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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 23, 2013

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08490462 — Auto-ranging for time domain inertial sensor

US 08490462	Swanson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Paul D. Swanson (Santee, California); Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul D. Swanson (Santee, California); Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for adjusting the accuracy of a time-domain inertial sensor comprising the following steps: operatively positioning a harmonic oscillator of the time-domain inertial sensor between two capacitive plates; initiating harmonic oscillation of the oscillator in a first plane by creating with the capacitive plates a capacitively forced pulse; monitoring the harmonic oscillation of the oscillator; and electrostatically biasing both of the two capacitive plates such that a spring constant of the oscillator is effectively altered.
FILED	Wednesday, October 26, 2011
APPL NO	13/282062
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/1.380
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08490752 — Accurate fluid volume measurement for thermally expanding fluids

US 08490752	James et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Denman H. James (Windsor, Connecticut); Francis J. Parnin (Suffield, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Denman H. James (Windsor, Connecticut); Francis J. Parnin (Suffield, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A method for determining volumes of working fluids used in fluid operated systems that would be present at selected temperatures in working fluid reservoirs provided in those fluid operated systems based on measured volumes of the working fluids present in the reservoirs at measured temperatures, systems volumes and densities of the working fluids at the selected and measured temperatures.
FILED	Tuesday, October 24, 2006
APPL NO	11/585439
ART UNIT	3654 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Lubrication 184/6.110
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08490888 — Fuel injector

US 08490888	Greeves 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)	Godfrey Greeves (Middlesex, United Kingdom); Simon David Tullis (Gillingham, United Kingdom)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
INVENTOR(S)	Godfrey Greeves (Middlesex, United Kingdom); Simon David Tullis (Gillingham, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	A fuel injector for delivering fuel to a combustion chamber having a chamber ceiling, the fuel injector having a primary axis and able to control fuel delivery through a first outlet opening or together through both the first outlet opening and a second outlet opening. The first and second outlet openings are oriented such that, in use, when fuel delivery is permitted through only the first outlet opening, a first spray formation reaches a first target distance below the chamber ceiling at a radial distance from the primary axis. When fuel delivery is permitted through both openings together, respective first and second spray formations merge externally of the injector so as to give rise to a combined spray formation reaching second target distance below the chamber ceiling at the radial distance from the primary nozzle axis, wherein the second target distance is larger than the first target distance.
FILED	Monday, March 30, 2009
APPL NO	12/937283
ART UNIT	3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/5
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08491281 — Long life seal and alignment system for small cryocoolers

US 08491281	Hon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert C Hon (Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky); Lowell A Bellis (Long Beach, California); Julian A Shrago (Garden Grove, California); Carl S. Kirkconnell (Huntington Beach, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert C Hon (Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky); Lowell A Bellis (Long Beach, California); Julian A Shrago (Garden Grove, California); Carl S. Kirkconnell (Huntington Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a compressor includes a motor assembly configured to compress a gas within a compression volume, the motor assembly including: a stationary coil assembly; a moving assembly having at least one magnet, and a gap located between the stationary coil assembly and the moving assembly; wherein the moving assembly is configured to reciprocate axially with respect to the stationary coil assembly when electrical current is applied to the stationary coil assembly, and to change the width of the gap between the stationary coil assembly and the moving assembly so as to provide magnetic axial stiffness against motion of the moving assembly. One or more embodiments may be used in a cryocooler assembly.
FILED	Friday, July 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/830041
ART UNIT	3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Pumps 417/412
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08491309 — Wearable wound simulant

US 08491309	Parry et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM)
APPLICANT(S)	David Parry (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Daniel Parry (Dublin, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Techline Technologies, Inc. (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	David Parry (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Daniel Parry (Dublin, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A wearable wound simulant for simulating a battlefield wound is presented. The simulant facilitates a graphically and functionally realistic medical training tool. The simulant includes a skin replica and a wound. The skin replica is shaped to conformably contact and cover a body region either in part or whole. The skin replica further includes a plurality of bendable layers arranged to approximately replicate the visual and tactile properties of human tissue and at least one tear resistant layer composed of a fabric material disposed between two bendable layers. At least one tear resistant layer is less stretchable than the elastic limit of the bendable layers so as to prevent failure thereof. The bendable and tear resistant layers form a self-sealing structure. A three-dimensional wound structure is disposed along the skin replica so as to replicate the appearance and functionality of a penetrating or non-penetrating injury.
FILED	Tuesday, June 26, 2012
APPL NO	13/532848
ART UNIT	3715 — Amusement and Education Devices
CURRENT CPC	Education and demonstration 434/272
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08491561 — Micromachined bilayer unit of engineered tissues

US 08491561	Borenstein et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Holliston, Massachusetts); Eli Weinberg (Needham, Massachusetts); Brian K. Orrick (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eleanor M. Pritchard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward J. Barnard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nicholas J. Krebs (Boston, Massachusetts); Theodore Marentis (Boston, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Vacanti (Boston, Massachusetts); Mohammad Reza Kaazempur-Mofrad (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Holliston, Massachusetts); Eli Weinberg (Needham, Massachusetts); Brian K. Orrick (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eleanor M. Pritchard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward J. Barnard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nicholas J. Krebs (Boston, Massachusetts); Theodore Marentis (Boston, Massachusetts); Joseph P. Vacanti (Boston, Massachusetts); Mohammad Reza Kaazempur-Mofrad (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods and materials for making an apparatus which duplicates the functionality of a physiological system is provided.
FILED	Monday, August 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/857489
ART UNIT	1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 64/406
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08491698 — Metal-based nanoparticles and methods for making same

US 08491698	Purdy
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Andrew P Purdy (Alexandria, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew P Purdy (Alexandria, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a method for producing novel metal nanoparticles and nanomaterials. The method involves mixing one or more metal halide starting materials, one or more lithium reducing agent and one or more solvents. In an exemplary embodiment, the resultant metal nanoparticles are substantially free from impurities and have a novel porous and substantially hollow structure.
FILED	Tuesday, June 15, 2010
APPL NO	12/815920
ART UNIT	1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/370
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08492081 — Aldehyde-fixed, dried platelets with covalently attached exogenous active agent and method of making thereof

US 08492081	Nichols et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Fixed-dried blood cells carrying an active agent are described, along with methods of making the same, methods of using the same, and compositions containing the same. The blood cells are preferably blood platelets.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2007
APPL NO	11/863462
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2
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08492098 — Methods and arrays for target analyte detection and determination of reaction components that affect a reaction

US 08492098	Walt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	David R. Walt (Boston, Massachusetts); David M. Rissin (Medford, Massachusetts); Hans-Heiner Gorris (Medford, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	David R. Walt (Boston, Massachusetts); David M. Rissin (Medford, Massachusetts); Hans-Heiner Gorris (Medford, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods are described for detecting reaction components with affect a reaction. Biomolecules such as enzymes can be addressed at the single molecule level in order to discover function, detect binding partners or inhibitors, and/or measure rate constants.
FILED	Friday, February 16, 2007
APPL NO	11/707384
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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08492104 — Methods and kits to detect and monitor ovarian cancer and preeclampsia

US 08492104	Patankar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Manish S. Patankar (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Joseph P. Connor (Madison, Wisconsin); Jennifer A. Belisle (De Forest, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Manish S. Patankar (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Joseph P. Connor (Madison, Wisconsin); Jennifer A. Belisle (De Forest, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods and kits related to a prognostic, and, in certain embodiments, diagnostic indicator for ovarian cancer which comprises measuring the level of MUC16 bound to immune cells. The level of MUC16 bound to immune cells can by itself be an indicator of disease regression or recurrence, or this indicator can be used in conjunction with assays for serum CA125 and other diagnostic markers. The invention further provides methods and kits related to the detection of ovarian cancer by measuring levels of Siglec-9 expression on immune cells. As well, related methodologies are provided for the detection of preeclampsia in pregnant human subjects.
FILED	Tuesday, April 24, 2012
APPL NO	13/454276
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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08492107 — Neural proteins as biomarkers for nervous system injury and other neural disorders

US 08492107	Wang 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)
APPLICANT(S)	Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming-Cheng Liu (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. (Alachua, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming-Cheng Liu (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury.
FILED	Thursday, June 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/822560
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920
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08492150 — Engineered cell growth on polymeric films and biotechnological applications thereof

US 08492150	Parker et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)	Kevin Kit Parker (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Adam W. Feinberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (New Orleans, Louisiana); Alexander Feigel (Petah-Tikva, Israel)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin Kit Parker (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Adam W. Feinberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Sergey S. Shevkoplyas (New Orleans, Louisiana); Alexander Feigel (Petah-Tikva, Israel)
ABSTRACT	A free-standing thin film is fabricated from a structure comprising a base layer coated with a sacrificial polymer layer, which is in turn coated with a flexible polymer layer. Cells are then seeded onto the flexible polymer layer and cultured to form a tissue. The flexible polymer layer is then released from the base layer to produce a free-standing thin film comprising the tissue on the flexible polymer layer. In one embodiment, the cells are myocytes, which can be actuated to propel or displace the free-standing film. In another embodiment, the free-standing film is used to treat injured human tissue.
FILED	Monday, February 05, 2007
APPL NO	12/223560
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/402
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08492238 — Method and apparatus for fabricating piezoresistive polysilicon by low-temperature metal induced crystallization

US 08492238	Celik-Butler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)	Zeynep Celik-Butler (Colleyville, Texas); Suraj K. Patil (Arlington, Texas); Donald Philip Butler (Colleyville, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Zeynep Celik-Butler (Colleyville, Texas); Suraj K. Patil (Arlington, Texas); Donald Philip Butler (Colleyville, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method and apparatus for fabricating piezoresistive polysilicon on a substrate by low-temperature metal induced crystallization by: (1) providing the substrate having a passivation layer; (2) performing, at or near room temperature in a chamber without breaking a vacuum or near-vacuum within the chamber, the steps of: (a) creating a metal layer on the passivation layer, and (b) creating an amorphous silicon layer on the metal layer, wherein the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer have approximately the same thickness; (3) annealing the substrate, the passivation layer, the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer at a temperature equal to or less than 600° C. and a period of time equal to or less than three hours to form a doped polysilicon layer below a residual metal layer; and (4) removing the residual metal layer to expose the doped polysilicon layer.
FILED	Friday, August 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/541907
ART UNIT	2813 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/381
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08492428 — Small-molecule botulinum toxin inhibitors

US 08492428	Pang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC)
APPLICANT(S)	Yuan-Ping Pang (Rochester, Minnesota); Jewn Giew Park (Rochester, Minnesota); Jing Tang (Rochester, Minnesota); Charles B. Millard (Frederick, Maryland); James J. Schmidt (Mt. Airy, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota); The United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Yuan-Ping Pang (Rochester, Minnesota); Jewn Giew Park (Rochester, Minnesota); Jing Tang (Rochester, Minnesota); Charles B. Millard (Frederick, Maryland); James J. Schmidt (Mt. Airy, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Small-molecule inhibitors of Botulinum toxin, including BoNTA, BoNTD and BoNTE are provided, as well as methods of using the inhibitors.
FILED	Wednesday, September 20, 2006
APPL NO	12/067158
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/414
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08492541 — Synthesis of azido heterocycles

US 08492541	Duddu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Raja Duddu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Paritosh Dave (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Reddy Damavarapu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Rao Surapaneni (Long Valley, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Raja Duddu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Paritosh Dave (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Reddy Damavarapu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Rao Surapaneni (Long Valley, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Energetic candidate azido heterocycles and their synthesis are described.
FILED	Wednesday, August 03, 2011
APPL NO	13/197276
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 544/219
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08492744 — Semiconducting microcavity and microchannel plasma devices

US 08492744	Eden et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)	J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Paul Tchertchian (Mission Viejo, California); Clark J. Wagner (Champaign, Illinois); Steve Solomon (Goleta, California); Robert Ginn (Ventura, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Acumen Scientific (Goleta, California)
INVENTOR(S)	J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Paul Tchertchian (Mission Viejo, California); Clark J. Wagner (Champaign, Illinois); Steve Solomon (Goleta, California); Robert Ginn (Ventura, California)
ABSTRACT	Preferred embodiments of the invention provide semiconducting microcavity plasma devices. Preferred embodiments of the invention are microcavity plasma devices having at least two pn junctions, separated by a microcavity or microchannel and powered by alternate half-cycles of a time-varying voltage waveform. Alternate embodiments have a single pn junction. Microplasma is produced throughout the cavity between single or multiple pn junctions and a dielectric layer isolates the microplasma from the single or multiple pn junctions. Additional preferred embodiments are devices in which the spatial extent of the plasma itself or the n or p regions associated with a pn junction are altered by a third (control) electrode.
FILED	Friday, October 29, 2010
APPL NO	12/915630
ART UNIT	2814 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/10
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08492827 — Vertical JFET limited silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors

US 08492827	Ryu
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) may include an n-type silicon carbide drift layer, a first p-type silicon carbide region adjacent the drift layer and having a first n-type silicon carbide region therein, an oxide layer on the drift layer, and an n-type silicon carbide limiting region disposed between the drift layer and a portion of the first p-type region. The limiting region may have a carrier concentration that is greater than the carrier concentration of the drift layer.
FILED	Tuesday, March 15, 2011
APPL NO	13/048696
ART UNIT	2811 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/328
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08492861 — Beta voltaic semiconductor diode fabricated from a radioisotope

US 08492861	Moosman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Bryan George Moosman (San Marcos, California); Richard Lee Waters (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Bryan George Moosman (San Marcos, California); Richard Lee Waters (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	In one preferred embodiment, a semiconductor diode includes a first layer formed with a p-type semiconductor, a second layer formed with an n-type semiconductor, and a third active depletion layer contained between the first and second layers. The third layer is formed with a radioisotope of the p-type and n-type semiconductors (preferably Si 32) such that initial emission of beta particles begins in the active depletion region and substantially all of the emitted beta particles are contained within the first, second and third layers during operation. The p-type and n-type layers each have sufficient depth to contain substantially all of beta particles emitted from the depletion layer. The depth of each of the p-type and n-type layers is substantially equal to or greater than the maximum beta emission depth of the radioisotope.
FILED	Thursday, November 18, 2010
APPL NO	12/949457
ART UNIT	2811 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/429
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08492869 — 3D integrated circuit device having lower-cost active circuitry layers stacked before higher-cost active circuitry layer

