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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 28, 2014
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| US 08870865 | Frankhouser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul L. Frankhouser (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Maureen L. Mulvihill (Bellfonte, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Park (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Frankhouser (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Maureen L. Mulvihill (Bellfonte, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Park (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical device for reducing the force necessary to penetrate living being tissue using a variety of reciprocating motion actuators, including piezoelectric, voice coil, solenoids, pneumatics or fluidics. The reciprocating actuator drives a penetrating member, such as a needle, through the tissue at a reduced force while the device detects the passage of the penetrating member through the tissue. Upon passage of the penetrating member through the tissue, electrical power to the reciprocating actuator is automatically terminated. One exemplary method for detecting this passage is via a fluid-containing syringe that is coupled to a channel within the penetrating member. Once the penetrating member tip has passed through the living tissue, the fluid within the syringe no longer experiences any pressure and a plunger within the syringe displaces indicating passage of the penetrating member tip. This motion can provide direct tactile feedback to an operator of the medical device or can automatically open a switch providing electrical power to the medical device. Alternatively, a pressure transducer can also monitor the pressure within the penetrating member channel and automatically activate the switch to cut off the electrical power. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/672497 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 10/025 (20130101) A61B 17/3401 (20130101) A61B 17/3415 (20130101) A61B 17/3476 (20130101) A61B 17/320068 (20130101) A61B 2017/00115 (20130101) A61B 2017/00123 (20130101) A61B 2019/464 (20130101) 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 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 5/20 (20130101) |
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| US 08871191 | Pavlakis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George N. Pavlakis (Rockville, Maryland); Barbara K. Felber (Rockville, Maryland); Antonio Valentin (Frederick, Maryland); Cristina Bergamaschi (Frederick, 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) | George N. Pavlakis (Rockville, Maryland); Barbara K. Felber (Rockville, Maryland); Antonio Valentin (Frederick, Maryland); Cristina Bergamaschi (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides method for promoting the maturation and export of T cells from thymic tissue by contacting the thymic tissue with supraphysiological levels of interleukin (IL)-15. The present invention also provides methods for preventing, alleviating, reducing, and/or inhibiting lymphopenia or peripheral depletion of lymphocytes in a patient in need thereof by administering to the patient IL-15. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/390504 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1793 (20130101) A61K 38/1793 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48423 (20130101) A61K 47/48507 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/5443 (20130101) |
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| US 08871205 | Ting et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jenny P.-Y. Ting (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Haitao Wen (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jenny P.-Y. Ting (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Haitao Wen (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of treating an immune-related disorder in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an inhibitor of plexin-A4 activity, which results in reducing the plexin-A4 activity in the subject, and thereby treating the immune-related disorder. Inhibitors of plexin-A4 activity include, for example, plexin-A4 antibodies and plexin-A4 fusion proteins. The present invention further provides a method of treating an immune-related disorder in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an inhibitor of semaphorin-3A (Sema3A) activity, which results in reducing the Sema3A activity in the subject, thereby treating the immune-related disorder. Inhibitors of Sema3A activity include, for example, Sema3A antibodies and Sema3A fusion proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/511933 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/30 (20130101) |
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| US 08871206 | Low et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Frederick, Maryland); Yang Feng (Frederick, Maryland); Jiayin Shen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Human anti-human folate receptor beta (FRβ) antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are described, as well as methods of using such antibodies and fragments to treat inflammatory disorders or cancers expressing cell surface FRβ. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790881 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48823 (20130101) A61K 49/16 (20130101) A61K 49/0058 (20130101) A61K 51/1027 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/54 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) |
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| US 08871223 | Friedman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harvey Friedman (Merion, Pennsylvania); Elizabeth E. Zumbrun (Middletown, Maryland); Fushan Wang (Broomall, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey Friedman (Merion, Pennsylvania); Elizabeth E. Zumbrun (Middletown, Maryland); Fushan Wang (Broomall, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of vaccinating a subject against a Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection and disorders and symptoms associated with same, and impeding, inhibiting, reducing the incidence of, and suppressing HSV infection, neuronal viral spread, formation of zosteriform lesions, herpetic ocular disease, herpes-mediated encephalitis, and genital ulcer disease in a subject, comprising the step of contacting the subject with a mutant strain of the HSV, containing an inactivating mutation in a gene encoding a gE, gI, Us9, or other proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/440223 |
| 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 2039/5254 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/16622 (20130101) C12N 2710/16634 (20130101) C12N 2710/16661 (20130101) |
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| US 08871267 | Masters |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David B. Masters (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gel-Del Technologies, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Masters (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to protein matrix materials and devices and the methods of making and using protein matrix materials and devices. More specifically the present invention relates to protein matrix materials and devices that may be utilized for various medical applications including, but not limited to, drug delivery devices for the controlled release of pharmacologically active agents, encapsulated or coated stent devices, vessels, tubular grafts, vascular grafts, wound healing devices including protein matrix suture material and meshes, skin/bone/tissue grafts, biocompatible electricity conducting matrices, clear protein matrices, protein matrix adhesion prevention barriers, cell scaffolding and other biocompatible protein matrix devices. Furthermore, the present invention relates to protein matrix materials and devices made by forming a film comprising one or more biodegradable protein materials, one or more biocompatible solvents and optionally one or more pharmacologically active agents. The film is then partially dried, rolled or otherwise shaped, and then compressed to form the desired protein matrix device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700896 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0085 (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 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) A61L 2300/606 (20130101) A61L 2300/622 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/95 (20130101) Y10S 514/953 (20130101) Y10S 623/915 (20130101) |
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| US 08871435 | Glenn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Shirit Einav (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Shirit Einav (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for identifying agents that inhibit a neoplastic cellular phenotype mediated by the NS4B protein nucleotide binding motif (NBM) of hepatitis C virus (HCV) are provided. In general, the methods involve contacting a candidate agent with a mammalian cell expressing an NS4B NBM polypeptide of an HCV virus, wherein expression of the NS4B NBM polypeptide in the absence of candidate agent promotes a neoplastic cellular phenotype, and detecting the presence or absence of an effect of the candidate agent on NS4B-mediated promotion of a neoplastic cellular phenotype. The provided methods and compositions find use in a variety of therapeutic and screening applications. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143630 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871443 | Weinberger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel R. Weinberger (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) | Daniel R. Weinberger (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to a novel primate specific brain isoform of the potassium channel KCNH2 and genetic association with risk for schizophrenia and response to therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/357416 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/302 (20130101) |
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| US 08871445 | Cong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Le Cong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are vectors and vector systems, some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for selecting specific cells by introducing precise mutations utilizing the CRISPR/Cas system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/259420 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871452 | Lee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard T. Lee (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular conditions. More specifically, the invention relates to isolated molecules that can be used to diagnose and/or treat cardiovascular conditions including cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, stroke, arteriosclerosis, and heart failure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/788922 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 45/06 (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 1/6883 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5041 (20130101) G01N 33/5061 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6887 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) G01N 2800/323 (20130101) G01N 2800/324 (20130101) |
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| US 08871454 | Kohli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rohit Kohli (Mason, Ohio); Stavra A. Xanthakos (Cincinnati, Ohio); Michael V. Miles (Mason, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohit Kohli (Mason, Ohio); Stavra A. Xanthakos (Cincinnati, Ohio); Michael V. Miles (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Diets high in saturated fat and fructose have been implicated in the development of obesity and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in humans. Provided herein are biomarkers, methods, and animal models useful for the investigation and non-invasive detection of NASH, including a non-invasive biomarker that could be used to establish disease severity, follow progression, and evaluate response to treatment in clinical trials for this increasingly prevalent disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/014580 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5735 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/085 (20130101) |
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| US 08871456 | Ting et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alice Y. Ting (Allston, Massachusetts); Marta Fernandez Suarez (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hemanta Baruah (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alice Y. Ting (Allston, Massachusetts); Marta Fernandez Suarez (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hemanta Baruah (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods of use thereof for labeling peptide and proteins in vitro or in vivo. The methods described herein employ lipoic acid ligase or mutants thereof, and lipoic acid analogs recognized by lipoic acid ligase and lipoic acid ligase mutants. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/405169 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 4/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) C12N 9/1241 (20130101) C12N 15/62 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/532 (20130101) G01N 33/533 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/9015 (20130101) |
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| US 08871458 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary G. Schwartz (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Halcyon G. Skinner (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary G. Schwartz (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Halcyon G. Skinner (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of screening for increased risk of fatal prostate cancer in a subject comprises providing a blood sample collected from the subject, and then detecting the presence or absence of an increased level of serum calcium in the sample. An increased level of serum calcium indicates the subject is at increased risk of fatal prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644209 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/42 (20130101) G01J 3/46 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/84 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) |
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| US 08871485 | McKenna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert McKenna (Gainesville, Florida); David N. Silverman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert McKenna (Gainesville, Florida); David N. Silverman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are modified carbonic anhydrase enzymes, and a process of using same for the extraction, production and purification of carbon dioxide gas. More particularly, modified carbonic anhydrase enzymes are used for the production, purification of carbon dioxide and the products of the hydration reaction, hydrogen and bicarbonate ions Also, this technology is used to enhance the production of carbon dioxide in blood or in reverse osmosis desalination to remove carbon dioxide. Specifically, the invention relates to a modified carbonic anhydrase enzyme possessing improved activity and a process whereby immobilized modified carbonic anhydrase contained within a reactor device catalyzes the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805752 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/1493 (20130101) B01D 2251/402 (20130101) B01D 2251/404 (20130101) B01D 2252/103 (20130101) B01D 2255/804 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 3/00 (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 1/527 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08871487 | Stinchcomb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan T. Stinchcomb (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jill A. Livengood (Fort Collins, Colorado); O'Neil Wiggan (Fort Collins, Colorado); Richard Kinney (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge Osorio (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Takeda Vaccines, Inc. (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan T. Stinchcomb (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jill A. Livengood (Fort Collins, Colorado); O'Neil Wiggan (Fort Collins, Colorado); Richard Kinney (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge Osorio (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments herein report methods, compositions and uses for inducing and/or accelerating viral growth. In certain embodiments, methods, compositions and uses generally related to copolymer compositions for inducing viral growth, reducing lag time and/or increasing viral plaque size. In other embodiments, methods, compositions and uses of copolymer compositions can be for inducing flaviviral growth, reducing lag in growth and/or increasing plaque size. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/631629 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/24151 (20130101) |
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| US 08871491 | Wacker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Wacker (Unterengstringen, Switzerland); Michael Kowarik (Zurich, Switzerland); Michael Wetter (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Glycovaxyn AG (Schlieren, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Wacker (Unterengstringen, Switzerland); Michael Kowarik (Zurich, Switzerland); Michael Wetter (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses a novel S. aureus bioconjugate vaccine. More generally, the invention is directed to Gram-positive and other bioconjugate vaccines containing a protein carrier, at least one polysaccharide such as a capsular Gram-positive polysaccharide, and, optionally, an adjuvant or pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The instant invention also includes methods of producing Gram-positive and other bioconjugate vaccines. An N-glycosylated protein is also provided that contains one or more polysaccharides such as Gram-positive polysaccharides. The invention is additionally directed to engineered prokaryotic organisms comprising nucleotide sequences encoding a glycosyltransferase of a first prokaryotic organism and a glycosyltransferase of a second prokaryotic organism. The invention further includes plasmids and prokaryotic cells transformed with plasmids encoding polysaccharides and enzymes which produce an N-glycosylated protein and/or bioconjugate vaccine. Further, the invention is directed to methods of inducing an immune response in a mammal comprising administering said bioconjugate vaccines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/100603 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) A61K 2039/6087 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/034 (20130101) |
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| US 08871499 | Tschumperlin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Tschumperlin (Norfolk, Massachusetts); Fei Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Justin Mih (Mission Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Tschumperlin (Norfolk, Massachusetts); Fei Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Justin Mih (Mission Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-well plate can be loaded with a range of compliant substrates. Commerically-available assays can be used to test cellular responses across a plate with shear modulus from 50 to 51200 Pascals. Cells can be grown in the plates, and can be manipulated and analyzed. Hydrogels can be attached to the bottom of a well. The plates can support the attachment and growth of different cell types and can be compatible with standard 96-well and 384-well plate assays. The mechanical properties of the hydrogels can be reproducible and stable to increase the shelf life of the substrate. The hydrogel can be compatible with growth of a variety of cell types, various attachment ligands such as collagen I, collagen IV, fibronectin, vitronectin, laminin, or RGD peptides and can be coupled to the gel surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/675839 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.400 |
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| US 08871510 | Spangrude et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerald John Spangrude (Salt Lake City, Utah); Birgitta H. Mitchell (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jared Manning (Twin Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald John Spangrude (Salt Lake City, Utah); Birgitta H. Mitchell (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jared Manning (Twin Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes methods for differentiating T cells and NK cells in vitro from hematopoietic stem cells or precursor cells. The technology is directed to methods for the production of selected populations of lymphocytes, such as T cells and NK cells. The availability of such cell populations allows for the complete reconstitution of a depleted, defective or missing lymphocyte population in a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/512988 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0646 (20130101) C12N 2500/38 (20130101) C12N 2501/23 (20130101) C12N 2501/26 (20130101) C12N 2501/42 (20130101) C12N 2501/052 (20130101) C12N 2501/125 (20130101) C12N 2502/99 (20130101) C12N 2502/1394 (20130101) |
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| US 08871711 | Cotsarelis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Cotsarelis (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Oh Sang Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Cotsarelis (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Oh Sang Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for treating hair loss, treating, inhibiting, or suppressing a degenerative skin disorder, treating androgenetic alopecia (AGA), generating new hair follicles (HF), and increasing the size of existing HF. The methods comprise epidermal disruption or administration of wnt, and administration of a fibroblast growth factor-9 polypeptide or another compound that upregulates sonic hedgehog gene signaling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/129100 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/64 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/88 (20130101) |
