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| US 08771163 | Zangen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brainsway, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Government of the United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Depart (Rockville, Maryland); Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brainsway, Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel); Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham Zangen (Jerusalem, Israel); Yiftach Roth (Rechelim, Israel); Pedro C. Miranda (Lisbon, Portugal); David Hazani (Rechelim, Israel); Mark Hallett (Bethedsa, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for transcranial magnetic stimulation, the system including a helmet, a positioning portion, a stimulator and a cooling system, are disclosed. The helmet includes a coil for deep brain magnetic stimulation. The coil has a base portion, and return portions, which may include a protruding return portion and a contacting return portion. The coil is designed to minimize unintended stimulation of portions of the brain, while reducing accumulation of surface charges. The coil is stimulated at several locations and/or at different times so as to focus the electrical field on a specific deep neuronal structure. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783427 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771208 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunil K. Agrawal (Newark, Delaware); Kyle N. Winfree (Paoli, Pennsylvania); Paul Stegall (Kansas City, Missouri); John P. Scholz (Newark, Delaware) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil K. Agrawal (Newark, Delaware); Kyle N. Winfree (Paoli, Pennsylvania); Paul Stegall (Kansas City, Missouri); John P. Scholz (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Powered orthosis systems and methods are disclosed. An orthosis system includes a frame, a trunk brace adapted to be secured to a user's trunk, a trunk joint coupling the trunk brace to the frame, an upper leg brace adapted to be secured to a user's upper leg, a hip joint coupling the upper leg brace to the trunk brace, a lower leg brace adapted to be secured to a user's lower leg, a knee joint coupling the lower leg brace to the upper leg brace, and a controller. The hip joint or knee joint includes an actuator operable to rotate the adjacent braces relative to each other. The controller is programmed to operate the actuator. An orthosis method includes securing a user to the orthosis system, enabling the user to walk while secured to the orthosis system, and actuating the hip or knee actuator to rotate the adjacent braces. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213176 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771290 | Mitchell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason E. Mitchell (Greenbrier, Tennessee); Robert F. Labadie (Bozeman, Tennessee); J. Michael Fitzpatrick (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason E. Mitchell (Greenbrier, Tennessee); Robert F. Labadie (Bozeman, Tennessee); J. Michael Fitzpatrick (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in another aspect, relates to a microstereotactic table. In one embodiment, the microstereotactic table includes a plate member having a first surface, an opposite, second surface, a body portion defined therebetween, a plurality of leg members, each of them removably engaged with the plate member, respectively, and a passage is formed between the first surface and the opposite, second surface of the body portion of the plate member and along a longitudinal axis, wherein a step is formed within the passage, and wherein the step is formed such that the distance from the step to one of the first surface and the opposite, second surface along the longitudinal axis is a predetermined length. |
| FILED | Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/713648 |
| ART UNIT | 3734 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771667 | Sung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Hwa Sung (New York, New York); Jen-Zen Chuang (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Hwa Sung (New York, New York); Jen-Zen Chuang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to an isolated regulatory sequence for Tctex-1 that is transcriptionally active in adult neural progenitor and stem cells, including Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 progenitors, as well as during development. The disclosure also relates to a method for selectively expressing a genetic sequence in neural progenitor cells. The disclosure of inserting and expressing a specific sequence in these cells allows marking, identification, sorting, tracking, and manipulating neural progenitor and stem cells. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/496974 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771693 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kun Ping Lu (Newton, Massachusetts); Xiao Zhen Zhou (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kun Ping Lu (Newton, Massachusetts); Xiao Zhen Zhou (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods and compositions for the generation and use of conformation-specific anti-bodies or fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/504700 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771700 | Kotenko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sergei V. Kotenko (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Geoffrey L. Smith (Appleford-on-Thames, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei V. Kotenko (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Geoffrey L. Smith (Appleford-on-Thames, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are compositions and methods useful for modulating the immune system of a subject. Also included are diagnostic methods for monitoring an immunologic condition. In particular the invention relates to antagonists of interferon proteins and associated methods of use as well as methods to develop neutralizing antibodies against IFN antagonists to treat viral infections. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/310432 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/186.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771702 | Paterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Paulo Cesar Maciag (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Paulo Cesar Maciag (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant proteins or peptides comprising a mutated listeriolysin O (LLO) protein or fragment thereof, comprising a substitution or internal deletion of the cholesterol-binding domain or a portion thereof, fusion proteins or peptides comprising same, nucleotide molecules encoding same, and vaccine vectors comprising or encoding same. The present invention also provides methods of utilizing recombinant proteins, peptides, nucleotide molecules, and vaccine vectors of the present invention to induce an immune response to a peptide of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/213696 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771706 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America being represented by the Secretary of the Department of (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry J. Anderson (Atlanta, Georgia); Lia M. Haynes (Lithonia, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic polypeptides corresponding to one or more RSV G glycoproteins, or analogs thereof, are provided as components of vaccines. The inventive compositions are useful as both a prophylactic and therapeutic for the prevention and treatment of RSV infections and associated pulmonary or other diseases. The inventive immunogens include regions of the RSV G protein, specifically, amino acid residues 164-176 of RSV G A2 protein or analogs thereof. This inventive immunogen is operable alone or in combination with other polypeptides such as the RSV G protein amino acid residues 155-206, or other vaccines such as live RSV vaccines, or inactivated RSV vaccines or immunogenic analogs thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/763822 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/211.100 |
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| US 08771707 | Chapman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edwin R. Chapman (Madison, Wisconsin); Min Dong (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin R. Chapman (Madison, Wisconsin); Min Dong (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence selected from amino acids 506-582 of SV2A, wherein position 573 is N and is glycosylated, or amino acids 449-525 of SV2B, wherein position 516 is N and is glycosylated. The present invention also provides an antibody that binds specifically to the polypeptide, an isolated nucleic acid comprising a polynucleotide that encodes the polypeptide; a method for reducing BoNT/E toxicity in an animal; a method for identifying an agent that blocks or inhibits binding between BoNT/E and an SV2A or SV2B protein; a method for monitoring synaptic vesicle endo- or exocytosis, a method for specifically delivering a chemical entity to a cell which has a specific receptor to a BoNT toxin. Also provided are a chimeric toxin for targeting a proteolytic domain of a toxin to a cell, the chimeric toxin comprising a catalytic or proteolytic domain of the BoNT toxin, and a ligand or a fragment thereof for a non-BoNT receptor on the cell; a method for targeting a proteolytic domain of a BoNT toxin to a cell, an isolated non-neuronal cell comprising a BoNT toxin receptor; and a method for screening for an inhibitor of a BoNT toxin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569905 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/239.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771714 | Spinale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis G. Spinale (Charleston, South Carolina); Robert Stroud (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); Michael Looper (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); Anne Deschamps (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis G. Spinale (Charleston, South Carolina); Robert Stroud (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); Michael Looper (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); Anne Deschamps (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are systems and methods for detecting and/or measuring in vivo interstitial biological activity, processes, and or compounds in human or animal subjects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513116 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771728 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leaf Huang (Durham, North Carolina); Xiang Gao (Nashville, Tennessee); Frank L. Sorgi (Sonoma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel stable, concentrated, biologically active and ready-to-use lipid-comprising drug delivery complexes and methods for their production are described. The biological activity of the complexes produced are comparable to the formulations prepared according to the prior art admixture method and upon purification, the complexes produced by the method of this invention are 50 to 500 fold more concentrated than the complexes formed by admixture. The method described herein provides for the large scale production of lipid-comprising drug delivery systems useful for gene therapy and other applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/712804 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771741 | Adair et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mark Kester (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Erhan I. Altinoglu (State College, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Barth (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Timothy J. Russin (San Diego, California); James M. D. Kaiser (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Thomas T. Morgan (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Karen L. Eklund (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mark Kester (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Peter C. Eklund (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Erhan I. Altinoglu (State College, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Barth (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Timothy J. Russin (San Diego, California); James M. D. Kaiser (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Thomas T. Morgan (Pepperell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nano-encapsulated photosensitizers and their use in the treatment of tumors and/or imaging is described. Preferably, the photosensitizers are encapsulated in a calcium phosphate nanoparticle (CPNP). Encapsulating the PS in a CPNP increases the half-life of the PS, increases absorption of the PS into the target cell tissue, increases the photostability of the PS, increases the photoefficiency of the PS, increases in vivo retention of the PS, or combinations thereof, ultimately making it a highly efficacious agent for use in photodynamic therapy, imaging target tissues, vessels, or tumors, and/or detecting or locating tumors. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657556 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771754 | Hallahan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter relates generally to the fields of molecular biology and medicine. More particularly, it concerns methods involving the use of GSK3 inhibitors in combination with radiation therapies. In some embodiments, administration of a GSK3 inhibitor to a subject results in an amelioration of cognitive decline, toxicity to vascular endothelial cells, and/or neuron death associated with radiation therapy alone. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663314 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/677 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771945 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are vectors and vector systems, some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/183429 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 9/96 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08771946 | Watnick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terry J. Watnick (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Miguel Garcia-Gonzales (Brion, Spain); Gregory G. Germino (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Jeffrey G. Jones (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Athena Diagnostics, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry J. Watnick (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Miguel Garcia-Gonzales (Brion, Spain); Gregory G. Germino (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Jeffrey G. Jones (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of detecting novel mutations in a PKD1 and/or PKD2 gene that have been determined to be associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) in order to detect or predict the occurrence of ADPKD in an individual. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/309337 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
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| US 08771947 | Willey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Willey (Toledo, Ohio); Thomas M. Blomquist (Perrysburg, Ohio); Erin L. Crawford (Rossford, Ohio); D'Anna N. Mullins (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Willey (Toledo, Ohio); Thomas M. Blomquist (Perrysburg, Ohio); Erin L. Crawford (Rossford, Ohio); D'Anna N. Mullins (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying biomarkers that indicate a biological state, in particular cancer or predisposition to cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/003697 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
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| US 08771950 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Joseph Chou (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Joseph Chou (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for making a plurality of probes for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples are provided. Compositions and methods for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples to obtain sequence information in each nucleic acid sample are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187460 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 2535/113 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) |
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| US 08771957 | Drmanac |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular aliquot, which, in turn, is from a particular aliquot of a prior tier, and so on. For every fragment of an aliquot in the final tier, the aliquots from which it was derived at every prior tier is known, or can be discerned. Thus, identical sequences from overlapping fragments from different aliquots can be distinguished and grouped as being derived from the same or different fragments from prior tiers. When the fragments in the final tier are sequenced, overlapping sequence regions of fragments in different aliquots are used to register the fragments so that non-overlapping regions are ordered. In one aspect, this process is carried out in a hierarchical fashion until the one or more target polynucleotides are characterized, e.g. by their nucleic acid sequences, or by an ordering of sequence segments, or by an ordering of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or the like. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/975215 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/682 (20130101) C12Q 1/682 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2521/307 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/151 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2525/313 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2531/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) C12Q 2565/513 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/88 (20130101) Y10S 977/778 (20130101) Y10S 977/789 (20130101) Y10S 977/792 (20130101) Y10S 977/882 (20130101) |
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| US 08771958 | Drmanac |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular aliquot, which, in turn, is from a particular aliquot of a prior tier, and so on. For every fragment of an aliquot in the final tier, the aliquots from which it was derived at every prior tier is known, or can be discerned. Thus, identical sequences from overlapping fragments from different aliquots can be distinguished and grouped as being derived from the same or different fragments from prior tiers. When the fragments in the final tier are sequenced, overlapping sequence regions of fragments in different aliquots are used to register the fragments so that non-overlapping regions are ordered. In one aspect, this process is carried out in a hierarchical fashion until the one or more target polynucleotides are characterized, e.g. by their nucleic acid sequences, or by an ordering of sequence segments, or by an ordering of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or the like. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/975234 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
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| US 08771995 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert J. Linhardt (Albany, New York); Fikri Y. Avci (Boston, Massachusetts); Ava M. Munoz (Santiago de Compostela, Spain); Jinghua Chen (Wuhan, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert J. Linhardt (Albany, New York); Fikri Y. Avci (Boston, Massachusetts); Ava M. Munoz (Santiago de Compostela, Spain); Jinghua Chen (Wuhan, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Heparin is synthesized from a polysaccharide comprised of a 1-4 glycosidically linked alternating polymer of uronic acid and glucosamine residues, wherein the uronic acid is selected from iduronic and glucuronic acid, wherein the glucosamine is partially N-sulfated; by a series of selective reactions catalyzed by recombinant enzymes. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/417641 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
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| US 08772026 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lieping Chen (Hamden, Connecticut); Scott E. Strome (Reisterstown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Hamden, Connecticut); Scott E. Strome (Reisterstown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention features methods of enhancing immune responses in mammalian subjects and in vitro methods of enhancing the response of a T cell. Also embodied by the invention are methods of receiving and preventing the induction of energy in T cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/426151 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772029 | Woodruff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teresa K. Woodruff (Chicago, Illinois); Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois); Miranda L. Bernhardt (Chicago, Illinois); Betty Y. Kong (Chicago, Illinois); Alison M. Kim (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa K. Woodruff (Chicago, Illinois); Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois); Miranda L. Bernhardt (Chicago, Illinois); Betty Y. Kong (Chicago, Illinois); Alison M. Kim (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, compositions, and systems for reinitiating meiosis in cells in meiotic arrest and oocyte activation in fertilized, but un-activated, oocytes. In certain embodiments, Zn-binding moieties (e.g., zinc chelators) are used for reinitiating meiosis or oocyte activation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/548326 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772048 | Twieg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Twieg (Kent, Ohio); William E. Moerner (Los Altos, California); Samuel J. Lord (Palo Alto, California); Na Liu (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Reichel Samuel (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio); Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Twieg (Kent, Ohio); William E. Moerner (Los Altos, California); Samuel J. Lord (Palo Alto, California); Na Liu (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Reichel Samuel (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluorophores derived from photoactivatable azide-pi-acceptor fluorogens or from a thermal reaction of an azide-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an alkene or alkyne are disclosed. Fluorophores derived from a thermal reaction of an alkyne-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an azide are also disclosed. The fluorophores can readily be activated by light and can be used to label a biomolecule and imaged on a single-molecule level in living cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/409818 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/546 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772049 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Hidde L. Ploegh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jehnna Ronan (Chester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960757 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/548 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772202 | Rank et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David R. Rank (Pacific Grove, California); Jeffrey Wegener (Cupertino, California); Jonas Korlach (Newark, California); Daniel Roitman (Menlo Park, California); Yue Xu (Fremont, California); John Lyle (Redwood Shores, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California); Paul Peluso (East Palo Alto, California); Geoff Otto (Brookline, Massachusetts); Ronald L. Cicero (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Rank (Pacific Grove, California); Jeffrey Wegener (Cupertino, California); Jonas Korlach (Newark, California); Daniel Roitman (Menlo Park, California); Yue Xu (Fremont, California); John Lyle (Redwood Shores, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California); Paul Peluso (East Palo Alto, California); Geoff Otto (Brookline, Massachusetts); Ronald L. Cicero (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing substrates having selected active chemical regions by employing elements of the substrates in assisting the localization of active chemical groups in desired regions of the substrate. The methods may include optical, chemical and/or mechanical processes for the deposition, removal, activation and/or deactivation of chemical groups in selected regions of the substrate to provide selective active regions of the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/487978 |
