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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 29, 2014
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| US 08707472 | Stachler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas H. Stachler (Brookville, Ohio); William L. Grilliot (West Milton, Ohio); Michael Schubert (Clayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Stachler (Brookville, Ohio); William L. Grilliot (West Milton, Ohio); Michael Schubert (Clayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective hood (18) of a protective garment (16) is provided for use with a face piece or mask (12) worn by a user. The hood (18) includes an outer shell (30) having a peripheral edge (20), and a gasket (22) that extends from the peripheral edge (20) to an interior of the hood (18) for sealing engagement with the face piece or mask (12) with the gasket (22) being covered by the outer shell (30) of the hood (18) when worn by a user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710551 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707676 | Fuller |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerome K. Fuller (Van Nuys, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome K. Fuller (Van Nuys, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid rocket motor is manufactured by photopolymerizing the solid fuel grain in a stereolithography method, wherein fuel grains in a plastic matrix are deposited in layers for building a solid fuel rocket body in three dimensions for improved performance and for a compact design, the hybrid rocket motor including radial channels for defining a desired burn profile including the oxidizer to fuel burn ratio. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/072918 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707764 | Di Stasio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony Di Stasio (New York, New York); Barry Fishburn (Dover, New Jersey); Sanjeev Singh (Dover, New Jersey); Rajen Patel (Iselin, New Jersey); Eugene Homentowski (Pequannock, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Di Stasio (New York, New York); Barry Fishburn (Dover, New Jersey); Sanjeev Singh (Dover, New Jersey); Rajen Patel (Iselin, New Jersey); Eugene Homentowski (Pequannock, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A test assembly for building a safety profile and a sensitivity profile of an explosive, by impacting the test assembly with a projectile. The safety profile of the explosive is built by determining a detonation threshold of the explosive in reaction to the projectile. The sensitivity profile is built by measuring a pressure difference between pressures acquired by the top sensor and the bottom sensor, resulting from a shock wave that travels through the explosive. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/338575 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/35.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707789 | Spiegel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joan E. Spiegel (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexander H. Slocum (Bow, New Hampshire); Adrienne Watral (Lynnwood, Washington); Samuel Duffley (Billerica, Massachusetts); Alexander Slocum, Jr. (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joan E. Spiegel (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexander H. Slocum (Bow, New Hampshire); Adrienne Watral (Lynnwood, Washington); Samuel Duffley (Billerica, Massachusetts); Alexander Slocum, Jr. (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A syringe having an internal pressure gauge comprises a syringe barrel; a piston within the barrel; a spring coupled to the piston at a first position of the spring, the spring having a second portion that is movable in response to fluid pressure within a syringe cavity; and a pressure gauge having an indicator correlated to a plurality of positions of the second portion of the spring to indicate a pressure of a fluid. The spring can be a bellows. The first portion of the spring can be coupled to the piston to form a sliding seal with an inner wall of the syringe, and the second portion of the spring can move longitudinally within the syringe without sealing contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528167 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707795 | Kittur |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Madan Kittur (Huntington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madan Kittur (Huntington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring fatigue on a metal or metal alloy structural part, which includes mounting a fatigue gage on a surface of the part, the fatigue gage being the same material as the part, applying electrical power on the gage and measuring the resistance of the fatigue gage, inspecting the fatigue gage at various time intervals by applying electric power on the gage and measuring the resistance of the fatigue gage; and analyzing the change of resistance of the fatigue gage at the various time intervals to determine fatigue on the part. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/474250 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707796 | Duenas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terrisa Duenas (Ventura, California); Shiv Joshi (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Cesar Del Solar (Alhambra, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Terrisa Duenas (Ventura, California); Shiv Joshi (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Cesar Del Solar (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A strain monitoring system including an array of semiconductor strain gauges. Each strain gauge in the array of strain gauges includes a lithographically fabricated 4-resistor bridge for providing a voltage potential corresponding to the strain in the bridge and thin film transistors to provide addressability to each 4-resistor bridge in the array. After completion of the array of strain gauges, in preferred embodiments the array of strain gauges are transferred to polyimide film which is in turn bonded to a surface region of the component to be tested for strains. Each bridge provides voltage signals corresponding to the strain to which the material under the bridge is being subjected. In preferred embodiments control and data acquisition function are separated from the semiconductor strain gage array. Preferred embodiments the system are utilized to monitor strains on components of aircraft, especially light weight robotic aircraft. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/136572 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707799 | Wiley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David R. Wiley (Jupiter, Florida); Reed A. Kakuska (Juno, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Wiley (Jupiter, Florida); Reed A. Kakuska (Juno, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing an apparatus with a flow passage includes providing a preform apparatus with a preform flow passage. Flow area of the preform flow passage is determined to provide determined flow area data. The determined flow area data is compared to reference flow area data to provide flow area comparison data. The preform apparatus is chemical milled based on the flow area comparison data. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250230 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707849 | Root et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua B. Root (Albany, New York); Peter O'Hara (Rensselaer, New York); Andrew G. Littlefield (Watervliet, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua B. Root (Albany, New York); Peter O'Hara (Rensselaer, New York); Andrew G. Littlefield (Watervliet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular mortar baseplate may include a top plate with an outer annular substantially planar portion and a recessed central portion. A socket may be disposed in the recessed central portion. A hub may be disposed beneath the recessed central portion. A plurality of legs may be connected to an underside of the top plate and to the hub. Each leg may include a pair of vertical portions, a horizontal portion, and a pair of rounded portions that join the pair of vertical portions to the horizontal portion. Each of the pair of rounded portions may have a radius that decreases in a radially inward direction. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164019 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/37.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707868 | Nechitailo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas V. Nechitailo (Mechanicsville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas V. Nechitailo (Mechanicsville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile instrument is provided for penetrating a target, the penetrator element being disposable in a projectile. The instrument includes a substantially cylindrical core, first and second plates and first and second devices. The core has first and second ends and a radially extending surface. The first plate supports the first end; the second plate supports the second end. The first device radially constrains the surface, whereas the second device axially constrains the first and second ends respectively disposed between their corresponding plates. Preferably, the core is either a ceramic or else is composed of reactive materials. In one embodiment, the first plate and the first device combine as a closed sleeve; the second plate is a lid removably secured to the first plate; and the second device is a helical spring disposed between the first end and the first plate. In another embodiment, the first and second devices constitute a plurality of bolt-and-nut assemblies, each bolt-and-nut assembly having a bolt and a nut, the bolt having a shaft terminating at head and tail ends, the shaft mechanically engaging the surface, the head end having a cap mounted to the shaft and male threads on the tail end, and the nut has female threads compatible with the male threads, the head and the bolt engaging against the first and second plates to compress the core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/291036 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707892 | Ervin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric N Ervin (San Diego, California); Geoffrey Alden Barrall (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Electronic Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N Ervin (San Diego, California); Geoffrey Alden Barrall (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for single-sided bilayer formation includes a first fluid chamber including a sidewall and a second fluid chamber extending through the sidewall. A barrier wall separates the first and second fluid chambers and includes a nanopore therein across which a planar lipid bilayer (PLB) is formed. In use, an electrolyte is added to the first and second fluid chambers and a lipid/organic solvent mixture is added to the first fluid chamber to form a lipid/organic solvent layer. The electrolyte level within the first fluid chamber is adjusted such that the lipid layer is raised above the barrier wall and a PLB is formed. Electrolyte levels may be adjusted manually or utilizing a fluid level regulator with or without feedback control. Optionally, the apparatus may be in the form of a nanopore array. The apparatus may be incorporated into an ion channel sensing system. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/350172 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708276 | Petersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael L. Petersen (Ridgecrest, California); Thomas J. Groshens (Ridgecrest, California); Elsa J. Hennings (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Petersen (Ridgecrest, California); Thomas J. Groshens (Ridgecrest, California); Elsa J. Hennings (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lighter than air emergency beacon platform as part of a hydrogen generation and filtration apparatus includes at least one power source having at least one activation switch. At least one reaction chamber is electrically connected to the at least one reaction chamber by at least one low-resistance electrical conductor. The reaction chamber is configured to house a hydrogen generating material. At least one flow disruption chamber is in fluid communication with the reaction chamber. The flow disruption chamber(s) are configured to provide fluid communication with the next flow disruption chamber in the direction of fluid flow. At least one inflatable housing is configured to carry payload and is in fluid communication with the flow disruption chambers. The inflatable housing is detached from a fill tube to lift the payload above terrain blocking line-of-sight signal communication. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/552259 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708278 | McGeer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aerovel Corporation (White Salmon, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerovel Corporation (White Salmon, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. McGeer (Underwood, Washington); Andreas H. von Flotow (Hood River, Oregon); Corydon C. Roeseler (Hood River, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | For retrieval of a hovering aircraft, a cable, bar, or similar fixture is suspended in an approximately horizontal orientation across the retrieval area between two well-separated supports. The aircraft slowly flies into this fixture, which then slides along the aircraft in a direction approximately parallel with the aircraft's thrust line. This leads to the aircraft becoming fastened to the fixture by an interceptor or aircraft capturer, which in alternative embodiments are respectively on the aircraft or the fixture or both. Thrust is then reduced, and the aircraft comes to rest hanging from the fixture for subsequent removal. Retrieval is thus accomplished with simple and economical apparatus, light and unobtrusive elements on the aircraft, low risk of damage, and only moderate piloting accuracy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/900191 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/110.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708285 | Carreiro |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul J. Carreiro (Swansea, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Carreiro (Swansea, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-unmanned aerial vehicle deployment system is provided for a cruise missile having submunition compartments. The system includes a vehicle launch module releasable from the cruise missile submunition compartment. The vehicle launch system has a control circuit and at least one micro-unmanned aerial vehicle contained therein. Structure is provided in the launch module for deploying the micro-unmanned aerial vehicle. A separable tether can be joined between the cruise missile and the vehicle launch module that separates when subjected to tension after deployment of the vehicle launch module. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/004152 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708342 | Johnson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip M Johnson (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip M Johnson (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A pneumatically controlled, two part, rotational face seal is disclosed that has dual modes of operation. There is a first, static mode where a face of each of the two parts of the seal touch each other and provide an air, liquid and water vapor tight, very low leakage rate with high rotational friction between the two parts of the seal. In the second, dynamic mode wherein the two parts of the seal are separated by inert gas and the face seal functions as a gas bearing having very low rotational friction as the two parts are rotated with respect to each other. One part of the seal may be attached to a rotatable turret and the other part may be attached to a base on which the turret is mounted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546709 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708655 | Farris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John R. Farris (Bolton, Connecticut); Raymond Surace (Newington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Farris (Bolton, Connecticut); Raymond Surace (Newington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotor blade for a turbine engine includes a first side that defines a first contact face with a hardcoat and a second side that defines a second contact face without a hardcoat. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889836 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708884 | Smyth |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Smyth (Fallston, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for adaptively mitigating motion sickness in an operator are provided herein. In some embodiments, a compensatory modulator for use with a display controller included in a system to adaptively mitigating motion sickness in an operator may include one or more inputs to receive at least one of physiological measurements of the operator or operator activity behavior from one or more monitoring devices, and a motion sickness expert system configured to (a) determine a cognitive state of the operator based on the received inputs, (b) compute mitigating display parameters based on the determined cognitive state of the operator, (c) output the computed mitigating display parameters to the display controller. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792874 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708966 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark G. Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark R. Prausnitz (Decatur, Georgia); Devin V. McAllister (Holley, New York); Florent Paul Marcel Cros (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark G. Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark R. Prausnitz (Decatur, Georgia); Devin V. McAllister (Holley, New York); Florent Paul Marcel Cros (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Microneedle devices are provided for transport of molecules across tissue barriers and for use as microflameholders. In a preferred embodiment for transport across tissue, the microneedles are formed of a biodegradable polymer. Methods of making these devices, which can include hollow and/or porous microneedles, are also provided. A preferred method for making a microneedle includes forming a micromold having sidewalls which define the outer surface of the microneedle, electroplating the sidewalls to form the hollow microneedle, and then removing the micromold from the microneedle. In a preferred method of use, the microneedle device is used to deliver material into or across a biological barrier from chambers in connection with at least one of the microneedles. The device preferably further includes a means for controlling the flow of material through the microneedles. Representative examples of these means include the use of permeable membranes, fracturable impermeable membranes, valves, and pumps. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/853082 |
| ART UNIT | 3767 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709134 | Yaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); David Kyle Britt (Los Angeles, California); Alexander U. Czaja (Dirmstein, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); David Kyle Britt (Los Angeles, California); Alexander U. Czaja (Dirmstein, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to porous frameworks for ethylene oxide separation and recovery. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/147357 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709305 | Sarkar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Abhijit Sarkar (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oxazogen, Inc. (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhijit Sarkar (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns a polymer coating material composition (PCM) comprising as components a Polymer Matrix, carbon nanotubes (CNT) as optical power limiters (OPL), and carbon-rich molecules. One aspect of the invention is where the Polymer Matrix is a hyperbranched polymer, such as a hyperbranched polycarbosiloxane polymer. Another aspect of the invention is where the CNT is a short multiwall carbon nanotube (sMWNT). A further aspect of the invention is where the carbon-rich molecules are triethoxysilyl anthracene derivatives. The composition wherein the ratio in weight percent of Polymer Matrix to CNT to carbon-rich molecule is from 94:3:3 to 99.8:0.1:0.1. The composition can further contain one or more of multi-photon absorbers (MPA) chromophores or reverse saturable absorbers (RSA) chromophores. These compositions can be used as: a) a film, b) a coating, c) a liquid, d) a solution, or e) a sandwiched film between two transparent substrates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/186948 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709307 | Sarkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Abhijit Sarkar (Midland, Michigan); George Rayfield (Pahrump, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oxazogen, Inc. (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhijit Sarkar (Midland, Michigan); George Rayfield (Pahrump, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns a polymer coating material composition (PCM) comprising as components a polymer matrix, carbon nanotubes (CNT) as optical power limiters (OPL), and carbon rich molecules. One aspect of the invention is where the Polymer Matrix is a hyperbranched polymer, such as a hyperbranched polycarbosiloxane polymer. Another aspect of the invention is where the CNT is a short multiwall carbon nanotube (sMWNT). A further aspect of the invention is where the carbon-rich molecules are triethoxysilyl anthracene derivatives. The composition wherein the ratio in weight percent of Polymer Matrix to CNT to carbon-rich molecule is from 94:3:3 to 99.8:0.1:0.1. The composition can further contain one or more of multi-photon absorbers (MPA) chromophores or reverse saturable absorbers (RSA) chromophores. These compositions can be used as: a) a film, b) a coating, c) a liquid, d) a solution, or e) a sandwiched film between two transparent substrates. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/922479 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/586 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709373 | Hauge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Hauge (Houston, Texas); Cary Pint (Houston, Texas); Noe Alvarez (Houston, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Hauge (Houston, Texas); Cary Pint (Houston, Texas); Noe Alvarez (Houston, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes carbon nanotube arrays having carbon nanotubes grown directly on a substrate and methods for making such carbon nanotube arrays. In various embodiments, the carbon nanotubes may be covalently bonded to the substrate by nanotube carbon-substrate covalent bonds. The present carbon nanotube arrays may be grown on substrates that are not typically conducive to carbon nanotube growth by conventional carbon nanotube growth methods. For example, the carbon nanotube arrays of the present disclosure may be grown on carbon substrates including carbon foil, carbon fibers and diamond. Methods for growing carbon nanotubes include a) providing a substrate, b) depositing a catalyst layer on the substrate, c) depositing an insulating layer on the catalyst layer, and d) growing carbon nanotubes on the substrate. Various uses for the carbon nanotube arrays are contemplated herein including, for example, electronic device and polymer composite applications. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/139418 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08709378 — Catalyst and process of hydrocarbon feedstock reformation to hydrogen and carbon monoxide
