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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 07, 2014
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| US 08850695 | Call et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Norman L. Call (Los Angeles, California); Jose M. Chavez (Walnut, California); Rodolfo Chavez (West Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman L. Call (Los Angeles, California); Jose M. Chavez (Walnut, California); Rodolfo Chavez (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Printed circuit board (PCB) assembly tooling and methods are provided. Particular tooling includes a first tooling fixture having a first core component receiver to receive a first portion of a magnetic core to be coupled to a first side of a PCB. The tooling also has a second tooling fixture including a second core component receiver to receive a second portion of the magnetic core to be coupled on a second side of the PCB to the first portion of the magnetic core. The tooling also has an alignment component disposed on at least one of the first tooling fixture and the second tooling fixture. The alignment component enables alignment of the first tooling fixture and the second tooling fixture. When the first tooling fixture and the second tooling fixture are aligned, the first portion of the magnetic core and the second portion of the magnetic core are aligned. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652091 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/739 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08850823 | Ress, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Ress, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Randall E. Yount (Indianapolis, Indiana); Thomas D. Destefano (Mooresville, Indiana); Jitendra R. Patel (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Ress, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Randall E. Yount (Indianapolis, Indiana); Thomas D. Destefano (Mooresville, Indiana); Jitendra R. Patel (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention is an integrated aero-engine flowpath structure. Another embodiment is a method of manufacturing integrated aero-engine flowpath structure. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for aero-engine flowpath structures. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application shall become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith. |
| FILED | Monday, December 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/978954 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08850885 | Gold |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A water air-bubble fragment recovery test apparatus that facilitates accurate assessment of fragmentation characteristics and lethality that are normally detonated in air. An airtight, waterproof plastic container encloses a test warhead; the plastic container may then also be filled with a gas or just with air. The container is then embedded in a water-gas-bubble mixture found in a water tank, for the warhead to be detonated therein, and the fragments to then be later recovered. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/714852 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 99/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08850950 | Deckard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron Deckard (Wheatland, Indiana); James Buechler (Jasper, Indiana); Michael Holzmeyer (Bloomfield, Indiana); Glen Dick (Jasper, Indiana); Paul Danesha (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Deckard (Wheatland, Indiana); James Buechler (Jasper, Indiana); Michael Holzmeyer (Bloomfield, Indiana); Glen Dick (Jasper, Indiana); Paul Danesha (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A weapon mounting system for a vehicle, such as a helicopter. The weapon mounting system illustratively includes a weapon cradle supporting a machine gun for pivoting movement about a generally horizontal elevational axis. A carriage supports the weapon cradle and is supported by a pintle for rotation about a generally vertical azimuth axis. An ejection collection device is supported by the carriage and collects spent shell casings and links ejected from the machine gun for discharge through the pintle. A trigger assembly illustratively provides for manual operation by a gunner and for remote electrical operation by a pilot. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559973 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 25/14 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 9/00 (20130101) F41A 9/60 (20130101) F41A 19/08 (20130101) F41A 19/10 (20130101) F41A 27/06 (20130101) F41A 27/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852320 | Yaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Fernando J. Uribe-Romo (Ithaca, New York); Felipe Gandara-Barragan (Los Angeles, California); David K. Britt (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Fernando J. Uribe-Romo (Ithaca, New York); Felipe Gandara-Barragan (Los Angeles, California); David K. Britt (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides for novel metal-triazolate frameworks, methods of use thereof, and devices comprising the frameworks thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/354574 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 2253/204 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 3/003 (20130101) C07F 13/005 (20130101) C07F 15/025 (20130101) C07F 15/045 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 20/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852342 | Dimitrakopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Marcus O. Freitag (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Robert L. Wisnieff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Marcus O. Freitag (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Robert L. Wisnieff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface of a single crystalline semiconductor-carbon alloy layer having a surface normal along or close to a major crystallographic direction is provided by mechanical means such as cutting and/or polishing. Such a surface has naturally formed irregular surface features. Small semiconductor islands are deposited on the surface of single crystalline semiconductor-carbon alloy layer. Another single crystalline semiconductor-carbon alloy structure may be placed on the small semiconductor islands, and the assembly of the two semiconductor-carbon alloy layers with the semiconductor islands therebetween is annealed. During the initial phase of the anneal, surface diffusion of the semiconductor material proceeds to form vicinal surfaces while graphitization is suppressed because the space between the two semiconductor-carbon alloy layers maintains a high vapor pressure of the semiconductor material. Once all semiconductor material is consumed, graphitization occurs in which graphene layers can be formed on the vicinal surfaces having atomic level surface flatness. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870967 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02378 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02631 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 27/1266 (20130101) H01L 29/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/7781 (20130101) H01L 29/66068 (20130101) H01L 29/66742 (20130101) H01L 29/78684 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852357 | Silvernail et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nathan J. Silvernail (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Thor G. Lingenfelter (Evans City, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan J. Silvernail (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Thor G. Lingenfelter (Evans City, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for treating metal substrates that include contacting the metal with pretreatment compositions comprising: (a) a group IIIB metal, a group IVB metal and/or a group VB metal; and (b) a rheology modifier composition. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/249355 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 7/004 (20130101) 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 22/34 (20130101) C23C 22/73 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 22/76 (20130101) C23C 22/83 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852444 | Green et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander A. Green (Evanston, Illinois); Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander A. Green (Evanston, Illinois); Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings provide, in part, methods of separating two-dimensional nanomaterials by atomic layer thickness. In certain embodiments, the present teachings provide methods of generating graphene nanomaterials having a controlled number of atomic layer(s). |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/856348 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/26 (20130101) Flotation; Differential Sedimentation B03D 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/0648 (20130101) C01B 31/04 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) C01B 31/0492 (20130101) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) C01B 2204/06 (20130101) C01B 2204/28 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 29/006 (20130101) C01G 39/06 (20130101) C01G 41/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/845 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852447 | Sailor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Gaurav Abbi (San Jose, California); Boyce E. Collins (San Diego, California); Keiki-Pua S. Dancil (Makawao, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Gaurav Abbi (San Jose, California); Boyce E. Collins (San Diego, California); Keiki-Pua S. Dancil (Makawao, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for simultaneously detecting and separating a target analyte such as a protein or other macromolecule that includes providing a porous silicon matrix on the silicon substrate, exposing the porous silicon matrix to an environment suspect of containing the target analyte, observing optical reflectivity of the porous silicon matrix; and correlating the changes in the silicon substrate to the target analyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/590825 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0097 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic Removal of Materials From Objects; Apparatus Therefor C25F 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/552 (20130101) G01N 33/5438 (20130101) G01N 2021/7773 (20130101) G01N 2021/7776 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852458 | Webster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Roopashree Suryanarayana (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Roopashree Suryanarayana (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to coating compositions comprising a glycidyl carbamate functional resin, an epoxy resin, and an amine curing agent. The coating compositions have improved corrosion resistance, particularly on untreated steel substrates. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/747772 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 59/226 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 63/00 (20130101) C08L 2666/14 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/08 (20130101) C09D 163/00 (20130101) C09D 163/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852598 | Hooper |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay Hooper (New Market, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Hooper (New Market, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention contemplates a new synthetic, codon-optimized Puumala virus (PUUV) full-length M gene open reading frame (ORF) that encodes a unique consensus amino acid sequence. The PUUV ORF was cloned into a plasmid to form the first stable PUUV full-length M gene that elicits neutralizing antibodies. The gene can be engineered into a molecular vaccine system, and is useful to protect mammals against infection with Puumala virus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/444828 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/159.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852731 | Baldwin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard K. Baldwin (San Diego, California); Steven J. Oldenburg (San Diego, California); Andrew R. Smith (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | nanoComposix, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard K. Baldwin (San Diego, California); Steven J. Oldenburg (San Diego, California); Andrew R. Smith (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pyrophoric sheet that comprises oxidizable iron, non-combustible fibers, stiction-reducing coating where the sheet has a water content <2%. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/233871 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 45/14 (20130101) Detonating or Priming Devices; Fuses; Chemical Lighters; Pyrophoric Compositions C06C 15/00 (20130101) Pulp Compositions; Preparation Thereof Not Covered by Subclasses D21C or D21D; Impregnating or Coating of Paper; Treatment of Finished Paper Not Covered by Class B31 or Subclass D21G; Paper Not Otherwise Provided for D21H 13/36 (20130101) D21H 13/40 (20130101) D21H 15/00 (20130101) D21H 15/02 (20130101) D21H 17/63 (20130101) D21H 17/66 (20130101) D21H 19/10 (20130101) D21H 27/00 (20130101) Targets; Target Ranges; Bullet Catchers F41J 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852926 | Mo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yin-Yuan Mo (Springfield, Illinois); Fangting Wu (Springfield, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yin-Yuan Mo (Springfield, Illinois); Fangting Wu (Springfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided an expression cassette comprising a 3′-UTR cDNA library fragment, mammalian cells transfected with the expression cassette, and kits comprising the same. Furthermore, methods for identifying target genes for microRNAs are provided that utilize the expression cassette hereof. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/258016 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — 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 15/111 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) C12N 2320/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852983 | Fedder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Keith Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Nathan Scott Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabrication of capacitive environment sensors is provided in which the sensor elements are integrated in a CMOS structure with electronics through the use of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication methods. Also provided are environment sensors fabricated, for example, by the method, and a measurement system using the environment sensors fabricated by the method. The described method includes etching away one of the metal layers in a CMOS chip to create a cavity. This cavity is then filled with an environment-sensitive dielectric material to form a sensing capacitor between plates formed by the metal adhesion layers or an array of contacts from other metal layers of the CMOS structure. This approach provides improved sensing capabilities in a system that is easily manufactured. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896818 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853220 | Stern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alfred G. Stern (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Craig J. Diamond (Bryans Road, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred G. Stern (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Craig J. Diamond (Bryans Road, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for synthesizing energetic compounds and intermediates thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for synthesizing adamantanes and intermediates that are useful in such synthesis. Synthesized intermediates are useful in the synthesis of bicyclic and tricyclic substituted adamantanes. Examples of various intermediates are: acyclic 2-nitromalonaldehyde intermediates, 2,6,9-tri-substituted-4,8-dinitro-2,6,9-triazabicyclo[3.3.1]nona-3,7-dienes and 2,6-dinitro-4,8,9,10-tetra-aza-4,8,9,10-tetra-substituted adamantanes. Intermediates synthesized according to the methods of the present invention are useful toward the synthesis of tetraaza-adamantanes, which can serve as precursors to potentially superior new high-energy-density compounds (HEDCs). The tricyclic intermediate compound has a structure of Formula III: where R is one of a benzyl, 4-methoxybenzyl, acetyl, nitro, formyl, allyl, and a carboethoxyl group. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932929 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/08 (20130101) C07D 487/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853286 | Elabd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yossef A. Elabd (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Karen I. Winey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Yuesheng Ye (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Jae-Hong Choi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Tsen-Shan Sharon Sharick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compositions useful for use in separators for use in lithium ion batteries, and membranes, separators, and devices derived therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/024734 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 41/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/70 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853343 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California); Andrew J. Guenthner (Lancaster, California); Jessica J. Cash (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and thermoset resin structures having: number of —OCNs attached to phenyl rings exceeds number of phenyl rings (provides glass transition temperature of 334° C. when combined with flexible bridge); bridge between rings does not hinder rotation and allows maximum rotational degrees of freedom (allows complete cure at temperatures less than 350° C.); and bridge between rings is small enough to maintain cyanurate density and allows for high char yields. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/874743 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853604 | Barchers |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey D. Barchers (Boulder, Colorado) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Barchers (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An Integrated Laser Field Conjugation System (ILFCS) for end-to-end compensation of high-energy laser for propagation through turbulence with non-cooperative target. ILFCS using interferometric slaving technique and stand-alone adaptive optical systems to effect pre-compensation of amplitude and phase aberrations in turbulent medium, providing pre-compensation for aberrations in a laser amplifier. Performing compensation functions in low-power beam paths, increasing capability, reducing cost, reducing size compensation components for phase correction devices. Pre-compensating low-power master oscillator beam for aberrations in both high-power amplifier and turbulent propagation path-to-target with configuration enabling wavefront sensing of aberrations. Can be configured to perform phase compensation, or compensation of phase/amplitude aberrations. Capability to compensate aberrations in master oscillator beam. ILFCS enables integration with a short pulse mode locked laser for use in Target Feature Adaptive Optics (TFAO) or with a mode locked ultra short pulse laser with carrier envelope phase stabilization for use in Broadband Coherent Adaptive Optics (BCAO). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/962163 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/201.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853627 | Ouyang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Liang Gao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of interfacing atmospheric pressure ion sources, including electrospray and desorption electrospray ionization sources, to mass spectrometers, for example miniature mass spectrometers, in which the ionized sample is discontinuously introduced into the mass spectrometer. Discontinuous introduction improves the match between the pumping capacity of the instrument and the volume of atmospheric pressure gas that contains the ionized sample. The reduced duty cycle of sample introduction is offset by operation of the mass spectrometer under higher performance conditions and by ion accumulation at atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/227563 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/10 (20130101) H01J 49/0013 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853667 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut); Robert A. Croce, Jr. (Guilford, Connecticut); Anjana Jain (Worcester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Quantum dot (QD) gate FETs and the use of quantum dot (QD) gate FETs for the purpose of sensing analytes and proteins is disclosed and described. Analytes, proteins, miRNAs, and DNAs functionalized to the QDs change the charge density in the gate and hence the current-voltage characteristics. In one embodiment, QD-FETs, such as 3-state configurations, the binding of chemical and biological species change the drain current-gate voltage characteristics resulting in detection. In one embodiment, DNA sensing is done by its binding to an existing reference DNA functionalized on to quantum dots which are located in the gate region of the FET. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707278 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0684 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zachary M. Griffith (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary M. Griffith (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transistor, a method and an apparatus for forming multiple connections to a transistor for reduced gate (FET/HEMT) or base (BJT/HBT) parasitics, and improved multi-finger transistor thermal impedance. Providing for a method and an apparatus that reduces a transistor's parasitics and reduces a transistor's thermal impedance, resulting in higher device bandwidths and higher output power. More particularly, providing for a method and an apparatus for applying compact, multiple connections to the gate of a FET (or HEMT) or the base of a BJT (or HBT) from many sides resulting in reduced parasitics and improved transistor thermal impedance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/719048 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/76877 (20130101) H01L 23/481 (20130101) H01L 23/4824 (20130101) H01L 29/737 (20130101) H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Amplifiers H03F 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03F 3/19 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854003 | Ding et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Ding (Canton, Michigan); Sonya G. Zanardelli (Rochester, Michigan); John M. Zwally (Royal Oak, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Ding (Canton, Michigan); Sonya G. Zanardelli (Rochester, Michigan); John M. Zwally (Royal Oak, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of rapidly testing the discharge capacity of a battery comprises discharging the battery at a first discharge rate until a first cutoff potential is reached, relaxing the battery during a first period, discharging the battery at a lower discharge rate until a second cutoff potential is reached and relaxing the battery during a second, longer period. The process is repeated with successively lower discharge rates and successively longer relaxation periods until the battery is substantially exhausted. The cumulative value of all of the discharges is taken as a tested capacity of the battery. Optionally, cleanup charges can be sent to the battery during the relaxation periods and a low-frequency, low-amplitude current can be supplied throughout testing in order to shorten testing time. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476640 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854123 | Dally et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California); Brucek Kurdo Khailany (Austin, Texas); John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Hastings Greer, III (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Carl Thomas Gray (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of interconnected chips comprising a multi-chip module (MCM) includes a first processor chip, a second processor chip, and an MCM package configured to include the first processor chip, the second processor chip, and an interconnect circuit. The first processor chip is configured to include a first ground-referenced single-ended signaling (GRS) interface circuit. A first set of electrical traces fabricated within the MCM package and configured to couple the first GRS interface circuit to the interconnect circuit. The second processor chip is configured to include a second GRS interface circuit. A second set of electrical traces fabricated within the MCM package and configured to coupled the second GRS interface circuit to the interconnect circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/946980 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854146 | Schober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christina Marie Schober (St. Anthony, Minnesota); Jennifer S. Strabley (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Bernard Fritz (Eagan, Minnesota); James A. Vescera (Hopkins, Minnesota); Kenneth Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Delmer L. Smith (Edina, Minnesota); Terry Dean Stark (St. Louis Park, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina Marie Schober (St. Anthony, Minnesota); Jennifer S. Strabley (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Bernard Fritz (Eagan, Minnesota); James A. Vescera (Hopkins, Minnesota); Kenneth Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Delmer L. Smith (Edina, Minnesota); Terry Dean Stark (St. Louis Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide improved systems and methods for external frit mounted components on a sensor device. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a sensor device comprises securing at least one component stack on a sensor body over at least one opening in the sensor body, wherein the at least one component stack comprises a plurality of components and applying a frit to the plurality of components in the at least one component stack and the sensor body. The method further comprises heating the frit, the at least one component stack, and the sensor body such that the frit melts and cooling the frit, the at least one component stack, and the sensor body such that the at least one component stack is secured to the sensor body. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/362286 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Time-interval Measuring G04F 5/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854246 | Opperman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul D. Opperman (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Opperman (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of converting an electromagnetic anechoic test chamber into an electromagnetic reverberation test chamber. Lightweight and flexible conductive fabric is used to cover (fully or partially) the radio frequency absorbing walls of an anechoic test chamber. The conductive fabric is strategically arranged and disposed across the interior of the anechoic test chamber by a variety of means including magnets and low-loss dielectric frames. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287373 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 17/004 (20130101) H01Q 17/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854257 | Hamner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Hamner (Huntsville, Alabama); Robert A. Spencer (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A Luneburg lens is used in conjunction with a patch antenna array. The patch antenna array is conformed or adapted to cover a portion or backside of the Luneburg len's surface with the backplane of the conformed antenna array defining a field of regard (FOR) in which objects are detected and tracked. A processor is connected to a receiver/exciter module which connects to transmit/receive modules which are connected to the individual patch antennas through a network of MEMS switches. In a receive mode, selected subarrays of the conformed patch antenna array are scanned during selected time intervals with the sum and delta beams being formed coherently in amplitude and phase to realize amplitude monopulse sensing and angle tracking of an object. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657406 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/03 (20130101) G01S 13/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/4463 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854269 | Bortoin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert S. Bortoin (Torrance, California); Hao Xin (Tucson, Arizona); Andrey Berezin (Torrance, California); Jayanth Kudva (Torrance, California); Hualiang Zhang (Denton, Texas) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Bortoin (Torrance, California); Hao Xin (Tucson, Arizona); Andrey Berezin (Torrance, California); Jayanth Kudva (Torrance, California); Hualiang Zhang (Denton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna embedded into armor plates. The armor material is of low dielectric constant preferably less than 20 permitting radio radiation to be emitted through the armor by the antenna. In a preferred embodiment the armor is a composite of different materials, with the antenna placed between elements of the armor, creating a multi-level design. The antenna elements are preferably printed for low-profile and ease of integration or the antenna elements can be fabricated from larger elements and placed into a space between vehicle and armor or in a cavity cut into the vehicle or armor. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924968 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854481 | Jelinek |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Image stabilization devices, methods, and systems are described herein. One image stabilization device includes a sensor having an array of pixels, wherein the sensor is configured to track a moving object using a number of the pixels, wherein the number of the pixels track only a particular portion of the moving object, and form an image of the moving object using the number of the pixels and their neighboring pixels that were not used to track the moving object. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/474438 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/208.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854618 | Szu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harold H. Szu (Potomac, Maryland); Lein W. Ma (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); James A. Hutchinson (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold H. Szu (Potomac, Maryland); Lein W. Ma (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); James A. Hutchinson (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple functional systems are integrated to configure a portable handheld decision-aid device for first responder medics. Fuzzy membership functions of “life” and “death” are used to determine the status of fallen people using remote measurements. EO/IR cameras can be used to detect and identify casualties in a mass injury situation, while also estimating body temperature. Using the temperature, along with the remote estimation of a second vital sign, the life membership proportion can be estimated from the ground truth by using a 2D projection of stable vital signs. The other fuzzy membership function, death, can be estimated by the presence or absence of peri-mortem and post-mortem molecules. These molecules are only released after death and provide a certain indication of death. Solid state UV laser resonance Raman backscattering from these molecules allows the device to analyze the molecules present in a plume around the casualty. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/170434 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7264 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854728 | Brooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher D. Brooks (San Francisco, California); Fabio Di Teodoro (Lawndale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus use a photonic-crystal fiber having a very large core while maintaining a single transverse mode. In some fiber lasers and amplifiers having large cores problems exist related to energy being generated at multiple-modes (i.e., polygamy), and of mode hopping (i.e., promiscuity) due to limited control of energy levels and fluctuations. The problems of multiple-modes and mode hopping result from the use of large-diameter waveguides, and are addressed by the invention. This is especially true in lasers using large amounts of energy (i.e., lasers in the one-megawatt or more range). By using multiple small waveguides in parallel, large amounts of energy can be passed through a laser, but with better control such that the aforementioned problems can be reduced. An additional advantage is that the polarization of the light can be maintained better than by using a single fiber core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/927081 |
| 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 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854923 | Eyster |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kurt G. Eyster (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt G. Eyster (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A transducer assembly is provided for projecting acoustic signals into a medium. The assembly includes a support member having first and second layers of piezoelectric material mechanically linked to the support member. The first and second layers are joined to electrical drive circuitry such that one layer receives a driving voltage signal while the other layer receives the driving voltage with a stiffening voltage. The transducer assembly can use both the 3-1 and 3-3 drive modes. Multiple configurations are supported, and both bender bar and slotted cylinder configurations are shown. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242366 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Boiling; Boiling Apparatus B01B 1/06 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854951 | Godfrey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron F. Godfrey (Eagan, Minnesota); Christopher B. Johns (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron F. Godfrey (Eagan, Minnesota); Christopher B. Johns (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for allowing dynamic changing of routing information of a network interconnect while avoiding deadlocks and preserving packet ordering. A network resiliency system detects when an error in the network interconnect occurs and dynamically generates new routing information for the routers that factors in the detected error. The network resiliency system then generates new routing information that factors in the failure. The network resiliency system then directs the network interconnect to enter a quiescent state in which no packets are transiting through the network interconnect. After the network interconnect enters the quiescent state, the network resiliency system directs the loading of the new routing information into the routing tables of the network interconnect and then directs the network interconnect to start injecting request packets into the network interconnect. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/104778 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/0659 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 45/023 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855010 | Chau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chi-Kin Chau (Singapore, Singapore); Kang-Won Lee (Nanuet, New York); Ho Yin Starsky Wong (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Kin Chau (Singapore, Singapore); Kang-Won Lee (Nanuet, New York); Ho Yin Starsky Wong (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for assigning gateways for heterogeneous wireless mobile networks. A method includes exchanging routing and connectivity information between a plurality of nodes. Each node is respectively included in a corresponding one of a plurality of mobile ad hoc networks. The information excludes global positioning satellite information. The method further includes determining, for a given node, whether a particular set of gateway functionalities of the given node are redundant with respect to one or more other nodes, based on topology information derived from the information. The method also includes dynamically assigning the given node as a gateway or a non-gateway by respectively turning on or turning off the particular set of gateway functionalities of the given node when the particular set of gateway functionalities of the given node are respectively determined to be non-redundant or redundant with respect to the one or more other nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/112569 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/42 (20130101) H04L 45/70 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 40/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 40/32 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) H04W 88/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855254 | Poklemba et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John James Poklemba (Ijamsville, Maryland); Mark Robert Gramann (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John James Poklemba (Ijamsville, Maryland); Mark Robert Gramann (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for implementing a multirate digital decimating filter for filtering received symbol data. The method may include sampling the received symbol data at a selected sample rate, pre-averaging the sampled received data to provide two samples per symbol; convolving the pre-averaged samples with decimated finite impulse response (FIR) aperture impulse response coefficients to produce detected output samples, convolving the pre-averaged samples with shifted decimated FIR aperture impulse response coefficients to produce zero-crossing transition samples, and adjusting the sample rate based at least in part on averaging the zero-crossing transition samples. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718076 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855311 | Clement et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Russel E. Clement (El Cajon, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chula Vista, California); Michael R. Reaves (Ramona, California); Sarah M. Lauff (San Diego, California); Joel T. Baumbaugh (San Diego, California); Anton Y. Yen (San Diego, California); Joshua S. Phillips (Chula Vista, California); Stephen L. Childress (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russel E. Clement (El Cajon, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chula Vista, California); Michael R. Reaves (Ramona, California); Sarah M. Lauff (San Diego, California); Joel T. Baumbaugh (San Diego, California); Anton Y. Yen (San Diego, California); Joshua S. Phillips (Chula Vista, California); Stephen L. Childress (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one preferred embodiment, a set of air interface protocols (AIPs) provides a method for secure wireless-to-IP communication between conveyance-mounted security sensors and one or more remote data consolidation centers employing a global ad-hoc network topology, comprising one or more on-conveyance sensing devices; one or more on-conveyance wireless communications devices; one or more wireless-to-IP bridging devices; one or more internet-addressable remote data centers; wherein the remote data center contains computer instructions for: commanding secure AIP-compliant operations; and maintaining a data base of security sensor-related events interfacing to an encryption key management facility. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/225597 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 40/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 74/0808 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855338 | Lyon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard H. Lyon (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Lyon (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new type of sound transducer, with high output capability and compact size employs a motor in combination with a displacement amplification system using curved lamina. The motor may be electrostatic, such as piezoelectric, or electrodynamic, such as magnetostrictive, or balanced armature. Newer forms of driver materials such as PMN-PT and layered PZT or Galfenol or Terfenol-D are examples. The design exhibits high source levels, smooth frequency response and uniform directivity. Although the application described herein relates to a low frequency sound source for underwater use, the design is not restricted to low frequencies or to an underwater sound source. Both sound production and reception may be conducted. Further, diaphragmatic displacement pumps and sensors may be equipped with curved lamina, which experience a change of curvature upon excitation of their edges, and which may generate displacement of their edges due to changes of their curvature. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571618 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 15/00 (20130101) H04R 17/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855358 | Fridrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jessica Fridrich (Vestal, New York); Miroslav Goljan (Vestal, New York); Jan Lukas (Johnson City, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Fridrich (Vestal, New York); Miroslav Goljan (Vestal, New York); Jan Lukas (Johnson City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method to verify the integrity of a digital image (i.e., deciding whether or not the entire image or just a portion has been tampered with, and/or finding the doctored area in the image). One first determines the imaging sensor's reference pattern noise, which serves as a unique fingerprint that identifies the imaging sensor that captured the image. To verify the integrity of the content in a region of the image, a correlation detector determines the presence or absence of the imaging sensor's reference pattern noise in that region, thereby verifying whether or not the image has integrity. The correlation detector can also find automatically one or more regions in the image that were tampered with. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/447648 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00899 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855737 | Clark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Arthur Clark (Salt Lake City, Utah); David James Warren (Salt Lake City, Utah); Noah M. Ledbetter (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for electrically shielding a physiological pathway from electrical noise is disclosed. The method includes the operation of implanting at least one signal microelectrode into a patient such that the signal microelectrode is proximate to the physiological pathway. An additional operation includes substantially enclosing the microelectrode and a section of the physiological pathway with an electrical shielding wrap. The electrical shielding wrap includes a plurality of holes that enable fluid communication of physiological fluids between an inside and outside of the wrap. |
| FILED | Monday, December 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/144244 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/16 (20130101) A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 1/0556 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855837 | Cherepinksy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Cherepinksy (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight control system includes an Acceleration and Attitude Command/Velocity Hold mode (AACVH) algorithm which blends attitude commands with acceleration commands. This blending determines a trim attitude for a given rotorcraft flight condition. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/100526 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0858 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855940 | Vincent |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Vincent (Bowling Green, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of detecting coliform bacteria in water from reflected light, and also includes devices for the measurement, calculation and transmission of data relating to that method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787785 |
