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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 24, 2013
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| US 08613767 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Hoffman (Madison, Wisconsin); Jack Jiang (Wilmette, Illinois); Rachel E. Witt (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy McCulloch (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Hoffman (Madison, Wisconsin); Jack Jiang (Wilmette, Illinois); Rachel E. Witt (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy McCulloch (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A laryngeal implant for treating glottic insufficiency includes a displacement member positionable in a larynx such that at least a portion of the displacement member is disposed between thyroid cartilage and a vocal fold of the larynx. The displacement member is at least one of selectively adjustable in volume and selectively adjustable in compressibility when the displacement member is positioned in the larynx to selectively position the vocal fold in a medial displacement position. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966657 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/9 |
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| US 08613889 | Pollack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to droplet-based washing. According to one embodiment, a method of providing a droplet in contact with a surface with a reduced concentration of a substance is provided, wherein the method includes: (a) providing a surface in contact with a droplet comprising a starting concentration and starting quantity of the substance and having a starting volume; (b) conducting one or more droplet operations to merge a wash droplet with the droplet provided in step (a) to yield a combined droplet; and (c) conducting one or more droplet operations to divide the combined droplet to yield a set of droplets comprising: (i) a droplet in contact with the surface having a decreased concentration of the substance relative to the starting concentration; and (ii) a droplet which is separated from the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639531 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
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| US 08613904 | Everson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Thomas Everson (Englewood, Colorado); Michael Anthony Martucci (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Thomas Everson (Englewood, Colorado); Michael Anthony Martucci (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns methods of administering and detecting a distinguishable agent in a sample from and assessing the condition of an organ in a subject. In a particular embodiment, the present invention concerns methods of detecting and comparing the cholate shunt, in a subject, preferably in a subject with chronic hepatitis C. In certain embodiments, the methods may comprise obtaining a sample from a subject such as a blood or saliva sample after administering an oral and intravenous dose of a distinguishable agent such as cholate and analyzing the sample clearance of the distinguishable agent from the subject and comparing the clearance levels in order to assess hepatic health. In another embodiment, the methods may comprise analyzing a sample from a subject for the presence of a distinguishable agent such as cholate and applying information obtained from analyzing the presence of the distinguishable agent to determine a treatment for a medical condition of the subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814793 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.370 |
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| US 08613917 | Dang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Long Dang (Baltimore, Maryland); Chetan Bettegowda (Towson, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Long Dang (Baltimore, Maryland); Chetan Bettegowda (Towson, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Current approaches for treating cancer are limited, in part, by the inability of drugs to affect the poorly vascularized regions of tumors. We have found that spores of anaerobic bacteria in combination with agents which interact with microtubules can cause the destruction of both the vascular and avascular compartments of tumors. Two classes of microtubule inhibitors were found to exert markedly different effects. Some agents that inhibited microtubule synthesis, such as vinorelbine, caused rapid, massive hemorrhagic necrosis when used in combination with spores. In contrast, agents that stabilized microtubules, such as the taxane, docetaxel, resulted in slow tumor regressions that killed most neoplastic cells. Remaining cells in the poorly perfused regions of tumors could be eradicated by sporulated bacteria. Mechanistic studies showed that the microtubule destabilizers, but not the microtubule stabilizers, radically reduced blood flow to tumors, thereby enlarging the hypoxic niche in which spores could germinate. A single intravenous injection of spores plus selected microtubule-interacting agents was able to cause regressions of several tumors in the absence of excessive toxicity. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/198850 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.410 |
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| US 08613922 | Clemmons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David R. Clemmons (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Laura A. Maile (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Clemmons (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Laura A. Maile (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting cellular activation by insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in a subject in need thereof (e.g., a subject afflicted with cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetic retinopathy or other disease) comprises administering an antagonist that inhibits the binding of IAP to SHPS-1 to the subject in an amount effective to inhibit cellular activation by IGF-1. Compounds and compositions for carrying out such methods are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219276 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
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| US 08613932 | Restifo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas P. Restifo (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Lydie Cassard (Bethesda, Maryland); Zhiya Yu (Rockville, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P. Restifo (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Lydie Cassard (Bethesda, Maryland); Zhiya Yu (Rockville, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides human cells, particularly human T cells, comprising a murine T Cell Receptor (TCR) having antigen specificity for the cancer antigen gp100. Isolated or purified TCRs having antigenic specificity for amino acids 154-162 of gp100 (SEQ ID NO: 1), as well as related polypeptides, proteins, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, antibodies, or antigen binding fragments thereof, conjugates, and pharmaceutical compositions, are further provided. The invention further provides a method of detecting the presence of cancer in a host and a method of treating or preventing cancer in a host comprising the use of the inventive materials described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483286 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 08613933 | Schlom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Claudia M. Palena (Rockville, Maryland); Andrei P. Kozlov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Kwong-yok Tsang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Claudia M. Palena (Rockville, Maryland); Andrei P. Kozlov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Kwong-yok Tsang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | It is disclosed herein that Brachyury is expressed in human tumors, specifically in tumors of the small intestine, stomach, kidney, bladder, uterus, ovary, and testes, as well as in lung, colon and prostate carcinomas. Immunogenic Brachyury polypeptides are disclosed herein. These polypeptides can be used in diagnostic assays for Brachyury expression, as well as for inducing an immune response to Brachyury. Polynucleotides encoding the immunogenic Brachyury polypeptides, vectors including these polypeptides, host cells transformed with these vectors, and methods of using these polypeptides, polynucleotides, vectors, and host cells are provided. Methods of diagnosing a Brachyury-expressing cancer are also provided. Exemplary cancers include small lung, colon, intestine, stomach, kidney, bladder, uterus, ovary, and testes and prostate cancers. Methods of treating cancer are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/460587 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 08613934 | Raviv et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yossef Raviv (Rockville, Maryland); Julie M. Belanger (Frederick, Maryland); Mathias Viard (Frederick, Maryland); Robert Blumenthal (Bethesda, Maryland); Julian W. Bess, Jr. (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yossef Raviv (Rockville, Maryland); Julie M. Belanger (Frederick, Maryland); Mathias Viard (Frederick, Maryland); Robert Blumenthal (Bethesda, Maryland); Julian W. Bess, Jr. (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves inactivation of viral populations by treating the viral populations with a compound to crosslink proteins in the viral membrane, UV irradiation and further inactivation of the viruses using detergent(s). According to the invention, this method preserves the native structure of viral epitopes so that the inactivated viral preparations can be used in immunological compositions that will inhibit and/or prevent viral infection when administered to an animal. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847231 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
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| US 08613944 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Yang (Arlington, Texas); Minh-Tuan Richard Tran (Fort Worth, Texas); Michael W Palmer (Arlington, Texas); Shou-Jiang Tang (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Yang (Arlington, Texas); Minh-Tuan Richard Tran (Fort Worth, Texas); Michael W Palmer (Arlington, Texas); Shou-Jiang Tang (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, methods for separating biological tissue are described herein. In some embodiments, a method for separating tissue comprises providing a first composition comprising a polymerizable material, providing a second composition comprising a polymerization initiator, disposing the first composition at a first site beneath a first tissue layer, disposing the second composition at the first site, polymerizing the polymerizable material at the first site, and separating the first tissue layer from a second tissue layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/425750 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/434 |
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| US 08614055 | Kinlaw, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William B. Kinlaw, III (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B. Kinlaw, III (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an antibody which specifically binds a Spot 14 (S14 or THRSP) protein in human breast cancer cells and a method for using the same to predict disease-free survival and select treatment modalities for breast cancer. The present invention is also a method for inducing apoptosis in breast cancer cells by inhibiting the expression or activity of Spot 14. Compositions and methods for treating breast cancer are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010258 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 08614056 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California); Mehdi Javanmard (Fremont, California); Michael N. Mindrinos (Menlo Park, California); Janine A. Mok (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California); Mehdi Javanmard (Fremont, California); Michael N. Mindrinos (Menlo Park, California); Janine A. Mok (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are related to microfluidic devices for detecting or determining the concentration of biomolecules in an analyte comprising: a channel, wherein a surface of said channel is fabricated to be functionalized with at least one molecule selected to interact with a biomolecule, said channel being configured to interact with a microsphere, wherein a surface of said microsphere is fabricated to be functionalized with at least one same or different molecule selected to interact with said biomolecule; a second channel in fluid communication with said first channel; a system to move fluid containing said microsphere through said first and second channels; and a system to measure a change in electrical impedance or optical microscopy across said second channel as said microsphere moves through said second channel. Other embodiments concern related devices, and methods of making and using. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/070002 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614060 | Rieder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark J. Rieder (Seattle, Washington); Allan Rettie (Clinton, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Rieder (Seattle, Washington); Allan Rettie (Clinton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for predicting drug responses. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for determining individualized Warfarin dosages based on genotype of DNA polymorphisms and haplotypes derived from them in the VKORC1 gene. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/008473 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