| US 08709378 | Lee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ivan Chihang Lee (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Chihang Lee (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalytic composition is particularly well suited for hydrocarbon conversion to synthesis gas at a temperature of between 800 and 1000° Celsius. The catalytic composition includes a noble metal cluster having an X-Y-Z axial mean linear dimension of between 2 and 15 Angstroms and a super cage structure surrounding the noble metal cluster. The super cage structure stabilizes the noble metal cluster against aggregation at temperatures of 1000° Celsius. A process for reforming hydrocarbon feedstock to hydrogen and carbon monoxide is also provided that conversion to greater than 80% of theoretical yield. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014910 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709394 | Chisholm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); Partha Majumdar (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); Partha Majumdar (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Polysiloxane-based materials, which include metal species, are provided. The polysiloxane-based compositions and materials generally include (i) amino-functional polysiloxane material and (ii) a plurality of metal species distributed within the polymeric material. Polymer based compositions in which the amino-functional polysiloxane material includes quaternary ammonium groups, e.g., tetraalkyl ammonium groups, are examples of suitable materials which may be used to form the present compositions. The metal species, which may be in an oxidized and/or neutral state, may be bonded, coordinated, chelated, suspended, and/or dispersed within the polymeric material. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/661902 |
| 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 424/78.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709487 | Kinnan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark K. Kinnan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Heidi L. Schreuder-Gibson (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark K. Kinnan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Heidi L. Schreuder-Gibson (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A water-based and surfactant-free microwave synthesis of polymer nanoparticles includes the entrapment of diisopropyl fluorophosphatase (DFPase) within poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PVP) nanoparticles. The resulting nanoparticles are approximately 80-100 nm in diameter and reactive activity of DFPase is maintained after encapsulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/342274 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709635 | Benson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Frederick Benson (St. Petersburg, Florida); Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (Tampa, Florida); Lawrence C. Langebrake (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a galvanic cell having an aluminum anode and a cathode compartment design suitable for carrying out the aqueous electrochemical reaction between solid aluminum metal and aqueous peroxide ions. The galvanic cell is activated when water, aqueous hydroxide solution, or an aqueous salt solution is added to the cell. This reaction releases a significant amount of electrochemical energy from a small size (mass or volume) cell. This cell reaction and design leads to an improvement in energy released over state-of-the-art aluminum/hydrogen peroxide galvanic cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/622724 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709707 | Hess et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John R. Hess (Bethesda, Maryland); Tibor J. Greenwalt (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Hess (Bethesda, Maryland); Tibor J. Greenwalt (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an aqueous composition for storage of red blood cells consisting essentially of: adenine; dextrose; at least one nonmetabolizable membrane-protectant sugar; and a specifically defined pH buffering system. Also provided are improved methods for preserving red blood cells and methods for increasing the viability, membrane retention, and recoverability while suppressing apoptosis, hemolysis, and post-reinfusion clearance of stored red blood cells which utilize the novel compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/608682 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709730 | Garcia-Sastre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Natalia Frias-Staheli (New York, New York); Herbert W. Virgin (Clayton, Missouri); Nadia Vicki Giannakopoulos (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York); Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Natalia Frias-Staheli (New York, New York); Herbert W. Virgin (Clayton, Missouri); Nadia Vicki Giannakopoulos (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Viruses having an impaired ability to deISGylate ISG15 conjugates, in particular, viral mutants comprising a mutation in the viral genome that reduces or eliminates the ability of the viral OTU domain-containing protein encoded by the viral genome to deISGylate ISG15 conjugates and/or deubiquitinate ubiquitinated proteins and/or deNeddylate Neddylated proteins are disclosed. Such viral mutants may be used in the formulation of immunogenic compositions for inducing an immune response and preventing, managing and/or treating a viral infection. Also disclosed are methods for identifying anti-viral compounds, in particular, methods of identifying compounds that reduce or inhibit the deISGylation activity and/or deubiquitination and/or deNeddylation activity of a viral OTU domain-containing protein. The compounds identified using such methods may be used as antiviral agents for the prevention, treatment and/or management of viral infections. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/594774 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 08709740 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia); Luminita M. Velea (Herndon, Virginia); Banahalli Ratna (Woodbridge, Virginia); Bruce P. Gaber (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia); Luminita M. Velea (Herndon, Virginia); Banahalli Ratna (Woodbridge, Virginia); Bruce P. Gaber (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device having a substrate and an enzyme attached to the substrate. The substrate has a polymeric surface having at least two conductivity states. A minimum voltage that does not cause a redox reaction in the enzyme may be applied to the polymeric surface to change the conductivity state of the surface. A method of controlling enzyme activity by providing the above substrate with polymeric surface, attaching an enzyme to the substrate, and altering the conductivity state of the polymeric surface. Changing the conductivity of the polymer can change the activity of the enzyme. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203575 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709742 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biotechnology Institute, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Saccharification of polysaccharides of plants is provided, where release of fermentable sugars from cellulose is obtained by adding plant tissue composition. Production of glucose is obtained without the need to add additional β-glucosidase. Adding plant tissue composition to a process using a cellulose degrading composition to degrade cellulose results in an increase in the production of fermentable sugars compared to a process in which plant tissue composition is not added. Using plant tissue composition in a process using a cellulose degrading enzyme composition to degrade cellulose results in decrease in the amount of cellulose degrading enzyme composition or exogenously applied cellulase required to produce fermentable sugars. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/901507 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709761 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biotechnology Institute, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Saccharification of polysaccharides of plants is provided, where release of fermentable sugars from cellulose is obtained by adding plant tissue composition. Production of glucose is obtained without the need to add additional β-glucosidase. Adding plant tissue composition to a process using a cellulose degrading composition to degrade cellulose results in an increase in the production of fermentable sugars compared to a process in which plant tissue composition is not added. Using plant tissue composition in a process using a cellulose degrading enzyme composition to degrade cellulose results in decrease in the amount of cellulose degrading enzyme composition or exogenously applied cellulase required to produce fermentable sugars. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025659 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709881 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuegang Zhang (Cupertino, California); Ariel Ismach (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuegang Zhang (Cupertino, California); Ariel Ismach (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A substrate is provided that has a metallic layer on a substrate surface of a substrate. A film made of a two dimensional (2-D) material, such as graphene, is deposited on a metallic surface of the metallic layer. The metallic layer is dewet and/or removed to provide the film on the substrate surface. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/098929 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709892 | Mao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chuanbin Mao (Austin, Texas); Shan Tang (Austin, Texas); Sanjay Banerjee (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Darpa (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuanbin Mao (Austin, Texas); Shan Tang (Austin, Texas); Sanjay Banerjee (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a flash memory device where the flash memory device includes a substantially uniform size and spatial distribution of nanoparticles on a tunnel oxide layer to form a floating gate. The flash memory device may be fabricated by defining active areas in a substrate and forming an oxide layer on the substrate. A self-assembled protein lattice may be formed on top of the oxide layer where the self-assembled protein lattice includes a plurality of molecular chaperones. The cavities of the chaperones may provide confined spaces where nanocrystals can be trapped thereby forming an ordered nanocrystal lattice. A substantially uniform distribution of nanocrystals may be formed on the oxide layer upon removal of the self-assembled protein lattice such as through high temperature annealing. |
| FILED | Monday, May 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/915039 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710017 | Arap et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions for in vivo and in vitro targeting. A large number of targeting peptides directed towards human organs, tissues or cell types are disclosed. The peptides are of use for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, including but not limited to gene therapy vectors. A novel class of gene therapy vectors is disclosed. Certain of the disclosed peptides have therapeutic use for inhibiting angiogenesis, inhibiting tumor growth, inducing apoptosis, inhibiting pregnancy or inducing weight loss. Methods of identifying novel targeting peptides in humans, as well as identifying endogenous receptor-ligand pairs are disclosed. Methods of identifying novel infectious agents that are causal for human disease states are also disclosed. A novel mechanism for inducing apoptosis is further disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/286887 |
| ART UNIT | 1658 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710045 | Marks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Robert Marks (Larchmont, New York); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Shixian Deng (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Robert Marks (Larchmont, New York); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Shixian Deng (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and salts, hydrates, solvates, complexes, and prodrugs thereof. The present invention further provides methods for synthesizing compounds of Formula I. The invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions of Formula I to treat and prevent disorders and diseases associated with the RyR receptors that regulate calcium channel functioning in cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938098 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/211.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710146 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiangling Xu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sean Purdy (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiangling Xu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sean Purdy (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing a dispersion of polymeric particles is disclosed. Monomers are emulsion polymerized in the presence of an ionic monomer to produce highly charged polymeric particles. At least 50% of the ionic monomer in the dispersion is bound to the polymeric particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672237 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710169 | Schmidt |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a preceramic material includes modifying a moiety Si—O—R of a polycarbosilane material with at least one metal (M), where Si is silicon, O is oxygen and R includes an alkyl or aryl moiety, by reaction to substitute R with M to produce a preceramic polycarbosilane or polycarbosiloxane material that includes a moiety Si—O-M. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352584 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710170 | Verborgt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jozef Verborgt (Tarpon Springs, Florida); Arthur A Webb (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of Americas, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jozef Verborgt (Tarpon Springs, Florida); Arthur A Webb (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer made by reacting a polyisocyanate with a compound having the formula below. R1 is an organic group. R2 is an aliphatic group or oxyaliphatic group. R3 is an aliphatic group. The reaction forms urea groups from the isocyanate groups of the polyisocyanate and the NH groups of the compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/465068 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710185 | Ulrích et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert G. Ulrích (Frederick, Maryland); Mark A. Olson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sina Bavari (Dillsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Ulrích (Frederick, Maryland); Mark A. Olson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sina Bavari (Dillsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to genetically attenuated superantigen toxin vaccines altered such that superantigen attributes are absent, however the superantigen is effectively recognized and an appropriate immune response is produced. The attenuated superantigen toxins are shown to protect animals against challenge with wild type toxin. Methods of producing and using the altered superantigen toxins are described. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/304835 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710424 | Shaver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Shaver (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Bernard B. Kosicki (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert K. Reich (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Dennis D. Rathman (Ashland, Massachusetts); Daniel R. Schuette (Arlington, Massachusetts); Brian F. Aull (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention include an electron counter with a charge-coupled device (CCD) register configured to transfer electrons to a Geiger-mode avalanche diode (GM-AD) array operably coupled to the output of the CCD register. At high charge levels, a nondestructive amplifier senses the charge at the CCD register output to provide an analog indication of the charge. At low charge levels, noiseless charge splitters or meters divide the charge into single-electron packets, each of which is detected by a GM-AD that provides a digital output indicating whether an electron is present. Example electron counters are particularly well suited for counting photoelectrons generated by large-format, high-speed imaging arrays because they operate with high dynamic range and high sensitivity. As a result, they can be used to image scenes over a wide range of light levels. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/692306 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710428 | Loftus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas H. Loftus (Los Gatos, California); Artyom Vitouchkine (Redwood City, California); Leo Hollberg (Portola Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AOSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Loftus (Los Gatos, California); Artyom Vitouchkine (Redwood City, California); Leo Hollberg (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An atomic slower comprises a bore and one or more tapered permanent magnets configured to produce an axial magnetic field along an axis of the bore. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/402792 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710429 | Hanas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay S. Hanas (Edmond, Oklahoma); James R. Hocker (Edmond, Oklahoma); Daniel J. Brackett (Seminole, Oklahoma); Russell G. Postier (Edmond, Oklahoma); Marvin D. Peyton (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); John Y. Cheung (Bellingham, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of OK (Normal, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay S. Hanas (Edmond, Oklahoma); James R. Hocker (Edmond, Oklahoma); Daniel J. Brackett (Seminole, Oklahoma); Russell G. Postier (Edmond, Oklahoma); Marvin D. Peyton (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); John Y. Cheung (Bellingham, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of identifying biomarkers in liquid biological samples obtained from cancer patients or patients exhibiting a disease state. Such methods may include the use of electrospray ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (ESI-TOF MS). |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/341252 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710450 | Ryan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Ryan (Lee, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Ryan (Lee, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of the present invention is capable of detecting, imaging and measuring both neutrons and gamma rays. The system has three parallel plates each containing a plurality of detectors. Each plate has different detectors. The first plate has plastic scintillation detectors. The second plate has a plurality of stilbene scintillation detectors having pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) properties. The third plate has a plurality of inorganic detectors. The first plate and the second plate are used in connection to detect, image and measure neutrons. The second plate and the third plate are used in connection to detect, image, and measure gamma rays. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373026 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/203 (20130101) G01T 1/2008 (20130101) G01T 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710470 | Gattass et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rafael R. Gattass (Washington, District of Columbia); Leslie Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina); Lynda E Busse (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafael R. Gattass (Washington, District of Columbia); Leslie Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina); Lynda E Busse (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An infrared laser source system that combines laser emitters through an optical waveguide. Each emitter is coupled to a port of the optical waveguide and the waveguided signal is combined to provide a spatially combined laser source with a single common exit aperture. The materials used for waveguiding allow the propagation of wavelengths in the infrared. The system can be used for combining multiple laser emitters to increase the total output power and/or for combination of multiple emitters with different wavelength for increased spectral coverage out of the laser system. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/939514 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/495.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710510 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Charlotte Jonas (Morrisville, North Carolina); Anant K. Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Charlotte Jonas (Morrisville, North Carolina); Anant K. Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) includes a substrate having a first conductivity type, a drift layer having a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type, and a well region in the drift layer and having the first conductivity type. An epitaxial channel adjustment layer is on the drift layer and has the second conductivity type. An emitter region extends from a surface of the epitaxial channel adjustment layer through the epitaxial channel adjustment layer and into the well region. The emitter region has the second conductivity type and at least partially defines a channel region in the well region adjacent to the emitter region. A gate oxide layer is on the channel region, and a gate is on the gate oxide layer. Related methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/764492 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710511 | Gambin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent Gambin (Gardena, California); Xing Gu (Redondo Beach, California); Benjamin Heying (Fullerton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Gambin (Gardena, California); Xing Gu (Redondo Beach, California); Benjamin Heying (Fullerton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An N-face GaN HEMT device including a semiconductor substrate, a buffer layer including AlN or AlGaN deposited on the substrate, a barrier layer including AlGaN or AlN deposited on the buffer layer and a GaN channel layer deposited on the barrier layer. The channel layer, the barrier layer and the buffer layer create a two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) layer at a transition between the channel layer and the barrier layer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194213 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710602 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xueti Tang (Fremont, California); Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California); Steven M. Watts (Mountain View, California); Kiseok Moon (Pleasanton, California); Vladimir Nikitin (Campbell, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xueti Tang (Fremont, California); Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California); Steven M. Watts (Mountain View, California); Kiseok Moon (Pleasanton, California); Vladimir Nikitin (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system provide a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device. The magnetic junction includes a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, a free layer, at least one insulating layer, and at least one magnetic insertion layer adjoining the at least one insulating layer. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the pinned layer and the free layer. The at least one insulating layer is adjacent to at least one of the free layer and the pinned layer. The at least one magnetic insertion layer adjoins the at least one insulating layer. In some aspects, the insulating layer(s) include at least one of magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, tantalum oxide, ruthenium oxide, titanium oxide, and nickel oxide The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/332305 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710625 | Fedorov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei G. Fedorov (Atlanta, Georgia); Craig Green (Atlanta, Georgia); Yogendra Joshi (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure include devices or systems that include a composite thermal capacitor disposed in thermal communication with a hot spot of the device, methods of dissipating thermal energy in a device or system, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/719478 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710899 | George |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard V. George (Apalachin, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard V. George (Apalachin, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated switching device, such as an RF attenuator, can be controlled to be in various states according to control bits of a control signal. The integrated switching device can be gradually transitioned from one state to another by staggering the timing of changing the control bits. Latch-up problems in the integrated switching device can thereby be reduced or prevented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/212047 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710935 | Schober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina Marie Schober (St. Anthony, Minnesota); Terry Dean Stark (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Delmer L. Smith (Edina, Minnesota); James A. Vescera (Hopkins, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a physics package for an atomic sensor comprises providing an expendable support structure having a three-dimensional configuration, providing a plurality of optical panels, and assembling the optical panels on the expendable support structure such that edges of adjacent panels are aligned with each other. The edges of adjacent panels are sealed together to form a physics block having a multifaced geometric configuration. The expendable support structure is then removed while leaving the physics block intact. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625512 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711342 | Elliott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Rowe Elliott (San Antonio, Texas); Randolph D. Glickman (San Antonio, Texas); Norman Barsalou (Converse, Texas); Saher M. Maswadi (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Rowe Elliott (San Antonio, Texas); Randolph D. Glickman (San Antonio, Texas); Norman Barsalou (Converse, Texas); Saher M. Maswadi (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A joulemeter is capable of non-destructively measuring multiple characteristics of a laser beam. The joulemeter comprises a series of parallel probe beams, which are directed though a transparent media adjacent to an absorbing media that the tested beams pass through. Arrays of optical sensors or a chirp sensor are used to intercept and measure deflections the probe beams. A control unit renders measurements on selected properties of the laser. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/672361 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08711344 — Method for remotely measuring fluctuations in the optical index of refraction of a medium
| US 08711344 | Estes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lee E. Estes (Mattapoisett, Massachusetts); Peter J. Hendricks (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Adam Jilling (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee E. Estes (Mattapoisett, Massachusetts); Peter J. Hendricks (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Adam Jilling (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for remotely measuring index of refraction fluctuations. From a first location, an optical beam is focused at a focal plane located at a second location in a medium of interest. As a result, a beam of energy is backscattered towards the first location. At the first location, a size of the backscattered beam is determined where the size is indicative of strength of fluctuations in the medium's index of refraction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/292379 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711600 | Venkataraman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karthik Venkataraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Sommerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karthik Venkataraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Sommerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory element is provided that includes a ferromagnetic (FM) layer having one or more ferromagnetic materials. One or more first molecule layers are positioned on the FM layer where charge transfer and interface chemistry between the one or more first molecule layers and FM layer induces a magnetic moment in the one or more first molecule layers. The magnetic moment is stored in the one or more first molecule layers acting as bit information that is retained or written into the one or more first molecule layers. One or more spin-filter layers are positioned on the one or more first molecule layers. The one or more spin-filter layers are positioned on the one or more spin-filter layers to form a physical or a chemical π-dimer layer structure. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/423520 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711675 | Dybdal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Bernhard Dybdal (Palos Verdes, California); Christopher Joseph Clark (Hermosa Beach, California); Samuel Joseph Curry (Redondo Beach, California); Lan Xu (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Under one aspect of the present invention, a system for processing a group of signals and interference includes (a) an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter for digitizing the group of signals and the interference; (b) a Fourier transform circuit for obtaining a Fourier transform of the digitized group of signals and the interference and to provide as output spectral bins, at least one of which contains the interference; (c) a power analysis circuit for comparing the collective power level of the spectral bins to a predetermined threshold, and if the collective power level exceeds the predetermined threshold, and for excising at least one bin that contains the interference; and (d) an inverse Fourier transform circuit for obtaining an inverse Fourier transform of the remaining spectral bins and outputting a digitized group of signals less the interference in any excised spectral bin. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/010390 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/2686 (20130101) H04L 27/3411 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711818 | Rajappan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gowri Shankar Rajappan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Seoung Bum Lee (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayflower Communications Company Inc. (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gowri Shankar Rajappan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Seoung Bum Lee (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for providing data transport Quality of Service (QoS) assurances in homogeneous and heterogeneous communication networks consisting of one or more communication interface types. The system includes Subnet Managers for managing the resources of nodes within the subnets and Flow Managers for managing the communication flows between the nodes. A Real-time Reservation Transport Protocol (RRTP) establishes the resource reservations and QoS transport services for the communication flow payload over the reserved paths. The communication flows are protected against topological variations in the network, such as from node mobility. QoS assurances are also provided to secure communication flows through interoperation with security protocols, such as Internet Protocol Security (IPsec), or encryption devices, such as High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE). |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804869 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711974 | Kumar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are directed to a non-linear amplifier system comprising a reference output generator, an adaptive filter, a amplitude distortion (AM-AM) compensator, a phase distortion (AM-PM) compensator, an adaptive spectrum controller and a non-linear system. The reference output generator may receive an input signal and generating a reference output. The adaptive filter may generate a modified input signal based on the input signal and the reference output. The AM-AM compensator may act on the modified input signal to compensate for AM-AM distortion. The phase distortion (AM-PM) compensator may act on the modified input signal to compensate for AM-PM distortion. The adaptive spectrum controller may provide parameters to the adaptive filter to minimize the power spectral density (PSD) of an output of the non-linear amplifier system in a stop-band and maximize the PSD of the output of the non-linear amplifier system in a pass-band. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/102903 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712096 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jiangjian Xiao (Ningbo, China PRC); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Hui Cheng (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiangjian Xiao (Ningbo, China PRC); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Hui Cheng (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for detecting and tracking vehicles. One embodiment of a system for detecting and tracking an object (e.g., vehicle) in a field of view includes a moving object indication stage for detecting a candidate object in a series of input video frames depicting the field of view and a track association stage that uses a joint probabilistic graph matching framework to associate an existing track with the candidate object. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/041092 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712202 | Sanders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul E. Sanders (Madison, Connecticut); Edward M. Dowd (Madison, Connecticut); Brian J. Pike (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Weatherford/Lamb, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Sanders (Madison, Connecticut); Edward M. Dowd (Madison, Connecticut); Brian J. Pike (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus relate to optical fibers suitable for use in sensing applications exposed to radiation environments. The fibers include a core of pure silica or chlorine doped silica surrounded by a fluorinated silica cladding. These glasses for the core and cladding utilize dopants that resist radiation-induced attenuation. A two step process for forming the cladding can achieve necessary concentrations of the fluorine by performing a soot deposition process in a different environment from a consolidation process where the soot is sintered into a glass. Concentration of fluorine doped into the cladding layer enables obtaining a numerical aperture that confines a mono-mode of the fiber to resist bend-induced attenuation. Dimensions of the fiber further facilitate bending ability of the fiber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892752 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712940 | Modha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A neural system comprises multiple neurons interconnected via synapse devices. Each neuron integrates input signals arriving on its dendrite, generates a spike in response to the integrated input signals exceeding a threshold, and sends the spike to the interconnected neurons via its axon. The system further includes multiple noruens, each noruen is interconnected via the interconnect network with those neurons that the noruen's corresponding neuron sends its axon to. Each noruen integrates input spikes from connected spiking neurons and generates a spike in response to the integrated input spikes exceeding a threshold. There can be one noruen for every corresponding neuron. For a first neuron connected via its axon via a synapse to dendrite of a second neuron, a noruen corresponding to the second neuron is connected via its axon through the same synapse to dendrite of the noruen corresponding to the first neuron. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/149733 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/0635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08713366 | Carey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Restarting event and alert analysis after a shutdown in a distributed processing system include identifying a shutdown condition of the distributed processing system; and determining whether the shutdown was a planned shutdown or an unplanned shutdown; if the shutdown was planned, storing an identification of the last event in an event log that was injected in an event queue at the time of the planned shutdown and restarting event and alert analysis using the next event identified in the event log; if the shutdown was unplanned, identifying a previously configured restart mode; selecting an identification of a restart event in the event log according to the previously configured restart mode; and restarting event and alert analysis using the restart event identified in the event log. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/166397 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08713581 | Carey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for selected alert delivery in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include receiving, by an incident analyzer, one or more events from one or more resources, each event identifying a location of the resource producing the event; creating, by the incident analyzer, potential alerts in dependence upon a location of the resource producing the event and location scoping rules; selecting for consolidation, by the incident analyzer, one or more of the potential alerts based on consolidation rules; and creating, by the incident analyzer, a consolidated alert based on the consolidation rules and the selected one or more potential alerts. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/282995 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
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| APPLICANT(S) | John B. Delos (Williamsburg, Virginia); Hoshik Lee (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. Delos (Williamsburg, Virginia); Hoshik Lee (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Existing monitors for apnea miss many serious events because they do not adequately distinguish the heart signal in chest impedance from the respiratory signal. Described herein is a respiratory monitoring system and method for improved detection and response to apnea, particularly in a NICU setting but also useful in a home setting. This method filters from the chest impedance the part of the impedance that is caused by the beating of the heart in a human subject, and then identifies in real time significant silence in the filtered chest impedance signal, including determining the probability of apnea. If the probability of apnea exceeds a threshold value, the apneic subject can be stimulated using automated interactions such as a vibrating mattress or air blower. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/214998 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708965 | Boyden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward S. Boyden (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Stephanie Chan (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward S. Boyden (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Stephanie Chan (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | A scalable parallel injector array has a support structure for holding injector tubes in a spatial pattern in order to enable delivery of fluidic materials simultaneously to a group of specific target areas in the brain or a body part. Each injector is individually connectible at one end to a displacement-controlled pump and is designed at the other end to be inserted into the brain or body part. The injector tubes are connected to the pump by fluid-filled tubing. The spatial pattern is patient- and/or application-customizable, and the length of the injector tubes is customizable in order to more precisely reach individual target areas. A clamping device may be used to attach the injector array to a stereotaxic arm or other support structure. The action of the pump permits controlled simultaneous delivery of the fluidic materials to the target areas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/619685 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709152 | Hansen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Padadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A static fluid and a second fluid are placed into contact along a microfluidic free interface and allowed to mix by diffusion without convective flow across the interface. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the fluids are static and initially positioned on either side of a closed valve structure in a microfluidic channel having a width that is tightly constrained in at least one dimension. The valve is then opened, and no-slip layers at the sides of the microfluidic channel suppress convective mixing between the two fluids along the resulting interface. Applications for microfluidic free interfaces in accordance with embodiments of the present invention include, but are not limited to, protein crystallization studies, protein solubility studies, determination of properties of fluidics systems, and a variety of biological assays such as diffusive immunoassays, substrate turnover assays, and competitive binding assays. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213990 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709153 | Hansen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and methods facilitating the growth and analysis of crystallized materials such as proteins. In accordance with one embodiment, a crystal growth architecture is separated by a permeable membrane from an adjacent well having a much larger volume. The well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity and concentration similar to the solvent and crystallizing agent employed in crystal growth, with diffusion across the membrane stabilizing that process. Alternatively, the well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity calculated to affect the crystallization process. In accordance with the still other embodiment, the well may be configured to contain a material such as a cryo-protectant, which is useful in protecting the crystalline material once formed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/280276 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709155 | Brecher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Brecher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vivek Nagarkar (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alexander Lempicki (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Brecher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vivek Nagarkar (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, and a variety of second dopants (co-dopants). In another embodiment, the scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, a variety of second dopants (co-dopants), and a variety of third dopants (co-dopants). Co-dopants of this invention are capable of providing a second auxiliary luminescent cation dopant, capable of introducing an anion size and electronegativity mismatch, capable of introducing a mismatch of anion charge, or introducing a mismatch of cation charge in the host material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/962997 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709391 | Patwardhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amol Madhusudan Patwardhan (Tucson, Arizona); Kenneth Michael Hargreaves (San Antonio, Texas); Armen Norakovich Akopian (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amol Madhusudan Patwardhan (Tucson, Arizona); Kenneth Michael Hargreaves (San Antonio, Texas); Armen Norakovich Akopian (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method may include treating pain, shock, and/or inflammatory conditions in a subject. A method may include using a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody, a lipoxygenase inhibitor, a cytochrome P-450 enzyme inhibitor, and/or an antioxidant configurable to at least partially treat pain, shock, and/or inflammatory conditions in a subject. A method of treating pain, shock, and/or inflammatory conditions in a subject may include inactivating or preventing at least one linoleic acid metabolite to treat certain conditions (e.g., pain, shock, and/or inflammation). |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131220 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709397 | Mohr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ian Mohr (New York, New York); Matthew Mulvey (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Mohr (New York, New York); Matthew Mulvey (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an avirulent, oncolytic herpes simplex virus modified from a wild-type herpes simplex virus so that both γ134.5 genes of the virus have been deleted and each replaced with an interferon-resistance gene that is expressed as an immediate-early gene. The present invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition that includes the modified herpes simplex virus of the present invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle for in situ administration to tumor cells. Also provided in the present invention are methods for killing tumor cells in a subject and for immunizing a subject against an infectious disease, cancer, or an autoimmune disease that involve administering to a subject the modified avirulent, oncolytic herpes simplex virus of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/561823 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709400 | Hammerman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc Hammerman (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Hammerman (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is an approach to establish organogenetic tolerance via prior transplantation of pig embryonic pancreas, thereby enabling subsequent implantation of porcine islets in a subject without the need for immune-suppression. In one aspect of the invention, porcine pancreatic primordia are implanted into a mammalian subject, and after a period of time sufficient to induce tolerance, porcine islet cells are implanted in the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/843796 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709405 | Coggin, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph H. Coggin, Jr. (Mobile, Alabama); James W. Rohrer (Wilmer, Alabama); Adel L. Barsoum (Mobile, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | South Alabama Medical Science Foundation (Mobile, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Coggin, Jr. (Mobile, Alabama); James W. Rohrer (Wilmer, Alabama); Adel L. Barsoum (Mobile, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are fragments of oncofetal antigen, otherwise known as immature laminin receptor protein that specifically stimulate one T cell subclass. The fragments may be formulated into compositions for potentiating T cell-mediated responses in mammalian cancer patients. They also have therapeutic uses in vitro. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462514 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 08709407 | Georgiou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Everett Stone (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AEMase, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Everett Stone (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and composition related to the engineering of a novel protein with methionine-γ-lyase enzyme activity are described. For example, in certain aspects there may be disclosed a modified cystathionine-γ-lyase (CGL) comprising one or more amino acid substitutions and capable of degrading methionine. Furthermore, certain aspects of the invention provide compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer with methionine depletion using the disclosed proteins or nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/020268 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709429 | Majeti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra Majeti (Stanford, California); Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Markers of acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (AMLSC) are identified. The markers are differentially expressed in comparison with normal counterpart cells, and are useful as diagnostic and therapeutic targets. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/739788 |