| 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 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 33/18 (20130101) G01N 2201/1293 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/10 (20130101) |
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| US 08855954 | Bickford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Dustin R. Garvey (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intellectual Assets LLC (Lake Tahoe, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Bickford (Orangevale, California); Dustin R. Garvey (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Path classification and estimation method and system used in combination with a computer and memory for prognosticating the remaining useful life of an in-service battery asset by classifying a present degradation path of the in-service battery asset as belonging to one or more of previously collected degradation paths of one or more exemplary battery assets and using the resulting classifications to estimate the remaining useful life of the in-service battery asset thereby transforming raw data inputs into actionable state-of-health outputs. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/660046 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855961 | Hill |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David T. Hill (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Hill (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented system for testing electronic equipment where files are provided to aid in the conversion of device generic messages into device specific messages and conversion of device specific messages into device generic messages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/149854 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2849 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855970 | Sethumadhavan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); John D. Demme (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); John D. Demme (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for providing precise microprocessor performance counter readings including detecting a swap back to a monitored process executing in a microprocessor. In response to the detected swap back to the monitored process, if the value read from the performance counter does not exceed the defined overflow threshold, the value of the performance counter stored in the first memory location is restored to the performance counter. If the value read from the performance counter exceeds the defined overflow threshold, the performance counter is set to zero and the value of the performance counter stored in the first memory location is used to increment an overflow memory location. If the value read from the performance counter exceeds the defined overflow threshold, at least one performance counter reading instruction is detected and in response to the detected at least one performance counter reading instruction, setting the counter output register to zero. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/273035 |
| ART UNIT | 2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/3466 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2201/88 (20130101) G06F 2201/815 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856055 | Brezzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard V. Brezzo (Somers, New York); Leland Chang (New York, New York); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Robert K. Montoye (Rochester, Minnesota); Bipin Rajendran (White Plains, New York); Jae-sun Seo (White Plains, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard V. Brezzo (Somers, New York); Leland Chang (New York, New York); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Robert K. Montoye (Rochester, Minnesota); Bipin Rajendran (White Plains, New York); Jae-sun Seo (White Plains, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable neural network circuit is provided. The reconfigurable neural network circuit comprises an electronic synapse array including multiple synapses interconnecting a plurality of digital electronic neurons. Each neuron comprises an integrator that integrates input spikes and generates a signal when the integrated inputs exceed a threshold. The circuit further comprises a control module for reconfiguring the synapse array. The control module comprises a global final state machine that controls timing for operation of the circuit, and a priority encoder that allows spiking neurons to sequentially access the synapse array. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083414 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856060 | Ranganathan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for creating a distributed application flow from a set of rules are provided. The techniques include creating a control-flow graph for each rule, creating one or more dependency links between two or more rules, partitioning a resulting graph, wherein the resulting graph comprises one or more control-flow graphs and one or more dependency links, into one or more operators by determining an optimal set of one or more cuts through the resulting graph such that a cost function is minimized, and generating stream processing flow code from the partitioned graph. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/043844 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) G06N 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856096 | Marchisio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Bellevue, Washington); Navdeep S. Dhillon (Seattle, Washington); Carsten Tusk (Seattle, Washington); Krzysztof Koperski (Seattle, Washington); Jisheng Liang (Bellevue, Washington); Thien Nguyen (Edmonds, Washington); Matthew E. Brown (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VCVC III LLC (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Bellevue, Washington); Navdeep S. Dhillon (Seattle, Washington); Carsten Tusk (Seattle, Washington); Krzysztof Koperski (Seattle, Washington); Jisheng Liang (Bellevue, Washington); Thien Nguyen (Edmonds, Washington); Matthew E. Brown (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index with document terms as well as information pertaining to the grammatical roles of the terms and ontological and other semantic information. In one embodiment, the enhanced document index is a form of term-clause index, that indexes terms and syntactic and semantic annotations at the clause level. The enhanced document index permits the use of a traditional keyword search engine to process relationship queries as well as to process standard document level keyword searches. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601612 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30731 (20130101) G06F 17/30864 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856147 | Tran |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas H. Tran (Kent, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Tran (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of sorting data on a limited resource computer is disclosed. Data recording characteristics associated with a data set are determined. A sort-table size is calculated based on the data recording characteristics, and the data set is sorted based on the sort-table size. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/885431 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856738 | Frenkiel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of integrating an existing source code into a target source code, the method including mapping a plurality of candidate mappings between a change point of the existing source code and a plurality of change points of the target source code, selecting a candidate mapping of the plurality of candidate mappings, automatically updating the existing source code based on the candidate mapping having been selected, and transplanting the existing source code having been updated into the target source code. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/492228 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856763 | 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 | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/217983 |
| 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 08856766 | Frenkiel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton on Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota); Wim De Pauw (Scarborough, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton on Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota); Wim De Pauw (Scarborough, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention provides a method of displaying a data flow, wherein a description of a data flow application to be displayed is received. The data flow application includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes, wherein the nodes represent operators and the edges represent data connections for data flowing between the operations. A reason that a user is to view the data flow and/or a user constraint on a complexity of the data flow application to be displayed is determined with a processor; and, the time required to render a display of the data flow application is estimated. A transformed representation of the data flow application is created with the processor. The transformed representation is created based upon the user reason, the user constraint, the estimated time of rendering, and/or a layout strategy. The transformed representation is displayed on a graphical user interface. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/469409 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/74 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856789 | Torrey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacob Torrey (Ava, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Assured Information Security, Inc. (Rome, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Torrey (Ava, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Trusted execution of a self-modifying executable is facilitated. An attempt to access a data portion of a self-modifying executable during execution of the self-modifying executable is detected. The self-modifying executable includes the data portion, for storing data to be accessed during execution of the self-modifying executable, and an instruction portion including instructions for execution of the self-modifying executable. The attempt to access the data portion is retargeted to a separate portion of memory space that is separate from another portion of memory space in which the self-modifying executable is loaded for execution. Meaningful measurability of the integrity of the self-modifying executable is thereby provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/605663 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/45533 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/00 (20130101) G06F 21/50 (20130101) G06F 21/60 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lars I. E. Oddsson (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lars I. E. Oddsson (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lars I. E. Oddsson (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | We present a tool that can enhance the concept of BWS training by allowing natural APAs to occur mediolaterally. While in a supine position in a 90 degree tilted environment built around a modified hospital bed, subjects wear a backpack frame that is freely moving on air-hearings, as a puck on an air hockey table, and attached through a cable to a pneumatic cylinder that provides a load that can be set to emulate various G-like loads. Veridical visual input is provided through two 3-D automultiscopic displays that allow glasses free 3-D vision representing a virtual surrounding environment that may be acquired from sites chosen by the patient. Two groups of 12 healthy subjects were exposed to either strength training alone or a combination of strength and balance training in such a tilted environment over a period of four weeks. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/244386 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 21/00018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852074 | Ludlow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christy Leslie Ludlow (Bethesda, Maryland); Newlin Morgan (Bethesda, Maryland); George Dold (Boyds, Maryland); Soren Lowell (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for volitional swallowing with a substitute sensory system comprises a band wrapped around the neck with a vibrator positioned over the larynx. Upon activation by a button on a spoon held by an operator, such as the subject, the vibrator moves and vibrates the larynx. The patient initiates the sensory stimulation immediately prior to the patient's own initiation of a swallow by viewing on a display screen a movement feedback signal, possibly from a piezo-electric sensor also contained in the band which will also be displayed on the display screen. The signal from the switch device initiating sensory stimulation will be presented on the same display screen for the patient and trainer to observe when the button or switch is activated for sensory stimulation in relation to the onset of the swallow. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/902263 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 23/0245 (20130101) A61H 2201/165 (20130101) A61H 2201/5058 (20130101) A61H 2205/04 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36007 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852078 | Prather et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randall S. Prather (Rocheport, Missouri); Rongfeng Li (Hohhot, China PRC); Clifton N. Murphy (Columbia, Missouri); Lee Spate (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall S. Prather (Rocheport, Missouri); Rongfeng Li (Hohhot, China PRC); Clifton N. Murphy (Columbia, Missouri); Lee Spate (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a practical, non-invasive, and efficient method for cryopreservation of an in-vitro-produced porcine embryo. The inventive method treats the NP (such as IVF- or NT-derived) embryo at the one-cell or cleavage stage prior to compaction with high osmolality followed by high speed centrifugation. The high osmolality treatment enlarges the periviteline space, and with centrifugation, enables the separation of the lipids from the cytoplasm. The lipid-separated embryos after high osmolality treatment have been successfully cryopreserved and later recovered and transferred to produce live offspring. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/061222 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 1/0221 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852104 | Oralkan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omer Oralkan (Santa Clara, California); Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omer Oralkan (Santa Clara, California); Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention provides an ultrasound-assisted delivery device, that includes a focused ultrasound transducer having an ultrasound focal point, a real-time imaging device having an imaging focal point, and a therapeutic delivery device, where the transducer and the imaging device are integrated with the delivery device, and the ultrasound focal point coincides with the imaging focal point, where the delivery device and transducer are disposed to provide an unobstructed imaging path for the real-time imaging device. The invention further includes a scanning optical or laser beam having a focal point disposed to sweep across the target, where the delivery device is disposed to deliver an optical contrast material to the target, and the scanning focal point coincides with the ultrasound and imaging focal points, where the target or the optical contrast material react to the scanning beam to generate at least one interface signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798982 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/0095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 37/0092 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852110 | Vilkomerson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Vilkomerson (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DVX, LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vilkomerson (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The velocity of fluids containing particles that scatter ultrasound can be measured by determining the Doppler shift of the ultrasound scattered by the particles in the fluid. Measuring fluid flow in cylindrical vessels such as blood vessels is an important use of Doppler ultrasound. This invention teaches using various configurations of cylindrical diffraction-grating transducers and cylindrical non-diffraction-grating transducers that suppress the Doppler shift from non-axial components of fluid velocity while being sensitive to the Doppler shift produced by axial velocity components. These configurations thus provide accurate measurement of the net flow down the vessel, even when the fluid flow is curved or not parallel to the vessel wall. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/358507 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/488 (20130101) A61B 8/0891 (20130101) A61B 8/4455 (20130101) A61B 8/4494 (20130101) Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/66 (20130101) G01F 1/74 (20130101) G01F 1/663 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/024 (20130101) G01N 29/036 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 15/8927 (20130101) G01S 15/8929 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852117 | Assadi-Porter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fariba M. Assadi-Porter (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Mark E. Cook (Madison, Wisconsin); Warren P. Porter (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Daniel E. Butz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for distinguishing whether an animal is experiencing a bacterial infection or a viral infection. One monitors breath taken from the animal over time to measure the relative amount of a first breath stable isotope to a second breath stable isotope therein over time. A quick change in the isotope ratios within several hours from the likely infection is indicative of a bacterial infection. A delayed change in the isotope ratios, followed by periodic repeated alterations in the ratios, is indicative of viral infection. The methods are particularly efficient when using cavity ringdown spectroscopy for the monitoring. They may be used for monitoring a patient already admitted to a hospital, or for monitoring a patient initially complaining of adverse symptoms, or for triage, or for collectively monitoring a population of animals. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/671585 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/08 (20130101) A61B 5/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/411 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/497 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852206 | Kozai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Takashi Daniel Yoshida Kozai (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daryl R. Kipke (Pinckney, Michigan); Jeyakumar Subbaroyan (Parsippany, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Takashi Daniel Yoshida Kozai (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daryl R. Kipke (Pinckney, Michigan); Jeyakumar Subbaroyan (Parsippany, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe insertion device for implanting a probe into tissue includes a rigid base that selectively attaches to the probe due to a bond between the base and the probe, that provides a structural backbone to the probe, is longitudinally aligned with the probe, and can be adapted to receive a fluid between the base and the probe. The probe insertion device can include a surface covering at least a portion of the base that reduces the bond between the base and the probe in the presence of the fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483313 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/6846 (20130101) A61B 17/1604 (20130101) A61B 17/3468 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 19/20 (20130101) A61B 2017/0084 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0529 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852568 | Ng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rainer Ng (Seattle, Washington); Joseph M. Metzger (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lorraine Reeve (Dexter, Michigan); Bruce Markham (Novi, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Phrixus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rainer Ng (Seattle, Washington); Joseph M. Metzger (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lorraine Reeve (Dexter, Michigan); Bruce Markham (Novi, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating and preventing skeletal muscle deficiencies. In particular, the present invention provides compositions comprising poloxamers (e.g., poloxamer 188-P188) and methods of using the same for treating and preventing skeletal muscle deficiencies and injuries (e.g., dystrophin-deficient skeletal muscle; skeletal muscle having a contraction force deficit; skeletal muscle having a Ca2+ imbalance; skeletal muscle having microtears). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/747073 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852579 | Blau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helen M. Blau (Menlo Park, California); Kostandin Pajcini (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jason Pomerantz (Mill Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen M. Blau (Menlo Park, California); Kostandin Pajcini (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jason Pomerantz (Mill Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for producing cells within a lineage (lineage restricted cells) from post-mitotic differentiated cells of the same lineage ex vivo and in vivo, and for treating a subject in need of tissue regeneration therapy by employing these lineage-restricted cells. In addition, the production of lineage restricted cells from postmitotic tissues derived from patients with diseases allows for a characterization of pathways that have gone awry in these diseases and for screening of drugs that will ameliorate or correct the defects as a means of novel drug discovery. Also provided are kits for performing these methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/394798 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 5/0658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/40 (20130101) C12N 2501/405 (20130101) |
