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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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| US 08529463 | Della Santina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles C. Della Santina (Towson, Maryland); Tjen Sin Lie (Hong Kong, China PRC); Bryce Chiang (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Della Santina (Towson, Maryland); Tjen Sin Lie (Hong Kong, China PRC); Bryce Chiang (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods for testing vestibular and oculomotor function. One aspect of the invention provides a vestibular and oculomotor function testing device including a track supported by a plurality of bearings, an engine configured to selectively displace the track, and a head coupling component coupled to the track. The head coupling component is configured to convey a movement generated by the engine to a subject's head in one or more axes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937985 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529784 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tingbing Cao (Beijing, China PRC); Qiaobing Xu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam Winkleman (Brookline, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tingbing Cao (Beijing, China PRC); Qiaobing Xu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam Winkleman (Brookline, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for generating electrically-conductive and/or semi-conductive films, and more specifically, methods and apparatuses for generating conductive and/or semi-conductive films having nanoscale features are provided. In one embodiment, an electrically-conductive or semi-conductive film (e.g., a gold layer of less than 50 nanometer thickness) is provided on a substrate (e.g., a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) stamp). The substrate may optionally include patterns or features having raised and recessed portions. A first portion of the film may be removed from the substrate, e.g., by methods such as physically contacting the first portion of the film with a surface to which the first portion preferentially adheres. This process can leave a second portion of the film remaining on the substrate. In some embodiments, the second portion includes at least one region having a dimension substantially parallel to a portion of the substrate i.e., of less than 50 nanometers. The second portion of the film may be used to establish electrical communication with an electrical contact. Advantageously, electrically-conductive and/or semi-conductive films having nanoscale features can be fabricated over large areas (e.g., areas greater than 1 cm2) in a single step. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/989345 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529835 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts); Irene Georgakoudi (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts); Irene Georgakoudi (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a biopolymer sensor including providing a biopolymer, processing the biopolymer to yield a biopolymer matrix solution, adding a biological material in the biopolymer matrix, providing a substrate, casting the matrix solution on the substrate, and drying the biopolymer matrix solution to form a solidified biopolymer sensor on the substrate. A biopolymer sensor is also provided that includes a solidified biopolymer film with an embedded biological material. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513441 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529889 | Chandrasekaran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aarthi Chandrasekaran (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shiladitya Sengupta (Waltham, Massachusetts); David A. Berry (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kristine Holley (Boston, Massachusetts); Ganlin Zhao (Arlington, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aarthi Chandrasekaran (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shiladitya Sengupta (Waltham, Massachusetts); David A. Berry (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kristine Holley (Boston, Massachusetts); Ganlin Zhao (Arlington, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for the modulation of the permeability of the epithelial cell barrier complex. In particular, the invention provides compositions and methods for using polysaccharides, preferably glycosaminoglycans, and agents that modify cell surface glycosaminoglycans, preferably glycosaminoglycan-degrading enzymes to modulate intercellular junctions. The compositions and methods provided can be used to facilitate the delivery of biologically active molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/171490 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529891 | Jay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel G Jay (Brighton, Massachusetts); Brenda K Eustace (Brookline, Massachusetts); Takashi Sakurai (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G Jay (Brighton, Massachusetts); Brenda K Eustace (Brookline, Massachusetts); Takashi Sakurai (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes inhibitors of extracellular Hsp90. The inhibition of extracellular Hsp90 leads to a reduction of the invasiveness of the tumor cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of molecules inhibiting extracellular Hsp90 function for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of invasion and/or metastatic potential of cancer cells. |
| FILED | Monday, November 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/951737 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529892 | Blaser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin J. Blaser (NY, New York); Zhan Gao (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin J. Blaser (NY, New York); Zhan Gao (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for characterization of bacterial skin microbiota to provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive measures for alleviating skin conditions. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to characterization of bacterial skin microbiota associated with psoriasis and related diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive measures for alleviating psoriasis. These methods will be useful for detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring individuals who have or are at risk of certain skin conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/034359 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529898 | Daugherty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick Sean Daugherty (Santa Barbara, California); Nancy Stagliano (Santa Barbara, California); Jerry Thomas (Goleta, California); Kathryn Kamath (Santa Barbara, California); James W. West (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjay Khare (Newbury Park, California); Jason Sagert (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Sean Daugherty (Santa Barbara, California); Nancy Stagliano (Santa Barbara, California); Jerry Thomas (Goleta, California); Kathryn Kamath (Santa Barbara, California); James W. West (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjay Khare (Newbury Park, California); Jason Sagert (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Activatable binding polypeptides (ABPs), which contain a target binding moiety (TBM), a masking moiety (MM), and a cleavable moiety (CM) are provided. Activatable antibody compositions, which contain a TBM containing an antigen binding domain (ABD), a MM and a CM are provided. Furthermore, ABPs which contain a first TBM, a second TBM and a CM are provided. The ABPs exhibit an “activatable” conformation such that at least one of the TBMs is less accessible to target when uncleaved than after cleavage of the CM in the presence of a cleaving agent capable of cleaving the CM. Further provided are libraries of candidate ABPs, methods of screening to identify such ABPs, and methods of use. Further provided are ABPs having TBMs that bind VEGF, CTLA-4, or VCAM, ABPs having a first TBM that binds VEGF and a second TBM that binds FGF, as well as compositions and methods of use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/413447 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529905 | Klagsbrun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Klagsbrun (Newton, Massachusetts); Shay Soker (Greensboro, North Carolina); Michael L. Gagnon (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Childrens's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Klagsbrun (Newton, Massachusetts); Shay Soker (Greensboro, North Carolina); Michael L. Gagnon (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cDNA encoding a soluble neuropilin protein (sNP) which is isolated from neuropilin (NP) producing cells or is recombinantly engineered from NP-encoding DNA. NP-1 and NP-2 are preferred NPs but any neuropilin or VEGF receptor (VEGFR), where the constituents share at least about 85% homology with either of the above VEGF165R/NP-1 and NP-2. More preferably, such constituent shares at least 90% homology. Still more preferably, each constituent shares at least 95% homology. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756737 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529917 | Kwon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen S. Kwon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides active agents, such as paclitaxel, rapamycin, or 17-DMAG, encapsulated by safe poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(lactic acid) (“PEG-b-PLA”) micelles. The compositions provide effective solubilization of drug combinations, such as paclitaxel, rapamycin, and 17-DMAG, as well as others described herein. A significant advantage of PEG-b-PLA as a carrier is that it is less toxic than Cremophor® EL or DMSO, which are used in currently known compositions. Additionally, PEG-b-PLA micelles are easier to handle than DMSO and they do not possess a foul odor, which is a problem with formulations currently in clinical trials. Accordingly, the invention provides stable and biocompatible drug formulations that improve bioavailability without causing toxicity. It was also found that larger doses of individual drugs in micelle formulations can be administered compared to non-micelle formulations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/777377 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529928 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yadong Wang (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Blaine Zern (Atlanta, Georgia); Christiane Gumera (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yadong Wang (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Blaine Zern (Atlanta, Georgia); Christiane Gumera (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Biodegradable polymers incorporating biomolecules and methods of their use are provided. Certain aspects provide biomolecules crosslinked with diglycidyl esters. The disclosed compositions have numerous applications including cellular regeneration, wound healing, and cellular differentiation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/307073 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529951 | Ramamurthi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anand Ramamurthi (Charleston, South Carolina); Chandrasekhar Kothapalli (Tarrytown, New York); Binata Joddar (Dublin, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Ramamurthi (Charleston, South Carolina); Chandrasekhar Kothapalli (Tarrytown, New York); Binata Joddar (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are elastogenic cues that can be utilized to encourage growth and development of elastin-containing cellular constructs. The elastogenic cues include hyaluronan fragments and oligomers, optionally in conjunction with growth factors and/or a source of copper ions. The elastogenic cues can up-regulate elastin matrix synthesis and by vascular smooth muscle cells. In addition to encouraging synthesis of elastin in a cellular matrix and organization into elastic fibers, the elastogenic cues can also stabilize the formed ECM matrix through suppression of elastin-laminin receptor (ELR). In addition, the elastogenic cues can inhibit cell hyper-proliferation (e.g., hyperplasia) common in inflammatory vascular disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/034237 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/488 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530039 | Adair et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mary Frecker (State College, Pennsylvania); Christopher Muhlstein (University Park, Pennsylvania); Eric Mockensturm (State College, Pennsylvania); Harriet Black Nembhard (University Park, Pennsylvania); Randy S. Haluck (Lititz, Pennsylvania); Abraham Mathew (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Nicholas Antolino (University Park, Pennsylvania); Gregory R Hayes (State College, Pennsylvania); Milton Aguirre (State College, Pennsylvania); Rebecca Kirkpatrick (University Park, Pennsylvania); Chumpol Yuangyai (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mary Frecker (State College, Pennsylvania); Christopher Muhlstein (University Park, Pennsylvania); Eric Mockensturm (State College, Pennsylvania); Harriet Black Nembhard (University Park, Pennsylvania); Randy S. Haluck (Lititz, Pennsylvania); Abraham Mathew (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Nicholas Antolino (University Park, Pennsylvania); Gregory R Hayes (State College, Pennsylvania); Milton Aguirre (State College, Pennsylvania); Rebecca Kirkpatrick (University Park, Pennsylvania); Chumpol Yuangyai (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polycrystalline mesoscale component, formed through a process including filing a mold cavity formed in a photoresist with a mold fill, is provided with an overall length L divided into multiple segments with a second segment extending from a first segment at a nonlinear angle. The first segment has a first segment height H1 and a first segment thickness T1, while the second segment has a second segment height H2 and a second segment thickness T2, with the lesser of H1 and H2 defining a minimum segment height Hmin and the lesser of T1 and T2 defining a minimum segment thickness Tmin. The resultant component has a ratio of L:Hmin:Tmin of 20-80:1:0.5-10 where Hmin is between 5 and 500 microns. In specific instances, the nonlinear angle is acute, the multiple segments are rectilinear in cross section, and a segment thickness has an edge resolution of between 0.1 and 2 microns. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534329 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530156 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); A. Michael Sismour (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); A. Michael Sismour (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Linkers and methods for determining a nucleotide sequence of a reference oligonucleotide are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533439 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530159 | Croce |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The invention also provides methods of identifying anti-AML agents. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269404 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530160 | Dorn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerald W. Dorn (Hamilton, Ohio); Stephen B. Liggett (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald W. Dorn (Hamilton, Ohio); Stephen B. Liggett (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compositions and methods relating to a G-protein coupled receptor kinase-5 polymorphism. The methods include, for example: detecting enhanced desensitization of the beta adrenergic receptor signaling pathway in an individual, assessing partial protection against heart failure progression in an individual, and assessing an individual's response to beta-blocker therapy. The compositions include polynucleotides or fragments thereof of a nucleotide sequence encoding for a G-protein receptor kinase-5 molecule with a thymine at amino acid position 122 and oligonucleotide primers that hybridize thereto. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/440296 |
| 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 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530161 | Germino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory G. Germino (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Terry J. Watnick (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Bunyong Phakdeekitcharoen (Bangkok, Thailand) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory G. Germino (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Terry J. Watnick (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Bunyong Phakdeekitcharoen (Bangkok, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions useful for examining the PKD1 gene are provided. In addition, methods for detecting mutations of the PKD1 gene, which can be associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in humans, are provided. Methods for diagnosing a mutant PKD1 gene sequence in a subject also are provided, as are methods of treating a subject having a PKD1-associated disorder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/485062 |
| 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 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530167 | Drayna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis T. Drayna (Potomac, Maryland); Changsoo Paul Kang (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sheikh Riazuddin (Lahore, Pakistan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology Together With All Allied Components, University of Punjab (Lahore, Pakistan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis T. Drayna (Potomac, Maryland); Changsoo Paul Kang (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sheikh Riazuddin (Lahore, Pakistan) |
| ABSTRACT | The allelic variants or mutations in three genes: GNPTAB, GNPTG and NAGPA, that correlate with stuttering in humans, as well as the encoded mutated polypeptides and related vectors, host cells, antibodies, antibody-producing cell lines and methods of diagnosing, prognosticating and treating stuttering are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/148340 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530169 | Rosenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert D. Rosenberg (Staten Island, New York); Zhengliang Wu (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Rosenberg (Staten Island, New York); Zhengliang Wu (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for detecting and characterizing enzymatic modifications of oligosaccharides, such as heparan sulfate, and their interaction with binding partners, such as proteins, using an oligosaccharide-binding partner binding assay, such as a gel mobility shift assay. The instant invention relates to a rapid, convenient, sensitive and inexpensive method for identifying or studying oligosaccharide-binding partner interactions, identifying and characterizing structural features on oligosaccharides, identifying and characterizing binding partners, identifying agents capable of interfering with, enhancing, or facilitating the binding of an oligosaccharide to its binding partner, diagnosing conditions associated with altered oligosaccharide-binding partner binding, and generating oligosaccharide libraries and kits therefor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835554 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 08530173 | Lee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard T. Lee (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard T. Lee (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular conditions. More specifically, the invention relates to isolated molecules that can be used to diagnose and/or treat cardiovascular conditions including cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, stroke, arteriosclerosis, and heart failure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/151012 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 08530174 | Combs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terry P. Combs (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); James A. Swenberg (Pittsboro, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry P. Combs (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); James A. Swenberg (Pittsboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of polynucleotides and polypeptides involved in insulin and adiponectin signaling and regulation of glucose production. The invention further relates to the use of the identified polynucleotides and polypeptides, and inhibitors of the polynucleotides and polypeptides, in the regulation of glucose production and the monitoring and treatment of metabolic disorders such as diabetes. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/376239 |