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| US 08871718 | Khosla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Richard Edward Watts (Lindale, Texas); Matthew John Siegel (Menlo Park, California); Kihang Choi (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Transglutaminase inhibitors and methods of use thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/693804 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/42 (20130101) A61K 31/42 (20130101) A61K 31/421 (20130101) A61K 31/421 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 38/005 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 261/04 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 413/14 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 08871730 | Ge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qing Ge (Santa Cruz, California); Brian H. Johnston (Scotts Valley, California); Mark A. Behlke (Coraville, Iowa); Heini Ilves (Santa Cruz, California); Anne Dallas (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SomaGenics Inc. (Santa Cruz, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Ge (Santa Cruz, California); Brian H. Johnston (Scotts Valley, California); Mark A. Behlke (Coraville, Iowa); Heini Ilves (Santa Cruz, California); Anne Dallas (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the present invention include the production and use of chemically modified RNAi agents (e.g., shRNAs) in gene silencing applications. The chemically modified RNAi agents disclosed herein have reduced immunostimulatory activity, increased serum stability, or both, as compared to a corresponding RNAi agent not having the chemical modification. Compositions containing chemically modified RNAi agents according to aspects of the present invention (including pharmaceutical compositions) and kits containing the same are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/384201 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/318 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/346 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) C12N 2320/53 (20130101) |
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| US 08871733 | Poeschla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric M. Poeschla (Rochester, Minnesota); Roman A. Barraza (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to treating glaucoma, ocular hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and renal diseases. For example, this document provides isolated nucleic acid molecules and viral vectors (e.g., lentiviral vectors) containing isolated nucleic acid molecules. Methods for reducing intraocular pressure as well as symptoms and progression of cardiovascular and renal diseases also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/624383 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871741 | Striker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary E. Striker (New York, New York); Helen Vlassara (New York, New York); Feng Zheng (Middle Village, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary E. Striker (New York, New York); Helen Vlassara (New York, New York); Feng Zheng (Middle Village, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Oral pentosan polysulfate (PPS) compositions treat diseases such as diabetes, inflammation, atherosclerosis. The compositions are also effective in reducing matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/522441 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/737 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 1/025 (20130101) |
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| US 08871746 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kineta Four, LLC (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions for treating arenavirus infections are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions are also disclosed. The novel compounds and compositions are used for treatment of arenavirus infections, which include but are not limited to the following viruses: Junin, Machupo, Guanarito, Sabia, Lassa, Tacaribe, Pichinde, and LCMV. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/293849 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 235/06 (20130101) C07D 235/08 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/04 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08871751 | Shapiro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Shapiro (Urbana, Illinois); Chengjian Mao (Savoy, Illinois); Milu Tresa Cherian (Champaign, Illinois); Nicole M. Patterson (Rockford, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Shapiro (Urbana, Illinois); Chengjian Mao (Savoy, Illinois); Milu Tresa Cherian (Champaign, Illinois); Nicole M. Patterson (Rockford, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure herein relates to nuclear hormone receptors including steroid hormone receptors, for example in connection with estrogen, progesterone, and androgen. Embodiments of compositions and methods are disclosed including such relating to compounds, including substituted theophyllines, capable of functioning as inhibitors of estrogen receptor alpha-mediated gene expression and having the ability to modify cancer cells and treat cancer, including breast cancers and resistant breast cancers, particularly those that are resistant to tamoxifen. In embodiments, methods of inhibiting breast cancer cells and resistant breast cancer cells are provided. In embodiments, a useful inhibitor compound includes TPSF/NSC 97998 and other compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, January 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355949 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/522 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871764 | MacDonald et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy L. MacDonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerry L. Nadler (Charlottesville, Virginia); Peng Cui (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. MacDonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerry L. Nadler (Charlottesville, Virginia); Peng Cui (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Analogs of a Lisofylline (LSF), and synthetic methods for the preparation of such analogs are provided. The analogs of LSF provided have the ability to protect cell viability, particularly the ability to protect pancreatic β-cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/477613 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/502 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 237/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871781 | Lane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred T. Lane (Los Altos, California); David Berk (St. Louis, Missouri); Anna L. Bruckner (Centennial, Colorado); Glenda Louise Swetman (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating lymphatic malformations using a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/689398 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/522 (20130101) A61K 31/522 (20130101) A61K 31/5025 (20130101) A61K 31/5025 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871789 | Kristie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Michael Kristie (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yu Liang (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jodi Vogel (Bethesda, Maryland); David J. Maloney (Point of Rocks, Maryland); Ganesha Rai Bantukallu (Arlington, Virginia); Anton Simeonov (Bethesda, Maryland); Ajit Jadhav (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds that inhibit JMJD2 proteins, including those of the formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined herein or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed is a method of preventing or treating a viral infection of a host, comprising administering to the host an effective amount of an inhibitor of the JMJD2 family of histone demethylases, for example, a compound of the formula (I). The viral infection may be a primary infection, reactivation of a virus after latency in a host, or may be in a mammal that has undergone, is undergoing, or will undergo immunosuppressive therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/747406 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/166 (20130101) A61K 31/194 (20130101) A61K 31/195 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/225 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/56 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/14 (20130101) |
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| US 08871799 | Iadonato et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shawn P. Iadonato (Seattle, Washington); Kristin Bedard (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kineta, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn P. Iadonato (Seattle, Washington); Kristin Bedard (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds and related compositions for the treatment of viral infection, including RNA viral infection, and compounds that can modulate the RIG-I pathway in vertebrate cells, including compounds that can activate the RIG-I pathway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/642823 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/37 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/60 (20130101) |
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| US 08871879 | Ung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Materia, Inc. (Pasadena, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Materia, Inc. (Pasadena, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thay Ung (Los Angeles, California); Yann Schrodi (Pasadena, California); Mark S. Trimmer (Monrovia, California); Andrew Hejl (Pasadena, California); Daniel Sanders (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel organometallic complexes useful as olefin metathesis catalysts. The complexes have an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand and a chelating carbene ligand associated with a Group 8 transition metal center. The molecular structure of the complexes can be altered so as to provide a substantial latency period. The complexes are particularly useful in catalyzing ring closing metathesis of acyclic olefins and ring opening metathesis polymerization of cyclic olefins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/779190 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/171 |
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| US 08871899 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deyun Wang (Elmhurst, New York); Paramjit Arora (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deyun Wang (Elmhurst, New York); Paramjit Arora (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a peptide having one or more stable, internally-constrained HBS α-helices, where the peptide mimics at least a portion of a class I C-peptide helix or at least a portion of a class I N-peptide helix of a viral (e.g., HIV-I) coiled-coil assembly. Methods of inhibiting viral infectivity of a subject by administering these peptides are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/811088 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) |
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| US 08871900 | Okunieff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Okunieff (Gainesville, Florida); Lurong Zhang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Okunieff (Gainesville, Florida); Lurong Zhang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel peptide comprising FGF-P and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/999540 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/1214 (20130101) A61B 17/1215 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 29/16 (20130101) A61L 29/048 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 31/047 (20130101) A61L 2300/25 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/503 (20130101) |
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| US 08871902 | Berzofsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Yi-Hsiang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan); Masaki Terabe (Potomac, Maryland); Ira H. Pastan (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) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Yi-Hsiang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan); Masaki Terabe (Potomac, Maryland); Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | POTE has recently been identified as a tumor antigen expressed in a variety of human cancers, including colon, ovarian, breast, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancer. Described herein are immunogenic POTE polypeptides, including modified POTE polypeptides, that bind MHC class I molecules. The immunogenic POTE polypeptides are capable of inducing an immune response against POTE-expressing tumor cells. Thus, provided herein is a method of eliciting an immune response in a subject, such as a subject having a type of cancer that expresses POTE. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/610421 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) A61K 2039/55538 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2730/10111 (20130101) |
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| US 08871906 | Pastan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ira H. Pastan (Bethesda, Maryland); John Weldon (Bethesda, Maryland); David FitzGerald (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ira H. Pastan (Bethesda, Maryland); John Weldon (Bethesda, Maryland); David FitzGerald (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides mutated, cytotoxic forms of Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE) comprising a furin cleavage sequence conjugated or fused directly to residues 395-613 of PE or variants of that sequence. These minimal forms of PE are smaller than previous cytotoxic forms of PE, reduce non-specific toxicity, and reduce immunogenicity due to domain II or domain Ib of PE. The invention further provides nucleic acids encoding said PEs, chimeric molecules containing them, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/676203 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/30 (20130101) |
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| US 08871915 | Liu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New York University School of Medicine (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University School of Medicine (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuanju Liu (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides modulators of TNF, particularly peptides and their derivatives, particularly GEP peptides, which antagonize TNF and TNF-mediated responses, activity or signaling. The invention provides methods of antagonizing TNF and the modulation of TNF-mediated diseases or responses, including inflammatory diseases and conditions. Compositions of GEP peptides, including in combination with other inflammatory mediators, are provided. Methods of treatment, alleviation, or prevention of TNF-mediated diseases and inflammatory conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel diseases, Chrohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, uveitis, inflammatory lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/739721 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/475 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2333/525 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 08871916 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald Thaddeus Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Eddie Leonard Myers (Munich, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Thaddeus Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Eddie Leonard Myers (Munich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making diazo-compounds, diazonium salts thereof and other protected forms of these compounds. Diazo-compounds are prepared by reaction of a tertiary phosphine reagent carrying a reactive carbonyl group with an azide. The reaction can also generate an acyl triazene which can be converted thermally or by addition of base to form the diazo-compound or the acyl triazene can be isolated. The method is particularly useful for conversion of azides carrying one or more electron withdrawing groups to diazo-compounds. The method can be carried out in aqueous medium under mild conditions and is particularly useful for conversion of azido sugars to diazo-compounds and diazonium salts thereof under physiological conditions. Tertiary phosphine reagents, particularly those that are water-soluble, and precursors for preparation of the reagents are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/715842 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/12 (20130101) C07C 245/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 247/10 (20130101) C07C 247/12 (20130101) C07C 247/14 (20130101) C07C 251/00 (20130101) C07C 271/22 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2103/18 (20130101) C07C 2103/24 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 223/16 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/28 (20130101) C07F 9/5022 (20130101) C07F 9/5325 (20130101) C07F 9/5721 (20130101) |
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| US 08871983 | Svetlov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanislav I. Svetlov (Gainesville, Florida); Anatoliy Vakulenko (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislav I. Svetlov (Gainesville, Florida); Anatoliy Vakulenko (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or analogs thereof, which exhibit anti-tumor activity. The present invention also includes methods for inhibiting the growth of cancer cells by contacting an effective amount of a compound of the present invention with the cancer cells in vitro or in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/057793 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/133 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/28 (20130101) |
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| US 08872102 | Clemmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indian University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Edward Clemmer (Bloomington, Indiana); Michael A Ewing (Bloomington, Indiana); Steven M Zucker (Bloomington, Indiana); Christopher R. P. Conant (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion mobility spectrometer instrument has a drift tube that is partitioned into a plurality of cascaded drift tube segments. A number of electric field activation sources may each be coupled to one or more of the plurality of drift tube segments. A control circuit is configured to control operation of the number of electric field activation sources in a manner that sequentially applies electric fields to the drift tube segments with a activation duration of at least one of the electric field activation sources different than that of the others to allow only ions having a predefined ion mobility or range of ion mobilities to travel through the drift tube. The drift tube segments may define a linear drift tube or a closed drift tube with a continuous ion travel path. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/844901 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08872515 | Sun |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhe Phillip Sun (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhe Phillip Sun (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for applying an RF excitation pulse to the region of interest (ROI) and a plurality of selective gradients to the ROI to elicit MR data pertaining to at least a first MR parameter from the ROI. The system and method also apply at least one diffusion gradient to the ROI to modulate the first MR parameter with a second MR parameter, acquire MR data from the ROI, and reconstruct a parametric map of the ROI using the MR data, wherein the parametric map is weighted based on the first MR parameter and modulated by the second MR parameter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/363527 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56341 (20130101) |
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| US 08872527 | Sturmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan A. Sturmer (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Y. Paik (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan A. Sturmer (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Y. Paik (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, circuit and apparatus for detecting capacitance on a droplet actuator, inter alia, for determining the presence, partial presence or absence of a droplet at an electrode on a droplet actuator by: (a) providing a droplet actuator comprising: (i) a substrate comprising electrodes arranged on the substrate for conducting droplet operations on a surface of the substrate; (ii) a capacitance detection circuit for detecting capacitance at the droplet operations surface at one or more of the electrodes; (b) detecting capacitance at the droplet operations surface at one or more of the electrodes; and (c) determining from the capacitance the presence, partial presence or absence of a droplet at the droplet operations surface at the electrode. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/527208 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/223 (20130101) G01N 27/227 (20130101) G01N 2203/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08873049 | Rolland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jannick P. Rolland (Pittsford, New York); Kevin P. Thompson (Pittsford, New York); Kye-Sung Lee (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jannick P. Rolland (Pittsford, New York); Kevin P. Thompson (Pittsford, New York); Kye-Sung Lee (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-cost optics, broadband, astigmatism-corrected practical spectrometer. An off-the-shelf cylindrical lens is used to remove astigmatism over the full bandwidth, providing better than 0.1 nm spectral resolution and more than 50% throughput over a bandwidth of 400 nm centered at 800 nm. The spectrometer includes a first spherical mirror disposed along an optical path in an off-axis (tilted) orientation; a diffraction grating disposed along the optical axis in a location optically downstream from the first mirror; a second spherical mirror disposed along the optical path in an off-axis orientation in a location optically downstream from the diffraction grating; a cylindrical optic disposed in the optical path; and a detector disposed in the optical path in a location optically downstream from the second spherical mirror. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/695298 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 08873837 | Jahanshahi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami F. Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami F. Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contact-less remote-sensing crack detection and/quantification methodologies are described, which are based on three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction, image processing, and pattern recognition. The systems and methodologies can utilize depth perception for detecting and/or quantifying cracks. These methodologies can provide the ability to analyze images captured from any distance and using any focal length or resolution. This adaptive feature may be especially useful for incorporation into mobile systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or mobile autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic systems such as wheel-based or track-based radio controlled robots, as utilizing such structural inspection methods onto those mobile platforms may allow inaccessible regions to be properly inspected for cracks. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567943 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — 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 9/00624 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0091 (20130101) G06T 2207/20036 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30132 (20130101) |
