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| US 08833631 | Munro, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Munro, III (North Andover, Massachusetts); Kevin Schehr (New Orleans, Louisiana); Krissie K. Zambrano (New Orleans, Louisiana); Matthew Hollows (Westminster, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Munro, III (North Andover, Massachusetts); Kevin Schehr (New Orleans, Louisiana); Krissie K. Zambrano (New Orleans, Louisiana); Matthew Hollows (Westminster, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A staple delivery applicator for delivering radioactive staples during brachytherapy medical treatment has an actuating device for attaching source staples located distally thereform. The actuating device is removably attachable to an actuator arm on a proximal end. A staple applicator cartridge holder is attached to the actuator arm on a distal end. The staple applicator cartridge is mountable in the holder and has slots for mounting of radioactive source staples therein. An anvil therein crimps the staples. The staple applicator cartridge holder is removably mountable in a connector and the connector is also removably mounted to a surgical staple holder. A trigger device has a control for closing the anvil of the cartridge holder and for firing of the source staples in the cartridge therein to cause the staples to crimp, and a control for opening the anvil and releasing the trigger device from the actuator arm. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/108759 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/068 (20130101) A61B 17/07207 (20130101) A61B 2017/00473 (20130101) A61B 2017/00809 (20130101) A61B 2017/2923 (20130101) A61B 2017/07214 (20130101) A61B 2017/07271 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/1282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2005/1011 (20130101) |
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| US 08834169 | Reinkensmeyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Reinkensmeyer (Irvine, California); Robert J. Sanchez, Jr. (Oceanside, California); Punit Shah (La Mirada, California); Robert F. Smith, Jr. (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Reinkensmeyer (Irvine, California); Robert J. Sanchez, Jr. (Oceanside, California); Punit Shah (La Mirada, California); Robert F. Smith, Jr. (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for upper limb rehabilitation training of coordinated arm/forearm, forearm/forearm and grasping movements of a motor impaired patient comprises a nonrobotic, passive support, an arm/forearm sensor, a gripping device, a grip sensor capable of measuring an impaired grasping force of a grasping of the patient, a computer to process measurements of coordinated and simultaneous impaired arm/forearm, forearm/forearm and grasping movements to control a graphical representation of the arm/forearm and grasping movements in interaction with a virtual environment, and to provide a visual feedback signal to the patient of simulated normal activities of daily living performed with enhanced motor ability relative to the actual impaired motor ability. A visual feedback signal of the simulated activities of daily living is provided to motivate the patient to perform the upper limb rehabilitation movement training despite limited motor ability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512670 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/486 (20130101) A61B 5/1116 (20130101) A61B 5/1124 (20130101) A61B 5/4519 (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 5/0102 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 1/0237 (20130101) A61H 1/0274 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 1/0281 (20130101) A61H 2201/5007 (20130101) A61H 2201/5064 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0006 (20130101) |
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| US 08834423 | Falo, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louis D. Falo, Jr. (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Geza Erdos (Wexford, Pennsylvania); O. Burak Ozdoganlar (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis D. Falo, Jr. (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Geza Erdos (Wexford, Pennsylvania); O. Burak Ozdoganlar (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a microneedle array can include forming a sheet of material having a plurality of layers and micromilling the sheet of material to form a microneedle array. At least one of the plurality of layers can include a bioactive component, and the microneedle array can include a base portion and plurality of microneedles extending from the base portion. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/910516 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| 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 37/0015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08834546 | Deisseroth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Stanford, California); Jin Hyung Lee (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are systems and methods involving the use of magnetic resonance imaging and optogenetic neural stimulation. Aspects of the disclosure include modifying a target neural cell population in a first region of a brain to express light-responsive molecules. Using a light pulse, the light-responsive molecules in the target neural cell population are stimulated. Multiple regions of the brain are scanned via magnetic resonance imaging. The scans allow for observation of a neural reaction in response to the stimulation in at least one of the multiple regions of the brain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847653 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/92 |
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| US 08834696 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sung Jae Kim (Melrose, Massachusetts); Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sung Jae Kim (Melrose, Massachusetts); Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a device and methods of use thereof for desalting a solution. The methods, inter-alia, make use of a device comprising microchannels, which are linked to conduits, whereby induction of an electric field in the conduit results in the formation of a space charge layer within the microchannel. The space charge layer provides an energy barrier for salt ions and generates an ion depletion zone proximal to the linkage region between the microchannel and the conduit. The method thus enables the removal of salt ions from the region proximal to the conduit and their accumulation in a region distant from the conduit, within the microchannel. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/011107 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 57/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/469 (20130101) C02F 1/4696 (20130101) C02F 1/4698 (20130101) C02F 2103/08 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/006 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/70 (20130101) |
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| US 08834840 | Bull et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steve R. Bull (Wilmette, Illinois); Thomas J. Meade (Wilmette, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve R. Bull (Wilmette, Illinois); Thomas J. Meade (Wilmette, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and/or mixtures comprising peptide amphiphile compounds comprising one or more contrast agents, as can be used in a range of magnetic resonance imaging applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906825 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/03 (20130101) A61K 38/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08834841 | Goodman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark M. Goodman (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel amino acid compounds useful in detecting and evaluating brain and body tumors. These compounds have the advantageous properties of rapid uptake and prolonged retention in tumors and can be labeled with halogen isotopes such as fluorine-18, iodine-123, iodine-124, iodine-125, iodine-131, bromine-75, bromine-76, bromine-77, bromine-82, astatine-210, astatine-211, and other astatine isotopes. These compounds can also be labeled with technetium and rhenium isotopes using known chelation complexes. The compounds disclosed herein bind tumor tissues in vivo with high specificity and selectivity when administered to a subject. Preferred compounds show a target to non-target ratio of at least 2:1, are stable in vivo and substantially localized to target within 1 hour after administration. Preferred compounds include 1-amino-2-[18F]fluorocyclobutyl-1-carboxylic acid (2-[18F]FACBC) and 1-amino-2-[18]fluoromethylcyclobutyl-1-carboxylic acid (2-[18F]FMACBC). The labeled amino acid compounds of the invention are useful as imaging agents in detecting and/or monitoring tumors in a subject by PET or SPECT. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/857164 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/0402 (20130101) A61K 51/0406 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 59/001 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/04 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 291/04 (20130101) C07D 345/00 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 13/005 (20130101) |
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| US 08834844 | van Zijl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter C. M. van Zijl (Ellicott City, Maryland); Assaf A. Gilad (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeff Bulte (Fulton, Maryland); Michael T. Mcmahon (Baltimore, Maryland); Raman Venu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Paul T. Winnard, Jr. (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. M. van Zijl (Ellicott City, Maryland); Assaf A. Gilad (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeff Bulte (Fulton, Maryland); Michael T. Mcmahon (Baltimore, Maryland); Raman Venu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Paul T. Winnard, Jr. (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured are a new class of reporter genes including reporter compositions as well as methods, MRI systems and MRI imaging kits related thereto. The genes according to the present invention provide MR contrast when the sample/subject is irradiated at a specific off-resonance radio-frequency (RF frequency), where the contrast mechanism utilizes chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) technique for imaging. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/566785 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 6/481 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08834890 | Bergeron, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond J. Bergeron, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Bergeron, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An immunogenic composition comprising a siderophore covalently linked to a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier molecule wherein the antigenicity of the siderophore moiety is sufficient to stimulate an immunologic response to the siderophore when the composition is circulating in the bloodstream of a human or non-human animal and vaccine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/265651 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/107 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48284 (20130101) A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) A61K 2039/6081 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1239 (20130101) |
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| US 08834894 | Vilalta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Margalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to therapeutic polynucleotide compositions and methods for systemic immune activation which are effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in mammals. The polynucleotide compositions are particularly effective for protecting mammals from herpes simplex virus (HSV), such as HSV gD2 polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/842964 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/16622 (20130101) C12N 2710/16634 (20130101) |
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| US 08834896 | Kickhoefer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Valerie A. Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, California); Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, California); Kathleen A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Cheryl I. Champion (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valerie A. Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, California); Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, California); Kathleen A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Cheryl I. Champion (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided herein for immunizing a subject by administering to the subject an effective amount of an immunogenic peptide or an immunogenic fragment or variant thereof incorporated within a vault-like particle carrier. The methods and compositions advantageously exhibit enhanced ability to induce cell-mediated immunity and/or antibody-based immunity. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/737963 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
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| US 08834898 | Tinker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Juliette Tinker (Eagle, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juliette Tinker (Eagle, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric protein vaccines and methods of use thereof in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of generating an immune response in a mammal, that includes administering to the mammal, a composition having a chimeric protein having at least one of: a portion of a cholera toxin, a portion of a heat-labile toxin, and a portion of a shiga toxin; and an antigen having at least one of an antigenic material from S. aureus and an antigenic material from a S. aureus-specific polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/328686 |
| 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 08834918 | Lynn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher M. Jewell (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen M. Fuchs (Carrboro, North Carolina); Ryan M. Flessner (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher M. Jewell (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen M. Fuchs (Carrboro, North Carolina); Ryan M. Flessner (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for delivery of a molecule into a cell is provided. The composition includes a protein transduction domain that is conjugated to the molecule which is incorporated into a multilayered film. Preferably, the protein transduction domain is a cationic protein transduction domain. More preferably, the cationic protein transduction domain is nonaarginine, and the multilayered film includes polyelectrolyte multilayers. When the composition is presented to a cell, the multilayered film dissolves or erodes in physiological media, and the molecule is delivered into the cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017953 |
| 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 9/7007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48315 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834926 | Schneidér et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel P. Schneidér (Newark, Delaware); Monica C. Branco (Union, New Jersey); Darrin J. Pochan (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Norman J. Wagner (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel P. Schneidér (Newark, Delaware); Monica C. Branco (Union, New Jersey); Darrin J. Pochan (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Norman J. Wagner (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogel for delayed release of an anionic macromolecule, wherein the hydrogel comprises the anionic macromolecule, 150 mM NaCl, and a peptide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:1 through SEQ ID NO:33 in an aqueous medium at a pH of 7.4; wherein the anionic macromolecule has an isoelectric point of at most 6.8; and wherein the hydrogel is capable of retaining at least 25% of the anionic macromolecule after 28-day extraction at 37° C. with a pH=7.4 BTP buffer containing 150 mM NaCl. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533708 |
| 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 9/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) |
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| US 08834938 | Yuan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhi-Min Yuan (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi-Min Yuan (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting, preventing, or reducing damage to non-cancerous cells in a human subject during chemotherapeutic treatment or radiation treatment of cancer cells in the human subject includes administering to the human subject arsenic and/or one or more compounds of arsenic in a therapeutically effective amount prior to treatment with radiation or one or more chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/110737 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/620 |
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| US 08835108 | Kariko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katalin Kariko (Rydal, Pennsylvania); Drew Weissman (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules comprising pseudouridine or a modified nucleoside, gene therapy vectors comprising same, methods of synthesizing same, and methods for gene replacement, gene therapy, gene transcription silencing, and the delivery of therapeutic proteins to tissue in vivo, comprising the molecules. The present invention also provides methods of reducing the immunogenicity of RNA, oligoribonucleotide, and polyribonucleotide molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/839023 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0041 (20130101) A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/02 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/505 (20130101) C07K 14/4712 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/117 (20130101) C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/33 (20130101) C12N 2310/3341 (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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835112 | Harding et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Anthony Harding (Oxford, Ohio); Zhenqing Zhou (Oxford, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for converting animal cells into brown adipose tissue cells is provided that includes transforming the animal cells using an expression vector. The expression vector includes a nucleotide sequence encoding HB-EGF operatively linked to a promoter and a nucleotide sequence encoding ADAM 12 operatively linked to a promoter. Converting animal cells to brown adipose tissue cells can be used to treat obesity or to treat cancer by converting target cells to brown adipose tissue cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/898293 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2799/022 (20130101) C12N 2799/027 (20130101) |
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| US 08835115 | Figg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William D. Figg (Fairfax, Virginia); Klaus Mross (Freiburg, Germany); Dirk Behringer (Bochum, Germany); Alex Sparreboom (Memphis, Tennessee); Tristan Sissung (Annandale, Virginia); Stephan Mielke (Loehne, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Universitätsklinikum Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Figg (Fairfax, Virginia); Klaus Mross (Freiburg, Germany); Dirk Behringer (Bochum, Germany); Alex Sparreboom (Memphis, Tennessee); Tristan Sissung (Annandale, Virginia); Stephan Mielke (Loehne, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods of identifying subjects having an increased likelihood of developing one or more adverse side effects resulting from administration of a microtubule-stabilizing agent. In particular examples, the method includes determining whether the subject has an ABCB1 predictive polymorphism for microtubule-stabilizing agent-induced toxicity, wherein the presence of such a polymorphism indicates that the subject has an increased risk of developing microtubule-stabilizing agent induced adverse effects. Examples of ABCB1 predictive polymorphisms include 2677G>T/A and 3435C>T. Also provided are methods of modifying microtubule-stabilizing agent therapy in a subject identified as having one or more ABCB1 predictive polymorphisms. Kits and isolated nucleic acid molecules that can be used in the disclosed methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/304071 |
| 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 | 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 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) |
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| US 08835117 | Mitchell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephanie L. Mitchell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jonas M. Winchell (Lilburn, 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) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephanie L. Mitchell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jonas M. Winchell (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of detecting Chlamydophila, including differentiating between species of Chlamydophila and/or strains of Chlamydophila psittaci are disclosed, for example to detect and genotype a Chlamydophila psittaci infection. A sample suspected of containing a nucleic acid of a Chlamydophila, is screened for the presence of that nucleic acid. The presence of the Chlamydophila nucleic acid indicates the presence of the Chlamydophila bacterium. Determining whether a Chlamydophila nucleic acid is present in a sample can be accomplished by detecting hybridization between a Chlamydophila specific primer, a Chlamydophila psittaci specific primer, and/or a Chlamydophila psittaci genotype-specific primer and the Chlamydophila nucleic acid containing sample. Thus, primers for the detection, species-specific and/or genotype-specific identification of Chlamydophila psittaci are disclosed. Kits that contain the disclosed primers also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/322787 |
| 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 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835150 | Zhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Guo Zhan (Lexington, Kentucky); Hoon Cho (Lexington, Kentucky); Hsin-Hsiung Tai (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel computational method and generation of mutant butyrylcholinesterase for cocaine hydrolysis is provided. The method includes molecular modeling a possible BChE mutant and conducting molecular dynamics simulations and hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations thereby providing a screening method of possible BChE mutants by predicting which mutant will lead to a more stable transition state for a rate determining step. Site-directed mutagenesis, protein expression, and protein activity is conducted for mutants determined computationally as being good candidates for possible BChE mutants, i.e., ones predicted to have higher catalytic efficiency as compared with wild-type BChE. In addition, mutants A199S/A328W/Y332G, A199S/F227A/A328W/Y332G, A199S/S287G/A328W/Y332G, A199S/F227A/S287G/A328W/Y332G, and A199S/F227A/S287G/A328W/E441D all have enhanced catalytic efficiency for (−)-cocaine compared with wild-type BChE. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/767418 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
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| US 08835162 | Kwon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inchan Kwon (Pasadena, California); David Tirrell (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of incorporating nonstandard amino acids into a protein by utilizing a modified aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase to charge the nonstandard amino acid to a modified tRNA, which forms strict Watson-Crick base-pairing with a codon that normally forms wobble base-pairing with natural tRNAs. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730116 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 08835164 | Rhee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jee Eun Rhee (Seoul, South Korea); Dae Ho Jang (Seoul, South Korea); Sung Soon Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Byeong Sun Choi (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jee Eun Rhee (Seoul, South Korea); Dae Ho Jang (Seoul, South Korea); Sung Soon Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Byeong Sun Choi (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a cell line that expresses protein of Seq. No. 1, and a method for screening an anticancer compound of uterine cervical cancer by using the same. The stable cell line that expresses oncoprotein E6 of a human papillomavirus type 16 variant strain is used to determine a difference in amounts of expression of tumor suppressor genes, such as p53, between E6 protein of the reference strain and E6 protein of a variant strain, thereby screening an anticancer compound of uterine cervical cancer, etc. Further, it is possible to develop an anticancer agent of uterine cervical cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/795211 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835167 | Kashmiri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Syed V. S. Kashmiri (North Potomac, Maryland); Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Eduardo A. Padlan (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides humanized CC49 monoclonal antibodies that bind TAG-72 with high binding affinity and that are minimally immunogenic. In one embodiment, a humanized CC49 antibody includes a non-conservative amino acid substitution in a light chain complementarity determining region 3 of the CC49 antibody. In a further embodiment, the humanized CC49 antibody includes a non-conservative substitution of a first residue in a light chain complementarity determining region 3 and a substitution of a second residue in a complementarity determining region of the humanized CC49 antibody. In several of the embodiments, methods are disclosed for the use of a humanized CC49 antibody. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974476 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/328 |
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| US 08835168 | Hickman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Hickman (Orlando, Florida); Xiufang Guo (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Hickman (Orlando, Florida); Xiufang Guo (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming neuromuscular junctions includes forming functional neuromuscular junctions between motoneurons and muscle cells by co-culturing one or more human motoneurons and one or more human muscle cells in a substantially serum-free medium. A synthetic mammalian neuromuscular junction includes a human motoneuron functionally linked to a human muscle cell in a substantially serum-free medium. An artificial substrate may be used to support the one or more neuromuscular junctions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/696396 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — 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 5/0697 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/90 (20130101) C12N 2501/01 (20130101) C12N 2501/13 (20130101) C12N 2501/41 (20130101) C12N 2501/58 (20130101) C12N 2501/105 (20130101) C12N 2501/385 (20130101) C12N 2502/081 (20130101) C12N 2502/1335 (20130101) C12N 2533/20 (20130101) C12N 2535/10 (20130101) |
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08835169 — Compositions, methods and systems for preparation of a stem cell-enriched cell population
| US 08835169 | Feinberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen E. Feinberg (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenji Izumi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cynthia L. Marcelo (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yasushi Fujimori (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Feinberg (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenji Izumi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cynthia L. Marcelo (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yasushi Fujimori (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with some preferred embodiments, without limitation, the present invention comprises compositions, methods and systems for preparation of stem-cell enriched cell populations from sources of biological materials by sorting cell types in relation to size. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257274 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/063 (20130101) C12N 5/0629 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/99 (20130101) |