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| US 08614082 | Frolov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ilya V. Frolov (Galveston, Texas); Elena Frolova (Galveston, Texas); Scott C. Weaver (Galveston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilya V. Frolov (Galveston, Texas); Elena Frolova (Galveston, Texas); Scott C. Weaver (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to generating attenuated and less cytopathic forms of New World alphaviruses that can be used in immunogenic compositions as vaccines against both Old and New World alphaviruses. In this regard, the present invention discloses that the N-terminal, ˜35-aa-long peptide of VEEV, EEEV and, most likely, of WEEV capsid proteins plays the most critical role in the downregulation of cellular transcription and development of cytopathic effect. The identified, VEEV-specific peptide, CVEE30-68, includes two domains with distinguished functions. The integrity of both domains determines not only the intracellular distribution of CVEE, but is also essential for direct capsid function in the inhibition of transcription. The replacement of the N-terminal fragment of CVEE by its SINV-specific counterpart in VEEV TC-83 genome does not affect virus replication in vitro, but makes it less cytopathic and more attenuated in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/284098 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/236 |
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| US 08614089 | Zieler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helge Zieler (Encinitas, California); Gary W. Rudgers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Michael H. Pauly (Del Mar, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helge Zieler (Encinitas, California); Gary W. Rudgers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Michael H. Pauly (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is generally related to methods of generating plants transformed with novel autonomous mini-chromosomes. Mini-chromosomes with novel compositions and structures are used to transform plants cells which are in turn used to generate the plant. Methods for generating the plant include methods for delivering the mini-chromosome into plant cell to transform the cell, methods for selecting the transformed cell, and methods for isolating plants transformed with the mini-chromosome. Plants generated in the present invention contain novel genes introduced into their genome by integration into existing chromosomes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/531287 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614090 | Delwart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Delwart (San Francisco, California); Amit Kapoor (New York, New York); Li Linlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blood Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Delwart (San Francisco, California); Amit Kapoor (New York, New York); Li Linlin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are sequences of the genomes and encoded proteins of new astrovirus species, and variants thereof. Also provided are methods of detecting the new astrovirus species and diagnosing astrovirus infection, methods of treating or preventing astrovirus infection, and methods for identifying anti-astrovirus compounds. Provided are two new astrovirus species named HMOAstV-A and HMOAstV-B, and both are distantly related to known astroviruses. Also provided is a new method of classifying astroviruses, where there are three groups of human astroviruses, including HAstV, AstV-MLB, and HMOAstV. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859068 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 08614091 | Ebert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven N. Ebert (Chuluota, Florida); Karl Pfeifer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven N. Ebert (Chuluota, Florida); Karl Pfeifer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain aspects, the present invention provides methods and compositions relating to a Pnmt-positive progenitor cell. In certain aspects, the present invention relates to methods for isolating and transplanting the subject progenitor cells, and methods for treating diseases such as myocardiac injuries and neurodegenerative disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229236 |
| 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 435/325 |
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| US 08614092 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Le Cong (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of altering expression of a genomic locus of interest or specifically targeting a genomic locus of interest in an animal cell, which may involve contacting the genomic locus with a non-naturally occurring or engineered composition that includes a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding polypeptide having a N-terminal capping region, a DNA binding domain comprising at least five or more Transcription activator-like effector (TALE) monomers and at least one or more half-monomers specifically ordered to target the genomic locus of interest, and a C-terminal capping region, wherein the polypeptide includes at least one or more effector domains, and wherein the polypeptide is encoded by and translated from a codon optimized nucleic acid molecule so that the polypeptide preferentially binds to the DNA of the genomic locus. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/732266 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 08614094 | Gleeson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph G. Gleeson (San Diego, California); Jennifer Silhavy (San Diego, California); Enza Maria Valente (Rome, Italy); Francesco Brancati (Rome, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph G. Gleeson (San Diego, California); Jennifer Silhavy (San Diego, California); Enza Maria Valente (Rome, Italy); Francesco Brancati (Rome, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | In alternative embodiments, the invention provides nucleic acid sequences that are genetic polymorphic variations of the human TMEM216 gene, and TMEM216 polypeptide encoded by these variant alleles. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides methods of determining or predicting a predisposition to, or the presence of, a ciliopathy (or any genetic disorder of a cellular cilia or cilia anchoring structure, basal body or ciliary function) in an individual, such as a Joubert Syndrome (JS), a Joubert Syndrome Related Disorder (JSRD) or a Meckel Syndrome (MKS). In alternative embodiments, the invention provides compositions and methods for the identification of genetic polymorphic variations in the human TMEM216 gene, and methods of using the identified genetic polymorphisms and the proteins they encode, e.g., to screen for compounds that can modulate the human TMEM216 gene product, and possibly treat JS, JSRD or MKS. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/098345 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 08614188 | Sigalov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander B. Sigalov (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander B. Sigalov (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptides consisting of L- and/or D-amino acids and combinations thereof, which affect platelets by action on the collagen receptor, glycoprotein VI (GPVI). More specifically, however, the peptides act on the GPVI-FcRγ signaling complex. The invention also provides lipid and sugar conjugated peptides comprising L- or D-amino acids. The invention still further provides a method of designing of the peptides and lipid- and/or sugar-conjugated peptides comprising L- or D-amino acids. The present invention further relates to the therapy of various disease states involving the use of these peptides and compounds. Specifically, the peptides and compounds are useful in the treatment and/or prevention of a disease or condition involving platelet activation and aggregation, and more particularly, collagen-induced platelet activation and aggregation. They also are useful in the production of medical devices comprising peptide matrices (i.e., for example, cardiovascular stents). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/455952 |
| ART UNIT | 1658 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.800 |
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| US 08614192 | Dyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Dyer (Memphis, Tennessee); Jean-Christophe Marine (Erbisoeul, Belgium); Aart Gerrit Jochemsen (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leiden University Medical Center (Leiden, Netherlands); Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, VIB (Zwjinaarde, Ghent, Belgium); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Dyer (Memphis, Tennessee); Jean-Christophe Marine (Erbisoeul, Belgium); Aart Gerrit Jochemsen (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | It has now been found that the p53 pathway is inactivated in ocular cancers such as retinoblastoma. As such, the present invention is a method for inducing ocular cancer cell death using a p53 activator. In particular embodiments, the p53 activator blocks the interaction between DM2 or DMX and p53. As the p53 activator induces ocular cancer cell death, a method for preventing or treating ocular cancer is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/373308 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
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| US 08614203 | Stein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald G. Stein (Atlanta, Georgia); Sarah Cutler (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald G. Stein (Atlanta, Georgia); Sarah Cutler (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the treatment or the prevention of neuronal damage in the CNS. Specifically, the methods of the invention provide for the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a progestin or progestin metabolite following a traumatic or ischemic injury to the CNS such that, prior to termination of administration of the progestin or progestin metabolite the administration is tapered to avoid withdrawal. The drug taper employed can involve a linear taper, an exponential taper, progressively dividing administered doses by 50%, or can be determined based on the treating physician's assessment of the patient's response to therapy. The tapered administration methods of the present invention may be used in combination with any therapeutic protocol or regimen for the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a progestin or progestin metabolite to treat a traumatic or ischemic CNS injury. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/550148 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614236 | Swenson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik R. Swenson (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik R. Swenson (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of treating a subject for a pulmonary disease by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the formula: wherein R1, R2 or R3 are each independently a C1 to C6 alkyl, a halogen, a sulfate, or a phosphate. The pulmonary disease in the subject can be hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction, pulmonary edema, pulmonary hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, interstitial fibrosis, high altitude residence, sleep apnea syndrome, atrial septal defects, and pulmonary diseases associated with other conditions. If this same compound is modified so that R1, R2 or R3 each independently is a C1 to C6 alkyl and the compound is not a carbonic acid inhibitor, it can be administered to a subject to block hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and/or prevent high altitude pulmonary edema. Additional aspects of the present invention include an inhalable composition comprising the compound of the above formula without modification and an inhalable carrier, as well as the above modified compound. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/953249 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/363 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614237 | Djaballah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hakim Djaballah (Scarsdale, New York); Christophe Antczak (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hakim Djaballah (Scarsdale, New York); Christophe Antczak (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention provides novel benzofuran-4,5-diones and pharmaceutical compositions thereof useful for inhibiting PDF and for treating proliferative and infectious diseases. Compounds may be selective for eukaryotic (e.g., human) PDF or prokaryotic PDF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/318573 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614293 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Deajeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Deajeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611256 |