| 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 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530182 | Barr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John R. Barr (Suwanee, Georgia); Tracie L. Williams (Atlanta, Georgia); Leah G. Luna (Sanford, Michigan); Zhu Guo (Atlanta, Georgia); Rubin Donis (Atlanta, Georgia); James L. Pirkle (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Barr (Suwanee, Georgia); Tracie L. Williams (Atlanta, Georgia); Leah G. Luna (Sanford, Michigan); Zhu Guo (Atlanta, Georgia); Rubin Donis (Atlanta, Georgia); James L. Pirkle (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of quantifying proteins in a complex mixture is provided. The invention has utility in quantifying proteins in a complex preparation of uni- or multivalent commercial or research vaccine preparations. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/746649 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530183 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wen-Hong Li (Dallas, Texas); Daliang Li (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen-Hong Li (Dallas, Texas); Daliang Li (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds for use as zinc ligand sensors in cellular imaging. These compounds are sensitive imaging agents that can be used with techniques such a laser scanning microscopy in intact cells in culture or in tissue preparations. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/158011 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530187 | Caligiuri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Caligiuri (Columbus, Ohio); Rossana Trotta (Dublin, Ohio); Jianhua Yu (Columbus, Ohio); Brian Becknell (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Caligiuri (Columbus, Ohio); Rossana Trotta (Dublin, Ohio); Jianhua Yu (Columbus, Ohio); Brian Becknell (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for stably transfecting mammalian natural killer cells comprising: transfecting a packaging cell line with a retroviral expression vector; culturing the transfected packaging cell line in a cell culture medium; and culturing the mammalian natural killer cells with the cell culture medium. Natural killer cells transfected according to the disclosed methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/599194 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530190 | Moyle |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William R. Moyle (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck Serono SA (Coinsins, Vaud, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Moyle (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to analogs of glycoprotein hormones with an intersubunit disulfide crosslink and their preparation and use. Corresponding DNA sequences and host cells, as well as pharmaceutical compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 25, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/104400 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530199 | Frasch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne D. Frasch (Phoenix, Arizona); David Spetzler (Scottsdale, Arizona); Justin York (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate Acting for and On Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne D. Frasch (Phoenix, Arizona); David Spetzler (Scottsdale, Arizona); Justin York (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, and kits for nucleic acid detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/299126 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530213 | Bommarius et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreas Bommarius (Atlanta, Georgia); Bettina Bommarius (Atlanta, Georgia); Jun-Ichiro Hirano (Atlanta, Georgia); Vaijayanthi Thangavel (Atlanta, Georgia); Jonathan Taejoo Park (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Bommarius (Atlanta, Georgia); Bettina Bommarius (Atlanta, Georgia); Jun-Ichiro Hirano (Atlanta, Georgia); Vaijayanthi Thangavel (Atlanta, Georgia); Jonathan Taejoo Park (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates generally to bacterial NADH oxidases and, more particularly, to novel NADH oxidases obtained from Lactobacillus plantarum, and derivatives thereof that demonstrate enzymatic activity for NADH, NADPH, or both NADH and NADPH. The compositions comprising an NADH oxidase obtained from L. plantarum or derivatives thereof include: isolated enzymes; recombinantly produced enzymes and derivatives thereof, as well as catalytically active portions thereof; nucleic acids encoding an NADH oxidase obtained from L. plantarum, derivatives thereof, and portions thereof. The methods of the present invention include isolation of NADH oxidases obtained from L. plantarum, derivatives thereof, and portions thereof, and methods for enzymatic reactions comprising NADH oxidase obtained from L. plantarum, including the production of enantiomer-enriched organic compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/958949 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530232 | Hurtado et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alicia Hurtado (New York, New York); Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alicia Hurtado (New York, New York); Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are new defective Sindbis viral vectors made from wild type Ar-339 Sindbis virus, with differences in replicase and envelope proteins between JT vectors and consensus Sindbis virus sequences, and also between JT and Ar-339 vectors. Also disclosed are plasmids used for the production of the vectors, methods for producing the vectors, methods for treating mammals suffering from tumors and pharmaceutical formulations for use in the treatment methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877018 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530427 | Scarisbrick |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Isobel A. Scarisbrick (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isobel A. Scarisbrick (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials involved in modulating a cell's ability to be resistant to apoptosis. For example, methods and materials for exposing cells to KLK6 polypeptides, or increased KLK6 polypeptide activity, to promote resistance to apoptosis are provided. In addition, methods and materials for reducing the ability of KLK6 polypeptides to promote resistance to apoptosis are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250599 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530438 | Zamore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phillip D. Zamore (Northborough, Massachusetts); Juanita McLachlan (Worcester, Massachusetts); Gyorgy Hutvagner (Worcester, Massachusetts); Alla Grishok (Newton, Massachusetts); Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip D. Zamore (Northborough, Massachusetts); Juanita McLachlan (Worcester, Massachusetts); Gyorgy Hutvagner (Worcester, Massachusetts); Alla Grishok (Newton, Massachusetts); Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides engineered RNA precursors that when expressed in a cell are processed by the cell to produce targeted small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that selectively silence targeted genes (by cleaving specific mRNAs) using the cell's own RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. By introducing nucleic acid molecules that encode these engineered RNA precursors into cells in vivo with appropriate regulatory sequences, expression of the engineered RNA precursors can be selectively controlled both temporally and spatially, i.e., at particular times and/or in particular tissues, organs, or cells. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727783 |
| 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 08530443 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun Lu (North Haven, Connecticut); Shangqin Guo (North Haven, Connecticut); Benjamin Ebert (Brookline, Massachusetts); David Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Todd Golub (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Lu (North Haven, Connecticut); Shangqin Guo (North Haven, Connecticut); Benjamin Ebert (Brookline, Massachusetts); David Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Todd Golub (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of treating certain blood related disorders, in particular, thrombocytopenia and anemia comprising increasing miR-150 expression or inhibiting miR-150 in progenitor cells respectively. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/652672 |
| 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 08530456 | Peng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lee F. Peng (Somerville, Massachusetts); Julia Lamenzo (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nicole Maloof (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kazuo Nakai (Itami, Japan); Benjamin Stanton (Menlo Park, California); Sara Jean Buhrlage (Somerville, Massachusetts); Lawrence MacPherson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Michel Weiwer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee F. Peng (Somerville, Massachusetts); Julia Lamenzo (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nicole Maloof (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kazuo Nakai (Itami, Japan); Benjamin Stanton (Menlo Park, California); Sara Jean Buhrlage (Somerville, Massachusetts); Lawrence MacPherson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Michel Weiwer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to macrocyclic small molecule inhibitors of the Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway, syntheses thereof, and intermediates thereto. Such small molecule modulators of the Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway are useful in the treatment of proliferative diseases (e.g., basal cell carcinoma, Gorlin syndrome, medulloblastoma, or pancreatic cancer), pulmonary diseases (e.g., interstitial pnuemonitis or interstitial pulmonary fibrosis), and developmental disorders (e.g., phocomelia or cyclopia). Novel non-natural macrocycles are provided that inhibit Sonic Hedgehog induced-protein transcription. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/988755 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530457 | Henske et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth Petri Henske (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jane Yu (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth Petri Henske (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jane Yu (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Treatment of lymphangioleiomyomatosis with the MEK1/2 inhibitor CI-1040 delayed the development of primary tumors and blocked the estrogen-induced lung metastases in treated animals. Such treatment also reduced the number of circulating ELT3 cells and decreased their lung colonization after intravenous injection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/989529 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530459 | Borbas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | K. Eszter Borbas (Stockholm, Sweden); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Eszter Borbas (Stockholm, Sweden); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Porphyrinic compounds that contain solubilizing groups are described, along with methods of making and using the same and compositions comprising such compounds. Examples of such compounds include compounds compounds of Formula I: wherein: Z is a porphyrinic macrocycle, Alk1 and Alk2 are each independently an alkylidene chain; L is a linking group or is absent; R1 is preferably an ionic group or polar group; R2 is an ionic group, polar group, bioconjugatable group, or targeting group; R3 is present or absent and when present is a halo group, bioconjugatable group, or targeting group, n is O or 1 (that is, the CH group is present, or Alk1 and Alk2 are bonded directly to a carbon of the porphyrinic macrocycle Z); or a salt thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/316009 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530503 | Roberts et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Roberts (La Jolla, California); Hugh Rosen (La Jolla, California); Steven Brown (San Diego, California); Miguel A. Guerrero (La Jolla, California); Xuemei Peng (La Jolla, California); Ramulu Poddutoori (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Roberts (La Jolla, California); Hugh Rosen (La Jolla, California); Steven Brown (San Diego, California); Miguel A. Guerrero (La Jolla, California); Xuemei Peng (La Jolla, California); Ramulu Poddutoori (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of the following generic structure are provided: Such compounds activate a sphingosine-I-phosphate receptor of the subtype 1 (S1P1), and have utility in the treatment of malconditions mediated by S1P1 activation. More specifically, such compounds are beneficial in the treatment of, for example, multiple sclerosis, transplant rejection and/or adult respiratory syndrome. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/605358 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530509 | Jordan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Jordan (Corvallis, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania); Susan R. Rippin (Wilmington, Delaware); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jordan (Corvallis, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania); Susan R. Rippin (Wilmington, Delaware); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using di, tri, and tetracyclic acylhydrazide derivatives and analogs, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases caused by the orthopoxvirus. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194437 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530516 | Herz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joachim Herz (Dallas, Texas); Xunde Xian (Dallas, Texas); Yuan Yang (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joachim Herz (Dallas, Texas); Xunde Xian (Dallas, Texas); Yuan Yang (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Cycling of ApoE4 isoform is promoted in a person in need thereof by contacting the person with an effective amount of a pharmaceutically-acceptable modulator of intracellular ApoE4 transport vesicle pH. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/962286 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/565 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530520 | Atasoylu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Onur Atasoylu (Izmir, Turkey); Carlo Ballatore (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kurt R. Brunden (Media, Pennsylvania); Longchuan Huang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Donna M. Huryn (Allentown, New Jersey); Michael James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Virginia M. Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Francesco Piscitelli (Strongoli Marina, Italy); Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); James Soper (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Onur Atasoylu (Izmir, Turkey); Carlo Ballatore (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kurt R. Brunden (Media, Pennsylvania); Longchuan Huang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Donna M. Huryn (Allentown, New Jersey); Michael James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Virginia M. Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Francesco Piscitelli (Strongoli Marina, Italy); Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); James Soper (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to carboxylic acid-containing pharmaceutical compounds where the carboxylic acid moieties have been substituted with cycloalkyl-dione derivatives, as well as tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof. These bioisosteric replacements improve the compound's ability to effectively cross the blood brain barrier and result in improved pharmacokinetic, toxicological, and/or safety profiles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/489745 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530619 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerry Kaplan (Salt Lake City, Utah); Diane M. Ward (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ivana De Domenico (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Kaplan (Salt Lake City, Utah); Diane M. Ward (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ivana De Domenico (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to materials and procedures for the use of the hepcidin binding domain (HBD) on ferroportin. A 20 amino acid peptide of the HBD was synthesized and shown to recapitulate the characteristics and specificity of hepcidin binding to cell surface ferroportin. The affinity of hepcidin for the HBD peptide permits a rapid, sensitive assay of hepcidin in biological fluids. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/734061 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530621 | Ginsberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Ginsberg (San Diego, California); Anthony William Partridge (Montreal, Canada); Iain Campbell (Oxford, United Kingdom); Kate Louise Wegener (Adelaide, Australia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Ginsberg (San Diego, California); Anthony William Partridge (Montreal, Canada); Iain Campbell (Oxford, United Kingdom); Kate Louise Wegener (Adelaide, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The specific molecular basis of the interaction between talin and integrin β3 has been defined. This specific interaction provides a new therapeutic target; agents that can disrupt this specific interaction should be useful therapeutic agents for a number of significant diseases and conditions including inflammation, heart disease, including myocardial infarction, and tumor metastasis. The present invention includes a chimeric peptide that has high affinity for talin, muteins of talin and integrin β3 as well as screening methods for agents that can disrupt the interaction between talin and integrin β3. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/523037 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530625 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Lorenz Meinel (Kassel, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); Eidgenossisches Technische Hochschule (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Lorenz Meinel (Kassel, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for novel sustained release silk-based delivery systems. The invention further provides methods for producing such formulations. In general, a silk fibroin solution is combined with a therapeutic agent to form a silk fibroin article. The article is then treated in such a way as to alter its conformation. The change in conformation increases its crytallinity or liquid crystallinity, thus controlling the release of a therapeutic agent from the formulation. This can be accomplished as single material carriers or in a layer-by-layer fashion to load different therapeutic agents or different concentrations of these agents in each layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/443264 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530631 | Gellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel Helmer Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Pil Seok Chae (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Soren Rasmussen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Helmer Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Pil Seok Chae (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Soren Rasmussen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides amphiphilic compounds and methods for manipulating membrane proteins. Compounds of the invention, for example, the compounds of Formulas I-XIX, can be prepared from readily available starting materials. The amphiphilic compounds can manipulate membrane protein at relatively low concentrations compared to many known detergents. The compounds can be used to aid the isolation of membrane proteins, for example, to aid their solubilization and/or purification. The compounds can also be used to aid the functional and structural determination of membrane proteins, including their stabilization and crystallization. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/731000 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530633 | Frommer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wolf B. Frommer (Washington, District of Columbia); Sakiko Okumoto (Washington, District of Columbia); Loren Looger (Washington, District of Columbia); Marcus Fehr (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolf B. Frommer (Washington, District of Columbia); Sakiko Okumoto (Washington, District of Columbia); Loren Looger (Washington, District of Columbia); Marcus Fehr (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Intramolecular biosensors are disclosed, including PBP-based biosensors, comprising a ligand binding domain fused to donor and fluorescent moieties that permit detection and measurement of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer upon binding ligand. At least one of the donor and fluorescent moieties may be internally fused to the biosensor such that both ends of the internally fused fluorophore are fixed. In addition, methods of improving the sensitivity of terminally fused biosensors are provided. The biosensors of the invention are useful for the detection and quantification of ligands in vivo and in culture. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665339 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530636 | Wandless et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas J. Wandless (Menlo Park, California); Laura A. Banaszynski (New York, New York); Mark A. Sellmyer (Stanford, California); Christopher H. Contag (Stanford, California); Steven H. Thorne (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Wandless (Menlo Park, California); Laura A. Banaszynski (New York, New York); Mark A. Sellmyer (Stanford, California); Christopher H. Contag (Stanford, California); Steven H. Thorne (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the rapid and reversible destabilizing of specific proteins in vivo using cell-permeable, synthetic molecules are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/437279 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530677 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalysts and methods for the carbonylation of epoxides to substituted 3-hydroxy-δ-lactones and β-lactones are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/592280 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530831 | Coon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Douglas Phanstiel (Palo Alto, California); Graeme McAlister (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Douglas Phanstiel (Palo Alto, California); Graeme McAlister (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An algorithm-based system and method for tandem mass spectrometry data acquisition in which multiple precursor ion attributes, such as mass, intensity, mass-to-charge ratio and charge state, as well as results from previously performed mass spectrometry scans, are used to determine the likelihood of identification for each precursor ion. This information is then used to prioritize subsequent tandem mass spectrometry events, such as which precursor ions are to be fragmented and undergo further mass spectrometry analysis. By interrogating precursor ions in order of probability of successful identification, an increase in identified proteins and peptides is achieved. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/418972 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530845 | Sarin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vinod K. Sarin (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Gibson Topping (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinod K. Sarin (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Gibson Topping (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transparent optical ceramic coating materials have been fabricated from europium-doped lutetium oxide (Lu2O3:Eu) using physical vapor deposition and chemical vapor deposition techniques. The non-pixilated film coatings have columnar microcrystalline structure and excellent properties for use as radiological scintillators, namely very high density, high effective atomic number, and light output and emission wavelength suitable for use with silicon-based detectors having a very high quantum efficiency. The materials can be used in a multitude of high speed and high resolution imaging applications, including x-ray imaging in medicine. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700210 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/361.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532430 | Hazard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Robert Hazard (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Robert Hazard (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and non-transitory computer readable media that store executable instructions to perform a method for reducing motion artifacts in shear wave measurements are presented. Accordingly, reference pulses are delivered to a common motion tracking location (CMTL) and a plurality of target locations in a region of interest (ROI) to detect corresponding initial positions. Further, a shear wave is generated and tracked in the ROI using tracking pulses delivered to the CMTL and the plurality of target locations for determining corresponding displacements. Additionally, an average displacement of the CMTL is computed. Further, a motion corrected displacement for a target location in the plurality of target locations is estimated based on a displacement of the target location at a particular time, a corresponding displacement of the CMTL measured proximate in time to the measurement of the displacement of the target location and the average displacement of the CMTL. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/192569 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/275 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532742 | Unal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orhan Unal (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Ethan K. Brodsky (Madison, Wisconsin); Krishna N. Kurpad (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orhan Unal (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Ethan K. Brodsky (Madison, Wisconsin); Krishna N. Kurpad (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of both tracking a medical device and generating an image in real time from the same set of radial data. A multi-mode medical device system having tracking, imaging, and visualizing capabilities is coupled to an MR scanner and multiple-echo VIPR acquisition sequence is applied to simultaneously provide conventional real-time imaging of the target region using an external coil, 3D tip-tracking information, and a localized higher-quality image showing the region surrounding the medical device using an internal multi-mode coil. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714018 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532756 | Schalk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerwin Schalk (Glenmont, New York); Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis, Missouri); Jonathan Wolpaw (Delmar, New York); Peter Brunner (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerwin Schalk (Glenmont, New York); Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis, Missouri); Jonathan Wolpaw (Delmar, New York); Peter Brunner (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided for analyzing electromagnetic brain signals such as EEG and ECoG signals in a subject in real time and which avoids the need for time-intensive retrospective analysis of brain activity in the subject. This can be applied to all complex systems with multiple fluctuating signals to identify and predict significant events. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/304953 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532759 | Merfeld |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Michael Merfeld (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Michael Merfeld (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems, including computer readable mediums, are provided for transforming a measurement made relative to a first reference frame into a corresponding measurement relative to a second reference frame. Sensor signals that are produced by sensors in response to the sensors' motion relative to the first reference frame are transformed using a transformation matrix. The transformation generates corrected sensor signals that are relative to the axes of the second reference frame. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/046236 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532776 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kevin Wilkin (Valencia, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kevin Wilkin (Valencia, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an improved hermetic package for implantation in the human body. The implantable device of the present invention includes an eclectically non-conductive bass including electrically conductive vias through the substrate. A circuit is flip-chip bonded to a subset of the vias. A second circuit is wire bonded to another subset of the vias. Finally, a cover is bonded to the substrate such that the cover, substrate and vias form a hermetic package. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/924469 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532931 | Lakatos |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Lakatos (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Lakatos (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for calculating a sample size for a clinical trial of a first treatment can be provided. The method can include reading a survival curve from a clinical trial for a second treatment, wherein the clinical trial may be selected by a user interacting with a user interface. The method can further include selecting a plurality of points on the survival curve and storing coordinates for each of the plurality of points, wherein the plurality of points are selected so as to capture substantial features of the survival curve. Then, a hazard curve is generated based on the coordinates that were stored, wherein the hazard curve may be a step function. The method can further include calculating a sample size for the clinical trial of the first treatment using a Markov model based on the hazard curve. |
| FILED | Sunday, September 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/205889 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532937 | Hatzigeorgiou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou (Philadelphlia, Pennsylvania); Zissimos Mourelatos (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou (Philadelphlia, Pennsylvania); Zissimos Mourelatos (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of identifying a microRNA-recognition element and of generating microRNAs are disclosed. System and computer programs for performing such methods are disclosed. Recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising a heterologous coding sequences and one or more MREs are also disclosed as are isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising one or more MRE sequences and being free of a coding sequence operably linked to regulatory elements. MicroRNA generated by a methods of the invention and the use of the microRNAs to downregulate gene expression are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/402646 |
| 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 | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533132 | Zimmerman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Zimmerman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony Tomasic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ian Hargraves (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Zimmerman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony Tomasic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ian Hargraves (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Mixed-initiative message-augmenting agent systems and methods that provide users with tools that allow them to respond to messages, such as email messages, containing requests for information or otherwise requiring responses that require information that needs to be retrieved from one or more data sources. The systems and methods allow users to train machine-learning agents how to retrieve and present information in responses to like messages so that the machine-learning agents can eventually automatedly generate responses with minimal involvement by the users. Embodiments of the systems and methods allow users to build message-augmenting forms containing the desired information for responding to messages and to demonstrate to the machine-learning agents where to retrieve pertinent information for populating the forms. Embodiments of the systems and methods allow users to modify and repair automatically generated forms to continually improve the knowledge of the machine-learning agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/841714 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08528582 | Lou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Janet W. Lou (Springfield, Virginia); Carl A. Villarruel (Burke, Virginia); Ross Schermer (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet W. Lou (Springfield, Virginia); Carl A. Villarruel (Burke, Virginia); Ross Schermer (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The application of an optical beam redirects sheathed micro-fluidic flow without direct interaction with the sample. The hydrodynamic properties of the sheath are locally modified due to optical absorption and heating, resulting in a spatial shift of the sample flow. The technique can result in up to 100 μm shift at peak flow velocities of 19 mm/sec. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/457140 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08528601 | Dahm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Werner J. A. Dahm (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew P. Lapsa (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Werner J. A. Dahm (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew P. Lapsa (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Sub-boundary-layer-scale ramp-like vortex generators that can be mounted on any surface such as the wing of an airplane, the inlet to a propulsion system, the hull of a ship, or any other surface over which a fluid moves, when the objective is to minimize drag, irreversibility losses, or other performance penalties that can occur for reasons such as boundary layer separation or other undesirable boundary layer properties. The disclosed devices acts to passively induce streamwise vortices in the boundary layer, thereby transferring high-momentum fluid toward the surface in such a way as to alter the shape of the velocity profile within the boundary layer and thereby avoid or delay separation or alter other properties of the boundary layer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748699 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529747 | Gaydos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen P. Gaydos (St. Louis, Missouri); Mary Ann Gilman (Long Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. Gaydos (St. Louis, Missouri); Mary Ann Gilman (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An exposed surface on a steel component is prepared for an application of a nickel high speed solution. The nickel high speed solution is applied to the exposed surface to create an intermediate surface on the component. The intermediate surface is prepared for an application of a nickel sulfamate solution. The nickel sulfamate solution is applied to the intermediate surface to create a duplex brush plating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/180973 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529760 | Hart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean J. Hart (Alexandria, Virginia); Alexander V. Terray (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean J. Hart (Alexandria, Virginia); Alexander V. Terray (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of using same, wherein the device includes a collimated light source operable to generate a collimated light source beam, the collimated light source beam comprising a beam cross-section. The device further includes at least one body defining a first channel in a first plane, the first channel comprising a first channel cross-section, the first channel being oriented to receive the collimated light source beam such that the beam cross-section completely overlaps the first channel cross-section. Optionally, the body defines a second channel in a second plane orthogonal to the first plane, wherein the body defines a third channel in a third plane orthogonal to the first plane. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/962541 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529784 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tingbing Cao (Beijing, China PRC); Qiaobing Xu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam Winkleman (Brookline, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tingbing Cao (Beijing, China PRC); Qiaobing Xu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam Winkleman (Brookline, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for generating electrically-conductive and/or semi-conductive films, and more specifically, methods and apparatuses for generating conductive and/or semi-conductive films having nanoscale features are provided. In one embodiment, an electrically-conductive or semi-conductive film (e.g., a gold layer of less than 50 nanometer thickness) is provided on a substrate (e.g., a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) stamp). The substrate may optionally include patterns or features having raised and recessed portions. A first portion of the film may be removed from the substrate, e.g., by methods such as physically contacting the first portion of the film with a surface to which the first portion preferentially adheres. This process can leave a second portion of the film remaining on the substrate. In some embodiments, the second portion includes at least one region having a dimension substantially parallel to a portion of the substrate i.e., of less than 50 nanometers. The second portion of the film may be used to establish electrical communication with an electrical contact. Advantageously, electrically-conductive and/or semi-conductive films having nanoscale features can be fabricated over large areas (e.g., areas greater than 1 cm2) in a single step. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/989345 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529827 | Brun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Milivoj Konstantin Brun (Ballston Lake, New York); Anteneh Kebbede (Schenectady, New York); Sean Michael Sweeney (Schenectady, New York); Timothy James Yosenick (Glenville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milivoj Konstantin Brun (Ballston Lake, New York); Anteneh Kebbede (Schenectady, New York); Sean Michael Sweeney (Schenectady, New York); Timothy James Yosenick (Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a spinel article. The article includes a spinel material, wherein the spinel material has a monomodal grain size distribution with average grain sizes of less than or equal to about 15 micrometers, and a biaxial flexural strength of greater than or equal to about 300 megapascals when measured by a ring-on-ring flexural test as per ASTM Standard C1499-08. Disclosed herein too is a method for manufacturing a spinel article, including calcining a spinel powder; milling the powder in a milling medium; granulating the powder; screening the powder to a mesh size of about 40 to about 200 mesh; pressing the powder to form an article; burning out organics from the article; sintering the article; and hot isostatically pressing the article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533147 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/663 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529835 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts); Irene Georgakoudi (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts); Irene Georgakoudi (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a biopolymer sensor including providing a biopolymer, processing the biopolymer to yield a biopolymer matrix solution, adding a biological material in the biopolymer matrix, providing a substrate, casting the matrix solution on the substrate, and drying the biopolymer matrix solution to form a solidified biopolymer sensor on the substrate. A biopolymer sensor is also provided that includes a solidified biopolymer film with an embedded biological material. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513441 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529897 | Washburn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Newell Washburn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sidi Ahmed Bencherif (Boston, Massachusetts); Liang Tso Sun (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Newell Washburn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sidi Ahmed Bencherif (Boston, Massachusetts); Liang Tso Sun (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments provide a composition that provides local control over inflammation. The composition localizes the activities of the cytokine-neutralizing antibodies to the site of inflammation through covalent attachment to hydrophilic matrices. The various embodiments including a hydrophilic polymer, a ligand binding moiety covalently attached to the polymer, and optionally, a cellular adhesion peptide covalently attached to the polymer. The hydrophilic polymer may be a glycosaminoglycan such as hyaluronan. The cellular adhesion peptide may be a linear RGD peptide sequence covalently attached to the polymer. The ligand binding moiety may be a monoclonal antibody covalently attached to the polymer. The antibody may be selected from the group consisting of an anti-IL-1β, an anti-IL-6, an anti-TNF-α, and combinations thereof. The polymer functions as a substrate or matrix for cell migration and tissue regeneration. The RGD peptide functions to promote cellular proliferation, migration and attachment to the polymer. The monoclonal antibody functions to inhibit the inflammatory response. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673583 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529987 | Vance et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan B. Vance (St. Charles, Missouri); Scott R. Johnston (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan B. Vance (St. Charles, Missouri); Scott R. Johnston (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for in-process orientation of particles used in direct-write inks for fabricating a component may include a device for polarizing direct-write particles in an aerosol. An outlet may direct the aerosol including the polarized direct-write particles on a substrate to form a component. An apparatus may cause the polarized direct-write particles to be aligned in a selected orientation to form the component with predetermined characteristics when deposited on the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534886 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529996 | Bocian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhiming Liu (Riverside, California); Amir A. Yasseri (Riverside, California); Veena Misra (Raleigh, North Carolina); Qian Zhao (Urbana, Illinois); Qiliang Li (Raleigh, North Carolina); Shyam Surthi (Boise, Idaho); Robert S. Loewe (Morrisville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raliegh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhiming Liu (Riverside, California); Amir A. Yasseri (Riverside, California); Veena Misra (Raleigh, North Carolina); Qian Zhao (Urbana, Illinois); Qiliang Li (Raleigh, North Carolina); Shyam Surthi (Boise, Idaho); Robert S. Loewe (Morrisville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a new procedure for attaching molecules to semiconductor surfaces, in particular silicon. The molecules, which include, but are not limited to porphyrins and ferrocenes, have been previously shown to be attractive candidates for molecular-based information storage. The new attachment procedure is simple, can be completed in short times, requires minimal amounts of material, is compatible with diverse molecular functional groups, and in some instances affords unprecedented attachment motifs. These features greatly enhance the integration of the molecular materials into the processing steps that are needed to create hybrid molecular/semiconductor information storage devices. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688194 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530050 | Ross et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eli N. Ross (Vernon, Connecticut); Paul H. Zajchowski (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eli N. Ross (Vernon, Connecticut); Paul H. Zajchowski (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A wear-resistant component of a carbon seal includes a surface and a coating applied onto the surface. The coating is a chromium carbide-nickel chromium composition constituting between about 75% and about 85% by weight chromium carbide and between about 15% and about 25% by weight nickel chromium. The chromium carbide-nickel chromium composition is applied onto the surface by high velocity oxy-fuel spraying (HVOF). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805160 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530166 | Poly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederic Poly (Silver Spring, Maryland); Patricia Guerry (Silver Spring, Maryland); Carl Mason (Nonthaburi, Thailand); Oralak Serichantalergs (Bankok, Thailand) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederic Poly (Silver Spring, Maryland); Patricia Guerry (Silver Spring, Maryland); Carl Mason (Nonthaburi, Thailand); Oralak Serichantalergs (Bankok, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive method and associated reagents relate to a molecular approach to determining Campylobacter jejuni capsule/Penner types. The invention also relates to a method of identifying Campylobacter jejuni types using the inventive primers in a multiplex PCR assay. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/031718 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530199 | Frasch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne D. Frasch (Phoenix, Arizona); David Spetzler (Scottsdale, Arizona); Justin York (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate Acting for and On Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne D. Frasch (Phoenix, Arizona); David Spetzler (Scottsdale, Arizona); Justin York (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, and kits for nucleic acid detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/299126 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530232 | Hurtado et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alicia Hurtado (New York, New York); Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alicia Hurtado (New York, New York); Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are new defective Sindbis viral vectors made from wild type Ar-339 Sindbis virus, with differences in replicase and envelope proteins between JT vectors and consensus Sindbis virus sequences, and also between JT and Ar-339 vectors. Also disclosed are plasmids used for the production of the vectors, methods for producing the vectors, methods for treating mammals suffering from tumors and pharmaceutical formulations for use in the treatment methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877018 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530607 | Laskowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Laskowski (Springfield, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Laskowski (Springfield, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the formulas below. R is an aromatic-containing group. Each M is an alkali metal. Each m is a positive integer. The value of n is a positive integer. The value p is 0 or 1. If p is 0 then n is 1. A thermoset made by curing a composition containing the below phthalonitrile monomers. A method of reacting a diphenyl acetylene compound with an excess of an aromatic diol in the presence of an alkali metal carbonate to form the above oligomer. A method of reacting a phenoxyphthalonitrile with an acetylene compound to form the phthalonitrile monomer below. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/176003 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530693 | Davis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making liquid cyanate esters and liquid cyanate esters. Embodiments of the invention address the problems with solid cyanate esters by creating new cyanate ester structures that are liquid at room temperature. These liquid cyanate esters may be useful for the typical composite fabrication methods including, but not limited to, infusion molding, prepeg consolidation, resin and vacuum transfer molding. |