US 08492869	Farooq et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Mukta G. Farooq (Hopewell Junction, New York); Robert Hannon (Wappingers Falls, New York); Subramanian S. Iyer (Mount Kisco, New York); Steven J. Koester (Ossining, New York); Fei Liu (Mount Kisco, New York); Sampath Purushothaman (Yorktown Heights, New York); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York); Roy R. Yu (Poughkeepsie, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mukta G. Farooq (Hopewell Junction, New York); Robert Hannon (Wappingers Falls, New York); Subramanian S. Iyer (Mount Kisco, New York); Steven J. Koester (Ossining, New York); Fei Liu (Mount Kisco, New York); Sampath Purushothaman (Yorktown Heights, New York); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York); Roy R. Yu (Poughkeepsie, New York)
ABSTRACT	A 3D integrated circuit structure is provided. The 3D integrated circuit structure includes an interface wafer including a first wiring layer, a first active circuitry layer including active circuitry, and a wafer including active circuitry. The first active circuitry layer is bonded face down to the interface wafer, and the wafer is bonded face down to the first active circuitry layer. The first active circuitry layer is lower-cost than the wafer.
FILED	Friday, August 10, 2012
APPL NO	13/571920
ART UNIT	2818 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/506
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08492936 — Harvesting rotational energy using linear-based energy harvesters

US 08492936	Waters et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California); Maxwell M. Kerber (San Diego, California); Brian B. Dick (San Diego, California); Hugo F. Jazo (San Diego, California); Mark S Fralick (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California); Maxwell M. Kerber (San Diego, California); Brian B. Dick (San Diego, California); Hugo F. Jazo (San Diego, California); Mark S Fralick (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A rotational energy harvesting apparatus includes a rotor of magnets and a ring of linear-based kinetic energy harvesters. The rotor of magnets is fixed to a rotational source and is caused to sweep past the linear-based kinetic energy harvesters. The rotating magnets compel kinetic energy to be induced in the linear-based kinetic energy harvesters. The kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy.
FILED	Thursday, April 21, 2011
APPL NO	13/091975
ART UNIT	2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical generator or motor structure 310/20
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08493066 — Magnetic field detection using faraday effect

US 08493066	Parks
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Allen D. Parks (Spotsylvania, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Allen D. Parks (Spotsylvania, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A magnetometer is provided for detecting a magnetic field of strength B using the Faraday effect. The magnetometer includes a photon emitter, a first polarizer, a prism, a second polarizer, a detector and an analyzer. The emitter projects an emitted light beam substantially parallel to the magnetic field and having wavelength λ. The prism has an interface surface and is composed of a Faraday medium having Verdet value V. The emitted light beam passes through the first polarizer and then the prism, exiting from the interface surface making an incident angle θ₀to normal of the surface and then refracting into a secondary medium as first and second circularly polarized light beams that are separated by a small angular divergence δ. These polarized light beams have average refraction angle θ to the normal and pass through a post-selection polarizer before the detector measures a weak value A_wof a photon having “which path” operator Â associated with the polarized light beams. The magnetic field strength is determined as $B \approx - \frac{2 ɛ A_{w} π n_{0} \cos θ}{V λsin θ_{0}} .$ The parameters include n₀as index of refraction of the secondary medium, and ε as amplification factor. The pointer rotation angle A_wcan be expressed as $A_{w} = \frac{(θ_{+} - θ_{-}) \cos ɛ + [(θ_{+} + θ_{-}) - 2 θ_{0}] \sin ɛ}{2 \sin ɛ}$ in which θ₊ and θ₋ are respectively right- and left-polarized refraction angles with the average refraction angle such that $θ = \frac{1}{2} (θ_{+} + θ_{-}) .$ The pointer rotation angle A_wcan be approximated as A_w≈δ/2ε when 0<ε<<1. A method is provided incorporating operations described for the magnetometer.
FILED	Monday, June 06, 2011
APPL NO	13/134486
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244.100
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08493113 — PLL bandwidth correction with offset compensation

US 08493113	Ferriss et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark A. Ferriss (Tarrytown, New York); Arun Natarajan (White Plains, New York); Benjamin Parker (Peekskill, New York); Alexander Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut); Soner Yaldiz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark A. Ferriss (Tarrytown, New York); Arun Natarajan (White Plains, New York); Benjamin Parker (Peekskill, New York); Alexander Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut); Soner Yaldiz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for compensating for offsets when measuring parameters of a phase-locked loop (PLL). In one embodiment, a proportional path in the PLL is temporarily shut off, a measurement is made of a real time-to-zero crossing in the PLL to measure a defined parameter of the PLL, the proportional path is switched on, and the defined loop parameter is adjusted based on this measurement. In one embodiment, the real time-to-zero crossing is measured after introducing a phase step into the PLL between a reference signal and an output signal of the PLL. In an embodiment, two phase steps, having opposite polarities, are successively introduced into the PLL, and the time-to-crossing measurements resulting from these two phase steps may be averaged, and this average is used to determine a loop parameter.
FILED	Monday, September 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/230371
ART UNIT	2816 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/156
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08493261 — Countermeasure device for a mobile tracking device

US 08493261	Bradley
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy Bradley (Loogootee, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy Bradley (Loogootee, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	A countermeasure device for directing a mobile tracking device away from an asset is provided. The countermeasure device includes a continuous wave laser source whose output is directed at a seeker head of the mobile tracking device. The countermeasure device causes the generation of localized sources within the mobile tracking device and confuses the mobile tracking device as to the true location of the asset.
FILED	Monday, September 17, 2012
APPL NO	13/621538
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 342/14
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08493276 — Metamaterial band stop filter for waveguides

US 08493276	Greegor et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert B. Greegor (Auburn, Washington); Minas Hagop Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert B. Greegor (Auburn, Washington); Minas Hagop Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus comprising a dielectric structure and a plurality of conductive segments. The dielectric structure is configured for placement in a waveguide. The plurality of conductive segments is located within the dielectric structure. Each of the plurality of conductive segments is configured to reduce a passing of a number of frequencies of electromagnetic signals traveling through the dielectric structure.
FILED	Thursday, November 19, 2009
APPL NO	12/621957
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 343/776
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08493277 — Leaky cavity resonator for waveguide band-pass filter applications

US 08493277	Lam et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Tai A. Lam (Kent, Washington); Claudio G. Parazzoli (Seattle, Washington); Minas H. Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Tai A. Lam (Kent, Washington); Claudio G. Parazzoli (Seattle, Washington); Minas H. Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A leaky cavity resonator that includes a waveguide, the waveguide being filled with a dielectric material, and at least two complementary split ring resonators (CSRRs), the CSRRs residing inside the waveguide parallel to each other placed symmetrically both radially and in height, a leaky resonant cavity being formed between the at least two CSRRs and a wall of the waveguide. A frequency band of the leaky cavity resonator is adjustable by varying a distance w between at least one outside perimeter of at least one CSRR and an interior wall of the waveguide. A frequency band of the leaky cavity resonator is also adjustable by varying a size of the leaky resonant cavity. The at least two CSRRs each have at least one stub connecting to a wall of the waveguide. A frequency band of the leaky cavity resonator is also adjustable by varying a size of the stubs.
FILED	Thursday, June 25, 2009
APPL NO	12/491554
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 343/778
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08493281 — Lens for scanning angle enhancement of phased array antennas

US 08493281	Lam et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Tai Anh Lam (Kent, Washington); Minas H. Tanielin (Bellevue, Washington); David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Tai Anh Lam (Kent, Washington); Minas H. Tanielin (Bellevue, Washington); David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus are present for creating a negative index metamaterial lens for use with a phased array antenna. A design having a buckyball shape is created for the negative index metamaterial lens. The buckyball shape is capable of bending a beam generated by the phased array antenna to around 90 degrees from a vertical orientation to form an initial design. The initial design is modified to include discrete components to form a discrete design. Materials are selected for the discrete components. Negative index metamaterial unit cells are designed for the discrete components to form designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. The designed negative index metamaterial unit cells are fabricated to form fabricated designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. The negative index metamaterial lens is formed from the designed negative index metamaterial unit cells.
FILED	Thursday, March 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/411575
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 343/909
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08493445 — Scanner/optical system for three-dimensional lidar imaging and polarimetry

US 08493445	Degnan, III et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	John James Degnan, III (Annapolis, Maryland); David Nelson Wells (Silver Spring, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sigma Space Corp (Lanham, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	John James Degnan, III (Annapolis, Maryland); David Nelson Wells (Silver Spring, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	An optical scanner system for contiguous three-dimensional topographic or volumetric imaging of a surface from an aircraft or spacecraft is disclosed. A servo controller synchronizes the rotation rates of a pair of wedge scanners with high precision to the multi-kilohertz laser fire rate producing an infinite variety of well-controlled scan patterns. This causes the beam pattern to be laid down in precisely the same way on each scan cycle, eliminating the need to record the orientations of the wedges accurately on every laser fire, thereby reducing ancillary data storage or transmission requirements by two to three orders of magnitude and greatly simplifying data preprocessing and analysis. The described system also uses a holographic element to split the laser beam into an array that is then scanned in an arbitrary pattern. This provides more uniform signal strength to the various imaging detector channels and reduces the level of optical crosstalk between channels, resulting in a higher fidelity three-dimensional image.
FILED	Thursday, March 08, 2007
APPL NO	11/683549
ART UNIT	2452 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Television 348/144
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08493573 — High-resolution optical position sensing with sparse, low-resolution detectors

US 08493573	Chinn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Stephen R. Chinn (Alexandria, Virginia); Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen R. Chinn (Alexandria, Virginia); Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	High-resolution optical position sensing is disclosed using sparse, low-resolution detectors. Precise location of two-dimensional position or angular orientation of an optical beam at the focal plane of a sensor system is made possible using sparse low-resolution detectors. The beam may be emitted directly from a source, or scattered from a remote target. The high precision in determining the beam or focal spot location is the result of a novel data processing and analysis method for the signals from the low-resolution detectors.
FILED	Wednesday, March 09, 2011
APPL NO	13/043682
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/622
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08493649 — Method of producing nonlinear optical crystal CdSiP₂

US 08493649	Schunemann et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Schunemann (Hollis, New Hampshire); Kevin T. Zawilski (Arlington, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	CdSiP₂crystals with sizes and optical quality suitable for use as nonlinear optical devices are disclosed, as well as NLO devices based thereupon. A method of growing the crystals by directional solidification from a stoichiometric melt is also disclosed. The disclosed NLO crystals have a higher nonlinear coefficient than prior art crystals that can be pumped by solid state lasers, and are particularly useful for frequency shifting 1.06 μm, 1.55 μm, and 2 μm lasers to wavelengths between 2 μm and 10 μm. Due to the high thermal conductivity and low losses of the claimed CdSiP₂crystals, average output power can exceed 10 W without severe thermal lensing. A 6.45 μm laser source for use as a medical laser scalpel is also disclosed, in which a CdSiP₂crystal is configured for non-critical phase matching, pumped by a 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser, and temperature-tuned to produce output at 6.45 μm.
FILED	Thursday, February 07, 2013
APPL NO	13/761203
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/326
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08493654 — High-temperature interband cascade lasers

US 08493654	Vurgaftman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Igor Vurgaftman (Odenton, Maryland); Jerry R. Meyer (Catonsville, Maryland); Chadwick Lawrence Canedy (Washington, District of Columbia); William W. Bewley (Falls Church, Virginia); James R. Lindle (Bowie, Maryland); Chul-soo Kim (Springfield, Virginia); Mijin Kim (Springfield, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Igor Vurgaftman (Odenton, Maryland); Jerry R. Meyer (Catonsville, Maryland); Chadwick Lawrence Canedy (Washington, District of Columbia); William W. Bewley (Falls Church, Virginia); James R. Lindle (Bowie, Maryland); Chul-soo Kim (Springfield, Virginia); Mijin Kim (Springfield, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An interband cascade gain medium is provided. The gain medium can include at least one thick separate confinement layer comprising Ga(InAlAs)Sb between the active gain region and the cladding and can further include an electron injector region having a reduced thickness, a hole injector region comprising two hole quantum wells having a total thickness greater than about 100 Å, an active gain quantum well region separated from the adjacent hole injector region by an electron barrier having a thickness sufficient to lower a square of a wavefunction overlap between a zone-center active electron quantum well and injector hole states, and a thick AlSb barrier separating the electron and hole injectors of at least one stage of the active region.
FILED	Thursday, January 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/353770
ART UNIT	3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/344
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08493842 — Implementing exchange of failing lane information for fault-tolerant communication links

US 08493842	Heckendorf et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Ryan Abel Heckendorf (Rochester, Minnesota); Kerry Christopher Imming (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ryan Abel Heckendorf (Rochester, Minnesota); Kerry Christopher Imming (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	A method and circuit for implementing exchange of failing lane information for fault-tolerant communication links, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. An ordered set for lane and link training includes a novel lane mask field for lane and link training. Ordered sets are exchanged during lane and link training for a fault-tolerant communication link to establish synchronization between a transmitter and a receiver. In a link training step, the bus link layer exchanges an ordered set with a plurality of bits of lane mask information included in predefined bytes, such as bytes 8 and 9 of the lane mask field. Upon receiving the ordered set with the plurality of bits of lane mask information, the transmitter lanes are reconfigured to align with the received mask information.
FILED	Friday, September 17, 2010
APPL NO	12/884547
ART UNIT	2471 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/225
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08493902 — Opportunistic listening system and method

US 08493902	Suri 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)	Niranjan Suri (Pensacola, Florida); Giacomo Benincasa (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (Pensacola, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Niranjan Suri (Pensacola, Florida); Giacomo Benincasa (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for using multiple peer listeners in order to improve the ability to receive a transmitted signal. A peer link is established between the peer listeners. At least some of the peer listeners also have a data link to a sender communicating with an outside source. In the simplest embodiment, a peer listener receiving data over the sender data link communicates that data to one or more other peers which may have an impaired ability to presently utilize its own data link to the sender. In more complex embodiments, multiple peer listeners can receive and process portions of needed data over the data link to the sender, then communicate portions of the data to other peer listeners on an as-needed basis.
FILED	Monday, August 15, 2011
APPL NO	13/209923
ART UNIT	2471 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/312
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08494012 — Raman converting laser systems

US 08494012	Heller et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Donald F. Heller (Somerset, New Jersey); Marc Klosner (South Orange, New Jersey); Brian A. Pryor (Newark, Delaware); Thangavel Thevar (Aberdeen, United Kingdom); Bruce Boczar (Feasterville Trevose, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Light Age, Inc. (Somerset, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Donald F. Heller (Somerset, New Jersey); Marc Klosner (South Orange, New Jersey); Brian A. Pryor (Newark, Delaware); Thangavel Thevar (Aberdeen, United Kingdom); Bruce Boczar (Feasterville Trevose, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, the instant invention provides a method that includes: outputting a first laser beam having: a beam quality factor (M2) between 1 and 5, and a spectral width of less than 0.15 nm, where the outputting is performed by a laser generating component that includes a alexandrite laser oscillator; converting the first laser beam through a first Raman cell to produce a second laser beam, where the first Raman cell is filled with a first gas; and converting the second laser beam through a second Raman cell to produce a final laser beam, where the second Raman cell is filled with a second gas and is operationally positioned after the first Raman cell, where the first gas and the second gas are different gasses, and where the final laser beam having: a second energy of at least 1 mJ, and at least one wavelength longer than 2.5 micron.
FILED	Thursday, April 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/440919
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/3
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08494018 — Direct modulated modified vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and method

