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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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| US 08506473 | Puria |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunil Puria (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SoundBeam LLC (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Puria (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hearing aid transducer adapts itself to variations in the surface of a tympanic membrane and slides over the migrating membrane without lubrication. Microscopic setae create a conforming interface between the biocompatible material of the transducer and the living tissue of the tympanic membrane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633614 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506499 | Mukherjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rupak Mukherjee (Charleston, South Carolina); Michael R. Gold (Daniel Island, South Carolina); Francis G. Spinale (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rupak Mukherjee (Charleston, South Carolina); Michael R. Gold (Daniel Island, South Carolina); Francis G. Spinale (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of and systems for predicting recurrence of atrial fibrillation comprising protease and protease inhibitor profiling. The levels of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and/or tissue inhibitor metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are analyzed to predict the recurrence of atrial fibrillation, and further to predict whether cardioversion will provide a successful therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522238 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506803 | Russell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason Dale Russell (Middleton, Wisconsin); Joshua Jacques Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ryan Tyler Hilger (Lafayette, Indiana); Lloyd Michael Smith (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel T. Ladror (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Robert Shortreed (Portage, Wisconsin); Mark Andrew Scalf (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Dale Russell (Middleton, Wisconsin); Joshua Jacques Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ryan Tyler Hilger (Lafayette, Indiana); Lloyd Michael Smith (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel T. Ladror (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Robert Shortreed (Portage, Wisconsin); Mark Andrew Scalf (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated mass spectrometer electrospray emitter and fluorescence detector allows improved volumetric measurements of separate components from a liquid chromatography column by improving correlation between the readings of these instruments and reducing dead volume and sample size requirements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/037816 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506928 | Ferrara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Katherine Ferrara (Davis, California); Hua Zhang (Davis, California); Jiro Kusunose (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine Ferrara (Davis, California); Hua Zhang (Davis, California); Jiro Kusunose (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides which home to cells, e.g. heart cells, with high selectivity and which can be useful in the form of compositions. Such compositions can be used, e.g., for selectively targeting a systemically administered therapeutic agent or imaging agent to a cell or tissue in a subject. The present invention further relates to methods of using the compositions for imaging, e.g. PET imaging, and targeting cells, e.g. for delivering a therapeutic agent to one or more target cells in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206569 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506929 | Kung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hank F. Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hank F. Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to styrylpyridine compounds, and methods of making radiolabeled styrylpyridine compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/186072 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.890 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506944 | Sullivan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin Sullivan (San Diegao, California); Tannin A. Schmidt (Calgary, Canada); David A. Sullivan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Schepens Eye Research Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Sullivan (San Diegao, California); Tannin A. Schmidt (Calgary, Canada); David A. Sullivan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ophthalmic composition, and methods of use thereof, including for treating ocular boundary deficiency, symptoms associated therewith, or undesired condition that is associated with or causes ocular boundary deficiency at the ocular surface or for the treatment or care of ophthalmic devices. The ophthalmic composition comprises a human PRG4 protein, a lubricant fragment, homolog, or isoform thereof, suspended in an ophthalmically acceptable balanced salt solution. The ophthalmic composition may also comprise one or more ophthalmically acceptable agents. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605024 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506947 | McCart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Andrea McCart (Toronto, Canada); David L. Bartlett (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Andrea McCart (Toronto, Canada); David L. Bartlett (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition of matter comprising a vaccinia virus expression vector with a negative thymidine kinase phenotype and a negative vaccinia virus growth factor phenotype. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707453 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506954 | Strober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel Strober (Portola Valley, California); Alexander Filatenkov (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Strober (Portola Valley, California); Alexander Filatenkov (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention provides a method for treating cancer comprising tumor cell vaccination in combination with hematopoietic and immune cell transplantation. In some embodiments, the method involves autologous tumor cell vaccination prior to autologous hematopoietic and immune cell transplantation. In another aspect, the present invention provides a method of purifying tumor cells from a subject in preparation for vaccination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/592752 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506955 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chengcheng Zhang (Arlington, Massachusetts); Harvey F. Lodish (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengcheng Zhang (Arlington, Massachusetts); Harvey F. Lodish (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits for propagating hematopoietic stem cells are provided. The methods comprise culturing cells in medium comprising one or more angiopoietin-like proteins, under conditions sufficient for expansion of HSCs. Angiopoietin-like proteins include angiopoietin-like protein 2, angiopoietin-like protein 3, angiopoietin-like protein 4, angiopoietin-like protein 5, angiopoietin-like protein 7, and microfibrillar-associated glycoprotein (Mfap4). Methods for identifying hematopoietic stem cells are provided and isolated hematopoietic stem cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/853677 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506961 | Goncalvez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ana P. Goncalvez (Rockville, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ching-Juh Lai (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana P. Goncalvez (Rockville, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ching-Juh Lai (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are isolated humanized monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) with a binding affinity of about 1.0 nM or less. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including these nucleic acid molecules, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acid molecules are also disclosed. Methods of treating, preventing, and/or ameliorating JEV infection in a subject with JEV also are disclosed. Additionally, the antibodies can be used to detect JEV in a sample, and methods of diagnosing JEV infection, or confirming a diagnosis of JEV infection in a subject, are disclosed herein that utilize these antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937227 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506965 | Komatsu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Masanobu Komatsu (Orlando, Florida); David Marshall Mann (San Diego, California); Erkki Ruoslahti (Bueuton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vascular BioSciences (San Diego, California); Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masanobu Komatsu (Orlando, Florida); David Marshall Mann (San Diego, California); Erkki Ruoslahti (Bueuton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides means and methods for vascular regulation through enhancement or inhibition of R-Ras activity. The invention specifically provides means and methods for promoting a quiescent state of a vascular cell by providing additional R-Ras activity to the cell. The invention further provides means and methods for diagnosing a condition of vasculature of an individual. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 12/093439 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506968 | Akeefe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hassibullah Akeefe (San Ramon, California); Moiz Kitabwalla (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hassibullah Akeefe (San Ramon, California); Moiz Kitabwalla (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a composition and method for reducing the occurrence and severity of infectious diseases, especially infectious diseases such as SARS, in which lipid-containing infectious viral organisms are found in biological fluids, such as blood. The present invention employs solvents useful for extracting lipids from the lipid-containing infectious viral organism thereby creating immunogenic modified, partially delipidated viral particles with reduced infectivity. The present invention provides delipidated viral vaccine compositions, such as therapeutic vaccine compositions, comprising these modified, partially delipidated viral particles with reduced infectivity, optionally combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or an immunostimulant. The vaccine composition is administered to a patient to provide protection against the lipid-containing infectious viral organism or, in case of a therapeutic vaccine, to treat or alleviate infection against the lipid-containing infections viral organism. The vaccine compositions of the present invention include combination vaccines of modified viral particles obtained from one or more strains of a virus and/or one or more types of virus. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/655299 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/221.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507200 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Dwight Seferos (Toronto, Canada); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Dwight Seferos (Toronto, Canada); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods describing the use of nanoparticles modified with binding moieties are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/526560 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507202 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas); Stefano Volinia (Ferrara, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas); Stefano Volinia (Ferrara, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of solid cancers. The invention also provides methods of identifying inhibitors of tumorigenesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/406622 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507204 | Pierce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niles A. Pierce (Pasadena, California); Robert Dirks (Pasadena, California); Scott E. Fraser (La Canada, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niles A. Pierce (Pasadena, California); Robert Dirks (Pasadena, California); Scott E. Fraser (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of fluorescently labeled nucleic acid probes to identify and image analytes in a biological sample. In the preferred embodiments, a probe is provided that comprises a target region able to specifically bind an analyte of interest and an initiator region that is able to initiate polymerization of nucleic acid monomers. After contacting a sample with the probe, labeled monomers are provided that form a tethered polymer. Triggered probes and self-quenching monomers can be used to provide active background suppression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/363022 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507206 | Lambert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary P Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Pauline T. Velasco (Wilmette, Illinois); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois); Kirsten L. Viola (Chicago, Illinois); Sara J. Fernandez (Chicago, Illinois); Pascale N. Lacor (Chicago, Illinois); Daliya Khuon (Chicago, Illinois); Yuesong Gong (Evanston, Illinois); William L. Klein (Winnetka, Illinois); Grant A. Krafft (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary P Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Pauline T. Velasco (Wilmette, Illinois); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois); Kirsten L. Viola (Chicago, Illinois); Sara J. Fernandez (Chicago, Illinois); Pascale N. Lacor (Chicago, Illinois); Daliya Khuon (Chicago, Illinois); Yuesong Gong (Evanston, Illinois); William L. Klein (Winnetka, Illinois); Grant A. Krafft (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are antibodies that bind with high specificity to soluble oligomers of amyloid β (Abeta) and methods of employing those antibodies. The antibodies are able to distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and control human brain extracts. The antibodies identify endogenous Abeta oligomers in AD brain slices and also bind to Abeta oligomers on cultured hippocampal cells. The antibodies neutralize endogenous Abeta oligomers and Abeta oligomers produced in solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571532 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507215 | Salant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J Salant (Newton, Massachusetts); Laurence H. Beck (Kingston, Massachusetts); Gerard Lambeau (Grasse, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, Finland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J Salant (Newton, Massachusetts); Laurence H. Beck (Kingston, Massachusetts); Gerard Lambeau (Grasse, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides immunoassays for detecting serum auto-antibodies reactive against a phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) and uses thereof for diagnosis and prognosis evaluation of idiopathic membranous nephropathy (MN). |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006864 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507219 | Singh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Inderjit Singh (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inderjit Singh (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention discloses novel methods for the inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthesis (iNOS) and the production of NO. Methods of inhibiting the induction of proinflammatory cytokines are also described. Methods of treating various disease states, such as X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and septic shock using inhibitors of iNOS and cytokine induction are disclosed. The inhibitors include the exemplary compounds lovastatin, a sodium salt of phenylacetic acid (NaPA), FPT inhibitor II, N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), and cAMP. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117675 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507222 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hing C. Wong (Weston, Florida); Peter Rhode (Miami, Florida); Bai Liu (Cooper City, 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); Bai Liu (Cooper City, Florida); Xiaoyun Zhu (Miami, Florida); Kai-ping Han (Miramar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides soluble fusion protein complexes having at least two soluble fusion proteins. The first fusion protein is a biologically active polypeptide covalently linked to an interleukin-15 (IL-15) polypeptide or a functional fragment thereof. The second fusion protein is a second biologically active polypeptide covalently linked to a soluble interleukin-15 receptor alpha (IL-15Rα) polypeptide or a functional fragment thereof. In the complexes of the invention, one or both of the first and second fusion proteins further includes an immunoglobulin Fc domain or a functional fragment thereof; and the first fusion protein binds to the soluble IL-15Rα domain of the second fusion protein to form a soluble fusion protein complex. The invention further provides methods for making and using the complexes of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/238925 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507247 | Kawaoka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin); Hatice Akarsu (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin); Hatice Akarsu (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated attenuated recombinant influenza virus comprising a gene segment comprising a mutant NS2 protein gene, wherein the NS2 protein has at least two substitutions that do not substantially alter the in vitro replication of the virus but are associated with attenuation of the virus in vivo, wherein at least one of the substitutions is a substitution for glutamate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/854578 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507267 | Chiorini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Chiorini (Kensington, Maryland); Robert M. Kotin (Bethesda, Maryland); Nancy Safer (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Chiorini (Kensington, Maryland); Robert M. Kotin (Bethesda, Maryland); Brian Safer (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an adeno-associated virus 4 (AAV4) virus and vectors and particles derived therefrom. In addition, the present invention provides methods of delivering a nucleic acid to a cell using the AAV4 vectors and particles. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719671 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507272 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Le Cong (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of altering expression of a genomic locus of interest or specifically targeting a genomic locus of interest in an animal cell, which may involve contacting the genomic locus with a non-naturally occurring or engineered composition that includes a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding polypeptide having a N-terminal capping region, a DNA binding domain comprising at least five or more Transcription activator-like effector (TALE) monomers and at least one or more half-monomers specifically ordered to target the genomic locus of interest, and a C-terminal capping region, wherein the polypeptide includes at least one or more effector domains, and wherein the polypeptide is encoded by and translated from a codon optimized nucleic acid molecule so that the polypeptide preferentially binds to the DNA of the genomic locus. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/767986 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 08507274 | Melton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas A. Melton (Lexington, Massachusetts); Malgorzata Borowiak (Somerville, Massachusetts); Rene Maehr (Somerville, Massachusetts); Shuibing Chen (Arlington, Massachusetts); Weiping Tang (Madison, Wisconsin); Julia L. Fox (Arlington, Massachusetts); Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Melton (Lexington, Massachusetts); Malgorzata Borowiak (Somerville, Massachusetts); Rene Maehr (Somerville, Massachusetts); Shuibing Chen (Arlington, Massachusetts); Weiping Tang (Madison, Wisconsin); Julia L. Fox (Arlington, Massachusetts); Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a method of producing endoderm cells, such as definitive endoderm cells by exposing stem cells such as embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to an effective amount of at least one compound described herein to differentiate the stem cells into the endoderm cells such as definitive endoderm cells. Differentated endoderm cells produced by the methods disclosed herein can be differentiated into pancreatic epithelium, and other endoderm derivatives such as thymus, liver, stomach, intestine and lung. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of producing pancreatic progenitor cells, such as Pdx1-positive pancreatic progenitor cells by exposing endoderm cells, such as definitive endoderm cells to an effective amount of at least one compound described herein to differentiate the definitive endoderm cells into Pdx1-positive pancreatic progenitor cells. Kits and compositions comprising Pdx1-positive pancreatic progenitor produced using the methods are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/679406 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507277 | Khan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389432 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507283 | Stayton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Jr-iuan Lai (Seattle, Washington); John Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Mitsuhiro Ebara (Mino, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Jr-iuan Lai (Seattle, Washington); John Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Mitsuhiro Ebara (Mino, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Stimuli-responsive magnetic nanoparticles, methods of making the nanoparticles, and methods of using the nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/161233 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507434 | Popel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aleksander S. Popel (Lutherville, Maryland); Emmanouil D. Karagiannis (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksander S. Popel (Lutherville, Maryland); Emmanouil D. Karagiannis (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods that are useful for modulating blood vessel formation, as well as methods that provide for the systematic and efficient identification of angiogenesis modulators are described. As discussed in more detail below, a systematic computational methodology based on bioinformatics was used to identify novel peptide modulators of angiogenesis that have been characterized in vitro and/or in vivo. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522042 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507438 | McNamara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James O. McNamara (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xiao-Ping He (Cary, North Carolina); Yangzhong Huang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Bin Gu (Durham, North Carolina); Enhui Pan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James O. McNamara (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xiao-Ping He (Cary, North Carolina); Yangzhong Huang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Bin Gu (Durham, North Carolina); Enhui Pan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use thereof for preventing or ameliorating disorders of the nervous system. More specifically, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, including phosphopeptides, that when administered disrupt TrkB-mediated activation of PLCγ1 phosphorylation. The invention further provides method of treatment comprising administering inhibitors of TrkB-mediated activation of PLCγ1 phosphorylation alone or in combination with other pharmaceutical compositions to prevent or ameliorate nervous system disorders such as epilepsy, stroke, anxiety, migraine, and pain. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/030977 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507440 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Joan J. Kendig (Campbell, California); Sarah M. Sweitzer (Vallejo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Joan J. Kendig (Campbell, California); Sarah M. Sweitzer (Vallejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing withdrawal from an addictive substance is described. The method involves administering one or more peptides having specific activity for the ε and/or γ isozyme of protein kinase C (PKC). The peptide(s) can be administered prior to, concurrent with, or subsequent to administration of the addictive substance. Also described is a kit having at least one container containing a peptide having isozyme-specific activity for εPKC or γPKC and instructions for use. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879941 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507441 | Feghali-Bostwick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yukie Yamaguchi (Kamakura, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth Systems of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yukie Yamaguchi (Kamakura, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | C-terminal endostatin polypeptides are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, these polypeptides include or consist of (1) at least at least 40 consecutive amino acids of the amino acid sequence set forth as amino acids 133-180 of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 4; (2) at least 40 consecutive amino acids of the amino acid sequence set forth as amino acids 133-180 of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 4 with at most 5 amino acid substitutions, (3) the amino acid sequence set forth as amino acids 133-180 of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 4; or (4) the amino acid sequence set forth as amino acids 133-180 of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 4 with at most 5 amino acid substitutions; wherein the polypeptide has anti-fibrotic activity and wherein the polypeptide does not comprise amino acids 1-92 of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 4. Polynucleotides encoding these polypeptide, host cells transformed with the polynucleotides, and methods of using these polypeptides and polynucleotides are disclosed. Uses of these polypeptide, polynucleotides and expression vectors include the treatment of fibrosis in a subject. Thus, methods are provided for treating fibrosis, including fibrosis of the skin and/or the lung. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/503339 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507445 | Arap et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Mikhail G. Kolonin (Houston, Texas); Paul J. Mintz (Houston, Texas); Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas); Amado J. Zurita (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Mikhail G. Kolonin (Houston, Texas); Paul J. Mintz (Houston, Texas); Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas); Amado J. Zurita (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns compositions comprising and methods of identification and use of targeting peptides selective for cancer tissue, particularly prostate or ovarian cancer tissue. The method may comprise identifying endogenous mimeotopes of such peptides, such as GRP78, IL-11Rα and hsp90. Antibodies against such targeting peptides or their mimeotopes may be used for detection, diagnosis and/or staging of prostate or ovarian cancer. In other embodiments, the compositions and methods concern a novel type of gene therapy vector, known as adeno-associated phage (AAP). AAP are of use for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents to particular tissues, organs or cell types, such as prostate or ovarian cancer. In still other embodiments, targeting peptides selective for low-grade lipomas may be used for detection, diagnosis and targeted delivery of therapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/714147 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507455 | Manoharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Weston, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Wayland, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Sharon, Massachusetts); Jayaprakash K. Narayanannair (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Weston, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Wayland, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Sharon, Massachusetts); Jayaprakash K. Narayanannair (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides iRNA agent including at least one monomer having the structure shown in formula (I′) wherein: A and B are each independently for each occurrence O, N(RN) or S; X is H, a protecting group, a phosphate group, a phosphodiester group, an activated phosphate group, an activated phosphite group, a phosphoramidite, a solid support, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-nucleoside, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-oligonucleotide, a lipid, a PEG, a steroid, a polymer, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-L6-Q′-L7-OP(Z′″)(Z′″″)O-oligonucleotide, a nucleotide, or an oligonucleotide; Y is H, a protecting group, a phosphate group, a phosphodiester group, an activated phosphate group, an activated phosphite group, a phosphoramidite, a solid support, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-nucleoside, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-oligonucleotide, a lipid, a PEG, a steroid, a lipophile, a polymer, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-L6-Q′-L7-OP(Z′″)(Z′″″)O-oligonucleotide, a nucleotide, or an oligonucleotide; R is folate, a folate analog a folate mimic or a folate receptor binding ligand; L6 and L7 are each independently for each occurrence —(CH2)n—, —C(R′)(R″)(CH2)n—, —(CH2)nC(R′)(R″)—, —(CH2CH2O)mCH2CH2—, or —(CH2CH2O)mCH2CH2NH—; Q′ is NH, O, S, CH2, C(O)O, C(O)NH, —NH—CH(Ra)—C(O)—, —C(O)—CH(Ra)—NH—, CO, where Ra is H or amino acid side chain; R′ and R″ are each independently H, CH3, OH, SH, NH2, NH(Alkyl=Me, Et, Pr, isoPr, Bu, Bn) or N(diAlkyl=Me2, Et2, Bn2); Z′, Z″, Z′″ and Z″″ are independently O or S; n represent independently for each occurrence 1-20; and m represent independently for each occurrence 0-50. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/328537 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507501 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul B. Yu (Boston, Massachusetts); Gregory D. Cuny (Houston, Texas); Kenneth D. Bloch (Brookline, Massachusetts); Randall T. Peterson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Charles C. Hong (Nolensville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. Yu (Boston, Massachusetts); Gregory D. Cuny (Houston, Texas); Kenneth D. Bloch (Brookline, Massachusetts); Randall T. Peterson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Charles C. Hong (Nolensville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides small molecule inhibitors of BMP signaling. These compounds may be used to modulate cell growth, differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis, and thus may be useful for treating diseases or conditions associated with BMP signaling, including inflammation, cardiovascular disease, hematological disease, cancer, and bone disorders, as well as for modulating cellular differentiation and/or proliferation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/922122 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/259.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507518 | Witzig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas E. Witzig (Rochester, Minnesota); Scott H. Kaufmann (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Witzig (Rochester, Minnesota); Scott H. Kaufmann (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides the use of rapamycin 42-ester with 3-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpropionic acid (CCI-779) in the treatment or inhibition of mantle cell lymphoma. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/078272 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507551 | Nizet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Nizet (San Diego, California); George Y. Liu (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Nizet (San Diego, California); George Y. Liu (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides a molecular genetic approach of targeted mutagenesis and heterologous expression, coupled with in vitro and in vivo models of bacterial pathogenesis, to demonstrate that the S. aureus pigment is a virulence factor and potential novel target for antimicrobial therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/918584 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507556 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hua Wang (Boise, Idaho); Denise Wingett (Boise, Idaho); Kevin Feris (Boise, Idaho); Mfadhusudan R. Kongara (Boise, Idaho); Alex Punnoose (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Wang (Boise, Idaho); Denise Wingett (Boise, Idaho); Kevin Feris (Boise, Idaho); Mfadhusudan R. Kongara (Boise, Idaho); Alex Punnoose (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A core-shell nanoparticle having a core that includes a fluorophore and a first oxide of a first metal and a shell that includes a second oxide of a second metal such that the first oxide and the second oxide are different. Also disclosed are methods relating to the core-shell nanoparticle. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/079469 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507557 | Attie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan D. Attie (Madison, Wisconsin); Mary E. Rabaglia (Lodi, Wisconsin); Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark Gray-Keller (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. Attie (Madison, Wisconsin); Mary E. Rabaglia (Lodi, Wisconsin); Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark Gray-Keller (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a recognition that an analog of αKG can increase glucose-induced insulin secretion in vitro and in vivo in animals, particularly in mammals, and more particularly in humans and in rodents. By employing the methods of the invention, insulin secretion can be increased. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/954364 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/531 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507648 | Garvin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alex Garvin (Durmenach, France); Sadanand Gite (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladislav B. Bergo (Boston, Massachusetts); Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ambergen, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Garvin (Durmenach, France); Sadanand Gite (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladislav B. Bergo (Boston, Massachusetts); Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the detection and analysis by mass spec of nascent proteins, and in particular truncated proteins, translated within cellular or cell-free translation systems. N-terminal and C-terminal epitopes introduced into these nascent proteins permit rapid and efficient isolation, as well as mass difference. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/850499 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507754 | Chapman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kent D. Chapman (Denton, Texas); Richard G. W. Anderson (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas); The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent D. Chapman (Denton, Texas); Richard G. W. Anderson (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses gene targets and methods for the genetic control of lipid accumulation in vegetative (non-seed) portions of plants. Enhanced lipid, e.g. triacylglycerol (TAG), accumulation in vegetative portions of plants may be obtained by down-regulation of activity of At4g24160 or a homolog thereof. Plants, plant parts, seeds comprising down-regulated AT4G24160 activity, or activity of a homolog thereof, are also provided, as well as products prepared therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696037 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507778 | Olson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arthur J. Olson (DelMar, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur J. Olson (DelMar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-assembling multimeric physical models of closed polyhedral structures made of structurally symmetric units, and which mimic the structure and self-assembly characteristics of naturally occurring systems such as viral capsids, are provided. Also provided are methods of creating structurally symmetric units, kits for forming self-assembling physical models of polyhedral structures, and methods of forming the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/531292 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanotechnology 977/855 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507878 | Brecher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Brecher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vivek Nagarkar (Newton, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Brecher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vivek Nagarkar (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, and a variety of second dopants (co-dopants). In another embodiment, the scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, a variety of second dopants (co-dopants), and a variety of third dopants (co-dopants). Co-dopants of this invention are capable of providing a second auxiliary luminescent cation dopant, capable of introducing an anion size and electronegativity mismatch, capable of introducing a mismatch of anion charge, or introducing a mismatch of cation charge in the host material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/959437 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/483.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08508225 — T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted imaging using fast acquisition with double echo (FADE)
| US 08508225 | Granlund et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kristin L Granlund (Menlo Park, California); Ernesto Staroswiecki (Menlo Park, California); Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristin L Granlund (Menlo Park, California); Ernesto Staroswiecki (Menlo Park, California); Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of acquiring T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted images is provided. The method includes acquiring a first image and a second image in a single magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, where the first image and the second image have different echo times (TE). The single MRI scan includes a series of repeated RF excitation pulses, where the echo signal for the first image and the echo signal for the second image are acquired between a pair of RF excitation pulses. A spoiler gradient is disposed to provide a first diffusion weighting to the first image and a second diffusion weighting to the second image, where the first image and the second image have different T2 weightings and different diffusion weightings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927213 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508229 | Ehman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric C Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Kiaran P McGee (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard L Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric C Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Kiaran P McGee (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard L Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance elastography (“MRE”) driver that can produce shear waves in a subject without relying on mode conversion of longitudinal waves is disclosed. More specifically, the MRE driver includes a pneumatic driver located remotely from a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system which is operable in response to an applied electrical current to oscillate, a pressure-activated driver that is positioned on a subject in the MRI system, and a tube that is in fluid communication, at one end, with the pneumatic driver. The pressure-activated driver includes a base plate and a driver plate having a region between them that receives the tube. Oscillations of the pneumatic driver produce a pressure wave in the tube that causes the driver plate to vibrate. The driver plate rests against the subject of interest to apply a corresponding shear oscillatory force to the subject during the MRE examination. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847712 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509380 | Pelc et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Norbert Joseph Pelc (Los Altos, California); Tobias Funk (Martinez, California); Joseph Anthony Heanue (Oakland, California); Waldo Stephen Hinshaw (Burlingame, California); Edward Gerald Solomon (Menlo Park, California); Brian Patrick Wilfley (Los Altos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norbert Joseph Pelc (Los Altos, California); Tobias Funk (Martinez, California); Joseph Anthony Heanue (Oakland, California); Waldo Stephen Hinshaw (Burlingame, California); Edward Gerald Solomon (Menlo Park, California); Brian Patrick Wilfley (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to an apparatus and method for inverse geometry volume computed tomography medical imaging of a human patient. A plurality of x-ray sources for producing x-ray radiation are used. The gaps between the x-ray sources is less than 20 cm. A collimator located between the plurality of x-ray sources and the human patient is also used. A detector is also used. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/052020 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509514 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reconstructing a high quality image from undersampled image data is provided. The image reconstruction method is applicable to a number of different imaging modalities. Specifically, the present invention provides an image reconstruction method that incorporates an appropriate prior image into the image reconstruction process. Thus, one aspect of the present invention is to provide an image reconstruction method that requires less number of data samples to reconstruct an accurate reconstruction of a desired image than previous methods, such as, compressed sensing. Another aspect of the invention is to provide an image reconstruction method that imparts the signal-to-noise ratio of a prior image to the desired image being reconstructed. Another aspect of the invention is to provide an image reconstruction method that, when practiced in the field of x-ray imaging, allows for exposing a subject to substantially less radiation dose than is required in conventional x-ray imaging techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585207 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08509876 — Implantable MRI compatible stimulation leads and antennas and related systems and methods
