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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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| US 08656724 | Cawley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Cawley (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania); Brian Lowery (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Timothy F. Miller (State College, Pennsylvania); John Herr (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Martin Klanchar (State College, Pennsylvania); Daniel H. Kiely (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Cawley (Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania); Brian Lowery (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Timothy F. Miller (State College, Pennsylvania); John Herr (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Martin Klanchar (State College, Pennsylvania); Daniel H. Kiely (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An engine that oxidizes aluminum with water to produce electrical and/or mechanical power. The engine can include a fuel made at least partly from aluminum powder that flows like liquid under high pressure. The engine can also include a steam supply system, a combustor, a fuel feed system, a fuel injection system, and a water supply system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/084905 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/775 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08656760 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerome Johnson (Fairbanks, Alaska); Kris Zacny (New York, New York); Philip Chu (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome Johnson (Fairbanks, Alaska); Kris Zacny (New York, New York); Philip Chu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual aerial-drop penetrometer system includes a high-velocity (>30 m/s) penetrometer aerial unit combined with a low-velocity (<10 m/s) penetrometer aerial unit. The primary penetrometer is formed as an outer shell having the secondary penetrometer received in telescoping fashion within, which is ejected by a spring ejection mechanism upon impact of the outer shell. Both penetrometers provide deceleration information as they penetrate the soil of interest. The data from the two penetrometers, after analysis, can be used to assess soil strength as well as trafficability for the deployment of remotely-controlled vehicles, for example. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229885 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08656779 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas E. Adams (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Joseph Koester (Lafayette, Indiana); Sara Underwood (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas E. Adams (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Joseph Koester (Lafayette, Indiana); Sara Underwood (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for exciting a structure and determining its structural integrity. In particular, methods of nonlinear analysis are used to compare first and second response datasets, each dataset resulting from a different excitation amplitude that the other dataset. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/254779 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08656785 | Shaw |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Greg S. Shaw (University Heights, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg S. Shaw (University Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a pressure sensor comprising multiple flexible diaphragms to which are affixed, within which are embedded, or which themselves constitute part of transducer elements that are connected together electrically, providing greater sensitivity and allowing the diaphragms to be made smaller, thereby increasing burst pressure to operating pressure ratio. This multi-diaphragm pressure sensor can therefore be used to accurately measure small changes in dynamic pressure in a fluid of overall high static pressure, for example, in a flow inventory control system as may be used in a fire suppression system, or for control of nuclear reactor systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/353774 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08656957 | Babinsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Holger Babinsky (Linton, United Kingdom); Eric Loth (Champaign, Illinois); Sang Lee (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holger Babinsky (Linton, United Kingdom); Eric Loth (Champaign, Illinois); Sang Lee (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices for generating streamwise vorticity in a boundary includes various forms of vortex generators. One form of a split-ramp vortex generator includes a first ramp element and a second ramp element with front ends and back ends, ramp surfaces extending between the front ends and the back ends, and vertical surfaces extending between the front ends and the back ends adjacent the ramp surfaces. A flow channel is between the first ramp element and the second ramp element. The back ends of the ramp elements have a height greater than a height of the front ends, and the front ends of the ramp elements have a width greater than a width of the back ends. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/895781 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08656989 | Williams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew D. Williams (Edgewood, New Mexico); Brandon J. Arritt (Sandia Park, New Mexico); M. Eric Lyall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Williams (Edgewood, New Mexico); Brandon J. Arritt (Sandia Park, New Mexico); M. Eric Lyall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified isogrid panel including face sheets and underlying longitudinal and transverse ribs which stiffen the panel. The ribs are hollow to provide fluid channels for distributing fluid to various sections of each face sheet. A valve at each node where ribs intersect controls or reroutes fluid flow through the fluid channels in the ribs. The ribs are the primary fluid distributors and are fluidly connected to capillary channels located beneath the surface of each face sheet. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049474 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657120 | Lean et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Jeonggi Seo (Albany, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Jeonggi Seo (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Trapping structures are provided for particle separation devices that make use of traveling wave fluid flow. These trapping structures are operative to capture and collect separated particles and present them for extraction. The extraction can be accomplished in conventional manners, such as through the use of suitable sized pipettes. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/606457 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657454 | Olsen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reflector particularly adaptable to the collection of solar energy for use in heating systems, thermal to electrical conversion systems and in photovoltaic conversions systems. The reflector can also be used for transmission, or reception or both of radio frequency radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/338432 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/871 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657484 | Bottiger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerold R. Bottiger (Aberdeen, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerold R. Bottiger (Aberdeen, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for mixing contents within an enclosed container, which includes a mixing element composed of a magnetically interactive material, which is configured for placement within the enclosed container, a movable member disposed outside of the enclosed container, the movable member being magnetically engageable with the mixing element, a base member for positioning the movable member proximate the enclosed container, and a motor adapted for driving the movable member in a continuous, reciprocating or oscillating motion relative to the enclosed container, wherein the movable member interacts with and urges the mixing element to translate between a first position and a second position within the container, and one of the mixing element or an end portion of the armature is a magnet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352733 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657634 | Bootle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey David Bootle (Maidstone, United Kingdom); Rodney Dyason (Chatham, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (, Luxembourg) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey David Bootle (Maidstone, United Kingdom); Rodney Dyason (Chatham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a connector assembly comprising a connector unit mounted in a housing. The connector unit has a mounting portion, at least one electrical terminal and a body portion having a locking tab. The housing has a first longitudinal axis X1 and the body portion has a second longitudinal axis X2. The first longitudinal axis X1 and the second longitudinal axis X2 are offset from each other to enable the tip of the locking tab to be radially inset. An axial press tool can be used to mount the connector unit mechanically in the housing. The present invention also relates to a method of assembling a connector assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/899199 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/675 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08657984 — Method for fabricating composite grid-stiffened structures with integrated fluid channels
| US 08657984 | Williams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew D. Williams (Tijeras, New Mexico); Richard Lee Underwood, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Greg Thomas Busch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Williams (Tijeras, New Mexico); Richard Lee Underwood, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Greg Thomas Busch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a grid-stiffened panel which incorporates a network of fluid channels and passageways into the ribs and face sheet is described. The method is comprised of a base tooling assembly, an expansion tooling assembly, a composite prepreg, plugs, a face sheet and a network of valves and pumps, wherein the prepreg is draped over said expansion tooling and assembled with the base tooling assembly to form a rib structure. Channel plugs are placed therein such that gaps between adjacent expansion tooling blocks are filled, and the entire rib structure assembly is autoclaved. The face sheet may be comprised of a plurality of layers, whereby channels are machined into the lower layer(s). The upper layer(s) are bonded to the lower layer(s) to seal the channels, and said face sheet is bonded to the rib structure. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/843160 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658056 | Cook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Cook (Beavercreek, Ohio); Dean R. Evans (Beavercreek, Ohio); Sergey Basun (Beavercreek, Ohio); Victor Y. Reshetnyak (Kyiv, Ukraine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Cook (Beavercreek, Ohio); Dean R. Evans (Beavercreek, Ohio); Sergey Basun (Beavercreek, Ohio); Victor Y. Reshetnyak (Kyiv, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for separating and harvesting very small single domain ferroelectric nanoparticles by application of a non-uniform electric or magnetic field gradient. The disclosed methods enable collection of nanoparticles with permanent strong dipole moments for use in a wide variety of applications with greatly improved results. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/903331 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658083 | Bayya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure involves a new spinel and glass micro-composite material and process for making such. The composite has excellent transmission in the 0.5-5.0 μm wavelength region suitable for various visible and mid IR applications utilizing windows, domes and other geometric shapes. The composite can be made at a temperature about 40% lower than the glass melting temperature and about 50% lower than the spinel sintering temperature. The composite material has high modulus and fracture toughness which are important for impact resistance in armor and other practical applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533227 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 41/5046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658088 | Sagripanti |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jose-Luis Sagripanti (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose-Luis Sagripanti (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held device and method of processing a biological threat agent sample such that any infectious organism is rendered harmless while preserving it for subsequent testing, the method comprising placing a sample comprising a biological threat agent in a reservoir; adding a first reagent comprising peracetic acid in sufficient concentration to reach a predetermined minimal concentration after mixing with the sample in the reservoir; inactivating the sample upon interaction of the sample with the first reagent for a predetermined period of time at a predetermined temperature; removing the inactivated sample from the reservoir; and providing the inactivated sample for subsequent diagnostic testing, wherein the subsequent diagnostic testing is unaffected by inactivation of the sample. In another embodiment, the first reagent comprises a cupric salt, which is mixed with ascorbic acid and hydrogen peroxide to generate cupric ascorbate. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/445490 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 1/0215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/00 (20130101) A61L 2/186 (20130101) A61L 2/208 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 3/04 (20130101) Pasteurisation, Sterilisation, Preservation, Purification, Clarification or Ageing of Alcoholic Beverages; Methods for Altering the Alcohol Content of Fermented Solutions or Alcoholic Beverages C12H 1/00 (20130101) C12H 1/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658192 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Luo Mi (Seattle, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Yuting Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Luo Mi (Seattle, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Yuting Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Cationic polymers hydrolyzable to zwitterionic polymers, monomers for making the cationic polymers, surfaces that include the polymers, and methods for making and using the cationic polymers and surfaces. The cationic polymers include counterions and/or hydrolyzable groups that release active agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/904341 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658255 | Kirby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Liberty Township, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (West Chester, Ohio); Ming Fu (Hamilton, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Liberty Township, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (West Chester, Ohio); Ming Fu (Hamilton, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of making components having calcium magnesium aluminosilicate (CMAS) mitigation capability involving providing a component; applying an environmental barrier coating to the component, the environmental barrier coating having a separate CMAS mitigation layer including a CMAS mitigation composition selected from rare earth elements, rare earth oxides, zirconia, hafnia partially or fully stabilized with alkaline earth or rare earth elements, zirconia partially or fully stabilized with alkaline earth or rare earth elements, magnesium oxide, cordierite, aluminum phosphate, magnesium silicate, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340013 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658291 | Kirby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Liberty Township, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (West Chester, Ohio); Ming Fu (Hamilton, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Liberty Township, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (West Chester, Ohio); Ming Fu (Hamilton, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Calcium magnesium aluminosilicate (CMAS) mitigation compositions selected from rare earth elements, rare earth oxides, zirconia, hafnia partially or fully stabilized with alkaline earth or rare earth elements, zirconia partially or fully stabilized with alkaline earth or rare earth elements, magnesium oxide, cordierite, aluminum phosphate, magnesium silicate, and combinations thereof when the CMAS mitigation composition is included as a separate CMAS mitigation layer in an environmental barrier coating for a high temperature substrate component. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/339974 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658372 | Kulagina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nadezhda V Kulagina (Falls Church, Virginia); Chris Rowe Taitt (White Plains, Maryland); George P Anderson (Lanham, Maryland); Frances S Ligler (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadezhda V Kulagina (Falls Church, Virginia); Chris Rowe Taitt (White Plains, Maryland); George P Anderson (Lanham, Maryland); Frances S Ligler (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of biochemical identification by: providing a plurality of capture species bound to one or more substrates and suspected of having one or more biological targets affinity bound to at least one capture species; detecting which capture species contain bound biological targets to generate a binding pattern; and identifying the biological target based on the binding pattern. The capture species are independently selected from the group consisting of antimicrobial peptides, cytotoxic peptides, antibiotics, and combinations thereof. A device having the capture species bound to the substrates. At least two of the capture species are capable of multi-specific binding to one or more biological targets and may have overlapping but not identical affinity properties. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307399 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658519 | Hersee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Summerland Key, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide non-planar nanowires, nanowire arrays, and nanowire networks as well as methods of their formation and applications. The non-planar nanowires and their arrays can be formed in a controlled manner on surfaces having a non-planar orientation. In embodiments, two or more adjacent nanowires from different surfaces can grow to merge together forming one or more nanowire branches and thus forming a nanowire network. In embodiments, the non-planar nanowires and nanowire networks can be used for cantilever oscillation, switching and transistor actions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677203 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658554 | Dorner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert W. Dorner (Naperville, Illinois); Heather D. Willauer (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dennis R Hardy (California, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Dorner (Naperville, Illinois); Heather D. Willauer (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dennis R Hardy (California, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst support which may be used to support various catalysts for use in reactions for hydrogenation of carbon dioxide including a catalyst support material and an active material capable of catalyzing a reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reaction associated with the catalyst support material. A catalyst for hydrogenation of carbon dioxide may be supported on the catalyst support. A method for making a catalyst for use in hydrogenation of carbon dioxide including application of an active material capable of catalyzing a reverse water-gas shift (RWGS) reaction to a catalyst support material, the coated catalyst support material is optionally calcined, and a catalyst for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide is deposited on the coated catalyst support material. A process for hydrogenation of carbon dioxide and for making syngas comprising a hydrocarbon, esp. methane, reforming step and a RWGS step which employs the catalyst composition of the present invention and products thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914237 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658555 | Bandosz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teresa J. Bandosz (Teaneck, New York); Mykola Seredych (New York, New York); Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Christopher J. Karwacki (Churchville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa J. Bandosz (Teaneck, New York); Mykola Seredych (New York, New York); Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Christopher J. Karwacki (Churchville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods useful for removing toxic industrial compounds from air are disclosed, wherein said composition comprises a mixture of hydrous metal oxide and graphite oxide. In a most preferred embodiment the composition comprises a mixture of zirconium hydroxide and graphene oxide. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/289156 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658573 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel photo-generated carbohydrate arrays and methods of their use to detect the presence of one or more agents in a sample. The invention also relates to a high-throughput strategy to facilitate the identification and immunological characterization of pathogen-specific carbohydrates, including those of Bacillus anthracis. The invention can be used to determine the presence of a pathogen and whether a subject has been exposed to a pathogen, such as by screening for pathogen-specific antibodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900221 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658614 | Gorenstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Takemi Tanaka (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Anoma Somasunderam (Galveston, Texas); Aman Mann (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Takemi Tanaka (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Anoma Somasunderam (Galveston, Texas); Aman Mann (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated nucleic acid molecule that selectively binds to an E-selectin protein comprises a contiguous 29-30 nucleotide sequence that includes at least one monothiophosphate or a dithiophosphate modified nucleotide. Also disclosed are methods of inhibiting an E-selectin mediated interaction with a natural E-selectin ligand, and methods of targeting an imaging agent or therapeutic agent to a target tissue bearing E-selectin. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/209866 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658681 | Sawyers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Samedy Ouk (Los Angeles, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Samedy Ouk (Los Angeles, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to diarylhydantoin compounds, including diarylthiohydantoins, and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/448964 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658778 | Ji et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lin X. Ji (Sugar Land, Texas); Bingliang Fang (Pearland, Texas); Jack A. Roth (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin X. Ji (Sugar Land, Texas); Bingliang Fang (Pearland, Texas); Jack A. Roth (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Promoters that include a tissue-selective promoter sequence and a second promoter sequence operatively coupled to the tissue-selective promoter sequence, wherein the second promoter sequence includes a minimal viral promoter sequence, are disclosed. Nucleic acids and compositions that include these promoter sequences are also disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of improving the function of a tissue-selective promoter, involving operatively coupling a tissue-selective promoter sequence with a second promoter sequence that includes a minimal viral promoter sequence. Also disclosed are methods of delivering a gene into a cell, methods of treating a subject with a hyperproliferative disease, and methods of imaging a cell that involve use of the novel promoter sequences set forth herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372246 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658976 | Sengupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kaushik Sengupta (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (La Canada, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaushik Sengupta (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-power 4×4-pixel THz camera with responsivity greater than 2.5 MV/W and sub-10 pW/√Hz NEP at 0.25 THz is integrated in 130 nm silicon without using either high-resistivity substrates or silicon lenses. Imaging results with a fully integrated radiating CMOS power source demonstrate the first entirely silicon-based THz imager. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/693025 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659005 | Tansu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Ronald A. Arif (Raleigh, North Carolina); Yik Khoon Ee (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Hongping Zhao (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Ronald A. Arif (Raleigh, North Carolina); Yik Khoon Ee (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Hongping Zhao (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting device comprising a staggered composition quantum well (QW) has a step-function-like profile in the QW, which provides higher radiative efficiency and optical gain by providing improved electron-hole wavefunction overlap. The staggered QW includes adjacent layers having distinctly different compositions. The staggered QW has adjacent layers Xn wherein X is a quantum well component and in one quantum well layer n is a material composition selected for emission at a first target light regime, and in at least one other quantum well layer n is a distinctly different composition for emission at a different target light regime. X may be an In-content layer and the multiple Xn-containing a step function In-content profile. |
| FILED | Monday, December 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/520708 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659009 | Ozyilmaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Singapore, Singapore); Dmitri Efetov (New York, New York); Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Singapore, Singapore); Dmitri Efetov (New York, New York); Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A locally gated graphene nanostructure is described, along with methods of making and using the same. A graphene layer can include first and second terminal regions separated by a substantially single layer gated graphene nanoconstriction. A local first gate region can be separated from the graphene nanoconstriction by a first gate dielectric. The local first gate region can be capacitively coupled to gate electrical conduction in the graphene nanoconstriction. A second gate region can be separated from the graphene nanoconstriction by a second gate dielectric. The second gate region can be capacitively coupled to provide a bias to a first location in the graphene nanoconstriction and to a second location outside of the graphene nanoconstriction. Methods of making and using locally gated graphene nanostructures are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290648 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659161 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Craig A. Stephen (San Francisco, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); James G. Mitchell (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Craig A. Stephen (San Francisco, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); James G. Mitchell (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chip package includes a substrate having a positive feature, which is defined on a surface of the substrate and which protrudes above a region on the surface proximate to the positive feature. Furthermore, the chip package includes a mechanical reinforcement mechanism defined on the substrate proximate to the positive feature that increases a lateral shear strength of the positive feature relative to the substrate. In this way, the chip package may facilitate increased reliability of a multi-chip module (MCM) that includes the chip package. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/165599 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/773 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659185 | Coons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terry L. Coons (Troy, Ohio); Steve Toothman (Mukiteo, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry L. Coons (Troy, Ohio); Steve Toothman (Mukiteo, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for an electrical bus leveling unit are provided. The electrical bus leveling unit includes a first power supply configured to generate electrical energy having a first set of electrical parameters and a power converter electrically coupled to said power supply. The power converter is configured to be coupled to an electrical bus couplable to a second power supply. The electrical bus leveling unit also includes a controller including a processor that is communicatively coupled to the power supply and the power converter The controller is configured to receive information relating to the operation of the electrical bus from a plurality of sensors, control an output of at least one of the power supply and the power converter to transfer electrical energy to the electrical bus when the second set of electrical parameters on the electrical bus is outside a predetermined range. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240426 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659353 | Dawson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel L. Dawson (Roslindale, Massachusetts); David J. Perreault (Brookline, Massachusetts); SungWon Chung (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Godoy (Hercules, California); Everest Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel L. Dawson (Roslindale, Massachusetts); David J. Perreault (Brookline, Massachusetts); SungWon Chung (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Godoy (Hercules, California); Everest Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio frequency (RF) circuit includes a power supply configured to generate a plurality of voltages, a plurality of power amplifiers, each having an RF output port and a power supply input port, a switch network having a plurality of input ports coupled to the power supply and a plurality of switch network output ports coupled to the power supply input ports of the plurality of power amplifiers, wherein the switch network is configured to output selected ones of the plurality of voltages from the plurality of switch network output ports, at least two of the switch network output port voltages capable of being different ones of the plurality of voltages, and an RF power combiner circuit having a plurality of input ports coupled to RF output ports of the plurality of power amplifiers and an output port at which is provided an output signal of the RF circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/423909 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/124.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659371 | Fonataine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel L. Fonataine (Hudson, New Hampshire); David Sherrer (Radford, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire); Nuvotronics, LLC (Radford, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel L. Fonataine (Hudson, New Hampshire); David Sherrer (Radford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for three dimensional coaxial transmission of signals in a micro-machined component, the system having, a micro-machined component matrix with a first metallic sheet having a plurality of first access holes disposed therein; a second metallic sheet having a plurality of second access holes disposed therein; a plurality of metal posts disposed between the first and second metallic sheets such that the metallic sheets are maintained at a desired distance; walls defining a coaxial transmission channel; and a coaxial transmission core disposed within the channel. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/713946 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659424 | Krumhansl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Allen Krumhansl (Amherst, New Hampshire); William Coney (Littleton, Massachusetts); Richard Mullen (Needham, Massachusetts); Jason R. McKenna (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Michael Goldsmith (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies, Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); US Army Corps of Enginees (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Allen Krumhansl (Amherst, New Hampshire); William Coney (Littleton, Massachusetts); Richard Mullen (Needham, Massachusetts); Jason R. McKenna (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Michael Goldsmith (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to detect subsurface activity. The system employs vibration sensor pairs, with each sensor pair having a shallow sensor and a deep sensor. Outputs of the sensors of a pair are processed together and events are detected based on the relative values detected by the sensors of the pair. When signal energy departs from a detected background level, the relative amplitude and frequency content of vibrations measured at the shallow and deep sensors may be compared. The comparison may be performed, at least in part, using a classifier that discriminates between subsurface activity and surface activity. The outputs of sensor pairs may be aggregated to make a determination of whether subsurface activity exists and/or its location. Aggregation may involve comparing the outputs of the same sensor pair at multiple time intervals or may involve comparing the outputs of arrayed sensor pairs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/702630 |
| ART UNIT | 2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/541 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659502 | Lam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tai Anh Lam (Kent, Washington); Minas H. Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington); David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tai Anh Lam (Kent, Washington); Minas H. Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington); David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are present for creating a negative index metamaterial lens for use with a phased array antenna. A design having a buckyball shape is created for the negative index metamaterial lens. The buckyball shape is capable of bending a beam generated by the phased array antenna to around 90 degrees from a vertical orientation to form an initial design. The initial design is modified to include discrete components to form a discrete design. Materials are selected for the discrete components. Negative index metamaterial unit cells are designed for the discrete components to form designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. The designed negative index metamaterial unit cells are fabricated to form fabricated designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. The negative index metamaterial lens is formed from the designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/615222 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659603 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ting Song (Rockville, Maryland); Vincent B. Ho (N. Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ting Song (Rockville, Maryland); Vincent B. Ho (N. Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for center point trajectory mapping includes a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprises instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to acquire a first plurality of images, each image comprising a masked portion. The instructions also cause the computer to locate a center point of the masked portion in each of the plurality of images and to plot a map based on variances in position of the center points from each other. The instructions further cause the computer to display the map on a display. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415538 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/40 (20130101) G06T 11/40 (20130101) G06T 11/203 (20130101) G06T 11/203 (20130101) G06T 11/206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 11/206 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659686 | Clark |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank O. Clark (Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank O. Clark (Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | System and methods of target detection utilize quantum mechanical transition in surface material of a target, such as a weather balloon in flight against a background (sky, clouds), to produce an inflection in spectral reflectance. The system includes at least two filters alternating in front of the lens as the camera attempts to acquire alternate filtered data. The filters can include a rotating filter wheel with two filters alternately sampling the brightest and darkest points around an inflection point in the spectral reflectance curve of the target's material. Target material is observed to blink, or alternate between bright and dark, as filters alternate in front of the camera lens while the background is unchanging, rendering optimal first detection of the target, and may be readily automated. The described process can use a filter wheel, but use of an electrically tunable filter can provide a device with no moving parts. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465950 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659753 | Cabalo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerry B. Cabalo (Towson, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry B. Cabalo (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser energy sensor and methodology for measuring laser energy in a laser beam by photoacoustic means. Laser energy is converted into acoustic energy which is then measured and converted to an energy reading corresponding to the energy of a laser beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/238518 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659834 | Beadie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guy Beadie (Falls Church, Virginia); Erin F. Fleet (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy Beadie (Falls Church, Virginia); Erin F. Fleet (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an achromatic gradient index singlet lens comprising utilizing a gradient index material with a curved front surface in which light does not follow a straight line as it travels through the material and wherein different color rays traverse different curved paths, utilizing the natural dispersion of the curved front surface as a strong positive lens, and developing a weakly diverging GRIN distribution within the lens to balance the chromatic aberrations of the curved front surface. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/493439 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660022 | Bisdikian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chatschik Bisdikian (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ting He (Yorktown Heights, New York); Murtaza Zafer (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chatschik Bisdikian (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ting He (Yorktown Heights, New York); Murtaza Zafer (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for adaptive remote decision making includes steps of: receiving from an application layer a target range for a level of reporting quality for processed data; setting data collection parameters to meet the target range; collecting the data from a plurality of remote data collecting devices deployed in the distributed computing system, a portion of said data being compromised during the collecting process; processing the collected data to produce the processed data; evaluating the processed data based on observable metrics of current collected data and reported data losses; forecasting an expected reporting quality while continuing to collect the data; comparing the expected reporting quality with the target range; and reporting the processed data when the expected reporting quality falls within the target range for the level of reporting quality. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/619121 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660161 | Brenner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary K. Brenner (Plymouth, Minnesota); Klein L. Johnson (Orono, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vixar, Inc. (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary K. Brenner (Plymouth, Minnesota); Klein L. Johnson (Orono, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser system having separately electrically operable cavities for emitting modulated narrow linewidth light with first, second and third mirror structures separated by a first active region between the first and the second and by a second active region between the second and the third. The second mirror structure has twenty of more periods of mirror pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571839 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/46.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660218 | Maleh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ray Maleh (Greenville, Texas); Frank A. Boyle (Melissa, Texas); Gerald L. Fudge (Rockwall, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Integrated Systems LP (Greenville, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Maleh (Greenville, Texas); Frank A. Boyle (Melissa, Texas); Gerald L. Fudge (Rockwall, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and/or measuring signals contained in modulated sample data, and that may be implemented in one embodiment to detect and measure signals by producing a representation and/or visualization of the signal information of the wide band spectral environment. Signals may be detected and/or measured by demodulating and estimating signal spectra from the modulated sample data that contain the individual signals, and by then forming a frequency representation of the demodulated Nyquist zone spectral estimates into a visual representation in which the frequency of the original signals is visible or otherwise indicated. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/361324 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660367 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alden Eugene Park (Ridgecrest, California); Brent James Sundheimer (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alden Eugene Park (Ridgecrest, California); Brent James Sundheimer (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for template matching at least one template image and an image to be searched using a plurality of template matchers at at least one alignment shift. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/556491 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660399 | Doddridge |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lance S Doddridge (Ontario, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance S Doddridge (Ontario, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated, more automated system for determining the linearity of measurements of fiber optic power meters reduces the time and expense needed for linearity calibration. The system uses the triplet superposition method of linearity calibration and aids in performing the necessary series of measurements. A linearity measurement system for an optical power meter comprises an apparatus to output an optical signal to the optical power meter, the apparatus configured to output the optical signal at a controllable plurality of optical powers, a controller for controlling an optical power output from the apparatus to the optical power meter, a display device for displaying a state of the apparatus based on information from the controller, and an input device for commanding the controller to control the optical power output from the apparatus to the optical power meter. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157033 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660491 | Tran |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nghia X. Tran (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nghia X. Tran (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless data and energy transfer system includes transmitting and receiving devices. The transmitting device includes a transmitting device controller and an RF transceiver, a proximity sensor, and a memory module each connected to the transmitting device controller, and a transmitting antenna connected to the RF transceiver and having a diagonal dimension, D. The receiving device includes a receiving device controller, an RF memory module connected to the receiving device controller, and a memory antenna connected to the RF memory module. The transmitting device controller is configured to simultaneously transfer data from the memory module to the RF memory module and RF energy from the transmitting antenna to the memory antenna when the proximity sensor senses the receiving device within a distance less than or equal to the distance D from the transmitting device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019881 |
| ART UNIT | 2648 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/41.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660671 | Stroili et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank D. Stroili (Hollis, New Hampshire); James M. Huggett (Brookline, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D. Stroili (Hollis, New Hampshire); James M. Huggett (Brookline, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | What is provided is a receiver-on-a-chip comprising a monolithic integrated circuit that reduces the receiver to a cigarette-pack-sized assembly mountable directly at an antenna element, with a much-increased operational bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth, increased dynamic range and with a two-order-of-magnitude decrease in size and weight. Moreover, because of the elimination of all of the I/O drivers and attendant circuitry, power consumption is reduced by two-thirds, whereas the mean time before failure is increased to 10,000 hours due to the robustness of the monolithic integrated circuit and use of fiber optics. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/451620 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660801 | Torres-Roca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Javier F. Torres-Roca (St Petersburg, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier F. Torres-Roca (St Petersburg, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are mathematical models and method, e.g., computer-implemented methods, for predicting tumor sensitivity to radiation therapy, which can be used, e.g., for selecting a treatment for a subject who has a tumor. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/037153 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660836 | Castelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); David Nahamoo (Great Neck, New York); Bing Zhao (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); David Nahamoo (Great Neck, New York); Bing Zhao (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for optimizing results output by a natural language processing system. For example, a method comprises optimizing one or more parameters of a natural language processing system so as to improve a measure of quality of an output of the natural language processing system for a first type of data processed by the natural language processing system while maintaining a given measure of quality of an output of the natural language processing system for a second type of data processed by the natural language processing system. For example, the first type of data may have a substantive complexity that is greater than that of the second type of data. Thus, when the natural language processing system is a machine translation system, use of a conditional value at risk metric for the translation quality provides for a high quality output of the machine translation system for data of a high substantive complexity (for sophisticated users) while maintaining an average quality output for average data (for average users). |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/073255 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660995 | Carey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Flexible event data content management for relevant event and alert analysis within a distributed processing system includes receiving, by an interface connector, a raw event from a component of the distributed processing system; analyzing custom data within the raw event to determine a location to store the custom data, the custom data in a first data format; storing extended data within the raw event in a common event data format, the extended data indicating the location of the custom data; receiving, by an event analyzer, the event; and determining whether there are custom customer rules that need the custom data; and if there are such custom customer rules, retrieving the custom data based on the extended data from the event; and applying the custom customer rules to the extended data; if there are no such custom customer rules, applying the base rules to a base portion of the event. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/672966 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/672 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08661004 | Kementsietsidis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anastasios Kementsietsidis (New York, New York); Enela Pema (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anastasios Kementsietsidis (New York, New York); Enela Pema (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for representing and querying incomplete and uncertain information in graph data receives a plurality of graphs containing subject nodes, object nodes and predicates extending between subject and object nodes. The subject nodes and predicates can be URIs or blank, and the object nodes can be URIs, literals or blank. Incomplete graph data sets are created by a variable into each blank subject node, each blank predicate and each blank object node, and uncertain graph data sets are created by substituting alternative values for all variables in the incomplete data graph. A query is received from a user and a naïve search of the graph data is performed for certain data. The incomplete and uncertain graphs are then used to determine potential answers and certain potential answers based on user-specified requirements. The certain answers and potential certain answers are returned to the user. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476316 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/694 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08661037 | Narang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ankur Narang (New Delhi, India); Karthik V. Swaminathan (Mumbai, India); Prashant Agrawal (Barbil, India); Doug Joseph (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ankur Narang (New Delhi, India); Karthik V. Swaminathan (Mumbai, India); Prashant Agrawal (Barbil, India); Doug Joseph (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for indexing documents in a data storage system includes generating a single document hash table in storage memory for a single document using an index construction in a multithreaded and scalable configuration wherein multiple threads are each assigned work to reduce synchronization between threads. The single document hash table includes partitioning the single document and indexing strings of partitioned portions of the single document to create a minor hash table for each document sub-part; generating a document level hash table from the minor hash tables; updating a stream level hash table for the strings which maps every string to a global identifier; and generating a term reordered array from the document level hash table. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/757545 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08661422 | Lethin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard A. Lethin (New York, New York); Allen K. Leung (New York, New York); Benoit J. Meister (New York, New York); Nicolas T. Vasilache (New York, New York); David E. Wohlford (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reservoir Labs, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Lethin (New York, New York); Allen K. Leung (New York, New York); Benoit J. Meister (New York, New York); Nicolas T. Vasilache (New York, New York); David E. Wohlford (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus and computer software product for local memory compaction are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a processor in connection with a memory compaction module identifies inefficiencies in array references contained within in received source code, allocates a local array and maps the data from the inefficient array reference to the local array in a manner which improves the memory size requirements for storing and accessing the data. In another embodiment, a computer software product implementing a local memory compaction module is provided. In a further embodiment a computing apparatus is provided. The computing apparatus is configured to improve the efficiency of data storage in array references. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365780 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08656908 | Papania et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark J. Papania (Lilburn, Georgia); James J. Barry (Hanover, New Hampshire); Mark C. Bagley (Grafton, New Hampshire); Nabil A. Elkouh (Meriden, New Hampshire); Darin Knaus (Norwich, Vermont); Robert Trabka (Newport, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia); Creare Inc. (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Papania (Lilburn, Georgia); James J. Barry (Hanover, New Hampshire); Mark C. Bagley (Grafton, New Hampshire); Nabil A. Elkouh (Meriden, New Hampshire); Darin Knaus (Norwich, Vermont); Robert Trabka (Newport, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for aerosol delivery of agents to a patient are described herein. The present system can be used to administer various types of agents, such as a vaccine or other types of pharmaceutical substances. Certain embodiments of the present system utilize an actuator coupled to a disposable aerosolizing element that aerosolizes an agent for delivery to a patient when acted upon by the actuator. The aerosolizing element prevents the agent from contacting the actuator and other non-disposable components of the system so that little or no cleaning or maintenance is required. The present system also can include an aerosolization rate monitor that monitors the rate at which an agent is being aerosolized and provides feedback to the user to ensure that the proper dose is being administered. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/099261 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/200.