US 08494018	Brenner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Mary K. Brenner (Plymouth, Minnesota); Klein L. Johnson (Orono, Minnesota); Kent D. Choquette (Urbana, Illinois); Chen Chen (Montreal, Canada)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vixar, Inc. (Plymouth, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Mary K. Brenner (Plymouth, Minnesota); Klein L. Johnson (Orono, Minnesota); Kent D. Choquette (Urbana, Illinois); Chen Chen (Montreal, Canada)
ABSTRACT	A laser system having separately electrically operable cavities for emitting modulated narrow linewidth light with first, second and third mirror structures separated by a first active region between the first and the second and by a second active region between the second and the third. The second mirror structure has twenty of more periods of mirror pairs.
FILED	Friday, June 17, 2011
APPL NO	13/162991
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/45.10
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08494024 — Beam quality of the monoblock laser through use of a 1.5 micron external cavity partial reflector

US 08494024	Nettleton et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	United States of Ameerica, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	John E. Nettleton (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia); Dallas N. Barr (Woodbridge, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A monoblock laser cavity incorporates optical components for a short-pulse laser. These optical components are ‘locked’ into alignment forming an optical laser cavity for flash lamp or diode laser pumping. The optical laser cavity does not need optical alignment after it is fabricated, increasing the brightness of the monoblock laser.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2012
APPL NO	13/629758
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/082 (20130101) H01S 3/113 (20130101) H01S 3/0621 (20130101) H01S 3/0625 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/1083 (20130101)
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08494036 — Resource adaptive spectrum estimation of streaming data

US 08494036	Turaga et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Deepak Srinivac Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Michail Vlachos (Tarrytown, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Deepak Srinivac Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Michail Vlachos (Tarrytown, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York)
ABSTRACT	Streaming environments typically dictate incomplete or approximate algorithm execution, in order to cope with sudden surges in the data rate. Such limitations are even more accentuated in mobile environments (such as sensor networks) where computational and memory resources are typically limited. Introduced herein is a novel “resource adaptive” algorithm for spectrum and periodicity estimation on a continuous stream of data. The formulation is based on the derivation of a closed-form incremental computation of the spectrum, augmented by an intelligent load-shedding scheme that can adapt to available CPU resources. Experimentation indicates that the proposed technique can be a viable and resource efficient solution for real-time spectrum estimation.
FILED	Tuesday, July 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/177300
ART UNIT	2633 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/224
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08494154 — Cryptographic ignition key system

US 08494154	Shah et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Sanket J. Shah (Clifton, New Jersey); Michael K. Weller (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Sanket J. Shah (Clifton, New Jersey); Michael K. Weller (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A cryptographic ignition key system and method for managing access to sensitive or protected information using an unclassified, block-cipher-based cryptographic combiner for storing non-private information on a physical token and storing private information on another device having anti-tamper protections and safeguards.
FILED	Monday, June 20, 2011
APPL NO	13/134887
ART UNIT	2433 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Cryptography 380/44
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08494474 — Dual band diode mixer for RF data receiver

US 08494474	Brewer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Jerry Wayne Brewer (Pleasanton, California); Sandra Nicole Kjono (San Diego, California); Chris Michael Thomas (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jerry Wayne Brewer (Pleasanton, California); Sandra Nicole Kjono (San Diego, California); Chris Michael Thomas (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	In one preferred embodiment, the data receiver includes an input matching circuit for receiving an input RF data and forming an impedance matched signal and an amplifier circuit responsive to the impedance matched signal for forming an impedance transformed signal. The data receiver further includes a dual band RF tank/IF tank circuit forming respective RF and IF components and a diode mixer for mixing the impedance transformed signal with the dual band RF/IF components to form a mixed signal so that the RF tank filters the RF component from the mixed signal to form an IF tone signal as an output. The amplifier circuit preferably includes a source impedance control circuit for controlling high RF and IF impedances and a low noise amplifier (LNA) for forming, in conjunction with the source impedance control circuit, the impedance transformed signal.
FILED	Monday, November 29, 2010
APPL NO	12/954963
ART UNIT	2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
CURRENT CPC	Telecommunications 455/319
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08494676 — Process and architecture of robotic system to mimic animal behavior in the natural environment

US 08494676	Ayers et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	Joseph Ayers (Nahant, Massachusetts); Jan Witting (Nahant, Massachusetts); Stephane Ryder (Del Mar, California); Christopher Olcott (Lynn, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph Ayers (Nahant, Massachusetts); Jan Witting (Nahant, Massachusetts); Stephane Ryder (Del Mar, California); Christopher Olcott (Lynn, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A robotic architecture for capturing the autonomous performance advantages the animal models enjoy in the natural environment is disclosed. A biomimesis process is employed to allow selective utilization of basic physical components and adaptation of a common control paradigm for each of different vehicle types. The biomimetic architecture involves five functional elements: a basic biomorphic plant for capturing the biomechanical advantages of the model organism; a neural circuit-based controller consisting of a finite state machine; myomorphic actuators producing linear graded force in response to trains of current pulses for mediating movements; labeled line code output by neuromorphic sensors; and a reactive behavioral sequencer executing command sequences defined within a behavioral library.
FILED	Tuesday, June 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/820571
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 7/245
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08494988 — Systems and methods for generating feasible solutions from two parents for an evolutionary process

US 08494988	Ferringer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) at El Segundo, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Matthew Phillip Ferringer (Round Hill, Virginia); Timothy Guy Thompson (Purcellville, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew Phillip Ferringer (Round Hill, Virginia); Timothy Guy Thompson (Purcellville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods may include receiving a pair of parent chromosome data structures, where each parent chromosome data structure provides a plurality of genes representative of variables that are permitted to evolve; combining genes of the two parent chromosome data structures to generate at least one first child chromosome data structure; evaluating the at least one first child chromosome data structures according to a plurality of constraint functions to generate a respective plurality of constraint function values for each of the at least one first child chromosome data structure, where the constraint functions define constraints on a feasible solution set; determining whether any of the at least one first child chromosome data structure is within the feasible solution set.
FILED	Monday, August 31, 2009
APPL NO	12/550858
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/126 (20130101)
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08495307 — Target memory hierarchy specification in a multi-core computer processing system

US 08495307	Chen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Tong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Yaoqing Gao (North York, Canada); Kevin K. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Zehra N. Sura (Yorktown Heights, New York); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Tong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Yaoqing Gao (North York, Canada); Kevin K. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Zehra N. Sura (Yorktown Heights, New York); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Target memory hierarchy specification in a multi-core computer processing system is provided including a system for implementing prefetch instructions. The system includes a first core processor, a dedicated cache corresponding to the first core processor, and a second core processor. The second core processor includes instructions for executing a prefetch instruction that specifies a memory location and the dedicated local cache corresponding to the first core processor. Executing the prefetch instruction includes retrieving data from the memory location and storing the retrieved data on the dedicated local cache corresponding to the first core processor.
FILED	Tuesday, May 11, 2010
APPL NO	12/777603
ART UNIT	2188 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137
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08495550 — Soft error hard electronic circuit and layout

US 08495550	Lilja
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
APPLICANT(S)	Klas Olof Lilja (Pleasanton, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Klas Olof Lilja (Pleasanton, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention comprises a layout method to effectively protect electronic circuits against soft errors (non-destructive errors) and circuit cells, which are protected against soft errors. The invention applies a layout method to sequential and combinational logic to generate specific circuit cells with netlists and layouts which are hardened against single event generated soft-errors. It also devices methods of how two or more such cells should be laid out and placed relative to each other, in order to have the best global soft-error protection.
FILED	Monday, April 19, 2010
APPL NO	12/763139
ART UNIT	2825 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/130
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08495595 — Method of selecting an expression evaluation technique for domain-specific language compilation

US 08495595	Andrade et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Mark Mendell (Toronto, Canada); Howard W. Nasgaard (Markham, Canada); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Mark Mendell (Toronto, Canada); Howard W. Nasgaard (Markham, Canada); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method and computer program product for selecting an expression evaluation technique for domain-specific language (DSL) compilation. An application written in DSL for a programming task is provided, the application including a plurality of components configured by expressions. A technique that most quickly implements the programming task is selected from a plurality of techniques for evaluating the expressions. The DSL application is compiled in accordance with the selected expression evaluation technique to generate general-purpose programming language (GPL) code.
FILED	Tuesday, March 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/749947
ART UNIT	2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/137
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08495649 — Scheduling threads having complementary functional unit usage on SMT processors

US 08495649	Krieger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Orran Y. Krieger (Newton, Massachusetts); Bryan S. Rosenburg (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert B. Tremaine (Stormville, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Ossining, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Orran Y. Krieger (Newton, Massachusetts); Bryan S. Rosenburg (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert B. Tremaine (Stormville, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for scheduling threads on simultaneous multithreaded processors are disclosed. Hardware and operating system communicate with one another providing information relating to thread attributes for threads executing on processing elements. The operating system determines thread scheduling based on the information.
FILED	Wednesday, July 19, 2006
APPL NO	11/488970
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 718/105
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08495661 — Relevant alert delivery with event and alert suppression in a distributed processing system

US 08495661	Carey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Methods, systems and products are provided for relevant alert delivery with event and alert suppression including identifying by the event analyzer in dependence upon the event arrival rules one or more alerts; closing, by the event analyzer in dependence upon the events pool operation rules, the events pool; determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the event suppression rules, whether to suppress one or more events in the closed events pool; identifying by the event analyzer in dependence upon the events pool closure rules and any unsuppressed events assigned to the events pool, one or more additional alerts; assigning by the alert analyzer the identified alerts to an alerts pool; determining by the alert analyzer in dependence upon alert analysis rules and the alerts in the alert pool whether to suppress any alerts; and transmitting the unsuppressed alerts to one or more components of the distributed processing system.
FILED	Tuesday, November 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/938052
ART UNIT	2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/318
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08490469 — Methods and systems for multiforce high throughput screening

US 08490469	Superfine 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)	Richard Superfine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Leandra Vicci (Siler City, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard Superfine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Leandra Vicci (Siler City, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems for multiforce high throughput screening are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter includes a high throughput screening system that includes a multiforce plate having a plurality of field forming poles where each field forming pole is positioned on the multiforce plate at a location corresponding to a well in a multiwell plate. The system also includes an exciter assembly with excitation poles positioned at locations corresponding to the field forming poles. The excitation poles are utilized for electrically or magnetically coupling to the field forming poles and for delivering at least one of an electric and magnetic field in the vicinity of the field forming poles. The coupled field forming poles apply force via the field(s) to probes located in the wells of the multiforce plate in order to move the probes and test mechanical properties of specimens in the wells.
FILED	Friday, February 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/528312
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/54.10
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08491631 — Tissue tack

US 08491631	del Nido et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Pedro J. del Nido (Lexington, Massachusetts); Nikolav V. Vasilyev (Belmont, Massachusetts); Franz Freudenthal (La Paz, Bolivia); Pierre Dupont (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Jinlan Huang (Wayland, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Sevices (DDHHS), The United States of America (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Pedro J. del Nido (Lexington, Massachusetts); Nikolav V. Vasilyev (Belmont, Massachusetts); Franz Freudenthal (La Paz, Bolivia); Pierre Dupont (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Jinlan Huang (Wayland, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A tissue fixation device includes a tack having at least two flexible arms on a first end of said anchor. A deployment device for deploying a tissue fixation device, wherein the deployment device is a deployment gun.
FILED	Wednesday, January 03, 2007
APPL NO	12/162633
ART UNIT	3773 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 66/219
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08491667 — Modular prosthesis system

US 08491667	Dillingham
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy R Dillingham (Merion Station, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy R Dillingham (Merion Station, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A modular prosthesis system that can be inexpensively manufactured using modern technology and advanced polymer materials. The modular prosthesis system will be immediately fit on the residual limb and aligned for optimal gait without specialized tools or labs, alleviating the many steps involved with conventional labor-intensive and costly prosthesis construction. The modular prosthesis system also accommodates the changing in size and shape of the limb, eliminating the need for multiple prostheses and adjustments to an existing prosthesis during the lifetime of an amputee.
FILED	Friday, April 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/083403
ART UNIT	3738 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Prosthesis 623/32
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08491818 — Synthesis of water soluble non-toxic nanocrystalline quantum dots and uses thereof

US 08491818	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); Hui Li (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Hui Li (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	An economic, direct synthetic method for producing water soluble ZnS QDs that are ready for bioconjugation is provided. The method can produce aqueous ZnS QDs with emission wavelengths varying from 400 nm to 700 nm. Highly luminescent metal sulfide (MS) QDs are produced via an aqueous synthesis route. MS QDs are capped with thiol-containing charged molecules in a single step. The resultant MS QDs exhibit the distinctive excitonic photoluminescence desired of QDs and can be fabricated to avoid undesirable broadband emissions at higher wavelengths. The aqueous ZnS QDs are stable in biological fluids over a long period of time. In addition, non-toxic ZnS QDs have been produced with good photoluminescence properties.
FILED	Wednesday, November 21, 2007
APPL NO	11/943790
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/301.6S0
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08491880 — Pharmaceutical formulations of biodegradable biocompatible camptothecin-polymer conjugates

US 08491880	Rolke et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
APPLICANT(S)	James Rolke (Beverly, Massachusetts); Russell C. Petter (Stow, Massachusetts); Mao Yin (Nedham, Massachusetts); Aleksandr Yurkovetskiy (Littleton, Massachusetts); Gui Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Emile Farhan (Dedham, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	James Rolke (Beverly, Massachusetts); Russell C. Petter (Stow, Massachusetts); Mao Yin (Nedham, Massachusetts); Aleksandr Yurkovetskiy (Littleton, Massachusetts); Gui Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Emile Farhan (Dedham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A camptothecin/polymer dual phase drug release system is described that is stable in both liquid and lyophilized states. The polymer contains acetals and/or ketals.
FILED	Thursday, December 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/635027
ART UNIT	1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.170
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08491890 — Methods and compositions for inhibiting diseases of the central nervous system

US 08491890	Gendelman 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)	Howard E. Gendelman (Omaha, Nebraska); R. Lee Mosley (Omaha, Nebraska); Ashley D. Reynolds (Omaha, Nebraska)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
INVENTOR(S)	Howard E. Gendelman (Omaha, Nebraska); R. Lee Mosley (Omaha, Nebraska); Ashley D. Reynolds (Omaha, Nebraska)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions for treating central nervous system diseases and disorders are disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, July 09, 2009
APPL NO	12/500414
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.400
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08491896 — Anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies