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| US 08835170 | Katz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam J. Katz (Charlottesville, Virginia); Anna M. Parker (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam J. Katz (Charlottesville, Virginia); Anna M. Parker (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods useful for treating wounds and enhancing wound healing, particularly for diabetic wound healing. One embodiment provides a method of treating a wound comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of adipose tissue derived stem cells to treat said wound, wherein the cells are cultured in the absence of serum prior to the administration to said subject. Another embodiment provides a method of treating a wound comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of adipose tissue derived stem cells to treat said wound, wherein the cells are cultured to induce the formation of at least one self-organizing mesenchymal blastema (SOMB) prior to the administration to said subject, wherein said SOMB is formed by culturing adipose tissue derived stem cells in hanging droplets. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444412 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/19 (20130101) A61K 38/19 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08835171 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zi-Jian Xie (Saline, Michigan); Yiliang Chen (Toledo, Ohio); Haojie Wang (League City, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zi-Jian Xie (Saline, Michigan); Yiliang Chen (Toledo, Ohio); Haojie Wang (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is based in part on the elucidation of new structural conformations and functions of the sodium/potassium adenosine triphosphate synthase (Na/K ATPase), and especially elucidation of new binding sites and interactions. The present invention provides practical applications of several surprising structural and functional relationships between Na/K ATPase and compounds which interact with Na/K ATPase. Disclosure of these structures and relationships provides insight and practical solutions to chemically affecting not only the Na/K ATPase interactions, but also regulators known to be upstream and downstream. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/521864 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/34 (20130101) C12Q 1/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/92 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) |
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| US 08835187 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Hidde L. Ploegh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jehnna Ronan (Chester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960751 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/025 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/531 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/5052 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 436/809 (20130101) |
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| US 08835188 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Hidde L. Ploegh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jehnna Ronan (Chester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960754 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/025 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/531 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/5052 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 436/809 (20130101) |
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| US 08835378 | Remaley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan T. Remaley (Bethesda, Maryland); Stephen J. Demosky (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John A. Stonik (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Marcelo J. A. Amar (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Edward B. Neufeld (Washington, District of Columbia); H. Bryan Brewer (Potomac, Maryland); Fairwell Thomas (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Remaley (Bethesda, Maryland); Stephen J. Demosky (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John A. Stonik (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Marcelo J. A. Amar (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Edward B. Neufeld (Washington, District of Columbia); H. Bryan Brewer (Potomac, Maryland); Fairwell Thomas (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are peptides or peptide analogs with multiple amphipathic α-helical domains that promote lipid efflux from cells via an ABCA1-dependent pathway. Also provided herein are methods of using multi-domain amphipathic α-helical peptides or peptide analogs to treat or inhibit dyslipidemic disorders. Methods for identifying non-cytotoxic peptides that promote ABCA1-dependent lipid efflux from cells are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/407132 |
| 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) Peptides C07K 14/775 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835399 | Gomelsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Gomelsky (Laramie, Wyoming); Min-Hyung Ryu (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Gomelsky (Laramie, Wyoming); Min-Hyung Ryu (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and constructs are provided for controlling processes in live animals, plants or microbes via genetically engineered near-infrared light-activated or light-inactivated proteins including chimeras including the photosensory modules of bacteriophytochromes and output modules that possess enzymatic activity and/or ability to bind to DMA, RNA, protein, or small molecules. DNA encoding these proteins are introduced as genes into live animals, plants or microbes, where their activities can be turned on by near-infrared light, controlled by the intensity of light, and turned off by near-infrared light of a different wavelength than the activating light. These proteins can regulate diverse cellular processes with high spatial and temporal precision, in a nontoxic manner, often using external light sources. For example, near-infrared light-activated proteins possessing nucleotidyl cyclase, protein kinase, protease, DNA-binding and RNA-binding activities are useful to control signal transduction, cell apoptosis, proliferation, adhesion, differentiation and other cell processes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/560645 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/6475 (20130101) C12N 15/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835424 | Cook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Cook (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin); Shengming Huang (Milpitas, California); Rahul Edwankar (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Ojas A. Namjoshi (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Zhi-Jian Wang (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Cook (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin); Shengming Huang (Milpitas, California); Rahul Edwankar (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Ojas A. Namjoshi (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Zhi-Jian Wang (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions for the suppression, alleviation and prevention of the often chronic, severe and debilitating pain that can accompany inflammatory diseases and neuropathic insults, pain that is often unresponsive to conventional analgesic treatment. The preferred embodiments of the present invention further relate to methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions using benzodiazepine derivatives that provide suppression, alleviation and prevention of neuropathic pain, migraine-related pain and inflammatory pain with reduced sedative and ataxic side effects. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/779449 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/220 |
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| US 08835447 | Gurova et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Katerina Gurova (Orchard Park, New York); Natalya Narizhneva (West Seneca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Buffalo, New York); Panacela Labs, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katerina Gurova (Orchard Park, New York); Natalya Narizhneva (West Seneca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method of inhibiting growth of androgen receptor positive cancer cells. The method entails administering to an individual diagnosed with or suspected of having an androgen receptor positive cancer and administering to the individual a composition containing a compound that can inhibit the growth of the androgen receptor positive cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/501566 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/122 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) |
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| US 08835467 | Schramm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Anthony A. Sauve (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Anthony A. Sauve (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are disclosed which inhibit SIR2 base exchange more than deacetylation, thus enhancing SIR2 deacetylation activity. Methods of using the compounds for enhancing SIR2 deacetylation activity and increasing longevity of an organism are also disclosed. Methods for screening for compounds that enhance SIR2 deacetylation activity and increase longevity of an organism are additionally disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/747543 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/166 (20130101) A61K 31/455 (20130101) A61K 31/4965 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/005 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 213/83 (20130101) C07D 241/24 (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 1/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08835468 | Charvat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Cheng Hu (Menlo Park, California); Anita Melikian (San Francisco, California); Aaron Novack (San Jose, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); Edward J. Sullivan (San Jose, California); William D. Thomas (San Jose, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Penglie Zhang (Foster City, California); Jay Powers (Pacifica, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Cheng Hu (Menlo Park, California); Anita Melikian (San Francisco, California); Aaron Novack (San Jose, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); Edward J. Sullivan (San Jose, California); William D. Thomas (San Jose, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Penglie Zhang (Foster City, California); Jay Powers (Pacifica, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR9-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462393 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/359 |
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| US 08835473 | Goydos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James S. Goydos (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Suzie Chen (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Goydos (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Suzie Chen (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of treating cancer using 2-amino-6-trifluoromethoxybenzothiazole (riluzole). In one aspect, the present invention provides methods of reducing cancer cell growth. In another aspect, the present invention provides a method of inducing apoptosis in a cancer cell. In another aspect, the present invention provides a method of reducing the growth of a glutamate-releasing tumor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560119 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835480 | Dervan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California); Nicholas G. Nickols (Van Nuys, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California); Nicholas G. Nickols (Van Nuys, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polyamides capable of inhibiting ARE-, GRE- and ERE-mediated gene regulation in cells. The invention also relates to methods to treat diseases related to ARE-, GRE- and ERE-mediated gene regulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148943 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/785 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4025 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/50 (20130101) C07D 233/54 (20130101) C07D 233/88 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835491 | Flynn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Reagents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A Flynn (Tucson, Arizona); Andrea J Yool (South Australia, Australia); Elton Rodrigues Migliati (Queen Creek, Arizona); Leslie S Ritter (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, including 3-carboxy aryl sulfonamide compounds, which agonize or antagonize aquaporin channels and methods of using them to treat disorders or diseases mediated by aquaporins. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/970212 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/16 (20130101) C07C 311/39 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/16 (20130101) C07D 213/40 (20130101) C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 239/91 (20130101) C07D 241/04 (20130101) C07D 265/30 (20130101) C07D 279/12 (20130101) C07D 307/36 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 407/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835502 | Gottesfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel M. Gottesfeld (Del Mar, California); Kai Jenssen (San Diego, California); David M. Herman (San Diego, California); Ryan Burnett (San Diego, California); C. James Chou (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of treating Friedreich's ataxia using histone deacetylase inhibitors. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/862727 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 225/10 (20130101) C07C 233/07 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835506 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Todd A. Thompson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Debra Mackenzie (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Tudor I. Oprea (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark Haynes (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd A. Thompson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Debra Mackenzie (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Tudor I. Oprea (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark Haynes (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treatment and/or prevention of cancer comprises administering agents which cause increased intracellular granularity in cancer cells, at least in an amount sufficient to inhibit proliferation of such cells and preferably in an amount sufficient to lead to cancer cell death. The method is particularly directed to refractory cancer, particularly hormone refractory prostate cancer. The agents identified cause increased intracellular granularity in the cancer cells, and also convert adherent cancer cells to non-adherent cancer cells, leading to cancer cell death. Using the present invention, cancer cells undergo increased intracellular granularity at relatively low agent concentrations, while also inhibiting cell proliferation. Increased concentrations lead to conversion of adherent cancer cells to non-adherent cancer cells, then to cell death. While the exact mechanism of cancer cell degradation and death is not completely understood, the treated cancer cells, including refractory prostate cancer cells, give indications of cell death through an autophagic mechanism. Pharmaceutical compositions related to the presently disclosed methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/990334 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/445 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835510 | LoPachin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard M. LoPachin (New Rochelle, New York); Terrence Gavin (New Paltz, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. LoPachin (New Rochelle, New York); Terrence Gavin (New Paltz, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are disclosed for treating a subject with a disease or tissue injury mediated by cellular oxidative stress or with an environmental toxicity due to an electrophilic toxicant or pollutant, and for providing a nutritional supplement to a subject and for providing a skin treatment for a subject, where the methods comprise administering to the subject a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699314 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/055 (20130101) A61K 31/121 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/122 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/4015 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835512 | Ferchmin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Andrew Ferchmin (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Vesna Ana Eterovic (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Jose Wigberto Rodriguez (Caguas, Puerto Rico); Eddy Oscar Rios-Olivares (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Antonio Henrique Baccin Martins (Guaynapo, Puerto Rico) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Andrew Ferchmin (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Vesna Ana Eterovic (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Jose Wigberto Rodriguez (Caguas, Puerto Rico); Eddy Oscar Rios-Olivares (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Antonio Henrique Baccin Martins (Guaynapo, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and composition for suppressing replication of the HIV-1 virus strains, modulating the production and liberation of inflammatory mediators; and the prevention and treatment of neurocognitive disorders. The method comprises administering to a subject an effective amount of an a macrocyclic diterpenoid, such as 4R cembranoid. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649828 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835601 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota); Nanyang Technological University (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota); Nanyang Technological University (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Horng H. Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota); Lim Soo Ghim (Singapore, Singapore); Subramanian S. Venkatraman (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides natriuretic polypeptide delivery systems. For example, methods and materials related to natriuretic polypeptide delivery systems, methods and materials related to the use of such delivery systems to deliver natriuretic polypeptides to a mammal over a pro-longed period of time (e.g., weeks to months), and methods and materials related to treating heart failure conditions are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/788309 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835613 | Berzofsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Jessica J. O'Konek (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Masaki Terabe (Bethesda, Maryland); Petr Illarionov (Birmingham, United Kingdom); Gurdyal S. Besra (Solihull, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Birmingham, of Edgbaston (Birmingham, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Jessica J. O'Konek (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Masaki Terabe (Bethesda, Maryland); Petr Illarionov (Birmingham, United Kingdom); Gurdyal S. Besra (Solihull, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | β-mannosylceramides or salts or solvates thereof in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, for use as a Type I NKT cell agonist in conjunction with a therapeutically effective amount of α-galactosylceramide or a salt or a solvate thereof, and/or at least one or more T-cell co-stimulatory molecules, disclosed. Compositions comprising β-mannosylceramide, as well as methods of treatment of tumors are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/582612 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835617 | Luban et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Luban (New York, New York); Martha Neagu (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Luban (New York, New York); Martha Neagu (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleic acid is provided which encodes a human TRIM-cyclophilin A fusion sequence encoding a human TRIM-CypA fusion protein which is active as an anti-viral agent, and in particular, as an anti-HIV-1 agent. Also provided is a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having both TRIM activity and cyclophilin activity. Also provided is an isolated polynucleotide encoding a human TRIM-CypA fusion protein, or variants thereof retaining the TRIM and cyclophilin A activities. Also provided are compositions thereof, antibodies that specifically bind thereto, and vectors and host cells comprising the nucleic acid or polypeptide. In addition, methods are provided for treating or preventing viral infection, or reducing viral load in a subject comprising administering the nucleic acid, polypeptide, vector, or composition to the subject in an amount effective to treat or prevent the viral infection. In some embodiments, the viral infection is HIV-I infection, hepatitis C infection, pox virus infection, vaccinia virus infection, or HTLV infection. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128143 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2207/12 (20130101) A01K 2217/15 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0337 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/90 (20130101) C12N 2740/16011 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2830/60 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) C12N 2840/206 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835619 | Levis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William R. Levis (New York, New York); Frank T. Martiniuk (Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Levis (New York, New York); Frank T. Martiniuk (Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to heat shock proteins from Mycobacterium leprae as well as their encoding polynucleotides and vectors and host cells containing these polynucleotides. These heat shock proteins and their encoding polynucleotides are useful in detection of Mycobacterium leprae. In addition, the heat shock protein can be used as an adjuvant in a pharmaceutical composition containing an antigen to induce or enhance the immune response against the antigen. Further, the heat shock protein may be used to treat atopic conditions or as a vaccine against Mycobacterium leprae. Alternatively, the heat shock protein can be used to form a fusion protein with an antigen to induce or enhance the immune response against the antigen. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/624288 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/6043 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/35 (20130101) C07K 16/1289 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5695 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835630 | Hostetler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California, a California Corporation (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California, a California corporation (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California); Nadejda Valiaeva (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates, inter alia, to compositions and methods for treating viral diseases and cancer. There are disclosed lipophilic antiviral and anticancer acyclic nucleoside phosphonate diesters, preparation thereof, and methods of using the compounds to treat viral diseases and cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/211235 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65121 (20130101) C07F 9/65616 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835632 | Hahn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Klaus Hahn (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Alexei Toutchkine (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klaus Hahn (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Alexei Toutchkine (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides dyes having an improved photostability, biosensors comprising such dyes, and methods of use thereof, including methods for detecting target molecules in a sample under test and for live-cell imaging. The dyes can include a binding member, including a biomolecule or fragments thereof, which can interact with target molecules of interest and can be specific to a given conformational state or covalent modification, e.g., phosphorylation, of the target molecule. The presently disclosed dyes can be used for detecting changes in the binding, conformational change, or posttranslational modification of the target molecule. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/743128 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 23/0058 (20130101) C09B 23/107 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835644 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul S. Hoffman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Richard L. Guerrant (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Thomas Eric Ballard, Jr. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Hoffman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Richard L. Guerrant (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Thomas Eric Ballard, Jr. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel antimicrobial chemical entities based on a nitrothiazolide backbone that exhibit antibacterial and antiparasitic action against a wide range of human pathogens. The new classes of compounds show extended action against Gram positive bacteria including MRSA drug resistant pathogens. In the Gram-positive organisms, they specifically target and functionally inhibit microbial attachment to surfaces and biofilm formation. In Gram-negative bacteria, including enteroaggregative E. coli strains, these compounds function as pilicides by inhibiting the assembly of pilin subunits into adhesive filaments. Several of these compounds show potent antimicrobial action against Gram positive bacteria, perhaps involving novel targets. Many of the benzothiophene derivatives exhibit antimicrobial activity in the low micrograms per ml range and in blocking biofilm formation in the nanomolar range; ranges considered are well within the range of utility as therapeutics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/257707 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/54 (20130101) C07D 277/58 (20130101) C07D 333/42 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835693 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Christoph Gaul (Liestal, Switzerland); Jon T. Njardarson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds having formula (I): and additionally provides methods for the synthesis thereof, compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof in the treatment of various disorders including cancer, metastasis and disorders involving increased angiogenesis, wherein R1-R6, Ra-Rc, Q, Y1, Y2 and n are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690832 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 313/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835711 | Sharma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rameshwar K. Sharma (Maple Glen, Pennsylvania); Teresa Duda (Horsham, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salus University (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rameshwar K. Sharma (Maple Glen, Pennsylvania); Teresa Duda (Horsham, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to transgenic animals comprising a mutation or deletion to the ANF-RGC protein, particularly to its ARM and/or its ATS-ST region. Such animals may be used to study the effects on pathways associated with ANF-RGC activation, including, but not limited to, hypertension. Such animals may also be used in drug screen assays, to establish toxicity profiles, or other similar methods discussed herein known in the art. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476305 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836778 | Ignatovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Filipp V. Ignatovich (Rochester, New York); David M. Kleinman (Rochester, New York); Christopher T. Cotton (Honeoye Falls, New York); Todd Blalock (Penfield, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumetrics, Inc. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Filipp V. Ignatovich (Rochester, New York); David M. Kleinman (Rochester, New York); Christopher T. Cotton (Honeoye Falls, New York); Todd Blalock (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable hand-held camera for imaging the fundus of an eye, the camera comprising a housing comprising an internal cavity terminating at a forward housing end, a forward lens, and a light source configured to direct light from locations distributed around the perimeter of the forward lens forwardly out of the housing end. In other embodiment, a portable hand-held camera for imaging the fundus of an eye includes optics configured to focus light reflected back from the fundus onto an image receptor, with the optics being capable of varying the field of view among differing portions of the fundus. Methods to ensure unique image identification and storage are described. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/512336 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 3/145 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00604 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837045 | Popescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Basanta Bhaduri (Champaign, Illinois); Hoa Pham (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscope and methods for obtaining a phase image of a substantially transparent specimen. Light collected from a specimen illuminated by a temporally incoherent source is diffracted into a first order and either the zeroth or first order is low-pass filtered in a Fourier transform plane before the orders are recombined at a focal plane detector. By low pass filtering the first order diffracted beam into a plurality of wavelengths, a spectrally- and spatially-resolved quantitative phase image of the specimen is obtained. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776232 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837800 | Bammer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland Bammer (Stanford, California); Matus Straka (Bratislava, Slovakia); Gregory Albers (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Automated AIF/VOF identification is useful in connection with providing rapid and automatic quantitative imaging results. Examples include CBF (cerebral blood flow) and CBV (cerebral blood volume) perfusion maps. In the present work, AIF/VOF regions of images are identified by making use of a predefined anatomic vasculature template to provide numerical weighting values for voxels. A score is computed for each voxel that includes normalized signal fit parameters and the numerical weighting. AIF/VOF voxels are identified as N voxels having the highest score, where N can depend on the image resolution. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/662942 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838201 | Mori et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susumu Mori (Ellicott City, Maryland); Andreia V. Faria (Columbia, Maryland); Michael I. Miller (Towson, Maryland); Kenichi Oishi (Lutherville Timonium, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susumu Mori (Ellicott City, Maryland); Andreia V. Faria (Columbia, Maryland); Michael I. Miller (Towson, Maryland); Kenichi Oishi (Lutherville Timonium, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-invasive imaging system, including an imaging scanner suitable to generate an imaging signal from a tissue region of a subject under observation, the tissue region having at least one anatomical substructure and more than one constituent tissue type; a signal processing system in communication with the imaging scanner to receive the imaging signal from the imaging scanner; and a data storage unit in communication with the signal processing system, wherein the data storage unit is configured to store a parcellation atlas comprising spatial information of the at least one substructure in the tissue region, wherein the signal processing system is adapted to: reconstruct an image of the tissue region based on the imaging signal; parcellate, based on the parcellation atlas, the at least one anatomical substructure in the image; segment the more than one constituent tissue types in the image; and automatically identify, in the image, a portion of the at least one anatomical substructure that correspond to one of the more than one constituent tissue type. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/703859 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 6/03 (20130101) A61B 6/5217 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5608 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/2054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0089 (20130101) G06T 2207/10072 (20130101) G06T 2207/20128 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) |