| 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 424/174.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709430 | Thorpe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip E. Thorpe (Dallas, Texas); Sophia Ran (Dallas, Texas); Rolf A. Brekken (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip E. Thorpe (Dallas, Texas); Sophia Ran (Dallas, Texas); Rolf A. Brekken (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is the surprising discovery that aminophospholipids, such as phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, are specific, accessible and stable markers of the luminal surface of tumor blood vessels. The present invention thus provides aminophospholipid-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic constructs for use in tumor intervention. Antibody-therapeutic agent conjugates and constructs that bind to aminophospholipids are particularly provided, as are methods of specifically delivering therapeutic agents, including toxins and coagulants, to the stably-expressed aminophospholipids of tumor blood vessels, thereby inducing thrombosis, necrosis and tumor regression. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254137 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709441 | Rayner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jon O. Rayner (Apex, North Carolina); Jonathan F. Smith (Cary, North Carolina); Bolyn Hubby (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Elizabeth A. Reap (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alphavax, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon O. Rayner (Apex, North Carolina); Jonathan F. Smith (Cary, North Carolina); Bolyn Hubby (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Elizabeth A. Reap (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides TC-83 VEE-derived replicons, alphaviral replicon particles and immunogenic compositions containing TC-83 alphaviral replicon particles which direct the expression of at least one antigen when introduced into a suitable host cell. The TC-83 VEE-derived ARPs described herein are improved in that they are subject to a lower vector-specific immune response than prior art ARPs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831017 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709444 | Klumpp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Klumpp (Chicago, Illinois); Anthony Schaeffer (Hinsdale, Illinois); Benjamin Kyle Billips (Bartlett, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Klumpp (Chicago, Illinois); Anthony Schaeffer (Hinsdale, Illinois); Benjamin Kyle Billips (Bartlett, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for disease treatment and prevention through administration of a live attenuated composition. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of urinary tract infection by administration of a live attenuated compositions lacking O-antigen ligase activity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/266346 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709446 | Fu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yue Fu (Torrance, California); Guanpingsheng Luo (Torrance, California); Ashraf Ibrahim (Irvine, California); Brad Spellberg (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); John Edwards, Jr. (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yue Fu (Torrance, California); Guanpingsheng Luo (Torrance, California); Ashraf Ibrahim (Irvine, California); Brad Spellberg (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); John Edwards, Jr. (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features HYR1 as a vaccine target and as a prophylactic strategy for combating disseminated candidiasis. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/382088 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/274.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709451 | Nam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kweon-Ho Nam (Jeju, South Korea); Natalya Y. Rapoport (Sandy, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kweon-Ho Nam (Jeju, South Korea); Natalya Y. Rapoport (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are nanoemulsions comprising (1) at least one fluoro ether and (2) a block copolymer comprising a hydrophilic block and hydrophobic block, wherein the nanoemulsion comprises a therapeutic agent in the nanoemulsion. The nanoemulsions are stable and are excellent drug delivery devices for ultrasound-mediated, image guided drug delivery. Also described herein are methods for using the nanoemulsions to treat tumors and cancers as well as using them as imaging agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/008951 |
| 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 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709464 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter X. Ma (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Guobao Wei (Eatontown, New Jersey); William V. Giannobile (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qiming Jin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter X. Ma (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Guobao Wei (Eatontown, New Jersey); William V. Giannobile (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qiming Jin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous object includes a porous material having internal pore surfaces and external pore surfaces. Releasing material encapsulated biomolecules are immobilized on at least one of the internal pore surfaces, at least one of the external pore surfaces, or combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/972531 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) A61K 38/191 (20130101) A61K 38/206 (20130101) A61K 38/1833 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (20130101) A61K 38/1891 (20130101) 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 31/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709483 | Farokhzad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Jianjun Cheng (Champaign, Illinois); Benjamin A. Teply (Omaha, Nebraska); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Stephen E. Zale (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Jianjun Cheng (Champaign, Illinois); Benjamin A. Teply (Omaha, Nebraska); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Stephen E. Zale (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a drug delivery system for targeted delivery of therapeutic agent-containing particles to tissues, cells, and intracellular compartments. The invention provides targeted particles comprising a particle, one or more targeting moieties, and one or more therapeutic agents to be delivered and pharmaceutical compositions comprising inventive targeted particles. The present invention provides methods of designing, manufacturing, and using inventive targeted particles and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239136 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709713 | Cattaneo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roberto Cattaneo (Rochester, Minnesota); Vincent H. J. Leonard (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Cattaneo (Rochester, Minnesota); Vincent H. J. Leonard (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The document provides nucleic acids, polypeptides, and viruses containing nucleic acids and/or polypeptides. The document also provides methods for using viruses to treat cancer patients. Specifically, the document provides nucleic acid molecules encoding viral hemagglutinin (H) polypeptides, viral H polypeptides, and viruses containing nucleic acids and/or H polypeptides. Such viruses are useful for vaccinations and for treating cancer patients as the viruses are not shed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/933637 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709723 | Vogelstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Rebecca J. Leary (Baltimore, Maryland); Victor E. Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Rebecca J. Leary (Baltimore, Maryland); Victor E. Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Genome-wide analysis of copy number changes in breast and colorectal tumors used approaches that can reliably detect homozygous deletions and amplifications. The number of genes altered by major copy number changes—deletion of all copies or amplification of at least twelve copies per cell—averaged thirteen per tumor. These data were integrated with previous mutation analysis of the Reference Sequence genes in these same tumor types to identify genes and cellular pathways affected by both copy number changes and point alterations. Pathways enriched for genetic alterations include those controlling cell adhesion, intracellular signaling, DNA topological change, and cell cycle control. These analysis provide an integrated view of copy number and sequencing alterations on a genome-wide scale and identify genes and pathways that are useful for cancer diagnosis and therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/461268 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709729 | Ronaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (San Diego, California); Helmy Eltoukhy (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an array of nucleic acid colonies, including the steps of (a) providing a substrate having a patterned surface of features, wherein the features are spatially organized in a repeating pattern on the surface of the substrate; (b) contacting the substrate with a solution of different target nucleic acids to seed no more than a subset of the features that contact the solution; (c) amplifying the nucleic acids on the subset of features; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) to increase the number of features that are seeded with a nucleic acid, thereby making an array of nucleic acid colonies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/905003 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709730 | Garcia-Sastre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Natalia Frias-Staheli (New York, New York); Herbert W. Virgin (Clayton, Missouri); Nadia Vicki Giannakopoulos (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York); Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Natalia Frias-Staheli (New York, New York); Herbert W. Virgin (Clayton, Missouri); Nadia Vicki Giannakopoulos (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Viruses having an impaired ability to deISGylate ISG15 conjugates, in particular, viral mutants comprising a mutation in the viral genome that reduces or eliminates the ability of the viral OTU domain-containing protein encoded by the viral genome to deISGylate ISG15 conjugates and/or deubiquitinate ubiquitinated proteins and/or deNeddylate Neddylated proteins are disclosed. Such viral mutants may be used in the formulation of immunogenic compositions for inducing an immune response and preventing, managing and/or treating a viral infection. Also disclosed are methods for identifying anti-viral compounds, in particular, methods of identifying compounds that reduce or inhibit the deISGylation activity and/or deubiquitination and/or deNeddylation activity of a viral OTU domain-containing protein. The compounds identified using such methods may be used as antiviral agents for the prevention, treatment and/or management of viral infections. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/594774 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 08709743 | Lippard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lindsey E. McQuade (Union City, California); Evgeny A. Nudler (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lindsey E. McQuade (Union City, California); Evgeny A. Nudler (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates in part to compounds that act as highly nitric oxide (NO)-specific turn-on fluorescent probes. The present invention also relates to the use of these fluorescein-based sensors to screen selectively for inhibitors of bacterial nitric oxide synthase (bNOS). Compounds of the present invention readily detect nitric oxide produced in vivo. Therefore they can be used in an assay that measures NO production by bNOS. Using a sensor of the invention one can screen libraries of small molecules for inhibitors of bNOS. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/808889 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709758 | McLeish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth R. McLeish (Louisville, Kentucky); Silvia M. Uriarte (Louisville, Kentucky); Madhavi J. Rane (Prospect, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. McLeish (Louisville, Kentucky); Silvia M. Uriarte (Louisville, Kentucky); Madhavi J. Rane (Prospect, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated fusion polypeptides are provided that are comprised of a cell-penetrating polypeptide and a SNARE polypeptide aptamer. Further provided are methods for inhibiting neutrophil granule exocytosis that comprise contacting a neutrophil with a fusion polypeptide including a cell-penetrating polypeptide and a SNARE polypeptide aptamer such that the fusion polypeptide enters the neutrophil and inhibits neutrophil granule exocytosis. Also provided are methods for treating a neutrophil-mediated inflammatory disorder by inhibiting SNARE-associated exocytosis in neutrophils. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/056521 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709778 | Danthinne |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xavier Danthinne (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xavier Danthinne (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xavier Danthinne (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for adenoviral vector synthesis. The present invention further provides methods for binding adenovirus terminal protein obtained from virus to linear DNA. The present invention further provides a recombinant adenovirus from which the adenovirus terminal protein can be purified with an inverted terminal repeat DNA sequence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/260069 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08709793 — Bioreactor device, and method and system for fabricating tissues in the bioreactor device
| US 08709793 | Taboas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Juan M. Taboas (Washington, District of Columbia); Rocky S. Tuan (Bethesda, Maryland); Steven D. Hudson (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan M. Taboas (Washington, District of Columbia); Rocky S. Tuan (Bethesda, Maryland); Steven D. Hudson (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioreactor device, and a method and system for fabricating tissues and growing cells and tissues in the bioreactor device, accommodates less than about 1 mL (or less than about 200 μL) of local medium volume but sample sizes of about 100 μL or greater. The bioreactor device includes a bioreactor chamber for containing a sample, where sample growth in response to mechanical, electrical, and biofactor stimulation is monitored through one or more optical ports. Embedded sensors are provided for measuring fluid pressure, pH, temperature, and oxygen tension. The bioreactor device can receive different types of mechanical loadings, including fluid shear, hydrostatic pressure, matrix compression, and clinorotation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/989051 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709809 | Wen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jie Wen (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Patrick E. Guire (Hopkins, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Surface Technologies, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Wen (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Patrick E. Guire (Hopkins, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanofiber is formed by combining one or more natural or synthetic polymeric materials and one or more than one cross-linking agents having at least two latent reactive activatable groups. The latent reactive activatable nanofiber may be used to modify the surface of a substrate by activating at least one of the latent reactive activatable groups to bond the nanofiber to the surface by the formation of a covalent bond between the surface of the substrate and the latent reactive activatable group. Some of the remaining latent reactive activatable group(s) are left accessible on the surface of the substrate, and may be used for further surface modification of the substrate. Biologically active materials may be immobilized on the nanofiber modified surface by reacting with the latent reactive groups that are accessible on the surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/666173 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/398 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709813 | Kopecko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis J Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); Chandrakant P Giri (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); Chandrakant P Giri (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to intracellularly induced bacterial DNA promoters and vaccines against Bacillus anthracis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/551168 |
| 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 435/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709829 | Gracias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Timothy Gar-Ming Leong (Baltimore, Maryland); Hongke Ye (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Timothy Gar-Ming Leong (Baltimore, Maryland); Hongke Ye (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nanoscale or microscale particle for encapsulation and delivery of materials or substances, including, but not limited to, cells, drugs, tissue, gels and polymers contained within the particle, with subsequent release of the therapeutic materials in situ, methods of fabricating the particle by folding a 2D precursor into the 3D particle, and the use of the particle in in-vivo or in-vitro applications The particle can be in any polyhedral shape and its surfaces can have either no perforations or nano/microscale perforations The particle is coated with a biocompatible metal, e g gold, or polymer e g parvlene, layer and the surfaces and hinges of the particle are made of any metal or polymer combinations. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589909 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710017 | Arap et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions for in vivo and in vitro targeting. A large number of targeting peptides directed towards human organs, tissues or cell types are disclosed. The peptides are of use for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, including but not limited to gene therapy vectors. A novel class of gene therapy vectors is disclosed. Certain of the disclosed peptides have therapeutic use for inhibiting angiogenesis, inhibiting tumor growth, inducing apoptosis, inhibiting pregnancy or inducing weight loss. Methods of identifying novel targeting peptides in humans, as well as identifying endogenous receptor-ligand pairs are disclosed. Methods of identifying novel infectious agents that are causal for human disease states are also disclosed. A novel mechanism for inducing apoptosis is further disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/286887 |
| ART UNIT | 1658 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710026 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheldon Miller (Bethesda, Maryland); Congxiao Zhang (Rockville, Maryland); Arvydas Maminishkis (Washington, District of Columbia); Fei Wang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide methods of preventing or treating detrimental epithelial cell proliferation, loss of epithelial cell differentiation, age-related macular degeneration and/or proliferative vitreal retinopathy in an individual comprising administering to an individual in need thereof an effective amount of miR 204, an effective amount of miR 211, or an effective amount of a mixture of miR 204 and miR 211. A further embodiment of the invention provides a method of facilitating the transport of a substance across an epithelium in an individual comprising administrating to an individual an effective amount of anti-miR 204, an effective amount of anti-miR 211, or an effective amount of a mixture of anti-miR 204 and anti-miR 211. Additional embodiments of the invention include pharmaceutical compositions of miR 204 and/or miR 211 and pharmaceutical compositions of anti-miR 204 and/or anti-miR 211. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/895557 |