| FILED | Monday, November 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/955000 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/346 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530715 | Strege et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua R. Strege (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Benjamin G. Oster (Thompson, North Dakota); Paul D. Pansegrau (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Chad A. Wocken (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Marc D. Kurz (Thompson, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to production of fuels or fuel blendstocks from renewable sources. Various embodiments provide a method of producing a hydrocarbon product by hydrotreating a feedstock including at least one of a renewable triacylglyceride (TAG), renewable free fatty acid (FFA), and renewable fatty acid C1-C5 alkyl ester (C1-C5 FAE) in the presence of a nonsulfided hydrotreating catalyst to produce a first product including hydrocarbons. In some examples, the first product can be subjected to further chemical transformations such as aromatization, cracking, or isomerization to produce a second product including hydrocarbons. In various embodiments, the first or second hydrocarbon product with minimal or substantially no further processing can be suitable as a liquid transportation fuel or fuel blendstock, including fuels such as gasoline, naptha, kerosene, jet fuel, and diesel fuels. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/673400 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/733 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530719 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); George W. Wagner (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); George W. Wagner (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a process for decontaminating surfaces contaminated with toxic agents. The process comprises contacting a contaminated surface with a sorbent comprised of zirconium hydroxide onto which at least one reactive moiety is optionally impregnated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/917811 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530885 | Ptasinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a substrate having a plurality of three-dimensional photonic crystal elements directly coupled thereto. The photonic crystal elements may each partially or substantially coated with oriented graphene and may comprise undoped silicon. The graphene may be oriented in a direction parallel to or normal to the photonic crystal element and may comprise graphene flakes contained within a composite thin film. The system may also include at least one optical component, such as a waveguide, contained within the plurality of three-dimensional photonic crystal elements. A method is also provided for preparing the graphene and coating the photonic crystal elements with the graphene. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/485553 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530886 | Avouris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Deborah A. Neumayer (Danbury, Connecticut); Wenjuan Zhu (Fishkill, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Deborah A. Neumayer (Danbury, Connecticut); Wenjuan Zhu (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure which includes a substrate; a graphene layer on the substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode on the graphene layer, the source electrode and drain electrode being spaced apart by a predetermined dimension; a nitride layer on the graphene layer between the source electrode and drain electrode; and a gate electrode on the nitride layer, wherein the nitride layer is a gate dielectric for the gate electrode. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/051707 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530932 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Josephine B. Chang (Mahopac, New York); Michael A. Guillorn (Yorktown Heights, New York); Isaac Lauer (White Plains, New York); Amlan Majumdar (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josephine B. Chang (Mahopac, New York); Michael A. Guillorn (Yorktown Heights, New York); Isaac Lauer (White Plains, New York); Amlan Majumdar (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor fabrication method includes depositing a dummy gate layer onto a substrate, patterning the dummy gate layer, depositing a hardmask layer over the dummy gate layer, patterning the hardmask layer, etching a recess into the substrate, adjacent the dummy gate layer, depositing a semiconductor material into the recess, removing the hardmask layer, depositing replacement spacers onto the dummy gate layer, performing an oxide deposition over the dummy gate layer and replacement spacers, removing the dummy gate and replacement spacers, thereby forming a gate recess in the oxide and depositing a gate stack into the recess. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/425654 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531114 | Deckard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kyle W. Deckard (Bloomington, Indiana); Alexander M. Soles (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle W. Deckard (Bloomington, Indiana); Alexander M. Soles (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An illumination beacon including a housing including a transparent top surface and a transparent bottom surface. An upper mounting member is supported within the housing proximate the transparent top surface, and a lower mounting member supported within the housing proximate the transparent bottom surface. An upper light source is supported by the upper mounting member and oriented to project light upwardly through the transparent top surface, and a lower light source is supported by the lower mounting member and oriented to project light downwardly through the transparent bottom surface. A battery is received within the housing intermediate the upper mounting member and the lower mounting member. A power management system is operably coupled to the battery. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229945 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531292 | Dagher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Habib J. Dagher (Veazie, Maine); Fred Hewitt Smith (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Bangor, Maine); Angel Secure Networks, Inc. (Old Town, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Habib J. Dagher (Veazie, Maine); Fred Hewitt Smith (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A design and manufacturing methods for reusable, stackable shipping containers made from composite materials is described. The composite material is embedded with optical fibers, data and electrical paths, and various types of components. These embedded devices are capable of detecting intrusions through the container walls, securely storing and processing information, and securely communicating information to other containers and to remote devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181429 |
| ART UNIT | 2685 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/541 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531343 | Henrie |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin Henrie (Camarillo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin Henrie (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic environment simulation method. Embodiments of the invention provide for nanosecond or better time resolution and milliradian angular resolution simulation of the dynamic electromagnetic environment of a wireless system under test. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/770372 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Selective Communication |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531646 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lei Shi (Kent, Ohio); Philip J. Bos (Hudson, Ohio); Paul F. Manamon (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Shi (Kent, Ohio); Philip J. Bos (Hudson, Ohio); Paul F. Manamon (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optical device comprises a liquid crystal material disposed in a cell and electrodes configured to bias the liquid crystal material into a generally in-plane director configuration having a non-constant spatial pattern selectable or adjustable by an in-plane component of the biasing to produce a desired refractive of diffractive optical effect. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208727 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531761 | Chann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bien Chann (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Antonio Sanchez-Rubio (Lexington, Massachusetts); Steven J. Augst (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bien Chann (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Antonio Sanchez-Rubio (Lexington, Massachusetts); Steven J. Augst (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing a high peak power optical beam. The method includes interleaving pulse trains of different wavelengths and spatially and temporally overlapping the different wavelengths to produce an amplified output beam with very high peak power. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/788579 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/2391 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission H04B 10/564 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531772 | Chann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bien Chann (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Antonio Sanchez-Rubio (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bien Chann (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Tso Yee Fan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Antonio Sanchez-Rubio (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An external-cavity one-dimensional multi-wavelength beam combiner that performs wavelength beam combining along a stacking dimension of a laser stack formed of a plurality of laser arrays, each laser array configured to generate optical radiation having a unique wavelength, and each of the plurality of laser arrays including one or more laser emitters arranged along an array dimension of the laser stack. The multi-wavelength beam combiner includes an optical imaging element configured to image each of the laser emitters along a slow axis of the laser emitters, an optical focusing element arranged to intercept the optical radiation from each of the plurality of laser arrays and combine the optical radiation along a stacking dimension of the laser stack to form a multi-wavelength optical beam, and a diffraction element positioned at a region of overlap of the optical radiation to receive and transmit the multi-wavelength optical beam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/231407 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/624 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531955 | Dennis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jack B. Dennis (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack B. Dennis (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention prioritizes resource utilization in a multi-thread processor. A priority register stores thread information for P threads. The thread information includes P priority codes corresponding to the P threads, at least one of the P threads requesting use of at least one resource unit. A priority selector generates assignment signal to assign the at least one resource unit to the at least one of the P threads according to the P priority codes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420310 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532152 | Hu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qing Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides frequency tunable solid-state radiation-generating devices, such as lasers and amplifiers, whose active medium has a size in at least one transverse dimension (e.g., its width) that is much smaller than the wavelength of radiation generated and/or amplified within the active medium. In such devices, a fraction of radiation travels as an evanescent propagating mode outside the active medium. It has been discovered that in such devices the radiation frequency can be tuned by the interaction of a tuning mechanism with the propagating evanescent mode. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/818337 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532197 | Lareau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Joseph Lareau (Haymarket, Virginia); Andrew James Gallagher (Haymarket, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Joseph Lareau (Haymarket, Virginia); Andrew James Gallagher (Haymarket, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting a temporally oscillating source in digital video signals includes: using an imaging device to capture a sequence of input images of a scene; generating digital video signals from the sequence of input images; and processing the digital video signals using a recursive Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filter technique based on a differentiated version of Goertzel's Algorithm to detect a temporally oscillating source in the digital video signals. In various embodiments, the method also includes generating a visual display of the scene including one or more graphical elements at least one of which pertains to a detected temporally oscillating source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706491 |
| ART UNIT | 2485 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532315 | Mermagen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy J. Mermagen (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Larry G. Ferguson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Mermagen (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Larry G. Ferguson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An amplified signal switching system comprises a plurality of transducers, and a switch operable for diverting amplified transient signals to selected transducers and preventing the amplified transient signals from being sent to non-selected transducers, wherein the amplified transient signals are AC or acoustic signals, wherein the plurality of transducers comprise a plurality of speakers, and wherein the plurality of transducers are isolated from one another. The switching system further comprises an amplifier operable for sending the amplified transient signals to the switch. The switch selectively turns the amplified transient signals on and off to the selected transducers in order to prevent the non-selected transducers from receiving the amplified transient signals. Moreover, the switch minimizes signal distortion in the selected transducers, and alternatively, the switch eliminates signal output to the non-selected transducers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/417027 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532427 | Meyers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald Everett Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith Scott Deacon (Coumbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Everett Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith Scott Deacon (Coumbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for forming an improved image from a series of frames comprising inputting a pixel value array for each image frame; summing the pixel values in each frame to obtain the frame intensity for each frame; multiplying the pixels in pixel value array by the frame intensity; summing the frame intensity multiplied pixel value arrays together and dividing by the number of frames to obtain an average of the frame intensity multiplied pixel value arrays; then, using the inputted pixel value arrays, creating an array of average pixel values; multiplying the array of average pixel values by the average frame intensity for all of the inputted frames; and subtracting the array of average pixel values multiplied by average frame intensity from the average of the frame intensity multiplied pixel value arrays to provide an array of modified pixel values to form an improved image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/247470 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532446 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer is described. In this optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, multiple coupled-waveguide grating devices are optically coupled to a bus optical waveguide. A given coupled-waveguide grating device has a band-pass filter characteristic that encompasses multiple optical channels, thereby providing coarse optical filtering. Moreover, the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer includes multiple add/drop filters (such as ring resonators) that optically couple to the coupled-waveguide grating devices. A given add/drop filter has a filter bandwidth corresponding to a given optical channel, thereby providing fine optical filtering. Furthermore, the band-pass filter characteristic of the given coupled-waveguide grating device is approximately equal to or less than a free spectral range (FSR) of the given add/drop filter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/048250 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532486 | Stead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael R. Stead (Gaithersburg, Maryland); 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) | Michael R. Stead (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprising a dispersive fiber optical loop for delaying a first and second sideband, relative to each other, of a light modulated by a radio frequency signal to create a pair of pulses, a coupler for tapping a replica of the pair of pulses from the loop; and an auto-correlation module, coupled to the coupler, for correlating the replica of the pair of pulses with each other. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/371556 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532978 | Turner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald C Turner (Spokane, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AFRL/RIJ (Rome, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald C Turner (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for enabling non-programmers to create certifiable Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) policies. The graphical user interface (GUI) presents a form to the security policy author using a natural language such as English, as specified by a context-free grammar. The compiler software translates the GUI's filled-in form—representing a human-readable natural language policy—into XACML code. A reverse compiler or de-compiler provides a certification of the XACML code to render the original policy in a natural language format such as English. Optionally, a tokenized intermediate form, a set of policy-specific data sets and a graph theory-based intermediate representation can be configured. Logic checks and code validation checks can be also preferably configured. Apparatus and medium claims are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263307 |