| US 08509876 | Karmarkar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Parag V. Karmarkar (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parag V. Karmarkar (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In vivo medical stimulation probes include an elongate lead having at least one stimulation electrode disposed on a distal portion thereof. The probes may include a plurality of axially spaced apart RF chokes disposed on and/or in an axially extending shielding layer of the lead in advance of the at least one electrode to inhibit induced RF current from forming and/or traveling along the shielding layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/573226 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509879 | Durkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony J. Durkin (Irvine, California); David Cuccia (Costa Mesa, California); Bruce J. Tromberg (Irvine, California); Amaan Mazhar (Irvine, California); Bernard Choi (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Durkin (Irvine, California); David Cuccia (Costa Mesa, California); Bruce J. Tromberg (Irvine, California); Amaan Mazhar (Irvine, California); Bernard Choi (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for wide-field functional imaging (WiFI) of tissue includes a spatially modulated reflectance/fluorescence imaging (SI) device capable of quantitative subsurface imaging across spatial scales, and a laser speckle imaging (LSI) device capable of quantitative subsurface imaging across spatial scales using integrated with the (SI) device. The SI device and LSI device are capable of independently providing quantitative measurement of tissue functional status. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016918 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510741 | Leiserson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles E. Leiserson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kunal Agrawal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wen-Jing Hsu (Singapore, Singapore); Yuxiong He (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nanyang Technological University (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Leiserson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kunal Agrawal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wen-Jing Hsu (Singapore, Singapore); Yuxiong He (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a system and method for scheduling jobs on a multiprocessor system. The invention includes schedulers for use in both work-sharing and work-stealing environments. Each system utilizes a task scheduler using historical usage information, in conjunction with a job scheduler to achieve its results. In one embodiment, the task scheduler measures the time spent on various activities, in conjunction with its previous processor allocation or previous desire, to determine an indication of its current processor desire. In another embodiment of the present invention, the task scheduler measures the resources used by the job on various activities. Based on these measurements, the task scheduler determines the efficiency of the job and an indication of its current processor desire. In another embodiment, the task scheduler measures the resources consumed executing the job and determines its efficiency and an indication of its current processor desire. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729176 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08505200 | Hougham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a module arrangement which includes a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208581 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/884 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505380 | Foster |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Foster (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Foster (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An out-of-plane comb-drive accelerometer. An example accelerometer linearizes a response. An example accelerometer includes one or more stators having a plurality of tines having a surface parallel to a surface of substrate. The tine surface is at a first distance from the surface of the substrate. A proof mass includes one or more rotors that include a plurality of rotor tines attached to an edge of the proof mass. The rotor tines are interleaved with corresponding ones of the stator tines. The rotor tines include a surface parallel to a surface of the substrate. The rotor tine surface is at a second distance from the surface of the substrate. The first distance and second distance are unequal by a threshold amount. Motion of the rotor relative to the stator in an out-of-plane direction provides a linear change in a capacitive value measured across the rotor and the stator. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709184 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505390 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C Young (Long Beach, Mississippi); Andrei Abelev (McLean, Virginia); Philip J Valent (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C Young (Long Beach, Mississippi); Andrei Abelev (McLean, Virginia); Philip J Valent (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for measuring shear strength and viscosity of sediments that extends both the maximum rotational rate attainable and the maximum torque sustainable, and includes a high data acquisition rate and data storage. Also a method of making an apparatus, and method of using the apparatus for accurately measuring, peak, evolution, and residual values of the undrained shear strength, yield, and viscous and plastic flow characteristics of cohesive sediments at various pre-set and variable values of the rotational velocity of a vane sensor. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/106166 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/841 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505458 | Cannon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas C. Cannon (La Plata, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Cannon (La Plata, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A venting cap system includes a first open-ended sleeve and a second open-ended sleeve. The first open-ended sleeve is made from a first material that melts at a selected temperature. The first open-ended sleeve has an internal region commencing at a first end and an externally-threaded region commencing at a second end. The second open-ended sleeve is made from a second material that does not melt at the selected temperature. The second open-ended sleeve is coaxially fitted in the first open-ended sleeve. The second open-ended sleeve includes a first end that is flush with the first end of the first open-ended sleeve. The second open-ended sleeve partially overlaps part of the externally-threaded region. The coefficients of linear expansion of the first material and the second material are about equal. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/374993 |
| ART UNIT | 3788 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505481 | Svensson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stefan P Svensson (Columbia, Maryland); John D Demaree (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan P Svensson (Columbia, Maryland); John D Demaree (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain desirable embodiments, the present invention relates to the use of 15N isotopes into GaAsN, InAsN or GaSbN films for ion beam analysis. A semiconductor-nitride assembly for growing and analyzing crystal growth in a group III-V semiconductor sample that includes: a substrate; a buffer layer deposited on the substrate, a nitrogen gas injector to incorporate enriched nitrogen gas and the nitrogen gas injector includes a concentration of enriched nitrogen gas, a thin film consisting of at least one group III element containing compound where at least one group III element is covalently bonded with the nitrogen in the presence of the same or different group V element of the buffer layer, and a proton beam to analyze the incorporation of the nitrogen gas in the thin film layer is described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/486168 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/00 (20130101) C23C 16/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505544 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaojing Zhang (Austin, Texas); Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaojing Zhang (Austin, Texas); Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a vibration-actuated microsurgical system includes an optical force detection arrangement having an optical encoding device configured to modulate an intensity of light in response to a displacement of a portion of the microsurgical system. Light sensing circuitry is configured to detect a force applied to the microsurgical system (e.g., and thereby to a sample) based on the intensity of light sensed from the optical encoding device. This detected force is used in controlling the application of the microsurgical system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444286 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/898 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505577 | Salehi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daryoush M. Salehi (Huntsville, Alabama); Roger P. Berry (Huntsville, Alabama); Nathan P. Mathis (Fayetteville, Tennessee); Robert S. Michaels (Scottsboro, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daryoush M. Salehi (Huntsville, Alabama); Roger P. Berry (Huntsville, Alabama); Nathan P. Mathis (Fayetteville, Tennessee); Robert S. Michaels (Scottsboro, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Regulated pneumatic gas is supplied through a gas supply tube (14) which is welded to a pilot valve housing (18) which accommodates a solenoid valve (16). When the solenoid valve is electrically activated and opened, the pneumatic gas flows through a bifurcated channel (22) which is welded to the pilot valve housing and to a fuel valve mechanism (24A) and to an oxidizer valve mechanism (24B). The force of the pneumatic gas causes pistons (38A, 38B) to actuate respective poppets (36A, 36B). Movement of the poppets results in the dispensing of fuel propellant from a fuel outlet chamber (44A) and the dispensing of oxidizer from an oxidizer outlet chamber (44B). The fuel valve mechanism and oxidizer valve mechanism are positioned and oriented such that the exiting fuel and oxidizer are mixed in a vortex rocket engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927951 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/607 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505743 | Sarkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Abhijit Sarkar (Midland, Michigan); Petar R. Dvornic (Midland, Michigan); Peter I. Carver (Midland, Michigan); Joseph L. Rousseau (Saginaw, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Molecular Institute (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhijit Sarkar (Midland, Michigan); Petar R. Dvornic (Midland, Michigan); Peter I. Carver (Midland, Michigan); Joseph L. Rousseau (Saginaw, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to surface modification of reverse osmosis membranes to introduce antifouling properties without compromising the separation properties of the original membranes. This approach utilizes: providing a coated membrane surface having enhanced hydrophilic characteristics that prevents the biofoulants from settling; have a surface that consists of hydrophilic brushes that unsettle any biofoulants that get through; and having antimicrobial ions present in the membrane coatings and able to remove or minimize any remaining biofoulants without leaching into the permeate. These coatings are made using dendritic polymers such as hyperbranched polymers or dendrimers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/263711 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505745 | Mayes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ayse Asatekin Alexiou (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne M. Mayes (Mustang, Oklahoma); Ayse Asatekin Alexiou (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application is generally directed towards polyacrylonitrile- (PAN-) based, amphophilic graft copolymers, for example, for the production of membranes for liquid filtration. In one aspect, the present invention provides systems and methods for preparing high flux, fouling resistant nanofiltration membranes whose pore size can be readily tuned. In some cases, microphase separation of a graft copolymer comprising a backbone comprising polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and hydrophilic side-chains is used. In some cases, nanochannels of tunable width are formed, which may give the membrane permselective properties and/or anti-fouling character. In some cases, a copolymer may be used as an additive in the immersion precipitation casting of ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes. In certain instances, the additive can segregate to the membrane exterior and/or pore surfaces, e.g., due to favorable interactions between the hydrophilic side chains and the surrounding environment, which may create a surface that resists fouling, e.g., by biological molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/226121 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505797 | Ringwood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terence Ringwood (Landing, New Jersey); Steve Kotefski (Bloomingdale, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terence Ringwood (Landing, New Jersey); Steve Kotefski (Bloomingdale, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A sound-suppressed, powder-actuated stud driver may include a single-use cartridge assembly and a reusable handle assembly. The cartridge assembly may include a housing with a through-bore. The through-bore may include a firing pin retainer with a firing pin therein, an ammunition cartridge case adjacent the firing pin retainer, a piston at least partially disposed in the ammunition cartridge case, and a stud. The handle assembly may include a housing with one open end and a bore extending inwardly from the open end. A handle assembly firing pin may extend axially into the bore from a closed end of the housing. A pair of blocking pins may be movable into and out of the bore, for ensuring proper loading of the cartridge assembly into the bore. A spring-loaded locking pin may lock the cartridge assembly in the bore. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/947159 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Elongated-member-driving apparatus 227/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505868 | Silvio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Franklin David Silvio (Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania); James T. Burg (Verona, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Speer (Upper Burrell, Pennsylvania); Brett P. Conner (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Jean Ann Skiles (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franklin David Silvio (Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania); James T. Burg (Verona, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Speer (Upper Burrell, Pennsylvania); Brett P. Conner (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Jean Ann Skiles (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A tie down assembly adapted to be installed within a structure includes a cup and a crossbar that is fastened removably to the cup by a plurality of fasteners. The cup includes a recess forming an interior surface, and a plurality of seats extending from the interior surface. The crossbar includes a central portion and a plurality of elongated members extending therefrom. Each of the members includes a head that engages a corresponding one of the seats of the cup and is secured to the seat by one of the fasteners. The central portion of the crossbar may include a central aperture that receives one of the fasteners for an additional attachment point to the cup. The crossbar is adapted to receive tie down hooks, connectors, and the like. When the crossbar requires repair or replacement, it may be removed from the cup by unfastening the fasteners without the need to remove the cup from the structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/948931 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/499 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506240 | Franzen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark F. Franzen (Brodhead, Wisconsin); Robert Scott Downing (Rockford, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Franzen (Brodhead, Wisconsin); Robert Scott Downing (Rockford, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A free-surface liquid transfer apparatus for rotating machinery includes a rotating member. The rotating member includes a main shaft defining a hollow inner cavity, an outer cylindrical wall defining a hollow annular cavity in fluid communication with the hollow inner cavity through a plurality of orifices formed on the main shaft, and a slinger formation in fluid communication with the hollow annular cavity through a plurality of radial slots formed through the slinger formation. A central axis of the main shaft, a central axis of the hollow annular cavity, and a central axis of the slinger formation are collinear, and the slinger formation is configured to transmit working fluid received through the plurality of radial slots outward as a continuous film having both tangential and radial velocity components. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/279231 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506719 | Holappa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth Walter Holappa (Angora, Minnesota); Donald T. Darling (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); William Martin Hertel, III (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SeaRobotics Corporation (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Walter Holappa (Angora, Minnesota); Donald T. Darling (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); William Martin Hertel, III (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cleaning system includes a chassis supporting a propulsion system for propelling the cleaning system across a surface. At least one sensor of a first type is coupled to the chassis, and a surface engagement mechanism is configured to maintain the cleaning system coupled to the surface as the propulsion system propels the cleaning system across the surface. A cleaning device is coupled to the chassis and configured to abrade the fouling from the surface, and a controller coupled to the chassis and in signal communication with the propulsion system and the first sensor. The controller is configured to receive a signal from the at least one sensor of the first type and control the propulsion system in response to the signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952973 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning and liquid contact with solids 134/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506734 | Nelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew P. Nelson (Ridgecrest, California); Nirupam J. Trivedi (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Nelson (Ridgecrest, California); Nirupam J. Trivedi (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making metal-organic frameworks and metal-organic frameworks having host-guest complexes of either liquid energetics, solid energetics, or solid oxidizers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/836423 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506782 | Baker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles K. Baker (San Antonio, Texas); Benjamin R. Furman (San Antonio, Texas); Joel J. Kampa (Pipe Creek, Texas); Christopher N. Tiftickjian (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles K. Baker (San Antonio, Texas); Benjamin R. Furman (San Antonio, Texas); Joel J. Kampa (Pipe Creek, Texas); Christopher N. Tiftickjian (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of electrophoretic deposition of adsorbent media onto an electrically conducting substrate. The adsorbent media may include one or more porous coordination polymers and/or one or more secondary adsorbing particles. The adsorbent media may be continuously applied from a liquid composition at a selected thickness and at a controlled rate and as a function of voltage profiles. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/856055 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506829 | Zhou |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor hollow-core waveguide using high-contrast gratings or photonic crystal claddings and a method of manufacturing the same includes providing a layered semiconductor structure; creating an etching mask pattern over the layered semiconductor structure; performing a combined cycled directional etching process on the layered semiconductor structure in one sequence and in one lithography level to create a 3-dimensional waveguide structure; and creating a hollow air core in the layered semiconductor structure by removing to define a shape of the waveguide. The etching process comprises vertically etching a series of deep trenches on the layered semiconductor structure with precise control and varying the width of the trench. Furthermore, the hollow air core is created by removing a portion of the sacrificial material located in the center of the waveguide and under the waveguide. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/699911 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506863 | Scherer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Axel Scherer (Barnard, Vermont); Aditya Rajagopal (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Barnard, Vermont); Aditya Rajagopal (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for adhering two layers of materials is described. An additional layer of material deposited on one of the layers is used. The additional layer of material is perforated and undercut by etching away one of the layers thereby generating anchor shaped holes. The other layer is then deposited on the additional layer filling the anchor shaped holes therefore, providing adhesion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/541512 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506887 | Rong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guoguang Rong (Shanghai, China PRC); Raymond L. Mernaugh (Franklin, Tennessee); Sharon M. Weiss (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guoguang Rong (Shanghai, China PRC); Raymond L. Mernaugh (Franklin, Tennessee); Sharon M. Weiss (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for sensing at least one biological target or chemical target is provided. The sensor includes a membrane includes a membrane material that supports generation and propagation of at least one waveguide mode, where the membrane material includes a plurality of voids having an average size<2 microns. The sensor also includes at least one receptor having structure for binding to the target within the plurality of voids, and an optical coupler for coupling light to the membrane sufficient to generate the waveguide mode in the membrane from photons incident on the optical coupler. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581082 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506921 | Hauge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Ya-Qiong Xu (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Ya-Qiong Xu (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hot filament chemical vapor deposition method has been developed to grow at least one vertical single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT). In general, various embodiments of the present invention disclose novel processes for growing and/or producing enhanced nanotube carpets with decreased diameters as compared to the prior art. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/278736 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506949 | Marshall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vivienne S. Marshall (San Antonio, Texas); Richard A. Banas (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Catherine J. Trumpower (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stemnion, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivienne S. Marshall (San Antonio, Texas); Richard A. Banas (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Catherine J. Trumpower (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to novel methods for modulating inflammatory and/or immune responses. Such methods utilize compositions comprising extraembryonic cells (herein referred to as EE cells) including but not limited to extraembryonic HLA-G positive cells (herein referred to as EHP cells) and amnion-derived multipotent progenitor cells (herein referred to as AMP cells); compositions comprising expanded EE cell populations, and/or cell lysates and/or conditioned media derived therefrom, alone or in combination with each other and/or in combination with various extracellular matrices and/or devices and/or other suitable active agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483369 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507195 | Richer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer Richer (Aurora, Colorado); Dawn Cochrane (Aurora, Colorado); Steven M. Anderson (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Richer (Aurora, Colorado); Dawn Cochrane (Aurora, Colorado); Steven M. Anderson (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of diagnosing and treating cancer in a subject. The inventors have identified a series of dysregulated miRNAs that are indicative of triple-negative breast cancer. In some embodiments, the invention further provides for the administration of a cancer therapy to the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/390460 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507455 | Manoharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Weston, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Wayland, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Sharon, Massachusetts); Jayaprakash K. Narayanannair (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Weston, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Wayland, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Sharon, Massachusetts); Jayaprakash K. Narayanannair (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides iRNA agent including at least one monomer having the structure shown in formula (I′) wherein: A and B are each independently for each occurrence O, N(RN) or S; X is H, a protecting group, a phosphate group, a phosphodiester group, an activated phosphate group, an activated phosphite group, a phosphoramidite, a solid support, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-nucleoside, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-oligonucleotide, a lipid, a PEG, a steroid, a polymer, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-L6-Q′-L7-OP(Z′″)(Z′″″)O-oligonucleotide, a nucleotide, or an oligonucleotide; Y is H, a protecting group, a phosphate group, a phosphodiester group, an activated phosphate group, an activated phosphite group, a phosphoramidite, a solid support, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-nucleoside, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-oligonucleotide, a lipid, a PEG, a steroid, a lipophile, a polymer, —P(Z′)(Z″)O-L6-Q′-L7-OP(Z′″)(Z′″″)O-oligonucleotide, a nucleotide, or an oligonucleotide; R is folate, a folate analog a folate mimic or a folate receptor binding ligand; L6 and L7 are each independently for each occurrence —(CH2)n—, —C(R′)(R″)(CH2)n—, —(CH2)nC(R′)(R″)—, —(CH2CH2O)mCH2CH2—, or —(CH2CH2O)mCH2CH2NH—; Q′ is NH, O, S, CH2, C(O)O, C(O)NH, —NH—CH(Ra)—C(O)—, —C(O)—CH(Ra)—NH—, CO, where Ra is H or amino acid side chain; R′ and R″ are each independently H, CH3, OH, SH, NH2, NH(Alkyl=Me, Et, Pr, isoPr, Bu, Bn) or N(diAlkyl=Me2, Et2, Bn2); Z′, Z″, Z′″ and Z″″ are independently O or S; n represent independently for each occurrence 1-20; and m represent independently for each occurrence 0-50. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/328537 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507845 | Blick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Blick (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonghoo Park (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Blick (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonghoo Park (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods, and related devices and device components, for detecting, sensing and analyzing analytes in samples. In some aspects, the invention provides methods, and related devices and device components, useful in combination with a mass analyzer for the mass spectrometric analysis of analytes derived from biomolecules in biological samples including biological fluids cell extracts, and cell lysates. Methods of some aspects of the invention utilize a thin membrane-based detector as a transducer for converting the kinetic energies of analytes into a field emission signal via excitation of mechanical vibrations in an electromechanically biased membrane by generation of a thermal gradient. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/484560 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507867 | Clement et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Russel E. Clement (El Cajon, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chule Vista, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russel E. Clement (El Cajon, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chule Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Detection of a breach in security of an enclosure, such as a shipping enclosure, is indicated by detection of a change in a closed status. A detector enclosure is provided with a window opening in the detector enclosure. A reference body having an image slit is accessible from within the detector enclosure, and a radiation detector is used to alternately receive radiation through the window opening in the detector and from the reference body through the image slit. An indication of the two received radiation levels or a difference between the received radiation levels is used to provide an indication of a change in the closed status of the enclosure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/899602 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/349 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508109 | Pelrine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Oibing Pei (Temecula, California); Seajin Oh (Palo Alto, California); Jose P. Joseph (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Oibing Pei (Temecula, California); Seajin Oh (Palo Alto, California); Jose P. Joseph (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are transducers and their fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention provides methods for fabricating electromechanical devices including one or more electroactive polymers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/042863 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/193 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 310/80 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508132 | Andreev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrey D. Andreev (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kyle J. Hendricks (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey D. Andreev (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kyle J. Hendricks (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk metamaterial cathodes for multi-cavity magnetrons characterized by specific metal-thin-wire medium lattice topologies are used to improve the magnetron output characteristics, including faster startup times and higher microwave radiation powers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/036687 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/39.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508395 | Song |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William S. Song (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Song (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal-linearization system and method reduces nonlinear distortions in a digitized signal generated by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) when converting an analog input signal from analog to digital form. A signal adder adds a dither waveform to the analog input signal. An ADC includes sample-and-hold (S/H) circuitry and quantizer circuitry. The ADC converts the analog input signal with the added dither waveform into a digitized signal. The dither waveform operates to suppress nonlinear distortions attributed to the quantizer circuitry. A linearizer processor performs nonlinear equalization (NLEQ) on the digitized signal to suppress nonlinear distortions attributed to the S/H circuitry. A dither waveform removal module removes a digital counterpart of the dither waveform from the digitized signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/182260 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508404 | Wilmhoff |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin R. Wilmhoff (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FIRST RF Corporation (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin R. Wilmhoff (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to fuze system for munition that produces a height-of-burst (HOB) signal using two Global Positioning System (GPS) signals, the first signal being from a particular GPS satellite (the direct GPS signal) and the second signal being the GPS signal from the same GPS satellite after the signal has been reflected from the surface adjacent to the target. In one embodiment, the HOB signal is generated when there is a substantial correlation between the reflected GPS signal and direct GPS delayed by an amount of time that is indicative of the desired HOB. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/175758 |
| 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 342/357.560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508408 | Quan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clifton Quan (Arcadia, California); Michael D. Wabs (Placentia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifton Quan (Arcadia, California); Michael D. Wabs (Placentia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for recalibrating a beacon for illuminating an antenna array, the system including an adjustable beacon configured to illuminate at least a portion of an array of antenna elements with a beacon signal, an element locator coupled to the antenna elements and configured to determine a location of a test element of the antenna elements with respect to a reference element of the antenna elements using RF phase sensing based upon the beacon signal as perceived by the test element and the reference element, a beam steering unit coupled between the adjustable beacon and the element locator and configured to cause the adjustable beacon to produce an adjusted beacon signal corresponding to the determined location of the test element and an antenna signal-to-noise ratio perceived by the beam steering unit, a photo-responsive element coupled to the adjustable beacon and configured to power the adjustable beacon, and a light source configured to illuminate the photo-responsive element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/872977 |
| 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 342/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509060 | Dong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qing Dong (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania); Albert Ortiz (Chalfont, Pennsylvania); Donald D. Dalessandro (Williamstown, New Jersey); David J. Kocsik (Selbyville, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Dong (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania); Albert Ortiz (Chalfont, Pennsylvania); Donald D. Dalessandro (Williamstown, New Jersey); David J. Kocsik (Selbyville, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Conventional multi-hop routing of ad hoc wireless networks involves considerations such as costs, connection quality, distances, and numbers of hops. A conventional wireless routing algorithm may fail when a destructive event takes place and is rapidly expanding in area, as the route discoveries may perpetually lag behind the rate of expansion of the destructive area. As typically embodied, the present invention's wireless routing algorithm detects a destructive event early, assumes rapid expansion of the destruction area, establishes “subnets” of nodes, and predetermines one or more routes that circumvent the rapidly expanding destruction area by exiting from and returning to the subnet in which the destructive event originates. Typical inventive practice avails itself of the architectural character of the physical setting for the wireless network, for instance by establishing subnets corresponding to compartments formed by wall-like structures (e.g., shipboard bulkheads), which represent natural barriers to expansion of a destruction area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/172137 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/02 (20130101) H04L 45/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509245 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jae H. Kim (Bellevue, Washington); Claudiu B. Danilov (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jae H. Kim (Bellevue, Washington); Claudiu B. Danilov (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for routing data in a network. The data is routed from a source in the network to a destination in the network along a path from the source to the destination through a plurality of nodes in the network using state information. The plurality of nodes forms the network and comprises static nodes and mobile nodes. In response to a loss of a route at a node in the mobile nodes, the node sends the data is sent to all other nodes in the plurality of nodes. Responses are received at the node from the destination through a number of paths from the destination to the node. Updated state information for the node is identified using the responses. The data is sent from the node to the destination along a selected route for the node using the updated state information. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/944993 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509276 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang Zhang (Alamo, California); Volker Jendrik Sorger (Berkeley, California); Rupert Francis Maximillian Oulton (El Cerrito, California); Ren-Min Ma (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybrid plasmonic waveguides are described that employ a high-gain semiconductor nanostructure functioning as a gain medium that is separated from a metal substrate surface by a nanoscale thickness thick low-index gap. The waveguides are capable of efficient generation of sub-wavelength high intensity light and have the potential for large modulation bandwidth >1 THz. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/668248 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509476 | Amin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ruhul Amin (New Orleans, Louisiana); Richard W. Gould (Pearl River, Louisiana); Weilin Hou (Slidell, Louisiana); Robert Arnone (Carriere, Mississippi); Zhongpong Lee (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruhul Amin (New Orleans, Louisiana); Richard W. Gould (Pearl River, Louisiana); Weilin Hou (Slidell, Louisiana); Robert Arnone (Carriere, Mississippi); Zhongpong Lee (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for detecting cloud shadows over water from ocean color imagery received from remote sensors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/231290 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08509489 — System and method for estimating velocity from image sequence with first order continuity