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08656958 | Unger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc A. Unger (San Mateo, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Mateo, California); Markus M. Enzelberger (Pasadena, California); Mark L. Adams (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institue of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Unger (San Mateo, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Mateo, California); Markus M. Enzelberger (Pasadena, California); Mark L. Adams (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932263 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/823 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657295 | Ashton-Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. Ashton-Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hogene Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James T. Eckner (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James K. Richardson (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Ashton-Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hogene Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James T. Eckner (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James K. Richardson (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A manual neurological testing device for measuring a subject's reaction time comprising: a releasable holding member operable to be grasped by the subject; a stimulus device coupled with the releasable holding member, the stimulus device outputting a perceivable stimulus; and a measurement device coupled with the releasable holding member, the measurement device measuring the subject's reaction time for grasping the releasable holding member relative to the perceivable stimulus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815619 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658129 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rong Zhang (Niskayuna, New York); Tiberiu Mircea Siclovan (Rexford, New York); Cristina Abucay Tan Hehir (Niskayuna, New York); Victoria Eugenia Cotero (Watervilet, New York); Bruce Fletcher Johnson (Scotia, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong Zhang (Niskayuna, New York); Tiberiu Mircea Siclovan (Rexford, New York); Cristina Abucay Tan Hehir (Niskayuna, New York); Victoria Eugenia Cotero (Watervilet, New York); Bruce Fletcher Johnson (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to agents capable of binding to myelin basic protein in a subject. Also provided are methods for the detection of myelin-associated neuropathy comprising identifying a subject at risk of or diagnosed with a myelin-associated neuropathy, administering to a subject an agent that binds specifically to myelin basic protein, and determining myelination in the subject by detecting the agent present in the subject. A kit containing the agent or its derivatives for use in detecting myelin basic protein is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/031349 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658131 | Tu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhude Tu (Frontenac, Missouri); Robert H. Mach (Eureka, Missouri); Wei Wang (Greenfield, Indiana); Stanley M. Parsons (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhude Tu (Frontenac, Missouri); Robert H. Mach (Eureka, Missouri); Wei Wang (Greenfield, Indiana); Stanley M. Parsons (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bipiperidinyl compounds and salts thereof are disclosed. The compounds include high affinity ligands for σ1 receptors. Some compounds are also highly selective for σ1 receptor compared to σ2 receptor. Compounds can comprise radioisotopes, including 18F or 11C. Radiolabeled compounds can be used as probes for imaging distribution of σ1 receptor in a subject such as a human using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164840 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.890 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658155 | Wiles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael V. Wiles (Mount Desert, Maine); Robert Taft (Southwest Harbor, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Wiles (Mount Desert, Maine); Robert Taft (Southwest Harbor, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for producing selected non-human mammalian germ cells and gametes and for making non-human animals using the produced germ cells and gametes are provided by the present invention. Methods of generating a non-human embryo and/or animal derived from donor stem cells, methods of generating chimeric non-human animals having substantially all gametes and/or germ cells derived from the donor stem cells, methods of producing a non-human host embryo lacking functional endogenous germ cells and non-human host embryos incapable of developing endogenous gametes of the present invention are described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/337892 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658159 | Tu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wenwei Tu (Ap Lei Chau, China Hong Kong); Yu-Lung Lau (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong); David Bram Lewis (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Versitech Limited (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenwei Tu (Ap Lei Chau, China Hong Kong); Yu-Lung Lau (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong); David Bram Lewis (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for inducing, expanding, and/or generating alloantigen-specific regulatory T cells. Alloantigen-specific regulatory T cells can be induced, expanded, and/or generated from naive CD4+CD25− T cells by using CD40-activated B cells. The regulatory T cells can be human T cells. In one embodiment, the alloantigen-specific human regulatory T cells can be CD4highCD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432964 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658168 | Ghetie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maria-Ana Ghetie (Dallas, Texas); Jonathan W. Uhr (Dallas, Texas); Ellen S. Vitetta (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria-Ana Ghetie (Dallas, Texas); Jonathan W. Uhr (Dallas, Texas); Ellen S. Vitetta (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) which have little or no signaling activity as monomers become potent anti-tumor agents when they are converted into homoconjugates. The homoconjugates exert anti-growth activity by signaling G0/G1 arrest or apoptosis, depending upon which cell surface molecule they bind. This activity is specific and does not require an Fc portion. These conjugates are potent, anti-tumor agents. |
| FILED | Monday, April 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118262 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658350 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deborah A. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); David M. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah A. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); David M. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in a subject are disclosed, wherein the subject is a child, a subject with a latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Method are also disclose for detecting an extra-pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a subject. The methods include detecting the presence of CD8+ T cells that specifically recognize an Mtb polypeptide. The methods include in vitro assays for detecting the presence of CD8+ T cells in a biological sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/119938 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658352 | Robins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Viacyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ViaCyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan J. Robins (Athens, Georgia); Thomas C. Schulz (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell culture methods and compositions that are essentially serum-free and comprise a basal salt nutrient solution and an ErbB3 ligand. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795628 |
| 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 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658356 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Mark A. Behlke (Coralville, Iowa); Dongho Kim (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California); Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (Coralville, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Mark A. Behlke (Coralville, Iowa); Dongho Kim (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to compositions and methods for selectively reducing the expression of a gene product from a desired target gene in a cell, as well as for treating diseases caused by the expression of the gene. More particularly, the invention is directed to compositions that contain double stranded RNA (“dsRNA”), and methods for preparing them, that are capable of reducing the expression of target genes in eukaryotic cells. The dsRNA has a first oligonucleotide sequence that is between 25 and about 30 nucleotides in length and a second oligonucleotide sequence that anneals to the first sequence under biological conditions. In addition, a region of one of the sequences of the dsRNA having a sequence length of at least 19 nucleotides is sufficiently complementary to a nucleotide sequence of the RNA produced from the target gene to trigger the destruction of the target RNA by the RNAi machinery. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/152686 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658362 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas); Stefano Volinia (Ferrara, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas); Stefano Volinia (Ferrara, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of solid cancers. The invention also provides methods of identifying inhibitors of tumorigenesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/406615 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658370 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of breast cancer. The invention also provides methods of identifying anti-breast cancer agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012235 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658379 | Hirsch |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raphael Hirsch (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raphael Hirsch (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and kits for diagnosing systemic inflammatory response syndrome or sepsis using levels of FSTL-1. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/538918 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658395 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into a peptide using an orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair. In particular, an orthogonal pair is provided to incorporate 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan in a position encoded by an opal mutation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546582 |
| 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 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658424 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Su-Chun Zhang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Baoyang Hu (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhong-Wei Du (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Su-Chun Zhang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Baoyang Hu (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhong-Wei Du (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of differentiating embryonic stem cells into oligodendroglial precursor cells and oligodendroglial cells by culturing a population of cells comprising a majority of cells that are characterized by a neural tube-like rosette morphology and are Pax6+/Sox1+ into a population of cells that are PDGFRα+. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536214 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658431 | Ott |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy L. Ott (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Research Foundation (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy L. Ott (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and kit for determining whether an animal is not pregnant, or is pregnant following a breeding. The level of expression of a pregnancy induced protein is determined in an animal for which pregnancy status information is desired and the level is compared to that of the level in animals that are not pregnant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520403 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658573 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel photo-generated carbohydrate arrays and methods of their use to detect the presence of one or more agents in a sample. The invention also relates to a high-throughput strategy to facilitate the identification and immunological characterization of pathogen-specific carbohydrates, including those of Bacillus anthracis. The invention can be used to determine the presence of a pathogen and whether a subject has been exposed to a pathogen, such as by screening for pathogen-specific antibodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900221 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658594 | Mochly-Rosen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Universit (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | PKC V5 isozyme-specific peptides are described. The sequences and compositions comprising the sequences are useful for treating disease states associated with the PKC isozyme from which they are respectively derived. Methods of treatment, pharmaceutical formulations and methods of identifying compounds that mimic the activity of the peptides are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101540 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658596 | Fallon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin R. Fallon (Brooklyn, Connecticut); Mark A. Bowe (Damascus, Maryland); Beth McKechnie (Franklin, Massachusetts); Michael Rafii (San Diego, California); Alison Amenta (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Mary Lynn Mercado (Robbinsville, New Jersey); Hiroki Hagiwara (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University Research Foundation (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin R. Fallon (Brooklyn, Connecticut); Mark A. Bowe (Damascus, Maryland); Beth McKechnie (Franklin, Massachusetts); Michael Rafii (San Diego, California); Alison Amenta (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Mary Lynn Mercado (Robbinsville, New Jersey); Hiroki Hagiwara (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of biglycan; disorders associated with an unstable cytoplasmic membrane, due, e.g., to an unstable dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC); disorders associated with abnormal synapses or neuromuscular junctions, including those resulting from an abnormal MuSK activation or acetylcholine receptor (AChR) aggregation. Examples of diseases include muscular dystrophies, such as Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, Becker's Muscular Dystrophy, neuromuscular disorders and neurological disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/881891 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658601 | Mukhopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Debabrata Mukhopadhyay (Rochester, Minnesota); Priyabrata Mukherjee (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark Spaller (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debabrata Mukhopadhyay (Rochester, Minnesota); Priyabrata Mukherjee (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark Spaller (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are peptides and nanoparticles conjugates thereof useful for the treatment of diseases and disorders mediated by GIPC/synectin, such as cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/195663 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4706 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658603 | Holoshitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Holoshitz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Song Ling (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Xiujun Pi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Denise de Almeida (Dearborn, Michigan); Chaim Gilon (Jerusalem, Israel); Amnon Hoffman (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Holoshitz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Song Ling (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Xiujun Pi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Denise de Almeida (Dearborn, Michigan); Chaim Gilon (Jerusalem, Israel); Amnon Hoffman (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for inducing an immune response in a subject. In particular, the present invention provides compositions comprising immunostimulatory ligands (ISL) and methods of inducing an immune response in a subject therewith. Compositions and methods of the present invention find use in, among other things, clinical (e.g. therapeutic and preventative medicine (e.g., vaccination)) and research applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/331354 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658608 | Glazer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter M. Glazer (Guilford, Connecticut); Michael M. Siedman (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Glazer (Guilford, Connecticut); Michael M. Siedman (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | High affinity, chemically modified triplex-forming oligonucleotides (TFOs) and methods for use thereof are disclosed. TFOs are defined as triplex-forming oligonucleotides which bind as third strands to duplex DNA in a sequence specific manner. Triplex-forming oligonucleotides may be comprised of any possible combination of nucleotides and modified nucleotides. Modified nucleotides may contain chemical modifications of the heterocyclic base, sugar moiety or phosphate moiety. A high affinity oligonucleotide (Kd≦2×10−8) which forms a triple strand with a specific DNA segment of a target gene DNA is generated. It is preferable that the Kd for the high affinity oligonucleotide is below 2×10−10. The nucleotide binds or hybridizes to a target sequence within a target gene or target region of a chromosome, forming a triplex region. The binding of the oligonucleotide to the target region stimulates mutations within or adjacent to the target region using cellular DNA synthesis, recombination, and repair mechanisms. The mutation generated activates, inactivates, or alters the activity and function of the target gene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/562849 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658609 | Marban et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eduardo Marban (Beverly Hills, California); Ronald A. Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Hee Cheol Cho (Columbia, Maryland); Suk-Ying Tsang (Hong Kong, China PRC); Tian Xue (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eduardo Marban (Beverly Hills, California); Ronald A. Li (Baltimore, Maryland); Hee Cheol Cho (Columbia, Maryland); Suk-Ying Tsang (Hong Kong, China PRC); Tian Xue (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compositions and methods to induce, and/or modulate bio-electrical rhythms (e.g. in cardiac, neuronal and pancreatic cells) by fine-tuning the activity of HCN-encoded pacemaker channels via a novel protein- and genetic-engineering approach to augment or attenuate the associated physiological responses (e.g. heart beat, neuronal firing, insulin secretion, etc) for achieving various therapeutic purposes (e.g. sick sinus syndrome, epilepsy, neuropathic pain, diabetes, etc). |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701985 |
