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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 02, 2014
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| US 08820325 | Breen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter H. Breen (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. Breen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bymixer devices and methods for sampling or obtaining data from mixed respiratory gases in a ventilation circuit. Respiratory gasses from a plurality of consecutive breaths become mixed within a mixing chamber of the bymixer and samples or data are obtained from such mixed respiratory gasses. Optionally, the volume of the mixing chamber and/or the resistance to flow into or through the mixing chamber may be selectable or adjustable. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874630 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/204.180 |
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| US 08820662 | Yeates |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donovan B. Yeates (Escondido, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Donovan B. Yeates (Escondido, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle for generating an aerosol from a fluid and a gas is described. The nozzle comprises at least one wettable cone-shaped gas exit channel that widens in a direction of gas flow from a cone apex to a cone base of the wettable cone-shaped gas exit channel and is connected at the cone apex to a nozzle gas supply channel. The nozzle further comprises at least one annular fluid exit port at the circumference of the cone base that is connected to a nozzle fluid supply channel. Further, a nozzle holder is described. The nozzle holder comprises a cylindrical crown comprises a plurality of circumferentially spaced grooves that are connected to the ring-shaped fluid exit port. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/890302 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 11/06 (20130101) A61M 15/008 (20130101) A61M 15/0086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2016/0036 (20130101) A61M 2205/362 (20130101) A61M 2205/368 (20130101) Separation B01D 45/08 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 7/065 (20130101) |
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| US 08821135 | Paden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew L. Paden (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Ajit Yoganathan (Tucker, Georgia); Lakshmi Prasad Dasi (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Altanta, Georgia); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew L. Paden (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Ajit Yoganathan (Tucker, Georgia); Lakshmi Prasad Dasi (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The devices and systems are medical fluid treatment therapies. The device and systems are configured and capable of operating based on small volumes of fluids. The devices and systems include a pump configured for small volume of a fluid. The pump may include a first conduit configured for inflow of the fluid; a second conduit configured for outflow of the fluid; a fluid chamber configured to move the fluid through the pump; a diaphragm configured to force the fluid through the fluid chamber by indirectly exerting force on the fluid chamber; and a connector configured to removably attach the pump to a motor. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/218328 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/16 (20130101) A61M 1/34 (20130101) A61M 1/1037 (20130101) A61M 1/1049 (20140204) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 43/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08821402 | Kashif et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faisal Mahmood Kashif (Foothill Ranch, California); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George Cheeran Verghese (Newtown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems, devices, and methods described herein provide for the estimation and monitoring of cerebrovascular system properties and intracranial pressure (ICP) from one or more measurements or measured signals. These measured signals may include central or peripheral arterial blood pressure (ABP), and cerebral blood flow (CBF) or cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV). The measured signals may be acquired noninvasively or minimally-invasively. The measured signals may be used to estimate parameters and variables of a computational model that is representative of the physiological relationships among the cerebral flows and pressures. The computational model may include at least one resistive element, at least one compliance element, and a representation of ICP. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/750166 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
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| US 08821408 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiao Hu (Los Angeles, California); Valeriy I. Nenov (Westchester, California); Neil A. Martin (Encino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao Hu (Los Angeles, California); Valeriy I. Nenov (Westchester, California); Neil A. Martin (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for noninvasively assessing an intracranial pressure of a patient. Some embodiments include providing a simulation model with a measured arterial blood pressure of the patient. Some embodiments further include providing the simulation model with a measured cerebral blood flow velocity of the patient. The simulation model correlates arterial blood pressure values, cerebral blood flow velocity values, and intracranial pressure values. Some embodiments further includes determining an intracranial pressure of the patient based on the simulation model. Some embodiments further includes creating an output data set indicative of the determined intracranial pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296087 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/561 |
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| US 08821409 | Ku et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Ku (Decatur, Georgia); Larry J. Anderson (Atlanta, Georgia); Prem A. Midha (Rolla, Missouri); Harris L. Bergman (Atlanta, Georgia); Tamera Scholz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Ku (Decatur, Georgia); Larry J. Anderson (Atlanta, Georgia); Prem A. Midha (Rolla, Missouri); Harris L. Bergman (Atlanta, Georgia); Tamera Scholz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for collecting material from lung aerosols. The device functions by collecting aerosols from the lower airway separated from material in the by collecting air from the upper airway in a chamber that when full causes the remaining exhaled aerosols from the lungs to be captured by a filter. The filter collects sample of material from the separated lung aerosols. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/141908 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/082 (20130101) A61B 5/097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2010/0087 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/497 (20130101) |
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| US 08821837 | Perez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesus Manuel Perez (Orlando, Florida); Sudip Nath (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses an aqueous method of making polymer coated superparamagnetic nanoparticles. Nanoparticles made by the method are included in the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/855706 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/1848 (20130101) A61K 49/1863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 49/08 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/85 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/84 (20130101) C01P 2006/42 (20130101) |
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| US 08821851 | Warren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | H. Shaw Warren (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jean-Marc Cavaillon (Chaville, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Shaw Warren (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jean-Marc Cavaillon (Chaville, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of purifying compounds that reduce or prevent an inflammatory response in a mammal, use of such compounds in treating a mammal having or being at risk of developing inflammation, as well as serum containing such purified compounds. Also disclosed are animal models that are more representative of humans in the study of inflammatory responses or as screening tools for discovering or developing new therapeutics or lead candidate compounds for inhibition of an inflammatory response. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/225496 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
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| US 08821861 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephanie A. Smith (Champaign, Illinois); James H. Morrissey (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephanie A. Smith (Champaign, Illinois); James H. Morrissey (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fibrin sealant, comprises (a) thrombin, (b) fibrinogen, (c) polyP, and (d) calcium. The thrombin and the fibrinogen are separated prior to application. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/680947 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
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| US 08821866 | Strober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warren Strober (Bethesda, Maryland); Ivan J. Fuss (Bethesda, Maryland); Frank Heller (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard S. Blumberg (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren Strober (Bethesda, Maryland); Ivan J. Fuss (Bethesda, Maryland); Frank Heller (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard S. Blumberg (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of treating or preventing the inflammatory response of colitis in a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a substance that modulates IL-13 activity (FIG. 3). The invention also provides a method of treating or preventing the inflammatory response of colitis in a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a substance that modulates NK-T cell activity. The invention also provides for the screening of substances that treat or prevent the inflammatory response of colitis. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464323 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 08821868 | Goldenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey); Hans J. Hansen (Picayune, Mississippi); Chien-Hsing Chang (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); David V. Gold (Metuchen, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions and methods of use of anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies or fragments thereof, such as murine, chimeric, humanized or human PAM4 antibodies. The subject antibodies show a number of novel and useful therapeutic characteristics, such as binding with high specificity to pancreatic and other cancers, but not to normal or benign pancreatic tissues and binding to a high percentage of early stage pancreatic cancers. In preferred embodiments, the antibodies bind to pancreatic cancer mucins. The antibodies and fragments are of use for the detection, diagnosis and/or treatment of cancer, such as pancreatic cancer. The antibodies, such as PAM4 antibodies, bind to a PAM4 antigen that shows unique cell and tissue distributions compared with other known antibodies such as CA19.9, DUPAN2, SPAN1, Nd2, B72.3, and Lea and Le(y) antibodies that bind to the Lewis antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911667 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 08821877 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William C. Olson (Ossining, New York); Paul J. Maddon (Scarsdale, New York); Daniel C. Pevear (Medford, Massachusetts); Robert J. Israel (Suffern, New York); Jose D. Murga (Rosedale, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CytoDyn Inc. (Vancouver, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Olson (Ossining, New York); Paul J. Maddon (Scarsdale, New York); Daniel C. Pevear (Medford, Massachusetts); Robert J. Israel (Suffern, New York); Jose D. Murga (Rosedale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This method provides a method for reducing HIV-1 viral load in an HIV-1-infected human subject which comprises administering to the subject at a predefined interval effective HIV-1 viral load-reducing doses of (a) a humanized antibody designated PRO 140, or of (b) an anti-CCR5 receptor monoclonal antibody. This invention also provides a method for inhibiting in a human subject the onset or progression of an HIV-1-associated disorder, the inhibition of which is effected by inhibiting fusion of HIV-1 to CCR5+CD4+ target cells in the subject. This invention also provides a method for treating a subject infected with HIV-1 comprising administering to the subject (a) a monoclonal antibody which (i) binds to a CCR5 receptor on the surface of the subject's CD4+ cells and (ii) inhibits fusion of HIV-1 to the subject's CCR5+CD4+ cells, and (b) a non-antibody CCR5 receptor antagonist, in amounts effective to treat the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/954464 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/156.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821879 | Babuka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan Joyce Babuka (Berkeley, California); Mingxiang Li (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | XOMA Technology Ltd. (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Joyce Babuka (Berkeley, California); Mingxiang Li (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to stable formulations of multiple antibodies comprising a plurality of anti-botulism antibodies and an effective amount of a succinate buffer, an effective amount of arginine, wherein the antibodies are present in substantially equal concentrations and the pH of the formulation is between about 5 and about 6.5. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875065 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08821884 | Kirkland, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theo N. Kirkland, III (La Jolla, California); Sunganya Viriyakosol (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theo N. Kirkland, III (La Jolla, California); Sunganya Viriyakosol (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for the targeted bacteriostatic and antibacterial agents and for treatment of sepsis caused by infectious diseases, such as bacterial and fungal diseases. In one aspect, the invention provides methods and compositions for decreasing the levels of LPS in the circulation of an individual, e.g., a human patient with sepsis, e.g., gram negative septic shock. In one aspect, the invention is directed to chimeric proteins comprising the MD-2 polypeptide and an opsinizing agent, e.g., antibody Fc domains, or equivalent. In one aspect, the invention is directed to chimeric proteins comprising fragments or altered form of MD-2 polypeptide and an opsinizing agent, e.g., antibody Fc domains, or equivalent. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the chimeric polypeptides of the invention, and methods of making and using them, including methods for ameliorating or preventing sepsis. The invention also provides compositions for transfecting cells with nucleic acid comprising the mutant MD-2 proteins and/or the chimeric polypeptides of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/572799 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 08821893 | Dattwyler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond J. Dattwyler (East Setauket, New York); Maria Gomes-Solecki (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bio Peptides, Corp. (East Setauket, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Dattwyler (East Setauket, New York); Maria Gomes-Solecki (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to vaccines for control of Borrelia infections in animal and human populations. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods comprising recombinant bacteria engineered to express one or more Borrelia burgdorferi antigens for use as Lyme disease vaccines. In some embodiments, the recombinant bacteria are freeze-dried. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/631090 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/235.100 |
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| US 08821894 | Schneewind et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Olaf Schneewind (Chicago, Illinois); Alice G. Cheng (Chicago, Illinois); Dominique M. Missiakas (Chicago, Illinois); Hwan Keun Kim (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olaf Schneewind (Chicago, Illinois); Alice G. Cheng (Chicago, Illinois); Dominique M. Missiakas (Chicago, Illinois); Hwan Keun Kim (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions for treating or preventing a bacterial infection, particularly infection by a Staphylococcus bacterium. The invention provides methods and compositions for stimulating an immune response against the bacteria. In certain embodiments, the methods and compositions involve a non-toxigenic Protein A (SpA) variant. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/807598 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/243.100 |
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| US 08821897 | Johnston et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E. Johnston (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph M. Thompson (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Johnston (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joseph M. Thompson (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides viral adjuvants for enhancing an immune response to an immunogen. In particular embodiments, the viral adjuvant is an alphavirus adjuvant or a Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis viral adjuvant. Also provided are compositions comprising the viral adjuvant and an immunogen, and pharmaceutical formulations comprising the viral adjuvant or compositions of the invention in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Further provided are methods of producing an immune response against an immunogen in a subject comprising administering the immunogen and a viral adjuvant of the invention to the subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/954021 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/541 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2770/36132 (20130101) C12N 2770/36143 (20130101) |
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| US 08821922 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sang-Min Lee (Evanston, Illinois); SonBinh Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois); Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Min Lee (Evanston, Illinois); SonBinh Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois); Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides liposomal compositions and methods of using such compositions in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the present invention provides stable, polymer-caged liposomes comprising a pH responsive delivery mechanism for delivery of nucleic acids, peptides, small molecules, drugs, etc. in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135828 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
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| US 08821939 | Ryan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert O. Ryan (El Cerrito, California); Michael N. Oda (Fairfield, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert O. Ryan (El Cerrito, California); Michael N. Oda (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for delivery of a bioactive agent to an individual. Delivery vehicles are provided that include a bioactive agent in disc shaped particles that include one or more lipid binding polypeptides circumscribing the perimeter of a lipid bilayer in which the bioactive agent is localized. Chimeric lipid binding polypeptides are also provided and may be used to add additional functional properties to the delivery particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585598 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08821943 | Kompella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Uday Bhaskar Kompella (Omaha, Nebraska); Swita Raghava Singh (Omaha, Nebraska); Sneha Sundaram (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uday Bhaskar Kompella (Omaha, Nebraska); Swita Raghava Singh (Omaha, Nebraska); Sneha Sundaram (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, and particularly for mucosal, oral, nasal, or parenteral delivery of therapeutic agents. The compositions comprise carrier particles containing or encapsulating a therapeutic agent or agents, which have been modified on their surface to contain one or more targeting moieties that enable the enhanced uptake and transport of the therapeutic agent via receptor-mediated processes such as endocytosis or transcytosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/854209 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/499 |
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| US 08822153 | Hayes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Hayes (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Charles M. Perou (Carrboro, North Carolina); Philip Bernard (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Hayes (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Charles M. Perou (Carrboro, North Carolina); Philip Bernard (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods useful in determining the major morphological types of lung cancer are provided. The methods include detecting expression of at least one gene or biomarker in a sample. The expression of the gene or biomarker is indicative of the lung tumor subtype. The compositions include subsets of genes that are monitored for gene expression. The gene expression is capable of distinguishing between normal lung parenchyma and the major morphological types of lung cancer. The gene expression and somatic mutation data are useful in developing a complete classification of lung cancer that is prognostic and predictive for therapeutic response. The methods are suited for analysis of paraffin-embedded tissues. Methods of the invention include means for monitoring gene or biomarker expression including PCR and antibody-based detection. The biomarkers of the invention are genes and/or proteins that are selectively expressed at a high or low level in certain tumor subtypes. Biomarker expression can be assessed at the protein or nucleic acid level. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/602649 |
| 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 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08822155 | Sukumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saraswati Sukumar (Columbia, Maryland); Mary Jo Fackler (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Theresa Swift-Scanlan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saraswati Sukumar (Columbia, Maryland); Mary Jo Fackler (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Theresa Swift-Scanlan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for diagnosing in a subject a condition, such as a carcinoma, sarcoma or leukemia, associated with hypermethylation of genes by isolating the genes from tissue containing as few as 50 to 1000 tumor cells. Using quantitative multiplex methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP), multiple genes can be quantitatively evaluated from samples usually yielding sufficient DNA for analysis of only 1 or 2 genes. DNA sequences isolated from the sample are simultaneously co-amplified in an initial multiplex round of PCR, and the methylation status of individual hypermethylation-prone gene promoter sequences is then determined separately or in multiplex using a real time PCR round that is methylation status-specific. Within genes of the panel, the level of promoter hypermethylation as well as the incidence of promoter hypermethylation can be determined and the level of genes in the panel can be scored cumulatively. The QM-MSP method is adaptable for high throughput automated technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/224024 |
| 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 08822159 | Caprioli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Caprioli (Brentwwod, Tennessee); Erin H. Seeley (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a mass spectrometry proteomic approach to distinguishing Spitz nevi from Spitzoid malignant melanoma. Histology directed mass spectral profiling allows for targeted analysis of sites of melanocytic lesion within formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded excisional biopsies. The classification system identified 5 peptide peaks, of which two have been identified as originating from vimentin and actin. A sensitivity and specificity for Spitz nevi of 97% and 90%, respectively, were achieved. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/757345 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.140 |
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| US 08822160 | Bayley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Hagan Bayley (Oxford, United Kingdom); Haichen Wu (Oxford, United Kingdom); Giovanni Maglia (Oxford, United Kingdom); Yann Astier (Oeiras, Portugal) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Isis Innovation Limited (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Hagan Bayley (Oxford, United Kingdom); Haichen Wu (Oxford, United Kingdom); Giovanni Maglia (Oxford, United Kingdom); Yann Astier (Oeiras, Portugal) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transmembrane protein pore for use in detecting a analyte in a sample. The pore comprises a molecular adaptor that facilitates an interaction between the pore and the analyte. The adaptor is covalently attached to the pore in an orientation that allows the analyte to be detected using the pore. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/681643 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.190 |
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| US 08822170 | Wood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Luciferase enzymes with greatly increased thermostability, e.g., at least half lives of 2 hours at 50° C., cDNAs encoding the novel luciferases, and hosts transformed to express the luciferases, are disclosed. Methods of producing the luciferases include recursive mutagenesis. The luciferases are used in conventional methods, some employing kits. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213457 |
| 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 9/0069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08822182 | Celis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Esteban Celis (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Esteban Celis (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an immunogenic or antigenic polypeptide containing a translocation domain, a peptide epitope, at least one biologically active agent, and cleavage sites. These polypeptides are useful for activating T cell responses. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/909405 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