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| US 08852600 | Gardiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David F. Gardiner (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Yaoxing Huang (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York); Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Gardiner (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Yaoxing Huang (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides a DNA molecule. The DNA molecule includes a nucleotide sequence that encodes the receptor-binding domain of Clostridium difficile toxin A or toxin B in which at least about 10% of the in-frame codons for each amino acid residue has a higher percentage use in the human genome than the corresponding in-frame codons of C. difficile toxin A or toxin B having a known sequence. Methods for generating antibodies to Clostridium difficile toxin A or toxin B, methods for reducing the risk of a C. difficile infection, and methods for treating a C. difficile are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/308150 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08852602 | Koelle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington); Lawrence Corey (Mercer Island, Washington) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington); Lawrence Corey (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides HSV antigens that are useful for the prevention and treatment of HSV infection. Disclosed herein are antigens and/or their constituent epitopes confirmed to be recognized by T-cells derived from herpetic lesions or from uterine cervix. T-cells having specificity for antigens of the invention have demonstrated cytotoxic activity against cells loaded with virally-encoded peptide epitopes, and in many cases, against cells infected with HSV. The identification of immunogenic antigens responsible for T-cell specificity provides improved anti-viral therapeutic and prophylactic strategies. Compositions containing antigens or polynucleotides encoding antigens of the invention provide effectively targeted vaccines for prevention and treatment of HSV infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/276166 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (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 2710/16622 (20130101) C12N 2710/16634 (20130101) |
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| US 08852605 | Szu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shousun Chen Szu (Bethesda, Maryland); Zuzana Kossaczka (Bethesda, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Chevy Chase, 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) | Shousun Chen Szu (Bethesda, Maryland); Zuzana Kossaczka (Bethesda, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure pertains to conjugates of the capsular polysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae O139, or a structurally and/or immunologically related oligo- or poly-saccharide, and a carrier. These conjugates are useful as pharmaceutical compositions and/or vaccines to induce serum antibodies which have bactericidal (vibriocidal) activity against V. cholerae, in particular V. cholerae O139, and are useful to prevent, treat and/or reduce the severity of disease caused by V. cholerae infection, such as cholera. The present disclosure also relates to diagnostic tests for V. cholerae infection, and/or cholera caused by V. cholerae infection, using one or more of the oligo- or poly-saccharide-carrier conjugates or antibodies described above. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695735 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
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| US 08852610 | Vilalta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Maragalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Maragalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to therapeutic 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 methods are particularly effective for protecting mammals from herpes simplex virus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585668 |
| 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 08852611 | Vilalta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Maragalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Maragalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to therapeutic 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 methods are particularly effective for protecting mammals from herpes simplex virus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585698 |
| 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) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852630 | Spiegel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Spiegel (New Haven, Connecticut); Ryan Murelli (Torrington, Connecticut); Andrew Zhang (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Spiegel (New Haven, Connecticut); Ryan Murelli (Torrington, Connecticut); Andrew Zhang (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric chemical compounds which are used to recruit antibodies to cancer cells, in particular, prostate cancer cells or metastasized prostate cancer cells. The compounds according to the present invention comprise an antibody binding terminus (ABT) moiety covalently bonded to a cell binding terminus (CBT) through a linker and optionally, a connector molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/173480 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852861 | Ried et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Ried (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael J. Difilippantonio (Rockville, Maryland); Bijan-Michael Ghadimi (Bethesda, Maryland); Marian Grade (Goettingen, Germany); Heinz Becker (Goettingen, Germany); Torsten Liersch (Goettingen, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Ried (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael J. Difilippantonio (Rockville, Maryland); Bijan-Michael Ghadimi (Bethesda, Maryland); Marian Grade (Goettingen, Germany); Heinz Becker (Goettingen, Germany); Torsten Liersch (Goettingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A cDNA array (9984 genes) was used for expression profiling in rectal adenocarcinoma. The expression data were correlated to responsiveness to chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy. A set of 54 genes was found that were differentially expressed in responders vs. non-responders. The genes may be used as prognostic markers for determining whether a rectal adenocarcinoma is responsive to radiochemotherapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/585725 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) |
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| US 08852870 | Vetvicka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vaclav Vetvicka (Louisville, Kentucky); Martin Fusek (Tursko, Czech Republic); Jarmila Zidkova (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vaclav Vetvicka (Louisville, Kentucky); Martin Fusek (Tursko, Czech Republic); Jarmila Zidkova (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosing a cancer in a subject are provided that include determining an amount of autoantibodies immunoreactive to procathepsin D (pCD) in a sample obtained from the subject. Further provided are systems for diagnosing a cancer in a subject that include an autoantibody immunoreactive pCD antigen and a means for detecting binding of an autoantibody to the antigen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/999389 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/96416 (20130101) |
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| US 08852879 | Ischiropoulos |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harry Ischiropoulos (Media, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry Ischiropoulos (Media, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions are disclosed comprising an effective amount of nitrated fibrinogen and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for detecting a patient's risk for coronary artery disease. The compositions can be used to determine the presence of nitrated fibrinogen which is linked with coronary artery disease. Also disclosed is a method for determining the presence or risk for coronary artery disease or risk for increased propensity for an adverse thrombotic event in a patient. The method comprises obtaining a sample of blood or fraction thereof from a patient; determining by immunoassay the amount of nitrated fibrinogen in the sample based on binding of the nitrated fibrinogen to an antibody that specifically recognizes SEQ ID NO: 2 and/or SEQ ID NO: 3; and comparing the amount of the antibody-bound nitrated fibrinogen in the sample with the amount of nitrated fibrinogen in a sample from a normal individual, such that a greater amount of nitrated fibrinogen in the patient sample than in the normal individual indicates that the patient has or is at greater risk of coronary artery disease or risk of increased propensity for an adverse thrombotic event. Kits for performing the method which include the composition and aforementioned antibody or antibodies are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168739 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/36 (20130101) A61K 38/36 (20130101) A61K 38/37 (20130101) A61K 38/37 (20130101) A61K 38/363 (20130101) A61K 38/363 (20130101) A61K 38/4833 (20130101) A61K 38/4833 (20130101) A61K 38/4846 (20130101) A61K 38/4846 (20130101) A61K 38/4866 (20130101) A61K 38/4866 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/36 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/86 (20130101) G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/75 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/226 (20130101) G01N 2800/324 (20130101) |
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| US 08852911 | Doudna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Enbo Ma (Moraga, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer A. Doudna (Berkeley, California); Enbo Ma (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method for producing a Dicer polypeptide in a prokaryotic host cell. The present disclosure further provides a purified Dicer complex. The present disclosure further provides kits for producing a Dicer polypeptide in a prokaryotic host cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565453 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 9/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2330/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/26003 (20130101) |
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| US 08852923 | Boronyak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven M. Boronyak (Kingwood, Texas); George C. Engelmayr, Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sharan Ramaswamy (Miami, Florida); Michael S. Sacks (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David E. Schmidt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mohammed S. El-Kurdi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. Boronyak (Kingwood, Texas); George C. Engelmayr, Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sharan Ramaswamy (Miami, Florida); Michael S. Sacks (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David E. Schmidt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mohammed S. El-Kurdi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a bioreactor system and modules capable of developing physiologically relevant fluid-induced shear stresses and regionally specific flow patterns to scaffold specimens and which can couple these stresses to cyclic flexure and/or stretch states. Methods of use of the bioreactor system and module also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/959906 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/08 (20130101) C12M 35/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08852930 | Hen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rene Hen (Tenafly, New Jersey); Kenji Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rene Hen (Tenafly, New Jersey); Kenji Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a FAST (Flexible Accelerated STOP TetO-knockin) system, an efficient method for manipulating gene expression in vivo to rapidly screen animal models of disease. This invention further discloses a single gene targeting event yielding 2 distinct knockin mice—STOP-tetO and tetO knockin—which permit generation of multiple strains with variable expression patterns: 1) knockout, 2) Cre-mediated rescue; 3) tTA-mediated misexpression; 4) tTA-mediated overexpression; and 5) tTS-mediated conditional knockout/knockdown. Using the FAST system, multiple gain- and loss-of-function strains can therefore be generated on a timescale not previously achievable. These strains can then be screened for clinically-relevant abnormalities. The flexibility and broad applicability of the FAST system is demonstrated by targeting several genes encoding proteins implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders: Mlc1, Neuroligin 3, the serotonin 1A receptor, and the serotonin 1B receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/577281 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2217/072 (20130101) A01K 2217/075 (20130101) A01K 2217/203 (20130101) A01K 2217/206 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/00 (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 15/8509 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2800/107 (20130101) C12N 2830/003 (20130101) |
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| US 08852935 | Sackstein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Sackstein (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
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| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for modifying glycans (e.g., glycans expressed on the surface of live cells or cell particles) are provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/245129 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 5/0006 (20130101) C12N 5/0623 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0663 (20130101) C12N 2500/10 (20130101) C12N 2500/14 (20130101) C12N 2500/16 (20130101) C12N 2500/22 (20130101) C12N 2500/34 (20130101) C12N 2501/58 (20130101) C12N 2501/59 (20130101) C12N 2501/70 (20130101) |
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| US 08852940 | Blelloch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Blelloch (San Francisco, California); Robert Laird Judson (San Francisco, California); Deepa Subramanyam (San Francisco, California); Collin Alfred Melton (San Francisco, California); Yangming Wang (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Blelloch (San Francisco, California); Robert Laird Judson (San Francisco, California); Deepa Subramanyam (San Francisco, California); Collin Alfred Melton (San Francisco, California); Yangming Wang (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods of the present application describe that introduction of physiologically relevant miRNAs can enhance or modulate somatic cell reprogramming, generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). These miRNAs did not further enhance reprogramming in the presence of cMyc. Furthermore, unlike previously described methods of generating iPS cells, such as through the introduction of genetic elements using viruses, the methods of the present invention reduce the risk of activating oncogenes in the iPS cells. The methods of the invention generate iPS cells that can be free of genetic modifications and thus have greater potential for use as therapeutic agents than those generated by existing methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/260904 |
| 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 35/545 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2501/65 (20130101) C12N 2501/602 (20130101) C12N 2501/603 (20130101) C12N 2501/604 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08852952 | Pollack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Prasanna Thwar (Morrisville, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Allen Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Alexander Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dwayne Allen (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Prasanna Thwar (Morrisville, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Allen Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Alexander Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dwayne Allen (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides droplet actuators and droplet actuator cassettes including reagent storage capabilities, as well as methods of making and using the droplet actuators and cassettes. The invention also provides continuous flow channel elements and techniques for using electrodes to manipulate droplets in flowing streams. The invention also discloses methods of separating compounds on a droplet actuator. Various other aspects of the invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/990815 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
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| US 08852956 | Lim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark J. Lim (Reading, Massachusetts); Heather P. Ostendorf (Framingham, Massachusetts); Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts); Donald B. Bloch (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ambergen, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts); Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Lim (Reading, Massachusetts); Heather P. Ostendorf (Framingham, Massachusetts); Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts); Donald B. Bloch (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are described for the diagnosis of primary biliary cirrhosis. Novel autoantigens are described for use in assays which employ test samples from individuals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/500411 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
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| US 08852983 | Fedder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Keith Fedder (Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania); Nathan Scott Lazarus (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabrication of capacitive environment sensors is provided in which the sensor elements are integrated in a CMOS structure with electronics through the use of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication methods. Also provided are environment sensors fabricated, for example, by the method, and a measurement system using the environment sensors fabricated by the method. The described method includes etching away one of the metal layers in a CMOS chip to create a cavity. This cavity is then filled with an environment-sensitive dielectric material to form a sensing capacitor between plates formed by the metal adhesion layers or an array of contacts from other metal layers of the CMOS structure. This approach provides improved sensing capabilities in a system that is easily manufactured. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896818 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/49 |
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| US 08853134 | Kolpashchikov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dmitry Kolpashchikov (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry Kolpashchikov (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments of the invention are directed to a microarray of binary nucleic acid probes for the detection of one or a plurality of nucleic acid analytes in a complex sample in a single high throughput assay with extraordinary specificity under physiologic conditions. Any binary nucleic acid probes that generate a detectable signal when bound to analyte are suitable for use in the microarrays, including binary deoxyribozyme or ribozyme probes; nonenzymatic binary probes for fluorescent detection, nonenzymatic binary dye-binding probes, and binary split enzyme peroxidase probes for visual detection of nucleic acids. The invention is also directed to new non nonenzymatic binary probes that bind to reporter oligonucleotides. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/146626 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/0061 (20130101) B01J 2219/00529 (20130101) B01J 2219/00608 (20130101) B01J 2219/00612 (20130101) B01J 2219/00659 (20130101) B01J 2219/00722 (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 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 2525/121 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 50/18 (20130101) C40B 80/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08853146 | Owens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | S. Michael Owens (Little Rock, Arkansas); Melinda Gunnell (Conway, Arkansas); F. Ivy Carroll (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Michael Owens (Little Rock, Arkansas); Melinda Gunnell (Conway, Arkansas); F. Ivy Carroll (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to hapten compounds comprising either (+)methamphetamine or (+)amphetamine conjugated to a linker. Generally speaking, hapten compounds of the invention may be used to elicit an immune response to one or more of (+)methamphetamine, (+)amphetamine, or (+)MDMA. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/596765 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/385 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/60 (20130101) C07C 229/34 (20130101) C07C 323/12 (20130101) C07C 323/29 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2319/40 (20130101) |