| 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 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658610 | Wold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William S. M. Wold (Chesterfield, Missouri); Karoly Toth (St. Louis, Missouri); Konstantin Doronin (St. Louis, Missouri); Ann E. Tollefson (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. M. Wold (Chesterfield, Missouri); Karoly Toth (St. Louis, Missouri); Konstantin Doronin (St. Louis, Missouri); Ann E. Tollefson (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel vectors which are replication competent in neoplastic cells and which overexpress an adenovirus death protein are disclosed. Some of the disclosed vectors are replication-restricted to neoplastic cells or to neoplastic alveolar type II cells. Compositions and methods for promoting the death of neoplastic cells using these replication-competent vectors are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561016 |
| 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 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658614 | Gorenstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Takemi Tanaka (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Anoma Somasunderam (Galveston, Texas); Aman Mann (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Takemi Tanaka (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Anoma Somasunderam (Galveston, Texas); Aman Mann (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated nucleic acid molecule that selectively binds to an E-selectin protein comprises a contiguous 29-30 nucleotide sequence that includes at least one monothiophosphate or a dithiophosphate modified nucleotide. Also disclosed are methods of inhibiting an E-selectin mediated interaction with a natural E-selectin ligand, and methods of targeting an imaging agent or therapeutic agent to a target tissue bearing E-selectin. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/209866 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658647 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Su-Lin Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Samuel K. Kulp (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Su-Lin Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Samuel K. Kulp (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of compounds and use of the compounds in a method for treating or preventing cancer in a subject by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition including a compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are described. The compounds can also be used to inhibit integrin-linked kinase in a cell, which has an effect on the Akt signaling pathway. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/300872 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658648 | Peyton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven J. Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon); Katherine M. Liebman (Portland, Oregon); Bornface Gunsaru (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DesignMedix, Inc. (Portland, Oregon); Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven J. Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon); Katherine M. Liebman (Portland, Oregon); Bornface Gunsaru (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides modified chloroquine compounds having single ring or fused ring moieties. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to inhibit or treat diseases or conditions caused by chloroquine-resistant (CQR) and chloroquine-sensitive (CqS) malaria parasites and other CQ-susceptible microorganisms, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/132742 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/253.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658664 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jingwu Xie (Westfield, Indiana); Massoud Garrossian (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingwu Xie (Westfield, Indiana); Massoud Garrossian (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for modulating smoothened-dependent pathway activation. The present invention provides highly water-soluble analogs of cyclopamine that are potent, hedgehog signaling inhibitors less toxic than cyclopamine. The compounds of the present invention are particularly useful in treating cancers associated with hedgehog signalling. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806271 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658681 | Sawyers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Samedy Ouk (Los Angeles, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Samedy Ouk (Los Angeles, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to diarylhydantoin compounds, including diarylthiohydantoins, and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/448964 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658685 | Aiello et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lloyd P. Aiello (Belmont, Massachusetts); Tamie Jo Chilcote (San Francisco, California); Sukanto Sinha (San Francisco, California); Edward P. Feener (North Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Activesite Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Francisco, California); Joslin Diabetes Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd P. Aiello (Belmont, Massachusetts); Tamie Jo Chilcote (San Francisco, California); Sukanto Sinha (San Francisco, California); Edward P. Feener (North Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We have identified classes of kallikrein inhibitors as compounds that are useful in the reduction of vascular permeability (e.g., retinal vascular permeability and cerebral vascular permeability) and astrocyte activation. Diseases and conditions associated with increased vascular permeability include diabetic retinopathy, hemorrhagic stroke, and macular edema. Diseases and conditions associated with astrocyte activation include Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, stroke, epilepsy, and brain trauma. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/865332 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658689 | Cuny et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory D. Cuny (Somerville, Massachusetts); Xin Teng (Framingham, Massachusetts); Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts); Alexei Degterev (Brookline, Massachusetts); John A. Porco, Jr. (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory D. Cuny (Somerville, Massachusetts); Xin Teng (Framingham, Massachusetts); Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts); Alexei Degterev (Brookline, Massachusetts); John A. Porco, Jr. (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features a series of heterocyclic derivatives that inhibit tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) induced necroptosis. The heterocyclic compounds of the invention are described by Formulas (I) and (Ia)-(Ie) and are shown to inhibit TNF-α induced necroptosis in FADD-deficient variant of human Jurkat T cells. The invention further features pharmaceutical compositions featuring the compounds of the invention. The compounds and compositions of the invention may also be used to treat disorders where necroptosis is likely to play a substantial role. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589867 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658697 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (N. Keizer, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (N. Keizer, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain novel sulfonyl semicarbazides, carbonyl semicarbazides, semicarbazides, ureas and related compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by hemorrhagic fever viruses is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Arenaviridae (Junin, Machupo, Guanarito, Sabia, Lassa, Tacaribe, Pinchinde, and VSV), Filoviridae (ebola and Marburg viruses), Flaviviridae (yellow fever, omsk hemorrhagic fever and Kyasanur Forest disease viruses), and Bunyaviridae (Rift Valley fever). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/925702 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/615 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658699 | Kohane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel S. Kohane (Newton, Massachusetts); Itay Sagie (Haifa, Israel); Emmanuel J. Simons (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Kohane (Newton, Massachusetts); Itay Sagie (Haifa, Israel); Emmanuel J. Simons (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chemical permeation enhancers (CPEs) improve access of local anesthetics to the nerve, thereby improving their performance. Surfactants, representing three CPE sub-groups: anionic, cationic, and nonionic surfactants, were co-injected with tetrodotoxin (TTX) or bupivacaine at the sciatic nerve of Sprague-Dawley rats. All enhancers produced marked concentration-dependent improvements in the frequency and duration of block with TTX but not bupivacaine. An in vitro toxicity assay showed a wide range of CPE myotoxicity, but in vivo histological assessment showed no signs of muscle or nerve damage at concentrations of CPEs that produced a half-maximal increase in the duration of block of TTX. There was no systematic relationship between the enhancers' charge or hydrophobicity and their enhancement of block duration or potency. Thus, CPEs can provide marked prolongation of nerve blockade from TTX, without apparent local tissue toxicity, and therefore enhance the clinical applicability of TTX for prolonged-duration local anesthesia. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/993759 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/626 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658774 | Williams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John C. Williams (Monrovia, California); David A. Horne (Duarte, California); Yuelong Ma (Duarte, California); Heng Wei Chang (Foster City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Williams (Monrovia, California); David A. Horne (Duarte, California); Yuelong Ma (Duarte, California); Heng Wei Chang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Meditope variants and methods for their use are provided herein. A meditope variant as described herein comprises a peptide having a sequence CQFDLSTRRLKC (SEQ ID NO:1) or CQYNLSSRALKC (SEQ ID NO:2) that has one or more modifications at of least one amino acid residue of the sequence. Multivalent meditope variant tethering entities are also provided. Such entities may include two or more meditopes coupled via a long linker, multivalent scaffold, biotin-streptavidin, or IgG Fc domain. Further, methods of treating, imaging or diagnosing a disease or condition are provided. Such methods may include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition to a subject, the pharmaceutical compound comprising an antibody-meditope complex; a multivalent tethering agent in combination with a monoclonal antibody or functional fragment thereof; or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, October 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/270207 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 08658778 | Ji et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lin X. Ji (Sugar Land, Texas); Bingliang Fang (Pearland, Texas); Jack A. Roth (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin X. Ji (Sugar Land, Texas); Bingliang Fang (Pearland, Texas); Jack A. Roth (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Promoters that include a tissue-selective promoter sequence and a second promoter sequence operatively coupled to the tissue-selective promoter sequence, wherein the second promoter sequence includes a minimal viral promoter sequence, are disclosed. Nucleic acids and compositions that include these promoter sequences are also disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of improving the function of a tissue-selective promoter, involving operatively coupling a tissue-selective promoter sequence with a second promoter sequence that includes a minimal viral promoter sequence. Also disclosed are methods of delivering a gene into a cell, methods of treating a subject with a hyperproliferative disease, and methods of imaging a cell that involve use of the novel promoter sequences set forth herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372246 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658780 | Pierce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niles A. Pierce (Pasadena, California); Jeffrey Robert Vieregg (Studio City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niles A. Pierce (Pasadena, California); Jeffrey Robert Vieregg (Studio City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of cross-linking probes to covalently bind probes to nucleic acid targets. In some embodiments, the probe comprises an initiator region that is able to bind to a first portion of a target nucleic acid, a probe region linked too the initiator region that is able to bind to a second region of the target nucleic acid and that comprises one or more cross-linkers, and a blocking region hybridized to the probe region. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/016811 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658990 | Li |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hui Li (Fenton, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Li (Fenton, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Radiation dosimeters containing thin KCl:Eu2+ storage phosphors for quantifying and/or verifying the dose of radiation applied during radiation therapy. Methods for measuring the amount of radiation applied from a source of radiation and methods for treating a patient having a cancerous tumor are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/320134 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/484.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659297 | Shafiee Haji Abadi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shabnam Shafiee Haji Abadi (North Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas Herbert Frank (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Perinatronics Medical Systems, Inc. (Crofton, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shabnam Shafiee Haji Abadi (North Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas Herbert Frank (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing an electrical signal includes: capturing, via at least one main lead, an electrical signal; capturing, via at least one noise lead, a noise reference signal, wherein the at least one noise lead includes at least one conductive loop formed on a plane; receiving, by a processing device, the electrical signal and the noise reference signal; and processing, by the processing device, the electrical signal to cancel the noise reference signal from the electrical signal to obtain a processed electrical signal. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/406015 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659975 | Greenleaf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); Yi Zheng (Cold Spring, Minnesota); Aiping Yao (St. Cloud, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); Yi Zheng (Cold Spring, Minnesota); Aiping Yao (St. Cloud, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring a mechanical property of a subject includes using an ultrasonic transducer to apply ultrasonic vibration pulses to a vibration origin in the subject in an on-off time sequence in order to impart a harmonic motion at a prescribed frequency to the subject, and when the vibration pulses are off, preferably using the same transducer to apply ultrasonic detection pulses to a motion detection point and to receive echo signals therefrom in order to sense the harmonic motion on the subject at the motion detection point The ultrasonic detection pulses are interspersed with the vibration pulses and can be applied in a non-uniform manner From the received ultrasonic echo signals, a harmonic signal is detected and a characteristic such as amplitude or phase of the detected harmonic signal is calculated using a Kalman filter or interpolation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/992228 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659977 | Raphael |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David T. Raphael (Valley Village, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Raphael (Valley Village, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic signal generation system may include a cylindrical-like object having a cylindrical-like surface which is configured to reflect an acoustic signal directed to a location on the surface in substantially different directions as the cylindrical-like object is rotated. The cylindrical-like surface may be on the exterior of the cylindrical-like object or form an interior surface of the cylindrical-like object. The cylindrical-like surface may be formed by a plurality of substantially flat surfaces connected to one another in a substantially cylindrical configuration. The flat surfaces may have different angular orientations with respect to the axis of rotation. An acoustic transducer may be configured and oriented so as to direct an acoustic signal to a location on the cylindrical-like surface as the cylindrical-like object rotates. A motor may be configured to cause the cylindrical-like object to rotate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914816 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660332 | Ortyn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David A. Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Philip J. Morrissey (Bellevue, Washington); Thaddeus C. George (Seattle, Washington); Brian E. Hall (Seattle, Washington); Cathleen A. Zimmerman (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David J. Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimodal or multispectral images of cells comprising a population of cells are simultaneously collected. Photometric and/or morphometric image features identifiable in the images are used to identify differences between first and second populations of cells. The differences can include changes in a relative percentage of different cell types in each population, or a change in a first type of cell present in the first population of cells and the same type of cell in the second population of cells. The changes may be indicative of a disease state, indicative of a relative effectiveness of a therapy, or indicative of a health of the person from whom the cells populations were obtained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798442 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660634 | Patz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel Patz (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); James P Butler (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Woman's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Patz (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); James P Butler (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing a more accurate ventilation image, as compared to existing lung Fourier decomposition methods, and an image of ventilation dependent blood volume are provided. A time series of images depicting a subject's lungs during free-breathing are acquired and co-registered to a reference image. From the registration process, geometric information indicative proton density changes due to inhalation and exhalation of gas is obtained. This geometric information is used to correct the proton density values in the time series of image frames. These corrected proton density values are Fourier transformed to produce a Fourier spectrum, from which a signal peak occurring at the breathing frequency is extracted and Fourier transformed to produce a more accurate ventilation image. This more accurate ventilation image can be subtracted from a breathing frequency image produced by conventional lung Fourier decomposition methods to produce a ventilation dependent blood volume image. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453493 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660660 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power scheme for an implant on a human or animal body comprises: a charging circuit to provide power to deliver controlled stimulation currents to a body tissue; a capacitive storage arrangement connected with the charging circuit and charged by the charging circuit; a shunting arrangement to limit voltage on the capacitive storage arrangement; a driver array configured to transfer charges from the capacitive storage arrangement to the tissue; and an electrode array connected with the driver array and the tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/598965 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660801 | Torres-Roca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Javier F. Torres-Roca (St Petersburg, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier F. Torres-Roca (St Petersburg, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are mathematical models and method, e.g., computer-implemented methods, for predicting tumor sensitivity to radiation therapy, which can be used, e.g., for selecting a treatment for a subject who has a tumor. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/037153 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08661204 | Dwarkadas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandhya Dwarkadas (Pittsford, New York); Arrvindh Shriraman (Rochester, New York); Michael Scott (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandhya Dwarkadas (Pittsford, New York); Arrvindh Shriraman (Rochester, New York); Michael Scott (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention employs three decoupled hardware mechanisms: read and write signatures, which summarize per-thread access sets; per-thread conflict summary tables, which identify the threads with which conflicts have occurred; and a lazy versioning mechanism, which maintains the speculative updates in the local cache and employs a thread-private buffer (in virtual memory) only in the rare event of an overflow. The conflict summary tables allow lazy conflict management to occur locally, with no global arbitration (they also support eager management). All three mechanisms are kept software-accessible, to enable virtualization and to support transactions of arbitrary length. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/422544 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08656636 | Hunt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan W. Hunt (Athens, Georgia); Senthil Chinnasamy (Athens, Georgia); Keshav C. Das (Athens, Georgia); Erico Rolim de Mattos (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to biological optimization systems for enhancing photosynthetic efficiency and methods of use. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/632243 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant husbandry 047/1.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657575 | Morris |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Morris (New York, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Morris (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for harvesting the kinetic energy of a fluid flow for power generation with a vertically oriented, aerodynamic wing structure comprising one or more airfoil elements pivotably attached to a mast. When activated by the moving fluid stream, the wing structure oscillates back and forth, generating lift first in one direction then in the opposite direction. This oscillating movement is converted to unidirectional rotational movement in order to provide motive power to an electricity generator. Unlike other oscillating devices, this device is designed to harvest the maximum aerodynamic lift forces available for a given oscillation cycle. Because the system is not subjected to the same intense forces and stresses as turbine systems, it can be constructed less expensively, reducing the cost of electricity generation. The system can be grouped in more compact clusters, be less evident in the landscape, and present reduced risk to avian species. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/895568 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657883 | McKnight et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Anthony Johnson (Houston, Texas); Kenneth J. Moise, Jr. (Houston, Texas); Milton Nance Ericson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Justin S. Baba (Knoxville, Tennessee); John B. Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Boyd McCutchen Evans, III (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oakridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Anthony Johnson (Houston, Texas); Kenneth J. Moise, Jr. (Houston, Texas); Milton Nance Ericson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Justin S. Baba (Knoxville, Tennessee); John B. Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Boyd McCutchen Evans, III (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Valve implant systems positionable within a flow passage, the systems having an inlet, an outlet, and a remotely activatable valve between the inlet and outlet, with the valves being operable to provide intermittent occlusion of the flow path. A remote field is applied to provide thermal or magnetic activation of the valves. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729671 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/23.680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658007 | Pal |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Uday B. Pal (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uday B. Pal (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrolysis system for generating a metal and molecular oxygen includes a container for receiving a metal oxide containing a metallic species to be extracted, a cathode positioned to contact a metal oxide housed within the container; an oxygen-ion-conducting membrane positioned to contact a metal oxide housed within the container; an anode in contact with the oxygen-ion-conducting membrane and spaced apart from a metal oxide housed within the container, said anode selected from the group consisting of liquid metal silver, oxygen stable electronic oxides, oxygen stable crucible cermets, and stabilized zirconia composites with oxygen stable electronic oxides. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/994806 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658329 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Byran S. Pivovar (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Byran S. Pivovar (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing advanced membrane electrode assemblies (MEA) for use in fuel cells. A base polymer is selected for a base membrane. An electrode composition is selected to optimize properties exhibited by the membrane electrode assembly based on the selection of the base polymer. A property-tuning coating layer composition is selected based on compatibility with the base polymer and the electrode composition. A solvent is selected based on the interaction of the solvent with the base polymer and the property-tuning coating layer composition. The MEA is assembled by preparing the base membrane and then applying the property-tuning coating layer to form a composite membrane. Finally, a catalyst is applied to the composite membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528457 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658395 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into a peptide using an orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair. In particular, an orthogonal pair is provided to incorporate 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan in a position encoded by an opal mutation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546582 |
| 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 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658406 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (El Sauzal, Spain); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl7, and the corresponding EGVII amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVII, recombinant EGVII proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/920043 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658416 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gautam Dantas (University City, Missouri); Morten O. Sommer (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Gautam Dantas (University City, Missouri); Morten O. Sommer (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for reducing a level of one or more antibiotics from an antibiotic-contaminated substance. An organism that can utilize the one or more antibiotics as a carbon source is cultured in the presence of the antibiotic-contaminated substance for a sufficient amount of time to reduce the level of one or more antibiotics from the antibiotic-contaminated substance. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/579696 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658454 | Pass et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Pass (San Jose, California); Robert Rogers (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Pass (San Jose, California); Robert Rogers (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating solar cells are described. A porous layer may be formed on a surface of a substrate, the porous layer including a plurality of particles and a plurality of voids. A solution may be dispensed into one or more regions of the porous layer to provide a patterned composite layer. The substrate may then be heated. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886393 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658561 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bingyun Li (Morgantown, West Virginia); Bingbing Jiang (Morgantown, West Virginia); McMahan L. Gray (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Fauth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Henry W. Pennline (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania); George A. Richards (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bingyun Li (Morgantown, West Virginia); Bingbing Jiang (Morgantown, West Virginia); McMahan L. Gray (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Fauth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Henry W. Pennline (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania); George A. Richards (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid sorbent for the capture and the transport of carbon dioxide gas is provided having at least one first layer of a positively charged material that is polyethylenimine or poly(allylamine hydrochloride), that captures at least a portion of the gas, and at least one second layer of a negatively charged material that is polystyrenesulfonate or poly(acryclic acid), that transports the gas, wherein the second layer of material is in juxtaposition to, attached to, or crosslinked with the first layer for forming at least one bilayer, and a solid substrate support having a porous surface, wherein one or more of the bilayers is/are deposited on the surface of and/or within the solid substrate. A method of preparing and using the solid sorbent is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/611651 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658580 | Kaminski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael D. Kaminski (Lockport, Illinois); Carol J. Mertz (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Kaminski (Lockport, Illinois); Carol J. Mertz (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an aqueous gel composition for removing actinide ions, lanthanide ions, fission product ions, or a combination thereof from a porous surface contaminated therewith. The composition comprises a polymer mixture comprising a gel forming cross-linked polymer and a linear polymer. The linear polymer is present at a concentration that is less than the concentration of the cross-linked polymer. The polymer mixture is at least about 95% hydrated with an aqueous solution comprising about 0.1 to about 3 percent by weight (wt %) of a multi-dentate organic acid chelating agent, and about 0.02 to about 0.4 molar (M) carbonate salt, to form a gel. When applied to a porous surface contaminated with actinide ions, lanthanide ions, and/or other fission product ions, the aqueous gel absorbs contaminating ions from the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/409835 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658802 | Hong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kunlun Hong (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jun Yang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Peter V. Bonnesen (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kunlun Hong (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jun Yang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Peter V. Bonnesen (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for synthesizing deuterated vinylpyridine compounds of the Formula (1), wherein the method includes: (i) deuterating an acyl pyridine of the Formula (2) in the presence of a metal catalyst and D2O, wherein the metal catalyst is active for hydrogen exchange in water, to produce a deuterated acyl compound of Formula (3); (ii) reducing the compound of Formula (3) with a deuterated reducing agent to convert the acyl group to an alcohol group, and (iii) dehydrating the compound produced in step (ii) with a dehydrating agent to afford the vinylpyridine compound of Formula (1). The resulting deuterated vinylpyridine compounds are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/553293 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658829 | Elangovan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arumugasamy Elangovan (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arumugasamy Elangovan (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing polyalkylated oligoalkylenepolyamines is provided. The method includes contacting oligoalkylenepolyamine with a reagent composition comprising (a) alkyl bromide and/or alkyl chloride; (b) a basic agent; and (c) iodide salt. The alkylation reaction may be carried out in a polar, aprotic organic solvent. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/522803 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659009 | Ozyilmaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Singapore, Singapore); Dmitri Efetov (New York, New York); Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Singapore, Singapore); Dmitri Efetov (New York, New York); Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A locally gated graphene nanostructure is described, along with methods of making and using the same. A graphene layer can include first and second terminal regions separated by a substantially single layer gated graphene nanoconstriction. A local first gate region can be separated from the graphene nanoconstriction by a first gate dielectric. The local first gate region can be capacitively coupled to gate electrical conduction in the graphene nanoconstriction. A second gate region can be separated from the graphene nanoconstriction by a second gate dielectric. The second gate region can be capacitively coupled to provide a bias to a first location in the graphene nanoconstriction and to a second location outside of the graphene nanoconstriction. Methods of making and using locally gated graphene nanostructures are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290648 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659030 | Briere |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Briere (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Rectifier Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Briere (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with one implementation of the present disclosure, a III-Nitride heterojunction device includes a III-Nitride channel layer, a III-Nitride multilayer spacer situated over the III-Nitride channel layer, and a III-Nitride barrier layer situated over the III-Nitride multilayer spacer. A two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is formed near an interface of said III-Nitride Channel layer and said III-Nitride multilayer spacer. The III-Nitride multilayer spacer includes a III-Nitride interlayer. In one implementation, the III-Nitride multilayer spacer includes a III-Nitride polarization layer that is situated over the III-Nitride interlayer. The III-Nitride polarization layer has a higher total polarization than the III-Nitride interlayer, the III-Nitride channel layer, and the III-Nitride barrier layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/397190 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659467 | Chambers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Jeffrey E. Mast (Loveland, Colorado); David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Jeffrey E. Mast (Loveland, Colorado); David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting the presence of subsurface objects within a medium is provided. In some embodiments, the imaging and detection system operates in a multistatic mode to collect radar return signals generated by an array of transceiver antenna pairs that is positioned across the surface and that travels down the surface. The imaging and detection system pre-processes the return signal to suppress certain undesirable effects. The imaging and detection system then generates synthetic aperture radar images from real aperture radar images generated from the pre-processed return signal. The imaging and detection system then post-processes the synthetic aperture radar images to improve detection of subsurface objects. The imaging and detection system identifies peaks in the energy levels of the post-processed image frame, which indicates the presence of a subsurface object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219504 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660156 | Telford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven J. Telford (Livermore, California); Anthony S. Ladran (El Cerrito, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Telford (Livermore, California); Anthony S. Ladran (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor laser system includes a diode laser tile. The diode laser tile includes a mounting fixture having a first side and a second side opposing the first side and an array of semiconductor laser pumps coupled to the first side of the mounting fixture. The semiconductor laser system also includes an electrical pulse generator thermally coupled to the diode bar and a cooling member thermally coupled to the diode bar and the electrical pulse generator. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813662 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660359 | Conger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Lynn Conger (San Ramon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Lynn Conger (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for estimating atmospheric radiance and transmittance. An atmospheric estimation system is divided into a first phase and a second phase. The first phase inputs an observed multispectral image and an initial estimate of the atmospheric radiance and transmittance for each spectral band and calculates the atmospheric radiance and transmittance for each spectral band, which can be used to generate a “corrected” multispectral image that is an estimate of the surface multispectral image. The second phase inputs the observed multispectral image and the surface multispectral image that was generated by the first phase and removes noise from the surface multispectral image by smoothing out change in average deviations of temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/365198 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08656776 | Trusov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Trusov (Irvine, California); Adam Schofield (Irvine, California); Andrei Shkel (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Trusov (Irvine, California); Adam Schofield (Irvine, California); Andrei Shkel (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention is a novel gyroscope design, which yields devices robust to fabrication and environmental variations, allows flexible selection of operational parameters, and provides increased bandwidth with minimized sacrifice in gain regardless of the selected frequency of operation. The gyroscope has a single degree-of-freedom (DOF) drive-mode and a 2-DOF sense-mode. The drive-mode operational frequency and the sense-mode bandwidth can be selected arbitrarily in the proposed design, relaxing the tradeoff between the gain, die size, and detection capacitance. The symmetry of the structure ensures the optimal location of the drive-mode resonance relative to the sense-mode operational region, even in presence of fabrication imperfections. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/666494 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08656949 | Fourkas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Christopher N. LaFratta (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Christopher N. LaFratta (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic devices that comprise a 3-D microfluidic network of microchannels of arbitrary complexity and to a method for fabricating such devices. In particular, the invention relates to a method of forming microfluidic devices having 3-D microfluidic networks that contain open or closed loop microchannels using a single-step molding process without the need for layer-by-layer fabrication, and to the resultant microfluidic devices. The networks of such microfluidic devices may comprise one or more microchannel circuits which may be discrete or interconnected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838355 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/561.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658178 | Fahmy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Lisa D. Pfefferle (Branford, Connecticut); Gary L. Haller (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Lisa D. Pfefferle (Branford, Connecticut); Gary L. Haller (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based compositions for activating cellular immune responses are provided. The CNTs function as high surface area scaffolds for the attachment of T cell ligands and/or antigens. The CNT compositions function as artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPCs) or as modular vaccines. The disclosed CNT aAPCs are efficient at activating T cells and may be used to activate T cells ex vivo or in vivo for adoptive or active immunotherapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/933223 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658192 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Luo Mi (Seattle, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Yuting Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Gang Cheng (Akron, Ohio); Luo Mi (Seattle, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Yuting Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Cationic polymers hydrolyzable to zwitterionic polymers, monomers for making the cationic polymers, surfaces that include the polymers, and methods for making and using the cationic polymers and surfaces. The cationic polymers include counterions and/or hydrolyzable groups that release active agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/904341 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658367 | Quake et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Todd Thorsen (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Todd Thorsen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device is provided for analyzing or sorting biological materials, such as polynucleotides, polypeptides, proteins, enzymes, viruses and cells. The invention can be used for high throughput or combinatorial screening. The device comprises a main channel and an inlet channel that communicate at a droplet extrusion region so that droplets of solution are deposited into an immiscible solvent in the main channel. Droplets can thereafter be sorted according to biological material detected in each droplet. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475868 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658368 | Quake et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Todd Thorsen (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Todd Thorsen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device is provided for analyzing or sorting biological materials, such as polynucleotides, polypeptides, proteins, enzymes, viruses and cells. The invention can be used for high throughput or combinatorial screening. The device comprises a main channel and an inlet channel that communicate at a droplet extrusion region so that droplets of solution are deposited into an immiscible solvent in the main channel. Droplets can thereafter be sorted according to biological material detected in each droplet. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475879 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658573 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Gregory T. Carroll (New York, New York); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel photo-generated carbohydrate arrays and methods of their use to detect the presence of one or more agents in a sample. The invention also relates to a high-throughput strategy to facilitate the identification and immunological characterization of pathogen-specific carbohydrates, including those of Bacillus anthracis. The invention can be used to determine the presence of a pathogen and whether a subject has been exposed to a pathogen, such as by screening for pathogen-specific antibodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900221 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658600 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuan Gao (Waltham, Massachusetts); Yi Kuang (Waltham, Massachusetts); Bing Xu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Gao (Waltham, Massachusetts); Yi Kuang (Waltham, Massachusetts); Bing Xu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a general methodology to create nano fibers of therapeutic molecules that have a dual role, as both the delivery vehicle and the drug itself. It is shown that with proper molecular design, the integration of enzymatic reaction and self-assembly provides a powerful method to create molecular hydrogels of clinically-used therapeutics without compromising their bioactivities. In addition, the results disclosed herein demonstrate enzyme-instructed self-assembly as a facile strategy for generating the supramolecular hydrogels of molecules that inherently have poor solubility in water. For example, by covalently connecting paclitaxel with a motif that is prone to self-assemble, a hydrogel of paclitaxel can be formed without compromising the activity of the paclitaxel. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/379801 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658647 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Su-Lin Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Samuel K. Kulp (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Su-Lin Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Samuel K. Kulp (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of compounds and use of the compounds in a method for treating or preventing cancer in a subject by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition including a compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are described. The compounds can also be used to inhibit integrin-linked kinase in a cell, which has an effect on the Akt signaling pathway. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/300872 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658702 | Diallo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mamadou Diallo (Pasadena, California); Changjun Yu (Pasadena, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mamadou Diallo (Pasadena, California); Changjun Yu (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel macromolecules for filtering contaminants from water and non-aqueous solutions. Molecules such as polyethyleneimine (PEI) may be functionalized, cross-linked, and/or quaternized to improve their binding capacity or selectivity with particular water contaminants such as bromide, nitrate, and sulfate. The macromolecules may be either recyclable or non-recyclable, and may be recovered or separated from water using means such as ultrafiltration, flocculation, or immobilization on a substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/972423 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658786 | Urban et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marek W. Urban (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Biswajit Ghosh (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek W. Urban (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Biswajit Ghosh (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermosetting polymeric compositions, such as polyurethane compositions, and related methods are provided. The invention relates to coating and polymer compositions and related methods derived from a biodegradable natural polysaccharide compound such as chitosan, pectin, heparin, and combinations thereof reacted to a cyclic oxide compound, such as an oxetane, oxolane or oxepane compound. The compositions and methods of the present invention exhibit self-repairing properties upon exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light. The compositions and methods of the present invention can be used in many coating applications, such as the transportation, packaging, fashion, and biomedical industries. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/722994 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659005 | Tansu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Ronald A. Arif (Raleigh, North Carolina); Yik Khoon Ee (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Hongping Zhao (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson Tansu (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Ronald A. Arif (Raleigh, North Carolina); Yik Khoon Ee (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Hongping Zhao (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting device comprising a staggered composition quantum well (QW) has a step-function-like profile in the QW, which provides higher radiative efficiency and optical gain by providing improved electron-hole wavefunction overlap. The staggered QW includes adjacent layers having distinctly different compositions. The staggered QW has adjacent layers Xn wherein X is a quantum well component and in one quantum well layer n is a material composition selected for emission at a first target light regime, and in at least one other quantum well layer n is a distinctly different composition for emission at a different target light regime. X may be an In-content layer and the multiple Xn-containing a step function In-content profile. |
| FILED | Monday, December 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/520708 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659009 | Ozyilmaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Singapore, Singapore); Dmitri Efetov (New York, New York); Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Singapore, Singapore); Dmitri Efetov (New York, New York); Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A locally gated graphene nanostructure is described, along with methods of making and using the same. A graphene layer can include first and second terminal regions separated by a substantially single layer gated graphene nanoconstriction. A local first gate region can be separated from the graphene nanoconstriction by a first gate dielectric. The local first gate region can be capacitively coupled to gate electrical conduction in the graphene nanoconstriction. A second gate region can be separated from the graphene nanoconstriction by a second gate dielectric. The second gate region can be capacitively coupled to provide a bias to a first location in the graphene nanoconstriction and to a second location outside of the graphene nanoconstriction. Methods of making and using locally gated graphene nanostructures are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290648 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659845 | Wan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoke Wan (Gainesville, Florida); Jian Ge (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoke Wan (Gainesville, Florida); Jian Ge (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | High-precision monolithic optical assemblies are formed using low-cost standard optical components, such as wedge plates and/or wedge second surface mirrors. By rolling and/or shifting the components relative to each other with matched optical surfaces in contact, a precise alignment solution is found for a particular optical assembly. The resulting arrangement of components can be bonded or held together so as to form a high-precision monolithic optical assembly, which can be inserted into an optical system, according to the assembly's function. The functionality of the monolithic optical assembly can be independent of the optical system in which it is used. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/933490 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/831 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660372 | Bovik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Bovik (Austin, Texas); Anush Moorthy (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Bovik (Austin, Texas); Anush Moorthy (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and structures are disclosed in which one or more distortion categories are identified for an image or video, and a quality of the image or video is determined based on the one or more distortion categories. The image or video may be of a natural scene, and may be of unknown provenance. Identifying a distortion category and/or determining a quality may be performed without any corresponding reference (e.g., undistorted) image or video. Identifying a distortion category may be performed using a distortion classifier. Quality may be determined with respect to a plurality of human opinion scores that correspond to a particular distortion category to which an image or video of unknown provenance is identified as belonging. Various statistical methods may be used in performing said identifying and said determining, including use of generalized Gaussian distribution density models and natural scene statistics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/104801 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660789 | Demiryurek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ugur Demiryurek (Redondo Beach, California); Cyrus Shahabi (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ugur Demiryurek (Redondo Beach, California); Cyrus Shahabi (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | With real-world spatial networks the edge travel-times are time-dependent, where the arrival-time to an edge determines the actual travel-time on the edge. To speed up the path computation, exact and approximate techniques for computation of the fastest path in time-dependent spatial networks are presented. An exact fastest path computation technique based on a time-dependent A* search can significantly improve the computation time and storage complexity of existing approaches. Moreover, for applications with which approximate fastest path is acceptable, the approximate fastest path computation technique can improve the computation time by an order of magnitude while maintaining high accuracy (e.g., with only 7% increase in travel-time of the computed path on average). With experiments using real data-sets (including a variety of large spatial networks with real traffic data) the efficacy of the disclosed techniques for online fastest path computation is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/455035 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08661204 | Dwarkadas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandhya Dwarkadas (Pittsford, New York); Arrvindh Shriraman (Rochester, New York); Michael Scott (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandhya Dwarkadas (Pittsford, New York); Arrvindh Shriraman (Rochester, New York); Michael Scott (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention employs three decoupled hardware mechanisms: read and write signatures, which summarize per-thread access sets; per-thread conflict summary tables, which identify the threads with which conflicts have occurred; and a lazy versioning mechanism, which maintains the speculative updates in the local cache and employs a thread-private buffer (in virtual memory) only in the rare event of an overflow. The conflict summary tables allow lazy conflict management to occur locally, with no global arbitration (they also support eager management). All three mechanisms are kept software-accessible, to enable virtualization and to support transactions of arbitrary length. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/422544 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08661394 | Frederick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael T. Frederick (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Arun K. Somani (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Frederick (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Arun K. Somani (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of creating logic chains in a Boolean network of a reconfigurable fabric is provided. The method includes creating a plurality of logic chains in the reconfigurable fabric. The plurality of logic chains include at least one arithmetic logic chain and at least one non-arithmetic logic chain. A method of creating logic chains in a Boolean network of a look-up table based FPGA includes: applying a labeling method by (a) finding a depth increasing node, (b) isolating the depth increasing node, and (c) finding minimum height cuts; mapping to generate a mapping solution using the minimum height cuts; applying a duplication method to implement an exclusivity constraint; and arranging connections in the look-up table based FPGA using the logic chains. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236781 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08656957 | Babinsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Holger Babinsky (Linton, United Kingdom); Eric Loth (Champaign, Illinois); Sang Lee (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holger Babinsky (Linton, United Kingdom); Eric Loth (Champaign, Illinois); Sang Lee (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices for generating streamwise vorticity in a boundary includes various forms of vortex generators. One form of a split-ramp vortex generator includes a first ramp element and a second ramp element with front ends and back ends, ramp surfaces extending between the front ends and the back ends, and vertical surfaces extending between the front ends and the back ends adjacent the ramp surfaces. A flow channel is between the first ramp element and the second ramp element. The back ends of the ramp elements have a height greater than a height of the front ends, and the front ends of the ramp elements have a width greater than a width of the back ends. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/895781 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657027 | Sherrit et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stewart Sherrit (La Crescenta, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California); Mircea Badescu (La Canada Flintridge, California); Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Sherrit (La Crescenta, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California); Mircea Badescu (La Canada Flintridge, California); Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Single Piezo-Actuator Rotary-Hammering (SPaRH) Drill includes a horn actuator having high power piezoelectric materials and a flexure pre-stress to increase the actuators effectiveness. The drill is a low mass, low power, compact coring drill measuring 20-cm high by 7-cm diameter and having a total weight of 2 kg including drive electronics. Using an average power of 50-Watts, the drill basalt is expected to cut basalt at a rate of 0.2 cm/min down to depth of 10-cm and create cuttings and an intact core. The drill is expected to operate under different environments including Martian ambient (6 Torr and down to −50° C.), and liquid nitrogen temperatures (77 K) and low pressure (<<1 Torr) to simulate lunar polar and Europa conditions. Materials expected to be sampled include Kaolinite, Saddleback Basalt, Limestone, Volcanic Breccia, Siltstone, ice, permafrost and layered rocks with different hardness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/877390 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Tool driving or impacting 173/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08657179 | Ding |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Jeffrey Ding (Athens, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Jeffrey Ding (Athens, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for a thermal stir welding system is provided. The control system includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor is coupled to the welding system's containment plate assembly and generates signals indicative of temperature of a region adjacent and parallel to the welding system's stir rod. The controller is coupled to the sensor and generates at least one control signal using the sensor signals indicative of temperature. The controller is also coupled to the welding system such that at least one of rotational speed of the stir rod, heat supplied by the welding system's induction heater, and feed speed of the welding system's weld material feeder are controlled based on the control signal(s). |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/430268 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658004 | Weinstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonard M. Weinstein (Newport News, Virginia); Karen M. Taminger (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard M. Weinstein (Newport News, Virginia); Karen M. Taminger (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a collimated beam source within a vacuum chamber, a condensable barrier gas, cooling material, a pump, and isolation chambers cooled by the cooling material to condense the barrier gas. Pressure levels of each isolation chamber are substantially greater than in the vacuum chamber. Coaxially-aligned orifices connect a working chamber, the isolation chambers, and the vacuum chamber. The pump evacuates uncondensed barrier gas. The barrier gas blocks entry of atmospheric vapor from the working chamber into the isolation chambers, and undergoes supersonic flow expansion upon entering each isolation chamber. A method includes connecting the isolation chambers to the vacuum chamber, directing vapor to a boundary with the working chamber, and supersonically expanding the vapor as it enters the isolation chambers via the orifices. The vapor condenses in each isolation chamber using the cooling material, and uncondensed vapor is pumped out of the isolation chambers via the pump. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470689 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08657892 | Patil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krushna N. Patil (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Raymond L. Huhnke (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Danielle D. Bellmer (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krushna N. Patil (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Raymond L. Huhnke (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Danielle D. Bellmer (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A downdraft gasifier is disclosed. The gasifier includes a biomass section that accepts and stirs raw biomass materials, a pyrolysis and tar cracking section having an inner cylinder for receiving biomass and an outer surrounding cylinder for gases from the biomass, and a char gasification section for receiving biomass and gases from the pyrolysis and tar cracking section. The char gasification section provides a grating and scraper for passing gases and ash and retaining biomass for char gasification on the grate. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493988 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/62.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658386 | Bannantine |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John P. Bannantine (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Bannantine (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybridoma cell lines which produce and secrete monoclonal antibodies which selectively bind to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis have been produced. Cells of M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis in biological samples may be detected and quantified by contacting the sample with the antibodies to form a M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis/antibody immunocomplex when M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis is present, which immunocomplex may then be detected. The monoclonal antibodies also may be incorporated into kits for the detection and quantification of M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis. |
| FILED | Monday, November 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/951434 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08658431 | Ott |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Troy L. Ott (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Research Foundation (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy L. Ott (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and kit for determining whether an animal is not pregnant, or is pregnant following a breeding. The level of expression of a pregnancy induced protein is determined in an animal for which pregnancy status information is desired and the level is compared to that of the level in animals that are not pregnant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520403 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08657892 | Patil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krushna N. Patil (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Raymond L. Huhnke (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Danielle D. Bellmer (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krushna N. Patil (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Raymond L. Huhnke (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Danielle D. Bellmer (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A downdraft gasifier is disclosed. The gasifier includes a biomass section that accepts and stirs raw biomass materials, a pyrolysis and tar cracking section having an inner cylinder for receiving biomass and an outer surrounding cylinder for gases from the biomass, and a char gasification section for receiving biomass and gases from the pyrolysis and tar cracking section. The char gasification section provides a grating and scraper for passing gases and ash and retaining biomass for char gasification on the grate. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493988 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/62.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08660713 | Khatwa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ratan Khatwa (Sammamish, Washington); Santosh Mathan (Seattle, Washington); Olukayode Olofinboba (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ratan Khatwa (Sammamish, Washington); Santosh Mathan (Seattle, Washington); Olukayode Olofinboba (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for improving situational awareness on an in-trail procedures display. The present invention provides a display with visual identification and indication for aircraft that do not meet the ITP criteria. In the in-trail procedures display, feedback is provided when a pilot selects an invalid ITP flight level, unambiguous feedback is provided to the pilot upon selection of a valid flight level, and valid inter-target aircraft located in intervening flight levels after selection of a valid flight level are positively identified and invalid target aircraft for selection are uniquely identified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/912183 |
| ART UNIT | 3665 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08659980 | Seigler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Allen Seigler (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael Leigh Mallary (Harmony, Pennsylvania); Hua Zhou (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having a first pole with a first side and a second side opposite from the first side, a second pole positioned on the first side of the first pole, and a waveguide positioned on the second side of the first pole wherein the waveguide has an end adjacent to an air bearing surface. The first pole includes a first portion spaced from the waveguide and a second portion extending from the first portion to the air bearing surface, with the second portion being structured such that an end of the second portion is closer to the waveguide than the first portion. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707906 |
| ART UNIT | 2686 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/13.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08661052 | Creem |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey M Creem (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M Creem (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed that allow for automated tracking of changes to software modules between two or more software projects that use functionally similar but otherwise different software modules. The techniques can be used, for instance, to manage similar or identical changes to multiple otherwise independent software products. Thus, in accordance with an example embodiment, a software change that has been successfully applied to a first software product having a given functionality can be readily identified and applied to another software product that is independent of the first software product but can benefit from a similar software change. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/438462 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/769 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08658350 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deborah A. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); David M. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah A. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); David M. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in a subject are disclosed, wherein the subject is a child, a subject with a latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Method are also disclose for detecting an extra-pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a subject. The methods include detecting the presence of CD8+ T cells that specifically recognize an Mtb polypeptide. The methods include in vitro assays for detecting the presence of CD8+ T cells in a biological sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/119938 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08661037 | Narang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ankur Narang (New Delhi, India); Karthik V. Swaminathan (Mumbai, India); Prashant Agrawal (Barbil, India); Doug Joseph (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ankur Narang (New Delhi, India); Karthik V. Swaminathan (Mumbai, India); Prashant Agrawal (Barbil, India); Doug Joseph (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for indexing documents in a data storage system includes generating a single document hash table in storage memory for a single document using an index construction in a multithreaded and scalable configuration wherein multiple threads are each assigned work to reduce synchronization between threads. The single document hash table includes partitioning the single document and indexing strings of partitioned portions of the single document to create a minor hash table for each document sub-part; generating a document level hash table from the minor hash tables; updating a stream level hash table for the strings which maps every string to a global identifier; and generating a term reordered array from the document level hash table. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/757545 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08656760 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerome Johnson (Fairbanks, Alaska); Kris Zacny (New York, New York); Philip Chu (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome Johnson (Fairbanks, Alaska); Kris Zacny (New York, New York); Philip Chu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual aerial-drop penetrometer system includes a high-velocity (>30 m/s) penetrometer aerial unit combined with a low-velocity (<10 m/s) penetrometer aerial unit. The primary penetrometer is formed as an outer shell having the secondary penetrometer received in telescoping fashion within, which is ejected by a spring ejection mechanism upon impact of the outer shell. Both penetrometers provide deceleration information as they penetrate the soil of interest. The data from the two penetrometers, after analysis, can be used to assess soil strength as well as trafficability for the deployment of remotely-controlled vehicles, for example. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229885 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08659211 | Butler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John L. Butler (Cohasset, Massachusetts); Alexander L. Butler (Weymouth, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Image Acoustics, Inc. (Cohasset, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Butler (Cohasset, Massachusetts); Alexander L. Butler (Weymouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-mechanical transducer is disclosed, which provides a very low frequency wide band response from a bender (or benders) using piezoelectric cantilevers or center mounted free edge disc, providing additive output between the resonant frequencies achieving this response at great depths under equivalent free flooded conditions with additionally improved response with silicone rubber to reduce the acoustic cancellation associated with the dipole mode of vibration of the bender. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/853329 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08659747 | Goodman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vernon R. Goodman (Rockwall, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vernon R. Goodman (Rockwall, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a computerized method to automatically determine thresholds includes receiving data generated from a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (GmAPD) laser detecting and ranging (LADAR) sensor of a scene, determining an overall threshold value for the scene using a binomial distribution and determining post threshold values for each x-y position in the scene. The computerized method also includes, for each x-y position, using a maximum value of the post threshold values and the overall threshold value to filter the data from the scene. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162935 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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