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| US 08874224 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a flexible circuit electrode array for improved layer adhesions where the metal conductors overlap the polymer insulator. The steps to build the flexible circuit are as follows. Deposit a base polymer layer. Deposit a conductive trace over the base polymer layer. Deposit a top polymer layer over the trace and prepare a void in the top polymer layer smaller than the surface of the trace. Deposit an electrode on the trace through the void with a periphery larger than, and overlapping the void. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/466692 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08874239 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); David Daomin Zhou (Saugus, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Jianing Wei (Valencia, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); David Daomin Zhou (Saugus, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Jianing Wei (Valencia, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cochlear stimulation device comprising an electrode array designed to provide enhanced charge injection capacity necessary for neural stimulation. The electrode array comprises electrodes with high surface area or a fractal geometry and correspondingly high electrode capacitance and low electrical impedance. The resultant electrodes have a robust surface and sufficient mechanical strength to withstand physical stress vital for long term stability. The device further comprises wire traces having a multilayer structure which provides a reduced width for the conducting part of the electrode array. The cochlear prosthesis is attached by a grommet to the cochleostomy that is made from a single piece of biocompatible polymer. The device, designed to achieve optimum neural stimulation by appropriate electrode design, is a significant improvement over commercially available hand-built devices. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267489 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08874380 | Akudugu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Akudugu (Summit, New Jersey); Venkata S. V. P. Neti (Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey); Roger W. Howell (Millington, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Akudugu (Summit, New Jersey); Venkata S. V. P. Neti (Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey); Roger W. Howell (Millington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for predicting the optimal amounts of radiopharmaceutical and/or chemotherapy agents to administer to a patient, by determining the level of saturation of the therapeutic agents in the patient's cells. The method comprises measuring cellular incorporation of the candidate therapeutic agents in a target cell population on a cell-by-cell basis. The method is able to identify an optimal cocktail of therapeutic agents for treatment of a disease. A method of high-throughput drug discovery incorporating this method, and a 2-stage targeting method of treating a disease using this method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/315775 |
| 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 | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5011 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sujit Nanda (Indianapolis, Indiana); Todd S. Taylor (Whiteland, Indiana); Brad Farris (Plainfield, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sujit Nanda (Indianapolis, Indiana); Todd S. Taylor (Whiteland, Indiana); Brad Farris (Plainfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine is disclosed having a compressor, combustor, and turbine and a flow path therethrough. A flow path member is disposed between an inner surface of the flow path and a rotating shaft that couples the compressor and turbine. The flow path member directs a cooling fluid along a path to cool a portion of the gas turbine engine between the inner surface and the rotating shaft. The flow path member is retained to permit radially free motion and can also be retained to permit axially free motion. The flow path member can have feed holes that permit the cooling fluid to pass. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/334974 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/12 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/675 (20130101) |
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| US 08869987 | Lean et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Ashutosh Kole (Sunnyvale, California); Jeonggi Seo (Albany, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Ashutosh Kole (Sunnyvale, California); Jeonggi Seo (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved technique for particle separation is provided. A serpentine structure is utilized in a continuous fluid flow environment to allow for suitable separation of particles to occur in a manner that does not require external application of forces to initiate the separation. The geometry of the serpentine structure and associated forces generated in connection with fluid flow therein suffice. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/599558 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/0087 (20130101) B01D 21/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2221/10 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) |
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| US 08870060 | Jalali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles, California); Keisuke Goda (Los Angeles, California); Kevin Kin-Man Tsia (Ma On Shan, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | A barcode reading apparatus and method in which the spectrum of a probe light is first Fourier-transformed into space, directed upon a barcode, and then Fourier-transformed converting the spectrally encoded barcode pattern to a time domain waveform. In one implementation, the Fourier transformation from the spectrum domain into a spatial domain is performed by a dispersive element, while the Fourier transformation from the spectrally encoded barcode pattern to a time domain waveform is performed by group-velocity dispersion (GVD). The temporally encoded barcode pattern is detected by a photodetector, digitized by a digitizer, and analyzed by a digital signal processor. The invention is applicable to a number of fields which involve the reading of one- and two-dimensional barcodes, displacement sensing, surface measurements, measurement of width and gap, flow cytometry, reading of optical media, presense or absence detection, and other related fields. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/770678 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/14 (20130101) G06K 7/1439 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 7/10712 (20130101) G06K 7/10831 (20130101) |
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| US 08870121 | Ziavras et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Ziavras (Hermosa Beach, California); Richard L. Walton (El Segundo, California); Mark A. Cook (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ziavras (Hermosa Beach, California); Richard L. Walton (El Segundo, California); Mark A. Cook (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuator is configured for transmitting a force or torque to a load. In one example configuration, the actuator includes an input device configured to apply an output force. A backstopping clutch is configured to transmit torque only in the input direction and to prevent back-driving of the input device. An overrunning clutch is configured to include a driven member moved in response to the transmitted torque in the input direction. The load may be moved in response to the driven member, or the load may be moved by a force applied directly to the load. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952915 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 13/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08870618 | Eden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); JeKwon Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea); Brian Chung (Bloomingdale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of the invention can form microtip microplasma devices having the first and second metal microtips and metal oxide in a monolithic, unitary structure. Methods can form arrays that can be flexible, can be arranged in stacks, and can be formed into cylinders, for example, for gas and liquid processing devices, air filters and other applications. A preferred method of forming an array of microtip microplasma devices provides a metal mesh with an array of micro openings therein. Electrode areas of the metal mesh are masked leaving planned connecting metal oxide areas of the metal mesh unmasked. Planned connecting metal oxide areas are electrochemically etched to convert the planned connecting metal oxide areas to metal oxide that encapsulates opposing metal microtips therein. The mask is removed. The electrode areas are electrochemically etched to encapsulate the electrode areas in metal oxide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/971443 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/32 (20130101) B01D 2257/91 (20130101) B01D 2257/104 (20130101) B01D 2258/06 (20130101) B01D 2259/818 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/10 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/32 (20130101) C02F 1/48 (20130101) C02F 1/78 (20130101) C02F 1/4608 (20130101) C02F 1/46109 (20130101) C02F 2001/46133 (20130101) C02F 2001/46152 (20130101) C02F 2303/04 (20130101) Spark Gaps; Overvoltage Arresters Using Spark Gaps; Sparking Plugs; Corona Devices; Generating Ions to be Introduced into Non-enclosed Gases H01T 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/2406 (20130101) H05H 2001/2418 (20130101) H05H 2245/121 (20130101) |
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| US 08870766 | Stivoric et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Stivoric (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eric Teller (San Francisco, California); David Andre (San Francisco, California); Nisarg Vyas (Bopal Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Jonathan Farringdon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Donna Wolf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Pacione (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Suresh Vishnubhatla (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Scott Safier (New York, New York); Raymond Pelletier (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BodyMedia, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Stivoric (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Eric Teller (San Francisco, California); David Andre (San Francisco, California); Nisarg Vyas (Bopal Ahmedabad Gujarat, India); Jonathan Farringdon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Donna Wolf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Pacione (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Suresh Vishnubhatla (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Scott Safier (New York, New York); Raymond Pelletier (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for non-invasively determining parameters related to blood glucose are disclosed. Embodiments are disclosed wherein a wearable sensor device comprises non-invasive sensors generating various sensed data which is then utilized to determine a glucose-related parameter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/291879 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/002 (20130101) A61B 5/0022 (20130101) A61B 5/411 (20130101) A61B 5/0533 (20130101) A61B 5/6824 (20130101) A61B 5/7267 (20130101) A61B 5/7475 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 2562/0219 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/322 (20130101) G06F 19/345 (20130101) G06F 19/3406 (20130101) G06F 19/3437 (20130101) G06F 19/3456 (20130101) G06F 19/3475 (20130101) G06F 19/3481 (20130101) G06F 19/3487 (20130101) |
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| US 08870970 | Altobelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David E. Altobelli (Hollis, New Hampshire); N. Christopher Perry (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKA Products Limited Partnership (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Altobelli (Hollis, New Hampshire); N. Christopher Perry (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic support apparatus having a frame, a dynamic interface, a temperature control mechanism, and a control system. The dynamic interface is capable of changing its geometry and is disposed on the top surface of the frame. The control system is operably connected to the dynamic interface and controls the changing geometry of the dynamic interface. There is also a temperature control mechanism disposed on the top surface of the frame for maintaining a comfortable temperature and moisture environment between the apparatus and the user's body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/026971 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/68 (20130101) A61F 2/70 (20130101) A61F 2/602 (20130101) A61F 2/7843 (20130101) A61F 5/012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/501 (20130101) A61F 2002/5012 (20130101) A61F 2002/5032 (20130101) A61F 2002/7615 (20130101) A61F 2007/006 (20130101) |
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| US 08871071 | Pollack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for manipulating droplets. The methods include providing the droplet on a surface comprising an array of electrodes and a substantially co-planer array of reference elements, wherein the droplet is disposed on a first one of the electrodes, and the droplet at least partially overlaps a second one of the electrodes and an intervening one of the reference elements disposed between the first and second electrodes. The methods further include activating the first and second electrodes to spread at least a portion of the droplet across the second electrode and deactivating the first electrode to move the droplet from the first electrode to the second electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/759416 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0076 (20130101) B01F 13/0084 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/161 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) Typewriters; Selective Printing Mechanisms,, i.e Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From a Forme; Correction of Typographical Errors B41J 2002/14395 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/005 (20130101) |
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| US 08871072 | Howell, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter B. Howell, Jr. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter B. Howell, Jr. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Flow step focusing isolates and concentrates a molecule of interest by flowing a liquid comprising a molecule of interest through a main channel having an inlet and an outlet with application of a first pressure at the inlet; applying a voltage along the channel during the flowing, wherein the voltage is configured to have a polarity such that it drives the molecule of interest in a direction opposite the flow of the liquid; controlling the first pressure and/or the voltage in a manner so as to trap and concentrate the molecule of interest in a region of the main channel; and removing the concentrated molecule of interest from the channel by recovering a portion of the liquid from a side channel diverging from the main channel, wherein the side channel is maintained at a pressure lower than the first pressure. Also disclosed is an apparatus for such. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625585 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4473 (20130101) G01N 27/44795 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871198 | Emig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charlotte A Emig (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Catherine J Trumpower (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Vivienne S Marshall (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stemnion, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charlotte A Emig (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Catherine J Trumpower (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Vivienne S Marshall (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to methods for the treatment of wounds. Such methods utilize novel compositions, including but not limited to amnion-derived multipotent cells (herein referred to as AMP cells), conditioned media derived therefrom (herein referred to as amnion-derived cellular cytokine suspension or ACCS), cell lysates derived therefrom, cell products derived therefrom, each alone or in combination. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/724094 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0605 (20130101) C12N 5/0629 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2502/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871397 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A. Alan Burke (North Kingstown, Rhode Island); Louis G. Carreiro (Westport, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Alan Burke (North Kingstown, Rhode Island); Louis G. Carreiro (Westport, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-contained fuel system for use with a high temperature fuel cell is described to address containment of carbon dioxide evolution. The system utilizes a slurry containing calcium carbide and calcium hydride that is pumped into a water reservoir. The resulting hydrolysis reaction generates acetylene, hydrogen and water-soluble calcium hydroxide. The acetylene and hydrogen are catalytically converted to synthesis gas, which is used by a fuel cell to generate electricity. Carbon dioxide exhaust from the fuel cell is reacted with calcium hydroxide to form a storable solid, calcium carbonate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/078217 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871446 | Hong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jong Wook Hong (Pasadena, California); Vincent Studer (Paris, France); W. French Anderson (San Marino, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Jared Leadbetter (Altadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Wook Hong (Pasadena, California); Vincent Studer (Paris, France); W. French Anderson (San Marino, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Jared Leadbetter (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid from cells and viruses sampled from a variety of environments may purified and expressed utilizing microfluidic techniques. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, individual or small groups of cells or viruses may be isolated in microfluidic chambers by dilution, sorting, and/or segmentation. The isolated cells or viruses may be lysed directly in the microfluidic chamber, and the resulting nucleic acid purified by exposure to affinity beads. Subsequent elution of the purified nucleic acid may be followed by ligation and cell transformation, all within the same microfluidic chip. In one specific application, cell isolation, lysis, and nucleic acid purification may be performed utilizing a highly parallelized microfluidic architecture to construct gDNA and cDNA libraries. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678946 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871455 | Blakely et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Blakely (Silver Spring, Maryland); Natalia Ossetrova (Sterling, Virginia); Marcy Grace (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Alexandra Miller (Hyattsville, Maryland); Jean Mulimbi Muderhwa (San Antonio, Texas); Glen Manglapus (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Blakely (Silver Spring, Maryland); Natalia Ossetrova (Sterling, Virginia); Marcy Grace (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Alexandra Miller (Hyattsville, Maryland); Jean Mulimbi Muderhwa (San Antonio, Texas); Glen Manglapus (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are provided for assessing radiation injury and exposure in a subject. The methods comprise measuring the levels of at least two (2) protein biomarkers from different biological pathways and correlating the levels with an assessment of radiation injury and exposure. Additional use of peripheral blood cell counts and serum enzyme biomarkers, evaluated in the early time frame after a suspected radiation exposure, and use of integrated multiple parameter triage tools to enhance radiation exposure discrimination and assessment are also provided. The information obtained from such methods can be used by a clinician to accurately assess the extent of radiation injury/exposure in the subject, and thus will provide a valuable tool for determining treatment protocols on a subject by subject basis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/304566 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0004 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/248 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56972 (20130101) G01N 2333/82 (20130101) G01N 2333/928 (20130101) G01N 2333/4737 (20130101) G01N 2333/5412 (20130101) G01N 2800/40 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871483 | Atanassov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Plamen B Atanassov (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Claudia W Narvaez Villarrubia (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sofiya Malinova Babanova (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Plamen B Atanassov (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Claudia W Narvaez Villarrubia (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sofiya Malinova Babanova (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides multi-walled carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) displaying catalytic enzymes bound to the nanotube sidewalls and devices, such as electrodes, incorporating these catalytic enzyme-bound CNTs (cebCNTs). |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/136269 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/9008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871497 | Markin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rodney S. Markin (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney S. Markin (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for automating the handling and testing of microbiological specimens are provided. A portable specimen collection vehicle (SCV) is provided which comprises a protective housing, a specimen chamber for receiving a biospecimen sample, a plurality of culturing chambers each for receiving a portion of the biospecimen sample and each containing a different culture medium, a system of fluid ducts connecting the specimen chamber to each of the culturing chambers, and an actuator that facilitates flow of portions of the biospecimen sample from the specimen chamber through the system of fluid ducts and into each of the culturing chambers, wherein biological organisms in the biospecimen begin to grow in one or more of the culturing chambers and cultured portions of the biospecimen sample can be withdrawn selectively from the apparatus. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/013746 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/18 (20130101) C12M 23/08 (20130101) C12M 23/28 (20130101) C12M 23/34 (20130101) C12M 23/40 (20130101) C12M 23/42 (20130101) C12M 23/44 (20130101) C12M 23/50 (20130101) C12M 23/52 (20130101) C12M 23/54 (20130101) C12M 23/58 (20130101) C12M 27/14 (20130101) C12M 33/06 (20130101) C12M 41/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/04 (20130101) G01N 2035/0479 (20130101) G01N 2035/0481 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871554 | Hill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig M. Hill (Warrenton, Virginia); Andrew T. S. Pomerene (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig M. Hill (Warrenton, Virginia); Andrew T. S. Pomerene (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating butt-coupled electro-absorptive modulators is disclosed. A butt-coupled electro-absorptive modulator with minimal dislocations in the electro-absorptive material is produced by adding a dielectric spacer for lining the coupling region before epitaxially growing the SiGe or other electro-absorptive material. It has been determined that during the SiGe growth, the current process has exposed single crystal silicon at the bottom of the hole and exposed amorphous silicon on the sides. SiGe growth on the amorphous silicon is expected to have more dislocations than single crystal silicon. There should also be dislocations or fissures where the SiGe growth from the each nucleation source finally join. Thus, a dielectric sidewall can protect an exposed waveguide face from any etching from an aggressive surface preparation prior to epi growth. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/523801 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871556 | Preble et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kyma Technologies, Inc. (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kyma Technologies, Inc. (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Preble (Raleigh, North Carolina); Lianghong Liu (Carey, North Carolina); Andrew D. Hanser (Olsmar, Florida); N. Mark Williams (Raleigh, North Carolina); Xueping Xu (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for making a GaN article, an epitaxial nitride layer is deposited on a single-crystal substrate. A 3D nucleation GaN layer is grown on the epitaxial nitride layer by HVPE under a substantially 3D growth mode. A GaN transitional layer is grown on the 3D nucleation layer by HVPE under a condition that changes the growth mode from the substantially 3D growth mode to a substantially 2D growth mode. A bulk GaN layer is grown on the transitional layer by HVPE under the substantially 2D growth mode. A polycrystalline GaN layer is grown on the bulk GaN layer to form a GaN/substrate bi-layer. The GaN/substrate bi-layer may be cooled from the growth temperature to an ambient temperature, wherein GaN material cracks laterally and separates from the substrate, forming a free-standing article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109171 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02595 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871893 | Phillips et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott T. Phillips (State College, Pennsylvania); Wanji Seo (State College, Pennsylvania); Jessica Robbins (State College, Pennsylvania); Michael Olah (State College, Pennsylvania); Kyle Schmid (Riverside, Pennsylvania); Anthony Michael DiLauro (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Phillips (State College, Pennsylvania); Wanji Seo (State College, Pennsylvania); Jessica Robbins (State College, Pennsylvania); Michael Olah (State College, Pennsylvania); Kyle Schmid (Riverside, Pennsylvania); Anthony Michael DiLauro (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | We disclose methods and compositions for preparation of stimuli-responsive plastics that are capable of responding to chemical and/or physical signals in their environment. In one embodiment the plastics consist of patterned mixtures of poly(phthalaldehyde) polymers in which each polymer contains a different end-capping group (also called a “trigger”), responsive to a different signal. Other embodiments use different polymers and different triggers. The plastics may be homogeneous in composition, but each polymer within the plastic is capable of responding to a different signal and depolymerizing once this signal reacts with the trigger. This process of depolymerization enables the plastic to alter its physical features non-linearly to external signals: i.e., the degree of change in physical form is much larger than the intensity of the initial signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/104553 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 12/08 (20130101) C08F 20/10 (20130101) C08F 20/44 (20130101) C08F 20/56 (20130101) C08F 26/06 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 6/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 63/91 (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 161/02 (20130101) Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 161/02 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 31/22 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872018 | Breen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc L. Breen (Long Beach, California); Ray A. Stribling (Redondo Beach, California); Andrew R. Streett (San Clemente, California); Darren S. Cokin (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc L. Breen (Long Beach, California); Ray A. Stribling (Redondo Beach, California); Andrew R. Streett (San Clemente, California); Darren S. Cokin (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible space structure such as a solar array is composed of multiple solar cell modules (SCMs) each supporting an arrangement of solar cells on a frontside layer and incorporating a backside layer with a surface opposite from the frontside layer having a conductive coating. A selected portion of the SCMs have structural ground extension harnesses intermediate the frontside layer and backside layer. Conductive tapes secure vertically adjacent SCMs by attachment to the conductive coating and electrical jumpers interconnect the structural ground extension harnesses across gapped hinge lines of laterally adjacent SCMs. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/102912 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/44 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 136/292 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872134 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/330063 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872159 | Kub et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultraviolet or Extreme Ultraviolet and/or visible detector apparatus and fabrication processes are presented, in which the detector includes a thin graphene electrode structure disposed over a semiconductor surface to provide establish a potential in the semiconductor material surface and to collect photogenerated carriers, with a first contact providing a top side or bottom side connection for the semiconductor structure and a second contact for connection to the graphene layer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/630257 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14643 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14692 (20130101) H01L 27/14694 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872279 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David R. Greenberg (White Plains, New York); Jean-Olivier Plouchart (New York, New York); Alberto Valdes-Garcia (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Greenberg (White Plains, New York); Jean-Olivier Plouchart (New York, New York); Alberto Valdes-Garcia (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical contact structure distributes current along a length thereof. The electrical contact structure includes a plurality of n metal rectangles on n levels of metal. The rectangle on one metal level is at least as wide in width and vertically covers in width the rectangle on the metal level immediately below. The rectangle on one metal level is shorter in length than and substantially aligned at a first end with the rectangle on the metal level immediately below. Rectangle first ends are substantially aligned. Features of an exemplary FET transistor of this invention are a source and drain terminal electrical contact structure, a multi-level metal ring connecting gate rectangles on both ends, and a wider-than-minimum gate-to-gate spacing. The invention is useful, for example, in an electromigration-compliant, high performance transistor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/347851 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/4824 (20130101) H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/4238 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/14 (20130101) H01L 2924/30105 (20130101) |
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| US 08872281 | Coolbaugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas D. Coolbaugh (Highland, New York); Jeffrey B. Johnson (Essex Junction, Vermont); Peter J. Lindgren (Essex Junction, Vermont); Xuefeng Lie (South Burlington, Vermont); James S. Nakos (Essex Junction, Vermont); Bradley A. Omer (Fairfax, Vermont); Robert M. Rassel (Colchester, Vermont); David C. Sheridan (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas D. Coolbaugh (Highland, New York); Jeffrey B. Johnson (Essex Junction, Vermont); Peter J. Lindgren (Essex Junction, Vermont); Xuefeng Lie (South Burlington, Vermont); James S. Nakos (Essex Junction, Vermont); Bradley A. Omer (Fairfax, Vermont); Robert M. Rassel (Colchester, Vermont); David C. Sheridan (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A trench contact silicide is formed on an inner wall of a contact trench that reaches to a buried conductive layer in a semiconductor substrate to reduce parasitic resistance of a reachthrough structure. The trench contact silicide is formed at the bottom, on the sidewalls of the trench, and on a portion of the top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The trench is subsequently filled with a middle-of-line (MOL) dielectric. A contact via may be formed on the trench contact silicide. The trench contact silicide may be formed through a single silicidation reaction with a metal layer or through multiple silicidation reactions with multiple metal layers. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/570737 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/743 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/76224 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872360 | Chow 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) | Jerry M. Chow (White Plains, New York); Jay M. Gambetta (Yorktown Heights, New York); Seth T. Merkel (Santa Monica, California); Chad T. Rigetti (Brooklyn, New York); Matthias Steffen (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes a housing, at least two qubits disposed in the housing and a resonator disposed in the housing and coupled to the at least two qubits, wherein the at least two qubits are maintained at a fixed frequency and are statically coupled to one another via the resonator, wherein energy levels |03> and |12> are closely aligned, wherein a tuned microwave signal applied to the qubit activates a two-qubit phase interaction. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833413 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 49/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872544 | Gill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennette Delaine Gill (Carrboro, North Carolina); Montek Singh (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, pipeline stages, and computer readable media for advanced asynchronous pipeline circuits are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a configurable system for constructing asynchronous application specific integrated data pipeline circuits. The system includes multiple modular circuit stages that are connectable with each other using transitional signaling and with other circuit elements to form multi-stage asynchronous application-specific integrated data pipeline circuits for asynchronously passing data through a series of stages based on a behavior implemented by each stage. The modular circuit stages each include sets of logic gates connected to each other for implementing the behaviors, the behaviors including at least one of conditional split, conditional select, conditional join, merge without arbitration, and stage arbitration. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202814 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872595 | Kaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger D. Kaul (Skyesville, Maryland); Jeffrey S. Pulskamp (Leesburg, Virginia); Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland); Sarah Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger D. Kaul (Skyesville, Maryland); Jeffrey S. Pulskamp (Leesburg, Virginia); Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland); Sarah Bedair (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A binary bi-phase shift modulator having an input piezoelectric transducer and an output piezoelectric transducer connected in series between a radio frequency input and a radio frequency output. A fixed DC pole voltage having a first polarity is connected to one of the transducers. A DC switched pole voltage is connected to the other transducer which switches between the pole voltage of the first polarity and a pole voltage of the opposite polarity in accordance with a binary data signal. The polarity of the radio frequency input relative to the radio frequency output varies as a function of the polarity of the DC switched pole voltage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/609623 |
| ART UNIT | 2843 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Modulation H03C 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872690 | Inamdar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amol Inamdar (Elmsford, New York); Deepnarayan Gupta (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amol Inamdar (Elmsford, New York); Deepnarayan Gupta (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Superconductor analog-to-digital converters (ADC) offer high sensitivity and large dynamic range. One approach to increasing the dynamic range further is with a subranging architecture, whereby the output of a coarse ADC is converted back to analog and subtracted from the input signal, and the residue signal fed to a fine ADC for generation of additional significant bits. This also requires a high-gain broadband linear amplifier, which is not generally available within superconductor technology. In a preferred embodiment, a distributed digital fluxon amplifier is presented, which also integrates the functions of integration, filtering, and flux subtraction. A subranging ADC design provides two ADCs connected with the fluxon amplifier and subtractor circuitry that would provide a dynamic range extension by about 30-35 dB. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/482266 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872693 | Malas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A Malas (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as respresented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A Malas (Kettering, Ohio); Krishna Pasala (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An information theoretic method for testing and/or validating the suitability of a multi-radar signature database to be used on radar systems having automatic target recognition. The database may include measured data and/or modeled synthetic data. The technique allows measured data to be compared to the synthetic data using modal mutual information. The present invention further includes an information theoretic method for real time calculation of automatic target recognition using modal mutual information calculation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/693079 |
| 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 7/418 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872926 | Jelinek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota); Sharath Venkatesha (Golden Valley, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota); Sharath Venkatesha (Golden Valley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A flashless image acquisition system that includes a tandem imaging device having a tandem field of view and comprising a velocity vector estimate imaging device coupled to an object imaging device; and a peripheral imaging device having a peripheral field of view wider than the tandem field of view and configured to acquire real-time information related to positions of a moving object, wherein the real-time information is provided to the tandem imaging device, further wherein the velocity vector estimate imaging device is configured to provide in-exposure velocity vector estimates to control the object imaging device is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039932 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2328 (20130101) H04N 5/23258 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/23261 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873029 | Wilfinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Wilfinger (Palm Harbor, Florida); William E. Bailey (Trinity, Florida); Carl Wingard (Oldsmar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A coaxial gyro accelerometer device in a semiconductor substrate for simultaneously sensing coaxial linear and rotational forces. An exemplary device includes a resonating cantilever beam within a substrate and a package having a resonating cavity. The package supports the substrate while allowing the beam to resonate. The substrate also includes a piezoresistor driver, a piezoresistor sensor, and a semiconductor interferometric optical gyro. The piezoresistor driver and sensor are incorporated within the beam. The driver electrothermally resonates the beam. The sensor piezoresistively senses a signal that relates to an acceleration force out-of-plane of the beam. A waveguide of the semiconductor interferometric optical gyro is incorporated in the substrate around the beam. The gyro senses rotational motion about the axis that is the same as the acceleration vector (out-of-plane of the beam). The gyro also includes a laser source and a light detector. The beam is formed contiguously from the semiconductor substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625699 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873035 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ye Yang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Olusola O. Soyemi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shear (Northbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Yang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Olusola O. Soyemi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shear (Northbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We disclose measurement systems and methods for measuring analytes in target regions of samples that also include features overlying the target regions. The systems include: (a) a light source; (b) a detection system; (c) a set of at least first, second, and third light ports which transmit light from the light source to a sample and receive and direct light reflected from the sample to the detection system, generating a first set of data including information corresponding to both an internal target within the sample and features overlying the internal target, and a second set of data including information corresponding to features overlying the internal target; and (d) a processor configured to remove information characteristic of the overlying features from the first set of data using the first and second sets of data to produce corrected information representing the internal target. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/021065 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 5/6824 (20130101) A61B 5/14535 (20130101) A61B 5/14539 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/49 (20130101) G01N 21/274 (20130101) G01N 21/359 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/3155 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873061 | Wells et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan P. Wells (Marina Del Rey, California); James C. Camparo (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods measure a physical parameter of a first substance having an absorption feature that varies based on the physical parameter. A tunable-frequency laser may transmit a first laser beam through the first substance and a second laser beam through a second substance having an isoclinic point. A first output is based on an intensity of the first laser beam transmitted through the first substance, and a second output is based on an intensity of the second laser beam transmitted through the second substance. Controller circuitry locks a first frequency of the first laser beam to the absorption feature based on the first output, and locks a second frequency of the second laser beam to the isoclinic point based on the second output. Measurement circuitry calculates the physical parameter of the first substance based on a difference between the first and second frequencies. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/019235 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 11/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873168 | Boone |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley G. Boone (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley G. Boone (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for concentrating solar radiation onto a space debris object to vaporize includes a focusing system, an object tracking system and a positioning system. The focusing system has a total focal length fT, and includes a first focusing device and a second focusing device. The first focusing devices change from a compact state to a deployed state, and the compact surface area is less than the deployed surface area. The object tracking system determines the location of the object. The positioning system orients the focusing system such that solar radiation focuses on the space debris object. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/330602 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/44 (20130101) B64G 1/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64G 1/222 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/085 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin A. Cray (West Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin A. Cray (West Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method is provided that utilizes sonar array discontinuities for increasing the directivity gain of a sonar system by increasing the ratio of trace wavelengths (replicated) to the length of a fixed array aperture. Impedance discontinuities, or blocking masses, are embedded in a matrix material of fixed length to create Bragg scattered longitudinal displacements of a wavelength. The longitudinal displacements are induced by an incident acoustic plane wave. This creates longitudinal replicas of the displacements, shifted in wave number, creating a scaled acoustic trace wavelength. The replicated trace wavelength is sampled and resolved, thereby increasing the directivity gain of a sonar system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/765883 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 3/802 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 31/006 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873810 | McCloskey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott McCloskey (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott McCloskey (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A feature-based method and system for blur estimation in eye images. A blur estimation can be performed from eye/iris images in order to produce de-blurred images that are more useful for biometric identification. The eye/iris region, in particular the edge between the iris and pupil regions, can be utilized. The pattern of shutter motion or a characterization of the optical system can be utilized. By capturing a burst of images, or a video stream, one can use eye position in the images before and after a given capture to predict the motion of the eye within that capture. Because the before/after image frames need only contain the information necessary to locate the eye, and need not contain sufficient information to perform matching, the capture of these images can be accomplished with a wider range of settings. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421263 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — 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 9/00604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873883 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chao Zhang (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Peter Jeffrey Burt (Princeton, New Jersey); Gooitzen Sieman van der Wal (Hopwell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for fusing images taken by a plurality of cameras is disclosed, comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of images of the same scene taken by the plurality of cameras; generating Laplacian pyramid images for each source image of the plurality of images; applying contrast normalization to the Laplacian pyramids images; performing pixel-level fusion on the Laplacian pyramid images based on a local salience measure that reduces aliasing artifacts to produce one salience-selected Laplacian pyramid image for each pyramid level; and combining the salience-selected Laplacian pyramid images into a fused image. Applying contrast normalization further comprises, for each Laplacian image at a given level: obtaining an energy image from the Laplacian image; determining a gain factor that is based on at least the energy image and a target contrast; and multiplying the Laplacian image by a gain factor to produce a normalized Laplacian image. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/774687 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/4061 (20130101) G06T 5/002 (20130101) G06T 5/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/28 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/3653 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873961 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ying Luo (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California); Kannan Raj (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Luo (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California); Kannan Raj (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical de-multiplexer (de-MUX) that includes an optical device that images and diffracts an optical signal using a reflective geometry is described, where a free spectral range (FSR) of the optical device associated with a given diffraction order abuts FSRs associated with adjacent diffraction orders. Moreover, the channel spacings within diffraction orders and between adjacent diffraction orders are equal to the predefined channel spacing associated with the optical signal. As a consequence, the optical device has a comb-filter output spectrum, which reduces a tuning energy of the optical device by eliminating spectral gaps between diffraction orders of the optical device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/205879 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/2931 (20130101) G02B 6/29308 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874281 | Kolodgie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shawn M. Kolodgie (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Michael J. Lavery (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Michael W. Lim (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Nicholas E. McCready (Colonial Beach, Virginia); Xavier Melendez (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Ashley R. Noble (Spotsylvania, Virginia); Ryan M. Ragsdale (King George, Virginia); Matthew Serbinski (Ruther Glen, Virginia); William Howard Thomas, II (King George, Virginia); Brian Thomas McLintock (West Jefferson, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn M. Kolodgie (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Michael J. Lavery (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Michael W. Lim (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Nicholas E. McCready (Colonial Beach, Virginia); Xavier Melendez (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Ashley R. Noble (Spotsylvania, Virginia); Ryan M. Ragsdale (King George, Virginia); Matthew Serbinski (Ruther Glen, Virginia); William Howard Thomas, II (King George, Virginia); Brian Thomas McLintock (West Jefferson, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for receiving sensor information by a plurality of motor vehicles with respect to sensor information regarding locations of objects; sharing the sensor information by the plurality of motor vehicles; displaying the shared sensor information on a user interface on each of the plurality of motor vehicles; and controlling the receiving, sharing, and displaying the sensor information with a software library. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/374183 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874288 | Siddiqui |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaiser Siddiqui (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided, for displaying dynamically updated weather information for a vehicle using a computer system comprising a processor and a memory. A table is stored in the memory, the table defining, for a predetermined plurality of different weather conditions, a corresponding predetermined plurality of sets of visually distinguishable icon settings, wherein each weather condition corresponds to a corresponding respective set of icon settings, the respective set of icon settings defining the appearance of a first weather icon configured to appear on a display in operable communication with the processor, wherein the appearance of the weather icon, by itself, is sufficient to convey at least one weather condition. The appearance of the first icon is dynamically updated, during at least a portion of the travel by the vehicle along its travel path, to correspond to changes in the first set of weather data. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/922766 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 23/005 (20130101) Meteorology G01W 2001/003 (20130101) G01W 2001/006 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/00 (20130101) G08G 5/0013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874377 | Sickenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Sickenberger (Bel Air, Maryland); Richard D. Sickenberger (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Sickenberger (Bel Air, Maryland); Richard D. Sickenberger (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting biological aerosols using a photon counting technique to determine the presence of particles is described. A Schmitt trigger is used to prevent over counting of particle events and for greater stability and noise immunity. An alarm determination is made using time-based statistical data derived from the observed fluorescent and scattered photon data. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380366 |
| 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 | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874496 | Lazar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aurel A. Lazar (New York, New York); Yiyin Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for reconstructing a signal encoded with a time encoding machine (TEM) using a recurrent neural network including receiving a TEM-encoded signal, processing the TEM-encoded signal, and reconstructing the TEM-encoded signal with a recurrent neural network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948615 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/82 (20130101) H03M 3/502 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874498 | Modha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to unsupervised, supervised and reinforced learning via spiking computation. The neural network comprises a plurality of neural modules. Each neural module comprises multiple digital neurons such that each neuron in a neural module has a corresponding neuron in another neural module. An interconnection network comprising a plurality of edges interconnects the plurality of neural modules. Each edge interconnects a first neural module to a second neural module, and each edge comprises a weighted synaptic connection between every neuron in the first neural module and a corresponding neuron in the second neural module. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/235342 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874616 | Coffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thayne Richard Coffman (Cedar Park, Texas); Jonathan William Mugan (Buda, Texas); Eric John McDermid (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 21CT, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thayne Richard Coffman (Cedar Park, Texas); Jonathan William Mugan (Buda, Texas); Eric John McDermid (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for fusing interaction data, such as intelligence data, comprising, embodying collections of interaction data from different interaction data sources in interaction graphs, defining a plurality of mappings of identifiers to entities, associating each mapping with a fused interaction graph, and identifying an optimal mapping by evaluation of compatibility of identifier attributes, mutual information across interaction data sources, and/or fit with one or more behavior models. Edges in the fused graph can be collapsed. Also claimed are a computer system and a computer-readable medium for fusing interaction data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546954 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/798 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874719 | Burnett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Burnett (Prior Lake, Minnesota); Deborah K. Charan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Fabio Pozzo (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Ranga Ramanujan (Hamel, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes a context aware scalable dynamic network whereby network information concerning network elements in an untrusted (Black) network are gathered by network sensors, stored at a network sensor collector, and sent to another network sensor collector in a trusted (Red) network through a one-way guard. At the Red network, the network information from the Black network may be combined with network information from one or more Red networks. The combined network information may then be used to visualize a cross-domain network topology of both Red and Black networks, and to implement network management functions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/218713 |
| ART UNIT | 2451 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08869542 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiming Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Sheng-Guo Lu (State College, Pennsylvania); Xinyu Li (State College, Pennsylvania); Lee Gorny (State College, Pennsylvania); Jiping Cheng (State College, Pennsylvania); Bret P. Neese (Somerset, New Jersey); Baojin Chu (Rapid City, South Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiming Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Sheng-Guo Lu (State College, Pennsylvania); Xinyu Li (State College, Pennsylvania); Lee Gorny (State College, Pennsylvania); Jiping Cheng (State College, Pennsylvania); Bret P. Neese (Somerset, New Jersey); Baojin Chu (Rapid City, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Cooling devices (i.e., refrigerators or heat pumps) based on polymers which exhibit a temperature change upon application or removal of an electrical field or voltage, (e.g., fluoropolymers or crosslinked fluoropolymers that exhibit electrocaloric effect). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/844335 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25B 2321/001 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 30/66 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08869770 | Bazyn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy Bazyn (Chillicothe, Illinois); Christopher Gehrke (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Bazyn (Chillicothe, Illinois); Christopher Gehrke (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct injection compression ignition internal combustion engine includes a fuel system having a nozzle extending into a cylinder of the engine and a plurality of spray orifices formed in the nozzle. Each of the spray orifices has an inner diameter dimension of about 0.09 mm or less, and define inter-orifice angles between adjacent spray orifice center axes of about 36° or greater such that spray plumes of injected fuel from each of the spray orifices combust within the cylinder according to a non-sooting lifted flame and gas entrainment combustion pattern. Related methodology is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162652 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion Piston Engines; Combustion Engines in General F02B 1/12 (20130101) F02B 1/14 (20130101) F02B 3/06 (20130101) F02B 23/0651 (20130101) F02B 23/0669 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02B 23/0684 (20130101) F02B 23/0696 (20130101) F02B 2275/14 (20130101) Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 61/182 (20130101) F02M 63/0225 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/123 (20130101) Y02T 10/125 (20130101) |
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| US 08869830 | Tonkovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anna Lee Tonkovich (Dublin, Ohio); Ravi Arora (New Albany, Ohio); David Kilanowski (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Velocys, Inc. (Plain City, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Lee Tonkovich (Dublin, Ohio); Ravi Arora (New Albany, Ohio); David Kilanowski (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes features that can be used to control flow to an array of microchannels. The invention also describes methods in which a process stream is distributed to plural microchannels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/304279 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/0807 (20130101) B01F 5/0475 (20130101) B01F 5/0646 (20130101) B01F 5/0647 (20130101) B01F 5/0655 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/0086 (20130101) B01J 2219/00783 (20130101) B01J 2219/00835 (20130101) B01J 2219/00869 (20130101) B01J 2219/00873 (20130101) B01J 2219/00889 (20130101) B01J 2219/00891 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 9/0275 (20130101) F28F 2260/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08869914 | Zediker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Foro Energy Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foro Energy, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado); Charles C. Rinzler (Boston, Massachusetts); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Yeshaya Koblick (Sharon, Massachusetts); Joel F. Moxley (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Workover and completion systems, devices and methods for utilizing 10 kW or more laser energy transmitted deep into the earth with the suppression of associated nonlinear phenomena. Systems and devices for the laser workover and completion of a borehole in the earth. These systems and devices can deliver high power laser energy down a deep borehole, while maintaining the high power to perform laser workover and completion operations in such boreholes deep within the earth. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800820 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 7/14 (20130101) E21B 7/15 (20130101) E21B 10/60 (20130101) E21B 21/103 (20130101) E21B 29/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 43/11 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mikro Systems, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mikro Systems, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia); Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A serpentine coolant flow path is formed by inner walls in a cavity between pressure and suction side walls of a turbine airfoil, the cavity partitioned by one or more transverse partitions into a plurality of continuous serpentine cooling flow streams each having a respective coolant inlet. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/942782 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/187 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/185 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) F05D 2260/22141 (20130101) |
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| US 08871051 | Rector et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirk Davin Rector (Santa Cruz, New Mexico); Marcel Lucas (Pullman, Washington); Gregory Lawrence Wagner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David Bryan Kimball (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan Kloek Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk Davin Rector (Santa Cruz, New Mexico); Marcel Lucas (Pullman, Washington); Gregory Lawrence Wagner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David Bryan Kimball (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Susan Kloek Hanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A mild inexpensive process for treating lignocellulosic biomass involves oxidative delignification of wood using an aqueous solution prepared by dissolving a catalytic amount of manganese (III) acetate into water and adding hydrogen peroxide. Within 4 days and without agitation, the solution was used to convert poplar wood sections into a fine powder-like delignified, cellulose rich materials that included individual wood cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/426420 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/76 |
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| US 08871078 | Concepcion Corbea et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier Jesus Concepcion Corbea (Upton, New York); Zuofeng Chen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jonah Wesley Jurss (Berkeley, California); Joseph L. Templeton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Paul Hoertz (Morrisville, North Carolina); Thomas J. Meyer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides ruthenium or osmium complexes and their uses as a catalyst for catalytic water oxidation. Another aspect of the invention provides an electrode and photo-electrochemical cells for electrolysis of water molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/958843 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/16 (20130101) B01J 31/183 (20130101) B01J 31/1815 (20130101) B01J 2531/821 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0053 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) C25B 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 3/04 (20130101) C25B 11/04 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/366 (20130101) |
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| US 08871338 | Spadaccini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Jonathan Hopkins (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Jonathan Hopkins (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal expansion-managed lattice structure having a plurality of unit cells each having flexure bearing-mounted tabs supported on a base and actuated by thermal expansion of an actuator having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than the base and arranged so that the tab is inwardly displaced into a base cavity. The flexure bearing-mounted tabs are connected to other flexure-bearing-mounted tabs of adjacent unit cells so that the adjacent unit cells are spaced from each other to accommodate thermal expansion of individual unit cells while maintaining a desired bulk thermal expansion coefficient of the lattice structure as a whole. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/607640 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 3/08 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 59/21 (20130101) |