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| US 08838204 | Edelman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert R Edelman (Highland Park, Illinois); Christopher Glielmi (Hoboken, New Jersey); Ioannis Koktzoglou (Rolling Meadows, Illinois); Erik J Offerman (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Washington, District of Columbia); U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R Edelman (Highland Park, Illinois); Christopher Glielmi (Hoboken, New Jersey); Ioannis Koktzoglou (Rolling Meadows, Illinois); Erik J Offerman (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) that includes performing a pulse sequence using the MRI system, the pulse sequence including a phase-based flow encoding to collect a time-series of image data from the portion of the vasculature of the subject and identifying at least a portion of the time series of image data corresponding to a period of reduced flow through the portion of the vasculature. The portion of the time series of image data is subtracted from the time series of image data to create a time series of images of the portion of the vasculature having background tissue surrounding the portion of the vasculature substantially suppressed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/718141 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0044 (20130101) A61B 5/0263 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/7285 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5635 (20130101) G01R 33/5673 (20130101) |
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| US 08838222 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Wouter-Jan Rappel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a complex rhythm disorder of a human heart includes identifying a region of a wall of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with one or more activations of the heart. A portion of the region is selected based on the activation trail and modified to affect the activation trail. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/062837 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 18/1206 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00214 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00375 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) A61B 2018/1435 (20130101) |
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| US 08838223 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Wouter-Jan Rappel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a complex rhythm disorder in a human heart includes accessing signals from a plurality of sensors disposed spatially in relation to the heart, where the signals are associated with activations of the heart, and identifying a region of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with the activations of the heart. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/062848 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 18/1206 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00214 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00375 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) A61B 2018/1435 (20130101) |
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| US 08838507 | Camerer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Colin Camerer (Pasadena, California); Daniel Golovin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Debajyoti Ray (Marina del Ray, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin Camerer (Pasadena, California); Daniel Golovin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Debajyoti Ray (Marina del Ray, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for active learning decision engines in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an active learning decision engine includes equivalence class storage, hypotheses storage, edge storage, test storage, where tests are related to hypotheses, observation storage; and a processor, where the processor is configured to determine a plurality of equivalence classes containing one or more hypotheses, determine a set of edges utilizing tests, where the edges in the set of edges span hypotheses in distinct equivalence classes, determine weights for the determined edges, select a test based on the determined weights, perform the selected test and observe the results of the performed test, remove edges from the set of edges utilizing the observed results, and select a hypothesis from the one or more hypotheses using the set of edges. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/414371 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08832936 | Hougham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gareth Geoffrey Hougham (Ossining, New York); Ali Afzali (Ossining, New York); Steven Allen Cordes (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Matthew J. Farinelli (Riverdale, New York); Sherif A. Goma (White Plains, New York); Alphonso P. Lanzetta (Marlboro, New York); Daniel Peter Morris (Purchase, New York); Joanna Rosner (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Nisha Yohannan (Yonkers, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth Geoffrey Hougham (Ossining, New York); Ali Afzali (Ossining, New York); Steven Allen Cordes (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Matthew J. Farinelli (Riverdale, New York); Sherif A. Goma (White Plains, New York); Alphonso P. Lanzetta (Marlboro, New York); Daniel Peter Morris (Purchase, New York); Joanna Rosner (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Nisha Yohannan (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for forming enhanced electrical connections are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming an electrical connecting device includes the steps of: depositing an elastomeric material on an electrically insulating carrier; and metallizing the elastomeric material so as to form an electrically conductive layer running continuously through a plane of the carrier and along a surface of the elastomeric material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533766 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/884 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08833087 | Rice et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Claude Rice (Indianapolis, Indiana); Stuart Bloom (Indianapolis, Indiana); John R. Louie (Mooresville, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Claude Rice (Indianapolis, Indiana); Stuart Bloom (Indianapolis, Indiana); John R. Louie (Mooresville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A splitter is disclosed that can be coupled with a splitter support and used within a diffuser of a gas turbine engine. The splitter includes apertures for receiving a portion of the splitter support. The splitter support includes support arms that are adapted to be slidingly received within the apertures of the splitter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290318 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 9/06 (20130101) F01D 9/065 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08833140 | Bowers, II et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Bowers, II (Sykesville, Maryland); Tadd C. Kippeny (Mount Airy, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Bowers, II (Sykesville, Maryland); Tadd C. Kippeny (Mount Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Analytes are rapidly desorbed from a carbonaceous sorbent powder with improved quantitation and reduced analyte re-adsorption, thermal degradation, and rearrangement. The sample is distributed in a thin layer onto a desorption surface within a chamber. The layer can be a monolayer. Heating light irradiates the sample through a window, directly and rapidly heating the sample while the desorbed analytes diffuse into a vacuum or are removed by a carrier gas. Finally, the sorbent is flushed from the chamber by a transport gas. The desorption surface can be an inner surface of the window, or a surface of a porous frit that divides the chamber into two sections. The frit can be stainless steel or glass. The carrier gas can be helium, argon, or carbon dioxide. The light source can be a tungsten halogen lamp. A heater can control the chamber temperature according to a heating profile. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/467074 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/482 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08833223 | Do et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hau T. Do (Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey); Brent Donahue (Newton, New Jersey); Peter Chiu (New York, New York); Kevin Russell (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hau T. Do (Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey); Brent Donahue (Newton, New Jersey); Peter Chiu (New York, New York); Kevin Russell (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-petal adapter that enables projectiles of different sizes to be used in a single dearmer. The adapter includes a plurality of petals that are secured, in a detachable way, to a base. The main function of the base is to secure the petals until the projectile is fired from the dearmer. Whereupon, the adapter will start petalling until the petals become detached from the base, so that the adapter imparts minimal or no energy or damage to the intended target. The adapter fully regulates the energy imparted to the various projectiles, by allowing propellant gases to bleed through channels that are formed between the petals. As a result, the present adapter fully supports a proper projectile launch and ensures its proper orientation toward the target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526813 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosive-charge making 086/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08833721 | Sadil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreas Sadil (Newington, Connecticut); Claude I. Barnett, Jr. (Lebanon, Connecticut); Ricky A. Daigle (Barkhamsted, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Sadil (Newington, Connecticut); Claude I. Barnett, Jr. (Lebanon, Connecticut); Ricky A. Daigle (Barkhamsted, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engine systems and related methods involving thermally isolated retention are provided. In this regard, a representative method for attaching a gas turbine engine component includes using a fastener, varying in diameter along a length thereof, to prevent a portion of a component from being crimped between surfaces to which the component is attached such that the component moves relative to the surfaces responsive to thermal cycling of a gas turbine engine of which the surfaces and the component are constituent parts. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/539621 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/30 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08833826 | Garcia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pablo E. Garcia (Menlo Park, California); Thomas P. Low (Belmont, California); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California); Daniel Aukes (Somerville, Massachusetts); Susan Kim (Menlo Park, California); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pablo E. Garcia (Menlo Park, California); Thomas P. Low (Belmont, California); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California); Daniel Aukes (Somerville, Massachusetts); Susan Kim (Menlo Park, California); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Robotic hands and finger modules include an underactuated finger with multiple joints including a distal joint, an intermediate joint, and a proximal joint. A brake subsystem in communication with each of the joints selectively locks and unlocks the joints individually. A robotic hand can selectively lock the joints of a finger individually such that one or more joints are locked while one or more joints are unlocked. In addition, the finger module can drive a tendon coupled to the joints to flex the underactuated finger in a manner determined by which of the joints is locked and which of the joints is unlocked. A robotic hand can move an underactuated finger with its distal and proximal joints unlocked until the finger makes contact with an object, and lock the proximal joint, in response to contact made with the object, while the distal joint remains unlocked. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/005092 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 15/0009 (20130101) B25J 15/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 15/0085 (20130101) B25J 19/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 294/907 (20130101) Y10S 901/39 (20130101) |
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| US 08834106 | Luczak |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Blake J. Luczak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake J. Luczak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a seal body and a biasing support member. The seal body includes a generally annular shape that defines an outer diameter surface. The biasing support member is circumferentially disposed about the outer diameter surface of the ceramic matrix composite seal body and includes an array of spring fingers that circumferentially overlap about the biasing support member. The array of spring fingers contacts the seal body and centers the seal body relative to the centerline axis of the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/150717 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834109 | Propheter-Hinckley |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A vane assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first vane and a second vane. The first vane and the second vane include an inner platform, an outer platform and an airfoil that extends between the inner platform and the outer platform. The first vane and the second vane are attached at least at one of their inner platforms or their outer platforms with a first attachment mechanism and a second attachment mechanism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/196969 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/64 (20130101) F05D 2260/30 (20130101) |
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| US 08834163 | Pollak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eytan Pollak (Ovedo, Florida); Jack Charles Wells, II (Dade City, Florida); Merrill Lay (Daytona Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eytan Pollak (Ovedo, Florida); Jack Charles Wells, II (Dade City, Florida); Merrill Lay (Daytona Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A network connects stations in a distributed physics based simulation system. When the simulation detects that a weapon, especially a missile or directed energy beam, is engaging a target vehicle, one physics station determines damage status of the target vehicle. The detonation or strike of the weapon is applied to a model of the vehicle composed of pieces each made up of a number of parts. Where the damage to a piece of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined threshold, the piece is removed from the vehicle, and where a predetermined maximum damage is reached for the vehicle, the vehicle is considered destroyed. The damage assessment from the weapon is made using raytracing in a physics engine that is also used to control movement of virtual objects in the simulation according to rules of physics of the physics engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/306914 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834311 | Kurowsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Kurowsky (Rensselaer, New York); Steven Pigliavento (Burnt Hills, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Kurowsky (Rensselaer, New York); Steven Pigliavento (Burnt Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A drive system with a central longitudinal axis includes a brushless DC servomotor with a stator and a rotor disposed radially interior of the stator. The rotor defines a coaxial central void space. A planetary gear assembly connected to an input shaft and an output shaft is coaxially disposed in the central void space. A flange fixed to the rotor transfers torque to the input shaft. The ratio of the overall length of the drive system to its outer diameter is about one or less, thereby creating a power density along the central longitudinal axis that is greater than known electric motor/gear box drive systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/788646 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 1/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 7/116 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834654 | Lustig, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward A. Lustig, Jr. (Charlotte Hall, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Lustig, Jr. (Charlotte Hall, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An adhesive may bond a plastic bonded explosive to a metal surface. The adhesive may include a mixture of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) and isophorone di-isocyanate (IPDI) in a weight ratio in the range of about 5 to 1 to about 10 to 1. The adhesive may include a solvent and/or a catalyst. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799011 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834666 | Sreetharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellow of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pratheev Sabaratnam Sreetharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Peter Whitney (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Wood (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-layer, super-planar structure can be formed from distinctly patterned layers. The layers in the structure can include at least one rigid layer and at least one flexible layer; the rigid layer includes a plurality of rigid segments, and the flexible layer can extend between the rigid segments to serve as a joint. The layers are then stacked and bonded at selected locations to form a laminate structure with inter-layer bonds, and the laminate structure is flexed at the flexible layer between rigid segments to produce an expanded three-dimensional structure, wherein the layers are joined at the selected bonding locations and separated at other locations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961510 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/0076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 38/0004 (20130101) B32B 38/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834687 | Kendig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin W. Kendig (Thousand Oaks, California); Young J. Chung (Calabasas, California); Alan B. Harker (Thousand Oaks, California); Dennis R. Strauss (Ventura, California); Walther Ellis (Logan, Utah); Linda S. Powers (Logan, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Licensing, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin W. Kendig (Thousand Oaks, California); Young J. Chung (Calabasas, California); Alan B. Harker (Thousand Oaks, California); Dennis R. Strauss (Ventura, California); Walther Ellis (Logan, Utah); Linda S. Powers (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A layered construction for use in decontaminating a surface or enclosed space is described. The construction is an electrochemical cell which includes a cathode, an electrolyte layer, an anode and a protective surface layer. A precursor compound that can be electrically decomposed to release an oxidant, on demand and over an extended period of time, is included in the layered structure, preferably in the electrolyte layer. The oxidant compounds react with various different chemical or biological contaminants in contact the protective layer, thereby deactivating, destroying or devitalizing the contaminants. The layered construction is suitable for application to a device or substrate, or placement in an enclosed space, and can be used on sensitive surfaces such as electronic components and human skin. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529787 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 2/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2/20 (20130101) A61L 2/035 (20130101) A61L 2/0094 (20130101) A61L 2/235 (20130101) A61L 2202/26 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/4674 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834831 | Stote, II et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E. Stote, II (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Shaun F. Filocamo (Blackstone, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Stote, II (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Shaun F. Filocamo (Blackstone, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for biomimetically preparing titanium oxide precipitates with specific morphologies. According to one embodiment, designed peptides that are 5-20 amino acids long are used as initiators to cause the precipitation of titanium oxide from a buffered aqueous solution containing a titanium oxide precursor, such as titanium(IV) bis(ammonium lactate) dihydroxide. The peptides consist of amino acids that are hydrophilic at neutral pH, such as serine, and amino acids that are cationic at neutral pH, such as lysine and arginine. The peptides sequences are designed to induce the formation of specific morphologies including, but not limited to, spheres, rectangular blocks, cubes, porous sheets, non-porous sheets, and flowers. The method enables the formation of distinct and consistent titanium oxide morphologies without a need for high temperatures and pressures or for caustic reaction conditions. This, in turn, allows for oxide formation in the presence of environmentally sensitive materials and limits hazardous waste streams. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/004050 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/30 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834958 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shengshui Zhang (Olney, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shengshui Zhang (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of electroless plating a tin or tin-alloy active material onto a metal substrate for the negative electrode of a rechargeable lithium battery comprising steps of (1) immersing the metal substrate in an aqueous plating solution containing metal ions to be plated, (2) plating tin or tin-alloy active material onto the metal substrate by contacting the metal substrate with a reducing metal by swiping one on the other, and (3) removing the plated metal substrate from the plating bath and rinsing with deionized water. A rechargeable lithium battery using tin or tin-alloy as the anode active material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/178561 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/00 (20130101) C23C 18/52 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/387 (20130101) H01M 4/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/661 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 08834998 | Teter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Teter (Darnestown, Maryland) |
| 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 | A variable stiffness tow cable comprising a plurality of strands. Most of the strands comprise a polymer with interstitial spaces filled with a ferrofluid comprising nanoparticles. And, least one of the strands is a nanoparticle control field source. The stiffness is varied for a number of control objectives such to dampen motion. In another application, strum is controlled by electrical input rather than by changing the length of tow cable let out. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/830471 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 21/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835113 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Bin Liu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an aggregation sensor useful for the detection and analysis of aggregants in a sample, and methods, articles and compositions relating to such a sensor. The sensor comprises first and second optically active units, where energy may be transferred from an excited state of the first optically active unit to the second optically active unit. The second optically active unit is present in a lesser amount, but its relative concentration is increased upon aggregation, increasing its absorption of energy from the first optically active units. This increase in energy transfer can be detected in variety of formats to produce an aggregation sensing system for various aggregants, including for quantitation. Other variations of the inventions are described further herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017127 |
| 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 | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) C08G 61/123 (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 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2563/173 (20130101) C12Q 2565/101 (20130101) C12Q 2565/113 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) |
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| US 08835127 | Schwoebel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric D. Schwoebel (Woburn, Massachusetts); James D. Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Martha S. Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Frances E. Nargi (Littleton, Massachusetts); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Kristine E. Hogan (Danvers, Massachusetts); Richard H. Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Joseph Lacirignola (Beverly, Massachusetts); Mark Hennessy (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trina R. Vian (Groton, Massachusetts); Rose M. Joseph (Westford, Massachusetts); Raymond S. Uttaro (Lexington, Massachusetts); Shaun Berry (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Schwoebel (Woburn, Massachusetts); James D. Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Martha S. Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Frances E. Nargi (Littleton, Massachusetts); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Kristine E. Hogan (Danvers, Massachusetts); Richard H. Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Joseph Lacirignola (Beverly, Massachusetts); Mark Hennessy (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trina R. Vian (Groton, Massachusetts); Rose M. Joseph (Westford, Massachusetts); Raymond S. Uttaro (Lexington, Massachusetts); Shaun Berry (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein provides methods for the detection of soluble antigens. In particular, the methods provide for the detection of soluble proteins and chemicals. In addition, the invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid sequence in a sample. Also described is an emittor cell comprising an Fc receptor and an emittor molecule for the detection of a target particle in a sample wherein the target particle to be detected is bound by one or more antibodies. Also provided is an optoelectronic sensor device for detecting a target particle in a plurality of samples. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/267276 |