| 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 56/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772228 | Stupp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Shuming Zhang (Evanston, Illinois); Alvaro Mata (Barcelona, Spain); Megan A Greenfield (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Shuming Zhang (Evanston, Illinois); Alvaro Mata (Barcelona, Spain); Megan A Greenfield (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nanofibers. In particular, the present invention provides aligned nanofiber bundle assemblies. In some embodiments, the aligned nanofiber bundle assemblies are used for tissue regeneration, controlled growth of cells, and related methods (e.g., diagnostic methods, research methods, drug screening). |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/031250 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772229 | Cole et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip A. Cole (Baltimore, Maryland); Bradley P. Barnett (Baltimore, Maryland); Yousang Hwang (Baltimore, Maryland); Jef D. Boeke (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Cole (Baltimore, Maryland); Bradley P. Barnett (Baltimore, Maryland); Yousang Hwang (Baltimore, Maryland); Jef D. Boeke (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides inhibitors of ghrelin O-acyltransferase, and methods of making and using them. In some embodiments, the invention provides bisubstrate analog inhibitors of ghrelin O-acyltransferase, which can be effective in treating, for example, obesity and diabetes mellitus. |
| FILED | Friday, September 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/122438 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/4.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772238 | Francischetti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ivo M. B. Francischetti (Bethesda, Maryland); Robson de Queiroz Monteiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Jose Marcos C. Ribeiro (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivo M. B. Francischetti (Bethesda, Maryland); Robson de Queiroz Monteiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Jose Marcos C. Ribeiro (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treatment of tissue factor (TF) mediated or associated diseases or processes, such as cancer, by administering at least an active fragment of an Ixolaris polypeptide to a subject. The invention further includes identification of a subject in need of such treatment, and monitoring a subject for amelioration of at least one sign or symptom of the disease. The invention also features kits. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/257455 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772247 | Linington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger Linington (Santa Cruz, California); Laura Sanchez (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Linington (Santa Cruz, California); Laura Sanchez (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel structural class of highly N-methylated linear lipopeptide compounds useful for the treatment of parasitic disease. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256498 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772252 | Orlow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seth J. Orlow (New York, New York); Li Ni Komatsu (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth J. Orlow (New York, New York); Li Ni Komatsu (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are coumarin compounds of formula I, for example, robustic acid methyl ether, and the use of such compounds and compositions thereof to modulate (e.g., inhibit) melanogenesis and pigmentation. wherein R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are described herein. Also provided are plant extracts containing a compound of formula I, and the use of such a plant extract to modulate (e.g., inhibit) melanogenesis and pigmentation. The compound or plant extract may be prepared as pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of conditions that are related to aberrant melanogenesis activity. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/360619 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 36/48 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772256 | Graham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barney S. Graham (Rockville, Maryland); Teresa R. Johnson (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barney S. Graham (Rockville, Maryland); Teresa R. Johnson (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features immunogenic compositions comprising codon modified genes that encode viral proteins and/or glycoproteins or fragments. The immunogenic compositions of the invention are useful in various methods of treatment, such as preventing or treating viral infection. Also provided in the present invention are kits and instructions for use. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/517194 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772261 | Weichselbaum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arch Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois); UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arch Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph R. Weichselbaum (Chicago, Illinois); Bernard Roizman (Chicago, Illinois); Richard J. Whitley (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for treating cancer by administering an effective amount of a modified Herpes simplex virus. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/656195 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772264 | Kay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neil E. Kay (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Tait D. Shanafelt (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil E. Kay (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Tait D. Shanafelt (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to the treatment of hematologic cancers, for example, cancers of the blood, by methods that include administration of EGCG and at least one of a purine nucleoside analog and an alkylating agent. In particular, methods of treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/388751 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — 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 514/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772274 | Robertson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gavin P. Robertson (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Subbarao V. Madhunapantula (East Godavari District, India); Shantu Amin (Union City, New Jersey); Dhimant Desai (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-cancer compositions and methods are described including one or more compounds having the structural formula I: R2-R—R1, where R is phenyl, where R1 is (CH2)n—Se—C(═NH)—NH2, where R2 is (CH2)n—Se—C(═NH)—NH2 or R2 is H, and where each n is independently 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. Methods of treating a subject are provided according to embodiments of the present invention which include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including one or more compounds having the structural formula I to a subject having a condition characterized by Akt dysregulation. Administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including one or more compounds having the structural formula I to a subject detectably increases apoptosis and/or decreases proliferation of cancer cells, particularly cancer cells characterized by Akt dysregulation. Compositions of the present invention inhibit Akt enzymes, iNOS, and increase MAP kinase activity such that cancer cells contacted with the compositions are inhibited. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/659501 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/23 (20130101) A61K 31/095 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 391/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772295 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Che-Hong Chen (Fremont, California); Wenjin Yang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compounds that function as modulators of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) enzymatic activity, as well as compositions and formulations comprising the compounds. The present disclosure provides therapeutic methods involving administering a subject compound, or a subject pharmaceutical composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/747106 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772308 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yan Zhang (Richmond, Virginia); Dana E. Selley (Richmond, Virginia); William Dewey (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Zhang (Richmond, Virginia); Dana E. Selley (Richmond, Virginia); William Dewey (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective, non-peptide antagonists of the mu opioid receptor (MOR) and methods of their use are provided. The antagonists may be used, for example, to identify MOR agonists in competitive binding assays, and to treat conditions related to addiction in which MOR is involved, e.g. heroin, prescription drug and alcohol addiction. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/144788 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772318 | Cravatt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin F. Cravatt (La Jolla, California); Jonathan Z. Long (Solana Beach, California); Weiwei Li (Sunnyvale, California); Daniel K. Nomura (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin F. Cravatt (La Jolla, California); Jonathan Z. Long (Solana Beach, California); Weiwei Li (Sunnyvale, California); Daniel K. Nomura (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compounds that selectively inhibit monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL). The invention also provides methods of using the MAGL selective inhibitors to stimulate 2-Arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) mediated endocannabinoid signaling in vivo, and to treat conditions that are associated with or linked to endocannabinoid signaling. The invention additionally provides methods of treating cancer or inhibiting tumor growth by targeting MAGL with MAGL specific inhibitors. The invention further provides methods of screening for MAGL inhibitors with improved biochemical and pharmaceutical properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/998642 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772326 | Cai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Weizhong Cai (Dix Hills, New York); Prakash Narayan (East Northport, New York); Bijoy Panicker (Holbrook, New York); David E. Smith (Sea Cliff, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Anigion Biomedica Corp. (Uiondale, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weizhong Cai (Dix Hills, New York); Prakash Narayan (East Northport, New York); Bijoy Panicker (Holbrook, New York); David E. Smith (Sea Cliff, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and formulations of compounds having formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, wherein p, R1, R2 and B are as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein, and additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of any of a number of injuries, conditions or diseases in which HGF/SF or the activities thereof, or agonists or antagonists thereof have a therapeutically useful role. In addition, methods are provided for treating such diseases or diseases starting at a time after the onset of the injury, condition or disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/003514 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772330 | White et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James David White (Philomath, Oregon); David T. Wong (Indianapolis, Indiana); David B. Chan (Nashua, New Hampshire); Jongtae Yang (Corvallis, Oregon); Rajan Juniku (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) | James David White (Philomath, Oregon); David T. Wong (Indianapolis, Indiana); David B. Chan (Nashua, New Hampshire); Jongtae Yang (Corvallis, Oregon); Rajan Juniku (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having a formula: where at least one of R1-R4 is a heterocycle, at least one of R1-R4 is an aryl group coupled to the ring by a linker atom, functional group, or other moiety, or where none of R1-R4 is an amide, and any and all combinations thereof. Remaining R1-R4 substituents independently are aliphatic, substituted aliphatic, amine, substituted amine, aryl, substituted aryl, cyclic, substituted cyclic, halide, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocyclic, substituted heterocyclic, hydrogen or hydroxyl. A method for treating a subject also is provided comprising administering a disclosed compound or compounds, or a prodrug that is converted into the disclosed compound or compounds, or a composition comprising the compound, compounds, or prodrugs thereof, to a subject. A method for making disclosed compounds also is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/355371 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 333/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772331 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Lee R. Swem (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Scott M. Ulrich (Ithaca, New York); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Lee R. Swem (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Scott M. Ulrich (Ithaca, New York); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel small molecule antagonizes two types of acyl homoserine lactone receptors: membrane-bound and cytoplasmic. A focused library of analogs and derivatives of the original antagonist was synthesized. Analog and derivative molecules harbor a range of activities. The novel small molecule and most potent antagonist protects the eukaryote Caenorhabditis elegans from quorum-sensing-mediated killing by the bacterial pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum. The saving of C. elegans demonstrates the use of these molecules as small molecule antimicrobials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/550961 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772332 | Ebright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard H. Ebright (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Ebright (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a compound of formula (I): or a salt thereof, wherein R1-R4 have any of the values described in the specification, as well as compositions comprising a compound of formula (I). The compounds are useful as antibacterial agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/821804 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772355 | Akala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmanuel Akala (Mitchellville, Maryland); Oluyomi Okunola (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Howard University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuel Akala (Mitchellville, Maryland); Oluyomi Okunola (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a crosslinked or non-crosslinked polymer particle, wherein the crosslinked polymer particle comprises a copolymer of poly(alklyene glycol-graft-acrylate) that is crosslinked by at least one hydrolysable monomer or crosslinking agent. The present invention is also directed to a polymer particle comprising a crosslinked polymer particle that is a product of starting materials comprising (a) a hydrophilic monomer, (b) a hydrophobic monomer, and (c) a hydrolysable crosslinking agent (the crosslinking agent may be absent in the case of non-crosslinked particles). The present invention is still further directed to a polymer particle comprising a crosslinked copolymer, where the crosslinked copolymer includes structures represented by Formulas (I), (II), and (III), as defined in the specification. Other embodiments of the present invention also include methods of manufacturing polymer particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952856 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772450 | Gellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel H. Appella (Evanston, Illinois); Hee-Seung Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul LePlae (Madison, Wisconsin); Emilie Porter (Madison, Wisconsin); Xifang Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew Woll (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel H. Appella (Evanston, Illinois); Hee-Seung Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul LePlae (Madison, Wisconsin); Emilie Porter (Madison, Wisconsin); Xifang Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew Woll (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are β-amino acid monomers containing cylcoalkyl, cycloalkenyl, and heterocylic substituents which encompass the α and β carbons of the peptide backbone and β-polypeptides made from such monomers. Method of generating combinatorial libraries of polypeptides containing the β-peptide residues and libraries formed thereby are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/463212 |
| 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 530/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772451 | Price-Schiavi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shari A. Price-Schiavi (Westminster, Maryland); Heather J. Belmont (North Miami Beach, Florida); Kimberlyn F. Card (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Xiaoyun Zhu (Miami, Florida); Hing C. Wong (Weston, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Altor BioScience Corporation (Miramar, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shari A. Price-Schiavi (Westminster, Maryland); Heather J. Belmont (North Miami Beach, Florida); Kimberlyn F. Card (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Xiaoyun Zhu (Miami, Florida); Hing C. Wong (Weston, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for detecting cells or tissue comprising a peptide antigen presented in the context of an MHC or HLA complex. The invention has a wide range of applications including providing a highly sensitive method for detecting cancer cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985271 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08772454 | Matz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mikhail V. Matz (Austin, Texas); Marguerite E. Hunt (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail V. Matz (Austin, Texas); Marguerite E. Hunt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The isolation and characterization of two protein isoforms collected green fluorescent copepods is described herein. The new Pontella mimocerami GFP-like isoforms pmimGFP1 and pmimGFP2 of the present invention are quick to mature and rapidly produce a fluorescent signal. The two isoforms are very similar in molar extinction coefficients (ME) with 105,000 M−1 cm−1 for pmimGFP1 and 103,000 M−1cm−1 for pmimGFP2, respectively. The relative brightness of these two new copepod GFP-like proteins is the highest measured for any isolated GFP-like protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256915 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08772456 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Jia Huang (Malden, Massachusetts); Cheryl Wong Po Foo (Santa Clara, California); Rajesh Naik (Dayton, Ohio); Anne George (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The claimed invention provides a fusion polypeptide comprising a fibrous protein domain and a mineralization domain. The fusion is used to form an organic-inorganic composite. These organic-inorganic composites can be constructed from the nano- to the macro-scale depending on the size of the fibrous protein fusion domain used. In one embodiment, the composites can also be loaded with other compounds (e.g., dyes, drugs, enzymes) depending on the goal for the materials, to further enhance function. This can be achieved during assembly of the material or during the mineralization step in materials formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/934828 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08772459 | Ho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Ho (Los Angeles, California); Tove Olafsen (Reseda, California); Arye Lipman (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ImaginAb, Inc. (Inglewood, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ho (Los Angeles, California); Tove Olafsen (Reseda, California); Arye Lipman (El Segundo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a minibody monomer that binds PSMA is provided. The minibody monomer is encoded by a nucleotide sequence comprising, from N-terminus to C-terminus, an scFv sequence that can bind PSMA, an artificial hinge sequence, and a human IgG CH3 sequence. In another embodiment, a CysDB monomer that binds PSMA is provided. The CysDB monomer may be encoded by a nucleotide sequence comprising, from N-terminus to C-terminus, an scFv sequence that can bind PSMA and a cysteine tail. In other embodiments, methods for diagnosing or treating a cancer associated with PSMA expression in a subject are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/959340 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772460 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guokai Chen (Rockville, Maryland); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhonggang Hou (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermostable FGF-2 proteins having enhanced ability to support human pluripotent stem cell cultures are provided. Also provided are methods and compositions utilizing thermostable FGF-2 proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/717275 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0607 (20130101) C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) |