| 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.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710030 | Hostetler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to phosphonate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use for treating a variety of medical disorders, e.g., osteoporosis and other disorders of bone metabolism, cancer, viral infections, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645105 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710032 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Northbrook, Illinois); Takashi Kudoh (Kitaakita, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Northbrook, Illinois); Takashi Kudoh (Kitaakita, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and related methods as can be used for selective mevalonate pathway inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983584 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08710035 — Methods and compositions related to glucocorticoid receptor antagonists and breast cancer
| US 08710035 | Pan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deng Pan (Chicago, Illinois); Masha Kocherginsky (Chicago, Illinois); Suzanne D. Conzen (Park Ridge, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deng Pan (Chicago, Illinois); Masha Kocherginsky (Chicago, Illinois); Suzanne D. Conzen (Park Ridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of determining the prognosis of a breast cancer patient by evaluating the activity of the glucocorticoid receptor in tumor cells. Other embodiment include methods of treating breast cancer cells, particularly, chemo-resistant cells, with a glucocorticoid receptor antagonist and an anticancer agent or compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/071363 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710039 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gong Chen (State College, Pennsylvania); Yanming Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Pingxin Li (State College, Pennsylvania); Jing Hu (State College, Pennsylvania); Shu Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Yuji Wang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gong Chen (State College, Pennsylvania); Yanming Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Pingxin Li (State College, Pennsylvania); Jing Hu (State College, Pennsylvania); Shu Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Yuji Wang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | PAD4 inhibitory compositions and methods for their use in treatment of cancer and autoimmune disease are provided according to embodiments of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/286777 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710068 | Berezov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Berezov (West Hollywood, California); Qiang Wang (North Hollywood, California); Ramachandran Murali (Los Angeles, California); Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Berezov (West Hollywood, California); Qiang Wang (North Hollywood, California); Ramachandran Murali (Los Angeles, California); Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of treating cancer by administering to a patient a small molecule inhibitor of Survivin. Also disclosed herein are methods of inhibiting Survivin dimerization in a patient by administering a compound of formula (I), (II), (III), or (IV). Methods of inducing cell cycle arrest in cancer cells, comprising G2/M stage arrest, in a patient by administering a compound of formula (I), (II), (III), or (IV) are also disclosed. Further disclosed herein are methods of inducing apoptosis in cancer cells in a patient by administering a compound of formula (I), (II), (III), or (IV). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/142731 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710082 | Waters et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Waters (East Lansing, Michigan); Karthik Sambanthamoorthy (Lansing, Michigan); Matthew Neiditch (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Martin Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Waters (East Lansing, Michigan); Karthik Sambanthamoorthy (Lansing, Michigan); Matthew Neiditch (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Martin Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments relate to a compound comprising: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, and R12 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, heterocyclyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, heteroaryloxy, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, heteroaryloxycarbonyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, aminosulfonyl, alkylcarbonyl, arylcarbonyl, heteroarylcarbonyl, acyl, acylamino, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, arylamino, carboxylate (—CO2H), cyano, nitro, —CONH2, heteroarylamino, oxime, alkyloxime, aryloxime, amino-oxime or halogen when A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, and Q are carbon, and X is O, NR (where R is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl or acyl), S, SO (sulfoxide), SO2 (sulfone), or C(R)2 (where R=H, alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or acyl); or wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, and R12 are each independently hydrogen or hydroxyl when A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, and Q are each independently nitrogen, and compositions, combinations, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof. The invention also relates to methods of using such compounds and compositions. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/366278 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710182 | Thorson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Byron R. Griffith (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Byron R. Griffith (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to methods and compositions for generating vancomycin analogs. Specifically the invention relates to generating a vancomycin library through chemoselective ligation of a sugar moiety with a vancomycin aglycon. In particular, the present invention provides a library of vancomycin analogs, where the member of the library comprises at least one vancomycin analog selected from 2′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 3′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 4′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 6′-N-acyldecanoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 2′-N-acylbiphenyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 3′-N-acylbiphenoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside, 4′-N-acylbiphenoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside and 6′-N-acylbiphenoyl-glucosyl vancomycin neoglycoside. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/544329 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710717 | Dausch |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Edward Dausch (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Edward Dausch (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for creating a metal or other electrically-conductive member extending from an air-backed cavity of a piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) apparatus defining such an air-backed cavity, through a substrate layer disposed adjacent to the transducer device of the pMUT device, and into electrically-conductive engagement with a first electrode of the pMUT device, such that the electrically-conductive member provides an electrically-conductive engagement between the first electrode and a conformal electrically-conductive layer deposited in the air-backed cavity of the pMUT device. Associated apparatuses are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/575536 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711961 | Heath, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert W. Heath, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Takao Inoue (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Heath, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Takao Inoue (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are generally described here for communicating channel state information using predictive vector quantization. In some examples, a method may include measuring channel state information based, at least in part, on signals received over a communications channel. An error vector may be calculated between the measured channel state information and predicted channel state information. The error vector may be quantized, and subsequent channel state information may be predicted based, at least in part, on the quantized error vector. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/836843 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712499 | Subramanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sankaran Subramanian (Rockville, Maryland); Nallathamby Devasahayam (Germantown, Maryland); Shingo Matsumoto (Rockville, Maryland); James B. Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali Krishna Cherukuri (North Potomac, Maryland); John A. Cook (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sankaran Subramanian (Rockville, Maryland); Nallathamby Devasahayam (Germantown, Maryland); Shingo Matsumoto (Rockville, Maryland); James B. Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali Krishna Cherukuri (North Potomac, Maryland); John A. Cook (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An echo-based single point imaging (ESPI) system (10) providing high-resolution oxygen images of a sample is disclosed. The ESPI system (10) employs spin echo detection of the resonance from a spin probe and concurrent Single Point Imaging (SPI) for spatial encoding of the oxygen concentration within the sample. Images are derived by comparing spin echo intensities of two images reconstructed at two time points selected at identical time intervals on either side of a refocusing pulse, eliminating artifacts associated with sample magnetic susceptibility and field inhomogeneity effects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131165 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712513 | Modarres |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mo Modarres (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of analyzing a subject for excessive daytime sleepiness, and more particularly to a quick (short duration), quantitative method of sleep disorder analysis. The present invention additionally relates to a method that can be used to quantitatively measure the treatment endpoints for the subject, i.e., appropriate levels of stimulants. Additionally, the present invention relates to a device for sleep disorder analysis. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677469 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712514 | Nicol et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trent Nicol (Chicago, Illinois); Nina Kraus (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trent Nicol (Chicago, Illinois); Nina Kraus (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of central auditory processing testing and evaluation provides for identifying clinically relevant neural synchrony in the auditory brainstem pathway. The system or method finds use as a tool to evaluate auditory processing disorders, and hence, potential auditory system and/or learning disabilities. The system or method may further find use in the selection and fitting of hearing corrective appliances such as hearing aid or cochlear implant devices and/or in the selection and implementation of auditory training regimens. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/218142 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/545 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712537 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Avraham I Caspi (Rehovot, Israel); Matthew J McMahon (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual prosthesis apparatus including a video capture device for capturing a video image, a video processing unit associated with the video capture device, the video processing unit configured to convert the video image to stimulation patterns, and a stimulation system configured to stimulate subject's neural tissue based on the stimulation patterns, wherein the stimulation system provides a span of visual angle matched to the subject's neural tissue being stimulated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/050003 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712538 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Chris Sekirnjak (Denver, Colorado); E. J. Chichilnisky (Del Mar, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Chris Sekirnjak (Denver, Colorado); E. J. Chichilnisky (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a flexible circuit electrode array for stimulating neurons where the electrode are less than 20 μm in size and less than 60 μm apart. The array is preferably arranged in a hexagonal pattern to maximize electrode density, and longer in the horizontal direction to correspond to a normal visual scene. The array includes a polymer base layer, metal traces deposited on the polymer base layer, including electrodes suitable to stimulate neural tissue, and a polymer top layer deposited on the polymer base layer and the metal traces defining openings for the electrodes smaller than the electrodes to overlap the electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789275 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08707672 | Zuo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Roy Marshall Washam (Clinton, South Carolina); Chunyang Wu (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Roy Marshall Washam (Clinton, South Carolina); Chunyang Wu (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor includes an end cap having a perforated downstream plate and a combustion chamber downstream of the downstream plate. A plenum is in fluid communication with the downstream plate and supplies a cooling medium to the combustion chamber through the perforations in the downstream plate. A method for cooling a combustor includes flowing a cooling medium into a combustor end cap and impinging the cooling medium on a downstream plate in the combustor end cap. The method further includes flowing the cooling medium into a combustion chamber through perforations in the downstream plate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879238 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08707673 | Flanagan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Scott Flanagan (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Kevin Weston McMahan (Greer, South Carolina); Jeffrey Scott LeBegue (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Ronnie Ray Pentecost (Travelers Rest, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Turbine systems are provided. A turbine system includes a transition duct comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a duct passage extending between the inlet and the outlet and defining a longitudinal axis, a radial axis, and a tangential axis. The outlet of the transition duct is offset from the inlet along the longitudinal axis and the tangential axis. The duct passage includes an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The upstream portion extends from the inlet between an inlet end and an aft end. The downstream portion extends from the outlet between an outlet end and a head end. The turbine system further includes a joint coupling the aft end of the upstream portion and the head end of the downstream portion together. The joint is configured to allow movement of the upstream portion and the downstream portion relative to each other about or along at least one axis. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/734156 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708031 | Pehrson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon P. Pehrson (Harriman, Tennessee); Alan F. Moore (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are various embodiments of systems for casting thin metal plates and sheets. Typical embodiments include layers of mold cavities that are oriented vertically for casting the metal plates. In some embodiments, the mold cavities include a beveled edge such that the plates that are cast have a beveled edge. In some embodiments, the mold cavities are filled with a molten metal through an open horizontal edge of the cavity. In some embodiments, the mold cavities are filled through one or more vertical feed orifices. Further disclosed are methods for forming a thin cast metal plate or sheet where the thickness of the cast part is in a range from 0.005 inches to 0.2 inches, and the surface area of the cast part is in a range from 16 square inches to 144 square inches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/626203 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708422 | Krumhansl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James L. Krumhansl (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick V. Brady (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Krumhansl (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick V. Brady (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An in situ recovery of uranium operation involves circulating reactive fluids through an underground uranium deposit. These fluids contain chemicals that dissolve the uranium ore. Uranium is recovered from the fluids after they are pumped back to the surface. Chemicals used to accomplish this include complexing agents that are organic, readily degradable, and/or have a predictable lifetime in an aquifer. Efficiency is increased through development of organic agents targeted to complexing tetravalent uranium rather than hexavalent uranium. The operation provides for in situ immobilization of some oxy-anion pollutants under oxidizing conditions as well as reducing conditions. The operation also artificially reestablishes reducing conditions on the aquifer after uranium recovery is completed. With the ability to have the impacted aquifer reliably remediated, the uranium recovery operation can be considered inherently safe. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/084391 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material 299/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708696 | Ghoniem et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed F. Ghoniem (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zachary A. LaBry (Somerville, Massachusetts); Santosh J. Shanbhogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Raymond L. Speth (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed F. Ghoniem (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zachary A. LaBry (Somerville, Massachusetts); Santosh J. Shanbhogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Raymond L. Speth (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustor. The combustor includes an axially symmetric tube along with means for introducing fuel and air into the tube. A swirler is disposed within the tube to impart rotation in a first direction to the air/fuel mixture. A plurality of holes downstream of the swirler are disposed around the tube and offset at an angle relative to an inward normal to the tube wall. Air is injected through the offset holes to impart rotation to the air/fuel mixture in a second direction opposite to the first direction. A combustion chamber having a diameter larger than that of the tube receives and burns the air/fuel mixture from the tube. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/941177 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709122 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Lee (Cockeysville, Maryland); Archibald C. Buchanan, III (Knoxville, Tennessee); Barbara R. Evans (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michelle K. Kidder (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for producing an oxygenated biochar material possessing a cation-exchanging property, wherein a biochar source is reacted with one or more oxygenating compounds in such a manner that the biochar source homogeneously acquires oxygen-containing cation-exchanging groups in an incomplete combustion process. The invention is also directed to oxygenated biochar compositions and soil formulations containing the oxygenated biochar material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/778291 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fertilizers 071/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709154 | Stoddard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan G. Stoddard (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AMG IdealCast Solar Corporation (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan G. Stoddard (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for casting one or more of a semiconductor, an oxide, and an intermetallic material. With such methods, a cast body of a monocrystalline form of the one or more of a semiconductor, an oxide, and an intermetallic material may be formed that is free of, or substantially free of, radially-distributed impurities and defects and having at least two dimensions that are each at least about 35 cm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/670212 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709179 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth N Hoffman (Aiken, South Carolina); Poh-Sang Lam (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth N Hoffman (Aiken, South Carolina); Poh-Sang Lam (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of irradiation Sn containing Pb-free solder to mitigate whisker formation and growth thereon is provided. The use of gamma radiation such as cobalt-60 has been applied to a substrate of Sn on copper has been found to change the morphology of the crystalline whisker growth to a more truncated hillock pattern. The change in morphology greatly reduces the tendency of whiskers to contribute to electrical short-circuits being used as a Pb-free solder system on a copper substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, October 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269803 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08709229 | Steimke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John L. Steimke (Augusta, South Carolina); Timothy J. Steeper (Trenton, South Carolina); David T. Herman (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Steimke (Augusta, South Carolina); Timothy J. Steeper (Trenton, South Carolina); David T. Herman (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating a hybrid sulfur electrolyzer to generate hydrogen is provided that includes the steps of providing an anolyte with a concentration of sulfur dioxide, and applying a current. During steady state generation of hydrogen a plot of applied current density versus concentration of sulfur dioxide is below a boundary line. The boundary line may be linear and extend through the origin of the graph with a slope of 0.001 in which the current density is measured in mA/cm2 and the concentration of sulfur dioxide is measured in moles of sulfur dioxide per liter of anolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/930486 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) C25B 1/02 (20120101) Original (OR) Class C25B 1/04 (20130101) C25B 15/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08709279 | Belharouak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ilias Belharouak (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilias Belharouak (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An active electrode material for electrochemical devices such as lithium ion batteries includes a lithium transition metal oxide which is free of sodium and sulfur contaminants. The lithium transition metal oxide is prepared by calcining a mixture of a lithium precursor and a transition metal oxalate. Electrochemical devices use such active electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/099756 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/182.