| 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 08614303 | Madura et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kiran Madura (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Li Chen (Hillsboro, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiran Madura (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Li Chen (Hillsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for establishing a protein expression profile of a biological sample, by contacting a biological sample with a ubiquitin-binding protein such that ubiquitinated and specific non-ubiquitinated protein (the IPS) bind to the ubiquitin-binding protein; isolating the IPS proteins; and analyzing the isolated IPS proteins, wherein an expression profile is generated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/498068 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614304 | Berzofsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Leon T. Van den Broeke (Zoutelande, Netherlands); Crystal Mackall (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lee J. Helman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Serives (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Leon T. Van den Broeke (Zoutelande, Netherlands); Crystal Mackall (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lee J. Helman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are immunogenic peptides, related fusion proteins, nucleic acids encoding the peptides or fusion proteins, conjugates, expression vectors, host cells, and antibodies. Also, disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, vaccines for use in the treatment or prevention of cancer, e.g., alveolar rhabodomyosarcoma, methods of stimulating a T cell to kill a tumor cell, methods of stimulating CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, and methods of treating or preventing cancer are further provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966341 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614466 | Rasooly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Avraham Rasooly (Silver Spring, Maryland); Minghui Yang (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Hugh A. Bruck (Wheaton, Maryland); Yordan Kostov (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland); University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Avraham Rasooly (Silver Spring, Maryland); Minghui Yang (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Hugh A. Bruck (Wheaton, Maryland); Yordan Kostov (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method are disclosed for electrically directly detecting biomolecular binding in a semiconductor. The semiconductor can be based on electrical percolation of nanomaterial formed in the gate region. In one embodiment of an apparatus, a semiconductor includes first and second electrodes with a gate region there between. The gate region includes a multilayered matrix of electrically conductive material with capture molecules for binding target molecules, such as antibody, receptors, DNA, RNA, peptides and aptamer. The molecular interactions between the capture molecules and the target molecules disrupts the matrix's continuity resulting in a change in electrical resistance, capacitance or impedance. The increase in resistance, capacitance or impedance can be directly measured electronically, without the need for optical sensors or labels. The multi-layered matrix can be formed from a plurality of single-walled nanotubes, graphene, or buckeyballs or any kind of conductive nanowire, such as metal nanowires or nanowires made from conductive polymers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128851 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615068 | Gunawardena et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Athula De Alwis Gunawardena (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Michael Charles Ferris (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Ricardo Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Athula De Alwis Gunawardena (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Michael Charles Ferris (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Ricardo Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing an intensity modulated arc therapy (“IMAT”) treatment plan are provided. A plurality of segmentations are generated, from which the IMAT treatment plan is determined. Apertures within each segmentation are ordered by minimizing the total leaf movement between pairs of segmentations in adjacent angles, during which corresponding minimum total leaf movement values between such pairs are calculated. From these segmentations, a network model is used to select those segmentations to be used in the IMAT treatment plan. The apertures in the selected segmentations are then modified by minimizing total leaf movement relative to the selected segmentations, and subject to physical constraints such as a maximum leaf movement constraint or interdigitation constraint. Segmentation errors in the modified segmentations are then locally minimized using a network model and a row-non-convexity measure to determine the order in which apertures are to be optimized. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242855 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615285 | Ehman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard L Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Phillip J. Rossman (Rochester, Minnesota); Jun Chen (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Phillip J. Rossman (Rochester, Minnesota); Jun Chen (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic driver system for use in applying an oscillating stress to a subject undergoing a magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) examination includes a flexible passive driver located in the bore of the magnet and in contact with the subject. A remotely located active driver is acoustically coupled to the passive driver and produces acoustic energy in response to an applied current. The passive driver produces shear waves in response to the acoustic energy and are directed into the body of the subject undergoing the MRE examination. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418204 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615291 | Moorman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall Moorman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Douglas E. Lake (Charlottesville, Virginia); Abigail Flower (Stevenson, Maryland); John B. Delos (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Moorman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Douglas E. Lake (Charlottesville, Virginia); Abigail Flower (Stevenson, Maryland); John B. Delos (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Method, system, and computer program method for detecting pathological fluctuations of physiological signals to diagnose human illness. The method comprises performing a sliding window analysis to find sequences in physiological signal data that match amplitude- and duration-adjusted versions of a template function to within a specified tolerance. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724162 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615308 | Hung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andy Hung (Irvine, California); Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Jack Judy (Los Angeles, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andy Hung (Irvine, California); Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Jack Judy (Los Angeles, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a micro-machined electrode for neural-electronic interfaces which can achieve a ten times lower impedance and higher charge injection limit for a given material and planar area. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718864 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08613138 | Chin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Herbert A. Chin (Portland, Connecticut); Robert P. Schaefer (Vernon Rockville, Connecticut); Eberhardt Privitzer (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Wangen Lin (South Glastonbury, Connecticut); Billie W. Bunting (Colchester, Connecticut); James J. Moor (New Hartford, Connecticut); Vincent Nevins (Chester, Connecticut); Andrew L. Haynes (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Greg Czeladko (Avon, Connecticut); Kenneth T. Raczewski (Columbia, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert A. Chin (Portland, Connecticut); Robert P. Schaefer (Vernon Rockville, Connecticut); Eberhardt Privitzer (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Wangen Lin (South Glastonbury, Connecticut); Billie W. Bunting (Colchester, Connecticut); James J. Moor (New Hartford, Connecticut); Vincent Nevins (Chester, Connecticut); Andrew L. Haynes (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Greg Czeladko (Avon, Connecticut); Kenneth T. Raczewski (Columbia, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for repairing a damaged rotor blade on an integrally bladed rotor by removing a damaged portion of a damaged blade leaving a blade stub extending outwardly from the disk and performing a linear friction welding operation to attach a replacement blade segment to the blade stub. The rotor may be disposed operation using a linear friction welding apparatus. The method includes disposing a support collar about the blade stub and securing the support collar to the linear friction welding apparatus prior to a commencement of the bonding operation. A lower surface of the support collar is contoured to mate with a portion of an outer circumference surface of the rotor disk. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727472 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/889.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613214 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tyler P. Martin (Bangor, Maine); Luke Doucette (Hampden, Maine); Dean J. Smith (Dover-Foxcroft, Maine); Thomas P. Schwarz (Orono, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orono Spectral Solutions, Inc. (Bangor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tyler P. Martin (Bangor, Maine); Luke Doucette (Hampden, Maine); Dean J. Smith (Dover-Foxcroft, Maine); Thomas P. Schwarz (Orono, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method to determine analytes in a fluid. One aspect of the present invention is for the determination of the oil content of water using UV, near-IR, IR or Raman spectroscopy or radiometry. In certain embodiments, a solid membrane material absorbs analytes from fluid brought into contact with it. The membrane is subsequently placed in a FTIR spectrometer, which spectrometer is enabled to determine the concentration of analytes in fluid by calibration. Certain embodiments can determine the type of hydrocarbon present, and thus can differentiate Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) from Total Oil and Grease (TOG), without any separate sample preparation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832497 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613241 | Martinez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin A Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Engineering Science Analysis Corp (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A restraining device for use in a water environment includes a plurality of tendrils that can be launched from a submerged device when an unauthorized swimmer is proximate the restraining device. Data communication in a neural-network of restraining devices is facilitated by a central command that has the capability of directing restraining devices, normally, aquatic mines, to a target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507815 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613252 | Bremmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Bremmer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey G. Sauer (Woodbury, Connecticut); Edward Joseph Fabian (Oxford, Connecticut); Robert A. Lacko (Oxford, Connecticut); Neil W. Cawthra (Shelton, Connecticut); Christian A. Rogg (New Milford, Connecticut); Paul H. Denavit (Woodbridge, Connecticut); William E. Hovan, III (Oxford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Bremmer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey G. Sauer (Woodbury, Connecticut); Edward Joseph Fabian (Oxford, Connecticut); Robert A. Lacko (Oxford, Connecticut); Neil W. Cawthra (Shelton, Connecticut); Christian A. Rogg (New Milford, Connecticut); Paul H. Denavit (Woodbridge, Connecticut); William E. Hovan, III (Oxford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A caul plate system for a laminate structure includes a plurality of layers of curable caul plies disposed over a laminate structure and substantially conforming to a surface of the laminate structure. A resin is applied to the plurality of layers of caul plies. Co-curing of the plurality of layers of caul plies with the laminate structure hardens the plurality of layers of caul plies such that a normal pressure is applied to the laminate structure during cure of the laminate structure. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026794 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613431 | Deloy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian T. Deloy (Marion, Iowa); Nicholus R. Clinkinbeard (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian T. Deloy (Marion, Iowa); Nicholus R. Clinkinbeard (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A vibration isolator includes mounting members engaged with an isolator member. The isolator member contains a primary loop and a secondary loop, wherein the primary loop is the point of attachment to the mounting members. The secondary loop provides added symmetry between the compression rate and at least one of the roll spring rate and the shear spring rate of the isolator member. Features of the vibration isolator, such as the number of secondary loops, may be varied to achieve an isolator member with particular characteristics required for individual applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570339 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Spring devices 267/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613593 | Ottow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan Wesley Ottow (Indianapolis, Indiana); Vance A. Mahan (Martinsville, Indiana); Albert Wong (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Wesley Ottow (Indianapolis, Indiana); Vance A. Mahan (Martinsville, Indiana); Albert Wong (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides engine case systems for gas turbine engines. Embodiments of the engine case systems include a plurality of ring cases and a tie-bolt case. The ring cases may house blades and vanes for the compressor and/or for the turbine. The ring cases may be stacked in series, and may be clamped together by a tie-bolt case. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/642271 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/213.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613808 | Langan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy Langan (Catonsville, Maryland); W. Mark Buchta (Ellicott City, Maryland); David M. Otterson (Washington, District of Columbia); Michael A. Riley (Towson, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surface Treatment Technologies, Inc. (Halethorpe, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Langan (Catonsville, Maryland); W. Mark Buchta (Ellicott City, Maryland); David M. Otterson (Washington, District of Columbia); Michael A. Riley (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal aluminides are formed by an initial thermal deposition process which forms an intermediary material comprising elemental aluminum and another elemental metal, as well as an oxide of the other metal. The thermally formed intermediary material is subsequently heated to initiate an exothermic reaction which forms the metal aluminide material. The reaction may be initiated by localized or bulk heating of the intermediary material, and may involve reaction between the aluminum and elemental metal as well as a thermite reaction between the aluminum and the metal oxide. The resultant metal aluminide material may be substantially fully dense and may contain oxide strengthening precipitates such as aluminum oxide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/706806 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614021 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Goleta, California); Logan E. Garner (Goleta, California); James J. Sumner (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Goleta, California); Logan E. Garner (Goleta, California); James J. Sumner (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides molecules useful for enhancing charge transport across membranes, such as electron transport across membranes, and methods of using such molecules, for example in improving the performance of a microbial fuel cell or in staining microbes for observation. The amphiphilic molecule comprises a conjugated core with hydrophilic groups on either end. The amphiphilic molecule inserts into the membrane of a microbe and facilitates charge transfer across the membrane of the microbe. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/158296 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614083 | Tzipori et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Udi Zukerman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gary Stacey (Marshfield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); Haemonetics (Braintree, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Udi Zukerman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gary Stacey (Marshfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the simultaneous concentration of multiple toxins from large volumes of water. The method includes the steps of providing a disposable separation centrifuge bowl, the centrifuge bowl including a positively charged material at it's inner core. A large water sample contaminated with toxins from a group consisting of protozoa, bacteria, bacterial spores, and toxins is delivered to the centrifuge bowl. A centrifugal force is applied to the separation bowl. The water sample is concentrated to remove large particles of the toxins in the bowl due to the centrifugal forces. The concentrated water sample is passes through the positively charged inner core to capture any remaining concentrated targets by electrostatic forces and the concentrated targets are eluted. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/602819 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614110 | Waters et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Waters (San Diego, California); Steve Fanelli (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Waters (San Diego, California); Steve Fanelli (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to create a proof mass supported by a dual-suspension system for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) using crystalline silicon. The pre-fabricated cavity method decreases the subsequent processing required to create the final mechanical structure including the proof mass and dual-suspension system. During processing, the proof mass may be connected to a support structure via tethered regions, which are removed subsequent to proof mass formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/840950 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614141 | Avouris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Damon B. Farmer (Yorktown Heights, New York); Fengnian Xia (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Damon B. Farmer (Yorktown Heights, New York); Fengnian Xia (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabrication process for a nanoelectronic device and a device are provided. Channel material is deposited on a substrate to form a channel. A source metal contact and a drain metal contact are deposited on the channel material, and the source metal contact and the drain metal contact are on opposing ends of the channel material. A polyhydroxystyrene derivative is deposited on the channel material. A top gate oxide is deposited on the polymer layer. A top gate metal is deposited on the top gate oxide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/568324 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614293 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Deajeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Deajeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611256 |
| 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 08614392 | Hsu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ying Hsu (San Clemente, California); Itzhak Sapir (Irvine, California); Paul Ronney (Monrovia, California); G. Jeffrey Snyder (Alta Dena, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Hsu (San Clemente, California); Itzhak Sapir (Irvine, California); Paul Ronney (Monrovia, California); G. Jeffrey Snyder (Alta Dena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-combustion power system is disclosed. The invention is comprised of a housing that further comprises two flow path volumes, each having generally opposing flow path directions and each generally having opposing configurations. Each flow path volume comprises a pre-heating volume having at least one pre-heating heat exchange structure. Each flow path volume further comprises a combustion volume having a combustion means or structure such as a catalytic material disposed therein Further, each flow path volume comprise a post-combustion volume having at least one post-combustion heat exchange structure. One or more thermoelectric generator means is in thermal communication with at least one of the combustion volumes whereby thermal energy generated by an air/fuel catalytic reaction in the combustion volume is transferred to the thermoelectric generator to convert same to electrical energy for use by an external circuit. A novel element of the invention relates to the opposing configuration and opposing flow path directions of the respective flow path volumes. The pre-heating heat exchange structure in the first flow path volume and the opposing post-combustion heat exchange structure are comprised of a shared, thermally conductive structure and material. In this embodiment, waste heat from the exhaust gas in the post-combustion chamber is thermally transferred to the opposing pre-heating volume to heat the air/fuel mixture therein to a suitable pre-combustion temperature to take advantage of waste heat while better managing thermal/cooling issues of the device during operation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/584460 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614435 | Avouris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Damon B. Farmer (Yorktown Heights, New York); Fengnian Xia (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Damon B. Farmer (Yorktown Heights, New York); Fengnian Xia (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabrication process for a nanoelectronic device and a device are provided. Channel material is deposited on a substrate to form a channel. A source metal contact and a drain metal contact are deposited on the channel material, and the source metal contact and the drain metal contact are on opposing ends of the channel material. A polyhydroxystyrene derivative is deposited on the channel material. A top gate oxide is deposited on the polymer layer. A top gate metal is deposited on the top gate oxide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611421 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614603 | Wyse et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Russell D. Wyse (Center Point, Iowa); Mark A. Willi (Marion, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell D. Wyse (Center Point, Iowa); Mark A. Willi (Marion, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An auto leveling circuit suitable for use in an RF receiver. The auto leveling circuit comprises a plurality of automatic gain control (AGC) circuits each having at least one amplifier stage to amplify an RF signal according to at least two incrementally discrete levels. In order to selectively control gain, the AGC circuits further comprise peak detectors to detect the amplitude of the amplified RF signal and comparators to compare the amplitude of the RF signal with a threshold value indicative of a saturation point of the amplifiers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/796937 |