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Chen (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Chen (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based method for estimating surface velocity based on a time series of at least two images of a same portion of the ocean surface by solving a heat equation having unknown parameters of heat source s and surface velocity components u and v. The images can be infrared or thermal images from the AVHRR or other images. Assign a pattern of sub-arrays with number of pixels in each sub-array sufficient to overdetermine the heat equation without the need to apply divergence and vorticity constraints. Define the heat equation for each interior pixel using bilinear interpolation at each interior based on solutions at the corner pixels. Use linear regression to solve for the unknown parameters u, v, and s for each corner pixel by minimizing total error of the heat equation in finite difference form at all pixels, and find the parameters at each remaining point with bilinear interpolation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892715 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509546 | Flenner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arjuna Flenner (Claremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arjuna Flenner (Claremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A level set tree feature detection machine is disclosed along with a method for detecting a level set tree feature. At least one pixilated image is provided. An electronic model is generated of the pixilated images. Maximal meaningful nodes for the pixilated images are determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/807373 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510079 | Chiou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kuo-Liang Chiou (Canoga park, California); Scot L. Osburn (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuo-Liang Chiou (Canoga park, California); Scot L. Osburn (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for an advanced pedometer, which may include: a first accelerometer for providing first acceleration information for a first direction; a second accelerometer for providing second acceleration information for a second direction; a third accelerometer for providing third acceleration for a third direction; a clock for providing time information associated with the first acceleration information, the second acceleration information, and the third acceleration information; and a processing module comprising one or more processors. The processing module may be to execute computer-executable instructions to: determine fourth level acceleration information for a plane using the first acceleration information for the first direction, and the second acceleration information for the second direction, where the plane is defined by the first direction and the second direction; and estimate a distance traveled using the fourth level acceleration information, the third acceleration information, and at least a portion of the time information. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771536 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510129 | Morris |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tommy J. Morris (New Market, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy J. Morris (New Market, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method used to create a longitudinal medical record for an injured person that in at least one embodiment begins a location remote from a medical facility. The system includes in at least one embodiment a plurality of mobile computing devices. In at least one embodiment, the mobile computing devices provide an interface for receiving information from a first responder or a medic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/009372 |
| ART UNIT | 3686 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510239 | Modha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to producing spike-timing dependent plasticity using electronic neurons interconnected in a crossbar array network. The crossbar array network comprises a plurality of crossbar arrays. Each crossbar array comprises a plurality of axons and a plurality of dendrites such that the axons and dendrites are transverse to one another, and multiple synapse devices, wherein each synapse device is at a cross-point junction of the crossbar array coupled between a dendrite and an axon. The crossbar arrays are spatially in a staggered pattern providing a staggered crossbar layout of the synapse devices. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916306 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08510245 — Bayesian clinical decision model for determining probability of transplant glomerulopathy
| US 08510245 | Stojadinovic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Stojadinovic (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Eric A. Elster (Kensington, Maryland); Doug K. Tadaki (Frederick, Maryland); John S. Eberhardt, III (Washington, District of Columbia); Trevor Brown (Washington, District of Columbia); Thomas A. Davis (Oak Hill, Virginia); Jonathan Forsberg (Kensington, Maryland); Jason Hawksworth (Silver Spring, Maryland); Roslyn Mannon (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Stojadinovic (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Eric A. Elster (Kensington, Maryland); Doug K. Tadaki (Frederick, Maryland); John S. Eberhardt, III (Washington, District of Columbia); Trevor Brown (Washington, District of Columbia); Thomas A. Davis (Oak Hill, Virginia); Jonathan Forsberg (Kensington, Maryland); Jason Hawksworth (Silver Spring, Maryland); Roslyn Mannon (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention provides a method for determining a patient-specific probability of transplant glomerulopathy. The method collects clinical parameters from a plurality of patients to create a training database. A fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model is created using data from the training database; and, the fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network is validated. Clinical parameters are collected from an individual patient; and, such clinical parameters are input into the fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model via a graphical user interface. The patient-specific probability of transplant glomerulopathy is output from the fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model and sent to the graphical user interface for use by a clinician in pre-operative planning. The fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model is updated using the clinical parameters from the individual patient and the patient-specific probability of transplant glomerulopathy. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083184 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510321 | Ranganathan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In the realm of managing relational databases, a system that uses both the data in a relational database and domain knowledge in ontologies to return semantically relevant results to a user's query. Broadly contemplated herein, in essence, is a system that bridges a semantic gap between queries users want to express and queries that can be answered by the database using domain knowledge contained in ontologies. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, such a system extends relational databases with the ability to answer semantic queries that are represented in SPARQL, an emerging Semantic Web query language. Particularly, users may express their queries in SPARQL, based on a semantic model of the data, and they get back semantically relevant results. Also broadly contemplated herein is the definition of different categories of results that are semantically relevant to a user's query and an effective retrieval of such results. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499218 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510512 | Ganfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Ganfield (Rochester, Minnesota); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); David J. Krolak (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Ganfield (Rochester, Minnesota); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); David J. Krolak (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes at least a first through third processing nodes coupled by an interconnect fabric. The first processing node includes a master, a plurality of snoopers capable of participating in interconnect operations, and a node interface that receives a request of the master and transmits the request of the master to the second processing unit with a nodal scope of transmission limited to the second processing node. The second processing node includes a node interface having a directory. The node interface of the second processing node permits the request to proceed with the nodal scope of transmission if the directory does not indicate that a target memory block of the request is cached other than in the second processing node and prevents the request from succeeding if the directory indicates that the target memory block of the request is cached other than in the second processing node. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/545246 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D687699 | Hollis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Hollis (Flanders, New Jersey); Donald Carlucci (Sparta, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Hollis (Flanders, New Jersey); Donald Carlucci (Sparta, New Jersey) |
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| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 29/425777 |
| ART UNIT | 2915 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools and hardware D8/356 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Balachandar Naidu (Loveland, Ohio); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Gilbert Otto Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Albany, New York); Benjamin Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Christian Stevenson (Inman, South Carolina); David Felling (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Balachandar Naidu (Loveland, Ohio); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Gilbert Otto Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Albany, New York); Benjamin Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Christian Stevenson (Inman, South Carolina); David Felling (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides a premixer for a combustor. The premixer may include a fuel plenum with a number of fuel tubes and a burner tube with a number of air tubes. The fuel tubes extend about the air tubes. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/668992 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505315 | Kasza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth E. Kasza (Palos Park, Illinois); Farah J. Shareef (Lombard, Illinois); Brandon L. Fisher (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Kasza (Palos Park, Illinois); Farah J. Shareef (Lombard, Illinois); Brandon L. Fisher (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device are provided for the preparation of sterile medical ice slurry, for example having ice loadings of greater than approximately 50%. An integrated-operation ice slurry blender-based production and delivery system methods for monitoring cooling capacity of the produced and delivered slurry. All individual medical ice slurry production and delivery steps are integrated into one tightly coupled precisely sequenced and timed system. The novel procedure and equipment is simple to use and makes sterile slurry, which is ready to deliver to patients, for example, in less than 2 minutes after adding predetermined thermally preconditioned ingredient modules to a blender. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367362 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505382 | Datskos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Panagiotis George Datskos (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nickolay V. Lavrik (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Panagiotis George Datskos (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nickolay V. Lavrik (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for ultrasensitive mass and/or force detection of this invention includes a mechanical oscillator driven to oscillate in a nonlinear regime. The mechanical oscillator includes a piezoelectric base with at least one cantilever resonator etched into the piezoelectric base. The cantilever resonator is preferably a nonlinear resonator which is driven to oscillate with a frequency and an amplitude. The system of this invention detects an amplitude collapse of the cantilever resonator at a bifurcation frequency as the cantilever resonator stimulated over a frequency range. As mass and/or force is introduced to the cantilever resonator, the bifurcation frequency shifts along a frequency axis in proportion to the added mass. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/024797 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505924 | Dietle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lannie L. Dietle (Houston, Texas); John E. Schroeder (Richmond, Texas); Manmohan S. Kalsi (Houston, Texas); Patricio D. Alvarez (Richmond, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kalsi Engineering, Inc. (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lannie L. Dietle (Houston, Texas); John E. Schroeder (Richmond, Texas); Manmohan S. Kalsi (Houston, Texas); Patricio D. Alvarez (Richmond, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary shaft sealing assembly in which a first fluid is partitioned from a second fluid in a housing assembly having a rotary shaft located at least partially within. In one embodiment a lip seal is lubricated and flushed with a pressure-generating seal ring preferably having an angled diverting feature. The pressure-generating seal ring and a hydrodynamic seal may be used to define a lubricant-filled region with each of the seals having hydrodynamic inlets facing the lubricant-filled region. Another aspect of the sealing assembly is having a seal to contain pressurized lubricant while withstanding high rotary speeds. Another rotary shaft sealing assembly embodiment includes a lubricant supply providing a lubricant at an elevated pressure to a region between a lip seal and a hydrodynamic seal with a flow control regulating the flow of lubricant past the lip seal. The hydrodynamic seal may include an energizer element having a modulus of elasticity greater than the modulus of elasticity of a sealing lip of the hydrodynamic seal. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886364 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506104 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Edward Murphy (Niskayuna, New York); Satya Kishore Manepalli (Bangalore, India); Prasanth Nammalwar Kumar (Bangalore, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edward Murphy (Niskayuna, New York); Satya Kishore Manepalli (Bangalore, India); Prasanth Nammalwar Kumar (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A phosphor, a phosphor blend including the phosphor, a phosphor prepared by a process, and a lighting apparatus including the phosphor blend are disclosed. The phosphor has the formula (Ca1-p-qCepKq)xScy(Si1-rGar)zO12+δ or derived from a process followed using disclosed amounts of reactants. In the formula, (0<p≦0.06); 0≦q≦0.06; 0≦r≦0.2; and −0.1≦δ≦0.4. In one embodiment, 3<x≦3.1; 2≦y≦2.15; and 3≦z≦3.2. Similarly, in another embodiment, 3≦x≦3.1; 2<y≦2.15; and 2.8≦z≦3.2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/432461 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506784 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois); Michael C. Trachtenberg (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Robert M. Cowan (Dayton, New Jersey); Saurav Datta (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois); Michael C. Trachtenberg (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Robert M. Cowan (Dayton, New Jersey); Saurav Datta (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a resin-wafer electrodeionization (RW-EDI) apparatus including cathode and anode electrodes separated by a plurality of porous solid ion exchange resin wafers, which when in use are filled with an aqueous fluid. The apparatus includes one or more wafers comprising a basic ion exchange medium, and preferably includes one or more wafers comprising an acidic ion exchange medium. The wafers are separated from one another by ion exchange membranes. The fluid within the acidic and/or basic ion exchange wafers preferably includes, or is in contact with, a carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzyme to facilitate conversion of bicarbonate ion to carbon dioxide within the acidic medium. A pH suitable for exchange of CO2 is electrochemically maintained within the basic and acidic ion exchange wafers by applying an electric potential across the cathode and anode. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789868 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/632 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506855 | Moir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph W. Moir (Livermore, California); Patrice E. A. Turchi (Menlo Park, California); Henry F. Shaw (San Ramon, California); Larry Kaufman (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph W. Moir (Livermore, California); Patrice E. A. Turchi (Menlo Park, California); Henry F. Shaw (San Ramon, California); Larry Kaufman (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a composition of LiF—ThF4—UF4—PuF3 for use as a fuel in a nuclear engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/888704 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506911 | Soderquist et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chuck Z. Soderquist (Richland, Washington); Amanda M. Johnsen (Richland, Washington); Bruce K. McNamara (Richland, Washington); Brady D. Hanson (Richland, Washington); Steven C. Smith (Richland, Washington); Shane M. Peper (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuck Z. Soderquist (Richland, Washington); Amanda M. Johnsen (Richland, Washington); Bruce K. McNamara (Richland, Washington); Brady D. Hanson (Richland, Washington); Steven C. Smith (Richland, Washington); Shane M. Peper (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions are provided that include nuclear fuel. Methods for treating nuclear fuel are provided which can include exposing the fuel to a carbonate-peroxide solution. Methods can also include exposing the fuel to an ammonium solution. Methods for acquiring molybdenum from a uranium comprising material are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511341 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506921 | Hauge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Ya-Qiong Xu (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Ya-Qiong Xu (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hot filament chemical vapor deposition method has been developed to grow at least one vertical single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT). In general, various embodiments of the present invention disclose novel processes for growing and/or producing enhanced nanotube carpets with decreased diameters as compared to the prior art. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/278736 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507004 | Moore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Moore (Edgewood, New Mexico); Kathleen C. Holt-Larese (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Ranko Bontchev (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Moore (Edgewood, New Mexico); Kathleen C. Holt-Larese (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Ranko Bontchev (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for use of magnesium hydroxide, either directly or through one or more precursors, doped with a divalent or trivalent metal cation, for removing arsenic from drinking water, including water distribution systems. In one embodiment, magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH)2 (a strong adsorbent for arsenic) doped with a divalent or trivalent metal cation is used to adsorb arsenic. The complex consisting of arsenic adsorbed on Mg(OH)2 doped with a divalent or trivalent metal cation is subsequently removed from the water by conventional means, including filtration, settling, skimming, vortexing, centrifugation, magnetic separation, or other well-known separation systems. In another embodiment, magnesium oxide, MgO, is employed, which reacts with water to form Mg(OH)2. The resulting Mg(OH)2 doped with a divalent or trivalent metal cation, then adsorbs arsenic, as set forth above. The method can also be used to treat human or animal poisoning with arsenic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336953 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507093 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of comminution of wood chips (C) having a grain direction to produce a mixture of wood particles (P), wherein the wood chips are characterized by an average length dimension (LC) as measured substantially parallel to the grain, an average width dimension (WC) as measured normal to LC and aligned cross grain, and an average height dimension (HC) as measured normal to WC and LC, and wherein the comminution process comprises the step of feeding the wood chips in a direction of travel substantially randomly to the grain direction through a counter rotating pair of intermeshing arrays of cutting discs (D) arrayed axially perpendicular to the direction of wood chip travel, wherein the cutting discs have a uniform thickness (TD), and wherein at least one of LC, WC, and HC is greater than TD. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/741025 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507131 | Mukerjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhasish Mukerjee (Pittsford, New York); Karl J Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Jeffrey G. Weissman (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhasish Mukerjee (Pittsford, New York); Karl J Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Jeffrey G. Weissman (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for adding sulfur to a reformate stream feeding a fuel cell stack, having a sulfur source for providing sulfur to the reformate stream and a metering device in fluid connection with the sulfur source and the reformate stream. The metering device injects sulfur from the sulfur source to the reformate stream at a predetermined rate, thereby providing a conditioned reformate stream to the fuel cell stack. The system provides a conditioned reformate stream having a predetermined sulfur concentration that gives an acceptable balance of minimal drop in initial power with the desired maximum stability of operation over prolonged periods for the fuel cell stack. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/357774 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507229 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Edward J. St. Martin (Libertyville, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Edward J. St. Martin (Libertyville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an integrated method and system for the simultaneous production of biodiesel from free fatty acids (via esterification) and from triglycerides (via transesterification) within the same reaction chamber. More specifically, one preferred embodiment of the invention relates to a method and system for the production of biodiesel using an electrodeionization stack, wherein an ion exchange resin matrix acts as a heterogeneous catalyst for simultaneous esterification and transesterification reactions between a feedstock and a lower alcohol to produce biodiesel, wherein the feedstock contains significant levels of free fatty acid. In addition, because of the use of a heterogeneous catalyst, the glycerol and biodiesel have much lower salt concentrations than raw biodiesel produced by conventional transesterification processes. The present invention makes it much easier to purify glycerol and biodiesel. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/767168 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507242 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods of at least partially degrading, cleaving, or removing polysaccharides, lignocellulose, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, chitin, polyhydroxybutyrate, heteroxylans, glycosides, xylan-, glucan-, galactan-, or mannan-decorating groups using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927496 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507284 | Kaminski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael D. Kaminski (Lockport, Illinois); Carol J. Mertz (Downers Grove, Illinois); Ilya A. Shkrob (Chicago, Illinois); Mark L. Dietz (Evanston, Illinois); Cory A. Hawkins (Shorewood, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Kaminski (Lockport, Illinois); Carol J. Mertz (Downers Grove, Illinois); Ilya A. Shkrob (Chicago, Illinois); Mark L. Dietz (Evanston, Illinois); Cory A. Hawkins (Shorewood, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus and rapid methods for extracting strontium ions from urine to provide a concentrated and purified strontium-90 extract suitable for scintillation measurements. The methods remove organic compounds, pigments, and alkali metal ions that can interfere with quantitative determination of strontium-90 in urine. A method of the invention comprises acidifying urine and removing organic pigments therefrom, loading a known quantity of so-treated urine onto a diphosphonic acid-based ion-exchange resin; flowing aqueous methanesulfonic acid through the diphosphonic acid-based ion-exchange resin to elute alkali metal ions therefrom; eluting strontium ions off of the diphosphonic acid-based resin and on to a strontium extraction chromatographic resin with a concentrated aqueous nitric acid solution; subsequently flowing water or a dilute acid stripping solution through the strontium extraction resin to strip the strontium from the strontium extraction resin; and collecting the strontium-containing stripping solution eluting from the strontium extraction resin. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/182873 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507365 | Norman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew G. Norman (Evergreen, Colorado); Aaron J. Ptak (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Norman (Evergreen, Colorado); Aaron J. Ptak (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating a semiconductor layer or device and said devices are disclosed. The methods include but are not limited to providing a substrate having a crystalline surface with a known lattice parameter (a). The method further includes growing a crystalline semiconductor layer on the crystalline substrate surface by coincident site lattice matched epitaxy, without any buffer layer between the crystalline semiconductor layer and the crystalline surface of the substrate. The crystalline semiconductor layer will be prepared to have a lattice parameter (a′) that is related to the substrate lattice parameter (a). The lattice parameter (a′) maybe related to the lattice parameter (a) by a scaling factor derived from a geometric relationship between the respective crystal lattices. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643127 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507556 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hua Wang (Boise, Idaho); Denise Wingett (Boise, Idaho); Kevin Feris (Boise, Idaho); Mfadhusudan R. Kongara (Boise, Idaho); Alex Punnoose (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Wang (Boise, Idaho); Denise Wingett (Boise, Idaho); Kevin Feris (Boise, Idaho); Mfadhusudan R. Kongara (Boise, Idaho); Alex Punnoose (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A core-shell nanoparticle having a core that includes a fluorophore and a first oxide of a first metal and a shell that includes a second oxide of a second metal such that the first oxide and the second oxide are different. Also disclosed are methods relating to the core-shell nanoparticle. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/079469 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507606 | Grate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay W. Grate (West Richland, Washington); Jungbae Kim (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Grate (West Richland, Washington); Jungbae Kim (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle (and a composition that includes a plurality of the particles) that includes at least one polypeptide molecule and at least one polymer covalently bound to the polypeptide molecule so as to form a polymer shell substantially encompassing the polypeptide molecule, wherein the particle does not define a dimension greater than about 1 μm. One example for making the particle includes modifying the polypeptide molecule to provide α, β-ethylenically unsaturated terminal functional groups, mixing the modified polypeptide molecule with a silicon-containing polymerizable compound, and subjecting the resulting mixture to conditions sufficient for polymerizing the polymerizable compound to form the particle. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983516 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507700 | Silks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ruilan Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan Kloek Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Silks (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ruilan Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan Kloek Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of producing C8-C15 hydrocarbons comprising providing a ketone starting material; providing an aldol starting material comprising hydroxymethylfurfural; mixing the ketone starting material and the aldol starting material in a reaction in the presence of a proline-containing catalyst selected from the group consisting of Zn(Pro)2, Yb(Pro)2, and combinations thereof, or a catalyst having one of the structures (I), (II) or (III), and in the presence of a solvent, wherein the solvent comprises water and is substantially free of organic solvents, where (I), (II) and (III) respectively are: where R1 is a C1-C6 alkyl moiety, X=(OH) and n=2. In (III), X may be CH2, sulfur or selenium, M may be Zn, Mg, or a lanthanide, and R1 and R2 each independently may be a methyl, ethyl, phenyl moiety. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/556484 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/498 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507730 | Bakac et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreja Bakac (Ames, Iowa); Oleg Pestovsky (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreja Bakac (Ames, Iowa); Oleg Pestovsky (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective oxidation of organic substrates to partially oxidized products by ozone in acetonitrile solvent, using Fe(II) catalysis. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/434900 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507924 | Li |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ting Li (Ventura, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ting Li (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The surface morphology of an LED light emitting surface is changed by applying a reactive ion etch (RIE) process to the light emitting surface. High aspect ratio, submicron roughness is formed on the light emitting surface by transferring a thin film metal hard-mask having submicron patterns to the surface prior to applying a reactive ion etch process. The submicron patterns in the metal hard-mask can be formed using a low cost, commercially available nano-patterned template which is transferred to the surface with the mask. After subsequently binding the mask to the surface, the template is removed and the RIE process is applied for time duration sufficient to change the morphology of the surface. The modified surface contains non-symmetric, submicron structures having high aspect ratio which increase the efficiency of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/045246 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508370 | El-Kady et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ihab F. El-Kady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick Hopkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles Reinke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bongsang Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ihab F. El-Kady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick Hopkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles Reinke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bongsang Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic thermoelectric materials comprising phononic crystals can simultaneously have a large Seebeck coefficient, high electrical conductivity, and low thermal conductivity. Such synthetic thermoelectric materials can enable improved thermoelectric devices, such as thermoelectric generators and coolers, with improved performance. Such synthetic thermoelectric materials and devices can be fabricated using techniques that are compatible with standard microelectronics. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/156647 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508403 | Paglieroni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting the presence of subsurface objects within a medium is provided. In some embodiments, the imaging and detection system operates in a multistatic mode to collect radar return signals generated by an array of transceiver antenna pairs that is positioned across the surface and that travels down the surface. The imaging and detection system pre-processes the return signal to suppress certain undesirable effects. The imaging and detection system then generates synthetic aperture radar images from real aperture radar images generated from the pre-processed return signal. The imaging and detection system then post-processes the synthetic aperture radar images to improve detection of subsurface objects. The imaging and detection system identifies peaks in the energy levels of the post-processed image frame, which indicates the presence of a subsurface object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219449 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508838 | Steinhardt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to devices constructed from quasicrystalline heterostructures. In preferred embodiments, two or more dielectric materials are arranged in a two- or three-dimensional space in a lattice pattern having at least a five-fold symmetry axis and not a six-fold symmetry axis, such that the quasicrystalline heterostructure exhibits an energy band structure in the space, the band structure having corresponding symmetry, which symmetry is forbidden in crystals, and which band structure comprises a complete band gap. The constructed devices are adapted for manipulating, controlling, modulating, trapping, reflecting and otherwise directing waves including electromagnetic, sound, spin, and surface waves, for a pre-selected range of wavelengths propagating within or through the heterostructure in multiple directions. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/553149 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509255 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Phillip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Pavlos Vranas (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Phillip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Pavlos Vranas (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for hardware packet pacing using a direct memory access controller in a parallel computer which, in one aspect, keeps track of a total number of bytes put on the network as a result of a remote get operation, using a hardware token counter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768682 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509976 | Kempton |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Willett Kempton (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willett Kempton (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatus for interfacing an electric vehicle with an electric power grid are disclosed. An exemplary apparatus may include a station communication port for interfacing with electric vehicle station equipment (EVSE), a vehicle communication port for interfacing with a vehicle management system (VMS), and a processor coupled to the station communication port and the vehicle communication port to establish communication with the EVSE via the station communication port, receive EVSE attributes from the EVSE, and issue commands to the VMS to manage power flow between the electric vehicle and the EVSE based on the EVSE attributes. An electric vehicle may interface with the grid by establishing communication with the EVSE, receiving the EVSE attributes, and managing power flow between the EVE and the grid based on the EVSE attributes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887038 |
| 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 71/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510088 | Rousseau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aymeric Rousseau (Chicago, Illinois); Phillip B. Sharer (Plainfield, Illinois); Sylvain Pagerit (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aymeric Rousseau (Chicago, Illinois); Phillip B. Sharer (Plainfield, Illinois); Sylvain Pagerit (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for automatically generating a multi-component multilevel model for simulation of an automotive propulsion system and/or subsystem. The method comprises a capture component and a build component. The capture component operates to automatically parse all relevant information of an existing model and to generate one or more files indicative of the systems and subsystems of the model. The files are created such that they may be efficiently searched, manipulated, and applied for subsequent use in various user defined models created through the build component. The build component obtains the information in the one or more files and additional user defined files based on user selections to automatically create an executable model ready for analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/562866 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08505377 | Rasmussen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roy Rasmussen (Longmont, Colorado); John Hallet (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado); Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, On Behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Rasmussen (Longmont, Colorado); John Hallet (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal plate precipitation measurement system (300) and a method of operating the thermal plate precipitation measurement system (300) is provided. The thermal plate precipitation measurement system (300) includes a first thermal plate system (301A) with first and second thermal plates (302A, 303A) and a second thermal plate system (301B) with first and second thermal plates (302B, 303B). A precipitation rate can be determined by configuring the first and second thermal plates (302A, 303A) of the first thermal plate system (301A) at a first temperature and configuring the first and second thermal plates (302B, 303B) of the second thermal plate system (301B) at a second temperature different than the first temperature. A differential power consumption between the first and second thermal plates (302A, 303A, 302B, 303B) of each of the first and second thermal plate systems (301A, 301B) can be determined and the precipitation rate can be determined based on a difference between the differential power consumption of the first thermal plate system (301A) and the differential power consumption of the second thermal plate system (301B). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096831 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08505745 | Mayes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ayse Asatekin Alexiou (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne M. Mayes (Mustang, Oklahoma); Ayse Asatekin Alexiou (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application is generally directed towards polyacrylonitrile- (PAN-) based, amphophilic graft copolymers, for example, for the production of membranes for liquid filtration. In one aspect, the present invention provides systems and methods for preparing high flux, fouling resistant nanofiltration membranes whose pore size can be readily tuned. In some cases, microphase separation of a graft copolymer comprising a backbone comprising polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and hydrophilic side-chains is used. In some cases, nanochannels of tunable width are formed, which may give the membrane permselective properties and/or anti-fouling character. In some cases, a copolymer may be used as an additive in the immersion precipitation casting of ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes. In certain instances, the additive can segregate to the membrane exterior and/or pore surfaces, e.g., due to favorable interactions between the hydrophilic side chains and the surrounding environment, which may create a surface that resists fouling, e.g., by biological molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/226121 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506803 | Russell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason Dale Russell (Middleton, Wisconsin); Joshua Jacques Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ryan Tyler Hilger (Lafayette, Indiana); Lloyd Michael Smith (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel T. Ladror (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Robert Shortreed (Portage, Wisconsin); Mark Andrew Scalf (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Dale Russell (Middleton, Wisconsin); Joshua Jacques Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ryan Tyler Hilger (Lafayette, Indiana); Lloyd Michael Smith (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel T. Ladror (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Robert Shortreed (Portage, Wisconsin); Mark Andrew Scalf (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated mass spectrometer electrospray emitter and fluorescence detector allows improved volumetric measurements of separate components from a liquid chromatography column by improving correlation between the readings of these instruments and reducing dead volume and sample size requirements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/037816 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506867 | Menard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Semprius, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and devices for transfer printing of semiconductor elements to a receiving surface. In an aspect, the printing is by conformal contact between an elastomeric stamp inked with the semiconductor elements and a receiving surface, and during stamp removal, a shear offset is applied between the stamp and the receiving surface. The shear-offset printing process achieves high printing transfer yields with good placement accuracy. Process parameter selection during transfer printing, including time varying stamp-backing pressure application and vertical displacement, yields substantially constant delamination rates with attendant transfer printing improvement. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/621804 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506887 | Rong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guoguang Rong (Shanghai, China PRC); Raymond L. Mernaugh (Franklin, Tennessee); Sharon M. Weiss (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guoguang Rong (Shanghai, China PRC); Raymond L. Mernaugh (Franklin, Tennessee); Sharon M. Weiss (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for sensing at least one biological target or chemical target is provided. The sensor includes a membrane includes a membrane material that supports generation and propagation of at least one waveguide mode, where the membrane material includes a plurality of voids having an average size<2 microns. The sensor also includes at least one receptor having structure for binding to the target within the plurality of voids, and an optical coupler for coupling light to the membrane sufficient to generate the waveguide mode in the membrane from photons incident on the optical coupler. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581082 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08506952 | Minbiole et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin P. C. Minbiole (Dayton, Virginia); Reid Harris (Harrisonburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | James Madison Innovations, Inc. (Harrisonburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. C. Minbiole (Dayton, Virginia); Reid Harris (Harrisonburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof. Processes may include applying Janthinobacterium, for example Janthinobacterium lividum, over a host and/or host area(s) to minimize microbe(s) and/or maximize therapeutic effects. A process to minimize a microbe may include applying to skin a composition including isolated Janthinobacterium lividum and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include relatively heat tolerant Janthinobacterium lividum which may produce metabolites, for example violacein up to approximately 29° C. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include Janthinobacterium lividum between approximately 25×106 and 6.4×107 cells. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include Janthinobacterium lividum which has and/or produces between approximately 18 μM and 129 μM of violacein. Probiotic composition(s) and/or process(es) thereof may include a stimulant to maximize metabolites. A process to minimize a microbe may include removing a portion of resident microbes with a sanitizer. Janthinobacterium lividum may be in lysed form. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/829520 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507200 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Dwight Seferos (Toronto, Canada); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Dwight Seferos (Toronto, Canada); David A. Giljohann (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods describing the use of nanoparticles modified with binding moieties are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/526560 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507206 | Lambert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary P Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Pauline T. Velasco (Wilmette, Illinois); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois); Kirsten L. Viola (Chicago, Illinois); Sara J. Fernandez (Chicago, Illinois); Pascale N. Lacor (Chicago, Illinois); Daliya Khuon (Chicago, Illinois); Yuesong Gong (Evanston, Illinois); William L. Klein (Winnetka, Illinois); Grant A. Krafft (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary P Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Pauline T. Velasco (Wilmette, Illinois); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois); Kirsten L. Viola (Chicago, Illinois); Sara J. Fernandez (Chicago, Illinois); Pascale N. Lacor (Chicago, Illinois); Daliya Khuon (Chicago, Illinois); Yuesong Gong (Evanston, Illinois); William L. Klein (Winnetka, Illinois); Grant A. Krafft (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are antibodies that bind with high specificity to soluble oligomers of amyloid β (Abeta) and methods of employing those antibodies. The antibodies are able to distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and control human brain extracts. The antibodies identify endogenous Abeta oligomers in AD brain slices and also bind to Abeta oligomers on cultured hippocampal cells. The antibodies neutralize endogenous Abeta oligomers and Abeta oligomers produced in solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571532 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507406 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Banglin Chen (San Antonio, Texas); Zhangjing Zhang (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Banglin Chen (San Antonio, Texas); Zhangjing Zhang (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are rod-packing robust microporous metal-organic frameworks having the repeat unit Zn4(OH)2(1,2,4-BTC)2, useful for applications such as selective gas storage, selective gas sorption and/or separation, selective sensing of chemicals, and catalysis. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/136868 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507556 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hua Wang (Boise, Idaho); Denise Wingett (Boise, Idaho); Kevin Feris (Boise, Idaho); Mfadhusudan R. Kongara (Boise, Idaho); Alex Punnoose (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Wang (Boise, Idaho); Denise Wingett (Boise, Idaho); Kevin Feris (Boise, Idaho); Mfadhusudan R. Kongara (Boise, Idaho); Alex Punnoose (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A core-shell nanoparticle having a core that includes a fluorophore and a first oxide of a first metal and a shell that includes a second oxide of a second metal such that the first oxide and the second oxide are different. Also disclosed are methods relating to the core-shell nanoparticle. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/079469 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507568 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ly James Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Jintao Yang (Zhejiang, China PRC); Nan-Rong Chiou (Columbus, Ohio); Shu-Kai Yeh (Banqiao-Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio); Nanomaterial Innovation Ltd (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ly James Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Jintao Yang (Zhejiang, China PRC); Nan-Rong Chiou (Columbus, Ohio); Shu-Kai Yeh (Banqiao-Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis of polystyrene and/or other thermoplastic polymers or polymer blends which, for example, contain activated carbon and/or bamboo carbon carrying a co-blowing agent such as water and/or at least one of 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, and 3-dimensional nano/micro-materials in suspension polymerization without using the inverse emulsion process. CO2 or other blowing agent based foaming processes such as extrusion, batch foaming, and injection molding may then be carried out to produce polymer foams that have low density, high-R value, bimodal structures, good mechanical properties, and high fire retardance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539465 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507572 | Lancaster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to functionalizing a surface of an organic material. For example, surfaces of materials having C—H bonds, such as polymers having C—H bonds, can be functionalized. In certain embodiments, a heterobifunctional molecule having a photoactive anchor, a spacer, and a terminal functional group is applied to the surface of an organic material that contains one or more C—H bonds. The heterobifunctional molecule can be bound to any surface having C—H bonds as the photoactive anchor can react with C—H bonds upon irradiation. The terminal functional group has a “click” functionality which can be utilized to functionalize the surface of the organic material with any desired functionalizing moiety having the orthogonal click functionality. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/796462 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507588 | Srubar, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wilfred V. Srubar, III (Stanford, California); Sarah L. Billington (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wilfred V. Srubar, III (Stanford, California); Sarah L. Billington (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material includes a matrix composed of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polymer and a filler composed of particles dispersed in the matrix. The particles are composed of naturally-derived materials (e.g., ground bone meal or pumice powder), have a microporous microstructure, have a low hygroscopic expansion, and are less than 1.0 mm in size. Preferably, the matrix and the filler together constitute 100% by weight of the composite material, and at most 30% by volume of the composite material is consumed by the filler. The composite material may take the form of an anaerobically biodegradable article of manufacture such as a building material a coating of a building material or other article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/367900 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507860 | Schubert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eva Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mathias M. Schubert (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tino Hofmann (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable terahertz resonator includes a semiconductor substrate and a metal layer contacting a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A depletion layer is formed in the semiconductor substrate near an interface between the metal layer and the semiconductor substrate. A chiral nanostructure is coupled to the substrate or the metal layer, the chiral nanostructure including a conducting or semiconducting material and having an inductance. A bias circuit applies a bias voltage across the metal layer and the semiconductor substrate to control a capacitance of a tunable capacitor that includes the depletion layer. The chiral nanostructure and the tunable capacitor form a tunable resonant circuit. The tunable terahertz resonator can be used in a terahertz radiation emitter or receiver. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/783917 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/336.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508740 | Richter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dirk Richter (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Richter (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical multi-pass cell (100) including a sample cavity (109) is provided. The cell (100) also includes first and second end mirrors (103, 104) positioned within the housing (101). The mirrors (103, 104) are configured to reflect a beam of light directed at one of the first or second end mirrors (103, 104) off-axis from the optical axis (113) one or more times between the end mirrors (103, 104) through the sample cavity (109) at a first distance from the optical axis (113) to create a first beam pattern (330). The cell (100) also includes one or more relay minors (220) positioned to intercept reflect the beam of light such that at least a second beam pattern (331) is created between the end mirrors (103, 104) at a distance from the optical axis (113) different from the first distance of the first beam pattern (330). |
| FILED | Monday, January 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/651549 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508746 | Wax et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam Wax (Durham, North Carolina); Yizheng Zhu (Durham, North Carolina); Natan Tzvi Shaked (Bat Yam, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Wax (Durham, North Carolina); Yizheng Zhu (Durham, North Carolina); Natan Tzvi Shaked (Bat Yam, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are interferometric systems having reflective chambers and related methods. According to an aspect, an interferometric system may include a light source for generating an illumination beam that propagates towards a sample. A sample holder may hold the sample and include a partially reflective cover for allowing a first portion of the illumination beam to pass therethrough to interact with the sample to produce a sample beam that propagates substantially along an optical axis. The cover may be oriented at an angle for reflecting a second portion of the illumination beam to produce a reference beam that propagates at a predetermined angle with respect to the optical axis. An imaging module may redirect the reference beam towards the optical axis at a detection plane. A detector may intercept the sample and reference beams and may generate a holographic representation of the sample based on the beams. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/072294 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08508838 | Steinhardt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to devices constructed from quasicrystalline heterostructures. In preferred embodiments, two or more dielectric materials are arranged in a two- or three-dimensional space in a lattice pattern having at least a five-fold symmetry axis and not a six-fold symmetry axis, such that the quasicrystalline heterostructure exhibits an energy band structure in the space, the band structure having corresponding symmetry, which symmetry is forbidden in crystals, and which band structure comprises a complete band gap. The constructed devices are adapted for manipulating, controlling, modulating, trapping, reflecting and otherwise directing waves including electromagnetic, sound, spin, and surface waves, for a pre-selected range of wavelengths propagating within or through the heterostructure in multiple directions. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/553149 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509237 | Akella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Srinivasa Aditya Akella (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ashok Anand (Madison, Wisconsin); Vyas Sekar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivasa Aditya Akella (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ashok Anand (Madison, Wisconsin); Vyas Sekar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A network employing redundancy-aware hardware may actively allocate decompression tasks among different devices along a single path to improve data throughput. The allocation can be performed by a hash or similar process operating on a header of the packets to distribute caching according to predefined ranges of hash values without significant additional communication overhead. Decompression of packets may be similarly distributed by marking shim values to match the earlier caching of antecedent packets. Nodes may use coordinated cache sizes and organizations to eliminate the need for separate cache protocol communications. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492749 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509276 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang Zhang (Alamo, California); Volker Jendrik Sorger (Berkeley, California); Rupert Francis Maximillian Oulton (El Cerrito, California); Ren-Min Ma (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybrid plasmonic waveguides are described that employ a high-gain semiconductor nanostructure functioning as a gain medium that is separated from a metal substrate surface by a nanoscale thickness thick low-index gap. The waveguides are capable of efficient generation of sub-wavelength high intensity light and have the potential for large modulation bandwidth >1 THz. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/668248 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509288 | Erkip et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elza Erkip (New York, New York); Thanasis Korakis (Brooklyn, New York); Pei Liu (Forest Hills, New York); Shivendra S. Panwar (Freehold, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elza Erkip (New York, New York); Thanasis Korakis (Brooklyn, New York); Pei Liu (Forest Hills, New York); Shivendra S. Panwar (Freehold, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple cooperative relays operate in a highly mobile environment and form a virtual antenna array. Multiple independent streams of data can be simultaneously, transmitted in parallel to the destination receiver. Thus a higher spatial multiplexing gain can be obtained. Each relay device that receives the information without errors splits it into multiple streams. For example, if the relay devices receive B symbols and the number of streams is K, each stream contains B/K symbols. Each relay device then generates a random linear combination of all the streams and transmits this output simultaneously with the other relay devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478687 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510597 | Swift et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael M. Swift (Madison, Wisconsin); Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (Madison, Wisconsin); Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau (Madison, Wisconsin); Swaminathan Sundararaman (Madison, Wisconsin); Sriram Subramanian (Madison, Wisconsin); Abhishek Rajimwale (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Swift (Madison, Wisconsin); Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (Madison, Wisconsin); Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau (Madison, Wisconsin); Swaminathan Sundararaman (Madison, Wisconsin); Sriram Subramanian (Madison, Wisconsin); Abhishek Rajimwale (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In general, techniques are described for enabling a restartable file system. A computing device comprising a processor that executes an operating system may implement the techniques. The processor executes kernel and file system functions of the operating system to perform an operation, where both types of functions call each other to perform the operation. The operating system stores data identifying those of the kernel functions that called the file system functions. In response to determining that one of the file system functions that was called has failed, the operating system accesses the data to identify one of the kernel functions that most recently called one of the file system functions, and returns control to the identified one of the kernel functions without executing any of the file system functions called after the identified one of the kernel functions and prior to the one of the file system functions that failed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/023354 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08510741 | Leiserson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles E. Leiserson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kunal Agrawal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wen-Jing Hsu (Singapore, Singapore); Yuxiong He (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nanyang Technological University (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Leiserson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kunal Agrawal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wen-Jing Hsu (Singapore, Singapore); Yuxiong He (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a system and method for scheduling jobs on a multiprocessor system. The invention includes schedulers for use in both work-sharing and work-stealing environments. Each system utilizes a task scheduler using historical usage information, in conjunction with a job scheduler to achieve its results. In one embodiment, the task scheduler measures the time spent on various activities, in conjunction with its previous processor allocation or previous desire, to determine an indication of its current processor desire. In another embodiment of the present invention, the task scheduler measures the resources used by the job on various activities. Based on these measurements, the task scheduler determines the efficiency of the job and an indication of its current processor desire. In another embodiment, the task scheduler measures the resources consumed executing the job and determines its efficiency and an indication of its current processor desire. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729176 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08505236 | Morales-Ramos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Juan A. Morales-Ramos (Greenville, Mississippi); W. Louis Tedders (Perry, Georgia); Carl Brian Dean (Leland, Mississippi); David I. Shapiro-Ilan (Macon, Georgia); Maria Guadalupe Rojas (Greenville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan A. Morales-Ramos (Greenville, Mississippi); W. Louis Tedders (Perry, Georgia); Carl Brian Dean (Leland, Mississippi); David I. Shapiro-Ilan (Macon, Georgia); Maria Guadalupe Rojas (Greenville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a taping apparatus for packaging arthropods having been infected with entomopathogenic nematodes wherein the tape forms a continuous line of packaged arthropods. In one embodiment of the invention, the tape formulation has the arthropods Tenebrio molitor, Aethina tumida, or Diaprepes abbreviatus infected with the nematodes of Heterorhabditis indica or Steinernema carpocapsae. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/953719 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/132.