| 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 | 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 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2565/619 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6454 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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| US 08835138 | Solomon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Solomon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tae Seok Moon (San Franciso, California); Kristala Lanett Jones Prather (Milton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Solomon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tae Seok Moon (San Franciso, California); Kristala Lanett Jones Prather (Milton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention relate to the design and construction of Metabolite Valves, such as Glucose Valves, that can be used to divert metabolites from endogenous pathways toward alternative pathways in a cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/638026 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/245 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/90 (20130101) C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 15/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/58 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/01002 (20130101) C12Y 503/01009 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835144 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Hana Vaisocherova (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Hana Vaisocherova (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | Dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, methods for making dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, and devices that include dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials. The dual-functional surfaces are nonfouling surfaces that resist non-specific protein adsorption and cell adhesion. The dual-functional surfaces and materials include covalently coupled biomolecules (e.g., target binding partners) that impart specific biological activity thereto. The surfaces and materials are useful in medical diagnostics, biomaterials and bioprocessing, tissue engineering, and drug delivery. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493649 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/545 (20130101) G01N 33/54353 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835147 | Moon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tae Seok Moon (San Francisco, California); Sang-Hwal Yoon (Buyeo, South Korea); Kristala Lanett Jones Prather (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tae Seok Moon (San Francisco, California); Sang-Hwal Yoon (Buyeo, South Korea); Kristala Lanett Jones Prather (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the production of glucuronic and glucaric acid in cells through recombinant expression of myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase, myo-inositol oxygenase and uronate dehydrogenase. Cloning and characterization of the gene encoding uronate dehydrogenase is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/935983 |
| 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 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 9/0069 (20130101) C12N 9/90 (20130101) C12N 15/8243 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (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 7/58 (20130101) C12P 19/00 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08835172 | Delehanty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James B. Delehanty (Washington, District of Columbia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia); Hedi M. Mattoussi (Tallahassee, Florida); Jeffrey R. Deschamps (Laurel, Maryland); Glyn Dawson (Chicago, Illinois); Philip E. Dawson (San Diego, California); Juan Bautista Blanco-Canosa (A Coruna, Spain); Kelly Boeneman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Delehanty (Washington, District of Columbia); Igor L. Medintz (Springfield, Virginia); Hedi M. Mattoussi (Tallahassee, Florida); Jeffrey R. Deschamps (Laurel, Maryland); Glyn Dawson (Chicago, Illinois); Philip E. Dawson (San Diego, California); Juan Bautista Blanco-Canosa (A Coruna, Spain); Kelly Boeneman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A peptide directs nanoparticles (such as quantum dots) to the plasma membrane of mammalian cells. A method of delivery of a nanoparticle to a plasma membrane of a cell includes providing to the cell a nanoparticle attached to a peptide configured to direct the nanoparticle the plasma membrane, and allowing the cell to take up the nanoparticle. The nanoparticle can be a FRET donor to an organic dye. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/621880 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/0067 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 17/14 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) |
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| US 08835181 | Cuppoletti |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Cuppoletti (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
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| ABSTRACT | A method for determining the amount of live pore forming bacterial toxin protein in a sample is provided, the method including the steps of a) forming a membrane comprising a lipid bilayer and a receptor, b) contacting the membrane with an ion solution and the sample, c) measuring ion flow through the membrane, d) comparing the ion flow through the membrane to a standard curve, and e) determining the amount of pore forming bacterial toxin protein in the sample. A kit for determining the amount of live pore forming bacterial toxin protein present in the sample is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/721425 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 2400/50 (20130101) G01N 2500/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/975 (20130101) |
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| US 08835238 | Appenzeller 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) | Joerg Appenzeller (West Lafayette, Indiana); Supratik Guha (Chappaqua, New York); Emanuel Tutuc (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure is provided, which includes multiple sections arranged along a longitudinal axis. Preferably, the semiconductor structure comprises a middle section and two terminal sections located at opposite ends of the middle section. A semiconductor core having a first dopant concentration preferably extends along the longitudinal axis through the middle section and the two terminal sections. A semiconductor shell having a second, higher dopant concentration preferably encircles a portion of the semiconductor core at the two terminal sections, but not at the middle section, of the semiconductor structure. It is particularly preferred that the semiconductor structure is a nanostructure having a cross-sectional dimension of not more than 100 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/156006 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/30604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835342 | Ying et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jackie Y Ying (Winchester, Massachusetts); Javier Garcia-Martinez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie Y Ying (Winchester, Massachusetts); Javier Garcia-Martinez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to mesostructured zeolites. The invention also relates to a method of preparing mesostructured zeolites, as well as using them as cracking catalysts for organic compounds and degradation catalysts for polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/578877 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/63 |
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| US 08835671 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Louisa R. Carr (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Hong Xue (Pleasanton, California); Louisa R. Carr (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Zwitterionic crosslinking agents, crosslinked zwitterionic hydrogels prepared from copolymerization of zwitterionic monomers with the zwitterionic crosslinking agent, methods for making crosslinked zwitterionic hydrogels, and devices that include and methods that use the crosslinked zwitterionic hydrogels. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/463648 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0019 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) A61L 29/145 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/145 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 26/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08835833 | Du et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shengwang Du (Hong Kong, China PRC); Shanchao Zhang (Hong Kong, China PRC); Shuyu Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC); Guang Yu Yin (Mountain View, California); Chinmay Belthangady (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China PRC); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palto Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shengwang Du (Hong Kong, China PRC); Shanchao Zhang (Hong Kong, China PRC); Shuyu Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC); Guang Yu Yin (Mountain View, California); Chinmay Belthangady (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-dimensional (2D) magneto-optical trap (MOT) for alkali neutral atoms establishes a zero magnetic field along the longitudinal symmetry axis. Two of three pairs of trapping laser beams do not follow the symmetry axes of the quadruple magnetic field and are aligned with a large non-zero degree angles to the longitudinal axis. In a dark-line 2D MOT configuration, there are two orthogonal repumping beams. In each repumping beam, an opaque line is imaged to the longitudinal axis, and the overlap of these two line images creates a dark line volume in the longitudinal axis where there is no repumping light. The zero magnetic field along the longitudinal axis allows the cold atoms maintain a long ground-state coherence time without switching off the MOT magnetic field, which makes it possible to operate the MOT at a high repetition rate and a high duty cycle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/598129 |
| 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 1/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835840 | Lynn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelvin G. Lynn (Pullman, Washington); Marc H. Weber (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelvin G. Lynn (Pullman, Washington); Marc H. Weber (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Micromachined holes in stacks of silicon wafers can be used to define high aspect ratio charged particle storage volumes. Each wafer can define a section of a tubular trap, and electric fields in each wafer can be controlled independently so that charged particles can be stored and shuttled among the sections. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886412 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/38 (20130101) H01J 49/424 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835852 | Said et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aurore J. Said (Metn, Lebanon); Daniel L. Recht (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey M. Warrender (Averill Park, New York); Michael J. Aziz (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); U.S. Army RDECOM-ARDEC (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aurore J. Said (Metn, Lebanon); Daniel L. Recht (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey M. Warrender (Averill Park, New York); Michael J. Aziz (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A manufacture having an electrical response to incident photons includes a semiconductor substrate; a chalcogen-doped semiconductor active layer on a first side of the substrate; a first contact in electrical contact with the active layer; and a second contact in electrical contact with the substrate; wherein, photons incident upon the active layer cause a variation in current between the first and second contacts. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/513621 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| 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 5/20 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/103 (20130101) H01L 31/0288 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/1872 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 08835987 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) includes a first conductivity type substrate and a second conductivity type drift layer on the substrate. The second conductivity type is opposite the first conductivity type. The IGBT further includes a current suppressing layer on the drift layer. The current suppressing layer has the second conductivity type and has a doping concentration that is larger than a doping concentration of the drift layer. A first conductivity type well region is in the current suppressing layer. The well region has a junction depth that is less than a thickness of the current suppressing layer, and the current suppressing layer extends laterally beneath the well region. A second conductivity type emitter region is in the well region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/711383 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/0834 (20130101) H01L 29/0847 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/7395 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835998 | Simon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Simon (Golden, Colorado); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Huili Xing (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Simon (Golden, Colorado); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Huili Xing (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A compositionally graded semiconductor device and a method of making same are disclosed that provides an efficient p-type doping for wide bandgap semiconductors by exploiting electronic polarization within the crystalline lattice. The compositional graded semiconductor graded device includes a graded heterojunction interface that exhibits a 3D bound polarization-induced sheet charge that spreads in accordance with ρπ(z)=−∇·P(z), where ρπ(z) is a volume charge density in a polar (z) direction, and ∇ is a divergence operator, wherein the graded heterojunction interface is configured to exhibit substantially equivalent conductivities along both lateral and vertical directions relative to the graded heterojunction interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967892 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0251 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/02389 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02579 (20130101) H01L 21/02631 (20130101) H01L 29/201 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/8613 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/32 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/305 (20130101) H01S 5/0421 (20130101) H01S 5/3063 (20130101) H01S 5/32341 (20130101) |
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| US 08836058 | Gajek 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) | Marcin J. Gajek (New York, New York); Daniel C. Worledge (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic device includes a first electrode portion, a free layer portion arranged on the first electrode portion, the free layer portion including a magnetic insulating material, a reference layer portion contacting the free layer portion, the reference layer portion including a magnetic metallic layer, and a second electrode portion arranged on the reference layer portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/688592 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 43/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08836172 | Hamam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafif E. Hamam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for transferring energy wirelessly including transferring energy wirelessly from a first resonator structure to an intermediate resonator structure, wherein the coupling rate between the first resonator structure and the intermediate resonator structure is κ1B, transferring energy wirelessly from the intermediate resonator structure to a second resonator structure, wherein the coupling rate between the intermediate resonator structure and the second resonator structure is κB2, and during the wireless energy transfers, adjusting at least one of the coupling rates κ1B and κB2 to reduce energy accumulation in the intermediate resonator structure and improve wireless energy transfer from the first resonator structure to the second resonator structure through the intermediate resonator structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677407 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836266 | Katyal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kapil D Katyal (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Matthew P. Para (Laurel, Maryland); Andrew J. Harris (Columbia, Maryland); Harry A. Eaton (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kapil D Katyal (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Matthew P. Para (Laurel, Maryland); Andrew J. Harris (Columbia, Maryland); Harry A. Eaton (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A small motor controller (SMC) system includes a motor configured to control a position of a rotor, a sensor configured to detect position information of the rotor by detecting a feature on the rotor, the sensor including a detection zone having a first side and a second side, and a motor control unit. The motor control unit is configured to determine a position of the rotor corresponding to one of the first side of the detection zone and the second side of the detection zone based on whether the feature on the rotor is detected crossing the first side or the second side, respectively. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/551846 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/416 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836351 | Ren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fan Ren (Gainesville, Florida); Stephen John Pearton (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fan Ren (Gainesville, Florida); Stephen John Pearton (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) capable of performing as a chlorine sensor is disclosed. In one implementation, a silver chloride layer can be provided on a gate region of the HEMT. In one application, the HEMTs can be used for the measurement and detection of chloride in bio-sensing applications. In another application, the HEMTs can be used for the detection of chloride in water for environmental and health applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/997163 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836440 | Feng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip X.-L. Feng (Beachwood, Ohio); Luis Guillermo Villanueva (Lyngby, Denmark); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip X.-L. Feng (Beachwood, Ohio); Luis Guillermo Villanueva (Lyngby, Denmark); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Doubly-clamped nanowire electromechanical resonators that can be used to generate parametric oscillations and feedback self-sustained oscillations. The nanowire electromechanical resonators can be made using conventional NEMS and CMOS fabrication methods. In very thin nanowire structures (sub-micron-meter in width), additive piezoresistance patterning and fabrication can be highly difficult and thus need to be avoided. This invention shows that, in piezoresistive nanowires with homogeneous material composition and symmetric structures, no conventional and additive piezoresistance loops are needed. Using AC and DC drive signals, and bias signals of controlled frequency and amplitude, output signals having a variety of frequencies can be obtained. Various examples of such resonators and their theory of operation are described. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/560037 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 5/30 (20130101) H03B 5/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 7/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836446 | Sensale-Rodriguez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez (South Bend, Indiana); Huili (Grace) Xing (South Bend, Indiana); Rusen Yan (Mishawaka, Indiana); Michelle M. Kelly (South Bend, Indiana); Tian Fang (Mishawaka, Indiana); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Lei Liu (Granger, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez (South Bend, Indiana); Huili (Grace) Xing (South Bend, Indiana); Rusen Yan (Mishawaka, Indiana); Michelle M. Kelly (South Bend, Indiana); Tian Fang (Mishawaka, Indiana); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Lei Liu (Granger, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A wave amplitude modulator for modulating a transmitted electromagnetic wave includes one or multiple self-gated capacitively coupled pair(s) of electron layers such as semiconductor or semimetal layers. Two electrical contacts are placed to each layer of electrons of the self-gated pair(s), and a power source is electrically connected to them. The power source, by varying the voltage applied between layers of electrons, tunes the electron density thereof, thereby adjusting the optical conductivity thereof, and the change in the optical conductivity of the layers of electrons causes an amplitude modulation of the transmitted electromagnetic wave passing through the capacitively coupled layers of electrons. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/529934 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Modulation H03C 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03C 7/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836503 | Gelvin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David C. Gelvin (Escondido, California); Lewis D. Girod (Los Angeles, California); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); William M. Merrill (Los Angeles, California); Frederic Newberg (San Diego, California); Gregory J. Pottie (Los Angeles, California); Anton I. Sipos (Los Angeles, California); Sandeep Vardhan (Walnut, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Borgia/Cummins, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Gelvin (Escondido, California); Lewis D. Girod (Los Angeles, California); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); William M. Merrill (Los Angeles, California); Frederic Newberg (San Diego, California); Gregory J. Pottie (Los Angeles, California); Anton I. Sipos (Los Angeles, California); Sandeep Vardhan (Walnut, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758749 |
| ART UNIT | 2681 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 19/04 (20130101) G06K 19/0717 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/22 (20130101) H01Q 1/125 (20130101) H01Q 9/0407 (20130101) H01Q 9/0414 (20130101) H01Q 9/0464 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2012/40273 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836597 | Vizzio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul J. Vizzio (Boston, Massachusetts); David J. Bamford (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Douglas A. Sasko (North Stonington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Vizzio (Boston, Massachusetts); David J. Bamford (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Douglas A. Sasko (North Stonington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna radome assembly has a radome base and an annular stationary bearing plate attached to and spaced from the radome base. A rotary joint has a fixed portion attached to the stationary bearing plate and a rotating portion extending through a central opening of the stationary bearing plate. A rotating platform is attached to the rotating portion of the rotary joint. The rotating platform includes a circular recess extending into the rotating platform from a first side. The stationary bearing plate is disposed completely within the circular recess. An annular bearing assembly is disposed within the circular recess between the rotating platform and the stationary bearing plate. The bearing assembly is in contact with the rotating platform and the stationary bearing plate, and the rotating platform rotates with respect to the stationary bearing plate and the radome base. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/630717 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/757 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836793 | Kriesel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason Kriesel (Westminster, California); Nahum Gat (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Kriesel (Westminster, California); Nahum Gat (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | True color images are produced by combining data collected from one or more color cameras with data collected from one or more infrared cameras. The produced images are the result of combining portions of the visible light data with portions of the infrared light data that may have been captured at dark, at daytime or at low light level conditions. These images appear as normal color images, with infrared information highlighted in a non-distracting fashion. The true color images that are produced in this fashion can also facilitate identification and reproduction of various objects that may not be visible or readily identifiable in infrared or false color imagery. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/209269 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836794 | Vizgaitis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay N. Vizgaitis (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay N. Vizgaitis (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual field of view, all-refractive infrared optical system that images the mid-wave infrared light in one field of view and the short wave infrared light in the second field of view onto the same detector. The two fields of view vary in focal length by a factor of six. The narrow field of view images the SWIR radiation at a slow f/number of 10.0 while the wide field of view images the MWIR radiation at f/1.9. The field of view is changed via a single lens that changes its axial position within the lens, resulting in an axial zoom. The change in focal length and f/number at the same time enables an increased focal length without having to increase the aperture size by the ratio of the focal length change, but rather by the ratio of the focal length change divided by the ratio of the f/number change. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/209633 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 13/146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 15/15 (20130101) G02B 26/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837530 | Agrawala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashok K. Agrawala (Ashton, Maryland); Matthew Mah (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok K. Agrawala (Ashton, Maryland); Matthew Mah (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for adaptive synchronization of timing information provided in communications messages transmitted between independently clocked communication nodes of a wireless communications network. The system and method include measures for collecting timestamps of messages generated by a plurality of the nodes, each timestamp being generated by one of the nodes relative to a local time reference thereof. A pairwise clock error is computed for at least one pair of nodes based upon a plurality of network messages passed therebetween. A global time reference is adaptively established for the timestamps responsive to the pairwise clock error. A plurality of mapping factors are defined each for translating from one local time reference to the global time reference. The mapping factors are selectively applied to corresponding ones of the timestamps. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/047790 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837540 | Salit et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Jeff A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); Mary K. Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Jennifer S. Strabley (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Jeffrey Kriz (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Jeff A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); Mary K. Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Jennifer S. Strabley (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Jeffrey Kriz (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectroscopic assembly is provided. The spectroscopic assembly includes a thermal isolation platform, a gas reference cell encasing a gas and attached to the thermal isolation platform, the gas reference cell having at least one optically-transparent window, and at least one heater configured to raise a temperature of the encased gas. When a beamsplitter is configured to reflect a portion of an input optical beam emitted by a laser to be incident on the at least one optically-transparent window of the gas reference cell, the reflected portion of the input optical beam is twice transmitted through the gas. When a detector is configured to receive the optical beam twice transmitted through the gas, a feedback signal is provided to the laser to stabilize the laser. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/325392 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837544 | Santori et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles M. Santori (Palo Alto, California); Andrei Faraon (Menlo Park, California); Kai-Mei Fu (Palo Alto, California); Victor M. Acosta (San Francisco, California); Zhihong Huang (San Jose, California); Lars H. Thylen (Huddinge, Sweden); Raymond G. Beausoleil (Redmond, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Santori (Palo Alto, California); Andrei Faraon (Menlo Park, California); Kai-Mei Fu (Palo Alto, California); Victor M. Acosta (San Francisco, California); Zhihong Huang (San Jose, California); Lars H. Thylen (Huddinge, Sweden); Raymond G. Beausoleil (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum device includes a resonator and a tuning structure. The tuning structure is made a material such as a chalcogenide and is positioned to interact with the electromagnetic radiation in the resonator so that a resonant mode of the first resonator depends on a characteristic of the tuning structure. The resonator is optically coupled so that a transition between quantum states associated with a defect produces electromagnetic radiation in the resonator. The characteristic of the tuning structure is adjustable after fabrication of the resonator and the tuning structure. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/284262 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837550 | Shapira et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Song-Liang Chua (Singapore, Singapore); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeongwon Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Song-Liang Chua (Singapore, Singapore); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeongwon Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic dye laser produces a continuous-wave (cw) output without any moving parts (e.g., without using flowing dye streams or spinning discs of solid-state dye media to prevent photobleaching) and with a pump beam that is stationary with respect to the organic dye medium. The laser's resonant cavity, organic dye medium, and pump beam are configured to excite a lasing transition over a time scale longer than the associated decay lifetimes in the organic dye medium without photobleaching the organic dye medium. Because the organic dye medium does not photobleach when operating in this manner, it may be pumped continuously so as to emit a cw output beam. In some examples, operation in this manner lowers the lasing threshold (e.g., to only a few Watts per square centimeter), thereby facilitating electrical pumping for cw operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787399 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837566 | O'Brien, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing system and method includes a transducer for receiving an analog signal having a random component and possibly an information component. The analog signal is converted into a digital signal having sample points. A nearest-neighbor calculation component calculates the expected average nearest neighbor distance between the sample points, the actual average distance and an error value. These values are corrected for edge effects. A first randomness assessment compares the actual average distance against the expected average distance with the standard error value. A second randomness assessment compares actual repeated values in the digital signal against expected repeated values. An information processing system continues processing the signal if the assessments indicate the possibility of an information component. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/249646 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837738 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dijiang Huang (Chandler, Arizona); Zhibin Zhou (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dijiang Huang (Chandler, Arizona); Zhibin Zhou (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses, systems, and methods for optimal group key (OGK) management that may achieve non-colluding and/or the storage-communication optimality are disclosed. In some embodiments, a group controller (GC) is responsible for key generation and distribution and the group data are encrypted by a group key. When joining the group, in some embodiments, each group member (GM) is assigned a unique n-bit ID and a set of secrets, in which each bit is one-to-one mapped to a unique secret. Whenever GMs are revoked from the group, in some embodiments, the GC will multicast an encrypted key-update message. Only the remaining GMs may be able to recover the message and update GK as well as their private keys. The disclosed OGK scheme can achieve storage-communication optimality with constant message size and immune to collusion attack and also may outperform existing group key management schemes in terms of communication and storage efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/440111 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0836 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837782 | Rosenwinkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan M. Rosenwinkel (Maple Shade, New Jersey); Jonathan Mercurio (Morrestown, New Jersey); Kellie Bucha (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M. Rosenwinkel (Maple Shade, New Jersey); Jonathan Mercurio (Morrestown, New Jersey); Kellie Bucha (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Data or electrooptic sensor (EOS) images are made of a star field and at least one, and possibly multiple, Earth satellites associated therewith. Calculations performed on the imaged locations of a satellite and two stars of a star field provide all the information needed to identify the observer's position. When the ephemerides of the satellite(s) are less accurately known, calculations performed on the imaged locations of at least two satellites and four stars of a star field provide all the information needed to identify the observer's position, because the along-track and cross-track ephemerides errors are different. Thus, the cross-track information of multiple satellites is preferentially used to determine the geolocation. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/986661 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838507 | Camerer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Colin Camerer (Pasadena, California); Daniel Golovin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Debajyoti Ray (Marina del Ray, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin Camerer (Pasadena, California); Daniel Golovin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Debajyoti Ray (Marina del Ray, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for active learning decision engines in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an active learning decision engine includes equivalence class storage, hypotheses storage, edge storage, test storage, where tests are related to hypotheses, observation storage; and a processor, where the processor is configured to determine a plurality of equivalence classes containing one or more hypotheses, determine a set of edges utilizing tests, where the edges in the set of edges span hypotheses in distinct equivalence classes, determine weights for the determined edges, select a test based on the determined weights, perform the selected test and observe the results of the performed test, remove edges from the set of edges utilizing the observed results, and select a hypothesis from the one or more hypotheses using the set of edges. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/414371 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838515 | Hansen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. Hansen (Pebble Beach, California); Daniel Hodyss (Marina, California); Craig H. Bishop (Monterey, California); William Campbell (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Hansen (Pebble Beach, California); Daniel Hodyss (Marina, California); Craig H. Bishop (Monterey, California); William Campbell (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting the risk of a pirate attack in a geographical area and for generating a distribution of probabilities of a pirate attack based on intelligence (INTEL) information regarding the pirates and pirate behavior combined with information regarding environmental and meteorological (METOC) conditions and information regarding shipping activity and shipping vulnerabilities. The method can also be used to predict the probability of other activities that are subject to METOC conditions, such as anti-narcotics efforts, undersea warfare operations, mine warfare operations, and human trafficking interdiction. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/272272 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Meteorology G01W 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/047 (20130101) G06Q 10/0635 (20130101) G06Q 50/28 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838688 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Zhen Wen (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Zhen Wen (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for inferring user interests from both direct and indirect social neighbors. User interests are inferred from social neighbors by exploiting the correlation among multiple attributes of a user, in addition to the social correlation of an attribute among a group of users. Attributes of a user are inferred by obtaining an inferred set of attributes comprised of one or more attributes of social neighbors of the user. Thereafter, the inferred set is modified using a user attribute correlation model describing a probability that the attributes in the inferred set co-occur on the user and one or more of the social neighbors. An inference quality of the obtained attributes can optionally be obtained based on social network properties of the social neighbors. Interactions with the user and/or the social neighbors can be employed to solicit feedback to improve the one or more inferred attributes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/118726 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30867 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 30/0269 (20130101) G06Q 50/01 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838951 | Hicks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew J. Hicks (Dallas, Texas); Teresa M. Bieda (Murphy, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Hicks (Dallas, Texas); Teresa M. Bieda (Murphy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments, a method includes accessing a template, the template comprising a plurality of static portions and a plurality of dynamic portions. A first set of parameters associated with a first node are accessed. The method includes generating a first set of instructions that configure a device to communicate with the first node. The first set of instructions includes the static portions and the first set of parameters. The first set of parameters are arranged according to the plurality of dynamic portions. A second set of parameters associated with a second node are accessed. The method includes generating a second set of instructions that include the static portions and the second set of parameters. The second set of parameters are arranged according to the plurality of dynamic portions. The first set of instructions and the second set of instructions include Business Process Execution Language. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/042323 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/177 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/0633 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/02 (20130101) H04L 41/08 (20130101) H04L 63/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08839216 | Liu 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) | Yaxun Liu (Richmond Hill, Canada); Ilie G. Tanase (Somers, New York); Ettore Tiotto (Markham, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment is directed to determining, by a compiler, that a call to a named barrier is matched across all of a plurality of threads, and based at least in part on determining that the call to the named barrier is matched across all of the plurality of threads, replacing, by the compiler, the named barrier with an unnamed barrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/670677 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08839219 | Alvanos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michail Alvanos (Barcelona, Spain); Ettore Tiotto (Markham, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michail Alvanos (Barcelona, Spain); Ettore Tiotto (Markham, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for shared data prefetching and coalescing optimization versions a loop containing one or more shared references into an optimized loop and an un-optimized loop, transforms the optimized loop into a set of loops, and stores shared access associated information of the loop using a prologue loop in the set of loops. The shared access associated information pertains to remote data and is collected using the prologue loop in absence of network communication and builds a hash table. An associated data structure is updated each time the hash table is entered, and is sorted to remove duplicate entries and create a reduced data structure. Patterns across entries of the reduced data structure are identified and entries are coalesced. Data associated with a coalesced entry is pre-fetched using a single communication and a local buffer is populated with the fetched data for reuse. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/659048 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08839417 | Jordan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher J. Jordan (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | McAfee, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Jordan (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device, system, and method for defending a computer network are described. network communications are received by a traffic filter, which dynamically determines whether the communications include an anomaly (i.e., are “anomalous” communications), or whether the communications are normal, and do not include an anomaly. The traffic filter routes normal communications to the correct device within its network for servicing he service requested by the communications. The traffic filter routes any anomalous communications to a virtual space engine, which is configured to fake a requested service (e.g., to entice deployment of a malicious payload). Anomalous communications are analyzed using an analytical engine, which can dynamically develop rules for handling anomalous communications in-line, and the rules developed by the analytical engine can be employed by the traffic filter against future received communications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990329 |
| ART UNIT | 2495 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
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| US 08839422 | Ghosh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anup K Ghosh (Centreville, Virginia); Sushil Jajodia (Oakton, Virginia); Yih Huang (Fairfax, Virginia); Jiang Wang (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Research Foundation, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anup K Ghosh (Centreville, Virginia); Sushil Jajodia (Oakton, Virginia); Yih Huang (Fairfax, Virginia); Jiang Wang (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment for providing a secure virtual browsing environment includes creating a virtual browsing environment with a virtualized operating system sharing an operating system kernel of a supporting operating system and executing the browser application within the virtual browsing environment. Another embodiment includes receiving a website selection within a browser application, determining if the website selection corresponds to a secure bookmark, and creating a second virtual browsing environment and executing the browser application within the second virtual browsing environment to access the website selection when the website selection corresponds to a website specified as a secure bookmark. Yet another embodiment includes monitoring operation of the operating system within the at least one virtual browsing environment, determining when the operation of the operating system includes potential malicious activity, and terminating the virtual browsing environment when the operation includes potential malicious activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/827203 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/53 (20130101) G06F 21/56 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1483 (20130101) |
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| US 08839426 | Brueckner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Brueckner (Ithaca, New York); Robert A. Joyce (Ithaca, New York); Carl Manson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Hajime Inoue (Ithaca, New York); Kenneth J. Thurber (Hopkins, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A server system receives messages from client computing devices. Each of the messages corresponds to a transaction. The server system assigns each respective transaction to a respective fresh virtual machine. Furthermore, the server system performs, as part of a respective virtual machine processing a respective transaction, a modification associated with the respective transaction to a shared database. The shared database is persisted independently of the plurality of virtual machines. In response to determining that processing of the respective transaction is complete, the server system discards the respective virtual machine. In response to determining that the respective transaction is associated with a cyber-attack, the server system uses checkpoint data associated with the respective transaction to roll back the modifications associated with the respective transaction to the shared database. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/014242 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08832926 | Motowidlo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leszek Motowidlo (Southington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Supramagnetics, Inc. (Plantsville, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leszek Motowidlo (Southington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming Nb3Sn superconducting wire is provided. The method employs a powder-in-tube process using a high-tin intermetallic compound, such as MnSn2, for producing the Nb3Sn. The use of a high-tin intermetallic compound enables the process to perform hot extrusion without melting the high-tin intermetallic compound. Alternatively, the method may entail drawing the wire without hot extrusion. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537301 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/2409 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08833187 | Lind et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall F. Lind (Knoxville, Tennessee); Peter D. Lloyd (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lonnie J. Love (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mark W. Noakes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Francois G. Pin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bradley S. Richardson (Knoxville, Tennessee); John C. Rowe (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall F. Lind (Knoxville, Tennessee); Peter D. Lloyd (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lonnie J. Love (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mark W. Noakes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Francois G. Pin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bradley S. Richardson (Knoxville, Tennessee); John C. Rowe (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for obtaining samples from a structure includes a support member, at least one stabilizing member, and at least one moveable member. The stabilizing member has a first portion coupled to the support member and a second portion configured to engage with the structure to restrict relative movement between the support member and the structure. The stabilizing member is radially expandable from a first configuration where the second portion does not engage with a surface of the structure to a second configuration where the second portion engages with the surface of the structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033231 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 49/06 (20130101) E21B 49/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2001/1037 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 7/02 (20130101) Constructional Details of Instruments, or Comparable Details of Other Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G12B 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08834338 | Srivastava et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Suresh Srivastava (Setauket, New York); Gilbert R. Gonzales (New York, New York); Roger W. Howell (Millington, New Jersey); Wesley E. Bolch (Gainesville, Florida); Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SnIP Holdings, Inc. (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh Srivastava (Setauket, New York); Gilbert R. Gonzales (New York, New York); Roger W. Howell (Millington, New Jersey); Wesley E. Bolch (Gainesville, Florida); Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method of selectively providing radiation dosimetry to a subject in need of such treatment. The radiation is applied by an implant comprising a body member and 117mSn electroplated at selected locations of the body member, emitting conversion electrons absorbed immediately adjacent selected locations while not affecting surrounding tissue outside of the immediately adjacent area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/758937 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/91 (20130101) A61F 2210/0095 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 5/1014 (20130101) A61N 2005/1003 (20130101) A61N 2005/1005 (20130101) A61N 2005/1019 (20130101) |
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| US 08834587 | Cortright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert T. Rozmiarek (Middleton, Wisconsin); Charles C. Hornemann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert T. Rozmiarek (Middleton, Wisconsin); Charles C. Hornemann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactor systems and methods are provided for the catalytic conversion of liquid feedstocks to synthesis gases and other noncondensable gaseous products. The reactor systems include a heat exchange reactor configured to allow the liquid feedstock and gas product to flow concurrently in a downflow direction. The reactor systems and methods are particularly useful for producing hydrogen and light hydrocarbons from biomass-derived oxygenated hydrocarbons using aqueous phase reforming. The generated gases may find used as a fuel source for energy generation via PEM fuel cells, solid-oxide fuel cells, internal combustion engines, or gas turbine gensets, or used in other chemical processes to produce additional products. The gaseous products may also be collected for later use or distribution. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/539861 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 8/065 (20130101) B01J 8/067 (20130101) B01J 2208/025 (20130101) B01J 2208/0053 (20130101) B01J 2208/00212 (20130101) B01J 2208/00221 (20130101) B01J 2208/00504 (20130101) B01J 2208/00539 (20130101) B01J 2208/00672 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/323 (20130101) C01B 2203/066 (20130101) C01B 2203/84 (20130101) C01B 2203/107 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0805 (20130101) C01B 2203/0833 (20130101) C01B 2203/1041 (20130101) C01B 2203/1058 (20130101) C01B 2203/1064 (20130101) C01B 2203/1211 (20130101) |
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| US 08834605 | Aines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger D. Aines (Livermore, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Joshuah K. Stolaroff (Oakland, California); William L. Bourcier (Livermore, California); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois); Eric B. Duoss (Dublin, California); John J. Vericella (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger D. Aines (Livermore, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Joshuah K. Stolaroff (Oakland, California); William L. Bourcier (Livermore, California); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois); Eric B. Duoss (Dublin, California); John J. Vericella (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for separating a target substance from a fluid or mixture. Capsules having a coating and stripping solvents encapsulated in the capsules are provided. The coating is permeable to the target substance. The capsules having a coating and stripping solvents encapsulated in the capsules are exposed to the fluid or mixture. The target substance migrates through the coating and is taken up by the stripping solvents. The target substance is separated from the fluid or mixture by driving off the target substance from the capsules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/312418 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834757 | Auciello et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Pablo Gurman (Woodridge, Illinois); Alejandro Berra (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Pablo Gurman (Woodridge, Illinois); Alejandro Berra (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for producing bioinert biocompatible diamond particles/polymer composites or any other matrix (e.g. glass, metal, plastic, ceramic and more)/diamond particle composites, even if not biocompatible with outstanding mechanical, tribological, and biological properties, the method comprising selecting a polymer having a melting temperature below about 300 C; mixing diamond particles with the polymer to form a liquid mixture, poring the liquid diamond particle/polymer or any other diamond particle/matrix composite in liquid form into a mold and then causing the composite to sinter with the diamond particles densely and uniformly distributed through the bulk and surface of the composite, such that the diamond particles distributed on the surface can form a diamond layer covering the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250527 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 27/06 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/64 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08834822 | Gay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | McMahan Gay (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sunho Choi (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Christopher W. Jones (Mableton, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | McMahan Gay (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Sunho Choi (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Christopher W. Jones (Mableton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the separation of carbon dioxide from ambient air and flue gases is provided wherein a phase separating moiety with a second moiety are simultaneously coupled and bonded onto an inert substrate to create a mixture which is subsequently contacted with flue gases or ambient air. The phase-separating moiety is an amine whereas the second moiety is an aminosilane, or a Group 4 propoxide such as titanium (IV) propoxide (tetrapropyl orthotitanate, C12H28O4Ti). The second moiety makes the phase-separating moiety insoluble in the pores of the inert substrate. The new sorbents have a high carbon dioxide loading capacity and considerable stability over hundreds of cycles. The synthesis method is readily scalable for commercial and industrial production. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/212284 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/228 |
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| US 08834829 | Contescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cristian Ion Contescu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nidia C. Gallego (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jane Y. Howe (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Harry M. Meyer, III (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Edward Andrew Payzant (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David L. Wood, III (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sang Young Yoon (Bedford, Massachusetts); Matthew R. Denlinger (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cristian Ion Contescu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nidia C. Gallego (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jane Y. Howe (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Harry M. Meyer, III (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Edward Andrew Payzant (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David L. Wood, III (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sang Young Yoon (Bedford, Massachusetts); Matthew R. Denlinger (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of making a battery anode in which a quantity of graphite powder is provided. The temperature of the graphite powder is raised from a starting temperature to a first temperature between 1000 and 2000° C. during a first heating period. The graphite powder is then cooled to a final temperature during a cool down period. The graphite powder is contacted with a forming gas during at least one of the first heating period and the cool down period. The forming gas includes H2 and an inert gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/596291 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834840 | Bull et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steve R. Bull (Wilmette, Illinois); Thomas J. Meade (Wilmette, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve R. Bull (Wilmette, Illinois); Thomas J. Meade (Wilmette, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and/or mixtures comprising peptide amphiphile compounds comprising one or more contrast agents, as can be used in a range of magnetic resonance imaging applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906825 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/03 (20130101) A61K 38/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08834913 | Shaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wendy J. Shaw (Richland, Washington); Clement R. Yonker (Kennewick, Washington); John L. Fulton (Richland, Washington); Barbara J. Tarasevich (Richland, Washington); James B. McClain (Raleigh, North Carolina); Doug Taylor (Franlinton, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy J. Shaw (Richland, Washington); Clement R. Yonker (Kennewick, Washington); John L. Fulton (Richland, Washington); Barbara J. Tarasevich (Richland, Washington); James B. McClain (Raleigh, North Carolina); Doug Taylor (Franlinton, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical implant device having a substrate with an oxidized surface and a silane derivative coating covalently bonded to the oxidized surface. A bioactive agent is covalently bonded to the silane derivative coating. An implantable stent device including a stent core having an oxidized surface with a layer of silane derivative covalently bonded thereto. A spacer layer comprising polyethylene glycol (PEG) is covalently bonded to the layer of silane derivative and a protein is covalently bonded to the PEG. A method of making a medical implant device including providing a substrate having a surface, oxidizing the surface and reacting with derivitized silane to form a silane coating covalently bonded to the surface. A bioactive agent is then covalently bonded to the silane coating. In particular instances, an additional coating of bio-absorbable polymer and/or pharmaceutical agent is deposited over the bioactive agent. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/648106 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
