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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 17, 2014
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| US 08753113 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Heeje Lee (Coppell, Texas); Alika Yu (Metairie, Louisiana); Paul Fidel (Mandeville, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heeje Lee (Coppell, Texas); Alika Yu (Metairie, Louisiana); Paul Fidel (Mandeville, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A removable intraoral device is useful for longitudinal in vivo biofilm research. The device is adapted to allow it to be retained in the oral cavity long enough for biofilm to form and to affect the oral mucosa. The device is readily removable to facilitate longitudinal observations. The device is biostable. The device does not interfere with the animal's daily activities such as eating and drinking. The device can be fabricated and maintained at low cost. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/111354 |
| ART UNIT | 3732 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry 433/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753277 | McAleavey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen A. McAleavey (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. McAleavey (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining the shear modulus of a tissue of an individual are disclosed. In one embodiment, an acoustic pulse is transmitted and a reference echo signal is received. A first push pulse is transmitted at a second location of the individual. A second push pulse is transmitted at a third location of the individual. A series of tracking pulses are transmitted at the first location and a tracking echo signal is received from each tracking pulse. The effect of the first and second push pulses on the tissue is determined through analysis of the tracking echo signals. The shear modulus of the tissue is calculated based on the effect of the push pulses on the tissue. A system for imaging a region of tissue is presented. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/965807 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753363 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Bernard J. Esarey (Maplewood, Minnesota); Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GT Urological, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Bernard J. Esarey (Maplewood, Minnesota); Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable vessel occlusive device and method for occluding a vessel are described, for example to occlude the urethra or bladder neck. The devices and methods described utilize an occlusive member connected to a control mechanism. The occlusive member is reversibly changed from a non-occlusive condition to an occlusive condition, for example by depressing an activation button contained within a resilient, elastomeric cover surrounding the control mechanism. In the occlusive position, an initial tension is applied to the occlusive member through a tensioning suture. The tension is translated into an occlusive pressure applied to the urethra or bladder neck that is sufficient to prevent urinary leakage. The non-occlusive position can be obtained by depressing the de-activation button. The occlusive member is constructed to allow elution of drugs, such as may be required to combat infection or tissue encapsulation from its surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352787 |
| ART UNIT | 3773 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753391 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Jeffrey Spalazzi (Staten Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Jeffrey Spalazzi (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable device is provided for soft-tissue or soft tissue-to-bone repair, fixation, augmentation, or replacement that includes a biomimetic and biodegradable nanofiber scaffold. Also provided is a fully synthetic implantable multiphased scaffold which includes, in a single continuous construct, a plurality of phases to mimic the natural anatomy of a tendon or ligament and their insertion sites. Also provided are scaffold apparatuses for musculoskeletal tissue engineering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583072 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/13.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753604 | Ruoslahti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (Buellton, California); Venkata Ramana Kotamraju (Goleta, California); Priya Karmali (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (Buellton, California); Venkata Ramana Kotamraju (Goleta, California); Priya Karmali (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods useful for targeting therapeutics to cancerous cells and tumors. The disclosed targeting is useful for delivering therapeutic and detectable agents to cancerous cells and tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646168 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753605 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhen Cheng (Mountain View, California); Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Portola Valley, California); Zheng Miao (Union City, California); Hongguang Liu (Palo Alto, California); Gang Ren (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhen Cheng (Mountain View, California); Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Portola Valley, California); Zheng Miao (Union City, California); Hongguang Liu (Palo Alto, California); Gang Ren (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, relate to methods of detecting the over-expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in a subject or sample, methods of diagnosing the presence of one or more angiogenesis related diseases or related biological events in a subject or sample, method of monitoring the progress of one or more angiogenesis related diseases or related biological events in a subject or sample, a 18F-FBEM-CYS-ZEGFR:1907 probe, compositions including a 18F-FBEM-CYS-ZEGFR:1907 probe, and pharmaceutical compositions including a 18F-FBEM-CYS-ZEGFR:1907 probe and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/199428 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 49/0004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0008 (20130101) A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) |
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| US 08753610 | Pardridge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William M. Pardridge (Pacific Palisades, California); Ruben J. Boado (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ArmaGen Technologies, Inc. (Calabasas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Pardridge (Pacific Palisades, California); Ruben J. Boado (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides diagnostic and therapeutic macromolecular compositions that cross the blood-brain barrier, in some embodiments in both directions, while allowing their activity to remain substantially intact once across the barrier. Also provided are methods for using such compositions in the diagnosis or treatment of CNS disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756093 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753630 | Wong |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert J. Wong (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert J. Wong (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of markers for cancer stem cells are provided. The cells can be prospectively isolated or identified from primary tumor samples, and possess the unique properties of cancer stem cells in functional assays for tumor initiation, cancer stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. In addition, cancer stem cells can be used as a predictor for disease progression. The CSC have the phenotype of being positive for expression of CD133, and for EGFRvIII. In another embodiment of the invention, compositions are provided of a bispecific reagent that recognizes CD133 and EGFRvIII, including bispecific antibodies, which are optionally conjugated to a detectable marker, chemotherapeutic agent are radionuclide for imaging or therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/866719 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/135.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753631 | Karpatkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simon Karpatkin (New York, New York); Michael Nardi (New York, New York); Zongdong Li (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon Karpatkin (New York, New York); Michael Nardi (New York, New York); Zongdong Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a therapeutic agent comprising a GPIIIa(49-66) specific targeting agent and a thrombi-specific homing agent. Also disclosed is the use of the therapeutic agent in carrying out a method of treating thromboembolic disorders and a method of inducing platelet fragmentation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771492 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/745 (20130101) C07K 16/2848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 19/00 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) |
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| US 08753639 | Lieber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | André Lieber (Seattle, Washington); Hongjie Wang (Seattle, Washington); Ronald Jay Berenson (Mercer Island, Washington); Darrick Carter (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington); Compliment Corporation (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | André Lieber (Seattle, Washington); Hongjie Wang (Seattle, Washington); Ronald Jay Berenson (Mercer Island, Washington); Darrick Carter (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to agents capable of reducing the activity, amount or density of complement regulatory proteins (CRPs) on target cells. The invention also provides methods of identification of such agents, methods of making, and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/751943 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/174.100 |
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| US 08753640 | Wu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer D. Wu (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer D. Wu (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The technology described herein relates to antibodies and/or polypeptides which bind to MIC and inhibit MIC shedding. Methods of using such antibodies and/or polypeptides for the treatment of cancer are also described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483809 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/174.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753642 | Di et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rong Di (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Nilgun E. Tumer (Belle Mead, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong Di (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Nilgun E. Tumer (Belle Mead, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating or inhibiting hepatitic C virus (HCV). The method comprises administering an effective amount of at least one pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP) mutant alone or in combination with other anti-HCV agents. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/449076 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753649 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the 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) | Che-Hung Robert Lee (Bethesda, Maryland); Carl E. Frasch (Martinsburg, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for synthesis and manufacture of polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccines at high yield are provided. The methods involve reaction of a hydrazide group on one reactant with an aldehyde or cyanate ester group on the other reactant. The reaction proceeds rapidly with a high conjugation efficiency, such that a simplified purification process can be employed to separate the conjugate product from the unconjugated protein and polysaccharide and other small molecule by-products. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/892163 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753685 | Katti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kattesh V. Katti (Columbia, Missouri); Raghuraman Kannan (Columbia, Missouri); Kavita K. Katti (Columbia, Missouri); Satish Kumar Nune (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides stabilized, biocompatible gold nanoparticles that are stabilized with material from polyphenols- or flavanoids-rich plant material or reactive phytochemical components of the plant material. The gold nanoparticles of the invention can be fabricated with an environmentally friendly method for making biocompatible stabilized gold nanoparticles. In preferred embodiments, the coating consists of material from polyphenols- or flavanoids-rich plant material or reactive phytochemical components of the plant material. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680921 |
| 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 49/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753806 | Mangino |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin Mangino (Powhatan, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Mangino (Powhatan, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An organ protectant solution which is intravenously administerable includes a high concentration of cell impermeant molecules which have a charge and/or molecular weight which permit passage across a capillary endothelium and into an interstitial space in said subject but which are too large and/or charged to cross a cell plasma membrane such that said one or more cell impermeant molecules preferentially load into an extracellular fluid compartment can be used to to allow for improved organ harvesting from DCD and brain death donors for transplantation purposes and also can be used extend the “Golden Hour” for traumatic and hemorrhagic shock patients thereby allowing more time for those patients to reach a point of care facility to receive medical treatment. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589441 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753812 | Pourmand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nader Pourmand (Scotts Valley, California); Miloslav Karhanek (Santa Cruz, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Pourmand (Scotts Valley, California); Miloslav Karhanek (Santa Cruz, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for direct detection of chemical reactions are provided. Electric charge perturbations of the local environment during enzyme-catalyzed reactions are sensed by an electrode system with an immobilized target molecule. The charge perturbation caused by the polymerase reaction can uniquely identify a DNA sequence. The polymerization process generates local perturbations of charge in the solution near the electrode surface and induces a charge in a polarazible gold electrode. This event is detected as a transient current by a voltage clamp amplifier. Detection of single nucleotides in a sequence can be determined by dispensing individual dNTPs to the electrode solution and detecting the charge perturbations. Alternatively, multiple bases can be determined at the same time using a mix of all dNTPs with subsequent analysis of the resulting signal. This technique may be adapted to other reaction determinations, such as enzymatic reactions, other electrode configurations, and other amplifying circuits. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/434627 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
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| US 08753813 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Adam B. Braunschweig (New York, New York); Jinan Chai (Spartanburg, South Carolina); Dan J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Palo Alto, California); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Lu Shin Wong (Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Adam B. Braunschweig (New York, New York); Jinan Chai (Spartanburg, South Carolina); Dan J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Palo Alto, California); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Lu Shin Wong (Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a method of forming a pattern having pattern elements with a plurality of sizes on a substrate surface with a tilted pen array that includes choosing a tilt geometry for a pen array with respect to a substrate, inducing the tilt geometry between the pen array and the substrate surface, and forming a pattern having pattern elements on the substrate surface with the titled pen array, whereby the size of the formed pattern elements varies across the substrate surface along the tilted axis or axes. For example, the tilt geometry is in reference to the substrate surface and comprises a first angle with respect to a first axis of the substrate and a second angle with respect to a second axis of the substrate, the second axis being perpendicular to the first axis, and at least one of the first and second angles being non-zero. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/513618 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753815 | Johnson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bankole A. Johnson (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bankole A. Johnson (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided that are useful for diagnosing, treating, and monitoring alcohol dependence and disorders, susceptibility to alcohol dependence disorders, as well as drug related dependence and disorders. The methods include treating patients with an antagonist of the serotonin receptor 5-HT3 for such disorders, wherein the patient's serotonin transporter gene SLC6A4 is known to have particular genotypes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589603 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