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507278 | Lawrence et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark L. Lawrence (Starkville, Mississippi); Attila Karsi (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Lawrence (Starkville, Mississippi); Attila Karsi (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A high throughput bioluminescence mutant screening procedure is disclosed. This procedure utilizes robotics, and bacterial luciferase to allow real-time monitoring of mutant viability. The procedure was used to develop a live attenuated vaccine for a catfish against E. ictaluri, which is further claimed herein. Additionally, genes from other bacterial species are disclosed which may also be used to create vaccines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/490207 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507549 | Erhardt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul W. Erhardt (Sylvania, Ohio); Rahul S. Khupse (Toledo, Ohio); Amarjit Luniwal (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Erhardt (Sylvania, Ohio); Rahul S. Khupse (Toledo, Ohio); Amarjit Luniwal (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for synthesizing glycinols, glyceollins I and II, and isoflavene and chromane compounds using a Wittig reaction, compositions made therewith, and uses thereof are described. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/346059 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08506835 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajiv Singh (Gainesville, Florida); Deepika Singh (Gainesville, Florida); Abhudaya Mishra (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sinmat, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajiv Singh (Gainesville, Florida); Deepika Singh (Gainesville, Florida); Abhudaya Mishra (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A cyclic method of chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) a wafer having a surface includes placing the wafer on a platen in a CMP apparatus and then performing a multi-step CMP comprising process. The multi-step CMP process includes delivering a first chemical composition onto the wafer while on the platen for a first time duration, and without removing the wafer from the platen, delivering a second chemical composition different from the first composition onto the wafer for a second time duration after the first time duration. The multi-step CMP comprising process includes CMP removal using a slurry during one of the first and second time durations and a non-polishing process during the other of the first and second time durations. The multi-step CMP comprising process is repeated a plurality of times. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761110 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507198 | Bost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas A. Bost (Redwood City, California); Lawrence Greenfield (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Bost (Redwood City, California); Lawrence Greenfield (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for isolating and/or identifying nucleic acids. The invention also provides kits for isolating and/or identifying nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471292 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507749 | Ivarie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert D. Ivarie (Watkinsville, Georgia); Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia); Julie A. Morris (Watkinsville, Georgia); Guodong Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Jeffrey C. Rapp (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts); The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Ivarie (Watkinsville, Georgia); Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia); Julie A. Morris (Watkinsville, Georgia); Guodong Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Jeffrey C. Rapp (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides vectors and methods for the stable introduction of exogenous nucleic acid sequences into the genome of a bird and for expressing said exogenous sequences to alter the phenotype of the bird or to produce desired proteins. In particular, transgenic chickens are produced which express exogenous sequences in their oviducts. Eggs which contain exogenous proteins are also produced. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/274674 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08506719 | Holappa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth Walter Holappa (Angora, Minnesota); Donald T. Darling (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); William Martin Hertel, III (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SeaRobotics Corporation (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Walter Holappa (Angora, Minnesota); Donald T. Darling (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); William Martin Hertel, III (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cleaning system includes a chassis supporting a propulsion system for propelling the cleaning system across a surface. At least one sensor of a first type is coupled to the chassis, and a surface engagement mechanism is configured to maintain the cleaning system coupled to the surface as the propulsion system propels the cleaning system across the surface. A cleaning device is coupled to the chassis and configured to abrade the fouling from the surface, and a controller coupled to the chassis and in signal communication with the propulsion system and the first sensor. The controller is configured to receive a signal from the at least one sensor of the first type and control the propulsion system in response to the signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952973 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning and liquid contact with solids 134/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507093 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of comminution of wood chips (C) having a grain direction to produce a mixture of wood particles (P), wherein the wood chips are characterized by an average length dimension (LC) as measured substantially parallel to the grain, an average width dimension (WC) as measured normal to LC and aligned cross grain, and an average height dimension (HC) as measured normal to WC and LC, and wherein the comminution process comprises the step of feeding the wood chips in a direction of travel substantially randomly to the grain direction through a counter rotating pair of intermeshing arrays of cutting discs (D) arrayed axially perpendicular to the direction of wood chip travel, wherein the cutting discs have a uniform thickness (TD), and wherein at least one of LC, WC, and HC is greater than TD. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/741025 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08507277 | Khan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389432 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08508413 | Dudley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth L. Dudley (Newport News, Virginia); Holly A. Elliott (Newport News, Virginia); Robin L. Cravey (Hampton, Virginia); John W. Connell (Yorktown, Virginia); Sayata Ghose (Newport News, Virginia); Kent A. Watson (New Kent, Virginia); Joseph G. Smith, Jr. (Smithfield, 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) | Kenneth L. Dudley (Newport News, Virginia); Holly A. Elliott (Newport News, Virginia); Robin L. Cravey (Hampton, Virginia); John W. Connell (Yorktown, Virginia); Sayata Ghose (Newport News, Virginia); Kent A. Watson (New Kent, Virginia); Joseph G. Smith, Jr. (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna includes a ground plane, a dielectric disposed on the ground plane, and an electrically-conductive radiator disposed on the dielectric. The dielectric includes at least one layer of a first dielectric material and a second dielectric material that collectively define a dielectric geometric pattern, which may comprise a fractal geometry. The radiator defines a radiator geometric pattern, and the dielectric geometric pattern is geometrically identical, or substantially geometrically identical, to the radiator geometric pattern. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/082839 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509965 | Lin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Fang Lin (Simi Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | American GNC Corporation (Simi Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Fang Lin (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Collision with ground/water/terrain and midair obstacles is one of the common causes of severe aircraft accidents. The various data from the coremicro AHRS/INS/GPS Integration Unit, terrain data base, and object detection sensors are processed to produce collision warning audio/visual messages and collision detection and avoidance of terrain and obstacles through generation of guidance commands in a closed-loop system. The vision sensors provide more information for the Integrated System, such as, terrain recognition and ranging of terrain and obstacles, which plays an important role to the improvement of the Integrated Collision Avoidance System. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999310 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08509501 | Hassebrook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Henry G. Dietz (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A biometrics system captures and processes a handprint image using a structured light illumination to create a 2D representation equivalent of a rolled inked handprint. A processing unit calculates 3D coordinates of the hand from the plurality of images and maps the 3D coordinates to a 2D flat surface to create a 2D representation equivalent of a rolled inked handprint. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/751985 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08505377 | Rasmussen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roy Rasmussen (Longmont, Colorado); John Hallet (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado); Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, On Behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Rasmussen (Longmont, Colorado); John Hallet (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal plate precipitation measurement system (300) and a method of operating the thermal plate precipitation measurement system (300) is provided. The thermal plate precipitation measurement system (300) includes a first thermal plate system (301A) with first and second thermal plates (302A, 303A) and a second thermal plate system (301B) with first and second thermal plates (302B, 303B). A precipitation rate can be determined by configuring the first and second thermal plates (302A, 303A) of the first thermal plate system (301A) at a first temperature and configuring the first and second thermal plates (302B, 303B) of the second thermal plate system (301B) at a second temperature different than the first temperature. A differential power consumption between the first and second thermal plates (302A, 303A, 302B, 303B) of each of the first and second thermal plate systems (301A, 301B) can be determined and the precipitation rate can be determined based on a difference between the differential power consumption of the first thermal plate system (301A) and the differential power consumption of the second thermal plate system (301B). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096831 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08507433 | Schally et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew V. Schally (Miami Beach, Florida); Norman L Block (Hollywood, Florida); Joshua Hare (Miami Beach, Florida); Rosemeire Miyuki Kanashiro Takeuchi (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida); The United States of America, represented by the Deptartment of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew V. Schally (Miami Beach, Florida); Norman L Block (Hollywood, Florida); Joshua Hare (Miami Beach, Florida); Rosemeire Miyuki Kanashiro Takeuchi (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Whether the growth hormone (GH)/Insulin-like growth factor 1(IGF-I) axis exerts cardioprotective effects remains controversial; and the underlying mechanism(s) for such actions are unclear. Here we tested the hypothesis that growth-hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) directly activates cellular reparative mechanisms within the injured heart, in a GH/IGF-I independent fashion. Following experimental myocardial infarction (MI), rats were randomly assigned to receive, during a 4 week period, either placebo (n=14), rat recombinant GH (rrGH, n=8) or JI-38 (n=8; 50 μg/Kg/day), a potent GHRH-agonist. JI-38 did not elevate serum levels of GH or IGF-I, but markedly attenuated the degree of cardiac functional decline and remodeling after injury. In contrast, GH administration markedly elevated body weight, heart weight, circulating GH and IGF-I, but did not offset the decline in cardiac structure and function. Whereas, both JI-38 and GH augmented levels of cardiac precursor cell proliferation, only JI-38 increased anti-apoptotic gene expression. The receptor for GHRH was detectable on myocytes supporting direct activation of cardiac signal transduction. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that within the heart GHRH-agonists can activate cardiac repair following MI, suggesting the existence of a potential signaling pathway based on GHRH in the heart. The phenotypic profile of the response to a potent GHRH agonist has therapeutic implications. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914023 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08507588 | Srubar, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wilfred V. Srubar, III (Stanford, California); Sarah L. Billington (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wilfred V. Srubar, III (Stanford, California); Sarah L. Billington (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material includes a matrix composed of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polymer and a filler composed of particles dispersed in the matrix. The particles are composed of naturally-derived materials (e.g., ground bone meal or pumice powder), have a microporous microstructure, have a low hygroscopic expansion, and are less than 1.0 mm in size. Preferably, the matrix and the filler together constitute 100% by weight of the composite material, and at most 30% by volume of the composite material is consumed by the filler. The composite material may take the form of an anaerobically biodegradable article of manufacture such as a building material a coating of a building material or other article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/367900 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
European Union (EU)
| US 08508744 | Valsesia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrea Valsesia (Ranco, Italy); Pascal Colpo (Angera, Italy); Francois Rossi (Cittiglio, Italy); Franco Marabelli (Pavia, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The European Union, Represented by the European Commission (, Belgium); University of Pavia (, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea Valsesia (Ranco, Italy); Pascal Colpo (Angera, Italy); Francois Rossi (Cittiglio, Italy); Franco Marabelli (Pavia, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A SPR sensing method comprising the steps of: providing a SPR sensor comprising a SPR supporting sensor surface and contacting a sample to be analysed with the sensor surface. At least one resonance condition at said SPR supporting sensor surface is monitored by illuminating the sensor surface with an SPR exciting test light beam and sensing the reflected or transmitted test light beam. Additionally, the sensor surface is illuminated with a reference light beam under conditions selected so as not to excite SPR at said sensor surface and sensing the intensity of the reflected or transmitted reference light beam. At least one property of the reflected or transmitted test light beam is determined taking into account the sensed intensity of the reflected or transmitted reference light beam. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/379073 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08510321 | Ranganathan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In the realm of managing relational databases, a system that uses both the data in a relational database and domain knowledge in ontologies to return semantically relevant results to a user's query. Broadly contemplated herein, in essence, is a system that bridges a semantic gap between queries users want to express and queries that can be answered by the database using domain knowledge contained in ontologies. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, such a system extends relational databases with the ability to answer semantic queries that are represented in SPARQL, an emerging Semantic Web query language. Particularly, users may express their queries in SPARQL, based on a semantic model of the data, and they get back semantically relevant results. Also broadly contemplated herein is the definition of different categories of results that are semantically relevant to a user's query and an effective retrieval of such results. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499218 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
| US 08505665 | Pesenti |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yvan Philippe Gilles Pesenti (Claix, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The French Atomic Energy Commission (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvan Philippe Gilles Pesenti (Claix, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A pedaling assistance device for a light vehicle, in particular a bicycle, equipped with pedals and a ratio-changing transmission, this device comprising a heat engine equipped with a reducing gear mechanically coupled with an element receiving muscular pedaling power from a user of the light vehicle, the mechanical coupling being effected upstream of said ratio-changing transmission so that the heat engine benefits from said changes of ratio, wherein the assistance device comprises a torque limiter, placed on the kinematics of the reducing gear of the heat engine between said heat engine and the mechanical coupling. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242449 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/205.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08509274 | Walter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabriel Walter (Champaign, Illinois); Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois); Milton Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Chao-Hsin Wu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quantum Electro Opto Systems Sdn. Bhd. (Melaka, Malaysia); The Board of Trustees of The University of Illilnois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Walter (Champaign, Illinois); Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois); Milton Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Chao-Hsin Wu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing light emission from a two terminal semiconductor device with improved efficiency, includes the following steps: providing a layered semiconductor structure including a semiconductor drain region comprising at least one drain layer, a semiconductor base region disposed on the drain region and including at least one base layer, and a semiconductor emitter region disposed on a portion of the base region and comprising an emitter mesa that includes at least one emitter layer; providing, in the base region, at least one region exhibiting quantum size effects; providing a base/drain electrode having a first portion on an exposed surface of the base region and a further portion coupled with the drain region, and providing an emitter electrode on the surface of the emitter region; applying signals with respect to the base/drain and emitter electrodes to obtain light emission from the base region; and configuring the base/drain and emitter electrodes for substantial uniformity of voltage distribution in the region therebetween. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799080 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/38.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08509574 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | AdValue Photonics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AdValue Photonics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Jihong Geng (Tucson, Arizona); Zhuo Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Tao Luo (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An all-fiber optic Faraday rotator and isolator is presented. The device has a multicomponent glass optical fiber having a core having a first doping concentration of 55%-85% (wt./wt.) of a first rare-earth oxide and a cladding having a section doping concentration of 55%-85% (wt./wt.) of a second rare-earth oxide, where the first rare-earth oxide and the second rare earth oxide are one or more of Pr2O3, Nd2O3, Pm2O3, Sm2O3, Eu2O3, Gd2O3, Tb2O3, Dy2O3, Ho2O3, Er2O3, Tm2O3, Yb2O3, La2O3, Ga2O3, Ce2O3, and Lu2O3, and where the refractive index of the cladding is lower than a refractive index of the core. The fiber optic device further includes multiple magnetic cells each formed to include a bore extending there through, where the fiber is disposed in the bore of one of the magnetic cells. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/708787 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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