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| US 08853149 | Hazlehurst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lori Hazlehurst (Ruskin, Florida); Mark McLaughlin (Tampa, Florida); Priyesh Jain (Tampa, Florida); William S. Dalton (Temple Terrace, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida); University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lori Hazlehurst (Ruskin, Florida); Mark McLaughlin (Tampa, Florida); Priyesh Jain (Tampa, Florida); William S. Dalton (Temple Terrace, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrin interaction inhibitors using a beta-turn promoter are described herein. These peptides are useful in treating cancer, such as multiple myeloma, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of the integrin interaction inhibitor. Data show that integrin interaction inhibitors act synergistically or additively interact with anti-proliferative agents such as doxorubicin, SAHA, arsenic trioxide, and etoposide. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/636010 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08853160 | Greig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nigel H. Greig (Phoenix, Maryland); Josephine M. Egan (Baltimore, Maryland); Maire Doyle (Baltimore, Maryland); Harold W. Holloway (Middle River, Maryland); Tracy Perry (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel H. Greig (Phoenix, Maryland); Josephine M. Egan (Baltimore, Maryland); Maire Doyle (Baltimore, Maryland); Harold W. Holloway (Middle River, Maryland); Tracy Perry (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel polypeptide analogs of GLP-1 and exendin-4. The polypeptide, in a preferred embodiment, is insulinotropic and long-acting. Preferably, the polypeptide's insulinotropic effect is comparable to or exceeds the effect of an equimolar amount of GLP-1 or exendin-4. The invention also relates to a method of treating a subject with diabetes, comprising administering to the subject the polypeptide of the invention in an amount that has an insulinotropic effect. The invention also relates to methods of using GLP-1, exendin-4, and polypeptide analogs thereof for neuroprotective and neurotrophic effects. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594313 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/26 (20130101) A61K 38/2278 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/57563 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08853181 | Sharp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Sharp (Scarsdale, New York); Rabab Charafeddine (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Sharp (Scarsdale, New York); Rabab Charafeddine (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating a wound in a subject are provided comprising administering to the subject an amount of an inhibitor of Fidgetin-like 2. Compositions and pharmaceutical compositions comprising an amount of an inhibitor of Fidgetin-like 2 are also provided. Methods are also provided for identifying an inhibitor of Fidgetin-like 2. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/553155 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 08853183 | Kinlaw, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Darmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B. Kinlaw, III (Etna, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an antibody which specifically binds a Spot 14 (S14 or THRSP) protein in human breast cancer cells and a method for using the same to predict disease-free survival and select treatment modalities for breast cancer. The present invention is also a method for inducing apoptosis in breast cancer cells by inhibiting the expression or activity of Spot 14. Compositions and methods for treating breast cancer are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/954037 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3015 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (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 1/6809 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6875 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) G01N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08853185 | Barany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Maneesh Pingle (New York, New York); Donald Bergstrom (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sarah Filippa Giardina (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Maneesh Pingle (New York, New York); Donald Bergstrom (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sarah Filippa Giardina (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A monomer useful in prepaπng therapeutic compounds includes a diversity element which potentially binds to a target molecule with a dissociation constant of less than 300 11 M and a linker element connected to the diversity element The linker element has a molecular weight less than 500 daltons, is connected, directly or indirectly through a connector, to said diversity element, and is capable of forming a reversible covalent bond or noncovalent interaction with a binding partner of the linker element The monomers can be covalently or non-covalently linked together to form a therapeutic multimer or a precursor thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937053 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/64 |
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| US 08853205 | Makriyannis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexandros Makriyannis (Watertown, Massachusetts); Venkata Kiran Vemuri (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros Makriyannis (Watertown, Massachusetts); Venkata Kiran Vemuri (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are biologically active hetero pyrrole analogs such as imidazoles, thiazoles, oxazoles and pyrazoles capable of interacting with the CB1 and/or CB2 cannabinoid receptors. Aspects disclose hetero pyrrole analogs acting as CB1 and/or CB 1 receptor antagonists, having selectivity for the CB 1 or CB2 receptor, acting as neutral antagonists, acting preferentially on CB 1 receptors located in the peripheral nervous system, and/or acting as nitric oxide donors. Pharmaceutical preparations employing the disclosed analogs and methods of administering therapeutically effective amounts of the disclosed analogs to provide a physiological effect are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/202499 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 233/90 (20130101) C07D 401/10 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08853219 | Hendrickson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael L. Hendrickson (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeffrey C. Ockuly (Madison, Wisconsin); Trevor M. Twose (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Melinda L. Verdone (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Brent D. Abraham (Verona, Wisconsin); Richard R. Copp (Oregon, Wisconsin); James G. Farnham (Madison, Wisconsin); Seth A. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NeuroSolis, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Hendrickson (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeffrey C. Ockuly (Madison, Wisconsin); Trevor M. Twose (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Melinda L. Verdone (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Brent D. Abraham (Verona, Wisconsin); Richard R. Copp (Oregon, Wisconsin); James G. Farnham (Madison, Wisconsin); Seth A. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are muscarinic agonist compounds including oxadiazole derivatives, compositions and preparations thereof. Also disclosed are methods of synthesizing such oxadiazole compounds. Further disclosed are methods for treating a subject with said muscarinic agonists or a pharmaceutically suitable form thereof to enhance cognitive function. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/004877 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/256 |
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| US 08853224 | Clinch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith Clinch (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Gary Brian Evans (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Richard Hubert Furneaux (Wellington, New Zealand); Shivali Ashwin Gulab (Wellington, New Zealand); Peter Michael Kelly (Wellington, New Zealand); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Peter Charles Tyler (Wellington, New Zealand); Anthony David Woolhouse (Wellington, New Zealand) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Industrial Research Limited (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Clinch (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Gary Brian Evans (Lower Hutt, New Zealand); Richard Hubert Furneaux (Wellington, New Zealand); Shivali Ashwin Gulab (Wellington, New Zealand); Peter Michael Kelly (Wellington, New Zealand); Vern L. Schramm (New Rochelle, New York); Peter Charles Tyler (Wellington, New Zealand); Anthony David Woolhouse (Wellington, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I) which are inhibitors of purine nucleoside phosphorylases (PNPs) and/or nucleoside hydrolases (NHs). The invention also relates to the use of these compounds in the treatment of diseases and infections including cancer, bacterial infections, protozoal infections, and T-cell mediated disease and to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/310708 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08853228 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amy C. Anderson (Storrs, Connecticut); Dennis L. Wright (Storrs, Connecticut); Kathleen Mary Frey (Manchester, Connecticut); Janet Leigh Paulsen (Manchester, Connecticut); Eric William Scocchera (Vernon, Connecticut); Kishore Viswanathan (Mansfield Center, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy C. Anderson (Storrs, Connecticut); Dennis L. Wright (Storrs, Connecticut); Kathleen Mary Frey (Manchester, Connecticut); Janet Leigh Paulsen (Manchester, Connecticut); Eric William Scocchera (Vernon, Connecticut); Kishore Viswanathan (Mansfield Center, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The compositions and methods described herein disclose the design, synthesis and testing of compounds that act as inhibitors of DHFR. The basic scaffold of these inhibitors includes a 2,4-diaminopyrimidine ring with a propargyl linker to another substituted aryl, bicyclo or heteroaryl ring. These DHFR inhibitors are potent and selective for many different pathogenic organisms, including the DHFR enzyme from bacteria such as Bacillus anthracis and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, fungi such as Candida glabrata, Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans and protozoa such as Cryptosporidium hominis and Toxoplasma gondii. These compounds and other similar compounds are also potent against the mammalian enzyme and may be useful as anti-cancer therapeutics. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/290741 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/272 |
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| US 08853266 | Dalton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides use of a SARM compound or a composition comprising the same in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, a diabetes disease, and/or disorder such as cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, cerebrovascular conditions, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic neuropathy and diabetic retinopathy. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785064 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/522 |
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| US 08853277 | Linehan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. Marston Linehan (North Bethesda, Maryland); Tracey A. Rouault (North Bethesda, Maryland); James Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali K. Cherukuri (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Marston Linehan (North Bethesda, Maryland); Tracey A. Rouault (North Bethesda, Maryland); James Mitchell (Damascus, Maryland); Murali K. Cherukuri (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides therapeutic methods that include administering a stable nitroxide to a subject that has, is suspected to have, or is at risk for having a condition associated with reduced VHL or elevated HIF-2α. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/512665 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/421 (20130101) A61K 31/445 (20130101) |
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| US 08853279 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis S. Lee (New York, New York); Barbara Hempstead (New York, New York); James Kocsis (Roxbury, Connecticut); Kevin Bath (Rumford, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis S. Lee (New York, New York); Barbara Hempstead (New York, New York); James Kocsis (Roxbury, Connecticut); Kevin Bath (Rumford, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for determining whether a patient suffering from a condition that is susceptible to treatment with a compound that activates the brain serotonin system is susceptible or resistant to treatment with the compound. The method includes establishing whether the patient is a pre-adult, a transition age patient, or an adult and observing whether the genome of the patient contains at least one copy of a BDNF allele having a genetic alteration. The method further includes correlating the presence of the allele containing the genetic alteration with susceptibility or resistance of the patient to the treatment with the compound, wherein a pre-adult patient containing the genetic alteration is correlated as being susceptible to the treatment; a transition age patient containing the genetic alteration is correlated as being susceptible or resistant to the treatment; and an adult patient containing the genetic alteration is correlated as being resistant to the treatment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/999581 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic 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) |
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| US 08853360 | Jackson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Meyer B. Jackson (Madison, Wisconsin); Dongsheng Wang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meyer B. Jackson (Madison, Wisconsin); Dongsheng Wang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated polypeptide comprising a botulinum neurotoxin C1 light chain having a modified amino acid sequence relative to the sequence of a wild-type botulinum neurotoxin C1 light chain is disclosed. The modified botulinum neurotoxin C1 light chain is capable of selectively cleaving syntaxin protein, but has substantially reduced or no activity against SNAP-25 as compared to wild type botulinum neurotoxin C1 light chain, and is thus useful as a research tool and in medical treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/167156 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/33 (20130101) |
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| US 08853367 | Feng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xu Feng (Birmingham, Alabama); Wei Liu (Shenzhen, China PRC); Duorong Xu (Guangzhou, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xu Feng (Birmingham, Alabama); Wei Liu (Shenzhen, China PRC); Duorong Xu (Guangzhou, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for identifying agents capable of modulating RANK-mediated signaling pathways. The present invention also provides compositions and methods of using the same to treat osteoporosis or other RANK-related diseases. The present invention is based on the functional and structural analysis of three TRAF-binding motifs (PTM)—namely, PTM3, PTM5, and PTM6, each of which has been found to play a distinct role in the activation of RANK-mediated intracellular signaling. These PTMs can be used to screen for RANK modulators. These PTMs also represent potential drug targets for diseases that are associated with abnormal RANK expression or activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/662799 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 08853392 | Conn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Charles David Weaver (Franklin, Tennessee); Alice L. Rodriguez (Nashville, Tennessee); Colleen M. Niswender (Brentwood, Tennessee); Carrie K. Jones (Nashville, Tennessee); Richard Williams (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Charles David Weaver (Franklin, Tennessee); Alice L. Rodriguez (Nashville, Tennessee); Colleen M. Niswender (Brentwood, Tennessee); Carrie K. Jones (Nashville, Tennessee); Richard Williams (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds, including phenylethynylbenzamide derivatives, cycloalkylethynylbenzamide derivatives, styrylbenzamide derivatives, 4-(3-phenyl-1,2,4-oxadiazol-5-yl)benzamide derivatives, 4-(pyridinylethynyl)benzamide derivatives, and N1-phenylterephthalamide derivatives, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132289 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/472 (20130101) A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/4035 (20130101) A61K 31/4725 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/65 (20130101) C07C 233/66 (20130101) C07C 233/69 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2102/08 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 205/04 (20130101) C07D 207/09 (20130101) C07D 211/18 (20130101) C07D 211/22 (20130101) C07D 211/42 (20130101) C07D 211/46 (20130101) C07D 211/52 (20130101) C07D 211/58 (20130101) C07D 211/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 217/06 (20130101) C07D 271/06 (20130101) C07D 295/13 (20130101) C07D 295/14 (20130101) C07D 295/30 (20130101) C07D 295/192 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/10 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08853452 | Beckman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbara S. Beckman (New Orleans, Louisiana); Maryam Foroozesh (Metairie, Louisiana); Jiawang Liu (Metairie, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara S. Beckman (New Orleans, Louisiana); Maryam Foroozesh (Metairie, Louisiana); Jiawang Liu (Metairie, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and their syntheses are disclosed herein. Compositions and pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound are also described, and include compositions also comprising liposomes. Methods for the treatment of cancer in animals comprising administering a compound or a composition comprising a compound are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/148857 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/152 |
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| US 08854038 | Hernando et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Diego Hernando (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Brian Reeder (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diego Hernando (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Brian Reeder (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring transverse relaxation rate, R2*, corrected for the presence of macroscopic magnetic field inhomogeneities with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The method accounts for additional signal decay that occurs as a result of macroscopic variations in the main magnetic field, B0, of the MRI system, and also mitigates susceptibility-based errors and introduction of increased noise in the R2* measurements. Image data are acquired by sampling multiple different echo signals occurring at respectively different echo times. A B0 field inhomogeneity map is estimated by fitting the acquired image data to an initial signal model. Using the estimated field map, a revised signal model that accounts for signal from multiple different chemical species and for signal decay resulting from macroscopic variations in the B0 field is formed. Corrected R2* values for the different chemical species are then estimated by fitting the acquired image data to the revised signal model. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/089653 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/4828 (20130101) G01R 33/56536 (20130101) G01R 33/56563 (20130101) |
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| US 08855738 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yan Yu (Rochester, New York); Brian Winey (Seneca Falls, New York); Lydia Liao (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Yu (Rochester, New York); Brian Winey (Seneca Falls, New York); Lydia Liao (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultrasound-induced blood stasis has been observed for more than thirty years. Most of the literature has been focused on the health risks associated with this phenomenon and methods employed to prevent stasis from occurring during ultrasound imaging. To date, experimental observations have been either in vitro or invasive. The current work demonstrates ultrasound-induced blood stasis in murine tumor and nontumor tissue, observed through noninvasive measurements of optical spectroscopy, and discusses possible diagnostic uses for this previously undesirable effect of ultrasound. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/505492 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0705 (20130101) A61B 5/4381 (20130101) A61B 8/12 (20130101) A61B 8/0825 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08855936 | Warshel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arieh Warshel (Los Angeles, California); Spyridon Vicatos (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arieh Warshel (Los Angeles, California); Spyridon Vicatos (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods for designing and producing mutants that stabilize a protein. The folding energy of the protein and various mutants can be determined based on an equation comprising intrinsic pKa, of the amino acids, the pH, charge of the amino acids, distances between the amino acids, an optimized dielectric constant for self-energy (∈′p) or an optimized dielectric constant for charge-charge interaction (∈′eff) and compared. A more negative folding energy of the mutant indicates a more stable protein. When a stable mutant is identified, it can be produced with technologies such as cloning and expression. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/896781 |