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| US 08772471 | Shankar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Premlata Shankar (El Paso, Texas); Sang-Kyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Manjunath Narasimhaswamy (El Paso, Texas); Priti Kumar (Hamden, Connecticut); Haoquan Wu (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Hong-Seok Ban (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea); Immune Disease Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Premlata Shankar (El Paso, Texas); Sang-Kyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Manjunath Narasimhaswamy (El Paso, Texas); Priti Kumar (Hamden, Connecticut); Haoquan Wu (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Hong-Seok Ban (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of delivering RNA interference molecules to a cell or a cell in a subject, which comprises contacting the cell with a protein-double stranded RNA complex, the complex comprising the double stranded RNA segment containing a double stranded RNA of interest and a protein, the protein comprising (1) a targeting moiety, which will specifically bind to a site on a target cell, and (2) a binding moiety linked thereto, which will bind to the double stranded RNA, wherein the double stranded RNA segment is delivered to a cell and effects RNA interference of the target RNA in the cell. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/524536 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — 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 08772473 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaohua Huang (La Jolla, California); Eric Roller (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohua Huang (La Jolla, California); Eric Roller (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a new method for DNA sequencing called “natural sequencing by synthesis” (nSBS). According to the method, DNA that includes a desired sequence is synthesized using a dNTP mix with a small percentage of fluorescently-labeled nucleotides. The fluorescent label is cleavable. In contrast to previous methods that utilize 100% labeled nucleic acids, use of a small percentage of labeled nucleic acids minimizes the distortion of the natural structure of the extending DNA strand and the DNA polymerase. Using the disclosed methods with less than 10,000 copies of template DNA and 10% of the nucleotides labeled, long homopolymer stretches up to 20 bases can be sequenced with high accuracy and Q20 (with 99% accuracy) read lengths of up to 1,000 bases can be achieved. A Q20 read length of greater than 100 bases can potentially be achieved, even if the sequencing is performed with 1,000 copies of a template and 10% of the nucleotides labeled. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/262369 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772502 | Semple et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Edward Semple (Tampa, Florida); Jean-Francois Rossignol (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Romark Laboratories, L.C. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Edward Semple (Tampa, Florida); Jean-Francois Rossignol (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of alkylsulfinyl thiazolides is described. These compounds show strong activity against hepatitis viruses. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/284242 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772509 | Lindsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Michael R. Wood (Brentwood, Tennessee); James C. Tarr (Nashville, Tennessee); Thomas M. Bridges (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Michael R. Wood (Brentwood, Tennessee); James C. Tarr (Nashville, Tennessee); Thomas M. Bridges (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to indole compounds, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 (mAChR M1); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with muscarinic acetylcholine receptor dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/702800 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772571 | Lau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kin-Hing William Lau (Redlands, California); David J. Baylink (Loma Linda, California); Susan L. Hall (San Bernardino, California); Shin-Tai Chen (Colton, California); Subburaman Mohan (Redlands, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kin-Hing William Lau (Redlands, California); David J. Baylink (Loma Linda, California); Susan L. Hall (San Bernardino, California); Shin-Tai Chen (Colton, California); Subburaman Mohan (Redlands, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for increasing bone growth and/or enhancing wound healing, for example, fracture repair. The disclosure provides recombinant nucleic acids useful for promoting bone growth. For example, the disclosure provides recombinant nucleic acids that encode a fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) analog. The disclosure also provides vectors and cells incorporating these nucleic acids, as well as FGF-2 analogs encode by them. The disclosure also provides a mouse system of bone marrow transplantation and methods for producing as well as methods for using the system. Methods for inducing division and/or inducing differentiation of a hematopoietic stem cell are also provided, as are methods for enhancing bone growth and/or wound repair (for example, fracture repair). |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879842 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772693 | Popescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabriel Popescu (Brighton, Massachusetts); Ramachandra Dasari (Shererville, Indiana); Takahiro Ikeda (Hamamatsu, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Popescu (Brighton, Massachusetts); Ramachandra Dasari (Shererville, Indiana); Michael Feld (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Takahiro Ikeda (Hamamatsu, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Hilbert phase microscopy (HPM) as an optical technique for measuring high transverse resolution quantitative phase images associated with optically transparent objects. Due to its single-shot nature, HPM is suitable for investigating rapid phenomena that take place in transparent structures such as biological cells. A preferred embodiment is used for measuring biological systems including measurements on red blood cells, while its ability to quantify dynamic processes on the millisecond scale, for example, can be illustrated with measurements on evaporating micron-size water droplets. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389670 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772711 | Webb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ian K. Webb (Kennewick, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian K. Webb (Kennewick, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of dissociating ions in a multipole ion guide is disclosed. A stream of charged ions is supplied to the ion guide. A main RF field is applied to the ion guide to confine the ions through the ion guide. An excitation RF field is applied to one pair of rods of the ion guide. The ions undergo dissociation when the applied excitation RF field is resonant with a secular frequency of the ions. The multipole ion guide is, but not limited to, a quadrupole, a hexapole, and an octopole. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/011529 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08773130 | Pielak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary J. Pielak (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher Barnes (Huntersville, North Carolina); Naima G. Sharaf (North Andover, Massachusetts); Gregory Young (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Freddy Pinero (Durham, North Carolina); Lisa Charlton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Seagle (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Pielak (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher Barnes (Huntersville, North Carolina); Naima G. Sharaf (North Andover, Massachusetts); Gregory Young (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Freddy Pinero (Durham, North Carolina); Lisa Charlton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Seagle (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and related methods for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of particulate materials are provided including a detector chamber configured for insertion into an NMR spectrometer and configured to receive particulate materials in a fluid. A circulation chamber is attached to and in fluid communication with a first end of the detector chamber. A transition region is between the detector chamber and the circulation chamber, and a fluid supply interface is at a second end of the detector chamber that is configured to attach to a fluid source. The detector chamber, the circulation chamber and the transition region are sized and configured such that, when fluid flows from the fluid supply interface into the second end of the detector region, a circulating current is formed in the transition region and/or the circulation chamber such that the particulate matter is contained in the circulation chamber by the circulating current. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/260975 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774899 | Chiodo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chris D. Chiodo (Warren, Michigan) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chris D. Chiodo (Warren, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An animal holder is provided with a specialized coupling that is releasably mountable to a number of different imaging machines such as X-ray, CAT, MRI and PET machines. Composite images created from combining images from such different machines are particularly clear due to the predetermined alignment of the animal holder within the center of the field of view of each machine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/927535 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 1/0613 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0555 (20130101) A61B 6/04 (20130101) A61B 6/0421 (20130101) A61B 6/0428 (20130101) A61B 6/0457 (20130101) A61B 6/508 (20130101) A61B 6/4417 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 13/1295 (20130101) |
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| US 08774914 | Wagner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Highland Instruments (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Wagner (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for stimulating cellular function within tissue that involves providing a first type of energy to a region of tissue, in which the first type is provided in an amount that inhibits cellular function within the region of tissue, and providing a second type of energy to the region of tissue, in which the second type is provided in an amount that facilitates cellular function within the region of tissue, wherein the combined effect stimulates cellular function within the tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/069613 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2018/00994 (20130101) Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 7/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/325 (20130101) A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/327 (20130101) A61N 1/36021 (20130101) A61N 1/36025 (20130101) A61N 7/00 (20130101) A61N 2007/0026 (20130101) |
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| US 08774928 | Towe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Towe (Mesa, Arizona); William Crisp (Paradise Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for stimulating nerves are disclosed. In one embodiment adapted for stimulating excitable tissue, the invention includes drive circuitry, an acoustic transducer and a pair of electrodes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/692530 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08769802 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David T. Chang (Calabasas, California); Randall L. Kubena (Oak Park, California); Pamela R. Patterson (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Chang (Calabasas, California); Randall L. Kubena (Oak Park, California); Pamela R. Patterson (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a resonator is presented in the present application. The method includes providing a handle substrate, providing a host substrate, providing a quartz substrate comprising a first surface opposite a second surface, applying interposer film to the first surface of the quartz substrate, bonding the quartz substrate to the handle substrate wherein the interposer film is disposed between the quartz substrate and the handle substrate, thinning the second surface of the quartz substrate, removing a portion of the bonded quartz substrate to expose a portion of the interposer film, bonding the quartz substrate to the host substrate, and removing the handle substrate and the interposer film, thereby releasing the quartz substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831028 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/594 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08769817 | Bridges, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph W. Bridges, Jr. (Durham, Connecticut); Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph W. Bridges, Jr. (Durham, Connecticut); Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly includes a body having two circumferential sides, a leading end, and a trailing end. At least one of the circumferential sides includes a first channel sidewall, a second channel sidewall, and a channel bottom wall that together define a seal channel for receiving a seal. The seal channel includes a slot that cooperates with a tab on the seal to facilitate securing the seal within the seal channel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646281 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/889.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08769839 | Paesano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio Paesano (Newark, Delaware); Francis Kendra (Aston, Pennsylvania); Frank J. Gill (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Paesano (Newark, Delaware); Francis Kendra (Aston, Pennsylvania); Frank J. Gill (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus to measure an angular position of craft components are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an opening to receive a component along a first plane; and a first magnetic coupler positioned along a first exterior side of the apparatus to removably couple an inclinometer to the apparatus at a first angle relative to the first plane. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/370052 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 9/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08770422 | Cantin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip T. Cantin (Guildhall, Vermont); Rick A. Cochran (St. Johnsbury, Vermont); Justin M. White (West Danville, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mobile Medical International Corporation (St. Johnsbury, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip T. Cantin (Guildhall, Vermont); Rick A. Cochran (St. Johnsbury, Vermont); Justin M. White (West Danville, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | An adapter plate for a container unit that can be coupled to at an additional container unit to form an intermodal container having the approximate dimensions of a standard ISO container. The intermodal container can be handled by a medium tactical vehicle with a load handling system. The container unit has first and second substantially parallel corner posts, an upper frame support extending between first ends of the corner posts, a lower frame support extending between second ends of the corner posts, and a connection block disposed adjacent the second ends of the corner posts. The adapter plate is disposed adjacent the connection block. A proximal end of the adapter plate is connected to the connection block and positioned generally flush with an outer facing surface of the connection block. A distal end of the adapter is angled to connect to an outer surface of the lower frame support. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/209080 |
| ART UNIT | 3788 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 19/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B65D 77/0466 (20130101) B65D 2519/00338 (20130101) B65D 2519/00343 (20130101) B65D 2519/00348 (20130101) |
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| US 08770522 | Murphey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Murphey (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory E. Sanford (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sungeun Jeon (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Murphey (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory E. Sanford (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sungeun Jeon (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A spacecraft deployment mechanism employing a pair of bi-stable tape springs attached to a cylinder such that rotation of the cylinder extends or retracts the tape springs in opposite directions. The tape springs are fabricated such that they are stable when wrapped around a cylinder (stowed configuration) or when deployed and have a higher energy state when stowed than when deployed. A plurality of bi-stable tape spring mechanisms may be combined to create a deployment device that does not impart rotational torques to the spacecraft during deployment. Deployment may be accomplished by release of the stored energy in the coiled or packaged state progressing to the lower energy deployed state. Alternatively, a motor may be employed to rotate the cylinders for deploy or retrace the tape springs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/957495 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08770751 | Ferguson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Daniel Ferguson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Daniel X. Hammer (Bedford, New Hampshire); Nicusor V. Iftimia (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Chad Bigelow (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Daniel Ferguson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Daniel X. Hammer (Bedford, New Hampshire); Nicusor V. Iftimia (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Chad Bigelow (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of imaging a retina of an eye includes combining an optical path of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imager and an optical path of a line scanning laser ophthalmoscope (LSLO) imager using a system of optics. The method also includes using a single detector to switch between an OCT mode and a LSLO mode and acquiring images of the retina while switching between the OCT mode and the LSLO mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/237419 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771272 | LeCronier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David LeCronier (Oxford, Michigan); Patrick Atkinson (Grand Blanc, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kettering University (Flint, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David LeCronier (Oxford, Michigan); Patrick Atkinson (Grand Blanc, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An intramedullary nail (20) defining a bore (34) is inserted into a medullary canal (26) of a bone (24). A threaded fastener (22) has a compression portion (48) presenting a compression portion diameter (DCP) and a threaded portion (50) presenting a threaded portion diameter (DTP). The fastener (22) extends through a near cortex hole (40) and/or a far cortex hole (42), and the threaded portion (22) threadedly engages the bore (34). A compression transmission device (54) is disposed between a head (44) of the fastener (22) and the intramedullary nail (20) for transmitting the compressional load of the threaded fastener (22) to the intramedullary nail (20). An interior space of the compression transmission device (54) is greater than the compression portion diameter (DCP) providing space about the threaded fastener (22) for allowing the fastener axis (A) to be variously disposed relative to the interior space. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625595 |
| ART UNIT | 3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771442 | Hong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wenbin Hong (Rolla, Missouri); Dongshun Bai (Rolla, Missouri); Tony D. Flaim (St. James, Missouri); Rama Puligadda (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbin Hong (Rolla, Missouri); Dongshun Bai (Rolla, Missouri); Tony D. Flaim (St. James, Missouri); Rama Puligadda (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | New compositions and methods of using those compositions as bonding compositions are provided. The compositions comprise a cycloolefin copolymer dispersed or dissolved in a solvent system, and can be used to bond an active wafer to a carrier wafer or substrate to assist in protecting the active wafer and its active sites during subsequent processing and handling. The compositions form bonding layers that are chemically and thermally resistant, but that can also be softened or dissolved to allow the wafers to slide or be pulled apart at the appropriate stage in the fabrication process. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/548674 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771500 | Papadimitrakopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut); Santhisagar Vaddiraju (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut); Santhisagar Vaddiraju (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a device that functions as a glucose sensor. The device has a reference electrode; a counter electrode, a working electrode; an electrically conducting membrane; an enzyme layer; a semi-permeable membrane; a first layer of a first hydrogel in operative communication with the working electrode; the first layer of the first hydrogel being operative to store oxygen; wherein the amount of stored oxygen is proportional to the number of freeze-thaw cycles that the hydrogel is subjected to; and a second layer of the second hydrogel. Disclosed too is a method that comprises using periodically biased amperometry towards interrogation of implantable glucose sensors to improve both sensor's sensitivity and linearity while at the same time enable internal calibration against sensor drifts that originate from changes in either electrode activity or membrane permeability as a result of fouling, calcification and/or fibrosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256043 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/777.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771634 | Becker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carol A. Becker (Del Mar, California); Brandon J. Wiedemeier (San Diego, California); Jeffrey M. Lloyd (San Diego, California); Jack Y. Dea (San Diego, California); Rosteslaw M. Husar (El Cajon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol A. Becker (Del Mar, California); Brandon J. Wiedemeier (San Diego, California); Jeffrey M. Lloyd (San Diego, California); Jack Y. Dea (San Diego, California); Rosteslaw M. Husar (El Cajon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present subject matter provides heat management while generating hydrogen gas from a hydride achieved by coupling a hydride with a hydrate. The present subject matter unexpectedly provides improved methods so that the heat released by the hydride during hydrolysis is accurately balanced by the heat absorbed by the hydrate as the hydrate undergoes a phase transition to a less hydrated or to an anhydrous form. Examples of heat-moderated hydrogen generating systems are provided, and include, among others: NaBH4/Na2SO4.10H2O, NaBH4/CoSO4.7H2O, and NaBH4/FeSO4.7H2O. The subject matter provides a methodology for determining the correct proportions of hydride/hydrate to use in preparing a hydrogen generator capable of operating at a nearly constant temperature at or near a phase transition temperature of the hydrate or at a higher temperature that is still within a desired temperature range, such as, for example, 30-90° C. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835477 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771671 | Spencer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Spencer (Houston, Texas); Brent Hanks (Houston, Texas); Kevin Slawin (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Spencer (Houston, Texas); Brent Hanks (Houston, Texas); Kevin Slawin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a composition and method which to treat diseases and to enhance a regulated immune response. More particularly, the present invention is drawn to compositions that are based on dendritic cells modified to express an inducible form of a co-stimulatory polypeptide. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165360 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/177 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 2039/5154 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/033 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771831 | Winterhalter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carole A. Winterhalter (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carole A. Winterhalter (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to yarns and fabrics that exhibit anti-static, anti-odor, and anti-microbial properties. The yarn is comprised of several groups of predetermined fibers. One of these groups of predetermined fibers comprises fibers that exhibit anti-microbial, anti-odor and anti-static characteristics. In one embodiment, the yarn comprises a first plurality of fibers, a second plurality of fibers that are different from the fibers of the first plurality, and a third plurality of fibers that are different from the fibers of the first and second pluralities. In one embodiment, the fibers which exhibit anti-microbial, anti-odor and anti-static properties are metallic coated fibers. Other fibers used to form different embodiments of the yarns include cotton, nylon, polyester, wool, meta-aramid fibers, para-aramid fibers, and stretch fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315384 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771927 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tingji Tang (Rolla, Missouri); Gu Xu (Rolla, Missouri); Xing-Fu Zhong (Rolla, Missouri); Wenbin Hong (Rolla, Missouri); Tony D. Flaim (St. James, Missouri); Kimberly Yess (St. James, Missouri); Ramachandran K. Trichur (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tingji Tang (Rolla, Missouri); Gu Xu (Rolla, Missouri); Xing-Fu Zhong (Rolla, Missouri); Wenbin Hong (Rolla, Missouri); Tony D. Flaim (St. James, Missouri); Kimberly Yess (St. James, Missouri); Ramachandran K. Trichur (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | New compositions and methods of using those compositions as protective layers during the production of semiconductor and MEMS devices are provided. The compositions comprise a cycloolefin copolymer dispersed or dissolved in a solvent system, and can be used to form layers that protect a substrate during acid etching and other processing and handling. The protective layer can be photosensitive or non-photosensitive, and can be used with or without a primer layer beneath the protective layer. Preferred primer layers comprise a basic polymer in a solvent system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718516 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771929 | Guillorn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Guillorn (Yorktown Heights, New York); Steven J. Holmes (Guilderland, New York); Chi-Chun Liu (San Jose, California); Hiroyuki Miyazoe (White Plains, New York); Hsinyu Tsai (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Guillorn (Yorktown Heights, New York); Steven J. Holmes (Guilderland, New York); Chi-Chun Liu (San Jose, California); Hiroyuki Miyazoe (White Plains, New York); Hsinyu Tsai (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A stack of an organic planarization layer (OPL) and a template layer is provided over a substrate. The template layer is patterned to induce self-assembly of a copolymer layer to be subsequently deposited. A copolymer layer is deposited and annealed to form phase-separated copolymer blocks. An original self-assembly pattern is formed by removal of a second phase separated polymer relative to a first phase separated polymer. The original pattern is transferred into the OPL by an anisotropic etch, and the first phase separated polymer and the template layer are removed. A spin-on dielectric (SOD) material layer is deposited over the patterned OPL that includes the original pattern to form SOD portions that fill trenches within the patterned OPL. The patterned OPL is removed selective to the SOD portions, which include a complementary pattern. The complementary pattern of the SOD portions is transferred into underlying layers by an anisotropic etch. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/587088 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771977 | Nocker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreas Nocker (Utrecht, Netherlands); Anne K. Camper (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Nocker (Utrecht, Netherlands); Anne K. Camper (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides for a method of microbial profiling of a sample using phenanthridium derivatives with a 2+ charge or higher. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/470716 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772197 | Hatton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Lev E. Bromberg (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Huan Zhang (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Lev E. Bromberg (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Huan Zhang (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to reactive compositions and methods of use thereof, wherein a metal oxide cluster is used to connect a reactive group (or groups) to the surface of a substrate. In certain embodiments, the reactive group in the compositions decomposes organophosphate agents through nucleophilic hydrolysis. In certain embodiments, the reactive group in the compositions is bactericidal. Remarkably, the use of metal oxide clusters in the disclosed compositions and methods permits incorporation of higher quantities of nucleophilic and bactericidal groups without the difficulties associated with having to pretreat the substrate prior to its association with the reactive groups. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/672611 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772226 | Denmeade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel Ray Denmeade (Ellicott City, Maryland); John Tod Isaacs (Phoenix, Maryland); Soeren Brogger Christensen (Nivaa, Denmark) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Ray Denmeade (Ellicott City, Maryland); John Tod Isaacs (Phoenix, Maryland); Soeren Brogger Christensen (Nivaa, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of this invention relate generally to targeted activation and delivery of therapeutic drugs to cells that produce prostate specific antigen (PSA), prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) or human glandular kallikrein (hK2). Various further embodiments relate more specifically to PSMA-specific peptide prodrugs that become activated to yield therapeutic drugs. Further aspects of various embodiments of the present invention also relate to methods and compositions for treating or preventing cancers and methods and compositions for detecting and/or imaging cancers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/257131 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772345 | McHardy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanton F. McHardy (San Antonio, Texas); Richard M. Corbett (San Antonio, Texas); Donald M. Maxwell (Baltimore, Maryland); Michael W. Tidwell (Lakehills, Texas); Bismarck Campos (San Antonio, Texas); Christopher J. Bemben (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanton F. McHardy (San Antonio, Texas); Richard M. Corbett (San Antonio, Texas); Donald M. Maxwell (Baltimore, Maryland); Michael W. Tidwell (Lakehills, Texas); Bismarck Campos (San Antonio, Texas); Christopher J. Bemben (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to non-charged oxime compounds which are acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) reactivators of inhibited AChE and which protect against organophosphate poisoning both peripherally and in the central nervous system. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods for preparing the reactivator compounds and associated intermediates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/197550 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772348 | Kaufman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phillip Edward Kaufman (Alachua, Florida); Rajinder Singh Mann (Winter Haven, Florida); Jerry Frank Butler (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip Edward Kaufman (Alachua, Florida); Rajinder Singh Mann (Winter Haven, Florida); Jerry Frank Butler (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel insecticide formulation that not only demonstrates strong insecticidal and residual activity against a variety of insects, but also exhibits low mammalian toxicity. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to the use of pesticidal compounds selected from beta damascone, CYCLEMONE A™, melafleur, and derivatives thereof for killing arthropod pests including, but not limited to, mosquitoes and flies. Specifically exemplified herein is the use of the compounds of the present invention to control three mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, and Anopheles quadrimaculatus), the house fly (Musca domestica), the stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) and the sand fly (Lutzomyia shannoni). |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/505681 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 35/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772456 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Jia Huang (Malden, Massachusetts); Cheryl Wong Po Foo (Santa Clara, California); Rajesh Naik (Dayton, Ohio); Anne George (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The claimed invention provides a fusion polypeptide comprising a fibrous protein domain and a mineralization domain. The fusion is used to form an organic-inorganic composite. These organic-inorganic composites can be constructed from the nano- to the macro-scale depending on the size of the fibrous protein fusion domain used. In one embodiment, the composites can also be loaded with other compounds (e.g., dyes, drugs, enzymes) depending on the goal for the materials, to further enhance function. This can be achieved during assembly of the material or during the mineralization step in materials formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/934828 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772468 | Potashkin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Judith A. Potashkin (Gurnee, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (North Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith A. Potashkin (Gurnee, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and a diagnostic kit for diagnosing the presence of Parkinson's disease in a human subject. The method includes the steps of: (1) extracting RNA molecules from a blood sample of the human subject to define a test sample; (2) measuring the amount of each RNA molecule having Sequence ID Nos. 1-14 in the test sample; (3) comparing the amount of each of the RNA molecules having Sequence ID Nos. 1-14 to the amount of RNA molecules having Sequence ID Nos. 1-14 present in a control sample to determine how many of the RNA molecules of Sequence ID Nos. 1-14 are present in a significant amount in the test sample greater or less than in the control sample to define a number of biomarkers; and (4) diagnosing the presence of Parkinson's disease in the human subject if the number of biomarkers is equal to or greater than five. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/240821 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772515 | Dumesic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); Jean Marcel Ribeiro Gallo (Madison, Wisconsin); David Alonso (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a process to produce hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) from biomass-derived sugars. The process includes the steps of reacting a C5 and/or C6 sugar-containing reactant derived from biomass in a monophasic or biphasic reaction solution comprising water and a co-solvent. The co-solvent can be beta-, gamma-, and/or delta-lactones derived from biomass, tetrahydrofuran (THF) derived from biomass, and/or methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF) derived from biomass. The reaction takes place in the presence of an acid catalyst and a dehydration catalyst for a time and under conditions such that at least a portion of glucose or fructose present in the reactant is converted to HMF. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649891 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772571 | Lau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kin-Hing William Lau (Redlands, California); David J. Baylink (Loma Linda, California); Susan L. Hall (San Bernardino, California); Shin-Tai Chen (Colton, California); Subburaman Mohan (Redlands, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kin-Hing William Lau (Redlands, California); David J. Baylink (Loma Linda, California); Susan L. Hall (San Bernardino, California); Shin-Tai Chen (Colton, California); Subburaman Mohan (Redlands, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for increasing bone growth and/or enhancing wound healing, for example, fracture repair. The disclosure provides recombinant nucleic acids useful for promoting bone growth. For example, the disclosure provides recombinant nucleic acids that encode a fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) analog. The disclosure also provides vectors and cells incorporating these nucleic acids, as well as FGF-2 analogs encode by them. The disclosure also provides a mouse system of bone marrow transplantation and methods for producing as well as methods for using the system. Methods for inducing division and/or inducing differentiation of a hematopoietic stem cell are also provided, as are methods for enhancing bone growth and/or wound repair (for example, fracture repair). |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879842 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772606 | Hurst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan R. Hurst (Seattle, Washington); Dayna L. Loeffler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan R. Hurst (Seattle, Washington); Dayna L. Loeffler (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one non-ripening (NOR) gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their NOR genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the NOR gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that ripen more slowly, rot more slowly, are firmer, and have a longer shelf life post-harvest as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their NOR genes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/123391 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/317.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772629 | Curran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seamus A. Curran (Houston, Texas); David L. Carroll (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); James Lee Dewald, Sr. (Alamogordo, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seamus A. Curran (Houston, Texas); David L. Carroll (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); James Lee Dewald, Sr. (Alamogordo, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to organic optoelectronic devices and, in particular, to organic photovoltaic devices having a fiber structure. In one embodiment, a photovoltaic device comprises a first electrode comprising an indium tin oxide fiber, at least one photosensitive organic layer surrounding the first electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second electrode surrounding the organic layer and electrically connected to the organic layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/298936 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2261/91 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 5/0037 (20130101) H01L 27/304 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0077 (20130101) H01L 51/441 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 08773215 | Sadhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Minneaplois, Minnesota); Jean-Oliver Plouchart (New York, New York); Scott K. Reynolds (Amawalk, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Minneaplois, Minnesota); Jean-Oliver Plouchart (New York, New York); Scott K. Reynolds (Amawalk, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a tank based oscillator. The oscillator includes one or more active devices, one or more passive devices, and a tank circuit decoupled from the active devices using at least one of the one or more passive devices. A coupling ratio between the tank circuit and the one or more active devices is set such that a maximum value of an oscillation amplitude of the tank circuit is limited based upon a breakdown of only the one or more passive devices. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/228779 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08773305 | Ramlall |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rohan Yash Ramlall (Brentwood, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohan Yash Ramlall (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A GPS carrier-tracking method comprising: acquiring a GPS signal from a satellite with a receiver in acquisition mode when the signal strength of the GPS signal is equal to or above a carrier/noise (C/N0) threshold; tracking the carrier frequency of the GPS signal while the receiver in a tracking mode when the signal strength of the GPS signal is above the C/N0 threshold; recording carrier frequency values while the receiver is in tracking mode; predicting a current Doppler shift based on the recorded values when the signal strength of the GPS signal drops below the C/N0 threshold for a time period t; and resuming, without the receiver re-entering acquisition mode, tracking of the GPS signal after time t and once the signal strength of the GPS signal is again equal to or above the C/N0 threshold, wherein the resumed tracking is based on the predicted Doppler shift. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/440885 |
| 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 342/357.680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08773945 | Keith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William L Keith (Ashaway, Rhode Island); Alia W Foley (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L Keith (Ashaway, Rhode Island); Alia W Foley (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly is provided for determining a parametric design of a large eddy breakup device in which the assembly comprises a water tunnel turbulent pipe flow section; a large eddy breakup device ring disposed within the pipe flow section; and a wall pressure sensor array operable to detect wall pressure in the turbulent pipe flow section. Energy in a wavenumber frequency spectra of wall pressure fluctuations is redistributed via changes to the parametric design in order to minimize turbulent wall pressure fluctuations with the result of reduced flow noise and drag. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/799171 |
| 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 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08773954 | 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 device operable as a transducer is provided for use in which the device is mountable on a tow cable which in operation extends underwater substantially throughout the length thereof. The device comprises a head mass encompassing the tow cable wherein the head mass reacts to a wave-like strumming configuration about an axis of the tow cable thereby causing the tow cable to be displaced in one direction, along the axis and then in an opposite direction such that a low frequency continuous sound wave radiates from the head mass. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/623932 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774244 | Pushkarsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Pushkarsky (San Diego, California); David F. Arnone (Mountain View, California); Matt Barre (Cardiff, California); David P. Caffey (San Diego, California); Salvatore F. Crivello (Poway, California); Timothy Day (Poway, California); Kyle Thomas (Weston, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Daylight Solutions, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Pushkarsky (San Diego, California); David F. Arnone (Mountain View, California); Matt Barre (Cardiff, California); David P. Caffey (San Diego, California); Salvatore F. Crivello (Poway, California); Timothy Day (Poway, California); Kyle Thomas (Weston, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser source assembly for providing an assembly output beam includes a first emitter, a second emitter, and a third emitter. The first emitter emits a first beam along a first beam axis that is substantially parallel to and spaced apart from an assembly axis. The second emitter emits a second beam along a second beam axis that is substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the assembly axis. The third emitter emits a third beam along a third beam axis that is substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the assembly axis. The first beam axis, the second beam axis and the third beam axis are positioned spaced apart about and substantially equidistant from the assembly axis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/303088 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774246 | Deppe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis G. Deppe (Oviedo, Florida); Sabine M. Freisem (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); sdPhotonics, LLC (Oviedo, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis G. Deppe (Oviedo, Florida); Sabine M. Freisem (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor vertical resonant cavity light source includes an upper mirror and a lower minor that define a vertical resonant cavity. A first active region is within the vertical resonant cavity for light generation between the upper minor and lower mirror. The vertical resonant cavity includes an inner mode confinement region and an outer current blocking region. A depleted heterojunction current blocking region (DHCBR) is within the outer current blocking region of at least one of the upper minor, lower minor, and first active region. A conducting channel within the inner mode confinement region is framed by the DHCBR. The DHCBR forces current flow into the conducting channel during operation of the light source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352050 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774309 | Giannakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-selective fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols by inserting training symbols within two or more blocks of information-bearing symbols. The transmitter applies a hopping code to each of the blocks of symbols to insert a null subcarrier at a different position within each of the blocks of symbols, and a modulator outputs a wireless signal in accordance with the blocks of symbols. A receiver receives the wireless signal and estimates the CFO, and outputs a stream of estimated symbols based on the estimated CFO. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783039 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774315 | Cahn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Robert Cahn (Manhattan Beach, California); Philip A. Dafesh (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Robert Cahn (Manhattan Beach, California); Philip A. Dafesh (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for generating a composite signal includes electronics configured to modulate a carrier utilizing a finite set of composite signal phases to generate a composite signal, the finite set of composite signal phases being determined through an optimization process that minimizes a constant envelope for the phase modulated carrier, subject to constraints on desired signal power levels of the signals to be combined and either zero or one or more relative phase relationships between the signals. The apparatus and method can be extended to generating an optimized composite signal of different frequencies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/547383 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774517 | Khosla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Rajan Bhattacharyya (Sherman Oaks, California); Terrell N. Mundhenk (Los Angeles, California); David J. Huber (Calabasas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Rajan Bhattacharyya (Sherman Oaks, California); Terrell N. Mundhenk (Los Angeles, California); David J. Huber (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system for identifying regions of interest in visual imagery. The system is configured to receive a series of consecutive frames representing a scene as captured from N sensors. The frames include at least a current frame and a previous frame. A surprise map can be generated based on features found in the current frame and the previous frame. The surprise map having a plurality of values corresponding to spatial locations within the scene. Based on the values, a surprise in the scene can be identified if a value in the surprise map exceeds a predetermined threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/982713 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774613 | Miesak |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Miesak (Windermere, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This document relates to a latent fingerprint imaging system. The system includes a light source that illuminates a sample surface having a raw latent fingerprint. The system further includes an optical detector arranged to capture fluorescence instantaneously from gap portions of the sample surface between ridges of the latent fingerprint and use the fluorescence from the gap portions to generate image data of the latent fingerprint on the sample surface. The light from the light source has a wavelength that is greater than a propagation threshold wavelength so the light can propagate from the light source to the sample surface and is less than an absorption threshold wavelength so the light is mostly absorbed by material of the latent fingerprint. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/210996 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/30 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774635 | Juarez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Juan C. Juarez (Windsor Mill, Maryland); David W. Young (Clarksville, Maryland); Joseph E. Sluz (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan C. Juarez (Windsor Mill, Maryland); David W. Young (Clarksville, Maryland); Joseph E. Sluz (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems to control a gain applied to a free-space optical (FSO) signal to reduce time-varying intensity fluctuations. An optical pre-amplifier may provide a first, relatively moderate gain with low noise factor (NF). A second optical amplifier may provide a second gain. Amplification may include doped fiber amplification (DFA), such as erbium-doped fiber amplification (EDFA) and/or Raman amplification. A variable optical attenuator (VOA) may be controllable with a relatively fast response time to reduce the time-varying intensity fluctuations. The VOA may effectively control an overall system gain. The gain of the first and/or second optical amplifier may also be controllable to reduce the time-varying intensity fluctuations. Optical intensities may be detected at one or more locations to support one or more feed-forward and/or feedback control loops. A clamp may be applied when an optical power reaches a threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/173155 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/1121 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774709 | Haan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin J Haan (Marion, Iowa); Aaron J Smith (Marion, Iowa); James M Herlocker (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Joe E Clark (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin J Haan (Marion, Iowa); Aaron J Smith (Marion, Iowa); James M Herlocker (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Joe E Clark (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio system allowing radios in a network to utilize functionality of other radios in the network includes a plurality of radios each having the capability to communicate with other radios in the network, and each having functionality that is not common to every other radio in the network. Radios send requests to other radios in the network to re-transmit a signal using a specific transmission mode. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194460 |
| ART UNIT | 2647 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/11.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774914 | Wagner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Highland Instruments (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Wagner (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for stimulating cellular function within tissue that involves providing a first type of energy to a region of tissue, in which the first type is provided in an amount that inhibits cellular function within the region of tissue, and providing a second type of energy to the region of tissue, in which the second type is provided in an amount that facilitates cellular function within the region of tissue, wherein the combined effect stimulates cellular function within the tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/069613 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2018/00994 (20130101) Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 7/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/325 (20130101) A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/327 (20130101) A61N 1/36021 (20130101) A61N 1/36025 (20130101) A61N 7/00 (20130101) A61N 2007/0026 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774950 | Kelly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alonzo James Kelly (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Herman Herman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter William Rander (Mars, Pennsylvania); Randon Warner (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alonzo James Kelly (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Herman Herman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter William Rander (Mars, Pennsylvania); Randon Warner (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for controlling an apparatus including receiving data indicative of an actual state of the apparatus, defining a first viewpoint relative to at least one of the environment and the apparatus, determining a first predicted state of the apparatus at time T, determining a first predicted state of the environment at time T, producing a first virtualized view from the first viewpoint, sending a first control signal to the apparatus after producing the first virtualized view, defining a second viewpoint relative to at least one of the apparatus and the environment, determining a second predicted state of the apparatus at time T+delta T, determining a second predicted state of the environment at time T+delta T, producing the second virtualized view from the second viewpoint, sending a second control signal to the apparatus after producing the second virtualized view, and changing the actual state of the apparatus based on the first control signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/812800 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 23/0267 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775082 | Bishop |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig H. Bishop (Monterey, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig H. Bishop (Monterey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method to provide stabilized and spatially smooth regression coefficients for weather forecast error correction from small training data sets. In accordance with the present invention, an MOS estimate of the regression coefficient calculated from a small data set can be optimally combined with a smooth prior estimate of the regression coefficient, an estimate of the spatial error covariance of that prior estimate, and an estimate of the spatial error covariance of the MOS estimate. The result is a filtered MOS (FMOS) regression coefficient which can be used to more accurately estimate and correct errors in weather forecasts even using only small data sets. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789497 |
| ART UNIT | 2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Meteorology G01W 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775335 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Hanghang Tong (Ossining, New York); Fei Wang (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Hanghang Tong (Ossining, New York); Fei Wang (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Access is obtained to a first nonnegative factor matrix and a second nonnegative factor matrix obtained by factorizing a nonnegative asymmetric matrix which represents a set of data which tracks time-stamped activities of a plurality of entities. The first nonnegative factor matrix is representative of initial role membership of the entities, and the second nonnegative factor matrix is representative of initial role activity descriptions. At a given one of the time stamps, while holding a change in the first nonnegative factor matrix constant, a change in the second nonnegative factor matrix is updated to reflect time variance of the set of data at the given one of the time stamps, without accessing actual data values at previous ones of the time stamps. At the given one of the time stamps, while holding a change in the second nonnegative factor matrix constant, a change in the first nonnegative factor matrix is updated, to reflect the time variance of the set of data at the given one of the time stamps, without accessing the actual data values at the previous ones of the time stamps. The role membership of the entities and the role activity descriptions, at the given one of the time stamps, are updated based on the updating steps. A suitable technique for nonnegative symmetric matrices is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/198790 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775428 | Birdwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Douglas Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David J. Icove (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sally P. Horn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roger Horn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mark S. Rader (Hunstville, Alabama); Dale V. Stansberry (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for predicting properties of a target object comprise application of a search manager for analyzing parameters of a plurality of databases for a plurality of objects, the databases comprising an electrical, electromagnetic, acoustic and thermal spectral database (ESD), a micro-body assemblage database (MAD) and a database of image data whereby the databases store data objects containing identifying features, source information and information on site properties and context including time and frequency varying data. The method comprises application of multivariate statistical analysis and principal component analysis in combination with content-based image retrieval for providing two-dimensional attributes of three dimensional objects, for example, via preferential image segmentation using a tree of shapes and to predict further properties of objects by means of k-means clustering and related methods. By way of example, an evidence tree display showing a target object linked by a pathway to a predicted property comprises a similarity value, a speculation value and a model-based rank. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/761298 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30333 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775778 | Arimilli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Juan C. Rubio (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Juan C. Rubio (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of helper thread binaries is created from a set of main thread binaries. The helper thread monitors software or hardware ports for incoming data events. When the helper thread detects an incoming event, the helper thread asynchronously executes instructions that calculate incoming data needed by the main thread. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024228 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775846 | Robinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip T. Robinson (Harvard, Massachusetts); Seth M. Dziengeleski (Southbridge, Massachusetts); James D. Kazmierczak (Marlborough, Massachusetts); David J. Holigan (Atkinson, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Protonex Technology Corporation (Southborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip T. Robinson (Harvard, Massachusetts); Seth M. Dziengeleski (Southbridge, Massachusetts); James D. Kazmierczak (Marlborough, Massachusetts); David J. Holigan (Atkinson, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable DC power manager (400) includes an internal power bus (410) and a plurality of device ports (1150, 1160, 1170, 1180, 1190, 1200) for connecting with external power and energy sources, external power loads and other external power managers. Each device port is isolated for the internal power bus by controllable switches (A, B, C, D). Power converters (440, 442, 510) may be disposed between device ports and the internal power bus to convert voltages and attenuate current amplitude. Energy management schema operating on the power manager sums available power and allocates the available power to connected power loads according to power priority settings. A hot-change-over circuit (1300) connects additional sources to the internal bus in response to a voltage drop on the internal power bus. A compact and lightweight package (1100) enables a portability. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815994 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775984 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Daquan Huang (Allen, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Daquan Huang (Allen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Phase-coherent differential structures contain a phase-coherent transformer having two pairs of phase-coherent coupled differential inductors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/979684 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775992 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin G. Lee (New York, New York); Jonathan E. Proesel (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Clint L. Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G. Lee (New York, New York); Jonathan E. Proesel (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Clint L. Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Designing a photonics switching system is provided. A photonic switch diode is designed to attain each performance metric in a plurality of performance metrics associated with a photonic switching system based on a weighted value corresponding to each of the plurality of performance metrics. A switch driver circuit is selected from a plurality of switch driver circuits for the photonic switching system. It is determined whether each performance metric associated with the photonic switching system meets or exceeds a threshold value corresponding to each of the plurality of performance metrics based on the photonic switch diode designed and the switch driver circuit selected. In response to determining that each performance metric associated with the photonic switching system meets or exceeds the threshold value corresponding to each of the performance metrics, the photonic switching system is designed using the photonic switch diode designed and the switch driver circuit selected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/604337 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08776062 — Determining desired job plan based on previous inquiries in a stream processing framework
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zachary Adam Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary Adam Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A data stream processing system is provided that utilizes independent sites to process user-defined inquires over dynamic, continuous streams of data. A mechanism is provided for processing these inquiries over the continuous streams of data by matching new inquiries to previously submitted inquiries. The job plans containing sets of processing elements that were created for both the new inquiry and the previous inquiries are compared for consistency in input and output formatting and commonality of processing elements used. In accordance with the comparison, the new job plan, previous job plans or a combination of the new and previous job plans are used to process the new inquiry. Based on the results of processing the new inquiry, a determination is made regarding which job plans are used for future inquiries. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852389 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08769955 | Van Nieuwenhuizen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William F. Van Nieuwenhuizen (Paris, Canada); Timothy A. Fox (Hamilton, Canada); Steven Williams (Burlington, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Van Nieuwenhuizen (Paris, Canada); Timothy A. Fox (Hamilton, Canada); Steven Williams (Burlington, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A port (60) for axially staging fuel and air into a combustion gas flow path 28 of a turbine combustor (10A). A port enclosure (63) forms an air path through a combustor wall (30). Fuel injectors (64) in the enclosure provide convergent fuel streams (72) that oppose each other, thus converting velocity pressure to static pressure. This forms a flow stagnation zone (74) that acts as a valve on airflow (40, 41) through the port, in which the air outflow (41) is inversely proportion to the fuel flow (25). The fuel flow rate is controlled (65) in proportion to engine load. At high loads, more fuel and less air flow through the port, making more air available to the premixing assemblies (36). |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791975 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/740 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08769971 | Kozubal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Joseph Kozubal (Superior, Colorado); Steven Joseph Slayzak (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Joseph Kozubal (Superior, Colorado); Steven Joseph Slayzak (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An indirect evaporative cooler for cooling inlet supply air from a first temperature to a second, lower temperature using a stream of liquid coolant and a stream of exhaust or purge air. The cooler includes a first flow channel for inlet supply air and a second flow channel adjacent the first for exhaust air. The first and second flow channels are defined in part by sheets of a membrane permeable to water vapor such that mass is transferred as a vapor through the membrane from the inlet supply air to a contained liquid desiccant for dehumidification and also to the exhaust air as heat is transferred from the inlet supply air to the liquid coolant. A separation wall divides the liquid desiccant and the coolant but allows heat to be transferred from the supply air to the coolant which releases water vapor to the counter or cross flowing exhaust air. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/864071 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08770036 | Vodnick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hysitron, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hysitron, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David James Vodnick (Prior Lake, Minnesota); Arpit Dwivedi (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Lucas Paul Keranen (Hutchinson, Minnesota); Michael David Okerlund (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Roger William Schmitz (Hutchinson, Minnesota); Oden Lee Warren (New Brighton, Minnesota); Christopher David Young (Excelsior, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated testing system includes systems and methods to facilitate inline production testing of samples at a micro (multiple microns) or less scale with a mechanical testing instrument. In an example, the system includes a probe changing assembly for coupling and decoupling a probe of the instrument. The probe changing assembly includes a probe change unit configured to grasp one of a plurality of probes in a probe magazine and couple one of the probes with an instrument probe receptacle. An actuator is coupled with the probe change unit, and the actuator is configured to move and align the probe change unit with the probe magazine and the instrument probe receptacle. In another example, the automated testing system includes a multiple degree of freedom stage for aligning a sample testing location with the instrument. The stage includes a sample stage and a stage actuator assembly including translational and rotational actuators. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/962865 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/788 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08770891 | Looney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian B. Looney (Aiken, South Carolina); Miles E. Denham (Aiken, South Carolina); Dennis G. Jackson (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian B. Looney (Aiken, South Carolina); Miles E. Denham (Aiken, South Carolina); Dennis G. Jackson (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The process of treating elemental mercury within the soil is provided by introducing into the soil a heated vapor phase of elemental sulfur. As the vapor phase of elemental sulfur cools, sulfur is precipitated within the soil and then reacts with any elemental mercury thereby producing a reaction product that is less hazardous than elemental mercury. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/455718 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/128.750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771137 | Bolenbaugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan M. Bolenbaugh (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Syed Naqi (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan M. Bolenbaugh (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Syed Naqi (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to operate a clutch device in an electro-mechanical transmission mechanically-operatively coupled to an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine includes, in response to a failure condition detected within a flow control device configured to facilitate flow of hydraulic fluid for operating the clutch device, selectively preventing the flow of hydraulic fluid from entering the flow control device and feeding the clutch device. Synchronization of the clutch device is initiated when the clutch device is intended for activation, and only if the clutch device is synchronized, the flow of hydraulic fluid is selectively permitted to enter the flow control device to activate the clutch device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/534345 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control 477/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771401 | VanOsdol |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John G. VanOsdol (Fairmont, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. VanOsdol (Fairmont, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides an apparatus and method for gas separation through the supersonic expansion and subsequent deceleration of a gaseous stream. The gaseous constituent changes phase from the gaseous state by desublimation or condensation during the acceleration producing a collectible constituent, and an oblique shock diffuser decelerates the gaseous stream to a subsonic velocity while maintain the collectible constituent in the non-gaseous state. Following deceleration, the carrier gas and the collectible constituent at the subsonic velocity are separated by a separation means, such as a centrifugal, electrostatic, or impingement separator. In an embodiment, the gaseous stream issues from a combustion process and is comprised of N2 and CO2. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/208784 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771402 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Meng-Dawn Cheng (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Steve L. Allman (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng-Dawn Cheng (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Steve L. Allman (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A vapor particle separator including a temperature controlled chamber for desorbing vapors from the particulates of an exhaust gas and a separation chamber including a micro porous membrane. The micro porous membrane provides an interface between at least one particle passageway and at least one vapor passageway through the separation chamber. The particle passageway extends from an entrance to the separation chamber to a particle exit from the separation chamber. The vapor passageway extends from the micro-porous membrane to a vapor exit from the separation chamber that is separate from the particle exit from the separation chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/523067 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771403 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shih-Ger Chang (El Cerrito, California); Yang Li (El Cerrito, California); Xinglei Zhao (Albany, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Ger Chang (El Cerrito, California); Yang Li (El Cerrito, California); Xinglei Zhao (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system for capturing CO2 and/or SO2, comprising: (a) a CO2 and/or SO2 absorber comprising an amine and/or amino acid salt capable of absorbing the CO2 and/or SO2 to produce a CO2- and/or SO2-containing solution; (b) an amine regenerator to regenerate the amine and/or amino acid salt; and, when the system captures CO2, (c) an alkali metal carbonate regenerator comprising an ammonium catalyst capable catalyzing the aqueous alkali metal bicarbonate into the alkali metal carbonate and CO2 gas. The present invention also provides for a system for capturing SO2, comprising: (a) a SO2 absorber comprising aqueous alkali metal carbonate, wherein the alkali metal carbonate is capable of absorbing the SO2 to produce an alkali metal sulfite/sulfate precipitate and CO2. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/757550 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771425 | Dale |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce E. Dale (Mason, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce E. Dale (Mason, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the treatment of biomass to render structural carbohydrates more accessible and/or digestible using concentrated ammonium hydroxide with or without anhydrous ammonia addition, is described. The process preferably uses steam to strip ammonia from the biomass for recycling. The process yields of monosaccharides from the structural carbohydrates are good, particularly as measured by the enzymatic hydrolysis of the structural carbohydrates. The monosaccharides are used as animal feeds and energy sources for ethanol production. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/591092 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugar, starch, and carbohydrates 127/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771439 | Qu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun Qu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hua-Tay Lin (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Peter J. Blau (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vinod K. Sikka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Qu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hua-Tay Lin (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Peter J. Blau (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vinod K. Sikka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for producing a titanium aluminide intermetallic alloy composition having an improved wear resistance, the method comprising heating a titanium aluminide intermetallic alloy material in an oxygen-containing environment at a temperature and for a time sufficient to produce a top oxide layer and underlying oxygen-diffused layer, followed by removal of the top oxide layer such that the oxygen-diffused layer is exposed. The invention is also directed to the resulting oxygen-diffused titanium aluminide intermetallic alloy, as well as mechanical components or devices containing the improved alloy composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416323 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771482 | Bailey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James L. Bailey (Hinsdale, Illinois); Laurel A. Barnes (Chicago, Illinois); Stanley G. Wiedmeyer (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Mark A. Williamson (Naperville, Illinois); James L. Willit (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Bailey (Hinsdale, Illinois); Laurel A. Barnes (Chicago, Illinois); Stanley G. Wiedmeyer (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Mark A. Williamson (Naperville, Illinois); James L. Willit (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrolytic oxide reduction system according to a non-limiting embodiment of the present invention may include a plurality of anode assemblies and an anode shroud for each of the anode assemblies. The anode shroud may be used to dilute, cool, and/or remove off-gas from the electrolytic oxide reduction system. The anode shroud may include a body portion having a tapered upper section that includes an apex. The body portion may have an inner wall that defines an off-gas collection cavity. A chimney structure may extend from the apex of the upper section and be connected to the off-gas collection cavity of the body portion. The chimney structure may include an inner tube within an outer tube. Accordingly, a sweep gas/cooling gas may be supplied down the annular space between the inner and outer tubes, while the off-gas may be removed through an exit path defined by the inner tube. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/977791 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/297.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771547 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lightscape Materials, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuanqiang Li (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Michael Dennis Romanelli (North Plainfield, New Jersey); Yongchi Tian (Princeton Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a novel family of oxycarbonitride phosphor compositions and light emitting devices incorporating the same. Within the sextant system of M—Al—Si—O—N—C—Ln and quintuplet system of M—Si—O—N—C—Ln (M=alkaline earth element, Ln=rare earth element), the phosphors are composed of either one single crystalline phase or two crystalline phases with high chemical and thermal stability. In certain embodiments, the disclosed phosphor of silicon oxycarbonitrides emits green light at wavelength between 530-550 nm. In further embodiments, the disclosed phosphor compositions emit blue-green to yellow light in a wavelength range of 450-650 nm under near-UV and blue light excitation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/950354 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/0883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 11/7705 (20130101) C09K 11/7706 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/63 (20130101) H01J 29/20 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/502 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771750 | Hobbs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David T. Hobbs (N. Augusta, South Carolina); John C. Wataha (Martinez, Georgia); Jill Lewis (Martinez, Georgia); Regina L. W. Messer (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Hobbs (N. Augusta, South Carolina); John C. Wataha (Martinez, Georgia); Jill Lewis (Martinez, Georgia); Regina L. W. Messer (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for delivering and/or removing metal from a biological system by loading a titanate sorbent with a biometal either before introduction into the system for delivery to a site within the system or after introduction into the system for delivery to a site where there is an excess accumulation of metal and thereafter the sorbent is loaded at the site with the excess metal and is removed from the system. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639105 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/665 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771856 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liyu Li (Richland, Washington); Soowhan Kim (Richland, Washington); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington); Wei Wang (Richland, Washington); Jianlu Zhang (Richland, Washington); Baowei Chen (Richland, Washington); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Guanguang Xia (Pasco, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liyu Li (Richland, Washington); Soowhan Kim (Richland, Washington); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington); Wei Wang (Richland, Washington); Jianlu Zhang (Richland, Washington); Baowei Chen (Richland, Washington); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Guanguang Xia (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A redox flow battery having a supporting solution that includes Cl− anions is characterized by an anolyte having V2+ and V3+ in the supporting solution, a catholyte having Fe2+ and Fe3+ in the supporting solution, and a membrane separating the anolyte and the catholyte. The anolyte and catholyte can have V cations and Fe cations, respectively, or the anolyte and catholyte can each contain both V and Fe cations in a mixture. Furthermore, the supporting solution can contain a mixture of SO42− and Cl− anions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892698 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/184 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/188 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771899 | Langry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin C. Langry (Tracy, California); Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. Langry (Tracy, California); Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a system includes a structure having an ionically-conductive, electrically-resistive electrolyte/separator layer covering an inner or outer surface of a carbon-containing electrically-conductive hollow fiber and a catalyst coupled to the hollow fiber, an anode extending along at least part of a length of the structure, and a cathode extending along at least part of the length of the structure, the cathode being on an opposite side of the hollow fiber as the anode. In another embodiment, a method includes acquiring a structure having an ionically-conductive, electrically-resistive electrolyte/separator layer covering an inner or outer surface of a carbon-containing electrically-conductive hollow fiber and a catalyst along one side thereof, adding an anode that extends along at least part of a length of the structure, and adding a cathode that extends along at least part of the length of the structure on an opposite side as the anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706626 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771940 | Andersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Todd D. DeSantis (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Todd D. DeSantis (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present embodiments relate to an array system for detecting and identifying biomolecules and organisms. More specifically, the present embodiments relate to an array system comprising a microarray configured to simultaneously detect a plurality of organisms in a sample at a high confidence level. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474204 |
| 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 08771950 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Joseph Chou (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Joseph Chou (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for making a plurality of probes for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples are provided. Compositions and methods for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples to obtain sequence information in each nucleic acid sample are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187460 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 2535/113 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaj Spodsberg (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/764912 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771994 | Spodsberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaj Spodsberg (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/765018 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772515 | Dumesic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin); Jean Marcel Ribeiro Gallo (Madison, Wisconsin); David Alonso (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a process to produce hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) from biomass-derived sugars. The process includes the steps of reacting a C5 and/or C6 sugar-containing reactant derived from biomass in a monophasic or biphasic reaction solution comprising water and a co-solvent. The co-solvent can be beta-, gamma-, and/or delta-lactones derived from biomass, tetrahydrofuran (THF) derived from biomass, and/or methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF) derived from biomass. The reaction takes place in the presence of an acid catalyst and a dehydration catalyst for a time and under conditions such that at least a portion of glucose or fructose present in the reactant is converted to HMF. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649891 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772566 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huizhen Gao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yifeng Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark A. Rodriguez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Denise N. Bencoe (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A waste form for and a method of rendering hazardous materials less dangerous is disclosed that includes fixing the hazardous material in nanopores of a nanoporous material, reacting the trapped hazardous material to render it less volatile/soluble, and vitrifying the nanoporous material containing the less volatile/soluble hazardous material. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679340 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/06 (20130101) B01J 20/08 (20130101) B01J 20/10 (20130101) B01J 20/2808 (20130101) B01J 20/3085 (20130101) B01J 20/28057 (20130101) B01J 20/28069 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 1/002 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 9/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21F 9/12 (20130101) G21F 9/305 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772623 | Wanlass et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Wanlass (Golden, Colorado); Jeffrey J. Carapella (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Low bandgap, monolithic, multi-bandgap, optoelectronic devices (10), including PV converters, photodetectors, and LED's, have lattice-matched (LM), double-heterostructure (DH), low-bandgap GaInAs(P) subcells (22, 24) including those that are lattice-mismatched (LMM) to InP, grown on an InP substrate (26) by use of at least one graded lattice constant transition layer (20) of InAsP positioned somewhere between the InP substrate (26) and the LMM subcell(s) (22, 24). These devices are monofacial (10) or bifacial (80) and include monolithic, integrated, modules (MIMs) (190) with a plurality of voltage-matched subcell circuits (262, 264, 266, 270, 272) as well as other variations and embodiments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/664142 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772628 | Wanlass et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark W. Wanlass (Golden, Colorado); Jeffrey J. Carapella (Golden, Colorado); Myles A. Steiner (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Wanlass (Golden, Colorado); Jeffrey J. Carapella (Golden, Colorado); Myles A. Steiner (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | High performance, high bandgap, lattice-mismatched, photovoltaic cells (10), both transparent and non-transparent to sub-bandgap light, are provided as devices for use alone or in combination with other cells in split spectrum apparatus or other applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/992871 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772711 | Webb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ian K. Webb (Kennewick, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian K. Webb (Kennewick, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of dissociating ions in a multipole ion guide is disclosed. A stream of charged ions is supplied to the ion guide. A main RF field is applied to the ion guide to confine the ions through the ion guide. An excitation RF field is applied to one pair of rods of the ion guide. The ions undergo dissociation when the applied excitation RF field is resonant with a secular frequency of the ions. The multipole ion guide is, but not limited to, a quadrupole, a hexapole, and an octopole. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/011529 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772764 | Katz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard E. Katz (Owings Mill, Maryland); Hoyoul Kong (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-chemical sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and a semiconductor channel in electrical contact with the first and second electrodes. The semiconductor channel includes a trapping material. The trapping material reduces an ability of the semiconductor channel to conduct a current of charge carriers by trapping at least some of the charge carriers to localized regions within the semiconductor channel. The semiconductor channel includes at least a portion configured to be exposed to an analyte to be detected, and the trapping material, when exposed to the analyte, interacts with the analyte so as to at least partially restore the ability of the semiconductor channel to conduct the current of charge carriers. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725630 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774007 | Hussain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohsin Hussain (Campbell, California); Brock LaPorte (San Carlos, California); Udo Uebel (San Francisco, California); Aftab Zia (Campbell, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohsin Hussain (Campbell, California); Brock LaPorte (San Carlos, California); Udo Uebel (San Francisco, California); Aftab Zia (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for communicating information on an energy distribution network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a local supervisor on a communication network, wherein the local supervisor can collect data from one or more energy generation/monitoring devices. The system also includes a command center on the communication network, wherein the command center can generate one or more commands for controlling the one or more energy generation devices. The local supervisor can periodically transmit a data signal indicative of the data to the command center via a first channel of the communication network at a first interval. The local supervisor can also periodically transmit a request for a command to the command center via a second channel of the communication network at a second interval shorter than the first interval. This channel configuration provides effective data communication without a significant increase in the use of network resources. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/070351 |
| ART UNIT | 2472 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774866 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allen A. Anderson (Firth, Idaho); Timothy G. Kaser (Ammon, Idaho); Paul A. Tremblay (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Belva L. Mays (Fresno, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen A. Anderson (Firth, Idaho); Timothy G. Kaser (Ammon, Idaho); Paul A. Tremblay (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Randall A. Mays (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An Electrically Floating, Near Vertical Incidence, Skywave (NVIS) Antenna comprising an antenna element, a floating ground element, and a grounding element. At least part of said floating ground element is positioned between said antenna element and said grounding element. The antenna is separated from the floating ground element and the grounding element by one or more electrical insulators. The floating ground element is separated from said antenna and said grounding element by one or more electrical insulators. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/239470 |