| ART UNIT | 2648 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08614610 — Ruggedized waveguide encapsulation fixture for receiving a compressed waveguide component
| US 08614610 | Hacker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Hacker (Thousand Oaks, California); Chris Hillman (Newbury Park, California); Mark Field (Campbell, California); Robert L. Borwick, III (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Hacker (Thousand Oaks, California); Chris Hillman (Newbury Park, California); Mark Field (Campbell, California); Robert L. Borwick, III (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide component encapsulation device may include a housing having first and second surfaces, the housing defining a channel extending through the first and second surfaces, a micromachined waveguide component configured to be positioned in the channel, the waveguide component having first and second ends extending outside the channel and beyond the first and second surfaces of the housing by a finite length, and a pair of spacing members configured to align and stabilize the waveguide component within the channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/877059 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614633 | Lear et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael T. Lear (Baltimore, Maryland); Charles C. Nwadi (Baltimore, Maryland); Jessica M. Lockhart (Laurel, Maryland); John J. Curry, III (Baltimore, Maryland); Pamela Gilliam (Waldorf, Maryland); Nicholas D. Longo (Liverpool, New York); Michael A. Matyasik (Cicero, New York); Timothy M. Bearer (Liverpool, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Lear (Baltimore, Maryland); Charles C. Nwadi (Baltimore, Maryland); Jessica M. Lockhart (Laurel, Maryland); John J. Curry, III (Baltimore, Maryland); Pamela Gilliam (Waldorf, Maryland); Nicholas D. Longo (Liverpool, New York); Michael A. Matyasik (Cicero, New York); Timothy M. Bearer (Liverpool, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hazard assessment and strategy formulation system and method for a vessel may comprise a hazard assessment element receiving alarms and/or data for assessing the type and severity of a hazard, a plurality of models for modeling different hazards, and a strategy formulation element for formulating a strategy of tasks for responding to the type and severity of hazard represented by the hazard assessment, wherein the strategy formulation element and one or ones of the plurality of models are in communication. Tasks may be communicated for implementation, for display or for implementation and display. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970147 |
| ART UNIT | 2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/984 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614644 | Dybdal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Keith M. SooHoo (Long Beach, California); Samuel J. Curry (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Keith M. SooHoo (Long Beach, California); Samuel J. Curry (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for systems and methods for adaptively canceling interfering signals generated by a transmission antenna. Under one aspect, a system includes: an auxiliary antenna co-located with the main antenna, the auxiliary antenna configured to transmit an auxiliary signal to the victim antenna; a sensing antenna located on a line-of-sight path between the transmission antenna and the victim antenna, the sensing antenna configured to receive a composite of the interference and the auxiliary signal, and to output a first signal based on the received composite; a controller comprising an input coupled to the sensing antenna and configured to receive the first signal, the controller being configured to adjust at least one of an amplitude, a phase, a polarization, and a frequency characteristic of the auxiliary signal based on the first signal so as to reduce the composite of the interference and the auxiliary signal received by the sensing antenna. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/765577 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614794 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick L Smith (Arroyo Grande, California); Steven M Beck (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick L Smith (Arroyo Grande, California); Steven M Beck (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more embodiments of the present invention pertain to a system, method, and apparatus that accurately measures concentration of a greenhouse gas in narrow atmospheric columns above multiple sites utilizing a network of autonomous low-cost beacons that turn on for short unannounced time intervals and point to a receiving satellite. For example, each beacon can activate for short time intervals and transmit a laser beam at eye-safe low transmission power levels to a receiving satellite. The receiving satellite includes a sensor configured to receive the laser beam from one or more activated beacon and generate raw greenhouse gas concentration data based on measurement of the received laser beam intensity at selected wavelengths. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/299073 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614853 | 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 | A method and apparatus for two-dimensional wavelength beam combining of laser sources. In one example, an external cavity multi-wavelength laser includes an array of laser emitters each producing an optical beam having a specified wavelength, a grating stack comprising a plurality of first-order diffraction gratings arranged linearly in a first dimension, and a dispersive element. The laser further includes a cylindrical telescope that images the optical beams from the array of laser emitters onto the grating stack. A first cylindrical transform lens spatially overlaps the optical beams in a second dimension forming a first region of overlap at the grating stack. A second cylindrical transform lens spatially overlaps the optical beams from the grating stack in the first dimension forming a second region of overlap at the dispersive element. The dispersive element transmits a multi-wavelength output beam comprising the spatially overlapped optical beams from the array of laser emitters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/720186 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614940 | Dybdal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Bernhard Dybdal (Palos Verdes, California); Christopher Joseph Clark (Hermosa Beach, California); Samuel Joseph Curry (Redondo Beach, California); Lan Xu (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Under one aspect of the present invention, a system for processing a group of signals and interference includes (a) an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter for digitizing the group of signals and the interference; (b) a Fourier transform circuit for obtaining a Fourier transform of the digitized group of signals and the interference and to provide as output spectral bins, at least one of which contains the interference; (c) a power analysis circuit for comparing the collective power level of the spectral bins to a predetermined threshold, and if the collective power level exceeds the predetermined threshold, and for excising at least one bin that contains the interference; and (d) an inverse Fourier transform circuit for obtaining an inverse Fourier transform of the remaining spectral bins and outputting a digitized group of signals less the interference in any excised spectral bin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/676645 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615068 | Gunawardena et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Athula De Alwis Gunawardena (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Michael Charles Ferris (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Ricardo Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Athula De Alwis Gunawardena (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Michael Charles Ferris (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Ricardo Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing an intensity modulated arc therapy (“IMAT”) treatment plan are provided. A plurality of segmentations are generated, from which the IMAT treatment plan is determined. Apertures within each segmentation are ordered by minimizing the total leaf movement between pairs of segmentations in adjacent angles, during which corresponding minimum total leaf movement values between such pairs are calculated. From these segmentations, a network model is used to select those segmentations to be used in the IMAT treatment plan. The apertures in the selected segmentations are then modified by minimizing total leaf movement relative to the selected segmentations, and subject to physical constraints such as a maximum leaf movement constraint or interdigitation constraint. Segmentation errors in the modified segmentations are then locally minimized using a network model and a row-non-convexity measure to determine the order in which apertures are to be optimized. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242855 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615087 | DiCrescenzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Giovanni DiCrescenzo (Madison, New Jersey); Shahab Etemad (Warren, New Jersey); Ronald Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni DiCrescenzo (Madison, New Jersey); Shahab Etemad (Warren, New Jersey); Ronald Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In an OCDM-based photonic encryption system by applying random noise on unused channels and varying the inter-code phases on realistic framing repetition, an OCDM-based encryption system with provable security guarantees results. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391098 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615263 | Madon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phiroz H. Madon (Old Bridge, New Jersey); Anthony Triolo (Manalapan, New Jersey); Carol C. Martin (Fair Haven, New Jersey); HeeChang Kim (Marlboro, New Jersey); Gregory P. Pollini (Howell, New Jersey); Achilles Kogiantis (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phiroz H. Madon (Old Bridge, New Jersey); Anthony Triolo (Manalapan, New Jersey); Carol C. Martin (Fair Haven, New Jersey); HeeChang Kim (Marlboro, New Jersey); Gregory P. Pollini (Howell, New Jersey); Achilles Kogiantis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the present invention relate to wireless network management. One specific example relates to efficient radio frequency (RF) spectrum management involving multiple mobile vehicles, whereby a system and/or a method of the invention achieves greatly improved spectral efficiency in the assignment of frequency bands to communications channels between the vehicles and/or stationary ground stations. Other examples of the present invention provide systems and methods to analyze the RF emissions resulting from the motion of transmitters and/or receivers through airspace with the help of five-dimensional quanta of space (x, y, z), time and frequency to assign frequency bands to test plans (including previously-validated test plan(s) and/or to-be-validated test plan(s)). In one specific example, the analysis is directed to the assignment of frequency bands with and without reuse. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/285221 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615379 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ke Betty Li (Moon Township, Pennsylvania); Linda M. Abriola (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ke Betty Li (Moon Township, Pennsylvania); Linda M. Abriola (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for implementing a multi-stage spatial sampling strategy to select optimal sampling locations and determine an optimal sampling density for a quantification of mass discharge uncertainty in a field. The present invention also provides systems and methods for estimating probability of a mass discharge in a control plane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/518333 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615476 | Berger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore W. Berger (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Alireza Dibazar (Los Angeles, California); Hyung O. Park (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore W. Berger (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Alireza Dibazar (Los Angeles, California); Hyung O. Park (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An approaching human threat or vehicle, such as a suicide bomber nearing a secured zone such as a military base, may be detected and classified. A vibration recognition system may detect a systematic vibration event. The entity might be a medium, human, animal, or a passenger vehicle. The system may discriminate between such an event and a background or other vibration event, such as a falling tree limb. A seismic sensor may be employed to detect vibrations generated by footsteps and a vehicle. Seismic waves may be processed locally where the sensor is located. The system may wirelessly communicate with a remote command center. Temporal features of the vibration signals may be modeled by a biologically realistic neural network with good false recognition rates. The models may reject quadrupedal animal footsteps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759556 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615538 | Fleizach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Fleizach (San Diego, California); Ralph Hunt (San Marcos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Fleizach (San Diego, California); Ralph Hunt (San Marcos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to sub-filtering FIR (frequency impulse response) to provide the capabilities of an ambiguity function (i.e., search for a signal in time and frequency) without extensive computations. By minimizing the resources used for the signal search (increased efficiency), the size of the implementation of the ambiguity function in hardware, and thus its power consumption, can be reduced. Additionally, by making the frequency search more efficient, larger scale frequency searches are possible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719881 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08613197 | Uhm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Kwanwoo Kim (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Kwanwoo Kim (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor cap assembly for a turbine engine includes a combustor cap and a plurality of fuel nozzles mounted on the combustor cap. One or more of the fuel nozzles would include two separate fuel circuits which are individually controllable. The combustor cap assembly would be controlled so that individual fuel circuits of the fuel nozzles are operated or deliberately shut off to provide for physical separation between the flow of fuel delivered by adjacent fuel nozzles and/or so that adjacent fuel nozzles operate at different pressure differentials. Operating a combustor cap assembly in this fashion helps to reduce or eliminate the generation of undesirable and potentially harmful noise. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/850763 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613204 | Farmer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar-powered adsorption-desorption refrigeration and air conditioning system uses nanostructural materials made of high specific surface area adsorption aerogel as the adsorptive media. Refrigerant molecules are adsorbed on the high surface area of the nanostructural material. A circulation system circulates refrigerant from the nanostructural material to a cooling unit. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/848564 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613233 | Scott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jill R. Scott (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gary S. Groenewold (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill R. Scott (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gary S. Groenewold (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for sampling chemical compounds from fixed surfaces and related methods are disclosed. The device may include a vacuum source, a chamber and a sorbent material. The device may utilize vacuum extraction to volatilize the chemical compounds from a fixed surface so that they may be sorbed by the sorbent material. The sorbent material may then be analyzed using conventional thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (TD/GC/MS) instrumentation to determine presence of the chemical compounds. The methods may include detecting release and presence of one or more chemical compounds and determining the efficacy of decontamination. The device may be useful in collection and analysis of a variety of chemical compounds, such as residual chemical warfare agents, chemical attribution signatures and toxic industrial chemicals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/104853 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613496 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory McGraw (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory McGraw (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A first device is provided. The first device includes a print head, and a first gas source hermetically sealed to the print head. The print head further includes a first layer further comprising a plurality of apertures, each aperture having a smallest dimension of 0.5 to 500 microns. A second layer is bonded to the first layer. The second layer includes a first via in fluid communication with the first gas source and at least one of the apertures. The second layer is made of an insulating material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729479 |
| ART UNIT | 2861 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613520 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tyler Anderson (Lincoln, Nebraska); Ahmed Bouzid (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LI-COR, Inc. (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tyler Anderson (Lincoln, Nebraska); Ahmed Bouzid (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical mirror element includes an optically transmissive element having a first surface and a second surface, and a reflective coating layer on the first surface that defines a mirror surface. A first portion of the first surface does not include the reflective coating layer such that the first portion defines an optically transmissive window in the mirror surface. Q method of forming an optical mirror element having a window portion includes providing an optical element, masking a first portion of a first surface of the optical element, and thereafter applying a reflective coating to the first surface so as to define a reflective surface, wherein the masked portion defines a transmissive region in the reflective surface. The exposed portion of the first surface may be coated with an anti-reflective coating, either before or after the reflective coating is applied. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172103 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/839 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613789 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qingyou Han (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zhiwei Liu (Hebel, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingyou Han (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zhiwei Liu (Hebel, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing particle-reinforced composite materials through utilization of an in situ reaction to produce a uniform dispersion of a fine particulate reinforcement phase. The process includes forming a melt of a first material, and then introducing particles of a second material into the melt and subjecting the melt to high-intensity acoustic vibration. A chemical reaction initiates between the first and second materials to produce reaction products in the melt. The reaction products comprise a solid particulate phase, and the high-intensity acoustic vibration fragments and/or separates the reaction products into solid particles that are dispersed in the melt and are smaller than the particles of the second material. Also encompassed are particle-reinforced composite materials produced by such a process. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/293443 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613798 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ho Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Matthew F. Chisholm, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerald Earle Jellison, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David J. Singh (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Woo Seok Choi (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ho Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Matthew F. Chisholm, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerald Earle Jellison, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David J. Singh (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Woo Seok Choi (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A transition metal oxide insulator composition having a tuned band gap includes a transition metal oxide having a perovskite or a perovskite-like crystalline structure. The transition metal oxide includes at least one first element selected from the group of Bi, Ca, Ba, Sr, Li, Na, Mg, K, Pb, and Pr; and at least one second element selected from the group of Ti, Al, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, and Pt. At least one correlated insulator is integrated into the crystalline structure, including REMO3, wherein RE is at least one Rare Earth element, and wherein M is at least one element selected from the group of Co, V, Cr, Ni, Mn, and Fe. The composition is characterized by a band gap of less than 4.5 eV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/401100 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/286.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613900 | Frei et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Heinz M. Frei (Berkeley, California); Feng Jiao (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heinz M. Frei (Berkeley, California); Feng Jiao (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising a nanostructured transition metal oxide capable of oxidizing two H2O molecules to obtain four protons. In some embodiments of the invention, the composition further comprises a porous matrix wherein the nanocluster of the transition metal oxide is embedded on and/or in the porous matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/575829 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613902 | Hamilton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles W. Hamilton (Watertown, Massachusetts); R. Thomas Baker (Ottawa, Canada); Troy A. Semelsberger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Roshan P. Shrestha (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles W. Hamilton (Watertown, Massachusetts); R. Thomas Baker (Ottawa, Canada); Troy A. Semelsberger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Roshan P. Shrestha (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrogen (“H2”) is produced when ammonia borane reacts with a catalyst complex of the formula LnM-X wherein M is a base metal such as iron, X is an anionic nitrogen- or phosphorus-based ligand or hydride, and L is a neutral ancillary ligand that is a neutral monodentate or polydentate ligand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416835 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614023 | Poshusta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Protonex Technology Corporation (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Protonex Technology Corporation (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Poshusta (Broomfield, Colorado); Charles W. Booten (Arvada, Colorado); Jerry L. Martin (Superior, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) system having a hot zone with a center cathode air feed tube for improved reactant distribution, a CPOX reactor attached at the anode feed end of the hot zone with a tail gas combustor at the opposing end for more uniform heat distribution, and a counter-flow heat exchanger for efficient heat retention. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645054 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614067 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Christian Isak Jorgensen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Randall Kramer (Lincoln, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/857014 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614344 | Kaido et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hiroki Kaido (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Michael John Tupy (Crystal, Minnesota); Richard L. Pederson (San Gabriel, California); Yann Schrodi (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroki Kaido (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Michael John Tupy (Crystal, Minnesota); Richard L. Pederson (San Gabriel, California); Yann Schrodi (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are improved methods for conducting metathesis utilizing polyunsaturated fatty acid compositions (e.g., polyunsaturated fatty acid polyol esters, polyunsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty esters, and mixtures), such as those found in naturally occurring oils and fats, as the starting material. The inventive methods involve hydrogenation of polyunsaturated fatty acid compositions prior to metathesis, thereby providing partially-hydrogenation compositions having a relatively higher amount of monounsaturated fatty acid species. The partially hydrogenated composition can then be subjected to metathesis to provide a metathesis product composition containing industrially useful compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444791 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614395 | Nielson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul J. Resnick (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark Woodbury Wanlass (Golden, Colorado); Peggy J. Clews (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul J. Resnick (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark Woodbury Wanlass (Golden, Colorado); Peggy J. Clews (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A III-V solar cell is described herein that includes all back side contacts. Additionally, the positive and negative electrical contacts contact compound semiconductor layers of the solar cell other than the absorbing layer of the solar cell. That is, the positive and negative electrical contacts contact passivating layers of the solar cell. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164017 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614564 | Perisic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Milun Perisic (Torrance, California); Lateef A. Kajouke (San Pedro, California); Ray M. Ransom (Big Bear City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLS (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milun Perisic (Torrance, California); Lateef A. Kajouke (San Pedro, California); Ray M. Ransom (Big Bear City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for an electrical system. The electrical system includes a load, an interface configured to receive a voltage from a voltage source, and a controller configured to receive the voltage from the voltage source through the interface and to provide a voltage and current to the load. Wherein, when the controller is in a constant voltage mode, the controller provides a constant voltage to the load, when the controller is in a constant current mode, the controller provides a constant current to the load, and when the controller is in a constant power mode, the controller provides a constant power to the load. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/949439 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614575 | Demas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vasiliki Demas (Oakland, California); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California); Rachel W. Martin (Irvine, California); John Franck (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey A. Reimer (El Cerrito, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vasiliki Demas (Oakland, California); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California); Rachel W. Martin (Irvine, California); John Franck (Berkeley, California); Jeffrey A. Reimer (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for locally creating effectively homogeneous or “clean” magnetic field gradients (of high uniformity) for imaging (with NMR, MRI, or spectroscopic MRI) both in in-situ and ex-situ systems with high degrees of inhomogeneous field strength. The method of imaging comprises: a) providing a functional approximation of an inhomogeneous static magnetic field strength B0({right arrow over (r)}) at a spatial position {right arrow over (r)}; b) providing a temporal functional approximation of {right arrow over (G)}shim(t) with i basis functions and j variables for each basis function, resulting in vij variables; c) providing a measured value Ω, which is an temporally accumulated dephasing due to the inhomogeneities of B0({right arrow over (r)}); and d) minimizing a difference in the local dephasing angle φ({right arrow over (r)},t)=γ∫0t√{square root over (|{right arrow over (B)}1({right arrow over (r)},t′)|2+({right arrow over (r)}·{right arrow over (G)}shimGshim(t′)+∥{right arrow over (B)}0({right arrow over (r)})∥Δω({right arrow over (r)},t′)/γ)2)}dt′−Ω by varying the vij variables to form a set of minimized vij variables. The method requires calibration of the static fields prior to minimization, but may thereafter be implemented without such calibration, may be used in open or closed systems, and potentially portable systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/917639 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08613898 | Zhai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida); Jianhua Liu (Orlando, Florida); Jianhua Zou (Orlando, Florida); Anindarupa Chunder (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida); Jianhua Liu (Orlando, Florida); Jianhua Zou (Orlando, Florida); Anindarupa Chunder (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition of matter includes at least one carbon nanotube (CNT) or a graphene type structure having an outer surface, and a plurality of crystalline polymer supramolecular structures that include a conjugated polymer that are non-covalently secured to the outer surface of the CNTs or the graphene type structure. The conjugated polymer can be a conjugated homopolymer or a block copolymer including at least one conjugated block. The supramolecular structures extend outward from the outer surface of the CNTs or graphene type structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/015170 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613944 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Yang (Arlington, Texas); Minh-Tuan Richard Tran (Fort Worth, Texas); Michael W Palmer (Arlington, Texas); Shou-Jiang Tang (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Yang (Arlington, Texas); Minh-Tuan Richard Tran (Fort Worth, Texas); Michael W Palmer (Arlington, Texas); Shou-Jiang Tang (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, methods for separating biological tissue are described herein. In some embodiments, a method for separating tissue comprises providing a first composition comprising a polymerizable material, providing a second composition comprising a polymerization initiator, disposing the first composition at a first site beneath a first tissue layer, disposing the second composition at the first site, polymerizing the polymerizable material at the first site, and separating the first tissue layer from a second tissue layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/425750 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614021 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Goleta, California); Logan E. Garner (Goleta, California); James J. Sumner (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Goleta, California); Logan E. Garner (Goleta, California); James J. Sumner (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides molecules useful for enhancing charge transport across membranes, such as electron transport across membranes, and methods of using such molecules, for example in improving the performance of a microbial fuel cell or in staining microbes for observation. The amphiphilic molecule comprises a conjugated core with hydrophilic groups on either end. The amphiphilic molecule inserts into the membrane of a microbe and facilitates charge transfer across the membrane of the microbe. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/158296 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614293 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Deajeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Deajeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611256 |
| 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 08614347 | Percec et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virgil Percec (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher J. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom); Daniela A. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom); Andrew E Feiring (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Virgil Percec (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher J. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom); Daniela A. Wilson (Rotherham, United Kingdom); Andrew E Feiring (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the design of an environmentally friendly and efficient fluorous phase based on dendritic architectures containing short semifluorinated groups on their periphery. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/456607 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08615804 | Mui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond Mui (New York, New York); Phyllis Frankl (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Mui (New York, New York); Phyllis Frankl (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method to prevent the effect of web application injection attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), which are major threats to the security of the Internet. Method using complementary character coding, a new approach to character level dynamic tainting, which allows efficient and precise taint propagation across the boundaries of server components, and also between servers and clients over HTTP. In this approach, each character has two encodings, which can be used to distinguish trusted and untrusted data. Small modifications to the lexical analyzers in components such as the application code interpreter, the database management system, and (optionally) the web browser allow them to become complement aware components, capable of using this alternative character coding scheme to enforce security policies aimed at preventing injection attacks, while continuing to function normally in other respects. This approach overcomes some weaknesses of previous dynamic tainting approaches by offering a precise protection against persistent cross-site scripting attacks, as taint information is maintained when data is passed to a database and later retrieved by the application program. The technique is effective on a group of vulnerable benchmarks and has low overhead. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/030657 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08613818 | Forbes Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robin M. Forbes Jones (Charlotte, North Carolina); John V. Mantione (Indian Trail, North Carolina); Urban J. De Souza (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jean-Philippe Thomas (Charlotte, North Carolina); Ramesh S. Minisandram (Charlotte, North Carolina); Richard L. Kennedy (Monroe, North Carolina); R. Mark Davis (Marshville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin M. Forbes Jones (Charlotte, North Carolina); John V. Mantione (Indian Trail, North Carolina); Urban J. De Souza (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jean-Philippe Thomas (Charlotte, North Carolina); Ramesh S. Minisandram (Charlotte, North Carolina); Richard L. Kennedy (Monroe, North Carolina); R. Mark Davis (Marshville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of refining the grain size of titanium and titanium alloys include thermally managed high strain rate multi-axis forging. A high strain rate adiabatically heats an internal region of the workpiece during forging, and a thermal management system is used to heat an external surface region to the workpiece forging temperature, while the internal region is allowed to cool to the workpiece forging temperature. A further method includes multiple upset and draw forging titanium or a titanium alloy using a strain rate less than is used in conventional open die forging of titanium and titanium alloys. Incremental workpiece rotation and draw forging causes severe plastic deformation and grain refinement in the titanium or titanium alloy forging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/882538 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613951 | Zale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen E. Zale (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Greg Troiano (Pembroke, Massachusetts); Mir Mukkaram Ali (Woburn, Massachusetts); Jeff Hrkach (Lexington, Massachusetts); James Wright (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BIND Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Zale (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Greg Troiano (Pembroke, Massachusetts); Mir