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| US 08822183 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Sciences (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Brown (Clearwater Beach, Florida); Jonathan E. Silver (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for amplifying target nucleic acid in a sample can include a planar fluidic assembly including a transparent substrate, a porous material layer on a surface of the transparent substrate, and a cover over the porous material layer and sealingly affixed to the substrate. The cover may be spaced from the porous material layer and a flow channel defined between the porous material layer and the cover. The flow channel may have a uniform cross-section from a first end to a second end. The assembly can further include an inlet in flow communication with the first end of the flow channel to introduce sample containing target nucleic acid into the flow channel, an outlet in flow communication with the second end of the flow channel, and a plurality of nucleic acid primers retained by the porous material layer at discrete regions along and within the flow channel, each of the plurality of nucleic acid primers being complementary to a portion of the target nucleic acid in the sample to enable a primer-based amplification reaction of the target nucleic acid. The porous material layer may be configured to retain, at the discrete regions and during a primer-based amplification reaction, sample introduced to the flow channel and amplified product of the amplification reaction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/764970 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/00317 (20130101) B01J 2219/00621 (20130101) B01J 2219/00637 (20130101) B01J 2219/00644 (20130101) B01J 2219/00659 (20130101) B01J 2219/00677 (20130101) B01J 2219/00722 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/5085 (20130101) B01L 3/5088 (20130101) B01L 3/50851 (20130101) B01L 2200/0642 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2400/0409 (20130101) 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 1/686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 60/14 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 436/805 (20130101) Y10S 436/809 (20130101) |
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| US 08822187 | Chappell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joe Chappell (Lexington, Kentucky); Thomas D. Niehaus (Lexington, Kentucky); Shigeru Okada (Tokyo, Japan); Timothy P. Devarenne (Bryan, Texas); David S. Watt (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe Chappell (Lexington, Kentucky); Thomas D. Niehaus (Lexington, Kentucky); Shigeru Okada (Tokyo, Japan); Timothy P. Devarenne (Bryan, Texas); David S. Watt (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to the polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules, vectors, transfected cells, and methods for synthesis of triterpenes, including botryococcene. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/458668 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/166 |
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| US 08822192 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baoming Jiang (Duluth, Georgia); Roger I. Glass (Atlanta, Georgia); Yuhuan Wang (Lilburn, Georgia); Jon Gentsch (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| 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) | Baoming Jiang (Duluth, Georgia); Roger I. Glass (Atlanta, Georgia); Yuhuan Wang (Lilburn, Georgia); Jon Gentsch (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A vaccine composition and method of vaccination are provided useful for immunizing a subject against a rotavirus. The vaccines include rotavirus strains CDC-9 and CDC-66, fragments thereof, homologues thereof, or combinations thereof. Inventive vaccines may include a fragment of CDC-9, CDC-66, homologues thereof, or combinations thereof. Methods of inducing an immunological response are provided by administering an inventive vaccine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/320095 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/236 |
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| US 08822196 | Rosenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Dhanalakshmi Chinnasamy (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) comprising an antigen binding domain of a KDR-1121 or DC101 antibody, an extracellular hinge domain, a T cell receptor transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain T cell receptor signaling domain. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, antibodies, or antigen binding portions thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions relating to the CARs are disclosed. Methods of detecting the presence of cancer in a host and methods of treating or preventing cancer in a host are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/875560 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
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| US 08822213 | Stayton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Anthony J. Convertine (Seattle, Washington); Craig L. Duvall (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert W. Overell (Seattle, Washington); Paul H. Johnson (Snohomish, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); PhaseRx, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Anthony J. Convertine (Seattle, Washington); Craig L. Duvall (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert W. Overell (Seattle, Washington); Paul H. Johnson (Snohomish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for delivering an agent to a cell, comprising a bispecific affinity reagent and a pH-responsive, membrane destabilizing polymer. The bispecific affinity reagent may include a first affinity reagent covalently linked to a second affinity reagent, wherein the first affinity reagent binds to a molecule on the surface of a cell, and the second affinity reagent binds to an intracellular target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127968 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48176 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 47/48507 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48715 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/468 (20130101) C07K 16/2881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/10 (20130101) |
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| US 08822406 | Denmeade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel R. Denmeade (Ellicot City, Maryland); John T. Isaacs (Phoenix, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GenSpera, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel R. Denmeade (Ellicot City, Maryland); John T. Isaacs (Phoenix, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention provides compositions comprising a prodrug, the prodrug comprising a therapeutically active drug; and a peptide selected from the group consisting of the sequences: Ser-Ser-Lys-Tyr-Gln (SEQ ID NO:1); Gly-Lys-Ser-Gln-Tyr-Gln (SEQ ID NO:2); and Gly-Ser-Ala-Lys-Tyr-Gln (SEQ ID NO:3) wherein the peptide is linked to the therapeutically active drug to inhibit the therapeutic activity of the drug, and wherein the therapeutically active drug is cleaved from the peptide upon proteolysis by an enzyme having a proteolytic activity of prostate specific antigen (PSA). The invention further provides methods of making and using the claimed compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/484795 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/168 (20130101) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 08822410 | Simons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmanuel John Simons (Somerville, Massachusetts); Todd R. Hoare (Ontario, Canada); Daniel S. Kohane (Newton, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuel John Simons (Somerville, Massachusetts); Todd R. Hoare (Ontario, Canada); Daniel S. Kohane (Newton, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for noninvasive delivery of therapeutic agents across an intact tympanic membrane. For example, the compositions include a penetration enhancer which increases the flux of a therapeutic agent (e.g., antibiotic) across the tympanic membrane. Such compositions are particularly useful in the treatment of otitis media. Additionally, the composition may include a sustained release agents that, in some embodiments form sustained release reservoirs, in situ, once administered to a patient. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/993358 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/4823 (20130101) A61K 47/48023 (20130101) A61K 47/48046 (20130101) A61K 47/48784 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/817 (20130101) |
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| US 08822411 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandra C. McPherron (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandra C. McPherron (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a substantially purified growth differentiation factor (GDF) receptor, including a GDF-8 (myostatin) receptor, as well as functional peptide portions thereof. In addition, the invention provides a virtual representation of a GDF receptor or a functional peptide portion thereof. The present invention also provides a method of modulating an effect of myostatin on a cell by contacting the cell with an agent that affects myostatin signal transduction in the cell. In addition, the invention provides a method of ameliorating the severity of a pathologic condition, which is characterized, at least in part, by an abnormal amount, development or metabolic activity of muscle or adipose tissue in a subject, by modulating myostatin signal transduction in a muscle cell or an adipose tissue cell in the subject. The invention also provides a method of modulating the growth of muscle tissue or adipose tissue in a eukaryotic organism by administering an agent that affects myostatin signal transduction to the organism. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861738 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1709 (20130101) |
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| US 08822418 | Fallon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin R. Fallon (Brooklyn, Connecticut); Michael Rafii (San Diego, California); Mark A. Bowe (Damascus, Maryland); Beth McKechnie (Franklin, Massachusetts); Alison Amenta (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Mary Lynn Mercado (Robbinsville, New Jersey); Hiroki Hagiwara (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin R. Fallon (Brooklyn, Connecticut); Michael Rafii (San Diego, California); Mark A. Bowe (Damascus, Maryland); Beth McKechnie (Franklin, Massachusetts); Alison Amenta (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Mary Lynn Mercado (Robbinsville, New Jersey); Hiroki Hagiwara (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides, among other aspects, compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of biglycan; diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of collagen VI; disorders associated with an unstable cytoplasmic membrane, due, e.g., to an unstable dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC); and disorders associated with abnormal synapses or neuromuscular junctions, including those resulting from an abnormal MuSK activation or acetylcholine receptor (AChR) aggregation. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786294 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.700 |
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| US 08822421 | Bertino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph R. Bertino (Brantford, Connecticut); Debabrata Banerjee (Bellerose, New York); Tamara Minko (Somerset, New Jersey); Olga B. Garbuzenko (Highland Park, New Jersey); Xiaoqi Xie (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); John E. Kerrigan (East Windsor, New Jersey); Emine E. Abali (Tenafly, New Jersey); Kathleen W. Scotto (Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Bertino (Brantford, Connecticut); Debabrata Banerjee (Bellerose, New York); Tamara Minko (Somerset, New Jersey); Olga B. Garbuzenko (Highland Park, New Jersey); Xiaoqi Xie (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); John E. Kerrigan (East Windsor, New Jersey); Emine E. Abali (Tenafly, New Jersey); Kathleen W. Scotto (Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention provides amino acid sequences competing with E2F for DNA binding. Methods of using said amino acid sequences for treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/274118 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4436 (20130101) A61K 31/4436 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08822434 | Liang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce Liang (Avon, Connecticut); Kenneth A. Jacobson (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bhalchandra V. Joshi (Madison, Alabama); Thatikonda Santhosh Kumar (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Liang (Avon, Connecticut); Kenneth A. Jacobson (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bhalchandra V. Joshi (Madison, Alabama); Thatikonda Santhosh Kumar (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphonate and phosphinate N-methanocarba derivatives of AMP including their prodrug analogs are described. MRS2339, a 2-chloro-AMP derivative containing a (N)-methanocarba (bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane) ring system in place of ribose, activates P2X receptors, ligand-gated ion channels. Phosphonate analogs of MRS2339 were synthesized using Michaelis-Arbuzov and Wittig reactions, based on the expectation of increased half-life in vivo due to the stability of the C—P bond. When administered to calsequestrin-overexpressing mice (a genetic model of heart failure) via a mini-osmotic pump (Alzet), some analogs significantly increased intact heart contractile function in vivo, as assessed by echocardiography-derived fractional shortening (FS) as compared to vehicle-infused mice. The range of carbocyclic nucleotide analogs for treatment of heart failure has been expanded. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/031805 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/81 |
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| US 08822513 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yan Lu (Bartlett, Tennessee); Chien-Ming Li (Fremont, California); Zhao Wang (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Jianjun Chen (Memphis, Tennessee); Wei Li (Germantown, Tennessee); James T. Dalton (Lakeland, Tennessee); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Charles Duke (Memphis, Tennessee); Sunjoo Ahn (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GTX, Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Lu (Bartlett, Tennessee); Chien-Ming Li (Fremont, California); Zhao Wang (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Jianjun Chen (Memphis, Tennessee); Wei Li (Germantown, Tennessee); James T. Dalton (Lakeland, Tennessee); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Charles Duke (Memphis, Tennessee); Sunjoo Ahn (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds having anti-cancer activity, methods of making these compounds, and their use for treating cancer and drug-resistant tumors, e.g. melanoma, metastatic melanoma, drug resistant melanoma, prostate cancer and drug resistant prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216927 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/370 |
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| US 08822515 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Smith (Baltimore, Maryland); Dawn Ward (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Smith (Baltimore, Maryland); Dawn Ward (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to benzoxazole compounds, compositions and devices for delivering them, processes for manufacturing them, and methods of using them in the treatment of Hepatitis C Virus. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/502244 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/42 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 263/57 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08822524 | Sebti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Guilford, Connecticut); Katherine Kayser-Bricker (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Jin Q. Cheng (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Guilford, Connecticut); Katherine Kayser-Bricker (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a species of peptide and non-peptide inhibitors of Akt, an oncogenic protein. Beginning with a residue of Akt target substrate GSK-3, the functional domains of the GSK-3 residue were characterized. Functionally homologous non-peptide groups were substituted for the amino acids of the GSK-3 creating a hybrid peptide-non-peptide and non-peptide compounds capable of binding to Akt. The non-peptide compounds show increased stability and rigidity compared to peptide counterparts and are less susceptible to degradation. The bound non-peptide compounds exhibit an inhibitory effect on Akt, similar to peptide-based Akt inhibitors. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480329 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/132 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 255/50 (20130101) C07C 255/51 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08822529 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qing Jiang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard Anthony Gibbs (West Lafayette, Indiana); Markus A. Lill (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Jiang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard Anthony Gibbs (West Lafayette, Indiana); Markus A. Lill (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are long-chain carboxychromanol compounds useful for treating conditions associated with the need to inhibit cyclooxygenase-1, cyclooxygenase-2, and/or 5-lipoxygenase, and pharmaceutical formulations containing the compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/119737 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822535 | Roth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark B. Roth (Seattle, Washington); Mike Morrison (Seattle, Washington); Eric Blackstone (Seattle, Washington); Dana Miller (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B. Roth (Seattle, Washington); Mike Morrison (Seattle, Washington); Eric Blackstone (Seattle, Washington); Dana Miller (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the use of oxygen antagonists and other active compounds for inducing stasis or pre-stasis in cells, tissues, and/or organs in vivo or in an organism overall, in addition to enhancing their survivability. It includes compositions, methods, articles of manufacture and apparatuses for enhancing survivability and for achieving stasis or pre-stasis in any of these biological materials, so as to preserve and/or protect them. In specific embodiments, there are also therapeutic methods and apparatuses for organ transplantation, hyperthermia, wound healing, hemorrhagic shock, cardioplegia for bypass surgery, neurodegeneration, hypothermia, and cancer using the active compounds described. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408734 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/921 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822539 | Jensen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frances E. Jensen (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances E. Jensen (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of NKCC1, such as bumetanide, when coadministered with inhibitors of GABA transaminase, such as vigabatrin, attenuate both the retinal toxicity and the intramyelinic edema. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069311 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822540 | Brooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian P. Brooks (Kensington, Maryland); William A. Gahl (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian P. Brooks (Kensington, Maryland); William A. Gahl (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for the treatment of vision problems in a subject suffering from one of various forms of albinism, including, for example, oculocutaneous albinism types OCA1a and OCA1b, as well as ocular albinism type 1, resulting from mutations in the GPR143 gene, as well as the OCA2, OCA3 or OCA4 genes, by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the compound (2-[2-nitro-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzoyl]cyclohexane-1,3-dione), also known as NTBC for a sufficient period of time. The administration of NTBC is believed to increase the amount of pigmentation in the subject and alleviate certain symptoms caused by lack of pigmentation in the eye tissues. Also described are methods of use of NTBC for increasing the pigmentation of a subject for cosmetic purposes, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of NTBC. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/580452 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/612 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822542 | Roberts, II et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | L. Jackson Roberts, II (Gallatin, Tennessee); Jeffrey R. Balser (Brentwood, Tennessee); Sean S. Davies (Nashville, Tennessee); Venkataraman Amarnath (Nashville, Tennessee); Prakash C. Viswanathan (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Jackson Roberts, II (Gallatin, Tennessee); Jeffrey R. Balser (Brentwood, Tennessee); Sean S. Davies (Nashville, Tennessee); Venkataraman Amarnath (Nashville, Tennessee); Prakash C. Viswanathan (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating and/or preventing oxidative damage, comprising administering an effective IsoK/NeuroK adduct formation suppressing amount of a phenolic amine compound and/or pyridoxamine or pyridoxamine analog, including embodiments where the phenolic compound is at least one of a pyridoxamine, salicylamine, tyrosine compound or an analog thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395464 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822571 | Ben-Moshe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matti Ben-Moshe (Reut, Israel); Sanford A. Asher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Dan Qu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jla Luo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matti Ben-Moshe (Reut, Israel); Sanford A. Asher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Dan Qu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jla Luo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a new composite material and a process for synthesizing highly charged, highly monodisperse, core-shell particles with high refractive index cores, as well as stable, long lasting crystalline colloidal arrays (CCAs) formed thereof. A preferred embodiment of the core particle can be highly monodisperse zinc sulfide (ZnS) particles and a preferred embodiment of the shell can be highly charged polyelectrolytes. The CCAs formed thereof are charge stabilized photonic crystals that shows distinctive first and second order Bragg diffraction peaks whose locations vary over a wide spectral region from UV through visible to IR, with unusually strong intensity and broad band width due to the high index of refraction. These high refractive index particles are useful in applications such as optical filters, optical coatings, cosmetics and photonic crystals sensors and devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888274 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822594 | Yakulis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Yakulis (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Calum H. Munro (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Edward R. Millero, Jr. (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); John Furar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Barry A. Russell (Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania); Howard L. Senkfor (South Euclid, Ohio); Debra L. Singer (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Steven V. Barancyk (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Thomas R. Hockswender (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Yakulis (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Calum H. Munro (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Edward R. Millero, Jr. (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); John Furar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Barry A. Russell (Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania); Howard L. Senkfor (South Euclid, Ohio); Debra L. Singer (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Steven V. Barancyk (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Thomas R. Hockswender (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Coating compositions comprising a polyurea formed from a reaction mixture comprising: (a) a first component comprising an isocyanate, the first component having a viscosity of ≦2000 centipoise at a temperature ≧7° C.; and (b) a second component comprising an amine. Substrates coated at least in part with such a composition are also disclosed. Footwear coated at least in part with polyurea are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426411 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/3234 (20130101) C08G 18/3821 (20130101) C08G 18/3885 (20130101) C08G 18/5024 (20130101) C08G 18/6685 (20130101) C08G 18/7837 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2410/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822618 | Okawa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Okawa (San Bruno, California); Stefan J. Pastine (San Francisco, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Okawa (San Bruno, California); Stefan J. Pastine (San Francisco, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a microcapsule includes a shell surrounding a space, a liquid within the shell, and a light absorbing material within the liquid. An embodiment of a method of making microcapsules includes forming a mixture of a light absorbing material and an organic solution. An emulsion of the mixture and an aqueous solution is then formed. A polymerization agent is added to the emulsion, which causes microcapsules to be formed. Each microcapsule includes a shell surrounding a space, a liquid within the shell, and light absorbing material within the liquid. An embodiment of a method of using microcapsules includes providing phototriggerable microcapsules within a bulk material. Each of the phototriggerable microcapsules includes a shell surrounding a space, a chemically reactive material within the shell, and a light absorbing material within the shell. At least some of the phototriggerable microcapsules are exposed to light, which causes the chemically reactive material to release from the shell and to come into contact with bulk material. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/393183 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 67/0097 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/774 (20130101) |