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709295 | Zelenay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gang Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gang Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A Fe—Co hybrid catalyst for oxygen reaction reduction was prepared by a two part process. The first part involves reacting an ethyleneamine with a cobalt-containing precursor to form a cobalt-containing complex, combining the cobalt-containing complex with an electroconductive carbon supporting material, heating the cobalt-containing complex and carbon supporting material under conditions suitable to convert the cobalt-containing complex and carbon supporting material into a cobalt-containing catalyst support. The second part of the process involves polymerizing an aniline in the presence of said cobalt-containing catalyst support and an iron-containing compound under conditions suitable to form a supported, cobalt-containing, iron-bound polyaniline species, and subjecting said supported, cobalt-containing, iron bound polyaniline species to conditions suitable for producing a Fe—Co hybrid catalyst. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/094594 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709304 | Subramanian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vaidyanathan Subramanian (Sparks, Nevada); Sankaran Murugesan (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vaidyanathan Subramanian (Sparks, Nevada); Sankaran Murugesan (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to formation of nanocubes of sillenite type compounds, such as bismuth titanate, i.e., Bi12TiO20, nanocubes, via a hydrothermal synthesis process, with the resulting compound(s) having multifunctional properties such as being useful in solar energy conversion, environmental remediation, and/or energy storage, for example. In one embodiment, a hydrothermal method is disclosed that transforms nanoparticles of TiO2 to bismuth titanate, i.e., Bi12TiO20, nanocubes, optionally loaded with palladium nanoparticles. The method includes reacting titanium dioxide nanotubes with a bismuth salt in an acidic bath at a temperature sufficient and for a time sufficient to form bismuth titanate crystals, which are subsequently annealed to form bismuth titanate nanocubes. After annealing, the bismuth titanate nanocubes may be optionally loaded with nano-sized metal particles, e.g., nanosized palladium particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967922 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709350 | Schenkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Schenkel (San Francisco, California); Arun Persaud (El Cerrito, California); Rehan Kapadia (Berkeley, California); Ali Javey (Emeryville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Schenkel (San Francisco, California); Arun Persaud (El Cerrito, California); Rehan Kapadia (Berkeley, California); Ali Javey (Emeryville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion source includes a conductive substrate, the substrate including a plurality of conductive nanostructures with free-standing tips formed on the substrate. A conductive catalytic coating is formed on the nanostructures and substrate for dissociation of a molecular species into an atomic species, the molecular species being brought in contact with the catalytic coating. A target electrode placed apart from the substrate, the target electrode being biased relative to the substrate with a first bias voltage to ionize the atomic species in proximity to the free-standing tips and attract the ionized atomic species from the substrate in the direction of the target electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/451459 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709372 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuntian T. Zhu (Cary, North Carolina); Paul Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Xiefei Zhang (Chattanooga, Tennessee); Qingwen Li (Jiangsu, China PRC); Lei Fu (Beijing, China PRC); Lianxi Zheng (Jurong West, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuntian T. Zhu (Cary, North Carolina); Paul Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Xiefei Zhang (Chattanooga, Tennessee); Qingwen Li (Jiangsu, China PRC); Lei Fu (Beijing, China PRC); Lianxi Zheng (Jurong West, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber of carbon nanotubes was prepared by a wet-spinning method involving drawing carbon nanotubes away from a substantially aligned, supported array of carbon nanotubes to form a ribbon, wetting the ribbon with a liquid, and spinning a fiber from the wetted ribbon. The liquid can be a polymer solution and after forming the fiber, the polymer can be cured. The resulting fiber has a higher tensile strength and higher conductivity compared to dry-spun fibers and to wet-spun fibers prepared by other methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286966 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709572 | Harris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Richardson Harris (Monterey, California); Dave Sanders (Pine Grove, California); Steven Anthony Hawkins (Livermore, California); Marcelo Noroña (West Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California); Lockwood Industries, Inc. (Valencia, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Richardson Harris (Monterey, California); Dave Sanders (Pine Grove, California); Steven Anthony Hawkins (Livermore, California); Marcelo Noroña (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Individual layers of a high gradient insulator (HGI) are first pre-cut to their final dimensions. The pre-cut layers are then stacked to form an assembly that is subsequently pressed into an HGI unit with the desired dimension. The individual layers are stacked, and alignment is maintained, using a sacrificial alignment tube that is removed after the stack is hot pressed. The HGI's are used as high voltage vacuum insulators in energy storage and transmission structures or devices, e.g. in particle accelerators and pulsed power systems. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/429081 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/64.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709724 | Tabor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley Tabor (Brookline, Massachusetts); Charles C. Richardson (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Tabor (Brookline, Massachusetts); Charles C. Richardson (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of amplifying a template DNA molecule comprising incubating the template DNA molecule in a reaction mixture comprising a DNA polymerase and at least one accessory protein at a constant temperature to produce amplified product, wherein production of amplified product does not require exogenously-added oligonucleotide primers and the template DNA molecule does not have have terminal protein covalently bound to either 5′ end. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/813693 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709742 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biotechnology Institute, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Saccharification of polysaccharides of plants is provided, where release of fermentable sugars from cellulose is obtained by adding plant tissue composition. Production of glucose is obtained without the need to add additional β-glucosidase. Adding plant tissue composition to a process using a cellulose degrading composition to degrade cellulose results in an increase in the production of fermentable sugars compared to a process in which plant tissue composition is not added. Using plant tissue composition in a process using a cellulose degrading enzyme composition to degrade cellulose results in decrease in the amount of cellulose degrading enzyme composition or exogenously applied cellulase required to produce fermentable sugars. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/901507 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709761 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biotechnology Institute, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Saccharification of polysaccharides of plants is provided, where release of fermentable sugars from cellulose is obtained by adding plant tissue composition. Production of glucose is obtained without the need to add additional β-glucosidase. Adding plant tissue composition to a process using a cellulose degrading composition to degrade cellulose results in an increase in the production of fermentable sugars compared to a process in which plant tissue composition is not added. Using plant tissue composition in a process using a cellulose degrading enzyme composition to degrade cellulose results in decrease in the amount of cellulose degrading enzyme composition or exogenously applied cellulase required to produce fermentable sugars. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025659 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709776 | Morant |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Dominique Morant (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity, beta-xylosidase activity, or beta-glucosidase and beta-xylosidase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679438 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709791 | Larson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard S Larson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian Hjelle (Placitas, New Mexico); Pam R Hall (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David C Brown (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marco Bisoffi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darren W Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S Larson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian Hjelle (Placitas, New Mexico); Pam R Hall (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David C Brown (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marco Bisoffi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darren W Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A biosensor combining the sensitivity of surface acoustic waves (SAW) generated at a frequency of 325 MHz with the specificity provided by antibodies and other ligands for the detection of viral agents. In a preferred embodiment, a lithium tantalate based SAW transducer with silicon dioxide waveguide sensor platform featuring three test and one reference delay lines was used to adsorb antibodies directed against Coxsackie virus B4 or the negative-stranded category A bioagent Sin Nombre virus (SNV). Rapid detection of increasing concentrations of viral particles was linear over a range of order of magnitude for both viruses, and the sensor's selectivity for its target was not compromised by the presence of confounding Herpes Simplex virus type 1 The biosensor was able to delect SNV at doses lower than the load of virus typically found in a human patient suffering from hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/069284 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709851 | Dennis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Dennis (Canton, Texas); Scott Harrington (Oakland, California); Jane Manning (Woodside, California); David D. Smith (Campell, California); Ann Waldhauer (La Honda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating solar cells with tunnel dielectric layers are described. Solar cells with tunnel dielectric layers are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677611 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709881 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuegang Zhang (Cupertino, California); Ariel Ismach (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuegang Zhang (Cupertino, California); Ariel Ismach (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A substrate is provided that has a metallic layer on a substrate surface of a substrate. A film made of a two dimensional (2-D) material, such as graphene, is deposited on a metallic surface of the metallic layer. The metallic layer is dewet and/or removed to provide the film on the substrate surface. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/098929 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710265 | Jessop et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Queen's University at Kingston (, Canada); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip G. Jessop (Kingston, Canada); Charles A. Eckert (Atlanta, Georgia); Charles L. Liotta (Atlanta, Georgia); David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A solvent that reversibly converts from a nonionic liquid mixture to an ionic liquid upon contact with a selected trigger, e.g., contact with CO2, is described. In preferred embodiments, the ionic solvent is readily converted back to the nonionic liquid mixture. The nonionic liquid mixture includes an amidine or guanidine or both, and water, alcohol, or a combination thereof. Single component amine solvents that reversibly convert between ionic and non-ionic states are also described. Some embodiments require increased pressure to convert; others convert at 1 atmosphere. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/969984 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710285 | Nicholas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher P. Nicholas (Evanston, Illinois); Edwin P. Boldingh (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A new family of aluminosilicate zeolites designated UZM-44 has been synthesized. These zeolites are represented by the empirical formula. NanMmk+TtAl1-xExSiyOz where “n” is the mole ratio of Na to (Al+E), M represents a metal or metals from zinc, Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 and or the lanthanide series of the periodic table, “m” is the mole ratio of M to (Al+E), “k” is the average charge of the metal or metals M, T is the organic structure directing agent or agents, and E is a framework element such as gallium. The process involves contacting a carbonaceous biomass feedstock with UZM-44 at pyrolysis conditions to produce pyrolysis gases comprising hydrocarbons. The catalyst catalyzes a deoxygenation reaction converting oxygenated hydrocarbons into hydrocarbons and removing the oxygen as carbon oxides and water. A portion of the pyrolysis gases is condensed to produce low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/074743 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710372 | Karner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald B. Karner (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blink Acquisition, LLC (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald B. Karner (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments include a device to facilitate moving an electrical cable of an electric vehicle charging station. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/442684 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710441 | Bernacki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce E. Bernacki (Kennewick, Washington); James F. Kelly (Pasco, Washington); David M. Sheen (Richland, Washington); Jonathan R. Tedeschi (Richland, Washington); Thomas E. Hall (Kennewick, Washington); Brian K. Hatchell (West Richland, Washington); Patrick Valdez (Pasco, Washington); Douglas L. McMakin (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce E. Bernacki (Kennewick, Washington); James F. Kelly (Pasco, Washington); David M. Sheen (Richland, Washington); Jonathan R. Tedeschi (Richland, Washington); Thomas E. Hall (Kennewick, Washington); Brian K. Hatchell (West Richland, Washington); Patrick Valdez (Pasco, Washington); Douglas L. McMakin (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Differential polarization imaging systems include an axicon configured to provide a displacement of ray bundles associated with different image patches. The displaced ray bundles are directed to antenna horns and orthomode transducers so as to provide outputs correspond to orthogonal linear states of polarization (SOPs). The outputs are directed to a differential radiometer so that Stokes parameter differences between image patches can be obtained. The ray bundle displacements can be selected to correspond to a mechanical spacing of antenna horns. In some examples, ray bundle displacement corresponds to a displacement less than the diffraction limit. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/410923 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710454 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu-Jiuan Chen (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Jiuan Chen (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices enable shaping of a charged particle beam. A dynamically adjustable electric lens includes a series of alternating a series of alternating layers of insulators and conductors with a hollow center. The series of alternating layers when stacked together form a high gradient insulator (HGI) tube to allow propagation of the charged particle beam through the hollow center of the HGI tube. A plurality of transmission lines are connected to a plurality of sections of the HGI tube, and one or more voltage sources are provided to supply an adjustable voltage value to each transmission line of the plurality of transmission lines. By changing the voltage values supplied to each section of the HGI tube, any desired electric field can be established across the HGI tube. This way various functionalities including focusing, defocusing, acceleration, deceleration, intensity modulation and others can be effectuated on a time varying basis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/343700 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710487 | Lyons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Joseph Lyons (Burnt Hills, New York); Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York); Anirudha Rajendra Deshpande (Twinsburg, Ohio); Ljudmil Slavchev Grigorov (Sofia, Bulgaria) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Joseph Lyons (Burnt Hills, New York); Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York); Anirudha Rajendra Deshpande (Twinsburg, Ohio); Ljudmil Slavchev Grigorov (Sofia, Bulgaria) |
| ABSTRACT | A lighting apparatus capable of emitting white light includes a semiconductor light source; and a phosphor material radiationally coupled to the light source. The phosphor material includes a color-stable Mn+4 doped phosphor prepared by a process including providing a phosphor of formula I; Ax[MFy]:Mn+4 I and contacting the phosphor in particulate form with a saturated solution of a composition of formula II in aqueous hydrofluoric acid; Ax[MFy]; II wherein A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, NR4 or a combination thereof; M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or a combination thereof; R is H, lower alkyl, or a combination thereof; x is the absolute value of the charge of the [MFy] ion; and y is 5, 6 or 7. In particular embodiments, M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/561192 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711028 | Paglieroni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Steven W. Bond (Livermore, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Steven W. Bond (Livermore, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting the presence of subsurface objects within a medium is provided. In some embodiments, the imaging and detection system operates in a multistatic mode to collect radar return signals generated by an array of transceiver antenna pairs that is positioned across the surface and that travels down the surface. The imaging and detection system pre-processes the return signal to suppress certain undesirable effects. The imaging and detection system then generates synthetic aperture radar images from real aperture radar images generated from the pre-processed return signal. The imaging and detection system then post-processes the synthetic aperture radar images to improve detection of subsurface objects. The imaging and detection system identifies peaks in the energy levels of the post-processed image frame, which indicates the presence of a subsurface object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219456 |
| 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 08711336 | Frogget et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Security Technologies, LLC. (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Security Technologies, LLC (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent Copely Frogget (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vincent Todd Romero (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe including a fisheye lens is disclosed to measure the velocity distribution of a moving surface along many lines of sight. Laser light, directed to the surface and then reflected back from the surface, is Doppler shifted by the moving surface, collected into fisheye lens, and then directed to detection equipment through optic fibers. The received light is mixed with reference laser light and using photonic Doppler velocimetry, a continuous time record of the surface movement is obtained. An array of single-mode optical fibers provides an optic signal to an index-matching lens and eventually to a fisheye lens. The fiber array flat polished and coupled to the index-matching lens using index-matching gel. Numerous fibers in a fiber array project numerous rays through the fisheye lens which in turn project many measurement points at numerous different locations to establish surface coverage over a hemispherical shape with very little crosstalk. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/666953 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712246 | Ruggiero et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony J. Ruggiero (Livermore, California); Hsueh-yuan Pao (San Jose, California); Paul Sargis (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Ruggiero (Livermore, California); Hsueh-yuan Pao (San Jose, California); Paul Sargis (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF/Optical shared aperture is capable of transmitting and receiving optical signals and RF signals simultaneously. This technology enables compact wide bandwidth communications systems with 100% availability in clear air turbulence, rain and fog. The functions of an optical telescope and an RF reflector antenna are combined into a single compact package by installing an RF feed at either of the focal points of a modified Gregorian telescope. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/076885 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712745 | Wayne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunpower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Wayne (Berkeley, California); Alexander Frumkin (San Rafael, California); Michael Zaydman (San Rafael, California); Scott Lehman (Martinez, California); Jules Brenner (Novato, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments may include systems and methods to create and edit a representation of a worksite, to create various data objects, to classify such objects as various types of pre -defined “features” with attendant properties and layout constraints. As part of or in addition to classification, an embodiment may include systems and methods to create, associate, and edit intrinsic and extrinsic properties to these objects. A design engine may apply of design rules to the features described above to generate one or more solar collectors installation design alternatives, including generation of on-screen and/or paper representations of the physical layout or arrangement of the one or more design alternatives. Embodiments may also include definition of one or more design apertures, each of which may correspond to boundaries in which solar collector layouts should comply with distinct sets of user-defined design preferences. Distinct apertures may provide heterogeneous regions of collector layout according to the user-defined design preferences. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730580 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712929 | Bickford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Rahul M. Palnitkar (Lincoln, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Rahul M. Palnitkar (Lincoln, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented dynamic data filtering system and method for selectively choosing operating data of a monitored asset that modifies or expands a learned scope of an empirical model of normal operation of the monitored asset while simultaneously rejecting operating data of the monitored asset that is indicative of excessive degradation or impending failure of the monitored asset, and utilizing the selectively chosen data for adaptively recalibrating the empirical model to more accurately monitor asset aging changes or operating condition changes of the monitored asset. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798128 |