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| US 08753818 | Landers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Massachuetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Landers (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Robert H. Brown (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method of identifying an individual that has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or is at risk of developing ALS comprising detecting one or more alterations in a profilin 1 (PFN1) sequence of an individual in need thereof compared to a wild type profilin sequence. In another aspect, the invention is directed to a method of identifying an individual that has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or is at risk of developing ALS comprising selectively sequencing a profilin 1 (PFN1) sequence of an individual in need thereof; and detecting one or more alterations in the PFN1 sequence of the individual. If the one or more alterations are detected then the individual has ALS. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833898 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753822 | Tainsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Tainsky (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Sorin Draghici (Troy, Michigan); Madhumita Chatterjee (Lake Orion, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Tainsky (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Sorin Draghici (Troy, Michigan); Madhumita Chatterjee (Lake Orion, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A biosensor for use in detecting the presence of diseases, the biosensor comprising a detector for detecting a presence of at least one marker indicative of a specific disease. A method of determining efficacy of a pharmaceutical for treating a disease or staging disease by administering a pharmaceutical to a sample containing markers for a disease, detecting the amount of at least one marker of the disease in the sample, and analyzing the amount of the marker in the sample, whereby the amount of marker correlates to pharmaceutical efficacy or disease stage. Markers for gynecological disease selected from the list in Table 6. An immuno-imaging agent comprising labeled antibodies, whereby the labeled antibodies are isolated and reactive to proteins overexpressed in vivo. Informatics software for analyzing the arrays of claim 4, the software including analyzing means for analyzing the arrays. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/163951 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08753830 | Pagano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele Pagano (New York, New York); Luca Busino (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Cdc25A is herein identified as a substrate for β-TrCP1- or β-TrCP2-mediated ubiquitination and subsequent degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. In particular, it has been found that interfering with β-TrCP expression or function, or increasing β-TrCP degradation, leads to accumulation of Cdc25A in a cell. Since degradation of Cdc25A is a key feature of the response to DNA damage, leading to a stall in the cell cycle during which the cell can repair the damage, Cdc25A accumulation can abolish this response, thereby sensitizing the cell to DNA damage. Described herein are assays for identifying β-TrCP inhibitors, and method of using such inhibitors for modulating Cdc25A degradation, sensitization of tumor cells, and as adjuvants in cancer therapy based on DNA damaging agents. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/886665 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.800 |
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| US 08753831 | Kalkum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Markus Kalkum (Azusa, California); Karine Bagramyan (North Hollywood, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Markus Kalkum (Azusa, California); Karine Bagramyan (North Hollywood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a large immuno-sorbent surface area assay (ALISSA) for the rapid and sensitive detection of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and anthrax toxin. This assay is designed to capture a low number of toxin molecules and to measure their intrinsic protease activity via conversion of a fluorogenic or luminescent substrate. Also provided herein are novel peptides that can be specifically cleaved by BoNT and novel peptides that are resistant to cleavage by BoNT. The combination of these cleavable and control peptides can be used for implementation of an exemplary ALISSA used to specifically detect BoNT enzymatic activity. Furthermore, the ALISSA as described herein may also be used in a column based format for use in a high-throughput system for testing large quantities of samples. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600186 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.940 |
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| US 08753897 | Ferrari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mauro Ferrari (Houston, Texas); Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng (Pearland, Texas); Giovanni Cuda (Cantazaro, Italy); Marco Gaspari (Cosenza, Italy); David Geho (Bluebell, Pennsylvania); Lance Liotta (Bethesda, Maryland); Emmanuel Petricoin (Gainesville, Virginia); Fredika Robertson (Houston, Texas); Rosa Terracciano (Soverato, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Ohio State Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mauro Ferrari (Houston, Texas); Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng (Pearland, Texas); Giovanni Cuda (Cantazaro, Italy); Marco Gaspari (Cosenza, Italy); David Geho (Bluebell, Pennsylvania); Lance Liotta (Bethesda, Maryland); Emmanuel Petricoin (Gainesville, Virginia); Fredika Robertson (Houston, Texas); Rosa Terracciano (Soverato, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoporous materials can be used to enrich samples for subsequent analysis of substances contained in the sample. The method is shown to enrich the yield of species in the low molecular weight proteome, allowing detection of small peptides in the low nanomolar range. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641970 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754013 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Li (Miami Beach, Florida); Xiaoyu Jiang (Miami, Florida); Nora Blanca Caberoy (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Li (Miami Beach, Florida); Xiaoyu Jiang (Miami, Florida); Nora Blanca Caberoy (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual display phage system for the identification of protein interaction networks and therapeutic targets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/062860 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754015 | Dewhurst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Dewhurst (Rochester, New York); John J. Treanor (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Dewhurst (Rochester, New York); John J. Treanor (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are modified phage comprising a fusion protein located on the surface of the phage wherein the fusion protein comprises a surface protein and a post-translationally modified protein. Also disclosed are methods of making and using modified phage comprising post-translationally modified proteins located on the surface of the phage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/514903 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754030 | Kwak 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) | Larry W. Kwak (Bellaire, Texas); Bira Arya (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a vaccine for increasing the immunogenicity of a tumor antigen thus allowing treatment of cancer, as well as a vaccine that increases the immunogenicity of a viral antigen, thus allowing treatment of viral infection, including immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In particular, the present invention provides a fusion protein comprising a defensin fused to either a tumor antigen or viral antigen which is administered as either a protein or nucleic acid vaccine to elicit an immune response effective in treating cancer or effective in treating or preventing viral infection. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/021898 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754046 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rong-Fu Wang (Houston, Texas); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Gang Zeng (Germantown, 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) | Rong-Fu Wang (Houston, Texas); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Gang Zeng (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses the identification and isolation of novel MHC class II epitopes derived from the cancer antigen, NY ESO-1. The novel MHC class II epitopes from NY-EsO-1 are recognized by CD4+ T lymphocytes in an HLA class II restricted manner, in particular HLA-DR or HLA-DP restricted. The products of the gene are promising candidates for immunotherapeutic strategies for the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of patients with cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568134 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754050 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xuedong Liu (Niwot, Colorado); Andrew J. Phillips (Guilford, Connecticut); Dana Ungermannova (Houston, Texas); Christopher G. Nasveschuk (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Gan Zhang (Niwot, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuedong Liu (Niwot, Colorado); Andrew J. Phillips (Guilford, Connecticut); Dana Ungermannova (Houston, Texas); Christopher G. Nasveschuk (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Gan Zhang (Niwot, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel macrocyclic compound of general Formula (I) having histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory activity, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a method useful to treat diseases using the compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/700373 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 11/00 (20130101) C07K 11/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754051 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Johnson (Harlem, Georgia); Tiffany Tuyen M. Nguyen (Rockville, Maryland); Mourad Ogbi (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Regents Research Institute, Inc. (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Johnson (Harlem, Georgia); Tiffany Tuyen M. Nguyen (Rockville, Maryland); Mourad Ogbi (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated or synthetic peptides derived from the d subunit of mammalian F1Fo ATP synthase (dF1Fo) protein for the purposes of tissue protection and improved energy production following acute injury from ischemia/reperfusion or other toxic insults, or in chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer. The major focus of the patent protection will be 2 peptides comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 75% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 2 and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. However, additional peptide sequences within the dF1Fo protein may also have efficacies in these disease states and therefore all peptides shown in the Figures of this application (combined with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-Tat protein transduction, cytochrome oxidase subunit IV (COIV) mitochondrial targeting and Flag domains) are included for their efficacies in these conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/401035 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754060 | DiAntonio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron DiAntonio (Olivette, Missouri); Bradley R. Miller (St. Louis, Missouri); Jeffrey D. Milbrandt (Clayton, Missouri); Craig A. Press (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of reducing Wallerian degeneration are disclosed. These methods comprise inhibiting expression or activity of a mixed lineage kinase such as a dual leucine-zipper-bearing kinase (DLK), inhibiting expression or activity of a molecule acting downstream from DLK, such as a c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), or a combination thereof. Further disclosed are methods of screening candidate compounds for DLK inhibition activity. These methods comprise providing a neuronal culture comprising a plurality of axons; contacting the culture with a candidate compound and with an axon degeneration-triggering agent; and comparing axonal degeneration in the culture to a control culture comprising the axon degeneration-triggering agent but not the candidate compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/722821 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754081 | Bottaro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald P. Bottaro (Kensington, Maryland); Megan Peach (Ashburn, Virginia); Marc Nicklaus (Catonsville, Maryland); Terrence Burke, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Gagani Athauda (Southwest Ranches, Florida); Sarah Choyke (Rockville, Maryland); Alessio Giubellino (Washington, District of Columbia); Nelly Tan (Los Angeles, California); Zhen-Dan Shi (Glenelg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Departmnet of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald P. Bottaro (Kensington, Maryland); Megan Peach (Ashburn, Virginia); Marc Nicklaus (Catonsville, Maryland); Terrence Burke, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Gagani Athauda (Southwest Ranches, Florida); Sarah Choyke (Rockville, Maryland); Alessio Giubellino (Washington, District of Columbia); Nelly Tan (Los Angeles, California); Zhen-Dan Shi (Glenelg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Derivatives and analogs of inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase c-Met, pharmaceutical compositions containing derivatives and analogs of c-Met inhibitors are provided. Methods of making derivatives and analogs of c-Met inhibitors and methods of use thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/935643 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/235.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754082 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siga Technologies Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Tove C. Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Ryan A. Larson (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by the Arenavirus family such as Lassa fever, Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/890825 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754084 | Zimmerman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Zimmerman (Champaign, Illinois); Chun-Ho Wong (Champaign, Illinois); Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); Jessie Peh (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds, compositions and methods for treating myotonic dystrophy. The compounds can selectively bind to CUG repeats in RNA, or to CTG repeats in DNA, and inhibit replication of the nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/851829 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754094 | Batuman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Olcay Batuman (New York, New York); Jeffrey L. Brodsky (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olcay Batuman (New York, New York); Jeffrey L. Brodsky (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of treating an Hsp70 dependent cancer, including: providing at least one Hsp70 dependent cancer cell; contacting the at least one cell with a sub-effective concentration of a dihydropyrimidinone compound; and contacting the at least one cell with a sub-effective concentration of a proteasome inhibitor, wherein the sub-effective concentration of the dihydropyrimidinone compound and the sub-effective concentration of the proteasome inhibitor have a synergistic effect upon the at least one cell. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/673397 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754132 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Bryan Roth (Durham, North Carolina); Andreas Svennebring (Nacka, Sweden); Sung Jin Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly selective 5-HT(2C) receptor agonists receptors are disclosed. The 5-HT(2C) receptor agonists are used in the treatments of disease and conditions wherein modulation of 5-HT(2C) receptors provides a benefit, such as obesity and psychiatric disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/887996 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754192 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); J. David Warren (New York, New York); Jiehao Chen (Westfield, Indiana); Bin Wu (Thousand Oaks, California); Gong Chen (New York, New York); Qian Wan (Quincy, Massachusetts); Zhongping Tan (New York, New York); Cindy Kan (New York, New York); Yu Yuan (New York, New York); Zihao Hua (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Krishnakumar Ranganathan (Oak Park, California); John D. Trzupek (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); J. David Warren (New York, New York); Jiehao Chen (Westfield, Indiana); Bin Wu (Thousand Oaks, California); Gong Chen (New York, New York); Qian Wan (Quincy, Massachusetts); Zhongping Tan (New York, New York); Cindy Kan (New York, New York); Yu Yuan (New York, New York); Zihao Hua (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Krishnakumar Ranganathan (Oak Park, California); John D. Trzupek (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated homogeneous polyfunctionalized proteins (e.g., erythropoietin), isolated glycopeptides, and a method for preparing polyfunctionalized peptides and/or proteins via cysteine-free native chemical ligation. In certain embodiments, the invention provides an isolated homogeneous polyfunctionalized protein having the structure (I). In certain other embodiments, the invention provides an isolated glycopeptide having Formula (II). In certain other embodiments, the inventive method is a method for preparing a polyfunctionalized peptide comprising a peptidic backbone made up of four or more amino acids, wherein two or more non-adjacent amino acids are independently substituted with a moiety having the structure (III) -LH. wherein A and L1 are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296608 |