| ART UNIT | 2659 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533026 | Vengerov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Vengerov (Sunnyvale, California); Ilya Gluhovsky (Daly City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vengerov (Sunnyvale, California); Ilya Gluhovsky (Daly City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for maximizing revenue generated from a plurality of service level agreements (SLAs) that includes receiving a first subset of the plurality of SLAs for executing a first plurality of jobs, wherein each SLA in the first subset specifies a first maximum requested delay that is greater than an initial minimum offered delay, and wherein a price of each SLA in the first subset is defined by the maximum requested delay and a price/delay function, calculating a first expected revenue from executing the first subset, and optimizing a second subset of the plurality of SLAs by replacing the initial minimum offered delay on the initial price/delay function with a new minimum offered delay based on the expected revenue, wherein each SLA in the second subset specifies a second maximum requested delay that is greater than the new minimum offered delay. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/581939 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533132 | Zimmerman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Zimmerman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony Tomasic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ian Hargraves (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Zimmerman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony Tomasic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ian Hargraves (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Mixed-initiative message-augmenting agent systems and methods that provide users with tools that allow them to respond to messages, such as email messages, containing requests for information or otherwise requiring responses that require information that needs to be retrieved from one or more data sources. The systems and methods allow users to train machine-learning agents how to retrieve and present information in responses to like messages so that the machine-learning agents can eventually automatedly generate responses with minimal involvement by the users. Embodiments of the systems and methods allow users to build message-augmenting forms containing the desired information for responding to messages and to demonstrate to the machine-learning agents where to retrieve pertinent information for populating the forms. Embodiments of the systems and methods allow users to modify and repair automatically generated forms to continually improve the knowledge of the machine-learning agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/841714 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533394 | Giri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akash V. Giri (Austin, Texas); Darin M. Greene (Austin, Texas); Alan G. Singletary (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akash V. Giri (Austin, Texas); Darin M. Greene (Austin, Texas); Alan G. Singletary (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Instruction fetch unit (IFU) verification is improved by dynamically monitoring the current state of the IFU model and detecting any predetermined states of interest. The instruction address sequence is automatically modified to force a selected address to be fetched next by the IFU model. The instruction address sequence may be modified by inserting one or more new instruction addresses, or by jumping to a non-sequential address in the instruction address sequence. In exemplary implementations, the selected address is a corresponding address for an existing instruction already loaded in the IFU cache, or differs only in a specific field from such an address. The instruction address control is preferably accomplished without violating any rules of the processor architecture by sending a flush signal to the IFU model and overwriting an address register corresponding to a next address to be fetched. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/399816 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533722 | Bansal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for making fractional assignments of processing elements to processing nodes for stream-based applications in a distributed computer system includes determining an amount of processing power to give to each processing element. Based on a list of acceptable processing nodes, a determination of fractions of which processing nodes will work on each processing element is made. To update allocations of the amount of processing power and the fractions, the process is repeated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132031 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — 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 |
| US 08533861 | King et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William P. King (Champaign, Illinois); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California); Byeonghee Lee (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. King (Champaign, Illinois); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California); Byeonghee Lee (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for magnetically actuating microcantilevers and magnetically actuated and self-heated microcantilevers. Also described are methods for determining viscoelastic properties and thermal transition temperatures of materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/304306 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08528334 | Dutta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Partha Dutta (San Diego, California); Kenneth O. Smith (San Diego, California); Frank J. Ritz (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solar Turbines Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Partha Dutta (San Diego, California); Kenneth O. Smith (San Diego, California); Frank J. Ritz (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An injector for a gas turbine combustor including a catalyst coated surface forming a passage for feed gas flow and a channel for oxidant gas flow establishing an axial gas flow through a flow conditioner disposed at least partially within an inner wall of the injector. The flow conditioner includes a length with an interior passage opening into upstream and downstream ends for passage of the axial gas flow. An interior diameter of the interior passage smoothly reduces and then increases from upstream to downstream ends. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015366 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08528406 | Goddard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Russ Goddard (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gregory Kaduchak (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James Hubert Jett (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven Wayde Graves (San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLP (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Russ Goddard (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gregory Kaduchak (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James Hubert Jett (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven Wayde Graves (San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more of the embodiments of the present invention provide for a method of non-contact particle manipulation and control of particle spacing along an axis which includes axial and radial acoustic standing wave fields. Particles are suspended in an aqueous solution, and this solution then flows into the cylindrical flow channel. While the solution flows through the flow channel, the outer structure of the flow channel is vibrated at a resonant frequency, causing a radial acoustic standing wave field to form inside the flow channel in the solution. These radial acoustic standing waves focus the particles suspended in the solution to the center axis of the cylindrical flow channel. At the same time, a transducer is used to create an axial acoustic standing wave field in the flow channel parallel to the axis of the flow channel. This drives the particles, which are already being focused to the center axis of the flow channel, to nodes or anti-nodes of the axial standing wave at half-wavelength intervals, depending on whether the particles are more or less dense and more or less compressible than the surrounding fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923403 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/570.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529097 | Arik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mehmet Arik (Niskayuna, New York); Stanton Earl Weaver (Niskayuna, New York); Thomas Elliot Stecher (Niskayuna, New York); Glenn Howard Kuenzler (East Cleveland, Ohio); Charles Franklin Wolfe, Jr. (Niskayuna, New York); Ri Li (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Arik (Niskayuna, New York); Stanton Earl Weaver (Niskayuna, New York); Thomas Elliot Stecher (Niskayuna, New York); Glenn Howard Kuenzler (East Cleveland, Ohio); Charles Franklin Wolfe, Jr. (Niskayuna, New York); Ri Li (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Lighting systems having a light source and a thermal management system are provided. The thermal management system includes synthetic jet devices, a heat sink and a heat distribution face plate. The synthetic jet devices are arranged in parallel to one and other and are configured to actively cool the lighting system. The heat distribution face plate is configured to radially transfer heat from the light source into the ambient air. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/908954 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529645 | Hobbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond Hobbs (Avondale, Arizona); Donald Karner (Phoenix, Arizona); Xiaolei Sun (Chandler, Arizona); John Boyle (Emmaus, Pennsylvania); Fuyuki Noguchi (Hyogo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Public Service Company (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Hobbs (Avondale, Arizona); Donald Karner (Phoenix, Arizona); Xiaolei Sun (Chandler, Arizona); John Boyle (Emmaus, Pennsylvania); Fuyuki Noguchi (Hyogo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for evaluating effects of process parameters on hydrogasification processes. The system includes a hydrogasification reactor, a pressurized feed system, a hopper system, a hydrogen gas source, and a carrier gas source. Pressurized carbonaceous material, such as coal, is fed to the reactor using the carrier gas and reacted with hydrogen to produce natural gas. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/866871 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/62.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529661 | Diebold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James P. Diebold (Lakewood, Colorado); Arthur Lilley (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Kingsbury Browne, III (Golden, Colorado); Robb Ray Walt (Aurora, Colorado); Dustin Duncan (Littleton, Colorado); Michael Walker (Broomfield, Colorado); John Steele (Aurora, Colorado); Michael Fields (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Afognak Native Corporation (Anchorage, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Diebold (Lakewood, Colorado); Arthur Lilley (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Kingsbury Browne, III (Golden, Colorado); Robb Ray Walt (Aurora, Colorado); Dustin Duncan (Littleton, Colorado); Michael Walker (Broomfield, Colorado); John Steele (Aurora, Colorado); Michael Fields (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for removing fine particulate matter from a fluid stream without interrupting the overall process or flow. The flowing fluid inflates and expands the flexible filter, and particulate is deposited on the filter media while clean fluid is permitted to pass through the filter. This filter is cleaned when the fluid flow is stopped, the filter collapses, and a force is applied to distort the flexible filter media to dislodge the built-up filter cake. The dislodged filter cake falls to a location that allows undisrupted flow of the fluid after flow is restored. The shed particulate is removed to a bin for periodic collection. A plurality of filter cells can operate independently or in concert, in parallel, or in series to permit cleaning the filters without shutting off the overall fluid flow. The self-cleaning filter is low cost, has low power consumption, and exhibits low differential pressures. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946696 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529681 | Hibbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Hibbs (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan J. Altman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Howland D. T. Jones (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Paul B. Savage (Mapleton, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Hibbs (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan J. Altman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Howland D. T. Jones (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Paul B. Savage (Mapleton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods for chemically grafting and attaching ceragenin molecules to polymer substrates; methods for synthesizing ceragenin-containing copolymers; methods for making ceragenin-modified water treatment membranes and spacers; and methods of treating contaminated water using ceragenin-modified treatment membranes and spacers. Ceragenins are synthetically produced antimicrobial peptide mimics that display broad-spectrum bactericidal activity. Alkene-functionalized ceragenins (e.g., acrylamide-functionalized ceragenins) can be attached to polyamide reverse osmosis membranes using amine-linking, amide-linking, UV-grafting, or silane-coating methods. In addition, silane-functionalized ceragenins can be directly attached to polymer surfaces that have free hydroxyls. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/986234 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/18.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529709 | Rakowski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Rakowski (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Rakowski (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing the formation of electrically resistive scale on a an article comprising a silicon-containing ferritic stainless subjected to oxidizing conditions in service includes, prior to placing the article in service, subjecting the article to conditions under which silica, which includes silicon derived from the steel, forms on a surface of the steel. Optionally, at least a portion of the silica is removed from the surface to placing the article in service. A ferritic stainless steel alloy having a reduced tendency to form silica on at least a surface thereof also is provided. The steel includes a near-surface region that has been depleted of silicon relative to a remainder of the steel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/042751 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529740 | Dattelbaum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew M Dattelbaum (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gautam Gupta (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David E Morris (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M Dattelbaum (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gautam Gupta (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David E Morris (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrochemical apparatus includes a disposable rectangular cuvette modified with at least one hole through a side and/or the bottom. Apparatus may include more than one cuvette, which in practice is a disposable rectangular glass or plastic cuvette modified by drilling the hole(s) through. The apparatus include two plates and some means of fastening one plate to the other. The apparatus may be interfaced with a fiber optic or microscope objective, and a spectrometer for spectroscopic studies. The apparatus are suitable for a variety of electrochemical experiments, including surface electrochemistry, bulk electrolysis, and flow cell experiments. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916085 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529800 | Ceder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerbrand Ceder (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kisuk Kang (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerbrand Ceder (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kisuk Kang (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain disclosed embodiments generally relate to oxide materials having relatively high energy and/or power densities. Various aspects of the embodiments are directed to oxide materials having a structure Bi(MjYk)O2, for example, a structure Lij(NijYk)O2 such as Li(Ni0.5Mn0.5)O2. In this structure, Y represents one or more atoms, each independently selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth metals, transition metals, Group 14 elements, Group 15, or Group 16 elements. In some embodiments, such an oxide material may have an O3 crystal structure, and/or a layered structure such that the oxide comprises a plurality of first, repeating atomic planes comprising Li, and a plurality of second, repeating atomic planes comprising Ni and/or Y. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/992782 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/518.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529859 | Soules et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas F. Soules (Livermore, California); Kathleen I. Schaffers (Livermore, California); John B. Tassano, Jr. (Manteca, California); Joel P. Hollingsworth (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Soules (Livermore, California); Kathleen I. Schaffers (Livermore, California); John B. Tassano, Jr. (Manteca, California); Joel P. Hollingsworth (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of crystallizing Yb:C-FAP [Yb3+:Ca5(PO4)3F], by dissolving the Yb:C-FAP in an acidic solution, following by neutralizing the solution. The present invention also provides a method of forming crystalline Yb:C-FAP by dissolving the component ingredients in an acidic solution, followed by forming a supersaturated solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/043072 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529873 | Fassbender et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Ernst Fassbender (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Beau D Ballard (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Ernst Fassbender (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Beau D Ballard (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of a 72Se/72As radioisotope generator involves forming an acidic aqueous solution of an irradiated alkali bromide target such as a NaBr target, oxidizing soluble bromide in the solution to elemental bromine, removing the elemental bromine, evaporating the resulting solution to a residue, removing hydrogen chloride from the residue, forming an acidic aqueous solution of the residue, adding a chelator that selectively forms a chelation complex with selenium, and extracting the chelation complex from the acidic aqueous solution into an organic phase. As the 72Se generates 72As in the organic phase, the 72As may be extracted repeatedly from the organic phase with an aqueous acid solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216964 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530002 | Hibbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Hibbs (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan J. Altman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Howland D. T. Jones (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Paul B. Savage (Mapleton, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Hibbs (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan J. Altman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Howland D. T. Jones (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Paul B. Savage (Mapleton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods for chemically grafting and attaching ceragenin molecules to polymer substrates; methods for synthesizing ceragenin-containing copolymers; methods for making ceragenin-modified water treatment membranes and spacers; and methods of treating contaminated water using ceragenin-modified treatment membranes and spacers. Ceragenins are synthetically produced antimicrobial peptide mimics that display broad-spectrum bactericidal activity. Alkene-functionalized ceragenins (e.g., acrylamide-functionalized ceragenins) can be attached to polyamide reverse osmosis membranes using amine-linking, amide-linking, UV-grafting, or silane-coating methods. In addition, silane-functionalized ceragenins can be directly attached to polymer surfaces that have free hydroxyls. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/986221 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530109 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dae Sik Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dae Sik Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid anion exchange polymer electrolytes include chemical compounds comprising a polymer backbone with side chains that include guanidinium cations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/186214 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530211 | Jeffries et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Jeffries (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura B. Willis (Madison, Wisconsin); Tanya M. Long (Monona, Wisconsin); Yi-Kai Su (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); U.S. Department of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Jeffries (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura B. Willis (Madison, Wisconsin); Tanya M. Long (Monona, Wisconsin); Yi-Kai Su (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of using yeast cells to produce ethanol by contacting a mixture comprising xylose with a Spathaspora yeast cell under conditions suitable to allow the yeast to ferment at least a portion of the xylose to ethanol. The methods allow for efficient ethanol production from hydrolysates derived from lignocellulosic material and sugar mixtures including at least xylose and glucose or xylose, glucose and cellobiose. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/451324 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530240 | Schabron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method involving the steps of (a) precipitating an amount of asphaltenes from a liquid sample of a first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock having solvated asphaltenes therein with one or more first solvents in a column; (b) determining one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; (c) analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; and (d) correlating a measurement of feedstock reactivity for the first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock sample with a mathematical parameter derived from the results of analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/490307 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530244 | Larsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gustavo Larsen (Denton, Nebraska); Raffett Velarde Ortiz (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Terapia Celular, L'N, Inc. (Denton, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gustavo Larsen (Denton, Nebraska); Raffett Velarde Ortiz (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultrafine particles are provided having a core region that has a signal amplifying molecule and a shell region that surrounds the core region. The shell region has at least one antibody affixed to its surface that is specific for at least one antigen. Alternatively, the ultrafine particles may entrap the signal amplifying molecule within its matrix and may also have antibodies affixed to its surface for molecular recognition. Ultrafine particles are also provided having a matrix component that includes a signal amplifying molecule and at least one antibody specific for the antigen or biomaterial. The ultrafine particles of the present disclosure may be used in assays for the detection, including quantification, of one or more antigens present in a biological sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244538 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530338 | Kayes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brendan M. Kayes (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Filler (Pasadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brendan M. Kayes (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Filler (Pasadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure consisting of vertically aligned wire arrays on a Si substrate and a method for producing such wire arrays. The wire arrays are fabricated and positioned on a substrate with an orientation and density particularly adapted for conversion of received light to energy. A patterned oxide layer is used to provide for wire arrays that exhibit narrow diameter and length distribution and provide for controlled wire position. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176099 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530363 | Landingham |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | New cermets with improved properties and applications are provided. These new cermets have lower density and/or higher hardness than B4C cermet. By incorporating other new ceramics into B4C powders or as a substitute for B4C, lower densities and/or higher hardness cermets result. The ceramic powders have much finer particle size than those previously used which significantly reduces grain size of the cermet microstructure and improves the cermet properties. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/602041 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/96.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530375 | Gray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | McMahan Gray (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. Champagne (Monongahela, Pennsylvania); Daniel Fauth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eric Beckman (Aspinwall, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | McMahan Gray (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. Champagne (Monongahela, Pennsylvania); Daniel Fauth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eric Beckman (Aspinwall, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Two new classes of amine-based sorbents are disclosed. The first class comprises new polymer-immobilized tertiary amine sorbents; the second class new polymer-bound amine sorbents. Both classes are tailored to facilitate removal of acid anhydrides, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), from effluent gases. The amines adsorb acid anhydrides in a 1:1 molar ratio. Both classes of amine sorbents adsorb in the temperature range from about 20° C. upwards to 90° C. and can be regenerated by heating upwards to 100° C. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549661 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530554 | McCleskey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas M. McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yuan Lin (Lees Summit, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yuan Lin (Lees Summit, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer assisted deposition process for deposition of metal oxide films is presented. The process includes solutions of one or more metal precursor and soluble polymers having binding properties for the one or more metal precursor. After a coating operation, the resultant coating is heated at high temperatures to yield metal oxide films. Such films can be epitaxial in structure and can be of optical quality. The process can be organic solvent-free. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/150627 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530614 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongchun Wang (Sunnyvale, California); John A. Shelnutt (Tijeras, New Mexico); Craig J. Medforth (Oporto, Portugal) |
| ABSTRACT | A porphyrin coordination polymer nanostructure comprising a network of pyridyl porphyrin molecules and coordinating metal ions coordinatively bound through the pyridyl groups. In some embodiments, the porphyrins are metalloporphyrins. A variety of nanostructures are formed by the network polymer, including nanospheres, polygonal nanostructures, nanorods, and nanofibers, depending on a variety of factors including coordination metal ion, porphyrin type, metal of the metalloporphyrin, and degree of agitation during nanostructure formation. Reduction of coordinating metal ions may be used to form metal nanoparticles on the coordination polymer nanostructure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/664170 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530633 | Frommer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wolf B. Frommer (Washington, District of Columbia); Sakiko Okumoto (Washington, District of Columbia); Loren Looger (Washington, District of Columbia); Marcus Fehr (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolf B. Frommer (Washington, District of Columbia); Sakiko Okumoto (Washington, District of Columbia); Loren Looger (Washington, District of Columbia); Marcus Fehr (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Intramolecular biosensors are disclosed, including PBP-based biosensors, comprising a ligand binding domain fused to donor and fluorescent moieties that permit detection and measurement of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer upon binding ligand. At least one of the donor and fluorescent moieties may be internally fused to the biosensor such that both ends of the internally fused fluorophore are fixed. In addition, methods of improving the sensitivity of terminally fused biosensors are provided. The biosensors of the invention are useful for the detection and quantification of ligands in vivo and in culture. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665339 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530677 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalysts and methods for the carbonylation of epoxides to substituted 3-hydroxy-δ-lactones and β-lactones are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/592280 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530833 | Vertes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Bennett N. Walker (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Bennett N. Walker (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The production and use of silicon microcolumn arrays that harvest light from a laser pulse to produce ions are described. The systems of the present invention seem to behave like a quasi-periodic antenna array with ion yields that show profound dependence on the plane of laser light polarization and the angle of incidence. By providing photonic ion sources, this enables enhanced control of ion production on a micro/nano scale and direct integration with miniaturized analytical devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/348285 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530852 | Le Galloudec |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathalie Le Galloudec (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathalie Le Galloudec (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to micro-cone targets for producing high energy and low divergence particle beams. In one embodiment, the micro-cone target includes a substantially cone-shaped body including an outer surface, an inner surface, a generally flat and round, open-ended base, and a tip defining an apex. The cone-shaped body tapers along its length from the generally flat and round, open-ended base to the tip defining the apex. In addition, the outer surface and the inner surface connect the base to the tip, and the tip curves inwardly to define an outer surface that is concave, which is bounded by a rim formed at a juncture where the outer surface meets the tip. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/977475 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 27/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530854 | Derzon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Derzon (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul C. Galambos (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various technologies described herein pertain to a micro gas-puff based source of neutrons, x-rays, and/or energetic particles. The micro gas-puff based source can generate plasma, which can emit neutrons, x-rays, and the like. The micro gas-puff based source includes a diode, which further includes an anode and a cathode. Further, a chamber is between the anode and the cathode. Moreover, a MEMS gas supply can inject a puff of gas between the anode and the cathode within the chamber, where the MEMS gas supply shapes the puff of gas to form a quasispherical density profile of gas created in various of geometries. Further, a pulsed power supply applies a voltage across the anode and the cathode to cause compression of the puff of gas to form the plasma. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/647970 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/423.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530983 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Qing Yang (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Qing Yang (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconducting device includes a piezoelectric structure that has a first end and an opposite second end. A first conductor is in electrical communication with the first end and a second conductor is in electrical communication with the second end so as to form an interface therebetween. A force applying structure is configured to maintain an amount of strain in the piezoelectric member sufficient to generate a desired electrical characteristic in the semiconducting device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/252314 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531753 | Whittemore |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Richard Whittemore (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Richard Whittemore (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Imaging systems include a detector and a spatial light modulator (SLM) that is coupled so as to control image intensity at the detector based on predetermined detector limits. By iteratively adjusting SLM element values, image intensity at one or all detector elements or portions of an imaging detector can be controlled to be within limits. The SLM can be secured to the detector at a spacing such that the SLM is effectively at an image focal plane. In some applications, the SLM can be adjusted to impart visible or hidden watermarks to images or to reduce image intensity at one or a selected set of detector elements so as to reduce detector blooming. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/103846 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532235 | Dallum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory E. Dallum (Livermore, California); Garth C. Pratt (Discovery Bay, California); Peter C. Haugen (Livermore, California); Carlos E. Romero (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory E. Dallum (Livermore, California); Garth C. Pratt (Discovery Bay, California); Peter C. Haugen (Livermore, California); Carlos E. Romero (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-wideband (UWB) delay and multiply receiver is formed of a receive antenna; a variable gain attenuator connected to the receive antenna; a signal splitter connected to the variable gain attenuator; a multiplier having one input connected to an undelayed signal from the signal splitter and another input connected to a delayed signal from the signal splitter, the delay between the splitter signals being equal to the spacing between pulses from a transmitter whose pulses are being received by the receive antenna; a peak detection circuit connected to the output of the multiplier and connected to the variable gain attenuator to control the variable gain attenuator to maintain a constant amplitude output from the multiplier; and a digital output circuit connected to the output of the multiplier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/637793 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532244 | Brisson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce William Brisson (Galway, New York); William Guy Morris (Rexford, New York); Danian Zheng (Clifton Park, New York); David James Monk (Rexford, New York); Biao Fang (Clifton Park, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); David Deloyd Anderson (Glenville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce William Brisson (Galway, New York); William Guy Morris (Rexford, New York); Danian Zheng (Clifton Park, New York); David James Monk (Rexford, New York); Biao Fang (Clifton Park, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); David Deloyd Anderson (Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A boiling water reactor includes a reactor pressure vessel having a feedwater inlet for the introduction of recycled steam condensate and/or makeup coolant into the vessel, and a steam outlet for the discharge of produced steam for appropriate work. A fuel core is located within a lower area of the pressure vessel. The fuel core is surrounded by a core shroud spaced inward from the wall of the pressure vessel to provide an annular downcomer forming a coolant flow path between the vessel wall and the core shroud. A probe system that includes a combination of conductivity/resistivity probes and/or one or more time-domain reflectometer (TDR) probes is at least partially located within the downcomer. The probe system measures the coolant level and flow velocity within the downcomer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762986 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532245 | Gilmore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles B. Gilmore (Greensburg, Pennsylvania); David R. Forsyth (Cheswick, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles B. Gilmore (Greensburg, Pennsylvania); David R. Forsyth (Cheswick, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A core shroud is provided, which includes a number of planar members, a number of unitary corners, and a number of subassemblies each comprising a combination of the planar members and the unitary corners. Each unitary corner comprises a unitary extrusion including a first planar portion and a second planar portion disposed perpendicularly with respect to the first planar portion. At least one of the subassemblies comprises a plurality of the unitary corners disposed side-by-side in an alternating opposing relationship. A plurality of the subassemblies can be combined to form a quarter perimeter segment of the core shroud. Four quarter perimeter segments join together to form the core shroud. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/634836 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532987 | Holzrichter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John F. Holzrichter (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Holzrichter (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-acoustic sensor is used to measure a user's speech and then broadcasts an obscuring acoustic signal diminishing the user's vocal acoustic output intensity and/or distorting the voice sounds making them unintelligible to persons nearby. The non-acoustic sensor is positioned proximate or contacting a user's neck or head skin tissue for sensing speech production information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/018653 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533399 | Ohmacht |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a cache memory, energy and other efficiencies can be realized by saving a result of a cache directory lookup for sequential accesses to a same memory address. Where the cache is a point of coherence for speculative execution in a multiprocessor system, with directory lookups serving as the point of conflict detection, such saving becomes particularly advantageous. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/984252 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533504 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda E. Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda E. Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption during execution of an application on a plurality of compute nodes that include: powering up, during compute node initialization, only a portion of computer memory of the compute node, including configuring an operating system for the compute node in the powered up portion of computer memory; receiving, by the operating system, an instruction to load an application for execution; allocating, by the operating system, additional portions of computer memory to the application for use during execution; powering up the additional portions of computer memory allocated for use by the application during execution; and loading, by the operating system, the application into the powered up additional portions of computer memory. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/129334 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533567 | Sugawara |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yutaka Sugawara (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yutaka Sugawara (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided an arbitration logic device for controlling an access to a shared resource. The arbitration logic device comprises at least one storage element, a winner selection logic device, and an error detection logic device. The storage element stores a plurality of requestors' information. The winner selection logic device selects a winner requestor among the requestors based on the requestors' information received from a plurality of requestors. The winner selection logic device selects the winner requestor without checking whether there is the soft error in the winner requestor's information. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852801 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/764 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533681 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuanyuan Zhou (Champaign, Illinois); Shan Lu (Urbana, Illinois); Joseph Andrew Tucek (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuanyuan Zhou (Champaign, Illinois); Shan Lu (Urbana, Illinois); Joseph Andrew Tucek (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | During execution of a program, the situation where the atomicity of a pair of instructions that are to be executed atomically is violated is identified, and a bug is detected as occurring in the program at the pair of instructions. The pairs of instructions that are to be executed atomically can be identified in different manners, such as by executing a program multiple times and using the results of those executions to automatically identify the pairs of instructions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857925 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08529743 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chang-Jin Kim (Beverly Hills, California); Junghoon Lee (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Jin Kim (Beverly Hills, California); Junghoon Lee (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method fox micropumping is disclosed. The apparatus includes a virtual or physical microchannel and at least two hydrophobic electrode patches on a surface or two electrode patches disposed underneath a dielectric film proximate to the channel. Each of the electrode patches modifies a surface property between hydrophobic and hydrophilic states in response to an electrical potential applied between the liquid and the electrode, and the electrical potential is provided to digitize the liquid, drive the liquid segments, and mix different liquids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/343261 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529749 | Sankaran |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Mohan Sankaran (University Heights, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Mohan Sankaran (University Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical cell includes a container at atmospheric pressure comprising a liquid electrolyte and a first electrode at least partially immersed in the electrolyte. A plasma source is spaced apart from a surface of the electrolyte by a predetermined spacing, and a plasma spans the predetermined spacing to contact the surface of the electrolyte. A method of operating the electrochemical cell entails providing a first electrode at least partially immersed in a liquid electrolyte and producing a plasma in contact with a surface of the electrolyte at atmospheric pressure. The plasma acts as a second electrode, and a current is generated through the electrolyte. Electrochemical reactions involving at least the second electrode are initiated in the electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852092 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529784 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tingbing Cao (Beijing, China PRC); Qiaobing Xu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam Winkleman (Brookline, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tingbing Cao (Beijing, China PRC); Qiaobing Xu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Adam Winkleman (Brookline, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for generating electrically-conductive and/or semi-conductive films, and more specifically, methods and apparatuses for generating conductive and/or semi-conductive films having nanoscale features are provided. In one embodiment, an electrically-conductive or semi-conductive film (e.g., a gold layer of less than 50 nanometer thickness) is provided on a substrate (e.g., a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) stamp). The substrate may optionally include patterns or features having raised and recessed portions. A first portion of the film may be removed from the substrate, e.g., by methods such as physically contacting the first portion of the film with a surface to which the first portion preferentially adheres. This process can leave a second portion of the film remaining on the substrate. In some embodiments, the second portion includes at least one region having a dimension substantially parallel to a portion of the substrate i.e., of less than 50 nanometers. The second portion of the film may be used to establish electrical communication with an electrical contact. Advantageously, electrically-conductive and/or semi-conductive films having nanoscale features can be fabricated over large areas (e.g., areas greater than 1 cm2) in a single step. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/989345 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529800 | Ceder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerbrand Ceder (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kisuk Kang (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerbrand Ceder (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kisuk Kang (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain disclosed embodiments generally relate to oxide materials having relatively high energy and/or power densities. Various aspects of the embodiments are directed to oxide materials having a structure Bi(MjYk)O2, for example, a structure Lij(NijYk)O2 such as Li(Ni0.5Mn0.5)O2. In this structure, Y represents one or more atoms, each independently selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth metals, transition metals, Group 14 elements, Group 15, or Group 16 elements. In some embodiments, such an oxide material may have an O3 crystal structure, and/or a layered structure such that the oxide comprises a plurality of first, repeating atomic planes comprising Li, and a plurality of second, repeating atomic planes comprising Ni and/or Y. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/992782 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/518.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529835 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts); Irene Georgakoudi (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York); Mark Cronin-Golomb (Reading, Massachusetts); Irene Georgakoudi (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a biopolymer sensor including providing a biopolymer, processing the biopolymer to yield a biopolymer matrix solution, adding a biological material in the biopolymer matrix, providing a substrate, casting the matrix solution on the substrate, and drying the biopolymer matrix solution to form a solidified biopolymer sensor on the substrate. A biopolymer sensor is also provided that includes a solidified biopolymer film with an embedded biological material. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513441 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529951 | Ramamurthi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anand Ramamurthi (Charleston, South Carolina); Chandrasekhar Kothapalli (Tarrytown, New York); Binata Joddar (Dublin, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Ramamurthi (Charleston, South Carolina); Chandrasekhar Kothapalli (Tarrytown, New York); Binata Joddar (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are elastogenic cues that can be utilized to encourage growth and development of elastin-containing cellular constructs. The elastogenic cues include hyaluronan fragments and oligomers, optionally in conjunction with growth factors and/or a source of copper ions. The elastogenic cues can up-regulate elastin matrix synthesis and by vascular smooth muscle cells. In addition to encouraging synthesis of elastin in a cellular matrix and organization into elastic fibers, the elastogenic cues can also stabilize the formed ECM matrix through suppression of elastin-laminin receptor (ELR). In addition, the elastogenic cues can inhibit cell hyper-proliferation (e.g., hyperplasia) common in inflammatory vascular disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/034237 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/488 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530039 | Adair et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mary Frecker (State College, Pennsylvania); Christopher Muhlstein (University Park, Pennsylvania); Eric Mockensturm (State College, Pennsylvania); Harriet Black Nembhard (University Park, Pennsylvania); Randy S. Haluck (Lititz, Pennsylvania); Abraham Mathew (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Nicholas Antolino (University Park, Pennsylvania); Gregory R Hayes (State College, Pennsylvania); Milton Aguirre (State College, Pennsylvania); Rebecca Kirkpatrick (University Park, Pennsylvania); Chumpol Yuangyai (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mary Frecker (State College, Pennsylvania); Christopher Muhlstein (University Park, Pennsylvania); Eric Mockensturm (State College, Pennsylvania); Harriet Black Nembhard (University Park, Pennsylvania); Randy S. Haluck (Lititz, Pennsylvania); Abraham Mathew (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Nicholas Antolino (University Park, Pennsylvania); Gregory R Hayes (State College, Pennsylvania); Milton Aguirre (State College, Pennsylvania); Rebecca Kirkpatrick (University Park, Pennsylvania); Chumpol Yuangyai (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polycrystalline mesoscale component, formed through a process including filing a mold cavity formed in a photoresist with a mold fill, is provided with an overall length L divided into multiple segments with a second segment extending from a first segment at a nonlinear angle. The first segment has a first segment height H1 and a first segment thickness T1, while the second segment has a second segment height H2 and a second segment thickness T2, with the lesser of H1 and H2 defining a minimum segment height Hmin and the lesser of T1 and T2 defining a minimum segment thickness Tmin. The resultant component has a ratio of L:Hmin:Tmin of 20-80:1:0.5-10 where Hmin is between 5 and 500 microns. In specific instances, the nonlinear angle is acute, the multiple segments are rectilinear in cross section, and a segment thickness has an edge resolution of between 0.1 and 2 microns. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534329 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530271 | Virkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Melburne C. Lemieux (La Honda, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Melburne C. Lemieux (La Honda, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructures are doped to set conductivity characteristics. In accordance with various example embodiments, nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes are doped with a halogenated fullerene type of dopant material. In some implementations, the dopant material is deposited from solution or by vapor deposition, and used to dope the nanotubes to increase the thermal and/or electrical conductivity of the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011402 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530434 | Ba et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yong Ba (Monrovia, California); Errol V. Mathias (Alhambra, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of California State University (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Ba (Monrovia, California); Errol V. Mathias (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitroxide free radicals attached to antineoplastic agents can synergize their potencies to cancer cells. This invention relates to any antineoplastic agents and their derivatives chemically attached with nitroxide free radicals, such as TEMPO and its radical derivatives. This invention also relates to precursors of such compounds, as well as the products formed from the adducts after administration. |
| FILED | Monday, January 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/007967 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530677 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalysts and methods for the carbonylation of epoxides to substituted 3-hydroxy-δ-lactones and β-lactones are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/592280 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530689 | Percec et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virgil Percec (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Brad Matthew Rosen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniela A. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom); Christopher J. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Virgil Percec (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Brad Matthew Rosen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniela A. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom); Christopher J. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns processes for the synthesis of a compound of the formula: wherein: R1 and R2 are each, independently, C1-C12 alkyl, CO2R3, OR4, R5(OR6), or C6-C18 aryl; R3-R6 are each, independently, C1-C12 alkyl or C6-C12 aryl; and n and m are each, independently, O or an integer from 1-5; said process comprising:—contacting a compound of the formula H0-R7-0H with BH3 and a compound of the formula in the presence of a nickel-containing catalyst to produce a first product, where R7 is a C2-C12 hydrocarbon group and X is a halogen, OMs or OTs;—contacting the first product in situ with a compound of the formula: in the presence of a nickel-containing catalyst to produce a compound of formula I, where Z is a halogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/991011 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 558/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530834 | Marshall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan G. Marshall (Tallahassee, Florida); Priyanka Juyal (Tallahassee, Florida); Ryan P Rodgers (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan G. Marshall (Tallahassee, Florida); Priyanka Juyal (Tallahassee, Florida); Ryan P Rodgers (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhanced speciation of both positive and negatives species in an analyte is disclosed. The method can include producing a first analyte solution comprising an analyte composition and an effective amount of silver triflate, and analyzing the first analyte solution with an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer. The method can also include producing a second analyte solution comprising a portion of the analyte composition and an effective amount of a compound of formula I, and analyzing the second analyte solution with an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer. The compound of formula I is [NX+][OH−], where X is a linear, branched, or cyclic C1-C10 alkane; an aryl; a heterocyclic aromatic; or a heterocyclic moiety. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/366824 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531029 | Fedorov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrei G. Fedorov (Atlanta, Georgia); Konrad Rykaczewski (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei G. Fedorov (Atlanta, Georgia); Konrad Rykaczewski (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for fabricating a low electric resistance ohmic contact, or interface, between a Carbon Nanotube (CNT) and a desired node on a substrate. In one embodiment, the CNT is a Multiwalled, or Multiwall, Carbon Nanotube (MWCNT), and the interface provides a low electric resistance ohmic contact between all conduction shells, or at least a majority of conduction shells, of the MWCNT and the desired node on the substrate. In one embodiment, a Focused Electron Beam Chemical Vapor Deposition (FEB-CVD) process is used to deposit an interface material near an exposed end of the MWCNT in such a manner that surface diffusion of precursor molecules used in the FEB-CVD process induces lateral spread of the deposited interface material into the exposed end of the MWCNT, thereby providing a contact to all conduction shells, or at least a majority of the conduction shells, of the MWCNT. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476510 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/734 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531288 | Khan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Usman Khan (Somerville, Massachusetts); José M. Moura (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Soummya Kar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Usman Khan (Somerville, Massachusetts); José M. Moura (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Soummya Kar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and monitoring resource in large-scale facilities is disclosed herein. The system is based on a sensor network and is efficient, scalable, and requires only short-range communication. The system allows for sensor-to-sensor communication as well as the traditional sensor-to-anchor communication to effectively eliminate long-range communications. In order to perform resource localization and tracking, the present invention pairs each resource with an inexpensive, low-powered sensor possessing minimal resources or anchors and those resources communicate with their nearby resources or anchors until a wireless, linked network of resources and anchors is formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942951 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532045 | Buddhikot et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Milind M. Buddhikot (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub (Coram, New York); Himanshu Gupta (Kings Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milind M. Buddhikot (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub (Coram, New York); Himanshu Gupta (Kings Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for defining spectral usage at a base station in a wireless network. In various embodiments, the wireless network is divided into a plurality of regions, such that each of the regions may have associated with it one or more interfering adjacent regions, which are associated with different portions of a spectral allocation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/080216 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532152 | Hu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qing Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides frequency tunable solid-state radiation-generating devices, such as lasers and amplifiers, whose active medium has a size in at least one transverse dimension (e.g., its width) that is much smaller than the wavelength of radiation generated and/or amplified within the active medium. In such devices, a fraction of radiation travels as an evanescent propagating mode outside the active medium. It has been discovered that in such devices the radiation frequency can be tuned by the interaction of a tuning mechanism with the propagating evanescent mode. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/818337 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533548 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kyuchull Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Kewal K. Saluja (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyuchull Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Kewal K. Saluja (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Wrapper cells for simultaneous testing of parent functional elements and child functional elements in a hierarchical SoC (System on Chip) provide a substantially reduced integrated circuit footprint by eliminating a multiplexer and providing simpler interconnections. Identical wrapper cells may be used for input and output data lines reducing the cost of the cell library. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/944295 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/731 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533681 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuanyuan Zhou (Champaign, Illinois); Shan Lu (Urbana, Illinois); Joseph Andrew Tucek (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuanyuan Zhou (Champaign, Illinois); Shan Lu (Urbana, Illinois); Joseph Andrew Tucek (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | During execution of a program, the situation where the atomicity of a pair of instructions that are to be executed atomically is violated is identified, and a bug is detected as occurring in the program at the pair of instructions. The pairs of instructions that are to be executed atomically can be identified in different manners, such as by executing a program multiple times and using the results of those executions to automatically identify the pairs of instructions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857925 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533861 | King et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William P. King (Champaign, Illinois); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California); Byeonghee Lee (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. King (Champaign, Illinois); Craig Prater (Santa Barbara, California); Byeonghee Lee (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for magnetically actuating microcantilevers and magnetically actuated and self-heated microcantilevers. Also described are methods for determining viscoelastic properties and thermal transition temperatures of materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/304306 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08529124 | Kaul |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anupama B. Kaul (Arcadia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anupama B. Kaul (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for gas sensing with single-walled carbon nanotubes are described. The methods comprise biasing at least one carbon nanotube and exposing to a gas environment to detect variation in temperature as an electrical response. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/788167 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529249 | Haskin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henry H. Haskin (Newport News, Virginia); Peter Vasquez (Gloucester, 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) | Henry H. Haskin (Newport News, Virginia); Peter Vasquez (Gloucester, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A flame holder system includes a modified torch body and a ceramic flame holder. Catch pin(s) are coupled to and extend radially out from the torch body. The ceramic flame holder has groove(s) formed in its inner wall that correspond in number and positioning to the catch pin(s). Each groove starts at one end of the flame holder and can be shaped to define at least two 90°turns. Each groove is sized to receive one catch pin therein when the flame holder is fitted over the end of the torch body. The flame holder is then manipulated until the catch pin(s) butt up against the end of the groove(s). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/860703 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529825 | Chu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sang-Hyon Chu (Newport News, Virginia); Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Vesuvius, Virginia); Glen C. King (Yorktown, Virginia); Diane M. Stoakley (Ashland, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Aerospace Associates (Hampton, Virginia); The United States of America as represented by the Administration of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Hyon Chu (Newport News, Virginia); Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Vesuvius, Virginia); Glen C. King (Yorktown, Virginia); Diane M. Stoakley (Ashland, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new fabrication method for nanovoids-imbedded bismuth telluride (Bi—Te) material with low dimensional (quantum-dots, quantum-wires, or quantum-wells) structure was conceived during the development of advanced thermoelectric (TE) materials. Bismuth telluride is currently the best-known candidate material for solid-state TE cooling devices because it possesses the highest TE figure of merit at room temperature. The innovative process described here allows nanometer-scale voids to be incorporated in Bi—Te material. The final nanovoid structure such as void size, size distribution, void location, etc. can be also controlled under various process conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928128 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532152 | Hu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qing Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides frequency tunable solid-state radiation-generating devices, such as lasers and amplifiers, whose active medium has a size in at least one transverse dimension (e.g., its width) that is much smaller than the wavelength of radiation generated and/or amplified within the active medium. In such devices, a fraction of radiation travels as an evanescent propagating mode outside the active medium. It has been discovered that in such devices the radiation frequency can be tuned by the interaction of a tuning mechanism with the propagating evanescent mode. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/818337 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532259 | Shedlock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Shedlock (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Christopher Meng (Gainesville, Florida); Nissia Sabri (Gainesville, Florida); Edward T. Dugan (Gainesville, Florida); Sharon Auerbach Jacobs (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Nucsafe, inc. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Shedlock (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Christopher Meng (Gainesville, Florida); Nissia Sabri (Gainesville, Florida); Edward T. Dugan (Gainesville, Florida); Alan M. Jacobs (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of x-ray backscatter radiography are provided. A single-sided, non-destructive imaging technique utilizing x-ray radiation to image subsurface features is disclosed, capable of scanning a region using a fan beam aperture and gathering data using rotational motion. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/812427 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08529644 | Dietenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Dietenberger (Marshall, Wisconsin); Mark H. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Dietenberger (Marshall, Wisconsin); Mark H. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method and a corresponding apparatus for converting a biomass reactant into synthesis gas. The method includes the steps of (1) heating biomass in a first molten liquid bath at a first temperature, wherein the first temperature is at least about 100° C., but less than the decomposition temperature of the biomass, wherein gas comprising water is evaporated and air is pressed from the biomass, thereby yielding dried biomass with minimal air content. (2) Recapturing the moisture evaporated from the biomass in step 1 for use in the process gas. (3) Heating the dried biomass in a second molten liquid bath at a second temperature, wherein the second temperature is sufficiently high to cause flash pyrolysis of the dried biomass, thereby yielding product gases, tar, and char. (4) Inserting recaptured steam into the process gas, which may optionally include external natural gas or hydrogen gas or recycled syngas for mixing and reforming with tar and non-condensable gases. (5) Further reacting the product gases, tar, and char with the process gas within a third molten liquid bath at a third temperature which is equal to or greater than the second temperature within the second molten liquid bath, thereby yielding high quality and relatively clean synthesis gas after a relatively long residence time needed for char gasification. A portion of the synthesis gas so formed is combusted to heat the first, second, and third molten liquid baths, unless external natural or hydrogen gas is available for this use. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/964036 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530211 | Jeffries et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Jeffries (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura B. Willis (Madison, Wisconsin); Tanya M. Long (Monona, Wisconsin); Yi-Kai Su (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); U.S. Department of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Jeffries (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura B. Willis (Madison, Wisconsin); Tanya M. Long (Monona, Wisconsin); Yi-Kai Su (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of using yeast cells to produce ethanol by contacting a mixture comprising xylose with a Spathaspora yeast cell under conditions suitable to allow the yeast to ferment at least a portion of the xylose to ethanol. The methods allow for efficient ethanol production from hydrolysates derived from lignocellulosic material and sugar mixtures including at least xylose and glucose or xylose, glucose and cellobiose. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/451324 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530626 | Cardamone |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeanette M. Cardamone (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanette M. Cardamone (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to produce keratin elastomer, involving: (A)(1) reacting a diisocyanate with a blocking agent to form a diisocyanate with one —NCO group blocked by the blocking agent and one —NCO group unblocked, (2) reacting the diisocyanate with one —NCO group blocked by the blocking agent and one —NCO group unblocked with keratin at about 100° to about 120° C. to form keratin urethane with —NCO group functionality (i.e., with one —NCO group unblocked), (3) optionally reacting the keratin urethane with —NCO group functionality with a compound capable of reacting with the —NCO group; (B) reacting a diisocyanate with keratin to form keratin elastomer; or (C) reacting a monoisocyanate with keratin to form keratin elastomer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/106942 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP23896 | Cho |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Cho (Paia, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Cho (Paia, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cultivar of Colocasia plant named ‘BLACK CORAL’ that is characterized by a combination of large dark purple to black leaves with a glossy finish and semi-glossy dark burgundy colored petioles. In combination these characteristics distinguish ‘BLACK CORAL’ from all other varieties of Colocasia known to the inventor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/317202 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08530853 | Steele et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam V. Steele (Rockville, Maryland); Brenton J. Knuffman (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Jabez J. McClelland (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, NIST (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam V. Steele (Rockville, Maryland); Brenton J. Knuffman (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Jabez J. McClelland (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for producing a charged particle beam from a photoionized cold atom beam. A vapor of neutral atoms is generated. From these atoms, an atom beam having axial and transverse velocity distributions controlled by the application of laser light is produced. The produced atom beam is spatially compressed along each transverse axis, thus reducing the cross-sectional area of the produced beam and reducing a velocity spread of the produced beam along directions transverse to the beam's direction of propagation. Laser light is directed onto at least a portion of the neutral atoms in the atom beam, thereby producing ions and electrons. An electric field is generated at the location of the produced ions and electrons, thereby producing a beam of ions traveling in a first direction and electrons traveling in substantially the opposite direction. A vacuum chamber contains the atom beam, the ion beam and the electron beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/369008 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/423.P00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08531516 | Barnes |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Edward Barnes (Hilo, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Edward Barnes (Hilo, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to measuring the light that is scattered from particulates (aerosols) in a gas or liquid. The sample typically flows into the instrument and the particulates are measured in-situ. The intensity of the scattered light is measured at many different angles, which determines both the amount of particulates in the sample, and detailed information about the particles such as average size, shape and composition. The measurement can be applied to climate and air pollution research, and clean room monitoring. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/699272 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08531520 | Stricklin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael C. Stricklin (Austin, Texas); Dean W. Teffer (Austin, Texas); John Filo (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Industry, Inc. (Alpharetta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Stricklin (Austin, Texas); Dean W. Teffer (Austin, Texas); John Filo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a system and method for acquiring image evidence of traffic violations. The system has a controller, an image acquisition system, and sensors. The controller acquires data from the sensors to determine the likelihood of a traffic violation. The controller determines a schedule for acquiring images associated with the violation. Multiple images may be acquired as evidence of the violation. The controller then directs the image acquisition to acquire images in compliance with the schedule. The controller may then package, encrypt, and authenticate data and images associated with the violation. The controller may then transfer the data to a remote location. The system may also determine a schedule to acquire images associated with multiple violations and/or traffic accidents. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/117003 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08532778 | Lin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vernon Lin (Cerritos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vernon Lin (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inducing forced expiration in a subject is disclosed. The method can include percutaneously placing an injectable microstimulator adjacent at least one thoracic spinal nerve that innervates an intercostal muscle. For example, the microstimulator is placed within 8 cm externally of a neuroforamen through which the spinal nerve emerges from a thoracic vertebra. The method can also entail applying a stimulating electrical current from the microstimulator to the thoracic spinal nerve at a sufficient intensity and duration to induce a forced contraction of the intercostal muscle innervated by that spinal nerve. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845713 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08530680 | Ren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dacheng Ren (Syracuse, New York); Yan Yeung Luk (Jamesville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dacheng Ren (Syracuse, New York); Yan Yeung Luk (Jamesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for inhibiting the growth of a microorganism using an effective amount of one or more of the following synthetic brominated furanones: (i) 4-bromo-5Z-(bromomethylene)-3-methylfuran-2-one; (ii) 3-(dibromomethyl)-5-(dibromomethylene)furan-2-one; (iii) 3-(bromomethyl)-5-(dibromomethylene)furan-2-one; (iv) 4-bromo-3-(bromomethyl)-5Z-(bromomethylene)furan-2-one; or (v) 4-bromo-5-(dibromomethyl)-3-methylfuran-2(5H)-one. The brominated furanones inhibit the growth of both fungi and bacteria, including the fungal species Candida albicans, Gloeophyllum trabeum, Chaetomium globosum, and Trametes versicolor and the bacterial species Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The brominated furanones can be used topically or internally to treat human infections, and can be used to treat other objects, such as wood building supplies, to prevent fungal rot. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/529411 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08530271 | Virkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Melburne C. Lemieux (La Honda, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Melburne C. Lemieux (La Honda, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructures are doped to set conductivity characteristics. In accordance with various example embodiments, nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes are doped with a halogenated fullerene type of dopant material. In some implementations, the dopant material is deposited from solution or by vapor deposition, and used to dope the nanotubes to increase the thermal and/or electrical conductivity of the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011402 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08533722 | Bansal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for making fractional assignments of processing elements to processing nodes for stream-based applications in a distributed computer system includes determining an amount of processing power to give to each processing element. Based on a list of acceptable processing nodes, a determination of fractions of which processing nodes will work on each processing element is made. To update allocations of the amount of processing power and the fractions, the process is repeated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132031 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — 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 |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 08530633 | Frommer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wolf B. Frommer (Washington, District of Columbia); Sakiko Okumoto (Washington, District of Columbia); Loren Looger (Washington, District of Columbia); Marcus Fehr (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolf B. Frommer (Washington, District of Columbia); Sakiko Okumoto (Washington, District of Columbia); Loren Looger (Washington, District of Columbia); Marcus Fehr (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Intramolecular biosensors are disclosed, including PBP-based biosensors, comprising a ligand binding domain fused to donor and fluorescent moieties that permit detection and measurement of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer upon binding ligand. At least one of the donor and fluorescent moieties may be internally fused to the biosensor such that both ends of the internally fused fluorophore are fixed. In addition, methods of improving the sensitivity of terminally fused biosensors are provided. The biosensors of the invention are useful for the detection and quantification of ligands in vivo and in culture. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665339 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08529661 | Diebold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James P. Diebold (Lakewood, Colorado); Arthur Lilley (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Kingsbury Browne, III (Golden, Colorado); Robb Ray Walt (Aurora, Colorado); Dustin Duncan (Littleton, Colorado); Michael Walker (Broomfield, Colorado); John Steele (Aurora, Colorado); Michael Fields (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Afognak Native Corporation (Anchorage, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Diebold (Lakewood, Colorado); Arthur Lilley (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Kingsbury Browne, III (Golden, Colorado); Robb Ray Walt (Aurora, Colorado); Dustin Duncan (Littleton, Colorado); Michael Walker (Broomfield, Colorado); John Steele (Aurora, Colorado); Michael Fields (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for removing fine particulate matter from a fluid stream without interrupting the overall process or flow. The flowing fluid inflates and expands the flexible filter, and particulate is deposited on the filter media while clean fluid is permitted to pass through the filter. This filter is cleaned when the fluid flow is stopped, the filter collapses, and a force is applied to distort the flexible filter media to dislodge the built-up filter cake. The dislodged filter cake falls to a location that allows undisrupted flow of the fluid after flow is restored. The shed particulate is removed to a bin for periodic collection. A plurality of filter cells can operate independently or in concert, in parallel, or in series to permit cleaning the filters without shutting off the overall fluid flow. The self-cleaning filter is low cost, has low power consumption, and exhibits low differential pressures. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946696 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08529458 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunghan Kim (Los Angeles, California); Pedro Mateo Riobo Aboy (Portland, Oregon); James McNames (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon); APDM, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunghan Kim (Los Angeles, California); Pedro Mateo Riobo Aboy (Portland, Oregon); James McNames (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for determining a cardiac parameter from cardiovascular pressure signals including arterial blood pressure (ABP) and the photoplethysmographic signal to quantify the degree of amplitude modulation due to respiration and predict fluid responsiveness are disclosed. Disclosed embodiments include a method for assessing fluid responsiveness implemented in a digital computer with one or more processors comprising: (a) measuring a cardiovascular signal, and (b) computing a dynamic index predictive of fluid responsiveness from said cardiovascular signal using a nonlinear state space estimator. According to one particular embodiment, and without limitation, the nonlinear state space estimator is based on a model for cardiovascular signals such as arterial blood pressure or plethysmogram signals, and employs a marginalized particle filter to estimate a dynamic index predictive of fluid responsiveness that is substantially equivalent to a variation in pulse pressure of said cardiovascular signal. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891795 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08528479 | Clayton |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cory Clayton (Randleman, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cory Clayton (Randleman, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for defeating an improvised explosive device having a wire initiation system includes at least one coil of a barbed wire. A connecting member connects at least one coil of the barbed wire to a support. The connecting member is disposed such that at least one coil of the barbed wire contacts the ground. Movement of the at least one coil of the barbed wire across the ground engages a wire of the wire initiation system to defeat the improvised explosive device. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164607 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08528608 | Kelekar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California); Guarav Verma (San Jose, California); Kurt Weiner (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intermolecular, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California); Guarav Verma (San Jose, California); Kurt Weiner (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure gauge may be coupled to a vessel into which a liquid chemical is to be dispensed. The volume of the vessel may be known and a control device may determine an initial pressure of the vessel using the pressure gauge. A volume of liquid chemical may be dispensed into the vessel which may cause the pressure within the vessel to increase to a second pressure. The control device may determine the second pressure using the pressure gauge may calculate the volume of liquid chemical dispensed into the vessel using the volume of the vessel, the initial pressure of the vessel, and the second pressure of the vessel. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/492477 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 141/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529846 | Wright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and apparatus in the detection of a scent to locate the damage and its extent and to aid in the repair manually or self-repair. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/282360 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08529912 | Adderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth Adderson (Memphis, Tennessee); John Bohnsack (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Reseach Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth Adderson (Memphis, Tennessee); John Bohnsack (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide comprising amino acid sequences of a streptococcal matrix adhesion E (EmaE) polypeptide. Antibodies to the EmaE polypeptide and immunogenic fragments thereof are also provided. This invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, immunogenic compositions, vaccines, and diagnostic and therapeutic methods of use of the isolated polypeptide, antibodies thereto, and nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/030660 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530687 | Hong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sukwon Hong (Gainesville, Florida); Hwimin Seo (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sukwon Hong (Gainesville, Florida); Hwimin Seo (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for acyclic diaminocarbenes (ADCs) catalysts such as those shown in FIG. 1.1 and in the Examples, methods of making catalysts, methods of using catalysts, and the like. Catalyst of the present disclosure can be useful in various catalytic transformations. Embodiments of the catalyst can be used in hydroamination, cycloisomerization, allylic rearrangement reactions, alkyne hydration reactions, Meyer-Schuster rearrangement reactions, and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/225952 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08530873 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California); Gilberto Medeiros Ribeiro (Palo Alto, California); R Stanley Williams (Portols Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianhua Yang (Palo Alto, California); Gilberto Medeiros Ribeiro (Palo Alto, California); R Stanley Williams (Portols Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroforming free memristor includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced from the first electrode, and a switching layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. The switching layer is formed of a matrix of a switching material and reactive particles that are to react with the switching material during a fabrication process of the memristor to form one or more conductance channels in the switching layer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/383994 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08532958 | Ingram et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul M. Ingram (Dallas, Texas); Joseph C. Landry (Dallas, Texas); John J. Coogan (Bedford, Texas); Paul D. Shocklee (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Ingram (Dallas, Texas); Joseph C. Landry (Dallas, Texas); John J. Coogan (Bedford, Texas); Paul D. Shocklee (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one example of a method for remote identifying a non-Lambertian target material, a spectral signature for a target is determined from each of at least two different sets of imagery acquired at different angles, and compared to a predicted signature for a candidate material for each of the at least two different angles. The predicted signatures take into account the known anisotropy of reflectance, and thus also radiance, of the candidate material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/851991 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08533430 | Lyon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terry L. Lyon (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry L. Lyon (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method in a computer system allows a software application to specify an intended stride access when writing data elements into a memory. A memory control in the computer system writes data in a manner that provides improved access performance when accesses to the data elements are performed using the intended stride. The memory system uses a hashing mechanism that uses the intended stride to store the data elements in such a way that accessing the data elements at the intended stride will ensure that consecutive accesses are not to the same group or bank of memory. Sequential accesses of the data elements also are ensured not to be directed to the same group or bank of memory. The memory can be divided into memory portions; different memory portions of the computer storage can have different intended strides. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106006 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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