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| US 08822636 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Leon E. Chen (Belmont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Leon E. Chen (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides able to inhibit or activate the translocation or function of δPKC are identified. Administration of the peptides for protection or enhancement of cell damage due to ischemia is described. Therapeutic methods to reduce damage to cells or to enhance damage to cells due to ischemia are also described, as well as methods for screening test compounds for δPKC-selective agonists and antagonists. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/956900 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/101 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822647 | Jensen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Jensen (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Jensen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Integration of costimulatory signaling domains within a tumor targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), such as the IL13Rα2 specific IL13-zetakine (IL13ζ), enhances T cell-mediated responses against tumors even in the absence of expressed ligands for costimulatory receptors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/060908 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822679 | Stoltz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian M Stoltz (San Marino, California); Scott C. Virgil (Pasadena, California); David E White (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Taiga Yurino (Kyoto, Japan); Yiyang Liu (Pasadena, California); Douglas C Behenna (Laguna Niguel, California); Douglas Duquette (Temple City, California); Christian Eidamshaus (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M Stoltz (San Marino, California); Scott C. Virgil (Pasadena, California); David E White (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Taiga Yurino (Kyoto, Japan); Yiyang Liu (Pasadena, California); Douglas C Behenna (Laguna Niguel, California); Douglas Duquette (Temple City, California); Christian Eidamshaus (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound useful as a building block for the manufacture of various compounds is represented by Formula A or D. In Formula A and D, z is 0 or 1; Q is a heteroatom; R1 through R11 and Ra through Rf are each independently hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heteroatom containing hydrocarbyl group, or a functional group; d, e and f are each independently 0 or greater; each of A, B and D is independently a carbon atom or a heteroatom; and two or more of R1 though R11, Ra through Rf and Y optionally combine to form a ring. In some embodiments, R8 and R9 combine to form a carbonyl group. In some embodiments, R2 and Y combine to form a ring with the Q atom. In some embodiments, the ring includes at least one double bond. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/531485 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822683 | Tavares et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | G1 Therapeutics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | G1 Therapeutics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis X. Tavares (Durham, North Carolina); Jay C. Strum (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of formulae I, II or III, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful as CDK inhibitors. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/162649 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822684 | Hong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles C. Hong (Nolensville, Tennessee); Corey R. Hopkins (Nolensville, Tennessee); Antonis K. Hatzopoulos (Nashville, Tennessee); Craig Lindsley (Nashville, Tennessee); Jijun Hao (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Hong (Nolensville, Tennessee); Corey R. Hopkins (Nolensville, Tennessee); Antonis K. Hatzopoulos (Nashville, Tennessee); Craig Lindsley (Nashville, Tennessee); Jijun Hao (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter relates to compounds of the formula: and methods for use thereof. The presently-disclosed subject matter relates methods of selectively differentiating a stem cell, and methods of screening for compounds useful for enhancing terminal differentiation of committed cardiac progenitor cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537037 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822707 | Lepore |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore Lepore (Delray Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore Lepore (Delray Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Sulfonate leaving groups include a cation chelating moiety, e.g. a polyether or crown ether. The chelating moiety stabilizes the sulfonate leaving group by forming a complex with a cation of a cation-nucleophile combination. The stabilized leaving group is more easily displaced under many conditions than are standard arylsulfonate leaving groups such as the toxyl group. The chelating moiety also favors certain cations depending on the identity of the moiety thereby enhancing the reaction rate with nucleophilic salts containing the preferred cation. Use of the inventive leaving groups results in improved yields, decreased reaction times and improved product purity. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/667414 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 309/77 (20130101) C07C 309/89 (20130101) C07C 2103/74 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 323/00 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08823374 | Weller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Weller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Leo Grady (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (, Germany); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Weller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Leo Grady (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An MR imaging system uses the multiple RF coils for acquiring corresponding multiple image data sets of the slice. An image data processor comprises at least one processing device conditioned for, generating a composite MR image data set representing a single image in a single non-iterative operation by performing a weighted combination of luminance representative data of individual corresponding pixels of the multiple image data sets in providing an individual pixel luminance value of the composite MR image data set. The image data processor reduces noise in the composite MR image data set by generating a reduced set of significant components in a predetermined transform domain representation of data representing the composite image to provide a de-noised composite MR image data set. An image generator comprises at least one processing device conditioned for, generating a composite MR image using the de-noised composite MR image data set. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326622 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5611 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08823775 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bugao Xu (Austin, Texas); Wurong Yu (Hixson, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugao Xu (Austin, Texas); Wurong Yu (Hixson, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention may provide a portable, inexpensive two-view 3D stereo vision imaging system, which acquires a 3D surface model and dimensions of an object. The system may comprise front-side and back-side stereo imagers which each have a projector and at least two digital cameras to image the object from different perspectives. An embodiment may include a method for reconstructing an image of a human body from the data of a two-view body scanner by obtaining a front scan image data point set and a back scan image data point set. A smooth body image may be gained by processing the data point sets using the following steps: (1) data resampling; (2) initial mesh generation; (3) mesh simplification; and (4) mesh subdivision and optimization. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771565 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0077 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0057 (20130101) G06T 7/0075 (20130101) G06T 17/00 (20130101) G06T 17/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/08 (20130101) G06T 2207/10012 (20130101) G06T 2207/30196 (20130101) |
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| US 08823790 | Dunn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Dunn (Austin, Texas); William James Tom (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Dunn (Austin, Texas); William James Tom (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of imaging are provided. In some embodiments, the methods may comprise obtaining a raw speckle image of a sample, converting the raw speckle image to a laser speckle contrast image using a laser speckle contrast algorithm, and converting a laser speckle contrast image to a relative correlation time image using a relative correlation time algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/211956 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0261 (20130101) A61B 5/02028 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08823810 | Mistretta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Justin Mertes-Mistretta (Middleton, Wisconsin); Erick Oberstar (Madison, Wisconsin); Ethan Brodsky (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A night vision device and method for filtering a series of image frames that depict a moving subject, which thereby improves the signal-to-noise ratio of each image frame, is provided. A composite image is formed for each image frame by combining pixel values in a current image frame with pixel values in composite images corresponding to image frames acquired before the current image frame. Additionally, pixels values in image frames acquired subsequent to the acquisition of the current image frame are included when forming the composite image. A bi-directional recursive filter is used to weight the contributions from the previous composite images and subsequent image frames with a decay constant. Motion of the imaging system is optionally compensated for by establishing a moving reference frame and shifting the image frames to account for this motion; thus, registering the image frames before filtering the current image frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/938521 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10048 (20130101) G06T 2207/20182 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825129 | Garcia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pablo E. Garcia (Menlo Park, California); Chunyuan Qiu (Huntington Beach, California); Sarah J. Young (Menlo Park, California); Karen Frances Shakespear (San Francisco, California); Sanjeev Dutta (Stanford, California); Elliot Krane (Stanford, California); Radhamangalam J Ramamurthi (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California); Board of Trustees for the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pablo E. Garcia (Menlo Park, California); Chunyuan Qiu (Huntington Beach, California); Sarah J. Young (Menlo Park, California); Karen Frances Shakespear (San Francisco, California); Sanjeev Dutta (Stanford, California); Elliot Krane (Stanford, California); Radhamangalam J Ramamurthi (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nerve block catheter system employs an indwelling, flexible catheter comprising a tissue lock to retain the catheter tip in pharmacologically proximity to a target nerve and optionally, a decoupler that insulates the tip of the catheter from proximal tissue movement. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/041387 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/04001 (20130101) A61B 18/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825138 | Mistretta |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite image is produced for use in HYPR processing a current image frame. The amount of a priori data used to form the composite is determined by the amount of subject motion. The current composite image may be spatially registered with the current image frame to offset subject motion before being used to form an updated composite image. Subject motion may be analyzed on a frame-by-frame basis, a region-by-region basis or a pixel-by-pixel basis to optimize the SNR of the updated composite image. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208412 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/7207 (20130101) A61B 5/7285 (20130101) A61B 6/03 (20130101) A61B 6/481 (20130101) A61B 6/482 (20130101) A61B 6/503 (20130101) A61B 6/504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/527 (20130101) A61B 6/541 (20130101) A61B 6/5288 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4824 (20130101) G01R 33/56509 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08825149 | Kraus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nina Kraus (Evanston, Illinois); Trent G. Nicol (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Erika E. Skoe (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nina Kraus (Evanston, Illinois); Trent G. Nicol (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Erika E. Skoe (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain examples provide a method of collecting and analyzing complex auditory brainstem response. The example method includes presenting at least one complex auditory stimulus to a subject and acquiring the subject's complex auditory brainstem response. The example method includes averaging complex auditory brainstem responses from the subject in at least one of a time domain and a frequency domain to form a collected response. The example method includes analyzing the collected response using a signal processor to process the collected response to provide a processed output and to adapt the response for comparison to the at least one complex auditory stimulus. The example method includes performing statistical computations on the processed output to generate visual and data feedback for a user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/362404 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/545 |
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| US 08825411 | Govindarajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sridhar Govindarajan (Redwood City, California); Jeremy S. Minshull (Los Altos, California); Jon E. Ness (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sridhar Govindarajan (Redwood City, California); Jeremy S. Minshull (Los Altos, California); Jon E. Ness (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of synthesizing oligonucleotides with high coupling efficiency (>99.5%) are provided. Methods for purification of synthetic oligonucleotides are also provided. Instrumentation configurations for oligonucleotide synthesis are also provided. Methods of designing and synthesizing polynucleotides are also provided. Polynucleotide design is optimized for subsequent assembly from shorter oligonucleotides. Modifications of phosphoramidite chemistry to improve the subsequent assembly of polynucleotides are provided. The design process also incorporates codon biases into polynucleotides that favor expression in defined hosts. Design and assembly methods are also provided for the efficient synthesis of sets of polynucleotide variants. Software to automate the design and assembly process is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579704 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1089 (20130101) 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 1/6806 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/20 (20130101) |
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| US 08819924 | Grine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne R. Grine (Crownsville, Maryland); Michael A. Jacobsen (Millersville, Maryland); Garrett M. Jordan (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne R. Grine (Crownsville, Maryland); Michael A. Jacobsen (Millersville, Maryland); Garrett M. Jordan (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for eliminating torsion during the servicing of cable heads. The device is a tool with a handle portion and clamping members having an opening and gripping surfaces for receiving and gripping two different cable-heads for servicing, such as attachment or detachment. When the handle portion is squeezed and held, the tool provides a compression force substantially parallel to a common central axis of the cable heads. The arrangement of the tool prevents undesired load on the cable heads, optimizes the efficiency of servicing while preventing damage to the cable-heads. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083712 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/750 |
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| US 08820045 | DeDe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian C. DeDe (San Diego, California); David Lau (San Diego, California); David Ronald Adair (Valley Center, California); Christine Ingrid Schade (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian C. DeDe (San Diego, California); David Lau (San Diego, California); David Ronald Adair (Valley Center, California); Christine Ingrid Schade (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A drain assembly for an auxiliary power unit having a hot zone formed by a combustor case comprises a fire enclosure, a drain fitting, a discharge port and a piston seal. The fire enclosure encapsulates the hot zone of the combustor case. The drain fitting connects to the fire enclosure. The discharge port extends from the combustor case into the drain fitting. The piston seal is positioned between the drain fitting and the discharge port. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847359 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08820092 | Thompson, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert S. Thompson, Jr. (White Lake, Michigan); Gregg Williams (Walled Lake, Michigan); David W. Jarrell (Commerce Township, Michigan); Curtis E. Lynch (Commerce Township, Michigan); Mark E. Suchezky (South Lyon, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Williams International Co., L.L.C. (Walled Lake, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Thompson, Jr. (White Lake, Michigan); Gregg Williams (Walled Lake, Michigan); David W. Jarrell (Commerce Township, Michigan); Curtis E. Lynch (Commerce Township, Michigan); Mark E. Suchezky (South Lyon, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel (12) is supplied to a rotatable portion (118) of a gas turbine engine (10) comprising a rotor (24) and at least one blade (26, 26.1) operatively coupled thereto, so as to provide for cooling at least one of the rotor (24) or the at least one blade (26, 26.1) by transforming the fuel (12) to a vapor or gaseous state. The fuel (12) is discharged in a vapor or gaseous state from the rotatable portion (118) directly into a combustion chamber (16) of the gas turbine engine (10). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937213 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/081 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/16 (20130101) F02C 7/224 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/205 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| US 08820155 | Ramotowski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas S. Ramotowski (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Ramotowski (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for conducting a peel test of a polymer coated metallic sample includes making a peel test specimen having a polymer joined to a substrate. A free portion of the polymer is left unattached to the substrate. The peel test specimen is positioned in an environment for testing in such a manner that the polymer is allowed to peel downward from the substrate. A weight is joined to the free portion of the polymer and a start time is recorded. The attached portion of the polymer is periodically measured and the elapsed time is recorded. A peel rate is calculated from the measurement and time. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894997 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 17/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08820209 | Rastegar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Richard Dratler (Montville, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Omnitek Partners LLC (Ronkonkoma, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Richard Dratler (Montville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating a time-out signal for an unexploded munition. The method including: providing the munition with a power supply having a piezoelectric material for generating power from a vibration upon impact of the munition; and initiating detonation time-out circuitry to disable detonation of the munition after a predetermined time. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792005 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08820257 | Chisholm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); David Allen Christianson (Bismarck, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bret Ja Chisholm (West Fargo, North Dakota); David Allen Christianson (Bismarck, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an amphiphilic polymeric material well-suited as a coating for marine applications, such as use as a fouling-release coating on the external surfaces of ships, particularly ship hulls. Also provided are methods of making the polymeric material and methods for using the polymeric material, as well as articles and surfaces that are coated with the polymeric material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/513107 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| 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 55/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 183/04 (20130101) C09D 183/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08820308 | Sudarshan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tangali Sudarshan (Columbia, South Carolina); Igor Agafonov (Columbia, South Carolina); Robert M. Kennedy (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, wires, and apparatus for use in cutting (e.g., slicing) hard, brittle materials is provided. The wire can be a super-abrasive wire that includes a wire core and super-abrasive particles bonded to the wire core via a metal bonding layer. This wire, or another type of wire, can be used to slice workpieces useful for producing wafers. The workpieces can be aligned within a holder to produce wafers using the device and methods presently provided. The holder rotates about its central axis, which translates to workpieces moving in orbit around this axis. A single abrasive wire, or multiple turns of wire stretched tightly between wire guides, is then contacted with the rotating holder to slice the workpieces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/622570 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Planing; Slotting; Shearing; Broaching; Sawing; Filing; Scraping; Like Operations for Working Metal by Removing Material, Not Otherwise Provided for B23D 61/185 (20130101) B23D 65/00 (20130101) Machines, Devices, or Processes for Grinding or Polishing; Dressing or Conditioning of Abrading Surfaces; Feeding of Grinding, Polishing, or Lapping Agents B24B 27/0633 (20130101) Working Stone or Stone-like Materials B28D 1/124 (20130101) B28D 5/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B28D 5/0082 (20130101) |
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| US 08820309 | Sudarshan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univeristy of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tangali Sudarshan (Columbia, South Carolina); Igor Agafonov (Columbia, South Carolina); Robert Kennedy (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, wires, and apparatus for use in cutting (e.g., slicing) hard, brittle materials is provided. The wire can be a super-abrasive wire that includes a wire core and super-abrasive particles bonded to the wire core via a metal bonding layer. This wire, or another type of wire, can be used to slice workpieces useful for producing wafers. The workpieces can be aligned within a holder to produce wafers using the device and methods presently provided. The holder rotates about its central axis, which translates to workpieces moving in orbit around this axis. A single abrasive wire, or multiple turns of wire stretched tightly between wire guides, is then contacted with the rotating holder to slice the workpieces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/622572 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Stone working 125/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08820359 | Hinkley |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A. Hinkley (La Mirada, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Hinkley (La Mirada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid storage and transport module includes complex plumbing features such as fluid reservoirs, filters, heat exchangers, three-dimensionally routed tubing, valves, mixing chambers, and exit apertures formed in and on a monolithic common bulk material using an additive rapid prototyping process of depositing multiple layers of rapid prototyping materials without welds, adhesives or compression fittings, being made by a method that minimizes leaks, maximizes packing density of the functional components, and increases the plumbing robustness to leaks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288530 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 1/00 (20130101) F17C 2203/066 (20130101) F17C 2203/0636 (20130101) F17C 2205/0323 (20130101) F17C 2205/0341 (20130101) F17C 2209/21 (20130101) F17C 2227/03 (20130101) F17C 2227/0388 (20130101) F17C 2250/043 (20130101) F17C 2250/0447 (20130101) F17C 2250/0465 (20130101) F17C 2260/01 (20130101) F17C 2260/013 (20130101) F17C 2260/036 (20130101) F17C 2270/0194 (20130101) |
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| US 08820492 | Kavlicoglu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barkan Mehmet Kavlicoglu (Reno, Nevada); Yanming Liu (Reno, Nevada); Huseyin Sahin (Reno, Nevada); Bryce Wallis (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc. (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barkan Mehmet Kavlicoglu (Reno, Nevada); Yanming Liu (Reno, Nevada); Huseyin Sahin (Reno, Nevada); Bryce Wallis (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A soft-matrix magnetorheological material vibration isolation system includes a first mounting plate. A first layer of soft-matrix magnetorheological material has opposing first and second faces, the first face coupled to the first mounting plate. A first electromagnet has opposing first and second pole faces, the first pole face coupled to the second face of the first layer of soft-matrix magnetorheological material. A second layer of soft-matrix magnetorheological material has opposing first and second faces, the first face coupled to the second pole face of the first electromagnet. A second mounting plate is coupled to the second face of the second layer of soft-matrix magnetorheological material, the second mounting plate adapted to be coupled to a load mass. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873099 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Brakes 188/267.200 |