| 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 08754193 | Shusta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric V. Shusta (Madison, Wisconsin); Tej Pavoor (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric V. Shusta (Madison, Wisconsin); Tej Pavoor (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of GFP scaffolds capable of accommodating two proximal, randomized binding loops is disclosed. GFP-based binders binding with nanomolar affinity are developed from a library of these GFP scaffolds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462123 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754203 | Tuschl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Tuschl (Brooklyn, New York); Pablo Landgraf (Duesseldorf, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Tuschl (Brooklyn, New York); Pablo Landgraf (Duesseldorf, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated DNA or RNA molecules comprising at least ten contiguous bases having a sequence in a microRNA shown in SEQ ID NOs: 1-94; 281-374; 467-481; 497-522; or 549, except that up to thirty percent of the bases may be wobble bases, and up to 10% of the contiguous bases may be non-complementary. The invention further relates to modified single stranded microRNA molecules, isolated single stranded anti-microRNA molecules and isolated microRNP molecules. In another embodiment, the invention relates to a method for inhibiting microRNP activity in a cell. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/469689 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754285 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Houghton, Michigan); Jediah White (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Sudbury, Massachusetts); John L. Murphy (Verona, Wisconsin); Laura Vollenweider (Lodi, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kensey Nash Corporation (Exton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Houghton, Michigan); Jediah White (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Sudbury, Massachusetts); John L. Murphy (Verona, Wisconsin); Laura Vollenweider (Lodi, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to thin-film adhesive materials suitable for various applications. In particular, the present invention provides pliable viscoelastic thin-films configured to form strong water-resistant adhesive bonds to various surface types. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/384138 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754379 | Antonuk |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry E. Antonuk (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation sensor including a scintillation layer configured to emit photons upon interaction with ionizing radiation and a photodetector including in order a first electrode, a photosensitive layer, and a photon-transmissive second electrode disposed in proximity to the scintillation layer. The photosensitive layer is configured to generate electron-hole pairs upon interaction with a part of the photons. The radiation sensor includes pixel circuitry electrically connected to the first electrode and configured to measure an imaging signal indicative of the electron-hole pairs generated in the photosensitive layer and a planarization layer disposed on the pixel circuitry between the first electrode and the pixel circuitry such that the first electrode is above a plane including the pixel circuitry. A surface of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode at least partially overlaps the pixel circuitry and has a surface inflection above features of the pixel circuitry. The surface inflection has a radius of curvature greater than one half micron. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/932519 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/241 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1462 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14658 (20130101) H01L 27/14663 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08752284 | Hougham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/047552 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/842 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08752395 | McCormick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelly Jon McCormick (Indianapolis, Indiana); Michel Shawn Smallwood (Greenwood, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Jon McCormick (Indianapolis, Indiana); Michel Shawn Smallwood (Greenwood, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A combination including a gas turbine engine extending along an axis is disclosed herein. The gas turbine engine includes an annular combustor having a combustor liner. The combination also includes a plurality of projections extending from the combustor liner and spaced from one another circumferentially about the axis. The combination also includes a free-standing ring disposed about the combustor liner and positioned adjacent to the plurality of projections along the axis. The plurality of projections engage the free-standing ring and circumferentially support the combustor liner while allowing relative radial displacement between the combustor liner and the free-standing ring. The combination also includes a plurality of pins each being integrally-formed with one of the plurality of projections. Each of the plurality of pins extends along the axis and is received in one of a plurality of slots formed in the free-standing ring. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/016146 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/796 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08752432 | Meitzler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas J. Meitzler (Troy, Michigan); Ivan Wong (Novi, Michigan); Thomas P. Reynolds (Warren, Michigan); Samuel E. Ebenstein (Southfield, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Meitzler (Troy, Michigan); Ivan Wong (Novi, Michigan); Thomas P. Reynolds (Warren, Michigan); Samuel E. Ebenstein (Southfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system incorporating sensor enhanced composite armor structure. The structure has one layer including ceramic tiles and ceramic-material transducers, wherein the ceramic tiles and the transducers fit closely together so that the one layer is ballistically windowless. The structure has other layers composed of armor material stacked with the one layer, the one layer and the other layers forming a plate which as a unit has a set or group of fundamental frequencies. The system includes logic means to analyze only signals resulting from vibrations transmitted from the one transducer to the other transducer through the one layer. The logic means thereby derives a signal fingerprint which characterizes a state of damage to the plate. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/173766 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/588 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08752472 | Lukman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hansen Lukman (Parsippany, New Jersey); Kevin Russell (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hansen Lukman (Parsippany, New Jersey); Kevin Russell (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A reduced recoil weapon includes a housing and a receiver translatably disposed in the housing. A barrel is fixed to the receiver. A pair of recoil rods has first ends that are fixed to the receiver and are translatable with respect to the housing. Recoil springs are disposed around each recoil rod with first ends of the recoil springs abutting a forward surface of the housing. A bolt and bolt carrier are translatably disposed in the receiver. A bolt carrier return spring is disposed in the housing between the bolt carrier and a rear surface of the housing. Gas pressure from a gas piston on the barrel translates an operating rod toward the bolt carrier. An operating rod spring disposed in the receiver biases the operating rod toward the gas piston. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/738245 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 5/18 (20130101) F41A 5/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08752796 | Occhiato et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Occhiato (Derby, Connecticut); Gordon E. Winer (Bridgeport, Connecticut); Irvin B. Alansky (Cheshire, Connecticut); Steven E. Spoldi (Shelton, Connecticut); Anthony Z. Stobiecki (Vya, Nevada); Joseph P. Skonieczny (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Occhiato (Derby, Connecticut); Gordon E. Winer (Bridgeport, Connecticut); Irvin B. Alansky (Cheshire, Connecticut); Steven E. Spoldi (Shelton, Connecticut); Anthony Z. Stobiecki (Vya, Nevada); Joseph P. Skonieczny (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of automatically jettisoning cargo suspended from a suspension system coupled to an auto jettison system, includes receiving an initial load value from at least one attachment point of the suspension system, the receiving of the initial load value in response to attaching the cargo to the suspension system; receiving an instantaneous load value of the cargo suspended on an attachment point, the attachment point being coupled to the cargo; predicting a rate of change of the instantaneous load value at a predetermined future time period; combining the predicted rate of change of the instantaneous load value with the initial load value to create a predicted load value; comparing the predicted load value to a threshold value for the attachment point; and jettisoning the cargo from the attachment point if the predicted value is greater than the threshold value. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/224612 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64D 1/04 (20130101) B64D 1/06 (20130101) B64D 1/22 (20130101) B64D 7/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753073 | Albers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Charles Albers (Fort Wright, Kentucky); Mark Willard Marusko (Springboro, Ohio); Barry Allan Wilson (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma); Aaron Michael Dziech (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Charles Albers (Fort Wright, Kentucky); Mark Willard Marusko (Springboro, Ohio); Barry Allan Wilson (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma); Aaron Michael Dziech (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine shroud sealing apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes: (a) an arcuate shroud segment comprising a low-ductility material and having a cross-sectional shape defined by opposed forward and aft walls, and opposed inner and outer walls, the walls extending between opposed first and second end faces of the segment; and (b) a first seal assembly received in at least one slot formed in the first end face, the first seal assembly comprising one or more spline seals which protrude from the first end face and which are arranged to define a continuous sealing surface around the perimeter of the first end face. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/821599 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753090 | Basiletti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Peter Basiletti (Lafayette, Indiana); Richard Christopher Uskert (Noblesville, Indiana); Michelle Lynn Tucker (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Peter Basiletti (Lafayette, Indiana); Richard Christopher Uskert (Noblesville, Indiana); Michelle Lynn Tucker (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A bladed disk assembly includes a disk, a blade, and a retaining clip. The disk is centered on an axis. The disk has at least one groove extending along the axis. The blade is received in the groove. The retaining clip contacts the blade and limits movement of the blade along the axis. The retaining clip is engaged with the disk through a snap-fit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/954206 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753418 | Epshteyn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert Epshteyn (College Park, Maryland); Andrew P Purdy (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert Epshteyn (College Park, Maryland); Andrew P Purdy (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanopowder and a method of making are disclosed. The nanopowder may be in the form of nanoparticles with an average size of less than about 200 nm and contain a reactive transition metal, such as hafnium, zirconium, or titanium. The nanopowder can be formed in a liquid under sonication by reducing a halide of the transition metal. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813911 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753457 | Moyer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth A. Moyer (Cinnaminson, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Moyer (Cinnaminson, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a process for nitriding martensitic stainless steel and the alloy produced thereby comprising heating a stainless steel alloy to a temperature of from about 900° F. (480° C.) to about 2500° F. (1370° C.) in a vacuum furnace in the presence of hydrogen or argon gas in order to clean the surface. After the hydrogen or argon gas is removed from the chamber, nitrogen gas, or a different nitrogen gas derivative is injected into said furnace as a pulsed injection at a partial pressure of from about 500 torr to about 1000 torr. The steel is nitrogen alloyed at a temperature of from about 1400° F. (760° C.) to about 2200° F. (1205° C.) and then quickly quenched at ambient temperature. Preferably, after a sufficient period of time, the temperature is raised a second time from about 900° F. (480° C.) to about 2500° F. (1370° C.) prior to cooling the final product. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/471518 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753468 | Caldwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua D. Caldwell (Accokeek, Maryland); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Travis Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua D. Caldwell (Accokeek, Maryland); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Travis Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing graphene film thickness on a donor substrate and transferring graphene films from a donor substrate to a handle substrate includes applying a bonding material to the graphene on the donor substrate, releasing the bonding material from the donor substrate thereby leaving graphene on the bonding material, applying the bonding material with graphene onto the handle substrate, and releasing the bonding material from the handle substrate thereby leaving the graphene on the handle substrate. The donor substrate may comprise SiC, metal foil or other graphene growth substrate, and the handle substrate may comprise a semiconductor or insulator crystal, semiconductor device, epitaxial layer, flexible substrate, metal film, or organic device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/855692 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753504 | Whyatt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory A. Whyatt (West Richland, Washington); Liyu Li (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Whyatt (West Richland, Washington); Liyu Li (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and process are disclosed for removing elemental sulfur compounds from hydro-desulfurization (HDS) treated hydrocarbon products including liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Low (sub-ppm) concentrations of sulfur remain in the hydrocarbons, providing, e.g., fuel products suitable for use in various modalities including, e.g., jet fuels and fuel cell Auxiliary Power Units (APUs). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096871 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 45/02 (20130101) C10G 45/08 (20130101) C10G 65/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753570 | Whitten et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Whitten (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yanli Tang (Xi'an, China PRC); Zhijun Zhou (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Linnea Ista (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Motokatsu Ogawa (Sherman Oaks, California); David Keller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brett Andrzejewski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gabriel Lopez (Durham, North Carolina); Kirk Schanze (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Whitten (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yanli Tang (Xi'an, China PRC); Zhijun Zhou (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Linnea Ista (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Motokatsu Ogawa (Sherman Oaks, California); David Keller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brett Andrzejewski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gabriel Lopez (Durham, North Carolina); Kirk Schanze (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds generally referred to herein as cationic oligomeric phenylene ethynylenes (OPEs), methods of synthesizing OPEs and various uses for the OPEs are described. The compounds can be synthesized in both symmetrical (S-OPE) and non-symmetrical (N-OPE) forms. Suitable uses include sensor and biocidal applications. Reusable structures incorporating the OPEs that are able to capture and release biological species of interest are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/001478 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753640 | Wu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer D. Wu (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer D. Wu (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The technology described herein relates to antibodies and/or polypeptides which bind to MIC and inhibit MIC shedding. Methods of using such antibodies and/or polypeptides for the treatment of cancer are also described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483809 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/174.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753776 | Huang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Weiwei Huang (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eveready Battery Company, Inc (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weiwei Huang (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A primary electrochemical cell and electrolyte incorporating a linear asymmetric ether is disclosed. The ether may include EME, used in combination with DIOX and DME, or have the general structural formula R1—O—CH2—CH2—O—R2 or R1—O—CH2—CH(CH3)—O—R2, where a total of at least 7 carbon atoms must be present in the compound, and R1 and R2 consist alkyl, cyclic, aromatic or halogenated groups but cannot be the same group (i.e., R1≠R2). |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/036061 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753813 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Adam B. Braunschweig (New York, New York); Jinan Chai (Spartanburg, South Carolina); Dan J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Palo Alto, California); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Lu Shin Wong (Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Adam B. Braunschweig (New York, New York); Jinan Chai (Spartanburg, South Carolina); Dan J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Palo Alto, California); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Lu Shin Wong (Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a method of forming a pattern having pattern elements with a plurality of sizes on a substrate surface with a tilted pen array that includes choosing a tilt geometry for a pen array with respect to a substrate, inducing the tilt geometry between the pen array and the substrate surface, and forming a pattern having pattern elements on the substrate surface with the titled pen array, whereby the size of the formed pattern elements varies across the substrate surface along the tilted axis or axes. For example, the tilt geometry is in reference to the substrate surface and comprises a first angle with respect to a first axis of the substrate and a second angle with respect to a second axis of the substrate, the second axis being perpendicular to the first axis, and at least one of the first and second angles being non-zero. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/513618 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753891 | Hart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean J. Hart (Keswick, Virginia); Alexander V. Terray (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean J. Hart (Keswick, Virginia); Alexander V. Terray (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of particle separation, wherein a collimated light source operable to generate a collimated light source beam is provided. The collimated light source beam includes a beam cross-section. A body is provided, wherein the body defines a wall and a first channel in a first plane. The first channel includes a first channel cross-section, the first channel being oriented to receive the collimated light source beam such that the beam cross-section completely overlaps the channel cross-section. The collimated light source beam is transmitted through the channel. A fluid sample is transmitted through the channel, fluid sample including a plurality of particles of a same type. All of the particles of the plurality of particles are separated axially along the collimated light source beam. All of the particles of the plurality of particles are retained against the wall in the collimated light source beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961968 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/0009 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/121 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753918 | Varghese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tansen Varghese (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tansen Varghese (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a solar cell including: providing a semiconductor body including at least one photoactive junction; forming a semiconductor contact layer composed of GaAs deposited over the semiconductor body; and depositing a metal contact layer including a germanium layer and a palladium layer over the semiconductor contact layer so that the specific contact resistance is less than 5×10−4 ohms-cm2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/603088 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 31/022425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753965 | Avouris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Damon B. Farmer (White Plains, New York); Yu-Ming Lin (West Harrison, New York); Yu Zhu (West Harrison, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phaedon Avouris (Yorktown Heights, New York); Damon B. Farmer (White Plains, New York); Yu-Ming Lin (West Harrison, New York); Yu Zhu (West Harrison, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a transistor structure is provided. The method includes forming a graphene layer on an insulating layer; forming a stack of a first metal portion and a second metal portion over the graphene layer, wherein sidewalls of the first metal portion are vertically coincident with sidewalls of the second metal portion; and laterally offsetting the sidewalls of the first metal portion relative to the sidewalls of the second metal portion by a lateral distance. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/602117 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/586 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754175 | McCullough et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard D. McCullough (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Genevieve Sauve (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mihaela Iovu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Malika Jeffries-El (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. McCullough (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Genevieve Sauve (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mihaela Iovu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Malika Jeffries-El (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel polymer compositions which provide controlled end-group functionalization for polythiophenes including regioregular polythiophenes including alkenyl and alkynyl functionalization. Monocapped polymers are formed and can be converted to block copolymers. Conditions and reagents can be selected to provide more monocapping than dicapping of the polymer. Devices, films, and blends can be prepared. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375581 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754179 | Tong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tat Hung Tong (Bellbrook, Ohio); Emily Snyder (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tat Hung Tong (Bellbrook, Ohio); Emily Snyder (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present discovery uses monomers which contain reversible photo-crosslinkable groups in addition to primary polymerizable groups. The mechanical properties of these materials and the reversibility of the photo-activated shape memory effect demonstrate the effectiveness of using photo-irradiation to effect change in modulus and shape memory effect. In the preferred embodiment the reaction mixture includes a photo-reactive monomer comprising a photo reactive group and a polymerizable group; a second monomer, which is more preferably a mixture of monomers, which are acrylate based; a multi-functional crosslinking agent, preferably 1,6 hexanediol diacrylate (HDODA); an initiator, preferably a free radical initiator; and a fifth, optional, component which is a modifying polymer. The mixture of the second monomer, crosslinking agent, and initiator comprise the base polymer matrix into which the photo-reactive monomer is incorporated. The polymeriziable group of the photo reactive monomer allows the photo reactive monomer to polymerize with the base polymer matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/576749 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754321 | Schroeder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Leroy Schroeder (West Lafayette, Indiana); Timothy David Sands (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Leroy Schroeder (West Lafayette, Indiana); Timothy David Sands (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric segment and a method for fabricating. The fabricating includes forming structures by depositing thin-film metal-semiconductor multilayers on substrates and depositing metal layers on the multilayers, joining metal bonding layers to form dual structures with combined bonding layers; and removing at least one of the substrates; and using the dual structure to form a thermoelectric segments. The method can include dicing the dual structures before or after removing the substrates. The method can include depositing additional bonding layers and joining dual structures to make thermoelectric segments of different thicknesses. Each multilayer can be about 5-10 μm thick. Each bonding layer can be about 1-2 μm thick. The bonding layers can be made of a material having high thermal and electrical conductivity. The multilayers can be (Hf,Zr,Ti,W)N/(Sc,Y,La,Ga,In,Al)N superlattice layers. Metal nitride layers can be deposited between each of the bonding layers and multilayers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/957385 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754396 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441618 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754546 | Arimilli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravi Kumar Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Edward Joseph Seminaro (Milton, New York); Kevin Robert Covi (Glenford, New York); Steven John Ahladas (Highland, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi Kumar Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Edward Joseph Seminaro (Milton, New York); Kevin Robert Covi (Glenford, New York); Steven John Ahladas (Highland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A bulk power assembly includes a bulk power distribution (BPD) subassembly and a bulk power controller and hub (BPCH) subassembly coupled to the BPD subassembly. The BPD assembly is configured to provide bulk DC power from both AC input power and DC input power. The BPD subassembly is configured to distribute the DC bulk power. The BPCH subassembly is configured to monitor and control the BPD assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425275 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754853 | Helton |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin R. Helton (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin R. Helton (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ergonomic control instrument for an operator's hand is provided to be disposable on a platform and communicate with a processor. The instrument includes a base for mounting to the platform, a pistol-grip handle disposed on the base to tilt from perpendicular to the platform, a head unit disposed on the handle, a deck within the head unit connecting to the handle, and a plurality of input devices disposed on at least one of the head unit and the handle, each device of the plurality for receiving a command from the operator's hand. Also, an ergonomic control station for an operator is provided, with the station including a platform in front of the operator, a first hand-held instrument mountable to the platform, a second hand-held instrument mountable to the platform, and a processor having a plurality of connections to the first and second pluralities of input devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/925393 |
| ART UNIT | 2692 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755118 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Fanglu Lu (Berkeley, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkeley, California); Igor Karagodsky (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Fanglu Lu (Berkeley, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkeley, California); Vadim Karagodsky (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Planar lenses and reflectors are described comprising subwavelength high-contrast gratings (HCG) having high index of refraction grating elements spaced apart from one another in straight and/or curved segments and surrounded by low index material. The high-contrast grating is configured to receive an incident wave which excites multiple modes within the high-contrast grating and is focused for reflection and/or transmission by said high contrast grating. The width of the high contrast grating bars vary along a distribution direction of the grating bars which is perpendicular to the length of the grating bars and/or varies along the length of one or more grating bars to focus said reflection and/or transmission. The HCG is configured to provide double focusing, whose use is exemplified within a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) structure using focusing HCG structures for both the top and bottom mirrors. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/593382 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1861 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755245 | Reynolds |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Reynolds (Scarborough, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Analog Devices, Inc. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Reynolds (Scarborough, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A decoder control makes use of controllable transfer gates, which effectively implement selectors, to implement required timing offsets for codes that have particular structure. For instance, such timing offsets are effective for LDPC codes with block off-diagonal structure, for instance, as described in the co-pending application. In some implementations, the memory architecture is formed of cells where each cell includes not only a storage element, by also control logic that combines a select signal and the write versus read signal. By co-locating this control logic in each memory cell, control logic and its associated signal distribution is reduced, thereby reducing circuit area and power consumption. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/364457 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/230.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755250 | Ruffa |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is taught to extract more information about the motion of an acoustic wave emitter moving relative to a line array of hydrophones that are part of a sonar system by determining the variation in Doppler shift across the entire line array of hydrophones together with the a range measurement of the emitter to calculate the emitter's velocity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/154569 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 15/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755378 | Giacomoni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Giacomoni (Longmont, Colorado); Manish Veachharajani (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Giacomoni (Longmont, Colorado); Manish Veachharajani (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A systems and methods are disclosed that provide an efficient parallel pipeline for data processing using a multi-core processor. Embodiments allocate a shared memory portion of the memory that is accessible from more than one context of execution and/or process a frame in a plurality of processing stages processed by a context of execution. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of processing stages may be bound to a processing core of the multi-core processor. In other embodiments include one or more processing stages with a point-to-point communication mechanism that operates in shared memory. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/590307 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755469 | Su |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Su (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Su (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for operating a distributed multi-sensor system for spectrum mapping and signal exploitation. The method includes selecting a plurality of distributed sensors including at least one or more clusters of distributed sensors, sending a request to the plurality of distributed sensors to collect signal snapshot copies, routing the signal snapshot copies or information from the plurality of distributed sensors as inputs to at least one fusion module, processing all inputs before sending any next request to the plurality of distributed sensors, optimizing the one or more clusters of distributed sensors, combining multiple distributed signal inputs in the at least one fusion module, and making a global decision. A system for spectrum mapping and signal exploitation and a storage medium encoded with machine-readable computer code for implementing the method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/589735 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755493 | Travish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gil Travish (Los Angeles, California); Rodney Yoder (White Plains, New York); James Rosenzweig (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gil Travish (Los Angeles, California); Rodney Yoder (White Plains, New York); James Rosenzweig (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing x-rays for use in imaging applications having a piezoelectric or pyroelectric crystal with an upper surface and a conducting film coating the upper surface. The crystal includes a plurality of field emitters formed as micrometer-scale exposed regions in the crystal having a one or more sharp peaks or ridges, or parallel trenches forming a wedge shaped emitter. The crystal is alternately heated and cooled over a period of time so that spontaneous charge polarization occurs in the crystal. The spontaneous charge polarization causes a perpendicular electric field to arise on the crystal's top and bottom faces, that is enhanced by the sharp peaks or ridges, thereby causing field emission of surface electrons from that location. X-rays are produced when the emitted electrons strike a target material located adjacent to the emitting face, and the X-rays may be filtered or collimated. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/345272 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755514 | Su |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Su (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments associated with signal classification are described. A repeating signal can be partially corrupted and therefore a receiver can obtain an incomplete signal. In one example, the incomplete signal can have discontinuous unobstructed segments. In order for the receiver to understand the contents of the signal, the receiver can identify repeated information in the discontinuous unobstructed segments. This repeated information can be processed to determine content of the signal. In one embodiment, the signal is a dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signal. The receiver can process the content of the DTMF, such as by employing a set of high and low band pass filters, and can identify a high and low frequency of the DTMF. With the high and low frequencies identified, the receiver can access a look-up table and identify a character indicated by the high and low frequency. The receiver can then use or send out the identified character. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/027680 |
| ART UNIT | 2656 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755655 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical module is described. This optical module includes at least two optical devices that communicate with each other using edge-to-edge optical coupling of an optical signal between optical components in the two optical devices. Note that the edge-to-edge optical coupling may occur without mode converters at edges of either of the optical devices. Furthermore, the edge-to-edge optical coupling may be facilitated by an alignment substrate, which is mechanically coupled to the two optical devices. This alignment substrate aligns the edges of the two optical devices so that they are approximately parallel to each other, and aligns the optical components in the two optical devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564701 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/30 (20130101) G02B 6/43 (20130101) G02B 6/423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/4228 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08755754 — Methods for detecting and classifying signals transmitted over a radio frequency spectrum
| US 08755754 | Livsis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Livsis (Vienna, Virginia); Mark A. McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Dmitry Dain (Herndon, Virginia); Karl Steadman (Arlington, Virginia); Olga Ritterbush (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for classifying a signal is disclosed. The method can be used by a station or stations within a network to classify the signal as non-cooperative (NC) or a target signal. The method performs classification over channels within a frequency spectrum. The percentage of power above a first threshold is computed for a channel. Based on the percentage, a signal is classified as a narrowband signal. If the percentage indicates the absence of a narrowband signal, then a lower second threshold is applied to confirm the absence according to the percentage of power above the second threshold. The signal is classified as a narrowband signal or pre-classified as a wideband signal based on the percentage. Pre-classified wideband signals are classified as a wideband NC signal or target signal using spectrum masks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/658968 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/719 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 17/005 (20130101) H04B 17/009 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755876 | Chon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ki H. Chon (Worcester, Massachusetts); Jinseok Lee (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ki H. Chon (Worcester, Massachusetts); Jinseok Lee (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for automatic detection of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) are disclosed. The methods and systems use time-varying coherence functions (TVCF) to detect AF. The TVCF is estimated by the multiplication of two time-varying transfer functions (TVTFs). |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684979 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08755997 — Laser ranging process for road and obstacle detection in navigating an autonomous vehicle