US 08491896	Goldenberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey); Hans J. Hansen (Picayune, Mississippi); Chien-Hsing Chang (Dowingtown, Pennsylvania); David V. Gold (Metuchen, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey); Hans J. Hansen (Picayune, Mississippi); Chien-Hsing Chang (Dowingtown, Pennsylvania); David V. Gold (Metuchen, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are compositions and methods of use of anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies or fragments thereof, such as murine, chimeric, humanized or human PAM4 antibodies. The subject antibodies show a number of novel and useful therapeutic characteristics, such as binding with high specificity to pancreatic and other cancers, but not to normal or benign pancreatic tissues and binding to a high percentage of early stage pancreatic cancers. In preferred embodiments, the antibodies bind to pancreatic cancer mucins. The antibodies and fragments are of use for the detection, diagnosis and/or treatment of cancer, such as pancreatic cancer. The antibodies, such as PAM4 antibodies, bind to a PAM4 antigen that shows unique cell and tissue distributions compared with other known antibodies such as CA19.9, DUPAN2, SPAN1, Nd2, B72.3, and Le^aand Le(y) antibodies that bind to the Lewis antigens.
FILED	Friday, August 07, 2009
APPL NO	12/537803
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100
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08491897 — Treatment of neuropathic pain using anti-thrombospondin antibodies

US 08491897	Eroglu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Cagla Eroglu (Durham, North Carolina); Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Cagla Eroglu (Durham, North Carolina); Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention describes methods and compositions for modulating synaptogenesis and axon and/or dendritic growth. The methods include the use of agents that modulate a thrombospondin and/or an α2δ subunit of a calcium channel.
FILED	Friday, October 15, 2010
APPL NO	12/905930
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100
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08491913 — Compositions and methods using recombinant MHC molecules for the treatment of stroke

US 08491913	Offner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon); Patricia D. Hurn (Portland, 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)	Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon); Patricia D. Hurn (Portland, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Two-domain MHC polypeptides are useful for modulating activities of antigen-specific T-cells, including for modulating pathogenic potential and effects of antigen-specific T-cells. Exemplary MHC class II-based recombinant T-cell ligands (RTLs) of the invention include covalently linked β1 and α1 domains, and MHC class I-based molecules that comprise covalently linked α1 and α2 domains. These polypeptides may also include covalently linked antigenic determinants, toxic moieties, and/or detectable labels. The disclosed polypeptides can be used to target antigen-specific T-cells, and are useful, among other things, to detect and purify antigen-specific T-cells, to induce or activate T-cells, to modulate T-cell activity, including by regulatory switching of T-cell cytokine and adhesion molecule expression, to treat conditions mediated by antigen-specific T-cells, including treatment and/or prevention of central nervous system damage relating to stroke.
FILED	Monday, March 08, 2010
APPL NO	12/661038
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100
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08491938 — Potent inhibitory effect of zinc in combination with sulforaphane on cancer cell growth

US 08491938	Feng
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Pei Feng (Towson, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Pei Feng (Towson, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to compositions comprising zinc and sulforaphane which can be used in the treatment or prevention of cancer. The invention also relates to methods of treating or preventing cancer, including prostate cancer, which comprises the administration of zinc and sulforaphane to a patient in need thereof.
FILED	Wednesday, January 20, 2010
APPL NO	12/690432
ART UNIT	1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/641
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08492081 — Aldehyde-fixed, dried platelets with covalently attached exogenous active agent and method of making thereof

US 08492081	Nichols et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Fixed-dried blood cells carrying an active agent are described, along with methods of making the same, methods of using the same, and compositions containing the same. The blood cells are preferably blood platelets.
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2007
APPL NO	11/863462
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2
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08492083 — MicroRNA fingerprints during human megakaryocytopoiesis

US 08492083	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); Ramiro Garzon (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Ramiro Garzon (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Described herein is a method of decreasing expression of HOXA1 in a subject having a cancer and/or myeloproliferative disorder associated with overexpression of a HOXA1 gene product where an effective amount of at least one miR-10a gene product or an isolated variant or biologically-active fragment thereof is administered to the subject sufficient to decrease expression of the HOXA1 gene product in the subject.
FILED	Monday, August 27, 2012
APPL NO	13/595207
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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08492085 — Method of designing addressable array suitable for detection of nucleic acid sequence differences using ligase detection reaction

US 08492085	Barany et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Francis Barany (New York, New York); Monib Zirvi (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Norman P. Gerry (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Reyna Favis (Iselin, New Jersey); Richard Kliman (Iselin, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Francis Barany (New York, New York); Monib Zirvi (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Norman P. Gerry (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Reyna Favis (Iselin, New Jersey); Richard Kliman (Iselin, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a method of designing a plurality of capture oligonucleotide probes for use on a support to which complementary oligonucleotide probes will hybridize with little mismatch, where the plural capture oligonucleotide probes have melting temperatures within a narrow range. The first step of the method involves providing a first set of a plurality of tetramers of four nucleotides linked together, where (1) each tetramer within the first set differs from all other tetramers in the first set by at least two nucleotide bases, (2) no two tetramers within the first set are complementary to one another, (3) no tetramers within the first set are palindromic or dinucleotide repeats, and (4) no tetramer within the first set has one or less or three or more G or C nucleotides. Groups of 2 to 4 of the tetramers from the first set are linked together to form a collection of multimer units. From the collection of multimer units, all multimer units formed from the same tetramer and all multimer units having a melting temperature in .degree. C. of less than 4 times the number of tetramers forming a multimer unit are removed to form a modified collection of multimer units. The modified collection of multimer units is arranged in a list in order of melting temperature. The order of the modified collection of multimer units is randomized in 2.degree. C. increments of melting temperature.
FILED	Wednesday, October 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/252169
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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08492088 — Engineering enzymes through genetic selection

US 08492088	Doyle
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Donald F. Doyle (Marietta, Georgia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Donald F. Doyle (Marietta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provide a system for the selection of variant nuclear receptor ligand binding domains, or for the selection of variant enzymes that have an enhanced ability to synthesize a nuclear receptor ligand or a precursor thereof. The disclosure provides yeast cells comprising: a yeast transcription modulating system comprising a nucleic acid expression system encoding a nuclear receptor ligand-binding domain linked to a DNA-binding domain, a nucleic acid expression system encoding a coactivator domain linked to a yeast transcriptional activator, a heterologous enzyme system for generating a nuclear receptor ligand, and a selective genetic locus expressed in the presence of the recombinant nuclear receptor polypeptide and a nuclear receptor ligand specifically bound to the recombinant nuclear receptor polypeptide. The disclosure also provides methods of using the yeast cell system for identifying variant nuclear receptor ligand binding domains or variant enzymes synthesizing a nuclear receptor ligand.
FILED	Tuesday, October 19, 2010
APPL NO	12/907066
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 435/6.100
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08492102 — Molecular diagnosis and classification of malignant melanoma

US 08492102	Kashani-Sabet et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Mohammed Kashani-Sabet (San Francisco, California); Christopher Haqq (Newbury Park, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohammed Kashani-Sabet (San Francisco, California); Christopher Haqq (Newbury Park, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods for diagnosing and providing a prognosis of melanoma using molecular markers that are overexpressed in melanoma cells. The invention provides kits for diagnosis and prognosis. Also provided are methods to identify compounds that are useful for the treatment or prevention of melanoma and melanoma progression.
FILED	Thursday, March 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/920957
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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08492103 — Diagnosis and treatment of ehrlichiosis

US 08492103	Thomas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Sunil Thomas (Dickinson, Texas); David H. Walker (Galveston, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Sunil Thomas (Dickinson, Texas); David H. Walker (Galveston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides an isolated Ehrlichia peptide and therapeutic and diagnostic uses therefor.
FILED	Tuesday, January 31, 2012
APPL NO	13/362765
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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08492107 — Neural proteins as biomarkers for nervous system injury and other neural disorders

US 08492107	Wang 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)
APPLICANT(S)	Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming-Cheng Liu (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. (Alachua, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Ka-Wang (Kevin) Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming-Cheng Liu (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury.
FILED	Thursday, June 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/822560
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920
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08492109 — Methods for the delivery of toxins or enzymatically active portions thereof

US 08492109	Oyler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	George A. Oyler (Baltimore, Maryland); Charles B. Shoemaker (North Grafton, Massachusetts); Chuehling Kuo (Framingham, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	George A. Oyler (Baltimore, Maryland); Charles B. Shoemaker (North Grafton, Massachusetts); Chuehling Kuo (Framingham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods, systems, and kits for intoxicating cells, neuronal and non-neuronal cells, with a toxin or fragment thereof. This is done by subjecting toxin substrate and a lipid or polymeric carrier (e.g., DNA uptake facilitating agent) to one or more cells for use in cell based assays. In an aspect, the methods of the present invention allow for high throughput assays and, as such, for the evaluation of drug candidates.
FILED	Wednesday, January 20, 2010
APPL NO	12/690427
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/24
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08492118 — Fusion molecules and IL-15 variants

US 08492118	Wong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Hing C. Wong (Weston, Florida); Peter Rhode (Miami, Florida); Xiaoyun Zhu (Miami, Florida); Kai-ping Han (Miramar, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Altor BioScience Corporation (Miramar, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Hing C. Wong (Weston, Florida); Peter Rhode (Miami, Florida); Xiaoyun Zhu (Miami, Florida); Kai-ping Han (Miramar, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The instant invention provides soluble fusion protein complexes and IL-15 variants that have therapeutic and diagnostic use, and methods for making the such proteins. The instant invention additionally provides methods of stimulating or suppressing immune responses in a mammal using the fusion protein complexes and IL-15 variants of the invention.
FILED	Friday, May 09, 2008
APPL NO	12/151980
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.520
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08492168 — Droplet-based affinity assays

US 08492168	Srinivasan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Advanced Liquid Logic Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to droplet-based affinity assays. According to one embodiment, a method of detecting a target analyte in a sample is provided, wherein the method includes: (a) executing droplet operations to combine affinity-based assay reagents on a droplet microactuator with a sample potentially comprising the target analyte to generate a signal indicative of the presence, absence and/or quantity of analyte; and (b) detecting the signal, wherein the signal corresponds to the presence, absence and/or quantity of the analyte in the sample.
FILED	Friday, December 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/639663
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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08492347 — Peptide for induction of immune tolerance as treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus

US 08492347	Hahn 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)	Bevra H. Hahn (Encino, California); Fanny M. Ebling (Encino, California); Antonio La Cava (Santa Monica, California); Ram Raj Singh (Los Angeles, California); Ram Pyare Singh (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Bevra H. Hahn (Encino, California); Fanny M. Ebling (Encino, California); Antonio La Cava (Santa Monica, California); Ram Raj Singh (Los Angeles, California); Ram Pyare Singh (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to D-amino acid peptides and their use in methods for the diagnosis and/or treatment of immune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus.
FILED	Friday, October 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/682759
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.500
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08492348 — Methods of increasing cerebral blood flow

US 08492348	Mochly-Rosen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Rachel Bright (Claremont, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Rachel Bright (Claremont, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods of increasing blood flow in a mammalian brain blood vessel characterized by, or otherwise experiencing, decreased blood flow due to an ischemic or other hypoxic event, vasoconstriction or vasospasm following hemorrhagic stroke; due to chronic high blood pressure; and/or due to idiopathic causes are provided. The method for increasing blood flow in such a mammalian brain blood vessel includes administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of δ protein kinase C. In certain embodiments, the inhibitor can be chronically administered without causing desensitization of the patient to the inhibitor. Kits for increasing blood flow in a mammalian brain blood vessel characterized by, or otherwise experiencing, decreased blood flow due to an ischemic or other hypoxic event, vasoconstriction or vasospasm following hemorrhagic stroke; due to chronic high blood pressure; and/or due to idiopathic causes are provided.
FILED	Tuesday, June 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/490097
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.700
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08492364 — Methods and compositions relating to synthetic β-1,6 glucosamine oligosaccharides

US 08492364	Pier 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)	Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts); Nikolay Nifantiev (Moscow, Russian Federation); Yury Tsvetkov (Moscow, Russian Federation); Marina Gening (Moscow, Russian Federation)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerald B. Pier (Brookline, Massachusetts); Nikolay Nifantiev (Moscow, Russian Federation); Yury Tsvetkov (Moscow, Russian Federation); Marina Gening (Moscow, Russian Federation)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to the compositions of synthetic oligo-β-(1→6)-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranosides conjugated to carriers, and methods for making and use same.
FILED	Tuesday, July 21, 2009
APPL NO	13/055178
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/62
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08492415 — Azoles and related derivatives as non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) in antiviral therapy (HIV)

US 08492415	Jorgensen
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	William L. Jorgensen (Deep River, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	William L. Jorgensen (Deep River, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds, including oxadiazole compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and their use in the inhibition of reverse transcriptase and the treatment of HIV (1 and 2) infections, AIDS and ARC and other viral infections.
FILED	Wednesday, July 02, 2008
APPL NO	12/452151
ART UNIT	1622 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/363
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08492434 — Antiviral drugs for treatment of arenavirus infection

US 08492434	Hruby 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)	Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Tove C. Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Sean Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Siga Technologies Inc. (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Tove C. Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Sean Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain novel compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by hemorrhagic fever viruses is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Arenaviridae (Junin, Machupo, Guanarito, Sabia, Lassa, Tacaribe, and Pichinde), Filoviridae (Ebola and Marburg viruses), Flaviviridae (yellow fever, Omsk hemorrhagic fever and Kyasanur Forest disease viruses), and Bunyaviridae (Rift Valley fever).
FILED	Wednesday, February 22, 2012
APPL NO	13/402167
ART UNIT	1627 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/471
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08492530 — Unstructured recombinant polymers and compositions comprising same

US 08492530	Schellenberger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Chia-Wei Wang (Santa Clara, California); Michael D. Scholle (Mountain View, California); Mikhail Popkov (San Diego, California); Nathaniel C. Gordon (Campbell, California); Andreas Crameri (Los Altos Hills, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Chia-Wei Wang (Santa Clara, California); Michael D. Scholle (Mountain View, California); Mikhail Popkov (San Diego, California); Nathaniel C. Gordon (Campbell, California); Andreas Crameri (Los Altos Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides unstructured recombinant polymers (URPs) and proteins containing one or more of the URPs. The present invention also provides microproteins, toxins and other related proteinaceous entities, as well as genetic packages displaying these entities. The present invention also provides recombinant polypeptides including vectors encoding the subject proteinaceous entities, as well as host cells comprising the vectors. The subject compositions have a variety of utilities including a range of pharmaceutical applications.
FILED	Wednesday, November 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/939120
ART UNIT	1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/399
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08492591 — Highly selective 5-HT(2C) receptor agonists that show anti-psychotic effects with antagonist activity at the 5-HT(2B) receptor