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| US 08821066 | Caccamo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew P. Caccamo (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Gregory V. Gaston (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew P. Caccamo (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Gregory V. Gaston (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A universal launch and recovery system that may be used to launch or recover/receive water vessels. The launch and recovery system including a deployable ramp having a shock mitigating arrangement, including bumpers, fenders and a bow stopping guard arranged to accommodate vessels of different geometries. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536634 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Launching, Hauling-out, or Dry-docking of Vessels; Life-saving in Water; Equipment for Dwelling or Working Under Water; Means for Salvaging or Searching for Underwater Objects B63C 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821123 | Camci et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cengiz Camci (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Ali Akturk (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cengiz Camci (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania); Ali Akturk (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A double-ducted fan includes a hub, a rotor having a plurality of blades rotatably and coupled to the hub, a first duct, a second duct, and a channel defined between the first duct and second duct. The first duct circumscribes the rotor, and the second duct circumscribes at least a portion of the first duct. The second duct can be oriented axially upward such that there is an axial distance is between the leading edges of the first duct and second duct. The channel can be configured to direct air flow cross-wise to the first duct over a top of the first duct into the inlet side of the fan. The second duct can be movable relative to the first duct to adjust at least a portion of the channel. The length of the first duct can be different from the length of the second duct. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/040989 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821587 | Lanier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory R. Lanier (Manchester, New Hampshire); N. Christopher Perry (Manchester, New Hampshire); Andrew P. Pascoe (Windham, New Hampshire); Dirk A. Van der Merwe (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKA Products Limited Partnership (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Lanier (Manchester, New Hampshire); N. Christopher Perry (Manchester, New Hampshire); Andrew P. Pascoe (Windham, New Hampshire); Dirk A. Van der Merwe (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A prosthetic device control apparatus includes at least one sensor worn by a user. The sensor(s) determines a user's movement. A control module is in communication with the sensor(s). The control module communicates movement information to a prosthetic. A method for controlling a prosthetic device includes sensing a user's movement, communicating the movement through a control module to a prosthetic device; and controlling the movement of a prosthetic device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/027116 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0488 (20130101) A61B 5/1036 (20130101) A61B 5/4528 (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 2/54 (20130101) A61F 2/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/72 (20130101) A61F 2/78 (20130101) A61F 2002/701 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/705 (20130101) A61F 2002/707 (20130101) A61F 2002/741 (20130101) A61F 2002/762 (20130101) A61F 2002/763 (20130101) A61F 2002/764 (20130101) A61F 2002/6827 (20130101) A61F 2002/6872 (20130101) A61F 2002/7625 (20130101) A61F 2002/7635 (20130101) A61F 2002/7685 (20130101) A61F 2002/7862 (20130101) |
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| US 08821635 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); Changwu Hu (Gilbert, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); Changwu Hu (Gilbert, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Si—Ge materials are grown on Si(100) with Ge-rich contents (Ge>50 at. %) and precise stoichiometries SiGe, SiGe2, SiGe3 and SiGe4. New hydrides with direct Si—Ge bonds derived from the family of compounds (H3Ge)xSiH4-x (x=1-4) are used to grow uniform, relaxed, and highly planar films with low defect densities at unprecedented low temperatures between about 300-450° C. At about 500-700° C., SiGex quantum dots are grown with narrow size distribution, defect-free microstructures and highly homogeneous elemental content at the atomic level. The method provides for precise control of morphology, composition, structure and strain. The grown materials possess the required characteristics for high frequency electronic and optical applications, and for templates and buffer layers for high mobility Si and Ge channel devices. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/662669 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (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 23/02 (20130101) C30B 25/02 (20130101) C30B 29/52 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02573 (20130101) H01L 21/02636 (20130101) |
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| US 08821654 | Gleeson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian M. Gleeson (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Sordelet (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Gleeson (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Sordelet (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An alloy comprising 5 at %≦Al<16 at %, about 0.05 at % to 1 at % of a reactive element selected from the group consisting of Hf, Y, La, Ce, Zr, and combinations thereof, and Ni, wherein the alloy composition has a predominately γ-Ni+γ′-Ni3Al phase constitution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/173683 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/409 |
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| US 08821745 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhengtang Luo (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Alan T. Johnson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengtang Luo (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Alan T. Johnson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are graphene oxide membrane materials of high surface area, which membranes suitably have a surface area of above about 200 μm and exhibit electrical conductivity in excess of about 200 S/m. Also provided are methods of synthesizing such membranes, as well as devices and sensors that incorporate these novel grapheme materials. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/141402 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 2323/34 (20130101) B01D 2325/26 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4145 (20130101) |
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| US 08821748 | Hackenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wesley S. Hackenberger (State College, Pennsylvania); Edward F. Alberta (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRS Technologies, Inc. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley S. Hackenberger (State College, Pennsylvania); Edward F. Alberta (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic or single crystal ferroelectric and a method of manufacture are disclosed. The ceramics and single crystals of the present disclosure are located near phase boundaries between ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases. These ceramics, single crystals, and composite may be used in pulsed power applications. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945655 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/1876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08821810 | Whitesides et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Katherine A. Mirica (Waltham, Massachusetts); Andres W. Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chao-Min Cheng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Scott T. Phillips (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Monica Mascareñas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xinyu Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiujun Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Katherine A. Mirica (Waltham, Massachusetts); Andres W. Martinez (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chao-Min Cheng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Scott T. Phillips (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Monica Mascareñas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xinyu Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiujun Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides low cost, portable three-dimensional devices for performing multiplexed assays. The devices comprise at least two substantially planar layers disposed in parallel planes, wherein one of the layers is movable relative to each other parallel to the planes to permit the establishment of fluid flow communication serially between the two layers. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/576804 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/126 (20130101) B01L 2300/161 (20130101) B01L 2300/0627 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/065 (20130101) |
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| US 08821876 | Ginsburg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey S. Ginsburg (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph Lucas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher W. Woods (Durham, North Carolina); Lawrence Carin (Durham, North Carolina); Aimee K. Zaas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Alfred Hero (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey S. Ginsburg (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph Lucas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Christopher W. Woods (Durham, North Carolina); Lawrence Carin (Durham, North Carolina); Aimee K. Zaas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Alfred Hero (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of identifying infectious disease infection prior to presentation of symptoms, assays for identifying genomic markers of infectious disease, and methods for diagnosing the underlying etiology of infectious disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/322232 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/147.100 |
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| US 08822023 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Andrew Saab (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Syed B Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Andrew Saab (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Syed B Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition having nanoparticles of a refractory-metal carbide or refractory-metal nitride and a carbonaceous matrix. The composition is not in the form of a powder. A composition comprising a metal component and an organic component. The metal component is nanoparticles or particles of a refractory metal or a refractory-metal compound capable of decomposing into refractory metal nanoparticles. The organic component is an organic compound having a char yield of at least 60% by weight or a thermoset made from the organic compound. A method of combining particles of a refractory metal or a refractory-metal compound capable of reacting or decomposing into refractory-metal nanoparticles with an organic compound having a char yield of at least 60% by weight to form a precursor mixture. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/749794 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/062 (20130101) C01B 21/0617 (20130101) C01B 21/0761 (20130101) C01B 21/0765 (20130101) C01B 31/303 (20130101) C01B 31/305 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2004/80 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/66 (20130101) C04B 35/76 (20130101) C04B 35/83 (20130101) C04B 35/522 (20130101) C04B 35/524 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 35/5607 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 35/5611 (20130101) C04B 35/5622 (20130101) C04B 35/5626 (20130101) C04B 35/6265 (20130101) C04B 35/6269 (20130101) C04B 35/58007 (20130101) C04B 35/58014 (20130101) C04B 35/58028 (20130101) C04B 35/62645 (20130101) C04B 35/62675 (20130101) C04B 2235/46 (20130101) C04B 2235/48 (20130101) C04B 2235/80 (20130101) C04B 2235/422 (20130101) C04B 2235/425 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/3839 (20130101) C04B 2235/3843 (20130101) C04B 2235/3847 (20130101) C04B 2235/3886 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5288 (20130101) C04B 2235/5454 (20130101) C04B 2235/6562 (20130101) C04B 2235/6581 (20130101) |
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| US 08822045 | Collazo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramon R. Collazo (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zlatko Sitar (Apex, North Carolina); Rafael Dalmau (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramon R. Collazo (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zlatko Sitar (Apex, North Carolina); Rafael Dalmau (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of protecting a surface of an aluminum nitride substrate. The substrate with the protected surface can be stored for a period of time and easily activated to be in a condition ready for thin film growth or other processing. In certain embodiments, the method of protecting the substrate surface comprises forming a passivating layer on at least a portion of the substrate surface by performing a wet etch, which can comprise the use of one or more organic compounds and one or more acids. The invention also provides aluminum nitride substrates having passivated surfaces. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/416182 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702 |
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| US 08822155 | Sukumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saraswati Sukumar (Columbia, Maryland); Mary Jo Fackler (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Theresa Swift-Scanlan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saraswati Sukumar (Columbia, Maryland); Mary Jo Fackler (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Theresa Swift-Scanlan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for diagnosing in a subject a condition, such as a carcinoma, sarcoma or leukemia, associated with hypermethylation of genes by isolating the genes from tissue containing as few as 50 to 1000 tumor cells. Using quantitative multiplex methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP), multiple genes can be quantitatively evaluated from samples usually yielding sufficient DNA for analysis of only 1 or 2 genes. DNA sequences isolated from the sample are simultaneously co-amplified in an initial multiplex round of PCR, and the methylation status of individual hypermethylation-prone gene promoter sequences is then determined separately or in multiplex using a real time PCR round that is methylation status-specific. Within genes of the panel, the level of promoter hypermethylation as well as the incidence of promoter hypermethylation can be determined and the level of genes in the panel can be scored cumulatively. The QM-MSP method is adaptable for high throughput automated technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/224024 |
| 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 08822156 | Ecker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California); Lawrence B. Blyn (Mission Viejo, California); Raymond Ranken (Encinitas, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California); Lawrence B. Blyn (Mission Viejo, California); Raymond Ranken (Encinitas, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of: identifying pathogens in biological samples from humans and animals, resolving a plurality of etiologic agents present in samples obtained from humans and animals, determining detailed genetic information about such pathogens or etiologic agents, and rapid detection and identification of bioagents from environmental, clinical or other samples. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/243960 |
| 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 08822159 | Caprioli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Caprioli (Brentwwod, Tennessee); Erin H. Seeley (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a mass spectrometry proteomic approach to distinguishing Spitz nevi from Spitzoid malignant melanoma. Histology directed mass spectral profiling allows for targeted analysis of sites of melanocytic lesion within formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded excisional biopsies. The classification system identified 5 peptide peaks, of which two have been identified as originating from vimentin and actin. A sensitivity and specificity for Spitz nevi of 97% and 90%, respectively, were achieved. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/757345 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.140 |
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| US 08822222 | Beebe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen J. Beebe (Norfolk, Virginia); Karl H. Schoenbach (Norfolk, Virginia); Richard Heller (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia); Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Beebe (Norfolk, Virginia); Karl H. Schoenbach (Norfolk, Virginia); Richard Heller (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for delivering an agent into a cell through the application of nanosecond pulse electric fields (“nsPEF's”). The method includes circuitry for delivery of an agent into a cell via known methods followed by the application of nanosecond pulse electric fields to said cell in order to facilitate entry of the agent into the nucleus of the cell. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method of enhancing gene expression in a cell comprising the application of nanosecond pulse electric fields to said cell. An apparatus for generating long and short pulses according to the present invention is also provided. The apparatus includes a pulse generator capable of producing a first pulse having a long duration and low voltage amplitude and a second pulse having a short duration and high voltage amplitude. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/073785 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/461 |
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| US 08822314 | Chua et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Mark R. Teepe (Menlo Park, California); Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Zhihong Yang (San Jose, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Clifford Knollenberg (San Bruno, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Mark R. Teepe (Menlo Park, California); Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Zhihong Yang (San Jose, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Clifford Knollenberg (San Bruno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An epitaxial growth method includes plasma treating a surface of a bulk crystalline Aluminum Nitride (AlN) substrate and subsequently heating the substrate in an ammonia-rich ambient to a temperature of above 1000° C. for at least 5 minutes without epitaxial growth. After heating the surface, a III-nitride layer is epitaxially grown on the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/523670 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/02389 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02661 (20130101) |
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| US 08822360 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut); Paul Sheedy (Vernon, Connecticut); Tania Bhatia Kashyap (Middletown, Connecticut); Daniel G. Goberman (East Granby, Connecticut); Xia Tang (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut); Paul Sheedy (Vernon, Connecticut); Tania Bhatia Kashyap (Middletown, Connecticut); Daniel G. Goberman (East Granby, Connecticut); Xia Tang (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An article which includes a structure of a ceramic material that has a composition SiOxMzCy, where Si is silicon, O is oxygen, M is at least one metal and C is carbon and wherein x<2, y>0 and z<1 and x and z are non-zero. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/352636 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/87 |
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| US 08822571 | Ben-Moshe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matti Ben-Moshe (Reut, Israel); Sanford A. Asher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Dan Qu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jla Luo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matti Ben-Moshe (Reut, Israel); Sanford A. Asher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Dan Qu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jla Luo (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a new composite material and a process for synthesizing highly charged, highly monodisperse, core-shell particles with high refractive index cores, as well as stable, long lasting crystalline colloidal arrays (CCAs) formed thereof. A preferred embodiment of the core particle can be highly monodisperse zinc sulfide (ZnS) particles and a preferred embodiment of the shell can be highly charged polyelectrolytes. The CCAs formed thereof are charge stabilized photonic crystals that shows distinctive first and second order Bragg diffraction peaks whose locations vary over a wide spectral region from UV through visible to IR, with unusually strong intensity and broad band width due to the high index of refraction. These high refractive index particles are useful in applications such as optical filters, optical coatings, cosmetics and photonic crystals sensors and devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888274 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/205 |
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| US 08822978 | Cowell, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through... (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. William Cowell, III (Corvallis, Oregon); John F. Wager (Corvallis, Oregon); Brady J. Gibbons (Corvallis, Oregon); Douglas A. Keszler (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic structure comprising: (a) a first metal layer; (b) a second metal layer; (c) and at least one insulator layer located between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, wherein at least one of the metal layers comprises an amorphous multi-component metallic film. In certain embodiments, the construct is a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868308 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/732 (20130101) H01L 29/7311 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7317 (20130101) H01L 29/66265 (20130101) H01L 29/66272 (20130101) |
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| US 08823210 | Olah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Allen Olah (Sunnyvale, California); Achyut Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Banpil Photonics, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Allen Olah (Sunnyvale, California); Achyut Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for perpetually harvesting ambient near ultraviolet to far infrared radiation to provide continual power regardless of the environment, incorporating a system for the harvesting electronics governing power management, storage control, and output regulation. The harvesting electronics address issues of efficiently matching the voltage and current characteristics of the different harvested energy levels, low power consumption, and matching the power output demand. The device seeks to harvest the largely overlooked blackbody radiation through use of a thermal harvester, providing a continuous source of power, coupled with a solar harvester to provide increased power output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/151253 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/45 |
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| US 08823221 | Teter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P Teter (Darnestown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method for optimizing a Galfenol-type magnetostriction actuator. The method and apparatus includes an elongated Galfenol-type magnetostrictive bar, first coil and a second coil, orthogonal to the first coil, with the coils arranged and activated to optimize expansion and contraction in the bar. According to the apparatus and the method, the first coil pre-aligns the magnetic moments of the bar into a desired crystallographic orientation that allows for maximum expansion or contraction when under the influence of the magnetic field of the second coil. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/627218 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/26 |
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| US 08823250 | Bermel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Bermel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ognjen Ilic (Quincy, Massachusetts); Walker R. Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ahmet Musabeyoglu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aviv Ruben Cukierman (McLean, Virginia); Michael Robert Harradon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ivan Celanovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Bermel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ognjen Ilic (Quincy, Massachusetts); Walker R. Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ahmet Musabeyoglu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aviv Ruben Cukierman (McLean, Virginia); Michael Robert Harradon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ivan Celanovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Incandescent lighting structure. The structure includes a thermal emitter that can, but does not have to, include a first photonic crystal on its surface to tailor thermal emission coupled to, in a high-view-factor geometry, a second photonic filter selected to reflect infrared radiation back to the emitter while passing visible light. This structure is highly efficient as compared to standard incandescent light bulbs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/732541 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/005 (20130101) G02B 5/208 (20130101) Electric Incandescent Lamps H01K 1/04 (20130101) H01K 1/14 (20130101) H01K 1/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01K 1/325 (20130101) |
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| US 08823316 | Woodall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Woodall (Panama City, Florida); Robert G. Adams (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Woodall (Panama City, Florida); Robert G. Adams (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for harvesting electric energy from thermal energy includes energy conversion assemblies that can be distributed about a conduit through which a heated effluent flows. Each energy conversion assembly includes two heat sinks, a thermoelectric cell sandwiched between the two heat sinks, and a thermal insulating gasket surrounding the thermoelectric cell and separating the two heat sinks. Circuit wiring electrically connects to each thermoelectric cell where the energy conversion assemblies are electrically connected to one another in parallel. An electric power storage device is coupled to the circuit wiring. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/199513 |