| US 08755997 | Au et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota); Jon Schewe (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota); Jon Schewe (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system provide road and obstacle detection in navigating an autonomous vehicle. The method comprises scanning a distance ahead of the autonomous vehicle to obtain a current range scan, and obtaining navigation data, including dynamics, position, and orientation measurements of the autonomous vehicle. The current range scan is transformed to world coordinates with respect to a reference location based on the navigation data, and the transformed current range scan is input into a distance-based accumulator. The transformed current range scan is added to a variable size buffer when the autonomous vehicle is deemed to be non-stationary. A ground plane is estimated from the transformed current range scan and prior range scans stored in the variable size buffer. The estimated ground plane is represented as a constrained quadratic surface, which is classified into one or more of a traversable area, a non-traversable area, or an obstacle area for navigation of the autonomous vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/182774 |
| ART UNIT | 3626 — 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 | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00791 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756259 | Crain |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louis M. Crain (La Mesa, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis M. Crain (La Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to converting infrared, radar, and photographic sensor data using an apparatus having a graphical user interface, a user-selection device, and an electronic processor configured to convert sensor data and output the converted sensor data. An infrared, radar, and photographic sensor data conversion computer program (abbreviated “computer program”) is associated with the electronic processor. A sensor standard definition file is consistent with a sensor standard (abbreviated “the standard”) and is configured for input to the computer program. The sensor standard definition file is a programmable external file defining specifics (elements used to communicate sensor data in the computer program) of the standard. The sensor standard definition file is editable and extendable to support changes in the standard. A sensor standard rules file, sensor external standard file, and sensor external data file are consistent with the standard and are operatively associated with the computer program. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932342 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/813 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756270 | Arimilli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Bernard C. Drerup (Austin, Texas); Paul F. Lecocq (Cedar Park, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Wappingers Fall, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Bernard C. Drerup (Austin, Texas); Paul F. Lecocq (Cedar Park, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Wappingers Fall, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided in a collective acceleration unit for performing a collective operation to distribute or collect data among a plurality of participant nodes. The mechanism receives an input collective packet for a collective operation from a neighbor node within a collective tree. The input collective packet comprises a tree identifier and an input data field and wherein the collective tree comprises a plurality of sub trees. The mechanism maps the tree identifier to an index within the collective acceleration unit. The index identifies a portion of resources within the collective acceleration unit and is associated with a set of neighbor nodes in a given sub tree within the collective tree. For each neighbor node the collective acceleration unit stores destination information. The collective acceleration unit performs an operation on the input data field using the portion of resources to effect the collective operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/454727 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/56 (20130101) H04L 29/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 29/08072 (20130101) H04L 29/08135 (20130101) H04L 29/12132 (20130101) H04L 29/12594 (20130101) H04L 45/02 (20130101) H04L 45/123 (20130101) H04L 45/306 (20130101) H04L 61/1552 (20130101) H04L 61/3015 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 707/9994 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756462 | 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, systems, and computer program products for configurable alert delivery in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include for each alert generated by an incident analyzer, applying active alert filters to the alert; wherein applying the active alert filters to the alert includes: creating a list of all active alert filters and a set of all active listeners; and for each active alert filter, running the active alert filter; if the active alert filter indicates that the alert should not go to one or more of the active listeners, removing the one or more active listeners from the set of all active listeners; if the active listeners set is empty, stopping processing of the alert; and if the active listeners set is not empty, selecting the next active alert filter from the active alert filter list. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/114463 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756693 | Dube et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas E. Dube (Beavercreek, Ohio); Richard A. Raines (Centerville, Ohio); Steven K. Rogers (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Dube (Beavercreek, Ohio); Richard A. Raines (Centerville, Ohio); Steven K. Rogers (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and program product are provided to recognize malware in a computing environment having at least one computer. A sample is received. An automatic determination is made by the at least one computer to determine if the sample is malware using static analysis methods. If the static analysis methods determine the sample is malware, dynamic analysis methods are used by the at least one computer to automatically determine if the sample is malware. If the dynamic analysis methods determine the sample is malware, the sample is presented to a malware analyst to adjudicate the automatic determinations of the static and dynamic analysis. If the adjudication determines the sample is malware, a response action is initiated to recover from or mitigate a threat of the sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/438240 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 08752378 | Ernst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy C. Ernst (Columbus, Indiana); Christopher R. Nelson (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cummins Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Ernst (Columbus, Indiana); Christopher R. Nelson (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides a waste heat recovery (WHR) system including a Rankine cycle (RC) subsystem for converting heat of exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, and an internal combustion engine including the same. The WHR system includes an exhaust gas heat exchanger that is fluidly coupled downstream of an exhaust aftertreatment system and is adapted to transfer heat from the exhaust gas to a working fluid of the RC subsystem. An energy conversion device is fluidly coupled to the exhaust gas heat exchanger and is adapted to receive the vaporized working fluid and convert the energy of the transferred heat. The WHR system includes a control module adapted to control at least one parameter of the RC subsystem based on a detected aftertreatment event of a predetermined thermal management strategy of the aftertreatment system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/206386 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 23/02 (20130101) F01K 23/10 (20130101) F01K 23/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01K 23/106 (20130101) F01K 25/10 (20130101) Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Machines or Engines in General; Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines F01N 3/035 (20130101) F01N 3/106 (20130101) F01N 3/2066 (20130101) F01N 3/2882 (20130101) F01N 5/02 (20130101) F01N 9/002 (20130101) F01N 13/02 (20130101) F01N 2013/026 (20130101) F01N 2240/02 (20130101) F01N 2250/02 (20130101) F01N 2410/00 (20130101) F01N 2560/06 (20130101) F01N 2610/02 (20130101) F01N 2900/1404 (20130101) Hot Gas or Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants; Use of Waste Heat of Combustion Engines; Not Otherwise Provided for F02G 5/02 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/16 (20130101) Y02T 10/24 (20130101) Y02T 10/166 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08752386 | Fox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy A. Fox (Hamilton, Canada); Reinhard Schilp (Orlando, Florida); Domenico Gambacorta (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Mikro Systems, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Fox (Hamilton, Canada); Reinhard Schilp (Orlando, Florida); Domenico Gambacorta (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector for use in a gas turbine engine combustor assembly. The fuel injector includes a main body and a fuel supply structure. The main body has an inlet end and an outlet end and defines a longitudinal axis extending between the outlet and inlet ends. The main body comprises a plurality of air/fuel passages extending therethrough, each air/fuel passage including an inlet that receives air from a source of air and an outlet. The fuel supply structure communicates with and supplies fuel to the air/fuel passages for providing an air/fuel mixture within each air/fuel passage. The air/fuel mixtures exit the main body through respective air/fuel passage outlets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786930 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08752391 | Anand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashok Kumar Anand (Niskayuna, New York); Richard Anthony DePuy (Burnt Hills, New York); Veerappan Muthaiah (Karnataka, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok Kumar Anand (Niskayuna, New York); Richard Anthony DePuy (Burnt Hills, New York); Veerappan Muthaiah (Karnataka, India) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated turbomachine oxygen plant includes a turbomachine and an air separation unit. One or more compressor pathways flow compressed air from a compressor through one or more of a combustor and a turbine expander to cool the combustor and/or the turbine expander. An air separation unit is operably connected to the one or more compressor pathways and is configured to separate the compressed air into oxygen and oxygen-depleted air. A method of air separation in an integrated turbomachine oxygen plant includes compressing a flow of air in a compressor of a turbomachine. The compressed flow of air is flowed through one or more of a combustor and a turbine expander of the turbomachine to cool the combustor and/or the turbine expander. The compressed flow of air is directed to an air separation unit and is separated into oxygen and oxygen-depleted air. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/941553 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/782 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753439 | Bryan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Bryan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John R. Torczynski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick V. Brady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michail Gallis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carlton F. Brooks (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and apparatus for separating a gas mixture comprising providing a slot in a gas separation channel (conceptualized as a laterally elongated Clusius-Dickel column), having a length through which a net cross-flow of the gas mixture may be established; applying a higher temperature to one side of the channel and a lower temperature on an opposite side of the channel thereby causing thermal-diffusion and buoyant-convection flow to occur in the slot; and establishing a net cross-flow of a gas mixture comprising at least one higher density gas component and at least one lower density gas component along the length of the slot, wherein the cross-flow causes, in combination with the convection flow, a spiraling flow in the slot; and wherein the spiral flow causes an increasing amount of separation of the higher density gas from the lower density gas along the length of the channel. The process may use one or more slots and/or channels. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974676 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753463 | Fuchs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John P. Fuchs (Farmington, Michigan); John D. Fickes (Brighton, Michigan); Erik Arthur Banks (Dearborn, Michigan); Elisabeth Jane Berger (Farmington Hills, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Council for Automotive Research (Southfield, Michigan); United States Automotive Materials Partnership, LLC (Southfield, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Fuchs (Farmington, Michigan); John D. Fickes (Brighton, Michigan); Erik Arthur Banks (Dearborn, Michigan); Elisabeth Jane Berger (Farmington Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A joint for an automotive vehicle may be formed by applying an adhesive to at least one of a first member and a first surface of a composite member, placing the first member in contact with the first surface of the composite member, applying an adhesive to at least one of a second member and a second surface of the composite member, positioning a divot portion of the second member within an aperture of the composite member, placing the second member in contact with the second surface of the composite member, attaching the divot portion of the second member with the first member and curing the adhesives. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242067 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753534 | Collins |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jack L. Collins (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
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| ABSTRACT | Formulations useful for preparing hydrous aluminum oxide gels contain a metal salt including aluminum, an organic base, and a complexing agent. Methods for preparing gels containing hydrous aluminum oxide include heating a formulation to a temperature sufficient to induce gel formation, where the formulation contains a metal salt including aluminum, an organic base, and a complexing agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683925 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753539 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A carboxylic-intercalated graphite compound composition for the production of exfoliated graphite, flexible graphite, or nano-scaled graphene platelets. The composition comprises a layered graphite with interlayer spaces or interstices and a carboxylic acid residing in at least one of the interstices, wherein the composition is prepared by a chemical oxidation reaction which uses a combination of a carboxylic acid and hydrogen peroxide as an intercalate source. Alternatively, the composition may be prepared by an electrochemical reaction, which uses a carboxylic acid as both an electrolyte and an intercalate source. Exfoliation of the invented composition does not release undesirable chemical contaminants into air or drainage. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881390 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/378.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753578 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael W. Smith (Newport News, Virginia); Kevin Jordan (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Smith (Newport News, Virginia); Kevin Jordan (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for the large scale production of boron nitride nanotubes comprising; a pressure chamber containing; a continuously fed boron containing target; a source of thermal energy preferably a focused laser beam; a cooled condenser; a source of pressurized nitrogen gas; and a mechanism for extracting boron nitride nanotubes that are condensed on or in the area of the cooled condenser from the pressure chamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322591 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753603 | Viswanathan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tito Viswanathan (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tito Viswanathan (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synthesizing carbon nanotubes. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: (a) dissolving a first amount of a first transition-metal salt and a second amount of a second transition-metal salt in water to form a solution; (b) adding a third amount of tannin to the solution to form a mixture; (c) heating the mixture to a first temperature for a first duration of time to form a sample; and (d) subjecting the sample to a microwave radiation for a second duration of time effective to produce a plurality of carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069132 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/842 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753772 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); John P. Lemmon (Kennewick, Washington); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington); Yuliang Cao (Richland, Washington); Xiaolin Li (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); John P. Lemmon (Kennewick, Washington); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington); Yuliang Cao (Richland, Washington); Xiaolin Li (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries having a cathode that includes a graphene-sulfur nanocomposite can exhibit improved characteristics. The graphene-sulfur nanocomposite can be characterized by graphene sheets with particles of sulfur adsorbed to the graphene sheets. The sulfur particles have an average diameter less than 50 nm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/023241 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753840 | Vermaas |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Willem F. J. Vermaas (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willem F. J. Vermaas (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a modified photoautotrophic bacterium comprising genes of interest that are modified in terms of their expression and/or coding region sequence, wherein modification of the genes of interest increases production of a desired product in the bacterium relative to the amount of the desired product production in a photoautotrophic bacterium that is not modified with respect to the genes of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/446441 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753844 | Elisashvili et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Elisashvili (Tbilisi, Georgia (Republic O); Eva Kachlishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia (Republic O); Tamas Torok (Richmond, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Elisashvili (Tbilisi, Georgia (Republic O); Eva Kachlishvili (Tbilisi, Georgia (Republic O); Tamas Torok (Richmond, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, and systems for overproducing ligninolytic enzymes from the basidiomycetous fungus are described herein. As described, the method can include incubating a fungal strain of Cerrena unicolor IBB 303 in a fermentation system having growth medium which includes lignocellulosic material and then cultivating the fungal strain in the fermentation system under conditions wherein the fungus expresses the ligninolytic enzymes. In some cases, the lignocellulosic material is mandarin peel, ethanol production residue, walnut pericarp, wheat bran, wheat straw, or banana peel. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464681 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/71.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753916 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Janke J. Dittmer (Munich, Germany); Wendy U. Huynh (Munich, Germany); Delia Milliron (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Janke J. Dittmer (Munich, Germany); Wendy U. Huynh (Munich, Germany); Delia Milliron (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein provides for thin films and methods of making comprising inorganic semiconductor-nanocrystals dispersed in semiconducting-polymers in high loading amounts. The invention also describes photovoltaic devices incorporating the thin films. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056430 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754188 | Marks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Pierre-Luc Boudreault (Evanston, Illinois); Hiroyuki Miyauchi (Yokkaichi, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Pierre-Luc Boudreault (Evanston, Illinois); Hiroyuki Miyauchi (Yokkaichi, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are molecular and polymeric compounds having desirable properties as semiconducting materials. Such compounds can exhibit desirable electronic properties and possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability. Organic transistor and photovoltaic devices incorporating the present compounds as the active layer exhibit good device performance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/429005 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754263 | Cortright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/926319 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754266 | Holladay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnathan E. Holladay (Richland, Washington); Danielle S. Muzatko (Richland, Washington); James F. White (Richland, Washington); Alan H. Zacher (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrogenolysis systems are provided that can include a reactor housing an Ru-comprising hydrogenolysis catalyst and wherein the contents of the reactor is maintained at a neutral or acidic pH. Reactant reservoirs within the system can include a polyhydric alcohol compound and a base, wherein a weight ratio of the base to the compound is less than 0.05. Systems also include the product reservoir comprising a hydrogenolyzed polyhydric alcohol compound and salts of organic acids, and wherein the moles of base are substantially equivalent to the moles of salts or organic acids. Processes are provided that can include an Ru-comprising catalyst within a mixture having a neutral or acidic pH. A weight ratio of the base to the compound can be between 0.01 and 0.05 during exposing. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/892083 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754370 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chenchen Wang (Richland, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chenchen Wang (Richland, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A sheathless interface for coupling capillary electrophoresis (CE) with mass spectrometry is disclosed. The sheathless interface includes a separation capillary for performing CE separation and an emitter capillary for electrospray ionization. A portion of the emitter capillary is porous or, alternatively, is coated to form an electrically conductive surface. A section of the emitter capillary is disposed within the separation capillary, forming a joint. A metal tube, containing a conductive liquid, encloses the joint. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/788854 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/7233 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/0404 (20130101) H01J 49/0431 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754396 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441618 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754500 | Webb |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bucknell C. Webb (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bucknell C. Webb (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor integrated magnetic devices such as inductors, transformers, etc., having laminated magnetic-insulator stack structures are provided, wherein the laminated magnetic-insulator stack structures are formed using electroplating techniques. For example, an integrated laminated magnetic device includes a multilayer stack structure having alternating magnetic and insulating layers formed on a substrate, wherein each magnetic layer in the multilayer stack structure is separated from another magnetic layer in the multilayer stack structure by an insulating layer, and a local shorting structure to electrically connect each magnetic layer in the multilayer stack structure to an underlying magnetic layer in the multilayer stack structure to facilitate electroplating of the magnetic layers using an underlying conductive layer (magnetic or seed layer) in the stack as an electrical cathode/anode for each electroplated magnetic layer in the stack structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/597412 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/531 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754802 | Paglieroni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that applies attribute and topology based change detection to networks of objects that were detected on previous scans of a structure, roadway, or area of interest. The attributes capture properties or characteristics of the previously detected objects, such as location, time of detection, size, elongation, orientation, etc. The topology of the network of previously detected objects is maintained in a constellation database that stores attributes of previously detected objects and implicitly captures the geometrical structure of the network. A change detection system detects change by comparing the attributes and topology of new objects detected on the latest scan to the constellation database of previously detected objects. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219512 |
| 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 08755647 | Yaacobi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ami Yaacobi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Brad Gilbert Cordova (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jie Sun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael Watts (Hingham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ami Yaacobi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Brad Gilbert Cordova (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jie Sun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael Watts (Hingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A frequency-chirped nano-antenna provides efficient sub-wavelength vertical emission from a dielectric waveguide. In one example, this nano-antenna includes a set of plasmonic dipoles on the opposite side of a SiYV4 waveguide from a ground plane. The resulting structure, which is less than half a wavelength long, emits a broadband beam (e.g., >300 nm) that can be coupled into an optical fiber. In some embodiments, a diffractive optical element with unevenly shaped regions of high- and low-index dielectric material collimates the broadband beam for higher coupling efficiency. In some cases, a negative lens element between the nano-antenna and the diffractive optical element accelerates the emitted beam's divergence (and improves coupling efficiency), allowing for more compact packaging. Like the diffractive optical element, the negative lens element includes unevenly shaped regions of high- and low-index dielectric material that can be designed to compensate for aberrations in the beam emitted by the nano-antenna. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798499 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/26 (20130101) G02B 6/264 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755943 | Wenzel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Wenzel (Oak Creek, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johnson Controls Technology Company (Holland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Wenzel (Oak Creek, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for limiting power consumption by a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) subsystem of a building are shown and described. A mathematical linear operator is found that transforms the unused or deferred cooling power usage of the HVAC system based on pre-determined temperature settings to a target cooling power usage. The mathematical operator is applied to the temperature settings to create a temperature setpoint trajectory expected to provide the target cooling power usage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/396514 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756181 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bin Lu (Shanghai, China PRC); Ronald G. Harley (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Liang Du (Atlanta, Georgia); Yi Yang (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Santosh K. Sharma (Maharashtra, India); Prachi Zambare (Maharashtra, India); Mayura A. Madane (Maharashtra, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Lu (Shanghai, China PRC); Ronald G. Harley (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Liang Du (Atlanta, Georgia); Yi Yang (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Santosh K. Sharma (Maharashtra, India); Prachi Zambare (Maharashtra, India); Mayura A. Madane (Maharashtra, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A method identifies electric load types of a plurality of different electric loads. The method includes providing a self-organizing map load feature database of a plurality of different electric load types and a plurality of neurons, each of the load types corresponding to a number of the neurons; employing a weight vector for each of the neurons; sensing a voltage signal and a current signal for each of the loads; determining a load feature vector including at least four different load features from the sensed voltage signal and the sensed current signal for a corresponding one of the loads; and identifying by a processor one of the load types by relating the load feature vector to the neurons of the database by identifying the weight vector of one of the neurons corresponding to the one of the load types that is a minimal distance to the load feature vector. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/304758 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756350 | Blumrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York); Pavlos Vranas (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York); Pavlos Vranas (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for tracking coherence event signals transmitted in a multiprocessor system. The apparatus comprises a coherence logic unit, each unit having a plurality of queue structures with each queue structure associated with a respective sender of event signals transmitted in the system. A timing circuit associated with a queue structure controls enqueuing and dequeuing of received coherence event signals, and, a counter tracks a number of coherence event signals remaining enqueued in the queue structure and dequeued since receipt of a timestamp signal. A counter mechanism generates an output signal indicating that all of the coherence event signals present in the queue structure at the time of receipt of the timestamp signal have been dequeued. In one embodiment, the timestamp signal is asserted at the start of a memory synchronization operation and, the output signal indicates that all coherence events present when the timestamp signal was asserted have completed. This signal can then be used as part of the completion condition for the memory synchronization operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768800 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756484 | Ward et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Lee Ward (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anand Ganti (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Resnick (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A plurality of columns for a check matrix that implements a distance d linear error correcting code are populated by providing a set of vectors from which to populate the columns, and applying to the set of vectors a filter operation that reduces the set by eliminating therefrom all vectors that would, if used to populate the columns, prevent the check matrix from satisfying a column-wise linear independence requirement associated with check matrices of distance d linear codes. One of the vectors from the reduced set may then be selected to populate one of the columns. The filtering and selecting repeats iteratively until either all of the columns are populated or the number of currently unpopulated columns exceeds the number of vectors in the reduced set. Columns for the check matrix may be processed to reduce the amount of logic needed to implement the check matrix in circuit logic. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029379 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756612 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corportion (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Seattle, Washington); Brian E. Smith (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Send-side matching of data communications messages in a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of compute nodes, including: issuing by a receiving node to source nodes a receive message that specifies receipt of a single message to be sent from any source node, the receive message including message matching information, a specification of a hardware-level mutual exclusion device, and an identification of a receive buffer; matching by two or more of the source nodes the receive message with pending send messages in the two or more source nodes; operating by one of the source nodes having a matching send message the mutual exclusion device, excluding messages from other source nodes with matching send messages and identifying to the receiving node the source node operating the mutual exclusion device; and sending to the receiving node from the source node operating the mutual exclusion device a matched pending message. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/667790 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) G06F 9/52 (20130101) G06F 9/546 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08752608 | Ahn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Se Hyun Ahn (Austin, Texas); Lingjie Jay Guo (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se Hyun Ahn (Austin, Texas); Lingjie Jay Guo (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoscale grating structure can be utilized in many practical applications in optics, flat-panel displays and bio-sensors. A Dynamic Nano-Inscribing (Dynamic Nano-Inscribing) technique is disclosed for directly creating large-area, truly continuous nano-grating patterns in a variety of metal or polymer materials with feature size down to sub-50 nm and at very high speed (10 cm/sec). Dynamic Nano-Inscribing is carried out under either ambient temperature or with a brief heating time on the order of ten microseconds, which minimizes damage on UV or thermo-sensitive functional materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/264181 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753391 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Jeffrey Spalazzi (Staten Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Jeffrey Spalazzi (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable device is provided for soft-tissue or soft tissue-to-bone repair, fixation, augmentation, or replacement that includes a biomimetic and biodegradable nanofiber scaffold. Also provided is a fully synthetic implantable multiphased scaffold which includes, in a single continuous construct, a plurality of phases to mimic the natural anatomy of a tendon or ligament and their insertion sites. Also provided are scaffold apparatuses for musculoskeletal tissue engineering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583072 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/13.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753464 | Khanna |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanjeev K. Khanna (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjeev K. Khanna (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary method for making a transparent composite includes steps of combining a refractive index modifier with a precursor solution to provide a modified polymer precursor solution, combining glass with the modified precursor solution, and curing the modified precursor solution to create a transparent glass reinforced polymer composite. An example refractive index modifier comprises a monofunctional compound or monofunctional monomer, a polyfunctional compound or polyfunctional monomer or polymer, which is combined with the polymer precursor solution to increase the crosslinking density of the chain in the cured modified polymer precursor solution, and thus increase the refractive index. An exemplary transparent composite comprises a glass reinforced thermosetting polymer composite layer sandwiched between glass layers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889947 |