US 08492591	Kozikowski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Alan Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Bryan Roth (Durham, North Carolina); Andreas Svennebring (Nacka, Sweden); Sung Jin Cho (Daejeon, South Korea)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hikll (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Alan Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Bryan Roth (Durham, North Carolina); Andreas Svennebring (Nacka, Sweden); Sung Jin Cho (Daejeon, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	Highly selective 5-HT(2C) receptor agonists receptors are disclosed. The 5-HT(2C) receptor agonists are used in the treatments of disease and conditions wherein modulation of 5-HT(2C) receptors provides a benefit, such as obesity and psychiatric disorders.
FILED	Thursday, February 03, 2011
APPL NO	13/576819
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 564/455
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08492714 — System and method for trapping and measuring a charged particle in a liquid

US 08492714	Reed et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); Predrag S. Krstic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Weihua Guan (New Haven, Connecticut); Xiongce Zhao (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for trapping a charged particle is disclosed. A time-varying periodic multipole electric potential is generated in a trapping volume. A charged particle under the influence of the multipole electric field is confined to the trapping volume. A three electrode configuration giving rise to a 3D Paul trap and a four planar electrode configuration giving rise to a 2D Paul trap are disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, October 04, 2012
APPL NO	13/644750
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/292
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08492728 — Photodiode and other sensor structures in flat-panel X-ray imagers and method for improving topological uniformity of the photodiode and other sensor structures in flat-panel X-ray imagers based on thin-film electronics

US 08492728	Antonuk
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	Larry E. Antonuk (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Larry E. Antonuk (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A radiation sensor including a scintillation layer configured to emit photons upon interaction with ionizing radiation and a photodetector including in order a first electrode, a photosensitive layer, and a photon-transmissive second electrode disposed in proximity to the scintillation layer. The photosensitive layer is configured to generate electron-hole pairs upon interaction with a part of the photons. The radiation sensor includes pixel circuitry electrically connected to the first electrode and configured to measure an imaging signal indicative of the electron-hole pairs generated in the photosensitive layer and a planarization layer disposed on the pixel circuitry between the first electrode and the pixel circuitry such that the first electrode is above a plane including the pixel circuitry. A surface of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode at least partially overlaps the pixel circuitry and has a surface inflection above features of the pixel circuitry. The surface inflection has a radius of curvature greater than one half micron.
FILED	Thursday, June 17, 2010
APPL NO	12/817634
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/370.110
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08492734 — Imaging systems featuring waveguiding compensation

US 08492734	Yared et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Wael I. Yared (Lexington, Massachusetts); Pouyan Mohajerani (Smyrna, Georgia); Joshua Kempner (Reading, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	VisEn Medical, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Wael I. Yared (Lexington, Massachusetts); Pouyan Mohajerani (Smyrna, Georgia); Joshua Kempner (Reading, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for altering an image to compensate for variation in one or more physical and/or supervenient properties (e.g., optical absorption and/or scattering) in heterogeneous, diffuse tissue, thereby attenuating the effects of tissue waveguiding. The methods enable the proper identification of emission image regions that evidence waveguiding of electromagnetic radiation, and enables compensation of emission images for such waveguiding. The methods preserve the depth localization accuracy of the FMT approach and improve optical reconstruction in the targeted areas while eliminating spurious components of fluorescence from the acquired data set. Calibration methods for probe concentration mapping are also presented.
FILED	Tuesday, June 03, 2008
APPL NO	12/738615
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/458.100
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08494012 — Raman converting laser systems

US 08494012	Heller et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Donald F. Heller (Somerset, New Jersey); Marc Klosner (South Orange, New Jersey); Brian A. Pryor (Newark, Delaware); Thangavel Thevar (Aberdeen, United Kingdom); Bruce Boczar (Feasterville Trevose, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Light Age, Inc. (Somerset, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Donald F. Heller (Somerset, New Jersey); Marc Klosner (South Orange, New Jersey); Brian A. Pryor (Newark, Delaware); Thangavel Thevar (Aberdeen, United Kingdom); Bruce Boczar (Feasterville Trevose, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, the instant invention provides a method that includes: outputting a first laser beam having: a beam quality factor (M2) between 1 and 5, and a spectral width of less than 0.15 nm, where the outputting is performed by a laser generating component that includes a alexandrite laser oscillator; converting the first laser beam through a first Raman cell to produce a second laser beam, where the first Raman cell is filled with a first gas; and converting the second laser beam through a second Raman cell to produce a final laser beam, where the second Raman cell is filled with a second gas and is operationally positioned after the first Raman cell, where the first gas and the second gas are different gasses, and where the final laser beam having: a second energy of at least 1 mJ, and at least one wavelength longer than 2.5 micron.
FILED	Thursday, April 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/440919
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/3
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08494115 — Methods and apparatus for hardware based radiation dose calculation

US 08494115	Hu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
APPLICANT(S)	Xiaobo Sharon Hu (Granger, Indiana); Cedric Xinsheng Yu (Clarksville, Maryland); Bo Zhou (South Bend, Indiana); Danny Ziyi Chen (Granger, Indiana); Kevin Whitton (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana); The University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaobo Sharon Hu (Granger, Indiana); Cedric Xinsheng Yu (Clarksville, Maryland); Bo Zhou (South Bend, Indiana); Danny Ziyi Chen (Granger, Indiana); Kevin Whitton (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is an example method to calculate radiation dose. The method includes receiving a tissue matrix in which the tissue matrix includes a plurality of voxels. The example method also includes producing a first plurality of transport lines with a direction controller in which each transport line is indicative of a cone of irradiated energy, and calculating at least one radiation dose with at least one deposit engine substantially in parallel with producing a second plurality of transport lines with the direction controller.
FILED	Tuesday, March 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/685475
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65
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08494785 — Molecular standards for microbial pathogens

US 08494785	Icenhour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal R. Icenhour (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brian V. Loyal (Charlottesville, Virginia); Tyler Hartley (Charlottesville, Virginia); Linh Nguyen (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Phthisis Diagnostics LLC (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Crystal R. Icenhour (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brian V. Loyal (Charlottesville, Virginia); Tyler Hartley (Charlottesville, Virginia); Linh Nguyen (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method for constructing a consensus sequence from a sequence alignment. The consensus sequence may be used to generate molecular standards that may substitute for genomic DNA in various assays. Since a molecular standard cannot have unresolved bases, the method removes less informative sequences to resolve all positions in the alignment. Also includes several sequences from pathogenic waterborne species that were constructed according to the method.
FILED	Friday, August 27, 2010
APPL NO	12/870481
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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08494791 — Methods and systems for improved correlation of shear displacement waveforms

US 08494791	Hazard et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA)
APPLICANT(S)	Christopher Robert Hazard (Niskayuna, New York); Kenneth Wayne Rigby (Clifton Park, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher Robert Hazard (Niskayuna, New York); Kenneth Wayne Rigby (Clifton Park, New York)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems for improving correlation of shear displacement waveforms are presented. The method includes delivering one or more reference pulses to a plurality of target regions to detect corresponding initial positions. Further, a plurality of pushing pulse segments are delivered to one or more pushing locations, where one or more parameters corresponding to the plurality of pushing pulse segments are adapted for generating a shear displacement waveform with a desired wave shape. Additionally, one or more tracking pulses may be delivered to the plurality of target regions for detecting displacements of at least a subset of the target regions as a function of time. Particularly, the displacements are determined as time samples of the shear displacement waveform. Subsequently, a shift between the shear displacement waveform detected at least two different target regions in the subset of the plurality of target regions is detected.
FILED	Thursday, December 16, 2010
APPL NO	12/970676
ART UNIT	2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/56
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Department of Energy (DOE)

08491679 — Hydrogen generation utilizing integrated CO2 removal with steam reforming

US 08491679	Duraiswamy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Kandaswamy Duraiswamy (Huntington Beach, California); Anand S. Chellappa (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Intelligent Energy, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kandaswamy Duraiswamy (Huntington Beach, California); Anand S. Chellappa (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A steam reformer may comprise fluid inlet and outlet connections and have a substantially cylindrical geometry divided into reforming segments and reforming compartments extending longitudinally within the reformer, each being in fluid communication. With the fluid inlets and outlets. Further, methods for generating hydrogen may comprise steam reformation and material adsorption in one operation followed by regeneration of adsorbers in another operation. Cathode off-gas from a fuel cell may be used to regenerate and sweep the adsorbers, and the operations may cycle among a plurality of adsorption enhanced reformers to provide a continuous flow of hydrogen.
FILED	Tuesday, December 14, 2010
APPL NO	13/516185
ART UNIT	1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61
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08491861 — Synthetic process for preparation of high surface area electroactive compounds for battery applications

US 08491861	Evenson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Carl Evenson (Lafayette, Colorado); Richard Mackay (Lafayette, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eltron Research, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Carl Evenson (Lafayette, Colorado); Richard Mackay (Lafayette, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A process is disclosed for the preparation of electroactive cathode compounds useful in lithium-ion batteries, comprising exothermic mixing of low-cost precursors and calcination under appropriate conditions. The exothermic step may be a spontaneous flameless combustion reaction. The disclosed process can be used to prepare any lithium metal phosphate or lithium mixed metal phosphate as a high surface area single phase compound.
FILED	Thursday, May 24, 2007
APPL NO	11/753485
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/306
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08491964 — Diamond nucleation using polyethene

US 08491964	Morell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)	Gerardo Morell (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Vladimir Makarov (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Deepak Varshney (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Brad Weiner (Dorado, Puerto Rico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerardo Morell (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Vladimir Makarov (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Deepak Varshney (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Brad Weiner (Dorado, Puerto Rico)
ABSTRACT	The invention presents a simple, non-destructive and non-abrasive method of diamond nucleation using polyethene. It particularly describes the nucleation of diamond on an electrically viable substrate surface using polyethene via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique in a gaseous environment.
FILED	Wednesday, March 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/070214
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/249.800
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08492030 — Cathode material for lithium batteries

US 08492030	Park et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	Sang-Ho Park (Woodridge, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Sang-Ho Park (Woodridge, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method of manufacture an article of a cathode (positive electrode) material for lithium batteries. The cathode material is a lithium molybdenum composite transition metal oxide material and is prepared by mixing in a solid state an intermediate molybdenum composite transition metal oxide and a lithium source. The mixture is thermally treated to obtain the lithium molybdenum composite transition metal oxide cathode material.
FILED	Monday, June 19, 2006
APPL NO	11/455358
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.500
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08492033 — Fast cure gel polymer electrolytes

US 08492033	Amine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois); Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois); Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Fast-cure gel polymer electrolytes are prepared by trapping an oligo(alkylene glycol)siloxane or silane in a three dimensional polymer matrix. An ion-conducting phase of the electrolyte contains a siloxane or silane compound and a lithium salt. Such siloxanes or silanes include a silicon or silicon oxide group having four or less substituents that is an oligo(alkylene glycol), or cyclic carbonate moiety.
FILED	Monday, June 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/815149
ART UNIT	1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/302
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08492049 — Anion exchange polymer electrolytes

US 08492049	Kim 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)	Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dae Sik Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kwan-Soo Lee (Blacksburg, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dae Sik Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kwan-Soo Lee (Blacksburg, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Solid anion exchange polymer electrolytes and compositions comprising chemical compounds comprising a polymeric core, a spacer A, and a guanidine base, wherein said chemical compound is uniformly dispersed in a suitable solvent and has the structure: wherein: i) A is a spacer having the structure O, S, SO₂, —NH—, —N(CH₂)_n, wherein n=1-10, —(CH₂)_n—CH₃—, wherein n=1-10, SO₂-Ph, CO-Ph, wherein R₅, R₆, R₇and R₈each are independently —H, —NH₂, F, Cl, Br, CN, or a C₁-C₆alkyl group, or any combination of thereof; ii) R₉, R₁₀, R₁₁, R₁₂, or R₁₃each independently are —H, —CH₃, —NH₂, —NO, —CH_nCH₃where n=1-6, HC═O—, NH₂C═O—, —CH_nCOOH where n=1-6, —(CH₂)_n—C(NH₂)—COOH where n=1-6, —CH—(COOH)—CH₂—COOH, —CH₂—CH(O—CH₂CH₃)₂, —(C═S)—NH₂, —(C═NH)—N—(CH₂)_nCH₃, where n=0-6, —NH—(C═S)—SH, —CH₂—(C═O)—O—C(CH₃)₃, —O—(CH₂)_n—CH—(NH₂)—COOH, where n=1-6, —(CH₂)_n—CH═CH wherein n=1-6, —(CH₂)_n—CH—CN wherein n=1-6, an aromatic group such as a phenyl, benzyl, phenoxy, methylbenzyl, nitrogen-substituted benzyl or phenyl groups, a halide, or halide-substituted methyl groups; and iii) wherein the composition is suitable for use in a membrane electrode assembly.
FILED	Thursday, September 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/878844
ART UNIT	1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/483
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08492114 — Methods of combined bioprocessing and related microorganisms, thermophilic and/or acidophilic enzymes, and nucleic acids encoding said enzymes

US 08492114	Thompson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)	David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Thomas E. Ward (Furnace, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
INVENTOR(S)	David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Thomas E. Ward (Furnace, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A genetically modified organism comprising: at least one nucleic acid sequence and/or at least one recombinant nucleic acid isolated from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius and encoding a polypeptide involved in at least partially degrading, cleaving, transporting, metabolizing, or removing polysaccharides, cellulose, lignocellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, sugars, sugar oligomers, carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, chitin, heteroxylans, glycosides, xylan-, glucan-, galactan-, or mannan-decorating groups; and at least one nucleic acid sequence and/or at least one recombinant nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide involved in fermenting sugar molecules to a product. Additionally, enzymatic and/or proteinaceous extracts may be isolated from one or more genetically modified organisms. The extracts are utilized to convert biomass into a product. Further provided are methods of converting biomass into products comprising: placing the genetically modified organism and/or enzymatic extracts thereof in fluid contact with polysaccharides, cellulose, lignocellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, sugars, sugar oligomers, carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, chitin, heteroxylans, glycosides, and/or xylan-, glucan-, galactan-, or mannan-decorating groups.
FILED	Friday, October 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/587229
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41
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08492154 — Method for predicting fouling tendency of a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock

US 08492154	Schabron et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming)
INVENTOR(S)	John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a method involving the steps of (a) precipitating an amount of asphaltenes from a liquid sample of a first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock having solvated asphaltenes therein with one or more first solvents in a column; (b) determining one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; (c) analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; and (d) correlating a measurement of feedstock fouling tendency for the first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock sample with a mathematical parameter derived from the results of analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes.
FILED	Thursday, August 30, 2012
APPL NO	13/600039
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/29
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08492245 — Methods for making thin layers of crystalline materials