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| US 08871346 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Wood particles having fibers aligned in a grain, wherein: the wood particles are characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L; the L×H dimensions define two side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers; the W×H dimensions define two cross-grain end surfaces characterized individually as aligned either normal to the grain or oblique to the grain; the L×W dimensions define two substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces; and, a majority of the W×H surfaces in the mixture of wood particles have end checking. |
| FILED | Monday, December 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/726442 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
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| US 08871374 | Vaughey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Vaughey (Elmhurst, Illinois); Andrew Jansen (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Christopher D. Joyce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Vaughey (Elmhurst, Illinois); Andrew Jansen (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Christopher D. Joyce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated salt comprising a compound of formula (H2X)(TiO(Y)2) or a hydrate thereof, wherein X is 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO), and Y is oxalate anion (C2O4−2), when heated in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a temperature in the range of at least about 275° C. to less than about 400° C., decomposes to form an amorphous titania/carbon composite material comprising about 40 to about 50 percent by weight titania and about 50 to about 60 percent by weight of a carbonaceous material coating the titania. Heating the composite material at a temperature of about 400 to 500° C. crystallizes the titania component to anatase. The titania materials of the invention are useful as components of the anode of a lithium or lithium ion electrochemical cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914197 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/88 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/006 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (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 08871385 | Gering et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Frederick F. Stewart (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Aaron D. Wilson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mark L. Stone (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Gering (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Frederick F. Stewart (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Aaron D. Wilson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mark L. Stone (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode comprising a polyphosphazene cyclomatrix and particles within pores of the polyphosphazene cyclomatrix. The polyphosphazene cyclomatrix comprises a plurality of phosphazene compounds and a plurality of cross-linkages. Each phosphazene compound of the plurality of phosphazene compounds comprises a plurality of phosphorus-nitrogen units, and at least one pendant group bonded to each phosphorus atom of the plurality of phosphorus-nitrogen units. Each phosphorus-nitrogen unit is bonded to an adjacent phosphorus-nitrogen unit. Each cross-linkage of the plurality of cross-linkages bonds at least one pendant group of one phosphazene compound of the plurality of phosphazene compounds with the at least one pendant group of another phosphazene compound of the plurality of phosphazene compounds. A method of forming a negative electrode and an electrochemical cell are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/359716 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/209 |
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| US 08871391 | Liang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengdu Liang (Knoxville, Tennessee); Zengcai Liu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Wujun Fu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Zhan Lin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nancy J. Dudney (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jane Y. Howe (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Adam J. Rondinone (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of forming lithium-containing electrolytes are provided using wet chemical synthesis. In some examples, the lithium containing electrolytes are composed of β-Li3PS4 or Li4P2S7. The solid electrolyte may be a core shell material. In one embodiment, the core shell material includes a core of lithium sulfide (Li2S), a first shell of β-Li3PS4 or Li4P2S7, and a second shell including one of β-Li3PS4 or Li4P2S7 and carbon. The lithium containing electrolytes may be incorporated into wet cell batteries or solid state batteries. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/089804 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/40 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) H01M 4/1397 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/056 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 08871486 | Merino |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandra Merino (West Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for producing a secreted polypeptide having biological activity, comprising: (a) transforming a fungal host cell with a fusion protein construct encoding a fusion protein, which comprises: (i) a first polynucleotide encoding a signal peptide; (ii) a second polynucleotide encoding at least a catalytic domain of an endoglucanase or a portion thereof; and (iii) a third polynucleotide encoding at least a catalytic domain of a polypeptide having biological activity; wherein the signal peptide and at least the catalytic domain of the endoglucanase increases secretion of the polypeptide having biological activity compared to the absence of at least the catalytic domain of the endoglucanase; (b) cultivating the transformed fungal host cell under conditions suitable for production of the fusion protein; and (c) recovering the fusion protein, a component thereof, or a combination thereof, having biological activity, from the cultivation medium. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/279624 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
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| US 08871489 | Grabar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tammy Grabar (Reading, Massachusetts); Wei Gong (Woburn, Massachusetts); R. Rogers Yocum (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Myriant Corporation (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tammy Grabar (Reading, Massachusetts); Wei Gong (Woburn, Massachusetts); R. Rogers Yocum (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the metabolic evolution of a microbial organism previously optimized for producing an organic acid in commercially significant quantities under fermentative conditions using a hexose sugar as sole source of carbon in a minimal mineral medium. As a result of this metabolic evolution, the microbial organism acquires the ability to use pentose sugars derived from cellulosic materials for its growth while retaining the original growth kinetics, the rate of organic acid production and the ability to use hexose sugars as a source of carbon. This invention also discloses the genetic change in the microorganism that confers the ability to use both the hexose and pentose sugars simultaneously in the production of commercially significant quantities of organic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/394176 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/245 (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) C12P 7/46 (20130101) C12P 7/54 (20130101) |
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| US 08871496 | Sommer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory J. Sommer (Livermore, California); Anson V. Hatch (Tracy, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Ying-Chih Wang (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Sommer (Livermore, California); Anson V. Hatch (Tracy, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Ying-Chih Wang (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, microfluidic devices, and systems for the detection of an active target agent in a fluid sample. A substrate molecule is used that contains a sequence which may cleave in the presence of an active target agent. A SNAP25 sequence is described, for example, that may be cleaved in the presence of Botulinum Neurotoxin. The substrate molecule includes a reporter moiety. The substrate molecule is exposed to the sample, and resulting reaction products separated using electrophoretic separation. The elution time of the reporter moiety may be utilized to identify the presence or absence of the active target agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544982 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
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| US 08871523 | Lamberti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent E. Lamberti (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Layton N. Howell, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); David K. Mee (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael J. Sepaniak (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a sensor for detecting explosive devices. The sensor includes a ferromagnetic metal and a molecular recognition reagent coupled to the ferromagnetic metal. The molecular recognition reagent is operable to expand upon absorption of vapor from an explosive material such that the molecular recognition reagent changes a tensile stress upon the ferromagnetic metal. The explosive device is detected based on changes in the magnetic switching characteristics of the ferromagnetic metal caused by the tensile stress. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/832873 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/0057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871884 | Jenekhe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samson A. Jenekhe (Seattle, Washington); Selvam Subramaniyan (Seattle, Washington); Eilaf Ahmed (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hao Xin (Seattle, Washington); Felix Sunjoo Kim (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samson A. Jenekhe (Seattle, Washington); Selvam Subramaniyan (Seattle, Washington); Eilaf Ahmed (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hao Xin (Seattle, Washington); Felix Sunjoo Kim (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventions disclosed, described, and/or claimed herein relate to copolymers comprising copolymers comprising electron accepting A subunits that comprise thiazolothiazole, benzobisthiazole, or benzobisoxazoles rings, and electron donating subunits that comprise certain heterocyclic groups. The copolymers are useful for manufacturing organic electronic devices, including transistors and solar cells. The invention also relates to certain synthetic precursors of the copolymers. Methods for making the copolymers and the derivative electronic devices are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/504058 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/123 (20130101) C08G 61/124 (20130101) C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 73/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2261/91 (20130101) C08G 2261/92 (20130101) C08G 2261/364 (20130101) C08G 2261/414 (20130101) C08G 2261/512 (20130101) C08G 2261/1412 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) C08G 2261/3241 (20130101) C08G 2261/3243 (20130101) C08G 2261/3246 (20130101) C08G 2261/3247 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 08871903 | Tovar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Tovar (Baltimore, Maryland); Allix M. Sanders (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to synthesize self-assembling peptides embedded with complex organic electronic subunits are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657219 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871926 | Fan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hongyou Fan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Feng Bai (Kaifeng, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyou Fan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Feng Bai (Kaifeng, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to self-assembly methods for generating porphyrin nanostructures. For example, in one embodiment a method is provided that includes preparing a porphyrin solution and a surfactant solution. The porphyrin solution is then mixed with the surfactant solution at a concentration sufficient for confinement of the porphyrin molecules by the surfactant molecules. In some embodiments, the concentration of the surfactant is at or above its critical micelle concentration (CMC), which allows the surfactant to template the growth of the nanostructure over time. The size and morphology of the nanostructures may be affected by the type of porphyrin molecules used, the type of surfactant used, the concentration of the porphyrin and surfactant the pH of the mixture of the solutions, and the order of adding the reagents to the mixture, to name a few variables. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892342 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
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| US 08871999 | Howe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregg A. Howe (East Lansing, Michigan); Hui Chen (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg A. Howe (East Lansing, Michigan); Hui Chen (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to genes, proteins and methods comprising molecules that alter amino acid levels. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to altering guanidino substrate hydrolysis activities in plants, arthropods and microorganisms using molecules within the arginase family and other molecules that alter an amino acid levels. In ones embodiment, the present invention relates to altering threonine substrate deamination and dehydration activities in plants, arthropods and microorganisms using molecules within the threonine deaminase family and other molecules that alter amino acid levels. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to using genes, proteins and methods comprising arginase or threonine deaminase for altering the pathophysiology of plants, arthropods and microorganisms. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to altering guanidino substrate hydrolysis activity in plants, arthropods, and microorganisms using arginase. In another preferred embodiment, the invention relates to altering threonine substrated deamination and dehydration activity in plants, arthropods, and microorganisms using threonine deaminase. In some embodiments, the invention related to overexpression and increased activity of arginase, threonine deaminase and a proteinase inhibitor. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/666714 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/78 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872125 | Zaitseva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Natalia Zaitseva (Livermore, California); M. Leslie Carman (San Ramon, California); Steve Payne (Castro Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Natalia Zaitseva (Livermore, California); M. Leslie Carman (San Ramon, California); Steve Payne (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic crystal according to one embodiment includes an organic crystal comprising diphenylacetylene and stilbene or a stilbene derivative, the crystal having physical characteristics of formation from solution, the organic crystal exhibiting a signal response signature for neutrons from a radioactive source. A system according to one embodiment includes an organic crystal comprising diphenylacetylene and stilbene or a stilbene derivative, the crystal having physical characteristics of formation from solution, the organic crystal exhibiting a signal response signature for neutrons from a radioactive source; and a photodetector for detecting the signal response of the organic crystal. Methods of making such crystals are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/477910 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872127 | Okamura |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Masahiro Okamura (Sound Beach, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masahiro Okamura (Sound Beach, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the design and use of an ion source with a rapid beam current controller for experimental and medicinal purposes. More particularly, the present invention relates to the design and use of a laser ion source with a magnetic field applied to confine a plasma flux caused by laser ablation. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/398553 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) A61N 2005/1074 (20130101) A61N 2005/1088 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 27/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 2007/082 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872246 | Stevens et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Stevens (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Matthew Marinella (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew John Lohn (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus is disclosed in which at least one resistive switching element is interposed between at least a first and a second conducting electrode element. The resistive switching element comprises a metal oxynitride. A method for making such a resistive switching element is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/750451 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872465 | Umans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baldor Electric Company (Fort Smith, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baldor Electric Company (Fort Smith, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Umans (Belmont, Massachusetts); Donald L. Nisley (Greenville, South Carolina); Michael J. Melfi (Richfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A line-start synchronous motor has a housing, a rotor shaft, and an output shaft. A soft-start coupling portion is operatively coupled to the output shaft and the rotor shaft. The soft-start coupling portion is configurable to enable the synchronous motor to obtain synchronous operation and to drive, at least near synchronous speed during normal steady state operation of the motor, a load having characteristics sufficient to prevent obtaining normal synchronous operation of the motor when the motor is operatively connected to the load in the absence of the soft-start coupling. The synchronous motor is sufficiently rated to obtain synchronous operation and to drive, at least near synchronous speed during normal steady state operation of the motor, a load having characteristics sufficient to prevent obtaining normal synchronous operation of the motor when the motor is operatively connected to the load in the absence of the soft-start coupling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787216 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 7/118 (20130101) H02K 15/00 (20130101) H02K 21/46 (20130101) Control or Regulation of Electric Motors, Electric Generators or Dynamo-electric Converters; Controlling Transformers, Reactors or Choke Coils H02P 1/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08873695 | Gels et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John L. Gels (Wilmington, North Carolina); David J. Keck (Wilmington, North Carolina); Gerald A. Deaver (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Gels (Wilmington, North Carolina); David J. Keck (Wilmington, North Carolina); Gerald A. Deaver (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Internal head vents are usable in nuclear reactors and include piping inside of the reactor pressure vessel with a vent in the reactor upper head. Piping extends downward from the upper head and passes outside of the reactor to permit the gas to escape or be forcibly vented outside of the reactor without external piping on the upper head. The piping may include upper and lowers section that removably mate where the upper head joins to the reactor pressure vessel. The removable mating may include a compressible bellows and corresponding funnel. The piping is fabricated of nuclear-reactor-safe materials, including carbon steel, stainless steel, and/or a Ni—Cr—Fe alloy. Methods install an internal head vent in a nuclear reactor by securing piping to an internal surface of an upper head of the nuclear reactor and/or securing piping to an internal surface of a reactor pressure vessel. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/985620 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873696 | Heim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert R. Heim (Brighton, Colorado); Scott Ryan Adams (Longmont, Colorado); Matthew Denver Cole (Fort Collins, Colorado); William E. Kirby (Superior, Colorado); Paul Damon Linnebur (Milliken, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Special Applications Technology, Inc. (Loveland, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Heim (Brighton, Colorado); Scott Ryan Adams (Longmont, Colorado); Matthew Denver Cole (Fort Collins, Colorado); William E. Kirby (Superior, Colorado); Paul Damon Linnebur (Milliken, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for dismantling a nuclear reactor are described. In one aspect the system includes a remotely controlled heavy manipulator (“manipulator”) operatively coupled to a support structure, and a control station in a non-contaminated portion of a workspace. The support structure provides the manipulator with top down access into a bioshield of a nuclear reactor. At least one computing device in the control station provides remote control to perform operations including: (a) dismantling, using the manipulator, a graphite moderator, concrete walls, and a ceiling of the bioshield, the manipulator being provided with automated access to all internal portions of the bioshield; (b) loading, using the manipulator, contaminated graphite blocks from the graphite core and other components from the bioshield into one or more waste containers; and (c) dispersing, using the manipulator, dust suppression and contamination fixing spray to contaminated matter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967068 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Power Plant G21D 1/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874351 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Li Jiang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Donghoon Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hakan Yilmaz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anna Stefanopoulou (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Jiang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Donghoon Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hakan Yilmaz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anna Stefanopoulou (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for engine control optimization are provided. A first and a second operating condition of a vehicle engine are detected. An initial value is identified for a first and a second engine control parameter corresponding to a combination of the detected operating conditions according to a first and a second engine map look-up table. The initial values for the engine control parameters are adjusted based on a detected engine performance variable to cause the engine performance variable to approach a target value. A first and a second sensitivity of the engine performance variable are determined in response to changes in the engine control parameters. The first engine map look-up table is adjusted when the first sensitivity is greater than a threshold, and the second engine map look-up table is adjusted when the second sensitivity is greater than a threshold. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/435535 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 13/0215 (20130101) F02D 19/084 (20130101) F02D 37/02 (20130101) F02D 41/08 (20130101) F02D 41/248 (20130101) F02D 41/1406 (20130101) F02D 41/1408 (20130101) F02D 41/2432 (20130101) F02D 41/2438 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02D 41/2445 (20130101) F02D 2041/001 (20130101) F02D 2041/1419 (20130101) F02D 2041/1432 (20130101) Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, for Internal-combustion Engines; Testing of Ignition Timing in Compression-ignition Engines F02P 5/153 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/18 (20130101) Y02T 10/36 (20130101) Y02T 10/46 (20130101) |