| ART UNIT | 2648 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/28 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775531 | Blocksome et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Jeffrey J. Parker (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Jeffrey J. Parker (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Completion processing of data communications instructions in a distributed computing environment with computers coupled for data communications through communications adapters and an active messaging interface (‘AMI’), injecting for data communications instructions into slots in an injection FIFO buffer a transfer descriptor, at least some of the instructions specifying callback functions; injecting a completion descriptor for each instruction that specifies a callback function into an injection FIFO buffer slot having a corresponding slot in a pending callback list; listing in the pending callback list callback functions specified by data communications instructions; processing each descriptor in the injection FIFO buffer, setting a bit in a completion bit mask corresponding to the slot in the FIFO where the completion descriptor was injected; and calling by the AMI any callback functions in the pending callback list as indicated by set bits in the completion bit mask. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/985651 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08776081 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Send-side matching of data communications messages includes a plurality of compute nodes organized for collective operations, 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 | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/881863 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/546 (20130101) G06F 15/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 15/17312 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warren Barrash (Boise, Idaho); Michael Cardiff (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren Barrash (Boise, Idaho); Michael Cardiff (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Modular hydraulic packer-and-port system and corresponding methods of operation. The system may be installed for temporary, semi-permanent, or permanent deployments. The system and method may provide for hydraulic isolation of target zones in a well while allowing pass-through tubes to the target zones for taking samples, inserting monitoring sensors, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/232876 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/387 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771347 | DeBoer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles DeBoer (Pasadena, California); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Mark Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles DeBoer (Pasadena, California); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Mark Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, devices, and methods are presented for a prosthetic injectable intraocular lens. One or more silicone elastomeric patches located outside the optical path on the anterior side but away from the equator can be accessed by surgical needles in order to fill or adjust optically clear fluid within the lens. The fluid can be adjusted in order to set a base dioptric power of the lens and otherwise adjust a lens after its initial insertion. The elastomeric patches are sized so that they self-seal after a needle is withdrawn. A straight or stepped slit in the patch can allow a blunt needle to more easily access the interior of the lens. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/350612 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/1635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2250/0003 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771741 | Adair et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mark Kester (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Erhan I. Altinoglu (State College, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Barth (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Timothy J. Russin (San Diego, California); James M. D. Kaiser (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Thomas T. Morgan (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Karen L. Eklund (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Adair (State College, Pennsylvania); Mark Kester (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Peter C. Eklund (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Erhan I. Altinoglu (State College, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Barth (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania); Timothy J. Russin (San Diego, California); James M. D. Kaiser (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); Thomas T. Morgan (Pepperell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nano-encapsulated photosensitizers and their use in the treatment of tumors and/or imaging is described. Preferably, the photosensitizers are encapsulated in a calcium phosphate nanoparticle (CPNP). Encapsulating the PS in a CPNP increases the half-life of the PS, increases absorption of the PS into the target cell tissue, increases the photostability of the PS, increases the photoefficiency of the PS, increases in vivo retention of the PS, or combinations thereof, ultimately making it a highly efficacious agent for use in photodynamic therapy, imaging target tissues, vessels, or tumors, and/or detecting or locating tumors. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657556 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771822 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xudong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Jian Shi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xudong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Jian Shi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for growing a three-dimensional nanorod network in three-dimensional growth spaces, including highly confined spaces, are provided. The methods are derived from atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes, but use higher temperatures and extended pulsing and/or purging times. Through these methods, networks of nanorods can be grown uniformly along the entire inner surfaces of confined growth spaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/008170 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 25/005 (20130101) C30B 25/18 (20130101) C30B 29/16 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772331 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Lee R. Swem (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Scott M. Ulrich (Ithaca, New York); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Lee R. Swem (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Scott M. Ulrich (Ithaca, New York); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel small molecule antagonizes two types of acyl homoserine lactone receptors: membrane-bound and cytoplasmic. A focused library of analogs and derivatives of the original antagonist was synthesized. Analog and derivative molecules harbor a range of activities. The novel small molecule and most potent antagonist protects the eukaryote Caenorhabditis elegans from quorum-sensing-mediated killing by the bacterial pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum. The saving of C. elegans demonstrates the use of these molecules as small molecule antimicrobials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/550961 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772971 | Joannopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are embodiments of at least one source resonator coupled to an energy source generating an oscillating near field region, and at least one device resonator optionally coupled to an electronic device located at a variable distance within the at least one source resonator's near-field region, where at least two of the resonators comprise high-Q capacitively-loaded conducting-wire loops. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/649813 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/182 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 9/04 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) H02J 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7088 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/122 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772972 | Joannopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are embodiments of a first resonator coupled to an energy source generating an oscillating near field region, and a second resonator optionally coupled to an energy drain and moving freely within the near field region of the first resonator. The first resonator and the second resonator may be coupled to transfer electromagnetic energy from said first resonator to said second resonator as the second resonator moves freely within the near field region, and where the region may include distances greater than the characteristic size of the smaller of the first resonator and the second resonator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/649852 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/182 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 9/04 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) H02J 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7088 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/122 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08773130 | Pielak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary J. Pielak (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher Barnes (Huntersville, North Carolina); Naima G. Sharaf (North Andover, Massachusetts); Gregory Young (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Freddy Pinero (Durham, North Carolina); Lisa Charlton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Seagle (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Pielak (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher Barnes (Huntersville, North Carolina); Naima G. Sharaf (North Andover, Massachusetts); Gregory Young (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Freddy Pinero (Durham, North Carolina); Lisa Charlton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Seagle (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and related methods for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of particulate materials are provided including a detector chamber configured for insertion into an NMR spectrometer and configured to receive particulate materials in a fluid. A circulation chamber is attached to and in fluid communication with a first end of the detector chamber. A transition region is between the detector chamber and the circulation chamber, and a fluid supply interface is at a second end of the detector chamber that is configured to attach to a fluid source. The detector chamber, the circulation chamber and the transition region are sized and configured such that, when fluid flows from the fluid supply interface into the second end of the detector region, a circulating current is formed in the transition region and/or the circulation chamber such that the particulate matter is contained in the circulation chamber by the circulating current. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/260975 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08773661 | Swalwell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jarred E. Swalwell (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A sheathless flow cytometry system is disclosed wherein a fluid containing particles of interest is illuminated in the sensing region with a light source. Light resulting from the interaction of the particles with the illumination is received by a lens, and focused toward a field stop having an aperture comprising relatively large end portions and a relatively small center portion. Light deflectors are disposed over the relatively large end portions of the aperture. The system is arranged such that light from particles in focus in the sensing region is focused on the relatively small center portion of the aperture. Peripheral detectors receive light from the light deflectors, and a center light detector receives light passing through the center portion. The detector signals may be used to identify which of the detector signals correspond to particles in focus as they passed through the sensing region. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/902745 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774291 | Ghovanloo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maysam Ghovanloo (Atlanta, Georgia); Farzad Inanlou (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maysam Ghovanloo (Atlanta, Georgia); Farzad Inanlou (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment provides a pulse harmonic modulation method comprising transmitting a first data initiation pulse to an input of a first resonant circuit thereby creating an oscillating waveform at an output of a second resonant circuit and transmitting a first modifying pulse to the input of the first resonant circuit. The first modifying pulse can modify a first portion of the oscillating waveform. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/521123 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774309 | Giannakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-selective fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols by inserting training symbols within two or more blocks of information-bearing symbols. The transmitter applies a hopping code to each of the blocks of symbols to insert a null subcarrier at a different position within each of the blocks of symbols, and a modulator outputs a wireless signal in accordance with the blocks of symbols. A receiver receives the wireless signal and estimates the CFO, and outputs a stream of estimated symbols based on the estimated CFO. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783039 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774529 | Rubenstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Image Insight Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Image Insight Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P. Rubenstein (Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Gordon A. Drukier (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein is generally directed to methods for analyzing an image. In particular, crowded field images may be analyzed for unidentified, unobserved objects based on an iterative analysis of modified images including artificial objects or removed real objects. The results can provide an estimate of the completeness of analysis of the image, an estimate of the number of objects that are unobserved in the image, and an assessment of the quality of other similar images. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/902097 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775108 | Chakrabarty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krishnendu Chakrabarty (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Brandon Noia (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishnendu Chakrabarty (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Brandon Noia (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | On-chip test architecture and design-for-testability methods for pre-bond testing of TSVs are provided. In accordance with certain embodiments of the invention, a die level wrapper is provided including gated scan flops connected to one end of each TSV. The gated scan flops include a scan flop structure and a gated output. The gated output is controlled by a signal to cause the output of the gated scan flop to either be in a “floated state” or take the value stored in the flip-flop portion of the gated scan flop. The gated output of the gated scan flop can be used to enable resistance and capacitance measurements of pre-bonded TSVs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/172161 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2853 (20130101) G01R 31/31717 (20130101) G01R 31/318538 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/318541 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775352 | Sen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subhabrata Sen (New Providence, New Jersey); Carsten Lund (Berkeley Hts., New Jersey); Sanjay Gopinatha Rao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yu-Wei Sung (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AT and T Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, Georgia); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhabrata Sen (New Providence, New Jersey); Carsten Lund (Berkeley Hts., New Jersey); Sanjay Gopinatha Rao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yu-Wei Sung (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus to model end-to-end class of service policies in operational networks are disclosed. An example method to generate a class of service model is described, including electronically generating a ruleset based on the class of service configuration associated with a router, electronically generating a flat representation of the ruleset, electronically generating a class of service model by composing the flat representation into a composed ruleset, and storing the class of service model in a computer-readable memory. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/715189 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08775358 | Bonawitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith Bonawitz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vikash Mansinghka (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Bonawitz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vikash Mansinghka (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing probabilistic inference and providing related solution methods is presented. At least one state space (SS) is obtained for variables of interest relating to a problem of interest. None or more densities (D) defining pure functions over locations in the at least one SS are also obtained as is none or more kernels (K) defining a stochastic walk through the at least one SS. A virtual machine executes a stochastic walk through the state space to produce a solution for a problem of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/276956 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08776250 | Sy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bon K. Sy (Bayside, New York); Arun Prakash Kumara Krishnan (Flushing, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bon K. Sy (Bayside, New York); Arun Prakash Kumara Krishnan (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed in this specification is a method and program storage device for comparing two sets of private data without revealing those private data. If the comparison deems the two data sets sufficiently similar, helper data may be provided to permit reconstruction of one of the private data sets without transmission of that private data set. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/544351 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08770119 | Kornecki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ted S. Kornecki (Auburn, Alabama); Henry A. Torbert, III (Opelika, Alabama); Stephen A. Prior (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted S. Kornecki (Auburn, Alabama); Henry A. Torbert, III (Opelika, Alabama); Stephen A. Prior (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The residue manager deflects cover crop stalks and flattens cover crop residue during a no-till or minimum-till agricultural planting process. The residue manager apparatus comprises an “A” shaped frame. A leading portion of the frame is designed to deflect cover crop stalks. Press shoes attached to an intermediate portion of the frame depress cover crop residue that is not deflected by the leading portion. The trailing portion of the residue manager frame is configured to attach to existing planting mechanisms, such as seed drills. As the residue manager is propelled across a field of cover crops, the residue manager deflects cover crop stalks and depresses cover crop residue adjacent to the planting mechanism so that the planting process is not obstructed by the cover crop biomass on the surface of the field. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/048362 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Planting 111/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771425 | Dale |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce E. Dale (Mason, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce E. Dale (Mason, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the treatment of biomass to render structural carbohydrates more accessible and/or digestible using concentrated ammonium hydroxide with or without anhydrous ammonia addition, is described. The process preferably uses steam to strip ammonia from the biomass for recycling. The process yields of monosaccharides from the structural carbohydrates are good, particularly as measured by the enzymatic hydrolysis of the structural carbohydrates. The monosaccharides are used as animal feeds and energy sources for ethanol production. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/591092 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugar, starch, and carbohydrates 127/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771670 | Harris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Delbert Linn Harris (Ames, Iowa); Matthew M. Erdman (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Delbert Linn Harris (Ames, Iowa); Matthew M. Erdman (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a polypeptide of a protective antigenic determinant (PAD polypeptide) of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide. The PAD polypeptide and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide are useful in the development of antibodies directed to PAD, vaccines effective in providing protection against PRRSV infection, and diagnostic assays detecting the presence of PAD antibodies generated by a PAD-specific vaccine. The invention also discloses methods of generating antibodies to PAD, for vaccinating a pig to provide protection from PRRSV infections, a method of preparing the vaccine, a method of treating PRRSV infections in a pig, and a method of detecting antibodies to PAD of PRRSV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533167 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771772 | Damodaran |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivasan Damodaran (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Shown is a method of selectively separating milk fat globule membrane fragments and milk fat globules from whey. The method includes the steps of adding to whey an amount of a whey-soluble zinc salt and adjusting the pH of the whey to be less than 6.0. The amount of zinc salt added to the whey is sufficient to cause milk fat globule membrane fragments and milk fat globules contained in the whey to precipitate selectively from the whey. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/956761 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771934 | Sutovsky 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) | Peter Sutovsky (Columbia, Missouri); Young-Joo Yi (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a new and improved sperm stimulating additive comprising a certain amount of inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi). Addition of PPi in the media for human/animal in vitro fertilization (IVF) improves fertilization rate; addition of PPi in the semen extender for farm animal artificial insemination (AI) may improve pregnancy rates; furthermore, mammalian oocytes matured in vitro in a medium including PPi attain improved fertilization and developmental potential, while embryos cultured in medium supplemented with PPi have improved development to blastocyst. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/708728 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08771702 | Paterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Paulo Cesar Maciag (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Paulo Cesar Maciag (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant proteins or peptides comprising a mutated listeriolysin O (LLO) protein or fragment thereof, comprising a substitution or internal deletion of the cholesterol-binding domain or a portion thereof, fusion proteins or peptides comprising same, nucleotide molecules encoding same, and vaccine vectors comprising or encoding same. The present invention also provides methods of utilizing recombinant proteins, peptides, nucleotide molecules, and vaccine vectors of the present invention to induce an immune response to a peptide of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/213696 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08773077 | Elmes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Elmes (Orlando, Florida); Rene Kersten (Orlando, Florida); Michael Pepper (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Advanced Power Electronics Corporation (APECOR Corp.) (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Elmes (Orlando, Florida); Rene Kersten (Orlando, Florida); Michael Pepper (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A controller for a battery charger that includes a power converter has parametric sensors for providing a sensed Vin signal, a sensed Vout signal and a sensed Iout signal. A battery current regulator (BCR) is coupled to receive the sensed Iout signal and an Iout reference, and outputs a first duty cycle control signal. An input voltage regulator (IVR) receives the sensed Vin signal and a Vin reference. The IVR provides a second duty cycle control signal. A processor receives the sensed Iout signal and utilizes a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm, and provides the Vin reference to the IVR. A selection block forwards one of the first and second duty cycle control signals as a duty cycle control signal to the power converter. Dynamic switching between the first and second duty cycle control signals maximizes the power delivered to the battery. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/041164 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 7/91 (20130101) H02J 7/0093 (20130101) H02J 2007/0059 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774246 | Deppe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis G. Deppe (Oviedo, Florida); Sabine M. Freisem (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); sdPhotonics, LLC (Oviedo, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis G. Deppe (Oviedo, Florida); Sabine M. Freisem (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor vertical resonant cavity light source includes an upper mirror and a lower minor that define a vertical resonant cavity. A first active region is within the vertical resonant cavity for light generation between the upper minor and lower mirror. The vertical resonant cavity includes an inner mode confinement region and an outer current blocking region. A depleted heterojunction current blocking region (DHCBR) is within the outer current blocking region of at least one of the upper minor, lower minor, and first active region. A conducting channel within the inner mode confinement region is framed by the DHCBR. The DHCBR forces current flow into the conducting channel during operation of the light source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352050 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774529 | Rubenstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Image Insight Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Image Insight Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P. Rubenstein (Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Gordon A. Drukier (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein is generally directed to methods for analyzing an image. In particular, crowded field images may be analyzed for unidentified, unobserved objects based on an iterative analysis of modified images including artificial objects or removed real objects. The results can provide an estimate of the completeness of analysis of the image, an estimate of the number of objects that are unobserved in the image, and an assessment of the quality of other similar images. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/902097 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08770083 | Hatfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles A. Hatfield (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Thomas Morrow (Acton, California); Alexander Brown (Coconut Creek, Florida); Trent Meyers (Savannah, Georgia); Katie Spira (Sanger, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Hatfield (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Thomas Morrow (Acton, California); Alexander Brown (Coconut Creek, Florida); Trent Meyers (Savannah, Georgia); Katie Spira (Sanger, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A quick release illumination flare mounting arrangement particularly adapted for use in an aircraft. Includes a base plate mounted to the aircraft's deck, and an aperture in sealed contact with an upper end of a flare discharge tube coupled to a discharge aperture in the fuselage. A coupling assembly which includes a second aperture is easily coupled to and removed from the base plate by coupling pins. The coupling assembly further includes an upper plate adapted for secure, sealed, easily removable mounting to the lower end of a flare receiving tube. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/767304 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08771940 | Andersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Todd D. DeSantis (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Todd D. DeSantis (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present embodiments relate to an array system for detecting and identifying biomolecules and organisms. More specifically, the present embodiments relate to an array system comprising a microarray configured to simultaneously detect a plurality of organisms in a sample at a high confidence level. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474204 |
| 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 08772710 | Ouyang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Jason Harper (Lafayette, Indiana); Nicholas Charipar (Batavia, Indiana); Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to a low temperature plasma probe for desorbing and ionizing at least one analyte in a sample material and methods of use thereof. In one embodiment, the invention generally relates to a low temperature plasma probe including: a housing having a discharge gas inlet port, a probe tip, two electrodes, and a dielectric barrier, in which the two electrodes are separated by the dielectric barrier, in which application of voltage from a power supply generates a low temperature plasma, and in which the low temperature plasma is propelled out of the discharge region by the electric field and/or the discharge gas flow. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/010130 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08771613 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Martin (Louisville, Kentucky); Robert Keynton (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas Roussel (Louisville, Kentucky); Kevin M. Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); Douglas J. Jackson (New Albany, Indiana); John Naber (Goshen, Kentucky); Julia W. Abersold (Floyds Knob, Indiana); Richard B. Hageman, III (Louisville, Kentucky); Suraj Alexander (Anchorage, Kentucky); Scott Cambron (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Martin (Louisville, Kentucky); Robert Keynton (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas Roussel (Louisville, Kentucky); Kevin M. Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); Douglas J. Jackson (New Albany, Indiana); John Naber (Goshen, Kentucky); Julia W. Abersold (Floyds Knob, Indiana); Richard B. Hageman, III (Louisville, Kentucky); Suraj Alexander (Anchorage, Kentucky); Scott Cambron (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A large volume preconcentrator device for concentrating analytes. A housing accepts an analyte vapor flow, and a plurality of collection surfaces are disposed within the housing. A selectively actuatable heater is disposed on each of the plurality of collection surfaces. At least one selectively actuatable damper is disposed within the housing for selectively restricting a collection flow. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/056091 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/527 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774513 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoming Liu (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Ya Xue (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoming Liu (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Ya Xue (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel technique for unsupervised feature selection is disclosed. The disclosed methods include automatically selecting a subset of a feature of an image. Additionally, the selection of the subset of features may be incorporated with a congealing algorithm, such as a least-square-based congealing algorithm. By selecting a subset of the feature representation of an image, redundant and/or irrelevant features may be reduced or removed, and the efficiency and accuracy of least-square-based congealing may be improved. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/346479 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08771689 | Steinman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Steinman (Stanford, California); Shalina Sheryl Ousman (Stanford, California); William H. Robinson (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Steinman (Stanford, California); Shalina Sheryl Ousman (Stanford, California); William H. Robinson (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating inflammatory diseases by administering to the subject an effective amount of an agent that provides alpha B-crystallin activity, where the dose is effective to suppress or prevent initiation, progression, or relapses of disease, including the progression of established disease. In some embodiments, the methods of the invention comprise administering to a subject having a pre-existing inflammatory disease condition, an effective amount of alpha B-crystallin protein, to suppress or prevent relapses of the disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/135079 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08772571 | Lau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kin-Hing William Lau (Redlands, California); David J. Baylink (Loma Linda, California); Susan L. Hall (San Bernardino, California); Shin-Tai Chen (Colton, California); Subburaman Mohan (Redlands, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kin-Hing William Lau (Redlands, California); David J. Baylink (Loma Linda, California); Susan L. Hall (San Bernardino, California); Shin-Tai Chen (Colton, California); Subburaman Mohan (Redlands, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for increasing bone growth and/or enhancing wound healing, for example, fracture repair. The disclosure provides recombinant nucleic acids useful for promoting bone growth. For example, the disclosure provides recombinant nucleic acids that encode a fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) analog. The disclosure also provides vectors and cells incorporating these nucleic acids, as well as FGF-2 analogs encode by them. The disclosure also provides a mouse system of bone marrow transplantation and methods for producing as well as methods for using the system. Methods for inducing division and/or inducing differentiation of a hematopoietic stem cell are also provided, as are methods for enhancing bone growth and/or wound repair (for example, fracture repair). |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879842 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08774228 | Bulzacchelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John F. Bulzacchelli (Yonkers, New York); Timothy O. Dickson (Danbury, Connecticut); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Sergey V. Rylov (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Bulzacchelli (Yonkers, New York); Timothy O. Dickson (Danbury, Connecticut); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Sergey V. Rylov (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for timing recovery for an input/output bus with link redundancy. A parallel input/output interface receiver includes a plurality of data receivers, each configured to respectively receive input data from a respective one of n+m channels, where n is an integer greater than one and m is an integer greater than or equal to one. The input data is non-calibration data for the n channels and is calibration data for the m channels. The interface receiver further includes a first phase adjustor configured to provide a first clock signal to the plurality of data receivers for sampling of only the non-calibration data at any given time, and a second phase adjustor configured to provide a second clock signal to the plurality of data receivers for sampling of only the calibration data at any given time. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157968 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08776062 — Determining desired job plan based on previous inquiries in a stream processing framework
| US 08776062 | Garbow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zachary Adam Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary Adam Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A data stream processing system is provided that utilizes independent sites to process user-defined inquires over dynamic, continuous streams of data. A mechanism is provided for processing these inquiries over the continuous streams of data by matching new inquiries to previously submitted inquiries. The job plans containing sets of processing elements that were created for both the new inquiry and the previous inquiries are compared for consistency in input and output formatting and commonality of processing elements used. In accordance with the comparison, the new job plan, previous job plans or a combination of the new and previous job plans are used to process the new inquiry. Based on the results of processing the new inquiry, a determination is made regarding which job plans are used for future inquiries. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852389 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08772187 | Ugbolue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel C. Ugbolue (Taunton, Massachusetts); Yong K. Kim (Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Steven B. Warner (South Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Qinguo Fan (North Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Chen-Lu Yang (Westport, Massachusetts); Olena Kyzymchuk (New Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel C. Ugbolue (Taunton, Massachusetts); Yong K. Kim (Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Steven B. Warner (South Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Qinguo Fan (North Dartmouth, Massachusetts); Chen-Lu Yang (Westport, Massachusetts); Olena Kyzymchuk (New Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Auxetic fabric structures, of the sort which can be useful in conjunction with composite materials, and related methods of fabrication. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/665166 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08775062 | Becher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Alois Becher (McLean, Virginia); Eric Joseph Zakrzewski (Sterling, Virginia); Paul Vincent MacWilliams (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Alois Becher (McLean, Virginia); Eric Joseph Zakrzewski (Sterling, Virginia); Paul Vincent MacWilliams (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide an advanced decision support tool to enable automated aircraft sequencing and conflict detection and resolution. The tool can be used to assist an air traffic controller (ATC) in determining merging, sequencing, and spacing resolutions; communicating the resolutions to the aircraft; and monitoring execution and compliance with the provided resolutions. According to embodiments, the tool can incorporate a broad range of inputs (e.g., surveillance data, weather information, aircraft equipage, etc.) and can be configured according to different aircraft sequencing modes of operation (e.g., one mode of operation is to minimize aircraft deviations necessary to resolve a particular conflict). In an embodiment, the tool includes a controller interface, which may be integrated within the controller interface of existing ATC systems or implemented separately. Embodiments can be implemented using software, hardware, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287833 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — 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 71/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
General Services Administration (GSA)
| US 08773964 | Hsueh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tzu-Chien Hsueh (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sudhakar Pamarti (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzu-Chien Hsueh (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sudhakar Pamarti (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Synchronous CDMA/spread spectrum methods, devices, and systems are used to suppress crosstalk in clock-forwarded on-chip interconnects. Transmitting a spread spectrum signal across on-chip interconnects for recovery at the terminus permit integrated chip designers to overcome the effects of capacitive cross-talk between adjacent data bus lines. The methods, devices, and systems provided herein improve cross-talk immunity between adjacent high speed signal lines by applying synchronous CDMA spread spectrum techniques to some or all of the high speed signal lines. Other methods, devices, and systems provided herein apply synchronous CDMA spread spectrum techniques to the concept of sending phantom signals to reduce the number of signal lines used to carry data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/878547 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08773077 | Elmes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Elmes (Orlando, Florida); Rene Kersten (Orlando, Florida); Michael Pepper (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Advanced Power Electronics Corporation (APECOR Corp.) (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Elmes (Orlando, Florida); Rene Kersten (Orlando, Florida); Michael Pepper (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A controller for a battery charger that includes a power converter has parametric sensors for providing a sensed Vin signal, a sensed Vout signal and a sensed Iout signal. A battery current regulator (BCR) is coupled to receive the sensed Iout signal and an Iout reference, and outputs a first duty cycle control signal. An input voltage regulator (IVR) receives the sensed Vin signal and a Vin reference. The IVR provides a second duty cycle control signal. A processor receives the sensed Iout signal and utilizes a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm, and provides the Vin reference to the IVR. A selection block forwards one of the first and second duty cycle control signals as a duty cycle control signal to the power converter. Dynamic switching between the first and second duty cycle control signals maximizes the power delivered to the battery. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/041164 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 7/91 (20130101) H02J 7/0093 (20130101) H02J 2007/0059 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 08772049 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Hidde L. Ploegh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jehnna Ronan (Chester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960757 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/548 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08772330 | White et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James David White (Philomath, Oregon); David T. Wong (Indianapolis, Indiana); David B. Chan (Nashua, New Hampshire); Jongtae Yang (Corvallis, Oregon); Rajan Juniku (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) | James David White (Philomath, Oregon); David T. Wong (Indianapolis, Indiana); David B. Chan (Nashua, New Hampshire); Jongtae Yang (Corvallis, Oregon); Rajan Juniku (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having a formula: where at least one of R1-R4 is a heterocycle, at least one of R1-R4 is an aryl group coupled to the ring by a linker atom, functional group, or other moiety, or where none of R1-R4 is an amide, and any and all combinations thereof. Remaining R1-R4 substituents independently are aliphatic, substituted aliphatic, amine, substituted amine, aryl, substituted aryl, cyclic, substituted cyclic, halide, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heterocyclic, substituted heterocyclic, hydrogen or hydroxyl. A method for treating a subject also is provided comprising administering a disclosed compound or compounds, or a prodrug that is converted into the disclosed compound or compounds, or a composition comprising the compound, compounds, or prodrugs thereof, to a subject. A method for making disclosed compounds also is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/355371 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 333/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08775329 | Kuebert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward J. Kuebert (Warrenton, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); William J. Dowling (Venice, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Kuebert (Warrenton, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); William J. Dowling (Venice, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The principles of the present invention provide the ability to flexibly change the delivery point and time for a mail item, while the item is en route. The recipient, sender, or mailer may flexibly change the delivery point of the item alone or in combination with each other. While an item is en route between the sending point and the delivery point, a notification is sent to indicate that the item is in transit. In response, the delivery of the item may be changed. For example, the destination specified by the sender (e.g., the delivery address written on the item) may be changed or a delivery time may be specified. The item is then delivered to the new delivery point and/or at the specified delivery time. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941920 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — 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 75/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08770462 | Beair et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William D. Beair (Carrollton, Texas); Michael R. Williams (Allen, Texas); Eric Gilley (Quinlan, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Beair (Carrollton, Texas); Michael R. Williams (Allen, Texas); Eric Gilley (Quinlan, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A solder paste transfer process is provided and includes defining multiple arrangements of solder pad locations on a surface, applying solder paste onto multiple transfer tools coupled to a fixture in a pre-defined configuration reflective of the multiple arrangements, disposing the fixture such that the multiple transfer tools are disposed in an inverted orientation proximate to the surface and reflowing the solder paste to flow from the multiple transfer tools to the solder pad locations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/420355 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774553 | Winn |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart Martin Winn (Salem, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exelis, Inc. (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Martin Winn (Salem, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing an image includes: dividing the input image into multiple tiles; and constructing a respective histogram for each respective multiple tile. The method further includes: dividing each respective histogram into multiple portions, in which each portion represents a count of pixels spanning across pixel intensity value bands. The method also includes: constructing a respective cumulative distribution function (CDF) for each of the multiple portions; and transforming each of the multiple portions using the respective CDF. Each histogram may be divided, as an example, into two portions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352751 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 5/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08774554 | Winn |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart Martin Winn (Salem, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exelis, Inc. (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Martin Winn (Salem, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing an image. This includes the steps of: dividing the image into multiple tiles and constructing a histogram for each tile, wherein the histogram represents a distribution of pixel intensity values in each tile. In addition, the method applies a bias value to the histogram and a plateau value to the histogram. A cumulative histogram is constructed after applying the bias value and the plateau value to the histogram. The method transforms each pixel in the image, by weighing four cumulative histograms, respectively, in four adjacent and closest tiles to the pixel under consideration. The pixel under consideration is modified based on a weighted cumulative histogram. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352765 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 5/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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