US 08492245	Lagally et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Deborah M. Paskiewicz (Oregon, Wisconsin); Boy Tanto (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Deborah M. Paskiewicz (Oregon, Wisconsin); Boy Tanto (Hillsboro, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Methods for making growth templates for the epitaxial growth of compound semiconductors and other materials are provided. The growth templates are thin layers of single-crystalline materials that are themselves grown epitaxially on a substrate that includes a thin layer of sacrificial material. The thin layer of sacrificial material, which creates a coherent strain in the single-crystalline material as it is grown thereon, includes one or more suspended sections and one or more supported sections.
FILED	Tuesday, February 07, 2012
APPL NO	13/367600
ART UNIT	2826 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/458
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08492253 — Method of forming contacts for a back-contact solar cell

US 08492253	Manning
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
APPLICANT(S)	Jane Manning (Woodside, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jane Manning (Woodside, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods of forming contacts for back-contact solar cells are described. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a thin dielectric layer on a substrate, forming a polysilicon layer on the thin dielectric layer, forming and patterning a solid-state p-type dopant source on the polysilicon layer, forming an n-type dopant source layer over exposed regions of the polysilicon layer and over a plurality of regions of the solid-state p-type dopant source, and heating the substrate to provide a plurality of n-type doped polysilicon regions among a plurality of p-type doped polysilicon regions.
FILED	Thursday, December 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/959199
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/563
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08492595 — Methods and systems for generating polyols

US 08492595	Cortright
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source.
FILED	Friday, June 08, 2012
APPL NO	13/491749
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 568/403
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08492714 — System and method for trapping and measuring a charged particle in a liquid

US 08492714	Reed et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); Predrag S. Krstic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Weihua Guan (New Haven, Connecticut); Xiongce Zhao (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for trapping a charged particle is disclosed. A time-varying periodic multipole electric potential is generated in a trapping volume. A charged particle under the influence of the multipole electric field is confined to the trapping volume. A three electrode configuration giving rise to a 3D Paul trap and a four planar electrode configuration giving rise to a 2D Paul trap are disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, October 04, 2012
APPL NO	13/644750
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/292
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08492730 — Neutron detectors comprising ultra-thin layers of boron powder

US 08492730	Wang 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)	Zhehul Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Christopher Morris (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhehul Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Christopher Morris (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	High-efficiency neutron detector substrate assemblies comprising a first conductive substrate, wherein a first side of the substrate is in direct contact with a first layer of a powder material having a thickness of from about 50 nm to about 250 nm and comprising ¹⁰boron, ¹⁰boron carbide or combinations thereof, and wherein a conductive material is in proximity to the first layer of powder material; and processes of making said neutron detector substrate assemblies.
FILED	Wednesday, December 08, 2010
APPL NO	12/963492
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/390.10
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08493738 — Cooled electronic system with thermal spreaders coupling electronics cards to cold rails

US 08493738	Chainer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
APPLICANT(S)	Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Michael A. Gaynes (Vestal, New York); David P. Graybill (Staatsburg, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Woodstock, New York); Vinod Kamath (Raleigh, North Carolina); Bejoy J. Kochuparambil (Apex, North Carolina); Roger R. Schmidt (Poughkeepsie, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York); Daniel P. Simco (Pound Ridge, New York); Mark E. Steinke (Durham, North Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Michael A. Gaynes (Vestal, New York); David P. Graybill (Staatsburg, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Woodstock, New York); Vinod Kamath (Raleigh, North Carolina); Bejoy J. Kochuparambil (Apex, North Carolina); Roger R. Schmidt (Poughkeepsie, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York); Daniel P. Simco (Pound Ridge, New York); Mark E. Steinke (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Liquid-cooled electronic systems are provided which include an electronic assembly having an electronics card and a socket with a latch at one end. The latch facilitates securing of the card within the socket or removal of the card from the socket. A liquid-cooled cold rail is disposed at the one end of the socket, and a thermal spreader couples the electronics card to the cold rail. The thermal spreader includes first and second thermal transfer plates coupled to first and second surfaces on opposite sides of the card, and thermally conductive extensions extending from end edges of the plates, which couple the respective transfer plates to the liquid-cooled cold rail. The thermally conductive extensions are disposed to the sides of the latch, and the card is securable within or removable from the socket using the latch without removing the cold rail or the thermal spreader.
FILED	Friday, May 06, 2011
APPL NO	13/102211
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/700
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08494780 — Data transformation methods for multiplexed assays

US 08494780	Tammero 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)	Lance F. Bentley Tammero (Oakland, California); John M. Dzenitis (Danville, California); Benjamin J. Hindson (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Lance F. Bentley Tammero (Oakland, California); John M. Dzenitis (Danville, California); Benjamin J. Hindson (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods to improve the performance of an array assay are described. A correlation between fluorescence intensity-related parameters and negative control values of the assay is determined. The parameters are then adjusted as a function of the correlation. As a result, sensitivity of the assay is improved without changes in its specificity.
FILED	Tuesday, February 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/698785
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	Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) G01N 33/569 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/20 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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08495411 — All row, planar fault detection system

US 08495411	Archer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Edward Smith (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Edward Smith (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus, program product and method for detecting nodal faults may simultaneously cause designated nodes of a cell to communicate with all nodes adjacent to each of the designated nodes. Furthermore, all nodes along the axes of the designated nodes are made to communicate with their adjacent nodes, and the communications are analyzed to determine if a node or connection is faulty.
FILED	Monday, February 07, 2005
APPL NO	11/052662
ART UNIT	2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4.100
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08495607 — Performing aggressive code optimization with an ability to rollback changes made by the aggressive optimizations

US 08495607	Gschwind
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael K. Gschwind (Chappaqua, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael K. Gschwind (Chappaqua, New York)
ABSTRACT	Mechanisms for aggressively optimizing computer code are provided. With these mechanisms, a compiler determines an optimization to apply to a portion of source code and determines if the optimization as applied to the portion of source code will result in unsafe optimized code that introduces a new source of exceptions being generated by the optimized code. In response to a determination that the optimization is an unsafe optimization, the compiler generates an aggressively compiled code version, in which the unsafe optimization is applied, and a conservatively compiled code version in which the unsafe optimization is not applied. The compiler stores both versions and provides them for execution. Mechanisms are provided for switching between these versions during execution in the event of a failure of the aggressively compiled code version. Moreover, predictive mechanisms are provided for predicting whether such a failure is likely.
FILED	Monday, March 01, 2010
APPL NO	12/714877
ART UNIT	2198 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/160
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08495654 — Intranode data communications in a parallel computer

US 08495654	Archer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Douglas R. Miller (Albert Lea, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Douglas R. Miller (Albert Lea, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Intranode data communications in a parallel computer that includes compute nodes configured to execute processes, where the data communications include: allocating, upon initialization of a first process of a compute node, a region of shared memory; establishing, by the first process, a predefined number of message buffers, each message buffer associated with a process to be initialized on the compute node; sending, to a second process on the same compute node, a data communications message without determining whether the second process has been initialized, including storing the data communications message in the message buffer of the second process; and upon initialization of the second process: retrieving, by the second process, a pointer to the second process's message buffer; and retrieving, by the second process from the second process's message buffer in dependence upon the pointer, the data communications message sent by the first process.
FILED	Monday, November 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/290670
ART UNIT	2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/312
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

08490497 — Microelectromechanical (MEMS) pressure transducer

US 08490497	Gutierrez et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	Christian A. Gutierrez (Los Angeles, California); Ellis Meng (Alhambra, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Christian A. Gutierrez (Los Angeles, California); Ellis Meng (Alhambra, California)
ABSTRACT	A pressure transducer for measuring pressure may include an all-polymer chamber that has no dimension greater than 1 mm. There may be fluid within the chamber, a gaseous bubble trapped within the fluid, and electrodes in contact with the fluid. The electrodes may enable a measurement of changes in the impedance of the fluid caused by changes in the volume of the gaseous bubble caused by changes in the pressure to be measured. The pressure transducer may be made by depositing the chamber, placing the fluid within the chamber, and generating the gaseous bubble within the fluid with electrolysis.
FILED	Monday, March 21, 2011
APPL NO	13/052958
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/754
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08491665 — Skin stretch tactile feedback device

US 08491665	Cutkosky et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark R Cutkosky (Palo Alto, California); Karlin Y Bark (Mountain View, California); Jason Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joan Savall (Palo Alto, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark R Cutkosky (Palo Alto, California); Karlin Y Bark (Mountain View, California); Jason Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joan Savall (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	The tactile feedback device of the preferred embodiments includes at least one skin contact pad; at least one actuator designed to move the at least one skin contact pad and attached to the at least one skin contact pad in a manner suitable to allow the actuator to move the at least one skin contact pad; a processor coupled to the actuator that executes a control logic and functions to control the movements of the at least one actuator; the control logic functions to determine the motions of the at least one actuator and is designed to move the at least one actuator in a manner that stretches the skin of the user. The tactile feedback device of the preferred embodiments has been designed to provide feedback to a user in a way that provides the user with information regarding a task that they are performing. The tactile feedback device of the preferred embodiments, however, may be used for any suitable purpose.
FILED	Wednesday, December 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/639427
ART UNIT	3738 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Prosthesis 623/24
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08491999 — Metal-coated vertically aligned carbon nanofibers

US 08491999	Metz et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Kevin Michael Metz (Middleton, Wisconsin); Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin Michael Metz (Middleton, Wisconsin); Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides electrodes comprised of metal-coated vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. Arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers provide highly accessible, high density templates having large electrochemically active surface areas that may be modified to further increase the surface area of the nanofibers. The methods of the present invention involve functionalizing the surface of the nanofibers and coating the functionalized surface with metal using electroless deposition. The resulting metal-coated nanofibers form highly stable and highly reproducible electrodes having very high surface areas. The electrodes of the present invention are expected to be useful in a variety of applications, including high-density energy storage, i.e., supercapacitors and fuel cells.
FILED	Thursday, September 14, 2006
APPL NO	11/521570
ART UNIT	1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/408
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08492231 — Nanoscale variable resistor/electromechanical transistor

US 08492231	Bürki et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Physics (PHY)
APPLICANT(S)	Jerome Alexandre Bürki (Pleasant Hill, California); Charles Allen Stafford (Tucson, Arizona); Daniel L. Stein (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); New York University (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jerome Alexandre Bürki (Pleasant Hill, California); Charles Allen Stafford (Tucson, Arizona); Daniel L. Stein (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	A nanoscale variable resistor including a metal nanowire as an active element, a dielectric, and a gate. By selective application of a gate voltage, stochastic transitions between different conducting states, and even length, of the nanowire can be induced and with a switching time as fast as picoseconds. With an appropriate choice of dielectric, the transconductance of the device, which may also be considered an “electromechanical transistor,” is shown to significantly exceed the conductance quantum G0=2e²/h.
FILED	Wednesday, June 25, 2008
APPL NO	12/666090
ART UNIT	2814 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/284
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08492238 — Method and apparatus for fabricating piezoresistive polysilicon by low-temperature metal induced crystallization

US 08492238	Celik-Butler et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)	Zeynep Celik-Butler (Colleyville, Texas); Suraj K. Patil (Arlington, Texas); Donald Philip Butler (Colleyville, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Zeynep Celik-Butler (Colleyville, Texas); Suraj K. Patil (Arlington, Texas); Donald Philip Butler (Colleyville, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method and apparatus for fabricating piezoresistive polysilicon on a substrate by low-temperature metal induced crystallization by: (1) providing the substrate having a passivation layer; (2) performing, at or near room temperature in a chamber without breaking a vacuum or near-vacuum within the chamber, the steps of: (a) creating a metal layer on the passivation layer, and (b) creating an amorphous silicon layer on the metal layer, wherein the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer have approximately the same thickness; (3) annealing the substrate, the passivation layer, the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer at a temperature equal to or less than 600° C. and a period of time equal to or less than three hours to form a doped polysilicon layer below a residual metal layer; and (4) removing the residual metal layer to expose the doped polysilicon layer.
FILED	Friday, August 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/541907
ART UNIT	2813 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/381
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08492319 — Nanoparticle compositions and methods for making and using the same

US 08492319	Malshe et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Ajay P. Malshe (Springdale, Arkansas); Arpana Verma (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Ajay P. Malshe (Springdale, Arkansas); Arpana Verma (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	A composition that includes solid lubricant nanoparticles and an organic medium is disclosed. Also disclosed are nanoparticles that include layered materials. A method of producing a nanoparticle by milling layered materials is provided. Also disclosed is a method of making a lubricant, the method including milling layered materials to form nanoparticles and incorporating the nanoparticles into a base to form a lubricant.
FILED	Friday, January 12, 2007
APPL NO	12/160758
ART UNIT	1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/154
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08492504 — Catalytic depolymerization of polymers containing electrophilic linkages using nucleophilic reagents

US 08492504	Hedrick et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	James Lupton Hedrick (Pleasanton, California); Russell Clayton Pratt (Oakland, California); Robert M. Waymouth (Palo Alto, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	James Lupton Hedrick (Pleasanton, California); Russell Clayton Pratt (Oakland, California); Robert M. Waymouth (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure relates to methods and materials useful for depolymerizing a polymer. In one embodiment, for example, the disclosure provides a method for depolymerizing a polymer containing electrophilic linkages, wherein the method comprises contacting the polymer with a nucleophilic reagent in the presence of a guanidine-containing compound. The methods and materials of the disclosure find utility, for example, in the field of waste reclamation and recycling.
FILED	Tuesday, August 07, 2012
APPL NO	13/569033
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/274
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08492510 — Multifunctional degradable nanoparticles with control over size and functionalities

US 08492510	Harth et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Eva M. Harth (Nashville, Tennessee); Alice E. Van Der Ende (Antioch, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Eva M. Harth (Nashville, Tennessee); Alice E. Van Der Ende (Antioch, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	In one aspect, the invention relates to polymers, crosslinked polymers, functionalized polymers, nanoparticles, and functionalized nanoparticles and methods of making and using same. In one aspect, the invention relates to degradable polymer and degradable nanoparticles. In one aspect, the invention relates to methods of preparing degradable nanoparticles and, more specifically, methods of controlling particle size during the preparation of degradable nanoparticles. In one aspect, the degradable nanoparticles are useful for complexing, delivering, and releasing payloads, including pharmaceutically active payloads. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
FILED	Tuesday, November 23, 2010
APPL NO	12/953173
ART UNIT	1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/421
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08493560 — Plasmonic enhancement of whispering gallery mode biosensors