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| US 08835003 | Chen 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) | Fanglin Chen (Irmo, South Carolina); Qiang Liu (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are generally disclosed for synthesis of porous particles from a solution formed from a leaving agent, a surfactant, and a soluble metal salt in a solvent. The surfactant congregates to form a nanoparticle core such that the metal salt forms about the nanoparticle core to form a plurality of nanoparticles. The solution is heated such that the leaving agent forms gas bubbles in the solution, and the plurality of nanoparticles congregate about the gas bubbles to form a porous particle. The porous particles are also generally disclosed and can include a particle shell formed about a core to define an average diameter from about 0.5 μm to about 50 μm. The particle shell can be formed from a plurality of nanoparticles having an average diameter of from about 1 nm to about 50 nm and defined by a metal salt formed about a surfactant core. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/772774 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/06 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 23/75 (20130101) B01J 23/745 (20130101) B01J 23/755 (20130101) B01J 35/004 (20130101) B01J 35/08 (20130101) B01J 35/1061 (20130101) B01J 37/0018 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/185 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0043 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 49/06 (20130101) C01G 49/009 (20130101) C01G 49/0018 (20130101) C01G 51/006 (20130101) C01G 51/70 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/52 (20130101) C01P 2004/34 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/14 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) C01P 2006/17 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/9016 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 08835023 | Ihlefeld |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jon Ihlefeld (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon Ihlefeld (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Dramatic improvements in metallization integrity and electroceramic thin film performance can be achieved by the use of the ZnO buffer layer to minimize interfacial energy between metallization and adhesion layers. In particular, the invention provides a substrate metallization method utilizing a ZnO adhesion layer that has a high work of adhesion, which in turn enables processing under thermal budgets typically reserved for more exotic ceramic, single-crystal, or metal foil substrates. Embodiments of the present invention can be used in a broad range of applications beyond ferroelectric capacitors, including microelectromechanical systems, micro-printed heaters and sensors, and electrochemical energy storage, where integrity of metallized silicon to high temperatures is necessary. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/584641 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835027 | Thackeray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Napeville, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Napeville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides lithium-rich compounds as precursors for positive electrodes for lithium cells and batteries. The precursors comprise a Li2O-containing compound as one component, and a second charged or partially-charged component, selected preferably from a metal oxide, a lithium-metal-oxide, a metal phosphate or metal sulfate compound. Li2O is extracted from the above-mentioned electrode precursors to activate the electrode either by electrochemical methods or by chemical methods. The invention also extends to methods for synthesizing and activating the precursor electrodes and to cells and batteries containing such electrodes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284201 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/131 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835041 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois); Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Donghan Kim (Darien, Illinois); Mahalingam Balasubramanian (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois); Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Donghan Kim (Darien, Illinois); Mahalingam Balasubramanian (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an electrode material suitable for use as a cathode in a sodium electrochemical cell or battery, the electrode comprising a layered material of formula NacLidNieMnfMzOb, wherein M comprises one or more metal cation, 0.24≦c/b≦0.5, 0<d/b≦0.23, 0≦e/b≦0.45, 0≦f/b≦0.45, 0≦z/b≦0.45, the combined average oxidation state of the metal components (i.e., NacLidNieMnfMz) is in the range of about 3.9 to 5.2, and b is equal to (c+d+Ve+Xf+Yz)/2, wherein V is the average oxidation state of the Ni, X is the average oxidation state of the Mn, and Y is the average oxidation state of the M in the material. The combined positive charge of the metallic elements is balanced by the combined negative charge of the oxygen anions, the Na is predominately present in a sodium layer, and the Mn, Ni, and M are predominately present in a transition metal layer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006512 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/483 (20130101) H01M 4/502 (20130101) H01M 4/523 (20130101) H01M 6/42 (20130101) H01M 10/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835046 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Daiwon Choi (Richland, Washington); Rong Kou (State College, Pennsylvania); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Donghai Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Daiwon Choi (Richland, Washington); Rong Kou (State College, Pennsylvania); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Donghai Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Zhenguo Yang (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocomposite materials having at least two layers, each layer consisting of one metal oxide bonded to at least one graphene layer were developed. The nanocomposite materials will typically have many alternating layers of metal oxides and graphene layers, bonded in a sandwich type construction and will be incorporated into an electrochemical or energy storage device. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852794 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/624 (20130101) H01M 4/663 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835123 | Kleinberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kleinberg (New York, New York); Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kleinberg (New York, New York); Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic and therapeutic methods pertaining to diseases and disorders of the breast, uterus and ovary are encompassed herein. More particularly, diagnostic methods for early detection of progenitor cells of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers are described herein. The identification of markers for these cancer predisposing progenitor cells, which co-express the progesterone receptor (PR) and p63, provides tools and methods of use thereof that facilitate early detection of increased frequency of PR/p63 double positive (PR/p63+) progenitor cells in asymptomatic patients and thus, early detection of increased cancer risk in such patients and assessment, diagnostic stratification, and evaluation of therapeutic intervention in symptomatic patients. Therapeutic methods are also encompassed herein, which include detection of PR/p63+ progenitor cells in a patient, wherein detection of increased frequency of PR/p63+ progenitor cells provides information on which basis a determination of therapeutic regimen or an assessment of an ongoing therapeutic regimen can be made. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/564873 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835153 | Seibert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Seibert (Lakewood, Colorado); Paul W. King (Golden, Colorado); Maria Lucia Ghirardi (Lakewood, Colorado); Matthew C. Posewitz (Golden, Colorado); Sharon L. Smolinski (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Seibert (Lakewood, Colorado); Paul W. King (Golden, Colorado); Maria Lucia Ghirardi (Lakewood, Colorado); Matthew C. Posewitz (Golden, Colorado); Sharon L. Smolinski (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for expression of active [FeFe]-hydrogenase in a host organism that does not contain either the structural gene(s) for [FeFe]-hydrogenases and/or homologues for the maturation genes HydE, HydF and HyG, comprising: cloning the structural hydrogenase gene(s) and/or the maturation genes HydE, HydF and HydG from an organisms that contains these genes into expression plasmids; transferring the plasmids into an organism that lacks a native [FeFe]-hydrogenase or that has a disrupted [FeFe]-hydrogenase and culturing it aerobically; and inducing anaerobiosis to provide [FeFe] hydrogenase biosynthesis and H?2#191 production. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/573035 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835178 | Farquar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Roy Farquar (Livermore, California); Roald Leif (San Ramon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Roy Farquar (Livermore, California); Roald Leif (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bio-threat simulant that includes a carrier and DNA encapsulated in the carrier. Also a method of making a simulant including the steps of providing a carrier and encapsulating DNA in the carrier to produce the bio-threat simulant. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/608962 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/00 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Boris Kolodin (Beachwood, Ohio); Anirudha R. Deshpande (Twinsburg, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE Lighting Solutions, LLC (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Kolodin (Beachwood, Ohio); Anirudha R. Deshpande (Twinsburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting package comprising a support hosting at least one light emitting diode. A light transmissive dome comprised of a silicone including a phosphor material positioned to receive light emitted by the diode. A glass cap overlies said dome. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/187592 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/58 (20130101) H01L 33/507 (20130101) H01L 33/644 (20130101) H01L 2933/005 (20130101) H01L 2933/0041 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835272 | Mickel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick R. Mickel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Conrad D. James (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A resistive switching device and methods for making the same are disclosed. In the above said device, a resistive switching layer is interposed between opposing electrodes. The resistive switching layer comprises at least two sub-layers of switchable insulative material characterized by different ionic mobilities. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/780262 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 45/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 45/085 (20130101) H01L 45/1608 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835343 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Shengqian Ma (Tampa, Florida); Gabriel A. Goenaga (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Shengqian Ma (Tampa, Florida); Gabriel A. Goenaga (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing a nitrogen containing electrode catalyst by converting a high surface area metal-organic framework (MOF) material free of platinum group metals that includes a transition metal, an organic ligand, and an organic solvent via a high temperature thermal treatment to form catalytic active sites in the MOF. At least a portion of the contained organic solvent may be replaced with a nitrogen containing organic solvent or an organometallic compound or a transition metal salt to enhance catalytic performance. The electrode catalysts may be used in various electrochemical systems, including a proton exchange membrane fuel cell. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891509 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/8875 (20130101) H01M 4/8882 (20130101) H01M 4/9041 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835717 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California); Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Christian Joergensen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Randall Kramer (Lincoln, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/105668 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835762 | Gard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leo Gard (Sherman Oaks, California); Karl Wefers (Simi Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo Gard (Sherman Oaks, California); Karl Wefers (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for electrical isolation of metallic hardware is provided and includes an item of hardware and an isolation sheet disposed in contact with the item of hardware. The isolation sheet includes first and second opposing sides at least one of which is anodized. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157970 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/50.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835805 | Bahns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Bahns (DeKalb, Illinois); Liaohai Chen (Darien, Illinois); Stephen K. Gray (Wheaton, Illinois); Subramanian Sankaranarayanan (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Bahns (DeKalb, Illinois); Liaohai Chen (Darien, Illinois); Stephen K. Gray (Wheaton, Illinois); Subramanian Sankaranarayanan (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a simple and inexpensive method to assemble nanomaterials into millimeter lengths. The method can be used to generate optical, sensing, electronic, magnetic and or catalytic materials. Also provided is a substrate comprised of fused nanoparticles. The invention also provides a diode comprised of assembled nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/249865 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835839 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Erin M. Baker (West Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Erin M. Baker (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion manipulation method and device is disclosed. The device includes a pair of substantially parallel surfaces. An array of inner electrodes is contained within, and extends substantially along the length of, each parallel surface. The device includes a first outer array of electrodes and a second outer array of electrodes. Each outer array of electrodes is positioned on either side of the inner electrodes, and is contained within and extends substantially along the length of each parallel surface. A DC voltage is applied to the first and second outer array of electrodes. A RF voltage, with a superimposed electric field, is applied to the inner electrodes by applying the DC voltages to each electrode. Ions either move between the parallel surfaces within an ion confinement area or along paths in the direction of the electric field, or can be trapped in the ion confinement area. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/146922 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835865 | Zaitseva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Natalia P. Zaitseva (Livermore, California); M Leslie Carman (San Ramon, California); Andrew M. Glenn (Livermore, California); Sebastien Hamel (Livermore, California); Robert Hatarik (Discovery Bay, California); Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California); Wolfgang Stoeffl (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixed organic crystal according to one embodiment includes a single mixed crystal having two compounds with different bandgap energies, the organic crystal having a physical property of exhibiting a signal response signature for neutrons from a radioactive source, wherein the signal response signature does not include a significantly-delayed luminescence characteristic of neutrons interacting with the organic crystal relative to a luminescence characteristic of gamma rays interacting with the organic crystal. According to one embodiment, an organic crystal includes bibenzyl and stilbene or a stilbene derivative, the organic crystal having a physical property of exhibiting a signal response signature for neutrons from a radioactive source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/670778 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 7/06 (20130101) C30B 7/08 (20130101) C30B 29/54 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836172 | Hamam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafif E. Hamam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for transferring energy wirelessly including transferring energy wirelessly from a first resonator structure to an intermediate resonator structure, wherein the coupling rate between the first resonator structure and the intermediate resonator structure is κ1B, transferring energy wirelessly from the intermediate resonator structure to a second resonator structure, wherein the coupling rate between the intermediate resonator structure and the second resonator structure is κB2, and during the wireless energy transfers, adjusting at least one of the coupling rates κ1B and κB2 to reduce energy accumulation in the intermediate resonator structure and improve wireless energy transfer from the first resonator structure to the second resonator structure through the intermediate resonator structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677407 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/104 |
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| US 08836223 | Levermore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Levermore (Lambertville, New Jersey); Huiqing Pang (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Kamala Rajan (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Levermore (Lambertville, New Jersey); Huiqing Pang (Newtown, Pennsylvania); Kamala Rajan (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments may provide a first device that may comprise a substrate, a plurality of conductive bus lines disposed over the substrate, and a plurality of OLED circuit elements disposed on the substrate, where each of the OLED circuit elements comprises one and only one pixel electrically connected in series with a fuse. Each pixel may further comprise a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic electroluminescent (EL) material disposed between the first and the second electrodes. The fuse of each of the plurality of OLED circuit elements may electrically connect each of the OLED circuit elements to at least one of the plurality of bus lines. Each of the plurality of bus lines may be electrically connected to a plurality of OLED circuit elements that are commonly addressable and at least two of the bus lines may be separately addressable. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/590081 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/169.300 |
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| US 08836439 | O'Hara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John F. O'Hara (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Richard Averitt (Newton, Massachusetts); Willie Padilla (Newton, Massachusetts); Hou-Tong Chen (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. O'Hara (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Richard Averitt (Newton, Massachusetts); Willie Padilla (Newton, Massachusetts); Hou-Tong Chen (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A geometrically modifiable resonator is comprised of a resonator disposed on a substrate, and a means for geometrically modifying the resonator. The geometrically modifiable resonator can achieve active optical and/or electronic control of the frequency response in metamaterials and/or frequency selective surfaces, potentially with sub-picosecond response times. Additionally, the methods taught here can be applied to discrete geometrically modifiable circuit components such as inductors and capacitors. Principally, controlled conductivity regions, using either reversible photodoping or voltage induced depletion activation, are used to modify the geometries of circuit components, thus allowing frequency tuning of resonators without otherwise affecting the bulk substrate electrical properties. The concept is valid over any frequency range in which metamaterials are designed to operate. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871642 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 15/0086 (20130101) Modulation H03C 7/02 (20130101) Tuning Resonant Circuits; Selecting Resonant Circuits H03J 1/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08836444 | Lopez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omar Daniel Lopez (Chicago, Illinois); Dario Antonio (Rio Negro, Argentina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar Daniel Lopez (Chicago, Illinois); Dario Antonio (Rio Negro, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | An illustrative system includes an amplifier operably connected to a phase shifter. The amplifier is configured to amplify a voltage from an oscillator. The phase shifter is operably connected to a driving amplitude control, wherein the phase shifter is configured to phase shift the amplified voltage and is configured to set an amplitude of the phase shifted voltage. The oscillator is operably connected to the driving amplitude control. The phase shifted voltage drives the oscillator. The oscillator is at an internal resonance condition, based at least on the amplitude of the phase shifted voltage, that stabilizes frequency oscillations in the oscillator. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/428833 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/182 |
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| US 08836944 | Nikiforov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maxim Nikiforov (Chicago, Illinois); Seth B. Darling (Chicago, Illinois); Ozgun Suzer (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey Guest (Northbrook, Illinois); Andreas Roelofs (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maxim Nikiforov (Chicago, Illinois); Seth B. Darling (Chicago, Illinois); Ozgun Suzer (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey Guest (Northbrook, Illinois); Andreas Roelofs (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for opto electric properties are provided. A light source illuminates a sample. A reference detector senses light from the light source. A sample detector receives light from the sample. A positioning fixture allows for relative positioning of the sample or the light source with respect to each other. An electrical signal device measures the electrical properties of the sample. The reference detector, sample detector and electrical signal device provide information that may be processed to determine opto-electric properties of the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629320 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/55 (20130101) G01N 21/59 (20130101) |
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| US 08836945 | Ohodnicki, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Ohodnicki, Jr. (Alison Park, Pennsylvania); Congjun Wang (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania); Mark A. Andio (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a method of detecting a change in a chemical composition by contacting a conducting oxide material with a monitored stream, illuminating the conducting oxide material with incident light, collecting exiting light, monitoring an optical signal based on a comparison of the incident light and the exiting light, and detecting a shift in the optical signal. The conducting metal oxide has a carrier concentration of at least 1017/cm3, a bandgap of at least 2 eV, and an electronic conductivity of at least 10−1 S/cm, where parameters are specified at the gas stream temperature. The optical response of the conducting oxide materials is proposed to result from the high carrier concentration and electronic conductivity of the conducting metal oxide, and the resulting impact of changing gas atmospheres on that relatively high carrier concentration and electronic conductivity. These changes in effective carrier densities and electronic conductivity of conducting metal oxide films and nanoparticles are postulated to be responsible for the change in measured optical absorption associated with free carriers. Exemplary conducting metal oxides include but are not limited to Al-doped ZnO, Sn-doped In2O3, Nb-doped TiO2, and F-doped SnO2. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/135691 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/783 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08837039 | Vlasko-Vlasov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vitalii Vlasko-Vlasov (Downers Grove, Illinois); Aiqing Chen (Fremont, California); Ulrich Welp (Lisle, Illinois); Stephen K Gray (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vitalii Vlasko-Vlasov (Downers Grove, Illinois); Aiqing Chen (Fremont, California); Ulrich Welp (Lisle, Illinois); Stephen K Gray (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and article of manufacture for amplification of light for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. The method and system include a source of input light, a grating with grooves therein, a nanoparticle array disposed in the grooves with the nanoparticles and grating having a variety of selectable parameters. The combination of the nanoparticles and selected characteristics, including generating hot spots, and the features of the grating enable enhanced amplification of the input light signal to provide an output Raman signal of greatly increased intensity for Raman spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/456485 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/344 |
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| US 08837550 | Shapira et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Song-Liang Chua (Singapore, Singapore); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeongwon Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Song-Liang Chua (Singapore, Singapore); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeongwon Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic dye laser produces a continuous-wave (cw) output without any moving parts (e.g., without using flowing dye streams or spinning discs of solid-state dye media to prevent photobleaching) and with a pump beam that is stationary with respect to the organic dye medium. The laser's resonant cavity, organic dye medium, and pump beam are configured to excite a lasing transition over a time scale longer than the associated decay lifetimes in the organic dye medium without photobleaching the organic dye medium. Because the organic dye medium does not photobleach when operating in this manner, it may be pumped continuously so as to emit a cw output beam. In some examples, operation in this manner lowers the lasing threshold (e.g., to only a few Watts per square centimeter), thereby facilitating electrical pumping for cw operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787399 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837672 | Nance et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Kenneth M. Gibbs (Clarks Hill, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Kenneth M. Gibbs (Clarks Hill, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The concealing of one or more identification symbols into a target object and the subsequent determination or reading of such symbols through non-destructive testing is described. The symbols can be concealed in a manner so that they are not visible to the human eye and/or cannot be readily revealed to the human eye without damage or destruction of the target object. The identification symbols can be determined after concealment by e.g., the compilation of multiple X-ray images. As such, the present invention can also provide e.g., a deterrent to theft and the recovery of lost or stolen objects. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465626 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/62 |
