FILED	Tuesday, January 05, 2010
APPL NO	12/652670
ART UNIT	1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/158
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)

08483961 — Systems, methods, and computer program products of flight validation

US 08483961	Irish et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by MITRE Corporation (MITRE) at McLean, VA
APPLICANT(S)	Jeremy Patrick Irish (Edmond, Oklahoma); Steve Patrick Chase (Ashburn, Virginia); Adric Eckstein (Oakton, Virginia); Timothy Lovell (Blanchard, Oklahoma)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeremy Patrick Irish (Edmond, Oklahoma); Steve Patrick Chase (Ashburn, Virginia); Adric Eckstein (Oakton, Virginia); Timothy Lovell (Blanchard, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	Systems, methods, and computer program products for flight validation (FV) are provided. Embodiments implement the requirements of FAA Notice 8260.67 as they relate to FV. Embodiments enable FV to be performed in its entirety, including flight and/or ground obstacle assessment, and on-course/on-path flight evaluation. Embodiments enable a post-flight validation phase, which provides post flight analysis and archiving capabilities. Using embodiments, a person of minimal skill and training can perform FV as prescribed by FAA requirements. Accordingly, significant costs associated with hiring professional surveyors and air crews to perform obstacle assessment and flight evaluation can be eliminated. Embodiments can be implemented using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and relatively inexpensive hardware, making them suitable for large-scale FV operations. Embodiments may also be integrated with existing instrument flight procedure design tools, including, for example, the TARGETS (Terminal Area Route Generation Evaluation & Traffic Simulation) tool developed by the MITRE Corporation.
FILED	Monday, August 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/871645
ART UNIT	3653 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/519
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European Union (EU)

08479473 — Supporting arch structure construction method

US 08479473	Gutierrez et al.
FUNDED BY	European Union (EU)
APPLICANT(S)	Eugenio Gutierrez (Besozzo, Italy); Martin Poljansek (Cadrezzate, Italy)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The European Union, Represented by the European Commission (, Belgium)
INVENTOR(S)	Eugenio Gutierrez (Besozzo, Italy); Martin Poljansek (Cadrezzate, Italy)
ABSTRACT	In a method of constructing a supporting structure (e.g. of a bridge or the roof of a building) in arched form, an initially straight or pre-curved frame structure, having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, is pivotally supported at the first and second ends, whereupon the first and second ends are pushed towards one another to achieve a displacement of the first and second ends relative to one another, where the reduction of the distance between the first and second ends causes them to pivot and the frame structure to progressively and flexibly bend, against its resiliency, into a final arched form, the displacement of the first and second ends relative to one another is chosen to amount to at least 1% of the initial distance between the first and second ends, where the first and second ends are then fixed relative to one another in their displaced position so as to preserve the final arched form of the frame structure.
FILED	Friday, April 30, 2010
APPL NO	13/318984
ART UNIT	3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Static structures 052/742.100
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

08483478 — Grammar-based, cueing method of object recognition, and a system for performing same

US 08483478	Medasani et al.
FUNDED BY	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)	Swarup S. Medasani (Thousand Oaks, California); Yuri Owechko (Newbury Park, California); Thommen Korah (Marina Del Rey, California); Jason Wu (Issaquah, Washington); Dejan Nikic (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Swarup S. Medasani (Thousand Oaks, California); Yuri Owechko (Newbury Park, California); Thommen Korah (Marina Del Rey, California); Jason Wu (Issaquah, Washington); Dejan Nikic (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	In an embodiment, a grammar-based, cueing method of object recognition is disclosed. The method may include or comprise accessing cells that define a portion of a three-dimensional (3-D) scene, assigning occupation parameters to the cells to define a plurality of occupied cells and at least one vacant cell, and assigning localization parameters to the occupied cells based on the occupation parameters of their respective neighboring cells. The method may further include or comprise characterizing a plurality of the occupied cells as geometric cues based on their respective occupation and localization parameters, and identifying a target geometric shape associated with the geometric cues.
FILED	Monday, January 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/685495
ART UNIT	2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/154
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U.S. State Government

08481859 — Method of preparing a flexible substrate assembly and flexible substrate assembly therefrom