Mukkaram Ali (Woburn, Massachusetts); Jeff Hrkach (Lexington, Massachusetts); James Wright (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to therapeutic nanoparticles. Exemplary nanoparticles disclosed herein may include about 1 to about 20 weight percent of a mTOR inhibitor; and about 70 to about 99 weight percent biocompatible polymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/485462 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 59/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613954 | Zale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bind Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BIND Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Zale (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Greg Troiano (Pembroke, Massachusetts); Mir Mukkaram Ali (Woburn, Massachusetts); Jeff Hrkach (Lexington, Massachusetts); James Wright (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to nanoparticles having about 0.2 to about 35 weight percent of a therapeutic agent; and about 10 to about 99 weight percent of biocompatible polymer such as a diblock poly(lactic) acid-poly(ethylene)glycol. Other aspects of the invention include methods of making such nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/862027 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 59/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614089 | Zieler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helge Zieler (Encinitas, California); Gary W. Rudgers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Michael H. Pauly (Del Mar, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helge Zieler (Encinitas, California); Gary W. Rudgers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois); Michael H. Pauly (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is generally related to methods of generating plants transformed with novel autonomous mini-chromosomes. Mini-chromosomes with novel compositions and structures are used to transform plants cells which are in turn used to generate the plant. Methods for generating the plant include methods for delivering the mini-chromosome into plant cell to transform the cell, methods for selecting the transformed cell, and methods for isolating plants transformed with the mini-chromosome. Plants generated in the present invention contain novel genes introduced into their genome by integration into existing chromosomes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/531287 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08613780 | Asthana et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Navinchandra S. Asthana (Evansville, Indiana); Dennis J. Miller (Okemos, Michigan); Carl T. Lira (East Lansing, Michigan); Evan Bittner (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Navinchandra S. Asthana (Evansville, Indiana); Dennis J. Miller (Okemos, Michigan); Carl T. Lira (East Lansing, Michigan); Evan Bittner (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing mixed esters of fatty acids as biofuel or additive to a petroleum fuel for use in a compression ignition (CI) engine. The process preferably provides a partial transesterification of a mixture of fatty acid methyl esters with at least one alkyl alcohol containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms in the presence of a heterogeneous solid acid catalyst to produce a mixture of the fatty acid methyl esters and alkyl alcohol esters of the fatty acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313343 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuel and related compositions 044/388 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613894 | Zhao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Quanbao Zhao (Pullman, Washington); Stephen W. Dvorak (Chilton, Wisconsin); Shulin Chen (Pullman, Washington); Craig Frear (Pullman, Washington); Bryan J. VanLoo (Lynden, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DVO, Inc. (Chilton, Wisconsin); Washington State University (Pullman, Washington); Andgar Corporation (Everett, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quanbao Zhao (Pullman, Washington); Stephen W. Dvorak (Chilton, Wisconsin); Shulin Chen (Pullman, Washington); Craig Frear (Pullman, Washington); Bryan J. VanLoo (Lynden, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatuses for anaerobic digestion of waste fibrous material and the recovery of nutrients are provided. Methods, systems, and apparatuses disclosed herein provide mechanisms to release dissolved gases from anaerobic digester effluent. Methods, systems and apparatuses disclosed herein can recover one or more nutrients from anaerobic digested effluent using a range of temperatures, aeration rates, aeration times, pH ranges, and settling times. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157907 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08614586 | Kandala |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chari Kandala (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chari Kandala (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The moisture measuring method and apparatus determines the moisture content of post-harvest in-shell peanuts. A crystal oscillator generates a high frequency signal that is directed through a selected sample of in-shell peanuts. Capacitance, impedance, and phase change data associated with the sample are generated at (at least) two frequencies. The data is then substituted into a semi-empirical equation to determine the moisture content of the in-shell peanuts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/005168 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/664 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08613241 | Martinez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin A Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Engineering Science Analysis Corp (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A restraining device for use in a water environment includes a plurality of tendrils that can be launched from a submerged device when an unauthorized swimmer is proximate the restraining device. Data communication in a neural-network of restraining devices is facilitated by a central command that has the capability of directing restraining devices, normally, aquatic mines, to a target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507815 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08613894 | Zhao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Quanbao Zhao (Pullman, Washington); Stephen W. Dvorak (Chilton, Wisconsin); Shulin Chen (Pullman, Washington); Craig Frear (Pullman, Washington); Bryan J. VanLoo (Lynden, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DVO, Inc. (Chilton, Wisconsin); Washington State University (Pullman, Washington); Andgar Corporation (Everett, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quanbao Zhao (Pullman, Washington); Stephen W. Dvorak (Chilton, Wisconsin); Shulin Chen (Pullman, Washington); Craig Frear (Pullman, Washington); Bryan J. VanLoo (Lynden, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatuses for anaerobic digestion of waste fibrous material and the recovery of nutrients are provided. Methods, systems, and apparatuses disclosed herein provide mechanisms to release dissolved gases from anaerobic digester effluent. Methods, systems and apparatuses disclosed herein can recover one or more nutrients from anaerobic digested effluent using a range of temperatures, aeration rates, aeration times, pH ranges, and settling times. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157907 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 08615804 | Mui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond Mui (New York, New York); Phyllis Frankl (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Mui (New York, New York); Phyllis Frankl (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method to prevent the effect of web application injection attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), which are major threats to the security of the Internet. Method using complementary character coding, a new approach to character level dynamic tainting, which allows efficient and precise taint propagation across the boundaries of server components, and also between servers and clients over HTTP. In this approach, each character has two encodings, which can be used to distinguish trusted and untrusted data. Small modifications to the lexical analyzers in components such as the application code interpreter, the database management system, and (optionally) the web browser allow them to become complement aware components, capable of using this alternative character coding scheme to enforce security policies aimed at preventing injection attacks, while continuing to function normally in other respects. This approach overcomes some weaknesses of previous dynamic tainting approaches by offering a precise protection against persistent cross-site scripting attacks, as taint information is maintained when data is passed to a database and later retrieved by the application program. The technique is effective on a group of vulnerable benchmarks and has low overhead. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/030657 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08613241 | Martinez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin A Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Engineering Science Analysis Corp (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A restraining device for use in a water environment includes a plurality of tendrils that can be launched from a submerged device when an unauthorized swimmer is proximate the restraining device. Data communication in a neural-network of restraining devices is facilitated by a central command that has the capability of directing restraining devices, normally, aquatic mines, to a target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507815 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08614083 | Tzipori et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Udi Zukerman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gary Stacey (Marshfield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); Haemonetics (Braintree, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Udi Zukerman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gary Stacey (Marshfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the simultaneous concentration of multiple toxins from large volumes of water. The method includes the steps of providing a disposable separation centrifuge bowl, the centrifuge bowl including a positively charged material at it's inner core. A large water sample contaminated with toxins from a group consisting of protozoa, bacteria, bacterial spores, and toxins is delivered to the centrifuge bowl. A centrifugal force is applied to the separation bowl. The water sample is concentrated to remove large particles of the toxins in the bowl due to the centrifugal forces. The concentrated water sample is passes through the positively charged inner core to capture any remaining concentrated targets by electrostatic forces and the concentrated targets are eluted. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/602819 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08613848 | Wachsman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric D. Wachsman (Gainesville, Florida); Keith L. Duncan (Gainesville, Florida); Helena Hagelin-Weaver (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Wachsman (Gainesville, Florida); Keith L. Duncan (Gainesville, Florida); Helena Hagelin-Weaver (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for the concurrent oxygen generation and control of carbon dioxide for life support system involves two stages, where a first stage removes CO2 from an exhalent side of a ventilation loop and a second stage employs Ceramic Oxygen Generators (COGs) to convert CO2 into carbon and O2. The first stage includes a plurality of chambers and means to switch the ventilation loop through at least one of the chambers, where CO2 removal is carried out before discharge of the CO2 depleted gas to an inhalant side of the ventilation loop, and to exclude the ventilation loop from the remaining chambers of the first stage, where these chambers are placed in communication with the second stage. The second stage has two portions separated by the COGs such that CO2 and the formed carbon remain on an intake portion from the O2 rich atmosphere on the exhaust side, which is plumbed via a metering valve to introduce the O2 rich atmosphere to the inhalant side of the ventilation loop. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/598243 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/634 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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