| ART UNIT | 1747 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753492 | Ko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sung Hee Ko (Nan-Gu, South Korea); Sung Jae Kim (Melrose, Massachusetts); Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); HiongYap Gan (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sung Hee Ko (Nan-Gu, South Korea); Sung Jae Kim (Melrose, Massachusetts); Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); HiongYap Gan (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical system with reduced limiting-current behavior is disclosed. The electrochemical system is useful for fuel cells and bio-sensors. In part, the invention relates a method of reducing or eliminating limiting-current behavior in the operation electrochemical systems, in particular those with ion-selective membrane or electrochemical electrodes, by spatially reducing the convection near the membrane or the electrode. The invention further relates to electrochemical systems in which micropores, microarrays or pillar arrays are used to reduce convection in comparison to conventional systems without microarrays, micropores or pillar arrays. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162911 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753497 | Aubry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadine N. Aubry (Boston, Massachusetts); Muhammad M. Janjua (Sault Ste Marie, Michigan); Sai C. Nudurupati (Kearny, New Jersey); Pushpendra Singh (Pine Brook, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for concentrating particles on the surface of a drop or bubble in a continuous phase, for separating different types of particles, and for removing particles from the surface of the drop or bubble. The methods also facilitate separation of two types of particles on a drop or bubble, optionally followed by solidification of the drop and/or the continuous phase, for example to produce a particle for which the surface properties vary, such as a Janus particle. The methods can be also used to destabilize emulsions and foams by re-distributing or removing particles on the surface of the drop or bubble, facilitating coalescence of the particle-free drops or bubbles. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/714578 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/573 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753498 | Chuang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Han-Sheng Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan); Aloke Kumar (Kolkata, India); Steven T. Wereley (West Lafayette, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han-Sheng Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan); Aloke Kumar (Kolkata, India); Steven T. Wereley (West Lafayette, India) |
| ABSTRACT | An open optoelectrowetting (o-OEW) device for liquid droplet manipulations. The o-OEW device is realized by coplanar electrodes and a photoconductor. The local switching effect for electrowetting resulting from illumination is based on the tunable impedance of the photoconductor. Dynamic virtual electrodes are created using projected images, leading to free planar movements of droplets. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/380256 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753525 | Yushin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gleb Nikolayevich Yushin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A microporous carbon matrix material composition for use in supercapacitor electrodes may be produced by depositing carbon on a sacrificial zeolite template via one of several methods (e.g., hydrothermal or solvo-thermal deposition, sub-atmospheric vapor phase deposition, or high-pressure infiltration of hydrocarbon vapors). The deposition produces a carbon-coated zeolite intermediary. A surface layer of carbon formed on the carbon-coated zeolite intermediary may then be refined and the refined carbon-coated zeolite intermediary may be etched to produce a microporous carbon matrix having a substantially uniform structure and substantially aligned pores. In some embodiments, the carbon-coated zeolite intermediary may be annealed after deposition. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/781429 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753604 | Ruoslahti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (Buellton, California); Venkata Ramana Kotamraju (Goleta, California); Priya Karmali (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (Buellton, California); Venkata Ramana Kotamraju (Goleta, California); Priya Karmali (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods useful for targeting therapeutics to cancerous cells and tumors. The disclosed targeting is useful for delivering therapeutic and detectable agents to cancerous cells and tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646168 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753714 | Cheung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuk Kee Cheung (Sai Wan Ho, China Hong Kong); Samuel Sia (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuk Kee Cheung (Sai Wan Ho, China Hong Kong); Samuel Sia (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques comprising systems and methods for forming or pattering microstructures using microfluidics are described. A target structure can include a microchannel passage with a chamber into which a light hardenable material can be injected and selectively exposed to light to adhere to a desired location of a substrate. Unhardened material can be washed out of the chamber. One or more subsequent cycles can repeat the process using the same or a different material. A variety of composite microstructures can be created, including structures encapsulating viable living cells, such as for cell study or tissue engineering. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080256 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753813 | Mirkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Adam B. Braunschweig (New York, New York); Jinan Chai (Spartanburg, South Carolina); Dan J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Palo Alto, California); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Lu Shin Wong (Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Adam B. Braunschweig (New York, New York); Jinan Chai (Spartanburg, South Carolina); Dan J. Eichelsdoerfer (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Palo Alto, California); Xing Liao (Evanston, Illinois); Lu Shin Wong (Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a method of forming a pattern having pattern elements with a plurality of sizes on a substrate surface with a tilted pen array that includes choosing a tilt geometry for a pen array with respect to a substrate, inducing the tilt geometry between the pen array and the substrate surface, and forming a pattern having pattern elements on the substrate surface with the titled pen array, whereby the size of the formed pattern elements varies across the substrate surface along the tilted axis or axes. For example, the tilt geometry is in reference to the substrate surface and comprises a first angle with respect to a first axis of the substrate and a second angle with respect to a second axis of the substrate, the second axis being perpendicular to the first axis, and at least one of the first and second angles being non-zero. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/513618 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753880 | DeLouise et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa DeLouise (Rochester, New York); Siddarth Chandrasekaran (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa DeLouise (Rochester, New York); Siddarth Chandrasekaran (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enriching stem or progenitor cells that includes growing a heterogeneous cell sample comprising stem and/or progenitor cells on a first substrate that is hydrophobic and has an elastic modulus less than about 100 MPa; recovering the heterogeneous cell sample from the first substrate; growing the recovered heterogeneous cell sample on a second substrate that is hydrophilic and has an elastic modulus higher than the elastic modulus of the first substrate to produce a subpopulation of nonadherent cells and a subpopulation of adherent cells; and recovering the nonadherent cell subpopulation, which is enriched for stem and/or progenitor cells. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/544555 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0695 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2539/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753990 | Gupta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mool C. Gupta (Yorktown, Virginia); Barada K. Nayak (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mool C. Gupta (Yorktown, Virginia); Barada K. Nayak (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The surface of a material is textured and crystallized in a single step by exposing the surface to pulses from an ultrafast laser. The laser treatment causes pillars to form on the treated surface. These pillars provide for greater light absorption. The crystallization of the material provides for higher electric conductivity and changes in optical properties of the material. The method may be performed in a gaseous environment, so that laser assisted chemical etching will aid in the texturing of the surface. This method may be used on various material surfaces, such as semiconductors, metals, ceramics, polymers, and glasses. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158553 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/795 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754044 | Liu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shu Q. Liu (Glencoe, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shu Q. Liu (Glencoe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for neuroprotection. In particular, provided herein are compositions (e.g., hepatocyte secretory factors) for alleviating and/or protecting against neuronal damage (e.g., resulting from stroke), and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462965 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/4753 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754175 | McCullough et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard D. McCullough (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Genevieve Sauve (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mihaela Iovu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Malika Jeffries-El (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. McCullough (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Genevieve Sauve (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mihaela Iovu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Malika Jeffries-El (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel polymer compositions which provide controlled end-group functionalization for polythiophenes including regioregular polythiophenes including alkenyl and alkynyl functionalization. Monocapped polymers are formed and can be converted to block copolymers. Conditions and reagents can be selected to provide more monocapping than dicapping of the polymer. Devices, films, and blends can be prepared. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375581 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754182 | Edmiston |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul L. Edmiston (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ABS Materials, Inc. (Wooster, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Edmiston (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a sorbent material formed of a sol-gel derived composition having a porous matrix and a sorbate interactive material incorporated into at least a portion of the sol-gel derived composition, as well as a method for using such sorbent materials. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/025445 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755118 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Fanglu Lu (Berkeley, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkeley, California); Igor Karagodsky (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chase (Kensington, California); Fanglu Lu (Berkeley, California); Forrest G. Sedgwick (Berkeley, California); Vadim Karagodsky (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Planar lenses and reflectors are described comprising subwavelength high-contrast gratings (HCG) having high index of refraction grating elements spaced apart from one another in straight and/or curved segments and surrounded by low index material. The high-contrast grating is configured to receive an incident wave which excites multiple modes within the high-contrast grating and is focused for reflection and/or transmission by said high contrast grating. The width of the high contrast grating bars vary along a distribution direction of the grating bars which is perpendicular to the length of the grating bars and/or varies along the length of one or more grating bars to focus said reflection and/or transmission. The HCG is configured to provide double focusing, whose use is exemplified within a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) structure using focusing HCG structures for both the top and bottom mirrors. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/593382 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1861 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755569 | Shen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuping Shen (Orlando, Florida); Hassan Foroosh (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuping Shen (Orlando, Florida); Hassan Foroosh (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises an improved system, method, and computer-readable instructions for recognizing pose and action of articulated objects with collection of planes in motion. The method starts with a video sequence and a database of reference sequences corresponding to different known actions. The method identifies the sequence from the reference sequences such that the subject in performs the closest action to that observed. The method compares actions by comparing pose transitions. The cross-homography invariant may be used for view-invariant recognition of human body pose transition and actions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790083 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08755596 | Datta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ritendra Datta (State College, Pennsylvania); Jia Li (State College, Pennsylvania); James Z. Wang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ritendra Datta (State College, Pennsylvania); Jia Li (State College, Pennsylvania); James Z. Wang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The aesthetic quality of a picture is automatically inferred using visual content as a machine learning problem using, for example, a peer-rated, on-line photo sharing Website as data source. Certain visual features of images are extracted based on the intuition that they can discriminate between aesthetically pleasing and displeasing images. A one-dimensional support vector machine is used to identify features that have noticeable correlation with the community-based aesthetics ratings. Automated classifiers are constructed using the support vector machines and classification trees, with a simple feature selection heuristic being applied to eliminate irrelevant features. Linear regression on polynomial terms of the features is also applied to infer numerical aesthetics ratings. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542326 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756233 | AbdAlmageed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wael AbdAlmageed (Columbia, Maryland); Mohamed Hefeeda (Surrey, Canada); Bassem Abdelaziz (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Video Semantics (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wael AbdAlmageed (Columbia, Maryland); Mohamed Hefeeda (Surrey, Canada); Bassem Abdelaziz (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the embodiments of the present invention, a method and engine for assigning semantic tags to segments within media. The invention receives media and extracts textual information related to the media's content. It processes the textual information and creates a list of topics related to the content. The invention segments the media and intelligently assigns topical tags to the segments. The semantically segmented media data is outputted for storage or analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/089238 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/738 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher DellaCorte (Cleveland, Ohio); Brian J Edmonds (Cleveland, 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 (Cleveland, Ohio); Brian J Edmonds (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-lubricating, friction and wear reducing composite useful over a wide temperature range is described herein. The composite includes metal bonded chromium oxide dispersed in a metal binder having a substantial amount of nickel. The composite contains a fluoride of at least one Group I, Group II, or rare earth metal, and optionally a low temperature lubricant metal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/726926 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753496 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George William Jackson (Houston, Texas); Richard Coale Willson (Houston, Texas); George Edward Fox (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George William Jackson (Houston, Texas); Richard Coale Willson (Houston, Texas); George Edward Fox (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for separating and purifying useful quantities of particles comprises: (a) an anolyte reservoir connected to an anode, the anolyte reservoir containing an electrophoresis buffer; (b) a catholyte reservoir connected to a cathode, the catholyte reservoir also containing the electrophoresis buffer; (c) a power supply connected to the anode and to the cathode; (d) a column having a first end inserted into the anolyte reservoir, a second end inserted into the catholyte reservoir, and containing a separation medium; (e) a light source; (f) a first optical fiber having a first fiber end inserted into the separation medium, and having a second fiber end connected to the light source; (g) a photo detector; (h) a second optical fiber having a third fiber end inserted into the separation medium, and having a fourth fiber end connected to the photo detector; and (i) an ion-exchange membrane in the anolyte reservoir. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928650 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 57/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44721 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753578 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael W. Smith (Newport News, Virginia); Kevin Jordan (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Smith (Newport News, Virginia); Kevin Jordan (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for the large scale production of boron nitride nanotubes comprising; a pressure chamber containing; a continuously fed boron containing target; a source of thermal energy preferably a focused laser beam; a cooled condenser; a source of pressurized nitrogen gas; and a mechanism for extracting boron nitride nanotubes that are condensed on or in the area of the cooled condenser from the pressure chamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322591 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753946 | Ray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Johnstone Ray (Fountain Hills, Arizona); Mark David Lowenthal (Gilbert, Arizona); Neil O. Shotton (Tempe, Arizona); Richard A. Blanchard (Los Altos, California); Mark Allan Lewandowski (North Port, Florida); Kirk A. Fuller (Madison, Alabama); Donald Odell Frazier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc (Tempe, None); NASA, an agency of the United States (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Johnstone Ray (Fountain Hills, Arizona); Mark David Lowenthal (Gilbert, Arizona); Neil O. Shotton (Tempe, Arizona); Richard A. Blanchard (Los Altos, California); Mark Allan Lewandowski (North Port, Florida); Kirk A. Fuller (Madison, Alabama); Donald Odell Frazier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device having light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating device having photovoltaic diodes. The exemplary method includes depositing a first conductive medium within a plurality of channels of a base to form a plurality of first conductors; depositing within the plurality of channels a plurality of semiconductor substrate particles suspended in a carrier medium; forming an ohmic contact between each semiconductor substrate particle and a first conductor; converting the semiconductor substrate particles into a plurality of semiconductor diodes; depositing a second conductive medium to form a plurality of second conductors coupled to the plurality of semiconductor diodes; and depositing or attaching a plurality of lenses suspended in a first polymer over the plurality of diodes. In various embodiments, the depositing, forming, coupling and converting steps are performed by or through a printing process. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/366279 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753947 | Ray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Johnstone Ray (Fountain Hills, Arizona); Mark David Lowenthal (Gilbert, Arizona); Neil O. Shotton (Tempe, Arizona); Richard A. Blanchard (Los Altos, California); Mark Allan Lewandowski (North Port, Florida); Kirk A. Fuller (Madison, Alabama); Donald Odell Frazier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc (Tempe, Arizona); NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Johnstone Ray (Fountain Hills, Arizona); Mark David Lowenthal (Gilbert, Arizona); Neil O. Shotton (Tempe, Arizona); Richard A. Blanchard (Los Altos, California); Mark Allan Lewandowski (North Port, Florida); Kirk A. Fuller (Madison, Alabama); Donald Odell Frazier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device having light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating device having photovoltaic diodes. The exemplary method includes depositing a first conductive medium within a plurality of channels of a base to form a plurality of first conductors; depositing within the plurality of channels a plurality of semiconductor substrate particles suspended in a carrier medium; forming an ohmic contact between each semiconductor substrate particle and a first conductor; converting the semiconductor substrate particles into a plurality of semiconductor diodes; depositing a second conductive medium to form a plurality of second conductors coupled to the plurality of semiconductor diodes; and depositing or attaching a plurality of lenses suspended in a first polymer over the plurality of diodes. In various embodiments, the depositing, forming, coupling and converting steps are performed by or through a printing process. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/366281 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754804 | Sims, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Herbert Sims, III (New Market, Alabama); Kosta A. Varnavas (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) | William Herbert Sims, III (New Market, Alabama); Kosta A. Varnavas (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a stackable telemetry circuit board for use in telemetry systems for satellites and other purposes. The present invention incorporates previously-qualified interchangeable circuit boards, or “decks,” that perform functions such as power, signal receiving and transmission, and processing. Each deck is adapted to serve a range of telemetry applications. This provides flexibility in the construction of the stackable telemetry circuit board and significantly reduces the cost and time necessary to develop a telemetry system. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/369704 |
| 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 342/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08752779 | Lanning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A beneficiation process and apparatus for the continuous treatment of comminuted woody biomass, particularly hog fuel, to substantially remove mineral impurities and bark and to recover white wood therefrom for use as industrial feedstocks. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565492 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid material comminution or disintegration 241/24.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753363 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Bernard J. Esarey (Maplewood, Minnesota); Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GT Urological, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Bernard J. Esarey (Maplewood, Minnesota); Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable vessel occlusive device and method for occluding a vessel are described, for example to occlude the urethra or bladder neck. The devices and methods described utilize an occlusive member connected to a control mechanism. The occlusive member is reversibly changed from a non-occlusive condition to an occlusive condition, for example by depressing an activation button contained within a resilient, elastomeric cover surrounding the control mechanism. In the occlusive position, an initial tension is applied to the occlusive member through a tensioning suture. The tension is translated into an occlusive pressure applied to the urethra or bladder neck that is sufficient to prevent urinary leakage. The non-occlusive position can be obtained by depressing the de-activation button. The occlusive member is constructed to allow elution of drugs, such as may be required to combat infection or tissue encapsulation from its surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352787 |
| ART UNIT | 3773 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08753539 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A carboxylic-intercalated graphite compound composition for the production of exfoliated graphite, flexible graphite, or nano-scaled graphene platelets. The composition comprises a layered graphite with interlayer spaces or interstices and a carboxylic acid residing in at least one of the interstices, wherein the composition is prepared by a chemical oxidation reaction which uses a combination of a carboxylic acid and hydrogen peroxide as an intercalate source. Alternatively, the composition may be prepared by an electrochemical reaction, which uses a carboxylic acid as both an electrolyte and an intercalate source. Exfoliation of the invented composition does not release undesirable chemical contaminants into air or drainage. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881390 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/378.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754082 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siga Technologies Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Tove C. Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Ryan A. Larson (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by the Arenavirus family such as Lassa fever, Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/890825 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756233 | AbdAlmageed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wael AbdAlmageed (Columbia, Maryland); Mohamed Hefeeda (Surrey, Canada); Bassem Abdelaziz (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Video Semantics (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wael AbdAlmageed (Columbia, Maryland); Mohamed Hefeeda (Surrey, Canada); Bassem Abdelaziz (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the embodiments of the present invention, a method and engine for assigning semantic tags to segments within media. The invention receives media and extracts textual information related to the media's content. It processes the textual information and creates a list of topics related to the content. The invention segments the media and intelligently assigns topical tags to the segments. The semantically segmented media data is outputted for storage or analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/089238 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/738 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08752250 | Wedegaertner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas C. Wedegaertner (Cary, North Carolina); Gregory A. Holt (Lubbock, Texas) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Wedegaertner (Cary, North Carolina); Gregory A. Holt (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for removing material, e.g., linters, from seeds, e.g., ginned cottonseeds, are provided. The systems and methods involve rotating the seeds in a rotatable drum having a plurality of longitudinal brushes. The centrifugal force created by the rotation of the drum and the plurality of longitudinal brushes urge the seeds against an interior surface of the drum that is lined with a brush insert. In this way, work is performed that removes the material from the exterior of the seeds. The material is removed using reduced pressure and the processed seeds are removed. The system may include a brush insert that is easily removed from the rotatable drum. Other systems and methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/673743 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Textiles: Fiber preparation 019/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08752779 | Lanning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A beneficiation process and apparatus for the continuous treatment of comminuted woody biomass, particularly hog fuel, to substantially remove mineral impurities and bark and to recover white wood therefrom for use as industrial feedstocks. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565492 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid material comminution or disintegration 241/24.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08754004 | Penn |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad J. Penn (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad J. Penn (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of constructing a phosphorous adsorbing structure includes creating a design model that indicates a percentage of phosphorous removed from a water supply per an amount of a predetermined adsorbent exposed to the water supply based upon an original concentration of phosphorous in the water supply and a retention time of water in the adsorbing structure. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/447956 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08756069 | Shah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prathmesh S. Shah (Marietta, Georgia); Thomas Hosecloth (McDonough, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prathmesh S. Shah (Marietta, Georgia); Thomas Hosecloth (McDonough, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for tracking items are provided. According to one method, a dispatcher receives from a courier, serving a customer, a request over a network to pickup an item addressed to the customer. A determination is made to see whether the dispatcher is available to process the item. If the dispatcher is available, the dispatcher notifies the courier, over the network, that the item is available for pickup by the courier when the dispatcher completes processing of the item. If the dispatcher is busy, the dispatcher notifies the courier, over the network, that the item is available for pick up by the courier at a later time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/730889 |
| ART UNIT | 3629 — 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 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756070 | Amonette et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Amonette (Indianapolis, Indiana); John J. Sadler (Dunkirk, Maryland); John F. Gullo (Cheektowaga, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for manifesting mailpieces, processing mailpieces from a mail system, and certifying a mail system are provided. A mailpiece is received at a manifest mailing system and mailing information from the mailpiece is obtained. manifest of the mailpiece is created and the mail piece is then delivered using the manifest. Based on a certification of the mail system, an accuracy of a portion of the manifest may be selectively determined. Based on the accuracy of the portion of the manifest, the mailpieces are then conditionally delivered using the manifest. To determine a certification, test information may be provided to a mail system. A manifest generated by the mail system is then received. The accuracy of the manifest based on the test information is determined and a certification level is then assigned to the mail system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/829255 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08756113 | Willoughby |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart Willoughby (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Willoughby (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed for obtaining shipping services information over a network by a telephone call center receiving orders for merchandise. Instructions are received at the telephone call center, which permits the telephone call center to access the shipping information for shipment of the merchandise. The telephone call center sends the request over the network to the server for the shipping services information. Thereafter, the server sends the requested shipping services information to the telephone call center. The shipping service information may be in the format of a label, which may be attached to a package for shipment of the merchandise. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/334485 |
| ART UNIT | 3687 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/26.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08754263 | Cortright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/926319 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08755952 | McGuffin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas F. McGuffin (Bellevue, Washington); Thomas D. Judd (Woodinville, Washington); Reetu Gupta (Redmond, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. McGuffin (Bellevue, Washington); Thomas D. Judd (Woodinville, Washington); Reetu Gupta (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to reduce head-down time for a flight crew member is provided. The system includes a functional module that includes a set of screens used to receive and send controller pilot data link communications (CPDLC) messages between an aircraft and a ground-based system; a message composition screen communicatively coupled to the functional module; and a shortcut interface communicatively coupled to the functional module, wherein a shortcut prompt is displayed when one of a response timer expires or a negative uplink response message is received responsive to a previously-sent downlink request message, wherein an implementation of the shortcut interface generates a “when can we expect . . . ” message related to the previously-sent downlink request message. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/893317 |
| 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 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08753660 | Behnam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keyvan Behnam (Red Bank, New Jersey); Elsa J. Brochmann-Murray (Saugus, California); Samuel S. Murray (Saugus, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keyvan Behnam (Red Bank, New Jersey); Elsa J. Brochmann-Murray (Saugus, California); Samuel S. Murray (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Demineralized bone matric (DBM) and native bone morphogenetic protein (nBMP) are complex mixtures of non-collagenous bone proteins. These mixtures contain many of the BMPs that are available as recombinant molecules. Information regarding the presence in these materials of molecules that may affect the availability and activity of the BMPs is very limited. A chemical extraction of DBM, such as using alkali-urea produces a water soluble extractate which inhibits the osteogenic activity of DBM. Noggin, an extracellular BMP ligand antagonist is found in the water soluble extractate from DBM. Differential chemical extraction is a useful means of removing non-osteogenic, or osteogenic inhibitory molecules from DBM and nBMP. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/791940 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08752328 | Kaiser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clive Kaiser (Milton-Freewater, Oregon); J. Mark Christensen (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clive Kaiser (Milton-Freewater, Oregon); J. Mark Christensen (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides compositions that can be used to make films to increase the efficiency of producing plants and plant parts. The films are designed in part to be environmentally friendly and/or edible. Also provided are methods of using such compositions as well as plants and plant parts comprising such compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/264849 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant husbandry 047/58.1FV |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08756696 | Miller |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian Miller (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRA International, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Miller (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a technique for debugging and testing potential virus, trojans, and other malware programs. The present invention, named Cyberlock™ provides a technique to analyze malware programs on a network in a secure manner, which allows multiple users to access or monitor the analysis. In the present invention, a virtual machine (VM) may be run on a network, emulating the operation of a Windows, LINUX, or Apple operating system (or other O/S), and the malware or suspected malware may be executed on that virtual machine. The virtual machine is isolated on the network, but accessible to one or more users, in such a manner than the malware or suspected malware may be analyzed. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/284874 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/301 (20130101) G06F 21/53 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/04 (20130101) H04L 63/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/1416 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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