| 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 7/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08823848 | Chipman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Russell A. Chipman (Tucson, Arizona); Stanley Pau (Tucson, Arizona); J. Scott Tyo (Tucson, Arizona); Bradley M. Ratliff (Union, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell A. Chipman (Tucson, Arizona); Stanley Pau (Tucson, Arizona); J. Scott Tyo (Tucson, Arizona); Bradley M. Ratliff (Union, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarization camera includes a microlement polarizer that is situated in proximity to a focal plane array. The microlement polarizer is selectively scanned with respect to an optical image direct to the focal plane array, and an image processor stores a set of images associated with the scanning. Based on the stored images, a polarization image can be produced and displayed. A periodic microelement polarizer modulates the individual images of the set, and these images can be processed by filtering in the spatial frequency domain to isolate contributions associated with one or a combination of Stokes parameters. After filtering, Stokes parameter based images can be obtained by demodulating and inverse Fourier transforming the filtered frequency domain data. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/377518 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/302 |
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| US 08823938 | Beck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven M Beck (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Gary L Loper (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M Beck (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Gary L Loper (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, apparatus, and method is provided to remotely measure atmospheric species using a long path differential absorption technique. In one embodiment, a source and a detector are collocated and at the far end of the absorption path a retro-reflector is mounted on a vehicle. The source generates an outgoing laser beam that is transmitted to the retro-reflector and reflected towards the detector as an incoming laser beam, and the detector receives the incoming laser beam that was reflected by the retro-reflector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/348468 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/433 |
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| US 08824036 | Manipatruni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Hillsboro, Oregon); Rajeev Dokania (Hillsboro, Oregon); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Hillsboro, Oregon); Rajeev Dokania (Hillsboro, Oregon); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermally stabilized, high speed, micrometer-scale silicon electro-optic modulator is provided. Methods for maintaining desired temperatures in electro-optic modulators are also provided. The methods can be used to maintain high quality modulation in the presence of thermal variations from the surroundings. Direct current injection into the thermally stabilized electro-optic modulator is used to maintain the modulation performance of the modulator. The direct injected current changes the local temperature of the thermally stabilized electro-optic modulator to maintain its operation over a wide temperature range. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/257295 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824200 | Edelstein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan S. Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of memory cells, each cell comprising a first and second ferromagnetic layers that form either a spin valve or a magnetic tunnel junction; at least one conductor operatively connected to at least one of the first and second ferromagnetic layers; a third ferromagnetic layer magnetically coupled to the second magnetic layer having permittivity which changes from a first state to a second state of lower permittivity upon heating; the second ferromagnetic layer being influenced by the permittivity of the third ferromagnetic layer; and a heater element operatively associated with the third magnetic layer which selectively provides heat to the third magnetic layer to change its permittivity. An alternate embodiment comprises an array of cells, each cell comprising a ferromagnetic region having permittivity which changes from a first state to a second state upon heating and a heater operatively which selectively provides heat to the third magnetic layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109398 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/22 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824218 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seongwon Kim (Old Tappan, New Jersey); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Bipin Rajendran (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seongwon Kim (Old Tappan, New Jersey); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Bipin Rajendran (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, low-power, asynchronous, resistor-based memory read circuit includes a memory cell having a plurality of consecutive memory states, each of said states corresponding to a respective output voltage. A sense amplifier reads the state of the memory cell. The sense amplifier includes a voltage divider configured to receive the output voltage of the memory cell and to output a settled voltage an amplifier having a voltage threshold between the settled voltages associated with two of said consecutive memory states, configured to discriminate between said two consecutive memory states. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/552932 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/189.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824272 | Sud |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seema Sud (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for resolving interference between co-channel users is disclosed. A peak in a spectrum generated by a MUSIC algorithm is determined for a signal of interest (“SOI”) using a noise subspace. Also, an estimated carrier frequency offset (“CFO”) is determined for the SOI based on the determined peak in the spectrum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/648158 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824496 | Koka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); Michael Oliver McCracken (Austin, Texas); Herbert Dewitt Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); Michael Oliver McCracken (Austin, Texas); Herbert Dewitt Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for arbitration in an arbitration domain. The method includes: receiving, by each node of a plurality of nodes in the arbitration domain, an arbitration request from each sending node of the plurality of nodes in the arbitration domain, where the plurality of nodes in the arbitration domain each use a shared data channel to send data to a set of receiving nodes; assigning, by each node in the arbitration domain, consecutive time slots to each sending node based on a plurality of priorities assigned to the plurality of nodes in the arbitration domain; for each time slot: sending, from the arbitration domain, a switch request to a receiving node designated by the sending node, where the receiving node is in the set of receiving nodes; and sending, by the sending node, data to the receiving node via the shared data channel during the time slot. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610124 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824544 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lam Huy Nguyen (Laurel, Maryland); Thong Do (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lam Huy Nguyen (Laurel, Maryland); Thong Do (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of recovering information wide band signal comprising a receiver(s) for receiving data signal responses from a target area; the received data signal responses having information missing at a plurality of frequencies; at least one processor for recovery of data from the data signal responses operatively connected to the receiver(s); a first memory comprising time-shifted responses based upon the wide band signal response, a second memory comprising a plurality of spectrally filtered time-shifted responses; whereby the first and second memories operate to provide data to the at least one processor compensate for the information missing at the plurality of frequencies. Also, a method of the recovery of missing frequency bands comprising receiving data signal responses from a target area using a first dictionary comprising time-shifted responses based upon spectra containing the at least one predetermined spectrum, and a second dictionary comprising a plurality of spectrally filtered time-shifted responses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/477282 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824762 | Rivaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hassan Rivaz (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Emad M. Boctor (Baltimore, Maryland); Ioana Fleming (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hassan Rivaz (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Emad M. Boctor (Baltimore, Maryland); Ioana Fleming (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of processing ultrasound data includes receiving ultrasound data for a first ultrasound image, the first ultrasound image being represented as a first set of discrete pixels corresponding to positions of a region of interest; receiving ultrasound data for a second ultrasound image, the second ultrasound image being represented as a second set of discrete pixels corresponding to positions of the region of interest; generating a displacement map by minimizing a cost function using a dynamic programming procedure that identifies each of the first set of discrete pixels with a corresponding one of the second set of discrete pixels; refining the displacement map to obtain intermediate displacement values corresponding to positions between the discrete pixels based on minimizing a local approximation to the cost function; and calculating a physical property of the region of interest based on the displacement map. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/279970 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/587 (20130101) A61B 8/5207 (20130101) A61B 8/5269 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6206 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0028 (20130101) G06T 2207/10132 (20130101) G06T 2207/30004 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824837 | Ren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shen Ren (Palo Alto, California); David A. B. Miller (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shen Ren (Palo Alto, California); David A. B. Miller (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved integration of optoelectronic devices is provided by a spacer layer laterally sandwiched between distinct regions that are monolithically fabricated onto the same substrate (e.g., by selective epitaxy). An optical waveguide in one of the regions can optically couple to an optoelectronic device in another of the regions through the spacer layer, thereby providing a monolithically integrated form of butt-coupling. Preferably, the spacer layer thickness is less than about 50 nm, and is more preferably less than about 20 nm, to reduce optical loss. The spacer layer is preferably electrically insulating, to prevent shorting of devices grown by selective epitaxy. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/199302 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/131 (20130101) G02B 6/132 (20130101) G02B 6/136 (20130101) G02B 6/12004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824901 | Devgan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Preetpaul S Devgan (Laurel, Maryland); Vincent J Urick (Alexandria, Virginia); Keith J Williams (Dunkirk, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Preetpaul S Devgan (Laurel, Maryland); Vincent J Urick (Alexandria, Virginia); Keith J Williams (Dunkirk, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-mode optoelectronic oscillator (MM-OEO) includes an OEO cavity having an input for receiving an RF signal and an RF output. The OEO cavity includes a) a first laser having a first laser output, a second laser having a second laser output, b) a modulator having i) a first input coupled to the first laser output, ii) a second input coupled to the second laser output, iii) a third input, iv) a first modulator output, and v) a second modulator output, c) a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) having an input coupled to the first modulator output and having an SOA amplified output, d) a photodetector coupled to the SOA amplified output and having an output, and e) a coupler having an input coupled to the photodetector output and having a first output coupled to the third modulator input and a second output, whereby an amplified RF signal is produced at the OEO RF output. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/617144 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 17/00 (20130101) Modulation H03C 7/00 (20130101) Transmission H04B 2210/006 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825233 | Spoldi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven E. Spoldi (Shelton, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Spoldi (Shelton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for estimating airspeed of an aircraft includes receiving values indicative of operating conditions of the aircraft along an axis; estimating a tip path plane (TPP) angle along the axis from at least one of the operating conditions to create an estimated TPP angle; and determining an estimated airspeed as a function of the estimated TPP angle, the determining including referencing a look-up table that indexes the estimated TPP angle with the airspeed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/484761 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825442 | Kirschenbaum |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leif Stefan Kirschenbaum (Napa, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Grandis Inc. (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leif Stefan Kirschenbaum (Napa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining switching characteristics in electronic devices is disclosed. The method includes applying a ramped series of electrical pulses, identifying a candidate switching pulse, grouping the measured parameter values for the remaining electrical pulses, extrapolating an expected parameter value for the candidate switching pulse for each group, and comparing the expected parameter value for each group to the parameter value for the candidate switching pulse. The method also includes applying a ramped series of electrical pulses, identifying a candidate switching pulse, and clustering the remaining measured parameter values. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/888257 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825466 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Wang (Culver City, California); Jonathan May (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Knight (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Language Weaver, Inc. (Los Angeles, California); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wang (Culver City, California); Jonathan May (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Knight (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for automatically modifying an annotated bilingual segment pair are provided. An annotated bilingual segment pair (“Pair”) may be modified to generate improved translation rules used in machine translation of documents from a source language to a target language. Because a single Pair may be used to translate a phrase, many Pairs are used in a machine translation system and manual correction of each model is impractical. Each Pair may be modified by re-labeling syntactic categories within the Pair, re-structuring a tree within the Pair, and/or re-aligning source words to target words within the Pair. In exemplary embodiments, many alternate Pairs (or portions thereof) are generated automatically, rule sequences corresponding to each are derived, and one or more rule sequences are selected. Using the selected rule sequence, a modified Pair is distilled. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811228 |
| ART UNIT | 2658 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825577 | Fokoue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Achille Fokoue (White Plains, New York); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Achille Fokoue (White Plains, New York); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for assessing trust in information are provided. The techniques include collecting information from one or more information sources, detecting one or more inconsistencies in one or more statements from the information collected from the one or more sources, assigning a penalty to each information source involved in an inconsistency and a reward for each statement not involved in any inconsistencies, and using each assigned penalty and reward to perform an aggregation to assess trust in the collected information. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/880357 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825584 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher A. Miller (St. Paul, Minnesota); Peggy Wu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jeffrey M. Rye (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Harry B. Funk (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Miller (St. Paul, Minnesota); Peggy Wu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jeffrey M. Rye (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Harry B. Funk (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for evaluating communicative acts to determine a social regard score between two communicating entities participating in the communicative act. The two communicating entities collectively define a communication pair. The system includes a patterns database and an etiquette processor. The patterns database stores behavior recognition patterns defining particular redressive behaviors that may be used in the communicative acts and a redress score associated with each one of the particular redressive behaviors. The etiquette processor is in communication with the patterns database and is configured to determine a pairwise regard score for the communicative pair based on ones of the particular redressive behaviors identified in the communicative acts between the two communicating entities of the communicative pair. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/198563 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825811 | Gonzales et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cesar A. Gonzales (Katonah, New York); Kang-Won Lee (Nanuet, New York); Sumedh W. Sathaye (Austin, Texas); Dinesh Verma (New Castle, New York); Peter Westerink (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cesar A. Gonzales (Katonah, New York); Kang-Won Lee (Nanuet, New York); Sumedh W. Sathaye (Austin, Texas); Dinesh Verma (New Castle, New York); Peter Westerink (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Content delivery by a network node is optimized. The network node is communicatively coupled between multiple end user devices and at least one content service provider. A request for a media streaming service available from the content service provider is intercepted from a first requestor device. It is determined if the media streaming service is registered for delivery optimization based on at least one service rule specific to the media streaming service. It is determined if a second requestor device is currently receiving the media streaming service from the content service provider. In response to the media streaming service being received by the second requestor device, delivery optimization of the media streaming service is performed by replicating the media streaming service for delivery to the first requestor device. The replicated media streaming service is sent to the first requestor device. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/421371 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825852 | Carey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and products are provided relevant alert delivery including assigning by an event analyzer each received event to an events pool; determining by the event analyzer in dependence upon event analysis rules and the events assigned to the events pool whether to suppress one or more of the events; identifying by the event analyzer in dependence upon event analysis rules and the events assigned to the events pool one or more alerts; sending by the event analyzer to an alert analyzer all the alerts identified by the event analyzer; assigning by the alert analyzer the identified alerts to an alerts pool; determining by the alert analyzer in dependence upon alert analysis rules and the alerts in the alert pool whether to suppress any alerts; and transmitting the unsuppressed alerts to one or more components of the distributed processing system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/747895 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/0709 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 41/0604 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826000 | Jacobs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart J. Jacobs (Hudson, Massachusetts); Francis Leo Mannix, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas William Christoffel (Concord, Massachusetts); Scott Andrew Belgard (Randolph, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Laboratories Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart J. Jacobs (Hudson, Massachusetts); Francis Leo Mannix, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas William Christoffel (Concord, Massachusetts); Scott Andrew Belgard (Randolph, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a node (110) communicating with other nodes in a network (150), a system and method for performing cryptographic-related functions is provided. The node (110) receives and transmits inputs and outputs requiring cryptographic-related processing. When cryptographic processing is required, the node (110) transmits a predefined message to a cryptographic processing component in the node (110) that then performs the desired cryptographic-related processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/357749 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/12 (20130101) H04L 63/101 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826084 | Gauf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernie Gauf (Vienna, Virginia); Scott Bindas (Rochester, Massachusetts); Shawn Kline (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew Oehler (Lumberton, New Jersey); Dave Ponticello (Medford, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Defense Technologies, LLC (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernie Gauf (Vienna, Virginia); Scott Bindas (Rochester, Massachusetts); Shawn Kline (Washington, District of Columbia); Matthew Oehler (Lumberton, New Jersey); Dave Ponticello (Medford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer implemented method and system for automated test and retesting using an interactive interface provided by a computer processor comprising: a test case builder, comprising at least one processor, configured to automatically generate code for a test case; a test flow tool, comprising at least one processor, configured to generate a plurality of test flows for the test case; an execution engine, comprising at least one processor, configured to automatically execute the plurality of test flows on a system under test; and an output interface configured to receive output data from the system under test. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/605182 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826216 | Bose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); John A. Darringer (Mahopac, New York); Moinuddin K. Qureshi (White Plains, New York); Jeonghee Shin (Millwood, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); John A. Darringer (Mahopac, New York); Moinuddin K. Qureshi (White Plains, New York); Jeonghee Shin (Millwood, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of operating an integrated circuit (IC) having a fixed layout of one or more blocks having one or more current sources therein that draw electrical current from a power source. The method includes dynamically issuing to a block configured to perform operations responsive to an instruction received at the block, a reserve amount of tokens; determining for each issuance of instruction to the block whether that block's reserve token amount exceeds zero; and one of: issuing the instruction to the block if the token reserve for that block is greater than one, and decrementing, after issuance of the instruction, by one token the block's reserve token amount, or, preventing issuance of an instruction to the block. In the method, each block may be initialized to have: a reserve token amount of zero, a token expiration period; a token generation cycle and a token generation amount. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526153 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) G06F 9/455 (20130101) G06F 9/5044 (20130101) G06F 15/177 (20130101) G06F 17/5022 (20130101) G06F 17/5054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/1041 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826366 | Narain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanjai Narain (Madison, New Jersey); Gary Levin (Bedminster, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TT Government Solutions, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjai Narain (Madison, New Jersey); Gary Levin (Bedminster, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for verifying an access-control policy against a particular constraint for a multi-step operation. In disclosed embodiments, the method includes expressing the access-control policy as a first quantifier-free form (QFF) constraint and identifying the particular constraint as a second QFF constraint. The method also includes identifying an operation vector and providing copies of the operation vector associated with steps in the multi-step operation. The method also includes determining a third QFF constraint using the first QFF constraint, the second QFF constraint, and the copies of the operation vector. The method also includes solving the third QFF constraint to determine a solution and outputting a result of the solving. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837068 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/60 (20130101) G06F 11/00 (20130101) G06F 13/00 (20130101) G06F 13/362 (20130101) G06F 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/62 (20130101) G06F 21/604 (20130101) G06F 21/6209 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/06823 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826384 | Winslow |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Norman Winslow (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Norman Winslow (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A device that includes a first processor, a second processor, and an encryption module in communication with the first processor and the second processor may be used to accept conditions for access to the network. The first processor may receive condition data, and in response, may send an acceptance signal via the encryption module to the second processor. The second processor may receive the acceptance signal and, in response, may send acceptance data to a gatekeeper. The encryption module may block unencrypted data other than the acceptance signal from being communicated from the first processor to the second processor. The encryption module may support type 1 encryption. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777384 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/08 (20130101) H04L 63/30 (20130101) H04L 63/0272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/0428 (20130101) |