| 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 | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/10 (20130101) G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08850868 | Bzorgi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fariborz M. Bzorgi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fariborz M. Bzorgi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tamper detector is provided for safeguarding a radiological source that is moved into and out of a storage location through an access porthole for storage and use. The radiological source is presumed to have an associated shipping container approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for transporting the radiological source. The tamper detector typically includes a network of sealed tubing that spans at least a portion of the access porthole. There is an opening in the network of sealed tubing that is large enough for passage therethrough of the radiological source and small enough to prevent passage therethrough of the associated shipping cask. Generally a gas source connector is provided for establishing a gas pressure in the network of sealed tubing, and a pressure drop sensor is provided for detecting a drop in the gas pressure below a preset value. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107525 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 22/06 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08851045 | Reitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolf Deneys Reitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Reed M. Hanson (Riverton, Minnesota); Derek A. Splitter (Madison, Wisconsin); Sage L. Kokjohn (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rolf Deneys Reitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Reed M. Hanson (Riverton, Minnesota); Derek A. Splitter (Madison, Wisconsin); Sage L. Kokjohn (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A compression ignition (diesel) engine uses two or more fuel charges during a combustion cycle, with the fuel charges having two or more reactivities (e.g., different cetane numbers), in order to control the timing and duration of combustion. By appropriately choosing the reactivities of the charges, their relative amounts, and their timing, combustion can be tailored to achieve optimal power output (and thus fuel efficiency), at controlled temperatures (and thus controlled NOx), and with controlled equivalence ratios (and thus controlled soot). At low load and no load (idling) conditions, the aforementioned results are attained by restricting airflow to the combustion chamber during the intake stroke (as by throttling the incoming air at or prior to the combustion chamber's intake port) so that the cylinder air pressure is below ambient pressure at the start of the compression stroke. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/077378 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion Piston Engines; Combustion Engines in General F02B 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02B 69/02 (20130101) Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 43/00 (20130101) F02M 69/044 (20130101) F02M 69/046 (20130101) |
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| US 08851055 | Martini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan D. Martini (Wolverine Lake, Michigan); Brian L. Spohn (Holly, Michigan); Allen J. Lehmen (Howell, Michigan); Teresa L. Cerbolles (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan D. Martini (Wolverine Lake, Michigan); Brian L. Spohn (Holly, Michigan); Allen J. Lehmen (Howell, Michigan); Teresa L. Cerbolles (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling a hybrid powertrain system including an internal combustion engine includes controlling operation of the hybrid powertrain system in response to a preferred minimum coolant temperature trajectory for the internal combustion engine. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162720 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangements of Heating, Cooling, Ventilating or Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted for Passenger or Goods Spaces of Vehicles B60H 1/004 (20130101) B60H 1/00314 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 6/20 (20130101) B60K 6/46 (20130101) Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/06 (20130101) B60W 20/108 (20130101) B60W 2710/0688 (20130101) Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 2200/023 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/6217 (20130101) |
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| US 08851406 | Sonwane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chandrashekhar Sonwane (Canoga Park, California); Timothy Saunders (Canoga Park, California); Mark Andrew Fitzsimmons (Canoga Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandrashekhar Sonwane (Canoga Park, California); Timothy Saunders (Canoga Park, California); Mark Andrew Fitzsimmons (Canoga Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump apparatus includes a particulate pump that defines a passage that extends from an inlet to an outlet. A duct is in flow communication with the outlet. The duct includes a deconsolidator configured to fragment particle agglomerates received from the passage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/563401 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 3/506 (20130101) C10J 2200/15 (20130101) C10J 2300/093 (20130101) C10J 2300/0943 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/20 (20130101) Cremation Furnaces; Consuming Waste Products by Combustion F23G 5/444 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08851597 | Forrest |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An OVJP apparatus and method for applying organic vapor or other flowable material to a substrate using a printing head mechanism in which the print head spacing from the substrate is controllable using a cushion of air or other gas applied between the print head and substrate. The print head is mounted for translational movement towards and away from the substrate and is biased toward the substrate by springs or other means. A gas cushion feed assembly supplies a gas under pressure between the print head and substrate which opposes the biasing of the print head toward the substrate so as to form a space between the print head and substrate. By controlling the pressure of gas supplied, the print head separation from the substrate can be precisely controlled. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/807878 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Typewriters; Selective Printing Mechanisms,, i.e Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From a Forme; Correction of Typographical Errors B41J 11/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B41J 25/308 (20130101) B41J 25/3082 (20130101) |
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| US 08852290 | Rowley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adrian P. Rowley (Los Angeles, California); Lucien D. Laude (Rabastens-de-Bigorre, France); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California); Atoosa Lotfi (Valencia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Doheny Eye Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian P. Rowley (Los Angeles, California); Lucien D. Laude (Rabastens-de-Bigorre, France); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California); Atoosa Lotfi (Valencia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a biocompatible silicone implant that can be securely affixed to living tissue through interaction with integral membrane proteins (integrins). A silicone article containing a laser-activated surface is utilized to make the implant. One example is an implantable prosthesis to treat blindness caused by outer retinal degenerative diseases. The device bypasses damaged photoreceptors and electrically stimulates the undamaged neurons of the retina. Electrical stimulation is achieved using a silicone microelectrode array (MEA). A safe, protein adhesive is used in attaching the MEA to the retinal surface and assist in alleviating focal pressure effects. Methods of making and attaching such implants are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041651 |
| ART UNIT | 3773 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/14 (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 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 2400/18 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08852303 | Vimalchand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pannalal Vimalchand (Birmingham, Alabama); Guohai Liu (Birmingham, Alabama); Wan Wang Peng (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Company Services, Inc. (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pannalal Vimalchand (Birmingham, Alabama); Guohai Liu (Birmingham, Alabama); Wan Wang Peng (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A coal feed system to feed pulverized low rank coals containing up to 25 wt % moisture to gasifiers operating up to 1000 psig pressure is described. The system includes gas distributor and collector gas permeable pipes imbedded in the lock vessel. Different methods of operation of the feed system are disclosed to minimize feed problems associated with bridging and packing of the pulverized coal. The method of maintaining the feed system and feeder device exit pressures using gas addition or extraction with the pressure control device is also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/970006 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 3/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10J 3/50 (20130101) C10J 3/723 (20130101) C10J 2200/09 (20130101) C10J 2200/156 (20130101) C10J 2300/093 (20130101) Feeding Fuel to Combustion Apparatus F23K 3/02 (20130101) |
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08852319 — Membrane loop process for separating carbon dioxide for use in gaseous form from flue gas
| US 08852319 | Wijmans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Johannes G. Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Timothy C. Merkel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes G. Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California); Timothy C. Merkel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a process involving membrane-based gas separation for separating and recovering carbon dioxide emissions from combustion processes in partially concentrated form, and then transporting the carbon dioxide and using or storing it in a confined manner without concentrating it to high purity. The process of the invention involves building up the concentration of carbon dioxide in a gas flow loop between the combustion step and a membrane separation step. A portion of the carbon dioxide-enriched gas can then be withdrawn from this loop and transported, without the need to liquefy the gas or otherwise create a high-purity stream, to a destination where it is used or confined, preferably in an environmentally benign manner. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/123364 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 2256/22 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) Removal or Treatment of Combustion Products or Combustion Residues; Flues F23J 15/02 (20130101) F23J 15/006 (20130101) F23J 2215/50 (20130101) F23J 2219/00 (20130101) Supplying Air or Non-combustible Liquids or Gases to Combustion Apparatus in General; Valves or Dampers Specially Adapted for Controlling Air Supply or Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Inducing Draught in Combustion Apparatus; Tops for Chimneys or Ventilating Shafts; Terminals for Flues F23L 7/007 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/10 (20130101) Y02C 20/20 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/344 (20130101) |
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| US 08852320 | Yaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Fernando J. Uribe-Romo (Ithaca, New York); Felipe Gandara-Barragan (Los Angeles, California); David K. Britt (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Fernando J. Uribe-Romo (Ithaca, New York); Felipe Gandara-Barragan (Los Angeles, California); David K. Britt (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides for novel metal-triazolate frameworks, methods of use thereof, and devices comprising the frameworks thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/354574 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 2253/204 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 3/003 (20130101) C07F 13/005 (20130101) C07F 15/025 (20130101) C07F 15/045 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 20/10 (20130101) |
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| US 08852461 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gao Liu (Oakland, California); Shidi Xun (Pinole, California); Vincent S. Battaglia (San Anselmo, California); Honghe Zheng (Albany, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gao Liu (Oakland, California); Shidi Xun (Pinole, California); Vincent S. Battaglia (San Anselmo, California); Honghe Zheng (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of carboxylic acid group containing fluorene/fluorenon copolymers is disclosed as binders of silicon particles in the fabrication of negative electrodes for use with lithium ion batteries. These binders enable the use of silicon as an electrode material as they significantly improve the cycle-ability of silicon by preventing electrode degradation over time. In particular, these polymers, which become conductive on first charge, bind to the silicon particles of the electrode, are flexible so as to better accommodate the expansion and contraction of the electrode during charge/discharge, and being conductive promote the flow battery current. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/294885 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) C08G 2261/516 (20130101) C08G 2261/3142 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/005 (20130101) C08J 2365/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/08 (20130101) C08K 3/08 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 08852807 | Chiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yet-Ming Chiang (Framingham, Massachusetts); Sung-Yoon Chung (Incheon, South Korea); Jason T. Bloking (Mountain View, California); Anna M. Andersson (Vasteras, Sweden) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yet-Ming Chiang (Framingham, Massachusetts); Sung-Yoon Chung (Incheon, South Korea); Jason T. Bloking (Mountain View, California); Anna M. Andersson (Vasteras, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound comprising a composition Ax(M′1−aM″a)y(XD4)z, Ax(M′1−aM″a)y(DXD4)z, or Ax(M′1−aM″a)y(X2D7)z, (A1−aM″a)xM′y(XD4)z, (A1−aM″a)xM′y(DXD4)z, or (A1−aM″a)xM′y(X2D7)z. In the compound, A is at least one of an alkali metal and hydrogen, M′ is a first-row transition metal, X is at least one of phosphorus, sulfur, arsenic, molybdenum, and tungsten, M″ any of a Group IIA, IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA, VIIIA, IB, IIB, IIIB, IVB, VB, and VIB metal, D is at least one of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, or a halogen, 0.0001<a≦0.1, and x, y, and z are greater than zero. The compound can be used in an electrochemical device including electrodes and storage batteries. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404735 |
| 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 4/70 (20130101) H01M 4/74 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/523 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/12 (20130101) Y02E 60/327 (20130101) Y02E 60/328 (20130101) |
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| US 08852902 | Katz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a polyketide synthase (PKS) capable of synthesizing trimethylpentanoic acid. The present invention also provides for a host cell comprising the PKS and when cultured produces the trimethylpentanoic acid. The present invention also provides for a method of producing the trimethylpentanoic acid, comprising: providing a host cell of the present invention, and culturing said host cell in a suitable culture medium such that the trimethylpentanoic acid is produced, optionally isolating the trimethylpentanoic acid, and optionally, reducing the isolated trimethylpentanoic acid into a trimethylpentanol or an iso-octane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/302966 |
| 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 15/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/40 (20130101) |
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| US 08852913 | Fidantsef et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ana Fidantsef (Davis, California); Michael Lamsa (Davis, California); Brian Gorre-Clancy (Elk Grove, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana Fidantsef (Davis, California); Michael Lamsa (Davis, California); Brian Gorre-Clancy (Elk Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to variants of a parent beta-glucosidase, comprising a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 142, 183, 266, and 703 of amino acids 1 to 842 of SEQ ID NO: 2 or corresponding to positions 142, 183, 266, and 705 of amino acids 1 to 844 of SEQ ID NO: 70, wherein the variant has beta-glucosidase activity. The present invention also relates to nucleotide sequences encoding the variant beta-glucosidases and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleotide sequences. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/639642 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
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| US 08852994 | Wojtczuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven J. Wojtczuk (Lexington, Massachusetts); Philip T. Chiu (Arlington, Massachusetts); Xuebing Zhang (Nashua, New Hampshire); Edward Gagnon (Bedford, Massachusetts); Michael Timmons (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Masimo Semiconductor, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Wojtczuk (Lexington, Massachusetts); Philip T. Chiu (Arlington, Massachusetts); Xuebing Zhang (Nashua, New Hampshire); Edward Gagnon (Bedford, Massachusetts); Michael Timmons (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating on a semiconductor substrate bifacial tandem solar cells with semiconductor subcells having a lower bandgap than the substrate bandgap on one side of the substrate and with subcells having a higher bandgap than the substrate on the other including, first, growing a lower bandgap subcell on one substrate side that uses only the same periodic table group V material in the dislocation-reducing grading layers and bottom subcells as is present in the substrate and after the initial growth is complete and then flipping the substrate and growing the higher bandgap subcells on the opposite substrate side which can be of different group V material. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800824 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0684 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0693 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 08852998 | Morales et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alfredo M. Morales (Livermore, California); Richard J. Anderson (Oakland, California); Nancy Y. C. Yang (Lafayette, California); Jack L. Skinner (Butte, Montana); Michael J. Rye (Los Lunas, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo M. Morales (Livermore, California); Richard J. Anderson (Oakland, California); Nancy Y. C. Yang (Lafayette, California); Jack L. Skinner (Butte, Montana); Michael J. Rye (Los Lunas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method including forming a diamond material on the surface of a substrate; forming a first contact and a separate second contact; and patterning the diamond material to form a nanowire between the first contact and the second contact. An apparatus including a first contact and a separate second contact on a substrate; and a nanowire including a single crystalline or polycrystalline diamond material on the substrate and connected to each of the first contact and the second contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/598152 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853302 | Tietze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger Tietze (The Woodlands, Texas); Yen-Loan Nguyen (Spring, Texas); Mark Bryant (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Huntsman Advanced Materials Americas LLC (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Tietze (The Woodlands, Texas); Yen-Loan Nguyen (Spring, Texas); Mark Bryant (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a liquid resin system including a liquid monobenzoxazine monomer and a non-glycidyl epoxy compound, wherein the weight ratio of the monobenzoxazine monomer to the non-glycidyl epoxy compound is in a range of about 25:75 to about 60:40. The liquid resin system exhibits a low viscosity and exceptional stability over an extended period of time making its use in a variety of composite manufacturing methods highly advantageous. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/266476 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 265/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/24 (20130101) C08G 59/4014 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/04 (20130101) C08J 2363/00 (20130101) C08J 2379/04 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853349 | Tovar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Tovar (Baltimore, Maryland); Benjamin C. Streifel (Puyallup, Washington); Patricia A. Peart (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Conjugated polymers and small molecules including the nonplanar aromatic 1,6-methano[10]annulene ring structure along with aromatic subunits, such as diketopyrrolopyrrole, and 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole, substituted with alkyl chains in a “Tail In,” “Tail Out,” or “No Tail” regiochemistry are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/715310 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0068 (20130101) H01L 51/0071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853350 | Anderson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin J. Anderson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The synthesis of a polyoxometalate-loaded epoxy uses a one-step cure by applying an external stimulus to release the acid from the polyoxometalate and thereby catalyze the cure reaction of the epoxy resin. Such polyoxometalate-loaded epoxy composites afford the cured epoxy unique properties imparted by the intrinsic properties of the polyoxometalate. For example, polyoxometalate-loaded epoxy composites can be used as corrosion resistant epoxy coatings, for encapsulation of electronics with improved dielectric properties, and for structural applications with improved mechanical properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625969 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853477 | Nicholas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher P. Nicholas (Evanston, Illinois); Edwin P. Boldingh (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A new family of coherently grown composites of TUN and IMF zeotypes has been synthesized and shown to be effective catalysts for catalytic pyrolysis of biomass. These zeolites are represented by the empirical formula. NanMmn+RrQqAl1-xExSiyOz where M represents zinc or a metal or metals from Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 or the lanthanide series of the periodic table, R is an A,Ω-dihalosubstituted paraffin such as 1,4-dibromobutane, Q is a neutral amine containing 5 or fewer carbon atoms such as 1-methylpyrrolidine and E is a framework element such as gallium. The process involves contacting a carbonaceous biomass feedstock with UZM-39 at pyrolysis conditions to produce pyrolysis gases comprising hydrocarbons. The catalyst catalyzes a deoxygenation reaction converting oxygenated hydrocarbons into hydrocarbons and removing the oxygen as carbon oxides and water. A portion of the pyrolysis gases is condensed to produce low oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/074742 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/00 (20130101) C10G 1/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 1/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853526 | Kostecki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Kostecki (Lafayette, California); Samuel Mao (Castro Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kostecki (Lafayette, California); Samuel Mao (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Photovoltaic devices are driven by intense photoemission of “hot” electrons from a suitable nanostructured metal. The metal should be an electron source with surface plasmon resonance within the visible and near-visible spectrum range (near IR to near UV (about 300 to 1000 nm)). Suitable metals include silver, gold, copper and alloys of silver, gold and copper with each other. Silver is particularly preferred for its advantageous opto-electronic properties in the near UV and visible spectrum range, relatively low cost, and simplicity of processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/663503 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853531 | Schwede et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jared Schwede (Menlo Park, California); Nicholas Melosh (Menlo Park, California); Zhixun Shen (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jared Schwede (Menlo Park, California); Nicholas Melosh (Menlo Park, California); Zhixun Shen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) is exploited to provide improved efficiency for radiant energy conversion. A hot (greater than 200° C.) semiconductor cathode is illuminated such that it emits electrons. Because the cathode is hot, significantly more electrons are emitted than would be emitted from a room temperature (or colder) cathode under the same illumination conditions. As a result of this increased electron emission, the energy conversion efficiency can be significantly increased relative to a conventional photovoltaic device. In PETE, the cathode electrons can be (and typically are) thermalized with respect to the cathode. As a result, PETE does not rely on emission of non-thermalized electrons, and is significantly easier to implement than hot-carrier emission approaches. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/589122 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 40/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 45/00 (20130101) H01J 2201/30434 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 6/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853651 | Doty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | F. Patrick Doty (Livermore, California); Mark D. Allendorf (Pleasanton, California); Patrick L. Feng (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Patrick Doty (Livermore, California); Mark D. Allendorf (Pleasanton, California); Patrick L. Feng (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Doped luminescent materials are provided for converting excited triplet states to radiative hybrid states. The doped materials may be used to conduct pulse shape discrimination (PSD) using luminescence generated by harvested excited triplet states. The doped materials may also be used to detect particles using spectral shape discrimination (SSD). |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943708 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 2211/185 (20130101) C09K 2211/1029 (20130101) C09K 2211/1074 (20130101) C09K 2211/1092 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854123 | Dally et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California); Brucek Kurdo Khailany (Austin, Texas); John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Hastings Greer, III (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Carl Thomas Gray (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of interconnected chips comprising a multi-chip module (MCM) includes a first processor chip, a second processor chip, and an MCM package configured to include the first processor chip, the second processor chip, and an interconnect circuit. The first processor chip is configured to include a first ground-referenced single-ended signaling (GRS) interface circuit. A first set of electrical traces fabricated within the MCM package and configured to couple the first GRS interface circuit to the interconnect circuit. The second processor chip is configured to include a second GRS interface circuit. A second set of electrical traces fabricated within the MCM package and configured to coupled the second GRS interface circuit to the interconnect circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/946980 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854248 | Paglieroni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California); Steven W. Bond (Livermore, California); Philip L. Top (West Sacramento, California); David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Jeffrey E. Mast (Loveland, Colorado); John G. Donetti (Livermore, California); Blake C. Mason (Livermore, California); Steven M. Jones (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California); Steven W. Bond (Livermore, California); Philip L. Top (West Sacramento, California); David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Jeffrey E. Mast (Loveland, Colorado); John G. Donetti (Livermore, California); Blake C. Mason (Livermore, California); Steven M. Jones (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting the presence of subsurface objects within a medium is provided. In some embodiments, the imaging and detection system operates in a multistatic mode to collect radar return signals generated by an array of transceiver antenna pairs that is positioned across the surface and that travels down the surface. The imaging and detection system pre-processes the return signal to suppress certain undesirable effects. The imaging and detection system then generates synthetic aperture radar images from real aperture radar images generated from the pre-processed return signal. The imaging and detection system then post-processes the synthetic aperture radar images to improve detection of subsurface objects. The imaging and detection system identifies peaks in the energy levels of the post-processed image frame, which indicates the presence of a subsurface object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219410 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/003 (20130101) G01S 13/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/885 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/12 (20130101) G01V 3/15 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854249 | Paglieroni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livemore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting the presence of subsurface objects within a medium is provided. In some embodiments, the imaging and detection system operates in a multistatic mode to collect radar return signals generated by an array of transceiver antenna pairs that is positioned across the surface and that travels down the surface. The imaging and detection system pre-processes the return signal to suppress certain undesirable effects. The imaging and detection system then generates synthetic aperture radar images from real aperture radar images generated from the pre-processed return signal. The imaging and detection system then post-processes the synthetic aperture radar images to improve detection of subsurface objects. The imaging and detection system identifies peaks in the energy levels of the post-processed image frame, which indicates the presence of a subsurface object. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219493 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/003 (20130101) G01S 13/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/885 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/12 (20130101) G01V 3/15 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854254 | Rodenbeck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher T. Rodenbeck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Pankonin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Richard E. Heintzleman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nicola Jean Kinzie (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Zorana P. Popovic (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher T. Rodenbeck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Pankonin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Richard E. Heintzleman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Nicola Jean Kinzie (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Zorana P. Popovic (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-wideband (UWB) radar transmitter apparatus comprises a pulse generator configured to produce from a sinusoidal input signal a pulsed output signal having a series of baseband pulses with a first pulse repetition frequency (PRF). The pulse generator includes a plurality of components that each have a nonlinear electrical reactance. A signal converter is coupled to the pulse generator and configured to convert the pulsed output signal into a pulsed radar transmit signal having a series of radar transmit pulses with a second PRF that is less than the first PRF. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/241550 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/0209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/288 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854713 | Koplow |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey P. Koplow (San Ramon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Koplow (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment, a power selective optical filter device includes an input polarizer for selectively transmitting an input signal. The device includes a wave-plate structure positioned to receive the input signal, which includes at least one substantially zero-order, zero-wave plate. The zero-order, zero-wave plate is configured to alter a polarization state of the input signal passing in a manner that depends on the power of the input signal. The zero-order, zero-wave plate includes an entry and exit wave plate each having a fast axis, with the fast axes oriented substantially perpendicular to each other. Each entry wave plate is oriented relative to a transmission axis of the input polarizer at a respective angle. An output polarizer is positioned to receive a signal output from the wave-plate structure and selectively transmits the signal based on the polarization state. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464245 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/274 (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 3/0057 (20130101) H01S 3/0675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/1112 (20130101) H01S 3/06712 (20130101) H01S 3/06758 (20130101) H01S 3/06791 (20130101) H01S 2301/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08854871 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shikha Jain (San Jose, California); Valentyn Novosad (Lemont, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shikha Jain (San Jose, California); Valentyn Novosad (Lemont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the control of the magnetic states of interacting magnetic elements comprising providing a magnetic structure with a plurality of interacting magnetic elements. The magnetic structure comprises a plurality of magnetic states based on the state of each interacting magnetic element. The desired magnetic state of the magnetic structure is determined. The active resonance frequency and amplitude curve of the desired magnetic state is determined. Each magnetic element of the magnetic structure is then subjected to an alternating magnetic field or electrical current having a frequency and amplitude below the active resonance frequency and amplitude curve of said desired magnetic state and above the active resonance frequency and amplitude curve of the current state of the magnetic structure until the magnetic state of the magnetic structure is at the desired magnetic state. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/082260 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/15 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) G11C 11/1677 (20130101) G11C 11/5607 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856261 | Chen 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) | Dong Chen (Croton on Hudson, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and computer program product for supporting system initiated checkpoints in parallel computing systems. The system and method generates selective control signals to perform checkpointing of system related data in presence of messaging activity associated with a user application running at the node. The checkpointing is initiated by the system such that checkpoint data of a plurality of network nodes may be obtained even in the presence of user applications running on highly parallel computers that include ongoing user messaging activity. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/729937 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856490 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jon K. Kriegel (Rochester, Minnesota); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Boeblingen, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jon K. Kriegel (Rochester, Minnesota); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Boeblingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for accessing memory are provided. The system comprises a lookup buffer for storing one or more page table entries, wherein each of the one or more page table entries comprises at least a virtual page number and a physical page number; a logic circuit for receiving a virtual address from said processor, said logic circuit for matching the virtual address to the virtual page number in one of the page table entries to select the physical page number in the same page table entry, said page table entry having one or more bits set to exclude a memory range from a page. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/618730 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/1027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/652 (20130101) G06F 2212/654 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08852290 | Rowley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adrian P. Rowley (Los Angeles, California); Lucien D. Laude (Rabastens-de-Bigorre, France); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California); Atoosa Lotfi (Valencia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Doheny Eye Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian P. Rowley (Los Angeles, California); Lucien D. Laude (Rabastens-de-Bigorre, France); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California); Atoosa Lotfi (Valencia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a biocompatible silicone implant that can be securely affixed to living tissue through interaction with integral membrane proteins (integrins). A silicone article containing a laser-activated surface is utilized to make the implant. One example is an implantable prosthesis to treat blindness caused by outer retinal degenerative diseases. The device bypasses damaged photoreceptors and electrically stimulates the undamaged neurons of the retina. Electrical stimulation is achieved using a silicone microelectrode array (MEA). A safe, protein adhesive is used in attaching the MEA to the retinal surface and assist in alleviating focal pressure effects. Methods of making and attaching such implants are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041651 |
| ART UNIT | 3773 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/14 (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 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 2400/18 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852444 | Green et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander A. Green (Evanston, Illinois); Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander A. Green (Evanston, Illinois); Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings provide, in part, methods of separating two-dimensional nanomaterials by atomic layer thickness. In certain embodiments, the present teachings provide methods of generating graphene nanomaterials having a controlled number of atomic layer(s). |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/856348 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/26 (20130101) Flotation; Differential Sedimentation B03D 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/0648 (20130101) C01B 31/04 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) C01B 31/0492 (20130101) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) C01B 2204/06 (20130101) C01B 2204/28 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 29/006 (20130101) C01G 39/06 (20130101) C01G 41/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/845 (20130101) |
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| US 08852464 | Soghomonian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victoria Soghomonian (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jean J. Heremans (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victoria Soghomonian (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jean J. Heremans (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrically conducting vanadium arsenate or vanadium phosphate materials are described. The materials include a vanadium arsenate or vanadium phosphate framework structure about organic template and water molecules which may be removed to leave a microporous structure. The three-dimensional vanadium framework may provide electronic conductivity, while the extra-framework constituents may provide ionic conductivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128452 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/24 (20130101) H01G 11/30 (20130101) H01G 11/46 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 08852473 | Tan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seng Tan (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wright Materials Research Co. (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seng Tan (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A pin or tube reinforced polymeric foam and a method of manufacture thereof. The reinforcing pins or tubes are incorporated into the polymeric foam during or after fabrication of the reinforced polymer foam and are preferably coated with an adhesive or binder layer prior to fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284564 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/45.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852695 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mengbing Huang (Schenectady, New York); William T. Spratt (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mengbing Huang (Schenectady, New York); William T. Spratt (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Electromagnetic radiation barriers and waveguides, including barriers and waveguides for light, are disclosed. The barriers and waveguides are fabricated by directing charged particles, for example, ions, into crystalline substrates, for example, single-crystal sapphire substrates, to modify the crystal structure and produce a region of varying refractive index. These substrates are then heated to temperatures greater than 200 degrees C. to stabilize the modified crystal structure and provide the barrier to electromagnetic radiation. Since the treatment stabilizes the crystal structure at elevated temperature, for example, above 500 degrees C. or above 1000 degrees C., the barriers and waveguides disclosed are uniquely adapted for use in detecting conditions in harsh environments, for example, at greater than 200 degrees C. Sensors, systems for using sensors, and methods for fabricating barriers and waveguides are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/608118 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08852902 | Katz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a polyketide synthase (PKS) capable of synthesizing trimethylpentanoic acid. The present invention also provides for a host cell comprising the PKS and when cultured produces the trimethylpentanoic acid. The present invention also provides for a method of producing the trimethylpentanoic acid, comprising: providing a host cell of the present invention, and culturing said host cell in a suitable culture medium such that the trimethylpentanoic acid is produced, optionally isolating the trimethylpentanoic acid, and optionally, reducing the isolated trimethylpentanoic acid into a trimethylpentanol or an iso-octane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/302966 |