US 08493560	Shopova et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Siyka Shopova (Staten Island, New York); Stephen Arnold (New York, New York); Raaj Haresh Rajmangal (South Ozone Park, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Siyka Shopova (Staten Island, New York); Stephen Arnold (New York, New York); Raaj Haresh Rajmangal (South Ozone Park, New York)
ABSTRACT	A sensor for determining the presence or concentration of a target entity in a medium is described, and includes (a) an optical waveguide; (b) a microresonator optically coupled with the optical waveguide such that light within the optical waveguide induces a resonant mode within the microresonator at an equator region (or a mode volume); and (c) at least one plasmonic nanoparticle adsorbed onto a surface area of the microresonator within the equator region (or the mode volume) such that light inducing a resonant mode within the microresonator also causes a plasmonic resonance in the at least one plasmonic nanoparticle. Detection methods for using such sensors are also described. Finally, methods, involving the use of carousel forces, for fabricating such sensors are also described.
FILED	Tuesday, August 09, 2011
APPL NO	13/205756
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301
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08494115 — Methods and apparatus for hardware based radiation dose calculation

US 08494115	Hu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
APPLICANT(S)	Xiaobo Sharon Hu (Granger, Indiana); Cedric Xinsheng Yu (Clarksville, Maryland); Bo Zhou (South Bend, Indiana); Danny Ziyi Chen (Granger, Indiana); Kevin Whitton (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana); The University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaobo Sharon Hu (Granger, Indiana); Cedric Xinsheng Yu (Clarksville, Maryland); Bo Zhou (South Bend, Indiana); Danny Ziyi Chen (Granger, Indiana); Kevin Whitton (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is an example method to calculate radiation dose. The method includes receiving a tissue matrix in which the tissue matrix includes a plurality of voxels. The example method also includes producing a first plurality of transport lines with a direction controller in which each transport line is indicative of a cone of irradiated energy, and calculating at least one radiation dose with at least one deposit engine substantially in parallel with producing a second plurality of transport lines with the direction controller.
FILED	Tuesday, March 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/685475
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65
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08494785 — Molecular standards for microbial pathogens

US 08494785	Icenhour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Crystal R. Icenhour (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brian V. Loyal (Charlottesville, Virginia); Tyler Hartley (Charlottesville, Virginia); Linh Nguyen (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Phthisis Diagnostics LLC (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Crystal R. Icenhour (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brian V. Loyal (Charlottesville, Virginia); Tyler Hartley (Charlottesville, Virginia); Linh Nguyen (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method for constructing a consensus sequence from a sequence alignment. The consensus sequence may be used to generate molecular standards that may substitute for genomic DNA in various assays. Since a molecular standard cannot have unresolved bases, the method removes less informative sequences to resolve all positions in the alignment. Also includes several sequences from pathogenic waterborne species that were constructed according to the method.
FILED	Friday, August 27, 2010
APPL NO	12/870481
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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08494829 — Sensor fusion and probabilistic parameter estimation method and apparatus

US 08494829	Teixeira
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Rodrigo E. Teixeira (Madison, Alabama)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Rodrigo E. Teixeira (Madison, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A probabilistic digital signal processor using data from multiple instruments is described. Initial probability distribution functions are input to a dynamic state-space model, which operates on state and/or model probability distribution functions to generate a prior probability distribution function, which is input to a probabilistic updater. The probabilistic updater integrates sensor data from multiple instruments with the prior to generate a posterior probability distribution function passed (1) to a probabilistic sampler, which estimates one or more parameters using the posterior, which is output or re-sampled in an iterative algorithm or (2) iteratively to the dynamic state-space model. For example, the probabilistic processor operates on fused data using a physical model, where the data originates from a mechanical system or a medical meter or instrument, such as an electrocardiogram or pulse oximeter to generate new parameter information and/or enhanced parameter information.
FILED	Tuesday, July 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/181027
ART UNIT	1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

08490463 — Assessment and calibration of a crimp tool equipped with ultrasonic analysis features

US 08490463	Yost et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia); K. Elliott Cramer (Yorktown, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia); K. Elliott Cramer (Yorktown, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method is provided for calibrating ultrasonic signals passed through a crimp formed with respect to a deformable body via an ultrasonically-equipped crimp tool (UECT). The UECT verifies a crimp quality using the ultrasonic signals. The method includes forming the crimp, transmitting a first signal, e.g., a pulse, to a first transducer of the UECT, and converting the first signal, using the first transducer, into a second signal which defines an ultrasonic pulse. This pulse is transmitted through the UECT into the crimp. A second transducer converts the second signal into a third signal, which may be further conditioned, and the ultrasonic signals are calibrated using the third signal or its conditioned variant. An apparatus for calibrating the ultrasonic signals includes a pulse module (PM) electrically connected to the first and second transducers, and an oscilloscope or display electrically connected to the PM for analyzing an electrical output signal therefrom.
FILED	Tuesday, September 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/881431
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/1.820
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08490470 — Parallel plate system for collecting data used to determine viscosity

US 08490470	Kaukler et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	William Kaukler (Huntsville, Alabama); Edwin C. Ethridge (Huntsville, Alabama)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	William Kaukler (Huntsville, Alabama); Edwin C. Ethridge (Huntsville, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A parallel-plate system collects data used to determine viscosity. A first plate is coupled to a translator so that the first plate can be moved along a first direction. A second plate has a pendulum device coupled thereto such that the second plate is suspended above and parallel to the first plate. The pendulum device constrains movement of the second plate to a second direction that is aligned with the first direction and is substantially parallel thereto. A force measuring device is coupled to the second plate for measuring force along the second direction caused by movement of the second plate.
FILED	Tuesday, September 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/569555
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/54.10
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08491964 — Diamond nucleation using polyethene

US 08491964	Morell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)	Gerardo Morell (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Vladimir Makarov (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Deepak Varshney (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Brad Weiner (Dorado, Puerto Rico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
INVENTOR(S)	Gerardo Morell (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Vladimir Makarov (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Deepak Varshney (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Brad Weiner (Dorado, Puerto Rico)
ABSTRACT	The invention presents a simple, non-destructive and non-abrasive method of diamond nucleation using polyethene. It particularly describes the nucleation of diamond on an electrically viable substrate surface using polyethene via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique in a gaseous environment.
FILED	Wednesday, March 23, 2011
APPL NO	13/070214
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/249.800
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08492115 — Cell-free synthesis of membrane bound polypeptides

US 08492115	Swartz et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
APPLICANT(S)	James Robert Swartz (Menlo Park, California); Jessica Wuu (Menlo Park, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	James Robert Swartz (Menlo Park, California); Jessica Wuu (Menlo Park, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for the utilization of bacterial cell-free extracts in the synthesis of high yields of membrane-associated polypeptides.
FILED	Thursday, May 10, 2012
APPL NO	13/468907
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100
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08492160 — Biomarker sensors and method for multi-color imaging and processing of single-molecule life signatures

US 08492160	Wade et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Lawrence A. Wade (La Canada, California); Charles Patrick Collier (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Lawrence A. Wade (La Canada, California); Charles Patrick Collier (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	The invention is a device including array of aciive regions for use in reacting one or more species in at least two of the active regions in a sequential process, e.g., sequential reactions. The device has a transparent substrate member, which has a surface region and a silane material overlying the surface region. A first active region overlies a first portion of the silane material. The first region has a first dimension of less than 1 micron in size and has first molecules capable of binding to the first portion of the silane material. A second active region overlies a second portion of the silane material. The second region has a second dimension of less than 1 micron in size, second molecules capable of binding to the second portion of the active region, and a spatial distance separates the first active region and the second active region.
FILED	Tuesday, March 09, 2010
APPL NO	12/720103
ART UNIT	1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/163
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08494687 — Method for enhancing a three dimensional image from a plurality of frames of flash LIDAR data

US 08494687	Vanek et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael D. Vanek (Poquoson, Virginia); Farzin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Alexander Bulyshev (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael D. Vanek (Poquoson, Virginia); Farzin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Alexander Bulyshev (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method for enhancing a three dimensional image from frames of flash LIDAR data includes generating a first distance R_ifrom a first detector i to a first point on a surface S_i. After defining a map with a mesh Θ having cells k, a first array S(k), a second array M(k), and a third array D(k) are initialized. The first array corresponds to the surface, the second array corresponds to the elevation map, and the third array D(k) receives an output for the DEM. The surface is projected onto the mesh Θ, so that a second distance R_kfrom a second point on the mesh Θ to the detector can be found. From this, a height may be calculated, which permits the generation of a digital elevation map. Also, using sequential frames of flash LIDAR data, vehicle control is possible using an offset between successive frames.
FILED	Wednesday, June 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/166121
ART UNIT	3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/1
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08494782 — Rapid polymer sequencer

US 08494782	Stolc et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	Viktor Stolc (Milpitas, California); Matthew W Brock (San Francisco, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Viktor Stolc (Milpitas, California); Matthew W Brock (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	Method and system for rapid and accurate determination of each of a sequence of unknown polymer components, such as nucleic acid components. A self-assembling monolayer of a selected substance is optionally provided on an interior surface of a pipette tip, and the interior surface is immersed in a selected liquid. A selected electrical field is impressed in a longitudinal direction, or in a transverse direction, in the tip region, a polymer sequence is passed through the tip region, and a change in an electrical current signal is measured as each polymer component passes through the tip region. Each of the measured changes in electrical current signals is compared with a database of reference electrical change signals, with each reference signal corresponding to an identified polymer component, to identify the unknown polymer component with a reference polymer component. The nanopore preferably has a pore inner diameter of no more than about 40 nm and is prepared by heating and pulling a very small section of a glass tubing.
FILED	Thursday, April 21, 2011
APPL NO	13/092048
ART UNIT	1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

08491916 — Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome vaccine based on isolate JA-142

US 08491916	Mengeling et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	William L. Mengeling (Ames, Iowa); Ann Vorwald (Ames, Iowa); Kelly Lager (Neveda, Iowa); Mike Roof (Ames, Iowa); Kelly Burkhart (Radcliffe, Iowa); David E. Gorcyca (St. Joseph, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (St. Joseph, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	William L. Mengeling (Ames, Iowa); Ann Vorwald (Ames, Iowa); Kelly Lager (Neveda, Iowa); Mike Roof (Ames, Iowa); Kelly Burkhart (Radcliffe, Iowa); David E. Gorcyca (St. Joseph, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Substantially avirulent forms of atypical porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus and corresponding vaccines are provided which result from cell culture passaging of virulent forms of PRRS. The resultant avirulent atypical PRRS virus is useful as a vaccine in that PRRS specific antibody response is elicited by inoculation of host animals, thereby conferring effective immunity against both previously known strains of PRRS virus and newly isolated atypical PRRS virus strains. The preferred passaging technique ensures that the virus remains in a logarithmic growth phase substantially throughout the process, which minimizes the time required to achieve attenuation. The present invention also provides diagnostic testing methods which can differentiate between animals infected with field strains and attenuated strains of PRRSV.
FILED	Monday, July 24, 2006
APPL NO	11/459542
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100
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08492614 — Plant biochemical systems and uses thereof

US 08492614	Warpeha 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)	Katherine Warpeha (Chicago, Illinois); Lon Kaufman (Highland Park, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Katherine Warpeha (Chicago, Illinois); Lon Kaufman (Highland Park, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Compositions including phenylalanine, analogues, and phenylalanine precursors protect plants against environmental stressors. Delivery systems and methods of treating are provided. A method of protecting plants against environmental and/or biological stressors includes administering a composition including phenylalanine, a phenylalanine precursor or other skikimate pathway or phenylpropanoid pathway compound, or an amino acid that can be converted to phenylalanine to at least one root, at least one germinating seed, or at least one epidermal surface of a plant. Administration of the composition to the root, seed, or plant improves or restores at least one growth characteristic of the plant when the plant is exposed to an environmental stressor such as ultra-violet radiation, cold, drought, salt, heat, fungus, beetles (e.g., Japanese beetles), hormones, bacteria, arthropods, and worms (e.g., soybean cyst nematode) or products of biotic organisms. Another method of protecting plants against environmental and/or biological stressors includes coating a plant (e.g., soybean) seed with a composition including phenylalanine, a phenylalanine precursor or other skikimate pathway or phenylpropanoid pathway compound, or an amino acid that can be converted to phenylalanine such that the composition protects the seed and a plant that grows from the seed from ultra-violet radiation, cold, drought, salt, heat, fungus, beetles (e.g., Japanese beetles), hormones, bacteria, arthropods, and worms (e.g., soybean cyst nematode) or products of biotic organisms. Plants and plant cells including an isolated nucleic acid encoding at least one prephenate dehydratase operably linked to a promoter are described herein.
FILED	Wednesday, August 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/528780
ART UNIT	1638 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295
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08494226 — Systems, methods and devices for use in assessing carcass grading

US 08494226	Wilson 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)	Doyle E. Wilson (Huxley, Iowa); Viren R. Amin (Ames, Iowa)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Biotronics, Inc. (Ames, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Doyle E. Wilson (Huxley, Iowa); Viren R. Amin (Ames, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	Methods, systems and devices are implemented in connection with measuring the relative content of intramuscular fat (IMF) in a portion of muscle tissue. Consistent with one such method a probe is presented to the portion of muscle tissue. The probe produces a response-provoking signal in the muscle tissue. A resulting signal is used to determine the relative content of IMF in the portion of muscle tissue as a function of the pressure being exerted between the probe and the portion.
FILED	Tuesday, May 05, 2009
APPL NO	12/435683
ART UNIT	2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/110
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PP023761 — Sweetpotato plant named ‘05-111’

US PP23761	LaBonte et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Don R. LaBonte (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Arthur Q. Villordon (Monroe, Louisiana); Tara Smith (Chase, Louisiana); Christopher A. Clark (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Through The LSU Agcenter (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Don R. LaBonte (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Arthur Q. Villordon (Monroe, Louisiana); Tara Smith (Chase, Louisiana); Christopher A. Clark (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
ABSTRACT	A new variety of sweetpotato identified as ‘05-111’ is disclosed having disease resistance to both Fusarium wilt, Rhizopus soft rot, and Streptomyces soil rot, a orange flesh, and high yield characteristics.
FILED	Tuesday, November 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/373630
ART UNIT	1661 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Plants PLT/258
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Department of Commerce (DOC)