US 08481859	Haq 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) U.S. State Government State of Arizona
APPLICANT(S)	Jesmin Haq (Tempe, Arizona); Scott Ageno (Phoenix, Arizona); Douglas E. Loy (Chandler, Arizona); Shawn O'Rourke (Tempe, Arizona); Robert Naujokaitis (Chandler, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Jesmin Haq (Tempe, Arizona); Scott Ageno (Phoenix, Arizona); Douglas E. Loy (Chandler, Arizona); Shawn O'Rourke (Tempe, Arizona); Robert Naujokaitis (Chandler, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Some embodiments teach a method of preparing a flexible substrate assembly. The method can include: (a) providing a carrier substrate; (b) providing a cross-linking adhesive; (c) providing a plastic substrate; and (d) coupling the carrier substrate to the plastic substrate using the cross-linking adhesive. Other embodiments are disclosed in this application.
FILED	Friday, May 27, 2011
APPL NO	13/118225
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/254
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United States Postal Service (USPS)

08484479 — Systems and methods for authenticating an electronic message

US 08484479	Campbell et al.
FUNDED BY	United States Postal Service (USPS)
APPLICANT(S)	Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia); Jon L. Cook (Alexandria, Virginia); Charles R. Chamberlain (Arlington, Virginia); Michael J. McGrath (Fairfax, Virginia); Isadore Schoen (Burke, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia); Jon L. Cook (Alexandria, Virginia); Charles R. Chamberlain (Arlington, Virginia); Michael J. McGrath (Fairfax, Virginia); Isadore Schoen (Burke, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods are disclosed for authenticating electronic messages. A data structure is generated by a computer server which allows for the authentication of the contents and computer server identity of a received electronic message and provides a trusted stamp to authenticate when the message was sent. Data which can authenticate the message, the computer server identity, and the time the message was sent is included into a data structure which is called an Electronic PostMark (EPM).
FILED	Wednesday, December 21, 2011
APPL NO	13/333175
ART UNIT	2439 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/176
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Government Rights Acknowledged

08480296 — Low temperature radiometer

US 08480296	DiPirro et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Michael DiPirro (Silver Spring, Maryland); Thomas P. Hait (Laurel, Maryland); James G. Tuttle (Columbia, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael DiPirro (Silver Spring, Maryland); Thomas P. Hait (Laurel, Maryland); James G. Tuttle (Columbia, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A low temperature radiometer includes a main body, a main cavity, an exit cavity, a suspended thermometer, and an attached thermometer. The main cavity is disposed within the main body and is defined through an off-axis parabolic concentrating cone formed of the inner walls of the main body. The exit cavity is disposed within the main body and is defined through a cylindrical inner surface of the main body. The suspended thermometer is suspended within the exit cavity and is disposed to be in communication with radiation entering the main cavity and being diverted to the exit cavity. The attached thermometer is attached to the outer surface of the main body and is in thermal communication and contact with the main body.
FILED	Wednesday, September 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/560535
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Thermal measuring and testing 374/130
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08480826 — Specular coatings for composite structures

US 08480826	Segal et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Kenneth N. Segal (Ellicott City, Maryland); James M. Lohr (Ellicott City, Maryland); Russell Rowles (Newark, Delaware); Wanda Peters (Springdale, Maryland); Robert Kiwak (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth N. Segal (Ellicott City, Maryland); James M. Lohr (Ellicott City, Maryland); Russell Rowles (Newark, Delaware); Wanda Peters (Springdale, Maryland); Robert Kiwak (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a method for bonding dissimilar materials using an elastic adhesive to permit the bond to withstand variations in temperature and pressure. The use of elastic adhesive accommodates previous problems associated with large differences in thermal expansion coefficient between dissimilar materials, and provides a thermally and chemically stable materials combination that withstands large thermal shock loads, such as may be experienced in a space environment. Also disclosed herein is a method for attaching a coating to a structure. In particular applications, the coating may be (1) specular (greater than 98% specularity); or (2) RF reflective for use in applications including but not limited to high frequency satellite communications.
FILED	Wednesday, April 18, 2007
APPL NO	11/736874
ART UNIT	1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/64
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08481121 — Methods of forming thin metal-containing films by chemical phase deposition