| 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 15/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/40 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08853349 | Tovar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Tovar (Baltimore, Maryland); Benjamin C. Streifel (Puyallup, Washington); Patricia A. Peart (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Conjugated polymers and small molecules including the nonplanar aromatic 1,6-methano[10]annulene ring structure along with aromatic subunits, such as diketopyrrolopyrrole, and 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole, substituted with alkyl chains in a “Tail In,” “Tail Out,” or “No Tail” regiochemistry are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/715310 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0068 (20130101) H01L 51/0071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08853450 | Frost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Frost (Reno, Nevada); Wei-Chih Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for hydrating a nitrile derivative to generate an amide derivative is provided. The method includes mixing the nitrile derivative with a ruthenium catalyst complex in an aqueous solution to form a mixture, and reacting the nitrile derivative with water in the aqueous solution and in the presence of the ruthenium catalyst complex to form a reacted mixture comprising the amide derivative. The ruthenium catalyst complex is represented by the following structural formula: RuX2(L)n, wherein X is an anionic ligand, L is a bifunctional phosphine ligand, and n is 3 or 4. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/654895 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 231/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 231/065 (20130101) C07C 231/065 (20130101) C07C 231/065 (20130101) C07C 231/065 (20130101) C07C 231/065 (20130101) C07C 231/065 (20130101) C07C 233/05 (20130101) C07C 233/09 (20130101) C07C 233/11 (20130101) C07C 233/65 (20130101) C07C 235/46 (20130101) C07C 235/84 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/81 (20130101) |
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| US 08853667 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut); Robert A. Croce, Jr. (Guilford, Connecticut); Anjana Jain (Worcester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Quantum dot (QD) gate FETs and the use of quantum dot (QD) gate FETs for the purpose of sensing analytes and proteins is disclosed and described. Analytes, proteins, miRNAs, and DNAs functionalized to the QDs change the charge density in the gate and hence the current-voltage characteristics. In one embodiment, QD-FETs, such as 3-state configurations, the binding of chemical and biological species change the drain current-gate voltage characteristics resulting in detection. In one embodiment, DNA sensing is done by its binding to an existing reference DNA functionalized on to quantum dots which are located in the gate region of the FET. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707278 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0684 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855011 | Ortega et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio Ortega (Los Angeles, California); Sunil K. Narang (Los Angeles, California); Godwin Shen (Pasadena, California); Javier Perez-Trufero (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Ortega (Los Angeles, California); Sunil K. Narang (Los Angeles, California); Godwin Shen (Pasadena, California); Javier Perez-Trufero (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and techniques for data collecting network such as wireless sensors are disclosed. A described technique includes detecting one or more remote nodes included in the wireless sensor network using a local power level that controls a radio range of the local node. The technique includes transmitting a local outdegree. The local outdegree can be based on a quantity of the one or more remote nodes. The technique includes receiving one or more remote outdegrees from the one or more remote nodes. The technique includes determining a local node type of the local node based on detecting a node type of the one or more remote nodes, using the one or more remote outdegrees, and using the local outdegree. The technique includes adjusting characteristics, including an energy usage characteristic and a data compression characteristic, of the wireless sensor network by selectively modifying the local power level and selectively changing the local node type. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/181493 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 28/06 (20130101) H04W 52/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 52/325 (20130101) H04W 52/367 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE45176 | Adelson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Adelson (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Adelson (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactile sensor includes a photosensing structure, a volume of elastomer capable of transmitting an image, and a reflective skin covering the volume of elastomer. The reflective skin is illuminated through the volume of elastomer by one or more light sources, and has particles that reflect light incident on the reflective skin from within the volume of elastomer. The reflective skin is geometrically altered in response to pressure applied by an entity touching the reflective skin, the geometrical alteration causing localized changes in the surface normal of the skin and associated localized changes in the amount of light reflected from the reflective skin in the direction of the photosensing structure. The photosensing structure receives a portion of the reflected light in the form of an image, the image indicating one or more features of the entity producing the pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/045620 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08850746 | Harrison |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lannie D. Harrison (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lannie D. Harrison (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly is provided for maintaining a pressure difference between an exterior and an interior of an object having an access hatch and an access hatch frame. The seal assembly has a seal retainer having an interior face oriented toward the interior of the object, an exterior face oriented toward the exterior of the object, a hatch-side face oriented toward the access hatch and extending from the interior face to the exterior face, and frame-side face oriented toward the access hatch frame and extending from the interior face to the exterior face. The seal assembly also has at least one sealing member mounted on either the interior face or the exterior face of the seal retainer and a plurality of conduits formed in the seal retainer and extending from the exterior face to the interior face. The plurality of conduits include at least one supply conduit located between either the hatch-side or frame-side face and the at least one sealing member and at least one return conduit located so that the at least one sealing member is positioned between the at least one supply conduit and the at least one return conduit. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/591746 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/12 (20130101) B64G 1/22 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 3/2869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08850819 | Cheung |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert K. Cheung (East Hampton, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert K. Cheung (East Hampton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An air swirler, a fuel and air admission assembly, and a staged combustor are disclosed. The staged combustor may be equipped with the fuel and air admission assemblies incorporating the air swirlers for use in gas turbine engines, such as for example gas turbine engines powering aircraft having supersonic cruise capability. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/823398 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/34 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855011 | Ortega et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio Ortega (Los Angeles, California); Sunil K. Narang (Los Angeles, California); Godwin Shen (Pasadena, California); Javier Perez-Trufero (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Ortega (Los Angeles, California); Sunil K. Narang (Los Angeles, California); Godwin Shen (Pasadena, California); Javier Perez-Trufero (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and techniques for data collecting network such as wireless sensors are disclosed. A described technique includes detecting one or more remote nodes included in the wireless sensor network using a local power level that controls a radio range of the local node. The technique includes transmitting a local outdegree. The local outdegree can be based on a quantity of the one or more remote nodes. The technique includes receiving one or more remote outdegrees from the one or more remote nodes. The technique includes determining a local node type of the local node based on detecting a node type of the one or more remote nodes, using the one or more remote outdegrees, and using the local outdegree. The technique includes adjusting characteristics, including an energy usage characteristic and a data compression characteristic, of the wireless sensor network by selectively modifying the local power level and selectively changing the local node type. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/181493 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 28/06 (20130101) H04W 52/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 52/325 (20130101) H04W 52/367 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855932 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bing Lin (Yorktown, Virginia); Yongxiang Hu (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Lin (Yorktown, Virginia); Yongxiang Hu (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for remotely measuring surface air pressure. In one embodiment, the method of the present invention utilizes the steps of transmitting a signal having multiple frequencies into the atmosphere, measuring the transmitted/reflected signal to determine the relative received power level of each frequency and then determining the surface air pressure based upon the attenuation of the transmitted frequencies. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757780 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08855940 | Vincent |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Vincent (Bowling Green, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of detecting coliform bacteria in water from reflected light, and also includes devices for the measurement, calculation and transmission of data relating to that method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787785 |
| 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 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 33/18 (20130101) G01N 2201/1293 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08856060 | Ranganathan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for creating a distributed application flow from a set of rules are provided. The techniques include creating a control-flow graph for each rule, creating one or more dependency links between two or more rules, partitioning a resulting graph, wherein the resulting graph comprises one or more control-flow graphs and one or more dependency links, into one or more operators by determining an optimal set of one or more cuts through the resulting graph such that a cost function is minimized, and generating stream processing flow code from the partitioned graph. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/043844 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) G06N 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856313 | Amini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining data usage based on provenance information, in a stream-processing system, includes progressively setting usage information for output stream data objects (SDOs), determining input SDOs that an output SDO depends on, based on a provenance dependency function; recursively feeding back the usage information for a subset of SDOs that can be discarded; and discarding the subset of SDOs. A system and method for data retention based on usage information, in a stream-processing system, includes managing retention of SDOs by deleting SDOs that are determined to be of null usage; and enhancing retention characteristics of SDOs that are deemed to have usage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/939176 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/06 (20130101) G06F 9/46 (20130101) G06F 15/173 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/3023 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/32 (20130101) H04L 29/06 (20130101) H04L 41/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08856766 | Frenkiel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton on Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota); Wim De Pauw (Scarborough, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Lawrence Frenkiel (Irvington, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton on Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Michael Donald Pfeifer (Rochester, Minnesota); Wim De Pauw (Scarborough, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention provides a method of displaying a data flow, wherein a description of a data flow application to be displayed is received. The data flow application includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes, wherein the nodes represent operators and the edges represent data connections for data flowing between the operations. A reason that a user is to view the data flow and/or a user constraint on a complexity of the data flow application to be displayed is determined with a processor; and, the time required to render a display of the data flow application is estimated. A transformed representation of the data flow application is created with the processor. The transformed representation is created based upon the user reason, the user constraint, the estimated time of rendering, and/or a layout strategy. The transformed representation is displayed on a graphical user interface. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/469409 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/74 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08850970 | Lanning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A woody biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive woody biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein each baling chamber wall can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the wall of at least (0.11×Pp psi×Aw) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression system can apply to the material and Aw is the area of the wall expressed in square inches, and wherein the compression system can apply at least one platen pressure between 26 psi and 126 psi to the material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887916 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses in General B30B 9/301 (20130101) B30B 9/3014 (20130101) B30B 9/3032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08852596 | Jenkins 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) | Mark C. Jenkins (Davidsonville, Maryland); Ronald Fayer (Ellicot City, Maryland); Monica Santin (Odenton, Maryland); Dumitru Macarisin (Hagerstown, Maryland); Celia O'Brien (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunolocalization of β- and δ-giardin in Giardia lamblia trophozoites revealed that both giardins are strictly associated with the ventral disc. Optical sectioning of immunolabeled ventral disc, together with quantitative co-localization of δ- and β-giardin immunoreactivity, demonstrated that δ-giardin is primarily localized to the ventral side, and β-giardin is localized to the dorsal side of the ventral disc. Antibodies to δ-giardin and β-giardin can both be used as diagnostic agents; anti-δ-giardin antibody can be used as a therapeutic reagent to inhibit binding of trophozoites to host cells. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651830 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/151.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08850980 | Sreenivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Philip D. Schumaker (Austin, Texas); Ian M. McMackin (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Philip D. Schumaker (Austin, Texas); Ian M. McMackin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards a choice of the shape of the patterned fields for Level 0 (patterned by imprint or photolithography or e-beam, etc.) and Level 1 (patterned by imprint) such that these shapes when tessellated together eliminate the open areas causes by the moats. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/694612 |
| ART UNIT | 2854 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 27/42 (20130101) G03B 27/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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) G03F 9/00 (20130101) G03F 9/7042 (20130101) G03F 9/7076 (20130101) G03F 9/7084 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08853627 | Ouyang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Liang Gao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of interfacing atmospheric pressure ion sources, including electrospray and desorption electrospray ionization sources, to mass spectrometers, for example miniature mass spectrometers, in which the ionized sample is discontinuously introduced into the mass spectrometer. Discontinuous introduction improves the match between the pumping capacity of the instrument and the volume of atmospheric pressure gas that contains the ionized sample. The reduced duty cycle of sample introduction is offset by operation of the mass spectrometer under higher performance conditions and by ion accumulation at atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/227563 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/10 (20130101) H01J 49/0013 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 08854481 | Jelinek |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Image stabilization devices, methods, and systems are described herein. One image stabilization device includes a sensor having an array of pixels, wherein the sensor is configured to track a moving object using a number of the pixels, wherein the number of the pixels track only a particular portion of the moving object, and form an image of the moving object using the number of the pixels and their neighboring pixels that were not used to track the moving object. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/474438 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/208.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08850970 | Lanning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A woody biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive woody biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein each baling chamber wall can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the wall of at least (0.11×Pp psi×Aw) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression system can apply to the material and Aw is the area of the wall expressed in square inches, and wherein the compression system can apply at least one platen pressure between 26 psi and 126 psi to the material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887916 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses in General B30B 9/301 (20130101) B30B 9/3014 (20130101) B30B 9/3032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08853906 | Harrell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John P. Harrell (Mission Viejo, California); Geoffrey A. Long (Torrance, California); Michael L. Menendez (Corona, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Harrell (Mission Viejo, California); Geoffrey A. Long (Torrance, California); Michael L. Menendez (Corona, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide a system for moving optical elements. The system includes a first rotor and a second rotor configured to rotate in opposite directions. The system further includes a first plurality of paddles coupled to the first rotor, each of the plurality of paddles having an aperture configured to receive a first optical element, and a second plurality of paddles coupled to the second rotor, each of the plurality of paddles having an aperture configured to receive a second optical element. The first rotor and the second rotor are configured to move the first optical element between a retracted position and a desired position and to move the second optical element between the desired position and a retracted position substantially simultaneously such that a reaction torque of the first rotor cancels a reaction torque of the second rotor. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945701 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 39/063 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 7/006 (20130101) G02B 26/00 (20130101) G02B 26/008 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/278 (20130101) H02K 21/14 (20130101) H02K 21/029 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, October 07, 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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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)
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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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