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| US 08820147 | Sinha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A measurement system and method for permitting multiple independent measurements of several physical parameters of multiphase fluids flowing through pipes are described. Multiple acoustic transducers are placed in acoustic communication with or attached to the outside surface of a section of existing spool (metal pipe), typically less than 3 feet in length, for noninvasive measurements. Sound speed, sound attenuation, fluid density, fluid flow, container wall resonance characteristics, and Doppler measurements for gas volume fraction may be measured simultaneously by the system. Temperature measurements are made using a temperature sensor for oil-cut correction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/226209 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/61.790 |
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| US 08820434 | Zediker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Zediker (Weldon Spring, Missouri); Mark S. Land (Denver, Colorado); Charles C. Rinzler (Denver, Colorado); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Yeshaya Koblick (Sharon, Massachusetts); Joel F. Moxley (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foro Energy, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Zediker (Weldon Spring, Missouri); Mark S. Land (Denver, Colorado); Charles C. Rinzler (Denver, Colorado); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Yeshaya Koblick (Sharon, Massachusetts); Joel F. Moxley (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Delivering high power laser energy to form a borehole deep into the earth using laser energy. Down hole laser tools, laser systems and laser delivery techniques for advancement, workover and completion activities. A laser bottom hole assembly (LBHA) for the delivery of high power laser energy to the surfaces of a borehole, which assembly may have laser optics, a fluid path for debris removal and a mechanical means to remove earth. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544038 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 7/14 (20130101) E21B 7/15 (20130101) E21B 10/60 (20130101) E21B 21/103 (20130101) E21B 29/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 43/11 (20130101) |
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| US 08821614 | Albenze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik J. Albenze (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania); David P. Hopkinson (Morgantown, West Virginia); David R. Luebke (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik J. Albenze (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania); David P. Hopkinson (Morgantown, West Virginia); David R. Luebke (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a membrane testing system for individual evaluation of a plurality of planar membranes subjected to a feed gas on one side and a sweep gas on a second side. The membrane testing system provides a pressurized flow of a feed and sweep gas to each membrane testing cell in a plurality of membrane testing cells while a stream of retentate gas from each membrane testing cell is ported by a retentate multiport valve for sampling or venting, and a stream of permeate gas from each membrane testing cell is ported by a permeate multiport valve for sampling or venting. Back pressure regulators and mass flow controllers act to maintain substantially equivalent gas pressures and flow rates on each side of the planar membrane throughout a sampling cycle. A digital controller may be utilized to position the retentate and permeate multiport valves cyclically, allowing for gas sampling of different membrane cells over an extended period of time. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629733 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/12 |
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| US 08821701 | Higdon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clifton Higdon (Birmingham, Michigan); Alaa A. Elmoursi (Troy, Michigan); Jason Goldsmith (Meadville, Pennsylvania); Bruce Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Peter Blau (Knoxville, Tennessee); Qu Jun (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert Milner (Warren, Michigan) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Clifton Higdon (Birmingham, Michigan); Alaa A. Elmoursi (Troy, Michigan); Jason Goldsmith (Meadville, Pennsylvania); Bruce Cook (Ankeny, Iowa); Peter Blau (Knoxville, Tennessee); Qu Jun (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert Milner (Warren, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A target for use in an ion beam sputtering apparatus made of at least two target tiles where at least two of the target tiles are made of different chemical compositions and are mounted on a main tile and geometrically arranged on the main tile to yield a desired chemical composition on a sputtered substrate. In an alternate embodiment, the tiles are of varied thickness according to the desired chemical properties of the sputtered film. In yet another alternate embodiment, the target is comprised of plugs pressed in a green state which are disposed in cavities formed in a main tile also formed in a green state and the assembly can then be compacted and then sintered. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792324 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/298.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821819 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John Henry Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/966768 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/10 (20130101) B01D 53/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2257/602 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 95/901 (20130101) |
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| US 08821860 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul J. Jackson (Livermore, California); Brian E. Souza (Livermore, California); Feliza A. Bourguet (Livermore, California); Matthew A. Coleman (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Jackson (Livermore, California); Brian E. Souza (Livermore, California); Feliza A. Bourguet (Livermore, California); Matthew A. Coleman (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Targeted antimicrobials are described and related, compositions, methods and systems. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852358 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.610 |
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| US 08822036 | Wereszczak |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew A. Wereszczak (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are sintered silver bonded electronic package subcomponents and methods for making the same. Embodiments of the sintered silver bonded EPSs include topography modification of one or more metal surfaces of semiconductor devices bonded together by the sintered silver joint. The sintered silver bonded EPSs include a first semiconductor device having a first metal surface, the first metal surface having a modified topography that has been chemically etched, grit blasted, uniaxial ground and/or grid sliced connected to a second semiconductor device which may also include a first metal surface with a modified topography, a silver plating layer on the first metal surface of the first semiconductor device and a silver plating layer on the first metal surface of the second semiconductor device and a sintered silver joint between the silver plating layers of the first and second semiconductor devices which bonds the first semiconductor device to the second semiconductor device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787366 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 24/80 (20130101) |
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| US 08822042 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Alberto Bossi (Gallorate, Italy); Peter Ivan Djurovich (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Alberto Bossi (Gallorate, Italy); Peter Ivan Djurovich (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to phosphorescent (triplet-emitting) organometallic materials. The phosphorescent materials of the present invention comprise Ir(III)cyclometallated alkynyl complexes for use as triplet light-emitting materials. The Ir(III)cyclometallated alkynyl complexes comprise at least one cyclometallating ligand and at least one alkynyl ligand bonded to the iridium. Also provided is an organic light emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode and an emissive layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the emissive layer comprises a Ir(III)cyclometallated alkynyl complex as a triplet emitting material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/161296 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0033 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 2211/185 (20130101) C09K 2211/1029 (20130101) C09K 2211/1044 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5016 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 428/917 (20130101) |
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| US 08822162 | Ulijasz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew T. Ulijasz (Twickenham, United Kingdom); Richard D. Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Ulijasz (Twickenham, United Kingdom); Richard D. Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically-engineered cyanochrome fluorophore molecules (fluorophores) with increased fluorescence and with absorbing fluorescence in the blue and green (blue/green) portion of the light spectrum are provided. These fluorophores are derived from the domains of phytochromes, and in particular cyanobacterial phytochromes. Methods for generating these fluorophores and various applications of these fluorophores are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789112 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/5035 (20130101) |
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| US 08822164 | Zangar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Zangar (Richland, Washington); Susan M. Varnum (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A biomarker, method, test kit, and diagnostic system for detecting the presence of lymphoma in a person are disclosed. The lymphoma may be Hodgkin's lymphoma or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The person may be a high-risk subject. In one embodiment, a plasma sample from a person is obtained. The level of at least one protein listed in Table S3 in the plasma sample is measured. The level of at least one protein in the plasma sample is compared with the level in a normal or healthy subject. The lymphoma is diagnosed based upon the level of the at least one protein in the plasma sample in comparison to the normal or healthy level. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690073 |
| 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 | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6848 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 33/57426 (20130101) G01N 33/57488 (20130101) G01N 2333/904 (20130101) G01N 2333/4737 (20130101) G01N 2333/70539 (20130101) |
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| US 08822179 | Preston, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James F. Preston, III (Micanopy, Florida); Virginia Chow (Gainesville, Florida); Guang Nong (Gainesville, Florida); John D. Rice (Gainesville, Florida); Franz J. St. John (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Preston, III (Micanopy, Florida); Virginia Chow (Gainesville, Florida); Guang Nong (Gainesville, Florida); John D. Rice (Gainesville, Florida); Franz J. St. John (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding an aldouronate-utilization regulon isolated from Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2, a bacterium which efficiently utilizes xylan and metabolizes aldouronates (methylglucuronoxylosaccharides). The subject invention also provides a means for providing a coordinately regulated process in which xylan depolymerization and product assimilation are coupled in Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2 to provide a favorable system for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biobased products. Additionally, the nucleic acid sequences encoding the aldouronate-utilization regulon can be used to transform other bacteria to form organisms capable of producing a desired product (e.g., ethanol, 1-butanol, acetoin, 2,3-butanediol, 1,3-propanediol, succinate, lactate, acetate, malate or alanine) from lignocellulosic biomass. |
| FILED | Monday, January 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/350858 |
| 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 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2482 (20130101) C12N 15/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/065 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) C12Y 302/01139 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 08822262 | Loscutoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Loscutoff (Castro Valley, California); Steve Molesa (San Jose, California); Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Loscutoff (Castro Valley, California); Steve Molesa (San Jose, California); Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser contact process is employed to form contact holes to emitters of a solar cell. Doped silicon nanoparticles are formed over a substrate of the solar cell. The surface of individual or clusters of silicon nanoparticles is coated with a nanoparticle passivation film. Contact holes to emitters of the solar cell are formed by impinging a laser beam on the passivated silicon nanoparticles. For example, the laser contact process may be a laser ablation process. In that case, the emitters may be formed by diffusing dopants from the silicon nanoparticles prior to forming the contact holes to the emitters. As another example, the laser contact process may be a laser melting process whereby portions of the silicon nanoparticles are melted to form the emitters and contact holes to the emitters. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/335550 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/98 |
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| US 08822367 | Hill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig L Hill (Atlanta, Georgia); Yurii V Gueletii (Decatur, Georgia); Djamaladdin G. Musaev (Atlanta, Georgia); Qiushi Yin (Tucker, Georgia); Bogdan Botar (Juelich, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig L Hill (Atlanta, Georgia); Yurii V Gueletii (Decatur, Georgia); Djamaladdin G. Musaev (Atlanta, Georgia); Qiushi Yin (Tucker, Georgia); Bogdan Botar (Juelich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Homogeneous water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) for the oxidation of water to produce hydrogen ions and oxygen, and methods of making and using thereof are described herein. In a preferred embodiment, the WOC is a polyoxometalate WOC which is hydrolytically stable, oxidatively stable, and thermally stable. The WOC oxidized waters in the presence of an oxidant. The oxidant can be generated photochemically, using light, such as sunlight, or electrochemically using a positively biased electrode. The hydrogen ions are subsequently reduced to form hydrogen gas, for example, using a hydrogen evolution catalyst (HEC). The hydrogen gas can be used as a fuel in combustion reactions and/or in hydrogen fuel cells. The catalysts described herein exhibit higher turn over numbers, faster turn over frequencies, and/or higher oxygen yields than prior art catalysts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256227 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/002 (20130101) B01J 23/6527 (20130101) B01J 27/188 (20130101) B01J 27/199 (20130101) B01J 35/0033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/12 (20130101) B01J 2523/13 (20130101) B01J 2523/14 (20130101) B01J 2523/15 (20130101) B01J 2523/41 (20130101) B01J 2523/51 (20130101) B01J 2523/51 (20130101) B01J 2523/69 (20130101) B01J 2523/69 (20130101) B01J 2523/69 (20130101) B01J 2523/821 (20130101) B01J 2523/821 (20130101) B01J 2523/845 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/042 (20130101) C01B 13/0207 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 51/006 (20130101) C01G 55/002 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2002/86 (20130101) C01P 2002/88 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0606 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/364 (20130101) |
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| US 08822618 | Okawa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Okawa (San Bruno, California); Stefan J. Pastine (San Francisco, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Okawa (San Bruno, California); Stefan J. Pastine (San Francisco, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a microcapsule includes a shell surrounding a space, a liquid within the shell, and a light absorbing material within the liquid. An embodiment of a method of making microcapsules includes forming a mixture of a light absorbing material and an organic solution. An emulsion of the mixture and an aqueous solution is then formed. A polymerization agent is added to the emulsion, which causes microcapsules to be formed. Each microcapsule includes a shell surrounding a space, a liquid within the shell, and light absorbing material within the liquid. An embodiment of a method of using microcapsules includes providing phototriggerable microcapsules within a bulk material. Each of the phototriggerable microcapsules includes a shell surrounding a space, a chemically reactive material within the shell, and a light absorbing material within the shell. At least some of the phototriggerable microcapsules are exposed to light, which causes the chemically reactive material to release from the shell and to come into contact with bulk material. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/393183 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 67/0097 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/774 (20130101) |
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| US 08822812 | Wares |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian S. Wares (Sacramento, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. Wares (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to an arrangement of photovoltaic modules configured for transportation. The arrangement includes a plurality of photovoltaic modules, each photovoltaic module including a frame. A plurality of individual male alignment features and a plurality of individual female alignment features are included on each frame. Adjacent photovoltaic modules are interlocked by multiple individual male alignment features on a first module of the adjacent photovoltaic modules fitting into and being surrounded by corresponding individual female alignment features on a second module of the adjacent photovoltaic modules. Other embodiments, features and aspects are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585573 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/5211 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F24J 2002/5279 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0422 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 08822946 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu-Jiuan Chen (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Jiuan Chen (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices enable shaping of a charged particle beam. A modified dielectric wall accelerator includes a high gradient lens section and a main section. The high gradient lens section can be dynamically adjusted to establish the desired electric fields to minimize undesirable transverse defocusing fields at the entrance to the dielectric wall accelerator. Once a baseline setting with desirable output beam characteristic is established, the output beam can be dynamically modified to vary the output beam characteristics. The output beam can be modified by slightly adjusting the electric fields established across different sections of the modified dielectric wall accelerator. Additional control over the shape of the output beam can be excreted by introducing intentional timing de-synchronization offsets and producing an injected beam that is not fully matched to the entrance of the modified dielectric accelerator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/343705 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08822959 | DeRose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel A. Bender (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The phase value of a phase-sensitive optical device, which includes an optical transport region, is modified by laser processing. At least a portion of the optical transport region is exposed to a laser beam such that the phase value is changed from a first phase value to a second phase value, where the second phase value is different from the first phase value. The portion of the optical transport region that is exposed to the laser beam can be a surface of the optical transport region or a portion of the volume of the optical transport region. In an embodiment of the invention, the phase value of the optical device is corrected by laser processing. At least a portion of the optical transport region is exposed to a laser beam until the phase value of the optical device is within a specified tolerance of a target phase value. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/012061 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 5/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08822984 | Teague |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lucile C. Teague (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucile C. Teague (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for reducing the deleterious effects of gate bias stress on the drain current of an organic device, such as an organic thin film transistor, are provided. In a particular aspect, the organic layer of an organic device is illuminated with light having characteristics selected to reduce the gate bias voltage effects on the drain current of the organic device. For instance, the wavelength and intensity of the light are selected to provide a desired recovery of drain current of the organic device. If the characteristics of the light are appropriately matched to the organic device, recovery of the deleterious effects caused by gate bias voltage stress effects on the drain current of the organic device can be achieved. In a particular aspect, the organic device is selectively illuminated with light to operate the organic device in multiple modes of operation. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/305201 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 08823014 | Edgar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Edgar (Manhattan, Kansas); Michael Dudley (Miller Place, New York); Martin Kuball (Bristol, United Kingdom); Yi Zhang (Manhattan, Kansas); Guan Wang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Hui Chen (Stony Brook, New York); Yu Zhang (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas); State University of New York Stony Brook (Albany, New York); The University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edgar (Manhattan, Kansas); Michael Dudley (Miller Place, New York); Martin Kuball (Bristol, United Kingdom); Yi Zhang (Manhattan, Kansas); Guan Wang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Hui Chen (Stony Brook, New York); Yu Zhang (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of epitaxial growth of a material on a crystalline substrate includes selecting a substrate having a crystal plane that includes a plurality of terraces with step risers that join adjacent terraces. Each terrace of the plurality or terraces presents a lattice constant that substantially matches a lattice constant of the material, and each step riser presents a step height and offset that is consistent with portions of the material nucleating on adjacent terraces being in substantial crystalline match at the step riser. The method also includes preparing a substrate by exposing the crystal plane; and epitaxially growing the material on the substrate such that the portions of the material nucleating on adjacent terraces merge into a single crystal lattice without defects at the step risers. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966753 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08823233 | Post |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard F. Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An axial stabilizer for the rotor of a magnetic bearing provides external control of stiffness through switching in external inductances. External control also allows the stabilizer to become a part of a passive/active magnetic bearing system that requires no external source of power and no position sensor. Stabilizers for displacements transverse to the axis of rotation are provided that require only a single cylindrical Halbach array in its operation, and thus are especially suited for use in high rotation speed applications, such as flywheel energy storage systems. The elimination of the need of an inner cylindrical array solves the difficult mechanical problem of supplying support against centrifugal forces for the magnets of that array. Compensation is provided for the temperature variation of the strength of the magnetic fields of the permanent magnets in the levitating magnet arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/985980 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 32/0436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16C 32/0448 (20130101) F16C 2361/55 (20130101) |
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| US 08823250 | Bermel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Bermel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ognjen Ilic (Quincy, Massachusetts); Walker R. Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ahmet Musabeyoglu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aviv Ruben Cukierman (McLean, Virginia); Michael Robert Harradon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ivan Celanovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Bermel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ognjen Ilic (Quincy, Massachusetts); Walker R. Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ahmet Musabeyoglu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aviv Ruben Cukierman (McLean, Virginia); Michael Robert Harradon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ivan Celanovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Incandescent lighting structure. The structure includes a thermal emitter that can, but does not have to, include a first photonic crystal on its surface to tailor thermal emission coupled to, in a high-view-factor geometry, a second photonic filter selected to reflect infrared radiation back to the emitter while passing visible light. This structure is highly efficient as compared to standard incandescent light bulbs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/732541 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/005 (20130101) G02B 5/208 (20130101) Electric Incandescent Lamps H01K 1/04 (20130101) H01K 1/14 (20130101) H01K 1/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01K 1/325 (20130101) |