08491668 — Conformal particle coatings on fibrous materials

US 08491668	Hinestroza et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC)
APPLICANT(S)	Juan P. Hinestroza (Ithaca, New York); Hong Dong (Perry Hall, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Juan P. Hinestroza (Ithaca, New York); Hong Dong (Perry Hall, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Methods are provided for uniform deposition of particles on curved surfaces such as fibers and coatings formed by the particles. Particles in the size range of 10-2000 nm are deposited onto a fibrous material via electrostatic interaction between charge modified fiber material surfaces and oppositely charged particles or metal ions. Various nonmetallic, bimetallic or other charged particles are deposited onto a fibrous material via electrostatic interaction between charged modified fibrous material surfaces and oppositely charged particles. Particles can be directly assembled onto a surface of a fibrous material by controlling hydrogen bonding interactions between interfaces of fibers and functionalized particles. Metal particles can also be deposited by in situ synthesis. A method is also provided for layer-by-layer deposition of particles over a fibrous material.
FILED	Thursday, April 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/988293
ART UNIT	1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification of textiles and fibers 08/115.600
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08492045 — Solid oxide fuel cell systems

US 08492045	Badding et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael Edward Badding (Campbell, New York); William Joseph Bouton (Addison, New York); Peng Chen (Painted Post, New York); Steven Joseph Gregorski (Painted Post, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Edward Badding (Campbell, New York); William Joseph Bouton (Addison, New York); Peng Chen (Painted Post, New York); Steven Joseph Gregorski (Painted Post, New York)
ABSTRACT	According to one embodiment of the present invention a fuel cell system comprises: (i) a plurality of fuel cell packets, each packet comprising at least one fuel inlet, at least one fuel outlet, a frame, and two multi-cell fuel cell devices, the fuel cell devices situated such that an anode side of one fuel cell device faces an anode side of another fuel cell device, and the two fuel cell devices, in combination, at least partially form a fuel chamber connected to the fuel inlet and the fuel outlet; (ii) a plurality of heat exchange packets, each packet comprising at least one oxidant inlet, at least one oxidant outlet, and an internal oxidant chamber connected to the at least one oxidant inlet and the least one oxidant outlet; the heat exchange packets being parallel to and interspersed between the fuel cell packets, such that the heat exchange packets face the fuel cell packets and form, at least in part, a plurality of cathode reaction chambers between the heat exchange packets and the fuel cell packets; (iii) a housing supporting and enclosing the fuel packets and the heat exchange packets; (iv) an oxidant inlet plenum operatively connected to oxidant inlets of the heat exchange packets; (v) an oxidant exhaust plenum operatively connected to the cathode reaction chambers; (vi) an inlet fuel manifold connected to fuel inlets of the fuel cell packets; and (vii) an exhaust fuel manifold connected to the fuel outlets of the fuel cell packets.
FILED	Wednesday, May 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/991748
ART UNIT	1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/435
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08492595 — Methods and systems for generating polyols

US 08492595	Cortright
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source.
FILED	Friday, June 08, 2012
APPL NO	13/491749
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 568/403
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

08491281 — Long life seal and alignment system for small cryocoolers

US 08491281	Hon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert C Hon (Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky); Lowell A Bellis (Long Beach, California); Julian A Shrago (Garden Grove, California); Carl S. Kirkconnell (Huntington Beach, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert C Hon (Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky); Lowell A Bellis (Long Beach, California); Julian A Shrago (Garden Grove, California); Carl S. Kirkconnell (Huntington Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, a compressor includes a motor assembly configured to compress a gas within a compression volume, the motor assembly including: a stationary coil assembly; a moving assembly having at least one magnet, and a gap located between the stationary coil assembly and the moving assembly; wherein the moving assembly is configured to reciprocate axially with respect to the stationary coil assembly when electrical current is applied to the stationary coil assembly, and to change the width of the gap between the stationary coil assembly and the moving assembly so as to provide magnetic axial stiffness against motion of the moving assembly. One or more embodiments may be used in a cryocooler assembly.
FILED	Friday, July 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/830041
ART UNIT	3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Pumps 417/412
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08492021 — Flexible, porous ceramic composite film

US 08492021	Kaun
FUNDED BY	Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas D Kaun (New Lenox, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas D Kaun (New Lenox, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed toward a laminated electrode and porous separator film combination including a solid electrolyte salt within the porous separator film, the combination comprising layer of powdered cathode material adhering to a surface of a separator film with a solid electrolyte therebetween; the separator film comprising 50% to 95% by weight of electrically non-conductive ceramic fibers having a coating of magnesium oxide on the surface of the fibers in an amount in the range of 5% to 50% by weight; wherein the ceramic fibers comprise Al₂O₃, AlSiO₂, BN, AlN, or a mixture of two or more of the foregoing; and the magnesium oxide coating interconnects the ceramic fibers providing a porous network of magnesium oxide-coated fibers having a porosity of not less than 50% by volume; the pores of the network containing a solid electrolyte salt in an amount of up to 95% by volume based on pore volume of the network.
FILED	Wednesday, October 03, 2012
APPL NO	13/644095
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/129
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08492530 — Unstructured recombinant polymers and compositions comprising same

US 08492530	Schellenberger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Chia-Wei Wang (Santa Clara, California); Michael D. Scholle (Mountain View, California); Mikhail Popkov (San Diego, California); Nathaniel C. Gordon (Campbell, California); Andreas Crameri (Los Altos Hills, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Chia-Wei Wang (Santa Clara, California); Michael D. Scholle (Mountain View, California); Mikhail Popkov (San Diego, California); Nathaniel C. Gordon (Campbell, California); Andreas Crameri (Los Altos Hills, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides unstructured recombinant polymers (URPs) and proteins containing one or more of the URPs. The present invention also provides microproteins, toxins and other related proteinaceous entities, as well as genetic packages displaying these entities. The present invention also provides recombinant polypeptides including vectors encoding the subject proteinaceous entities, as well as host cells comprising the vectors. The subject compositions have a variety of utilities including a range of pharmaceutical applications.
FILED	Wednesday, November 03, 2010
APPL NO	12/939120
ART UNIT	1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/399
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

08490242 — Mobile caster

US 08490242	Cooper et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	Rory A. Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Andrew M. Kwarciak (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark A. McCartney (Saxonburg, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lee Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Universit Of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Rory A. Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Andrew M. Kwarciak (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark A. McCartney (Saxonburg, Pennsylvania); Jonathan Lee Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Caster alignment mechanism having a first component operably connected to a leg of a mobile device and a second component operably connected to a caster of the mobile device. The first and second components are positioned in parallel orientation to each other wherein alignment of the caster with the leg of the mobile device is achieved by the attractive characteristics of the first component with an upper magnet to the second component with a lower magnet. One embodiment of the caster alignment mechanism includes a fixed gap between the upper magnet and the lower magnet for an always engaged or “on” mode. The fixed gap can be adjusted to vary magnetic field strength depending on user specifications for ease of turning. Another embodiment of the caster alignment mechanism includes a switching mechanism to change modes between engaged or “on” mode and disengaged or “off” mode.
FILED	Tuesday, November 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/956666
ART UNIT	3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
CURRENT CPC	Miscellaneous hardware 016/35.R00
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08491913 — Compositions and methods using recombinant MHC molecules for the treatment of stroke

US 08491913	Offner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon); Patricia D. Hurn (Portland, 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)	Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon); Patricia D. Hurn (Portland, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Two-domain MHC polypeptides are useful for modulating activities of antigen-specific T-cells, including for modulating pathogenic potential and effects of antigen-specific T-cells. Exemplary MHC class II-based recombinant T-cell ligands (RTLs) of the invention include covalently linked β1 and α1 domains, and MHC class I-based molecules that comprise covalently linked α1 and α2 domains. These polypeptides may also include covalently linked antigenic determinants, toxic moieties, and/or detectable labels. The disclosed polypeptides can be used to target antigen-specific T-cells, and are useful, among other things, to detect and purify antigen-specific T-cells, to induce or activate T-cells, to modulate T-cell activity, including by regulatory switching of T-cell cytokine and adhesion molecule expression, to treat conditions mediated by antigen-specific T-cells, including treatment and/or prevention of central nervous system damage relating to stroke.
FILED	Monday, March 08, 2010
APPL NO	12/661038
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100
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National Security Agency (NSA)

08494036 — Resource adaptive spectrum estimation of streaming data

US 08494036	Turaga et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Deepak Srinivac Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Michail Vlachos (Tarrytown, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Deepak Srinivac Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Michail Vlachos (Tarrytown, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York)
ABSTRACT	Streaming environments typically dictate incomplete or approximate algorithm execution, in order to cope with sudden surges in the data rate. Such limitations are even more accentuated in mobile environments (such as sensor networks) where computational and memory resources are typically limited. Introduced herein is a novel “resource adaptive” algorithm for spectrum and periodicity estimation on a continuous stream of data. The formulation is based on the derivation of a closed-form incremental computation of the spectrum, augmented by an intelligent load-shedding scheme that can adapt to available CPU resources. Experimentation indicates that the proposed technique can be a viable and resource efficient solution for real-time spectrum estimation.
FILED	Tuesday, July 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/177300
ART UNIT	2633 — Digital Communications
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/224
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08495595 — Method of selecting an expression evaluation technique for domain-specific language compilation

US 08495595	Andrade et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)	Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Mark Mendell (Toronto, Canada); Howard W. Nasgaard (Markham, Canada); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Mark Mendell (Toronto, Canada); Howard W. Nasgaard (Markham, Canada); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method and computer program product for selecting an expression evaluation technique for domain-specific language (DSL) compilation. An application written in DSL for a programming task is provided, the application including a plurality of components configured by expressions. A technique that most quickly implements the programming task is selected from a plurality of techniques for evaluating the expressions. The DSL application is compiled in accordance with the selected expression evaluation technique to generate general-purpose programming language (GPL) code.
FILED	Tuesday, March 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/749947
ART UNIT	2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/137
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United States Postal Service (USPS)

08493444 — System and method of detecting a blocked aperture in letter or flat mail image sensor

US 08493444	Reidel et al.
FUNDED BY	United States Postal Service (USPS)
APPLICANT(S)	Simon Franklin Reidel (Rockville, Maryland); Anthony Everett Sileo (Linden, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Simon Franklin Reidel (Rockville, Maryland); Anthony Everett Sileo (Linden, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments include systems and methods of detecting a blocked aperture in an image device. In certain embodiments, the system and method is used in mail processing of letters and flats. In certain embodiments, the image sensor captures an image of the front of an item. If the aperture of the image sensor is obstructed, a void will appear on the image of the item. The system can detect the void and increment an alarm count until a pre-defined threshold is reached wherein the system signals an alarm so that the blockage can be removed and the affected items can be re-introduced for correct processing. In another embodiment, images obtained when the aperture is expected to be clear of any items.
FILED	Tuesday, September 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/569718
ART UNIT	2483 — Recording and Compression
CURRENT CPC	Television 348/143
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08494826 — Systems and methods for analyzing equipment failures and maintenance schedules

US 08494826	Richards et al.
FUNDED BY	United States Postal Service (USPS)
APPLICANT(S)	Wynn G. Richards (Norman, Oklahoma); Kurt D. Martin (Norman, Oklahoma); William L. Lieurance (Norman, Oklahoma); Melvin M. Kosler (Norman, Oklahoma)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Wynn G. Richards (Norman, Oklahoma); Kurt D. Martin (Norman, Oklahoma); William L. Lieurance (Norman, Oklahoma); Melvin M. Kosler (Norman, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	A computer implemented method may be used for analyzing equipment failures and maintenance schedules. An equipment maintenance system generates a model of equipment and components of each piece of equipment. In one embodiment, the model is a tree representation. The equipment maintenance system may then determine estimated failure information for each component based on a selected statistical model. The equipment maintenance system may also generate a maintenance schedule based on the determined estimated failure information for each component of the equipment. In one embodiment, the equipment maintenance system displays the equipment maintenance information.
FILED	Wednesday, January 13, 2010
APPL NO	12/687016
ART UNIT	2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

08491861 — Synthetic process for preparation of high surface area electroactive compounds for battery applications

US 08491861	Evenson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Carl Evenson (Lafayette, Colorado); Richard Mackay (Lafayette, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eltron Research, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Carl Evenson (Lafayette, Colorado); Richard Mackay (Lafayette, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A process is disclosed for the preparation of electroactive cathode compounds useful in lithium-ion batteries, comprising exothermic mixing of low-cost precursors and calcination under appropriate conditions. The exothermic step may be a spontaneous flameless combustion reaction. The disclosed process can be used to prepare any lithium metal phosphate or lithium mixed metal phosphate as a high surface area single phase compound.
FILED	Thursday, May 24, 2007
APPL NO	11/753485
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/306
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Government Rights Acknowledged

08490531 — Mine roller neutralization system

US 08490531	Simula et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Glen Raymond Simula (Hancock, Michigan); Steven John Tarnowski (Calumet, Michigan); Luke Stephen Luskin (Hubbell, Michigan); William George Abbatt (Dearborn, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GSE Technologies, LLC (Houghton, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Glen Raymond Simula (Hancock, Michigan); Steven John Tarnowski (Calumet, Michigan); Luke Stephen Luskin (Hubbell, Michigan); William George Abbatt (Dearborn, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A mine roller assembly for a mine roller is provided for detonating mines located in or on an underlying ground surface. A bracket is adapted for attachment to a mine roller system frame. An arm is pivotally connected to the bracket. A spring and damper system extends between the bracket and the arm. A wheel assembly is rotatably connected to the arm and is configured to interact with the underlying surface.
FILED	Monday, June 07, 2010
APPL NO	12/795183
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/1.130
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08491970 — Vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays from liquid dispersions

US 08491970	Strauss et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Dennis Strauss (Ventura, California); Vivek Mehrotra (Simi Valley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis Strauss (Ventura, California); Vivek Mehrotra (Simi Valley, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and device for producing an aligned carbon nanotube array. The arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may be formed by drying liquid dispersions of CNTs on a nanoporous substrate under an applied electrostatic field. The array may be used in a number of applications including electronics, optics, and filtration, including desalination.
FILED	Wednesday, September 29, 2010
APPL NO	12/894043
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/474
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08492351 — Anti-cholesterolemic compounds and methods of use

US 08492351	Chatterjee et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Subroto Chatterjee (Columbia, Maryland); Mark S. Butler (Brisbane, Australia); Brinda Somanadhan (Singapore, Singapore)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Subroto Chatterjee (Columbia, Maryland); Mark S. Butler (Brisbane, Australia); Brinda Somanadhan (Singapore, Singapore)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides novel compounds with hypocholesteremic activity from crude Embilica officinialis (EO) extracts and methods of use. The invention also provides nutraceuticals.
FILED	Monday, June 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/488965
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25
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08494251 — System and method for measuring image quality

US 08494251	Camus
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)	Theodore Armand Camus (Marlton, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Theodore Armand Camus (Marlton, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides an improved system and method for measuring quality of both single and stereo video images. The embodiments of the present invention include frequency content measure for a single image or region-of-interest thereof and disparity measure for stereo images or region-of-interest thereof.
FILED	Monday, January 12, 2009
APPL NO	12/352192
ART UNIT	2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/154
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