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| US 08874412 | Weinstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marvin Weinstein (Palo Alto, California); David Horn (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin Weinstein (Palo Alto, California); David Horn (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | Data clustering is provided according to a dynamical framework based on quantum mechanical time evolution of states corresponding to data points. To expedite computations, we can approximate the time-dependent Hamiltonian formalism by a truncated calculation within a set of Gaussian wave-functions (coherent states) centered around the original points. This allows for analytic evaluation of the time evolution of all such states, opening up the possibility of exploration of relationships among data-points through observation of varying dynamical-distances among points and convergence of points into clusters. This formalism may be further supplemented by preprocessing, such as dimensional reduction through singular value decomposition and/or feature filtering. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/586036 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6247 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874571 | Whitney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul D. Whitney (Richland, Washington); Alan R. Willse (Richland, Washington); Charles A. Lopresti (Richland, Washington); Amanda M. White (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Whitney (Richland, Washington); Alan R. Willse (Richland, Washington); Charles A. Lopresti (Richland, Washington); Amanda M. White (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Text analysis methods, text analysis apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis method includes accessing information indicative of data content of a collection of text comprising a plurality of different topics, using a computing device, analyzing the information indicative of the data content, and using results of the analysis, identifying a presence of a new topic in the collection of text. |
| FILED | Friday, November 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595506 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08874926 | Edwards et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan J. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jason Hamlet (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Todd Bauer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ryan Helinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for increasing security in inter-chip communication includes a sending control module, a communication bus, and a receiving control module. The communication bus is coupled between the sending control module and the receiving control module. The sending control module operates to send data on the communication bus, disable the communication bus when threats are detected, or both. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/782808 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/27 (20130101) G06F 21/75 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/558 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/57 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/003 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip N. Benfey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard W. Twigg, III (Durham, North Carolina); Robert L. Clark, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Scott Joseph Kennedy (Durham, North Carolina); Gregory Kealoha Fricke (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A plant growth array device includes an aerial growth chamber configured to receive aerial shoot portions of a plurality of plants and a root growth chamber configured to receive root portions of the plurality of plants. A dividing member is between the aerial growth chamber and the root chamber and has a plurality of apertures for receiving the plurality of plants therein. The plurality of apertures are configured so that the root portions grow substantially in a common orientation. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680546 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 7/00 (20130101) A01G 9/02 (20130101) A01G 31/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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08869592 — Two stage thermal modulator for gas chromatography with thermally matched grounding point
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy G. Brockwell (Boerne, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy G. Brockwell (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are two stage thermal modulators that are useful in the separation of the components of an analyte sample in an analytical method, such as gas chromatography. In some embodiments, the thermal modulators described herein include a modulator column coupled to at least one ground point so as to define a plurality of stages that may be independently temperature modulated. In some cases, the modulator column (or stages thereof adjacent to a ground point) and the ground point are thermally matched, so as to limit or eliminate the formation of a temperature differential between the modulator column and a ground point. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/358030 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.390 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871446 | Hong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jong Wook Hong (Pasadena, California); Vincent Studer (Paris, France); W. French Anderson (San Marino, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Jared Leadbetter (Altadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Wook Hong (Pasadena, California); Vincent Studer (Paris, France); W. French Anderson (San Marino, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Jared Leadbetter (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid from cells and viruses sampled from a variety of environments may purified and expressed utilizing microfluidic techniques. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, individual or small groups of cells or viruses may be isolated in microfluidic chambers by dilution, sorting, and/or segmentation. The isolated cells or viruses may be lysed directly in the microfluidic chamber, and the resulting nucleic acid purified by exposure to affinity beads. Subsequent elution of the purified nucleic acid may be followed by ligation and cell transformation, all within the same microfluidic chip. In one specific application, cell isolation, lysis, and nucleic acid purification may be performed utilizing a highly parallelized microfluidic architecture to construct gDNA and cDNA libraries. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678946 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) |
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| US 08871494 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nancy P. Keller (Madison, Wisconsin); Saori Amaike (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy P. Keller (Madison, Wisconsin); Saori Amaike (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a general and facile method to obtain secondary metabolites from fungal sources. The invention is based on the discovery that the fungal gene veA and protein encoded thereby regulates the activity of multiple secondary metabolite gene clusters in fungi. Over expression of the gene veA provides increased production of secondary metabolites in engineered cells. In particular, such a method of increasing secondary metabolite production allows the production of improved yields of valuable secondary metabolite products. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799505 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 1/6895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 08871670 | Seebauer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edmund G. Seebauer (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edmund G. Seebauer (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for controlling defects in materials, including point defects, such as interstitials and vacancies, and extended defects, including dislocations and clusters. Defect control provided by the present invention allows for fabrication and processing of materials and/or structures having a selected abundance, spatial distribution and/or concentration depth profile of one or more types of defects in a material, such as vacancies and/or interstitials in a crystalline material. Methods of the invention are useful for processing materials by controlling defects to access beneficial physical, optical, chemical and/or electronic properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/343527 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/063 (20130101) B01J 23/06 (20130101) B01J 23/16 (20130101) B01J 23/38 (20130101) B01J 27/08 (20130101) B01J 27/10 (20130101) B01J 27/12 (20130101) B01J 27/14 (20130101) B01J 27/20 (20130101) B01J 27/24 (20130101) B01J 35/002 (20130101) B01J 35/004 (20130101) B01J 37/0207 (20130101) B01J 37/348 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/425 (20130101) H01L 21/465 (20130101) H01L 21/3105 (20130101) |
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| US 08871831 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jinyu Huang (Suwanee, Georgia); Alan J. Russell (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Nicolay V. Tsarevsky (Dallas, Texas); Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinyu Huang (Suwanee, Georgia); Alan J. Russell (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Nicolay V. Tsarevsky (Dallas, Texas); Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer formed by controlled radical polymerization includes groups that can be modified after controlled radical polymerization to form a radical. The polymer can be the reaction product of a controlled radical polymerization of radically polymerizable monomers, wherein at least one of the radically polymerizable monomers includes at least one group that can be modified after the controlled radical polymerization to form a radical. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/065370 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 120/34 (20130101) C08F 255/02 (20130101) C08F 265/06 (20130101) C08F 291/00 (20130101) C08F 293/005 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 53/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08871879 | Ung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Materia, Inc. (Pasadena, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Materia, Inc. (Pasadena, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thay Ung (Los Angeles, California); Yann Schrodi (Pasadena, California); Mark S. Trimmer (Monrovia, California); Andrew Hejl (Pasadena, California); Daniel Sanders (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel organometallic complexes useful as olefin metathesis catalysts. The complexes have an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand and a chelating carbene ligand associated with a Group 8 transition metal center. The molecular structure of the complexes can be altered so as to provide a substantial latency period. The complexes are particularly useful in catalyzing ring closing metathesis of acyclic olefins and ring opening metathesis polymerization of cyclic olefins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/779190 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871884 | Jenekhe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samson A. Jenekhe (Seattle, Washington); Selvam Subramaniyan (Seattle, Washington); Eilaf Ahmed (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hao Xin (Seattle, Washington); Felix Sunjoo Kim (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samson A. Jenekhe (Seattle, Washington); Selvam Subramaniyan (Seattle, Washington); Eilaf Ahmed (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hao Xin (Seattle, Washington); Felix Sunjoo Kim (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventions disclosed, described, and/or claimed herein relate to copolymers comprising copolymers comprising electron accepting A subunits that comprise thiazolothiazole, benzobisthiazole, or benzobisoxazoles rings, and electron donating subunits that comprise certain heterocyclic groups. The copolymers are useful for manufacturing organic electronic devices, including transistors and solar cells. The invention also relates to certain synthetic precursors of the copolymers. Methods for making the copolymers and the derivative electronic devices are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/504058 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/123 (20130101) C08G 61/124 (20130101) C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 73/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2261/91 (20130101) C08G 2261/92 (20130101) C08G 2261/364 (20130101) C08G 2261/414 (20130101) C08G 2261/512 (20130101) C08G 2261/1412 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) C08G 2261/3241 (20130101) C08G 2261/3243 (20130101) C08G 2261/3246 (20130101) C08G 2261/3247 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 08871940 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Florida State University Reasearch Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Tallahassee, Florida); Zhao Yuan (Tallahassee, Florida); Gui-Chao Kuang (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Unsymmetrical bisazides containing chelating and non-chelating azido groups undergo chemoselective three-component copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne conjugation reactions with two different alkyne molecules. In conjunction with the reactivity gap between aromatic and aliphatic alkynes, a bistriazole molecule can be generated with an excellent regioselectivity by mixing two alkynes and a bisazide in a single reaction container. This method is applicable in aqueous solutions at neutral pH, which may lend utilities in bioconjugation applications. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941798 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871966 | Kraus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George A. Kraus (Ames, Iowa); Jennifer J. Lee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Kraus (Ames, Iowa); Jennifer J. Lee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing 1,4-biscarboxylic acid esters of benzene is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/840768 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08871983 | Svetlov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanislav I. Svetlov (Gainesville, Florida); Anatoliy Vakulenko (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislav I. Svetlov (Gainesville, Florida); Anatoliy Vakulenko (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or analogs thereof, which exhibit anti-tumor activity. The present invention also includes methods for inhibiting the growth of cancer cells by contacting an effective amount of a compound of the present invention with the cancer cells in vitro or in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/057793 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/133 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/28 (20130101) |
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| US 08872688 | Gangopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daibashish Gangopadhyay (Mountain View, California); David Allstot (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daibashish Gangopadhyay (Mountain View, California); David Allstot (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are example methods, systems, and devices for compressed sensing analog to digital conversion. In an example embodiment, a multiplication circuit is configured to multiply an input signal with a measurement signal to produce a multiplied signal, where the measurement signal includes data from a column of a measurement matrix. The measurement matrix may be generated by a linear feedback shift register (LFSR)-based measurement-matrix generator. An integration circuit may be coupled to the multiplication circuit and configured to integrate the multiplied signal for a predefined amount of time to produce an integrated signal. An analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit may be coupled to the integration circuit and configured to (i) sample the integrated signal and (ii) produce an output signal comprising at least one sample of the integrated signal. A column-wise multiplication of the input signal with the measurement signal enables an efficient compressed-sensing analog-to-digital conversion architecture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/810036 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/38 (20130101) H03M 1/1245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08872799 | Majumder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of distributed/cooperative/collaborative gesture management may comprise queuing actions of gestures as the gestures move across a display, processing the actions of each of the gestures by a projector in which the projector's display is close to a gesture, sending an anticipatory action message that one of the gestures is predicted to enter a display region of a projector, processing the actions of one of the gestures by a projector in which the projector's display is close to the one of the gestures, and in response to the one of the gestures being in an overlapping display projected by overlapping projectors, the actions of the one of the gestures are processed by the overlapping projector with the smallest identifier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/276450 |
| ART UNIT | 2695 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 9/3147 (20130101) |
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| US 08873038 | Kodali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anil K. Kodali (Beaverton, Oregon); Xavier Llora (Mountain View, California); Rohit Bhargava (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil K. Kodali (Beaverton, Oregon); Xavier Llora (Mountain View, California); Rohit Bhargava (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of nanostructured, multilayered metal-dielectric particles suitable for use as Raman spectroscopic probes are disclosed, as well as methods of designing, making and using such multilayered nanoparticles, and kits including the multilayered nanoparticles. The multilayered nanoparticles include alternating metal and dielectric layers and an outer dielectric shell. One or more of the dielectric layers may include a plurality of reporter molecules. Embodiments of the multilayered nanoparticles are suitable for detecting target analytes in a sample. Some embodiments of the multilayered nanoparticles are suitable for use in multiplexed assays, including assays for multiple target analytes having differing concentrations. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/277674 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 67/0007 (20130101) C09B 67/0097 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) |
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| US 08873043 | Pate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brooks Hart Pate (Charlottesville, Virginia); Justin L. Neill (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An emission can be obtained from a sample in response to excitation using a specified range of excitation frequencies. Such excitation can include generating a specified chirped waveform and a specified downconversion local oscillator (LO) frequency using a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), upconverting the chirped waveform via mixing the chirped waveform with a specified upconversion LO frequency, frequency multiplying the upconverted chirped waveform to provide a chirped excitation signal for exciting the sample, receiving an emission from sample, the emission elicited at least in part by the chirped excitation signal, and downconverting the received emission via mixing the received emission with a signal based on the specified downconversion LO signal to provide a downconverted emission signal within the bandwidth of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The specified chirped waveform can include a first chirped waveform during a first duration, and a second chirped waveform during a second duration. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912548 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/453 (20130101) G01J 3/2889 (20130101) G01J 3/4338 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) |