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| US 08838519 | Hively |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee M. Hively (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Data collected from devices and human condition may be used to forewarn of critical events such as machine/structural failure or events from brain/heart wave data stroke. By monitoring the data, and determining what values are indicative of a failure forewarning, one can provide adequate notice of the impending failure in order to take preventive measures. This disclosure teaches a computer-based method to convert dynamical numeric data representing physical objects (unstructured data) into discrete-phase-space states, and hence into a graph (structured data) for extraction of condition change. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646081 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838906 | Gara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a multiprocessor system with at least two levels of cache, a speculative thread may run on a core processor in parallel with other threads. When the thread seeks to do a write to main memory, this access is to be written through the first level cache to the second level cache. After the write though, the corresponding line is deleted from the first level cache and/or prefetch unit, so that any further accesses to the same location in main memory have to be retrieved from the second level cache. The second level cache keeps track of multiple versions of data, where more than one speculative thread is running in parallel, while the first level cache does not have any of the versions during speculation. A switch allows choosing between modes of operation of a speculation blind first level cache. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/984308 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838933 | Blocksome 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) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Seattle, Washington); Brian E. Smith (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| 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 | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679042 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838944 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alana Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Boeblingen, Germany); Robert Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alana Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Boeblingen, Germany); Robert Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Implementation primitives for concurrent array-based stacks, queues, double-ended queues (deques) and wrapped deques are provided. In one aspect, each element of the stack, queue, deque or wrapped deque data structure has its own ticket lock, allowing multiple threads to concurrently use multiple elements of the data structure and thus achieving high performance. In another aspect, new synchronization primitives FetchAndIncrementBounded (Counter, Bound) and FetchAndDecrementBounded (Counter, Bound) are implemented. These primitives can be implemented in hardware and thus promise a very fast throughput for queues, stacks and double-ended queues. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564535 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/546 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Boaz Pokroy (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Boaz Pokroy (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a nanostructured surface, including providing an original nanostructured surface having an array of high aspect ratio structures formed on a planar substrate; forming a negative replica mold of the original nanostructured surface, where the negative replica mold includes a flexible material; deforming the negative replica mold; and using the deformed negative replica mold to form a deformed replica of the original nanostructured surface, where the deforming step is performed at least one of before, during, or after introducing a material for forming the deformed replica into the negative replica mold. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/001490 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 39/026 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08833510 | Koh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cheong Yang Koh (Jurong West, Singapore); Daniel Alcazar Jorba (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edwin Lorimer Thomas (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheong Yang Koh (Jurong West, Singapore); Daniel Alcazar Jorba (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edwin Lorimer Thomas (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A methodology for designing structured metamaterials that can reflect, absorb and focus the propagation of both scalar acoustic and vector elastic waves is described. Three exemplary representative inventions based on the disclosed invention are described, illustrating i) compact ultra-wide broadband isolation, ii) sub-wavelength gaps and negative index propagation utilizing a single material platform, and iii) a fundamentally new method of producing multiple high frequency spectral gaps. Such metamaterial designs possess a wide range of potential applications, ranging from but not limited to, isolating an entity from external mechanical or acoustical vibrations, compact focusing lenses as well as cascaded high frequency filters for wave shaping and nonlinear wave propagation control. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/463234 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 15/02 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/04 (20130101) G10K 11/30 (20130101) G10K 11/162 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08834146 | Saha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sourabh Kumar Saha (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Martin L. Culpepper (Rowley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Passive stamp alignment system. The system includes a stamp supported by a stamp holder resting on three balls affixed to a top platform. A bottom platform supports a substrate to be aligned with the stamp. Means are provided for moving either the top or the bottom platform and holding the other platform stationary so as to contact the substrate with the stamp whereby the stamp holder is lifted away from each of the balls in sequence resulting in alignment of the stamp and the substrate parallel to each other. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/658903 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
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| US 08834666 | Sreetharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellow of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pratheev Sabaratnam Sreetharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Peter Whitney (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Wood (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-layer, super-planar structure can be formed from distinctly patterned layers. The layers in the structure can include at least one rigid layer and at least one flexible layer; the rigid layer includes a plurality of rigid segments, and the flexible layer can extend between the rigid segments to serve as a joint. The layers are then stacked and bonded at selected locations to form a laminate structure with inter-layer bonds, and the laminate structure is flexed at the flexible layer between rigid segments to produce an expanded three-dimensional structure, wherein the layers are joined at the selected bonding locations and separated at other locations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961510 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/0076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 38/0004 (20130101) B32B 38/14 (20130101) |
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| US 08834742 | Kornfield et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Julia A. Kornfield (Pasadena, California); Michael Wand (Boulder, Colorado); Zuleikha Kurji (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); LC Vision, LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia A. Kornfield (Pasadena, California); Michael Wand (Boulder, Colorado); Zuleikha Kurji (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system having a vertically-aligned negative delta E nematic liquid crystal host material and a small amount of liquid crystal polymer is provided. The liquid crystal polymer improves the switching speed of a vertically aligned nematic system without sacrificing contrast or viewing angle. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194297 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/406 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 19/3003 (20130101) C09K 19/3842 (20130101) C09K 2019/301 (20130101) C09K 2019/3004 (20130101) C09K 2019/3009 (20130101) C09K 2019/3016 (20130101) |
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| US 08834743 | Mahanthappa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mahesh Kalyana Mahanthappa (Madison, Wisconsin); Gregory Paul Sorenson (Madison, Wisconsin); Keiva LaNee Coppage (Beloit, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahesh Kalyana Mahanthappa (Madison, Wisconsin); Gregory Paul Sorenson (Madison, Wisconsin); Keiva LaNee Coppage (Beloit, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Aliphatic dicarboxylate Gemini surfactants and lyotropic liquid crystal compositions formed thereby are disclosed. The Gemini surfactants are capable of robustly forming Q phase morphologies over broad ranges of temperature and concentration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/472817 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.500 |
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| US 08834794 | Yazdanpanah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mehdi M Yazdanpanah (Louisville, Kentucky); Romaneh Jalilian (Lousiville, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mehdi M Yazdanpanah (Louisville, Kentucky); Romaneh Jalilian (Lousiville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention provides the description of an inexpensive and disposable handheld device for detecting Circulating tumor cells (CTC) in blood called a handheld CTC detector (HCTCD). The HCTCD is capable of detecting less than 1 CTC per milliliter. The HCTCD consists of a dense array of high aspect ratio freestanding metallic nanoneedles, functionalized with antibodies that integrated within a microfluidic device and selectively capture and count (using electrical signal detection) the CTCs. By selecting a right functionalization protocol for the nanoneedles array, the HCTCD can be used for selective capturing a variety of rare cells that are mixed in human fluids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/302650 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0883 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 41/36 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5094 (20130101) |
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| US 08834896 | Kickhoefer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Valerie A. Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, California); Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, California); Kathleen A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Cheryl I. Champion (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valerie A. Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, California); Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, California); Kathleen A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Cheryl I. Champion (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided herein for immunizing a subject by administering to the subject an effective amount of an immunogenic peptide or an immunogenic fragment or variant thereof incorporated within a vault-like particle carrier. The methods and compositions advantageously exhibit enhanced ability to induce cell-mediated immunity and/or antibody-based immunity. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/737963 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
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| US 08835110 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tza-Huei Wang (Timonium, Maryland); Kelvin J. Liu (Baltimore, Maryland); Ie-Ming Shih (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tza-Huei Wang (Timonium, Maryland); Kelvin J. Liu (Baltimore, Maryland); Ie-Ming Shih (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, e.g., to a method for determining the size distribution of DNA molecules in a sample comprising cell-free nucleic acid, comprising labeling the DNA with a fluorescent dye in a stoichiometric manner, subjecting the DNA to molecular spectroscopy (e.g., cylindrical illumination confocal spectroscopy), analyzing suitable fluorescent burst parameters of the labeled DNA, and conducting single molecule DNA integrity analysis of the labeled DNA molecules in the sample. In one embodiment of the invention, the method is used as a diagnostic method for detecting cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/120060 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
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| US 08835113 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Bin Liu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an aggregation sensor useful for the detection and analysis of aggregants in a sample, and methods, articles and compositions relating to such a sensor. The sensor comprises first and second optically active units, where energy may be transferred from an excited state of the first optically active unit to the second optically active unit. The second optically active unit is present in a lesser amount, but its relative concentration is increased upon aggregation, increasing its absorption of energy from the first optically active units. This increase in energy transfer can be detected in variety of formats to produce an aggregation sensing system for various aggregants, including for quantitation. Other variations of the inventions are described further herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017127 |
| 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 | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) C08G 61/123 (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 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2563/173 (20130101) C12Q 2565/101 (20130101) C12Q 2565/113 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) |
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| US 08835138 | Solomon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Solomon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tae Seok Moon (San Franciso, California); Kristala Lanett Jones Prather (Milton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Solomon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tae Seok Moon (San Franciso, California); Kristala Lanett Jones Prather (Milton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention relate to the design and construction of Metabolite Valves, such as Glucose Valves, that can be used to divert metabolites from endogenous pathways toward alternative pathways in a cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/638026 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/245 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/90 (20130101) C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 15/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/58 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/01002 (20130101) C12Y 503/01009 (20130101) |
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| US 08835139 | Weiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven W. Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven W. Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. Some embodiments relate to a method of producing ethanol using the cell wall degradative systems of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/592006 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
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| US 08835162 | Kwon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inchan Kwon (Pasadena, California); David Tirrell (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of incorporating nonstandard amino acids into a protein by utilizing a modified aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase to charge the nonstandard amino acid to a modified tRNA, which forms strict Watson-Crick base-pairing with a codon that normally forms wobble base-pairing with natural tRNAs. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730116 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835877 | Luan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuang Luan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lijun Ma (Foster City, California); Zhe Chen (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuang Luan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lijun Ma (Foster City, California); Zhe Chen (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Photon-based radiosurgery is widely used for treating local and regional tumors. The key to improving the quality of radiosurgery is to increase the dose falloff rate from high dose regions inside the tumor to low dose regions of nearby healthy tissues and structures. Dynamic photon painting (DPP) further increases dose falloff rate by treating a target by moving a beam source along a dynamic trajectory, where the speed, direction and even dose rate of the beam source change constantly during irradiation. DPP creates dose gradient that rivals proton Bragg Peak and outperforms Gamma Knife® radiosurgery. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/322327 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835965 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fan Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Jian Xu (State College, Pennsylvania); Suzanne Mohney (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum well-based p-i-n light emitting diode is provided that includes nanopillars with an average linear dimension of between 50 nanometers and 1 micron. The nanopillars include a laminar layer of quantum wells capable of non-radiative energy transfer to quantum dot nanocrystals. Quantum dot-Quantum well coupling through the side walls of the nanopillar-configured LED structure achieves a close proximity between quantum wells and quantum dots while retaining the overlying contact electrode structures. A white LED with attractive properties relative to conventional incandescent and fluorescence lighting devices is produced. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/744526 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/06 (20130101) H01L 33/20 (20130101) H01L 33/502 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836172 | Hamam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafif E. Hamam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Boston, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for transferring energy wirelessly including transferring energy wirelessly from a first resonator structure to an intermediate resonator structure, wherein the coupling rate between the first resonator structure and the intermediate resonator structure is κ1B, transferring energy wirelessly from the intermediate resonator structure to a second resonator structure, wherein the coupling rate between the intermediate resonator structure and the second resonator structure is κB2, and during the wireless energy transfers, adjusting at least one of the coupling rates κ1B and κB2 to reduce energy accumulation in the intermediate resonator structure and improve wireless energy transfer from the first resonator structure to the second resonator structure through the intermediate resonator structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677407 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836446 | Sensale-Rodriguez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez (South Bend, Indiana); Huili (Grace) Xing (South Bend, Indiana); Rusen Yan (Mishawaka, Indiana); Michelle M. Kelly (South Bend, Indiana); Tian Fang (Mishawaka, Indiana); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Lei Liu (Granger, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez (South Bend, Indiana); Huili (Grace) Xing (South Bend, Indiana); Rusen Yan (Mishawaka, Indiana); Michelle M. Kelly (South Bend, Indiana); Tian Fang (Mishawaka, Indiana); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Lei Liu (Granger, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A wave amplitude modulator for modulating a transmitted electromagnetic wave includes one or multiple self-gated capacitively coupled pair(s) of electron layers such as semiconductor or semimetal layers. Two electrical contacts are placed to each layer of electrons of the self-gated pair(s), and a power source is electrically connected to them. The power source, by varying the voltage applied between layers of electrons, tunes the electron density thereof, thereby adjusting the optical conductivity thereof, and the change in the optical conductivity of the layers of electrons causes an amplitude modulation of the transmitted electromagnetic wave passing through the capacitively coupled layers of electrons. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/529934 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Modulation H03C 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03C 7/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836608 | Dandekar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kapil R. Dandekar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Prathaban Mookiah (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kapil R. Dandekar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Prathaban Mookiah (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterial is used to enhance the antenna array of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication system. A rectangular patch antenna array is formed including a stack of a plurality of unit cells, where each unit cell includes an inductive loop of magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterials embedded in a host dielectric substrate. The use of such metamaterials permits the antenna arrays to be made smaller, and have less mutual coupling, when using a metamaterial substrate. The measured channel capacities of the antenna arrays are similar for the metamaterial and conventional substrates; however, the capacity improvement when using MIMO relative to single antenna communication systems is greater for antennas on metamaterial substrates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131891 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/893 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836664 | Colgate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edward Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael Peshkin (Evanston, Illinois); John Glassmire (Boulder, Colorado); Laura Winfield Alexander (Sunbury, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A haptic device provides indirect haptic feedback and includes a substrate having a touch surface, a position sensor and a friction modulator associated with the substrate, wherein a coefficient of friction of the touch surface is modulated in response to a sensed position of relative to the touch surface and/or a derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/770051 |
| ART UNIT | 2696 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) G06F 3/041 (20130101) G06F 3/0362 (20130101) G06F 3/0414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0421 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836925 | Simpson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Garth J. Simpson (West Lafayette, Indiana); Duangporn Wanapun (New London, Connecticut); Lynne S. Taylor (West Lafayette, Indiana); Umesh S. Kestur (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Scott J. Toth (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth J. Simpson (West Lafayette, Indiana); Duangporn Wanapun (New London, Connecticut); Lynne S. Taylor (West Lafayette, Indiana); Umesh S. Kestur (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Scott J. Toth (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for performing volume scanning of a sample comprised of chiral materials disposed in a matrix of non-chiral materials is disclosed. A laser is raster scanned in a plane of the volume such that the intensity of energy in the focal region is sufficient to generate second harmonic (SHG) energy. This energy is detected and may be processed into three dimensional images of the volume. The raster pattern is repeatedly stepped over an area of the sample so as to produce three dimensional images of time-dependent processes. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464379 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837045 | Popescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Basanta Bhaduri (Champaign, Illinois); Hoa Pham (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscope and methods for obtaining a phase image of a substantially transparent specimen. Light collected from a specimen illuminated by a temporally incoherent source is diffracted into a first order and either the zeroth or first order is low-pass filtered in a Fourier transform plane before the orders are recombined at a focal plane detector. By low pass filtering the first order diffracted beam into a plurality of wavelengths, a spectrally- and spatially-resolved quantitative phase image of the specimen is obtained. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776232 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837047 | Magnusson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Magnusson (Arlington, Texas); Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Magnusson (Arlington, Texas); Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for delaying transmitted light. The method may include illuminating a leaky-mode resonant element with light pulses of short duration and sequences of such pulses. The leaky-mode resonant element may include a spatially modulated periodic layer and may be configured so that at least some of the light is transmitted in a delayed manner. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/968064 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/575 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837550 | Shapira et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Song-Liang Chua (Singapore, Singapore); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeongwon Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Song-Liang Chua (Singapore, Singapore); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeongwon Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic dye laser produces a continuous-wave (cw) output without any moving parts (e.g., without using flowing dye streams or spinning discs of solid-state dye media to prevent photobleaching) and with a pump beam that is stationary with respect to the organic dye medium. The laser's resonant cavity, organic dye medium, and pump beam are configured to excite a lasing transition over a time scale longer than the associated decay lifetimes in the organic dye medium without photobleaching the organic dye medium. Because the organic dye medium does not photobleach when operating in this manner, it may be pumped continuously so as to emit a cw output beam. In some examples, operation in this manner lowers the lasing threshold (e.g., to only a few Watts per square centimeter), thereby facilitating electrical pumping for cw operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787399 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838394 | Kartalov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Aditya Rajagopal (Irvine, California); Axel Scherer (Barnard, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides methods, systems, compositions, and kits for the multiplexed detection of a plurality of analytes in a sample. In some examples, this disclosure provides methods, systems, compositions, and kits wherein multiple analytes may be detected in a single sample volume by acquiring a cumulative measurement or measurements of at least one quantifiable component of a signal. In some cases, additional components of a signal, or additional signals (or components thereof) are also quantified. Each signal or component of a signal may be used to construct a coding scheme which can then be used to determine the presence or absence of any analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/756760 |