US 08481121	Kanjolia et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Ravi Kanjolia (North Andover, Massachusetts); Rajesh Odedra (Altrincham Cheshire, United Kingdom); Neil Boag (Mytholmroyd W. Yorkshire, United Kingdom); David Weyburne (Maynard, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sigma-Aldrich Co., LLC (St. Louis, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Ravi Kanjolia (North Andover, Massachusetts); Rajesh Odedra (Altrincham Cheshire, United Kingdom); Neil Boag (Mytholmroyd W. Yorkshire, United Kingdom); David Weyburne (Maynard, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods of forming thin metal-containing films by chemical phase deposition, particularly atomic layer deposition (ALD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD), are provided. The methods comprise delivering at least one organometallic precursor to a substrate, wherein the at least one precursor corresponds in structure to Formula (II); wherein: M is Ru, Fe or Os; R is Q-C₁₀-alkyl; X is C₁-C₁₀-alkyl; and n is zero, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Further provided are methods of making precursors disclosed herein.
FILED	Thursday, July 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/670023
ART UNIT	1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/255.280
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08484274 — Optimal padding for the two-dimensional fast fourier transform

US 08484274	Dean et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Bruce H. Dean (New Market, Maryland); David L. Aronstein (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jeffrey S. Smith (Ellicott City, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce H. Dean (New Market, Maryland); David L. Aronstein (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jeffrey S. Smith (Ellicott City, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Padding or adding data to a data signal can increase the speed with which a signal processor can process the data. Methods are provided herein that can accurately predict the optimal pad size of a two dimensional array of data, which can be used to increase the processing speed of a signal processor by optimizing run-time for a two-dimensional (2-D) fast Fourier transform (FFT) operation.
FILED	Thursday, August 27, 2009
APPL NO	12/549159
ART UNIT	2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/401
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08484509 — Radiation-hardened processing system

US 08484509	Espinosa et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Daniel C. Espinosa (North Bethesda, Maryland); Alessandro Geist (Bethesda, Maryland); David J. Petrick (Severna Park, Maryland); Thomas P. Flatley (Huntington, Maryland); Jeffrey C. Hosler (Annapolis, Maryland); Gary A. Crum (Silver Spring, Maryland); Manuel Buenfil (Olney, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel C. Espinosa (North Bethesda, Maryland); Alessandro Geist (Bethesda, Maryland); David J. Petrick (Severna Park, Maryland); Thomas P. Flatley (Huntington, Maryland); Jeffrey C. Hosler (Annapolis, Maryland); Gary A. Crum (Silver Spring, Maryland); Manuel Buenfil (Olney, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A processing system including an FPGA having a dual port RAM and for use in hostile environments. The FPGA includes three portions: a C&DH portion; a first scratch pad portion receiving a first set of data, processing the first set of data, and outputting a first set of processed data to a first location of the RAM; and a second scratch pad portion receiving a second set of data identical to the first set of data, processing the second set of data in the same way that the first set of data is processed, and outputting a second set of processed data to a second location of the RAM. The C&DH portion compares the first set of processed data to the second set of processed data and, if the first set of processed data is the same as the second set of processed data, outputs one set of processed data.
FILED	Wednesday, August 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/854546
ART UNIT	2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/10
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

RE044354 — Amyloid plaque aggregation inhibitors and diagnostic imaging agents

US RE44354	Kung et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Hank F. Kung (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Ping Zhuang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Virginia M. Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniel M. Skovronsky (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Hank F. Kung (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Ping Zhuang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Virginia M. Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniel M. Skovronsky (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to labeled compounds, and methods of making labeled compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form-amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits.
FILED	Tuesday, July 17, 2012
APPL NO	13/550885
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.890
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

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What You'll Find On This Page

THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE

Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.

This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 09, 2013.

The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.

HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?

Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.

WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?

THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:

FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)

We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.

APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.

Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:

APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC

APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)

INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.

ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.

FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.

APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.

ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:

3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices

You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.

CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.

The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.

The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.

A61B 1/149 (20130101)
A61B 1/71 (20130101)
A61B 1/105 (20130101)

The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.

VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.

HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?

You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.

HOW DO I GET HERE?

You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.

You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:

https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2013/fedinvent-patents-20130709.html

Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.

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