| ART UNIT | 2175 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 3/022 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08713072 | Stolte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. Univeristy (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In response to a user request, a computer generates a graphical user interface on a computer display. A schema information region of the graphical user interface includes multiple operand names, each operand name associated with one or more fields of a multi-dimensional database. A data visualization region of the graphical user interface includes multiple shelves. Upon detecting a user selection of the operand names and a user request to associate each user-selected operand name with a respective shelf in the data visualization region, the computer generates a visual table in the data visualization region in accordance with the associations between the operand names and the corresponding shelves. The visual table includes a plurality of panes, each pane having at least one axis defined based on data for the fields associated with a respective operand name. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/425300 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/802 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08713268 | Dillow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A. Dillow (Knoxville, Tennessee); Youngjae Kim (Lenoir City, Tennessee); Hakki S. Oral (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Galen M. Shipman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Feiyi Wang (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Dillow (Knoxville, Tennessee); Youngjae Kim (Lenoir City, Tennessee); Hakki S. Oral (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Galen M. Shipman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Feiyi Wang (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An optimized redundant array of solid state devices may include an array of one or more optimized solid-state devices and a controller coupled to the solid-state devices for managing the solid-state devices. The controller may be configured to globally coordinate the garbage collection activities of each of said optimized solid-state devices, for instance, to minimize the degraded performance time and increase the optimal performance time of the entire array of devices. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/015750 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0652 (20130101) G06F 3/0679 (20130101) G06F 3/0688 (20130101) G06F 12/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08713294 | Gooding et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas M. Gooding (Yorktown Heights, New York); David L. Satterfield (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Gooding (Yorktown Heights, New York); David L. Satterfield (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing a memory access check on a processor including the steps of detecting accesses to a memory device including level-1 cache using a wakeup unit. The method includes invalidating level-1 cache ranges corresponding to a guard page, and configuring a plurality of wakeup address compare (WAC) registers to allow access to selected WAC registers. The method selects one of the plurality of WAC registers, and sets up a WAC register related to the guard page. The method configures the wakeup unit to interrupt on access of the selected WAC register. The method detects access of the memory device using the wakeup unit when a guard page is violated. The method generates an interrupt to the core using the wakeup unit, and determines the source of the interrupt. The method detects the activated WAC registers assigned to the violated guard page, and initiates a response. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696817 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08713711 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse D. Adams (Reno, Nevada); Todd A. Sulchek (Atlanta, Georgia); Stuart C. Feigin (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A disclosed chemical detection system for detecting a target material, such as an explosive material, can include a cantilevered probe, a probe heater coupled to the cantilevered probe, and a piezoelectric element disposed on the cantilevered probe. The piezoelectric element can be configured as a detector and/or an actuator. Detection can include, for example, detecting a movement of the cantilevered probe or a property of the cantilevered probe. The movement or a change in the property of the cantilevered probe can occur, for example, by adsorption of the target material, desorption of the target material, reaction of the target material and/or phase change of the target material. Examples of detectable movements and properties include temperature shifts, impedance shifts, and resonant frequency shifts of the cantilevered probe. The overall chemical detection system can be incorporated, for example, into a handheld explosive material detection system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833410 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08707734 | Haque et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Razi-ul Haque (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kensall Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Razi-ul Haque (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kensall Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of embedding material in a glass substrate is provided. The method includes providing a glass composition and a mold substrate having a patterned surface defining a recess therein. The mold substrate is formed from a material having a higher reflow temperature than the glass composition. A surface wettability of the patterned surface is increased relative to the glass composition. At least a portion of the glass composition is flowed into the recess defined by the patterned surface of the mold substrate, followed by solidifying the glass composition to form a solidified glass layer. Material is removed from the solidified glass layer until a portion of the underlying patterned surface of the mold substrate is exposed with at least a portion of the mold substrate embedded in the solidified glass layer to thereby form the glass substrate having the material embedded therein. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581695 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/59.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708966 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark G. Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark R. Prausnitz (Decatur, Georgia); Devin V. McAllister (Holley, New York); Florent Paul Marcel Cros (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark G. Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark R. Prausnitz (Decatur, Georgia); Devin V. McAllister (Holley, New York); Florent Paul Marcel Cros (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Microneedle devices are provided for transport of molecules across tissue barriers and for use as microflameholders. In a preferred embodiment for transport across tissue, the microneedles are formed of a biodegradable polymer. Methods of making these devices, which can include hollow and/or porous microneedles, are also provided. A preferred method for making a microneedle includes forming a micromold having sidewalls which define the outer surface of the microneedle, electroplating the sidewalls to form the hollow microneedle, and then removing the micromold from the microneedle. In a preferred method of use, the microneedle device is used to deliver material into or across a biological barrier from chambers in connection with at least one of the microneedles. The device preferably further includes a means for controlling the flow of material through the microneedles. Representative examples of these means include the use of permeable membranes, fracturable impermeable membranes, valves, and pumps. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/853082 |
| ART UNIT | 3767 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709213 | Compton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Owen C. Compton (Chicago, Illinois); Karl W. Putz (Chicago, Illinois); L. Catherine Brinson (Evanston, Illinois); SonBinh T. Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Owen C. Compton (Chicago, Illinois); Karl W. Putz (Chicago, Illinois); L. Catherine Brinson (Evanston, Illinois); SonBinh T. Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A macroscale, self-supporting, composite laminate sheet includes individual, layered graphene oxide sheets and a polymer in spaces between the sheets. This composite product can be fabricated by combining a suspension of individual graphene oxide sheets and a solution of polymer, passing the resulting fluid through a fluid-permeable support, and assembling the graphene oxide sheets and polymer as a laminate sheet by flow-directed assembly. The laminate is dried and released from the membrane filter as a self-supporting thin films. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/931407 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 19/00 (20130101) Paper-making Machines; Methods of Producing Paper Thereon D21F 13/00 (20130101) Pulp Compositions; Preparation Thereof Not Covered by Subclasses D21C or D21D; Impregnating or Coating of Paper; Treatment of Finished Paper Not Covered by Class B31 or Subclass D21G; Paper Not Otherwise Provided for D21H 5/008 (20130101) D21H 13/36 (20130101) D21H 13/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709280 | Ringstrand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan Ringstrand (Antioch, Tennessee); Piotr Kaszynski (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Ringstrand (Antioch, Tennessee); Piotr Kaszynski (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Polar nematic compounds having the following structure: where is a caged boron structure. The sphere of the caged boron structure is C and each non-sphere vertex of the caged boron structure is B—H. R is H, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a bicycloalkyl, an alkenyl, a cycloalkenyl, a bicycloalkenyl, an alkynyl, an acyl, an aryl, an alkylaryl, a halogen, a cyano group, an isothiocyanoto group, or a group that forms an ether, a ketone, an ester, a thioester, a sulfide, or a sulfone. R′ is H, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a bicycloalkyl, an alkenyl, a cycloalkenyl, a bicycloalkenyl, an alkynyl, an aryl, an alkylaryl, or a halogen. The compounds may be used in liquid crystal displays, and in television sets, laptop computers, computer monitors, hand-held communication devices, gaming devices, watches, cash registers, clocks, and calculators having liquid crystal displays. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/456727 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709292 | Huo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qun Huo (Orlando, Florida); Saiful Khondaker (Oviedo, Florida); Jianhua Zou (Orlando, Florida); Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida); Hui Chen (Mountain View, California); Harish Muthuraman (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qun Huo (Orlando, Florida); Saiful Khondaker (Oviedo, Florida); Jianhua Zou (Orlando, Florida); Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida); Hui Chen (Mountain View, California); Harish Muthuraman (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon nanotube-polymer composite includes a polymer continuous phase having at least a first polymer, and a plurality of carbon nanotubes dispersed in the polymer continuous phase. The carbon nanotubes are non-functionalized nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes are between 0.05 and 40 weight % of the composite. At least 98% of the carbon nanotubes are not involved in nanotube bundles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/149338 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709743 | Lippard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lindsey E. McQuade (Union City, California); Evgeny A. Nudler (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lindsey E. McQuade (Union City, California); Evgeny A. Nudler (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates in part to compounds that act as highly nitric oxide (NO)-specific turn-on fluorescent probes. The present invention also relates to the use of these fluorescein-based sensors to screen selectively for inhibitors of bacterial nitric oxide synthase (bNOS). Compounds of the present invention readily detect nitric oxide produced in vivo. Therefore they can be used in an assay that measures NO production by bNOS. Using a sensor of the invention one can screen libraries of small molecules for inhibitors of bNOS. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/808889 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709753 | San et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Yipeng Wang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is metabolically engineer bacterial strains that provide increased intracellular NADPH availability for the purpose of increasing the yield and productivity of NADPH-dependent compounds. In the invention, native NAD-dependent GAPDH is replaced with NADP-dependent GAPDH plus overexpressed NADK. Uses for the bacteria are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680608 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709791 | Larson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard S Larson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian Hjelle (Placitas, New Mexico); Pam R Hall (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David C Brown (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marco Bisoffi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darren W Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S Larson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian Hjelle (Placitas, New Mexico); Pam R Hall (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David C Brown (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marco Bisoffi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darren W Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thayne L Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A biosensor combining the sensitivity of surface acoustic waves (SAW) generated at a frequency of 325 MHz with the specificity provided by antibodies and other ligands for the detection of viral agents. In a preferred embodiment, a lithium tantalate based SAW transducer with silicon dioxide waveguide sensor platform featuring three test and one reference delay lines was used to adsorb antibodies directed against Coxsackie virus B4 or the negative-stranded category A bioagent Sin Nombre virus (SNV). Rapid detection of increasing concentrations of viral particles was linear over a range of order of magnitude for both viruses, and the sensor's selectivity for its target was not compromised by the presence of confounding Herpes Simplex virus type 1 The biosensor was able to delect SNV at doses lower than the load of virus typically found in a human patient suffering from hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/069284 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709811 | Klee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harry J. Klee (Gainesville, Florida); Denise Tieman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry J. Klee (Gainesville, Florida); Denise Tieman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns polynucleotides encoding a plant 2-phenylethanol dehydrogenase enzyme. In one embodiment, the polynucleotide encodes a tomato 2-phenylethanol dehydrogenase. The subject invention also concerns polynucleotides encoding a plant phenylalanine decarboxylase enzyme. In one embodiment, the polynucleotide encodes a tomato phenylalanine decarboxylase. The subject invention also concerns 2-phenylethanol dehydrogenase polypeptides and phenylalanine decarboxylase polypeptides encoded by polynucleotides of the present invention. The subject invention also concerns methods for providing a plant with an increased flavor and aroma volatile. Plants can be transformed with one or more polynucleotide of the present invention. The subject invention also concerns these transformed plant cells, plant tissue, and plants and transgenic progeny thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574124 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709971 | Feaver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron Feaver (Seattle, Washington); Guozhong Cao (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); EnerG2, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Feaver (Seattle, Washington); Guozhong Cao (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon cryogels, methods for making the carbon cryogels, methods for storing a gas using the carbon cryogels, and devices for storing and delivering a gas using the carbon cryogels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/419273 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710009 | Ficht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allison Ficht (College Station, Texas); Theresa Good (Pasadena, Maryland); Ken Carson (Bryan, Texas); Sundmun Lee (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allison Ficht (College Station, Texas); Theresa Good (Pasadena, Maryland); Ken Carson (Bryan, Texas); Sundmun Lee (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention compositions and methods of using at least a portions of an isolated and purified α-crystallin polypeptide that includes one or more β-pleated sheets and that prevents neurotoxicity and amyloidogenesis. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139770 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710298 | Hannah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | L. Curtis Hannah (Gainesville, Florida); Carla R. Lyerly Linebarger (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Curtis Hannah (Gainesville, Florida); Carla R. Lyerly Linebarger (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns polynucleotides encoding a small subunit of plant AGP having one or more mutations in the amino acid sequence wherein the mutation confers increased heat stability to the expressed AGP enzyme. Mutations in the N-terminus of the small subunit of heat labile plant AGP results in AGP enzymes that are significantly more heat stable compared to wild type AGP in that the mutant AGP retains significant levels of enzymatic activity following exposure to heat treatment. In one embodiment, the polynucleotide encodes a mutant small subunit of maize AGP. The subject invention also concerns methods for providing a plant with increased resistance to heat conditions. Plants with heat labile AGP can be transformed with a polynucleotide of the present invention. The subject invention also concerns these transformed plants and transgenic progeny thereof. The subject invention also concerns mutant polypeptides encoded by polynucleotides of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/569000 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710952 | Tsudik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gene Tsudik (Irvine, California); Ersin Uzun (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gene Tsudik (Irvine, California); Ersin Uzun (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of authenticating a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader to efficiently and timely check of revocation status of the RFID reader includes the steps of checking whether a given certificate is expired or revoked, and allowing a user of an RFID tag to verify that the credentials and revocation status information reported to the tag by reader is correct and current/valid before permitting information transmission from the RFID tag to the reader. An RFID tag includes a passively powered display and a user activatable control which allows the method to be carried out with the tag. The tag may include encrypted communication ability and automatic certificate revocation list checking. (This method is applicable not just to RFID but to any technology involving purely passive operation, i.e., where the tag obtains power from a reader). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/876832 |