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| US 08823259 | Moody |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC. (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Andrew Moody (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are graphene shield enhanced photocathodes, such as high QE photocathodes. In certain embodiments, a monolayer graphene shield membrane ruggedizes a high quantum efficiency photoemission electron source by protecting a photosensitive film of the photocathode, extending operational lifetime and simplifying its integration in practical electron sources. In certain embodiments of the disclosed graphene shield enhanced photocathodes, the graphene serves as a transparent shield that does not inhibit photon or electron transmission but isolates the photosensitive film of the photocathode from reactive gas species, preventing contamination and yielding longer lifetime. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/886517 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08823391 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. Mark Jones (West Richland, Washington); James F. Kelly (Pasco, Washington); John S. McCloy (Richland, Washington); Douglas L. McMakin (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Mark Jones (West Richland, Washington); James F. Kelly (Pasco, Washington); John S. McCloy (Richland, Washington); Douglas L. McMakin (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A regenerative feedback resonant circuit for measuring a transient response in a loop is disclosed. The circuit includes an amplifier for generating a signal in the loop. The circuit further includes a resonator having a resonant cavity and a material located within the cavity. The signal sent into the resonator produces a resonant frequency. A variation of the resonant frequency due to perturbations in electromagnetic properties of the material is measured. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/396402 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/646 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08823942 | Stowe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashley Clinton Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Norman Smyrl (Knoxville, Tennessee); Russell L. Hallman, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashley Clinton Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Norman Smyrl (Knoxville, Tennessee); Russell L. Hallman, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An environmental cell assembly for use in microscopy and spectroscopy applications, including: an environmentally sealed body assembly configured to selectively hold and contain a sample; a plurality of ports manufactured into one or more surfaces of the body assembly for one or more of evacuating the body assembly and injecting a gas into or removing a gas from the body assembly; a port manufactured into a surface of the body assembly for receiving a translating stage configured to move the sample within the body assembly; and a port manufactured into a surface of the body assembly for receiving one or more lenses utilized in a microscopy or spectroscopy application; wherein the one or more lenses are disposed adjacent the sample without intervening structures disposed there between. The cell assembly also includes a port manufactured into a surface of the body assembly for retaining a window and providing visualization of the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/835005 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824174 | Lai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jih-Sheng Lai (Blacksburg, Virginia); Sung Yeul Park (Blacksburg, Virginia); Chien-Liang Chen (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jih-Sheng Lai (Blacksburg, Virginia); Sung Yeul Park (Blacksburg, Virginia); Chien-Liang Chen (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new current loop control system method is proposed for a single-phase grid-tie power conditioning system that can be used under a standalone or a grid-tie mode. This type of inverter utilizes an inductor-capacitor-inductor (LCL) filter as the interface in between inverter and the utility grid. The first set of inductor-capacitor (LC) can be used in the standalone mode, and the complete LCL can be used for the grid-tie mode. A new admittance compensation technique is proposed for the controller design to avoid low stability margin while maintaining sufficient gain at the fundamental frequency. The proposed current loop controller system and admittance compensation technique have been simulated and tested. Simulation results indicate that without the admittance path compensation, the current loop controller output duty cycle is largely offset by an undesired admittance path. At the initial simulation cycle, the power flow may be erratically fed back to the inverter causing catastrophic failure. With admittance path compensation, the output power shows a steady-state offset that matches the design value. Experimental results show that the inverter is capable of both a standalone and a grid-tie connection mode using the LCL filter configuration. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/036087 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 7/53871 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 70/1441 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825283 | Tamai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Goro Tamai (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Jing Zhou (Auburn Hills, Michigan); Feisel Weslati (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chrysler Group LLC (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Goro Tamai (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Jing Zhou (Auburn Hills, Michigan); Feisel Weslati (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An indicator, system and method of indicating electric drive usability in a hybrid electric vehicle. A tachometer is used that includes a display having an all-electric drive portion and a hybrid drive portion. The all-electric drive portion and the hybrid drive portion share a first boundary which indicates a minimum electric drive usability and a beginning of hybrid drive operation of the vehicle. The indicated level of electric drive usability is derived from at least one of a percent battery discharge, a percent maximum torque provided by the electric drive, and a percent electric drive to hybrid drive operating cost for the hybrid electric vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/593589 |
| 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 71/34.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825611 | Jorgensen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig R. Jorgensen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian D. Nelson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steve W. Ratheal (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig R. Jorgensen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian D. Nelson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steve W. Ratheal (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for dynamically sharing information includes executing a sharing policy indicating when to share a data object responsive to the occurrence of an event. The data object is created by formatting a data file to be shared with a receiving entity. The data object includes a file data portion and a sharing metadata portion. The data object is encrypted and then automatically transmitted to the receiving entity upon occurrence of the event. The sharing metadata portion includes metadata characterizing the data file and referenced in connection with the sharing policy to determine when to automatically transmit the data object to the receiving entity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686191 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/694 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825652 | Faibish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jingwang Zhang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jingwang Zhang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for small file aggregation in a parallel computing system. An exemplary method for storing a plurality of files generated by a plurality of processes in a parallel computing system comprises aggregating the plurality of files into a single aggregated file; and generating metadata for the single aggregated file. The metadata comprises an offset and a length of each of the plurality of files in the single aggregated file. The metadata can be used to unpack one or more of the files from the single aggregated file. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536315 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825710 | Gillen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E. Gillen (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert M. Patton (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Carlos C. Rojas (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Planet Technologies (Germantown, Maryland); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Gillen (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert M. Patton (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Carlos C. Rojas (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A cloud computing platform includes first device having a graph or tree structure with a node which receives data. The data is processed by the node or communicated to a child node for processing. A first node in the graph or tree structure determines the reconfiguration of a portion of the graph or tree structure on a second device. The reconfiguration may include moving a second node and some or all of its descendant nodes. The second and descendant nodes may be copied to the second device. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/480175 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/797 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825983 | Blocksome et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 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) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Eager send data communications in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI composed of data communications endpoints that specify a client, a context, and a task, including receiving an eager send data communications instruction with transfer data disposed in a send buffer characterized by a read/write send buffer memory address in a read/write virtual address space of the origin endpoint; determining for the send buffer a read-only send buffer memory address in a read-only virtual address space, the read-only virtual address space shared by both the origin endpoint and the target endpoint, with all frames of physical memory mapped to pages of virtual memory in the read-only virtual address space; and communicating by the origin endpoint to the target endpoint an eager send message header that includes the read-only send buffer memory address. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/027421 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08819926 | Yazdanpanah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mehdi M Yazdanpanah (Louisville, Kentucky); Romaneh Jalilian (Louisville, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mehdi M Yazdanpanah (Louisville, Kentucky); Romaneh Jalilian (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide method and apparatus of restoring probes attached to the manipulator in a control environment (e.g. vacuum chamber of an focus ion beam) without a need to open the vacuum chamber. Another embodiment of the present invention teaches construction and application of various shapes of nanoforks from a nanoneedles array inside a FIB vacuum chamber. In another embodiment, the present invention teaches edition and correction of completed and oxide-coated circuit boards by re-nano-wiring using nanoneedles of a nanoneedles array (as nanowire supply), contained in the same controlled space. In this embodiment, individual nanoneedles in a nanoneedle array are manipulated by a manipulator and placed in such a way to make electrical contact between the desired points. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/366316 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/825 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08820357 | Prakash et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manu Prakash (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manu Prakash (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for implementing a logic operation employs an all fluid-based no-moving part micro-mechanical logic family of microfluidic bubble logic devices that are constructed from complex sequences of microfluidic channels, microfluidic bubble modulators for programming the devices, and microfluidic droplet/bubble memory elements for chemical storage and retrieval. The input is a sequence of bubbles/droplets encoding information, with the output being another sequence of bubbles/droplets. For performing a set of reactions/tasks, the modulators program the device by producing a precisely timed sequence of bubbles/droplets, resulting in a cascade of logic operations within the microfluidic channel sequence, utilizing the generated bubbles as a control. The devices are based on the principle of minimum energy interfaces formed between the two fluid phases enclosed inside precise channel geometries. Various devices, including logic gates, non-volatile bistable memory, shift registers, multiplexers, and ring oscillators have been designed and fabricated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/569155 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/806 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821213 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter H. -T. Liu (Bellevue, Washington); Ernst H. Schubert (Snoqualmie Pass, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. -T. Liu (Bellevue, Washington); Ernst H. Schubert (Snoqualmie Pass, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of abrasive jet piercing and/or cutting devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a piercing device includes a holding or positioning device coupling a mixing tube to a secondary tube. The holding device has one or more passages extending to at least an intermediate portion of the piercing device. The one or more passages allow air to contact or mix with an abrasive waterjet as it travels through the piercing device. In some embodiments, a cutting device includes two plates configured so as to form a slot between the two plates. The cutting device can be placed directly on a workpiece, and an abrasive waterjet can be directed at the workpiece through the slot. An abrasive waterjet system utilizing the piercing and cutting devices disclosed herein can pierce holes and cut slots in materials that have reduced hole diameters and kerf widths, respectively. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/253876 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821635 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); Changwu Hu (Gilbert, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); Changwu Hu (Gilbert, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Si—Ge materials are grown on Si(100) with Ge-rich contents (Ge>50 at. %) and precise stoichiometries SiGe, SiGe2, SiGe3 and SiGe4. New hydrides with direct Si—Ge bonds derived from the family of compounds (H3Ge)xSiH4-x (x=1-4) are used to grow uniform, relaxed, and highly planar films with low defect densities at unprecedented low temperatures between about 300-450° C. At about 500-700° C., SiGex quantum dots are grown with narrow size distribution, defect-free microstructures and highly homogeneous elemental content at the atomic level. The method provides for precise control of morphology, composition, structure and strain. The grown materials possess the required characteristics for high frequency electronic and optical applications, and for templates and buffer layers for high mobility Si and Ge channel devices. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/662669 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (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 23/02 (20130101) C30B 25/02 (20130101) C30B 29/52 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02573 (20130101) H01L 21/02636 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821745 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhengtang Luo (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Alan T. Johnson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengtang Luo (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Alan T. Johnson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are graphene oxide membrane materials of high surface area, which membranes suitably have a surface area of above about 200 μm and exhibit electrical conductivity in excess of about 200 S/m. Also provided are methods of synthesizing such membranes, as well as devices and sensors that incorporate these novel grapheme materials. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/141402 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 2323/34 (20130101) B01D 2325/26 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4145 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08821922 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sang-Min Lee (Evanston, Illinois); SonBinh Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois); Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Min Lee (Evanston, Illinois); SonBinh Nguyen (Evanston, Illinois); Thomas V. O'Halloran (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides liposomal compositions and methods of using such compositions in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the present invention provides stable, polymer-caged liposomes comprising a pH responsive delivery mechanism for delivery of nucleic acids, peptides, small molecules, drugs, etc. in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135828 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822162 | Ulijasz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew T. Ulijasz (Twickenham, United Kingdom); Richard D. Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Ulijasz (Twickenham, United Kingdom); Richard D. Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically-engineered cyanochrome fluorophore molecules (fluorophores) with increased fluorescence and with absorbing fluorescence in the blue and green (blue/green) portion of the light spectrum are provided. These fluorophores are derived from the domains of phytochromes, and in particular cyanobacterial phytochromes. Methods for generating these fluorophores and various applications of these fluorophores are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789112 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/5035 (20130101) |
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| US 08822170 | Wood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Luciferase enzymes with greatly increased thermostability, e.g., at least half lives of 2 hours at 50° C., cDNAs encoding the novel luciferases, and hosts transformed to express the luciferases, are disclosed. Methods of producing the luciferases include recursive mutagenesis. The luciferases are used in conventional methods, some employing kits. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213457 |
| 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 9/0069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822187 | Chappell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joe Chappell (Lexington, Kentucky); Thomas D. Niehaus (Lexington, Kentucky); Shigeru Okada (Tokyo, Japan); Timothy P. Devarenne (Bryan, Texas); David S. Watt (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe Chappell (Lexington, Kentucky); Thomas D. Niehaus (Lexington, Kentucky); Shigeru Okada (Tokyo, Japan); Timothy P. Devarenne (Bryan, Texas); David S. Watt (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to the polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules, vectors, transfected cells, and methods for synthesis of triterpenes, including botryococcene. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/458668 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/166 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822483 | McQuade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | D. Tyler McQuade (Tallahassee, Florida); Jin Kyoon Park (Tallahassee, Florida); Matthew D. Rexford (Tallahassee, Florida); Hershel H. Lackey (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Tyler McQuade (Tallahassee, Florida); Jin Kyoon Park (Tallahassee, Florida); Matthew D. Rexford (Tallahassee, Florida); Hershel H. Lackey (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a catalyst complex or ligand, and compositions thereof, for use in a variety of organic reactions having high reactivity and enantioselectivity. The catalyst is a N-heterocyclic carbene having three fused rings with first and second rings being six-membered rings and the third being a five-membered ring. The first ring is fused to the second and has four substituents. The second ring has two nitrogens flanking a carbene atom with one nitrogen bound to a substituent. The carbene atom may optionally be bonded to a metal. The third ring is fused to the second ring and contains two nitrogens. The third ring of the catalyst has a double bond and two substituents on adjacent non-fused carbons. A non-fused nitrogen of the third ring is partially bonded to another substituent. Methods for the synthesis and use of the catalyst embodiments of the present invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/477222 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2269 (20130101) B01J 31/2273 (20130101) B01J 2231/323 (20130101) B01J 2531/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822731 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen P. Miller (Lee, New Hampshire); Irvinder Kaur (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen P. Miller (Lee, New Hampshire); Irvinder Kaur (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards a new class of semi-conducting nonacene derivatives. These compounds are all soluble species and they all possess superior resistance to oxidation as compared to their counterparts that lack the substitution patterns disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627800 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 321/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0056 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08823014 | Edgar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Edgar (Manhattan, Kansas); Michael Dudley (Miller Place, New York); Martin Kuball (Bristol, United Kingdom); Yi Zhang (Manhattan, Kansas); Guan Wang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Hui Chen (Stony Brook, New York); Yu Zhang (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas); State University of New York Stony Brook (Albany, New York); The University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edgar (Manhattan, Kansas); Michael Dudley (Miller Place, New York); Martin Kuball (Bristol, United Kingdom); Yi Zhang (Manhattan, Kansas); Guan Wang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Hui Chen (Stony Brook, New York); Yu Zhang (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of epitaxial growth of a material on a crystalline substrate includes selecting a substrate having a crystal plane that includes a plurality of terraces with step risers that join adjacent terraces. Each terrace of the plurality or terraces presents a lattice constant that substantially matches a lattice constant of the material, and each step riser presents a step height and offset that is consistent with portions of the material nucleating on adjacent terraces being in substantial crystalline match at the step riser. The method also includes preparing a substrate by exposing the crystal plane; and epitaxially growing the material on the substrate such that the portions of the material nucleating on adjacent terraces merge into a single crystal lattice without defects at the step risers. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966753 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08823374 | Weller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Weller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Leo Grady (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (, Germany); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Weller (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vivek K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Leo Grady (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An MR imaging system uses the multiple RF coils for acquiring corresponding multiple image data sets of the slice. An image data processor comprises at least one processing device conditioned for, generating a composite MR image data set representing a single image in a single non-iterative operation by performing a weighted combination of luminance representative data of individual corresponding pixels of the multiple image data sets in providing an individual pixel luminance value of the composite MR image data set. The image data processor reduces noise in the composite MR image data set by generating a reduced set of significant components in a predetermined transform domain representation of data representing the composite image to provide a de-noised composite MR image data set. An image generator comprises at least one processing device conditioned for, generating a composite MR image using the de-noised composite MR image data set. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326622 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5611 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824036 | Manipatruni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Hillsboro, Oregon); Rajeev Dokania (Hillsboro, Oregon); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sasikanth Manipatruni (Hillsboro, Oregon); Rajeev Dokania (Hillsboro, Oregon); Alyssa B. Apsel (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermally stabilized, high speed, micrometer-scale silicon electro-optic modulator is provided. Methods for maintaining desired temperatures in electro-optic modulators are also provided. The methods can be used to maintain high quality modulation in the presence of thermal variations from the surroundings. Direct current injection into the thermally stabilized electro-optic modulator is used to maintain the modulation performance of the modulator. The direct injected current changes the local temperature of the thermally stabilized electro-optic modulator to maintain its operation over a wide temperature range. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/257295 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08824156 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Ray Kui-Jui Huang (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Ray Kui-Jui Huang (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing biologically compatible pockets or envelopes that can contain chips and other circuit elements and can make electrical connection between those elements and living organisms. The assembled biologically compatible pockets and circuit components can have biomedical applications, such as bioimplantable devices such as retinal, cochlear and cortical prosthesis implants, muscular stimulators, and other uses. In various embodiments, the described technology explains how to make and use pocket systems for dealing with chips having connectors on one or two surfaces, and with other circuit components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors and transistors. Operation of chips encapsulated according to the described technology is demonstrated. Accelerated life testing suggests that the pocket systems described will survive for years at 37 degrees C. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657539 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/757 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08825149 | Kraus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nina Kraus (Evanston, Illinois); Trent G. Nicol (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Erika E. Skoe (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nina Kraus (Evanston, Illinois); Trent G. Nicol (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Erika E. Skoe (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain examples provide a method of collecting and analyzing complex auditory brainstem response. The example method includes presenting at least one complex auditory stimulus to a subject and acquiring the subject's complex auditory brainstem response. The example method includes averaging complex auditory brainstem responses from the subject in at least one of a time domain and a frequency domain to form a collected response. The example method includes analyzing the collected response using a signal processor to process the collected response to provide a processed output and to adapt the response for comparison to the at least one complex auditory stimulus. The example method includes performing statistical computations on the processed output to generate visual and data feedback for a user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/362404 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/545 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08822381 | Koivunen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marja Koivunen (Davis, California); Pamela Marrone (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marja Koivunen (Davis, California); Pamela Marrone (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is a need for a selective, low-risk herbicide that can be used to control weeds in cereal cultures and turf. The present invention discloses that a bacterial secondary metabolite, thaxtomin and optionally another herbicide is an effective herbicide on broadleaved, sedge and grass weeds. Thaxtomin A and structurally similar compounds can be used as natural herbicides to control the germination and growth of weeds in cereal, turf grass, Timothy grass and pasture grass cultures with no phytotoxicity to these crops. As a natural, non-toxic compound, thaxtomin can be used as a safe alternative for weed control in both conventional and organic farming and gardening systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/553677 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 37/18 (20130101) A01N 37/34 (20130101) A01N 39/02 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/60 (20130101) A01N 43/60 (20130101) A01N 43/60 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 57/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 65/00 (20130101) A01N 65/40 (20130101) A01N 65/44 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822427 | Loy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harrisvaccines, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harrisvaccines (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dustin Loy (Lincoln, Nebraska); Lyric Colleen Bartholomay (Ames, Iowa); Delbert Linn Harris (Ames, Iowa); Ed Scura (Potomac, Maryland); Kurt Iver Kamrud (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of protecting aquatic invertebrates from disease is shown. In one embodiment, dsRNA or antisense RNA to a nucleic acid molecule of the disease-causing microorganism is prepared and delivered to the animal. In another embodiment, a nucleic acid molecule of the disease-causing microorganism is delivered to the animal. In another embodiment, the RNA or nucleic acid molecule is delivered to the animal by replicon particle. In a further embodiment, the protective molecule is delivered to the digestive tract of the animal. Protection from disease is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657898 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/135 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/1131 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) C12N 2710/18022 (20130101) C12N 2710/18034 (20130101) C12N 2720/00022 (20130101) C12N 2720/00034 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2770/10022 (20130101) C12N 2770/32122 (20130101) C12N 2770/32134 (20130101) C12N 2770/36143 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822533 | Chauhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kamlesh R. Chauhan (Laurel, Maryland); Ulrich R. Bernier (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamlesh R. Chauhan (Laurel, Maryland); Ulrich R. Bernier (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Unique volatile pyrethroids and a method for repelling and/or killing insects involving treating an object or area with an insect repelling effective amount or insect killing effective amount of at least one unique volatile pyrethroid and optionally a carrier. Also a method for repelling and/or killing insects involving treating an object or area with an insect repelling effective amount or insect killing effective amount of at least one compound selected from bioresmethrin, D-allethrin, ethofenprox, prallethrin, transfluthrin, permethrin, and mixtures thereof, and optionally a carrier; wherein the object or area is clothing or items attached to clothing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/181914 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/531 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822712 | Doll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth M. Doll (Peoria, Illinois); Brajendra K. Sharma (Savoy, Illinois); Paulo A. Suarez (Brasilia, Brazil) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth M. Doll (Peoria, Illinois); Brajendra K. Sharma (Savoy, Illinois); Paulo A. Suarez (Brasilia, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | Chemically-modified triglycerides are prepared by reacting epoxidized triglyceride oils with phosphorus-based acid hydroxide or esters. The phosphorus-containing triglyceride derivatives are of the formula: wherein R1″, R2″ and R3″ are independently selected from C3 to C29 aliphatic fatty acid residues, at least one of which comprising one or both of the derivatized methylene groups of the formula: wherein m is 0, 1 or 2, n is 0 or 1, q is 1, 2 or 3, and R and R′ are independently selected from the group consisting of H, straight, branched or cyclic hydrocarbons and substituted hydrocarbons, and aryl groups. The phosphorus-containing triglyceride derivatives so produced have utility as antiwear/antifriction additives for industrial oils and automotive applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/220788 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP24832 | Ehlenfeldt |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark K Ehlenfeldt (Tabernacle, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct hexaploid hybrid blueberry (Vaccinium×hybrid) cultivar named Nocturne. Nocturne is a hybrid with complex hexaploid ancestry, derived from V. ashei Reade, V. constablaei Gray, V. corymbosum L., V. darrowii Camp, V. angustifolium Ait., and V. tenellum Ait.,. It is cold hardy, having an extended dormancy period, and a late flowering interval, is productive year-after-year, consistently producing 12-13 lbs. of fruit per plant, it has ripe fruit that is large, dark, and sweet that ripens in mid-July in New Jersey and the fruit are tinted vivid, red-orange when unripe, and ripen to black. Nocturne is a vigorous upright plant with glossy, medium-green foliage, and a somewhat sprawling habit. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/573631 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP24834 | Cummins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Cummins (Geneva, New York); Herbert Sanders Aldwinckle (Geneva, New York); Terence Lee Robinson (Geneva, New York); Gennaro Fazio (Geneva, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Cummins (Geneva, New York); Herbert Sanders Aldwinckle (Geneva, New York); Terence Lee Robinson (Geneva, New York); Gennaro Fazio (Geneva, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of apple tree rootstock named ‘G.222’. The ‘G.222’ apple tree rootstock is 45 to 55 percent of the size of a standard self-rooted seedling tree, induces precocity to the scion, encourages high yield efficiency, is resistant to fire blight and woolly apple aphid, is resistant to crown and root rots caused by Phytophthora cactorum, and is tolerant to replant disease complex. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/506243 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08824540 | Dickson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy O. Dickson (Danbury, Connecticut); Rui Yan Matthew Loh (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy O. Dickson (Danbury, Connecticut); Rui Yan Matthew Loh (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Equalization techniques are provided for high-speed data communications and, more specifically, DFE (decision feedback equalizer) circuits and methods are provided which implement a high-order continuous time filter in a DFE feedback path to emulate structured elements of a channel response. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/591666 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826158 | Blair et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark W. Blair (Columbia, Maryland); Paul J. Nuzzi (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Blair (Columbia, Maryland); Paul J. Nuzzi (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of determining changes to a graphical user interface (GUI) that does not require the use of a configuration file or the use of data from a previous operation of an application computer program by identifying a program currently running, determining a first tree structure for the GUI, identifying a communication from the program to the GUI, returning to the third step if the communication does not change the GUI, determining a second tree structure for the changed GUI, comparing the first and second tree structures for any change, discarding the first tree structure, renaming the second tree structure as the first tree structure, and transmitting the identified change to a user, and returning to the third step. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/374643 |
| ART UNIT | 2171 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826252 | Greyzck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terry D. Greyzck (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry D. Greyzck (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of compiling program code, wherein the program code includes an operation on an array of data elements stored in memory of a computer system. The program code is scanned for an equation which operates on data of lengths other than the limited number of vector supported data lengths. The equation is then replaced with vectorized machine executable code, wherein the machine executable code comprises a nested loop and wherein the nested loop comprises an exterior loop and a virtual interior loop. The exterior loop decomposes the equation into a plurality of loops of length N, wherein N is an integer greater than one. The virtual interior loop executes vector operations corresponding to the N length loop to form a result vector of length N, wherein the virtual interior loop includes one or more vector atomic memory operation (AMO) instructions, used to resolve false conflicts. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483908 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/445 (20130101) G06F 9/3004 (20130101) G06F 9/3834 (20130101) G06F 9/30029 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/30087 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08826384 | Winslow |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Norman Winslow (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Norman Winslow (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A device that includes a first processor, a second processor, and an encryption module in communication with the first processor and the second processor may be used to accept conditions for access to the network. The first processor may receive condition data, and in response, may send an acceptance signal via the encryption module to the second processor. The second processor may receive the acceptance signal and, in response, may send acceptance data to a gatekeeper. The encryption module may block unencrypted data other than the acceptance signal from being communicated from the first processor to the second processor. The encryption module may support type 1 encryption. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777384 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/08 (20130101) H04L 63/30 (20130101) H04L 63/0272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/0428 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08821213 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter H. -T. Liu (Bellevue, Washington); Ernst H. Schubert (Snoqualmie Pass, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. -T. Liu (Bellevue, Washington); Ernst H. Schubert (Snoqualmie Pass, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of abrasive jet piercing and/or cutting devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a piercing device includes a holding or positioning device coupling a mixing tube to a secondary tube. The holding device has one or more passages extending to at least an intermediate portion of the piercing device. The one or more passages allow air to contact or mix with an abrasive waterjet as it travels through the piercing device. In some embodiments, a cutting device includes two plates configured so as to form a slot between the two plates. The cutting device can be placed directly on a workpiece, and an abrasive waterjet can be directed at the workpiece through the slot. An abrasive waterjet system utilizing the piercing and cutting devices disclosed herein can pierce holes and cut slots in materials that have reduced hole diameters and kerf widths, respectively. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/253876 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822381 | Koivunen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marja Koivunen (Davis, California); Pamela Marrone (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marja Koivunen (Davis, California); Pamela Marrone (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is a need for a selective, low-risk herbicide that can be used to control weeds in cereal cultures and turf. The present invention discloses that a bacterial secondary metabolite, thaxtomin and optionally another herbicide is an effective herbicide on broadleaved, sedge and grass weeds. Thaxtomin A and structurally similar compounds can be used as natural herbicides to control the germination and growth of weeds in cereal, turf grass, Timothy grass and pasture grass cultures with no phytotoxicity to these crops. As a natural, non-toxic compound, thaxtomin can be used as a safe alternative for weed control in both conventional and organic farming and gardening systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/553677 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 37/18 (20130101) A01N 37/34 (20130101) A01N 39/02 (20130101) A01N 43/36 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/60 (20130101) A01N 43/60 (20130101) A01N 43/60 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 57/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 65/00 (20130101) A01N 65/40 (20130101) A01N 65/44 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822427 | Loy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harrisvaccines, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harrisvaccines (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dustin Loy (Lincoln, Nebraska); Lyric Colleen Bartholomay (Ames, Iowa); Delbert Linn Harris (Ames, Iowa); Ed Scura (Potomac, Maryland); Kurt Iver Kamrud (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of protecting aquatic invertebrates from disease is shown. In one embodiment, dsRNA or antisense RNA to a nucleic acid molecule of the disease-causing microorganism is prepared and delivered to the animal. In another embodiment, a nucleic acid molecule of the disease-causing microorganism is delivered to the animal. In another embodiment, the RNA or nucleic acid molecule is delivered to the animal by replicon particle. In a further embodiment, the protective molecule is delivered to the digestive tract of the animal. Protection from disease is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657898 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/135 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/1131 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) C12N 2710/18022 (20130101) C12N 2710/18034 (20130101) C12N 2720/00022 (20130101) C12N 2720/00034 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2770/10022 (20130101) C12N 2770/32122 (20130101) C12N 2770/32134 (20130101) C12N 2770/36143 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08825466 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Wang (Culver City, California); Jonathan May (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Knight (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Language Weaver, Inc. (Los Angeles, California); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wang (Culver City, California); Jonathan May (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Knight (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for automatically modifying an annotated bilingual segment pair are provided. An annotated bilingual segment pair (“Pair”) may be modified to generate improved translation rules used in machine translation of documents from a source language to a target language. Because a single Pair may be used to translate a phrase, many Pairs are used in a machine translation system and manual correction of each model is impractical. Each Pair may be modified by re-labeling syntactic categories within the Pair, re-structuring a tree within the Pair, and/or re-aligning source words to target words within the Pair. In exemplary embodiments, many alternate Pairs (or portions thereof) are generated automatically, rule sequences corresponding to each are derived, and one or more rule sequences are selected. Using the selected rule sequence, a modified Pair is distilled. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811228 |
| ART UNIT | 2658 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08823802 | Myrick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Myrick (Irmo, South Carolina); Heather Brooke (Alexandria, Virginia); Megan Baranowski (Columbia, South Carolina); Jessica McCutcheon (Scranton, South Carolina); Stephen Morgan (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Myrick (Irmo, South Carolina); Heather Brooke (Alexandria, Virginia); Megan Baranowski (Columbia, South Carolina); Jessica McCutcheon (Scranton, South Carolina); Stephen Morgan (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for analyzing a sample is disclosed. At least a portion of the sample is illuminated with modulated light from a light source, such as an infrared light source. Infrared energy from the sample is monitored with an infrared detector as the sample is being illuminated with the modulated light. The AC response of the infrared energy is analyzed to determine at least one of emission data or reflection data about the sample. The emission data or the reflection data can be used to enhance chemical contrast between varying substances on the sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/898024 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/433 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) G01N 21/88 (20130101) G01N 21/3563 (20130101) G01N 21/3577 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08820493 | Parida et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Basant K. Parida (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Timothy Harrigan (Franklin, Massachusetts); James Carter (Bedford, Massachusetts); Norman Dana (Albion, Rhode Island); Gopal Samavedam (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Basant K. Parida (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Timothy Harrigan (Franklin, Massachusetts); James Carter (Bedford, Massachusetts); Norman Dana (Albion, Rhode Island); Gopal Samavedam (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock energy absorber includes, in one example, a cylinder having a closed end and an open end, a sleeve fixed about the open end of the cylinder, and a damping material in the form of an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene material in the cylinder. A plunger is positioned to be driven into the damping material via the sleeve. When the plunger is impacted and driven into the damping material, the damping material changes from a solid to a viscous fluid state thereby enabling absorption of a significant amount of energy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/925354 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Couplings; Draught and Buffing Appliances B61G 11/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 9/30 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08822419 | Pincus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew R. Pincus (Brooklyn, New York); Josef Michl (Little Neck, New York); Ehsan Sarafraz-Yazdi (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew R. Pincus (Brooklyn, New York); Josef Michl (Little Neck, New York); Ehsan Sarafraz-Yazdi (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An aspect of the invention provides a method of selectively necrosing cells, comprising: providing a plurality cells, including at least one cancer cell and at least one non-cancerous cell; and administering to the cells a compound, including an HDM-2 targeting component and a cytotoxic component attached to the HDM-2 targeting component, wherein said compound comprises a membrane-active form. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/122256 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08821819 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John Henry Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/966768 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/10 (20130101) B01D 53/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2257/602 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 95/901 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 08822078 | Landi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian J. Landi (Rochester, New York); Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Cory D. Cress (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Landi (Rochester, New York); Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Cory D. Cress (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to freestanding carbon nanotube paper comprising purified carbon nanotubes, where the purified carbon nanotubes form the freestanding carbon nanotube paper and carbon microparticles embedded in and/or present on a surface of the carbon nanotube paper. The invention also relates to a lithium ion battery, capacitor, supercapacitor, battery/capacitor, and fuel cell containing the freestanding carbon nanotube paper as an electrode. Also disclosed is a method of making a freestanding carbon nanotube paper. This method involves providing purified carbon nanotubes, contacting the purified carbon nanotubes with an organic solvent under conditions effective to form a dispersion comprising the purified carbon nanotubes. The dispersion is formed into a carbon nanotube paper and carbon microparticles are incorporated with the purified carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240502 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/058 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/587 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/9083 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/75 (20130101) Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/752 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08822978 | Cowell, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through... (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. William Cowell, III (Corvallis, Oregon); John F. Wager (Corvallis, Oregon); Brady J. Gibbons (Corvallis, Oregon); Douglas A. Keszler (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic structure comprising: (a) a first metal layer; (b) a second metal layer; (c) and at least one insulator layer located between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, wherein at least one of the metal layers comprises an amorphous multi-component metallic film. In certain embodiments, the construct is a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868308 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/732 (20130101) H01L 29/7311 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7317 (20130101) H01L 29/66265 (20130101) H01L 29/66272 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08822216 | Kandel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric R. Kandel (Riverdale, New York); Mark Mayford (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric R. Kandel (Riverdale, New York); Mark Mayford (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a method of evaluating whether a compound is effective in activating a calcium-calmodulin dependent kinase IIα promoter in a human neuronal cell which comprises: (a) contacting the human neuronal cell which has been stably transformed by a recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising a gene of interest operatively linked to a nucleic acid encoding a calcium-calmodulin dependent kinase IIα promoter which has a nucleotide sequence of the promoter in ATCC Accession No. 98582 with the compound, and (b) comparing the expression level of the gene of interest in the neuronal cell in step (a) with the level in the neuronal cell in the absence of the compound, thereby determining whether the compound is effective in activating the calcium-calmodulin dependent kinase IIα promoter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/409066 |
| 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 5/16 (20130101) C12N 5/0619 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08822817 | Bhusari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dhananjay M. Bhusari (North Hills, California); Daniel C. Law (Arcadia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dhananjay M. Bhusari (North Hills, California); Daniel C. Law (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides for a direct wafer bonding method including providing a bonding layer upon a first and second wafer, and directly bonding the first and second wafers together under heat and pressure. The method may be used for directly bonding an GaAs-based, InP-based, GaP-based, GaSb-based, or Ga(In)N-based device to a GaAs device by introducing a highly doped (Al)(Ga)InP(As)(Sb) layer between the devices. The bonding layer material forms a bond having high bond strength, low electrical resistance, and high optical transmittance. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/960248 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/2007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 25/045 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0693 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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