| 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 | 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 1/68 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/10 (20130101) G06F 17/11 (20130101) G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838507 | Camerer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Colin Camerer (Pasadena, California); Daniel Golovin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Debajyoti Ray (Marina del Ray, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin Camerer (Pasadena, California); Daniel Golovin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Debajyoti Ray (Marina del Ray, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for active learning decision engines in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an active learning decision engine includes equivalence class storage, hypotheses storage, edge storage, test storage, where tests are related to hypotheses, observation storage; and a processor, where the processor is configured to determine a plurality of equivalence classes containing one or more hypotheses, determine a set of edges utilizing tests, where the edges in the set of edges span hypotheses in distinct equivalence classes, determine weights for the determined edges, select a test based on the determined weights, perform the selected test and observe the results of the performed test, remove edges from the set of edges utilizing the observed results, and select a hypothesis from the one or more hypotheses using the set of edges. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/414371 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838990 | Boult et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terrance E. Boult (Monument, Colorado); Walter Scheirer (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Colorado Board of Regents (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrance E. Boult (Monument, Colorado); Walter Scheirer (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, systems and methods are described relating to combining biometric and cryptographic techniques to support securely embedding data within a token and subsequent biometrically-enabled recovery of said data. Various transformation approaches are described that provide a secure means for transforming a stored or live, secure biometric-based identity token, embedding data into such tokens and biometric-based matching to both verify the user's identity and recover the embedded data. Security enhancements to a range of existing protocols are described using the techniques. Systems using novel protocols based on these techniques are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315014 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/32 (20130101) G06F 21/335 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00885 (20130101) Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 9/00158 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0866 (20130101) H04L 9/0877 (20130101) H04L 9/0894 (20130101) H04L 9/3231 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08833175 | Chandrasekharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vijay Chandrasekharan (Gainesville, Florida); Jeremy Sells (Gainesville, Florida); Mark Sheplak (Gainesville, Florida); David P. Arnold (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay Chandrasekharan (Gainesville, Florida); Jeremy Sells (Gainesville, Florida); Mark Sheplak (Gainesville, Florida); David P. Arnold (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A floating element shear sensor and method for fabricating the same are provided. According to an embodiment, a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based capacitive floating element shear stress sensor is provided that can achieve time-resolved turbulence measurement. In one embodiment, a differential capacitive transduction scheme is used for shear stress measurement. The floating element structure for the differential capacitive transduction scheme incorporates inter digitated comb fingers forming differential capacitors, which provide electrical output proportional to the floating element deflection. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/133303 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834597 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United Stated of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating metallic Cu nanowires with lengths up to about 25 μm and diameters in a range 20-100 nm, or greater if desired. Vertically oriented or laterally oriented copper oxide structures (CuO and/or Cu2O) are grown on a Cu substrate. The copper oxide structures are reduced with 99+ percent H or H2, and in this reduction process the lengths decrease (to no more than about 25 μm), the density of surviving nanostructures on a substrate decreases, and the diameters of the surviving nanostructures have a range, of about 20-100 nm. The resulting nanowires are substantially pure Cu and can be oriented laterally (for local or global interconnects) or can be oriented vertically (for standard vertical interconnects). |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/485721 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/3048 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837051 | Olczak |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eugene Olczak (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exelis, Inc. (Mclean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Olczak (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a head mounted display (HMD) worn by a user. The HMD includes a display projecting an image through an optical lens. The HMD also includes a one-dimensional retro reflective array receiving the image through the optical lens at a first angle with respect to the display and deflecting the image at a second angle different than the first angle with respect to the display. The one-dimensional retro reflective array reflects the image in order to project the image onto an eye of the user. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453295 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837170 | Rosenblad |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Busek Co., Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Busek Company (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S Rosenblad (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive resonant bidirectional converter system that transports energy across a galvanic barrier includes a converter using at least first and second converter sections, each section including a pair of transfer terminals, a center tapped winding; a chopper circuit interconnected between the center tapped winding and one of the transfer terminals; an inductance feed winding interconnected between the other of the transfer terminals and the center tap and a resonant tank circuit including at least the inductance of the center tap winding and the parasitic capacitance of the chopper circuit for operating the converter section at resonance; the center tapped windings of the first and second converter sections being disposed on a first common winding core and the inductance feed windings of the first and second converter sections being disposed on a second common winding core for automatically synchronizing the resonant oscillation of the first and second converter sections and transferring energy between the converter sections until the voltage across the pairs of transfer terminals achieves the turns ratio of the center tapped windings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/712175 |
| 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 7/0016 (20130101) 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 3/3382 (20130101) H02M 3/33523 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02M 3/33584 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 70/1433 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08839212 | Cooke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Cooke (Lubbock, Texas); J. Nelson Rushton (Lubbock, Texas); Brad Nemanich (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A code generator and multi-core framework are executable in a computer system to implement methods as disclosed herein, including a method for the code generator to automatically generate multi-threaded source code from functional specifications, and for the multi-core framework, which is a run time component, to generate multi-threaded task object code from the multi-threaded source code and to execute the multi-threaded task object code on respective processor cores. The methods provide transparency to the programmer, and during execution, provide automatic identification of processing parallelisms. The methods implement Consume-Simplify-Produce and Normalize-Transpose-Distribute operations to reduce complex expression sets in a functional specification to simplified expression sets operable in parallel processing environments through the generated multi-threaded task object code. The result is a code generator which compiles transparent declarative code into multi-threaded code and that in the process identifies and assigns parallel processing paths to improve overall processing performance. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/042699 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/30 (20130101) G06F 8/443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/456 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08834704 | Gunasekaran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sundaram Gunasekaran (Madison, Wisconsin); Jiang Yang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to detect beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) is described. The method includes the steps of adding a known concentration of hydrogen peroxide to a sample known to, or suspected of containing BLG; and electrolyzing the sample using a working electrode at a fixed potential sufficient to electrolyze BLG, and measuring a current signal within the sample. A diminution of the current signal in the sample as compared to a corresponding current signal from a standard solution containing a known concentration of hydrogen peroxide and no BLG indicates that the sample contains BLG. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833438 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834750 | Glenn et al. |
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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) | Gregory M. Glenn (American Canyon, California); Artur P Klamczynski (Orinda, California); Gokhan Bingol (Istanbul, Turkey) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention is directed to fire retardant compositions comprising clay and starch and uses thereof to protect structures and objects from fire and/or excessive heat. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/853963 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 21/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08834898 | Tinker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Juliette Tinker (Eagle, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juliette Tinker (Eagle, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric protein vaccines and methods of use thereof in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of generating an immune response in a mammal, that includes administering to the mammal, a composition having a chimeric protein having at least one of: a portion of a cholera toxin, a portion of a heat-labile toxin, and a portion of a shiga toxin; and an antigen having at least one of an antigenic material from S. aureus and an antigenic material from a S. aureus-specific polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/328686 |
| 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 08835141 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Ronald Sabo (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Craig Clemons (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Ronald Sabo (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Craig Clemons (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems, compositions and methods for the conversion of lignocellulosic material to recalcitrant cellulose and hydrolyzed sugars and products produced therefrom (e.g., biofuel, nano-fibrillated cellulose). In particular, the invention provides novel fractionation processes configured to integrate production of hydrolyzed sugars (e.g., for biofuel production) and recalcitrant cellulose (e.g., for nano-fibrillated cellulose production) from lignocellulosic material and methods of using the same (e.g., in the production of biofuel and nano-fibrillated cellulose). The invention is also directed to nanocellulose with morphologies of having a less entangled and slightly branched fibril network, and having the same thermal stability as of that of the initial lignocellulose feedstock. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/491881 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08B 37/0024 (20130101) C08B 37/0057 (20130101) Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 6/00 (20130101) C08H 8/00 (20130101) C08H 8/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/343 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/678 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/795 (20130101) Y10S 977/888 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08834630 | Bondokov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Leo Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density≦100 cm−2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/669630 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 23/00 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02389 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08835139 | Weiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven W. Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven W. Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. Some embodiments relate to a method of producing ethanol using the cell wall degradative systems of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/592006 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08836446 | Sensale-Rodriguez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez (South Bend, Indiana); Huili (Grace) Xing (South Bend, Indiana); Rusen Yan (Mishawaka, Indiana); Michelle M. Kelly (South Bend, Indiana); Tian Fang (Mishawaka, Indiana); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Lei Liu (Granger, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez (South Bend, Indiana); Huili (Grace) Xing (South Bend, Indiana); Rusen Yan (Mishawaka, Indiana); Michelle M. Kelly (South Bend, Indiana); Tian Fang (Mishawaka, Indiana); Debdeep Jena (South Bend, Indiana); Lei Liu (Granger, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A wave amplitude modulator for modulating a transmitted electromagnetic wave includes one or multiple self-gated capacitively coupled pair(s) of electron layers such as semiconductor or semimetal layers. Two electrical contacts are placed to each layer of electrons of the self-gated pair(s), and a power source is electrically connected to them. The power source, by varying the voltage applied between layers of electrons, tunes the electron density thereof, thereby adjusting the optical conductivity thereof, and the change in the optical conductivity of the layers of electrons causes an amplitude modulation of the transmitted electromagnetic wave passing through the capacitively coupled layers of electrons. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/529934 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Modulation H03C 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03C 7/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08838103 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea); The University of Maryland College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for minimizing handoff latencies when a handoff is performed in a wireless network. An access point (AP) or base station associated to a current wireless station (STA) allows information required for a reassociation to the STA to be propagated to handoff-capable neighboring APs or base stations. When the STA moves, a neighboring AP or base station performs the reassociation to the STA on the basis of context. When a handoff procedure is performed, the time taken to receive context of a corresponding STA is reduced, such that a fast handoff can be implemented. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703516 |
| ART UNIT | 2641 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 36/0016 (20130101) H04W 36/0033 (20130101) H04W 36/0038 (20130101) H04W 36/0055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 40/00 (20130101) H04W 84/12 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) H04W 92/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08838222 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Wouter-Jan Rappel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a complex rhythm disorder of a human heart includes identifying a region of a wall of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with one or more activations of the heart. A portion of the region is selected based on the activation trail and modified to affect the activation trail. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/062837 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 18/1206 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00214 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00375 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) A61B 2018/1435 (20130101) |
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| US 08838223 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Wouter-Jan Rappel (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a complex rhythm disorder in a human heart includes accessing signals from a plurality of sensors disposed spatially in relation to the heart, where the signals are associated with activations of the heart, and identifying a region of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with the activations of the heart. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/062848 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 18/1206 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00214 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00375 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) A61B 2018/1435 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08838103 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea); The University of Maryland College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for minimizing handoff latencies when a handoff is performed in a wireless network. An access point (AP) or base station associated to a current wireless station (STA) allows information required for a reassociation to the STA to be propagated to handoff-capable neighboring APs or base stations. When the STA moves, a neighboring AP or base station performs the reassociation to the STA on the basis of context. When a handoff procedure is performed, the time taken to receive context of a corresponding STA is reduced, such that a fast handoff can be implemented. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703516 |
| ART UNIT | 2641 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 36/0016 (20130101) H04W 36/0033 (20130101) H04W 36/0038 (20130101) H04W 36/0055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 40/00 (20130101) H04W 84/12 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) H04W 92/20 (20130101) |
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| US 08838951 | Hicks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew J. Hicks (Dallas, Texas); Teresa M. Bieda (Murphy, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Hicks (Dallas, Texas); Teresa M. Bieda (Murphy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments, a method includes accessing a template, the template comprising a plurality of static portions and a plurality of dynamic portions. A first set of parameters associated with a first node are accessed. The method includes generating a first set of instructions that configure a device to communicate with the first node. The first set of instructions includes the static portions and the first set of parameters. The first set of parameters are arranged according to the plurality of dynamic portions. A second set of parameters associated with a second node are accessed. The method includes generating a second set of instructions that include the static portions and the second set of parameters. The second set of parameters are arranged according to the plurality of dynamic portions. The first set of instructions and the second set of instructions include Business Process Execution Language. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/042323 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/177 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/0633 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/02 (20130101) H04L 41/08 (20130101) H04L 63/00 (20130101) |
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Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 08835187 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Hidde L. Ploegh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jehnna Ronan (Chester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960751 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/025 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/531 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/5052 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 436/809 (20130101) |
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| US 08835188 | Love et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Love (Somerville, Massachusetts); Hidde L. Ploegh (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jehnna Ronan (Chester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960754 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 3/50853 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/12 (20130101) B01L 2200/025 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) B01L 2300/0819 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/531 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/577 (20130101) G01N 33/5052 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 436/809 (20130101) |
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Department of Education (ED)
| US 08834169 | Reinkensmeyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Reinkensmeyer (Irvine, California); Robert J. Sanchez, Jr. (Oceanside, California); Punit Shah (La Mirada, California); Robert F. Smith, Jr. (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Reinkensmeyer (Irvine, California); Robert J. Sanchez, Jr. (Oceanside, California); Punit Shah (La Mirada, California); Robert F. Smith, Jr. (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for upper limb rehabilitation training of coordinated arm/forearm, forearm/forearm and grasping movements of a motor impaired patient comprises a nonrobotic, passive support, an arm/forearm sensor, a gripping device, a grip sensor capable of measuring an impaired grasping force of a grasping of the patient, a computer to process measurements of coordinated and simultaneous impaired arm/forearm, forearm/forearm and grasping movements to control a graphical representation of the arm/forearm and grasping movements in interaction with a virtual environment, and to provide a visual feedback signal to the patient of simulated normal activities of daily living performed with enhanced motor ability relative to the actual impaired motor ability. A visual feedback signal of the simulated activities of daily living is provided to motivate the patient to perform the upper limb rehabilitation movement training despite limited motor ability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512670 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/486 (20130101) A61B 5/1116 (20130101) A61B 5/1124 (20130101) A61B 5/4519 (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 5/0102 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 1/0237 (20130101) A61H 1/0274 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 1/0281 (20130101) A61H 2201/5007 (20130101) A61H 2201/5064 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0006 (20130101) |
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08835888 | Keegan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Heather L. Keegan (Goffstown, New Hampshire); Robert C. Guyer (Beverly, Massachusetts); William T. Fielder (Boston, Massachusetts); Donald K. Smith (Rye, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heather L. Keegan (Goffstown, New Hampshire); Robert C. Guyer (Beverly, Massachusetts); William T. Fielder (Boston, Massachusetts); Donald K. Smith (Rye, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In an integrated gimbal and High-Powered Multiband Laser (HPMBL) for use in an infrared countermeasure apparatus in a pod mounted on an aircraft, the improvement comprises an optical bench that connects the optical path between side-by-side mounted gimbal and high power laser; and a kinematic mounting system that prevents optical bench bending. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/486445 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 7/224 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 13/005 (20130101) Targets; Target Ranges; Bullet Catchers F41J 2/02 (20130101) |
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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08835127 | Schwoebel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric D. Schwoebel (Woburn, Massachusetts); James D. Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Martha S. Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Frances E. Nargi (Littleton, Massachusetts); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Kristine E. Hogan (Danvers, Massachusetts); Richard H. Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Joseph Lacirignola (Beverly, Massachusetts); Mark Hennessy (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trina R. Vian (Groton, Massachusetts); Rose M. Joseph (Westford, Massachusetts); Raymond S. Uttaro (Lexington, Massachusetts); Shaun Berry (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Schwoebel (Woburn, Massachusetts); James D. Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Martha S. Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Frances E. Nargi (Littleton, Massachusetts); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Kristine E. Hogan (Danvers, Massachusetts); Richard H. Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Joseph Lacirignola (Beverly, Massachusetts); Mark Hennessy (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trina R. Vian (Groton, Massachusetts); Rose M. Joseph (Westford, Massachusetts); Raymond S. Uttaro (Lexington, Massachusetts); Shaun Berry (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein provides methods for the detection of soluble antigens. In particular, the methods provide for the detection of soluble proteins and chemicals. In addition, the invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid sequence in a sample. Also described is an emittor cell comprising an Fc receptor and an emittor molecule for the detection of a target particle in a sample wherein the target particle to be detected is bound by one or more antibodies. Also provided is an optoelectronic sensor device for detecting a target particle in a plurality of samples. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/267276 |
| 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 | 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 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2565/619 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6454 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08838990 | Boult et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terrance E. Boult (Monument, Colorado); Walter Scheirer (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Colorado Board of Regents (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrance E. Boult (Monument, Colorado); Walter Scheirer (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, systems and methods are described relating to combining biometric and cryptographic techniques to support securely embedding data within a token and subsequent biometrically-enabled recovery of said data. Various transformation approaches are described that provide a secure means for transforming a stored or live, secure biometric-based identity token, embedding data into such tokens and biometric-based matching to both verify the user's identity and recover the embedded data. Security enhancements to a range of existing protocols are described using the techniques. Systems using novel protocols based on these techniques are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315014 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/32 (20130101) G06F 21/335 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00885 (20130101) Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 9/00158 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0866 (20130101) H04L 9/0877 (20130101) H04L 9/0894 (20130101) H04L 9/3231 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08835360 | Mehta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arpita I. Mehta (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); Lance A. Liotta (Bethesda, Maryland); Emanuel F. Petricoin (Dunkirk, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of HHS (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arpita I. Mehta (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); Lance A. Liotta (Bethesda, Maryland); Emanuel F. Petricoin (Dunkirk, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for selecting combinations of drugs for treatment of diseases that arise from deranged signaling pathways is disclosed. The method involves measuring the activity states for signaling proteins in a diseased cell and determining whether the activity states are different from the activity states observed for a reference cell such as a normal cell. Based on the observed differences, combinations of two or more drugs are selected to reduce these differences. Treatment of a subject with the combinations restores the activity states of the signaling proteins of the deranged disease-associated signaling pathways toward the activity states observed in the reference cell. Since the diseased cell and the reference cell can both be obtained from the same subject, combinations of drugs that specifically target patient-specific signaling derangements is possible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/455111 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08835979 | De Lyon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terence J De Lyon (Newbury Park, California); Rajesh D Rajavel (Oak Park, California); Hasan Sharifi (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terence J De Lyon (Newbury Park, California); Rajesh D Rajavel (Oak Park, California); Hasan Sharifi (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Using a multiple layer, varied composition barrier layer in place of the typical single layer barrier layer of an infrared photodetector results in a device with increased sensitivity and reduced dark current. A first barrier is adjacent the semiconductor contact; a second barrier layer is between the first barrier layer and the absorber layer. The barrier layers may be doped N type or P type with Beryllium, Carbon, Silicon or Tellurium. The energy bandgap is designed to facilitate minority carrier current flow in the contact region and block minority current flow outside the contact region. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/152896 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08837342 | Berenberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Berenberg (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for reducing power of network devices in a low-power wireless network. Embodiments generally include, for a network device that periodically toggles between high-power and low-power modes, increasing the relative amount of time the network device operates in a low-power mode under certain conditions that may otherwise cause the network device to consume more power. Such conditions include when the network device fails to join the low-power wireless network and/or when the network device fails to communicate with the low-power wireless network with an accuracy above a certain threshold level. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/789351 |
| ART UNIT | 2414 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/0225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 52/0241 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, September 16, 2014.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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