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| US 08873835 | Asente et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Asente (Redwood City, California); Scott D. Cohen (Sunnyvale, California); Brian L. Price (San Jose, California); Lesley Ann Northam (Picton, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for disparity map correction through statistical analysis on local neighborhoods. A disparity map correction technique may be used to correct mistakes in a disparity or depth map. The disparity map correction technique may detect and mark invalid pixel pairs in a disparity map, segment the image, and perform a statistical analysis of the disparities in each segment to identify outliers. The invalid and outlier pixels may then be corrected using other disparity values in the local neighborhood. Multiple iterations of the disparity map correction technique may be performed to further improve the output disparity map. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/675905 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — 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 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00208 (20130101) G06K 9/342 (20130101) G06K 9/6284 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0097 (20130101) G06T 2207/10012 (20130101) |
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| US 08873837 | Jahanshahi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami F. Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami F. Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contact-less remote-sensing crack detection and/quantification methodologies are described, which are based on three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction, image processing, and pattern recognition. The systems and methodologies can utilize depth perception for detecting and/or quantifying cracks. These methodologies can provide the ability to analyze images captured from any distance and using any focal length or resolution. This adaptive feature may be especially useful for incorporation into mobile systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or mobile autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic systems such as wheel-based or track-based radio controlled robots, as utilizing such structural inspection methods onto those mobile platforms may allow inaccessible regions to be properly inspected for cracks. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567943 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — 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 9/00624 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0091 (20130101) G06T 2207/20036 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30132 (20130101) |
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| US 08874496 | Lazar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aurel A. Lazar (New York, New York); Yiyin Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for reconstructing a signal encoded with a time encoding machine (TEM) using a recurrent neural network including receiving a TEM-encoded signal, processing the TEM-encoded signal, and reconstructing the TEM-encoded signal with a recurrent neural network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948615 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/82 (20130101) H03M 3/502 (20130101) |
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Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08871471 | Hall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Kristin Sannes-Lowery (Vista, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IBIS Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); Kristin Sannes-Lowery (Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and primer pairs for rapid, high-resolution forensic analysis of DNA and STR-typing by using amplification and mass spectrometry, determining the molecular masses and calculating base compositions of amplification products and comparing the molecular masses with the molecular masses of theoretical amplicons indexed in a database. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/528282 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6872 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872134 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/330063 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08873580 | Chandramouli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajarathnam Chandramouli (Homdel, New Jersey); Shamik Sengupta (Jersey City, New Jersey); Kai Hong (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajarathnam Chandramouli (Homdel, New Jersey); Shamik Sengupta (Jersey City, New Jersey); Kai Hong (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are disclosed for improving wireless and other network communications, e.g., through improving resource utilization, which may comprise the steps of accumulating channel modeling information relating to channel performance; calculating a channel parameter threshold based on the accumulated channel modeling information, whereby the channel parameter, as measured, being above the threshold indicates the channel is a good channel; adjusting traffic over a selected good channel to improve performance of the network or a network resource. The network resource may comprises battery life for devices operating on the network, data rate for devices operating on the network, constituting or reconstituting ad hoc networks comprising nodes separated by multiple hops, continuity of connectivity within a single communication link over the network, etc. The apparatus and method of operating the apparatus may also comprise dynamically performing the adjusting step resulting from repeating the calculating step over time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/882831 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/22 (20130101) H04W 24/10 (20130101) H04W 28/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 28/18 (20130101) H04W 28/22 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08871280 | Lakshman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dilip K. Lakshman (Greenbelt, Maryland); Kamlesh R. Chauhan (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dilip K. Lakshman (Greenbelt, Maryland); Kamlesh R. Chauhan (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions for treating fungal activity in plants, containing castor oil, water, at least one surface active agent, optionally pennyroyal oil, and optionally an agriculturally acceptable carrier. Methods of treating fungal activity in plants, involving administering to the plant or soil an effective fungal treating amount of castor oil, water, at least one surface active agent, optionally pennyroyal oil, and optionally an agriculturally acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/230152 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/731 |
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| US 08871494 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nancy P. Keller (Madison, Wisconsin); Saori Amaike (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy P. Keller (Madison, Wisconsin); Saori Amaike (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a general and facile method to obtain secondary metabolites from fungal sources. The invention is based on the discovery that the fungal gene veA and protein encoded thereby regulates the activity of multiple secondary metabolite gene clusters in fungi. Over expression of the gene veA provides increased production of secondary metabolites in engineered cells. In particular, such a method of increasing secondary metabolite production allows the production of improved yields of valuable secondary metabolite products. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799505 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 1/6895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08869877 | Zaffetti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Zaffetti (Suffield, Connecticut); Michael B. Laurin (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Zaffetti (Suffield, Connecticut); Michael B. Laurin (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cold plate assembly includes a monolithic cold plate which defines a trough located to intersect a fluid path. |
| FILED | Monday, October 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/901602 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28F 9/026 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/473 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08873035 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ye Yang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Olusola O. Soyemi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shear (Northbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Yang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Olusola O. Soyemi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shear (Northbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We disclose measurement systems and methods for measuring analytes in target regions of samples that also include features overlying the target regions. The systems include: (a) a light source; (b) a detection system; (c) a set of at least first, second, and third light ports which transmit light from the light source to a sample and receive and direct light reflected from the sample to the detection system, generating a first set of data including information corresponding to both an internal target within the sample and features overlying the internal target, and a second set of data including information corresponding to features overlying the internal target; and (d) a processor configured to remove information characteristic of the overlying features from the first set of data using the first and second sets of data to produce corrected information representing the internal target. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/021065 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 5/6824 (20130101) A61B 5/14535 (20130101) A61B 5/14539 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/49 (20130101) G01N 21/274 (20130101) G01N 21/359 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/3155 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08871346 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Wood particles having fibers aligned in a grain, wherein: the wood particles are characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially parallel to the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L; the L×H dimensions define two side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers; the W×H dimensions define two cross-grain end surfaces characterized individually as aligned either normal to the grain or oblique to the grain; the L×W dimensions define two substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces; and, a majority of the W×H surfaces in the mixture of wood particles have end checking. |
| FILED | Monday, December 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/726442 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
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| US 08873604 | Terry |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John David Terry (Annandale, Virginia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John David Terry (Annandale, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention teaches method and apparatus to transform a featureless, unpredictable, and non-repeatable chaos waveform into digital chaos waveforms that maintain featureless characteristics to serve as a for wireless communications protocol, whereby unintended observers cannot detect or disrupt yet imprint a small measure of predictability and repeatability to aid intend observers in recovering embedded information. This invention discloses wireless communication systems with multiple signal aggregation at the transmitter and multiple detection at the receiver that uses embedding digital signals and digital information within multiple digital chaos waveforms. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/429809 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/707 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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U.S. State Government
| US 08871919 | Tang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hengli Tang (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) or small hairpin RNA (shRNAs) and compositions comprising same are provided that target human cyclophilin A (CyPA) to inhibit Hepatitis C (HCV) infection. Such siRNA and shRNAs may have a length of from about 19 to about 29 contiguous nucleotides corresponding to a specific region of human cyclophilin A (CyPA) cDNA of from about nucleotide 155 to about nucleotide 183 having particular potency against CyPA and HCV. Such siRNA and shRNAs may be formulated as naked compositions or pharmaceutical compositions. DNA polynucleotides, plasmids, and viral or non-viral vectors are also provided that encode siRNA or shRNA molecules, which may be delivered directly to cells or in combination with delivery agents, such as lipids, polymers, encapsulated lipid particles, such as liposomes. Methods for treating, managing inhibiting, preventing, etc., HCV infection using such siRNA and shRNAs and compositions comprising same are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/633276 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08872799 | Majumder |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of distributed/cooperative/collaborative gesture management may comprise queuing actions of gestures as the gestures move across a display, processing the actions of each of the gestures by a projector in which the projector's display is close to a gesture, sending an anticipatory action message that one of the gestures is predicted to enter a display region of a projector, processing the actions of one of the gestures by a projector in which the projector's display is close to the one of the gestures, and in response to the one of the gestures being in an overlapping display projected by overlapping projectors, the actions of the one of the gestures are processed by the overlapping projector with the smallest identifier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/276450 |
| ART UNIT | 2695 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 9/3147 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08871966 | Kraus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George A. Kraus (Ames, Iowa); Jennifer J. Lee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Kraus (Ames, Iowa); Jennifer J. Lee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing 1,4-biscarboxylic acid esters of benzene is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/840768 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08872134 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/330063 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of State (DOS)
| US 08872134 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Sumerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/330063 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08870786 | Henry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America, dba The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Henry (Portland, Oregon); Grayson Silaski (Portland, Oregon); David Gray (Portland, Oregon); Edward V. Porsov (Portland, Oregon); Kimberly Owens (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for evaluating tinnitus are disclosed herein. According to various embodiments, a tinnitus evaluation system may include a tinnitus evaluation module configured to perform one or more tinnitus evaluation tests. A tinnitus evaluation test may comprise generating a first single-frequency sound based at least in part on a sound of a patient's tinnitus, and generating a narrow-band sound centered at the frequency of the first single-frequency sound. Tests include a hearing threshold test, a loudness match test, a pitch match test, a bandwidth match test, a minimum masking level test, and a residual inhibition test. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/740382 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0002 (20130101) A61B 5/121 (20130101) A61B 5/128 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7435 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 08872926 | Jelinek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota); Sharath Venkatesha (Golden Valley, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota); Sharath Venkatesha (Golden Valley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A flashless image acquisition system that includes a tandem imaging device having a tandem field of view and comprising a velocity vector estimate imaging device coupled to an object imaging device; and a peripheral imaging device having a peripheral field of view wider than the tandem field of view and configured to acquire real-time information related to positions of a moving object, wherein the real-time information is provided to the tandem imaging device, further wherein the velocity vector estimate imaging device is configured to provide in-exposure velocity vector estimates to control the object imaging device is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039932 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2328 (20130101) H04N 5/23258 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/23261 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08869579 | Bray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan V. Bray (Spicewood, Texas); Denise Dama Deppe (Austin, Texas); Gary Schmidt (Austin, Texas); John Lee Massingill (San Marcos, Texas); Pulinkumar Navinbhai Patel (Austin, Texas); Clois E. Powell (Seguin, Texas); Vijaykumar Madhawrao Mannari (Saline, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Systems and Materials Research Corporation (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan V. Bray (Spicewood, Texas); Denise Dama Deppe (Austin, Texas); Gary Schmidt (Austin, Texas); John Lee Massingill (San Marcos, Texas); Pulinkumar Navinbhai Patel (Austin, Texas); Clois E. Powell (Seguin, Texas); Vijaykumar Madhawrao Mannari (Saline, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fastener suitable for use in airplane manufacture or repair that is coated with a pre-mixed moisture cure sealant. The sealant layer is coated with a frangible moisture barrier that will break apart when the fastener is installed, thus exposing the sealant to atmospheric moisture. Once exposed to moisture, the sealant will begin to cure. Preferred embodiments also provide a moisture indicator that provides a visual indication that the outer moisture resistant layer has been damaged. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/340414 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 1/0071 (20130101) F16B 19/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08871016 | Trexler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Morgana M. Trexler (Baltimore, Maryland); Jenna L. Graham (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer L. Breidenich (Atlanta, Georgia); Jeffrey P. Maranchi (Clarksburg, Maryland); Julia B. Patrone (Laurel, Maryland); Marcia W. Patchan (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer H. Elisseeff (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiomara Calderon-Colon (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morgana M. Trexler (Baltimore, Maryland); Jenna L. Graham (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer L. Breidenich (Atlanta, Georgia); Jeffrey P. Maranchi (Clarksburg, Maryland); Julia B. Patrone (Laurel, Maryland); Marcia W. Patchan (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer H. Elisseeff (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiomara Calderon-Colon (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cellulose hydrogels having one or more of the following properties: high water content, high transparency, high permeability, high biocompatibility, high tensile strength and an optimal thickness. The present invention further provides a process for preparing a cellulose hydrogel comprising: (i) contacting cellulose with a solvent to activate the cellulose; (ii) optionally removing the solvent from the activated cellulose; (iii) substantially dissolving the activated cellulose to form a solution; (iv) allowing the solution to gel; and optionally (v) drying the gel and rehydrating the gel. The cellulose hydrogel can have many uses, including uses as contact lenses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/197116 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/00038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 1/003 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 2301/02 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 1/02 (20130101) C08L 29/04 (20130101) C08L 33/10 (20130101) C08L 33/20 (20130101) C08L 33/20 (20130101) C08L 33/26 (20130101) C08L 33/26 (20130101) C08L 33/066 (20130101) C08L 39/06 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (20130101) C08L 101/14 (20130101) C08L 2205/02 (20130101) C08L 2205/16 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/04 (20130101) G02B 1/043 (20130101) G02B 1/043 (20130101) Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/049 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08871901 — Phage constructs, sequences and antigenic compositions for immunocontraception of animals
| US 08871901 | Samoylova et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tatiana I. Samoylova (Auburn, Alabama); Nancy R. Cox (Auburn, Alabama); Alexandre M. Samoylov (Auburn, Alabama); Anna M. Cochran (Auburn, Alabama); Valery A. Petrenko (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatiana I. Samoylova (Auburn, Alabama); Nancy R. Cox (Auburn, Alabama); Alexandre M. Samoylov (Auburn, Alabama); Anna M. Cochran (Auburn, Alabama); Valery A. Petrenko (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods, compositions, zona pellucida binding peptides and polypeptides, and expression vectors for use in species-specific immunocontraception of animals, which include landscape bacteriophage. The disclosed compositions may include immunogenic compositions or vaccines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069006 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/60 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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