| ART UNIT | 2682 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/5.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711146 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Lee Miller (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ioannis Koutis (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Lee Miller (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ioannis Koutis (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for constructing a multi-level solver, comprising decomposing a graph into a plurality of pieces, wherein each of the pieces has a plurality of edges and a plurality of interface nodes, and wherein the interface nodes in the graph are fewer in number than the edges in the graph; producing a local preconditioner for each of the pieces; and aggregating the local preconditioners to form a global preconditioner. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998382 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711600 | Venkataraman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karthik Venkataraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Sommerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karthik Venkataraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Sommerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory element is provided that includes a ferromagnetic (FM) layer having one or more ferromagnetic materials. One or more first molecule layers are positioned on the FM layer where charge transfer and interface chemistry between the one or more first molecule layers and FM layer induces a magnetic moment in the one or more first molecule layers. The magnetic moment is stored in the one or more first molecule layers acting as bit information that is retained or written into the one or more first molecule layers. One or more spin-filter layers are positioned on the one or more first molecule layers. The one or more spin-filter layers are positioned on the one or more spin-filter layers to form a physical or a chemical π-dimer layer structure. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/423520 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711961 | Heath, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert W. Heath, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Takao Inoue (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Heath, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Takao Inoue (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are generally described here for communicating channel state information using predictive vector quantization. In some examples, a method may include measuring channel state information based, at least in part, on signals received over a communications channel. An error vector may be calculated between the measured channel state information and predicted channel state information. The error vector may be quantized, and subsequent channel state information may be predicted based, at least in part, on the quantized error vector. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/836843 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712679 | Mostofi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yasamin Mostofi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Pradeep Sen (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasamin Mostofi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Pradeep Sen (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for building a map non-invasively (i.e. mapping of occluded and non-occluded obstacles) based on a small number of wireless channel measurements. Approaches for building an obstacle map are based on coordinated space, random space and frequency sampling, such that the sparse representation of the map in space, wavelet or spatial variations, are exploited in order to build the map with minimal sensing. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/284259 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — 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 71/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712686 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (“trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from various sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic data, compass data, and/or with GPS, if and when available. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/301491 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08708272 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Brian M. Howerton (Newport News, Virginia); Thomas Van De Ven (Savannah, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Brian M. Howerton (Newport News, Virginia); Thomas Van De Ven (Savannah, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A landing gear door for retractable landing gear of aircraft includes an acoustic liner. The acoustic liner includes one or more internal cavities or chambers having one or more openings that inhibit the generation of sound at the surface and/or absorb sound generated during operation of the aircraft. The landing gear door may include a plurality of internal chambers having different geometries to thereby absorb broadband noise. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/417349 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/1.N00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708322 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ken Young (Peoria, Arizona); Timothy Hindle (Peoria, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ken Young (Peoria, Arizona); Timothy Hindle (Peoria, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A payload launch lock mechanism includes a base, a preload clamp, a fastener, and a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator. The preload clamp is configured to releasibly restrain a payload. The fastener extends, along an axis, through the preload clamp and into the base, and supplies a force to the preload clamp sufficient to restrain the payload. The SMA actuator is disposed between the base and the clamp. The SMA actuator is adapted to receive electrical current and is configured, upon receipt of the electrical current, to supply a force that causes the fastener to elongate without fracturing. The preload clamp, in response to the fastener elongation, either rotates or pivots to thereby release the payload. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940771 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Work holders 269/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08708643 | Giffin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rollin George Giffin (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kurt David Murrow (West Chester, Ohio); Oladapo Fakunle (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rollin George Giffin (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kurt David Murrow (West Chester, Ohio); Oladapo Fakunle (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A counter-rotatable fan turbine engine includes a counter-rotatable fan section, a worm gas generator, and a low pressure turbine to power the counter-rotatable fan section. The low pressure turbine maybe counter-rotatable or have a single direction of rotation in which case it powers the counter-rotatable fan section through a gearbox. The gas generator has inner and outer bodies having offset inner and outer axes extending through first, second, and third sections of a core assembly. At least one of the bodies is rotatable about its axis. The inner and outer bodies have intermeshed inner and outer helical blades wound about the inner and outer axes and extending radially outwardly and inwardly respectively. The helical blades have first, second, and third twist slopes in the first, second, and third sections respectively. A combustor section extends through at least a portion of the second section. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838379 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08709176 | DellaCorte |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher DellaCorte (Medina, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher DellaCorte (Medina, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus confer full superelastic properties to the active surface of a mechanical component constructed of a superelastic material prior to service. A compressive load is applied to the active surface of the mechanical component followed by removing the compressive load from the active surface whereby substantially all load strain is recoverable after applying and removing of subsequent compressive loads. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246440 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710106 | Junaedi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian Junaedi (Cheshire, Connecticut); Kyle Hawley (Woodbury, Connecticut); Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Precision Combustion, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Junaedi (Cheshire, Connecticut); Kyle Hawley (Woodbury, Connecticut); Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A Sabatier process involving contacting carbon dioxide and hydrogen in a first reaction zone with a first catalyst bed at a temperature greater than a first designated temperature; feeding the effluent from the first reaction zone into a second reaction zone, and contacting the effluent with a second catalyst bed at a temperature equal to or less than a second designated temperature, so as to produce a product stream comprising water and methane. The first and second catalyst beds each individually comprise an ultra-short-channel-length metal substrate. An apparatus for controlling temperature in an exothermic reaction, such as the Sabatier reaction, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134966 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710611 | Cao |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xian-An Cao (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xian-An Cao (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensing device is used to detect the spatial distributions of stresses applied by physical contact with the surface of the sensor or induced by pressure, temperature gradients, and surface absorption. The sensor comprises a hybrid active layer that includes luminophores doped in a polymeric or organic host, altogether embedded in a matrix. Under an electrical bias, the sensor simultaneously converts stresses into electrical and optical signals. Among many applications, the device may be used for tactile sensing and biometric imaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/353464 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/444 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710726 | Polzin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kurt A Polzin (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); J Boise Pearson (Madison, 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) | Kurt A Polzin (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); J Boise Pearson (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An ignitron apparatus has an airtight tubular housing having a first sealed end and a second sealed end. An anode is connected at the first sealed end, projecting into the housing, and a recess at the second sealed and forms a well which contains a quantity of liquid gallium or gallium alloy making up the cathode. An ignitor projects through the liquid metal and into the housing. The inner surface of the housing includes at least one plating-reduction structure to prevent electrical shorting of the apparatus caused by plating of the liquid metal. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/523210 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710864 | Dasu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aravind Dasu (Providence, Utah); Robert C. Barnes (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Utah State University (Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aravind Dasu (Providence, Utah); Robert C. Barnes (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymorphic systolic array framework that works in conjunction with an embedded microprocessor on an FPGA, that allows for dynamic and complimentary scaling of acceleration levels of two algorithms active concurrently on the FPGA. Use is made of systolic arrays and hardware-software co-design to obtain an efficient multi-application acceleration system. The flexible and simple framework allows hosting of a broader range of algorithms and extendable to more complex applications in the area of aerospace embedded systems. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/092748 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/17756 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08711462 | Kaiser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary K. Kaiser (Los Altos, California); Bernard D. Adelstein (San Mateo, California); Mark R. Anderson (San Carlos, California); Brent R. Beutter (Los Altos, California); Albert J. Ahumada, Jr. (Mountain View, California); Robert S. McCann (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary K. Kaiser (Los Altos, California); Bernard D. Adelstein (San Mateo, California); Mark R. Anderson (San Carlos, California); Brent R. Beutter (Los Altos, California); Albert J. Ahumada, Jr. (Mountain View, California); Robert S. McCann (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reducing the visual blur of an object being viewed by an observer experiencing vibration. In various embodiments of the present invention, the visual blur is reduced through stroboscopic image modulation (SIM). A SIM device is operated in an alternating “on/off” temporal pattern according to a SIM drive signal (SDS) derived from the vibration being experienced by the observer. A SIM device (controlled by a SIM control system) operates according to the SDS serves to reduce visual blur by “freezing” (or reducing an image's motion to a slow drift) the visual image of the viewed object. In various embodiments, the SIM device is selected from the group consisting of illuminator(s), shutter(s), display control system(s), and combinations of the foregoing (including the use of multiple illuminators, shutters, and display control systems). |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/317034 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712559 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chengyu Cao (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Naira Hovakimyan (Champaign, Illinois); Enric Xargay (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illionois (Urbana, Illinois); University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengyu Cao (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Naira Hovakimyan (Champaign, Illinois); Enric Xargay (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of adaptive control for uncertain nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems in the presence of significant unmatched uncertainty with assured performance are provided. The need for gain-scheduling is eliminated through the use of bandwidth-limited (low-pass) filtering in the control channel, which appropriately attenuates the high frequencies typically appearing in fast adaptation situations and preserves the robustness margins in the presence of fast adaptation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/023965 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08709761 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biotechnology Institute, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Saccharification of polysaccharides of plants is provided, where release of fermentable sugars from cellulose is obtained by adding plant tissue composition. Production of glucose is obtained without the need to add additional β-glucosidase. Adding plant tissue composition to a process using a cellulose degrading composition to degrade cellulose results in an increase in the production of fermentable sugars compared to a process in which plant tissue composition is not added. Using plant tissue composition in a process using a cellulose degrading enzyme composition to degrade cellulose results in decrease in the amount of cellulose degrading enzyme composition or exogenously applied cellulase required to produce fermentable sugars. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025659 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710213 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard S. Reiner (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard S. Reiner (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for integrating the production of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) from cellulose are provided. The methods use milder acid hydrolysis conditions than those for maximal CNC production to achieve reduced degradation of cellulose into soluble sugars. Also provided are negatively charged cellulosic solid residues (CSRs) in the form of cellulose fibers (CF) and/or cellulose microfibrils (CMF) during the acid hydrolysis, as well as CNFs fabricated from the CSRs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/472137 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 5/00 (20130101) C08B 5/14 (20130101) C08B 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08710281 | Nagaki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dick Alan Nagaki (The Woodlands, Texas); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Lisa Kamke (Madison, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dick Alan Nagaki (The Woodlands, Texas); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Lisa Kamke (Madison, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for producing polyols, ketones, carboxylic acids, aldehydes and alcohols from biomass-derived oxygenated hydrocarbons, such as sugars, sugar alcohols, saccharides and the like, using catalysts containing platinum, ruthenium and tin. The methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated compounds without the need for hydrogen from an external source. The oxygenated compounds produced are useful as industrial chemicals or chemical intermediates for liquid fuels production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/980892 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/903 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08709761 | Howard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biotechnology Institute, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Gina Fake (Arryo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Saccharification of polysaccharides of plants is provided, where release of fermentable sugars from cellulose is obtained by adding plant tissue composition. Production of glucose is obtained without the need to add additional β-glucosidase. Adding plant tissue composition to a process using a cellulose degrading composition to degrade cellulose results in an increase in the production of fermentable sugars compared to a process in which plant tissue composition is not added. Using plant tissue composition in a process using a cellulose degrading enzyme composition to degrade cellulose results in decrease in the amount of cellulose degrading enzyme composition or exogenously applied cellulase required to produce fermentable sugars. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025659 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712686 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (“trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from various sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic data, compass data, and/or with GPS, if and when available. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/301491 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712929 | Bickford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Rahul M. Palnitkar (Lincoln, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Rahul M. Palnitkar (Lincoln, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented dynamic data filtering system and method for selectively choosing operating data of a monitored asset that modifies or expands a learned scope of an empirical model of normal operation of the monitored asset while simultaneously rejecting operating data of the monitored asset that is indicative of excessive degradation or impending failure of the monitored asset, and utilizing the selectively chosen data for adaptively recalibrating the empirical model to more accurately monitor asset aging changes or operating condition changes of the monitored asset. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798128 |
| ART UNIT | 2175 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 3/022 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08712827 | Mollicone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel J. Mollicone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher G. Mott (Seattle, Washington); Kevin Gar Wah Kan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Stubna (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pulsar Informatics, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Mollicone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher G. Mott (Seattle, Washington); Kevin Gar Wah Kan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Stubna (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A normalized contextual performance metric quantifies the susceptibility of fatigue-related risk in a fatigue environment with activities conducted within a fatigue level range of interest. Fatigue incidents are quantified by one of a plurality of values associated with fatigue-incident measurement. Activities are quantified by one of a plurality of values associated with activity measurement. A normalized contextual performance metric is determined by identifying a fatigue level range of interest, summing all values of incidents occurring at the fatigue level range of interest, summing all values for relevant activities occurring at the fatigue level range of interest, and then dividing the first sum by the second. The normalized contextual performance metric thereby allows operational managers to assess risk of fatigue incidents by monitoring activities and fatigue levels within the fatigue environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/370288 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08712686 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (“trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from various sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic data, compass data, and/or with GPS, if and when available. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/301491 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08709584 | Carstensen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Carstensen (Shelton, Connecticut); David M. Cournoyer (Seymour, Connecticut); Dan Ursenbach (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Carstensen (Shelton, Connecticut); David M. Cournoyer (Seymour, Connecticut); Dan Ursenbach (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft floor system includes a composite panel which generally includes an inboard layer, an inboard interlock layer, a core layer, an outboard interlock layer and an outboard layer. The advanced sandwich core material may include K-Cor™ or X-Cor™ which is pinned through at least one ply of dry composite reinforcement to provide a mechanical lock between the pins and an inboard and outboard interlock layer. Bonding of the locked-in ply with the inboard and outboard results in improved structural performance and damage tolerance. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627491 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08712607 | Litwinowicz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony Litwinowicz (Derby, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Litwinowicz (Derby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for velocity profile based approach to point control for an aircraft includes determining a distance from the aircraft to a target point; determining a velocity command based on the distance to the target point and a desired acceleration; and issuing the velocity command. A velocity profile based approach to point control module for an aircraft and a computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium containing computer code that, when executed by a computer, implements a method for velocity profile based approach to point control are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/917091 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 29, 2014.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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